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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Like, correct me if I'm wrong. But if Indian and
Pakistan knew each other or a whole ocean away, would
that even touch America?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
You mean with the fallout? Touch America depends on how
much they explode and what the prevailing winds are.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Could or could not?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And by America, do you mean the lower forty eight
or do you mean Alaska and Hawaii. I don't know,
but it would touch us in another way. It could
be an arch Ferdinand moment that starts World War three,
depending what China and Russia do. Russia seems to be
a little distracted in the Ukraine right now. Speaking of which,
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do you know who was in the news yesterday? Joe
Biden decided to do an interview and he did it
with the BBC, and it was pretty bad.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I do fear a little bit, and I don't think
it's been forgotten by the people. I think it's been
forgotten by the leadership a little bit. My father and
mother's generation knew what was his stake. They knew that
that democracy was literally hanging in the balance. You know,
the United States has never been able to avoid a
war in Europe, and so one of the smartest things
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we did after World War Two was we formed METO
because alliances provide security.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Can you imagine it now?
Speaker 6 (01:35):
Because there are some people who feared that this Atlantic
alldce born in the Second World War is now dying
before our very eyes.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Is that your concern, It's a great concern. I think
it would change the modern history in the world if
that occurs.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Look, we are not the essential nation, but we're nation
and position to have the capacity to bring people together
lead the world. And otherwise they're gonna have China and the.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Former Soviet Union Russia stepping up.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Natle's falling apart, not because of US, but because Europe
has decided to uh destroy their defense industry. They decided
to go all in on the Green New Deal, green
green energy, renewables, and so they they changed all their priorities.
(02:43):
It's it's not our fault.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Uh What about the race you have withdrawn earlier giving
someone else up to a child?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
I don't I don't think it would have mattered.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
We left in a time when we were we had
a good candidate, she fully funded.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
And what happened was.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I had become what we had set out to do.
No one thought we could do, and I become so
successful our agenda, it was hard to.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Say now, I'm going to stop now.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I mean when I said when I started that, I
think it's I'm prepared to hand this to the next generation.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
It's a transition government.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
But things moved so quickly that it made it difficult
to walk away.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Oh, I'm want to play one more and then I
want to see where I can find where did that go?
I want to play one more, and then I want
to go to see here it is till the president.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
But Ary Beckett already started.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
This is breathing is out of control right now, it
can barely complet at the sentence.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
He's stumbling there.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
And I do think to his credit, there was a
plan to pass the torch. That he said he was
just going to be a transitional president. But they realized
that Kamala Harris couldn't win, which is why he wasn't
going to endorse her and pass the torch at first.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
I don't Lawrence, if he was going to pass the torch,
there would have been a primary and a vice president
like George H. W. Bush. Even though Reagan was successful,
he had to go earn the nominations. No one anointed
him and he, by the way, says I meant when
I said when I started, I'm prepared to hand this
to the next generation.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
But things move so quickly. What are you kidding me?
You worked an hour a day.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
You had plenty of time to reflect and say, this
is the perfect moment to get out and to finish
off in four years and try to end up on
a high note and let this thing fight out.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Also does it say, does.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
He think about Kamala Harris? If I gave her more time,
she had plenty of money, she still wouldn't have won.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Yeah, is that what she say?
Speaker 9 (04:50):
Well, he about out after that debate.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
That's what happened.
Speaker 9 (04:54):
It wasn't time was moving faster.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So true.
Speaker 9 (04:56):
He did such a terrible job on June twenty seventh,
and then he bowled out about a month later. In
July twenty first, Kamala had one hundred and six days
to campaign and eventually lost to Donald Trump. She raised
one billion dollars during that period, so not only did
she get the other money, she also raised another billion
dollars and she still lost. She became the first Democratic
presidential candidate in twenty years to lose the popular vote
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and the electoral vote pretty amazing.
Speaker 8 (05:22):
Elsie was very critical of President Trump. He says he's
appeasing Vladimir Putin. He said, you got to you know,
you cannot just allow him just to get land.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well, what did you do that allowed it to happen?
Speaker 8 (05:34):
Sixteen's got a sixteens, No Himar's got Heeimar's no attackers,
got attackers. Davis p stopped everybody else from bringing in
more weapons to make them successful.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
So just bleed him out.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
That was his policy.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Any people would argue that when he said, what do
you say a minor incursion? At first didn't allow a
minor and then that's when putting the text. So I
don't think he should be trying to quarterback now out loud.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
He was going to fall with three days and off
from a ride out and let's kick Famesley said, I
need weapons. I don't need a So he is he's
the last person to talk about to.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
So what'd you say, dragon?
Speaker 10 (06:08):
You got to play some contrast with Biden's interview right
there with Jenny interview with Trump.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I think it's even worse than that. Yeah, I mean
Trump goes out and just goes at it and goes
at it and goes at it. But it's not even
just Trump's ability to articulate and speak for thirty minutes,
three hours whatever it is. It's not just that, it's
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how often he doesn't, right, it's every single day, Yeah,
every single day. And the guy leaves office, and it's
more than one hundred days since he left office, and
we finally hear from him, and he runs over to
the BBC to do it, and then somehow says that
it's our fault that NATO's falling apart.
Speaker 10 (07:00):
And he sounds like a ninety two year old smoker
who's on oxygen, Like my grandfather before he passed. It's
like you.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Sound dare and it's not.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
And that just reminded me of something else when you
talked about your grandfather. It's it's not just that Trump
is able to do it more often and articulate. But
I listened to Warren Buffett recently, who's ninety five years old,
just now stepping down as the chairman of Berkshire. Hath
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the way, who's what he's the world. He's in the
top five of the world's richest men, and he is articulate,
he is he's full on his game, which just shows
that it has nothing to do with your chronological age.
It has to do with your mental and biological age.
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Can you imagine, So we've got Indian Pakistan goling on
right now. Can you imagine Anthony Blincoln out there trying
to figure out how to deal with Pakistan India gang.
We dodged, We dodged a bullet. We dodged one hell
of a bullet. Anyway, they just popped up, and I thought, oh,
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that's kind of interesting because really, compared to like Warren
Buffett or anybody else that hell's bills, my mom speaks
better than that.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
She's ninety four years old.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Good grief, So you know the statue delivered to give
me you're tired, you're poor, Well, apparently give us your
illegal child rapist too, you yarning to escape justice. Cape Cod,
a licensed home daycare on Cape Cod, has closed its
doors following the arrests of a convicted child rapist who
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had been staying there. A convicted child rapist staying at
a licensed home daycare on Cape Cod. The closure of
the family daycare, owned by Francis ol Nuniez and Hyannas
comes after twenty five investigates at the local station began
looking into the presence of Andre Thiago Lucas, who's reported
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the father of Nunez's two children. According to Ice, Thiago Lucas,
a Brazilian national fled to Massachusetts who evade a nine
year prison sentence in his home stay Aminis Jiros for
the rape of.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
A thirteen year old girl.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
The Massachusetts Department of Early Education in Childcare had inspected
this place five times that was unaware the child rapists
was living there. So maybe if you didn't understand why,
maybe now you can understand why foreign criminals come to
this country when they want to evade punishment. Now, the
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Education Department mandates background checks for all individuals residing in
or regularly visiting home daycares who are fifteen years of
age or older, and those checks, under current regulations, do
not extend to criminal history records outside the US. In
addition to that, immigration status is not a factor considered
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during the background checks, So that gap in the screening
in Massachusetts means that even if Nunez had disclosed Thiago
Lucas's presence, his conviction in Brazil would not have been
flagged by the state's current vetting procedure. So I hope
you understand that we can see that invading the country
is a crime that needs to be taken seriously, and
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these people ought to be removed. In fact, I would
argue this, and some lawyers may disagree with me. He's
a convicted criminal. Our current Immigration and Naturalization Act, forget
the nineteen ninety six Act that I talked about. But
the current Act does not permit a criminal to enter
the States legally or really, you just can't do it. Plus,
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he's been convicted in Brazil. He ran away from Brazil.
He's already convicted criminals. Guess what, He's already gotten his
due process. So and and the law prohibits him from
getting a visa or entering the United Remember John Lennon
Hill's Bells. John Lennon couldn't get a visa to come
to the United States for years because Nixon or whoever
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it was, was prohibiting him from getting a visa because
he'd been convicted of smoking marrow or possession of marijuana.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
In the UK.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
But we we just let him in. No, it's absolutely absurd.
Speaking of due process. The little tyrant Letitia James is well,
she's known for throwing tantrums. This past Saturday, she became
unhinged at a rally of All Places Al Sharpton's National
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Action Network as they were having a meeting in Harlem.
She took aim mainly at efforts by the Trump administration
in trying to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse, particularly in
the Department of Health Human Services, a department that James
referred to on at least one occasion as the Health
and Hospitals Association, Health and Human Services, Health and Hospitals Association.
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I think when you're throwing a tantrum sometimes, I mean,
you know me, when I get wound up, sometimes I
become dyslexic. I'm not dyslexic, but I tend to, you know,
scramble my words a little bit. I think that's how
much of a tantrum she was showing. She said, instead,
she's going to sue the federal government, including Bobby Kennedy Jr.
Whom she called the guy with a worm.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
In his head.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Now, I don't think it's any surprise that James isn't
a really foul mood. The Federal Housing Finance Authority has
now accused her old News, but has accused her of
repeatedly mortgage fraud. Where's that case? Can somebody tell me
where that is? Procedurally? Have we started discovery? Have we
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had a status conference yet?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Do we know?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Are we going through motions? There has there been a
motion for summary judgment or motion to dismiss yet?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
She's been referred to the Department of Justice DJ for
criminal investigation. Now, somebody could just light a fire under
Pam Bondi. It might turn out that indeed nobody is
above the law. She made veiled reference to those allegations
in the speech at the National Action Network. Now, I
want you to hear this, and near the end of it,
it's about thirty seconds long. Near the end of it,
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the Reverend al jumps to his feet and, man, do
we have some preaching going on here?
Speaker 11 (13:47):
And you want me to sit in my seat and
stand idi le by and allow this craziness to happen.
You could come after me if you want. But you
elected me to stand up. You elected me to use
the law. You elected me to go to cart You
elected me to continue to challenge this administration. You elected
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me to stand up for the least of godchildren. You
elected me to continue flying on, and I will fight on.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Okay, all right, you know, as long as we're as
longs we're talking about people like Latitia James, Texas Governor
Abbott isn't the only person bound to a wheelchair. Who ever,
more prominent Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett seems to hold in contempt.
She has been blasted on social media for jumping ahead
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of two passengers and wheelchairs while she was trying to
get a flight out of Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport. House
Republican conference woman Lisa McLean, She's a Republican from Michigan,
posted pictures of Crockett boarding her flight ahead of the
wheelchair can find passengers and highlighted the security that flanked
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the outspoken Democrat. I want to know who's paying for
her security. I hope it's her campaign, because taxpayers have
no reason to be paying for security for and I
mean this with all due disrespect, a mere congressman.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
That's all she is.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Now. Her hood rat persana might be fake, but her
general obnoxiousness is pretty real. Uh well, I'm here with
the detail and I'm going to get ahead of everybody else,
will though, those little people in the wheelchair they can wait. Yeah,
they can just wait. Maybe you've got a security detail.
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You can just wait and get on the plane ever
you want to. It's really crazy. Did you know the
Washington Post got a poolater, they got a pulaterer for
covering the Trump assassination? Yes, of course, Sixty Minutes got
an Emmy for editing that interview with Kamala Harris. But
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do you remember the story that the Washington Post put up.
It described the attempted assassination of Donald Trump as loud
noises at a rally, and that's what they got the
pulletser for. In fact, on the page that day, the
big headline, it's got the in fact, the photographer won
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a Pulitzer for the photograph. But I think that was
a New York Times photographer. But they had a picture
of Trump with the fish in the air, but the
headline was Trump taken away after loud noises.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
At a rally.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Oh, that's all that occurred, and you got a pulitzer
for that.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
I think pooblats.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Maybe poopy Michael.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I'm curious.
Speaker 12 (16:56):
The ACLU seems to always pop up in situation where
the worst of the worst of the worst are being
defended by them. Can you maybe shed some light on
where the ACLU has emerged from over the years, because
for as long as I can remember, they've always sort
of been scorn in my family as setting up for
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utter dirt.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Bags, because they shifted in the mid late seventies from
an institution that was primarily focused regardless or just irritate myself,
irregardless regardless of who the plaintiff was, of representing anyone
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whose civil rights were violated. So that's why you have
the Skokie, Illinois case where they actually defended the Nazis
right to peacefulle protests with the permit from the city
of Skokie to march and spew their anti semitic bull craft.
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And then they started shifting, and the shift became now
the plaintiffs have to be of a preferred pigmentation, or
a preferred religion, or of a preferred political party, and
so it was no longer about for example, they would
never I definitely would ever come and defend my civil rights.
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I would have to obviously depend upon some other well
myself or some you know, civil rights organization that represents conservatives.
So they've just fallen into the trap of believing that
civil rights are only for particular people or particular organizations
and not for all of us. And so now that
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so when they made that change, they started needing more money,
and so that reinforces that narrative and that belief, and
then that reinforces the very people that run the national organization.
So that's what they represent. They've totally lost their way.
In my opinion, there was a time in my life
where I thought the ACLU was a wonderful organization, that
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they were actually supporters and defenders of the playing meeting
of the Constitution. They would have defended a Second Amendment case.
They would never go near a Second Amendment case today,
regardless of its legitimacy.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
So I want to talk.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
About air traffic control for a moment. If you were
listening at the very beginning of the program, I spelled
out all of the things wrong or bad about Colorado
test scores, everything. But what does that have to do
with the FAA our air traffic control?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
You know?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
So driving in this morning once again, the top of
the hour news story was about.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Newark and how and they were playing the.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Audio which I don't I don't have, but the audio
was basically of an air traffic controller. So ATC is
talking to some commercial airliner and they're trying to give instructions,
and the airline is asking for information, and the controller
ATC finally says something to the effect look, buddy, you
got to understand I have no idea where you are.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I can't see you.
Speaker 12 (20:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
That lasted only about I think that was somewhere between
sixty and ninety seconds. As I said yesterday, imagine driving
down I twenty five sanms rush hour and you're doing
eighty five miles an hour and your eyes are closed
for ninety seconds, or like Dragon pointed out, hold your
breath for ninety seconds. Now, imagine you're you're on a
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You're on one of the new Airbus three eighties, largest
airliner in the world, and pilots are flying blind for
ninety seconds.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
So so many issues. Well, before I go through the issues,
let me just say the issues that the air traffic
control system faces is bipartisan. Every president has ignored it,
Republican and Democrat alike. And it's proof of my theory
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that we have screwed up priorities. We spend money on
the wrong things. I'm not saying that we should not
spend money on education. But the education that we purchase
with our tax dollars, which is what we do, should
come from local taxpayers to support local school districts. Or
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if you want to take it out just one step,
Colorado taxpayers should pay for education in Colorado. And obviously,
if you listen to those numbers that I gave about
the assessments, we're not getting our money's worth. So in
Colorado we're spending money on the wrong things. Even though
we spend an outrageous amount per student, we're spending it
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on the wrong things. We should be spending money on education,
on pupils.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
On students.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
So whatever the number is, let's just pick a number
of our abut one thousand dollars per student. Well, that's
student ought to get the thousand dollars, and that student,
you know we'll be able to. We should be funding
students and not schools, and then let schools compete for
the students based on their academic programs, their curriculum, everything else,
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so that the cream rises to the top and a
free market will drive higher or I don't mean higher
on the higher education, higher standards, higher outcomes in education
because we know that it does not Linda and Mann,
the current Secretary of Education.
Speaker 13 (23:06):
Now, let me just point out to you that the
Department of Education was set up in nineteen eighty. We
have now spent as a country over three trillion dollars
to watch the performance of our students continue to decline
ten percent.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
We have spent ten percent of the national debt, which
is at thirty some trillion dollars. We spent three trillion
dollars and what do we have?
Speaker 13 (23:30):
And as I said in my confirmation hearing, we're just
simply not doing something right. I don't think that education
that is handled from a bureaucratic position in Washington, DC
is best for the states. And we'll continue with the
funding of the Title one funding. That's one of the
things that's questioned, and people are afraid they won't get
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Title one funding.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Why but the states funded. I'm not saying we shouldn't
fund Let's just say that there's a bucket of money state, local,
and federal to fund education. I'm not saying we should
empty the bucket of the federal money. I'm just saying
that whatever that bucket is ought to come from state
and local taxpayers because that's where the education occurs not DC. Now,
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this does mean we would reduce federal spending because we
need to be spending money not on stupid green new
deals subsidies. We need to be spending money on air
traffic control. For example, we have a critical shortage of controllers.
Right now. We have about almost eleven thousand. We need
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fourteen thousand. That represents a short fall of about three
thousand controllers, a decrease of one thousand compared to a
decade ago. And the controllers are working overtime all the time.
Training a new controller takes three years, so we start now,
it's gonna take three before we can actually trust that
person to sit in a tower or in a control
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center and do something. And some airports, particularly a smaller airport,
operate without any staff control towers for hours.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
And I'm not.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Talking about some rural podon little airport like in my hometown.
I'm talking about airports actually have control towers, but there
are no controllers whatsoever. We're using technology. We're using ground
based radar, analog radar communications as opposed to digital paper
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flight strips, some of which date back to the fifties
and sixties. We're using floppy discs, When was the last
time you even saw a floppy disk? They're probably some
in this audience that had never even seen a floppy disk.
The no system, the notice to air missions used to
be noticed to airmen, but you can't say that anymore.
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Completely failed in January of twenty twenty three cause a
nationwide ground stop. That's thirty year old software that's iHeart
liked software that's like our When is it over here? Activate?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Still activists. Windows still isn't activated over here. So we're
just spending money on absolutely the wrong things. They're about
eighty seven thousand flights daily. In that there are in
efficient resource allocations going on, particularly and we do we
favor private jets. It exacerbates congestion, delays and cancelation. There
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is a study to be done back in two thousand
and seven that those delays cost the country thirty two
billion dollars annually, projected to be forty billion dollars in
less than ten years if we don't do anything even
on clear weather days. Delays occur because delays occur on
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clear weather days because of understaffing, outdated systems, as the
United Airlines CEO pointed out yesterday.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
And then of course you have safety.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Despite no fatal commercial crashes since two thousand and nine
near collisions surgeon have Near collisions have surged, about three
hundred reported in the past year, almost one a day.
Why staffing shortages, outdated systems. Then you've got the fatal
crash at Reagan the black Hawk highlighted systemic issues. Now
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some attributed to the pilot er of the Blackhawk and
DEI hiring practices rather than just the ATC alone. And
I think it's a combination of both of those. But
the lack of modern surveillance technologies automatic dependent surveillance broadcasts
in all facilities increases the risk of errors. And private
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jet owners they resist reforms because that would increase user
fees and might actually limit their access us to some
airport slots, hindering efforts to prioritize commercial flights. You got
political resistance, you got union resistance. So you get a
whole mishmash of political problems which boils down to simply this,
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in my opinion, spending money on the wrong things solely
for political purposes. Oh, we'll grant billions of dollars to
go subsidize wind and solar. We'll give billions of dollars
in foreign aid through NGOs that enrich the recipients, that
never really gets to the people on the ground. But
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when it comes to domestic commercial travel, yeah, well just
kick that can down the road.
Speaker 14 (28:46):
Check out the Frontier Airlines video that's gone viral. I
do remember from years ago when I flew Frontier a
few times, you had to check in an hour before
your flight. I did not realize charge you a twenty
five dollars fee to use a gate agent to check
in instead of doing it at the kiosk or online. Regardless,
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this is a horrific way to treat a customer. They're
losing business because of this video.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
And they're losing business because who wants to fly? Who
would flying the Newerk? I wouldn't flying the Newark today
for anything. Let's go back to our screwed up priorities.
So if if Trump said about reprioritizing and can get
Congress in the budget to actually start putting the money
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in one, do you have the confidence that whatever contractors
we hire, whatever oversight is executed, that the contract would
stay within budget and be on time or how many
cost overboads do you think there would be the point,
because I don't think we can build anything in this
country anymore. Is it just the lack of morality, is
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the lack of just people just don't give a rats as.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I mean, why Sean Duffy the Secretary Transportation, it's a secretary.
Speaker 15 (30:10):
We have obviously a very serious problem with our air industry.
It's gonna take a lot of money, a lot of time.
You just got on the job. Congress hasn't necessarily given
you the money, and you haven't had the time. But
is there anything you can do in the short run
to meet the urgent needs?
Speaker 5 (30:28):
So we should be a surprised.
Speaker 16 (30:29):
This has been a burning issue over the course of
the last decade, but specifically over the last four years.
The GAO has reported that the system was way too
antiquated and needed to be updated. We saw what happened
in Newark, that could happen and other places around the infrastructure.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
So we are going to build a brand new air traffic.
Speaker 16 (30:49):
Control system that's going to take anywhere.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
From three to four years.
Speaker 16 (30:52):
But to your question, in the Philly traecon which controls Newark.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
We're already up there.
Speaker 16 (30:59):
We had a prime memory line that went down in
the secondary line, the redundant line, it didn't stand up.
So we're working on fixing that, making sure both lines,
the primary and the redundant line, are working. But at
the same time, we're laying new fiber in the Philly
tradecon to make sure we can stand up the telecom
to make sure it never goes down again. And so
this takes a little bit of time. I was told
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to be eight months on the on the new uh
uh fiber.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Side of the telecom.
Speaker 16 (31:25):
I think we can get it to this summer and
uh and again we're gonna we're gonna deal with what's happening.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Let's just pause there for a moment. So I was
told it was going to take eight months.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
So now I'm pushing to see if we can't get
it done this summer, which is still, you know, a
couple of months away, but eight months now. I understand
that things take time and it's not going to happen overnight,
But why why just accept uh and you know, money
access an incentive. Maybe the contract here that says eight months,
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maybe that's not the contractor to go with. Maybe you
want to go with a different contractors that might cost
you ten, fifteen, twenty percent more we gets done in
two months. Isn't the safety of domestic air travel important
enough that we would do that? And I'd like to
know where Congress is. I know there's this tendency, particularly
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with Trump as president, to turn to the cabinet and
to turn to him because we expect him to fix everything.
But this is a curred president after president after president
after president, and it's gotten to the point where it's
actually unsustainable. And if our ATC system really does fall apart,
finally just cracks and there's just you know, a snowball effect.
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If you think the economy's bad now, wait till that happens.
Like, correct me if I'm wrong. But if Indian and
Pakistan knew each other or a whole ocean away, would
that even touch America?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
You mean with the fallout? Touch America depends on how
much they explode and what the prevailing winds are.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Could or could not?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And by America, do you mean the lower forty eight
or do you mean Alaska and Hawaii. I don't know,
but it would touch us in another way. It could
be an arch Ferdinand moment that starts World War three,
depending what China and Russia do. Russia seems to be
a little distracted in the Ukraine right now. Speaking of which,
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do you know who was in the news yesterday? Joe
Biden decided to do an interview and he did it
with the BBC, and it was pretty bad.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I do fear a little bit, and I don't think
it's been forgotten by the people. I think it's been
forgotten by the leadership a little bit. My father and
mother's generation knew what was his stake. They knew that
that democracy was literally hanging in the balance. You know,
the United States has never been able to avoid a
war in Europe, and so one of the smartest things
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we did after World War Two was we formed METO
because alliances provide security.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Can you imagine it now?
Speaker 6 (01:35):
Because there are some people who feared that this Atlantic
alldce born in the Second World War is now dying
before our very eyes.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Is that your concern, It's a great concern. I think
it would change the modern history in the world if
that occurs.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Look, we are not the essential nation, but we're nation
and position to have the capacity to bring people together
lead the world. And otherwise they're gonna have China and the.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Former Soviet Union Russia stepping up.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Natle's falling apart, not because of US, but because Europe
has decided to uh destroy their defense industry. They decided
to go all in on the Green New Deal, green
green energy, renewables, and so they they changed all their priorities.
(02:43):
It's it's not our fault.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Uh What about the race you have withdrawn earlier giving
someone else up to a child?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
I don't I don't think it would have mattered.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
We left in a time when we were we had
a good candidate, she fully funded.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
And what happened was.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I had become what we had set out to do.
No one thought we could do, and I become so
successful our agenda, it was hard to.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Say now, I'm going to stop now.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I mean when I said when I started that, I
think it's I'm prepared to hand this to the next generation.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
It's a transition government.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
But things moved so quickly that it made it difficult
to walk away.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Oh, I'm want to play one more and then I
want to see where I can find where did that go?
I want to play one more, and then I want
to go to see here it is till the president.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
But Ary Beckett already started.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
This is breathing is out of control right now, it
can barely complet at the sentence.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
He's stumbling there.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
And I do think to his credit, there was a
plan to pass the torch. That he said he was
just going to be a transitional president. But they realized
that Kamala Harris couldn't win, which is why he wasn't
going to endorse her and pass the torch at first.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
I don't Lawrence, if he was going to pass the torch,
there would have been a primary and a vice president
like George H. W. Bush. Even though Reagan was successful,
he had to go earn the nominations. No one anointed
him and he, by the way, says I meant when
I said when I started, I'm prepared to hand this
to the next generation.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
But things move so quickly. What are you kidding me?
You worked an hour a day.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
You had plenty of time to reflect and say, this
is the perfect moment to get out and to finish
off in four years and try to end up on
a high note and let this thing fight out.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Also does it say, does.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
He think about Kamala Harris? If I gave her more time,
she had plenty of money, she still wouldn't have won.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Yeah, is that what she say?
Speaker 9 (04:50):
Well, he about out after that debate.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
That's what happened.
Speaker 9 (04:54):
It wasn't time was moving faster.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So true.
Speaker 9 (04:56):
He did such a terrible job on June twenty seventh,
and then he bowled out about a month later. In
July twenty first, Kamala had one hundred and six days
to campaign and eventually lost to Donald Trump. She raised
one billion dollars during that period, so not only did
she get the other money, she also raised another billion
dollars and she still lost. She became the first Democratic
presidential candidate in twenty years to lose the popular vote
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and the electoral vote pretty amazing.
Speaker 8 (05:22):
Elsie was very critical of President Trump. He says he's
appeasing Vladimir Putin. He said, you got to you know,
you cannot just allow him just to get land.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well, what did you do that allowed it to happen?
Speaker 8 (05:34):
Sixteen's got a sixteens, No Himar's got Heeimar's no attackers,
got attackers. Davis p stopped everybody else from bringing in
more weapons to make them successful.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
So just bleed him out.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
That was his policy.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Any people would argue that when he said, what do
you say a minor incursion? At first didn't allow a
minor and then that's when putting the text. So I
don't think he should be trying to quarterback now out loud.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
He was going to fall with three days and off
from a ride out and let's kick Famesley said, I
need weapons. I don't need a So he is he's
the last person to talk about to.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
So what'd you say, dragon?
Speaker 10 (06:08):
You got to play some contrast with Biden's interview right
there with Jenny interview with Trump.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I think it's even worse than that. Yeah, I mean
Trump goes out and just goes at it and goes
at it and goes at it. But it's not even
just Trump's ability to articulate and speak for thirty minutes,
three hours whatever it is. It's not just that, it's
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how often he doesn't, right, it's every single day, Yeah,
every single day. And the guy leaves office, and it's
more than one hundred days since he left office, and
we finally hear from him, and he runs over to
the BBC to do it, and then somehow says that
it's our fault that NATO's falling apart.
Speaker 10 (07:00):
And he sounds like a ninety two year old smoker
who's on oxygen, Like my grandfather before he passed. It's
like you.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Sound dare and it's not.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
And that just reminded me of something else when you
talked about your grandfather. It's it's not just that Trump
is able to do it more often and articulate. But
I listened to Warren Buffett recently, who's ninety five years old,
just now stepping down as the chairman of Berkshire. Hath
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the way, who's what he's the world. He's in the
top five of the world's richest men, and he is articulate,
he is he's full on his game, which just shows
that it has nothing to do with your chronological age.
It has to do with your mental and biological age.
(07:55):
Can you imagine, So we've got Indian Pakistan goling on
right now. Can you imagine Anthony Blincoln out there trying
to figure out how to deal with Pakistan India gang.
We dodged, We dodged a bullet. We dodged one hell
of a bullet. Anyway, they just popped up, and I thought, oh,
(08:17):
that's kind of interesting because really, compared to like Warren
Buffett or anybody else that hell's bills, my mom speaks
better than that.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
She's ninety four years old.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Good grief, So you know the statue delivered to give
me you're tired, you're poor, Well, apparently give us your
illegal child rapist too, you yarning to escape justice. Cape Cod,
a licensed home daycare on Cape Cod, has closed its
doors following the arrests of a convicted child rapist who
(08:48):
had been staying there. A convicted child rapist staying at
a licensed home daycare on Cape Cod. The closure of
the family daycare, owned by Francis ol Nuniez and Hyannas
comes after twenty five investigates at the local station began
looking into the presence of Andre Thiago Lucas, who's reported
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the father of Nunez's two children. According to Ice, Thiago Lucas,
a Brazilian national fled to Massachusetts who evade a nine
year prison sentence in his home stay Aminis Jiros for
the rape of.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
A thirteen year old girl.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
The Massachusetts Department of Early Education in Childcare had inspected
this place five times that was unaware the child rapists
was living there. So maybe if you didn't understand why,
maybe now you can understand why foreign criminals come to
this country when they want to evade punishment. Now, the
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Education Department mandates background checks for all individuals residing in
or regularly visiting home daycares who are fifteen years of
age or older, and those checks, under current regulations, do
not extend to criminal history records outside the US. In
addition to that, immigration status is not a factor considered
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during the background checks, So that gap in the screening
in Massachusetts means that even if Nunez had disclosed Thiago
Lucas's presence, his conviction in Brazil would not have been
flagged by the state's current vetting procedure. So I hope
you understand that we can see that invading the country
is a crime that needs to be taken seriously, and
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these people ought to be removed. In fact, I would
argue this, and some lawyers may disagree with me. He's
a convicted criminal. Our current Immigration and Naturalization Act, forget
the nineteen ninety six Act that I talked about. But
the current Act does not permit a criminal to enter
the States legally or really, you just can't do it. Plus,
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he's been convicted in Brazil. He ran away from Brazil.
He's already convicted criminals. Guess what, He's already gotten his
due process. So and and the law prohibits him from
getting a visa or entering the United Remember John Lennon
Hill's Bells. John Lennon couldn't get a visa to come
to the United States for years because Nixon or whoever
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it was, was prohibiting him from getting a visa because
he'd been convicted of smoking marrow or possession of marijuana.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
In the UK.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
But we we just let him in. No, it's absolutely absurd.
Speaking of due process. The little tyrant Letitia James is well,
she's known for throwing tantrums. This past Saturday, she became
unhinged at a rally of All Places Al Sharpton's National
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Action Network as they were having a meeting in Harlem.
She took aim mainly at efforts by the Trump administration
in trying to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse, particularly in
the Department of Health Human Services, a department that James
referred to on at least one occasion as the Health
and Hospitals Association, Health and Human Services, Health and Hospitals Association.
(12:25):
I think when you're throwing a tantrum sometimes, I mean,
you know me, when I get wound up, sometimes I
become dyslexic. I'm not dyslexic, but I tend to, you know,
scramble my words a little bit. I think that's how
much of a tantrum she was showing. She said, instead,
she's going to sue the federal government, including Bobby Kennedy Jr.
Whom she called the guy with a worm.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
In his head.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Now, I don't think it's any surprise that James isn't
a really foul mood. The Federal Housing Finance Authority has
now accused her old News, but has accused her of
repeatedly mortgage fraud. Where's that case? Can somebody tell me
where that is? Procedurally? Have we started discovery? Have we
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had a status conference yet?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Do we know?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Are we going through motions? There has there been a
motion for summary judgment or motion to dismiss yet?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
She's been referred to the Department of Justice DJ for
criminal investigation. Now, somebody could just light a fire under
Pam Bondi. It might turn out that indeed nobody is
above the law. She made veiled reference to those allegations
in the speech at the National Action Network. Now, I
want you to hear this, and near the end of it,
it's about thirty seconds long. Near the end of it,
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the Reverend al jumps to his feet and, man, do
we have some preaching going on here?
Speaker 11 (13:47):
And you want me to sit in my seat and
stand idi le by and allow this craziness to happen.
You could come after me if you want. But you
elected me to stand up. You elected me to use
the law. You elected me to go to cart You
elected me to continue to challenge this administration. You elected
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me to stand up for the least of godchildren. You
elected me to continue flying on, and I will fight on.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Okay, all right, you know, as long as we're as
longs we're talking about people like Latitia James, Texas Governor
Abbott isn't the only person bound to a wheelchair. Who ever,
more prominent Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett seems to hold in contempt.
She has been blasted on social media for jumping ahead
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of two passengers and wheelchairs while she was trying to
get a flight out of Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport. House
Republican conference woman Lisa McLean, She's a Republican from Michigan,
posted pictures of Crockett boarding her flight ahead of the
wheelchair can find passengers and highlighted the security that flanked
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the outspoken Democrat. I want to know who's paying for
her security. I hope it's her campaign, because taxpayers have
no reason to be paying for security for and I
mean this with all due disrespect, a mere congressman.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
That's all she is.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Now. Her hood rat persana might be fake, but her
general obnoxiousness is pretty real. Uh well, I'm here with
the detail and I'm going to get ahead of everybody else,
will though, those little people in the wheelchair they can wait. Yeah,
they can just wait. Maybe you've got a security detail.
(15:46):
You can just wait and get on the plane ever
you want to. It's really crazy. Did you know the
Washington Post got a poolater, they got a pulaterer for
covering the Trump assassination? Yes, of course, Sixty Minutes got
an Emmy for editing that interview with Kamala Harris. But
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do you remember the story that the Washington Post put up.
It described the attempted assassination of Donald Trump as loud
noises at a rally, and that's what they got the
pulletser for. In fact, on the page that day, the
big headline, it's got the in fact, the photographer won
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a Pulitzer for the photograph. But I think that was
a New York Times photographer. But they had a picture
of Trump with the fish in the air, but the
headline was Trump taken away after loud noises.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
At a rally.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Oh, that's all that occurred, and you got a pulitzer
for that.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
I think pooblats.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Maybe poopy Michael.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I'm curious.
Speaker 12 (16:56):
The ACLU seems to always pop up in situation where
the worst of the worst of the worst are being
defended by them. Can you maybe shed some light on
where the ACLU has emerged from over the years, because
for as long as I can remember, they've always sort
of been scorn in my family as setting up for
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utter dirt.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Bags, because they shifted in the mid late seventies from
an institution that was primarily focused regardless or just irritate myself,
irregardless regardless of who the plaintiff was, of representing anyone
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whose civil rights were violated. So that's why you have
the Skokie, Illinois case where they actually defended the Nazis
right to peacefulle protests with the permit from the city
of Skokie to march and spew their anti semitic bull craft.
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And then they started shifting, and the shift became now
the plaintiffs have to be of a preferred pigmentation, or
a preferred religion, or of a preferred political party, and
so it was no longer about for example, they would
never I definitely would ever come and defend my civil rights.
(18:35):
I would have to obviously depend upon some other well
myself or some you know, civil rights organization that represents conservatives.
So they've just fallen into the trap of believing that
civil rights are only for particular people or particular organizations
and not for all of us. And so now that
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so when they made that change, they started needing more money,
and so that reinforces that narrative and that belief, and
then that reinforces the very people that run the national organization.
So that's what they represent. They've totally lost their way.
In my opinion, there was a time in my life
where I thought the ACLU was a wonderful organization, that
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they were actually supporters and defenders of the playing meeting
of the Constitution. They would have defended a Second Amendment case.
They would never go near a Second Amendment case today,
regardless of its legitimacy.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
So I want to talk.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
About air traffic control for a moment. If you were
listening at the very beginning of the program, I spelled
out all of the things wrong or bad about Colorado
test scores, everything. But what does that have to do
with the FAA our air traffic control?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
You know?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
So driving in this morning once again, the top of
the hour news story was about.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Newark and how and they were playing the.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Audio which I don't I don't have, but the audio
was basically of an air traffic controller. So ATC is
talking to some commercial airliner and they're trying to give instructions,
and the airline is asking for information, and the controller
ATC finally says something to the effect look, buddy, you
got to understand I have no idea where you are.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I can't see you.
Speaker 12 (20:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
That lasted only about I think that was somewhere between
sixty and ninety seconds. As I said yesterday, imagine driving
down I twenty five sanms rush hour and you're doing
eighty five miles an hour and your eyes are closed
for ninety seconds, or like Dragon pointed out, hold your
breath for ninety seconds. Now, imagine you're you're on a
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You're on one of the new Airbus three eighties, largest
airliner in the world, and pilots are flying blind for
ninety seconds.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
So so many issues. Well, before I go through the issues,
let me just say the issues that the air traffic
control system faces is bipartisan. Every president has ignored it,
Republican and Democrat alike. And it's proof of my theory
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that we have screwed up priorities. We spend money on
the wrong things. I'm not saying that we should not
spend money on education. But the education that we purchase
with our tax dollars, which is what we do, should
come from local taxpayers to support local school districts. Or
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if you want to take it out just one step,
Colorado taxpayers should pay for education in Colorado. And obviously,
if you listen to those numbers that I gave about
the assessments, we're not getting our money's worth. So in
Colorado we're spending money on the wrong things. Even though
we spend an outrageous amount per student, we're spending it
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on the wrong things. We should be spending money on education,
on pupils.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
On students.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
So whatever the number is, let's just pick a number
of our abut one thousand dollars per student. Well, that's
student ought to get the thousand dollars, and that student,
you know we'll be able to. We should be funding
students and not schools, and then let schools compete for
the students based on their academic programs, their curriculum, everything else,
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so that the cream rises to the top and a
free market will drive higher or I don't mean higher
on the higher education, higher standards, higher outcomes in education
because we know that it does not Linda and Mann,
the current Secretary of Education.
Speaker 13 (23:06):
Now, let me just point out to you that the
Department of Education was set up in nineteen eighty. We
have now spent as a country over three trillion dollars
to watch the performance of our students continue to decline
ten percent.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
We have spent ten percent of the national debt, which
is at thirty some trillion dollars. We spent three trillion
dollars and what do we have?
Speaker 13 (23:30):
And as I said in my confirmation hearing, we're just
simply not doing something right. I don't think that education
that is handled from a bureaucratic position in Washington, DC
is best for the states. And we'll continue with the
funding of the Title one funding. That's one of the
things that's questioned, and people are afraid they won't get
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Title one funding.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Why but the states funded. I'm not saying we shouldn't
fund Let's just say that there's a bucket of money state, local,
and federal to fund education. I'm not saying we should
empty the bucket of the federal money. I'm just saying
that whatever that bucket is ought to come from state
and local taxpayers because that's where the education occurs not DC. Now,
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this does mean we would reduce federal spending because we
need to be spending money not on stupid green new
deals subsidies. We need to be spending money on air
traffic control. For example, we have a critical shortage of controllers.
Right now. We have about almost eleven thousand. We need
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fourteen thousand. That represents a short fall of about three
thousand controllers, a decrease of one thousand compared to a
decade ago. And the controllers are working overtime all the time.
Training a new controller takes three years, so we start now,
it's gonna take three before we can actually trust that
person to sit in a tower or in a control
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center and do something. And some airports, particularly a smaller airport,
operate without any staff control towers for hours.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
And I'm not.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Talking about some rural podon little airport like in my hometown.
I'm talking about airports actually have control towers, but there
are no controllers whatsoever. We're using technology. We're using ground
based radar, analog radar communications as opposed to digital paper
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flight strips, some of which date back to the fifties
and sixties. We're using floppy discs, When was the last
time you even saw a floppy disk? They're probably some
in this audience that had never even seen a floppy disk.
The no system, the notice to air missions used to
be noticed to airmen, but you can't say that anymore.
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Completely failed in January of twenty twenty three cause a
nationwide ground stop. That's thirty year old software that's iHeart
liked software that's like our When is it over here? Activate?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Still activists. Windows still isn't activated over here. So we're
just spending money on absolutely the wrong things. They're about
eighty seven thousand flights daily. In that there are in
efficient resource allocations going on, particularly and we do we
favor private jets. It exacerbates congestion, delays and cancelation. There
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is a study to be done back in two thousand
and seven that those delays cost the country thirty two
billion dollars annually, projected to be forty billion dollars in
less than ten years if we don't do anything even
on clear weather days. Delays occur because delays occur on
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clear weather days because of understaffing, outdated systems, as the
United Airlines CEO pointed out yesterday.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
And then of course you have safety.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Despite no fatal commercial crashes since two thousand and nine
near collisions surgeon have Near collisions have surged, about three
hundred reported in the past year, almost one a day.
Why staffing shortages, outdated systems. Then you've got the fatal
crash at Reagan the black Hawk highlighted systemic issues. Now
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some attributed to the pilot er of the Blackhawk and
DEI hiring practices rather than just the ATC alone. And
I think it's a combination of both of those. But
the lack of modern surveillance technologies automatic dependent surveillance broadcasts
in all facilities increases the risk of errors. And private
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jet owners they resist reforms because that would increase user
fees and might actually limit their access us to some
airport slots, hindering efforts to prioritize commercial flights. You got
political resistance, you got union resistance. So you get a
whole mishmash of political problems which boils down to simply this,
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in my opinion, spending money on the wrong things solely
for political purposes. Oh, we'll grant billions of dollars to
go subsidize wind and solar. We'll give billions of dollars
in foreign aid through NGOs that enrich the recipients, that
never really gets to the people on the ground. But
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when it comes to domestic commercial travel, yeah, well just
kick that can down the road.
Speaker 14 (28:46):
Check out the Frontier Airlines video that's gone viral. I
do remember from years ago when I flew Frontier a
few times, you had to check in an hour before
your flight. I did not realize charge you a twenty
five dollars fee to use a gate agent to check
in instead of doing it at the kiosk or online. Regardless,
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this is a horrific way to treat a customer. They're
losing business because of this video.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
And they're losing business because who wants to fly? Who
would flying the Newerk? I wouldn't flying the Newark today
for anything. Let's go back to our screwed up priorities.
So if if Trump said about reprioritizing and can get
Congress in the budget to actually start putting the money
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in one, do you have the confidence that whatever contractors
we hire, whatever oversight is executed, that the contract would
stay within budget and be on time or how many
cost overboads do you think there would be the point,
because I don't think we can build anything in this
country anymore. Is it just the lack of morality, is
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the lack of just people just don't give a rats as.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I mean, why Sean Duffy the Secretary Transportation, it's a secretary.
Speaker 15 (30:10):
We have obviously a very serious problem with our air industry.
It's gonna take a lot of money, a lot of time.
You just got on the job. Congress hasn't necessarily given
you the money, and you haven't had the time. But
is there anything you can do in the short run
to meet the urgent needs?
Speaker 5 (30:28):
So we should be a surprised.
Speaker 16 (30:29):
This has been a burning issue over the course of
the last decade, but specifically over the last four years.
The GAO has reported that the system was way too
antiquated and needed to be updated. We saw what happened
in Newark, that could happen and other places around the infrastructure.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
So we are going to build a brand new air traffic.
Speaker 16 (30:49):
Control system that's going to take anywhere.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
From three to four years.
Speaker 16 (30:52):
But to your question, in the Philly traecon which controls Newark.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
We're already up there.
Speaker 16 (30:59):
We had a prime memory line that went down in
the secondary line, the redundant line, it didn't stand up.
So we're working on fixing that, making sure both lines,
the primary and the redundant line, are working. But at
the same time, we're laying new fiber in the Philly
tradecon to make sure we can stand up the telecom
to make sure it never goes down again. And so
this takes a little bit of time. I was told
(31:20):
to be eight months on the on the new uh
uh fiber.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Side of the telecom.
Speaker 16 (31:25):
I think we can get it to this summer and
uh and again we're gonna we're gonna deal with what's happening.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Let's just pause there for a moment. So I was
told it was going to take eight months.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
So now I'm pushing to see if we can't get
it done this summer, which is still, you know, a
couple of months away, but eight months now. I understand
that things take time and it's not going to happen overnight,
But why why just accept uh and you know, money
access an incentive. Maybe the contract here that says eight months,
(32:01):
maybe that's not the contractor to go with. Maybe you
want to go with a different contractors that might cost
you ten, fifteen, twenty percent more we gets done in
two months. Isn't the safety of domestic air travel important
enough that we would do that? And I'd like to
know where Congress is. I know there's this tendency, particularly
(32:22):
with Trump as president, to turn to the cabinet and
to turn to him because we expect him to fix everything.
But this is a curred president after president after president
after president, and it's gotten to the point where it's
actually unsustainable. And if our ATC system really does fall apart,
finally just cracks and there's just you know, a snowball effect.
(32:45):
If you think the economy's bad now, wait till that happens.
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