May 7, 2024 • 29 mins
The teachers union in Chicago is asking for some insane demands in new contract negotiations. The mayor of Chicago wants to relocate homeless people from Downtown to the South Side. Gov. Kristi Noem goes after Biden's dog Commander after she received major backlash for killing a puppy that was being raised to be a hunting dog. More on the failures to curb the homeless crisis in this state.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
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How are we doing on calls today? They're good?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
No, we need more, we need more, Okay, So so
call in with all your I'll give you a story here.
You're going to be calling in on this one. I
guarantee you call in on this one. And it's it's
about Chicago. Because Chicago has an even worse mayor than
Karen Bass, who's even more progressive and more incompetent, and
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they have a teachers union that has is testing the
limits of insanity. I don't know if there's a word
or a state you can be beyond insanity, but the
Chicago Teachers Union and their union president Stacy Davis Gates,
they're there. They're in uncharted insanity land. Everything I'm about
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to tell you is true, None of this is made up.
This is not exaggerated, distorted, biased, and ain way, these
are the facts. I don't have to add any hyperbole
to this. The Chicago Teachers Union is negotiating a new
contract with the public school system. It is calling for
an extra extra fifty billion dollars to pay for massive
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wage increases. I'll explain those in a minute, But they
have other demands. The teachers want fully paid abortions for
its members, and they want the taxpayers to pay for those.
They want extensive new illegal alien services and facilities, in
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addition to more LGBT requirements and training in schools. Fifty
billion dollars. Now you're probably wondering, is that a lot?
We're a little fifty billion. It's hard to keep track
of this stuff. Fifty billion is about the total tax
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fifty billion is about the annual total tax payments made
by citizens in Illinois in a year. So you add
up all the taxes that Illinois citizens pay in one year,
it comes to fifty billion. The Chicago Teachers Union wants
fifty billion just for its wage hikes, its abortions, it's
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illegal alien services and these gay training programs. In other words,
take all the taxes everyone pays in Illinois now to
pay the same amount for these teachers union demands. And
you're probably saying, well, I bet you they're really good
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at their job, right if they're making these kind of
crazy demands, everything else is taken care of. All these
kids are graduating is as as scholars they're going on
to I'm not gonna I can't use the phrase elite
universities anymore because well, they're going to good school somewhere
right right. They've mastered math, they've mastered English. They can read,
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they can write, they can spell, they can add, they
can subtract.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You would be wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Only twenty one percent of Chicago's eighth graders are proficient readers.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Twenty one percent.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Seventy nine percent of Chicago students in eighth grade do
not read at grade level. And the teachers Union want
fully paid abortions. The union president, Stacy Davis Gates, who
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must be inhaling something just awesome. She wants nine percent
wage increases each year through twenty twenty eight. In other words,
a nine percent increase this year next year, nine percent
in twenty twenty six, nine percent in twenty twenty seven,
nine percent in twenty twenty eight. Right now, the average
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salary of a teacher in Chicago is ninety three thousand.
By twenty twenty eight, it would be one hundred and
forty four thousand, which is double the median income.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Double.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
The Chicago Public school budget is going to be over
nine billion dollars a year this year, up thirty percent
in five years. They spend twenty one thousand dollars a student,
fifty percent higher than the national APPA. And seventy nine
percent of the students cannot read a grade level in
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eighth grade. And this this crack bot Stacy Davis Gates says,
we're asking you to give us an opportunity to tell
our story. It will cost fifty billion and three cents,
Yes it will. And so what that's audacity. The thing
is they have so they have so bought the mayor
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Brandon Johnson, who is an unqualified, overwhelmed in income poop.
Johnson used to work for the California Teachers Union. He's
there stooge, and the teachers Union has spent two and
a half million dollars into his campaign in the last year.
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In fact, he's gotten more than six million dollars from
teachers unions all together. Stacy Davis Gates says that school
choice is racist. However, she sends her son to a
private school. I'm not making this up. She wants one
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hundred percent coverage benefits for abortions, one hundred percent coverage
for fertility, full coverage for storage of embryos and any
other frozen storage needs outside of the embryos, What body
parts would need to be frozen and stored because she
wants that cover.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Do you know, I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Are the embryos I get? But what else? I mean?
If somebody is willing to donate a kidney, maybe can
you freeze that I have?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
She also wants six hundred and forty six of the
public schools to have a newcomer Lison new is the
new progressive code word for a llegal alien. She wants
school facilities to be converted into housing accommodations for illegal aliens.
Every district should have one gender neutral bathroom, and they
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want a policy that any teacher would be prohibited from
telling parents if a student decides they're changing sexes. So
if you're a teacher and you hear that somebody in
your class, they tell you I want to be a
girl now, or I want to be a boy now.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
You're prohibited from telling the parents.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
John, you can freeze hearts, kidneys, lungs, and other.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Organs you can't.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
So this is a legitimate demand. Yeah, I'm for transplant purposes. Yeah,
well I don't. I mean, I know, for short periods
of time. You got to keep them cold, because sometimes
they've got to transport the organs from one hospital to
the next, and they put them in coolers. But I
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wonder how long that lasts before they go bad.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I'm looking.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
You don't want to get a you don't want to
get a spoiled kidney.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Scientists have performed the first successful transplant of an organ
that had been cryogenically frozen and rewarmed thanks to a
new preservation chemical.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I don't know. Yeah, well I would be covered. How
do you want rewarmed? It put them in a micro
maybe you knew.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Kid I don't know. You let it thaw on a table.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It's on the dial. Ten minutes human kidney.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
All right, we come back part two of what It's
Like to Live in Chicago, and we've got a news
report to play you from Chicago TV. They want to
open up an illegal alien shelter in a neighborhood, and
the neighborhood is angry because they don't get normal services
from the government.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Part two of our tour of Chicago.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
In the last segment, we told you about how in
Chicago the insane Teachers Union there is demanding a fifty
billion dollars extra in the contract, huge wage increases and
fully paid abortions.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
It's a nice perk, and turned some of.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
The school sites into housing for legal aliens and a
lot of training in schools for alternative sexualities.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Fifty billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
That's as much money as the all the taxpayers in
Illinois pay to all the governments in one year. All
the taxpayers in Illinois pay fifty billion dollars in a
year to all the government entities. And they want another
fifty billion just for their abortions and illegal alien services.
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And they want their eggs frozen and other things.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Part two also vov's illegal aliens. The mayor Brandon Johnson,
who I read is so overwhelmed by the job he
frequently has panic attacks, and he's pretty much laying on
the ground, freaking out. He wants to open a temporary
migrant shelter on Chicago's South Side, very poor black neighborhood.
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The neighborhood very upset with this. We're going to play
a report from vy Win from NBC.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Five strong reactions tonight from residents after learning Mayor Brandon
Johnson is considering plans to open a new temporary migrant
shelter in their South Side neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I mean, you don't know where to put him work.
Why would you put him in our neighborhood? Well, why
don't we go by your house?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
All of that money that he's given them, We've been
bagging for years.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
We've lived here our whole life. We have a lot
of bad things that happen here already.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
We do not need those swe just do not.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Located just blocks away from guaranteed rate field, the proposed
building near Canal and Pershing is in the city's eleventh ward.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Look it works, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Hid in the back. Why is that a good location?
We have no amenities here as it is.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Alder Woman Nicole issued this letter to constituents yesterday, saying
she was notified earlier this week and met with the
mayor on Thursday. She says the city wants to move
migrants staying at the Standard Club near the Dirts and
Federal Building to her ward before the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
This is just insane.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Keep them downtown, keep them I don't know, I mean,
this is not our problem.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
The alder Woman made it clear she is against the
proposed plan, citing safety and location concerns and lack of
justification for the move. She says, quote, as our city
grapples with this unprecedented influx of migrants, it is crucial
that we handle the migrant crisis safely, responsibly, and with
full transparency. The well being of our communities must be
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the top priority.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
They are all we want to do is hall's our veterans,
and they're getting kicked to the side for the people
who didn't do anything for this country. Yet those Mountain
women honorably served. They should be coming first.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Alder Woman Nicole Lee was not available for an on
camera interview today. The alder Woman is asking the Mayor's
office that if they decide to move forward with this plan,
she wants them to hold community meetings prior to signing
the lease, giving her constituents an opportunity to ask any
questions and to address their concerns about this site.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yes, listen to this statement.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Alderman Lee was given notice and an effort to gather
feedback and information about a temporary emergency shelter site. Will
continue to be transparent and inform community stakeholders. Why did
they use all these buzzwords that nobody normal ever uses
at any time. Hey, this is the big message that
I think some black voters are finally getting. You have
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been bumped down on the list by the Democrats in
favor of illegal aliens. Illegal aliens now have special privileged
status over you. So you are going to get the
migrant shelters in your neighborhoods. They're not going to put
them in the white neighborhoods. They think you are going
to vote Democrat no matter what. They did this in
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New York City too. They use soccer fields and gymnasiums
and schools that black students normally use, but the black
students were told to go home, get out of here.
We've got illegal aliens coming in, and illegal aliens have
now ascended to the top of the pyramid, and black students,
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black families are now kicked down another notch because they
think black voters will keep voting Democratic no matter what.
Are they wrong? What's the leverage you have? What's the
leverage anybody has? Keep voting for these people? You're going
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to get more of it and worse. Coming up after
three o'clock, speaking of illegal aliens, I'm going to talk
with Todd Benzman on the journalist works for the Center
for Immigration Studies or affiliated with them, and he's got
a lot to say about the latest incredibly stupid insaye
idea from Joe Biden bringing Gaza war refugees into the
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US right, because we don't have enough trouble right, No,
we need war refugees here so we can have the
rest of the schools closed with protests.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty three o'clock.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
We're gonna have Todd Benzman. And Todd Benzman is an
independent journalist, he's an author, writes on immigration. He's the
Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies,
and he's got a new piece in the New York
Post about the nuttiness of Biden's administration. You can't blame him,
blame him because because.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
He's deceased.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
But his staff wants to send us Gaza war refugees.
That's no good. That is a bad idea. Isn't it obvious?
That's a really bad idea. Gaza war refugees. Holy Moly,
that's what they want to do. And they're serious about this. Yeah,
because we don't have enough people who hate America. We
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don't have enough people who hate Jews, who want to
kill all the Jews. Not enough people at those protests,
so we can bolster up those college protests with incoming.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Todd Bensman coming on. I've got.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I've got a couple of stories on California's homeless failures.
But I forgot this yesterday. And did you see did
you see Christy Nomes appearance on TV?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Did I?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I did not.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Oh, she was the one South Dakota governor who is
bragging in her new book how she shot Yeah, herrick cricket.
Cricket shot to death in a gravel pit because cricket
wouldn't stop eating chickens.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
This is a puppy that was trained to.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Be a hunter fourteen months old.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, yeah, and was supposed to go pheasant hunting, right,
so she'd kill the pheasants then, and then she started
killing the.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Chickens, so then she had to kill the dog, so.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Gnome dragged her. So she decides to go on face
the nation and not only defends killing cricket, she went
after Biden's German shepherd Commander because Commander had to be
removed from the White House because it had bit so
many Secret Service agents.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Well, she probably is calling for a beheading.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Pretty close.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Christy Homes said, Biden's dog has attacked twenty four Secret
Service people, So how many people is enough people to
be attacked and dangerously hurt before you make a decision
on a dog.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Why is she.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Even talking about dogs? I mean, doesn't you want people
to forget that she murdered her fourteen month old puppy, Cricket.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
She's dying to be Trump's vice president.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Did you guys see the SNL bit about this on
the Weekend Update this past Saturday. They had the dog
that she didn't kill on and Colin Yost was interviewing
the dog, and the dog was basically like a hostage
saying all the right things, saying no, she's a great owner,
don't kill me like it was so funny.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
So you know, she had said cricket was untrainable, dangerous
to anyone she came in contact with, less than worthless
as a hunting dog.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I mean, come on, it's a puppy. How can you
make that How can you make that determination? At that time?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I hated that dog, she wrote, And she also wrote,
a dog who bites his dangerous and unpredictable. Are you listening,
Joe Biden, especially if you're running a business where people
interact with your dogs. That that was That was unusual
because usually when a politician does something really stupid and embarrassing,
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they start glovering an apology, right, and then they go away.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
No, she's telling Biden that he should have killed his dog.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
He couts a Network TV.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
You know, whatever, dog I shoot to death if I
run into command her.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Boy, he's getting a bullet between the eyes.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I don't I don't understand. I mean, does she really
think that the people are in support of what she did?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
But you know what, knowing Trump, he might he might
select her, now, don't you think don't you think?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
You don't think he would.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
No, I don't but I could be wrong, but.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I think just to defy, uh the consensus.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Uh, all right, this article pissed me off like six
different ways. It was in cal Matter and the headline
simple question, did California's massive COVID homeless shelter program work?
Because they spent billions of dollars to put sixty two
thousand homeless people into hotel rooms to try to keep
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them from catching COVID, And it says a new independent
report claims that Project Room Key was a success.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
That's the first sentence. Second sentence, but data is lacking.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well, if you don't have any data, then how do
you know it's a success. And then the third sentence,
After the program ended, many participants remained homeless. So what's
the success here? The researcher said there was a dearth
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of available data on the program and that people who
left had at least a forty percent chance of returning
to homelessness.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
But they're not sure. See what you got.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
These were hotel rooms, although in probably the majority of
the cases it was motel rooms. And these were disgusting,
dilapidated motel rooms which already had plenty of problems before
you put the homeless in there. Project groom Key provided
residents with their own private room and bathroom, in some
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cases healthcare, other than it's different from shelters where everyone,
you know, you have dozens of beds and everybody's laying
there up against each other. And they didn't want to
do traditional shelters because then they thought COVID would spread
and then all these people who would get sick and die.
But researchers, while declaring it a success, said there was
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huge holes in the data. They couldn't cross reference the
death records or information about the health of these vagrants,
so they had no way to prove that room keep
prevented deaths or kept people healthier. But it was a success.
It's a success because we say it's a success and
we can't prove it and we don't have the data,
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but it was a success. What they want is they
want the massive amount of money every year to keep
these people in the motels. That's what they want. These
are the nonprofits saying, hey, hey, gimme, gimme, we want
to fatten up and we want to create some more
six figure executive jobs here. As of January, twenty two
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percent of people leaving room key went to permittent housing.
That means seventy eight percent didn't. A lot of them
remained homeless, a lot of them went back to the street,
a lot of them disappeared. Forty percent remained homeless, fifteen
percent went back to the street, eighteen percent went to
unknown destinations. So you know, nearly eighty percent had no
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effect on them. We just paid billions of dollars so
they could live in a disgusting motel for some months. See,
and this room key they had all these criticisms. Room
key hotels were not designed for long term living. Residents
could not cook, and the mini fridges could only store
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enough food for one or two days. See, we should
have bought them really large refrigerators and installed stoves. That's
what that's what the vagrants deserved. The motels were Decrepit
didn't have enough rooms for people with disabilities. Some people
complained of cockroaches and roodents. How about you go get
a job, and if you get a job, you could
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afford a refrigerator and roach spray.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
How about that.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
One of these homeless cranks says, people will come indoors
if they're offered a enemy safety privacy. If they're able
to keep their partners, their pets, their possessions. When their
needs are met and needs are considered, then people will
come indoors. Oh okay, So we got to give them
their boyfriends and girlfriends, their cats, their dogs, all the
junk that they collected in the shopping carts. Then we
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have to give them a room. We have to give
them a refrigerator. We got to get rid of the
cockroaches and the rats. They have to be assured that
everything is safe in private that would be known as
a house or an apartment, which the rest of us
work for decades to get. But they want a whole package,
like it's some kind of game show and they just
want to win it because they don't want to go
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to work. They'd rather shoot up and snort. And that's
what it is. We come back.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
The second absurd homeless story in California, a nonprofit ripping
off the tax bearer. I know it's shocking.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
We're going to talk with Todd Bensman coming on. He
is the uh. He is the writer, the journalist who
covers the border and all the illegal alien uh issues.
We've had a number of times. He's got a new
piece in the New York Post. He's also a senior
fellow with the Center for Immigration Studies. I got that right, Yeah,
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senior national security fellow. He knows a lot of stuff.
And he wrote a piece today on this idea that
the Biden administration has to bring us Gaza Gaza refugees,
war refugees from Gaza. Can you imagine? Oh yeah, Yai,
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we have enough. We have enough people who hate Jews.
We've kind of maxed out on the on the jew
hatred right now and on the on the college protests.
Speaking of the college protests, it's one other thing. I
just found this a minute ago. There's a photo going
around and this was at the University of Ottawa up
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in Canada, and they've got a picture an overhead shot
of the outdoor stairs leading up to one of their
administrative buildings, like cement stairs, and the protesters spray painted
in red Free Palestine. But they misspelled Palestine. They spelled
it PA L A S T I D E should
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be an e instead of the second a.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Dump clucks.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
These protesters. I don't care what college they're at. A
lot of them are stupidest boards and they're uneducated in
whatever they're complaining about. They don't know what's going on.
I think they just got hired. It's it's like a
summer job that they're doing right now. They don't know
what they're talking about. Somebody put it best on one
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of the news shows. What you have here is you
have DEI admission standards combined with no SAT scores anymore
at these universities. You take away the SAT scores and
you use DEI standards, what are you going to get.
You're gonna get the dopes protesting and they don't know
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They can't even spell Palestine.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
All right.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Back to the second story on all the homeless failures
in this state. Do you know that there was a
nonprofit that petition to get more than one hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Dollars for a pink job.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
This homeless organization was running an operation at the Oasis
Hotel in San Francisco, and they said, we need one
hundred and five thousand dollars and we want to paint
the place, among other things. Providence Foundation is the name
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of this nonprofit. Well, it turns out, according to the
city attorney in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
David Chew.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
That the Providence Foundation wrote up a bunch of phony
invoices in twenty twenty two for the Oasis Hotel and,
as the La Times describes it, a shelter for families
experiencing homelessness.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I just love that all these stupid.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Progressive journalists jump on whatever the new jargon is, whatever
the new euphemism, the new phrase experiencing homelessness. This was
a nonprofit that started operating in twenty twenty one. They
claimed they had painted the outside of the Oasis Hotel
and removed the dead bolt locks. But the locks are
still there and there's no new paint. The city paid
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one hundred and five thousand dollars to Providence and nothing
was done.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Chew, this is precious, said.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
The nonprofit took over one hundred thousand dollars of public
money meant to benefit people experiencing homelessness that cannot be tolerated.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Everybody's in line with that phrase.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Yes, the nonprofits all over the state, in LA and
San Francisco have stolen billions of dollars billions, and homelessness
has increased.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Why are they picking on poor Providence? Huh? For one
paint job that never got done. This is not.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
This is far from the biggest crime being committed by
these crooked nonprofits. Why did this one get pursued and
why is it getting so publicized? They've stolen billions. Everything's
gotten worse. Todd Bensman when we come back, Todd Fellow
with the Center for Immigration Studies, the writer, the journalists.
He's always sending stories in from the Mexican border, and
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now he's got a piece on just how crazy the
Biden administration's new idea is bringing in war refugees from Gaza. Yeah,
you know, there's two million people that live in Gaza.
Why don't we import all two million? That will make
life better? Debra Mark Live in the KFI twenty four
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
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How are we doing on calls today? They're good?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
No, we need more, we need more, Okay, So so
call in with all your I'll give you a story here.
You're going to be calling in on this one. I
guarantee you call in on this one. And it's it's
about Chicago. Because Chicago has an even worse mayor than
Karen Bass, who's even more progressive and more incompetent, and
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they have a teachers union that has is testing the
limits of insanity. I don't know if there's a word
or a state you can be beyond insanity, but the
Chicago Teachers Union and their union president Stacy Davis Gates,
they're there. They're in uncharted insanity land. Everything I'm about
(01:13):
to tell you is true, None of this is made up.
This is not exaggerated, distorted, biased, and ain way, these
are the facts. I don't have to add any hyperbole
to this. The Chicago Teachers Union is negotiating a new
contract with the public school system. It is calling for
an extra extra fifty billion dollars to pay for massive
(01:40):
wage increases. I'll explain those in a minute, But they
have other demands. The teachers want fully paid abortions for
its members, and they want the taxpayers to pay for those.
They want extensive new illegal alien services and facilities, in
(02:01):
addition to more LGBT requirements and training in schools. Fifty
billion dollars. Now you're probably wondering, is that a lot?
We're a little fifty billion. It's hard to keep track
of this stuff. Fifty billion is about the total tax
(02:25):
fifty billion is about the annual total tax payments made
by citizens in Illinois in a year. So you add
up all the taxes that Illinois citizens pay in one year,
it comes to fifty billion. The Chicago Teachers Union wants
fifty billion just for its wage hikes, its abortions, it's
(02:48):
illegal alien services and these gay training programs. In other words,
take all the taxes everyone pays in Illinois now to
pay the same amount for these teachers union demands. And
you're probably saying, well, I bet you they're really good
(03:08):
at their job, right if they're making these kind of
crazy demands, everything else is taken care of. All these
kids are graduating is as as scholars they're going on
to I'm not gonna I can't use the phrase elite
universities anymore because well, they're going to good school somewhere
right right. They've mastered math, they've mastered English. They can read,
(03:34):
they can write, they can spell, they can add, they
can subtract.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You would be wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Only twenty one percent of Chicago's eighth graders are proficient readers.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Twenty one percent.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Seventy nine percent of Chicago students in eighth grade do
not read at grade level. And the teachers Union want
fully paid abortions. The union president, Stacy Davis Gates, who
(04:08):
must be inhaling something just awesome. She wants nine percent
wage increases each year through twenty twenty eight. In other words,
a nine percent increase this year next year, nine percent
in twenty twenty six, nine percent in twenty twenty seven,
nine percent in twenty twenty eight. Right now, the average
(04:30):
salary of a teacher in Chicago is ninety three thousand.
By twenty twenty eight, it would be one hundred and
forty four thousand, which is double the median income.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Double.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
The Chicago Public school budget is going to be over
nine billion dollars a year this year, up thirty percent
in five years. They spend twenty one thousand dollars a student,
fifty percent higher than the national APPA. And seventy nine
percent of the students cannot read a grade level in
(05:06):
eighth grade. And this this crack bot Stacy Davis Gates says,
we're asking you to give us an opportunity to tell
our story. It will cost fifty billion and three cents,
Yes it will. And so what that's audacity. The thing
is they have so they have so bought the mayor
(05:30):
Brandon Johnson, who is an unqualified, overwhelmed in income poop.
Johnson used to work for the California Teachers Union. He's
there stooge, and the teachers Union has spent two and
a half million dollars into his campaign in the last year.
(05:52):
In fact, he's gotten more than six million dollars from
teachers unions all together. Stacy Davis Gates says that school
choice is racist. However, she sends her son to a
private school. I'm not making this up. She wants one
(06:17):
hundred percent coverage benefits for abortions, one hundred percent coverage
for fertility, full coverage for storage of embryos and any
other frozen storage needs outside of the embryos, What body
parts would need to be frozen and stored because she
wants that cover.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Do you know, I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Are the embryos I get? But what else? I mean?
If somebody is willing to donate a kidney, maybe can
you freeze that I have?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
She also wants six hundred and forty six of the
public schools to have a newcomer Lison new is the
new progressive code word for a llegal alien. She wants
school facilities to be converted into housing accommodations for illegal aliens.
Every district should have one gender neutral bathroom, and they
(07:18):
want a policy that any teacher would be prohibited from
telling parents if a student decides they're changing sexes. So
if you're a teacher and you hear that somebody in
your class, they tell you I want to be a
girl now, or I want to be a boy now.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
You're prohibited from telling the parents.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
John, you can freeze hearts, kidneys, lungs, and other.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Organs you can't.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
So this is a legitimate demand. Yeah, I'm for transplant purposes. Yeah,
well I don't. I mean, I know, for short periods
of time. You got to keep them cold, because sometimes
they've got to transport the organs from one hospital to
the next, and they put them in coolers. But I
(08:09):
wonder how long that lasts before they go bad.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I'm looking.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
You don't want to get a you don't want to
get a spoiled kidney.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Scientists have performed the first successful transplant of an organ
that had been cryogenically frozen and rewarmed thanks to a
new preservation chemical.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I don't know. Yeah, well I would be covered. How
do you want rewarmed? It put them in a micro
maybe you knew.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Kid I don't know. You let it thaw on a table.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It's on the dial. Ten minutes human kidney.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
All right, we come back part two of what It's
Like to Live in Chicago, and we've got a news
report to play you from Chicago TV. They want to
open up an illegal alien shelter in a neighborhood, and
the neighborhood is angry because they don't get normal services
from the government.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Part two of our tour of Chicago.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
In the last segment, we told you about how in
Chicago the insane Teachers Union there is demanding a fifty
billion dollars extra in the contract, huge wage increases and
fully paid abortions.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
It's a nice perk, and turned some of.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
The school sites into housing for legal aliens and a
lot of training in schools for alternative sexualities.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Fifty billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
That's as much money as the all the taxpayers in
Illinois pay to all the governments in one year. All
the taxpayers in Illinois pay fifty billion dollars in a
year to all the government entities. And they want another
fifty billion just for their abortions and illegal alien services.
(10:01):
And they want their eggs frozen and other things.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Part two also vov's illegal aliens. The mayor Brandon Johnson,
who I read is so overwhelmed by the job he
frequently has panic attacks, and he's pretty much laying on
the ground, freaking out. He wants to open a temporary
migrant shelter on Chicago's South Side, very poor black neighborhood.
(10:29):
The neighborhood very upset with this. We're going to play
a report from vy Win from NBC.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Five strong reactions tonight from residents after learning Mayor Brandon
Johnson is considering plans to open a new temporary migrant
shelter in their South Side neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I mean, you don't know where to put him work.
Why would you put him in our neighborhood? Well, why
don't we go by your house?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
All of that money that he's given them, We've been
bagging for years.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
We've lived here our whole life. We have a lot
of bad things that happen here already.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
We do not need those swe just do not.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Located just blocks away from guaranteed rate field, the proposed
building near Canal and Pershing is in the city's eleventh ward.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Look it works, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Hid in the back. Why is that a good location?
We have no amenities here as it is.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Alder Woman Nicole issued this letter to constituents yesterday, saying
she was notified earlier this week and met with the
mayor on Thursday. She says the city wants to move
migrants staying at the Standard Club near the Dirts and
Federal Building to her ward before the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
This is just insane.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Keep them downtown, keep them I don't know, I mean,
this is not our problem.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
The alder Woman made it clear she is against the
proposed plan, citing safety and location concerns and lack of
justification for the move. She says, quote, as our city
grapples with this unprecedented influx of migrants, it is crucial
that we handle the migrant crisis safely, responsibly, and with
full transparency. The well being of our communities must be
(11:58):
the top priority.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
They are all we want to do is hall's our veterans,
and they're getting kicked to the side for the people
who didn't do anything for this country. Yet those Mountain
women honorably served. They should be coming first.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Alder Woman Nicole Lee was not available for an on
camera interview today. The alder Woman is asking the Mayor's
office that if they decide to move forward with this plan,
she wants them to hold community meetings prior to signing
the lease, giving her constituents an opportunity to ask any
questions and to address their concerns about this site.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yes, listen to this statement.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Alderman Lee was given notice and an effort to gather
feedback and information about a temporary emergency shelter site. Will
continue to be transparent and inform community stakeholders. Why did
they use all these buzzwords that nobody normal ever uses
at any time. Hey, this is the big message that
I think some black voters are finally getting. You have
(12:52):
been bumped down on the list by the Democrats in
favor of illegal aliens. Illegal aliens now have special privileged
status over you. So you are going to get the
migrant shelters in your neighborhoods. They're not going to put
them in the white neighborhoods. They think you are going
to vote Democrat no matter what. They did this in
(13:13):
New York City too. They use soccer fields and gymnasiums
and schools that black students normally use, but the black
students were told to go home, get out of here.
We've got illegal aliens coming in, and illegal aliens have
now ascended to the top of the pyramid, and black students,
(13:35):
black families are now kicked down another notch because they
think black voters will keep voting Democratic no matter what.
Are they wrong? What's the leverage you have? What's the
leverage anybody has? Keep voting for these people? You're going
(13:56):
to get more of it and worse. Coming up after
three o'clock, speaking of illegal aliens, I'm going to talk
with Todd Benzman on the journalist works for the Center
for Immigration Studies or affiliated with them, and he's got
a lot to say about the latest incredibly stupid insaye
idea from Joe Biden bringing Gaza war refugees into the
(14:20):
US right, because we don't have enough trouble right, No,
we need war refugees here so we can have the
rest of the schools closed with protests.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty three o'clock.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
We're gonna have Todd Benzman. And Todd Benzman is an
independent journalist, he's an author, writes on immigration. He's the
Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies,
and he's got a new piece in the New York
Post about the nuttiness of Biden's administration. You can't blame him,
blame him because because.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
He's deceased.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
But his staff wants to send us Gaza war refugees.
That's no good. That is a bad idea. Isn't it obvious?
That's a really bad idea. Gaza war refugees. Holy Moly,
that's what they want to do. And they're serious about this. Yeah,
because we don't have enough people who hate America. We
(15:24):
don't have enough people who hate Jews, who want to
kill all the Jews. Not enough people at those protests,
so we can bolster up those college protests with incoming.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Todd Bensman coming on. I've got.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I've got a couple of stories on California's homeless failures.
But I forgot this yesterday. And did you see did
you see Christy Nomes appearance on TV?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Did I?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I did not.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Oh, she was the one South Dakota governor who is
bragging in her new book how she shot Yeah, herrick cricket.
Cricket shot to death in a gravel pit because cricket
wouldn't stop eating chickens.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
This is a puppy that was trained to.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Be a hunter fourteen months old.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, yeah, and was supposed to go pheasant hunting, right,
so she'd kill the pheasants then, and then she started
killing the.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Chickens, so then she had to kill the dog, so.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Gnome dragged her. So she decides to go on face
the nation and not only defends killing cricket, she went
after Biden's German shepherd Commander because Commander had to be
removed from the White House because it had bit so
many Secret Service agents.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Well, she probably is calling for a beheading.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Pretty close.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Christy Homes said, Biden's dog has attacked twenty four Secret
Service people, So how many people is enough people to
be attacked and dangerously hurt before you make a decision
on a dog.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Why is she.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Even talking about dogs? I mean, doesn't you want people
to forget that she murdered her fourteen month old puppy, Cricket.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
She's dying to be Trump's vice president.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Did you guys see the SNL bit about this on
the Weekend Update this past Saturday. They had the dog
that she didn't kill on and Colin Yost was interviewing
the dog, and the dog was basically like a hostage
saying all the right things, saying no, she's a great owner,
don't kill me like it was so funny.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
So you know, she had said cricket was untrainable, dangerous
to anyone she came in contact with, less than worthless
as a hunting dog.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I mean, come on, it's a puppy. How can you
make that How can you make that determination? At that time?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I hated that dog, she wrote, And she also wrote,
a dog who bites his dangerous and unpredictable. Are you listening,
Joe Biden, especially if you're running a business where people
interact with your dogs. That that was That was unusual
because usually when a politician does something really stupid and embarrassing,
(18:12):
they start glovering an apology, right, and then they go away.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
No, she's telling Biden that he should have killed his dog.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
He couts a Network TV.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
You know, whatever, dog I shoot to death if I
run into command her.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Boy, he's getting a bullet between the eyes.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I don't I don't understand. I mean, does she really
think that the people are in support of what she did?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
But you know what, knowing Trump, he might he might
select her, now, don't you think don't you think?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
You don't think he would.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
No, I don't but I could be wrong, but.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I think just to defy, uh the consensus.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Uh, all right, this article pissed me off like six
different ways. It was in cal Matter and the headline
simple question, did California's massive COVID homeless shelter program work?
Because they spent billions of dollars to put sixty two
thousand homeless people into hotel rooms to try to keep
(19:18):
them from catching COVID, And it says a new independent
report claims that Project Room Key was a success.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
That's the first sentence. Second sentence, but data is lacking.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well, if you don't have any data, then how do
you know it's a success. And then the third sentence,
After the program ended, many participants remained homeless. So what's
the success here? The researcher said there was a dearth
(19:57):
of available data on the program and that people who
left had at least a forty percent chance of returning
to homelessness.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
But they're not sure. See what you got.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
These were hotel rooms, although in probably the majority of
the cases it was motel rooms. And these were disgusting,
dilapidated motel rooms which already had plenty of problems before
you put the homeless in there. Project groom Key provided
residents with their own private room and bathroom, in some
(20:29):
cases healthcare, other than it's different from shelters where everyone,
you know, you have dozens of beds and everybody's laying
there up against each other. And they didn't want to
do traditional shelters because then they thought COVID would spread
and then all these people who would get sick and die.
But researchers, while declaring it a success, said there was
(20:53):
huge holes in the data. They couldn't cross reference the
death records or information about the health of these vagrants,
so they had no way to prove that room keep
prevented deaths or kept people healthier. But it was a success.
It's a success because we say it's a success and
we can't prove it and we don't have the data,
(21:13):
but it was a success. What they want is they
want the massive amount of money every year to keep
these people in the motels. That's what they want. These
are the nonprofits saying, hey, hey, gimme, gimme, we want
to fatten up and we want to create some more
six figure executive jobs here. As of January, twenty two
(21:39):
percent of people leaving room key went to permittent housing.
That means seventy eight percent didn't. A lot of them
remained homeless, a lot of them went back to the street,
a lot of them disappeared. Forty percent remained homeless, fifteen
percent went back to the street, eighteen percent went to
unknown destinations. So you know, nearly eighty percent had no
(22:02):
effect on them. We just paid billions of dollars so
they could live in a disgusting motel for some months. See,
and this room key they had all these criticisms. Room
key hotels were not designed for long term living. Residents
could not cook, and the mini fridges could only store
(22:23):
enough food for one or two days. See, we should
have bought them really large refrigerators and installed stoves. That's
what that's what the vagrants deserved. The motels were Decrepit
didn't have enough rooms for people with disabilities. Some people
complained of cockroaches and roodents. How about you go get
a job, and if you get a job, you could
(22:45):
afford a refrigerator and roach spray.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
How about that.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
One of these homeless cranks says, people will come indoors
if they're offered a enemy safety privacy. If they're able
to keep their partners, their pets, their possessions. When their
needs are met and needs are considered, then people will
come indoors. Oh okay, So we got to give them
their boyfriends and girlfriends, their cats, their dogs, all the
junk that they collected in the shopping carts. Then we
(23:16):
have to give them a room. We have to give
them a refrigerator. We got to get rid of the
cockroaches and the rats. They have to be assured that
everything is safe in private that would be known as
a house or an apartment, which the rest of us
work for decades to get. But they want a whole package,
like it's some kind of game show and they just
want to win it because they don't want to go
(23:38):
to work. They'd rather shoot up and snort. And that's
what it is. We come back.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
The second absurd homeless story in California, a nonprofit ripping
off the tax bearer. I know it's shocking.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
We're going to talk with Todd Bensman coming on. He
is the uh. He is the writer, the journalist who
covers the border and all the illegal alien uh issues.
We've had a number of times. He's got a new
piece in the New York Post. He's also a senior
fellow with the Center for Immigration Studies. I got that right, Yeah,
(24:22):
senior national security fellow. He knows a lot of stuff.
And he wrote a piece today on this idea that
the Biden administration has to bring us Gaza Gaza refugees,
war refugees from Gaza. Can you imagine? Oh yeah, Yai,
(24:42):
we have enough. We have enough people who hate Jews.
We've kind of maxed out on the on the jew
hatred right now and on the on the college protests.
Speaking of the college protests, it's one other thing. I
just found this a minute ago. There's a photo going
around and this was at the University of Ottawa up
(25:05):
in Canada, and they've got a picture an overhead shot
of the outdoor stairs leading up to one of their
administrative buildings, like cement stairs, and the protesters spray painted
in red Free Palestine. But they misspelled Palestine. They spelled
it PA L A S T I D E should
(25:29):
be an e instead of the second a.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Dump clucks.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
These protesters. I don't care what college they're at. A
lot of them are stupidest boards and they're uneducated in
whatever they're complaining about. They don't know what's going on.
I think they just got hired. It's it's like a
summer job that they're doing right now. They don't know
what they're talking about. Somebody put it best on one
(25:57):
of the news shows. What you have here is you
have DEI admission standards combined with no SAT scores anymore
at these universities. You take away the SAT scores and
you use DEI standards, what are you going to get.
You're gonna get the dopes protesting and they don't know
(26:17):
They can't even spell Palestine.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
All right.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Back to the second story on all the homeless failures
in this state. Do you know that there was a
nonprofit that petition to get more than one hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Dollars for a pink job.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
This homeless organization was running an operation at the Oasis
Hotel in San Francisco, and they said, we need one
hundred and five thousand dollars and we want to paint
the place, among other things. Providence Foundation is the name
(27:01):
of this nonprofit. Well, it turns out, according to the
city attorney in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
David Chew.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
That the Providence Foundation wrote up a bunch of phony
invoices in twenty twenty two for the Oasis Hotel and,
as the La Times describes it, a shelter for families
experiencing homelessness.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I just love that all these stupid.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Progressive journalists jump on whatever the new jargon is, whatever
the new euphemism, the new phrase experiencing homelessness. This was
a nonprofit that started operating in twenty twenty one. They
claimed they had painted the outside of the Oasis Hotel
and removed the dead bolt locks. But the locks are
still there and there's no new paint. The city paid
(27:51):
one hundred and five thousand dollars to Providence and nothing
was done.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Chew, this is precious, said.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
The nonprofit took over one hundred thousand dollars of public
money meant to benefit people experiencing homelessness that cannot be tolerated.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Everybody's in line with that phrase.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Yes, the nonprofits all over the state, in LA and
San Francisco have stolen billions of dollars billions, and homelessness
has increased.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Why are they picking on poor Providence? Huh? For one
paint job that never got done. This is not.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
This is far from the biggest crime being committed by
these crooked nonprofits. Why did this one get pursued and
why is it getting so publicized? They've stolen billions. Everything's
gotten worse. Todd Bensman when we come back, Todd Fellow
with the Center for Immigration Studies, the writer, the journalists.
He's always sending stories in from the Mexican border, and
(28:55):
now he's got a piece on just how crazy the
Biden administration's new idea is bringing in war refugees from Gaza. Yeah,
you know, there's two million people that live in Gaza.
Why don't we import all two million? That will make
life better? Debra Mark Live in the KFI twenty four
(29:15):
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