Healing Under Trump

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We have a lot of people on the text line
that are responding to our Washington State caller Rob, who
is talking about how bad it is there from sales tax.
This is two five three Cooner and Sandy, I travel
a lot for work gas and Washington state five dollars
gallon or hire, while Florida has it at three dollars.

(00:20):
Washington has excessive sales tax exceeding eleven percent and some
of the highest property tax. They recently allowed up to
three percent of home value. F years ago, you bought
your house for one hundred k, and today it's worth
five hundred k than under this new direction, you have
fifteen thousand in property tax. Your Social Security benefit will
no longer cover your expenses. On top of all this

(00:42):
fraud is rampant. Orlander just did a review of why
their state funded Visit Orlando Tourism Office budget grew twenty
million in one year. But in Washington, if you questioned
the budget, the Marxist governor wants to lock you up. Well,
that's the progressive response to most things. Agree with us
or go to jail, basically what they tried to do
with President Trump. And and by the way, speaking of that,

(01:07):
I know that there are some people on the line
who also want to talk about this. The FBI has
uh gone and searched the home of former security advisor
John Bolton. That's just happened this morning. It's it's kind
of interesting, you had. He lives in Bethesda. He lives
in the Woodstock area of Bethesda, right, it's right in

(01:29):
the middle of Bethesda. FBI raided his home looking for
security documents. And it's funny because Cash Betel put out
a tweet going, no one is above the law hashtag
FBI agents on a mission just after they they got there.
So this probe, which is supposed to be about to

(01:50):
classified documents, was launched years ago, but the Biden administration
shut it down for political reasons. They said. Bolton has
been accused of including classified information in his twenty twenty
book The Room Where It Happened, and President Trump fought
to stop its publication because of it included national secret

(02:12):
saying that Bolton broke his NDA as a condition of
his employment, but he wasn't able to do it. So
this is what's going on. So I don't know exactly
what's going to come of it. What's what they're specifically
looking for but it looks like Cash Betel and the
FBI are up and running. Tim from South Carolina, Welcome

(02:36):
to WRKO. How are you, Tim?

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Good morning to the lovely Sandy Shack. Thank you, Good morning, Yes, absolutely,
good morning, Jeff Cooner. I hope you're enjoying your day off.
Good morning to the listeners. This is huge. We have
a house rated at six a m. Roger Stone has
already spoken. I think everyone out there should know that

(03:04):
this may seem like a lower arrest. Bolton was kind
of a major player though he I mean he.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Held he wasn't arrested.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
His house is rated. There's a difference, so he wasn't arrested,
his house is rated. They're looking for stuff. It depends
whether he's arrested or not, will depend on what they.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Find, right, But I think he'll sing though. I think
if he's pressed by them, he's definitely going to I
think he'll be nervous. He's he knows he's in big
trouble right now, and I think that that's what they're doing.
Maybe the lower level people. Yeah, I mean you're obviously

(03:46):
trained in this, Sandy. I mean, witness testimony is evidence, right, Is.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
That correct?

Speaker 2 (03:51):
So yeah, I just wanted to call in and say
that I think this is extremely good news.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
It isn't bad news, let's put it that way. I
don't know what will come of it, but to actually
see things moving and see things, you know, it's not
being shuffled off somewhere is I think a positive step.
But but what happens, whether it's whether it turns into
good news or whether it's just a positive sign, I
don't know yet, you.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Know, right, I hear you. But anyway, I you know,
I just wanted to call in and let you know.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
And well before you go, would you mind answering my
question regarding the economy, How is your personal economy doing?
Are you doing? Do you see movement in forward? Or
do you believe the Democrats are correct when they say
the sky is falling?

Speaker 2 (04:41):
I think the economy is improving. I you know, it's
little by little. It's it's an inch at a time.
One thing that you know I always bank on is
whatever the mainstream media is telling people.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, the exact.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Opposite is taking place. I mean it's it's been a
running thing. Yeah. I've noticed the difference myself in my pocketbook.
So yeah, the answer is yes, so things are looking.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Up under the Trump administration. You think his State of
the Union speech, when he eventually gets it, it's going
to be thumbs up. Guys.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Well, I know that.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
I get accused a lot, and you inferred it just now,
and you're right about that. I get accused a lot
of being over excited or I think everything that's happening
right now is is positive. He told us we're entering
a golden age. They might be just words, it might
be just a phrase. If you think of everything simultaneously

(05:45):
taking place right now, all the changes, all the corrections
he's making, there's going to be a culmination here. And yeah,
I'm really excited.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
You know.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Anyone again can accuse me of, you know, being overly
you know, dramastic or excited. Yeah, well I don't.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
I don't think you could be overly optimistic. I think
optimism is a you know, no pun intended, is a
positive thing. But I think that, Uh. I think everything
is moving toward toward the light as opposed to moving
toward the dark, which is how I felt things were
moving under their Biden administration, And now I see they

(06:27):
may it may be incremental steps forward, but I think
we're moving toward a brighter future for everybody across the board.
As opposed to the Biden administration, the brighter future was
for a very limited few and the rest of us
were being left in the dust. And that's how I
feel about the economy, is that this economy seems to
be moving forward for everybody, maybe slow, but that's because

(06:51):
it's taking everybody along with it, whereas under the Biden
administration there were just a select few who were prospering.
That's how I see it about you.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Tim, Oh, yeah, absolutely, I echo, I echo your wards.
I think the the hijack of the country has been
thwarted and everything has turned around. Everything. I mean, it's
been stopped cold. The globalists are not winning.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
They're not And I think that you can take this
this FBI rate on John Bolton's home as part of
that as a as lessons learned, and that you can't
abuse the law, and you can't you know, put your
put your own pocketbook ahead of national security and ahead

(07:39):
of the presidency, and ahead of democracy and and do well.
President Trump appears to be writing the economy of the US.
It's slow, and it's small steps, but I think that
we are headed in the right direction. Are you seeing
a positive change in your life? Maria from Ludlow, Welcome

(08:02):
to w r KO. How are you Maria? By Sandy,
So what do you say? Are you seeing positive changes?

Speaker 5 (08:12):
I definitely do see positive changes, but it's quite hard
in the state of Massachusetts. It's very hard to raise
the family over here. I don't see that the state
is going to get any better on the leadership that
it's on. I wish and I pray to God this
state will eventually, by some miracle change to red that

(08:38):
I think it's thinking.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Do you know what, Maria? You know what is the
biggest growing party in Massachusetts? Or I would say political
group instead a party would be Independents are growing handover
fist in Massachusetts.

Speaker 5 (08:55):
That's wonderful. Yeah, as long as they're not voting blue.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
I have no idea how they but I know that
independents are in Massachusetts, we call them unenrolled, are growing exponentially.

Speaker 5 (09:07):
That's great, that's great. I mean I live, like you know,
I live in Ludlow, and the shopping markets here are atrocious.
I mean, our local grocery store is big why and
the prices there are atrocious they're so expensive. I mean,
I go with few points to the store, but it's

(09:30):
like on the stuff that I don't purchase, I mean,
I feel as cheap as can be. And I'm going
to have to start going, you know, I go to
Springfield to stop and shop. Yeah, because or all these
I wish that Market Baska went out here. And I've
made numerous phone calls to market Basket. Yes, I am

(09:53):
that person that has called them numerous times to you know,
see if they can build a store out here, because
I've told him that it's like a it's it's a
surface not having a store here to service the community
because we don't have a choice. It's either big y
or stop and shop and all these if you're a

(10:15):
close by, and it's quite you know, a shameful because
it's so Last night last night, I went to the
grocery store before I went to work, legit to buy milk,
butter and a thing of eggs and some blueberries. And
I spent almost sixty dollars.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Oh my god, I almost.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
Like not even I didn't even bring a bag with me.
I carried everything in my hand because that's all I
needed it. And I've been like making everything at home. Yeah,
I make my own brand. I'm learning how to make
my own butter. I'm making everything at home because it's
just about purchase anything. It's so excited, and you know,

(11:01):
making it at home obviously it's much healthier.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, and the other and the other thing I can
say is, I don't remember the last time I bought
a brand name anything. I buy generic whenever. I mean,
if I had the option, it's always generic because it's
so it's especially with a store like market Basket, it
is massively different. And usually the generics are made at

(11:27):
the same factories as the brand names are. They just
change the labeling on them and sell them, you know,
at at a cheaper price. So I honestly don't remember
last time I looked for a brand name of anything.
I'm always looking for the store brand when I buy
anything to save money. I have noticed some things are
getting better. Not everything by any stretch, but there are

(11:49):
some things that are that are getting better. And like
you too, I've I've learned how to make stuff like
I make my own yogurt, and it's because I found
that it's I if you have they a slow, quick
rightn instapot, you can make your own. It has actually
has a button on it that you can that you
can make your own yogurt. And it's so much cheaper

(12:09):
than buying it. So I know exactly what you're talking about.
There's certain things I've learned to make, and there are
certain things that you know you can't make, you have
to buy. And when I do that, I buy generic.
But I will say that it's getting easier for me
at the store than it used to be. And on
some things, you know, on some dairy products and the

(12:29):
egg stuff, and and I look for like you, I
look for the sales. I read the I read the
ads every week before I go in and make a
list and try to stick the list. But you know,
it's it's getting easier for me to to make the
you know, impulsive buy that's good or bad depending on
what you're you know what's gone on. But but I

(12:50):
completely understand where you're coming from, Maria. But have you
noticed anything getting better for you?

Speaker 4 (12:56):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (12:56):
Definitely. The gas has definitely gone down. As you know,
I work in Cambridge, so I thank god that every
once in a while, at least one a month, on
my way home, I stop in Oxford. It is the
last market basket before I come home, So I will
stop in Oxford, Mass and go grocery shopping because I

(13:17):
know it's going to be much cheaper and the gas
is cheaper. Things I've gone. I would not change the
way things are now to the way things used to
be under the Biden's administration. It's like day and night. Yeah,
well like even more. Yes, it will, but everything takes

(13:40):
time and people need to be patient because you know,
Dabafoon destroyed this country quickly. It doesn't take long to
destroy something. It takes longer to rebuild it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
In fact, to your point, just think of this analogy.
How long does it take to build a build it
and how long does it take to implode it? It
takes you know, it can literally take at less than
an hour to implode a building. When when you see
the construction companies come in to take down a building,
literally it's pressed a button and it's gone. How long
did it take to build that? And that's what I think.

(14:14):
That's a really good point that you're making because it
didn't take Joe Biden and before him, Obama very much
time to disrupt the economy, and it's going to take
a while to build it back up. So thank you
so much for the call, Maria. I appreciate it. You know.
I think it's interesting that she brings that point up,

(14:35):
because I think President Trump has made really concerted efforts
to build you know, to bring build up the international
trade again. He's made a big effort to protect American
workers in what he's doing. There's been a blue collar
wage boom so far. I think it's one point four

(14:57):
percent up in twenty twenty five. That's the fastest start
of any new administration dating back I think like sixty years.
The only time that it's been faster, just a little bit,
was under President Trump's first term when it grew one
point five percent, and that of course was before COVID

(15:18):
COVID hit. But part of this, the start of this
economic renaissance, I think is also due to, as I
mentioned before, to the Big Beautiful Bill, which brings back
one hundred percent expensing for capital expenditures. Plus it also
brought about this new approach of full expensing for factories

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and plants, which is a big boom for the blue
collar workers, you know, carpenter's, electricians, plumbers, laborers, the people
who are really going to benefit from from this bill.
You have all sorts of people and all sorts of
different jobs that are going to benefit from this, and
it's but it's going to be slow. It's going to
take a little time. But nursing assistants, people that work

(16:03):
in retail, wholesale trade, but people that are the backbone
of the economy. They are going to benefit from the
increased capital that companies are have now been incentivized to
to bring in to make commitments. And you know, along
with the building of the factories, and in regard to that,

(16:25):
you've got workers who are going to be building factories,
are going to get paid. Workers are gonna get paid
more when they're working in those factories. So it's kind
of like you know, around Robin, it's it's each step
that they've taken a lot of which were in the
Big Beautiful Bill, generates the next step and the next
step and the next step, and it's all and it
kind of starts to grow exponentially, but it's a slow beginning.

(16:47):
Since the Big Beautiful Bill was signed. The tax cuts
in his first term have are also in this bill,
and they increase blue collar wages and we could see
a huge jump in people's wages to help people like
Maria or some of the other callers that we've had

(17:09):
that we've had this morning, and something and something beside
that is also the the strengthening of the position of
American manufacturing during the Trump administration. I mean, he has
tackled trade big time, and not just diplomatically, but you

(17:31):
know he he Donald Trump has really approached rebuilding American
manufacturing so that we can compete with China. And so
that's what he's been doing. At the same time that
he's pursuing trade diplomacy that helps American businesses and American consumers,
like you know, Ford's five billion investment in car manufacturing,
which includes a new plant that's going to create seven

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hundred seventeen hundred new US jobs. That's in the big
Beautiful bill, and that's going to have American workers creating
American made using global license technology. Does President Trump know
what he's doing with the economy? Dem say he doesn't.
You know, don't believe your lion eyes if you think
things are getting better, That's what they say. Whose side

(18:14):
are you on here? Ronnie in Boston. Welcome to WRKO.
How are you Ronnie?

Speaker 3 (18:19):
Hey, Good morning, Cindy, thank you as always for taking
the call. Things are definitely on the healing trend, not
just economically but socially too. There's just an overall sense
of a return to normalcy in America under Trump. And
although there's a ton of different, you know, economic indicators
I could point to or policy changes Trump has made

(18:42):
to prove the healing, I don't think anything has helped
our economy more than Trump's zero tolerance position on a
legal immigration. When you dump twenty to thirty million illegals
in just four years into our supermarket chain, of course
the rice of food is going to skyrocket because you

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and I are paying for it with our money and
these illegals are paying for it with our money. So
of course, you know, especially when grocery stores are closing
because of rampant theft in deep blue states, they just
mobs of people stealing everything. And you know, our grocery
store chains haven't expanded with all this new illegal population.

(19:24):
It's shrank because to the people that are in there,
the attitude is well, whether I get it for free
swiping an EBT card or I just walk in and
take it. You know, free is free. What's it to me,
you know, so a lot of these stores have closed.
And then when you look at housing, I mean, Sandy,
if I would have snap my fingers right now and
every single illegal in this country was gone, rents would plummet.

(19:47):
There'd be nothing but plentiful housing opened up nationwide for nice,
cheap rents. Landlords would be able to go in and
renovate these places and then be fighting for competitive rents
so young people could get on their feet and rent
a one bedroom for seven eight hundred bucks a month.
And food prices will you know, would plummet with thirty

(20:08):
million people not on our grocery you know, food chain
supply line anymore, you know, making it super expensive for
the rest of us, creating scarcity, which is something that
we've only seen in the in the last four years
ever in American grocery stores. You know, empty shelves, chronic
difficulties supplying items, and it all comes down to illegal immigration.

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Union guys, blue collar workers, they cannot negotiate for higher
wages with an endless fee of illegal labor pouring into
the country. So you've seen wages go up because now
all this new investment's coming into America and these workers
aren't competing with illegal immigrants anymore. You're starting to see housing.

(20:52):
You know, housing is still really high, but with you know,
going from tens of thousands of illegals pouring across the
border every month to zero nothing, Nothing Trump has done
has helped our economy and helped the average working person
more than his zero tolerance position on illegal immigration. And
like I said, if I would have snapped my fingers

(21:13):
and they were all gone tomorrow, food prices would plummet,
rents would plummet, mortgages and housing prices would plummet. And
you know, and that's the direction that we're heading in,
and that nothing but a good thing if you're a
working class person.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
You bring up such a good point, Ronnie, because when
you think about it, illegal immigration really affects every single
part of our economy and is usually, I think, when
you look at it, the root of most of our
big issues. I mean, you touched on it in regard
to you know, food prices and housing and schools. Don't

(21:47):
forget you know, schools, the overcrowding and the schools and
the problem we're having with education probably has something to
do with it. And can we talk about healthcare? I
was in Ronnie. I was in an emergency room. This
is and a few years ago, this is in New York,
and I in the ambulance. They took my insurance card.
And then I was triaged in in the emergency room

(22:11):
at the hospital, Saint Luke's Hospital in New York, and
they took my insurance card during triage. And then I
am in an emergency room bay and the hospital administrator person,
very nice woman, but she's in there again taking my insurance.
So I am, I am in bad shape. I am

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They're getting ready to I'm getting ready to have emergency surgery.
And I have now been hassled three times for my
insurance in an emergency situation. Meanwhile, in the next bay over,
I hear a woman and I am in a They
had put me full of painkillers and all the rest,
but still and the next bay over, I hear in Spanish.

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I do speak Spanish, and I hear in Spanish, I
don't have insurance to charge me, And I'm just thinking
I have been hassled now three times. I'm barely conscious
for my insurance information. And the woman who next to me,
who doesn't have insurance, I don't know if she was
illegal or not. But if I had to, if I

(23:17):
had to bet, given what the doctors or nurses were saying,
I suspect that she was because they were concerned about
exposing her to the police that were in the emergency room.
I think she was, but don't know for sure. But
I'm thinking, oh my god, and I am paying for

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her hospital stay and we're not even gotten to the
point of my hospital stay that wasn't covered by insurance.
So I mean, it affects everything, Ronnie, absolutely everything. I
think that is such a good point. And by solving
that problem, because President Trump has effectively closed the border
at this point, by solving that problem, I think he

(24:02):
put us well on the way to more sound economic footing.
I so agree with you.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Is that, you know, it's no other issue also got
so many moderates and Democrats to quietly break for Trump
too than illegal immigration, because you know, an a legal
immigrant doesn't care if the job they're taking belongs to
a Democrat or Republican. You know, they don't care. You know,
like you know, whether you know you're Democrat or Republican.

(24:33):
You know, we're all still paying the same prices at
the grocery stores. We're all still seeing the same rents
you know out there. You know, it's just you know,
I legal immigration doesn't care about your party affiliation. And
I know personally in my own life, you know a
lot of single moms that you know that we're really
really struggling under Biden because the apartment complexes that they

(24:57):
lived at got overrun with illegals, making them a lot
more unsafe. And also their benefits were a lot more restricted.
And one was telling me, you know, like should go
down for her snap benefits. You know, you got to
go in once a month, you know, so they can
see you. And it was just a fee of illegals
in front, and it just turned into an all day affair.
And you know, and these are Democrats, Sandy, you know,

(25:19):
like being honest about how you know, it's frustrating to
wait there all day. It's frustrating to not understand the
language of all the people around you in your own country.
It's frustrating, you know, to see these people, you know,
you know, being rewarded for criminal behavior of just coming
across the border in human waves and receiving benefit after

(25:39):
benefit after benefit that you know amounts to a working
person making fifty grand a year, you know, and of
course that's completely ruined our economy. But you know, Trump
is turning that around, and it's only going to get
better as time goes on. You know, his zero tolerance
policy on illegal immigration. It's it's only going to make
all of our economy fortunes better in the future.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
I thank you.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
Gran was always for the call.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Oh, thank you for calling, Ronnie. I really appreciate it.
I think you're so absolutely right. And let's not forget,
by the way, in Massachusetts, the fact that veterans were
being turned out of low income housing because landlords were
being offered incentives to give them to illegal families, and it's,
you know, wow, that that's always just made me sick

(26:25):
at heart when I heard about that happening. Thank you
for the call, Ronnie. I appreciate it very much. Let's
go to Tommy in West Virginia. Tommy, how are you today?

Speaker 4 (26:38):
Hey, good morning, Good morning Sandy.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
So our things turned I'm sorry I didn't mean to indrap.
Go ahead.

Speaker 4 (26:47):
You had a caller about an hour ago that talked
about Washington State and in nineteen nineteen ninety two, February
of ninety two, I started working at a Boeing facility
construction expansion in Seattle as well as Everett, Washington. It
was a beautiful state. It was affordable. I had a

(27:08):
studio apartment in the Capitol Hill section of Seattle for
two twenty five a month wow. And I wasn't working.
I wasn't working overtime then, but I was still able
to pay for my apartment back in Boston, a cabin
in West Virginia, and I still had money left over
at the end of the month. I was still saving
even though I was taking care of three places. Very affordable,

(27:33):
really nice. And here's the thing that happened back then.
When I got transferred to another job in Everett, Washington
where they built the Triple seven plane. There was seven
hundred electricians on that job from all over the country.
It was an IBW electricians and working with the local guys.

(27:58):
You could be from anywhere in the country, but if
you were from southern California, the local guys just took
an attitude to these people, like you know. And I
asked one of the local guys, I go, what's this
bigotry towards Southern Californians. He said, well, here's the problem
just selling their property in downty dey're jacking up our

(28:18):
land prices. They view used as hay seeds that were pumpkins.
And he said, mark my word, twenty years from now,
King County, Seattle is going to be La County minus
the sunshine. And I just remembered, like that's ridiculous, just
thinking to myself, well, guess what happened. King County, Seattle

(28:40):
is Los Angeles County. And what's the common denominator Progressive
Democrats in their policies. And I checked out that man
that talked about Washington State the fuel prices on gas Buddy,
he was right on diesel is between four around the
low four dollars to five dollars gallon price. Wow, And

(29:04):
that has a huge that has a huge dealing, you know,
with regards to shipping and Washington State, in the city
of Bellingham, they have oil refineries there. And the big
thing that the Trump administration, he did say on the
campaign trail that he wants to open up more refineries
in this country. That's our problem. And if we open

(29:27):
up more refineries, number one, when we have a hurricane,
the fuel prices aren't going to jump on the East
coast like they always do. And the last oil refinery
that was that was built in this country, major one,
was in nineteen seventy six somewhere in Texas. And I
just hope Trump's people are listening. But that's one thing.
If we really want to get food costs down, that's

(29:50):
part of the equation that you've got to make shipping
easier for them. And your previous caller, Ronnie was spot
on that, you know what, you start getting rid of
the illegal immigrants that are competing for jobs in America.
And I'm so tired of hearing, well, who's going to
pick it fruit in vegetables? We need three hundred and
thirty thousand people to do those manual jobs. Yes they

(30:13):
should be treated you meanly, Yes they should be paid well.
I have no wish with people like that. They don't
have to be illegals to do that. But if Trump
can really go through a massive deportation of illegals, not
legal immigrants, illegals, you will see the price of apartments
go down. You will see the price of housing go down.

(30:36):
And I find it interesting that my house in Brockton,
where I paid two thirty nine for back in eleven
in twenty nineteen, it was it was worth around three
point thirty and you know, I'm thinking, wow, it's pretty good.
It's about almost one hundred grand in a little over
ten years, you know, less than ten years that same property. Now,

(30:57):
if I zillo that is, it's six hundred thous and
we can thank that, we can thank Biden's policy for
jacking up these prices. And I'm not going to sell
the place. I'm going to hang on to it. And
there's probably some NPR listener that's listening that would say, well, jeez,
aren't you lucky your house is worth so much? Well, yeah,

(31:19):
I am if I want to be greedy. But on
the other hand, too, what about the generation of young
people that are up and coming that want to raise
a family and live in Massachusetts, you know, the same
way many of the people that I grew up with.
I'm sixty five now and buying a house in Massachusetts.
It's next to impossible for a person and they married

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couple in their mid twenties, whereas if we go back,
maybe a generation ago, it was possible for them to
do that. But I don't know, I'm just so fed
up with highly educated white liberals that have all the answers,
and I look at this eights that are run by

(32:01):
highly educated white liberals. Your tax to the maximum, and
you're always laid this guilt trip that if you don't
pay higher taxes, somehow you're an evil person. Massachusetts are
on their income tax form, you can choose to pay
a higher amount of state income tax, and very few

(32:23):
people do that. Yeah, and.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
I've never met one, Tommy.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
And when I go to my hometown and my church
in Foxboro, Massachusetts, it's got the rainbow flag in there
with highly educated white liberal progressives that they're the ones
that when they found out that I voted for Trump,
they're shocked, and it's like, well, wait a minute, our governor.
In twenty twenty three, Mora Healy asked all of us

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that if we had a spare bedroom in our apartment
or home to put up a migrant, did any of
you do that? Have you read the Book of Mark?
Have you read the Book of Matthew about welcoming strangers.
It's in there, It's in the New Testament. And that's
when some of these people will turn their backs to me.

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And I might be in the basement of the church,
but I know what they're saying under their breath, and
it's bast pole.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yes, no, I know exactly what you're talking about, Tommy I.
And here's my thing though, but when you say that
the white liberals, you know, say they know everything. I
don't have a problem with somebody saying that they know everything.
To be honest with you, I have a habit. I
have a problem when they lie about something, when they
say not that they know something, but that they lie

(33:43):
about it. That's that's my big issue, is the duplicitousness
of the lacking and candor that you get from these
people pretending that when things are getting better, they're not.
That is my big issue. I can, I can, I
can get the disagreement over how something should be fixed,
But don't lie to me to justify your solution when

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if you told the truth, your solution would not be
a solution at all. That's one of the things that
really irks me. And I'm going to give you an
example of that. Remember Chuck Schumer, upon hearing that the
economy grew a wop in three GDP was up three
percent in the month of July. And do you remember
what Chuck Schumer's response was to that I'm going to

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play it for you because I couldn't believe it. It's
cut twenty two a mike.

Speaker 6 (34:38):
While the Trump administration will try to wave rosy headlines
about the Q two number, today's GDP number is in
fact a mirage because some ominous numbers lurk under the hood.
Business investment plunged in the second quarter by three point
one percent. That business investment plunge so starkly is very troubling.

(35:05):
It shows that already businesses are worried about growing their operations,
worried about hiring more workers, worried about trading with their
international partners, and worried in general about the future. And
this number is another data point in a larger pattern.
Donald Trump's tariffs are weighing down the US economy, spiking

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costs for small businesses and families alike. And if Donald
Trump keeps up the chaos, the dangers for the economy
will continue to get worse.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Chaos. A GDP of three percent is a bad thing.
Don't let it fool you. Is he being chicken little?
The sky is falling?

Speaker 4 (35:43):
You know?

Speaker 1 (35:45):
It seems to me that he doesn't care what No
matter what the GDP number was he was going to
give the same speech, just input the GDP number. And
I think it's more than just looking for failure. I
think when they lie like this, the Democrats are actually
trying to create failure. They're doing more than just predicting it.

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They want to try to make it happen.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
What do you think, Tommy, you took the words out
of my mouth as I was listening to that that
I thought the.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
Sky is falling, And yes, a fable of chicken Little
really comes to mind. But let's put it this way
in conclusion this conversation, and thank you for the conversation.
Number One, John Bolton is a rat. We're going to
find that out. Number two, in the words of Malcolm X,
the chickens are coming home to roost. And I was

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so glad to hear that they investigated him and Leticia James,
it ain't over till it's over.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
Nope, it isn't over till it's over. Well you too, Tommy,
thank you so much for the call. I appreciate that
it isn't over till it's over. But it seems to
me that all these lies that they've told, all this
sleight of hand that they have done in particular in
the economy, never mind, you know, Russia, Russia, Russia in
national security events that too, and they're jihad against President Trump.

(37:19):
It seems to me that they seem to think if
they say the same lie over and over and over again,
that it will become the truth. And so if they
say that Donald Trump is failing on an economic level,
that they are trying to make it happen. As opposed to,
you know, hoping that the country does better. They don't
want the country to do better. They want us to

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do worse, and they think that by sheer will power
they can make that true. Are they trying to make
the economy fail? Ellen in Lowell, Welcome to w RKO.
How are you, Ellen?

Speaker 3 (37:53):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (37:54):
I'm doing fine, Thanks for Colin.

Speaker 7 (37:57):
I just wanted to say one thing, uh being living
in Massachusetts, I don't understand why anybody would vote for
mariy Heey or mayor woo there if they were both out,
Massachusetts would be a heck of a law does than
what it is today, and why would people vote them

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back in? I can't understand it. Mari Heely said, Oh,
there's a good plan we have. You're gonna your electric
is going to be cut down. And she was talking
about sola. He people don't want sola. My electric bill,
they call delivery charge is almost like one hundred and

(38:38):
sixty dollars added onto my electric bill every month. My
electric bill is like three hundred dollars a month, and
that's a lot of money. And uh, I don't know
why people can't understand that the Democrat partty is not
the same party that we had years ago. It's flipped over.

(39:00):
They as far as I'm concerned, they're no good. I
don't know why people can't understand that. In Massachusetts, get
rid of mar Heally and we will live a lot better.
All she is as fluthy, illegal, putting them all up
everywhere you can think of. And I hope that charm
Holman comes down here and does a good job in

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Massachusetts and gets them all out. You know, this is
the way I feel.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
It's interesting, Well, I think a lot of people feel
that way. Ellen. For sure, the Democratic Party is not
the Democratic Party of my parents. It's not the same,
not even close to what it was when I was
growing up. And it's I think I was when I
first registered to vote back when you know, I was
eighteen years old. I registered as a Democrat because my

(39:49):
parents are Democrats. But then at some point in time
I realized that I wasn't And it wasn't that I changed,
It was that the Democrat Party change and it no
longer represented my ideals and my beliefs. And that's when
I became unenrolled and so essentially became an independent. And

(40:09):
I think a lot of people are reaching the same
realization that you have reached, ellen both those who live
in Massachusetts and those who live outside of Massachusetts. It's
not just a unique problem to Massachusetts. For instance, Can
I mention California? Never mind Washington State, which we've mentioned
earlier Earlier today,