October 7, 2024 • 25 mins
Wayne Resnick fills in ALL WEEK as Bill is out on vacation. Littlerock, CA: Sex Offender Destination. The OTHER Jobs Report. Harris v. Trump? NO! v BIDEN!!! Dogs Are EVERYWHERE!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning, It's the Bill Handles Show on KFI AM
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Bill is
on a vacation. Where's Neil? I hear you clamoring he
is off just for today. He will be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Who the hell are you?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm Wayne Resmick, and I'll be here today until nine o'clock.
And I told you before the news I got great news.
If you're a fan of sex offenders, which I'm assuming
you're not. It was meant sarcastically. Here's what's going on.
(00:44):
Imagine this. You don't have to imagine it, because it happened.
Let's make it personal. Cynthia Farrow a kindergartener teacher trying
to find a house to raise her family with her
husband and their ten year old son and their three
year old daughter.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And they were.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Priced out of a lot of the places here in
southern California and even up in the Analope Valley, where
some areas have become too expensive for some people. And
then they found a beautiful home in the town of
a Little Rock up in the Analope Valley and they
bought it, and one of the things they liked about
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it is it was affordable.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Obviously.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Also there's a lower population density, and you have more
space between houses and properties. Sometimes your nearest neighbor is
like an acre away. So that's something that makes some
people really want to live up there. The problem is
the same reason that some people choose to buy a
(01:47):
home in Little Rock is the reason that the state
dumps sex offenders up there to live when they come
out either of prison or out of a hospital commitment,
which is what happened to Cynthia Farrow and her husband
and their son and their daughter where they bought this
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house and they thought this is wonderful, and then they
found out that Christopher Hubbert, also known as the Pillowcase Rapist,
was going to be placed there. Now that case is
still being fought, and just recently a judge overseeing the
(02:27):
thing got six hundred letters and petitions from people who
live up there opposing the Pillowcase.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Rapist living amongst them.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
But he is far from the only sex offender that
has been placed up there.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
There's an inherent problem when a sex offender is released,
and the problem is newbody wants them to.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Live near them.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
And unlike certain things where I might point a finger
and say, don't be a nimb it is unassailable that
you wouldn't want a sex offender living near you. There's
no world in which you're wrong for not wanting that.
On the other hand, there comes a time when you
(03:19):
can't keep the person in prison, and you can't keep
the person in a hospital setting anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
And so what happens.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
You have everybody with a totally righteous cause I don't
want a sex offender in my community, and you have
a state that has to find someplace for them to live. Now,
you can go back ten years and look through the
archives of the Antelope Valley Times and see that they
(03:49):
called that area up there a dumping ground for sex offenders,
and they found over eight hundred, almost nine hundred registered
sex offenders living within that area. And the fact that
they could find it out is of course because of
Megan's Law, which created a publicly accessible database that you
can and you can look up and put in your
(04:09):
address and find out where the sex offenders are around you.
And after Megan's Law came Jessica's Law, and Jessica's Law
said you are not having sex offenders living within two
thousand feet of a school or a park or places
where children congregate. And then more recently, State Senator Scott
(04:34):
Wilke from up there in the Antelope Valley wrote a law.
And when I say more recently, I mean Megan's law
was two thousand and four and Jessica's law was a
couple of years after that, and then Senator Wilke wrote
this law in twenty eighteen. It's still six years ago,
but that's why I said more recently that says, when
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you have a paroled sex offender or a sex offender
coming out of hospital placement, you must do everything possible
to send them back to where they came from, meaning
their last legal residence, whatever city they were residing in
before they went in the system, or as close as possible.
The idea being two things. One the obvious, which is
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other communities won't have to deal with interloping sex offenders.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
But also from a I don't even want.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
To say the word rehabilitation because there's a certain population
that that word is just not It just isn't. But
the idea that that is where they're more likely to
have some kind of family ties or social ties or
economic tize or something. But the people up in Littorock
say that law even really hasn't helped too much, and
(05:50):
the state keeps having people placed there. Now there's a
private entity that actually goes looking for the places for
these sex offenders to live, that contracts with the state
to do that, Liberty Healthcare, they're called. So in any event,
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if you live in that kind of a community like
Little Rock, where it's not densely populated, where it is
more possible to place somebody who's not going to be
within two thousand feet of a school or a playground,
that is where they're going to look to place these people.
Because at the end of the day, if a judge
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says the person is ready to be released into the community,
you can't say no unless you can find a reason
to send them back. Now, ask to Christopher Hubbard, I mean,
just this, he's like a poster person for this problem,
because this is a guy who's sex offenses is raping
(06:56):
and attacking of women. Goes back to the early seventies
where he was doing this all over the San Gabriel
Valley and elsewhere, and he finally got arrested because somebody said, hey,
there's a suspicious guy lurking around and they caught him
and he got indicted for rape and other stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And then he got out of prison. He went up
to the Bay Area.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
He got arrested again, convicted again of rape and other stuff.
He eventually admitted to forty four sexual assaults. That's what
he admitted to. He got committed to the Department of
State Hospitals in two thousand, which is what has to happen.
If you get within six months of being paroled, you
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have to go into this hospital evaluation treatment program. He
stayed there for several years. They said, you're not ready yet,
You're not ready yet. You're not ready yet. But eventually
he got out and he was placed in the Lake
Los Angeles area up near Palmdale.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Nobody wanted it, but there he was. And guess what.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Then he violated the terms of his release and he
went back to Coalinga state hospital.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Nobody will say what he did that time.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
And then a judge said he uh should be released
and be housed in La County and the best place
they could think to put him is a little rock. So,
I mean, my heart goes out to the people there.
The answer is clear. There are certain people who should
never get out. It is that simple. I don't want
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to be flippant, but it's not difficult, and it's not
unconstitutional to say, let's say, at least let's start with
repeat violent sex offenders convicted of things like rape. That's
a life sentence without the possibility of parole. You can
do it. It's possible to do. I don't know why
they won't do it.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Jobs report came out Friday, two hundred and fifty four
thousand jobs added, way more than they were expecting. They
were expecting about one hundred and fifty thousand. And when
I say they, I mean the economists. You know, people
who sit around with big books and they talk about
what they think is going to happen. The largest monthly
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increase in job since March. The unemployment rate fell to
four point one percent. The job numbers were so good
that probably the Fed is not going to do another
half percentage interest rate cut. They'll probably do a quarter
point but they're not going to cut aggressively now because
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job numbers are too good and inflation has eased.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Now that's true, I think.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Stuff is still very expensive and there is still inflation,
and it's still higher than dead on two percent, but
it has eased, and so the Feds feel like we
took care of inflation. It's coming down. It's way down.
And the Feds have two things that they try to manipulate,
(10:02):
inflation and jobs. So when inflation started cooling down, they
turned their attention to the issue of jobs. And the
idea is, you know, you don't want to kill the
job market. Well, the job market apparently is doing great.
At least the job numbers are doing great, and so
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they don't have to do as much manipulation of things.
They're going to be left with nothing to manipulate if
this keeps up. Force these numbers come out right before
the election a month from now. A lot of people
in polls, voters are saying that the economy and inflation
are the big issues for them. In theory, this could
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help Kamala Harris, although in polling people prefer Donald Trump
on the economy to Kamala Harris. And the fact of
the matter is, you can't give credit really to Kamala
Harris or did Joe Biden or did Donald Trump on
this stuff? There's a few things here and there a
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president can do. There's even less a vice president can
do that directly affects inflation or the job's numbers. But
as you know, whoever's presiding over a good good times
gets the credit and bad times gets the blame. So
here's the thing, though, right woo, jobs up, unemployment down.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Jobs are booming. They're booming more than anybody thought.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
But I know, I know this for a fact, that
you might be thinking, that's not what I'm seeing. That
is not what's happening at my company or even And
I feel terrible if this is true. You're thinking, that's
not what happened to me. You got laid off, maybe
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a lot of people at your company got laid off.
So how can this be? The job numbers are so
great that everybody's losing.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Their mind with joy.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And yet, for a fact, I know many people that
is not their reality.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
It doesn't match what's happening.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And that's because the job growth has been in certain
sectors and there has been a shrinkage of jobs in
other sectors of the economy at almost any time except
in a massive recession.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And I don't know if there's ever been such a.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Boom that every single sector of the economy grew. But
besides those extremes, at any point in time, some parts
of the economy are doing great and others are struggling.
So you know, bars and restaurants, that hospitality adding jobs,
construction adding jobs. Those things are very sensitive to the economy.
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There's an argument that if they're adding a lot of
jobs in hospitality and construction, the economy must be doing well.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
They're also adding a lot of jobs.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
A lot of this job growth is government and education
and healthcare, and those are parts of the economy that
aren't really as sensitive.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
To the ups and downs.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But there are other areas of the economy that aren't
doing well. There were job losses in manufacturing and transportation,
temp services, I think warehousing. So there's a there's a
and we report on these things, and the news reports.
The jobs numbers came out, the EU employee numbers, and nobody,
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you mean, even me, you don't really understand, Like, what
did it mean really, Because if I lost my job,
it means nothing to me that they added a bunch
of jobs. And I suppose it works the other way.
You know, if there were a bunch of job losses,
but you just got a great job then for your life, right,
then it doesn't matter. But if we're going to report
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statistics and reports and these things, and you want to
get a better sense of how the job picture is
across the entire economy, there is a thing that you
can start looking at, and it's called the one Month
Diffusion Index of Private Industries SCHESS. That was nerdy, but
it basically takes each segment of the economy and you know,
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you have some segments where there's gain, some segments where
there's loss. It puts them all together and you get
a number from one to one hundred. If it's above fifty,
then more areas of the economy added jobs than lost them,
and that's considered good in the overall health of the economy.
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And if it's under fifty, it's the other way around. Now,
that thing was at eighty four a couple of years ago,
which is crazy. It meant almost every sector of the
economy he was adding jobs. It's back down down to fifty,
so it's fair to say while some sectors have added
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a lot of jobs more jobs than were expected, other
segments are hurting. And that's why it's a wash. In
this particular measure. The one month diffusion index of private industries,
and that's why the jubilation over the jobs numbers might
not match what you are experiencing yourself.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
This is good to be aware of these things.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Now also affecting your life and my life the economic
policies of whoever is elected president. And there's been a
lot of comparing. Obviously Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Right now,
those are the two major candidates. And let's be honest,
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nobody else is going to win. It's the polling is
very close. Donald Trump could win, Kamala Harris could win,
nobody else can win. But Kamala Harris has to do
something that Donald Trump doesn't have to do. Donald Trump
has been the nominee for a while. He always was
(16:15):
the expected nominee, and Kamala Harris was not until somewhat
recently in this election cycle. And so she not only
has to talk about how she's different than Donald Trump,
she also has to talk about, without being rude, how
she's different on the economy than Joe Biden. And she
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is different in some fundamental ways. One of the main
ways is that Joe Biden seemed to with his policies
look at people and workers and families as voters. It
was through the prism of politics to a great extent,
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and with the things that Kamala Harris is released about
her policies, she seems to be looking at people as consumers.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And we know this.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
You know, Biden was focused on jobs and Kamala Harris
is focused on how much stuff costs. And we know
this because if you look at the text of her
plan that she released, it talks about costs and prices
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more than twice as much as it talks about jobs.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
So she's focusing on trying to get.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Prices down, taxes for the middle class down, food down,
prescription drug prices down. No, it's not that Joe Biden
ever mentioned any of this, but she's really making them
more prominent then larger, more abstract things like investing in
manufacturing to create jobs, which is something Joe Biden was
(18:02):
very big on. Here's another thing where Kamala Harris either
is moving to the center or maybe has been there
all along.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
On this particular issue.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Joe Biden never really got chummy with corporate America. Kamala
Harris is having regular dinners at her the Vice Presidential
residence at the Naval observatory with big CEOs. She's talking
to Jamie Diamond from JP Morgan Chase. She's talking to
Mark Cuban, who is, whatever you think of his politics, he's.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
A big business guy.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And she also Biden wanted to increase the capital gains tax,
and she came in and said, you're not so much
into that right now. We do want to raise the
corporate tax, right just like Joe Biden did, but not
so much capital gains tax. I do want to talk
to big CEOs and money people and big business people.
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And she doesn't, at least what she's saying and doing,
doesn't look at corporate America as the enemy. And even
and here's by the way, do you know to take
it from me. Michael Strain is the director of Economic
Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and that is
a right.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Leaning think tank.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
And he it's not that he loves Kamala Harris on
the economy across the board.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
He does not.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
But he did say that she is friendlier to business
than Joe Biden or Barack Obama. So if he's willing
to say that, then it's probably true. So that's the
big difference between Harris and Biden, and it's nice to know.
And now, of course we're going to start unsure as
we get even closer to the election, focusing on the
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differences between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Now, let's get
into it. They are every where dogs. Everywhere you look
is dogs. There are places now and they are colloquially
known as dog bars, but they're really bars and venue
events for people that cater to dogs, meaning dogs are welcome,
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dogs are accommodated, and they are full of people, and
they are full of dogs. And one of these places
is called the dog Bar, officially in Florida, and it
has been the scene of at least half a dozen
marriage proposals, multiple weddings. And it's because everybody loves dogs
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now more than they love kids. That's what's going on.
If you tell me, please give me some scholarly, intellectually
valid analysis of what you're talking about. That they're dog
dogs everywhere you look now here it is people love
their dogs more than kids. A lot of people don't
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even have kids anymore. It is dogs that are the family.
I mean pets, pets in general, but in terms of
public spaces, it's mostly dogs. There was a pollback in
two thousand and six and they asked pet owners in
the United States, do you consider your pet to be
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part of your family? And in two thousand and six,
seventy eight percent of cat owners said yes, eighty six
percent of dog owners said yes. And now that same
pole it is almost one hundred percent. Because the current
younger generations aren't not having kids, or they're having them later,
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and instead they're loving their dogs. People aren't combining the
rest of their life with their dog ownership or guardian
or whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
The dog.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
The dog now, it's not the little guy who lives
at home and you go for walks and you feed
him and.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Play with him. This is like your bud.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Hey, I'm going I'm going out to have dinner, and
the dog is coming with me. Hey, I'm going to
do errands. Here's all I have to do today. I
have a light day. I gotta go to targets and
I gotta get some.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I don't know, drain cleaner.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
And then I'm gonna go to the supermarket and I'm
gonna get some lettuce.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Guess who's coming with.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Me on my errands? The dog is coming with me.
This is why. And this is anecdotal. I don't have
direct statistical evidence, but I believe it for me anyway,
my experience lately as you drive around is way more
dogs hanging out of windows in parking lots, at traffic stoffs,
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way more than there used to be.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Everybody taking their dog.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Home builders and landlords are starting to get the picture
that people love their dogs like they've never loved them before,
and they're starting to put dog friendly infrastructure into like
apartment buildings for example, or when when they build a
housing development, they will make a point of putting a
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little park area in the middle of it specifically for
people to take their dogs, because it is good business
to do that. Twenty percent of people looking to buy
a home now specifically prioritize their pet. What neighborhood do
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I want to live in? What kind of a home
do I want to buy? Number One concern how's my
pet going to like it? What's going to be there
for me?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Am I pet? Which is up about five five percent
from a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
And then if you look at the couples that are
not married to each other, you know they're shacking up
thirty percent. Thirty percent are saying, oh yeah, when we're
looking for a place to live, we take into account
our dog. You know, it used to be you would
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see other dogs and socialize around your dogs at the
dog park. That was where you went. Now it's everywhere.
It's the supermarket, it's the patio of the restaurant. And
this is an invasion I can get behind. I know
there are people who have an actual, legitimate, clinical fear
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of dogs. So for you, this is a nightmare, and
I understand that. I feel bad.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I do.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I feel bad for you. You've got a specific condition.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
It's real. You're not crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
It's a real issue that you have that you can't
just get over. And for you, I feel terrible. But
for everybody else, man, it is happy times going around
and seeing all these pooches. I love it. It's KFI
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Good morning, It's the Bill Handles Show on KFI AM
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on a vacation. Where's Neil? I hear you clamoring he
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Who the hell are you?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm Wayne Resmick, and I'll be here today until nine o'clock.
And I told you before the news I got great news.
If you're a fan of sex offenders, which I'm assuming
you're not. It was meant sarcastically. Here's what's going on.
(00:44):
Imagine this. You don't have to imagine it, because it happened.
Let's make it personal. Cynthia Farrow a kindergartener teacher trying
to find a house to raise her family with her
husband and their ten year old son and their three
year old daughter.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And they were.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Priced out of a lot of the places here in
southern California and even up in the Analope Valley, where
some areas have become too expensive for some people. And
then they found a beautiful home in the town of
a Little Rock up in the Analope Valley and they
bought it, and one of the things they liked about
(01:22):
it is it was affordable.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Obviously.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Also there's a lower population density, and you have more
space between houses and properties. Sometimes your nearest neighbor is
like an acre away. So that's something that makes some
people really want to live up there. The problem is
the same reason that some people choose to buy a
(01:47):
home in Little Rock is the reason that the state
dumps sex offenders up there to live when they come
out either of prison or out of a hospital commitment,
which is what happened to Cynthia Farrow and her husband
and their son and their daughter where they bought this
(02:07):
house and they thought this is wonderful, and then they
found out that Christopher Hubbert, also known as the Pillowcase Rapist,
was going to be placed there. Now that case is
still being fought, and just recently a judge overseeing the
(02:27):
thing got six hundred letters and petitions from people who
live up there opposing the Pillowcase.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Rapist living amongst them.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
But he is far from the only sex offender that
has been placed up there.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
There's an inherent problem when a sex offender is released,
and the problem is newbody wants them to.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Live near them.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
And unlike certain things where I might point a finger
and say, don't be a nimb it is unassailable that
you wouldn't want a sex offender living near you. There's
no world in which you're wrong for not wanting that.
On the other hand, there comes a time when you
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can't keep the person in prison, and you can't keep
the person in a hospital setting anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
And so what happens.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
You have everybody with a totally righteous cause I don't
want a sex offender in my community, and you have
a state that has to find someplace for them to live. Now,
you can go back ten years and look through the
archives of the Antelope Valley Times and see that they
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called that area up there a dumping ground for sex offenders,
and they found over eight hundred, almost nine hundred registered
sex offenders living within that area. And the fact that
they could find it out is of course because of
Megan's Law, which created a publicly accessible database that you
can and you can look up and put in your
(04:09):
address and find out where the sex offenders are around you.
And after Megan's Law came Jessica's Law, and Jessica's Law
said you are not having sex offenders living within two
thousand feet of a school or a park or places
where children congregate. And then more recently, State Senator Scott
(04:34):
Wilke from up there in the Antelope Valley wrote a law.
And when I say more recently, I mean Megan's law
was two thousand and four and Jessica's law was a
couple of years after that, and then Senator Wilke wrote
this law in twenty eighteen. It's still six years ago,
but that's why I said more recently that says, when
(04:55):
you have a paroled sex offender or a sex offender
coming out of hospital placement, you must do everything possible
to send them back to where they came from, meaning
their last legal residence, whatever city they were residing in
before they went in the system, or as close as possible.
The idea being two things. One the obvious, which is
(05:17):
other communities won't have to deal with interloping sex offenders.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
But also from a I don't even want.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
To say the word rehabilitation because there's a certain population
that that word is just not It just isn't. But
the idea that that is where they're more likely to
have some kind of family ties or social ties or
economic tize or something. But the people up in Littorock
say that law even really hasn't helped too much, and
(05:50):
the state keeps having people placed there. Now there's a
private entity that actually goes looking for the places for
these sex offenders to live, that contracts with the state
to do that, Liberty Healthcare, they're called. So in any event,
(06:13):
if you live in that kind of a community like
Little Rock, where it's not densely populated, where it is
more possible to place somebody who's not going to be
within two thousand feet of a school or a playground,
that is where they're going to look to place these people.
Because at the end of the day, if a judge
(06:33):
says the person is ready to be released into the community,
you can't say no unless you can find a reason
to send them back. Now, ask to Christopher Hubbard, I mean,
just this, he's like a poster person for this problem,
because this is a guy who's sex offenses is raping
(06:56):
and attacking of women. Goes back to the early seventies
where he was doing this all over the San Gabriel
Valley and elsewhere, and he finally got arrested because somebody said, hey,
there's a suspicious guy lurking around and they caught him
and he got indicted for rape and other stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And then he got out of prison. He went up
to the Bay Area.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
He got arrested again, convicted again of rape and other stuff.
He eventually admitted to forty four sexual assaults. That's what
he admitted to. He got committed to the Department of
State Hospitals in two thousand, which is what has to happen.
If you get within six months of being paroled, you
(07:41):
have to go into this hospital evaluation treatment program. He
stayed there for several years. They said, you're not ready yet,
You're not ready yet. You're not ready yet. But eventually
he got out and he was placed in the Lake
Los Angeles area up near Palmdale.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Nobody wanted it, but there he was. And guess what.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Then he violated the terms of his release and he
went back to Coalinga state hospital.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Nobody will say what he did that time.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
And then a judge said he uh should be released
and be housed in La County and the best place
they could think to put him is a little rock. So,
I mean, my heart goes out to the people there.
The answer is clear. There are certain people who should
never get out. It is that simple. I don't want
(08:29):
to be flippant, but it's not difficult, and it's not
unconstitutional to say, let's say, at least let's start with
repeat violent sex offenders convicted of things like rape. That's
a life sentence without the possibility of parole. You can
do it. It's possible to do. I don't know why
they won't do it.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Jobs report came out Friday, two hundred and fifty four
thousand jobs added, way more than they were expecting. They
were expecting about one hundred and fifty thousand. And when
I say they, I mean the economists. You know, people
who sit around with big books and they talk about
what they think is going to happen. The largest monthly
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increase in job since March. The unemployment rate fell to
four point one percent. The job numbers were so good
that probably the Fed is not going to do another
half percentage interest rate cut. They'll probably do a quarter
point but they're not going to cut aggressively now because
(09:33):
job numbers are too good and inflation has eased.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Now that's true, I think.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Stuff is still very expensive and there is still inflation,
and it's still higher than dead on two percent, but
it has eased, and so the Feds feel like we
took care of inflation. It's coming down. It's way down.
And the Feds have two things that they try to manipulate,
(10:02):
inflation and jobs. So when inflation started cooling down, they
turned their attention to the issue of jobs. And the
idea is, you know, you don't want to kill the
job market. Well, the job market apparently is doing great.
At least the job numbers are doing great, and so
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they don't have to do as much manipulation of things.
They're going to be left with nothing to manipulate if
this keeps up. Force these numbers come out right before
the election a month from now. A lot of people
in polls, voters are saying that the economy and inflation
are the big issues for them. In theory, this could
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help Kamala Harris, although in polling people prefer Donald Trump
on the economy to Kamala Harris. And the fact of
the matter is, you can't give credit really to Kamala
Harris or did Joe Biden or did Donald Trump on
this stuff? There's a few things here and there a
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president can do. There's even less a vice president can
do that directly affects inflation or the job's numbers. But
as you know, whoever's presiding over a good good times
gets the credit and bad times gets the blame. So
here's the thing, though, right woo, jobs up, unemployment down.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Jobs are booming. They're booming more than anybody thought.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
But I know, I know this for a fact, that
you might be thinking, that's not what I'm seeing. That
is not what's happening at my company or even And
I feel terrible if this is true. You're thinking, that's
not what happened to me. You got laid off, maybe
(11:57):
a lot of people at your company got laid off.
So how can this be? The job numbers are so
great that everybody's losing.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Their mind with joy.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And yet, for a fact, I know many people that
is not their reality.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
It doesn't match what's happening.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And that's because the job growth has been in certain
sectors and there has been a shrinkage of jobs in
other sectors of the economy at almost any time except
in a massive recession.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And I don't know if there's ever been such a.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Boom that every single sector of the economy grew. But
besides those extremes, at any point in time, some parts
of the economy are doing great and others are struggling.
So you know, bars and restaurants, that hospitality adding jobs,
construction adding jobs. Those things are very sensitive to the economy.
(12:57):
There's an argument that if they're adding a lot of
jobs in hospitality and construction, the economy must be doing well.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
They're also adding a lot of jobs.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
A lot of this job growth is government and education
and healthcare, and those are parts of the economy that
aren't really as sensitive.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
To the ups and downs.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But there are other areas of the economy that aren't
doing well. There were job losses in manufacturing and transportation,
temp services, I think warehousing. So there's a there's a
and we report on these things, and the news reports.
The jobs numbers came out, the EU employee numbers, and nobody,
(13:38):
you mean, even me, you don't really understand, Like, what
did it mean really, Because if I lost my job,
it means nothing to me that they added a bunch
of jobs. And I suppose it works the other way.
You know, if there were a bunch of job losses,
but you just got a great job then for your life, right,
then it doesn't matter. But if we're going to report
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statistics and reports and these things, and you want to
get a better sense of how the job picture is
across the entire economy, there is a thing that you
can start looking at, and it's called the one Month
Diffusion Index of Private Industries SCHESS. That was nerdy, but
it basically takes each segment of the economy and you know,
(14:25):
you have some segments where there's gain, some segments where
there's loss. It puts them all together and you get
a number from one to one hundred. If it's above fifty,
then more areas of the economy added jobs than lost them,
and that's considered good in the overall health of the economy.
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And if it's under fifty, it's the other way around. Now,
that thing was at eighty four a couple of years ago,
which is crazy. It meant almost every sector of the
economy he was adding jobs. It's back down down to fifty,
so it's fair to say while some sectors have added
(15:07):
a lot of jobs more jobs than were expected, other
segments are hurting. And that's why it's a wash. In
this particular measure. The one month diffusion index of private industries,
and that's why the jubilation over the jobs numbers might
not match what you are experiencing yourself.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
This is good to be aware of these things.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Now also affecting your life and my life the economic
policies of whoever is elected president. And there's been a
lot of comparing. Obviously Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Right now,
those are the two major candidates. And let's be honest,
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nobody else is going to win. It's the polling is
very close. Donald Trump could win, Kamala Harris could win,
nobody else can win. But Kamala Harris has to do
something that Donald Trump doesn't have to do. Donald Trump
has been the nominee for a while. He always was
(16:15):
the expected nominee, and Kamala Harris was not until somewhat
recently in this election cycle. And so she not only
has to talk about how she's different than Donald Trump,
she also has to talk about, without being rude, how
she's different on the economy than Joe Biden. And she
(16:37):
is different in some fundamental ways. One of the main
ways is that Joe Biden seemed to with his policies
look at people and workers and families as voters. It
was through the prism of politics to a great extent,
(16:58):
and with the things that Kamala Harris is released about
her policies, she seems to be looking at people as consumers.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And we know this.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
You know, Biden was focused on jobs and Kamala Harris
is focused on how much stuff costs. And we know
this because if you look at the text of her
plan that she released, it talks about costs and prices
(17:30):
more than twice as much as it talks about jobs.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
So she's focusing on trying to get.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Prices down, taxes for the middle class down, food down,
prescription drug prices down. No, it's not that Joe Biden
ever mentioned any of this, but she's really making them
more prominent then larger, more abstract things like investing in
manufacturing to create jobs, which is something Joe Biden was
(18:02):
very big on. Here's another thing where Kamala Harris either
is moving to the center or maybe has been there
all along.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
On this particular issue.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Joe Biden never really got chummy with corporate America. Kamala
Harris is having regular dinners at her the Vice Presidential
residence at the Naval observatory with big CEOs. She's talking
to Jamie Diamond from JP Morgan Chase. She's talking to
Mark Cuban, who is, whatever you think of his politics, he's.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
A big business guy.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And she also Biden wanted to increase the capital gains tax,
and she came in and said, you're not so much
into that right now. We do want to raise the
corporate tax, right just like Joe Biden did, but not
so much capital gains tax. I do want to talk
to big CEOs and money people and big business people.
(19:04):
And she doesn't, at least what she's saying and doing,
doesn't look at corporate America as the enemy. And even
and here's by the way, do you know to take
it from me. Michael Strain is the director of Economic
Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and that is
a right.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Leaning think tank.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
And he it's not that he loves Kamala Harris on
the economy across the board.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
He does not.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
But he did say that she is friendlier to business
than Joe Biden or Barack Obama. So if he's willing
to say that, then it's probably true. So that's the
big difference between Harris and Biden, and it's nice to know.
And now, of course we're going to start unsure as
we get even closer to the election, focusing on the
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differences between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Now, let's get
into it. They are every where dogs. Everywhere you look
is dogs. There are places now and they are colloquially
known as dog bars, but they're really bars and venue
events for people that cater to dogs, meaning dogs are welcome,
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dogs are accommodated, and they are full of people, and
they are full of dogs. And one of these places
is called the dog Bar, officially in Florida, and it
has been the scene of at least half a dozen
marriage proposals, multiple weddings. And it's because everybody loves dogs
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now more than they love kids. That's what's going on.
If you tell me, please give me some scholarly, intellectually
valid analysis of what you're talking about. That they're dog
dogs everywhere you look now here it is people love
their dogs more than kids. A lot of people don't
(21:06):
even have kids anymore. It is dogs that are the family.
I mean pets, pets in general, but in terms of
public spaces, it's mostly dogs. There was a pollback in
two thousand and six and they asked pet owners in
the United States, do you consider your pet to be
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part of your family? And in two thousand and six,
seventy eight percent of cat owners said yes, eighty six
percent of dog owners said yes. And now that same
pole it is almost one hundred percent. Because the current
younger generations aren't not having kids, or they're having them later,
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and instead they're loving their dogs. People aren't combining the
rest of their life with their dog ownership or guardian
or whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
The dog.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
The dog now, it's not the little guy who lives
at home and you go for walks and you feed
him and.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Play with him. This is like your bud.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Hey, I'm going I'm going out to have dinner, and
the dog is coming with me. Hey, I'm going to
do errands. Here's all I have to do today. I
have a light day. I gotta go to targets and
I gotta get some.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I don't know, drain cleaner.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
And then I'm gonna go to the supermarket and I'm
gonna get some lettuce.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Guess who's coming with.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Me on my errands? The dog is coming with me.
This is why. And this is anecdotal. I don't have
direct statistical evidence, but I believe it for me anyway,
my experience lately as you drive around is way more
dogs hanging out of windows in parking lots, at traffic stoffs,
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way more than there used to be.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Everybody taking their dog.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Home builders and landlords are starting to get the picture
that people love their dogs like they've never loved them before,
and they're starting to put dog friendly infrastructure into like
apartment buildings for example, or when when they build a
housing development, they will make a point of putting a
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little park area in the middle of it specifically for
people to take their dogs, because it is good business
to do that. Twenty percent of people looking to buy
a home now specifically prioritize their pet. What neighborhood do
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I want to live in? What kind of a home
do I want to buy? Number One concern how's my
pet going to like it? What's going to be there
for me?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Am I pet? Which is up about five five percent
from a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
And then if you look at the couples that are
not married to each other, you know they're shacking up
thirty percent. Thirty percent are saying, oh yeah, when we're
looking for a place to live, we take into account
our dog. You know, it used to be you would
(24:23):
see other dogs and socialize around your dogs at the
dog park. That was where you went. Now it's everywhere.
It's the supermarket, it's the patio of the restaurant. And
this is an invasion I can get behind. I know
there are people who have an actual, legitimate, clinical fear
(24:45):
of dogs. So for you, this is a nightmare, and
I understand that. I feel bad.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I do.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I feel bad for you. You've got a specific condition.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
It's real. You're not crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
It's a real issue that you have that you can't
just get over. And for you, I feel terrible. But
for everybody else, man, it is happy times going around
and seeing all these pooches. I love it. It's KFI
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