January 1, 2026 • 34 mins
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I am often baffled by everything what goes down in
the world. Wow, how media covers stories, weird issues or
phrases that get repeated over and over again by everybody
in politics and the media. And you know, you can
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almost see the wheels of the propaganda machine working. So
I've noticed, if you follow news at all, you can't
help but notice that there's a word that was rarely
used in recent years, affordability, which is being repeated over
and over again. Self evident affordability means do people have
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enough money to buy the stuff they need to live
at a decent level, and that nation has suddenly maybe
this happened a week ago Tuesday, become unaffordable and so
it's become a big weapon to be used for the
next election cycle against Trump. And I was trying to
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figure out, like, why suddenly keep talking about people upset
about prices. Prices are high, prices are high, But why
are people upset when the inflation rate is so much
less than it was under Biden. Under Biden it was
over nine percent. Now it's under three percent. And I
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think what's happened is is that Trump campaigned and people
over promise and distort when they campaign that he was
going to lower prices. Now I don't remember in my
lifetime Eddie president actually lowering prices. What he can help
do is lower the rate of inflation. But that's not
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what he was saying. He said lower prices. And since
most people have no sense of history or memory and
they can't do math, that kind of claim should have
been dismissed immediately. Well, he's not going to do that,
and because he hasn't, there's no way to do that.
You can't affect the price of well the inflation rate
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with your policies. And so people, I guess, actually thought
that the price of stuff was going to go down.
And when you tell them, well, the inflation rates only
two point eight percent or whatever it is. Yeah, yeah,
but that means, you know, the prices are even higher,
and yeah, that's the problem. During the Biden years, prices
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went upatively twenty two percent. So now this extra let's
say three percent inflation is on top of that twenty
two percent, and people still have in their heads, their
brain is fixed on what did stuff used to cost
five years ago, right in twenty twenty, like before the pandemic,
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what did stuff cost? And that that's still in everybody's
heads and they never got used to the last five
years of inflation. And now Trump comes along and you
got another three percent inflation. It's like, well, the prices
still are bad, and they are bad. But I think
that's the disconnect between Trump's crowds saying well, we've lowered
the rate of inflation. It's like, well, yeah, but he
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promised to lower the prices, which is a bad promise.
Nobody's ever done that. That's not possible. I think the
only time prices go down significantly is if you have
the Great Depression, and nobody wants that. So the Democrats
are using that, trying to build that as an argument
and make a case going into the election cycle next
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November for the midterms for Congress, and then eventually the
presidential race, which is now three years away. And Gavin
Newsom has become the leading candidate by all accounts in
these early polls because he says nasty things about Trump
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and apparently that's all half the country is looking for.
But if this affordability question is really important to people,
then the world has got to look at what has
happened to prices in the state of California since Gavin
Newsom took over. John Fleischman, political analyst. He has a
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website called so does Itmatter dot com? So does Itatter?
Dot Com? And you have to pay for many things
on the website and it's worth it. And he wrote
a piece this week Gavin Newsom's gift to the state
soon could be his gift to the nation. Got to
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take seriously this idea that Newsom is the leading candidate,
because I don't think you want to live in a
country where Gavin Newsom is the president. And I'm going
to run down all the price changes here in California,
and most of this has to do with his policies.
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But you go through this and you realize he is
like the worst candidate if he's going to be prattling
about affordability. I remember, he's not going to be running
against Trump, so he's going to have to promote what
he's done in California. Right, What else is on the resume?
Eight years of being governor, eight years of being lieutenant governor,
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eight years of being the mayor of San Francisco. What
do you have to show after twenty four years at
high levels of government? Well, according to the Legislative Analyst
Office in Sacramento, you know what it costs people to
carry a typical mid tier home, like a middle of
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the pack house. You got to pay fifty five hundred dollars.
Fifty five hundred dollars. That is about eighty percent higher
than it was five years ago. Even if you look
at the bottom tier of housing, your monthly payment is
over three thousand. Yeah, I mean it's extremely expensive here
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for housing, as you know, and for rent. If you
just want to buy a modest starter home, well, now
you need income that exceeds the statewide median income. Not affordable.
That's why I'm just I don't understand how everybody's carrying
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on about the affordability and then Newsom is the top candidate.
All right, that's a disaster. Then electricity, you have a
house in California, you are paying eighty percent more for
electricity than the rest of the nation on average, eighty percent.
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Like PGE customers, average rates are eighty percent higher than
they were in twenty nineteen. So you're paying eighty percent
higher than the start of Newsom's term and eighty percent
higher than the rest of the country is right now
TRIPLEA gas prices. They put out a list state by state.
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I read from them frequently. National average is two ninety five.
There are states like Oh the Homan where it's down
to two thirty five. California about four to fifty, So
we're at four fifty. The nation's averages two ninety five.
That's over a dollar fifty per gallon higher. Wow, that's
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that means every time you fill up, that's an extra
thirty bucks you're paying. Times you have fifty weeks a year,
that's fifteen hundred dollars extra your pay insurance in California.
Wall Street Journal found that nationally, premiums have risen fifty
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to seventy five percent. California one of the worst markets.
Back in twenty twenty, a household needed about one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars in annual income to have a
mid priced California home. Now you have to be making
a quarter of a million dollars. The media in rent
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in California is over twenty two hundred a month, fifty
percent higher than the national medium. And it goes on
and on like this. It's like, now, these are all
the big ticket items, electricity, gasoline, rent, mortgages. It's extraordinarily
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high here, way higher than the rest of the country.
So how does Newsom come riding in and prattle about affordability.
I'm baffled by this. I completely don't understand it. He's
getting all kinds of tongue baths in the media. Now.
Everybody's racing to do the profile and Gavin Newsom. Hardly
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a day goes by where I don't read like a
new interview, a new profile, a new analysis on Gavin Newsom,
and in the same publication there'll be some lengthy analysis
about how things are so unaffordable in this country. Hello,
I have there, They're they're they're doing this in insane
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cheerleading for a guy who just just go by the
numbers as objectively as possible. Complete failure at providing an
affordable life for most people. Take his name away in
his party away. Look at the prices in all fifty
states for electricity, gasoline, rent, mortgage. If you saw his numbers,
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you'd say, well, not that guy who is that? That's
a bad record there. How come all the other forty
nine governors in the other forty nine states have better numbers. Boy,
that is that is the word. Well, highest inflation ray,
highest unemployment rate, and you know, I can go on
through the list talk more when we come back.
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fleishman has a piece in his on his, website so
does itmatter dot, com and it was it was addressing,
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this this whole craze right, now like almost everybody's writing
about it and talking about it in the media and
politics is. Affordability how the price of everything is so,
difficult especially real, estate and it is people are having
a hard time Because trump didn't lower. Prices he. Can't
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the inflation rate is, lower but that lower inflation, rate
and it is a lot lower than it used to.
Be still is another two and a half three percent
higher means two and a half three percent on top
of the already inflated. Prices so people are looking around, saying,
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well wait a, second nothing's. Changed in, fact it's gotten slightly,
worse and it will always get slightly. Worse you'll always,
get in the best of, times an inflation rate between
two and three. Percent you hope your wages can keep
up that the inflation also kicks up your. Wages some
cases it, is some cases it, isn't you. Know it
kind of depends what industry you're. In but all, right
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so everybody's. Decided but this is the issue with the,
moment well with a presidential election coming up after this
midterm cycle And Gavin newsom being at the front of
the pack right, Now i'm really gonna be curious to
see how long it'll take before before people figure out
The california economically is a disaster. Zone and this is.
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Objective this is just look at the available statistics that
we can all agree. On and you, Know John fleischmann
wrote about about the inflation here In, california the cost
of a, home the cost of, mortgage the cost of,
electricity the cost of, gas just for. Starters, Well Victor
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Davis hanson is another writer THAT i really, admire and
he put together his own version of the affordability. Argument
you give the government over To Gavin. Newsom here's what
he's done In. California so now it's really it's really,
instructive like almost to write these things down and have
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a list and keep looking at the. List and again
we're talking about we're talking about look at all fifty,
states take away the names of the, governors take away
the political. Party if you're just going to judge all
fifty states based on their economic, numbers who is the
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last guy you would want being? President, Okay so look At.
California forget, that it's. News gas prices highest in The United, states. Unequivocally,
okay gas taxes highest in THE, us highest electricity, rates
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highest home, prices, fourth highest home. Insurance we have the
largest debt in the nation two hundred and seventy billion.
Dollars the government's in debt because they haven't thund did
all the state workers benefits that we're going to have
to pay. Someday you, know they're pensions and health care.
Benefits the annual budget deficit ranges from fifteen to seventy billion.
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Dollars we have the highest income, taxes the highest state sales,
tax the highest gas, tax and the top one percent
Of california households pay fifty percent of the state income.
Tax how many times have you heard some idiot politician, go,
oh the rich have to pay their fair. Share, okay
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is fifty percent high? ENOUGH a lot of them have
left the. State we have forty million people who live In.
California do you know what percentage get, medical which is
government paid. Healthcare it's supposed to be healthcare for poor.
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People fifty percent are on. Medical fifty percent twenty million.
People do you know how many births are paid for
by medical fifty. Percent fifty percent of all the babies,
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born medical has to cover the. Cost he's got another.
List we have the largest population of illegal. Aliens we
have the largest number of homeless. People we have the
largest number of people who fled the. State we have
the largest number of people born in a foreign country eleven.
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Million that's twenty seven percent of the. State so we
have all these Poor we all these poor people without
health insurance who are from other. Countries many of them are.
Legal we have the largest number of people living in.
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Poverty we have the highest food prices in the Continental United.
States the highest food prices on top of the highest,
electricity the highest, gas the highest, rent the highest mortgage,
payments highest food, prices our. Infrastructure let's just start with
the roads at the, bottom worst. Roads we're among the
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five worst states in violent crime per. Person you'll get
the whole population divided by the violent. Crimes we're among
the fifth the five. Worst all, right now you've ingested
all those lists of. Statistics that's pretty clear. Cut now
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go put the name of the guy running the place
for the last seven, years The Gavin. News so what's
what's the argument for having him be. PRESIDENT i know
he's shouting About, trump Insulting, trump, oh Writing trump insults
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on social, media or those, uh those weird those pathetic
weirdos on his staff are doing. It at least, Well
trump's not going to be. RUNNING i, MEAN i mean
this is he is the worst candidate possible to run for.
President he's the worst candidate for The democrats to, run,
really the worst THERE'S i could name five other people
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that in The Democratic party if they got, elected probably
they'd be. Okay this guy is so. DESTRUCTIVE i, MEAN
i can't think of a governor that has this, record
ever had this, RIGHT i mean right. Now obviously he
stands by. Himself there's no other state Like california when
it comes to all these. Categories they listened and these
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are all real important. Categories this is not, esoteric obscure
kind of. State this is all the stuff that's really
important to, us, right nothing more important than whether we
can afford to live in our house or, apartment whether
we can afford food or gas or. Electricity top of the. Charts,
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now there's got to be about ALMOST i don't, know
twenty twenty five, governors, right there's about forty five to
FIFTY us. Senators there's a couple of one hundred congress.
People there's all kinds of business leaders who Are. Democrats
why this? Guy why WHAT i? Mean he's unbelievably overwhelmingly.
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Incompetent he's blown it in every. Category what's the up arrow?
Here what's the success story here since he took? Over
just look at it. Objectively pretend he's not A. Democrat
pretend his name is A Gavin. Newsom just look at
the list of THINGS i just read to, you and
every one of these. True so we'll. See, okay we've
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this is described as a left wing anti government group
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that was out in The Mojave. Desert they got arrested
In Lucern valley near twenty Nine palms and out in the.
Desert they were making and testing bombs and it was
a terror plot and they were aiming For New Year's
eve here In Los angeles as soon as midnight. Hit
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there were going to be five locations where these these
bombs would go. Off they were complicated pipe bombs from
what the reports, say and As saley, said the plot was, organized,
sophisticated and extremely. Violent they belonged to something Called Turtle
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Island Liberation, front which sounds like a weird. Name but
somebody was explaining what the Phrase Turtle island. Means And,
i'll by the, way what it originally means and what
this group were doing is two different. Things Turtle island
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is a name For earth Or North. America Some American
indian tribes use it to describe the Whole North american.
Continent it's based On indian folklore passed from one generation
to the, next and The Turtle island creation story is
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one of the great tales that is. Told it was
first recorded by The europeans in the sixteen, hundreds and
they believe that The lenape tribe believe that before creation
there was, nothing an empty dark, space but in this
emptiness there existed a spirit of their. Creator and, EVENTUALLY
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i won't go through the whole, thing but it leads
To Turtle island Or earth being, formed or in some,
Interpretations North. America and it seems like if you were
going to describe these these these protest, groups these terrorist,
groups you know they are against all the, colonialists all the.
INVADERS i guess they want all the peoples Of North,
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america who are now Mostly europeans and other people who've
migrated here to get, off to get. Out and The
Turtle Island Liberation front this is a radical faction Called
order of The Black. LOTUS a ONE fbi spokesperson called
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the faction a, violent homegrown anti government. Group now where
they were going to blow up what they were going
to blow Up it was supposed to be around, businesses logistics,
centers something similar to What amazon might, have you, know
where packages are sent off to. Destiny didn't say any
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specifically About. Amazon the people involved include two, Women AUDREY,
I Leen carol And Tina lai Or Tina. Lay two,
Men Zachary Aaron page And Dante, gaffield and they've been
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jar charged with various. Crimes they were going to plant
backpacks with these improvised explosive devices, IEDs targeting two companies
at five. Locations they all were going to go off
at midnight On New Year's, eve complex pipe, bombs and
what they found is instructions how to manufacture, them how
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to assemble, them and instructions that had to leave evidence
to avoid leaving evidence. Behind and they tracked the group
Since november all the way To december, twelfth when then
they went to a location THE fbi did near twenty
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Nine palms and found them with their bomb making. MATERIALS fbi,
intervened arrested, everyone and you, know obviously the investigation was.
Continuing they found a lot of ingredients to make the
bombs AND pvc pipe glass. Bottles these could be used
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to make the IEDs or The molotov, cocktails and that
would have Been New Year's eve at, midnight but they
got to it looks like somebody shared the plans with
THE fbi somebody maybe connected to the group or aware
of the, group and the group says they post, well
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THE fbi says that the group posts content that advocates
for violence AGAINST us officials and they are against peaceful.
Protests they want people to rise up and fight. Back
it looks like they also arrested somebody in The New
orleans area connected to the. Investigation and this was THE,
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FBI Lpd Sheriff's, Department Palm Springs, Police San Bernarino County Sheriff's.
Department so all those organizations work. Together and WHEN i
first Heard New Year's, EVE i thought the bombs were
supposed to go, off maybe at celebration sites all over the.
Area and did you hear that In paris they're canceling
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The New Year's eve celebrations along the chance. Lose they've
had so Many islamic terrorist activities and crime that they're
not chanceing. It so near His eve is canceled along
the chancel In, paris which is just a terrible. THING i,
mean This islamic terrorist invasion is all over the world,
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now and With christmas and honkah, uh Well honka is,
Here christmas is just days. Away, uh this this this
is this is what what they. Attack you know that
how many times we've had attacks At christmas festivals In
germany by These islamic. Terrorists it's like the season now
to celebrate religious holidays has become the season For islamic
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terrorism and everybody's got to be on. Alert oh and
then you had you had the, shooting terrible shooting down In, Australia.
Sydney we had all those people shot and Killed jewish
people celebrating on the first night Of. Hanukkah it's it's
all over the. PLACE i, mean you, Know i'm telling
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all cultures are not compatible with each. OTHER i don't
believe we could all live. TOGETHER i think there's a
reason that there were always separate, nations separate, cultures borders on,
land AND i think that's the only only way to,
go because this chaos is spreading all over the, place
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and it really comes down to who are you letting
into the, country because you let one person, in, two, three,
five and soon you have a group and they've organized
and they don't like your way of life and they
want to kill. Everybody and the only way to police
it is to have extremely strict immigration. LAWS i don't
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Alex michaelson's new, Show The Story, is and we talked
a lot about the EXCHANGE i had with Our Vita,
martin who's a civil rights, attorney and we were talking
About Gavin newsom and how he got shunned by The
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trump administration when we went To, washington D. C trying
to allegedly get To buyer rebuild. Money he wants thirty four.
Billion and WHAT i said on the show at the time, was,
well IF i was in The trump, administration why WOULD
i give this guy any? Money because he admitted he
blew twenty four billion dollars in homeless, money he doesn't
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know what happened to, it can't account for it or its,
effectiveness and other categories where he's blown billions of, dollars
and Our Vita martin just flat out wouldn't believe. It she,
said those facts aren't. Facts this is not, true and
this caused a huge reaction once we posted this thing
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online and just hundreds of thousands of people have now
viewed the have now viewed the, exchange a lot of
commentary on. It next, DAY i went to CHET gpt
and you, know when you ask CHET gpt a, question
you get slightly you get the same. Answer you do
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it more than, once but depending on how you, worry
you get slight. Variations so a friend of mine he
went to CHET gpt two and asked this, question Does
newsom know where the twenty four billion for homelessness? Went all?
Right and chet GPT's answer was a flat out, no
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because Our Vieta martin just would just didn't believe that
he actually didn't know where the money, went and admitted
that he didn't know where the money. Went he admits
it because he knows, politically he's bulletproof that nobody In
california will will ever vote him out of. Office they
never have and they never. Will in, fact he runs
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for president as The democratic, nominee he'll Win california probably
three to. One so he could admit that he blew
twenty four billion dollars on a program a massive program
that didn't work and he knows he blew, It but,
hey so, what you suckers are still going to vote for.
Me so CHANT gbt. Rights. No Governor newsom does not
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have a clear accounting of where all the twenty four
billion dollars spent on homelessness went as a major twenty
twenty four state audit Found california lacks consistent tracking and
outcome data for ITS numet. Programs, yeah this is an
audit from the news Of administration eight of the twenty four.
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Billion this is leading to questions about effectiveness despite increased homelessness.
Numbers when the state allocated funds for various initiatives Like
project Home, key it failed to establish reliable systems to
monitor costs and. Results this stuff is, basic by the,
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Way when you have a massive program that gives out
billions systems to monitor costs and, results you have to
have that sketched out on day. One they never Bothered
key audit findings and this Is april twenty twenty. Four inadequate.
Tracking the state wasn't consistently monitoring the costs and outcomes
of its vast homelessness. Initiatives increased homelessness despite billions spent
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from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty, three the number of
people homeless rose significantly limited. Effectiveness the audit found that
only a few of the assessed programs were likely cost,
effective with no reliable way to know which work. Best
by the way they got all their information from about
eight nine ten news media reports and information from the
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governor's own. Office newsom's response bullet point number. One newsom
acknowledged the audits, findings stating it wasn't a, Surprise so
he admitted it and admitted he wasn't a. Surprise so
he knew for quite some time that the twenty four
billion they were shoveling out was doing no. Good because
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he has. Eyes he can see In, sacramento the body's
piling up in the, streets some of them. Dead newsom
also vetoed a bill that would have created a centralized
tracking system for. Homelessness so he voted against tracking the.
Money he not only spent the, money he knew the
money he was getting wasted and vetoed a bill that
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would track. It this could be a great presidential. Campaign,
BOY i just hope He's. Democratics democratic opponents knock him
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I am often baffled by everything what goes down in
the world. Wow, how media covers stories, weird issues or
phrases that get repeated over and over again by everybody
in politics and the media. And you know, you can
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almost see the wheels of the propaganda machine working. So
I've noticed, if you follow news at all, you can't
help but notice that there's a word that was rarely
used in recent years, affordability, which is being repeated over
and over again. Self evident affordability means do people have
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enough money to buy the stuff they need to live
at a decent level, and that nation has suddenly maybe
this happened a week ago Tuesday, become unaffordable and so
it's become a big weapon to be used for the
next election cycle against Trump. And I was trying to
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figure out, like, why suddenly keep talking about people upset
about prices. Prices are high, prices are high, But why
are people upset when the inflation rate is so much
less than it was under Biden. Under Biden it was
over nine percent. Now it's under three percent. And I
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think what's happened is is that Trump campaigned and people
over promise and distort when they campaign that he was
going to lower prices. Now I don't remember in my
lifetime Eddie president actually lowering prices. What he can help
do is lower the rate of inflation. But that's not
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what he was saying. He said lower prices. And since
most people have no sense of history or memory and
they can't do math, that kind of claim should have
been dismissed immediately. Well, he's not going to do that,
and because he hasn't, there's no way to do that.
You can't affect the price of well the inflation rate
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with your policies. And so people, I guess, actually thought
that the price of stuff was going to go down.
And when you tell them, well, the inflation rates only
two point eight percent or whatever it is. Yeah, yeah,
but that means, you know, the prices are even higher,
and yeah, that's the problem. During the Biden years, prices
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went upatively twenty two percent. So now this extra let's
say three percent inflation is on top of that twenty
two percent, and people still have in their heads, their
brain is fixed on what did stuff used to cost
five years ago, right in twenty twenty, like before the pandemic,
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what did stuff cost? And that that's still in everybody's
heads and they never got used to the last five
years of inflation. And now Trump comes along and you
got another three percent inflation. It's like, well, the prices
still are bad, and they are bad. But I think
that's the disconnect between Trump's crowds saying well, we've lowered
the rate of inflation. It's like, well, yeah, but he
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promised to lower the prices, which is a bad promise.
Nobody's ever done that. That's not possible. I think the
only time prices go down significantly is if you have
the Great Depression, and nobody wants that. So the Democrats
are using that, trying to build that as an argument
and make a case going into the election cycle next
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November for the midterms for Congress, and then eventually the
presidential race, which is now three years away. And Gavin
Newsom has become the leading candidate by all accounts in
these early polls because he says nasty things about Trump
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and apparently that's all half the country is looking for.
But if this affordability question is really important to people,
then the world has got to look at what has
happened to prices in the state of California since Gavin
Newsom took over. John Fleischman, political analyst. He has a
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website called so does Itmatter dot com? So does Itatter?
Dot Com? And you have to pay for many things
on the website and it's worth it. And he wrote
a piece this week Gavin Newsom's gift to the state
soon could be his gift to the nation. Got to
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take seriously this idea that Newsom is the leading candidate,
because I don't think you want to live in a
country where Gavin Newsom is the president. And I'm going
to run down all the price changes here in California,
and most of this has to do with his policies.
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But you go through this and you realize he is
like the worst candidate if he's going to be prattling
about affordability. I remember, he's not going to be running
against Trump, so he's going to have to promote what
he's done in California. Right, What else is on the resume?
Eight years of being governor, eight years of being lieutenant governor,
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eight years of being the mayor of San Francisco. What
do you have to show after twenty four years at
high levels of government? Well, according to the Legislative Analyst
Office in Sacramento, you know what it costs people to
carry a typical mid tier home, like a middle of
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the pack house. You got to pay fifty five hundred dollars.
Fifty five hundred dollars. That is about eighty percent higher
than it was five years ago. Even if you look
at the bottom tier of housing, your monthly payment is
over three thousand. Yeah, I mean it's extremely expensive here
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for housing, as you know, and for rent. If you
just want to buy a modest starter home, well, now
you need income that exceeds the statewide median income. Not affordable.
That's why I'm just I don't understand how everybody's carrying
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on about the affordability and then Newsom is the top candidate.
All right, that's a disaster. Then electricity, you have a
house in California, you are paying eighty percent more for
electricity than the rest of the nation on average, eighty percent.
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Like PGE customers, average rates are eighty percent higher than
they were in twenty nineteen. So you're paying eighty percent
higher than the start of Newsom's term and eighty percent
higher than the rest of the country is right now
TRIPLEA gas prices. They put out a list state by state.
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I read from them frequently. National average is two ninety five.
There are states like Oh the Homan where it's down
to two thirty five. California about four to fifty, So
we're at four fifty. The nation's averages two ninety five.
That's over a dollar fifty per gallon higher. Wow, that's
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that means every time you fill up, that's an extra
thirty bucks you're paying. Times you have fifty weeks a year,
that's fifteen hundred dollars extra your pay insurance in California.
Wall Street Journal found that nationally, premiums have risen fifty
(08:39):
to seventy five percent. California one of the worst markets.
Back in twenty twenty, a household needed about one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars in annual income to have a
mid priced California home. Now you have to be making
a quarter of a million dollars. The media in rent
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in California is over twenty two hundred a month, fifty
percent higher than the national medium. And it goes on
and on like this. It's like, now, these are all
the big ticket items, electricity, gasoline, rent, mortgages. It's extraordinarily
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high here, way higher than the rest of the country.
So how does Newsom come riding in and prattle about affordability.
I'm baffled by this. I completely don't understand it. He's
getting all kinds of tongue baths in the media. Now.
Everybody's racing to do the profile and Gavin Newsom. Hardly
(09:45):
a day goes by where I don't read like a
new interview, a new profile, a new analysis on Gavin Newsom,
and in the same publication there'll be some lengthy analysis
about how things are so unaffordable in this country. Hello,
I have there, They're they're they're doing this in insane
(10:08):
cheerleading for a guy who just just go by the
numbers as objectively as possible. Complete failure at providing an
affordable life for most people. Take his name away in
his party away. Look at the prices in all fifty
states for electricity, gasoline, rent, mortgage. If you saw his numbers,
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you'd say, well, not that guy who is that? That's
a bad record there. How come all the other forty
nine governors in the other forty nine states have better numbers. Boy,
that is that is the word. Well, highest inflation ray,
highest unemployment rate, and you know, I can go on
through the list talk more when we come back.
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does itmatter dot, com and it was it was addressing,
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this this whole craze right, now like almost everybody's writing
about it and talking about it in the media and
politics is. Affordability how the price of everything is so,
difficult especially real, estate and it is people are having
a hard time Because trump didn't lower. Prices he. Can't
(12:09):
the inflation rate is, lower but that lower inflation, rate
and it is a lot lower than it used to.
Be still is another two and a half three percent
higher means two and a half three percent on top
of the already inflated. Prices so people are looking around, saying,
(12:30):
well wait a, second nothing's. Changed in, fact it's gotten slightly,
worse and it will always get slightly. Worse you'll always,
get in the best of, times an inflation rate between
two and three. Percent you hope your wages can keep
up that the inflation also kicks up your. Wages some
cases it, is some cases it, isn't you. Know it
kind of depends what industry you're. In but all, right
(12:51):
so everybody's. Decided but this is the issue with the,
moment well with a presidential election coming up after this
midterm cycle And Gavin newsom being at the front of
the pack right, Now i'm really gonna be curious to
see how long it'll take before before people figure out
The california economically is a disaster. Zone and this is.
(13:15):
Objective this is just look at the available statistics that
we can all agree. On and you, Know John fleischmann
wrote about about the inflation here In, california the cost
of a, home the cost of, mortgage the cost of,
electricity the cost of, gas just for. Starters, Well Victor
(13:36):
Davis hanson is another writer THAT i really, admire and
he put together his own version of the affordability. Argument
you give the government over To Gavin. Newsom here's what
he's done In. California so now it's really it's really,
instructive like almost to write these things down and have
(13:58):
a list and keep looking at the. List and again
we're talking about we're talking about look at all fifty,
states take away the names of the, governors take away
the political. Party if you're just going to judge all
fifty states based on their economic, numbers who is the
(14:20):
last guy you would want being? President, Okay so look At.
California forget, that it's. News gas prices highest in The United, states. Unequivocally,
okay gas taxes highest in THE, us highest electricity, rates
(14:46):
highest home, prices, fourth highest home. Insurance we have the
largest debt in the nation two hundred and seventy billion.
Dollars the government's in debt because they haven't thund did
all the state workers benefits that we're going to have
to pay. Someday you, know they're pensions and health care.
Benefits the annual budget deficit ranges from fifteen to seventy billion.
(15:12):
Dollars we have the highest income, taxes the highest state sales,
tax the highest gas, tax and the top one percent
Of california households pay fifty percent of the state income.
Tax how many times have you heard some idiot politician, go,
oh the rich have to pay their fair. Share, okay
(15:37):
is fifty percent high? ENOUGH a lot of them have
left the. State we have forty million people who live In.
California do you know what percentage get, medical which is
government paid. Healthcare it's supposed to be healthcare for poor.
(16:01):
People fifty percent are on. Medical fifty percent twenty million.
People do you know how many births are paid for
by medical fifty. Percent fifty percent of all the babies,
(16:22):
born medical has to cover the. Cost he's got another.
List we have the largest population of illegal. Aliens we
have the largest number of homeless. People we have the
largest number of people who fled the. State we have
the largest number of people born in a foreign country eleven.
(16:42):
Million that's twenty seven percent of the. State so we
have all these Poor we all these poor people without
health insurance who are from other. Countries many of them are.
Legal we have the largest number of people living in.
(17:05):
Poverty we have the highest food prices in the Continental United.
States the highest food prices on top of the highest,
electricity the highest, gas the highest, rent the highest mortgage,
payments highest food, prices our. Infrastructure let's just start with
the roads at the, bottom worst. Roads we're among the
(17:30):
five worst states in violent crime per. Person you'll get
the whole population divided by the violent. Crimes we're among
the fifth the five. Worst all, right now you've ingested
all those lists of. Statistics that's pretty clear. Cut now
(17:54):
go put the name of the guy running the place
for the last seven, years The Gavin. News so what's
what's the argument for having him be. PRESIDENT i know
he's shouting About, trump Insulting, trump, oh Writing trump insults
(18:15):
on social, media or those, uh those weird those pathetic
weirdos on his staff are doing. It at least, Well
trump's not going to be. RUNNING i, MEAN i mean
this is he is the worst candidate possible to run for.
President he's the worst candidate for The democrats to, run,
really the worst THERE'S i could name five other people
(18:38):
that in The Democratic party if they got, elected probably
they'd be. Okay this guy is so. DESTRUCTIVE i, MEAN
i can't think of a governor that has this, record
ever had this, RIGHT i mean right. Now obviously he
stands by. Himself there's no other state Like california when
it comes to all these. Categories they listened and these
(18:59):
are all real important. Categories this is not, esoteric obscure
kind of. State this is all the stuff that's really
important to, us, right nothing more important than whether we
can afford to live in our house or, apartment whether
we can afford food or gas or. Electricity top of the. Charts,
(19:19):
now there's got to be about ALMOST i don't, know
twenty twenty five, governors, right there's about forty five to
FIFTY us. Senators there's a couple of one hundred congress.
People there's all kinds of business leaders who Are. Democrats
why this? Guy why WHAT i? Mean he's unbelievably overwhelmingly.
(19:40):
Incompetent he's blown it in every. Category what's the up arrow?
Here what's the success story here since he took? Over
just look at it. Objectively pretend he's not A. Democrat
pretend his name is A Gavin. Newsom just look at
the list of THINGS i just read to, you and
every one of these. True so we'll. See, okay we've
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this is described as a left wing anti government group
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that was out in The Mojave. Desert they got arrested
In Lucern valley near twenty Nine palms and out in the.
Desert they were making and testing bombs and it was
a terror plot and they were aiming For New Year's
eve here In Los angeles as soon as midnight. Hit
(21:13):
there were going to be five locations where these these
bombs would go. Off they were complicated pipe bombs from
what the reports, say and As saley, said the plot was, organized,
sophisticated and extremely. Violent they belonged to something Called Turtle
(21:37):
Island Liberation, front which sounds like a weird. Name but
somebody was explaining what the Phrase Turtle island. Means And,
i'll by the, way what it originally means and what
this group were doing is two different. Things Turtle island
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is a name For earth Or North. America Some American
indian tribes use it to describe the Whole North american.
Continent it's based On indian folklore passed from one generation
to the, next and The Turtle island creation story is
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one of the great tales that is. Told it was
first recorded by The europeans in the sixteen, hundreds and
they believe that The lenape tribe believe that before creation
there was, nothing an empty dark, space but in this
emptiness there existed a spirit of their. Creator and, EVENTUALLY
(22:49):
i won't go through the whole, thing but it leads
To Turtle island Or earth being, formed or in some,
Interpretations North. America and it seems like if you were
going to describe these these these protest, groups these terrorist,
groups you know they are against all the, colonialists all the.
INVADERS i guess they want all the peoples Of North,
(23:10):
america who are now Mostly europeans and other people who've
migrated here to get, off to get. Out and The
Turtle Island Liberation front this is a radical faction Called
order of The Black. LOTUS a ONE fbi spokesperson called
(23:37):
the faction a, violent homegrown anti government. Group now where
they were going to blow up what they were going
to blow Up it was supposed to be around, businesses logistics,
centers something similar to What amazon might, have you, know
where packages are sent off to. Destiny didn't say any
(24:01):
specifically About. Amazon the people involved include two, Women AUDREY,
I Leen carol And Tina lai Or Tina. Lay two,
Men Zachary Aaron page And Dante, gaffield and they've been
(24:21):
jar charged with various. Crimes they were going to plant
backpacks with these improvised explosive devices, IEDs targeting two companies
at five. Locations they all were going to go off
at midnight On New Year's, eve complex pipe, bombs and
what they found is instructions how to manufacture, them how
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to assemble, them and instructions that had to leave evidence
to avoid leaving evidence. Behind and they tracked the group
Since november all the way To december, twelfth when then
they went to a location THE fbi did near twenty
(25:06):
Nine palms and found them with their bomb making. MATERIALS fbi,
intervened arrested, everyone and you, know obviously the investigation was.
Continuing they found a lot of ingredients to make the
bombs AND pvc pipe glass. Bottles these could be used
(25:31):
to make the IEDs or The molotov, cocktails and that
would have Been New Year's eve at, midnight but they
got to it looks like somebody shared the plans with
THE fbi somebody maybe connected to the group or aware
of the, group and the group says they post, well
(25:53):
THE fbi says that the group posts content that advocates
for violence AGAINST us officials and they are against peaceful.
Protests they want people to rise up and fight. Back
it looks like they also arrested somebody in The New
orleans area connected to the. Investigation and this was THE,
(26:15):
FBI Lpd Sheriff's, Department Palm Springs, Police San Bernarino County Sheriff's.
Department so all those organizations work. Together and WHEN i
first Heard New Year's, EVE i thought the bombs were
supposed to go, off maybe at celebration sites all over the.
Area and did you hear that In paris they're canceling
(26:38):
The New Year's eve celebrations along the chance. Lose they've
had so Many islamic terrorist activities and crime that they're
not chanceing. It so near His eve is canceled along
the chancel In, paris which is just a terrible. THING i,
mean This islamic terrorist invasion is all over the world,
(27:01):
now and With christmas and honkah, uh Well honka is,
Here christmas is just days. Away, uh this this this
is this is what what they. Attack you know that
how many times we've had attacks At christmas festivals In
germany by These islamic. Terrorists it's like the season now
to celebrate religious holidays has become the season For islamic
(27:25):
terrorism and everybody's got to be on. Alert oh and
then you had you had the, shooting terrible shooting down In, Australia.
Sydney we had all those people shot and Killed jewish
people celebrating on the first night Of. Hanukkah it's it's
all over the. PLACE i, mean you, Know i'm telling
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all cultures are not compatible with each. OTHER i don't
believe we could all live. TOGETHER i think there's a
reason that there were always separate, nations separate, cultures borders on,
land AND i think that's the only only way to,
go because this chaos is spreading all over the, place
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and it really comes down to who are you letting
into the, country because you let one person, in, two, three,
five and soon you have a group and they've organized
and they don't like your way of life and they
want to kill. Everybody and the only way to police
it is to have extremely strict immigration. LAWS i don't
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Alex michaelson's new, Show The Story, is and we talked
a lot about the EXCHANGE i had with Our Vita,
martin who's a civil rights, attorney and we were talking
About Gavin newsom and how he got shunned by The
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trump administration when we went To, washington D. C trying
to allegedly get To buyer rebuild. Money he wants thirty four.
Billion and WHAT i said on the show at the time, was,
well IF i was in The trump, administration why WOULD
i give this guy any? Money because he admitted he
blew twenty four billion dollars in homeless, money he doesn't
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know what happened to, it can't account for it or its,
effectiveness and other categories where he's blown billions of, dollars
and Our Vita martin just flat out wouldn't believe. It she,
said those facts aren't. Facts this is not, true and
this caused a huge reaction once we posted this thing
(29:50):
online and just hundreds of thousands of people have now
viewed the have now viewed the, exchange a lot of
commentary on. It next, DAY i went to CHET gpt
and you, know when you ask CHET gpt a, question
you get slightly you get the same. Answer you do
(30:12):
it more than, once but depending on how you, worry
you get slight. Variations so a friend of mine he
went to CHET gpt two and asked this, question Does
newsom know where the twenty four billion for homelessness? Went all?
Right and chet GPT's answer was a flat out, no
(30:37):
because Our Vieta martin just would just didn't believe that
he actually didn't know where the money, went and admitted
that he didn't know where the money. Went he admits
it because he knows, politically he's bulletproof that nobody In
california will will ever vote him out of. Office they
never have and they never. Will in, fact he runs
(31:02):
for president as The democratic, nominee he'll Win california probably
three to. One so he could admit that he blew
twenty four billion dollars on a program a massive program
that didn't work and he knows he blew, It but,
hey so, what you suckers are still going to vote for.
Me so CHANT gbt. Rights. No Governor newsom does not
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have a clear accounting of where all the twenty four
billion dollars spent on homelessness went as a major twenty
twenty four state audit Found california lacks consistent tracking and
outcome data for ITS numet. Programs, yeah this is an
audit from the news Of administration eight of the twenty four.
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Billion this is leading to questions about effectiveness despite increased homelessness.
Numbers when the state allocated funds for various initiatives Like
project Home, key it failed to establish reliable systems to
monitor costs and. Results this stuff is, basic by the,
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Way when you have a massive program that gives out
billions systems to monitor costs and, results you have to
have that sketched out on day. One they never Bothered
key audit findings and this Is april twenty twenty. Four inadequate.
Tracking the state wasn't consistently monitoring the costs and outcomes
of its vast homelessness. Initiatives increased homelessness despite billions spent
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from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty, three the number of
people homeless rose significantly limited. Effectiveness the audit found that
only a few of the assessed programs were likely cost,
effective with no reliable way to know which work. Best
by the way they got all their information from about
eight nine ten news media reports and information from the
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governor's own. Office newsom's response bullet point number. One newsom
acknowledged the audits, findings stating it wasn't a, Surprise so
he admitted it and admitted he wasn't a. Surprise so
he knew for quite some time that the twenty four
billion they were shoveling out was doing no. Good because
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he has. Eyes he can see In, sacramento the body's
piling up in the, streets some of them. Dead newsom
also vetoed a bill that would have created a centralized
tracking system for. Homelessness so he voted against tracking the.
Money he not only spent the, money he knew the
money he was getting wasted and vetoed a bill that
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would track. It this could be a great presidential. Campaign,
BOY i just hope He's. Democratics democratic opponents knock him
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