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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To night, Michael Brown joins me. Here's a former FAMO
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I have a great day, Goober's.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Uh, do you have any talk Bucks? Do you have
any talk Bucks?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Not just yet, but I'll be monitoring them all morning long.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
All right, you may not recognize that voice, but that's
the great Jesse Thomas, who is the executive producer for
the Rockies. And you know, red Beard comes in here
yesterday and I kind of pushing him back because the
first thing he says is, well, the mother in law
and missus Redbeard have the flu. And I'm like, look
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at then get out of here, get out of here.
And then I start getting these text messages. Oh, I
don't know. I'm I'm busy doing something like maybe taking
a nap or something, and I start getting these text
messages that says, hey, Michael, Jesse Thomas will produce you
your Thursday and Friday for our sick Dragon. I'm like,
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he's not sick.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I didn't know dragons could get sick.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, I did, exactly. And now he's claiming that, oh
because the white I think until I said, get back
because I don't want to get sick. Did he go, oh,
wait a minute, I could claim to be sick and
have Thursday and Friday off and Monday's a holiday. He says,
I got a Friday vacation coming up.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Right here, set up perfectly by Dragon. Well, not many people.
I love you, Michael, There's not too many people I
would do this far other than Dragon though.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Just well, well, and I totally get that. But then
you realize too, because I hope he's listening. But then
it shows just how stupid Tepper is to fall for
that crap.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I know, I mean, unbelievable, right, I wasn't going to
say anything.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
But chriss Yeah. As I even told Temper, I said, yeah,
Dragon laid the groundwork for being out. I don't buy
it for a minute, but Jesse, is that the best
you can do? Because Jesse hates me and he wondn't
even bring me a McDonald's diet cocha is by the way,
I noticed checks concier.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You better look around pretty good.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, I die cochie from McDonald's way. I mean, what
what'd you do this morning?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Well?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I just kind of rolled in, didn't do anything, didn't you.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I didn't get my rules of engagement for producing this show.
So that's that's my fault.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Of course, Jesse says, I wouldn't say, hey, just find
you a bit disagreeable. You know, there's a there's there's
a there's a fear that I have that at some
point that now, fortunately, these are at least for I
think you and me, these are our personal phones, but
still subject to a subpoena. You bet, but I worry
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sometimes that they might corporate might say we'd like to
see mister Brown, mister Redbeard, and mister Thomas's emails because
you know, may not may not be good news for
the two of you anyway, Right, I never say anything
but wonderful things.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I think I'll just turn in my key card before
that that we go through that whole process.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Well, you'll be off doing baseball pretty soon anyway, so
you won't give a right of you don't need a
key card, Devin Theeni. Nope, you don't need a key
You don't even need to get But the only key
cards you need over it, cors is the key card
that they give you. So, yeah, you're you're probably be
in good shape anyway. It's nice to have you in
this morning. See if you still feel that way by tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, tomorrow will be the true test.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah that's right. Yeah, tomorrow, if you even show up,
will be like, there'll be amazing.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
I'll give it seventy thirty. There's a good chance I'll
be here well anyway, walking on the board. So if
we have a few if things don't run as Dragon
normally runs them, it's because we got a baseball guy
running the program today, which quite frankly, as far as
I'm concerned, is fine because that means at some point
between now and ten, we're going to do a seventh
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inning stretch and I'm just going to go out and
wonder off for a while and you can just fill
into whatever you want to do. So last night, I am,
oh god, there's so much I I should.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Have doubled up on the blood pressure medicine this morning.
So you know, I'm doing my typical trying to find,
you know, a short, pithy story that I can do
for sixty seconds for the Michael Brown minute over on Freedom.
And I come across this Colorado Sun's story and I
want to bring that to you. And then at the
same time that I'm running across this, there's something going
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on on television at home while I'm doing the show prep,
and it's something about Doge and what Musk is doing,
and you know, and I'm I'm listening to all of
it and bingo something in my stupid little you know,
diet coke addled ADHD brain says, wait a minute, Remember
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that time you got called by the General Services Administration
GSA to make a little field trip and you made
a field trip in DC. Well, we're going to talk
about that field trip because that field trip was probably
I'm guessing twenty to twenty two years ago and they
still haven't done anything. Yes, we're gonna talk about that too.
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And how's that for a tease. Here's the Colorado Sun story. Now,
I know that many of you already think that I'm
an a hole, and once I finish this story, you're
going to be confirmed. You will also believe that I'm
an a hole. But here's the thing. When I finished
this story, you will be an a hole too, because
I doubt that there's anybody And if if you do
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disagree with the point that I'll make in this story,
it's either because you are one of the individuals of
whom I am speaking about, or you have a relative.
Maybe it's your husband, your wife, your girlfriend, your boyfriend,
maybe it's your dog setter, I mean, whoever it might be.
But I can't imagine that if you're out on the
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seventy or the twenty five or the two two five
right now and you're you know, kind of ludging your
way to work so that you can go hope that
your key card works this morning, or you're already making deliveries.
You know, when I stopped at the circle K to
get my diet coke this morning. Uh, you know, there
was some guy that was uh, bless his heart, the
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the guy that manages the circle K finally said, you know,
you can prop that door open. It's okay with me
if you promped the door open. But he was trying
to haul in, you know, cases of beer or whatever
he was trying to do. And I thought, I don't
know whether that's a good job or a bad job
to have. I mean, you, I don't know if somebody
else loads the box truck for him, or he loads
and unloads the box truck. I don't know. But I
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looked at it and said, that's probably more physical labor
than I want to do. But then there are also
Now it's early, so they probably haven't left yet. But
somewhere around say eight twelve, two hours from now, some
of the people I'm about to talk about will start
making their way to their offices somewhere near let's just
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say the vicinity of Coal Facts and Broadway Coal Facts
and Grant somewhere in that area downtown. They'll start making
their way to that part of town or to other
places all across the fruited plane of the Great State
of Colorado. And then they'll sit down their desks and
they'll start regulating their lot your lives and they'll start,
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you know, going over your tax returns, and they'll start
doing this or that. They'll start denying building permits or
whatever they might be. Who knows what they'll be doing,
but they'll be out there to make your life Miserable's
here's the headline on the Colorado Sun, Colorado budget crisis.
Well let's just stop right there. We only get through
the first three words of a ten word headline, Colorado
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budget crisis. Did you know we have a Colorado? Did
you waly have a budget crisis in Colorado? Now? I
know you just maybe you just renewed your plates and
you paid all of those taxes, I mean fees. You
paid all of those fees. You know. I had to
renew my U because I can't do the stupid whatever
it is where you do it online for your parks pass.
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Because my plate was due on the jeep was due
in January, so I had to go ahead and renew
my annual parks pass. So then think about this. This
is so stupid. So why can't I just go online
and buy the twenty nine dollars whatever they call that
stupid fee that park pass now. But you can't do that,
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do you have to wait until you renew your your
life your plates? So instead I have to I have
to buy the new parks pass online, which I do,
which is like by the time I had everything up,
it was like close to one hundred bucks versus the
twenty nine dollars. But then I get a notice that says, oh,
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you'll be able to get your pass, but it may
take up to thirty days or more to process it.
Now I got it in less than thirty days, so
you know, hallelujah, congratulations. You know, good for them. But
think about the stupidity of why can't I just go
ahead and buy the twenty nine dollars one right now
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online and tie it to the license plate that I
have on the jeep so that I don't have to
because now I have to apply for a refund, a
refund of the difference, you know, if I if I
think the plates are doing April on the jeep. So
if they're doing April, so I have to get, you know,
a refund minus the four months that I use the
regular pass. But that gives that gives that Colorado State
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employee something to do. They got the issue of the past,
and then they'll get to refund the past. So, you
know what, I am doing everything I can to keep
all of these Colorado bureaucrafts fully employed. Back to the headline,
Colorado budget crisis in perils state worker raises threatening to
break union contract. Now that's one of those things where
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you read a headline and you think to yourself, hmm,
you know, if you look for the good in something,
huh did this is both good and bad? It in
peril state worker raises. Now, I know, compared to the
rais you got, their raise won't be that much because
I know all of you got like like right here,
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you know, I just signed a new contract or in
the process of signing a new contract. By the way,
where is that? Why? Why why have you gotten that
back yet? And I jesson, you know I got one
hundred percent raise.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
That's out standing.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Isn't that amazing? Uh? Huh. They don't tell anybody else
in the building that, right, because I don't think anybody
in the building got one hundred percent raise.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah. And the only reason I think I got one
hundred percent raise is because I'm dyslexic, and so I
flipped the numbers, and so I thought, oh, wow, that's
pretty good strong.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I'm happy for you.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, I'm sure. I seriously doubt that because I kind
of know probably what kind of rais you got to
say raised that we all got, which was yeah, uh,
the sun story continues. If the Joint Budget Committee and
the rest of the state legislature don't fund the raises,
it would force the union back to the bargaining table.
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And I'm like, where's the downside to this? What's the downside?
Let's get into the Let's get into the meat of
this story, because everybody's going along. Remember Jared Polis where
the Freedom State. Jared Polis says, you know, we've got
that stupid government agency, you know, the Office to Save
taxpayers money. We've got that, you know, in which we
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pay the lieutenant governor to not only be the lieutenant
governor at ninety three thousand dollars a year, but then polists,
you know, to pay office cronies, pays the lieutenant governor
also to run the office to save taxpayers money. Now
you think I'm joking, but I tell you that we
have an office like that. But we really have an
office that is named exactly office to save taxpayers money,
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or something very similar to that. If the Joint Budget Committee,
to some reports and the rest of the legislature doesn't
approve the raises, it would send the state into unchartered territory,
breaking a contract with the union for the first time
since the legislature granted collective barning rights to its public
sector workforce in twenty twenty. Well, I didn't take long
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four years. By the way, have you ever thought about
what you do when you negotiate with state employees. State
employees are by and large Democrats, and then you've got
the teacher unions, and the teacher unions find some teacher
or some administrator somewhere that's close to retirement, and they say, hey, listen,
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why don't you go ahead and retire early. We'll raise
you a boatload of money, and we'll elect you to
the state legislature. You can become a member, you can
become one of the Marxists out of the Colorado Poloit Bureau,
and you can you can then negotiate with us. Won't
it be great? So the teacher unions and the public
employee unions are essentially negotiating with themselves, because it's all
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it's a it's a Democrat run state. The Democrats are
all run by the unions that run the unions, and
so then all the employees are predominantly Democrats. So they're
all just negotiating with themselves. I don't know why iHeart
doesn't let me negotiate with myself. I would be absolutely
you know what I would do. I would pay myself
what I think I'm worth. Yeah, now that might bankrupt
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the company, but nonetheless, I'd pay myself what I think
i'm working. Officials say that that would force Colorado wins
By to the bargaining table with the police administration to
renegotiate a deal. The two sides just agreed to just
back in September next year, next budget year. Employees across
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the board are owed. I just like the worthing. I
didn't think anybody was owed anything. I recognize that despite
the fact that I might have a contract, that if
I Heart decides they don't like me, they can terminate
my contract. Oh, I'll give some benefits from that, but
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you know, so there's some cost to terminating contract. But
you know, at some point they'll probably decide Hey, we
don't really like you after all, and you know, boom,
and I'm out of here. A lot of people don't
even have the benefit that I have of having a contract.
Most people in this state are at will employees. You
can be fire, you can be fired for any reason
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or for no reason. Yeah, but no Caloros State employees.
I've got a contract. So state granted them the right
to collect the legislature to collective bargain. So the Democrats
are negotiating with the Democrats. You know, Goeta love Colorado. Anyway,
they're getting a two percent raise from now. This is
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just the minimum sixteen fifty five an hour, from sixteen
to twenty two an hour. All told, the contractual pay
increase would cost the state General Fund about sixty million
dollars next year. So two percent, do you know. I'm
not gonna ask Jesse to do it, but we don't
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have dragging the numbers guy here. But I want you
to think about going from sixteen dollars and twenty two
cents an hour to sixteen dollars and fifty five cents
an hour to approximately two percent is going to cost
you and me an additional sixty million dollars next year.
According to the Joint Budget Committee documents, every one percentage
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point cut to what the state spends on worker pay,
either by eliminating a position or skipping the raises, would
say the general fund about seventeen million dollars, the JBC
staff told the committee back in January. But that's a
drop in the bucket relative to what these Marxists need
to cut to balance next year's budget. They need to
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make about a billion dollars in cuts to keep spending
growth in line with the taxpayer bill rights revenue cap.
If you've ever questioned, ever at all, question the legitimacy,
the goodness, the benefit that Tabor has had on this state,
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let me read you that again. JBC Joint Budget Committee
members figure they need to make about one billion dollars
in cuts to keep spending growth, in other words, spending
growth by the state government in line with the taxpayer
bill Wrights revenue cap, which is growing more slowly than
major cost drivers like medicaid. The races negotiated by the
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union are not set in stone. While the administration negotiates
the labor agreement, the legislature ultimately has final say over
whether the state funds it, and in recent hearings, Joint
Budget Committee members have considered making cuts that would nullify
the agreement. Literally everything is on the table, according to
the chair of the Joint Budget Committee of Yahoo by
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the name of Jeff Bridges from Greenwood Village, obviously a Democrat,
ideas have been like, you know, limiting raises, but they
don't really know what to do. The rest of the
legislature tends to defer to the Budget Panel on big decisions,
but the labor movement's allies in the politbureau had been
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itching for a fight ever since the governor vetoed some
of their priorities last year. Notably, police Is recommended the
contractual raises in his annual budget request. Here's what the
bottom line. The bottom line is really quite simple. In
this Colorado State government employees might lose their jobs, they
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might face a pay cut, they might face no increase
in their wages, and they might face some cuts to
their benefits, to which I say, calls somebody that cares,
because I truly do not. I don't. I would say
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to every state worker, welcome to the real world, Welcome
to the private sector. Welcome to the world where you
have to produce, where you have to show a benefit
to the company, where you have to show a benefit
to the taxpayers. This is what's going on with dose
those is looking at all these things going on and saying,
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wait a minute, what are we getting for this? What's
the ROI? What's the return on investment? Of course, as
the Sun Report reports, for state workers, it's not time
to panic just yet, because the Joint Budget Committee tends
to put off the big decisions, including worker pay, until
after the March revenue forecast come in. In other words,
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let's wait and see just how much all these dumbass
workers out here that are you know, pushing themselves to
go to work today at a job they may not like,
or a boss and they don't like that, you know,
they're they're gonna have to go deal with that. But hey,
if you're if you're a government worker, don't worry about it.
Don't figure out a way to do it, because we
don't want you to have to face the real world.
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Like you know, Michael and Jesse do uh A couple
of text messages though, before I get to this story
about this fiasco in DC. UH good bit every ninety
six twenty four rights Mike, I'm not for all these
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Colorado liberal policies. I didn't vote for paid family leave,
but since it's being taken out of my paycheck and
I qualified because my wife and I had a new baby, boy, congratulations.
I'm planning on taking the full twelve weeks paid and
embracing these liberal policies. Everyone should, and you know why
because it's because of the week need Denver and Colorado
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State Chambers of Commerce. It's because of weak need business
leaders that don't have the cajones to stand up to
the Marxist out of the polit bureau that we end
up with policies like this. Now, I know you can
throw right back at me. Well, you know, they put
together some campaigns and they campaign against these kinds of initiatives,
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and they do all of that. But here's the deal.
They don't really want to cross them. Despite the fact
that it's going to cost companies money, which means it's
going to cost you money, and then that means it's
going to cost the consumers of their goods and services money.
They don't stand up and fight this. They it's almost
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as if they're scared because Democrats control the state, that
they're scared to stand up and say, no, this is
not good for business. I know that everybody keeps telling
us that. Look. Wall Street Journal yesterday breaks with the
consumer price index is up three percent, higher than expected,
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well higher than expect for those who aren't paying attention.
But if you pay attention, the consumer price index has
been increasing since December. It's been a steady increase over
the past two or three months. And the next thing
you're going to hear is, Oh, it's all Donald Trump's fault. Fault.
He was going to stop inflation on day one. That's
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why I tell you, don't take Trump literally take Trump seriously.
Did anyone ever believe when Donald Trump said, hey, I'm
going to bring prices down on day one, that he
meant I'm going to, like the price of eggs, despite
the lack of chickens out there that are even laying eggs,
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that he's somehow going to just magically, you know, increase
the production of eggs and the price of eggs are
going to come down. No, what he meant was that, literally,
that's my number one job. I'm going to start working
on that on day one. He's going to work to
bring down prices. So I say all of that because
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everybody thinks that the economy is so wonderful. It's not wonderful.
I could give you example after example after example of companies,
small businesses. You know, I made the comment, I don't
remember what, whether it was this show or the syndicated program,
that Tamurai gone someplace to have dinner. And if you watch,
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if you really look at vacant office buildings around the place,
around around the front range, you realize, oh, you know,
at one time that was that strip mall was completely full.
There were cars parked there, there were lots of people
going in and out. And look what's replaced it. If
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anything's replaced it, it's some you know, it's some Takaia
or something, and it's it's not like a genuine boutique
or retail place that the average Colorado would go, or
more likely than not, it's vacant and it's got a
big ass ferent sign on it. I noticed that. Just
went into the grocery store the other day. I went
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to Safe Way. I'm sorry, I went to King Supers.
Don't tell anybody that I actually went to King Supers.
You know why, because it's convenient. I'm not gonna let
their strike inconvenience me, And I know I've got a
listener that's gonna send me a really nasty text mess
in a minute about I cannot believe that you crossed
the picket line. Well, my convenience is more important than
what they're fighting for, and what they're fighting for is
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is ultimately going to cost me more money. So as
I was going into King Soupers, I noticed, wait a minute,
I used to go into that store all the time,
and it has a for lease sign on it. Now
another example of a business. I'm not gonna tell you
which one it is. If I told you the name
of you go, oh, well, they're all over the place. Yeah,
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they're downsizing now, I think partly because I think they
had kind of priced themselves out of the market a
little bit, but they didn't make the kinds of adjustments.
And even if they did make the kinds of adjustments
on the cost of their services, they nonetheless probably started
to close locations that weren't producing enough revenue. And so
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they're downsizing, and that's the sign that people like me
were trying to find lower cost alternatives. I'll always look
for a lower cost alternative as long as it means
the same kind of quality standard that I have. So
things are not all that great in River City. But
if you listen to the politicians, if you listen to
the local cuple, they'll tell you about how great the
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economy's going. All you have to just drive around and look,
just pay attention when you're out driving around, or look
at the price of groceries that you're paying and realize
that you know, that means the price of diesel hasn't
come down price and get it. In fact, the Wall
Street General reports yesterday that gas line prices are going up.
We'll get to that later in the program because we
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get an energy secretary that's going to do everything you
can start bringing that down. So anyway, back to the
point that you're going to take advantage of where was
this ninety six twenty four? So you're going to take
advantage of the paid family lead, Well, you should, you
absolutely should. You're paying for it, your cup I don't
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know who you work for in it some material, but
my guess is that your company probably did little, if
anything to combat that ballot measure, probably probably didn't probably
assume that that would never pass.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Remember, we're worse than in California in many ways. So
you get stuff like twelve weeks of paid family leave
that costs a company money and if it's if it's law,
I don't blame you for taking the twelve weeks of
paid family leave. I wouldn't embrace the liberal policies. I
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take advantage of the liberal policies because maybe when your
company has to backfill because now the law says you've
got to get you're entitled to twelve weeks, maybe next
time the owner of your company or the board of directors,
however your company is structured, will pay attention to what's
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going on at Colfax and Broadway and say wait stop.
Maybe they'll reach out to the dumbass governor and say,
you know what, this is not a free state. You're
costing us money. So I say go for it. On
a As another example, seventy four to thirty one, writes Michael,
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good morning. Did you hear the news report this morning?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I did not. Denver Public Schools is filing a restraining
order against the Department of Homeland Security to prevent ICE
agents from going into schools. But they're not going into schools.
I have asked every single teacher that I know of,
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not just my wife but others. Is ice coming into
your school? I can't find a real world example anywhere
where that's happening, particularly in Colorado. But he continues, and
then doctor Morrero, the superintendent DPS, comments that there is
fear in the community because of Ice, And you're right,
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it feels to me like doctor Morero is creating the
fear by going to get a restraining order against something
that is not happening precisely. But that's how they play
the game. Keep that community of illegal aliens or an
ethnic community however you want, wherever. You know, my guess
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is that most naturalized citizens or American born citizens of
an ethnic minority probably support these raids and probably support
the deportation because when you have numbers that show somewhere
of eighty three percent of Americans support the deportation actions
they see going on right now, you can't tell me
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that that excludes all Hispanics, all Mexicans, all Venezuelans that
are here legally. Yeah, I don't think so. You know
what you want to do is you want to create
the fear. Absolutely, you want to create the fear, and
then businesses capitulate to it businesses like even schools go
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out and get a restraining order all for show, and
why do they do that? If I'm not doubting that
this is true, but I have to say, because I
haven't seen the story yet, if that is true that
DPS is going after an injunction or a temporary restraining order,
I guarante an to you that the local news will
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have reporters out in front of East High School or
the Denver Public School building, the school board building somewhere,
and they'll be reporting about, Oh, they had to get
a restraining order today to prevent Ice from going into
the schools, and nobody will ever ask the question, can
you show us or give us an example of where
Ice has been going into school and dragging kids, you know,
(30:56):
dragging them by their little pigtails and hauling their little
butts out of the school. No, you're not going to
find that because it's not happening. That's not the priority.
The priority right now are the trend of Arragua MS thirteen.
Those who have been convicted of crimes, and you don't
have a theory about that. If you've been convicted of crime,
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say murder, and you may not agree with this. But
if you've been convicted of murder and we have you
housed in a state penitentiary somewhere or a federal penitentiary,
well we know where you are. So I think we
ought to put you on one of those planes, and
I think we ought to send you to Gipmo or
to send you back to your home country, because if
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the crossings are down as dramatically as the news is
reporting they're down, it's unlikely you're going to get back
in this country. But as long as you're in this
country sitting in a prison for a murder that you
committed as an illegal alien, I'm tired of paying for you.
I don't want to pay for your health care. I
don't want to pay for your transgender surgery. I don't
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want to pay for you or whatever it is we've
you know, the heating bill for the prison. Get their
asses out of here. It's the situation with Michael Brown.
If you want to send me a Texas three three
one zero three, be sure and fallow. You know this
would be a good day to follow me on X
at Michael Brown, USA. I'll be right back. You can
you can you can just talk to Jesse. The rest
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of the afternoon other morning. So I know that the
family leave thing was a ballid initiative, but my point
still stays the same. How is it that when you
think about all the different chambers of commerce. You've got
the Denver Chamber of Commerce, you got the Colorado State
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what is the Colorado State Commerce and Industry whatever, they
got some fancy name for it. You got the Hispanic
Chamber of Commerce, you got the Greek Chamber of Commerce,
you got the Italian Chamber of Commerce, you got the
you know, the Thornton Chamber of Commerce, you got the
Greenwood Village Chamber of Commedy. You get all these different
little business organizations, and they can't muster up enough money
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to mount an effective campaign against those kinds of initiatives.
And you know why I think they don't. One they're
already stretched then, and so they've got to be careful
where they put their money, and they don't realize that
that's a long term investment for the survivability of their businesses.
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I just find them in this state to be so
afraid because it's a Democrat controlled state, and a lot
of those small business owners are conservative Republicans, and they
just don't want to go up against them, and they
don't want to go up against them. Because when I
refer you may think that I'm trying to be a
smart ass when I refer to the Colorado Legislature as
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the Colorado Pullit Bureau, I'm not. Those people think that
they literally control this state and that and that you
are going to genuflect and bow at the knees of
all of those yahoo's out there because they got elected
by either a plurality or you just took one vote,
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and they got elected and they beat some you know,
because because we tend to nominate, you know, crazy wild
ass Republicans as opposed to level headed Republicans, and so
they control everything. They literally control everything. And I think
that businesses are afraid. They're afraid of police, they're afraid
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of all these yahoo's out there, and they're under Businesses
in this state are under constant attack. You think about
the I've mentioned before, maybe I should do a whole
segment on it at some point, But go to the
Common Sense Institute and look at their stuff. Well, in fact,
I did do a story about the tax burden in
this state, and I think they've also got a study
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up about the regulatory burden on this state. And I
know that if you own the business, you may not
understand just how overregulated this state is. And all those
regulations cost money to comply with. You either have to
hire lawyers, you got to hire an engineer, you got
to hire a consultant, you got to hire accountants, you
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got to hire compliance officers depending on the size of
your building, all so that you can comply with the
regulations that those marks out of the Pulp Bureau put
in place, trying to regulate how you want to run
your business. And what's fascinating to me is while Colorado
continues to go down this hell hole and we see
what it's done to California. At the national level, we
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elected a guy that said, you know what, I've had
enough of this and I'm going to I'm going to
stop it. And he's literally started stopping it. And of course,
what's happening the same thing that would happen here if
we had a doze going on in Colorado. You don't
think that they would start screaming and howling like stuck
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pigs because we're going after there. Oh, we're going after there.
You know there, they're sanctified different kinds of things they
want to do. Of course they would squeal like stuck pigs.
I want to hear them squeal like stunk pigs. If
you haven't, if you haven't followed me on X, you
don't know what the next story is about. If you
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follow me on X, which you should be doing at
Michael Brown, USA, I want to walk you through something
that I did some twenty years ago as the under
Secretary of Homeland Security, but to this day still hasn't
been done. Fortunately,
To night, Michael Brown joins me. Here's a former FAMO
director of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, no, Brownie,
you're doing a heck of a job. The situation with
Michael Brown. You're a pledigal express on six point thirty
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Good Morning, Goober's.
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There's rules of engagement, and if you want to be
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I go since go here got Calm.
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Hey, Sweetie, I didn't catch that.
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I go since go here got Colm.
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Where producer Dragon works his butt off literally to post
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I have a great day, Goober's.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Uh, do you have any talk Bucks? Do you have
any talk Bucks?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Not just yet, but I'll be monitoring them all morning long.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
All right, you may not recognize that voice, but that's
the great Jesse Thomas, who is the executive producer for
the Rockies. And you know, red Beard comes in here
yesterday and I kind of pushing him back because the
first thing he says is, well, the mother in law
and missus Redbeard have the flu. And I'm like, look
(02:11):
at then get out of here, get out of here.
And then I start getting these text messages. Oh, I
don't know. I'm I'm busy doing something like maybe taking
a nap or something, and I start getting these text
messages that says, hey, Michael, Jesse Thomas will produce you
your Thursday and Friday for our sick Dragon. I'm like,
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he's not sick.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I didn't know dragons could get sick.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, I did, exactly. And now he's claiming that, oh
because the white I think until I said, get back
because I don't want to get sick. Did he go, oh,
wait a minute, I could claim to be sick and
have Thursday and Friday off and Monday's a holiday. He says,
I got a Friday vacation coming up.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Right here, set up perfectly by Dragon. Well, not many people.
I love you, Michael, There's not too many people I
would do this far other than Dragon though.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Just well, well, and I totally get that. But then
you realize too, because I hope he's listening. But then
it shows just how stupid Tepper is to fall for
that crap.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I know, I mean, unbelievable, right, I wasn't going to
say anything.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
But chriss Yeah. As I even told Temper, I said, yeah,
Dragon laid the groundwork for being out. I don't buy
it for a minute, but Jesse, is that the best
you can do? Because Jesse hates me and he wondn't
even bring me a McDonald's diet cocha is by the way,
I noticed checks concier.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You better look around pretty good.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, I die cochie from McDonald's way. I mean, what
what'd you do this morning?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Well?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I just kind of rolled in, didn't do anything, didn't you.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I didn't get my rules of engagement for producing this show.
So that's that's my fault.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Of course, Jesse says, I wouldn't say, hey, just find
you a bit disagreeable. You know, there's a there's there's
a there's a fear that I have that at some
point that now, fortunately, these are at least for I
think you and me, these are our personal phones, but
still subject to a subpoena. You bet, but I worry
(04:10):
sometimes that they might corporate might say we'd like to
see mister Brown, mister Redbeard, and mister Thomas's emails because
you know, may not may not be good news for
the two of you anyway, Right, I never say anything
but wonderful things.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I think I'll just turn in my key card before
that that we go through that whole process.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Well, you'll be off doing baseball pretty soon anyway, so
you won't give a right of you don't need a
key card, Devin Theeni. Nope, you don't need a key
You don't even need to get But the only key
cards you need over it, cors is the key card
that they give you. So, yeah, you're you're probably be
in good shape anyway. It's nice to have you in
this morning. See if you still feel that way by tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, tomorrow will be the true test.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah that's right. Yeah, tomorrow, if you even show up,
will be like, there'll be amazing.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
I'll give it seventy thirty. There's a good chance I'll
be here well anyway, walking on the board. So if
we have a few if things don't run as Dragon
normally runs them, it's because we got a baseball guy
running the program today, which quite frankly, as far as
I'm concerned, is fine because that means at some point
between now and ten, we're going to do a seventh
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inning stretch and I'm just going to go out and
wonder off for a while and you can just fill
into whatever you want to do. So last night, I am,
oh god, there's so much I I should.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Have doubled up on the blood pressure medicine this morning.
So you know, I'm doing my typical trying to find,
you know, a short, pithy story that I can do
for sixty seconds for the Michael Brown minute over on Freedom.
And I come across this Colorado Sun's story and I
want to bring that to you. And then at the
same time that I'm running across this, there's something going
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on on television at home while I'm doing the show prep,
and it's something about Doge and what Musk is doing,
and you know, and I'm I'm listening to all of
it and bingo something in my stupid little you know,
diet coke addled ADHD brain says, wait a minute, Remember
(06:14):
that time you got called by the General Services Administration
GSA to make a little field trip and you made
a field trip in DC. Well, we're going to talk
about that field trip because that field trip was probably
I'm guessing twenty to twenty two years ago and they
still haven't done anything. Yes, we're gonna talk about that too.
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And how's that for a tease. Here's the Colorado Sun story. Now,
I know that many of you already think that I'm
an a hole, and once I finish this story, you're
going to be confirmed. You will also believe that I'm
an a hole. But here's the thing. When I finished
this story, you will be an a hole too, because
I doubt that there's anybody And if if you do
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disagree with the point that I'll make in this story,
it's either because you are one of the individuals of
whom I am speaking about, or you have a relative.
Maybe it's your husband, your wife, your girlfriend, your boyfriend,
maybe it's your dog setter, I mean, whoever it might be.
But I can't imagine that if you're out on the
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seventy or the twenty five or the two two five
right now and you're you know, kind of ludging your
way to work so that you can go hope that
your key card works this morning, or you're already making deliveries.
You know, when I stopped at the circle K to
get my diet coke this morning. Uh, you know, there
was some guy that was uh, bless his heart, the
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the guy that manages the circle K finally said, you know,
you can prop that door open. It's okay with me
if you promped the door open. But he was trying
to haul in, you know, cases of beer or whatever
he was trying to do. And I thought, I don't
know whether that's a good job or a bad job
to have. I mean, you, I don't know if somebody
else loads the box truck for him, or he loads
and unloads the box truck. I don't know. But I
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looked at it and said, that's probably more physical labor
than I want to do. But then there are also
Now it's early, so they probably haven't left yet. But
somewhere around say eight twelve, two hours from now, some
of the people I'm about to talk about will start
making their way to their offices somewhere near let's just
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say the vicinity of Coal Facts and Broadway Coal Facts
and Grant somewhere in that area downtown. They'll start making
their way to that part of town or to other
places all across the fruited plane of the Great State
of Colorado. And then they'll sit down their desks and
they'll start regulating their lot your lives and they'll start,
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you know, going over your tax returns, and they'll start
doing this or that. They'll start denying building permits or
whatever they might be. Who knows what they'll be doing,
but they'll be out there to make your life Miserable's
here's the headline on the Colorado Sun, Colorado budget crisis.
Well let's just stop right there. We only get through
the first three words of a ten word headline, Colorado
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budget crisis. Did you know we have a Colorado? Did
you waly have a budget crisis in Colorado? Now? I
know you just maybe you just renewed your plates and
you paid all of those taxes, I mean fees. You
paid all of those fees. You know. I had to
renew my U because I can't do the stupid whatever
it is where you do it online for your parks pass.
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Because my plate was due on the jeep was due
in January, so I had to go ahead and renew
my annual parks pass. So then think about this. This
is so stupid. So why can't I just go online
and buy the twenty nine dollars whatever they call that
stupid fee that park pass now. But you can't do that,
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do you have to wait until you renew your your
life your plates? So instead I have to I have
to buy the new parks pass online, which I do,
which is like by the time I had everything up,
it was like close to one hundred bucks versus the
twenty nine dollars. But then I get a notice that says, oh,
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you'll be able to get your pass, but it may
take up to thirty days or more to process it.
Now I got it in less than thirty days, so
you know, hallelujah, congratulations. You know, good for them. But
think about the stupidity of why can't I just go
ahead and buy the twenty nine dollars one right now
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online and tie it to the license plate that I
have on the jeep so that I don't have to
because now I have to apply for a refund, a
refund of the difference, you know, if I if I
think the plates are doing April on the jeep. So
if they're doing April, so I have to get, you know,
a refund minus the four months that I use the
regular pass. But that gives that gives that Colorado State
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employee something to do. They got the issue of the past,
and then they'll get to refund the past. So, you
know what, I am doing everything I can to keep
all of these Colorado bureaucrafts fully employed. Back to the headline,
Colorado budget crisis in perils state worker raises threatening to
break union contract. Now that's one of those things where
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you read a headline and you think to yourself, hmm,
you know, if you look for the good in something,
huh did this is both good and bad? It in
peril state worker raises. Now, I know, compared to the
rais you got, their raise won't be that much because
I know all of you got like like right here,
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you know, I just signed a new contract or in
the process of signing a new contract. By the way,
where is that? Why? Why why have you gotten that
back yet? And I jesson, you know I got one
hundred percent raise.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
That's out standing.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Isn't that amazing? Uh? Huh. They don't tell anybody else
in the building that, right, because I don't think anybody
in the building got one hundred percent raise.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah. And the only reason I think I got one
hundred percent raise is because I'm dyslexic, and so I
flipped the numbers, and so I thought, oh, wow, that's
pretty good strong.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I'm happy for you.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, I'm sure. I seriously doubt that because I kind
of know probably what kind of rais you got to
say raised that we all got, which was yeah, uh,
the sun story continues. If the Joint Budget Committee and
the rest of the state legislature don't fund the raises,
it would force the union back to the bargaining table.
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And I'm like, where's the downside to this? What's the downside?
Let's get into the Let's get into the meat of
this story, because everybody's going along. Remember Jared Polis where
the Freedom State. Jared Polis says, you know, we've got
that stupid government agency, you know, the Office to Save
taxpayers money. We've got that, you know, in which we
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pay the lieutenant governor to not only be the lieutenant
governor at ninety three thousand dollars a year, but then polists,
you know, to pay office cronies, pays the lieutenant governor
also to run the office to save taxpayers money. Now
you think I'm joking, but I tell you that we
have an office like that. But we really have an
office that is named exactly office to save taxpayers money,
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or something very similar to that. If the Joint Budget Committee,
to some reports and the rest of the legislature doesn't
approve the raises, it would send the state into unchartered territory,
breaking a contract with the union for the first time
since the legislature granted collective barning rights to its public
sector workforce in twenty twenty. Well, I didn't take long
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four years. By the way, have you ever thought about
what you do when you negotiate with state employees. State
employees are by and large Democrats, and then you've got
the teacher unions, and the teacher unions find some teacher
or some administrator somewhere that's close to retirement, and they say, hey, listen,
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why don't you go ahead and retire early. We'll raise
you a boatload of money, and we'll elect you to
the state legislature. You can become a member, you can
become one of the Marxists out of the Colorado Poloit Bureau,
and you can you can then negotiate with us. Won't
it be great? So the teacher unions and the public
employee unions are essentially negotiating with themselves, because it's all
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it's a it's a Democrat run state. The Democrats are
all run by the unions that run the unions, and
so then all the employees are predominantly Democrats. So they're
all just negotiating with themselves. I don't know why iHeart
doesn't let me negotiate with myself. I would be absolutely
you know what I would do. I would pay myself
what I think I'm worth. Yeah, now that might bankrupt
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the company, but nonetheless, I'd pay myself what I think
i'm working. Officials say that that would force Colorado wins
By to the bargaining table with the police administration to
renegotiate a deal. The two sides just agreed to just
back in September next year, next budget year. Employees across
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the board are owed. I just like the worthing. I
didn't think anybody was owed anything. I recognize that despite
the fact that I might have a contract, that if
I Heart decides they don't like me, they can terminate
my contract. Oh, I'll give some benefits from that, but
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you know, so there's some cost to terminating contract. But
you know, at some point they'll probably decide Hey, we
don't really like you after all, and you know, boom,
and I'm out of here. A lot of people don't
even have the benefit that I have of having a contract.
Most people in this state are at will employees. You
can be fire, you can be fired for any reason
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or for no reason. Yeah, but no Caloros State employees.
I've got a contract. So state granted them the right
to collect the legislature to collective bargain. So the Democrats
are negotiating with the Democrats. You know, Goeta love Colorado. Anyway,
they're getting a two percent raise from now. This is
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just the minimum sixteen fifty five an hour, from sixteen
to twenty two an hour. All told, the contractual pay
increase would cost the state General Fund about sixty million
dollars next year. So two percent, do you know. I'm
not gonna ask Jesse to do it, but we don't
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have dragging the numbers guy here. But I want you
to think about going from sixteen dollars and twenty two
cents an hour to sixteen dollars and fifty five cents
an hour to approximately two percent is going to cost
you and me an additional sixty million dollars next year.
According to the Joint Budget Committee documents, every one percentage
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point cut to what the state spends on worker pay,
either by eliminating a position or skipping the raises, would
say the general fund about seventeen million dollars, the JBC
staff told the committee back in January. But that's a
drop in the bucket relative to what these Marxists need
to cut to balance next year's budget. They need to
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make about a billion dollars in cuts to keep spending
growth in line with the taxpayer bill rights revenue cap.
If you've ever questioned, ever at all, question the legitimacy,
the goodness, the benefit that Tabor has had on this state,
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let me read you that again. JBC Joint Budget Committee
members figure they need to make about one billion dollars
in cuts to keep spending growth, in other words, spending
growth by the state government in line with the taxpayer
bill Wrights revenue cap, which is growing more slowly than
major cost drivers like medicaid. The races negotiated by the
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union are not set in stone. While the administration negotiates
the labor agreement, the legislature ultimately has final say over
whether the state funds it, and in recent hearings, Joint
Budget Committee members have considered making cuts that would nullify
the agreement. Literally everything is on the table, according to
the chair of the Joint Budget Committee of Yahoo by
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the name of Jeff Bridges from Greenwood Village, obviously a Democrat,
ideas have been like, you know, limiting raises, but they
don't really know what to do. The rest of the
legislature tends to defer to the Budget Panel on big decisions,
but the labor movement's allies in the politbureau had been
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itching for a fight ever since the governor vetoed some
of their priorities last year. Notably, police Is recommended the
contractual raises in his annual budget request. Here's what the
bottom line. The bottom line is really quite simple. In
this Colorado State government employees might lose their jobs, they
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might face a pay cut, they might face no increase
in their wages, and they might face some cuts to
their benefits, to which I say, calls somebody that cares,
because I truly do not. I don't. I would say
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to every state worker, welcome to the real world, Welcome
to the private sector. Welcome to the world where you
have to produce, where you have to show a benefit
to the company, where you have to show a benefit
to the taxpayers. This is what's going on with dose
those is looking at all these things going on and saying,
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wait a minute, what are we getting for this? What's
the ROI? What's the return on investment? Of course, as
the Sun Report reports, for state workers, it's not time
to panic just yet, because the Joint Budget Committee tends
to put off the big decisions, including worker pay, until
after the March revenue forecast come in. In other words,
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let's wait and see just how much all these dumbass
workers out here that are you know, pushing themselves to
go to work today at a job they may not like,
or a boss and they don't like that, you know,
they're they're gonna have to go deal with that. But hey,
if you're if you're a government worker, don't worry about it.
Don't figure out a way to do it, because we
don't want you to have to face the real world.
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Like you know, Michael and Jesse do uh A couple
of text messages though, before I get to this story
about this fiasco in DC. UH good bit every ninety
six twenty four rights Mike, I'm not for all these
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Colorado liberal policies. I didn't vote for paid family leave,
but since it's being taken out of my paycheck and
I qualified because my wife and I had a new baby, boy, congratulations.
I'm planning on taking the full twelve weeks paid and
embracing these liberal policies. Everyone should, and you know why
because it's because of the week need Denver and Colorado
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State Chambers of Commerce. It's because of weak need business
leaders that don't have the cajones to stand up to
the Marxist out of the polit bureau that we end
up with policies like this. Now, I know you can
throw right back at me. Well, you know, they put
together some campaigns and they campaign against these kinds of initiatives,
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and they do all of that. But here's the deal.
They don't really want to cross them. Despite the fact
that it's going to cost companies money, which means it's
going to cost you money, and then that means it's
going to cost the consumers of their goods and services money.
They don't stand up and fight this. They it's almost
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as if they're scared because Democrats control the state, that
they're scared to stand up and say, no, this is
not good for business. I know that everybody keeps telling
us that. Look. Wall Street Journal yesterday breaks with the
consumer price index is up three percent, higher than expected,
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well higher than expect for those who aren't paying attention.
But if you pay attention, the consumer price index has
been increasing since December. It's been a steady increase over
the past two or three months. And the next thing
you're going to hear is, Oh, it's all Donald Trump's fault. Fault.
He was going to stop inflation on day one. That's
(22:56):
why I tell you, don't take Trump literally take Trump seriously.
Did anyone ever believe when Donald Trump said, hey, I'm
going to bring prices down on day one, that he
meant I'm going to, like the price of eggs, despite
the lack of chickens out there that are even laying eggs,
(23:18):
that he's somehow going to just magically, you know, increase
the production of eggs and the price of eggs are
going to come down. No, what he meant was that, literally,
that's my number one job. I'm going to start working
on that on day one. He's going to work to
bring down prices. So I say all of that because
(23:41):
everybody thinks that the economy is so wonderful. It's not wonderful.
I could give you example after example after example of companies,
small businesses. You know, I made the comment, I don't
remember what, whether it was this show or the syndicated program,
that Tamurai gone someplace to have dinner. And if you watch,
(24:04):
if you really look at vacant office buildings around the place,
around around the front range, you realize, oh, you know,
at one time that was that strip mall was completely full.
There were cars parked there, there were lots of people
going in and out. And look what's replaced it. If
(24:25):
anything's replaced it, it's some you know, it's some Takaia
or something, and it's it's not like a genuine boutique
or retail place that the average Colorado would go, or
more likely than not, it's vacant and it's got a
big ass ferent sign on it. I noticed that. Just
went into the grocery store the other day. I went
(24:46):
to Safe Way. I'm sorry, I went to King Supers.
Don't tell anybody that I actually went to King Supers.
You know why, because it's convenient. I'm not gonna let
their strike inconvenience me, And I know I've got a
listener that's gonna send me a really nasty text mess
in a minute about I cannot believe that you crossed
the picket line. Well, my convenience is more important than
what they're fighting for, and what they're fighting for is
(25:10):
is ultimately going to cost me more money. So as
I was going into King Soupers, I noticed, wait a minute,
I used to go into that store all the time,
and it has a for lease sign on it. Now
another example of a business. I'm not gonna tell you
which one it is. If I told you the name
of you go, oh, well, they're all over the place. Yeah,
(25:32):
they're downsizing now, I think partly because I think they
had kind of priced themselves out of the market a
little bit, but they didn't make the kinds of adjustments.
And even if they did make the kinds of adjustments
on the cost of their services, they nonetheless probably started
to close locations that weren't producing enough revenue. And so
(25:55):
they're downsizing, and that's the sign that people like me
were trying to find lower cost alternatives. I'll always look
for a lower cost alternative as long as it means
the same kind of quality standard that I have. So
things are not all that great in River City. But
if you listen to the politicians, if you listen to
the local cuple, they'll tell you about how great the
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economy's going. All you have to just drive around and look,
just pay attention when you're out driving around, or look
at the price of groceries that you're paying and realize
that you know, that means the price of diesel hasn't
come down price and get it. In fact, the Wall
Street General reports yesterday that gas line prices are going up.
We'll get to that later in the program because we
(26:36):
get an energy secretary that's going to do everything you
can start bringing that down. So anyway, back to the
point that you're going to take advantage of where was
this ninety six twenty four? So you're going to take
advantage of the paid family lead, Well, you should, you
absolutely should. You're paying for it, your cup I don't
(26:58):
know who you work for in it some material, but
my guess is that your company probably did little, if
anything to combat that ballot measure, probably probably didn't probably
assume that that would never pass.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Remember, we're worse than in California in many ways. So
you get stuff like twelve weeks of paid family leave
that costs a company money and if it's if it's law,
I don't blame you for taking the twelve weeks of
paid family leave. I wouldn't embrace the liberal policies. I
(27:37):
take advantage of the liberal policies because maybe when your
company has to backfill because now the law says you've
got to get you're entitled to twelve weeks, maybe next
time the owner of your company or the board of directors,
however your company is structured, will pay attention to what's
(27:57):
going on at Colfax and Broadway and say wait stop.
Maybe they'll reach out to the dumbass governor and say,
you know what, this is not a free state. You're
costing us money. So I say go for it. On
a As another example, seventy four to thirty one, writes Michael,
(28:20):
good morning. Did you hear the news report this morning?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I did not. Denver Public Schools is filing a restraining
order against the Department of Homeland Security to prevent ICE
agents from going into schools. But they're not going into schools.
I have asked every single teacher that I know of,
(28:44):
not just my wife but others. Is ice coming into
your school? I can't find a real world example anywhere
where that's happening, particularly in Colorado. But he continues, and
then doctor Morrero, the superintendent DPS, comments that there is
fear in the community because of Ice, And you're right,
(29:08):
it feels to me like doctor Morero is creating the
fear by going to get a restraining order against something
that is not happening precisely. But that's how they play
the game. Keep that community of illegal aliens or an
ethnic community however you want, wherever. You know, my guess
(29:30):
is that most naturalized citizens or American born citizens of
an ethnic minority probably support these raids and probably support
the deportation because when you have numbers that show somewhere
of eighty three percent of Americans support the deportation actions
they see going on right now, you can't tell me
(29:52):
that that excludes all Hispanics, all Mexicans, all Venezuelans that
are here legally. Yeah, I don't think so. You know
what you want to do is you want to create
the fear. Absolutely, you want to create the fear, and
then businesses capitulate to it businesses like even schools go
(30:13):
out and get a restraining order all for show, and
why do they do that? If I'm not doubting that
this is true, but I have to say, because I
haven't seen the story yet, if that is true that
DPS is going after an injunction or a temporary restraining order,
I guarante an to you that the local news will
(30:35):
have reporters out in front of East High School or
the Denver Public School building, the school board building somewhere,
and they'll be reporting about, Oh, they had to get
a restraining order today to prevent Ice from going into
the schools, and nobody will ever ask the question, can
you show us or give us an example of where
Ice has been going into school and dragging kids, you know,
(30:56):
dragging them by their little pigtails and hauling their little
butts out of the school. No, you're not going to
find that because it's not happening. That's not the priority.
The priority right now are the trend of Arragua MS thirteen.
Those who have been convicted of crimes, and you don't
have a theory about that. If you've been convicted of crime,
(31:16):
say murder, and you may not agree with this. But
if you've been convicted of murder and we have you
housed in a state penitentiary somewhere or a federal penitentiary,
well we know where you are. So I think we
ought to put you on one of those planes, and
I think we ought to send you to Gipmo or
to send you back to your home country, because if
(31:39):
the crossings are down as dramatically as the news is
reporting they're down, it's unlikely you're going to get back
in this country. But as long as you're in this
country sitting in a prison for a murder that you
committed as an illegal alien, I'm tired of paying for you.
I don't want to pay for your health care. I
don't want to pay for your transgender surgery. I don't
(32:00):
want to pay for you or whatever it is we've
you know, the heating bill for the prison. Get their
asses out of here. It's the situation with Michael Brown.
If you want to send me a Texas three three
one zero three, be sure and fallow. You know this
would be a good day to follow me on X
at Michael Brown, USA. I'll be right back. You can
you can you can just talk to Jesse. The rest
(32:20):
of the afternoon other morning. So I know that the
family leave thing was a ballid initiative, but my point
still stays the same. How is it that when you
think about all the different chambers of commerce. You've got
the Denver Chamber of Commerce, you got the Colorado State
(32:42):
what is the Colorado State Commerce and Industry whatever, they
got some fancy name for it. You got the Hispanic
Chamber of Commerce, you got the Greek Chamber of Commerce,
you got the Italian Chamber of Commerce, you got the
you know, the Thornton Chamber of Commerce, you got the
Greenwood Village Chamber of Commedy. You get all these different
little business organizations, and they can't muster up enough money
(33:07):
to mount an effective campaign against those kinds of initiatives.
And you know why I think they don't. One they're
already stretched then, and so they've got to be careful
where they put their money, and they don't realize that
that's a long term investment for the survivability of their businesses.
(33:29):
I just find them in this state to be so
afraid because it's a Democrat controlled state, and a lot
of those small business owners are conservative Republicans, and they
just don't want to go up against them, and they
don't want to go up against them. Because when I
refer you may think that I'm trying to be a
smart ass when I refer to the Colorado Legislature as
(33:50):
the Colorado Pullit Bureau, I'm not. Those people think that
they literally control this state and that and that you
are going to genuflect and bow at the knees of
all of those yahoo's out there because they got elected
by either a plurality or you just took one vote,
(34:12):
and they got elected and they beat some you know,
because because we tend to nominate, you know, crazy wild
ass Republicans as opposed to level headed Republicans, and so
they control everything. They literally control everything. And I think
that businesses are afraid. They're afraid of police, they're afraid
(34:33):
of all these yahoo's out there, and they're under Businesses
in this state are under constant attack. You think about
the I've mentioned before, maybe I should do a whole
segment on it at some point, But go to the
Common Sense Institute and look at their stuff. Well, in fact,
I did do a story about the tax burden in
this state, and I think they've also got a study
(34:54):
up about the regulatory burden on this state. And I
know that if you own the business, you may not
understand just how overregulated this state is. And all those
regulations cost money to comply with. You either have to
hire lawyers, you got to hire an engineer, you got
to hire a consultant, you got to hire accountants, you
(35:15):
got to hire compliance officers depending on the size of
your building, all so that you can comply with the
regulations that those marks out of the Pulp Bureau put
in place, trying to regulate how you want to run
your business. And what's fascinating to me is while Colorado
continues to go down this hell hole and we see
what it's done to California. At the national level, we
(35:39):
elected a guy that said, you know what, I've had
enough of this and I'm going to I'm going to
stop it. And he's literally started stopping it. And of course,
what's happening the same thing that would happen here if
we had a doze going on in Colorado. You don't
think that they would start screaming and howling like stuck
(36:01):
pigs because we're going after there. Oh, we're going after there.
You know there, they're sanctified different kinds of things they
want to do. Of course they would squeal like stuck pigs.
I want to hear them squeal like stunk pigs. If
you haven't, if you haven't followed me on X, you
don't know what the next story is about. If you
(36:23):
follow me on X, which you should be doing at
Michael Brown, USA, I want to walk you through something
that I did some twenty years ago as the under
Secretary of Homeland Security, but to this day still hasn't
been done. Fortunately,
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