November 17, 2025 • 47 mins
# The Hard Truth: Massachusetts in Crisis and the Need for Change
In this powerful episode of "The Hard Truth," host John Deaton delivers a compelling analysis of the political landscape in Massachusetts and beyond. Following socialist Zoran Mandami's mayoral victory in New York City, Deaton explores why socialist policies are resonating with struggling Americans. Rather than dismissing these ideas outright, he examines the underlying economic pressures driving voters toward radical solutions. Deaton presents shocking statistics showing Massachusetts ranks dead last in housing affordability, job growth, and faces astronomical costs for electricity, groceries, and childcare—creating what he calls "a formula for bankruptcy."
Deaton argues that one-party rule has created an arrogant political class that prioritizes party loyalty over people's needs. He outlines his vision for common-sense solutions in healthcare, energy policy, and economic growth that could break the status quo. Throughout the episode, Deaton weaves his personal experience growing up on food stamps with his analysis of systemic failures, positioning himself as someone who truly understands the struggles of working families.
## Key Timestamps:
- 00:00 - Introduction and analysis of socialist mayor's victory in NYC
- 07:30 - Massachusetts crisis statistics: dead last in housing affordability and job growth
- 15:45 - The problems with one-party rule and political arrogance
- 24:20 - Education failures and energy policy missteps
- 32:10 - Healthcare reform needs and monopolistic practices
- 39:45 - Announcement of special event in Worcester
## Key Takeaways:
- Massachusetts ranks 50th out of 50 states for housing affordability and private sector job growth
- Housing costs are 106% higher than the national average in Massachusetts
- Nearly 16% of Massachusetts residents are on food stamps, projected to reach 20% within two years
- One-party rule has created political arrogance and unaccountability
- Common-sense solutions are needed in healthcare, energy, and economic policy
Ready to hear what John Deaton's big announcement will be? Don't miss his special event at Off the Rails in Worcester on November 10th at 7:30 PM, where he'll reveal his plans to challenge the political status quo and bring real change to Massachusetts. This episode is essential listening for anyone concerned about the economic pressures facing working families and the failure of current leadership to address these critical issues.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Don't you dare touch the dial or change the channel,
because it's Sunday at seven pm on iHeart WRKO six
eighty am, and you're listening to the hard truth. I'm
John Deaton. Good evening everyone, Hope you had a great week.
Well it has happened. We have a socialist who has
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been elected mayor of New York City, the financial capital
of the world, some argue, the greatest city in the world,
and he now has or it now has a declared
democratic socialist mayor, Zoran Mandami. Now, Mandami's rise is a lesson,
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and what I would advise everyone to do is sit
back and analyze why. And if we learn why Mandami's
rise was so successful in New York City, then maybe
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we can learn from it because what we're going to witness,
I believe is other cities. Boston could be one of them. Listen,
you know how far is mayor Wu from adomit. They
share a lot of the same theories, policies. And what
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about other cities across the country, are they too going
to start experimenting with electing socialist leaders? Now there's some
people who believe that every every other generation or so
in America, there needs to be an experiment with socialism
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so that Americans can see and reject it. But I'm
going to tell you that I'm not going to call
Mondami names. Right, I'm not going to just sit on
a soapbox and say, how could we let a communist
become the mayor of the greatest city in the world.
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I'm going to sit back and I'm going to analyze
why did Mondami resonate so much with people? Why do
people when you say to them, I'm going to give
you free public transportation, I'm going to freeze your rent
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so that your landlord can never raise the rent on
you again, why does that resonate? Why does it resonate
When Mandami says, look, we're going to put a government
run grocery store. We're gonna have five of them, one
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in each borough of New York City, and I'm going
to implement these grocery stores and it's gonna be at cost.
You're gonna get cheaper groceries. Why does that resonate? And
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the answer is because people are struggling. We as a
society have failed younger people. We as a society have
to understand that regular people can't pay their bills because
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of the price of living today, and we don't have
to look to New York to figure that out. We
have to look to Boston. We have to look to
the Greater Boston area. We have to look to Springfield,
we have to look to Brockton, we have to looked
at any town or city across the Commonwealth. I'm going
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to share some numbers with you, and it's going to
be shocking, Okay, And I'm going to tell you now
that Massachusetts is in a crisis. Some would argue that
New York City is in a crisis, and that's why
Mondami was successful. Massachusetts is in a crisis in many ways,
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more than some of these cities, including New York City.
And I got the facts to prove it. And so
many of you know that I was a former federal prosecutor,
and so I've been in court and I've had to
present the facts of the case and then argue to
the jury that I proved those facts beyond a reasonable doubt. Well,
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I'm going to play prosecutor right now, and you're going
to tell me if I proved my case, and that
my case is the following it is that the status
quo in Massachusetts is broken and that we are in
desperate need of new leadership. And so here are some
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indisputable facts. And when I say indisputable, that means they
can't be argued. These are facts. Fact number one, Massachusetts
ranks dead last fifty out of fifty states for housing affordability.
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Now what's that mean? Specifically, I'll break it down to you.
Housing costs in Massachusetts is a staggering one hundred and
six percent higher than the national average. Fact number one.
Fact number two. Groceries are twenty to thirty percent higher
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in Massachusetts than the national average. Indisputable. Fact number three. Electricity,
Massachusetts households pay nearly double what other households pay for
the same electricity use across the nation. Next, natural gas.
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Natural gas prices are nearly seventy percent higher than the
national average. Work in families are seeing bills of eight
hundred to one thousand dollars her month because of high
delivery charges. Many of you got your bill. You've seen
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that you've seen supply eighty dollars delivery seven hundred dollars.
It's insane. Health Care costs have skyrocketed here in Massachusetts.
And check this one out childcare cost on average in
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Massachusetts is over twenty four thousand dollars per year for
a family, ranking Massachusetts as dead last, meaning it is
the single most expensive state in the country for child
care costs. So I've given you those indisputable facts, and
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now I'm gonna add another one. Massachusetts ranks dead last again,
fifty out of fifty for private sector job growth. Do
you know how hard it is to rank fifty out
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of fifty? Think about that. We have Mit, Harvard, Toughts
and so much more, and we're dead last. I mean,
Massachusetts can't outpace Kentucky, West Virginia, Mississippi. Really, Now, those
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are indisputable facts. Here are the results of those indisputable facts.
Homelessness is seventy four percent higher year over year in
the Commonwealth. One point one million people living in Massachusetts
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is on food stamps. That is nearly sixteen percent of
the entire population of Massachusetts. If we don't change directions
soon in the next two years, one out of every
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five Base Staters again, one out of every five residents
of Massachusetts will be on foodstamps. That's twenty percent of
the entire population. And many of you know that I
know a little bit about that life. My book is
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called Food Stamp Warrior. I fought hard to escape that
life because I know what poverty does to people, what
it does to the human condition. My beautiful, beautiful mom,
God bless her, once told me that college wasn't for
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people like us, white trash people like us living in
the hood on welfare and food stamps. College wasn't for us.
That's what poverty does. That's what it does. It beats
you down, It beats the human spirit down. My God,
I think it's time that we elect someone who understands poverty,
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who understands how to lift people up out of poverty.
Not created, but I got to tell you those stats
are absolutely indisputable, and it shows you that the status
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quo here in Massachusetts is broken. It's absolutely broken. We
need new leadership. We need to be on a new path.
And the way to get a new path is that
we have to start electing people who are not part of.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
The status quo system.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
If the status quote is broken, then we don't hire
more of the same. We need a change and what
is that change. That change is electing people who understand
that we have a dilemma and that dilemma is that
Massachusetts right now is the second most expensive state, soon
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to be the most expensive, and we have the least
amount of jobs. All right, you're listening to the hard truth.
I'm going to continue giving you the facts as they are.
It's the hard truth for a reason you're listening to
John Deaton. This is the hard truth. Come back from
the break, I got so much more. Welcome back to
the heart hard truth. I'm John Deaton. Remember you can
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reach me at John at Hard Truthshow dot com, John
at Hard Truthshow dot com.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
All right, So for the break, I.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Was giving you indisputable facts that proved that the status
quo in Massachusetts is broken and that we need need
new leadership.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
But what is the status quote?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Well, the status quot is pretty easy to explain, and
that is that every single statewide office in Massachusetts governor,
Lieutenant governor, Secretary of state, treasurer, auditor, attorney general, you
name it controlled by one party Democrats. Nine members, all
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nine congressmen and women that represent Massachusetts are all controlled
by one party Democrats. Both US Senators controlled by one
party Democrats. Now it's not just because there are Democrats,
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but some of them are really really far far left
or just too extreme. And what I mean by that
is many of them will favor an illegal migrant over
a combat that. Now that doesn't mean an illegal migrant
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is less human and doesn't mean that an illegal migrant
should be mistreated or anything, but my god, we have
to be able to say that an American rhen, soldier,
sailor airman who served his country went over to a
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foreign war, lost a limb, maybe suffers from PTSD from
seeing his friends killed in combat. It's not it shouldn't
be controversial to say that that American combat if he's homelessness,
should get priority over someone who entered the country illegal.
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I mean, I don't even see how that's controversial. Doesn't
mean that I'm xenophobic, doesn't mean that I'm anti immigrant,
doesn't mean that I'm anti immigration. I'm just saying that
if we sent a person over who served their country
and then they come back and they have issues and
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they find themselves homeless, and we have a shelter bed,
that we can give that American combat veteran priority. But
there's these people that are in control here that think
I'm wrong, and some of them will put that American
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combat at the back of the line. That's just wrong
to me. You know what else is wrong is that
this one party, the status quo that I just went
over from one party, these Democrats, some of who are
too extreme. They will spend billions on illegal migrants, billions,
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but at the same time, say there's no money available
to save Carnie Hospital in Dorchester, or in the Showba
Valley Medical Center in there, or the maternity unit in Leminster.
And what's the result If you live in parts of
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north central Massachusetts and you're a pregnant woman, you might
have to drive forty five minutes to give birth. But
they got no money to save any of those hospitals.
How's that for protecting women and women's health care? It's
not And I say that as a father of daughters,
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because a father of daughters thinks of these things. That's
what I mean by too extreme. But that's what you get.
That's what you get when you have one party that
is the status quo and they're in control for too long. Okay,
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And so we have this dilemma.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
We are.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
The second most expensive state, soon to be the first
most expensive state, with the least amount of job growth.
And what is the one party rule, the status quo.
Solution to that dilemma, well, I submit to you, ladies
and gentlemen, their solution to that dilemma is the same
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is their solution to every single problem they face, and
that is raise taxes. I mean, you don't got to
go too far right, millionaire's tax, candy tax, prescription tax.
Let me ask you, have you seen the new surcharge
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on the car tax. That's right, folks, they're taxing taxes now.
But the potholes aren't fixed, and the rents they're not
coming down.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yet.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
We're here with this one party rule, and those are
the indisputable facts and why we need change. You want
to know what else happens when you have the status
quo is one party in control for so long, they
become really, really arrogant. They become so arrogant for being
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in control so long that they believe they don't have
to answer to anyone. They don't have to answer to voters,
they don't have to answer to taxpayers. Case in point
of voters in Massachusetts made it the law that the
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state legislature would be audited. Mari Heally said she voted
for it. Elizabeth Morin said she voted for it. Ed
Markey said she voted for it. Andrea Campbell blessed it,
approved it so that it was an approved ballot question,
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which means it's constitutional and improper form, and that she
supported it.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yet the audit.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Has not happened since because the status quo refuses to comply.
But my question is, where are our leaders, Where's Mara Heally,
Where's Ed Markey, Where's Elizabeth Warren? Why aren't they using
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their voices? Because they got pretty pick voices here. Why
aren't they using their voices to make sure that the
law is followed. And I can tell you the reason, people.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
The reason is.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Because they're part of the status quo. They're the same party,
and they put party head of people. They put politics
ahead of truth and transparency. That's why that's why Mori
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Healy's not gonna go against her fellow Democrats. That's why
Ed Marky's not gonna go against his fellow Democrats. That's
why Elizabeth Warren's not gonna go against her fellow Democrats.
It's party, party, party above all else.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
And you don't got to take my word for it,
take theirs.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
We just recently learned Katherine Clark went on interview, she's
the majority w I mean the minority whip. She's third
in charge on the Democrat side in the House of
Representatives here from Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
And what did.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Catherine Clark tell us? She said, Yeah, people gonna suffer
in this shutdown. People not going to be able to eat.
People are not gonna be able to pay the mortgage,
people are not gonna be able to pay their an
energy bill.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
People are gonna suffer.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
But we can't open the government now because we'll lose leverage.
So we've learned that your ability to pay your bills,
your ability to eat your lives are just leverage in
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the game of politics in order for career politicians to
get what they want. That's what's happening, and that's why
we're still in the middle of a shutdown. But I
believe that they're arrogance will be their downfall. I believe
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that they become so arrogant from being in control so
long they don't think they.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Have to answer it to anyone.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
But they will answer if people get out and vote
in November of next year. I know it sounds like
a year away. Some of you are like, don't bother me. Now,
that's a far long time from now, but we've got
to get mobile and active if you want change, and
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change does not begin by winning an election. Change begins
by believing that you can win an election. And I
believe that we can get a voice and a seat
at the table in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I really truly believe. That.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Doesn't mean it's going to be easy. Doesn't mean and
it's not going to be an uphill battle. Change often
doesn't come easy. You got to fight for it. The
question is for those listening tonight, are you willing to
fight for it? Are you tired of the status quo?
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God knows I am. I'm willing to fight for it,
and soon you'll see just how much I'm willing to
fight for it. You want to talk to me, you
want me to read your comments, you want to criticize me,
you want to challenge me, You can reach me at
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John at Hard Truthshow dot com. John at Hard Truthshow
dot com.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Stick with me.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
All right, it's Sunday night, so you know you're listening
to the Hard Truth with John Daton. Come back after
the break, all right, welcome back to the Hard Truth.
I'm John Daton. Remember you can reach me at John
at Hard Truthshow dot com. John at Hardtruthshow dot com.
All Right, the last couple segments, we've been talking about
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the broken status quo here in Massachusetts and that we
need new leadership, we need new change. And what I
was explaining is that we have a formula in effect
right now in Massachusetts that is a formula for bankruptcy. Okay,
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when you are the last state on housing affordability, dead last,
and you're the most expensive when it comes to energy
that includes electricity, natural gas, When your groceries are thirty
percent higher, when your housing costs are one hundred and
six percent higher than the national average, and you've got
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the least amount of job growth in the country, that's
a formula for bankruptcy, especially when you add in that
we're losing hundreds of thousands of workers who can't afford
to live here, almost two hundred thousand in the last
few years, and we're taking in tens of thousands of
illegal migrants that's costing four billion dollars and stressing out
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our infrastructure. That, ladies and gentlemen, is a formula for bankruptcy,
and we're seeing it play out across the Commonwealth because
hundreds and hundreds of towns and cities are voting on overrides.
What that means is that we are broke. We are broke,
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and it is now impacting just about every aspect of
our society here in Massachusetts, and it's impacting areas that
we've always been a leader, like education.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Look.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Everyone, I have a sixth grader, I mean, I'm sorry,
a six year old Layla. She's in the first grade.
And my stepdaughter Mackenzie is in the eighth grade, and
my step son, Jackson, is a junior in high school.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
And I can tell you.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
That today our kids are subject to what's called social
emotional learning. And I also admit that from someone who
grew up so rough, it does sound kind of nice.
Social emotional learning. But how about we really focus first
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on teaching math, reading, and science. You know, kids today
need discipline, they need structure. It's actually a good thing
for them to hear no sometimes. And I got to
tell you, I don't think it's too much for us
to demand that here in the Commonwealth, really the country,
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for a fourth grade to be able to read, it's
just not too much to ask. And we're losing that
we're losing our edge on education because we're broke and
because our priorities have taken us down the wrong path
due to this status quo, this one party rule.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Now that's education. Let's talk energy policy.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I mean, when I sit back and I think about
what's going on here in Massachusetts, my honest response is,
my god, why why are they going down this road?
I mean, they ban new gas pipelines and force alternative
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energy mandates that are crushing working families. But at the
same time they won't even consider nuclear, which at this
point in time and technology is just plain dumb. And
I'm telling you that these people they preach green man
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and they fly private. It's sane I came up with
and I got to tell you that it never shocks me.
And if we don't, if we don't come up with something,
a new path, a new direction, then we can look
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forward to energy prices two hundred percent increase in the
next five years, especially when you consider the amount of
energy demand that artificial intelligence is taking on electricity, and
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what we need to do only takes common sense. We
need to find leaders that are going to implement a
common sense, multifaceted energy transition plan. What that means simply
is that solar will be part of it. On shore wind,
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on shore wind where appropriate will be part of it,
not offshore wind, hydro geothermal and nuclear. These nuclear SMRs,
small modular reactors can take up less than two three
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acres of land empower three hundred thousand homes at zero
carbon emissions at ninety five percent of the time, and
our leaders won't even consider it.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
It's insane. And so.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
What we're gonna hear from Ed Markey, as we know
he's running for office, We're gonna hear again and again
and again the broken record of the green new scam. Now,
I call it the green new scam, and make sure
you understand. I believe that climate change is real. I
don't believe it's the existential threat of humanity the way
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that many have promoted it, like Markey. Even Bill Gates
has walked that back and says that's not quite the
exigency everybody thought on our left side. All right, but
it's a real thing, it's a global thing. Massachusetts can't
save it.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I call.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
The green new scam because Ed Markey didn't even vote
for it himself. I want you to imagine that you
are the co sponsor of a bill, it comes to
the floor of the Senate for a vote, and you
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don't vote yes, you vote present. You don't even take
a stand on your own bill. That tells you all
you need to know about the Green New Deal that
it's just a narrative. It's politics for Markee to get
votes to appease to a certain element of his party.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
That's all it is.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Okay, Now, at some point I'm going to offer a
real common sense energy transition plan that will include everything
that I already talked about, and it will actually reduce
our dependency on fossil fuels, it will lower costs, and
it will not punish Massachusetts workers, Massachusetts businesses, or Massachusetts
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tax Now, let's talk about arguably the number one topic
in America as far as policy, and that's healthcare. And
this is probably going to spill over into the final
segment of the show tonight, but it's really really important
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to address it, and I want to go on record
right now to say that every American citizen, so you
get that part, every American citizen deserves access to affordable healthcare, period,
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full stop. And we really do have to reform our
healthcare system here in America. We can't just complain about Obamacare.
We can't just say the Affordable Care Act isn't affordable
and therefore we need to eliminate it. We have to
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come up with a solution. It's not easy, but it's
also not rocket science. Okay, And let me tell you
why the Affordable Care Act was never affordable. It was
never affordable because it allowed three companies to control over
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eighty percent of all prescriptions in America and over ninety
percent of the insurance and provider network. Three companies in
control of all of that. That is not free market
capitalism that I believe in. I'm a free market capitalist.
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That's not free market capitalism. That's monopolistic capitalism. And when
you consider all of the taxpayer money that goes to
these tax credits, these subsidies that goes in the pockets
of three vertically integrated insurance companies, let's call it what
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it is, corporate socialism. Because you have taxpayer money billions
and billions and billions going to three vertically integrated insurance
companies that control everything from the drug manufacturer all the
way down to the pharmacy. We've got to do better
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than that.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
And so.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
It isn't an easy fix, but it's not rocket science.
And I got to tell you something. If I decide
to run for US Senate, I will release a five
point healthcare plan that reduces cost for consumers and patients,
that increases transparency, and breaks up those three vertically integrated
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insurance companies that are getting billions and billions and billions
of taxpayer subsidies so that we have more competition. Okay,
you were listening to the hard truth. I'm John Deaton,
and we got one more segment tonight. When we come back,
we're gonna we're gonna finish talking about healthcare and then
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we're gonna talk about a big night tomorrow night. All right,
this is ihearts WRKO. I'm John Deaton. It's the hard truth,
and we'll be right back. Welcome back, everybody listening to
the hard truth.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I'm John Deaton.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
We were talking about reforming healthcare and we have to
tackle that problem. I said, at some point, you know,
common sense and a dedication to get the job done.
That's all it takes. And I said that if I
end up running for Senate, I'm going to release a
five point plan and this is the one thing to know.
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I talked about the fact that three vertically integrated companies
controlled ninety percent of everything, and that that's not real capitalism, right,
that's monopolistic. As I said in the last segment, listen,
Teddy Roosevelt faced a similar challenge. The wealth gap was
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at an all time high up until that point in
American history, and you had the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
You know, you had like three.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Families in charge of all the railroads and transportation. And
Teddy Roosevelt saved capitalism, many believe, I believe by breaking
it up enforcing more competition. You know, this is really
one of the biggest problems in our healthcare system today,
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is the fact that there's no transparency. And this is
what I mean. I want you to think about this
and think how crazy. What I'm about to tell you
is how insane it is. Let's say that your microwave
at home just goes bad, and you decide that you
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need a new microwave. So you can get online and
you could shop and compare microwave prices, microwave manufacturers, ge Westinghouse, Kenmore,
all these different brands, and you could shop for hours
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all across the country. You could independent stores, you could
go to Amazon. You got so many options if you
want a microwave or if you want a refrigerator, but
you're not allowed to do that. For life saving drugs,
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it's not allowed. You can't find out how much it
costs for certain drugs. They won't publish it. The United
States government Medicare can't even negotiate most of the drugs
that we use, and the government is the biggest buyer
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of it. And so that's just insane. It's insane that
you can't compare like treatment drugs or anything in our
healthcare system.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
You'd have to be a moron to think that that's
a good system.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Either that or you're a bought and paid for career
politician who's in the pockets of these insurance companies. They
get the billions and the billions and the billions.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Someone like me could.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Never ever sell out to these insurance companies.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Won't know why.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
For twenty six years here in Massachusetts, I have been
fighting insurance companies in court on behalf of working families.
If I were to run for Senate and get in
the Senate, where you think all of a sudden, after
thirty years of fighting insurance companies for regular people, I'm
going to sell out and say no, I'm going to
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now side for the insurance companies. It's never going to
happen the way I could change who I am. But
in our system right now, there's no transparency and that
just makes no sense whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Okay, now.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Talking about that, I thought arrogance is going to bring
sort of the status quo down. And what I mean
is not all of them down, but I think there's
cracks in the foundation. And look, speaking of arrogance, I mean,
eighty year old Ed Markey is running again. Seth Molten
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is in the race to primary him. A pole just
came out yesterday that actually shows and the pole isn't
of general populist people, it's of Democratic primary voters. And
Ed Markey is like a seventeen point lead on Seth Molten.
Conventional wisdom is that Ed Markey will beat Seth Molten
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for the Democratic primary. But the reporting is that Congresswoman
Presley is seriously thinking about getting in the Democratic primary.
And listen, anything can happen once threeway. Now, there's a
poll that shows that if Anna Presley gets in the race,
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that Marky would still win. His lead goes down. He
wins by less over Molten, and that Molten came second
and Presley came third. But there's a lot of people
out there that think if Presley gets in, a lot
of the progressive, far left individuals in the Democratic Party
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would gravitate to her. A member of the squad. As
you know, it'll be very very interesting.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Now. There was reporting this week about me.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
John Deaton and whether or not I'm going to run
for US Senate, and the papers basically quoted me as
saying that I'm leaning toward it, but I'm still having
conversations and trying to decide. Well. Tomorrow night, on November tenth,
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on Monday, the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of the
United States Marine Corps Urrah, I have an event that
I am holding. It is at Off the Rails in Worcester, Okay,
Off the Rails in Worcester. Doors open at six pm,
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goes to eight thirty. I'm going to have some of
the candidates running for you for governor who will be there.
They'll address the crowd for a few brief moments, and
then at seven point thirty I will take the stage
and I will give an announcement. Now, the reporting in
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the press is that I'm going to announce my candidacy
for the United States Senate. And all I can tell
you is that you're going to have to wait tomorrow
night to hear what my special announcement is. But if
you're around, feel free to stop by. There's free parking,
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there's no admission, and there'll be some food, some drinks,
and some entertainment. It's going to be it's going to
be a very good night. I sense that there's change
in the air. And as I was saying before, I
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want you out there that I know some of you
listening are very frustrated, right, I mean, listen, I ran
last year. I got one point three million people voted
for me. I got over forty percent of the vote.
Yet we don't have one voice in Congress. We don't
want to have one voice in any of the statewide offices.
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That's the status quo. But change doesn't begin by when
an election. Change begins by believing that you can win
an election and then doing all the hard work to
win that election. And I believe that common sense can win,
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and because at the end of the day, I believe
that most people believe in the same things. If you
talk to most people, most people believe for working families,
that lower taxes for working families is good because working
families can take keep more of what they earn. Most
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people believe in less government overreach. We don't want the
government in our lives so much, and we want less
government overreach so small businesses can thrive the backbone of
our economy and the parents can raise their kids their way.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
We believe in school choice, we believe in innovation, and
we believe in a country where hard work still matters.
You know, I really don't think that's a conservative or
Republican platform. I think that's a common sense platform. I
think that's an American platform, you know, I really do.
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And I think what we need to understand and we
can learn from the Mundami Win in New York that
people are struggling. They're struggling to pay their bills, they're
struggling to live. They're not really looking for ideology, they're
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looking for solutions. And I believe that common sense people
like me, we have them right. We have tax relief, deregulation,
school always, common sense energy policy, transparency, and our health care,
increase competition in our healthcare system, American innovation, real economic growth.
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We just have to deliver that message. And I think
that we can make progress in the status quo. But
we got to go old school man like. We got
to knock on all the doors, not just the doors
of the people who agree with us. We have to
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listen to the mom who's worried about rent, Listen to
the dad who is fed up with energy prices, the
worker who's tired of seeing his job leave the state.
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Working people are looking for solutions, and we have them,
and we can come together and we can make real progress.
So tomorrow night, at Off the Rails in Worcester at
seven point thirty or around that time, I am going
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to make a big announcement. And it's because I want
to make a difference. It's because I think it's time
that we start considering one of us who understands the
struggle to go to Washington, not career politicians. If you
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get someone who knows the struggles, they'll work to solve
those struggles. I'm John Deaton. This is the hard truth,
and I will talk to you next week
Don't you dare touch the dial or change the channel,
because it's Sunday at seven pm on iHeart WRKO six
eighty am, and you're listening to the hard truth. I'm
John Deaton. Good evening everyone, Hope you had a great week.
Well it has happened. We have a socialist who has
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been elected mayor of New York City, the financial capital
of the world, some argue, the greatest city in the world,
and he now has or it now has a declared
democratic socialist mayor, Zoran Mandami. Now, Mandami's rise is a lesson,
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and what I would advise everyone to do is sit
back and analyze why. And if we learn why Mandami's
rise was so successful in New York City, then maybe
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we can learn from it because what we're going to witness,
I believe is other cities. Boston could be one of them. Listen,
you know how far is mayor Wu from adomit. They
share a lot of the same theories, policies. And what
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about other cities across the country, are they too going
to start experimenting with electing socialist leaders? Now there's some
people who believe that every every other generation or so
in America, there needs to be an experiment with socialism
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so that Americans can see and reject it. But I'm
going to tell you that I'm not going to call
Mondami names. Right, I'm not going to just sit on
a soapbox and say, how could we let a communist
become the mayor of the greatest city in the world.
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I'm going to sit back and I'm going to analyze
why did Mondami resonate so much with people? Why do
people when you say to them, I'm going to give
you free public transportation, I'm going to freeze your rent
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so that your landlord can never raise the rent on
you again, why does that resonate? Why does it resonate
When Mandami says, look, we're going to put a government
run grocery store. We're gonna have five of them, one
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in each borough of New York City, and I'm going
to implement these grocery stores and it's gonna be at cost.
You're gonna get cheaper groceries. Why does that resonate? And
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the answer is because people are struggling. We as a
society have failed younger people. We as a society have
to understand that regular people can't pay their bills because
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of the price of living today, and we don't have
to look to New York to figure that out. We
have to look to Boston. We have to look to
the Greater Boston area. We have to look to Springfield,
we have to look to Brockton, we have to looked
at any town or city across the Commonwealth. I'm going
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to share some numbers with you, and it's going to
be shocking, Okay, And I'm going to tell you now
that Massachusetts is in a crisis. Some would argue that
New York City is in a crisis, and that's why
Mondami was successful. Massachusetts is in a crisis in many ways,
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more than some of these cities, including New York City.
And I got the facts to prove it. And so
many of you know that I was a former federal prosecutor,
and so I've been in court and I've had to
present the facts of the case and then argue to
the jury that I proved those facts beyond a reasonable doubt. Well,
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I'm going to play prosecutor right now, and you're going
to tell me if I proved my case, and that
my case is the following it is that the status
quo in Massachusetts is broken and that we are in
desperate need of new leadership. And so here are some
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indisputable facts. And when I say indisputable, that means they
can't be argued. These are facts. Fact number one, Massachusetts
ranks dead last fifty out of fifty states for housing affordability.
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Now what's that mean? Specifically, I'll break it down to you.
Housing costs in Massachusetts is a staggering one hundred and
six percent higher than the national average. Fact number one.
Fact number two. Groceries are twenty to thirty percent higher
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in Massachusetts than the national average. Indisputable. Fact number three. Electricity,
Massachusetts households pay nearly double what other households pay for
the same electricity use across the nation. Next, natural gas.
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Natural gas prices are nearly seventy percent higher than the
national average. Work in families are seeing bills of eight
hundred to one thousand dollars her month because of high
delivery charges. Many of you got your bill. You've seen
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that you've seen supply eighty dollars delivery seven hundred dollars.
It's insane. Health Care costs have skyrocketed here in Massachusetts.
And check this one out childcare cost on average in
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Massachusetts is over twenty four thousand dollars per year for
a family, ranking Massachusetts as dead last, meaning it is
the single most expensive state in the country for child
care costs. So I've given you those indisputable facts, and
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now I'm gonna add another one. Massachusetts ranks dead last again,
fifty out of fifty for private sector job growth. Do
you know how hard it is to rank fifty out
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of fifty? Think about that. We have Mit, Harvard, Toughts
and so much more, and we're dead last. I mean,
Massachusetts can't outpace Kentucky, West Virginia, Mississippi. Really, Now, those
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are indisputable facts. Here are the results of those indisputable facts.
Homelessness is seventy four percent higher year over year in
the Commonwealth. One point one million people living in Massachusetts
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is on food stamps. That is nearly sixteen percent of
the entire population of Massachusetts. If we don't change directions
soon in the next two years, one out of every
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five Base Staters again, one out of every five residents
of Massachusetts will be on foodstamps. That's twenty percent of
the entire population. And many of you know that I
know a little bit about that life. My book is
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called Food Stamp Warrior. I fought hard to escape that
life because I know what poverty does to people, what
it does to the human condition. My beautiful, beautiful mom,
God bless her, once told me that college wasn't for
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people like us, white trash people like us living in
the hood on welfare and food stamps. College wasn't for us.
That's what poverty does. That's what it does. It beats
you down, It beats the human spirit down. My God,
I think it's time that we elect someone who understands poverty,
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who understands how to lift people up out of poverty.
Not created, but I got to tell you those stats
are absolutely indisputable, and it shows you that the status
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quo here in Massachusetts is broken. It's absolutely broken. We
need new leadership. We need to be on a new path.
And the way to get a new path is that
we have to start electing people who are not part of.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
The status quo system.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
If the status quote is broken, then we don't hire
more of the same. We need a change and what
is that change. That change is electing people who understand
that we have a dilemma and that dilemma is that
Massachusetts right now is the second most expensive state, soon
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to be the most expensive, and we have the least
amount of jobs. All right, you're listening to the hard truth.
I'm going to continue giving you the facts as they are.
It's the hard truth for a reason you're listening to
John Deaton. This is the hard truth. Come back from
the break, I got so much more. Welcome back to
the heart hard truth. I'm John Deaton. Remember you can
(12:03):
reach me at John at Hard Truthshow dot com, John
at Hard Truthshow dot com.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
All right, So for the break, I.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Was giving you indisputable facts that proved that the status
quo in Massachusetts is broken and that we need need
new leadership.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
But what is the status quote?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Well, the status quot is pretty easy to explain, and
that is that every single statewide office in Massachusetts governor,
Lieutenant governor, Secretary of state, treasurer, auditor, attorney general, you
name it controlled by one party Democrats. Nine members, all
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nine congressmen and women that represent Massachusetts are all controlled
by one party Democrats. Both US Senators controlled by one
party Democrats. Now it's not just because there are Democrats,
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but some of them are really really far far left
or just too extreme. And what I mean by that
is many of them will favor an illegal migrant over
a combat that. Now that doesn't mean an illegal migrant
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is less human and doesn't mean that an illegal migrant
should be mistreated or anything, but my god, we have
to be able to say that an American rhen, soldier,
sailor airman who served his country went over to a
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foreign war, lost a limb, maybe suffers from PTSD from
seeing his friends killed in combat. It's not it shouldn't
be controversial to say that that American combat if he's homelessness,
should get priority over someone who entered the country illegal.
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I mean, I don't even see how that's controversial. Doesn't
mean that I'm xenophobic, doesn't mean that I'm anti immigrant,
doesn't mean that I'm anti immigration. I'm just saying that
if we sent a person over who served their country
and then they come back and they have issues and
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they find themselves homeless, and we have a shelter bed,
that we can give that American combat veteran priority. But
there's these people that are in control here that think
I'm wrong, and some of them will put that American
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combat at the back of the line. That's just wrong
to me. You know what else is wrong is that
this one party, the status quo that I just went
over from one party, these Democrats, some of who are
too extreme. They will spend billions on illegal migrants, billions,
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but at the same time, say there's no money available
to save Carnie Hospital in Dorchester, or in the Showba
Valley Medical Center in there, or the maternity unit in Leminster.
And what's the result If you live in parts of
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north central Massachusetts and you're a pregnant woman, you might
have to drive forty five minutes to give birth. But
they got no money to save any of those hospitals.
How's that for protecting women and women's health care? It's
not And I say that as a father of daughters,
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because a father of daughters thinks of these things. That's
what I mean by too extreme. But that's what you get.
That's what you get when you have one party that
is the status quo and they're in control for too long. Okay,
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And so we have this dilemma.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
We are.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
The second most expensive state, soon to be the first
most expensive state, with the least amount of job growth.
And what is the one party rule, the status quo.
Solution to that dilemma, well, I submit to you, ladies
and gentlemen, their solution to that dilemma is the same
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is their solution to every single problem they face, and
that is raise taxes. I mean, you don't got to
go too far right, millionaire's tax, candy tax, prescription tax.
Let me ask you, have you seen the new surcharge
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on the car tax. That's right, folks, they're taxing taxes now.
But the potholes aren't fixed, and the rents they're not
coming down.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yet.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
We're here with this one party rule, and those are
the indisputable facts and why we need change. You want
to know what else happens when you have the status
quo is one party in control for so long, they
become really, really arrogant. They become so arrogant for being
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in control so long that they believe they don't have
to answer to anyone. They don't have to answer to voters,
they don't have to answer to taxpayers. Case in point
of voters in Massachusetts made it the law that the
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state legislature would be audited. Mari Heally said she voted
for it. Elizabeth Morin said she voted for it. Ed
Markey said she voted for it. Andrea Campbell blessed it,
approved it so that it was an approved ballot question,
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which means it's constitutional and improper form, and that she
supported it.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yet the audit.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Has not happened since because the status quo refuses to comply.
But my question is, where are our leaders, Where's Mara Heally,
Where's Ed Markey, Where's Elizabeth Warren? Why aren't they using
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their voices? Because they got pretty pick voices here. Why
aren't they using their voices to make sure that the
law is followed. And I can tell you the reason, people.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
The reason is.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Because they're part of the status quo. They're the same party,
and they put party head of people. They put politics
ahead of truth and transparency. That's why that's why Mori
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Healy's not gonna go against her fellow Democrats. That's why
Ed Marky's not gonna go against his fellow Democrats. That's
why Elizabeth Warren's not gonna go against her fellow Democrats.
It's party, party, party above all else.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
And you don't got to take my word for it,
take theirs.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
We just recently learned Katherine Clark went on interview, she's
the majority w I mean the minority whip. She's third
in charge on the Democrat side in the House of
Representatives here from Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
And what did.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Catherine Clark tell us? She said, Yeah, people gonna suffer
in this shutdown. People not going to be able to eat.
People are not gonna be able to pay the mortgage,
people are not gonna be able to pay their an
energy bill.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
People are gonna suffer.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
But we can't open the government now because we'll lose leverage.
So we've learned that your ability to pay your bills,
your ability to eat your lives are just leverage in
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the game of politics in order for career politicians to
get what they want. That's what's happening, and that's why
we're still in the middle of a shutdown. But I
believe that they're arrogance will be their downfall. I believe
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that they become so arrogant from being in control so
long they don't think they.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Have to answer it to anyone.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
But they will answer if people get out and vote
in November of next year. I know it sounds like
a year away. Some of you are like, don't bother me. Now,
that's a far long time from now, but we've got
to get mobile and active if you want change, and
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change does not begin by winning an election. Change begins
by believing that you can win an election. And I
believe that we can get a voice and a seat
at the table in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I really truly believe. That.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Doesn't mean it's going to be easy. Doesn't mean and
it's not going to be an uphill battle. Change often
doesn't come easy. You got to fight for it. The
question is for those listening tonight, are you willing to
fight for it? Are you tired of the status quo?
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God knows I am. I'm willing to fight for it,
and soon you'll see just how much I'm willing to
fight for it. You want to talk to me, you
want me to read your comments, you want to criticize me,
you want to challenge me, You can reach me at
(23:39):
John at Hard Truthshow dot com. John at Hard Truthshow
dot com.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Stick with me.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
All right, it's Sunday night, so you know you're listening
to the Hard Truth with John Daton. Come back after
the break, all right, welcome back to the Hard Truth.
I'm John Daton. Remember you can reach me at John
at Hard Truthshow dot com. John at Hardtruthshow dot com.
All Right, the last couple segments, we've been talking about
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the broken status quo here in Massachusetts and that we
need new leadership, we need new change. And what I
was explaining is that we have a formula in effect
right now in Massachusetts that is a formula for bankruptcy. Okay,
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when you are the last state on housing affordability, dead last,
and you're the most expensive when it comes to energy
that includes electricity, natural gas, When your groceries are thirty
percent higher, when your housing costs are one hundred and
six percent higher than the national average, and you've got
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the least amount of job growth in the country, that's
a formula for bankruptcy, especially when you add in that
we're losing hundreds of thousands of workers who can't afford
to live here, almost two hundred thousand in the last
few years, and we're taking in tens of thousands of
illegal migrants that's costing four billion dollars and stressing out
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our infrastructure. That, ladies and gentlemen, is a formula for bankruptcy,
and we're seeing it play out across the Commonwealth because
hundreds and hundreds of towns and cities are voting on overrides.
What that means is that we are broke. We are broke,
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and it is now impacting just about every aspect of
our society here in Massachusetts, and it's impacting areas that
we've always been a leader, like education.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Look.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Everyone, I have a sixth grader, I mean, I'm sorry,
a six year old Layla. She's in the first grade.
And my stepdaughter Mackenzie is in the eighth grade, and
my step son, Jackson, is a junior in high school.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
And I can tell you.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
That today our kids are subject to what's called social
emotional learning. And I also admit that from someone who
grew up so rough, it does sound kind of nice.
Social emotional learning. But how about we really focus first
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on teaching math, reading, and science. You know, kids today
need discipline, they need structure. It's actually a good thing
for them to hear no sometimes. And I got to
tell you, I don't think it's too much for us
to demand that here in the Commonwealth, really the country,
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for a fourth grade to be able to read, it's
just not too much to ask. And we're losing that
we're losing our edge on education because we're broke and
because our priorities have taken us down the wrong path
due to this status quo, this one party rule.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Now that's education. Let's talk energy policy.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I mean, when I sit back and I think about
what's going on here in Massachusetts, my honest response is,
my god, why why are they going down this road?
I mean, they ban new gas pipelines and force alternative
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energy mandates that are crushing working families. But at the
same time they won't even consider nuclear, which at this
point in time and technology is just plain dumb. And
I'm telling you that these people they preach green man
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and they fly private. It's sane I came up with
and I got to tell you that it never shocks me.
And if we don't, if we don't come up with something,
a new path, a new direction, then we can look
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forward to energy prices two hundred percent increase in the
next five years, especially when you consider the amount of
energy demand that artificial intelligence is taking on electricity, and
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what we need to do only takes common sense. We
need to find leaders that are going to implement a
common sense, multifaceted energy transition plan. What that means simply
is that solar will be part of it. On shore wind,
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on shore wind where appropriate will be part of it,
not offshore wind, hydro geothermal and nuclear. These nuclear SMRs,
small modular reactors can take up less than two three
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acres of land empower three hundred thousand homes at zero
carbon emissions at ninety five percent of the time, and
our leaders won't even consider it.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
It's insane. And so.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
What we're gonna hear from Ed Markey, as we know
he's running for office, We're gonna hear again and again
and again the broken record of the green new scam. Now,
I call it the green new scam, and make sure
you understand. I believe that climate change is real. I
don't believe it's the existential threat of humanity the way
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that many have promoted it, like Markey. Even Bill Gates
has walked that back and says that's not quite the
exigency everybody thought on our left side. All right, but
it's a real thing, it's a global thing. Massachusetts can't
save it.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I call.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
The green new scam because Ed Markey didn't even vote
for it himself. I want you to imagine that you
are the co sponsor of a bill, it comes to
the floor of the Senate for a vote, and you
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don't vote yes, you vote present. You don't even take
a stand on your own bill. That tells you all
you need to know about the Green New Deal that
it's just a narrative. It's politics for Markee to get
votes to appease to a certain element of his party.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
That's all it is.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Okay, Now, at some point I'm going to offer a
real common sense energy transition plan that will include everything
that I already talked about, and it will actually reduce
our dependency on fossil fuels, it will lower costs, and
it will not punish Massachusetts workers, Massachusetts businesses, or Massachusetts
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tax Now, let's talk about arguably the number one topic
in America as far as policy, and that's healthcare. And
this is probably going to spill over into the final
segment of the show tonight, but it's really really important
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to address it, and I want to go on record
right now to say that every American citizen, so you
get that part, every American citizen deserves access to affordable healthcare, period,
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full stop. And we really do have to reform our
healthcare system here in America. We can't just complain about Obamacare.
We can't just say the Affordable Care Act isn't affordable
and therefore we need to eliminate it. We have to
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come up with a solution. It's not easy, but it's
also not rocket science. Okay, And let me tell you
why the Affordable Care Act was never affordable. It was
never affordable because it allowed three companies to control over
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eighty percent of all prescriptions in America and over ninety
percent of the insurance and provider network. Three companies in
control of all of that. That is not free market
capitalism that I believe in. I'm a free market capitalist.
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That's not free market capitalism. That's monopolistic capitalism. And when
you consider all of the taxpayer money that goes to
these tax credits, these subsidies that goes in the pockets
of three vertically integrated insurance companies, let's call it what
(34:21):
it is, corporate socialism. Because you have taxpayer money billions
and billions and billions going to three vertically integrated insurance
companies that control everything from the drug manufacturer all the
way down to the pharmacy. We've got to do better
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than that.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
And so.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
It isn't an easy fix, but it's not rocket science.
And I got to tell you something. If I decide
to run for US Senate, I will release a five
point healthcare plan that reduces cost for consumers and patients,
that increases transparency, and breaks up those three vertically integrated
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insurance companies that are getting billions and billions and billions
of taxpayer subsidies so that we have more competition. Okay,
you were listening to the hard truth. I'm John Deaton,
and we got one more segment tonight. When we come back,
we're gonna we're gonna finish talking about healthcare and then
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we're gonna talk about a big night tomorrow night. All right,
this is ihearts WRKO. I'm John Deaton. It's the hard truth,
and we'll be right back. Welcome back, everybody listening to
the hard truth.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I'm John Deaton.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
We were talking about reforming healthcare and we have to
tackle that problem. I said, at some point, you know,
common sense and a dedication to get the job done.
That's all it takes. And I said that if I
end up running for Senate, I'm going to release a
five point plan and this is the one thing to know.
(36:18):
I talked about the fact that three vertically integrated companies
controlled ninety percent of everything, and that that's not real capitalism, right,
that's monopolistic. As I said in the last segment, listen,
Teddy Roosevelt faced a similar challenge. The wealth gap was
(36:42):
at an all time high up until that point in
American history, and you had the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
You know, you had like three.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Families in charge of all the railroads and transportation. And
Teddy Roosevelt saved capitalism, many believe, I believe by breaking
it up enforcing more competition. You know, this is really
one of the biggest problems in our healthcare system today,
(37:12):
is the fact that there's no transparency. And this is
what I mean. I want you to think about this
and think how crazy. What I'm about to tell you
is how insane it is. Let's say that your microwave
at home just goes bad, and you decide that you
(37:34):
need a new microwave. So you can get online and
you could shop and compare microwave prices, microwave manufacturers, ge Westinghouse, Kenmore,
all these different brands, and you could shop for hours
(37:56):
all across the country. You could independent stores, you could
go to Amazon. You got so many options if you
want a microwave or if you want a refrigerator, but
you're not allowed to do that. For life saving drugs,
(38:17):
it's not allowed. You can't find out how much it
costs for certain drugs. They won't publish it. The United
States government Medicare can't even negotiate most of the drugs
that we use, and the government is the biggest buyer
(38:41):
of it. And so that's just insane. It's insane that
you can't compare like treatment drugs or anything in our
healthcare system.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
You'd have to be a moron to think that that's
a good system.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Either that or you're a bought and paid for career
politician who's in the pockets of these insurance companies. They
get the billions and the billions and the billions.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Someone like me could.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Never ever sell out to these insurance companies.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Won't know why.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
For twenty six years here in Massachusetts, I have been
fighting insurance companies in court on behalf of working families.
If I were to run for Senate and get in
the Senate, where you think all of a sudden, after
thirty years of fighting insurance companies for regular people, I'm
going to sell out and say no, I'm going to
(39:41):
now side for the insurance companies. It's never going to
happen the way I could change who I am. But
in our system right now, there's no transparency and that
just makes no sense whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Okay, now.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Talking about that, I thought arrogance is going to bring
sort of the status quo down. And what I mean
is not all of them down, but I think there's
cracks in the foundation. And look, speaking of arrogance, I mean,
eighty year old Ed Markey is running again. Seth Molten
(40:21):
is in the race to primary him. A pole just
came out yesterday that actually shows and the pole isn't
of general populist people, it's of Democratic primary voters. And
Ed Markey is like a seventeen point lead on Seth Molten.
Conventional wisdom is that Ed Markey will beat Seth Molten
(40:44):
for the Democratic primary. But the reporting is that Congresswoman
Presley is seriously thinking about getting in the Democratic primary.
And listen, anything can happen once threeway. Now, there's a
poll that shows that if Anna Presley gets in the race,
(41:07):
that Marky would still win. His lead goes down. He
wins by less over Molten, and that Molten came second
and Presley came third. But there's a lot of people
out there that think if Presley gets in, a lot
of the progressive, far left individuals in the Democratic Party
(41:28):
would gravitate to her. A member of the squad. As
you know, it'll be very very interesting.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Now. There was reporting this week about me.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
John Deaton and whether or not I'm going to run
for US Senate, and the papers basically quoted me as
saying that I'm leaning toward it, but I'm still having
conversations and trying to decide. Well. Tomorrow night, on November tenth,
(42:05):
on Monday, the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of the
United States Marine Corps Urrah, I have an event that
I am holding. It is at Off the Rails in Worcester, Okay,
Off the Rails in Worcester. Doors open at six pm,
(42:27):
goes to eight thirty. I'm going to have some of
the candidates running for you for governor who will be there.
They'll address the crowd for a few brief moments, and
then at seven point thirty I will take the stage
and I will give an announcement. Now, the reporting in
(42:48):
the press is that I'm going to announce my candidacy
for the United States Senate. And all I can tell
you is that you're going to have to wait tomorrow
night to hear what my special announcement is. But if
you're around, feel free to stop by. There's free parking,
(43:09):
there's no admission, and there'll be some food, some drinks,
and some entertainment. It's going to be it's going to
be a very good night. I sense that there's change
in the air. And as I was saying before, I
(43:30):
want you out there that I know some of you
listening are very frustrated, right, I mean, listen, I ran
last year. I got one point three million people voted
for me. I got over forty percent of the vote.
Yet we don't have one voice in Congress. We don't
want to have one voice in any of the statewide offices.
(43:53):
That's the status quo. But change doesn't begin by when
an election. Change begins by believing that you can win
an election and then doing all the hard work to
win that election. And I believe that common sense can win,
(44:19):
and because at the end of the day, I believe
that most people believe in the same things. If you
talk to most people, most people believe for working families,
that lower taxes for working families is good because working
families can take keep more of what they earn. Most
(44:43):
people believe in less government overreach. We don't want the
government in our lives so much, and we want less
government overreach so small businesses can thrive the backbone of
our economy and the parents can raise their kids their way.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
We believe in school choice, we believe in innovation, and
we believe in a country where hard work still matters.
You know, I really don't think that's a conservative or
Republican platform. I think that's a common sense platform. I
think that's an American platform, you know, I really do.
(45:27):
And I think what we need to understand and we
can learn from the Mundami Win in New York that
people are struggling. They're struggling to pay their bills, they're
struggling to live. They're not really looking for ideology, they're
(45:50):
looking for solutions. And I believe that common sense people
like me, we have them right. We have tax relief, deregulation,
school always, common sense energy policy, transparency, and our health care,
increase competition in our healthcare system, American innovation, real economic growth.
(46:17):
We just have to deliver that message. And I think
that we can make progress in the status quo. But
we got to go old school man like. We got
to knock on all the doors, not just the doors
of the people who agree with us. We have to
(46:37):
listen to the mom who's worried about rent, Listen to
the dad who is fed up with energy prices, the
worker who's tired of seeing his job leave the state.
(46:58):
Working people are looking for solutions, and we have them,
and we can come together and we can make real progress.
So tomorrow night, at Off the Rails in Worcester at
seven point thirty or around that time, I am going
(47:18):
to make a big announcement. And it's because I want
to make a difference. It's because I think it's time
that we start considering one of us who understands the
struggle to go to Washington, not career politicians. If you
(47:40):
get someone who knows the struggles, they'll work to solve
those struggles. I'm John Deaton. This is the hard truth,
and I will talk to you next week
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