May 19, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (05/19) - A new LA City budget is going to cut the amount of layoffs there were supposed to be by cutting the police department's budget. Mayor Bass wanted Gov. Newsom to bail her out and he said no! The electric car racket is coming to an end! Going through the gas prices around the country.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
In last segment, we were talking about how there's a
the Palisades. People are just at their wits end. They
don't know what to do. I have no idea how.
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I've never seen anything like this. There's absolutely no interest
from the Bass administration to address what's going on in
the Palisades. We just found out they have an emergency
management department that barely exists. They have about thirty people
and their funding is equal to two days of what
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the police department spends. So there's been nobody in city
government working on disaster recovery. They hired this outside consultant,
but haggardy, but they never explained what it is they
do either, And the headline says, what's the plan?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Here's a companion story. This is really a messed up government.
I mean, she is.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So bad at this, it's stunning. It's almost like a
work of art. The La City Council decided that they
have a new revised budget. It's gonna cut the number
of layoffs by half. All they're worried about is saving
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desk jobs. You know how they're gonna save more than
a thousand layoffs. They're gonna cut the police budget, they're
gonna hire fewer police officers, and the slowdown is in
hiring is going to be so intense that, you know,
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officers constantly are retiring or resigning for some reason, right.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
And more are going to resign then are going to
be hired.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So by next year or June thirtieth, the next year,
we're going to be down to eighty four hundred officers.
When Tony Vallar, of all people, was in office, we
had ten thousand. So it's gone from ten thousand to
eighty four hundred. We had ten thousand as late as
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twenty twenty, twenty twenty, we had ten thousand, and it
was all the defund the police bastards, and it drove
a lot of officers out of the business because of
the horrible climate that was created. One of the worst.
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Here is a councilwoman in Unicus Hernandez. She is an
avowed socialist. I mean she brags about it, and she's
excited about this new plan that's going to save some
city desk jobs. Because she's all about defunding the police.
She goes, oh, now, there's light between the clouds. She's
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on the committee. She is on the committee, the budget committee.
You put it to fund the policewoman on the budget committee.
Guess what, the police get defunded. They're also cutting the
fire department. Forty two emergency incident technicians at the fire
department is being cut. The new interim fire chief ront
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of Vinlway that opposes this. You know what else they're cutting.
They're even cutting funding for Inside Safe. Basst has been
touting what a wild success that has been, but it
costs a lot of money, and now she's out of money.
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Inside Safe moves homeless people into run down motels, disgusting moteals.
I mean that that's most of what it does. There
isn't much more to it. They make expensive deals with
rundown you know, prostitute motels, motels that charge by the hour,
and they stuff as many vagrants as they can in there.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That's gonna be a lot of fun. My god.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
They're actually cutting the fire department and the police department.
And the the original sin in this is she she
gave a record, She gave record raises to city workers,
huge pay increases to city workers.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And now she she's got no money.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So cops out, firefighters out, even the inside safe, homeless
employees out, make sure those desk people, make sure they
get paid paid. So this this, this budget committee recommended a
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hike in parking meter fees. That's going to go up
by fourteen million dollars what you pay in parking meters.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Now, did you you know what I.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Never saw addressed after the story first broke is that
they lose sixty five million dollars on parking tickets. And
I tell people this and they all stare at me
and they go, well, that's not possible. You know. The
funny thing is some of this news is so insane.
People just don't believe it. They just don't think these
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stories can be true. But it is true. The City
of Los Angeles has lost sixty five million dollars last
year writing parking tickets because they pay so much money
to parking enforcement agents salaries, benefits, pensions, and the cost
of paying these people far exceeds the money that comes
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in from the tickets.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Sixty five million.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Not only that they've lost money for eight straight years,
they have not made money writing parking tickets since twenty seventeen.
So the original plan is where they're short of billion dollars,
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so they're going to lay off sixteen hundred people. And
the reason there's such a huge budget crisis is the
raises for the city workforce that raised expenses by two
hundred and fifty million dollars, rapidly rising legal payouts between
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paying for abusive cops, paying for people who trip on sidewalks,
and Laura then expected tax revenue. Oh, it's going to
take a big hit, right, Palis State's people aren't going
to palle States. People largely moved to other cities. I
was looking at a map last week, and you know
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they went to Santa Monica and Manhattan Beach at Orange County,
so there's a lot of taxes not being paid there.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Bass says she.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Was against a strategy that pits the hiring of police
officers against the preservation of other jobs, calling it a
sophie's choice. No, it's not a sophie's choice. The police
officers are more important than anybody working at the desks. Okay,
they already got an embarrassingly large raise, so there's no
reason to go out of your way trying to save
those jobs. The do you know, actually the original proposal
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was going to cut fire department mechanics. In the last
few minutes Friday, they restored some funding for fire. Fire
department mechanics was part of the reason the Palisades fire
is out of control because one hundred trucks were busted
because there weren't mechanics to fix them.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So one hundred trucks were excuse me in the garages?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Do you know what Unises Hernandez pushed for on the
committee to restore a million dollars for a group called
represent La.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
What does represent LA do? Oh, you're gonna like this one?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It provides legal defense for illegal aliens facing deportation. So
she wanted to spend a million dollars for lawyers to
defend illegal aliens while they're cutting the police, while they're
cutting the fire department.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
This is Unicus Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
She represents MacArthur Park, which is a human sore. I
how did there's fifteen members? How is she on the committee?
She says the city needs to stand by immigrants. What
what have been the people whose home is burned down
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because you never funded the fire department. Now Bass has
gone to Gavin Newsom to try to beg more money
out of him.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I'll tell you about that meeting, how that went.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
What was his response when when Bash hit him up
for you know, a billion dollars? Tell you next.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Forty by the way tomorrow. We mentioned earlier that there's
another story coming out of Sacramento that high speed rail
is ten billion dollars short of what they need to
continue construction between Bakersfield and Merced and it is now
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up to seventeen years and eighteen billion dollars wasted with
nothing built, and so there's a ten billion dollar deficit.
Tony Strickland is coming on. He's a state Senator from
Huntington Beach. He says these are all self inflicted wounds.
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Something has got to be done. He said this project
is failed and should be discontinued. And he's urging everyone
else in the Senate. So let's have a serious conversation.
This is not, this is not. This is absurd. It
is so absurd and ridiculous to blow eighteen billion dollars
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and have nothing to show for it, and then you
want another ten billion. This is like Bess refusing to
do anything to help rebuild the Palisades. They chest don't listen,
they don't care. Right now, Bass is a brick wall.
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People in the Palisades are out of their minds. They're
getting very slow permitting. They don't understand, they don't know
who's in charge. What's going to be done about the recovery.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Well.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Bass went to see Gavin Newsom recently and she wanted
a billion dollars. She wanted Newsom to bail her out. Newsom,
of course, has an own twelve billion dollar deficit, and
he said no, he said flatly at a news conference
he did not plan to provide any cash to dig
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LA out of its hall because the billion dollars shortfall
is due to fat contracts that Bass gave city and
union workers and all those liability lawsuits, much of which
can be prevented. And of course they've chased out so
many wealthy people and so many businesses, and the Palisades
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is gone. That tax revenues are are below expectations, so
that they eft everything up. They the Karen Bass eft
everything up. You don't have you have. The wealthiest part
of the city does not exist anymore because of your
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bad funding of the fire Department. You're bad hire at
DWP who couldn't even fill up a that one hundred
and seventeen million gallon hole. Jennie Kenonas. It's all about
Bass and Kenonyas and the city council goofs.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
And now she's a billion short. And she went to Newsom.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Now what was that conversation like, oh, I've got a
billion dollar deficit. Well, I've got a twelve billion dollar deficit. Yeah,
I blew all my money on city employees. Oh, I
blew all my money on illegal aliens. That the conversation, Well,
I need money. Newsom goes, well, I need money. I
need more than you. I can't give you anything. I'm broke.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I'm broke, the broath broke, they're broken. The head. Newsom says.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
He offered two and a half billion dollars after the fires,
but over a billion remains unused.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Oh that's going to be stolen.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Bass, of course, when confronted on this, said well she
and the governor are in sync.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
That's one of those use less phrases. She spews out.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And she's asking for money up front that FEMA will reimburse.
She's climbing. It's all fire related money. I guess Newsom
doesn't believe her. Besides that Newsom doesn't have the money.
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It's just and this was all this stuff is unnecessary.
I read to you that Tony Strickland says it's all
self inflicted wounds with high speed rail. It's self inflicted
wounds in Sacramento, it's self inflicted wounds in LA. You know,
I read occasionally the test scores. People graduate high school,
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and probably seventy percent of high school kids are not
proficient at math or reading either. One Now a lot
of those people got into government, it's clear. So we
now have legislators, maybe we have the mayor, maybe the governor.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
We have people in power.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Seventy percent chance they can't read or do math. I'm
not exaggerating, because they act like they can't read or
do math. I always look at actions. They could say
they know how to add in some track, but when
you're a billion dollars in debt, maybe you can't. Maybe
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you don't know math. Maybe it's all too complicated and
it gives you a headache. Maybe Karen Bass gets a
headache when anybody starts talking math to her. And Newsom
is only running for president, so he doesn't. He's abandoned
the Palisades. Bass has abandoned the Palisades. It's like all
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these decades of voting for progressives have finally paused everything
to call apps all at once. Here we hit some
kind of critical mass. And then twice a day I
got to hear about Kamala Harris gonna run for governor, Like, yeah,
that's gonna help. Yeah, that'll that'll, that'll fix everything. It's
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like everybody's insane. Don't you feel like you're trapped in
some bizarre nightmare every day? I know the Palace stakes
people do.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I know?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I doctor friend of mine, I talked to you over
the weekend. He has a practice near the Palace stages.
He says, four people a day come in who lost
their homes entirely, four people a day, completely burned out,
and nobody has any hope that anything's gonna happen. You know,
the insurance companies are a complete mess, total mess. There's
nobody available, nobody answers, the tone, nobody to talk to.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I mean, you could.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
See in a lot of cases the employees don't even exist.
Emergency management department only has thirty people in it. In
La there's nobody there answer the phone. We're coming up.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Six forty moistline is eight seven seven moist eighty six,
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Speaker 1 (17:14):
Or if you're.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Numerally inclined eight seven seven sixty six four seven eight
eight six, you can use the talkback feature on the
iHeart app and we'll play it twice on Friday. Conway
coming up in a half an hour. Well, it looks
like the electric car racket is coming to an end.
As we predicted here for several years. The US Senate
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is going to vote, probably as early as next week,
within the week, to revoke a waiver that allows California
to set its own emission standards, and it would put
an end to the electric vehicle mandate in California. When
California did this, eleven stupid states decided to copy them,
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and then Gavin Newsom went preening around saying, yes, we
are the proud leader in emissions. Well, it hasn't worked
out at all. And now two states just in the
last couple of weeks, Maryland and Virginia, withdrew their copycat regulation.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
They are no longer going.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
To set these goals of well, it was all the
same goal. No gas powered cards were going to be
sold by twenty thirty five, And looks like the federal
government is going well, the Senate in the House, they're
gonna they're gonna pass this, and then Trump is going
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to sign it, and the waiver that California got granted
years ago will be null and void won't exist anymore.
So they can't come up with their own emission standards.
And GM is put a lot of money into building
electric vehicles and billions of dollars. They were going to
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build four hundred thousand electric vehicles by the middle of
last year. That was the plan, and they are now
on the leading edge to reverse the electric vehicle mandate.
GM sent out an email to thousands of its employees saying,
we need your help because these electric vehicle laws are
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not aligned with market realities and this is a serious
threat to our business. In other words, they're losing billions
being forced to manufacture and market electric cars that nobody wants.
So they have their employees contacting senators. They're given talking
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points and they're being told tell the senators you got
to pass this thing. They had their own goal of
ending sales of gas cars by twenty thirty five, and
they were in bed with California.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
They were all for it.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
And you know why is because the federal and state
government was subsidizing it. But as it turned out, even
with the federal government subsidizing these sales and car companies
subsidizing the sales, there weren't many buyers. Said one dealer,
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Barry Stoller back Eastern New York said, if the factory
doesn't subsidize it, and the government doesn't subsidize it, the
consumer can't afford it. And it looks like everybody is
getting out of the subsidy game. Three years ago, automakers
could not keep up with the demand. Now discounts are
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drawing up. Car buyers are looking for cheaper alternatives. Tax
credits are being rolled back by Congress. Yeah, the price
of electric vehicles was artificial, was a fake price. It's
because taxpayers. You bought an electric car. Other people bought
it for you. Other people worked and bought your electric car.
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That's why the price seems so attractive. And we all
know about the problems with the electric cars. There's very
few places to charge them on the road, it can
take a very long time. Well, there's one democratic. Democratic
politicians are even figuring this out, because the House passed
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this bill already to get rid of California's waiver, and
thirty five Democrats supported the legislation, including two Democrats from California.
Like everybody knows the jig is up here. Laura Gillen
is a Democrat from New York, which had adopted the
man ate, and she says, the timeline's out of touch
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with reality. If everybody in my district went out and
got an EV, the grid could not accommodate that. Barry Stoller,
the dealer I told you about in New York, he said,
there's no way automakers can meet the California requirements. The
customers just aren't there. This was all obvious on day one.
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This is like Joe Biden being senile. Obvious on day one.
Electric vehicles really expensive, hardly any place to charge them
on the road, big pain in the ass, obvious from
day one. What are the other things that were obvious
from day one? Oh yeah, cell phones in the classrooms.
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Took them ten years to ban cell phones obvious from
day one. I bet you every single teacher in twenty
thirteen or so when the iPhone became ubiquitous, when suddenly
everybody in the class could have the Internet live at
their desks. Bet you, every teacher that day said, oh,
this is a disaster. Took ten years. I don't understand that.
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Why why don't people figure this out sooner? It is
clear and you end up being right on all this stuff.
It's like, yeah, they got to band cell phones. Ten
years later they do. Yeah, electric vehicles kind of suck. Yeah,
ten years later, why don't you just let people buy
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what they want to buy. That's what freedom is. Let
them buy what they want. And it's always about emotional manipulation.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Oh, you're killing the planet, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I still little people talk like that and I look
at them like they're little kids. Well, you know this
is good for the planet. Like, what are you five
years old? It doesn't matter what you do. You have
no effect on the planet. You're one tiny little dot.
You're gonna be a pile of dust in a few
years and you have no effect on the planet. One
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day you'll be fertilizer. Maybe that's all you'll contribute. People
really don't understand, like what China does. China has like
hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cold plants that fire
all kinds of goop into the air.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
There's nothing we do that matters. Nothing. Nothing I have
never read.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I've read a lot of articles about people who try
to take EV trips, you know, cross country, long distances.
Never read a positive one. Every single one written said, boy,
was that a pain in the ass.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Jesus.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I had to drive like thirty miles off the road,
and then I got there, and most of them are broken,
and the one that worked there was a long line,
and then it was really slow and it took me
three hours to fill up and get about thirty percent
of a charge. I read one of those and I go, okay,
I'm not ever doing this. I've read a dozen of them.
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In fact, there is no other genre of article when
it involves taking an electric vehicle any kind of distance.
They're all the same because it's true all over the place.
And if we could all get an electric car, this
is what I say, if I had Gavin Newsom in
a room and I could like strap him through a gurney,
It's like, you don't have an electrical grid, you boob.
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Suppose we all followed your mandate, and we only had
electrical vehicles. Where is the electricity being manufactured, it's not.
The whole state would short out. There'd be a massive
blackout from border to border. Again obvious on day one,
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rarely reported, nobody in public, nobody in public acknowledged it.
Everybody lied about it. So it's dead. Senat will pass this,
Trump will sign it, and the whole thing will just
be one of those one of those bad dreams.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And uh, I love people like kind of brag. Oh
I love you know what.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
The funniest, like the cherry on the cake, was when
all the progressives turned on Elon Musk for getting involved
with Trump, and then they all started selling their car
there there there, started selling their teslas or their fire
bombing teslas or whatever the hell they were doing. Right,
the only guy who built an electric vehicle that people liked,
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the only one, and he was the guy the progressives
turned on. And then I realized, it's like, Okay, you're
not serious, you're not worried about climate change.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
It was just a cool thing to do.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
It was one of those cool trends you want to
do on the right side of history.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
But you didn't really believe it because.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
If you really believe that you have to drive an
electric car or we're all going to die and the
planet's going to boil over, you wouldn't care what Elon
Musk's politics were.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Oh, we'll continue.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
We're on every day from one until four, and then
after four o'clock. Whatever you missed today you could pick
up on the app. I'm just looking at gas prices today,
California four dollars ninety one cents. The national average is
three seventeen, but that includes California.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Here's a better idea. What's going on.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Mississippi's at two sixty six, Tennessee's two seventy two, Louisiana's
two seventy two. Alabama, South Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma in the
two seventies, Arkansas, North Carolina, Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, New Hampshire
in the two eighties, Georgia, North Dakota, Iowa, New Mexico, Virginia, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Delaware, Massachusetts,
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West Virginia, New Jersey in the two nineties. Most states
are like forty three states. Forty four states are below
three thirty a gallon, and majority of states are below
three dollars a gallon.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
But here we're at four ninety one.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
And one of the big reason is the excessive taxes.
Now Here is a parlay that Gavin Newsom has created.
He's announced this week that he wants to steal some
of the gas tax money and spend it on high
speed rail. How about that some of your gas taxes?
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You know, they these are the taxes they slap on
the oil refineries.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
They want to take two and a half billion dollars
and part of that's going to go for a high
speed rail. He's trying to extend that tax program through
twenty forty five. Twenty forty five, so you remember, people
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don't want to believe this. There's two refineries. I heard
there might be a third refinery closing in the next year.
Third refinery, more than twenty percent of the gas supply
is going to go poof. And then there's a sixty
five cent a gallon increase coming from a new fuel
standard that carb is insisting on. So we're looking at
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eight fifty a gallon. Much of that taxes, and now
he wants to he wants to spend that on high
speed rail, which is according to the story today, ten
billion dollars short of what they need just for that
Bakersfield to Mersaid line. We're gonna have Tony Strickland on
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the Republican state senator from Huntington Beach. He's the vice
chairman of the Senate committee, and he is he's really
just waving the flag here. It's like enough already, this
is so ridiculous. We're up to eighteen billion dollars blown.
And see he wants to steal the gas tax money.
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Over the past eleven years, he has spent thirteen billion
dollars on things like electric vehicles. Yeah, electric vehicles. These
are the subsidies for cars that people will not buy
unless you give them a big subsidy and make it cheap.
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Spends it on public transit, which most people don't want
to take because they're afraid of getting beaten up or
stabbed or set on fire, and other projects, so they
he also wants to spend the only good thing is
spending money on CalFire. But the billion of dollars on
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high speed rail is just unconscionable. And then that fifteen
years of tax taxation, and because we have one party rule.
We have a super majority among Democrats. There's not going
to be even any debate on this. You're going to
be paying these excessive gas taxes for another twenty years.
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And they have even more regulations on the refineries, which
is why the refineries are closing, which is why, going
back to the beginning, you're going to be paying eight
to fifty a gallon.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I just.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
It. And it's all based on crazy insanity, like religious beliefs.
There's one assembly member who said, what's her name? She
had to Macatti Petrie Norris, a Democrat from Irvine. She said,
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this is the most challenging budget situation California has faced
in at least seventeen years. We're going to be grappling
with some very very tough choices, very tough decisions. I
got an idea, save twelve billion dollars. Stop giving illegal
aliens free healthcare. Nobody else is doing that. What are
these tough choices? You're doing something that literally no other
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state is doing. Cradle the brave, free healthcare to people
who broke the law. They're coming in from every other
state in the country. Why wouldn't they, God, you know,
I read the other day with the specific benefits are,
Oh yeah, they get dental care. Dental care I've never
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had good. I've never had good dental care in my insurance,
my life, and the legal aliens get free dental care.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
We've got more into this tomorrow. Conway's up next.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Michael Krazers the News live in the KFI twenty four
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Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
In last segment, we were talking about how there's a
the Palisades. People are just at their wits end. They
don't know what to do. I have no idea how.
(00:22):
I've never seen anything like this. There's absolutely no interest
from the Bass administration to address what's going on in
the Palisades. We just found out they have an emergency
management department that barely exists. They have about thirty people
and their funding is equal to two days of what
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the police department spends. So there's been nobody in city
government working on disaster recovery. They hired this outside consultant,
but haggardy, but they never explained what it is they
do either, And the headline says, what's the plan?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Here's a companion story. This is really a messed up government.
I mean, she is.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So bad at this, it's stunning. It's almost like a
work of art. The La City Council decided that they
have a new revised budget. It's gonna cut the number
of layoffs by half. All they're worried about is saving
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desk jobs. You know how they're gonna save more than
a thousand layoffs. They're gonna cut the police budget, they're
gonna hire fewer police officers, and the slowdown is in
hiring is going to be so intense that, you know,
(01:54):
officers constantly are retiring or resigning for some reason, right.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
And more are going to resign then are going to
be hired.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So by next year or June thirtieth, the next year,
we're going to be down to eighty four hundred officers.
When Tony Vallar, of all people, was in office, we
had ten thousand. So it's gone from ten thousand to
eighty four hundred. We had ten thousand as late as
(02:25):
twenty twenty, twenty twenty, we had ten thousand, and it
was all the defund the police bastards, and it drove
a lot of officers out of the business because of
the horrible climate that was created. One of the worst.
(02:48):
Here is a councilwoman in Unicus Hernandez. She is an
avowed socialist. I mean she brags about it, and she's
excited about this new plan that's going to save some
city desk jobs. Because she's all about defunding the police.
She goes, oh, now, there's light between the clouds. She's
(03:10):
on the committee. She is on the committee, the budget committee.
You put it to fund the policewoman on the budget committee.
Guess what, the police get defunded. They're also cutting the
fire department. Forty two emergency incident technicians at the fire
department is being cut. The new interim fire chief ront
(03:33):
of Vinlway that opposes this. You know what else they're cutting.
They're even cutting funding for Inside Safe. Basst has been
touting what a wild success that has been, but it
costs a lot of money, and now she's out of money.
(03:54):
Inside Safe moves homeless people into run down motels, disgusting moteals.
I mean that that's most of what it does. There
isn't much more to it. They make expensive deals with
rundown you know, prostitute motels, motels that charge by the hour,
and they stuff as many vagrants as they can in there.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That's gonna be a lot of fun. My god.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
They're actually cutting the fire department and the police department.
And the the original sin in this is she she
gave a record, She gave record raises to city workers,
huge pay increases to city workers.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And now she she's got no money.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So cops out, firefighters out, even the inside safe, homeless
employees out, make sure those desk people, make sure they
get paid paid. So this this, this budget committee recommended a
(05:06):
hike in parking meter fees. That's going to go up
by fourteen million dollars what you pay in parking meters.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Now, did you you know what I.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Never saw addressed after the story first broke is that
they lose sixty five million dollars on parking tickets. And
I tell people this and they all stare at me
and they go, well, that's not possible. You know. The
funny thing is some of this news is so insane.
People just don't believe it. They just don't think these
(05:42):
stories can be true. But it is true. The City
of Los Angeles has lost sixty five million dollars last
year writing parking tickets because they pay so much money
to parking enforcement agents salaries, benefits, pensions, and the cost
of paying these people far exceeds the money that comes
(06:04):
in from the tickets.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Sixty five million.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Not only that they've lost money for eight straight years,
they have not made money writing parking tickets since twenty seventeen.
So the original plan is where they're short of billion dollars,
(06:29):
so they're going to lay off sixteen hundred people. And
the reason there's such a huge budget crisis is the
raises for the city workforce that raised expenses by two
hundred and fifty million dollars, rapidly rising legal payouts between
(06:50):
paying for abusive cops, paying for people who trip on sidewalks,
and Laura then expected tax revenue. Oh, it's going to
take a big hit, right, Palis State's people aren't going
to palle States. People largely moved to other cities. I
was looking at a map last week, and you know
(07:13):
they went to Santa Monica and Manhattan Beach at Orange County,
so there's a lot of taxes not being paid there.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Bass says she.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Was against a strategy that pits the hiring of police
officers against the preservation of other jobs, calling it a
sophie's choice. No, it's not a sophie's choice. The police
officers are more important than anybody working at the desks. Okay,
they already got an embarrassingly large raise, so there's no
reason to go out of your way trying to save
those jobs. The do you know, actually the original proposal
(07:58):
was going to cut fire department mechanics. In the last
few minutes Friday, they restored some funding for fire. Fire
department mechanics was part of the reason the Palisades fire
is out of control because one hundred trucks were busted
because there weren't mechanics to fix them.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So one hundred trucks were excuse me in the garages?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Do you know what Unises Hernandez pushed for on the
committee to restore a million dollars for a group called
represent La.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
What does represent LA do? Oh, you're gonna like this one?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It provides legal defense for illegal aliens facing deportation. So
she wanted to spend a million dollars for lawyers to
defend illegal aliens while they're cutting the police, while they're
cutting the fire department.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
This is Unicus Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
She represents MacArthur Park, which is a human sore. I
how did there's fifteen members? How is she on the committee?
She says the city needs to stand by immigrants. What
what have been the people whose home is burned down
(09:30):
because you never funded the fire department. Now Bass has
gone to Gavin Newsom to try to beg more money
out of him.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I'll tell you about that meeting, how that went.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
What was his response when when Bash hit him up
for you know, a billion dollars? Tell you next.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Forty by the way tomorrow. We mentioned earlier that there's
another story coming out of Sacramento that high speed rail
is ten billion dollars short of what they need to
continue construction between Bakersfield and Merced and it is now
(10:23):
up to seventeen years and eighteen billion dollars wasted with
nothing built, and so there's a ten billion dollar deficit.
Tony Strickland is coming on. He's a state Senator from
Huntington Beach. He says these are all self inflicted wounds.
(10:45):
Something has got to be done. He said this project
is failed and should be discontinued. And he's urging everyone
else in the Senate. So let's have a serious conversation.
This is not, this is not. This is absurd. It
is so absurd and ridiculous to blow eighteen billion dollars
(11:08):
and have nothing to show for it, and then you
want another ten billion. This is like Bess refusing to
do anything to help rebuild the Palisades. They chest don't listen,
they don't care. Right now, Bass is a brick wall.
(11:30):
People in the Palisades are out of their minds. They're
getting very slow permitting. They don't understand, they don't know
who's in charge. What's going to be done about the recovery.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Well.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Bass went to see Gavin Newsom recently and she wanted
a billion dollars. She wanted Newsom to bail her out. Newsom,
of course, has an own twelve billion dollar deficit, and
he said no, he said flatly at a news conference
he did not plan to provide any cash to dig
(12:07):
LA out of its hall because the billion dollars shortfall
is due to fat contracts that Bass gave city and
union workers and all those liability lawsuits, much of which
can be prevented. And of course they've chased out so
many wealthy people and so many businesses, and the Palisades
(12:30):
is gone. That tax revenues are are below expectations, so
that they eft everything up. They the Karen Bass eft
everything up. You don't have you have. The wealthiest part
of the city does not exist anymore because of your
(12:52):
bad funding of the fire Department. You're bad hire at
DWP who couldn't even fill up a that one hundred
and seventeen million gallon hole. Jennie Kenonas. It's all about
Bass and Kenonyas and the city council goofs.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
And now she's a billion short. And she went to Newsom.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Now what was that conversation like, oh, I've got a
billion dollar deficit. Well, I've got a twelve billion dollar deficit. Yeah,
I blew all my money on city employees. Oh, I
blew all my money on illegal aliens. That the conversation, Well,
I need money. Newsom goes, well, I need money. I
need more than you. I can't give you anything. I'm broke.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I'm broke, the broath broke, they're broken. The head. Newsom says.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
He offered two and a half billion dollars after the fires,
but over a billion remains unused.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Oh that's going to be stolen.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Bass, of course, when confronted on this, said well she
and the governor are in sync.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
That's one of those use less phrases. She spews out.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And she's asking for money up front that FEMA will reimburse.
She's climbing. It's all fire related money. I guess Newsom
doesn't believe her. Besides that Newsom doesn't have the money.
(14:23):
It's just and this was all this stuff is unnecessary.
I read to you that Tony Strickland says it's all
self inflicted wounds with high speed rail. It's self inflicted
wounds in Sacramento, it's self inflicted wounds in LA. You know,
I read occasionally the test scores. People graduate high school,
(14:44):
and probably seventy percent of high school kids are not
proficient at math or reading either. One Now a lot
of those people got into government, it's clear. So we
now have legislators, maybe we have the mayor, maybe the governor.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
We have people in power.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Seventy percent chance they can't read or do math. I'm
not exaggerating, because they act like they can't read or
do math. I always look at actions. They could say
they know how to add in some track, but when
you're a billion dollars in debt, maybe you can't. Maybe
(15:27):
you don't know math. Maybe it's all too complicated and
it gives you a headache. Maybe Karen Bass gets a
headache when anybody starts talking math to her. And Newsom
is only running for president, so he doesn't. He's abandoned
the Palisades. Bass has abandoned the Palisades. It's like all
(15:53):
these decades of voting for progressives have finally paused everything
to call apps all at once. Here we hit some
kind of critical mass. And then twice a day I
got to hear about Kamala Harris gonna run for governor, Like, yeah,
that's gonna help. Yeah, that'll that'll, that'll fix everything. It's
(16:18):
like everybody's insane. Don't you feel like you're trapped in
some bizarre nightmare every day? I know the Palace stakes
people do.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I know?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I doctor friend of mine, I talked to you over
the weekend. He has a practice near the Palace stages.
He says, four people a day come in who lost
their homes entirely, four people a day, completely burned out,
and nobody has any hope that anything's gonna happen. You know,
the insurance companies are a complete mess, total mess. There's
nobody available, nobody answers, the tone, nobody to talk to.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I mean, you could.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
See in a lot of cases the employees don't even exist.
Emergency management department only has thirty people in it. In
La there's nobody there answer the phone. We're coming up.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Six forty moistline is eight seven seven moist eighty six,
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Speaker 1 (17:14):
Or if you're.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Numerally inclined eight seven seven sixty six four seven eight
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iHeart app and we'll play it twice on Friday. Conway
coming up in a half an hour. Well, it looks
like the electric car racket is coming to an end.
As we predicted here for several years. The US Senate
(17:39):
is going to vote, probably as early as next week,
within the week, to revoke a waiver that allows California
to set its own emission standards, and it would put
an end to the electric vehicle mandate in California. When
California did this, eleven stupid states decided to copy them,
(18:03):
and then Gavin Newsom went preening around saying, yes, we
are the proud leader in emissions. Well, it hasn't worked
out at all. And now two states just in the
last couple of weeks, Maryland and Virginia, withdrew their copycat regulation.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
They are no longer going.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
To set these goals of well, it was all the
same goal. No gas powered cards were going to be
sold by twenty thirty five, And looks like the federal
government is going well, the Senate in the House, they're
gonna they're gonna pass this, and then Trump is going
(18:45):
to sign it, and the waiver that California got granted
years ago will be null and void won't exist anymore.
So they can't come up with their own emission standards.
And GM is put a lot of money into building
electric vehicles and billions of dollars. They were going to
(19:08):
build four hundred thousand electric vehicles by the middle of
last year. That was the plan, and they are now
on the leading edge to reverse the electric vehicle mandate.
GM sent out an email to thousands of its employees saying,
we need your help because these electric vehicle laws are
(19:33):
not aligned with market realities and this is a serious
threat to our business. In other words, they're losing billions
being forced to manufacture and market electric cars that nobody wants.
So they have their employees contacting senators. They're given talking
(19:54):
points and they're being told tell the senators you got
to pass this thing. They had their own goal of
ending sales of gas cars by twenty thirty five, and
they were in bed with California.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
They were all for it.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
And you know why is because the federal and state
government was subsidizing it. But as it turned out, even
with the federal government subsidizing these sales and car companies
subsidizing the sales, there weren't many buyers. Said one dealer,
(20:35):
Barry Stoller back Eastern New York said, if the factory
doesn't subsidize it, and the government doesn't subsidize it, the
consumer can't afford it. And it looks like everybody is
getting out of the subsidy game. Three years ago, automakers
could not keep up with the demand. Now discounts are
(20:58):
drawing up. Car buyers are looking for cheaper alternatives. Tax
credits are being rolled back by Congress. Yeah, the price
of electric vehicles was artificial, was a fake price. It's
because taxpayers. You bought an electric car. Other people bought
it for you. Other people worked and bought your electric car.
(21:19):
That's why the price seems so attractive. And we all
know about the problems with the electric cars. There's very
few places to charge them on the road, it can
take a very long time. Well, there's one democratic. Democratic
politicians are even figuring this out, because the House passed
(21:40):
this bill already to get rid of California's waiver, and
thirty five Democrats supported the legislation, including two Democrats from California.
Like everybody knows the jig is up here. Laura Gillen
is a Democrat from New York, which had adopted the
man ate, and she says, the timeline's out of touch
(22:03):
with reality. If everybody in my district went out and
got an EV, the grid could not accommodate that. Barry Stoller,
the dealer I told you about in New York, he said,
there's no way automakers can meet the California requirements. The
customers just aren't there. This was all obvious on day one.
(22:25):
This is like Joe Biden being senile. Obvious on day one.
Electric vehicles really expensive, hardly any place to charge them
on the road, big pain in the ass, obvious from
day one. What are the other things that were obvious
from day one? Oh yeah, cell phones in the classrooms.
(22:46):
Took them ten years to ban cell phones obvious from
day one. I bet you every single teacher in twenty
thirteen or so when the iPhone became ubiquitous, when suddenly
everybody in the class could have the Internet live at
their desks. Bet you, every teacher that day said, oh,
this is a disaster. Took ten years. I don't understand that.
(23:08):
Why why don't people figure this out sooner? It is
clear and you end up being right on all this stuff.
It's like, yeah, they got to band cell phones. Ten
years later they do. Yeah, electric vehicles kind of suck. Yeah,
ten years later, why don't you just let people buy
(23:29):
what they want to buy. That's what freedom is. Let
them buy what they want. And it's always about emotional manipulation.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Oh, you're killing the planet, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I still little people talk like that and I look
at them like they're little kids. Well, you know this
is good for the planet. Like, what are you five
years old? It doesn't matter what you do. You have
no effect on the planet. You're one tiny little dot.
You're gonna be a pile of dust in a few
years and you have no effect on the planet. One
(24:02):
day you'll be fertilizer. Maybe that's all you'll contribute. People
really don't understand, like what China does. China has like
hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cold plants that fire
all kinds of goop into the air.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
There's nothing we do that matters. Nothing. Nothing I have
never read.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I've read a lot of articles about people who try
to take EV trips, you know, cross country, long distances.
Never read a positive one. Every single one written said, boy,
was that a pain in the ass.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Jesus.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I had to drive like thirty miles off the road,
and then I got there, and most of them are broken,
and the one that worked there was a long line,
and then it was really slow and it took me
three hours to fill up and get about thirty percent
of a charge. I read one of those and I go, okay,
I'm not ever doing this. I've read a dozen of them.
(25:02):
In fact, there is no other genre of article when
it involves taking an electric vehicle any kind of distance.
They're all the same because it's true all over the place.
And if we could all get an electric car, this
is what I say, if I had Gavin Newsom in
a room and I could like strap him through a gurney,
It's like, you don't have an electrical grid, you boob.
(25:23):
Suppose we all followed your mandate, and we only had
electrical vehicles. Where is the electricity being manufactured, it's not.
The whole state would short out. There'd be a massive
blackout from border to border. Again obvious on day one,
(25:44):
rarely reported, nobody in public, nobody in public acknowledged it.
Everybody lied about it. So it's dead. Senat will pass this,
Trump will sign it, and the whole thing will just
be one of those one of those bad dreams.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And uh, I love people like kind of brag. Oh
I love you know what.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
The funniest, like the cherry on the cake, was when
all the progressives turned on Elon Musk for getting involved
with Trump, and then they all started selling their car
there there there, started selling their teslas or their fire
bombing teslas or whatever the hell they were doing. Right,
the only guy who built an electric vehicle that people liked,
(26:36):
the only one, and he was the guy the progressives
turned on. And then I realized, it's like, Okay, you're
not serious, you're not worried about climate change.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
It was just a cool thing to do.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
It was one of those cool trends you want to
do on the right side of history.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
But you didn't really believe it because.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
If you really believe that you have to drive an
electric car or we're all going to die and the
planet's going to boil over, you wouldn't care what Elon
Musk's politics were.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Oh, we'll continue.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
We're on every day from one until four, and then
after four o'clock. Whatever you missed today you could pick
up on the app. I'm just looking at gas prices today,
California four dollars ninety one cents. The national average is
three seventeen, but that includes California.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Here's a better idea. What's going on.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Mississippi's at two sixty six, Tennessee's two seventy two, Louisiana's
two seventy two. Alabama, South Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma in the
two seventies, Arkansas, North Carolina, Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, New Hampshire
in the two eighties, Georgia, North Dakota, Iowa, New Mexico, Virginia, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Delaware, Massachusetts,
(27:55):
West Virginia, New Jersey in the two nineties. Most states
are like forty three states. Forty four states are below
three thirty a gallon, and majority of states are below
three dollars a gallon.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
But here we're at four ninety one.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
And one of the big reason is the excessive taxes.
Now Here is a parlay that Gavin Newsom has created.
He's announced this week that he wants to steal some
of the gas tax money and spend it on high
speed rail. How about that some of your gas taxes?
(28:41):
You know, they these are the taxes they slap on
the oil refineries.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
They want to take two and a half billion dollars
and part of that's going to go for a high
speed rail. He's trying to extend that tax program through
twenty forty five. Twenty forty five, so you remember, people
(29:10):
don't want to believe this. There's two refineries. I heard
there might be a third refinery closing in the next year.
Third refinery, more than twenty percent of the gas supply
is going to go poof. And then there's a sixty
five cent a gallon increase coming from a new fuel
standard that carb is insisting on. So we're looking at
(29:31):
eight fifty a gallon. Much of that taxes, and now
he wants to he wants to spend that on high
speed rail, which is according to the story today, ten
billion dollars short of what they need just for that
Bakersfield to Mersaid line. We're gonna have Tony Strickland on
(29:51):
the Republican state senator from Huntington Beach. He's the vice
chairman of the Senate committee, and he is he's really
just waving the flag here. It's like enough already, this
is so ridiculous. We're up to eighteen billion dollars blown.
And see he wants to steal the gas tax money.
(30:15):
Over the past eleven years, he has spent thirteen billion
dollars on things like electric vehicles. Yeah, electric vehicles. These
are the subsidies for cars that people will not buy
unless you give them a big subsidy and make it cheap.
(30:38):
Spends it on public transit, which most people don't want
to take because they're afraid of getting beaten up or
stabbed or set on fire, and other projects, so they
he also wants to spend the only good thing is
spending money on CalFire. But the billion of dollars on
(31:03):
high speed rail is just unconscionable. And then that fifteen
years of tax taxation, and because we have one party rule.
We have a super majority among Democrats. There's not going
to be even any debate on this. You're going to
be paying these excessive gas taxes for another twenty years.
(31:28):
And they have even more regulations on the refineries, which
is why the refineries are closing, which is why, going
back to the beginning, you're going to be paying eight
to fifty a gallon.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I just.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
It. And it's all based on crazy insanity, like religious beliefs.
There's one assembly member who said, what's her name? She
had to Macatti Petrie Norris, a Democrat from Irvine. She said,
(32:07):
this is the most challenging budget situation California has faced
in at least seventeen years. We're going to be grappling
with some very very tough choices, very tough decisions. I
got an idea, save twelve billion dollars. Stop giving illegal
aliens free healthcare. Nobody else is doing that. What are
these tough choices? You're doing something that literally no other
(32:28):
state is doing. Cradle the brave, free healthcare to people
who broke the law. They're coming in from every other
state in the country. Why wouldn't they, God, you know,
I read the other day with the specific benefits are,
Oh yeah, they get dental care. Dental care I've never
(32:51):
had good. I've never had good dental care in my insurance,
my life, and the legal aliens get free dental care.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
We've got more into this tomorrow. Conway's up next.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
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