August 29, 2024 • 25 mins
Mortgage aid for undocumented immigrants passes state legislature. Disneyland fans with disabilities enraged by changes. Trump campaign filming at Arlington Cemetery stirs more fallout after gravesite visit. Kroger executive admits company gouged prices above inflation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Forty and this is KFI Bill Handle here. It is
a Thursday morning, August twenty nine. A whole lot going
on today. It's gonna be the first interview Dana Bash
of CNN interviewing Kamala.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Harris, who is going to be asked questions.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
And by the way, we'll be sitting next to Tim Walls,
right next to her, and every time she is asked
a question, she'll be turning to Tim, who will whisper
in her ear.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Here's what I want you to say, Here's what you
should say. I actually would love to see how that
lines up.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You know, Kamala Harris does not go to any event
without Tim Walls next to her. They do a double
hit whenever there is an event. I mean, they're going
around the country. They're doing their campaigning together. And I've
never seen that. Usually as vice president goes, vice president
candidate goes one direction, presidential candidate goes another direction.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Very strange.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Now this is California, Okay, God bless California. It's a
good place to be an illegal immigrant. Gay final approval
yesterday to a bill that's going to help undocumented immigrants
read illegal aliens in California.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
And here is what it's going to do.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Assembly Bill eighteen forty now goes to Gavin's desk, would
allow undocumented immigrants to apply alongside other qualified applicants for
the California Dream for All Shared Appreciation Loan program.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
And just you know, I love these names.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
No interest loans up to one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars to cover down payments and fees. It's a program
that's available to people who qualify to get help from
California Dubai home down payment and they don't have to
pay back the loan until the house is sold or refed,
and they pay back the loan plus twenty percent of
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the increase in value.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Okay, fair enough. Now here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Unlike the question that's asked, how many of you have
lost their jobs to or lost your jobs to illegal immigrants?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
And I can't imagine who has haven't met one yet?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
How many qualified people are there going to be who
have lost their loans under this program to qualified? How
many of the qualified people have lost their loans to
illegal immigrants? Well, the program has run out of money
and it's a very limited number of people that can
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get it, and if illegal immigrants are right there in
the pack, someone's going to get it. If illegal immigrants
are qualified under the program and they're like everybody else,
you know, that means someone's going to get nailed who
is eligible and is here legally and or is a citizen.
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Now I'm going to tell you, I man.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yet it doesn't stop. It doesn't stop.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Of course, Republicans and those that are against it saying hey,
people have followed all the rules in life are going
to be displaced.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah this one, Yes, it is.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Because here's the basic premise of the Democrats on this one.
Our country was made up of immigration. Immigration has made
our country great. Therefore, we don't have enough immigrants and
we should do everything we can. The other day we
talked about University of California hiring illegal immigrants. They've changed
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their policy and now under this program, a program exists
in which people who can afford down payment can apply
to this program to get the money from the government
to help with the down payment.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
All right, fair.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Enough, but we're going to extend that to illegal immigrants too.
And the argument is, how much more can we do
to invite illegal immigration, not only in the country but
in the state.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
There seems to be no limit and that is a
real problem.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And even amongst you liberals out there and those that
are in favor of this program.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
This new bill going through, we're having gone through. We'll
see if the governor signs it.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
At some point, do you say, can we differentiate people
that are here illegally?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I mean your heart goes out to them, my heart.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Does they come here illegally just basically give their kids
an opportunity? Many many of them come here and work
and send all the money back to Mexico or Al Salvador.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Because their families are starving.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
So here they are to try to make a life
for themselves and they can't get in legally, so they
they come here illegally.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And yet at the.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Same time, what we're going to do is everything we
can to make it as pleasant as fair. Effectively, there
is no difference if you are a citizen of the
United States and a resident of California. It doesn't matter
any program out there in this program says that you're
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in the same pot as someone who's come over the
border illegally. Because we as a state do not look
at illegal alienship as anything violation of the law, even
though it is, we're going to ignore that law.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
That's all real simple.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
So the argument that the easier we make it for
illegal aliens undocumented to take advantage of these programs, the
more inviting we are.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Who's going to argue that is there a line? No,
there isn't. There is not a line. Is there such
thing as citizenship? Nope, there really wasn't.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Facenti Fox, former president of Mexico, I think put it
the best. The border between the United States and Mexico
is merely a line.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
It doesn't matter. It's like you go to Nevada. I've
said this before. You go to Nevada. How do you
know you're in Nevada? When you leave California, there is
a sign that says welcome to Nevada.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
There's no border control, nobody stops you, no one asks.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Which is the United States?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Because the way our constitution works, in the way our
country is set up, American citizens and people here legally
can go any place in the country.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Matter of fact, if you happen to be here illegally, you.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Can go any place in the country. But do we
extend that to our borders. Yeah, Viacinthi Fox says, yeah,
it's only a line. There is no difference. We are
all Northern Americans. We are all citizens of the Northern Hemisphere. Now,
some Disneyland stuff, and I always bring up Disneyland whenever
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I can, because of Neil, who is a big Disney fan,
has a annual pass, has for years and years, and Amy,
who is a big disney fan. Amy, by the way,
do you have an annual pass? I don't know if
I ask you that you do.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
So there is a program at Disneyland they've had four
years and it is a DAS pass. DAS stands for
Disney's Disability Access Service or DAS pass, and it is
about not waiting in line go to the lightning part
of the lightning line, which means you've got this long
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wait for any ride, especially during the summer, especially during
any time actually, and then there's a lightning line that
goes much much quicker, and people pay money to have
that lightning line. Okay, I think has a lot of money.
On top of the one hundred and fifty eight dollars.
By the way, you actually have to pay thirty dollars
per day, right when you go extra thirty? Okay, and
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do you people that have the past, do you ever
question are you really disabled?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Do you ever asked that question? Do you ever do
you ever even consider somebody? Yeah, I consider that maybe
that may be faking it.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I would not confront somebody.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Oh now, I'm not saying you would confront Do you
ever wonder? Oh? Yeah, okay, and you're not alone?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And what's happened in the last uh what last since?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
It was it? The number I think the last couple
of years. It has tripled the number of people in
the last several years twenty nineteen, yeah, yeah, trip not
even that long.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah, So obviously a lot of people are using it,
and so they just cut down on it. They're just
saying no, thank you. And the backlash is extraordinary. Kids
with autism. There's stories after story La Time story, uh
in which the kids are the parents are saying, the
kids can't stand in line, they melt down, and Disney
is saying, you know what, it's being overused.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It is Okay, it's not it's not see there you go, Oh,
it's it's the abuse of it. Right, And here's what
Disney has done right. There are that are abusing this right.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And that's the point that actually don't care of it,
don't get it right. That's the point of this story
is Disney is cutting way down UH and people are
being denied to who otherwise would be eligible.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And the fight is going on right now.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
You've got the community of the disabled screaming at Disney.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You've got Disney.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Saying we comply because everybody ends up being disabled. I
haven't been to Disneyland for a very long time, but
there was a time when I'd get in.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
When I go to the park.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
There is a walmart right near Disneyland, and I used
to go in, UH and I would buy one of
those collapsible canes for about ten bucks, and then I
go into Disneyland with my cane and I would just
walk right up and I'd get at the front of
the line. And then at the end of the day
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I would sell the cane for I have to profit
to some partgoer.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Those were the days, those you could. I gotta miss
those the handicap space.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Yeah, all of it, all of it, yeah, yeah, And
so unfortunately for those of us, but fortunately for other
people that want to be fair about it. Hey, there's
no way around it. And there's a story here. There's
a gal from Northridge who had a problem with her
child who was autistic, and she went and asked for
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the past.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
What you do you have to ask for it?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
And she spoke to a quote cast member who said
was kind and patient, but the questions were deeply personal. Okay,
you can't ask questions I'm disabled, what kind of disability?
You don't have the right to ask me that. Well,
you can't ask me medical questions. Isn't disability a medical issue?
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And aren't you asking for a medical pass on this?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Well? Yeah, but you can't ask me any questions.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's Disney is saying, what else do we do? How
do we deal with this? Do we then get to
the point where the lightning lanes are actually slower than
the regular lanes?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
That was one of the use. Unfortunately, if you have
somebody who is neurodivergent, autistic, or somewhere on the spectrum
where you're standing in line is a problem those in
this particular story, it was fifteen minutes or more. I
think you're going to find that in some of the
lightning lines, and it stinks.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Man.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
I would fight for my child to be able to
go and enjoy it as well. Yeah, the system is
just broken because like everything else built, and there's no
way about how much we pay in life because people
don't go by the rules, whether it's locks on the
doors or any of the security features we have to
go through in life. Is because other people misuse the trust.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So they made these changes. Disney made these changes, said
we have no place else to go. Can you rent
wheelchairs at Disney.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
By the way.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Okay, so that's it.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Hang on a second, I just want to ask you
can rent wheelchairs? Yes, Why wouldn't everybody walk in and
rent a wheelchair?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Well, see, that's part of the problem. There was a
whole big thing. I don't know if you remember this
a couple of years ago, but people were hiring disabled
people to go to the park with them so they
could skip the line because they generally let you go
with your party, and they were paying disabled people hundreds
of dollars. They got to go to the park, they
got to cut the lines, and the people in that
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group cut the lines with them. And that's another reason
that Disney has to crack down on this because people
are taking advantage of a nice city that Disney offered.
They said, hey, you know what, if you have trouble
waiting in line, We're going to help you. They offered
that for years and years and years, but too many
people screwed it up.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Why couldn't I think of that. That's a pretty good
one too.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Oh it's awful, Bill.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Oh I'm okay, I have it wrong.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Then all right, we are done. Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
As I've said many times before, I do not understand how.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Donald Trump gets away with what he gets away with.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Here's the latest story, and this I think goes just
a touch, if not way too far. There's a family
of a Green Beret died by suicide after serving eight
combat tours and is buried at Arlington, and the film
family is a little outraged because the campaign Trump's campaign
filmed his gravesite without permission, and filming took place in
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an area where campaign photography isn't even allowed. So it's
just it's not that simple. He didn't just show up
and started filming, Okay. The relatives of Andrew Marcusano two
days after Trump's visit and issued a statement not only
about the filming, but included a confrontation between members of
the Trump campaign and an Arlington employee and the Arlington
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police said, you can't video here. It's you're not allowed
to video here. Well, he was the campaign and Donald
Trump was invited to video by the family of another
service member who had died and was buried there, and
he was Donald Trump was laying the wreath on the
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tomb of the unknown, and then for the people who
had died, including this the Hoover family where this man
had also served. And here's what ended up happening. The
Hoover family granted permission to the Trump team to film
and take photographs at the grave site, even though it
was not allowed.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
They said, go ahead and do it. But that's not
the real problem.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Photographing at grave sites for political purposes is a violation
federal law AWE. And the problem is even the while
the Hoover family gave permission, the Marcasano family did not.
And the tombstone of Sergeant Marcasano you can clearly see
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in the video, and the Trump campaign went ahead and
videoed it. And even worse than that, this is the
part where now when I say the line.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Is crossed, this is despicable. Is not only is that
not allowed?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Is that it went on his TikTok page with the
narration nailing the Biden Harris.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Administration for what happened in Afghanistan.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Purely a political statement made while laying the wreath at
the grave of a soldier who had died and using
that for police purpose. Here, I am laying the wreath
and the narrator talks about the Biden Harris administration and
how they screwed up and what they did, and I
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guess implicitly responsible for the death of these service people.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I have no idea. And there was a fight that
went on straight ahead the.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Campaign and the Arlington employee got into it, and later
on the military said the Arlington employee would not press
charges which he could, because.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Of fear of retribution from Trump followers.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
It has gone crazy, and you know, you reach a
level of come on now, I understand the straight out
line that Trump does. Inflation is out of control. It's
under three percent. Illegal aliens have taken your job. You're
going to work tomorrow. The economy is in.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
A free fall.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Actually, the stock market and the economy is doing better
than it hashighest level it's ever been now and inflation
was not out of control it was high. I mean,
there's no question inflation at nine percent was really high.
But I guess that goes on forever, you know, I mean, Okay,
I understand that even though you catch Trump and lie
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after lie after lie, that's simply the way he works,
and it works for him. It works for him. But
when you go to Arlington Cemetery and you're videoing the
grave of a man who had served eight tours, eight
tours of duty, won the Silver and Bronze Star, and
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he was so screwed up with post traumatic stress disorder
that he committed suicide, and there's the video without permission
of his family in an area where you're not supposed
to take video, and then using that for political purpose,
and talking about how the Biden Perris administration all the
mistakes they made now horrible they were during the Afghanistan,
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the withdrawal in the Afghanistan, how they screwed the pooch. Okay,
I would like to know how you defend that. I
just don't know. I'll tell you how Vance defended it.
It was just a little fight, a little altercation between
the Trump campaign and an employee of Arlington. Now let's
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talk about something real serious, you know, just it's a
little scuffle.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I mean, it's just nothing worth talking about, because that's
that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I mean, come on, guys, I mean, I will describe
this as straight out despicable, you know, and that is
there any level?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I guess, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And is this going to affect this campaign? Can you
imagine any other candidate doing this? And it doesn't matter,
It does not matter.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Okay, I know of that. Okay. One of the things
about Kamala Harris, and we're going to hear a lot
more about.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
This, and I am surprised that she's not getting enough black,
is that she has argued that the big food companies,
the supermarkets are price gouging and they are taking advantage
of the consumer.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
And what is price gouging?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I don't even know what that actually is, but the
argument is that the supermarket change particularly Kroger, is charging
more than the inflation rate there for that's price gouging.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Okay. There is a Federal Trade.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Commission hearing that went on and the company's senior director
for pricing, Okay, Andrew Groff, is I think he's being
the post and he said, yeah, we raised prices for
eggs and milk beyond inflation levels.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Okay, and.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Drew Powers, founder of Powers Financial Group, is an analyst.
Here he goes, that's not surprising. Companies across multiple industries
have been posting record profits since the COVID nineteen crisis,
and consumers have faced the highest inflation in reaching history.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Which is true.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
It has remember he hit nine percent under Biden and
then has now dropped to under three percent. And the math,
as he says, can only point to companies raising prices
above the general level of inflation. What am I missing here?
Don't we have a market system? And so let's say
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prices for airlines go up, and you know they couldn't
sell a ticket during COVID, and now the prices are
far greater than inflation.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
They're not allowed to do that.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
By the way, Kiss, supermarkets charge whatever the hell they
want to charge for goods, and you either buy it
or you don't buy it.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So eggs get insanely expensive. You don't do eggs. Oh no,
If you.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Charge a fortune for eggs, that's price gouging. I said,
I don't know where price gouging starts. That's the problem,
because now we have governmental controls, Right, how else do
you deal with price gouging? Well, the government's going to say,
you can only raise the prices so high. We do
that with rent in the city of la that's called
rent control. That's somewhat accepted in many jurisdictions. Now, property
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owners aren't thrilled with that, but it's sort of it's
a given. Now, that's the way you have to deal
with business supermarkets. You know the problem. And here's what
Kamala Harris and team are saying is that the supermarkets
have too much power and they're consolidating, which means they
can determine the prices. I will buy the anti trust argument.
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When there is too much of the market share with
one company or a group of companies, then the consumer
is definitely at risk for quote price gouging because they
they have the whole market. Okay, is there is there
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competition out there? Well, yeah, then we're done. Then we're done.
Short of anti trust, Hey, you can charge whatever the
hell you want to charge. We just don't go there.
That's all. That's the problem. That's the point I don't understand. Now,
are there instances of price gouging, Yeah, but they have
to be clear clear cut.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
New York, for example, in the seventies went through you.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Know that cascade of the outages that the entire Eastern
seaboard was out of electricity for four days because I
think one squirrel went into one of their generators and
then this thing just flashed and it was a cascade and.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Everything went out.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Well, there were people that were selling candles for fifteen
dollars apiece, that I can argue that's gouging. But going
to a supermarket and saying they're charging more than inflation,
I don't understand. I do not understand price controls. And
by the way, they've never worked ever because every time
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there was an attempt at price controls, the second they
come off, prices explode. So the argument is that we
must keep price controls in check, and who makes that determination. Well,
government is the only entity that can make that determination.
And you can only charge this much for eggs, and
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inflation goes up four percent that year, you can only
charge an extra four percent.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Didn't you like that with cars and airlines and Disneyland tickets.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Where the government says you can only charge what inflation is.
Welcome to Moscow, Welcome to Beijing. Although Moscow not anymore.
That was during the Soviet era. So I don't know
where she's going to go with that, but I tell you,
I think it's going to kill her.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Now. I'm a pretty reasonable guy, well.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
You know, at least politically. I think I'm a pretty
reasonable guy. You know, I consider myself a moderate, I
really do, you know. I look at both sides, and
you know, I think I give.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Credit where credit is due.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I have a problem with some people in terms of
a character, especially mine. But there are some places, there
are some parts of government that make absolutely no sense.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Either we are a market system or we are not.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
You cannot argue we're a free market system and the
government comes in you can only charge with It's impossible.
As I said, when it comes to rent control, government
controls it. But that's sort of grandfathered in. We're sort
of used to that.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
But with the rest of it, food prices, I just
don't know where it's going to go. Food prices.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I can see there's a political spin to that, because
everybody has to eat. People don't have to fly, you
don't have to buy a new car. But I don't
think it's gonna help her at all. Maybe it will
I don't eve understand what, I don't even understand what
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Forty and this is KFI Bill Handle here. It is
a Thursday morning, August twenty nine. A whole lot going
on today. It's gonna be the first interview Dana Bash
of CNN interviewing Kamala.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Harris, who is going to be asked questions.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
And by the way, we'll be sitting next to Tim Walls,
right next to her, and every time she is asked
a question, she'll be turning to Tim, who will whisper
in her ear.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Here's what I want you to say, Here's what you
should say. I actually would love to see how that
lines up.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You know, Kamala Harris does not go to any event
without Tim Walls next to her. They do a double
hit whenever there is an event. I mean, they're going
around the country. They're doing their campaigning together. And I've
never seen that. Usually as vice president goes, vice president
candidate goes one direction, presidential candidate goes another direction.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Very strange.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Now this is California, Okay, God bless California. It's a
good place to be an illegal immigrant. Gay final approval
yesterday to a bill that's going to help undocumented immigrants
read illegal aliens in California.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
And here is what it's going to do.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Assembly Bill eighteen forty now goes to Gavin's desk, would
allow undocumented immigrants to apply alongside other qualified applicants for
the California Dream for All Shared Appreciation Loan program.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
And just you know, I love these names.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
No interest loans up to one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars to cover down payments and fees. It's a program
that's available to people who qualify to get help from
California Dubai home down payment and they don't have to
pay back the loan until the house is sold or refed,
and they pay back the loan plus twenty percent of
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the increase in value.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Okay, fair enough. Now here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Unlike the question that's asked, how many of you have
lost their jobs to or lost your jobs to illegal immigrants?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
And I can't imagine who has haven't met one yet?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
How many qualified people are there going to be who
have lost their loans under this program to qualified? How
many of the qualified people have lost their loans to
illegal immigrants? Well, the program has run out of money
and it's a very limited number of people that can
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get it, and if illegal immigrants are right there in
the pack, someone's going to get it. If illegal immigrants
are qualified under the program and they're like everybody else,
you know, that means someone's going to get nailed who
is eligible and is here legally and or is a citizen.
(02:55):
Now I'm going to tell you, I man.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yet it doesn't stop. It doesn't stop.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Of course, Republicans and those that are against it saying hey,
people have followed all the rules in life are going
to be displaced.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah this one, Yes, it is.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Because here's the basic premise of the Democrats on this one.
Our country was made up of immigration. Immigration has made
our country great. Therefore, we don't have enough immigrants and
we should do everything we can. The other day we
talked about University of California hiring illegal immigrants. They've changed
(03:36):
their policy and now under this program, a program exists
in which people who can afford down payment can apply
to this program to get the money from the government
to help with the down payment.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
All right, fair.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Enough, but we're going to extend that to illegal immigrants too.
And the argument is, how much more can we do
to invite illegal immigration, not only in the country but
in the state.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
There seems to be no limit and that is a
real problem.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And even amongst you liberals out there and those that
are in favor of this program.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
This new bill going through, we're having gone through. We'll
see if the governor signs it.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
At some point, do you say, can we differentiate people
that are here illegally?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I mean your heart goes out to them, my heart.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Does they come here illegally just basically give their kids
an opportunity? Many many of them come here and work
and send all the money back to Mexico or Al Salvador.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Because their families are starving.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
So here they are to try to make a life
for themselves and they can't get in legally, so they
they come here illegally.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And yet at the.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Same time, what we're going to do is everything we
can to make it as pleasant as fair. Effectively, there
is no difference if you are a citizen of the
United States and a resident of California. It doesn't matter
any program out there in this program says that you're
(05:11):
in the same pot as someone who's come over the
border illegally. Because we as a state do not look
at illegal alienship as anything violation of the law, even
though it is, we're going to ignore that law.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
That's all real simple.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
So the argument that the easier we make it for
illegal aliens undocumented to take advantage of these programs, the
more inviting we are.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Who's going to argue that is there a line? No,
there isn't. There is not a line. Is there such
thing as citizenship? Nope, there really wasn't.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Facenti Fox, former president of Mexico, I think put it
the best. The border between the United States and Mexico
is merely a line.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
It doesn't matter. It's like you go to Nevada. I've
said this before. You go to Nevada. How do you
know you're in Nevada? When you leave California, there is
a sign that says welcome to Nevada.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
There's no border control, nobody stops you, no one asks.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Which is the United States?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Because the way our constitution works, in the way our
country is set up, American citizens and people here legally
can go any place in the country.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Matter of fact, if you happen to be here illegally, you.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Can go any place in the country. But do we
extend that to our borders. Yeah, Viacinthi Fox says, yeah,
it's only a line. There is no difference. We are
all Northern Americans. We are all citizens of the Northern Hemisphere. Now,
some Disneyland stuff, and I always bring up Disneyland whenever
(06:56):
I can, because of Neil, who is a big Disney fan,
has a annual pass, has for years and years, and Amy,
who is a big disney fan. Amy, by the way,
do you have an annual pass? I don't know if
I ask you that you do.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
So there is a program at Disneyland they've had four
years and it is a DAS pass. DAS stands for
Disney's Disability Access Service or DAS pass, and it is
about not waiting in line go to the lightning part
of the lightning line, which means you've got this long
(07:33):
wait for any ride, especially during the summer, especially during
any time actually, and then there's a lightning line that
goes much much quicker, and people pay money to have
that lightning line. Okay, I think has a lot of money.
On top of the one hundred and fifty eight dollars.
By the way, you actually have to pay thirty dollars
per day, right when you go extra thirty? Okay, and
(07:58):
do you people that have the past, do you ever
question are you really disabled?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Do you ever asked that question? Do you ever do
you ever even consider somebody? Yeah, I consider that maybe
that may be faking it.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I would not confront somebody.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Oh now, I'm not saying you would confront Do you
ever wonder? Oh? Yeah, okay, and you're not alone?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And what's happened in the last uh what last since?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
It was it? The number I think the last couple
of years. It has tripled the number of people in
the last several years twenty nineteen, yeah, yeah, trip not
even that long.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah, So obviously a lot of people are using it,
and so they just cut down on it. They're just
saying no, thank you. And the backlash is extraordinary. Kids
with autism. There's stories after story La Time story, uh
in which the kids are the parents are saying, the
kids can't stand in line, they melt down, and Disney
is saying, you know what, it's being overused.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It is Okay, it's not it's not see there you go, Oh,
it's it's the abuse of it. Right, And here's what
Disney has done right. There are that are abusing this right.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And that's the point that actually don't care of it,
don't get it right. That's the point of this story
is Disney is cutting way down UH and people are
being denied to who otherwise would be eligible.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And the fight is going on right now.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
You've got the community of the disabled screaming at Disney.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You've got Disney.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Saying we comply because everybody ends up being disabled. I
haven't been to Disneyland for a very long time, but
there was a time when I'd get in.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
When I go to the park.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
There is a walmart right near Disneyland, and I used
to go in, UH and I would buy one of
those collapsible canes for about ten bucks, and then I
go into Disneyland with my cane and I would just
walk right up and I'd get at the front of
the line. And then at the end of the day
(09:57):
I would sell the cane for I have to profit
to some partgoer.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Those were the days, those you could. I gotta miss
those the handicap space.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Yeah, all of it, all of it, yeah, yeah, And
so unfortunately for those of us, but fortunately for other
people that want to be fair about it. Hey, there's
no way around it. And there's a story here. There's
a gal from Northridge who had a problem with her
child who was autistic, and she went and asked for
(10:30):
the past.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
What you do you have to ask for it?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
And she spoke to a quote cast member who said
was kind and patient, but the questions were deeply personal. Okay,
you can't ask questions I'm disabled, what kind of disability?
You don't have the right to ask me that. Well,
you can't ask me medical questions. Isn't disability a medical issue?
(10:54):
And aren't you asking for a medical pass on this?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Well? Yeah, but you can't ask me any questions.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's Disney is saying, what else do we do? How
do we deal with this? Do we then get to
the point where the lightning lanes are actually slower than
the regular lanes?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
That was one of the use. Unfortunately, if you have
somebody who is neurodivergent, autistic, or somewhere on the spectrum
where you're standing in line is a problem those in
this particular story, it was fifteen minutes or more. I
think you're going to find that in some of the
lightning lines, and it stinks.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Man.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
I would fight for my child to be able to
go and enjoy it as well. Yeah, the system is
just broken because like everything else built, and there's no
way about how much we pay in life because people
don't go by the rules, whether it's locks on the
doors or any of the security features we have to
go through in life. Is because other people misuse the trust.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So they made these changes. Disney made these changes, said
we have no place else to go. Can you rent
wheelchairs at Disney.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
By the way.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Okay, so that's it.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Hang on a second, I just want to ask you
can rent wheelchairs? Yes, Why wouldn't everybody walk in and
rent a wheelchair?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Well, see, that's part of the problem. There was a
whole big thing. I don't know if you remember this
a couple of years ago, but people were hiring disabled
people to go to the park with them so they
could skip the line because they generally let you go
with your party, and they were paying disabled people hundreds
of dollars. They got to go to the park, they
got to cut the lines, and the people in that
(12:37):
group cut the lines with them. And that's another reason
that Disney has to crack down on this because people
are taking advantage of a nice city that Disney offered.
They said, hey, you know what, if you have trouble
waiting in line, We're going to help you. They offered
that for years and years and years, but too many
people screwed it up.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Why couldn't I think of that. That's a pretty good
one too.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Oh it's awful, Bill.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Oh I'm okay, I have it wrong.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Then all right, we are done. Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
As I've said many times before, I do not understand how.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Donald Trump gets away with what he gets away with.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Here's the latest story, and this I think goes just
a touch, if not way too far. There's a family
of a Green Beret died by suicide after serving eight
combat tours and is buried at Arlington, and the film
family is a little outraged because the campaign Trump's campaign
filmed his gravesite without permission, and filming took place in
(13:43):
an area where campaign photography isn't even allowed. So it's
just it's not that simple. He didn't just show up
and started filming, Okay. The relatives of Andrew Marcusano two
days after Trump's visit and issued a statement not only
about the filming, but included a confrontation between members of
the Trump campaign and an Arlington employee and the Arlington
(14:08):
police said, you can't video here. It's you're not allowed
to video here. Well, he was the campaign and Donald
Trump was invited to video by the family of another
service member who had died and was buried there, and
he was Donald Trump was laying the wreath on the
(14:31):
tomb of the unknown, and then for the people who
had died, including this the Hoover family where this man
had also served. And here's what ended up happening. The
Hoover family granted permission to the Trump team to film
and take photographs at the grave site, even though it
was not allowed.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
They said, go ahead and do it. But that's not
the real problem.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Photographing at grave sites for political purposes is a violation
federal law AWE. And the problem is even the while
the Hoover family gave permission, the Marcasano family did not.
And the tombstone of Sergeant Marcasano you can clearly see
(15:16):
in the video, and the Trump campaign went ahead and
videoed it. And even worse than that, this is the
part where now when I say the line.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Is crossed, this is despicable. Is not only is that
not allowed?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Is that it went on his TikTok page with the
narration nailing the Biden Harris.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Administration for what happened in Afghanistan.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Purely a political statement made while laying the wreath at
the grave of a soldier who had died and using
that for police purpose. Here, I am laying the wreath
and the narrator talks about the Biden Harris administration and
how they screwed up and what they did, and I
(16:09):
guess implicitly responsible for the death of these service people.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I have no idea. And there was a fight that
went on straight ahead the.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Campaign and the Arlington employee got into it, and later
on the military said the Arlington employee would not press
charges which he could, because.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Of fear of retribution from Trump followers.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
It has gone crazy, and you know, you reach a
level of come on now, I understand the straight out
line that Trump does. Inflation is out of control. It's
under three percent. Illegal aliens have taken your job. You're
going to work tomorrow. The economy is in.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
A free fall.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Actually, the stock market and the economy is doing better
than it hashighest level it's ever been now and inflation
was not out of control it was high. I mean,
there's no question inflation at nine percent was really high.
But I guess that goes on forever, you know, I mean, Okay,
I understand that even though you catch Trump and lie
(17:18):
after lie after lie, that's simply the way he works,
and it works for him. It works for him. But
when you go to Arlington Cemetery and you're videoing the
grave of a man who had served eight tours, eight
tours of duty, won the Silver and Bronze Star, and
(17:42):
he was so screwed up with post traumatic stress disorder
that he committed suicide, and there's the video without permission
of his family in an area where you're not supposed
to take video, and then using that for political purpose,
and talking about how the Biden Perris administration all the
mistakes they made now horrible they were during the Afghanistan,
(18:06):
the withdrawal in the Afghanistan, how they screwed the pooch. Okay,
I would like to know how you defend that. I
just don't know. I'll tell you how Vance defended it.
It was just a little fight, a little altercation between
the Trump campaign and an employee of Arlington. Now let's
(18:28):
talk about something real serious, you know, just it's a
little scuffle.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I mean, it's just nothing worth talking about, because that's
that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I mean, come on, guys, I mean, I will describe
this as straight out despicable, you know, and that is
there any level?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I guess, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And is this going to affect this campaign? Can you
imagine any other candidate doing this? And it doesn't matter,
It does not matter.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Okay, I know of that. Okay. One of the things
about Kamala Harris, and we're going to hear a lot
more about.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
This, and I am surprised that she's not getting enough black,
is that she has argued that the big food companies,
the supermarkets are price gouging and they are taking advantage
of the consumer.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
And what is price gouging?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I don't even know what that actually is, but the
argument is that the supermarket change particularly Kroger, is charging
more than the inflation rate there for that's price gouging.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Okay. There is a Federal Trade.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Commission hearing that went on and the company's senior director
for pricing, Okay, Andrew Groff, is I think he's being
the post and he said, yeah, we raised prices for
eggs and milk beyond inflation levels.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Okay, and.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Drew Powers, founder of Powers Financial Group, is an analyst.
Here he goes, that's not surprising. Companies across multiple industries
have been posting record profits since the COVID nineteen crisis,
and consumers have faced the highest inflation in reaching history.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Which is true.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
It has remember he hit nine percent under Biden and
then has now dropped to under three percent. And the math,
as he says, can only point to companies raising prices
above the general level of inflation. What am I missing here?
Don't we have a market system? And so let's say
(20:54):
prices for airlines go up, and you know they couldn't
sell a ticket during COVID, and now the prices are
far greater than inflation.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
They're not allowed to do that.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
By the way, Kiss, supermarkets charge whatever the hell they
want to charge for goods, and you either buy it
or you don't buy it.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So eggs get insanely expensive. You don't do eggs. Oh no,
If you.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Charge a fortune for eggs, that's price gouging. I said,
I don't know where price gouging starts. That's the problem,
because now we have governmental controls, Right, how else do
you deal with price gouging? Well, the government's going to say,
you can only raise the prices so high. We do
that with rent in the city of la that's called
rent control. That's somewhat accepted in many jurisdictions. Now, property
(21:46):
owners aren't thrilled with that, but it's sort of it's
a given. Now, that's the way you have to deal
with business supermarkets. You know the problem. And here's what
Kamala Harris and team are saying is that the supermarkets
have too much power and they're consolidating, which means they
can determine the prices. I will buy the anti trust argument.
(22:07):
When there is too much of the market share with
one company or a group of companies, then the consumer
is definitely at risk for quote price gouging because they
they have the whole market. Okay, is there is there
(22:28):
competition out there? Well, yeah, then we're done. Then we're done.
Short of anti trust, Hey, you can charge whatever the
hell you want to charge. We just don't go there.
That's all. That's the problem. That's the point I don't understand. Now,
are there instances of price gouging, Yeah, but they have
to be clear clear cut.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
New York, for example, in the seventies went through you.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Know that cascade of the outages that the entire Eastern
seaboard was out of electricity for four days because I
think one squirrel went into one of their generators and
then this thing just flashed and it was a cascade and.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Everything went out.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Well, there were people that were selling candles for fifteen
dollars apiece, that I can argue that's gouging. But going
to a supermarket and saying they're charging more than inflation,
I don't understand. I do not understand price controls. And
by the way, they've never worked ever because every time
(23:31):
there was an attempt at price controls, the second they
come off, prices explode. So the argument is that we
must keep price controls in check, and who makes that determination. Well,
government is the only entity that can make that determination.
And you can only charge this much for eggs, and
(23:53):
inflation goes up four percent that year, you can only
charge an extra four percent.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Didn't you like that with cars and airlines and Disneyland tickets.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Where the government says you can only charge what inflation is.
Welcome to Moscow, Welcome to Beijing. Although Moscow not anymore.
That was during the Soviet era. So I don't know
where she's going to go with that, but I tell you,
I think it's going to kill her.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Now. I'm a pretty reasonable guy, well.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
You know, at least politically. I think I'm a pretty
reasonable guy. You know, I consider myself a moderate, I
really do, you know. I look at both sides, and
you know, I think I give.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Credit where credit is due.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I have a problem with some people in terms of
a character, especially mine. But there are some places, there
are some parts of government that make absolutely no sense.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Either we are a market system or we are not.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
You cannot argue we're a free market system and the
government comes in you can only charge with It's impossible.
As I said, when it comes to rent control, government
controls it. But that's sort of grandfathered in. We're sort
of used to that.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
But with the rest of it, food prices, I just
don't know where it's going to go. Food prices.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I can see there's a political spin to that, because
everybody has to eat. People don't have to fly, you
don't have to buy a new car. But I don't
think it's gonna help her at all. Maybe it will
I don't eve understand what, I don't even understand what
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