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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is CD Shack sitting in for Jeff Kooner here
on the Coooner Report and the Cooner Country Poll. Question today,
which is brought to you by Mario's Quality Roofing, siding
and Windows, is is your personal economy better, worse or
the same. You can take it on X at the
Cooner Report or at WRKO slash Cooner. Mine is getting better.
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It could be a lot better, but I think it's
heading in the right direction. What about yours, Sal in Wakefield,
Welcome to WRKO. How are you, sal?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Good morning Sandy. The mainstream media they forget, I mean
they purposely forget. Do you remember at this time during
Biden's administration, prices just went up and up and up,
and we all saw it, we felt it. There were
stickers being made that said I did that. People were
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putting them on gas pumps, they were putting them on
steaks and chicken at the growthcery store.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
And I do you remember that?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I do?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I do?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, selective memory. And it's gonna just take some time.
If anything, things are kind of just have you know,
stayed leveled off. Voices aren't going up. It's just going
to take some time. It's going to take a while
to fix what what a disaster it was. And if
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you look at the inflation was what nine percent at
the highest, but they said actual actually food, if you
factored in food and fuel, it was in the double digits,
so that was actual inflation. I mean, these people are crazy.
They did to say a word when oh, it's not
transitory and they're saying, oh, it's just from COVID and
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you know all that, it was all you know what
bull you know, what.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Do you remember?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And it goes back before Biden to do you remember
during the Obama administration where I guess the GDP members
came out and it was like one and a half percent,
and President Obama came out and tried to tell us
that was going to be the new normal that you know,
this is this is what a modern economy looks like,
so as not and a lot of people bought that.
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And then you know, when you had President Trump come
in and the economy started going up until COVID hit,
and then Biden came back in and going down again,
and then Trump comes back in and where are we now?
Three percent? What happened to that new normal that Obama
was telling us about?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Sal Well the new normal. That was his whole plan.
He wanted the United he went on the apology tour
we know about that. He wanted the United States to
be no different than any other country. And he's admitted
that he wanted we didn't he say we need to
be knocked down a few pegs or something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
He went on the apology tour through Europe for the US,
apologizing for US too, which is another another issue. That
another thing that the Democrats did that I take issue with.
But so I think that within the next year or
so we'll start seeing some real economic games. I think
we've already started to see them. But I think you're
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right in that taking things not getting worse is a
positive step. And then I think you're seeing incremental steps
across the board. And all the while President Trump is
paying down our debt, He's getting billions of dollars through
the tariffs to pay down our debt and to getting
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investment foreign investment in the country as well, bringing you know,
billions of dollars in to help bring up our manufacturing
and our industry, all of which will have a ripple
effect on everybody's economy, I believe. So I think he
is certainly going in the right direction. Thank you so
much for the call, set, I appreciate it. So far,
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none of the dire predictions of the Democrat have happened,
you know, the recession one I played for you that
cut before. Of all, they're all predicting a recession that
hasn't happened, nor has the stagflation. And in case you're
wondering what the definition of stagflation is, because it's not
exactly a term you use in everyday conversation. It's it's
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an economy that's characterized by high inflation, slow or stagnant growth,
and high unemployment, which is a very toxic combination. And
usually it's a sluggish economy that leads to low inflation
allowing and then the Federal Reserve has to cut interest
rates to stimulate more borrowing and activity. And that's how
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it works. That's that's how the FED usually responds to
response to the economy. The problem that Donald Trump has
now is that you've got Jerome Powell as the FED
share and he doesn't really want to cut interest rates
to stimulate more borrowing in activity. So zagflation could come
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about if the FED doesn't do its job. Unless the
economy is already so strong that the Federal Reserve can't
capsize it no matter what they do, and I think
that's what President Trump is trying to do now. I mean,
he bitches a lot about Jerome Powell too late, Powell
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not not raising the interest rates, and they haven't so far.
They did, you know, they cut the interest rates just
before the election to help Biden, but that didn't that
didn't have any effect on the election in the long run,
nor did it have much of an effect on the economy.
So the Fed has to now decide whether the lower
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rates to bolster the labor market and to you know,
to see if that would drive up inflation or not.
Consumer prices have eased substantially. We're waiting to see what
the Feds are going to do. But tagflation hasn't happened,
a recession hasn't happened. None of these things have happened.
So humm, where where are the positive reports that we
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should be seeing from people like Moody's or the other
economic reporters. I mean, we've seen positive reports coming from CNBC,
which is a shock and surprise, but I guess they
decided that they better start reporting the truth. And that's
what they've been doing. But Moody's was one of the
ones that that predicted that President Trump's economic blueprint was
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going to spark a recession by now, by right now
where we are now, and it hasn't happened. You know.
So President Trump's use of the tariffs so far has
had a positive effect. He's reached deals with Japan, South Korea, Vietnam,
the UK, and you know, he said it for he
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was going to come in with these high double digit tariffs.
Instead has set them between generally ten to twenty percent,
which has been which has been good. And in the fact,
it's been so good that Moody's has had to change
its forecast and now say, okay, we thought there would
be a recession by you know, mid twenty twenty five.
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Maybe we were wrong. So all right, you know, maybe
Trump was right about the terriffs. Moody's now says nearly
half the point that Trump's policies are now going to
be a positive effect on us, and that's a shocker.
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I'm surprised that Moody's did that. I'm grateful that Moodies
did that, because that's that's going to reach more people
who are going to turn around and invest, and maybe
the Federal Reserve will decide that it has to play
fair and not politics, and maybe all of this will
help roll our economy along. But I think right now
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the ship is starting to turn, and I think we're
all starting to see it in our in our daily lives.
You know, it doesn't mean that you all of a
sudden you have, you know, tens of thousands of dollars
more than you had before. But I think life is
getting a little bit easier for people. This is the
Kooner Report. I'm sitting in for Jeff Coooner. The economy
is starting to turn around, so much so that a
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legacy media like MSM, CNBC moodies they can no longer
hide the positive results, no matter how mad that makes
the Democrats. Do you think that the Demos are ever
going to admit that President Trump is an economic success?
Do you think he is when you look at your
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personal economy? Seal on the North Shore, Welcome to WRKO.
How are you sal o good?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I'm just gonna say, price is still in the supermarkets,
and you know, and I think just because the genie
is out of the bottle, they're not going to lower
their prices, even though wholesale index prices have gone down.
I mean, they're not going to just lower their prices
for everybody. They just I mean, the price are high,
people are paying it, so they're just going to say stabs.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I got two words for you, sell market basket, the.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Market basket, and I'd be honest with you. Market Basket
has even got a little a little more expensive than
the last couple of years. I mean, they used to
be a great place to shop.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
They still are, obviously, but I know, I'm just saying
I have seen prices actually not across the board. I'm
not saying that, but I'm just saying I have seen
things go back down at market Basket. When they get
a deal on something, they pass it on to you.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I agree, I agree, But when you win a bag
of the ritos there's like two for eight bucks or
whatever they got, I mean, they're not going to lower
their price like Pepsi and coke. They're not going to
lower their prices. But as for Trump, I mean, he's
an awesome president. He's very pragmatic. They'll take a problem
and they'll think about it, and they'll he'll get it done.
I love seeing the Democrats heads explode every day. It's
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I mean, came Jeffries as probably one of the I mean,
I could get my dog to probably do a better
job than the Democrats. And then you get Newsome out
there in California, which is probably one of the worst states.
My wife from California. We've off ten. People complain all
the time about how bad the state is. I'm like,
why do you keep voting this idiot in? And they're like,
it's not us, you know. Yeah, But as far as
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your car him, I think it will get better. I
think the terriffs will help. I just think it's going
to take time. You know, Biden skewed everything up for
four years. He was such a weird guy and a
weird president, and he had Kamala Harris. Obviously, he was
a terrible vice president and his administration was terrible. So
I think it'll I think by next GM mid next year,
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you'll think he'll definitely see things turn around.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah, I think so. I share your optimism. I think
so too, and I agree with you. I mean, I
it costs. It still cost an armor to like to
go to the grocery store. But I have noticed the
prices have gone down on the basic things that that
I use, I no longer have to. Like if I'm
going through and saw something that wasn't on my list,
I would walk by it a year ago. I don't
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have to do that now it's not And I'm certainly
didn't get a raise at work. It's just that it's
it's a little bit easy. It's a little bit easier.
It could be a lot more easier, but it's a
little bit easier. And that's how I judge how things
are doing. And like our earlier caller, I too have
been able to start building up my savings account too,
where I couldn't before. And little things like that they're there.
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There there baby steps, so but they show me that
we're headed in the right direction, don't you think.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Just another thing me one way to California. Like I said,
her brother's out there, and you know, they go buy
groceries for him out in California and she gets like
five or six bags of groceries and that's like three
or four bus Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, things are very expensive out there. I have relatives
out there too, and who were have decided they were
they were thinking about trying to buy a House. They
decided not in California. They're going to take their nest egg,
I think, and and there while they stay in California,
I think they're just gonna rent because they they don't
want to invest in this state, which they see going
down the tubes basically, so they they they're afraid that
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if they put their hard earned, very hard earned money
into real estate out there, that their property values are
going to go down because the tax base is getting unwieldy,
and you know, and God help you if you're in
a wildfire area, because those people have not been able
to do anything. The mayor was saying, oh, we're going
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to have this, you know, we're going to help you
do this, and they've done nothing. And know, by the way,
the same is pretty much true in Lehina, where you know,
when they caught fire during President Biden's administration, they haven't
been able to rebuild really very much either, unless you're
a billion dollar corporation coming in and buying up people's lands.
They it's the same, it's the same type of situation.
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So thank you for the call, seut. I appreciate it
very much. I think things are getting better, and I
think the President is making some strides. And one of
the tools that he used in turning the economy around,
of course, is the Big Beautiful Bill, uh that they
that they just passed recently, And that's a couple of
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nice little things in there, I think to help people out,
like scrapping taxes on tips up to twenty five thousand
dollars and no more at taxes on Social Security. That's
gonna win, you know, help people. Then you've got and
you also got the Tax Reconciliation Law, which is going
to help by improving three tax policies that help working
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parents afford childcare and also get some employers involved in that.
You have the child Independent Care Tax Credit, you have
the employer provided Childcare Credit, and you have the dependent
care Assistance Plans. And all what they do is they
work together to ease the burden on parents, and by
offering these you have employers able to attract and retain
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you know, good employees. It was, you know, designed to
help parents offset the cost of care, and they've fine
tuned it a little bit under the Big Beautiful Bill,
and basically it's showing what it did. It has billions
in federal investment in childcare and it's uh. And then
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they're permanent investments in care. And since you know, the
ones that were put up during the pandemic were temporary,
and so the Republicans have made them more permanent, permanent.
So these are these are things that affect everyday life
for a lot of Americans, and I think UH really
changed the quality of life for people. And I think
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that's the that we are heading in. Does all of
this leave you hopeful for the future? Do you? Is
this looking positive to you moving forward? Are you more
optimistic than you were a year ago? Eric and Plymouth,
Welcome to w RKO.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
How are you, Eric, Good morning, I'm glorious.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Are real good?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I'm feeling pretty good.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Thanks for excellent.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
So you know, what you're talking about is basic economics, right, Yes?
And then is Trumps successful. Absolutely, But the problem with
the left is that they refuse to accept reality.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Right.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
I think we all agree with that. So from a
street level of view, I'm a small business owner, Yes,
it's looking up as prices adjest my product becomes more
expensive to the general public, I make a little bit
more money and put my fixed costs my mortgage. Is
that sort of thing that all stays the same. So, yes,
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it's getting better for me. But the people I'm truly
concerned about right now are the elderly. Yeah, they're on
well not all of them, of course, but you know
the people who are on a fixed income. Yeah, you
mentioned Social Security won't be taxed. That is a small
number right there. To those people, What are we going
to do for them?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I think that's really.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Where we need to focus going forward, because as our
legal population ages, these people are getting priced out of
their homes due to taxes, especially in the state like Massachusetts,
where our governor is stealing our money to pay for
their legals. You know, we need we need a big
change in this state.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
In general.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
I believe we are absolutely on the right track. I
think it's great for my kids, anybody that's looking out
maybe right now two three years to buy a house.
If the Trump administration repeats what it didn't and number
forty five, the housing market will become accessible again in
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another two or three years. So if you're out there
and you save and plan on buying a house, it's
just by humble opinion, small business owner, wait a couple
of years, let this shake out and get a better deal.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I completely agree with that. I think that's really good advice.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Eric.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I do disagree with one thing you said when you
said that no taxes on Social Security is a small
number to them, it's not. If you're talking about somebody
on a fixed income who's depending on their Social Security,
not having to pay taxes on that is a big deal,
and they it's because you're talking about people where fifty
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dollars is the difference between being able to buy food
and not buy food, and so not having to have
that taken out of your your Your social security is
not a little thing if you have money. It's a
Sandy Shack sitting in for Jeff Kooner here on the
Kooner Report, the text number is seven zero four seven zero.
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We're talking about your personal economy and the economy and
general dumps. Say it's bad. Trump says it's healing. What
do you say? On the text line five eight says sandy.
People need to realize that the product bought today in
the grocery store started in production several months ago to
even years. Beef production takes about two years. It was
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not grown, produced, ready for market, harvested and transported and
related costs all on today's prices, but of prices three
to twenty four months ago, I would say on six
months or so, prices will drop significantly. Things like beef
may not for longer. I think that's a really good
point that people need to realize. And of course the
Democrats want you to oh he said on day one
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he was going to make the prices drop. Well, he
said he would work on making the prices drop, and
some of them have as a matter of fact. So
but you know, they want you to believe that it
can happen overnight, and Trump's lying when it didn't happen overnight.
And there's six one seven, says Sandy, you forgot that
we seen your SSA. Citizens are still living in the
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twentieth century. And I hope that Potus makes Congress do
the right thing by us and give us a raise
that will make us whole. Elizabeth Warren has been saying
two hundred more for us. I don't know what planet
she's in, but that amount is a joke. We're fighting
for six hundred to one thousand more to be able
to live in the twenty first century. Thanks for reading,
You're welcome, and yeah, I certainly did not forget that
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that Social Security wages, which a lot of people live
on now, are willfully low. But my point to the
previous callers who had said that it's so what he
was basically saying, so what if social Security is no
longer taxed? My response is every dollar matter is a
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great deal when you're on Social Security to your point
six one seven, so that it's a big deal. And
could things be better? You bet? And I'm with you
in hoping that President tru helps raise those levels to
a living you know, more than just subsistence level, which
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is I believe where they are now. But thank you
for checking in. I appreciate it very much. So let's
go to Rob in Washington. Rob, how is your personal
economy doing well?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Sandy? I come to this as strictly a consumer because
all I have for income is the Social Security. I
probably make the maximum that you can make on Social Security.
But I travel the lower forty eight States constantly. It's
been two and a half years now that I've been
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touring around the US only on that Social Security and
normally I'm able to stick still stick maybe a few
hundred maybe five hundred aside every month because I live
very frugally, and when something bad happens, like I need
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new tires or some repair to my vehicle, it wipes
that savings out completely.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Now.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
But you got to know, the Red States are brutal
to live in and visit. I've been here in Washington
for almost a month. They have an eight point six
sales tax.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
That doesn't you know.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
People don't think that a little percentage like that. The
Massachusetts six percent sales tax a little. It's a huge
amount if you're on a fixed income. Eight point six
is a lot of money for everything you buy except groceries.
Gasoline is for sixty nine year so because and diesel
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is more than diesel is up in the fives. So
anything that has to take a truck ride to the
retail to its retail destination is more expensive and a
piat the expenses. Let's just take groceries, I pay at
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least double.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Well, Robert, let me when you say you're in Washington,
are you talking to Washington State? Are you talking Washington
d C.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
State?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Okay, So the reason why I ask is because you said,
you know, the Red States are brutal, and then you
went on to talk about how Washington State was brutal
with their sales tax. But Washington State's a blue state.
It's not red.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
No, it's it's effectively greatly greatly red.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
No, it isn't. No, it isn't. The suburban area of Seattle,
which contains the majority of the state's population, is a
democratic area and is solidified if you look at any
political map, Washington is a blue state.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
So regardless, then the consumer economy is really tough. I
pay twice or more well for any Groce reason, I
would pay at say market basketback in Londonderry. You know,
as I said, gasoline's high. Diesel is crazy high the
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sales tax, and for me I pay a national level,
you know, like my car insurance that's gone up fifty
percent since I started this trip. So the fixed income
items are higher.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Well, sales tax absolutely affects that. But I think that
I think you might be confused about what's the blue
state and what isn't. So I think that you may
be blaming the wrong people for the sales taxes, because
absolutely sales taxes can affect things greatly, and I think
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you'll find that the sales taxes are much higher in
areas where the gimme programs are a lot greater like
New York, like Washington State, like California, and these are
blue states, these are not red states. So I am
in awe of you, by the way, for being on
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Social Security and doing this and traveling around the country,
because most people find it harder just to subsist wherever
they are in Social Security. Yet you have gone out
of your comfort zone and traveled around the country to
see things yourself firsthand. And I think that is amazing
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that you're doing that, Rob.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
But I apologize. I have my blue and red mixed up.
I am so sorry. Okay, okay, I look at red
as communists.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Sorry, okay, no red is red is not good.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Because this is a brutally left wing communist state, insane REGs,
total disregard to the constitution. Crime is climbing like a ladder.
It's impossible to live here. And these people their electric
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bills are killing them there. Everything is killing them and
they're living on the edge. And the line for food
banks is growing and growing and growing. I am in
a little town called Squim, Washington, right on Huget Sounds,
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and I've been coming here for three years now, and
a friend of mine owns a business, is right in
front of the food bank and he talks about the
line of cars cars on Wednesday, just growing and growing
and growing, and like the BAF section of the supermarket
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has gone tinier and tinier and tinier. People can't afford
these states Tennessee, New Hampshire, Texas. People can afford it.
And I can save money when I'm in those states.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Yeah, yeah, no, I I completely understand why that is.
And and those are you know, those are states that
have fewer gimme programs basically, and so the taxes are
much lower across the board, which which helps everybody. But
thank you so much for calling Rob. Like I said,
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I am very impressed by by what you do on
social security and I wish you much luck and drive
safely until we see you back here in New England.
But thank you so much for the call. Six one
seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight is the
number here is six one seven two sixty six sixty
eight sixty eight. Do you think the economy is turning around?
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Does it seem like it's getting better to you or
is it staying the same or do you believe the
Democrats pattern that it is getting worse. I think I
don't even know how they can keep a straight face
when they say the economy is getting worse. And I
think what Rob was just talking about in his travels
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through the through the country is uh is an indisha
of what we're talking about, meaning the Republican economic policies,
those who follow economic conservatism and those who believe in
and supporting business and in full employment and not these
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pie in the sky programs that enable people to grift
off the system are the key to economic success. Success
like Texas, like Florida, and in some cases you know,
you can go further north with that, But states like Massachusetts,
where you know, we spent millions and millions and millions
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of dollars for aiding illegals as opposed to veterans, which
makes my heart sick when I even think about it.
Those states are are making it more difficult, I think,
for their inhabitants to feel the economic turnaround that's happening.
So where you are, are you starting to see a
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positive change in the economy. Steve and Hudson, Welcome to
w RKO. How are you Steve?
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Thanks for taking my call, Sandy.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
I used to want to listen to you on Saturdays,
I really enjoyed a few years ago around six sixth pm.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Oh, thank you so much. I appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Yeah. So I'm kind of on the same census robbers
in our Washington, and I'm also on Social Security and Medicare.
I just want to run some examples by you and
get your opinion on these. But like I think we're
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in trouble, to be honest with you, I don't think
there's a lot of there's a lot of things you
just cannot fix anymore. They're not going to go back
and be affordable again. And a few of those examples,
and then we can talk about Kyrie Piers. I was
at the dealership the other day. One hundred and eighty
dollars an hour they get for Kyrie Peers. Okay, so
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someone living on the edge. The guy told me that
they see plenty of bills coming through two three thousand dollars.
Now I have a dog vet care. Oh yeah, through
the roof plu roof. I mean, if if you're a
family and you're on the edge, you know with the
groceries and everything, I mean, that's a killer home maintenance.
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I remember hot water tank used to cost nine hundred
maybe one thousand bucks, they're two grand now they haven't installed, right.
And then the housing, then the housing, right. I mean
a lot of times you can't blame these landlords. Their
property taxes, their insurances are going way up. And my
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home insurance went from twelve hundred a year to two
thousand a year. The electric bills guy rocketing, right, and
then we got the medical insurance. You know, I just
talked about the property and Rob touched on the common insurance,
the medical insurance. When I had my kids, I had
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two kids I had, I had Blue Cross, Blue Shield,
and we're going way back, right. I walked out of
the hospital. I didn't know anything. The insurance cover paid
for everything. My son in law just had a baby
a little less than a year ago. He worked out
of that hospital, owned five k wow, and he had
and he had insurance. Yeah, now these things you're never
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You're never going to fix that, the kyrie ps stuff,
that that stuff, they're not going backwards. The homely maintenance.
Try getting electrician or plumber to see what that judgeing.
And then and then when I left Ork, I did
have to pay for my insurance for until I got
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our Medicare. I was paying seven hundred dollars a month
with deductibles and co pays. It was awful. The insurance
was awful, and it was so expensive. And and yeah
that that that tax break when you say no tax,
there is a limit on it, and it goes up
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to seventy five k on the on the Social Security
break they give me, which is great. Yeah, a lot
of people, a lot of people are going to fall
into that. Yeah. And yeah, and even people who make
more than that. I think they pro rated its staper
and down.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Yeah, but Sandy, how those things I just mentioned they're
not going to be less expensive?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
No, but what but what they're going to do? I
think And and absolutely there are things that will not
that will not change, that will continue to go up.
But I think what a positive economy does is put
you in a better position to handle some of those things.
And it's going to happen incrementally. Also, there are programs
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that will become available, like you know, and I'm not
saying I know that for instance, one Congressman is working
on subsidized insurance for veterinary care or you know, things
like that. There are there are things in the works
to help with specific issues as they are identified. So
I don't think all is lost on all of the
things that you mentioned, but absolutely life has gotten more expensive,
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and so what I think the Trump economy is trying
to do is bring everybody up to a above subsistence level,
trying to make things a little bit easier. They're not
going to write you a blank check, and it's not
going to turn around overnight, but I think all of
these things can be affected even a little bit helps
bit by bit by bit, and I think, like one
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of the earlier callers said, you know, he was talking
about real estate investment, but I think two to three
years out, things will be a lot easier than they
are in right now. Right now, President Trump has been
in office for two hundred days and things are already
starting to look better. Can you imagine when you know
it's three years from now and he's had a full
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effect on the economy and these policies have been able
to be fully implemented. So I well, I completely get
these these costs because a lot of them have affected
me and it's been you know, shock when I've had
to deal with a lot of them. I don't think
that all is lost I mean, if the Social Security
base comes up, if in fact, you know, some of
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these subsidized programs for for tax paying or for seniors
come along, I mean, these things are going to make
life easier. They're not going to make necessary life easy,
but they will make life easier. I think that's what
we're looking at right now for hoping in the next
year or so. But I think you're I think you're
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pointing these out is very important, Steve. I think that
that people are faced with these and what Trump is
I think trying to do is make it easier for
you to deal with those situations that are growing than
it is now. I think that's what we're hoping for.
Does that make sense to you?
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Yeah? But yes, And he's bringing I mean it's going
to take four or five years for these factories to
be built with the chips and all these businesses, he
bring them back.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
He's doing he's doing the right.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Thing, but it's gonna take time. You won't even see
that probably six years. People spout with great you know,
where they can make a living wage in today's world.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I think it will be as long as six years.
I think it'll be a shorter turnaround than that, but
I do think it's gonna be years. I think it's
going to be like three two to three years, and
I think you'll see a lot of these factories can
be built a lot faster now than they used to
be and get up and running. And I think that,
and we're not just talking about manufacturing and talking about
other things as well, So I think that there's the
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turnaround is going to be a little bit less egregious
than what you're talking about. So thank you for the cost, Steve.
I appreciate it. I got to hold you there because
I am really, really really late in doing something and
I yell at Jeff almost every week when he's late,
and so I'm hoping to God he's not listening, because
then he's gonna make my life how when he comes back,
(35:50):
Because it's time for Coooner's Call OUG where we play
the most memorable call from the week. It's chosen by
Mike and it's supposed to be at eight o'clock and
it's minutes after. Please don't anybody tell Jeff how late
this was, because I'm telling you, he's gonna make my
life a misery if he finds out. So Mike, if
you'll take it away.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
It's time for Coooner's call Log, where we showcase our
favorite color from the week.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
I can hear you, can you hear me? Thanks for
holding Bob.
Speaker 8 (36:23):
I've been Boston all the time. Well he should be
in jailed it stop seeing that all this meatands everywhere.
I'm always over in Boston. You get high off all
the weason. We're all smoking pot everywhere in the pop stole. Well,
what's hold to stand down? They can't do anything. You're
going to ask any in the city.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
No one.
Speaker 8 (36:41):
No one gives anyone any tickets smoking weed, and that
sends a bad message. Now I'm on the train coming
home last night. This little kid about thirteen years old
with this little bike that's on the train. He get
a base and his andy smoke and I go, you're smoking.
He says, what's the ufford is?
Speaker 5 (36:59):
Do you?
Speaker 8 (37:00):
And then he posts a night blow. I go, what
are you gonna stab me? And then he leaves the
bike in the middle of the train, goes across and
he sam it at me. I says, listen, I'm from
the Project kid. I would never just respect something like that.
I go, I will say one thing. God loves you,
and that's that's probably said, we'll shut this so well country,
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this country's going to ow.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
Say be here every weekday on the Cooner Report between
six and ten am, and next week it could be
you on Cooner's call log.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Please don't be a stranger.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
Call again.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Mike makes me laugh all the time. So that was
nicely done, Michael. That was that was you made me
smile yet again. So that was that was a good call.
It's hard to pick. It's not a sorry, the best
call or the worst call. It's their funniest call. It's
the most memorable call. And that one, I have to say,
is stuck in my mind pretty much too. So I
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thought Mike did a very good job this week. The
number here is six one seven two sixty six sixty
eight sixty eight. The text number is seven zero four
seven zero. On the text line two five four says
Sandy tell Rob. That was our car, Rob from Washington State,
who's driven around the country. We're in sequin Washington. There
is massive waste fraud and abuse in Washington State. I
(38:30):
read about it. I've never been to Washington State, but
I have I have certainly read about it, and to
hear Rob talk about it. Uh, he sees it right
up front and personal. So gosh. Nine five seven says Sandy,
don't forget that the dollar is weak and as it
gets stronger, things that won't get lower in price will
be more affordable. That's absolutely true. I had forgotten to
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mention that. That's a really good point. I appreciate that.
And six one seven says Stop and Shop is in
the news slashing prices on thousands of items. Well, you
know what you maybe do. I have to go grocery
shopping today, and I I had not decided where to
go because it depends on what I'm looking for. I
pick different grocery stores for different things, depending on what
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it is we need at home. Like some places are
better at you know, like paper towels, and some are
better for produce, some are better for you know. So
it depends on what you need. But now hearing that
Stop and Shop is slashing prices, I feel like I
should support them, to support because I think that's a
that's pretty nice. I mean, I think that's a I
don't get me wrong. I love market Basket, but there's
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no market Basket right next to my house, so it's
a it's a little bit of a hike ticket to
market Basket, but I usually get there like once every
couple weeks at least. But in UH, if Stop and
Shop is slashing prices, then I think my neighborhood stop
and Shop might get my support this week, and I
think I'll go shop in there. What about you,