August 25, 2025 • 26 mins
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What to know about vaccines, meals and DEI changes at school. Adults are struggling to hit 4 ‘milestones,’ census says. The was in Israel over serving in the war.
What to know about vaccines, meals and DEI changes at school. Adults are struggling to hit 4 ‘milestones,’ census says. The was in Israel over serving in the war.
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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):
Bill Handle here Monday morning, August twenty five. As we
continue on now, the heat wave is for the most
part done, isn't amy?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Are we Yeah, it's going to be more normal temperatures
as we head through the week. It's still hot, it's
just not crazy hot. Not crazy hot. It was crazy
hot at the beach this weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Which is good, I guess for beach goers because there
are millions of people along the beach.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It was too hot.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Two point isn't it two or three million people lining
the beaches between Santa Monica or Orange County beaches than
up to I think Malibu Zuma. I mean in the
millions of people.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Based on the traffic on the one on one, I
would say that's accurate.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
All right, now, I want to talk about what's going
on with schools. I talk about schools because it's kind
of important and right now, let's talk or let me
talk about vaccines, meal DEI changes.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Superintendents and school boards are having a real tough time
budgeting because they just don't know what's going on. Some teachers,
a lot of students have been deported or face threats
of removal. You've got the specter of government investigations into
the schools. Matter of fact, Trump administration officials have cracked
down on schools with LGBTQ inclusive policies diversity programs, because
(01:34):
there's a lot of diversity going on in the schools,
for sure. So very quickly, we have to remember that
public K through twelve schools where most kids in America
are educated, are run at the local and state level,
not at the federal level, and property taxes and the
legislatures provide most of the money that schools run on.
(01:57):
On average, districts across the country get about ten ten
percent of their annual budget from the government, which has
no role in setting curriculum. It's sort of up in
the air as far as what the federal government is
asking the schools to do.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So the government.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Has no power, right, Oh, it has plenty of power,
because let's talk about that ten percent. It has a
lot of power to affect students' lives. It sets nutritional guidelines,
the programs that protect students with disabilities usually federal money.
Low income students schools get extra money from the feds,
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So the Feds have a lot of power, because ten
percent doesn't seem like much. Ten percent of the school's
budgets are astronomical. One percent is hugely important. All right,
So a few things to start talking about. First of all,
you have nutritional standards are taking effect, and these are
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long awaited and they've been very slow in coming. US
Department of Agriculture finalized regulations to limit the amount of
sugar and cereals yogurt milk, and by the fall of
twenty twenty seven, restrictions will get very strict. Now under
the Big, one, Big Beautiful Bill Act also has funds cut,
(03:23):
and I mean big cuts to the Stamp program Supplement
on Nutrition Assistant Program food stamps that is going down,
and these cuts are going to reduce the kids' access
to free school meals because.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
A lot of that is paid by the Feds. Now.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
The Republicans, who are of course in favor of cutting
those funds, have argued that the snap cuts will ultimately
force more parents into the workforce.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That one I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
If you don't get food stamps, then you're going to
go to work sooner than later, I guess to feed
your kids. And there's a lot of wasteful government spending
and sending and benefits to grocers who get this money.
The vaccine part of this just floors me. It used
to be that every kid got vaccinated. I mean it
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was a given. You couldn't go to school without vaccination.
You needed the MMR vaccines measles, mumps, rubella.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It's one vaccination.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
There's also another vaccination for distemper, distemper and.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Parvo, which a lot of kids should get.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And in twenty nineteen twenty twenty school years, three states
reported less than ninety percent of kindergarteners were vaccinated. It's
a big figure because there's herd immunity because even if
you're not vaccinated, if enough people get vaccinated, you're not
going to get anything because they're.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Not flying around.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Those bugs are not flying around that gets you sick
or gets you really sick, or have you die. And
so there were only three I had less than ninety percent.
Last year, sixteen states had less than ninety percent. And
now we have a government, particularly under HHS, that does
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not like vaccines very much, and the exemptions for not
vaccining kids have become just so much easier. Schools are
wrestling with DEI mandates. That gets interesting because a lot
of schools are based on DEI because of minority kids,
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and education is predicated on wokeness. The entire education system
among minority kids and minority schools or primarily minority schools
is a real problematic. So the schools are going to
get nailed. I think an easy way out on that
one is instead of going to minority kids racially, you
look you look at socioeconomic levels.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And if it turns out that you have minority school
schools or schools that have a huge minority population, they
may go and usually are at a lower socioeconomic situation,
and then you can't argue openness. You're just arguing, hey,
they don't have enough money. There is no racial component
to that. And so you also have federal civil rights organizations.
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And then the fun one presidential fitness tests that's coming back. Yay,
the President's bringing it back. I don't know if you
saw the video with Pete Hegseth and Robert F. Kennedy
Junior squaring off against each other at the gym that
each had a team.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
My goodness, they were just incredible.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Those are such hard bodies, those guys and RFK seventy
I think, and he's doing the pushups and the sit ups.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I mean, like crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I noticed that our president was not involved in doing
push ups and sit ups, and he's the one that
wants to mandate it.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
So who's the last hard body? President?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Obama was pretty fit. George W would run marathons and
he was in his sixties, and the twenty something Secret
Service guys couldn't keep up with him.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
All right, So that's what we have to look at.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Life is getting very difficult for schools and a lot
of social programs are going down the drain, which is
a shame.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
All right.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
There is a working paper that just came out from
the US Census Bureau and it talks about comparing life
among young adults between now and what happened in nineteen
seventy five.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That seems to be the analysis.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Nineteen seventy five, the American dream was still attainable, Buying
a home was actually able to be done, is within
reach for young adults. And there are four simple milestones
that are reached amongst young adults. And this is according
to the Census Bureau.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
These are the benchmarks for those in their twenties and
early thirties as they start their adult lives. That's when
I guess you're considered an adult. Mid twenties not so much.
You're having a great time the early twenties, probably the
best time of your life. Lots of drugs, a lot
of sex, except my case, no one would say yes
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to me, lots of rock and roll. Just great times
had by all. And then you hit your mid late
twenties and thirties, and now you've got to start your life.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And so what are the milestones?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
One moving out of your parents home, that's changed, getting
a job a lot more difficult, getting married, having kids.
In seventy five, nearly half of Americans between twenty five
and thirty four achieved all four of those milestones. Here
we are, five decades later, less than a quarter have
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achieved the same thing.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It has dropped in half.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Wow, so about twenty two percent have moved away from
their parents, have been married, had children in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Now not so much, right, And why is that? Well?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
The working paper, and this is logic, points to several factors.
Economic pressures. There's a lot more economic pressures now than
there were back then.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I mean today.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Back then, I remember, you got out of college, you
got a job, you got out of high school, you
have a job. Today it's a whole lot tougher, a
lot tougher. So you have economic pressures, the desire to
feel financially stable. Today it is more important that you
feel financially stable.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Than was then.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
That is a state of mind, and it could shuffle
your priorities living longer with your parents, for example, because
of economic means, not because you're neurotic as hell, foregoing
marriage for example, certainly having kids.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Now, there's always been a group.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Of people that decided they weren't going to have kids.
I know a lot of people and they're thrilled with
their decision. It used to be years and decades ago
there was something inherently wrong with you.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
You couldn't have kids. There was a medical issue.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Then it became much more accepted not to have kids
as a matter of choice. And now there's a huge
percentage of would be parents that are not having kids
because they can't afford to have kids.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
The paper didn't say this, but also.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
There are, and I'm sure you've talked to people wouldn't
bring kids in this world because of this world is
so difficult because of the political turmoil, because of climate change,
because the wars that we know are going to happen,
the water wars, the cyber wars. I mean today, if
I were in my twenties or thirties, I would not
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have children. I wouldn't do it, not for financial reasons
and not for infertility reasons. It's simply because I wouldn't
want to put kids in this world today. My daughter
feels the same way one of my daughters does. The
other thing is just financial stability period, where so few
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people feel financially stable.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Today.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
If you put up ten percent down payment on a home,
there are eleven metro areas in the country that may
still fit in your budget. More than thirty percent of
American households aren't earning enough to be even consider middle class.
I mean, that's pretty that is pretty serious stuff. And
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then the paper did consider another factor, education, where you
would think that education would be the end all be all,
because when you finish college, or you finish whatever educational
program you had, and now you go off and you
get the job that's waiting for you. Well, today that's
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real difficult. So you know what we do? You stay
in school and you go for a degree, you can't
get the classes you want, so it takes you five
years to get through college, which most kids do. My daughter,
for example, who has a bachelor's degree in computer science
and is really well skilled, I mean nerd extraordinaire, very
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difficult getting a job in her chosen field. So now
she's also getting a master's degree. You know, when in doubt,
get a master's degree. That's what happened to me when
I finished college. What the hell do I do? I
had no idea, So I went to law school. That's
what Jewish kids do, by the way, and the only
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reason that all these Jewish boys are not in medical schools.
They're afraid of blood and therefore they go to Metz.
They go to law school. Here is another stat that
is stunning. A family of four with a household income
under two hundred thousand dollars can only live comfortably in
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seven states. I mean, that is completely crazy. So the
conversation I had with my daughter, and I'm telling her
I'm helping her through school, and we have five twenty
nine money that I put away. That's the college education
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fund that you put away. And I started that when
my kids were born, and so it's funded, so they
have enough money to go call it and even grad school.
And I told her, Okay, you've been able. You're able
to hold off another year and a half. But let
me tell you, when it's all over, man, you're on
your own. Dad, I'll never be able to afford a house,
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That's correct, Dad, I'll never be able to get a
good job, pending the situation now when AI is taking
over everything, and look at entry level jobs, you can't
get them. It's tough out there, you know. Everybody wants
to I wish I were young again. No, absolutely not.
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One of the offshoots of what's happening in the war
in Gaza is what's happening in Israel internally, what's happening
in Israel, and that's outside of the war itself, And
how is what Israel is doing to the people of
Gaza and the There are two things that are happening.
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One of them are the folks in the military in
the reserves, now the entire country as reserves. It is
mandatory that young men at the age of eighteen go
into the service for three years everybody. Same thing with women,
but they only serve two years. The vast majority of
people who are in the military. This is where they
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meet their spouses and everybody's in the military.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
So let me tell you what happened.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Back in nineteen forty eight at the creation of Israel,
the founding Prime Minister David Ben Gurion exempt it, by
the way, the mandatory military was from the day Israel
was founded, exempted four hundred ultra Orthodox students from the
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military for a couple of reasons. First of all, because well,
the main reason is because out of the Holocaust he
wanted to bring back Jewish teachings and Jewish philosophy.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And that's all the people do that are the Orthodox.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
They stay in school and they study Taurus like a
madrasa in the Arab countries.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
And so those four.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Hundred have now turned into about what fifteen twenty percent
of the population.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Because you know what the ultra Orthodox do is they
screw like minks.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Is what they do.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
The Torah the Bible says, go forth and multiply, And
boy do they take that seriously. If you look at
my marriage contract, which is called the Katuba, and it's
thousands of years old, the same language right there, I
have to put out, and I have to create kids.
Interesting enough, the husband has to put out. I assume
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that the wife already does. But women don't really count
back in those days. And so now you have huge
numbers of the ultra Orthodox, the Hada Dean, and they
are exempt from the military. Now, when he had four hundred,
that's not a big deal. When you have thousands, millions,
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it becomes a bigger deal. They are exempt from serving.
There is mandatory conscription in Israel except for the ultra Orthodox.
And how pissed off do you think secular Jews are
in Israel that their sons have to die and go
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to war and defend the country, and the ultra Orthodox
are exempt.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
And you know why they are exempt. Here is the philosophy.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I just gave you the political reason that started at
the beginning of the state of Israel. Here is the philosophy.
And it's almost impossible to believe. The ultra Orthodox, who
are exempt and spend all of their time studying Torah,
believe that to defend Israel, not only do you have
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to defend it militarily, but praying for the Messiah to
come is also as important as defending Israel militarily. It's
not a secondary it is as important. God wants two
different ways of serving him in Israel. One is to
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fight and die and the other one is to study.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
And that is come on.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Although there's a movement now to start drafting them. The
law just changed and the ultra Orthodox are going out
of their mind. There are demonstrations going crazy and rabbis
going nuts, and you have there's conscription now and the police,
the military is dragging these young men and just arresting them.
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So far, no one's gone to jail, and the number
of arrests have been really, really small.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
But life is changing there.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
And they're actually a number who believe they should defend
the country, but the political pressure is so great among
ultra Orthodox that they can't. So that is a major change.
The military in Israel is almost the end all be all.
It is so critical as a matter of fact, coming
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out of Israel. Well, I mean, there's no such thing
as any leader, anybody who lives in Israel, any male
or any female that hasn't been in the army. It's conscription.
And not only is it three years mandatory for men,
two years for women, but you stay in the reserves
until you are in the mid forties, and so.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
You that maybe even close to fifty.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
And so whenever there's a war, the standing army is
not enough to defend Israel. It needs everybody in the
country to defend Now, as I previously said, the ultra
Orthodox have always been exempt from the army, and that's
caused a huge amount of political turmoil and dissension. And
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that's because the ultra Orthodox believe that Israel is defended
in two different ways. You going out militarily and defending
Israel physically, and will come and will pray for Israel
and will pray and study the Torah.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
That's what God wants us to do.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
And the reason they're so powerful is because they are
always part of a coalition that creates the government, and
they don't care about anything else. They couldn't care about
the politics. All they're interested is what they're pushing for.
And it used to be the only pushed for, allowing
them to stay in the schools and study Torah and
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not go into the service.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
And now it's gotten. They become so much more powerful.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Now it's kicking Palestinians out of the West Bank and
saying all of that.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Is Israel it's reversed.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
It's so funny, and why it's not so funny, but
it's ironic that it used to be. And Hamas still
says that that entire area that's Israel is not Israel.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
It doesn't exist. Israel does not exist.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And now you have the ultra Orthodox that are saying
exactly the same thing on the opposite end of the spectrum.
So they're now drafting ultra Orthodox. And the Supreme Court
ruled that there's no longer an exemption. Of course, that's
blown up. The other big news is that there are
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members in the reserve and the army who are refusing
to serve.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
That's never happened before.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Every single time Israel's gone to ward's been a defensive
war and Israel only has to lose once and the
country is over. And so the motivation is extraordinary for
the entire country because they're all reservists and now they're
refusing a number and it's the growing number refused to serve.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
And why is that?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Because they're looking at what's happening in Gaza. They're looking
at what's happening with sixty something thousand Palestinians dying, and
now the Palestinian authorities don't differentiate between militants and civilians.
They just say sixty two thousand of die. The reality
about a third of them are militants, but that means
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two thirds are not. And the problem is geographical because
Gaza is probably the densest area in the world. You've
got two point three million people basically living in an
area the size of the Sherman Oaks Galleria, and so
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an attack is going to hurt civilians no matter what happens.
And Hamas has this delightful way of embedding themselves into
the civilian population.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
But the war is done.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I mean, Hamas has been devastated. Gaza has been devastated.
There is no infrastructure left, They've got nothing. It's going
to take generations to build back that area. And it
wasn't wealthy to begin in and Israel controls all of it.
But Natagna who says, oh, we are going to disarm,
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which has actually happened for the most part, but we
want Hamas out of there, and we then want them
to cease being any kind of political force. And Tamas
is telling Israel to go kram It, no go pound Sand.
So the war continues and the only analogy I can
make is when I military age, it was Vietnam, and
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it grew.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
And grew, and there was conscription and a lot of
my buddies.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Went to Vietnam, and the anti Vietnam movement grew to
such an extent. Well, you've seen video of those huge
demonstrations in the hundreds of thousands. And why was that?
Because we didn't have a problem. Mohammad Muhammad at least
said none of the viet Cong. They're not threatening me,
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They've done nothing to me. And that became a story
in and of itself. Now, the story with Vietnam was
lynnon Bain Johnson basically making it up as to what
happened the attack on American shipping in the Gulf of
Tonkin and the Gulf and the Tonkin Resolution. I mean,
he just made it up, and it was to fight
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quote communism. Israel is a little litle bit different. Israel
was attacked by Hamas and there should have been and
there is a response. Is there a limit to that response?
At what point does it go beyond a legitimate response?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Now?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I have always been against this concept of proportionality. If
three Israelis are killed, we're only going to go over there.
I'm speaking as an Israeli in this case, three Israelis
are killed, Therefore three Hamas members are going to be killed,
or three members of three citizens of Gaza. And I
don't believe inssion proportionality, but man, when you talk about
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twelve hundred people that were killed, and it was an
attack and it was horrific, and Hamas should be punished,
sixty three thousand people and the complete pulverization of Gaza,
eighty percent of the buildings have been destroyed, two thirds
of the entire population have been displaced. So those are
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the two things that are going on in Israel. One
the religious ultra religious right now is going to go
into the service. And two you've got service members who
are saying, you know what, we're done with this, and
that's never happened before. Either one of them have never
happened before. This is KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
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Speaker 2 (26:30):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Bill Handle here Monday morning, August twenty five. As we
continue on now, the heat wave is for the most
part done, isn't amy?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Are we Yeah, it's going to be more normal temperatures
as we head through the week. It's still hot, it's
just not crazy hot. Not crazy hot. It was crazy
hot at the beach this weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Which is good, I guess for beach goers because there
are millions of people along the beach.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It was too hot.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Two point isn't it two or three million people lining
the beaches between Santa Monica or Orange County beaches than
up to I think Malibu Zuma. I mean in the
millions of people.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Based on the traffic on the one on one, I
would say that's accurate.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
All right, now, I want to talk about what's going
on with schools. I talk about schools because it's kind
of important and right now, let's talk or let me
talk about vaccines, meal DEI changes.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Superintendents and school boards are having a real tough time
budgeting because they just don't know what's going on. Some teachers,
a lot of students have been deported or face threats
of removal. You've got the specter of government investigations into
the schools. Matter of fact, Trump administration officials have cracked
down on schools with LGBTQ inclusive policies diversity programs, because
(01:34):
there's a lot of diversity going on in the schools,
for sure. So very quickly, we have to remember that
public K through twelve schools where most kids in America
are educated, are run at the local and state level,
not at the federal level, and property taxes and the
legislatures provide most of the money that schools run on.
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On average, districts across the country get about ten ten
percent of their annual budget from the government, which has
no role in setting curriculum. It's sort of up in
the air as far as what the federal government is
asking the schools to do.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So the government.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Has no power, right, Oh, it has plenty of power,
because let's talk about that ten percent. It has a
lot of power to affect students' lives. It sets nutritional guidelines,
the programs that protect students with disabilities usually federal money.
Low income students schools get extra money from the feds,
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So the Feds have a lot of power, because ten
percent doesn't seem like much. Ten percent of the school's
budgets are astronomical. One percent is hugely important. All right,
So a few things to start talking about. First of all,
you have nutritional standards are taking effect, and these are
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long awaited and they've been very slow in coming. US
Department of Agriculture finalized regulations to limit the amount of
sugar and cereals yogurt milk, and by the fall of
twenty twenty seven, restrictions will get very strict. Now under
the Big, one, Big Beautiful Bill Act also has funds cut,
(03:23):
and I mean big cuts to the Stamp program Supplement
on Nutrition Assistant Program food stamps that is going down,
and these cuts are going to reduce the kids' access
to free school meals because.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
A lot of that is paid by the Feds. Now.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
The Republicans, who are of course in favor of cutting
those funds, have argued that the snap cuts will ultimately
force more parents into the workforce.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That one I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
If you don't get food stamps, then you're going to
go to work sooner than later, I guess to feed
your kids. And there's a lot of wasteful government spending
and sending and benefits to grocers who get this money.
The vaccine part of this just floors me. It used
to be that every kid got vaccinated. I mean it
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was a given. You couldn't go to school without vaccination.
You needed the MMR vaccines measles, mumps, rubella.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It's one vaccination.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
There's also another vaccination for distemper, distemper and.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Parvo, which a lot of kids should get.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And in twenty nineteen twenty twenty school years, three states
reported less than ninety percent of kindergarteners were vaccinated. It's
a big figure because there's herd immunity because even if
you're not vaccinated, if enough people get vaccinated, you're not
going to get anything because they're.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Not flying around.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Those bugs are not flying around that gets you sick
or gets you really sick, or have you die. And
so there were only three I had less than ninety percent.
Last year, sixteen states had less than ninety percent. And
now we have a government, particularly under HHS, that does
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not like vaccines very much, and the exemptions for not
vaccining kids have become just so much easier. Schools are
wrestling with DEI mandates. That gets interesting because a lot
of schools are based on DEI because of minority kids,
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and education is predicated on wokeness. The entire education system
among minority kids and minority schools or primarily minority schools
is a real problematic. So the schools are going to
get nailed. I think an easy way out on that
one is instead of going to minority kids racially, you
look you look at socioeconomic levels.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And if it turns out that you have minority school
schools or schools that have a huge minority population, they
may go and usually are at a lower socioeconomic situation,
and then you can't argue openness. You're just arguing, hey,
they don't have enough money. There is no racial component
to that. And so you also have federal civil rights organizations.
(06:27):
And then the fun one presidential fitness tests that's coming back. Yay,
the President's bringing it back. I don't know if you
saw the video with Pete Hegseth and Robert F. Kennedy
Junior squaring off against each other at the gym that
each had a team.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
My goodness, they were just incredible.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Those are such hard bodies, those guys and RFK seventy
I think, and he's doing the pushups and the sit ups.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I mean, like crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I noticed that our president was not involved in doing
push ups and sit ups, and he's the one that
wants to mandate it.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
So who's the last hard body? President?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Obama was pretty fit. George W would run marathons and
he was in his sixties, and the twenty something Secret
Service guys couldn't keep up with him.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
All right, So that's what we have to look at.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Life is getting very difficult for schools and a lot
of social programs are going down the drain, which is
a shame.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
All right.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
There is a working paper that just came out from
the US Census Bureau and it talks about comparing life
among young adults between now and what happened in nineteen
seventy five.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That seems to be the analysis.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Nineteen seventy five, the American dream was still attainable, Buying
a home was actually able to be done, is within
reach for young adults. And there are four simple milestones
that are reached amongst young adults. And this is according
to the Census Bureau.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
These are the benchmarks for those in their twenties and
early thirties as they start their adult lives. That's when
I guess you're considered an adult. Mid twenties not so much.
You're having a great time the early twenties, probably the
best time of your life. Lots of drugs, a lot
of sex, except my case, no one would say yes
(08:32):
to me, lots of rock and roll. Just great times
had by all. And then you hit your mid late
twenties and thirties, and now you've got to start your life.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And so what are the milestones?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
One moving out of your parents home, that's changed, getting
a job a lot more difficult, getting married, having kids.
In seventy five, nearly half of Americans between twenty five
and thirty four achieved all four of those milestones. Here
we are, five decades later, less than a quarter have
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achieved the same thing.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It has dropped in half.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Wow, so about twenty two percent have moved away from
their parents, have been married, had children in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Now not so much, right, And why is that? Well?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
The working paper, and this is logic, points to several factors.
Economic pressures. There's a lot more economic pressures now than
there were back then.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I mean today.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Back then, I remember, you got out of college, you
got a job, you got out of high school, you
have a job. Today it's a whole lot tougher, a
lot tougher. So you have economic pressures, the desire to
feel financially stable. Today it is more important that you
feel financially stable.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Than was then.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
That is a state of mind, and it could shuffle
your priorities living longer with your parents, for example, because
of economic means, not because you're neurotic as hell, foregoing
marriage for example, certainly having kids.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Now, there's always been a group.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Of people that decided they weren't going to have kids.
I know a lot of people and they're thrilled with
their decision. It used to be years and decades ago
there was something inherently wrong with you.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
You couldn't have kids. There was a medical issue.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Then it became much more accepted not to have kids
as a matter of choice. And now there's a huge
percentage of would be parents that are not having kids
because they can't afford to have kids.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
The paper didn't say this, but also.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
There are, and I'm sure you've talked to people wouldn't
bring kids in this world because of this world is
so difficult because of the political turmoil, because of climate change,
because the wars that we know are going to happen,
the water wars, the cyber wars. I mean today, if
I were in my twenties or thirties, I would not
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have children. I wouldn't do it, not for financial reasons
and not for infertility reasons. It's simply because I wouldn't
want to put kids in this world today. My daughter
feels the same way one of my daughters does. The
other thing is just financial stability period, where so few
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people feel financially stable.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Today.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
If you put up ten percent down payment on a home,
there are eleven metro areas in the country that may
still fit in your budget. More than thirty percent of
American households aren't earning enough to be even consider middle class.
I mean, that's pretty that is pretty serious stuff. And
(12:08):
then the paper did consider another factor, education, where you
would think that education would be the end all be all,
because when you finish college, or you finish whatever educational
program you had, and now you go off and you
get the job that's waiting for you. Well, today that's
(12:28):
real difficult. So you know what we do? You stay
in school and you go for a degree, you can't
get the classes you want, so it takes you five
years to get through college, which most kids do. My daughter,
for example, who has a bachelor's degree in computer science
and is really well skilled, I mean nerd extraordinaire, very
(12:50):
difficult getting a job in her chosen field. So now
she's also getting a master's degree. You know, when in doubt,
get a master's degree. That's what happened to me when
I finished college. What the hell do I do? I
had no idea, So I went to law school. That's
what Jewish kids do, by the way, and the only
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reason that all these Jewish boys are not in medical schools.
They're afraid of blood and therefore they go to Metz.
They go to law school. Here is another stat that
is stunning. A family of four with a household income
under two hundred thousand dollars can only live comfortably in
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seven states. I mean, that is completely crazy. So the
conversation I had with my daughter, and I'm telling her
I'm helping her through school, and we have five twenty
nine money that I put away. That's the college education
(13:54):
fund that you put away. And I started that when
my kids were born, and so it's funded, so they
have enough money to go call it and even grad school.
And I told her, Okay, you've been able. You're able
to hold off another year and a half. But let
me tell you, when it's all over, man, you're on
your own. Dad, I'll never be able to afford a house,
(14:17):
That's correct, Dad, I'll never be able to get a
good job, pending the situation now when AI is taking
over everything, and look at entry level jobs, you can't
get them. It's tough out there, you know. Everybody wants
to I wish I were young again. No, absolutely not.
(14:41):
One of the offshoots of what's happening in the war
in Gaza is what's happening in Israel internally, what's happening
in Israel, and that's outside of the war itself, And
how is what Israel is doing to the people of
Gaza and the There are two things that are happening.
(15:03):
One of them are the folks in the military in
the reserves, now the entire country as reserves. It is
mandatory that young men at the age of eighteen go
into the service for three years everybody. Same thing with women,
but they only serve two years. The vast majority of
people who are in the military. This is where they
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meet their spouses and everybody's in the military.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
So let me tell you what happened.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Back in nineteen forty eight at the creation of Israel,
the founding Prime Minister David Ben Gurion exempt it, by
the way, the mandatory military was from the day Israel
was founded, exempted four hundred ultra Orthodox students from the
(15:54):
military for a couple of reasons. First of all, because well,
the main reason is because out of the Holocaust he
wanted to bring back Jewish teachings and Jewish philosophy.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And that's all the people do that are the Orthodox.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
They stay in school and they study Taurus like a
madrasa in the Arab countries.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
And so those four.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Hundred have now turned into about what fifteen twenty percent
of the population.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Because you know what the ultra Orthodox do is they
screw like minks.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Is what they do.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
The Torah the Bible says, go forth and multiply, And
boy do they take that seriously. If you look at
my marriage contract, which is called the Katuba, and it's
thousands of years old, the same language right there, I
have to put out, and I have to create kids.
Interesting enough, the husband has to put out. I assume
(16:54):
that the wife already does. But women don't really count
back in those days. And so now you have huge
numbers of the ultra Orthodox, the Hada Dean, and they
are exempt from the military. Now, when he had four hundred,
that's not a big deal. When you have thousands, millions,
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it becomes a bigger deal. They are exempt from serving.
There is mandatory conscription in Israel except for the ultra Orthodox.
And how pissed off do you think secular Jews are
in Israel that their sons have to die and go
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to war and defend the country, and the ultra Orthodox
are exempt.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
And you know why they are exempt. Here is the philosophy.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I just gave you the political reason that started at
the beginning of the state of Israel. Here is the philosophy.
And it's almost impossible to believe. The ultra Orthodox, who
are exempt and spend all of their time studying Torah,
believe that to defend Israel, not only do you have
(18:12):
to defend it militarily, but praying for the Messiah to
come is also as important as defending Israel militarily. It's
not a secondary it is as important. God wants two
different ways of serving him in Israel. One is to
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fight and die and the other one is to study.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
And that is come on.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Although there's a movement now to start drafting them. The
law just changed and the ultra Orthodox are going out
of their mind. There are demonstrations going crazy and rabbis
going nuts, and you have there's conscription now and the police,
the military is dragging these young men and just arresting them.
(19:02):
So far, no one's gone to jail, and the number
of arrests have been really, really small.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
But life is changing there.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
And they're actually a number who believe they should defend
the country, but the political pressure is so great among
ultra Orthodox that they can't. So that is a major change.
The military in Israel is almost the end all be all.
It is so critical as a matter of fact, coming
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out of Israel. Well, I mean, there's no such thing
as any leader, anybody who lives in Israel, any male
or any female that hasn't been in the army. It's conscription.
And not only is it three years mandatory for men,
two years for women, but you stay in the reserves
until you are in the mid forties, and so.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
You that maybe even close to fifty.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
And so whenever there's a war, the standing army is
not enough to defend Israel. It needs everybody in the
country to defend Now, as I previously said, the ultra
Orthodox have always been exempt from the army, and that's
caused a huge amount of political turmoil and dissension. And
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that's because the ultra Orthodox believe that Israel is defended
in two different ways. You going out militarily and defending
Israel physically, and will come and will pray for Israel
and will pray and study the Torah.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
That's what God wants us to do.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
And the reason they're so powerful is because they are
always part of a coalition that creates the government, and
they don't care about anything else. They couldn't care about
the politics. All they're interested is what they're pushing for.
And it used to be the only pushed for, allowing
them to stay in the schools and study Torah and
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not go into the service.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
And now it's gotten. They become so much more powerful.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Now it's kicking Palestinians out of the West Bank and
saying all of that.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Is Israel it's reversed.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
It's so funny, and why it's not so funny, but
it's ironic that it used to be. And Hamas still
says that that entire area that's Israel is not Israel.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
It doesn't exist. Israel does not exist.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And now you have the ultra Orthodox that are saying
exactly the same thing on the opposite end of the spectrum.
So they're now drafting ultra Orthodox. And the Supreme Court
ruled that there's no longer an exemption. Of course, that's
blown up. The other big news is that there are
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members in the reserve and the army who are refusing
to serve.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
That's never happened before.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Every single time Israel's gone to ward's been a defensive
war and Israel only has to lose once and the
country is over. And so the motivation is extraordinary for
the entire country because they're all reservists and now they're
refusing a number and it's the growing number refused to serve.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
And why is that?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Because they're looking at what's happening in Gaza. They're looking
at what's happening with sixty something thousand Palestinians dying, and
now the Palestinian authorities don't differentiate between militants and civilians.
They just say sixty two thousand of die. The reality
about a third of them are militants, but that means
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two thirds are not. And the problem is geographical because
Gaza is probably the densest area in the world. You've
got two point three million people basically living in an
area the size of the Sherman Oaks Galleria, and so
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an attack is going to hurt civilians no matter what happens.
And Hamas has this delightful way of embedding themselves into
the civilian population.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
But the war is done.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I mean, Hamas has been devastated. Gaza has been devastated.
There is no infrastructure left, They've got nothing. It's going
to take generations to build back that area. And it
wasn't wealthy to begin in and Israel controls all of it.
But Natagna who says, oh, we are going to disarm,
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which has actually happened for the most part, but we
want Hamas out of there, and we then want them
to cease being any kind of political force. And Tamas
is telling Israel to go kram It, no go pound Sand.
So the war continues and the only analogy I can
make is when I military age, it was Vietnam, and
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it grew.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
And grew, and there was conscription and a lot of
my buddies.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Went to Vietnam, and the anti Vietnam movement grew to
such an extent. Well, you've seen video of those huge
demonstrations in the hundreds of thousands. And why was that?
Because we didn't have a problem. Mohammad Muhammad at least
said none of the viet Cong. They're not threatening me,
(24:36):
They've done nothing to me. And that became a story
in and of itself. Now, the story with Vietnam was
lynnon Bain Johnson basically making it up as to what
happened the attack on American shipping in the Gulf of
Tonkin and the Gulf and the Tonkin Resolution. I mean,
he just made it up, and it was to fight
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quote communism. Israel is a little litle bit different. Israel
was attacked by Hamas and there should have been and
there is a response. Is there a limit to that response?
At what point does it go beyond a legitimate response?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Now?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I have always been against this concept of proportionality. If
three Israelis are killed, we're only going to go over there.
I'm speaking as an Israeli in this case, three Israelis
are killed, Therefore three Hamas members are going to be killed,
or three members of three citizens of Gaza. And I
don't believe inssion proportionality, but man, when you talk about
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twelve hundred people that were killed, and it was an
attack and it was horrific, and Hamas should be punished,
sixty three thousand people and the complete pulverization of Gaza,
eighty percent of the buildings have been destroyed, two thirds
of the entire population have been displaced. So those are
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the two things that are going on in Israel. One
the religious ultra religious right now is going to go
into the service. And two you've got service members who
are saying, you know what, we're done with this, and
that's never happened before. Either one of them have never
happened before. This is KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
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