Why is everything so expensive? We break down the average family budget and discuss a range of government policies that increase prices unnecessarily on American consumers. Poway councilman Tony Blain has been indicted. Is he back stateside or still on deployment? Who might run against him? Plus, the Ken Burns documentary The American Revolution has evoked rage from MAGA because it doesn’t always portray our Founding Fathers in the best possible light.
It’s Wednesday, November 19, 2025. This is what John Riley thinks.
What is everything so expensive?
- Because govt tax and regulation policies distort the market.
- Overall: Money Printing
- Housing: NIMBY, Tariffs
- Food: Tariffs
- Transportation: Tariffs, Fuel Taxes
- Why are poor and working class not allowed to use same tools as wealthy?
Who will replace Poway Councilman Tony Blain?
- New update – waiting on his return to Poway?
- City Council weighing April vs June election. Standalone or with June primary?
- Next election speculation: Vaus pick, Springett/Wilson, Tony Russo, who?
Ken Burns American Revolution documentary angers MAGA.
- MAGA angry with information about George Washington owning slaves, pushed in face.
- Project today’s values backwards. Fighting for freedom but not for everyone. Noble ideals but flawed execution. Our founders were heroes but not angels. Our founders lived in contradiction. The times of the day were different. The Revolutionary War was still a huge step in the positive direction for freedom.
- Civil War is an eye-opening new idea for me.
- Project 1776 values forward. Seeing themes of that time in context today. Project forward.
- Reinforcement of Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness
- People demand freedom.
- People angry about taxes/tariffs
- People thinking in terms of “liberty for me, but not for thee.”
- Equality of rights
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