January 2, 2026 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (01/02) - Best Of The John Kobylt Show. John discusses the problems in MacArthur Park with the homeless. An update on the Cheviot Hills Mental Health Facility scandal. Ford is losing money on EVs. California has a huge budget deficit.
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All right, boy, imagine the whistleblowers here in LA could
describe what's really going on with Karen Bass's homeless agencies.
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Every few months she waddles off to MacArthur Park to
claim that something has to be done about all the
disgusting things that are going on there. You got the
homeless people, you know, which is primarily mental patients and
drug addicts. You've got criminals, You've got gangs. You've got
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their openly selling drugs and weapons in the park. You
have all sorts of crazy behavior, not to mention all
the illegal alien businesses. New York Post did their own
walk through investigation of MacArthur Park and they watched the
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LA Fire Department Station eleven what they have to do
all day and really all year. And I found this,
I found this fascinating. They wrote, A cramped, aging fire
station jammed up against MacArthur Park has been dragged into
a street war. It never asked for. That fire station,
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they say, is now a triage unit because MacArthur Park
is one of the nastiest fentanyl zones in Los Angeles,
and you see them the fentalyl addicts, some of them
on xylazine because the dealers started cunning fentanyl with xylazine,
which I believe is some kind of horse tranquilizer. And
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whatever the effect of the drug is, it it makes
a it's a more powerful impact on your brain, but
it causes your your skin to rot. You end up
with these gaping, open, rotting wounds. And that's what wanders
around MacArthur Park, the these zombies with their gaping mounds,
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Post says. The LA Fire Department Station eleven has fourteen
firefighters on daily duty, sometimes sixteen. They have an ambulance,
a fast response truck, and the pace at which the
firehouse must keep up with calls is almost incomprehensible. Listen
to this. Station eleven had eight thousand, five hundred and
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sixty eight ambulance runs in the first eight months in
twenty twenty five, eight five hundred and sixty eight ambulance
runs in eight months. That's over a thousand ambulance runs
a month, and there's only thirty days in a month.
They only had fifty five structure fires. So most of
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what they do is they deal with fires started by
the bums. The bumfights, rubbish fires, garbage fires. That's what
the homeless do all day. The firehouse is one of
the busiest in the country, primarily putting out homeless fires.
How insane is that that? Karen Bass and now she's
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been at this for three years runs the city where
we're at the top of the charts for homeless fires
in this just in this one district, MacArthur Park. You
can't stop. That's arson, right, that's like eight thousand cases
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of arson now compared to other stations. Right. They looked
at Venice fire Station sixty three. They had twenty five
hundred ambulance calls over the same period, less than a
third nineteen fires. MacArthur Park they have to put out
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the rubbish fires had a breakneck pace, forcing crews to
douse one fire and race straight and race straight to
the next one. And that's what one of the firemen
told the posts. That's exhausting. That's going to be infuriating
running around putting homeless garbage, putting out fires set by homeless,
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fires of trash where their stupid encampments or their propane tanks.
MacArthur Park has established itself as a destination for LA's
hardest hit hardest drug addicts. A chaos soaked corridor were
overdoses hit by the hour criminal crews muscle in on
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the trade. This is the largest park in the district.
It's a sprawling encampment. Hundreds of people in and around
the park on any given day, many of them young
drug users in their twenties, shooting up with needles or
smoking from glass pipes, some pipes for fashioned to look
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like shotguns. Other atticts passed out or waiting on their
next free meal. The post also saw straight barrel versions
of crack pipes getting handed out by city and county employees.
They're called safe smoking kids. You believe this. So you
got these vagrant drug addicts smoking crack and starting fires,
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and we're paying our taxes for county employees to hand
out the crack pipes, and then we have to pay
for the firefighters to put out the fires started by
the people who are smoking from the taxpayer paid crack pipes.
I wonder what started the fire yesterday that my sister saw. Yeah,
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I don't know. Sometimes it's propane tanks or grills that
they have, or sometimes they just start acting crazy and
they set fires. I mean, when you're talking about when
you're talking about, you know, eight thousand ambulance calls, it's
all overdoses and garbage fires. Some people told the posts
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they have rooms or apartments elsewhere, but they come to
MacArthur Park every day because this is where the handouts
are that we're paying for. Post visited twice. Lines formed
for food, medical vans and safe use supplies. Look at
the terminology, it's always it's always BS terminology safe use.
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It's an assembly line of aid. Twenty seven million dollars
has been poured into revitalizing MacArthur Park, paying for overdose
response teams, Peace ambassadors, Peace ambassadors. How do you bring
peace to crack addicts? USC and LA Care street medicine
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teams and the overdoses keep coming. They called Unicus Hernandez,
who is just a human vegetable. He's she's a councilwoman.
Called multiple times, she doesn't call back, she doesn't respond.
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Los Angeles HAS Has saved, HAS says you're a master.
Twenty two million dollar oid Opioid Settlement Trust Fund. I
guess This is from lawsuits of the drug companies and
a big part of that money goes to MacArthur Park
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in the Westlake area. In fact, the city council set
aside three million dollars to build a Westlake Area harm
reduction service. Yeah, they call it harm reduction. They're giving
them crack pipes so they can keep frying their brains
and they call it harm reduction. So this Westlake Area
Harm Reduction drop in center is going to offer the
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lockzone distribution wound care. Remember I told you the xylazine
that's mixed with the fentadel causes your causes open wounds,
to form test strips for fentyl and xylazine, mental health assessments,
referrals and treatment. They spend more and more money on
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contracts for syringe exchanges, so the handing out free syringes,
safe smoking kits, which is they're double talk for crack pipes,
overdose education. Yeah, that's working wound care kits. This is
the Department on Disability that spends this money, and this
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is insanity. How could how would you? How could how
could we pay for a government that hands out the
crack pipes, hands out the syringes. Then watches. People die
of fentanyl and xylazine poisoning watches. The wounds start opening
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up on their skin and get infected. And we we've
got county workers we're paying their paying for standing there.
This is Karen Bassis, Los Angeles. And all these progressives
think this is entirely normal and proper. They're really really crazy.
This is insane and I don't have a word for it. Okay,
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the iHeart App. Well, this story has been bubbling for
some weeks. Now follow the details here because this is
the epitome of all the corruption and all the theft of
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your attacks money. I mean, this is a fantastic example.
There is a property in Chevyott Hills and a man
named Stephen Taylor from Brentwood. He used fraudulent documents to
get an eleven million dollar loan to buy a housing
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project in Chevyot Hills targeted for homeless housing. That chevy
At Hills is a very nice, upscale community, and there's
nobody in that town, in that neighborhood that wants this project.
Reasons right, nobody wants. I don't know how many homeless
people suddenly moving into this thing, but Steven, I got
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to stay up front. There are so many people walking
amongst us, business guys, government people who they get up
in the morning and their job each day is to
steal our tax money. And it's not like they're fooling
anybody in government. The people in government are part of
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the fraud. They're both in on it. And there's all
these relationships. There's all this this this invisible apparatus where
people like Steven Taylor and other others access money. And
you'll see there's some public tax money, a lot of
public tax money that's going to be involved. So just
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hang on for a minute, all right. So Stephen Taylor
buys this property in chevy At Hills for eleven million dollars.
He takes the property, and that eleven million was a
fraudulent loan that he pulled off. He takes the property
and flips it to something called the Wineguart Center. It's
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a homeless services nonprofit uh oh, homeless services nonprofit. Wineguard
paid twenty seven million dollars ten days after Taylor spent
eleven million to buy it. In ten days, the property
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appreciated from eleven to twenty seven million dollars. Now Taylor's
eleven million dollars, as I said, was a fraudulent loan.
The twenty seven million dollars was tax money. Public money
that wineguardt got to finance the purchase and conversion of
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the building into a home was housing project. Now who
was the middleman in this or the middle woman? Karen Bass?
She pushed for this project. Who ran Wineguard Center? A
guy named Kevin Murray. Kevin Murray used to be a
state senator, uh oh, a state senator. Now he's running
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the Wineguard Center. He also was appointed by Bass to
be on the board of the La County Affordable Housing
Solutions Agency. The La County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency had
never heard of that?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Well, Kevin Murray was on the board. Bass appointed him.
Bass also pushed for Murray's company to buy the Chevy
and Hills property from Steven Taylor. Now Taylor's been busted
by the FEDS over the eleven million dollar fraudule loan
that he got. But now you got the twenty seven
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million dollars in public money. Where'd that go? I mean,
presumably they paid it to Taylor. An extra sixteen million
dollars they paid to Taylor. Well, where did that extra
sixteen million go? Could both sides have split the money?
Was there a third party involved? Was there somebody in
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Bass's office that got a cut. That's a lot of
money and they did this in ten days? The uh,
what's that current? First uncovered this deal and the thing
gets sold twice in two weeks for one price more
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ridiculous than the last. The Los Angeles County Affordable Housing
Solutions Agencyvian Murray was on the board. He now resigns.
What did that agency do? They spent measure A sales
tax revenue on affordable housing? How about that? So he's
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running He's on the board of an agency that spends
the tax money meant for homeless housing. You voted for
an increase in measure A funding just last November, told
you not to people did, And now we're finding out
that the guy running the agency paid took twenty seven
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million dollars in tax money and paid the first guy
who bought it for eleven million ten days earlier. I'm
sure Steven Taylor wasn't keeping the whole twenty seven million.
Why would Kevin Murray spend the twenty seven million? Again?
Where did did that money recirculate to? Last week, a
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Bass representative told the staff at the La County Affordable
Housing Solutions Agency that Murray resigned November twenty ninth. Of course,
Murray is not commenting. Karen Bass and her office not commenting.
Murray has been placed on leave by the Wineguard Center.
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A second executive, Ben Rosen, the director of real estate development.
He's been placed on leave while the nonprofit conducts an
internal review into its housing projects. Right because nobody knew
what was going on. So Rosen and Murray blowed twenty
seven million dollars on an eleven million dollar property and
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it was fine by everybody at the Lineguard Center. Until
this story hit the media. It's like, Wow, we're going
to put them on leave and do an investigation. This
is just outrageous. This place used to be nursing home.
Now people in a nursing home are usually very docile.
They don't really cause problems, but homeless housing. Oh, oh
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my god. Murray is claiming that he has no prior
relationship with Steven Taylor, no continuing relationship. And get this
claim from Kevin Murray. Taxpayers paid fair market value for
the property. The fair market value was eleven million, ten million.
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Ten days later it's twenty seven million. And Kevin Murray says,
well that's fair. This is what we've got. And Bass
was the broker.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
On the deal.
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com slasht at John Cobelt's Show All right, you know
what to do, Just go do it and then I
can I'll stop annoying you with all these announcements. Well,
one of the biggest busts in business history is trying
to force electric vehicles on the public who didn't want them.
And obviously there was a lot of pressure from the
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federal government, and Ford stupidly went along. One thing I
didn't understand is why four GM and the rest of
them didn't fight back furiously. That's what bribes are for,
that's what lobbyists are for. But instead all the auto
companies bent over, and boy, they took it hard. They
have lost so much money. And this week the Ford
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Motor Company announced their latest write down. They're writing off
nineteen and a half billion dollars in losses, almost all
of it is the electrical vehicle business. Nineteen and a
half billion. You think that's bad. Yeah, how much money
they've lost since twenty twenty two, thirty five billion dollars?
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Thirty five billion. Do you know how much income Ford
has had in that time? Eleven billion? They lost three
times as much money as they made from selling everything
else that that's just overwhelming. And if you remember Biden
pushed this hard. Newsom pushed this hard. Congress issued a
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seventy five hundred dollars tax credit per vehicle, and that
would phase out after a manufacturer sold two hundred thousand
electric cars. Obama what had this goal a million evs
on US roads by twenty fifteen. The actual number is
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under four hundred thousand. The public didn't like them, and
we know why. You don't get much range. It takes
too long to charge, and they're very expensive. The whole
thing was just too much of a hassle unless you
were really wealthy and you bought a Tesla. Tesla owners
seemed to be happy until Musk got aligned with Donald Trump.
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Then suddenly Tesla owners decided the car didn't run all
that well. But there isn't a replacement for Tesla. None
of the other car companies came up with anything close,
certainly not in an affordable range. And so Ford announced
that they're getting rid of the F one P fifty
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Lightning that was their electric pickup truck, and they introduced
that on the market and with a lot of fanfare.
It got a lot of publicity and excitement, and it
turned out that it was a bust because if you
have a pickup truck. You like to carry a lot
of things. You like to pull stuff, right, maybe you
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want to pull a boat, Maybe you want to fill
the truck bed with all kinds of equipment. It turned
out that if you have a lot of stuff in
the truck bed, or if you're pulling something heavy, your
electricity falls dramatically. You lose juice rapidly, so you can't
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go very far. I guess nobody thought of this when
they put them out on the market because they were
really expensive. So it didn't take long. And you know,
everybody communicates now. Immediately they start posting things on various
websites and bulletin boards, and quickly the whole world realized
that getting an ev An EV pickup truck was going
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to be a huge hassle and a half and the
car wouldn't go very far. So now what they're going
to do is, well, let me tell you what the damage, right,
thirty five billion dollars. They lost thirteen billion dollars on
its business just since twenty twenty three. Add that another
nineteen billion dollars with this write off. They also they
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also now are getting rid of They're closing their Kentucky
EV battery factory. They're going to lay off thousands of people.
They're going to turn it eventually into a battery storage
business for customers' utilities and wind and solar power developers
who take those energy sources convert it into battery, and
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then there's this storage area that Ford is going to run.
They're also massive data centers train artificial intelligence that is
also going to require a lot of batteries. So they're
going to repurpose the battery factory. But the idea of
electric vehicles, Oh, here's another reason didn't happen. We didn't
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have an electrical grid, especially in California. And this is
what really flummocks me. This was one of these subjects
the last few years. I thought I was insane. I
thought there was something wrong with me. How can you
force tens of millions of people to plug in an
electric vehicle every day when we're always running on the
edge of running out of power, especially in the summertime,
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and remember we did a few years ago, had a
really hot summer and because stupid Newsome closed all these
gas plants and he was going to close a nuclear plant,
we almost had blackouts. Well, if you add millions and
millions of electrical cars. Well, then what's going to happen.
Oh that's when they said, wow, you only got you
only can plug them in between ten at night and
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four in the morning. It's like, all right, okay, I
can see where this is going. We're going to have
our lives now twenty four hour controlled. We can't charge
the car when we want. It means we can't drive
when we want. It means our freedoms are constricted. We
can't go as far as we want. You know, you
can't buy a four f one fifty lightning and want
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to load it up with stuff and pull a boat
behind you if the thing's going to peter out after
fifty miles. And this always was about control, and the
public looked at it. I mean a lot of people
considered an EV, but at those prices, with that range,
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with the charging stations, there were no charging stations. Not
only you didn't have an electric grid, you did, you
had very few charging stations. But it was like a
weird religion that they were forcing you to join, like
you had to join or we're going to destroy you life.
I mean, I think this year coming year twenty twenty six,
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thirty five percent of the cars were supposed to be
electric vehicle sales here in California. Well, they weren't going
to come anywhere near that. I never really understood if
there's a penalty for that, and then what they were
going to do is drive up the That's why the
gasoline is is four to fifty a gallon, and that's
why it may be headed to six eight ten dollars
a gallon with all the oil production problems we have
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in the state. They were going to force everybody into
electric vehicles. That was going to be their backdoor mandate
in case we weren't buying thirty five percent evs, we
weren't meeting the goals. They were going to force us
all because we'd end up with ten dollars gas. So
now now now Ford is backing way off. They think
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hybrids eventually are going to sell very well, they already are,
and that would have been the logical way to go.
People seem to like hybrids, it makes more sense. But
the fanatic, the environmental fanatics and Newsom were demanding all
or nothing. There was no mid range compromise like evs.
So this this came from the Obama administration, the Biden administration,
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the Newsomme administration. By by twenty thirty two, around the
whole nation, two thirds of new cars across the country
would have to be electric, even though nobody wanted them.
But we dodged that. Dodged it, not with any protests,
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We dodged it simply. But not buying them. I always
wandered in the back of my mind, It's like, well,
what if people don't buy? What kind of a standoff
is going to occur if people refuse to show up
to the dealership and purchase one of these one of
these losers. Okay, we've got more coming up on the
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the iHeartRadio app in sacer Meadow. Despite an army of
investigators looking into the wrongdoing of so many people in
Newsom's orbit A, Newsom is continuing to blow so much
money that we're looking at an eighteen billion dollar deficit
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for the next fiscal year, and that's up five billion
dollars from earlier in the summer. We are getting more
revenue than Sacramento has ever seen by far. Because Sacramento
relies a lot on wealthy people, wealthy people cashing in
their stock. We have an abundance of people who work
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for tech companies and people who've invested in tech companies.
And because the stock of these companies, and there's about
seven of them that do extraordinarily well, they're called the
Magnificent Seven. And I don't know if I can remember
all seven off the top of my head. But it's Tesla,
it's Meta, it's in Vidio, it's Google parent company. There
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is Alphabet, it's Apple. Those companies. Their stock has gone
up by so many multiples. People have more money than
they know what to do with. In certain communities, they
pay a lot in taxes. In fact, the top one
percent pays almost half the income tax in this state.
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So when you hear about this nonsense about the rich
have to pay their fair share, believe me, they're paying
the fair share. Not only that the middle class is
this is rarely talked about. The middle class is taxed
at a higher rate than most other states in the country.
So not only the wealthy getting bent over, but the
middle class in California gets bent over. And we have
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the highest sales tax and we have the highest gas tax.
It all adds up to the most money ever. And
still California government is in a deficit. And this is
the game they play. They gave away. They give away
thirty five billion dollars a year to illegal illegal aliens.
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About twelve billion dollars a year go to illegal alien
healthcare everybody. It started off with little kids, the elderly.
Now it's everyone, lifetime illegal alien healthcare free from the
state of California's taxpayers. And I have to emphasize that
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because I often hear in the news California pays healthcare
benefits to illegal alien No. California taxpayers, including many who
can't afford their own healthcare, are forced to finance the
healthcare of millions of illegal aliens. We've got three four
five million illegal aliens. Nobody knows the exact number. Had
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a million in La County. Fortunately, some have been caught,
others have been deported. And whenever anybody says, oh, you know,
we really should only be deporting the credinal, No, people
came here to live off me and you. They're getting
free healthcare. They're not entitled to it. Their children are
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getting free education. They're not entitled to it. They can
go to their home country and they can get the
health care and the education. I don't want to provide it.
I don't want to be forced to provide it. You
shouldn't be forced to provide it. We all have our
own obligations we need to take care of. And I
really resent Newsom given away thirty five billion dollars every
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year and then complaining that we've got a big deficit here. Yeah,
well stop, just give the money to Americans. Let's start
with that notion. The AI boom has created a lot
of multimillionaires and billionaires, but the stock market is at
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a record high. A lot of the stock price depends
on people believing that this AI boom is really going
to transform society and it's going to last forever, and
that these companies are going to be able to pull
off the potential and make money at it. There's obviously
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a lot of uncertainty. While it is a tremendous innovation
that will change a lot of things in our lives,
nobody knows whether these companies will actually make the profits
that their stock prices seem to promise. You could have
a massive downtour or a crash in AI stocks any day,
any minute. You don't know what's going to set it off,
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which means the budget for California could end up with
a huge hole blown right through the middle of it.
And it's already bad. They're already bleeding money because of
massive overspending on nonsense, stupid stuff such as the billion
and a half dollars for that Capitol building annex, which
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is a monument to the egos of those in the
legislature and the governor. They don't have many tricks left.
They were massively in debt this past year, and they
came up with all kinds of one time solutions, money
moving around, delaying payments, borrowing money from the future. They
can't do that that much this year. And of course,
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what do you think we have a moron? The Speaker
of the Assembly, Robert Reeves. You know what his analysis is.
It's Trump's fault. Honest to god, It's Trump's fault. Trump's
got nothing to do with California state spending. What he
is cutting, though, is some of the medicaid spending, which
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has to be cut because Newsom gives it away to
illegal aliens and there's no reason that taxpayers around the
country should have to pay for the healthcare of illegal
aliens in California. Nobody else does that, and so Newsom
deserves a huge budget hole because he's doing stupid, irresponsible things.
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But Newsom is responsible for this massive budget deficit, and
it's going to get worse and worse and worse. And
they're looking at it running through, you know, as far
as they can see. You know, they've got it laid
out through twenty the rest of twenty twenty six into
twenty twenty seven, because because what because progressive politicians spend
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enormous amounts of money, tax people to death, and you
wonder why the economy sucks in California. Highest unemployment rate,
highest inflation rate, highest taxes, worst business climate out of
fifty states, and it's starting to catch up. Okay, we've
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All right, boy, imagine the whistleblowers here in LA could
describe what's really going on with Karen Bass's homeless agencies.
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Every few months she waddles off to MacArthur Park to
claim that something has to be done about all the
disgusting things that are going on there. You got the
homeless people, you know, which is primarily mental patients and
drug addicts. You've got criminals, You've got gangs. You've got
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their openly selling drugs and weapons in the park. You
have all sorts of crazy behavior, not to mention all
the illegal alien businesses. New York Post did their own
walk through investigation of MacArthur Park and they watched the
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LA Fire Department Station eleven what they have to do
all day and really all year. And I found this,
I found this fascinating. They wrote, A cramped, aging fire
station jammed up against MacArthur Park has been dragged into
a street war. It never asked for. That fire station,
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they say, is now a triage unit because MacArthur Park
is one of the nastiest fentanyl zones in Los Angeles,
and you see them the fentalyl addicts, some of them
on xylazine because the dealers started cunning fentanyl with xylazine,
which I believe is some kind of horse tranquilizer. And
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whatever the effect of the drug is, it it makes
a it's a more powerful impact on your brain, but
it causes your your skin to rot. You end up
with these gaping, open, rotting wounds. And that's what wanders
around MacArthur Park, the these zombies with their gaping mounds,
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Post says. The LA Fire Department Station eleven has fourteen
firefighters on daily duty, sometimes sixteen. They have an ambulance,
a fast response truck, and the pace at which the
firehouse must keep up with calls is almost incomprehensible. Listen
to this. Station eleven had eight thousand, five hundred and
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sixty eight ambulance runs in the first eight months in
twenty twenty five, eight five hundred and sixty eight ambulance
runs in eight months. That's over a thousand ambulance runs
a month, and there's only thirty days in a month.
They only had fifty five structure fires. So most of
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what they do is they deal with fires started by
the bums. The bumfights, rubbish fires, garbage fires. That's what
the homeless do all day. The firehouse is one of
the busiest in the country, primarily putting out homeless fires.
How insane is that that? Karen Bass and now she's
(03:16):
been at this for three years runs the city where
we're at the top of the charts for homeless fires
in this just in this one district, MacArthur Park. You
can't stop. That's arson, right, that's like eight thousand cases
(03:37):
of arson now compared to other stations. Right. They looked
at Venice fire Station sixty three. They had twenty five
hundred ambulance calls over the same period, less than a
third nineteen fires. MacArthur Park they have to put out
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the rubbish fires had a breakneck pace, forcing crews to
douse one fire and race straight and race straight to
the next one. And that's what one of the firemen
told the posts. That's exhausting. That's going to be infuriating
running around putting homeless garbage, putting out fires set by homeless,
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fires of trash where their stupid encampments or their propane tanks.
MacArthur Park has established itself as a destination for LA's
hardest hit hardest drug addicts. A chaos soaked corridor were
overdoses hit by the hour criminal crews muscle in on
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the trade. This is the largest park in the district.
It's a sprawling encampment. Hundreds of people in and around
the park on any given day, many of them young
drug users in their twenties, shooting up with needles or
smoking from glass pipes, some pipes for fashioned to look
(05:08):
like shotguns. Other atticts passed out or waiting on their
next free meal. The post also saw straight barrel versions
of crack pipes getting handed out by city and county employees.
They're called safe smoking kids. You believe this. So you
got these vagrant drug addicts smoking crack and starting fires,
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and we're paying our taxes for county employees to hand
out the crack pipes, and then we have to pay
for the firefighters to put out the fires started by
the people who are smoking from the taxpayer paid crack pipes.
I wonder what started the fire yesterday that my sister saw. Yeah,
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I don't know. Sometimes it's propane tanks or grills that
they have, or sometimes they just start acting crazy and
they set fires. I mean, when you're talking about when
you're talking about, you know, eight thousand ambulance calls, it's
all overdoses and garbage fires. Some people told the posts
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they have rooms or apartments elsewhere, but they come to
MacArthur Park every day because this is where the handouts
are that we're paying for. Post visited twice. Lines formed
for food, medical vans and safe use supplies. Look at
the terminology, it's always it's always BS terminology safe use.
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It's an assembly line of aid. Twenty seven million dollars
has been poured into revitalizing MacArthur Park, paying for overdose
response teams, Peace ambassadors, Peace ambassadors. How do you bring
peace to crack addicts? USC and LA Care street medicine
(07:12):
teams and the overdoses keep coming. They called Unicus Hernandez,
who is just a human vegetable. He's she's a councilwoman.
Called multiple times, she doesn't call back, she doesn't respond.
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Los Angeles HAS Has saved, HAS says you're a master.
Twenty two million dollar oid Opioid Settlement Trust Fund. I
guess This is from lawsuits of the drug companies and
a big part of that money goes to MacArthur Park
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in the Westlake area. In fact, the city council set
aside three million dollars to build a Westlake Area harm
reduction service. Yeah, they call it harm reduction. They're giving
them crack pipes so they can keep frying their brains
and they call it harm reduction. So this Westlake Area
Harm Reduction drop in center is going to offer the
(08:18):
lockzone distribution wound care. Remember I told you the xylazine
that's mixed with the fentadel causes your causes open wounds,
to form test strips for fentyl and xylazine, mental health assessments,
referrals and treatment. They spend more and more money on
(08:39):
contracts for syringe exchanges, so the handing out free syringes,
safe smoking kits, which is they're double talk for crack pipes,
overdose education. Yeah, that's working wound care kits. This is
the Department on Disability that spends this money, and this
(09:03):
is insanity. How could how would you? How could how
could we pay for a government that hands out the
crack pipes, hands out the syringes. Then watches. People die
of fentanyl and xylazine poisoning watches. The wounds start opening
(09:25):
up on their skin and get infected. And we we've
got county workers we're paying their paying for standing there.
This is Karen Bassis, Los Angeles. And all these progressives
think this is entirely normal and proper. They're really really crazy.
This is insane and I don't have a word for it. Okay,
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the iHeart App. Well, this story has been bubbling for
some weeks. Now follow the details here because this is
the epitome of all the corruption and all the theft of
(10:19):
your attacks money. I mean, this is a fantastic example.
There is a property in Chevyott Hills and a man
named Stephen Taylor from Brentwood. He used fraudulent documents to
get an eleven million dollar loan to buy a housing
(10:44):
project in Chevyot Hills targeted for homeless housing. That chevy
At Hills is a very nice, upscale community, and there's
nobody in that town, in that neighborhood that wants this project.
Reasons right, nobody wants. I don't know how many homeless
people suddenly moving into this thing, but Steven, I got
(11:09):
to stay up front. There are so many people walking
amongst us, business guys, government people who they get up
in the morning and their job each day is to
steal our tax money. And it's not like they're fooling
anybody in government. The people in government are part of
(11:31):
the fraud. They're both in on it. And there's all
these relationships. There's all this this this invisible apparatus where
people like Steven Taylor and other others access money. And
you'll see there's some public tax money, a lot of
public tax money that's going to be involved. So just
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hang on for a minute, all right. So Stephen Taylor
buys this property in chevy At Hills for eleven million dollars.
He takes the property, and that eleven million was a
fraudulent loan that he pulled off. He takes the property
and flips it to something called the Wineguart Center. It's
(12:15):
a homeless services nonprofit uh oh, homeless services nonprofit. Wineguard
paid twenty seven million dollars ten days after Taylor spent
eleven million to buy it. In ten days, the property
(12:36):
appreciated from eleven to twenty seven million dollars. Now Taylor's
eleven million dollars, as I said, was a fraudulent loan.
The twenty seven million dollars was tax money. Public money
that wineguardt got to finance the purchase and conversion of
(12:59):
the building into a home was housing project. Now who
was the middleman in this or the middle woman? Karen Bass?
She pushed for this project. Who ran Wineguard Center? A
guy named Kevin Murray. Kevin Murray used to be a
state senator, uh oh, a state senator. Now he's running
(13:24):
the Wineguard Center. He also was appointed by Bass to
be on the board of the La County Affordable Housing
Solutions Agency. The La County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency had
never heard of that?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Well, Kevin Murray was on the board. Bass appointed him.
Bass also pushed for Murray's company to buy the Chevy
and Hills property from Steven Taylor. Now Taylor's been busted
by the FEDS over the eleven million dollar fraudule loan
that he got. But now you got the twenty seven
(14:05):
million dollars in public money. Where'd that go? I mean,
presumably they paid it to Taylor. An extra sixteen million
dollars they paid to Taylor. Well, where did that extra
sixteen million go? Could both sides have split the money?
Was there a third party involved? Was there somebody in
(14:26):
Bass's office that got a cut. That's a lot of
money and they did this in ten days? The uh,
what's that current? First uncovered this deal and the thing
gets sold twice in two weeks for one price more
(14:51):
ridiculous than the last. The Los Angeles County Affordable Housing
Solutions Agencyvian Murray was on the board. He now resigns.
What did that agency do? They spent measure A sales
tax revenue on affordable housing? How about that? So he's
(15:16):
running He's on the board of an agency that spends
the tax money meant for homeless housing. You voted for
an increase in measure A funding just last November, told
you not to people did, And now we're finding out
that the guy running the agency paid took twenty seven
(15:40):
million dollars in tax money and paid the first guy
who bought it for eleven million ten days earlier. I'm
sure Steven Taylor wasn't keeping the whole twenty seven million.
Why would Kevin Murray spend the twenty seven million? Again?
Where did did that money recirculate to? Last week, a
(16:04):
Bass representative told the staff at the La County Affordable
Housing Solutions Agency that Murray resigned November twenty ninth. Of course,
Murray is not commenting. Karen Bass and her office not commenting.
Murray has been placed on leave by the Wineguard Center.
(16:26):
A second executive, Ben Rosen, the director of real estate development.
He's been placed on leave while the nonprofit conducts an
internal review into its housing projects. Right because nobody knew
what was going on. So Rosen and Murray blowed twenty
seven million dollars on an eleven million dollar property and
(16:47):
it was fine by everybody at the Lineguard Center. Until
this story hit the media. It's like, Wow, we're going
to put them on leave and do an investigation. This
is just outrageous. This place used to be nursing home.
Now people in a nursing home are usually very docile.
They don't really cause problems, but homeless housing. Oh, oh
(17:10):
my god. Murray is claiming that he has no prior
relationship with Steven Taylor, no continuing relationship. And get this
claim from Kevin Murray. Taxpayers paid fair market value for
the property. The fair market value was eleven million, ten million.
(17:30):
Ten days later it's twenty seven million. And Kevin Murray says,
well that's fair. This is what we've got. And Bass
was the broker.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
On the deal.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
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com slasht at John Cobelt's Show All right, you know
what to do, Just go do it and then I
can I'll stop annoying you with all these announcements. Well,
one of the biggest busts in business history is trying
to force electric vehicles on the public who didn't want them.
And obviously there was a lot of pressure from the
(18:42):
federal government, and Ford stupidly went along. One thing I
didn't understand is why four GM and the rest of
them didn't fight back furiously. That's what bribes are for,
that's what lobbyists are for. But instead all the auto
companies bent over, and boy, they took it hard. They
have lost so much money. And this week the Ford
(19:04):
Motor Company announced their latest write down. They're writing off
nineteen and a half billion dollars in losses, almost all
of it is the electrical vehicle business. Nineteen and a
half billion. You think that's bad. Yeah, how much money
they've lost since twenty twenty two, thirty five billion dollars?
(19:29):
Thirty five billion. Do you know how much income Ford
has had in that time? Eleven billion? They lost three
times as much money as they made from selling everything
else that that's just overwhelming. And if you remember Biden
pushed this hard. Newsom pushed this hard. Congress issued a
(19:53):
seventy five hundred dollars tax credit per vehicle, and that
would phase out after a manufacturer sold two hundred thousand
electric cars. Obama what had this goal a million evs
on US roads by twenty fifteen. The actual number is
(20:13):
under four hundred thousand. The public didn't like them, and
we know why. You don't get much range. It takes
too long to charge, and they're very expensive. The whole
thing was just too much of a hassle unless you
were really wealthy and you bought a Tesla. Tesla owners
seemed to be happy until Musk got aligned with Donald Trump.
(20:38):
Then suddenly Tesla owners decided the car didn't run all
that well. But there isn't a replacement for Tesla. None
of the other car companies came up with anything close,
certainly not in an affordable range. And so Ford announced
that they're getting rid of the F one P fifty
(20:58):
Lightning that was their electric pickup truck, and they introduced
that on the market and with a lot of fanfare.
It got a lot of publicity and excitement, and it
turned out that it was a bust because if you
have a pickup truck. You like to carry a lot
of things. You like to pull stuff, right, maybe you
(21:19):
want to pull a boat, Maybe you want to fill
the truck bed with all kinds of equipment. It turned
out that if you have a lot of stuff in
the truck bed, or if you're pulling something heavy, your
electricity falls dramatically. You lose juice rapidly, so you can't
(21:43):
go very far. I guess nobody thought of this when
they put them out on the market because they were
really expensive. So it didn't take long. And you know,
everybody communicates now. Immediately they start posting things on various
websites and bulletin boards, and quickly the whole world realized
that getting an ev An EV pickup truck was going
(22:06):
to be a huge hassle and a half and the
car wouldn't go very far. So now what they're going
to do is, well, let me tell you what the damage, right,
thirty five billion dollars. They lost thirteen billion dollars on
its business just since twenty twenty three. Add that another
nineteen billion dollars with this write off. They also they
(22:30):
also now are getting rid of They're closing their Kentucky
EV battery factory. They're going to lay off thousands of people.
They're going to turn it eventually into a battery storage
business for customers' utilities and wind and solar power developers
who take those energy sources convert it into battery, and
(22:52):
then there's this storage area that Ford is going to run.
They're also massive data centers train artificial intelligence that is
also going to require a lot of batteries. So they're
going to repurpose the battery factory. But the idea of
electric vehicles, Oh, here's another reason didn't happen. We didn't
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have an electrical grid, especially in California. And this is
what really flummocks me. This was one of these subjects
the last few years. I thought I was insane. I
thought there was something wrong with me. How can you
force tens of millions of people to plug in an
electric vehicle every day when we're always running on the
edge of running out of power, especially in the summertime,
(23:37):
and remember we did a few years ago, had a
really hot summer and because stupid Newsome closed all these
gas plants and he was going to close a nuclear plant,
we almost had blackouts. Well, if you add millions and
millions of electrical cars. Well, then what's going to happen.
Oh that's when they said, wow, you only got you
only can plug them in between ten at night and
(24:00):
four in the morning. It's like, all right, okay, I
can see where this is going. We're going to have
our lives now twenty four hour controlled. We can't charge
the car when we want. It means we can't drive
when we want. It means our freedoms are constricted. We
can't go as far as we want. You know, you
can't buy a four f one fifty lightning and want
(24:24):
to load it up with stuff and pull a boat
behind you if the thing's going to peter out after
fifty miles. And this always was about control, and the
public looked at it. I mean a lot of people
considered an EV, but at those prices, with that range,
(24:45):
with the charging stations, there were no charging stations. Not
only you didn't have an electric grid, you did, you
had very few charging stations. But it was like a
weird religion that they were forcing you to join, like
you had to join or we're going to destroy you life.
I mean, I think this year coming year twenty twenty six,
(25:05):
thirty five percent of the cars were supposed to be
electric vehicle sales here in California. Well, they weren't going
to come anywhere near that. I never really understood if
there's a penalty for that, and then what they were
going to do is drive up the That's why the
gasoline is is four to fifty a gallon, and that's
why it may be headed to six eight ten dollars
a gallon with all the oil production problems we have
(25:27):
in the state. They were going to force everybody into
electric vehicles. That was going to be their backdoor mandate
in case we weren't buying thirty five percent evs, we
weren't meeting the goals. They were going to force us
all because we'd end up with ten dollars gas. So
now now now Ford is backing way off. They think
(25:50):
hybrids eventually are going to sell very well, they already are,
and that would have been the logical way to go.
People seem to like hybrids, it makes more sense. But
the fanatic, the environmental fanatics and Newsom were demanding all
or nothing. There was no mid range compromise like evs.
So this this came from the Obama administration, the Biden administration,
(26:11):
the Newsomme administration. By by twenty thirty two, around the
whole nation, two thirds of new cars across the country
would have to be electric, even though nobody wanted them.
But we dodged that. Dodged it, not with any protests,
(26:31):
We dodged it simply. But not buying them. I always
wandered in the back of my mind, It's like, well,
what if people don't buy? What kind of a standoff
is going to occur if people refuse to show up
to the dealership and purchase one of these one of
these losers. Okay, we've got more coming up on the
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John Cobelt Show CATFI AM six forty live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app in sacer Meadow. Despite an army of
investigators looking into the wrongdoing of so many people in
Newsom's orbit A, Newsom is continuing to blow so much
money that we're looking at an eighteen billion dollar deficit
(27:18):
for the next fiscal year, and that's up five billion
dollars from earlier in the summer. We are getting more
revenue than Sacramento has ever seen by far. Because Sacramento
relies a lot on wealthy people, wealthy people cashing in
their stock. We have an abundance of people who work
(27:42):
for tech companies and people who've invested in tech companies.
And because the stock of these companies, and there's about
seven of them that do extraordinarily well, they're called the
Magnificent Seven. And I don't know if I can remember
all seven off the top of my head. But it's Tesla,
it's Meta, it's in Vidio, it's Google parent company. There
(28:03):
is Alphabet, it's Apple. Those companies. Their stock has gone
up by so many multiples. People have more money than
they know what to do with. In certain communities, they
pay a lot in taxes. In fact, the top one
percent pays almost half the income tax in this state.
(28:23):
So when you hear about this nonsense about the rich
have to pay their fair share, believe me, they're paying
the fair share. Not only that the middle class is
this is rarely talked about. The middle class is taxed
at a higher rate than most other states in the country.
So not only the wealthy getting bent over, but the
middle class in California gets bent over. And we have
(28:46):
the highest sales tax and we have the highest gas tax.
It all adds up to the most money ever. And
still California government is in a deficit. And this is
the game they play. They gave away. They give away
thirty five billion dollars a year to illegal illegal aliens.
(29:08):
About twelve billion dollars a year go to illegal alien
healthcare everybody. It started off with little kids, the elderly.
Now it's everyone, lifetime illegal alien healthcare free from the
state of California's taxpayers. And I have to emphasize that
(29:30):
because I often hear in the news California pays healthcare
benefits to illegal alien No. California taxpayers, including many who
can't afford their own healthcare, are forced to finance the
healthcare of millions of illegal aliens. We've got three four
five million illegal aliens. Nobody knows the exact number. Had
(29:54):
a million in La County. Fortunately, some have been caught,
others have been deported. And whenever anybody says, oh, you know,
we really should only be deporting the credinal, No, people
came here to live off me and you. They're getting
free healthcare. They're not entitled to it. Their children are
(30:15):
getting free education. They're not entitled to it. They can
go to their home country and they can get the
health care and the education. I don't want to provide it.
I don't want to be forced to provide it. You
shouldn't be forced to provide it. We all have our
own obligations we need to take care of. And I
really resent Newsom given away thirty five billion dollars every
(30:38):
year and then complaining that we've got a big deficit here. Yeah,
well stop, just give the money to Americans. Let's start
with that notion. The AI boom has created a lot
of multimillionaires and billionaires, but the stock market is at
(31:01):
a record high. A lot of the stock price depends
on people believing that this AI boom is really going
to transform society and it's going to last forever, and
that these companies are going to be able to pull
off the potential and make money at it. There's obviously
(31:25):
a lot of uncertainty. While it is a tremendous innovation
that will change a lot of things in our lives,
nobody knows whether these companies will actually make the profits
that their stock prices seem to promise. You could have
a massive downtour or a crash in AI stocks any day,
any minute. You don't know what's going to set it off,
(31:51):
which means the budget for California could end up with
a huge hole blown right through the middle of it.
And it's already bad. They're already bleeding money because of
massive overspending on nonsense, stupid stuff such as the billion
and a half dollars for that Capitol building annex, which
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is a monument to the egos of those in the
legislature and the governor. They don't have many tricks left.
They were massively in debt this past year, and they
came up with all kinds of one time solutions, money
moving around, delaying payments, borrowing money from the future. They
can't do that that much this year. And of course,
(32:36):
what do you think we have a moron? The Speaker
of the Assembly, Robert Reeves. You know what his analysis is.
It's Trump's fault. Honest to god, It's Trump's fault. Trump's
got nothing to do with California state spending. What he
is cutting, though, is some of the medicaid spending, which
(33:04):
has to be cut because Newsom gives it away to
illegal aliens and there's no reason that taxpayers around the
country should have to pay for the healthcare of illegal
aliens in California. Nobody else does that, and so Newsom
deserves a huge budget hole because he's doing stupid, irresponsible things.
(33:29):
But Newsom is responsible for this massive budget deficit, and
it's going to get worse and worse and worse. And
they're looking at it running through, you know, as far
as they can see. You know, they've got it laid
out through twenty the rest of twenty twenty six into
twenty twenty seven, because because what because progressive politicians spend
(33:55):
enormous amounts of money, tax people to death, and you
wonder why the economy sucks in California. Highest unemployment rate,
highest inflation rate, highest taxes, worst business climate out of
fifty states, and it's starting to catch up. Okay, we've
got more coming up on The John Cobelt Show. Hey,
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