New York Governor Kathy Hochul decides against congestion pricing in Lower Manhattan. And by rescinding the fee which was to start in July, she claims she is saving people money now. How can that be?
The governor also claims that inflation has been around for five years? No, for three years. She tries to shift inflation onto Donald Trump.
The governor also claims that inflation has been around for five years? No, for three years. She tries to shift inflation onto Donald Trump.
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To night. Michael Brown joins mehere, the former FEMA director talk show
host Michael Brown. Brownie, noBrownie, You're doing a heck of a
job the Weekend with Michael Brown.Hey, happy Saturday. Everybody. You've
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So let's get star. We gotlots, I mean, it's just why
you know, there are just timeswhen like, you know, when I
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finished the weekday program on Friday,which is at ten o'clock mountain time,
Well, I'm just like, okay, my weekend has started. Uh it
so relaxing. I got Friday,got Friday evening, go have dinner,
and then of course I'm you know, I don't have to be in here.
It's new and Eastern, so it'snot till ten o'clock mountain time.
So I get into the studio herein Denver at you know, nine thirty
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or so, get all hooked up. Damie and I get hooked up and
we laugh about some stupid stuff goingon in the world. There's never anything
stupid going on in our workplace,so we never laugh about that. But
there was a there was just apoint yesterday with everything going on that I
was like, you know what,it's a good thing I'm not an alcoholic
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or a drug addict or anything else, because it was just one of those
weeks where how much stupid or canthings get? And then I thought to
myself, don't ask that question,because God will look down on you and
say, oh, here, holdmy beer, and he'll make it even
more stupid than it really is.So there's a lot to cover that is
just like, you know, myfavorite, one of my favorite phrases is
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dumb assy, and it's just thedumb ass read the world going on.
So if you're the if you're afirst time listening to this program, you
two things. I refer to mylisteners as goobers. Don't be offended by
that. Goober's is a term ofendearment. And there's a lot of dumb
assy going on in the world.And we talk about the dumb ass.
Rey what some of the dumb assyis. Uh. To give you kind
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of a little bit of a roadmaptoday, we got some climate stuff.
We've got Toyota has done something thatis amazing. Uh. We had some
hostages that were captured in Gozip bythe Israeli defense forces, despite despite the
president of this country on again,off again supporting Israel. And just a
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quick note about that. So BenjaminNetanyahu, the Prime minister in Israel,
who is barely holding on to acoalition. You know, they have a
parliamentary system of government and he's barelyholding on to a coalition government. And
this country, of all countries,shame on us, but this country has
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been on again, off again intheir support, and here is a nation
that Israel, that is trying todestroy, literally destroy a terrorist organizations that
killed thousands of people in October seven. Has for years now, since Hamas
took over in the Gaza Strip hasbeen just lobbing rockets and missiles. Ha
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Ha has be law out of Lebanon, all supported by the Iranians. So
in October seven, the terrorist attack, and shortly thereafter, the Israeli coalition
government says, okay, this isit. We've had enough, and we're
going to go in and we're goingto destroy this terrorist organization, literally destroy
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them. And the president of thiscountry flies over to Israel and says,
oh, yeah, we support youone hundred percent. And then when the
going gets tough and some civilians startgetting killed, you know, we just
celebrate the anniversary of D Day.Has anybody ever stopped and thought about how
many civilians were killed in World WarTwo? Let's think about the Ukraine Russian
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War. Does anybody bitch about howmany Ukrainian civilians that Vladimir Putin, a
dictator, is killing in Ukraine?But oh my gosh, Israel kills either
accidentally or just in the course ofconducting wartime operations, kills a few civilians
and the world goes ballistic. Sonow this country starts kind of wishy washy,
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waffling on our support. So asNatignaw who was originally kind of going
down in in his country's support becauseof one the attack occurring and then not
you know, working immediately to respondto the attack, his poll number started
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to decline. And in this countrystarts waffling on our support, and we
don't really do the things that wouldthat would show, for example, rather
than uh blaunching missiles or trying tostop the Hoothies their missiles from hitting our
ships, rather than taking out theIranian ships that are delivering the missiles,
we don't want those these for invesculation, we were really scared of everything.
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As Benjaminett and Yah who finally says, you know what, we can't depend
on America. We're gonna, youknow, we're gonna do whatever it takes
on our own. And so theystart moving through Rafa, they get down
to the southern port of Rafa andthey start taking them out, and his
poll numbers start increasing. That's leadership, and that's not what we have in
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this country. We don't. Itis a lack of leadership at virtually and
I'll just you know, get yes, I am. I'm a partisan,
and I think most of the lackof leadership is on the left side of
the plitical spectrum. It's the Democrats, it's the Marxist it's the communists,
it's the socialists, all of thosepeople that just are so afraid of their
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own shadow that we project weakness.I may get to this in a minute.
The Wall Street Journal had an editorialcomparing the speeches delivered by Joe Biden
and Ronald Reagan at D Day.Now, when we celebrate it or commemorate
it D Day, it's the betterword. When we commemorated D Day this
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week, I played Reagan's speeches.We also took live Joe Biden's speech.
Now, the words were somewhat similar, And if you read the speak each
from Joe Biden on D Day,I would say it was like, now,
that's not bad for him. Butthe problem is, when Joe Biden
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speaks, it is a projection ofweakness. It's a projection of waffling.
It's a projection of never knowing.Hey, can we depend on the United
States not depend on the United States? Look at the economy, off again,
off again. I mean as wishywashy. You know, I can't
do anything about the border because Ihave to have Congress do something about the
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border. Oh now I will dosomething about the border because my poll numbers
are so bad. It is weakness. When Reagan spoke, it was from
a position of strength. The UnitedStates was probably at that point at its
apex of power. We kind ofbeen losing our way since then. And
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his speech, as the Wall StreetJournal points out, the words may have
been similar to Biden's, but therest of the world stood up and listened
and paid attention. Because when Reaganspoke, if you're old enough to remember
the old EF Hudton commercials, whenE. F. Hutton speaks, people
listen. Well, when Reagan spoke, the world listened. I kind of
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think when Biden speaks, the worldkind of yawns, kind of like,
oh, there goes the old fartagain, and who knows, can we
depend on the United States or not? It's kind of sad. Let me
bring you when we get back.Let me tell you about a story about
going on in New York, becauseit's another example of how the poll numbers
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about almost every issue the Democrats areall concerned about. They're beginning to backpedal
as fast as they can. AndNew York Governor Kathy Hogel, she's no
different. Texta word Mike or Michaelto three three, one zero three,
Kathy hogle Next, Hey, welcomeback to the weekend with Michael Brown.
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TEXA word Mike or Michael to threethree Wednesday. Will three tell me anything?
Ask me anything. Some of youlocally here in Denver have asked about
a political ad that's running on mystation, my my home station here in
Denver, Freedom ninety three seven,Real News, real talk, and let
me explain that to a national audience. I you know, I hadn't planned
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to do that today, but Imay do that later on. Remind me
later on before the end of theprogram if I haven't done it, because
it is a great example of it'sa head fake. It's a total head
fake commercial. So there's your teasefor it. So Governor Kathy Hochl in
New York this week announced an indefinitedelay of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority the MTA.
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They're there, you know, theirlocal public transit authority. They were
going to implement something that's been triedin other cities around the world, like
London. It's called congestion pricing.The plan includes a fifteen dollars toll for
drivers that inner Manhattan below sixtieth Street. It was supposed to start at the
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end of this month. Now theidea is I mean, the idea is
twofold, but the overriding idea is, well, we can reduce our carbon
footprint because we're going to charge peopleto drive, you know, to cross
the triborough Bridge or to come inacross the Lincoln Tunnel or whatever. And
we're gonna try to keep people fromdriving in because we're gonna charge them an
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extra fifteen dollars. Now, Idon't know what the current toll. Somebody
in New York tell me what thecurrent toll is on the triborough Bridge or
on the Lincoln Tunnel, because it'sprobably up to, I don't know,
fifty bucks. Now I can rememberit was like two dollars and fifty cents,
so I'm sure it's outrageous. Soon top of those tolls, they
were going to add an additional fifteendollar charge called congestion pricing, trying to
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keep cars out of Manhattan. Soit might be easier to drive. It's
never going to be easier to drivein Manhattan until we'll all callers are gone,
and that's just not going to happen. Manhattan is just like any major
metropolitan area. It's just difficult todrive in. You know. I feel
sorry for FedEx and UPS and DHLand all the others trying to deliver in
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Manhattan because it's just a pain inthe rear, just total pain in the
rear. So she puts out apre take video announcement, and she emphasizes
the financial strain that residents in NewYork everywhere, not just in New York
City are facing because of inflation inthe cost of living crisis that's occurring.
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But it's interesting how she phrases it, because I'm thinking, wait a minute,
what are you really saying here.Let me play a part just let's
start with a part of it todayabout issues that are very much on the
minds of New Yorkers. First andforemost, I understand the financial pressures you're
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facing. Now does she really doyou think that this woman who you know
up in Albany or whether she's inNew York. I mean, she's the
governor. She doesn't have to.Do you think she worries about congestion when
she drives from Albany into New York. No, because she's got a security
detail, and they can run withthe lights and sirens, and they can
go anywhere where they want to.They can bar any where they went to.
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Do you think she truly understands.No, she doesn't understand, but
oh, she wants you to thinkshe does. Over the last five years,
Wait a minute, Over the lastfive years, Yorkers have seen the
price of groceries alone go up anaverage of twenty three percent. Think about
the cost of a dozen eggs,more than doubling from a dollar twenty to
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two eighty six. All over ourcountry, housing prices have increased by seventeen
percent. Comment in Colorado, guesswhat it is? Thirty percent? Yes,
thirty percent. But let's just pausefor a moment. Consider She starts
out by saying, you know,over the past five years. Now,
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I'm not that old that I'm senileyet, but I do know that five
years encompasses the last two years ofthe Trump administration, when inflation was at
its actually it was lower than evennormal. You know, normal inflation is
considered about two percent, just becauseof wage increases and just you know,
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kind of the increased cost of doingbusiness. Average inflation is you know,
normal inflation is around two percent orless. Well, under the Trump administration,
it was like one point two percent, and we had you know,
I know, we had mean tweets, but we had what a buck seventy
nine gas. Now in California,New York you probably had two seventy nine
gas before the US Living in FlyoverCountry, we had a buck seventy nine
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gas. It's now like three ninetynine here. And I know, don't
start bitching me up to me aboutwho you have to come out to California.
You are to come out to NewYork. I know, I know.
But what's she trying to do here. What she's trying to do is
sublimely make you think that, Oh, wait a minute, Yes, it's
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been five years since we've had allthis. No, it hasn't. It's
been like three years. When whendid inflation really kick in? Now?
Yes, some of the I wouldsay the foundation for some of the inflation
started with Donald Trump and all ofthe COVID spending the Congress did at the
at the very end of the COVID, all the checks that were going out
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and everybody's getting a check and everybody'sgoing to get money. Well, that's
a foundation for inflation. But thenthe minute that Biden gets in office,
he takes that foundation and doesn't justexplow it, he doesn't blow it up.
He makes it even worse than theGreen New Deal, the so called
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Don't Laugh the Inflation Reduction Act,Remember that one working out for you.
Well, here's Governor Holkal trying tomake you think that, oh it's gotten
Really it's really bad because it wasTrump. You know, we're gonna spread
the blame around here a little bit. What a disingenuous bran getting blank person
here. So childcare has gone upalmost twenty percent, and the strain on
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working and middle class families is justtoo much. It is too much,
you know, much too much forme sitting here listening to a politician,
any politician they've voted for any ofthese spending bills. There's constantly raising taxes,
constantly increasing spending. Think about howmuch money they're spending in New York
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City that they're not spending on schoolsor they're taking kids off. You know,
there's sports fields, so that theycan house illegal aliens there or I
forget there was some outrageous number.It was like almost fifty percent of the
six hundred plus hotels in New YorkCity are now occupied by illegal aliens.
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Well, someone's you know hotels justyou know, Marriott, Hilton or sleeves
Bag Company Hotel, you know,the one hour hotel. Motel whoever owns
that just doesn't give those rooms away. No, they charge for those rooms.
So that means taxpayers are paying forthat, and they're probably spending money
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that should be spent on something else. It's it's absolutely despicable what politicians do.
So here she is in this pretaped video announcement, so she can
be from the teller prompter. Mygosh, does anybody speak contemporary? Does
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anybody speak extemporaneously anymore? Can anybodytalk without notes? Seriously? You know,
she says, a fifteen dollars chargemay not seem significant to some,
but for working a middle class fans, he can be a budget breaker.
I cannot add another burden on NewYorkers or create an additional obstacle to our
economic recovery from the pandemic. Really, how about our economic recovery from Democrats
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Texas where Michael Michael three three oneszero three more Kathy Hockel, just to
irritate you, keep it right here, you've got the Weekend with Michael Brown.
Tonight, Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director of talk
show host Michael Brown. Brownie,No, Brownie, You're doing a heck
of a job the Weekend with MichaelBrown. So here we're talking about Kathy
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Hockel congestion pricing in New York City. But I think the congestion pricing is
is just kind of the little kernelof the entire story I want to tell
you about her. So here sheis all worried about cost of living,
groceries, childcare, why energy,you know, heating and cooling your home.
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She's worried about all of that.Well, we know it's been bad
for the past five years. Noit has not. But here she is
she warned that she was still determinedto advance the climate change agenda through strategies
to address congestion. That's the phrase. She uses, strategies to address congestion.
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Hkal's decision comes because public pressure ismounting against the toll and it's being
driven by concerns over the impact itwill have on the daily lives of just
working schlubs. They're just trying toget in and out of New York City.
Sometimes they can take the trains,sometimes they can't. Sometimes they can,
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you know, they you know,park and ride and take the train
in or take the subway in.It's it's really tough. A Politan Transit
authority, the MTA in New Yorkprojected the toll would take around one billion
dollars annually from people that had topay it. Yeah, I want you
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to think about two things, becausethose kinds of numbers often just get thrown
out. Well, you know,it's gonna it's gonna cost you know,
it's gonna it's gonna it's going tobring in revenue of a billion dollars.
Okay, So that revenue has tocome from somewhere. The revenue is gonna
cust from the poor schlubs are justtrying to get in and out, trying
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to do their work, you know, trying to get to their office,
trying to get to whatever they're tryingto do. And they've got to pay,
you know, and I know,just fifteen dollars, but fifteen dollars
a day. You go figure itout. You know, if you're if
you're if you're working fifty weeks ayear taking maybe you're getting two weeks of
vacation lucky you. So you're payingit, you know, five days a
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week or maybe six days a weekto pining how often your work seven days
a week times fifty weeks a yearor fifty two weeks a year. But
nonetheless, it's a billion dollars.So that's a billion dollars that gets taken
out of the private sector, thatgets taken out of the pockets of taxpayers.
So that's a billion dollars that taxpayerscan't spend on rent, groceries,
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childcare, clothing, entertainment, food, whatever they might want, monever they
might choose to spend it on.And every time they spend that money,
that billion dollars, and they spendit at a bodega, at a restaurant,
they spend it on rent, theyspend it on travel, they spend
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it on a car payment, theyspend it on whatever. That's money that
circulates through the private sector, andthat billion dollars multiplies a gazillion times and
grows the economy. And now thatbillion dollars is no longer available to the
private sector. Of that billion dollarsgoeswhere he goes into the coffers of government.
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What does government do with it?Does money spent by the government multiply
well, probably some degree. Imean, if you know, you have
to admit that if you take abillion dollars out of the pocket of taxpayers
and give it to non taxpayers,well there is some of that money that
gets recirculated and does help, butit's not nearly as effective as the private
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sector. But what are they goingto spend this money on? Where does
it go? You know, asI said earlier, London has long been
hammering drivers with these kind of congestioncharges. The mayor of London, who
is a radical leftist city con herecently imposed additional cost a motorists through something
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called an Expanded Ultra Low Emission Zonea ulas a ULZ. Now, of
course it's now facing public resistance.You know. Congestion charges are often featured
in what are called fifteen minute cityplans. Fifteen city fifteen minute cities ostensibly
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aimed at ensuring that anybody living ina fifteen minute city has access to anything
they might need within fifteen minutes oftheir homes so that they can walk,
so they don't have to take acar. So you can just walk to
wherever you need to go in fifteenminutes, to work, the grocery store,
to a restaurant, whatever, allcompacted down into fifteen minutes. And
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why to fight climate change? Now? In practice, policies like these congestion
charges are really intended to force residentsnot to take longer car rides by making
longer car rides financially unviable. Youknow, you're listening to a guy that
grew up as a kid in westernOklahoma and the Oklahoma Panhandle. To be
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precise, where the nearest large citywas Emerald, Texas, one hundred and
twenty miles to the south. Thedistance from my hometown to the capital of
Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, was abouttwo hundred and sixty five miles. The
distance from my hometown to where I'vebeen living for the past thirty plus years
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in Denver or in Colorado, notspecifically Denver, but to the capital of
Colorado is about two indred sixty eightmiles. So for us, the automobile
was independence. It was the abilityto go from point A to point B
in the most effective, efficient waypossible. And to this day, I
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still look upon driving is mostly apleasure, particularly when I'm trying to get
to my indisclosed location in New Mexicoor I'm or I'm you know, traveling
around the country, and how canI get from point A to point B
the most effectively and most efficiently.And it's also independence. You know.
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For example, a lot of alot of my friends will they'll take a
train to the airport, which isfine. I don't mean, I don't
object to it. Or they'll takea train to a sporting event, or
they'll take a train to go toa to a restaurant from the from the
burbs into uh into the central businessdistrict in Denver, which drives me nuts
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because it's like, you know,it's like crime ridden. But here's what
drives me crazy about public transportation inplaces like Colorado or western Oklahoma or Wyoming
or New Mexico. It's just notpractical and so for it to even be
cost effective, which most of thetime it's not, you have to limit
the service. So now i'm iam, my mobility is limited by the
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availability of that public transportation. Soif I want to leave at a certain
time. Well, I may notbe able to because public transportation is limited.
Now I know in large cities,it's entirely different. Up, you
jump on the the Metro in DC, super efficient, get anywhere any place,
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you know, because it's constantly running, if it's if it's working.
And the same is true for theNew York City subway system. But this
country is huge. Impose a mapof London on the United States that matter.
Just take a map of Los Angelesor New York or Chicago. Impose
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that on the United States, andyou realize this is a huge country.
This whole idea that somehow we've gotto fight climate change by limiting individual choice
presupposes that, oh wait a minute, is that really going to make a
difference in the climate. I'll giveyou an example right here in Colorado.
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Right now, we're expecting severe stormsthis afternoon because we have what the local
sun not all, but some ofthe local meteorologists are calling an unprecedented early
heat wave. I mean, today'ssupposed to be like ninety degrees and I'm
just laughing my ass off. Okay, it's Saturday, June eight, guys,
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It's summertime and it's been hot beforeon June eighth. I've lived in
Colorado long enough to recognize that wehave these variabilities depending on La Nina or
El Nino, depending on just youknow, the the cycle of the climate.
This sometimes it's really hot in July, I mean in June, and
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sometimes it doesn't really get hot untilJuly, and then people are bitching about
one hundred degree temperatures. Why that'snothing. But as long as we keep
people fearful about it, then peoplelike Kathy Hokeel can go on a taped
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video and tell you how she reallyis concerned. How concerned is she?
Well, I'll let you know.Texta word Mike or Michael to three three
one zero three. Just a littlemore Kathy Hokel, Hey, welcome back
the weekend with Michael Brown. Gladto have you with me. Texta word
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Mike or Michael at three three onezero three. Kathy Hokeel to kind of
put the icing on the cake.Here. Here's a little bit more of
her addressing affordability in the cost ofliving in New York. That's how she
has captioned her video. That's whysince becoming your governor, one of my
priorities has been to address affordability andkeep and put more money back in your
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pockets. That's why I fought torate then lower taxes. You know,
the most efficient, effective way tohelp people out financially is to give them
more of their own money back andto reduce the size of government. But
she has no desire, no intentionwhatsoever to reduce the size of government in
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New York, as does any Democratgovernor and for that matter, most Republican
governors in any state in this nation. It's the minimum wage and tie it
to an aquirement. She wants totalk about minimme wage. You're gonna put
more money in the pockets people byincreasing the minimum wage. Let's look over
to New York. I mean toCalifornia, where thousands of restaurants are closing,
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where tens of thousands of restaurant employeesare losing their jobs. Where,
for example, in San Diego,a fish taco Rubio's Fish Tacos, the
staple in San Diego for decades,is closing. I forget the hundreds,
I forget how many stores they havebecause of the mandatory twenty dollars minimum wage.
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You know, I still advocate inColorado if they really believe that increasing
the minimum wage increases, you know, money in people's pockets, Then why
do we do twenty dollars in Colorado? Because Denver is the mile high city
where at we're at five two hundredand eighty feet. I think, and
I advocate, and I think youshould advocate also for a minimum wage in
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Colorado out of a fifty two dollarseighty cents an hour, why stop?
Why stop at twenty dollars an hour? Think about the logic. If your
logic is that increasing the minimum wagehelps people, then why stop at twenty
dollars? Make it thirty forty andin Colorado symbolically fifty two dollars eighty cents
an hour nation double tuition assistance,then double tuition assistance. So you're going
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to take money out of people whoare just working trying to make ends meet
to give money to people who wantto go to college. You know what,
maybe do what I did. Youknow what, I was married.
I actually by the time I gotinto law school, I had two children,
and I worked and went to lawschool and successfully graduated and successfully practice
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law. You know, sometimes yougotta do what you gotta do. Quit
babysitting everybody, and on income taxes, an invested bill, and affordable childcare.
So again, you're taking money frompeople who don't have kids and giving
the money to who do have kids, and providing affordable childcare. So now
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it's the role of government to providechildcare. Oh my god. Our policies
must support everyday New Yorkers, likeour small business people, police officers,
firefighters, teachers, healthcare workers,truck drivers, and not add to their
financial burdens. So let's talk aboutcongestion pricing, which would so of all
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of the things that she was todo to try to help people, she's
going to cancel something that was neverimplemented. Think about it. Think about
the stupidity of that. So I'mgoing to start charging all of you next
month to listen to this program.Okay, So starting next month, on
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July first, whatever the first Saturdayis of July, you will be charged
fifteen dollars an hour to listen tothis program. Now, what I'm going
to do is just to give youto make this parallel. Is before I
get to that first Saturday in July, I'm going to announce that I have
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decided not to charge you fifteen dollarsan hour to listen to this program.
So therefore I can I can claim, if I'm a good politician, that
I just saved you money. Nowyou never spend any money. I never
charged you the fifteen dollars an hour, but I canceled it, so therefore
I saved you money. I wantto beat my head against the wall,
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because you know what, there arepeople that will listen to this bull crap
and thinks of themselves, Oh,may she's really isn't that good? She's
going to save us some money.Yep, she just canceled at fifteen dollars
congestion charge that I never paid.Oh is a fifteen dollars charge on cars
entering Midtown and below beginning just afew weeks that was enacted five years ago
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to achieve two essential goals. Kid, she just think about how how stupid
do you have to be to belistening to this and not realize that she's
not saving you any money whatsoever,because it was an act, what she
say, five years ago, andso they've taken five years to do this
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and they never charge anybody. Andnow she's announcing to everybody, Hey,
I'm saving you money because I'm I'mnot going to charge you, but I've
never charged you in the past.That's like, you know, I go
to McDonald's to get a diet coke, and you know, they've been charging
me for you know, the pastwhatever one hundred years that I've been drinking
diet coke, and now they announcedthat I'm not going to charge you anymore.
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Now now you're saving me money.But if if McDonald's never charged me
for a diet coke and then theysay, oh, by the way,
we were going to charge you andstarting next month, now we decided not
to charge you. Hey, we'resaving you money. No, you're not.
Reduced traffic and emissions in New YorkCity and provide a funding stream for
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much needed capital investments in public transit. Oh so they were going to spend
it on more public transit buses,subway cars. I don't know, or
were you going to spend it on, sweetheart? It was also enacted in
a pre pandemic period, but workerswere in the office five days a week,
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crime was at record lows, andtourism was at record highs. Hmmm,
wow, think about what she justadmitted that prior to Biden taking off
taking office that Oh my gosh,we had tourism, we had businesses you
know, that were flourishing. Wehad all sorts of economic activity going on.
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And then the pandemic came along.And yes, during Trump, we
shut down the entire global economy.And of course, when you reopen an
economy, it bursts out like whenyou turn on the water faucet, but
then the water begins to trinkle out, drip drip, drip, drip drip
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because you spend too much money.My gosh, she's an economic illiterate individual.
Oh that makes her a good politician, I guess. So Weekend with
Michael Brown takes the word Mike orMichael to thirty three one zero three,
be right back
To night. Michael Brown joins mehere, the former FEMA director talk show
host Michael Brown. Brownie, noBrownie, You're doing a heck of a
job the Weekend with Michael Brown.Hey, happy Saturday. Everybody. You've
tuned into the Weekend with Michael Brown. You dumb nuts. But I'm glad
that you have. Yeah, gladthey have you really am. Let's see
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So let's get star. We gotlots, I mean, it's just why
you know, there are just timeswhen like, you know, when I
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finished the weekday program on Friday,which is at ten o'clock mountain time,
Well, I'm just like, okay, my weekend has started. Uh it
so relaxing. I got Friday,got Friday evening, go have dinner,
and then of course I'm you know, I don't have to be in here.
It's new and Eastern, so it'snot till ten o'clock mountain time.
So I get into the studio herein Denver at you know, nine thirty
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or so, get all hooked up. Damie and I get hooked up and
we laugh about some stupid stuff goingon in the world. There's never anything
stupid going on in our workplace,so we never laugh about that. But
there was a there was just apoint yesterday with everything going on that I
was like, you know what,it's a good thing I'm not an alcoholic
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or a drug addict or anything else, because it was just one of those
weeks where how much stupid or canthings get? And then I thought to
myself, don't ask that question,because God will look down on you and
say, oh, here, holdmy beer, and he'll make it even
more stupid than it really is.So there's a lot to cover that is
just like, you know, myfavorite, one of my favorite phrases is
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dumb assy, and it's just thedumb ass read the world going on.
So if you're the if you're afirst time listening to this program, you
two things. I refer to mylisteners as goobers. Don't be offended by
that. Goober's is a term ofendearment. And there's a lot of dumb
assy going on in the world.And we talk about the dumb ass.
Rey what some of the dumb assyis. Uh. To give you kind
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of a little bit of a roadmaptoday, we got some climate stuff.
We've got Toyota has done something thatis amazing. Uh. We had some
hostages that were captured in Gozip bythe Israeli defense forces, despite despite the
president of this country on again,off again supporting Israel. And just a
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quick note about that. So BenjaminNetanyahu, the Prime minister in Israel,
who is barely holding on to acoalition. You know, they have a
parliamentary system of government and he's barelyholding on to a coalition government. And
this country, of all countries,shame on us, but this country has
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been on again, off again intheir support, and here is a nation
that Israel, that is trying todestroy, literally destroy a terrorist organizations that
killed thousands of people in October seven. Has for years now, since Hamas
took over in the Gaza Strip hasbeen just lobbing rockets and missiles. Ha
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Ha has be law out of Lebanon, all supported by the Iranians. So
in October seven, the terrorist attack, and shortly thereafter, the Israeli coalition
government says, okay, this isit. We've had enough, and we're
going to go in and we're goingto destroy this terrorist organization, literally destroy
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them. And the president of thiscountry flies over to Israel and says,
oh, yeah, we support youone hundred percent. And then when the
going gets tough and some civilians startgetting killed, you know, we just
celebrate the anniversary of D Day.Has anybody ever stopped and thought about how
many civilians were killed in World WarTwo? Let's think about the Ukraine Russian
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War. Does anybody bitch about howmany Ukrainian civilians that Vladimir Putin, a
dictator, is killing in Ukraine?But oh my gosh, Israel kills either
accidentally or just in the course ofconducting wartime operations, kills a few civilians
and the world goes ballistic. Sonow this country starts kind of wishy washy,
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waffling on our support. So asNatignaw who was originally kind of going
down in in his country's support becauseof one the attack occurring and then not
you know, working immediately to respondto the attack, his poll number started
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to decline. And in this countrystarts waffling on our support, and we
don't really do the things that wouldthat would show, for example, rather
than uh blaunching missiles or trying tostop the Hoothies their missiles from hitting our
ships, rather than taking out theIranian ships that are delivering the missiles,
we don't want those these for invesculation, we were really scared of everything.
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As Benjaminett and Yah who finally says, you know what, we can't depend
on America. We're gonna, youknow, we're gonna do whatever it takes
on our own. And so theystart moving through Rafa, they get down
to the southern port of Rafa andthey start taking them out, and his
poll numbers start increasing. That's leadership, and that's not what we have in
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this country. We don't. Itis a lack of leadership at virtually and
I'll just you know, get yes, I am. I'm a partisan,
and I think most of the lackof leadership is on the left side of
the plitical spectrum. It's the Democrats, it's the Marxist it's the communists,
it's the socialists, all of thosepeople that just are so afraid of their
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own shadow that we project weakness.I may get to this in a minute.
The Wall Street Journal had an editorialcomparing the speeches delivered by Joe Biden
and Ronald Reagan at D Day.Now, when we celebrate it or commemorate
it D Day, it's the betterword. When we commemorated D Day this
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week, I played Reagan's speeches.We also took live Joe Biden's speech.
Now, the words were somewhat similar, And if you read the speak each
from Joe Biden on D Day,I would say it was like, now,
that's not bad for him. Butthe problem is, when Joe Biden
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speaks, it is a projection ofweakness. It's a projection of waffling.
It's a projection of never knowing.Hey, can we depend on the United
States not depend on the United States? Look at the economy, off again,
off again. I mean as wishywashy. You know, I can't
do anything about the border because Ihave to have Congress do something about the
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border. Oh now I will dosomething about the border because my poll numbers
are so bad. It is weakness. When Reagan spoke, it was from
a position of strength. The UnitedStates was probably at that point at its
apex of power. We kind ofbeen losing our way since then. And
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his speech, as the Wall StreetJournal points out, the words may have
been similar to Biden's, but therest of the world stood up and listened
and paid attention. Because when Reaganspoke, if you're old enough to remember
the old EF Hudton commercials, whenE. F. Hutton speaks, people
listen. Well, when Reagan spoke, the world listened. I kind of
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think when Biden speaks, the worldkind of yawns, kind of like,
oh, there goes the old fartagain, and who knows, can we
depend on the United States or not? It's kind of sad. Let me
bring you when we get back.Let me tell you about a story about
going on in New York, becauseit's another example of how the poll numbers
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about almost every issue the Democrats areall concerned about. They're beginning to backpedal
as fast as they can. AndNew York Governor Kathy Hogel, she's no
different. Texta word Mike or Michaelto three three, one zero three,
Kathy hogle Next, Hey, welcomeback to the weekend with Michael Brown.
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TEXA word Mike or Michael to threethree Wednesday. Will three tell me anything?
Ask me anything. Some of youlocally here in Denver have asked about
a political ad that's running on mystation, my my home station here in
Denver, Freedom ninety three seven,Real News, real talk, and let
me explain that to a national audience. I you know, I hadn't planned
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to do that today, but Imay do that later on. Remind me
later on before the end of theprogram if I haven't done it, because
it is a great example of it'sa head fake. It's a total head
fake commercial. So there's your teasefor it. So Governor Kathy Hochl in
New York this week announced an indefinitedelay of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority the MTA.
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They're there, you know, theirlocal public transit authority. They were
going to implement something that's been triedin other cities around the world, like
London. It's called congestion pricing.The plan includes a fifteen dollars toll for
drivers that inner Manhattan below sixtieth Street. It was supposed to start at the
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end of this month. Now theidea is I mean, the idea is
twofold, but the overriding idea is, well, we can reduce our carbon
footprint because we're going to charge peopleto drive, you know, to cross
the triborough Bridge or to come inacross the Lincoln Tunnel or whatever. And
we're gonna try to keep people fromdriving in because we're gonna charge them an
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extra fifteen dollars. Now, Idon't know what the current toll. Somebody
in New York tell me what thecurrent toll is on the triborough Bridge or
on the Lincoln Tunnel, because it'sprobably up to, I don't know,
fifty bucks. Now I can rememberit was like two dollars and fifty cents,
so I'm sure it's outrageous. Soon top of those tolls, they
were going to add an additional fifteendollar charge called congestion pricing, trying to
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keep cars out of Manhattan. Soit might be easier to drive. It's
never going to be easier to drivein Manhattan until we'll all callers are gone,
and that's just not going to happen. Manhattan is just like any major
metropolitan area. It's just difficult todrive in. You know. I feel
sorry for FedEx and UPS and DHLand all the others trying to deliver in
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Manhattan because it's just a pain inthe rear, just total pain in the
rear. So she puts out apre take video announcement, and she emphasizes
the financial strain that residents in NewYork everywhere, not just in New York
City are facing because of inflation inthe cost of living crisis that's occurring.
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But it's interesting how she phrases it, because I'm thinking, wait a minute,
what are you really saying here.Let me play a part just let's
start with a part of it todayabout issues that are very much on the
minds of New Yorkers. First andforemost, I understand the financial pressures you're
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facing. Now does she really doyou think that this woman who you know
up in Albany or whether she's inNew York. I mean, she's the
governor. She doesn't have to.Do you think she worries about congestion when
she drives from Albany into New York. No, because she's got a security
detail, and they can run withthe lights and sirens, and they can
go anywhere where they want to.They can bar any where they went to.
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Do you think she truly understands.No, she doesn't understand, but
oh, she wants you to thinkshe does. Over the last five years,
Wait a minute, Over the lastfive years, Yorkers have seen the
price of groceries alone go up anaverage of twenty three percent. Think about
the cost of a dozen eggs,more than doubling from a dollar twenty to
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two eighty six. All over ourcountry, housing prices have increased by seventeen
percent. Comment in Colorado, guesswhat it is? Thirty percent? Yes,
thirty percent. But let's just pausefor a moment. Consider She starts
out by saying, you know,over the past five years. Now,
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I'm not that old that I'm senileyet, but I do know that five
years encompasses the last two years ofthe Trump administration, when inflation was at
its actually it was lower than evennormal. You know, normal inflation is
considered about two percent, just becauseof wage increases and just you know,
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kind of the increased cost of doingbusiness. Average inflation is you know,
normal inflation is around two percent orless. Well, under the Trump administration,
it was like one point two percent, and we had you know,
I know, we had mean tweets, but we had what a buck seventy
nine gas. Now in California,New York you probably had two seventy nine
gas before the US Living in FlyoverCountry, we had a buck seventy nine
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gas. It's now like three ninetynine here. And I know, don't
start bitching me up to me aboutwho you have to come out to California.
You are to come out to NewYork. I know, I know.
But what's she trying to do here. What she's trying to do is
sublimely make you think that, Oh, wait a minute, Yes, it's
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been five years since we've had allthis. No, it hasn't. It's
been like three years. When whendid inflation really kick in? Now?
Yes, some of the I wouldsay the foundation for some of the inflation
started with Donald Trump and all ofthe COVID spending the Congress did at the
at the very end of the COVID, all the checks that were going out
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and everybody's getting a check and everybody'sgoing to get money. Well, that's
a foundation for inflation. But thenthe minute that Biden gets in office,
he takes that foundation and doesn't justexplow it, he doesn't blow it up.
He makes it even worse than theGreen New Deal, the so called
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Don't Laugh the Inflation Reduction Act,Remember that one working out for you.
Well, here's Governor Holkal trying tomake you think that, oh it's gotten
Really it's really bad because it wasTrump. You know, we're gonna spread
the blame around here a little bit. What a disingenuous bran getting blank person
here. So childcare has gone upalmost twenty percent, and the strain on
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working and middle class families is justtoo much. It is too much,
you know, much too much forme sitting here listening to a politician,
any politician they've voted for any ofthese spending bills. There's constantly raising taxes,
constantly increasing spending. Think about howmuch money they're spending in New York
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City that they're not spending on schoolsor they're taking kids off. You know,
there's sports fields, so that theycan house illegal aliens there or I
forget there was some outrageous number.It was like almost fifty percent of the
six hundred plus hotels in New YorkCity are now occupied by illegal aliens.
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Well, someone's you know hotels justyou know, Marriott, Hilton or sleeves
Bag Company Hotel, you know,the one hour hotel. Motel whoever owns
that just doesn't give those rooms away. No, they charge for those rooms.
So that means taxpayers are paying forthat, and they're probably spending money
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that should be spent on something else. It's it's absolutely despicable what politicians do.
So here she is in this pretaped video announcement, so she can
be from the teller prompter. Mygosh, does anybody speak contemporary? Does
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anybody speak extemporaneously anymore? Can anybodytalk without notes? Seriously? You know,
she says, a fifteen dollars chargemay not seem significant to some,
but for working a middle class fans, he can be a budget breaker.
I cannot add another burden on NewYorkers or create an additional obstacle to our
economic recovery from the pandemic. Really, how about our economic recovery from Democrats
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Texas where Michael Michael three three oneszero three more Kathy Hockel, just to
irritate you, keep it right here, you've got the Weekend with Michael Brown.
Tonight, Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director of talk
show host Michael Brown. Brownie,No, Brownie, You're doing a heck
of a job the Weekend with MichaelBrown. So here we're talking about Kathy
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Hockel congestion pricing in New York City. But I think the congestion pricing is
is just kind of the little kernelof the entire story I want to tell
you about her. So here sheis all worried about cost of living,
groceries, childcare, why energy,you know, heating and cooling your home.
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She's worried about all of that.Well, we know it's been bad
for the past five years. Noit has not. But here she is
she warned that she was still determinedto advance the climate change agenda through strategies
to address congestion. That's the phrase. She uses, strategies to address congestion.
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Hkal's decision comes because public pressure ismounting against the toll and it's being
driven by concerns over the impact itwill have on the daily lives of just
working schlubs. They're just trying toget in and out of New York City.
Sometimes they can take the trains,sometimes they can't. Sometimes they can,
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you know, they you know,park and ride and take the train
in or take the subway in.It's it's really tough. A Politan Transit
authority, the MTA in New Yorkprojected the toll would take around one billion
dollars annually from people that had topay it. Yeah, I want you
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to think about two things, becausethose kinds of numbers often just get thrown
out. Well, you know,it's gonna it's gonna cost you know,
it's gonna it's gonna it's going tobring in revenue of a billion dollars.
Okay, So that revenue has tocome from somewhere. The revenue is gonna
cust from the poor schlubs are justtrying to get in and out, trying
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to do their work, you know, trying to get to their office,
trying to get to whatever they're tryingto do. And they've got to pay,
you know, and I know,just fifteen dollars, but fifteen dollars
a day. You go figure itout. You know, if you're if
you're if you're working fifty weeks ayear taking maybe you're getting two weeks of
vacation lucky you. So you're payingit, you know, five days a
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week or maybe six days a weekto pining how often your work seven days
a week times fifty weeks a yearor fifty two weeks a year. But
nonetheless, it's a billion dollars.So that's a billion dollars that gets taken
out of the private sector, thatgets taken out of the pockets of taxpayers.
So that's a billion dollars that taxpayerscan't spend on rent, groceries,
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childcare, clothing, entertainment, food, whatever they might want, monever they
might choose to spend it on.And every time they spend that money,
that billion dollars, and they spendit at a bodega, at a restaurant,
they spend it on rent, theyspend it on travel, they spend
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it on a car payment, theyspend it on whatever. That's money that
circulates through the private sector, andthat billion dollars multiplies a gazillion times and
grows the economy. And now thatbillion dollars is no longer available to the
private sector. Of that billion dollarsgoeswhere he goes into the coffers of government.
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What does government do with it?Does money spent by the government multiply
well, probably some degree. Imean, if you know, you have
to admit that if you take abillion dollars out of the pocket of taxpayers
and give it to non taxpayers,well there is some of that money that
gets recirculated and does help, butit's not nearly as effective as the private
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sector. But what are they goingto spend this money on? Where does
it go? You know, asI said earlier, London has long been
hammering drivers with these kind of congestioncharges. The mayor of London, who
is a radical leftist city con herecently imposed additional cost a motorists through something
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called an Expanded Ultra Low Emission Zonea ulas a ULZ. Now, of
course it's now facing public resistance.You know. Congestion charges are often featured
in what are called fifteen minute cityplans. Fifteen city fifteen minute cities ostensibly
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aimed at ensuring that anybody living ina fifteen minute city has access to anything
they might need within fifteen minutes oftheir homes so that they can walk,
so they don't have to take acar. So you can just walk to
wherever you need to go in fifteenminutes, to work, the grocery store,
to a restaurant, whatever, allcompacted down into fifteen minutes. And
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why to fight climate change? Now? In practice, policies like these congestion
charges are really intended to force residentsnot to take longer car rides by making
longer car rides financially unviable. Youknow, you're listening to a guy that
grew up as a kid in westernOklahoma and the Oklahoma Panhandle. To be
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precise, where the nearest large citywas Emerald, Texas, one hundred and
twenty miles to the south. Thedistance from my hometown to the capital of
Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, was abouttwo hundred and sixty five miles. The
distance from my hometown to where I'vebeen living for the past thirty plus years
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in Denver or in Colorado, notspecifically Denver, but to the capital of
Colorado is about two indred sixty eightmiles. So for us, the automobile
was independence. It was the abilityto go from point A to point B
in the most effective, efficient waypossible. And to this day, I
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still look upon driving is mostly apleasure, particularly when I'm trying to get
to my indisclosed location in New Mexicoor I'm or I'm you know, traveling
around the country, and how canI get from point A to point B
the most effectively and most efficiently.And it's also independence. You know.
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For example, a lot of alot of my friends will they'll take a
train to the airport, which isfine. I don't mean, I don't
object to it. Or they'll takea train to a sporting event, or
they'll take a train to go toa to a restaurant from the from the
burbs into uh into the central businessdistrict in Denver, which drives me nuts
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because it's like, you know,it's like crime ridden. But here's what
drives me crazy about public transportation inplaces like Colorado or western Oklahoma or Wyoming
or New Mexico. It's just notpractical and so for it to even be
cost effective, which most of thetime it's not, you have to limit
the service. So now i'm iam, my mobility is limited by the
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availability of that public transportation. Soif I want to leave at a certain
time. Well, I may notbe able to because public transportation is limited.
Now I know in large cities,it's entirely different. Up, you
jump on the the Metro in DC, super efficient, get anywhere any place,
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you know, because it's constantly running, if it's if it's working.
And the same is true for theNew York City subway system. But this
country is huge. Impose a mapof London on the United States that matter.
Just take a map of Los Angelesor New York or Chicago. Impose
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that on the United States, andyou realize this is a huge country.
This whole idea that somehow we've gotto fight climate change by limiting individual choice
presupposes that, oh wait a minute, is that really going to make a
difference in the climate. I'll giveyou an example right here in Colorado.
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Right now, we're expecting severe stormsthis afternoon because we have what the local
sun not all, but some ofthe local meteorologists are calling an unprecedented early
heat wave. I mean, today'ssupposed to be like ninety degrees and I'm
just laughing my ass off. Okay, it's Saturday, June eight, guys,
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It's summertime and it's been hot beforeon June eighth. I've lived in
Colorado long enough to recognize that wehave these variabilities depending on La Nina or
El Nino, depending on just youknow, the the cycle of the climate.
This sometimes it's really hot in July, I mean in June, and
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sometimes it doesn't really get hot untilJuly, and then people are bitching about
one hundred degree temperatures. Why that'snothing. But as long as we keep
people fearful about it, then peoplelike Kathy Hokeel can go on a taped
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video and tell you how she reallyis concerned. How concerned is she?
Well, I'll let you know.Texta word Mike or Michael to three three
one zero three. Just a littlemore Kathy Hokel, Hey, welcome back
the weekend with Michael Brown. Gladto have you with me. Texta word
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Mike or Michael at three three onezero three. Kathy Hokeel to kind of
put the icing on the cake.Here. Here's a little bit more of
her addressing affordability in the cost ofliving in New York. That's how she
has captioned her video. That's whysince becoming your governor, one of my
priorities has been to address affordability andkeep and put more money back in your
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pockets. That's why I fought torate then lower taxes. You know,
the most efficient, effective way tohelp people out financially is to give them
more of their own money back andto reduce the size of government. But
she has no desire, no intentionwhatsoever to reduce the size of government in
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New York, as does any Democratgovernor and for that matter, most Republican
governors in any state in this nation. It's the minimum wage and tie it
to an aquirement. She wants totalk about minimme wage. You're gonna put
more money in the pockets people byincreasing the minimum wage. Let's look over
to New York. I mean toCalifornia, where thousands of restaurants are closing,
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where tens of thousands of restaurant employeesare losing their jobs. Where,
for example, in San Diego,a fish taco Rubio's Fish Tacos, the
staple in San Diego for decades,is closing. I forget the hundreds,
I forget how many stores they havebecause of the mandatory twenty dollars minimum wage.
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You know, I still advocate inColorado if they really believe that increasing
the minimum wage increases, you know, money in people's pockets, Then why
do we do twenty dollars in Colorado? Because Denver is the mile high city
where at we're at five two hundredand eighty feet. I think, and
I advocate, and I think youshould advocate also for a minimum wage in
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Colorado out of a fifty two dollarseighty cents an hour, why stop?
Why stop at twenty dollars an hour? Think about the logic. If your
logic is that increasing the minimum wagehelps people, then why stop at twenty
dollars? Make it thirty forty andin Colorado symbolically fifty two dollars eighty cents
an hour nation double tuition assistance,then double tuition assistance. So you're going
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to take money out of people whoare just working trying to make ends meet
to give money to people who wantto go to college. You know what,
maybe do what I did. Youknow what, I was married.
I actually by the time I gotinto law school, I had two children,
and I worked and went to lawschool and successfully graduated and successfully practice
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law. You know, sometimes yougotta do what you gotta do. Quit
babysitting everybody, and on income taxes, an invested bill, and affordable childcare.
So again, you're taking money frompeople who don't have kids and giving
the money to who do have kids, and providing affordable childcare. So now
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it's the role of government to providechildcare. Oh my god. Our policies
must support everyday New Yorkers, likeour small business people, police officers,
firefighters, teachers, healthcare workers,truck drivers, and not add to their
financial burdens. So let's talk aboutcongestion pricing, which would so of all
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of the things that she was todo to try to help people, she's
going to cancel something that was neverimplemented. Think about it. Think about
the stupidity of that. So I'mgoing to start charging all of you next
month to listen to this program.Okay, So starting next month, on
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July first, whatever the first Saturdayis of July, you will be charged
fifteen dollars an hour to listen tothis program. Now, what I'm going
to do is just to give youto make this parallel. Is before I
get to that first Saturday in July, I'm going to announce that I have
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decided not to charge you fifteen dollarsan hour to listen to this program.
So therefore I can I can claim, if I'm a good politician, that
I just saved you money. Nowyou never spend any money. I never
charged you the fifteen dollars an hour, but I canceled it, so therefore
I saved you money. I wantto beat my head against the wall,
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because you know what, there arepeople that will listen to this bull crap
and thinks of themselves, Oh,may she's really isn't that good? She's
going to save us some money.Yep, she just canceled at fifteen dollars
congestion charge that I never paid.Oh is a fifteen dollars charge on cars
entering Midtown and below beginning just afew weeks that was enacted five years ago
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to achieve two essential goals. Kid, she just think about how how stupid
do you have to be to belistening to this and not realize that she's
not saving you any money whatsoever,because it was an act, what she
say, five years ago, andso they've taken five years to do this
(33:24):
and they never charge anybody. Andnow she's announcing to everybody, Hey,
I'm saving you money because I'm I'mnot going to charge you, but I've
never charged you in the past.That's like, you know, I go
to McDonald's to get a diet coke, and you know, they've been charging
me for you know, the pastwhatever one hundred years that I've been drinking
diet coke, and now they announcedthat I'm not going to charge you anymore.
(33:45):
Now now you're saving me money.But if if McDonald's never charged me
for a diet coke and then theysay, oh, by the way,
we were going to charge you andstarting next month, now we decided not
to charge you. Hey, we'resaving you money. No, you're not.
Reduced traffic and emissions in New YorkCity and provide a funding stream for
(34:06):
much needed capital investments in public transit. Oh so they were going to spend
it on more public transit buses,subway cars. I don't know, or
were you going to spend it on, sweetheart? It was also enacted in
a pre pandemic period, but workerswere in the office five days a week,
(34:29):
crime was at record lows, andtourism was at record highs. Hmmm,
wow, think about what she justadmitted that prior to Biden taking off
taking office that Oh my gosh,we had tourism, we had businesses you
know, that were flourishing. Wehad all sorts of economic activity going on.
(34:52):
And then the pandemic came along.And yes, during Trump, we
shut down the entire global economy.And of course, when you reopen an
economy, it bursts out like whenyou turn on the water faucet, but
then the water begins to trinkle out, drip drip, drip, drip drip
(35:12):
because you spend too much money.My gosh, she's an economic illiterate individual.
Oh that makes her a good politician, I guess. So Weekend with
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