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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boston's Bulldozer operates seven days a week. The Kooner Report
Weekend edition WRKO, the Voice of Boston.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Okay, let me ask you. Did you watch this speech
last night? I'm just curious and what did you make
of Trump's speech? I thought it was a very powerful
commanding speech, a speech that is resetting the narrative, especially
going into twenty twenty six. But that's me. I want
to hear from you. Okay, before I go, lines are jammed.
(00:31):
Before I go back to the phone lines. This is
from Robert on messenger. I'm getting a lot of texts,
a lot of emails siding with Michael who I read
his email on air. A lot of disagreement, but also
a lot of agreement. So I want to be fair
to everybody. They're all Trump supporters, they're all conservatives, they're
(00:52):
all maga. So to me, we're all part of one
big family. That's what the that's what Cooner Country is.
Kooner Country to me is like my extended family. And
so at the Koonerman's table, like my family, everybody gets
to say we are a free speech zone. So everybody,
you know, as my with Mike, like with my Italian
in laws. Just let it all out, don't hold it back,
(01:17):
just let it all out. Okay, this is from Robert
Jeff I agree with Michael one hundred percent. At seventy
four and still working part time. I'm sorry to hear that, Robert.
I mean, it's great to work if you want to work.
But if you're, you know, working because you have to
(01:39):
help pay the bills, that's I don't like that. I mean,
that's that to me, is not that to me is
not America. But anyway, let that go. At seventy four
and still working part time. My expenses went up in
Trump's first year, especially electricity and property tax. Food is
(02:01):
still way too high. Big ticket items are very expensive.
Mine and my wife pay has not gone up. Costs
have to home repairs or upgrades are prohibitively expensive. The
rate of increase may have slowed down, but not significantly
(02:24):
so for my family, there has been no meaningful decrease
in expenses. Interesting. Interesting, So basically the same. I mean,
he was treading water eleven months ago, and Robert seventy
four years old, who has to work part time, is
still treading water eleven months later. Interesting. Okay. This is
(02:49):
from seven eight to one Jeff. By the way, you
can text the cooner man seven zero four to seven
zero Jeff to a dress us Michael, your brother, with
all due respect to him, he does not understand the
dynamics of inflation, time and prices. The insiduous part of inflation,
(03:15):
and please listen to this because this is this is
one hundred one thousand percent accurate. The insiduous part of
inflation is that it's almost impossible to bring prices down
appreciably once Biden level inflation happens. Inflation is not magic.
It cannot be done and undone with the magician's tricks.
(03:40):
It is a certain and predictable product of borrowing and
printing money the nation does not have. And once that
quote unquote counterfeit currency is injected, like drugs into the
arm of the economy, terrible things happen. Prices rise because
(04:02):
more billions of dollars are chasing fewer and fewer products.
That drug like money can't get secked out of the
economy anymore than the fentanyl coursing in the veins. The
exception is energy. If the nation can export its natural
resources to international markets. That's why gas prices are coming
(04:23):
down relatively quickly. The only practical and time tested way
to address inflation domestically, and that was Trump's argument last night, essentially,
is to grow the economy at a rate that outraces
the rate of inflation, so over time people have more
(04:44):
actual wealth to spend. That's the only way it works.
Don't blame Trump. This is Obama's and Biden's mess. I mean,
the jargon is real wages. Okay, that's the jargon. But
essentially he's right. Once you have that level of inflation
(05:06):
we had under Biden, it stays. It's like it's like
tar it just sticks to everything in the economy. It's
very hard to wring out that kind of inflation. So
the only way to really do it is to grow
out of it, where you're making more money and more
(05:27):
money and more money, and so after a while you're
making more than enough money to start covering the higher
cost of everything. And by the way, that's how Reagan.
Basically Reagan grew us out of the inflation of the
nineteen seventies. I mean, inflation was it was inflation was curbed,
(05:49):
it was crushed. You know, we had inflation, what was
it two percent under Reagan, but it was double digits
what he inherited. So you crush inflation, it doesn't keep
going up, and then the economy booms and people are
just making more money and making more money and more
money and more take home pay, and suddenly, you know,
the cost of a bottle of coke didn't go down
(06:11):
under Reagan, the cost of groceries didn't go down under Reagan.
It stayed what it was under Carter. It just didn't
go up anymore. But then people were just making more
money and more money and more money, so everything becomes
more affordable again. So that's why Trump is saying, We're
gonna crush inflation, and then I'm gonna make sure that
(06:34):
your take home pay keeps going up. I'm gonna give
you more tax cuts, You're gonna have more money in
your pocket, You're gonna keep more money in your pocket,
and eventually you're gonna be able to start affording things again.
But what Trump is saying is not the way I'm
phrasing it. But Rome wasn't built in a day, and
he's basically saying, I need eighteen months. I'm eleven months in,
(07:00):
give me seven more months, and by June of next year,
this economy will be roaring like no like, agree, disagree.
Eddie in Maine. Thanks for holding Eddie and welcome.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
How are you.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I'm good, Eddie? How are you?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Very good? First out. I want to wish you, your
family and the staff all are very merry Christmas and
a happy new Year.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Thank you all the best to you, Eddie. Merry Christmas,
Happy New Year to you and your family.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Thank you very much. I vote to the President Trump
three times. I wish him, hoping I can vote for
him a four times. You can't blame him for everything,
but I do get a little depressed when I hear
about all these these illegals making all this franking money.
And I'm my wife and I a vote in I
early seventies. We still have to work part time and survive,
which that has nothing to do with Trump. Well it
(07:57):
was our own financial but let that go. And then
you see these politicians. Everybody's walking out with means now
they're talking being the dollars, how much they expect President
Trump to do. He can only do so much. He
just can't. I mean he just started in the office,
really only not even a year yet when he has
done I feel secure. I don't know about everybody else.
(08:20):
I'll ope for him again without blinking and right, what
do you say again, Eddie?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Look, I can only speak from my experience. I feel
much more secure. I feel much more safe. He stopped
the invasion at the border. We're making He's making the
country energy dominant. He's going as aggressively as he can
on these mass deportations, the fentanyl, the drugs, he has
cut a lot of it off coming in. I could
(08:46):
go on and on. I think he's had incredible accomplishments.
I personally feel that my standard of living, my cost
of living, has gotten better. I'm just being honest with you,
but that's me. Everybody has a story. What I want
to ask you is this, Eddie, And I think this
is Look the reason why I'm saying this or I'm
(09:08):
kind of harping on it as a host of this
great show. Never, never in the last ten years have
I seen so many Trump supporters. I'm talking you know,
like you people who voted for him three times. They
were with him through thick and thin. After January sixth,
(09:28):
when he was in the political wilderness, he was their president.
They stood by him. I've never heard the kind of
criticism of him from MAGA and the listeners of this
show than I have, I would say, over the last
three or four months. And the argument is this, Eddie.
They feel that he's fake, focusing way too much on
(09:49):
foreign affairs and he hasn't focused enough on the economy
and on affordability and bread and butter issues. That's their criticism.
Do you agree or disagree? What say you.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I? I, uh, like I said, I backed President Trumpell
back from again. But I think we were respecting too much.
We were respecting him to solve everything overnight and it's
not possible. Might take him the full four years to
solve everything, but we just have to wait. We voted
for the guy, and we're gonna have faith in the
guy's a's a. That's the way I look at it.
(10:27):
I mean, like I said, if he runs again, he's
got my vote. I don't care what anybody.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Said, Eddie. Thank you very much for that call. Six
one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight is
the number. Okay. President Trump delivers a very very important
speech last night. Uh, even his own administration is saying
it's a landmark speech. What he the themes he outlined yesterday.
(10:54):
He wants the Republicans to run on and govern. In
twenty twenty
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Six, Dage of Boston's Bulldozer, The Kooner Repord weekend edition,
The Voice of Boston WRKL
Boston's Bulldozer operates seven days a week. The Kooner Report
Weekend edition WRKO, the Voice of Boston.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Okay, let me ask you. Did you watch this speech
last night? I'm just curious and what did you make
of Trump's speech? I thought it was a very powerful
commanding speech, a speech that is resetting the narrative, especially
going into twenty twenty six. But that's me. I want
to hear from you. Okay, before I go, lines are jammed.
(00:31):
Before I go back to the phone lines. This is
from Robert on messenger. I'm getting a lot of texts,
a lot of emails siding with Michael who I read
his email on air. A lot of disagreement, but also
a lot of agreement. So I want to be fair
to everybody. They're all Trump supporters, they're all conservatives, they're
(00:52):
all maga. So to me, we're all part of one
big family. That's what the that's what Cooner Country is.
Kooner Country to me is like my extended family. And
so at the Koonerman's table, like my family, everybody gets
to say we are a free speech zone. So everybody,
you know, as my with Mike, like with my Italian
in laws. Just let it all out, don't hold it back,
(01:17):
just let it all out. Okay, this is from Robert
Jeff I agree with Michael one hundred percent. At seventy
four and still working part time. I'm sorry to hear that, Robert.
I mean, it's great to work if you want to work.
But if you're, you know, working because you have to
(01:39):
help pay the bills, that's I don't like that. I mean,
that's that to me, is not that to me is
not America. But anyway, let that go. At seventy four
and still working part time. My expenses went up in
Trump's first year, especially electricity and property tax. Food is
(02:01):
still way too high. Big ticket items are very expensive.
Mine and my wife pay has not gone up. Costs
have to home repairs or upgrades are prohibitively expensive. The
rate of increase may have slowed down, but not significantly
(02:24):
so for my family, there has been no meaningful decrease
in expenses. Interesting. Interesting, So basically the same. I mean,
he was treading water eleven months ago, and Robert seventy
four years old, who has to work part time, is
still treading water eleven months later. Interesting. Okay. This is
(02:49):
from seven eight to one Jeff. By the way, you
can text the cooner man seven zero four to seven
zero Jeff to a dress us Michael, your brother, with
all due respect to him, he does not understand the
dynamics of inflation, time and prices. The insiduous part of inflation,
(03:15):
and please listen to this because this is this is
one hundred one thousand percent accurate. The insiduous part of
inflation is that it's almost impossible to bring prices down
appreciably once Biden level inflation happens. Inflation is not magic.
It cannot be done and undone with the magician's tricks.
(03:40):
It is a certain and predictable product of borrowing and
printing money the nation does not have. And once that
quote unquote counterfeit currency is injected, like drugs into the
arm of the economy, terrible things happen. Prices rise because
(04:02):
more billions of dollars are chasing fewer and fewer products.
That drug like money can't get secked out of the
economy anymore than the fentanyl coursing in the veins. The
exception is energy. If the nation can export its natural
resources to international markets. That's why gas prices are coming
(04:23):
down relatively quickly. The only practical and time tested way
to address inflation domestically, and that was Trump's argument last night, essentially,
is to grow the economy at a rate that outraces
the rate of inflation, so over time people have more
(04:44):
actual wealth to spend. That's the only way it works.
Don't blame Trump. This is Obama's and Biden's mess. I mean,
the jargon is real wages. Okay, that's the jargon. But
essentially he's right. Once you have that level of inflation
(05:06):
we had under Biden, it stays. It's like it's like
tar it just sticks to everything in the economy. It's
very hard to wring out that kind of inflation. So
the only way to really do it is to grow
out of it, where you're making more money and more
(05:27):
money and more money, and so after a while you're
making more than enough money to start covering the higher
cost of everything. And by the way, that's how Reagan.
Basically Reagan grew us out of the inflation of the
nineteen seventies. I mean, inflation was it was inflation was curbed,
(05:49):
it was crushed. You know, we had inflation, what was
it two percent under Reagan, but it was double digits
what he inherited. So you crush inflation, it doesn't keep
going up, and then the economy booms and people are
just making more money and making more money and more
money and more take home pay, and suddenly, you know,
the cost of a bottle of coke didn't go down
(06:11):
under Reagan, the cost of groceries didn't go down under Reagan.
It stayed what it was under Carter. It just didn't
go up anymore. But then people were just making more
money and more money and more money, so everything becomes
more affordable again. So that's why Trump is saying, We're
gonna crush inflation, and then I'm gonna make sure that
(06:34):
your take home pay keeps going up. I'm gonna give
you more tax cuts, You're gonna have more money in
your pocket, You're gonna keep more money in your pocket,
and eventually you're gonna be able to start affording things again.
But what Trump is saying is not the way I'm
phrasing it. But Rome wasn't built in a day, and
he's basically saying, I need eighteen months. I'm eleven months in,
(07:00):
give me seven more months, and by June of next year,
this economy will be roaring like no like, agree, disagree.
Eddie in Maine. Thanks for holding Eddie and welcome.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
How are you.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I'm good, Eddie? How are you?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Very good? First out. I want to wish you, your
family and the staff all are very merry Christmas and
a happy new Year.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Thank you all the best to you, Eddie. Merry Christmas,
Happy New Year to you and your family.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Thank you very much. I vote to the President Trump
three times. I wish him, hoping I can vote for
him a four times. You can't blame him for everything,
but I do get a little depressed when I hear
about all these these illegals making all this franking money.
And I'm my wife and I a vote in I
early seventies. We still have to work part time and survive,
which that has nothing to do with Trump. Well it
(07:57):
was our own financial but let that go. And then
you see these politicians. Everybody's walking out with means now
they're talking being the dollars, how much they expect President
Trump to do. He can only do so much. He
just can't. I mean he just started in the office,
really only not even a year yet when he has
done I feel secure. I don't know about everybody else.
(08:20):
I'll ope for him again without blinking and right, what
do you say again, Eddie?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Look, I can only speak from my experience. I feel
much more secure. I feel much more safe. He stopped
the invasion at the border. We're making He's making the
country energy dominant. He's going as aggressively as he can
on these mass deportations, the fentanyl, the drugs, he has
cut a lot of it off coming in. I could
(08:46):
go on and on. I think he's had incredible accomplishments.
I personally feel that my standard of living, my cost
of living, has gotten better. I'm just being honest with you,
but that's me. Everybody has a story. What I want
to ask you is this, Eddie, And I think this
is Look the reason why I'm saying this or I'm
(09:08):
kind of harping on it as a host of this
great show. Never, never in the last ten years have
I seen so many Trump supporters. I'm talking you know,
like you people who voted for him three times. They
were with him through thick and thin. After January sixth,
(09:28):
when he was in the political wilderness, he was their president.
They stood by him. I've never heard the kind of
criticism of him from MAGA and the listeners of this
show than I have, I would say, over the last
three or four months. And the argument is this, Eddie.
They feel that he's fake, focusing way too much on
(09:49):
foreign affairs and he hasn't focused enough on the economy
and on affordability and bread and butter issues. That's their criticism.
Do you agree or disagree? What say you.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I? I, uh, like I said, I backed President Trumpell
back from again. But I think we were respecting too much.
We were respecting him to solve everything overnight and it's
not possible. Might take him the full four years to
solve everything, but we just have to wait. We voted
for the guy, and we're gonna have faith in the
guy's a's a. That's the way I look at it.
(10:27):
I mean, like I said, if he runs again, he's
got my vote. I don't care what anybody.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Said, Eddie. Thank you very much for that call. Six
one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight is
the number. Okay. President Trump delivers a very very important
speech last night. Uh, even his own administration is saying
it's a landmark speech. What he the themes he outlined yesterday.
(10:54):
He wants the Republicans to run on and govern. In
twenty twenty
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Six, Dage of Boston's Bulldozer, The Kooner Repord weekend edition,
The Voice of Boston WRKL
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