Seth Grossman appearance on WPG Radio. 6.28.Colossal Failure Forgotten and Normalized. DRPA (Delaware River Bay Authority) was created in 1962 to build a 17 mile Bay Bridge-Tunnel from Cape May to Lewes Delaware. The ferries were supposed to be temporary!
Delaware Memorial Bridge tolls were doubled to pay for it. Where did the money go?
Zohran Mamdani, NYC Mayor?
Mamdani is the future. We Boomers taught our children to hate America. When we are gone nobody will know the wonderful things our country did.
Islam. Sharia Law.
Eustace Mita, Ocean City
What are kids learning?
Cost of College
A lot of times, the most important issues are buried in the back of the newspaper. And sometimes the most important stories are not published at all. Two weeks ago, we had a classic example.
The article in the Press of Atlantic City last began, "Joel Coppage of Wilmington, Delaware will become the sixth executive of the Delaware River Bay Authority, the DRBA".
Click here for the link to that article: Wilmington man tapped to lead DRBA starting in July
That's the agency that, runs the Delaware Memorial Bridge, both bridges there, the Cape May Lewis ferry, and five local airports. Why is this important? It seems almost normal that you have this very expensive, very political government agency running these ferries, running the bridges and running the five airports. But why this agency was created in 1962 in the first place? They don't even mention it. And because they don't even mention it, you have no idea what a colossal waste and failure this whole agency is. Do you know the story of it?
JOHN DEMASI: No. I don't.
SETH GROSSMAN: Back in 1960, Virginia started building a 17 mile Bay Bridge-Tunnel to connect, the bottom of what's called the Delmarva Peninsula to Virginia Beach.
If you take the ferry from Cape May down to Lewes, Delaware and start driving south towards Virginia Beach, you have a nice drive, and then you go over this 17 mile bridge tunnel, and then you end up in Virginia Beach. And that 17 mile bridge goes over the Chesapeake Bay. Well, construction on that Bay Bridge Tunnel, which was a marvel of engineering at the time, began in 1960.
Before they built that Bay Bridge Tunnel, Virginia had ferries going back and forth from the bottom of that peninsula to Virginia Beach.
So in 1962, New Jersey said this is a great idea. When Virginia finishes building its bridge, they're going to have those ferries. So lets buy those Virginia ferries. Let's run between Cape May, New Jersey and Lewis, Delaware, which is also a 17 mile gap. And let's do exactly what Virginia did.
Let's run those ferries temporarily, and lets double the tolls on the Delaware Memorial Bridge. And let's use the money from doubling the tolls to build our own bridge from Cape May to Lewis, Delaware. It's the same distance. We can use the same engineers, and almost the identical plans. And that was supposed to start in 1964.
So in 1964, Virginia finishes its bridge. And, and we get their ferries. And then what happens? We double the tolls of the Delaware Memorial Bridge, but we never build our own bridge tunnel between, Cape May and Lewes Delaware. We just keep running the ferries. They're collecting all this extra money from doubling the tolls on the Delaware Bridge.
What did they do with the extra money? They built an amusement park. They bought five airports. They did all sorts of things. They did everything except the one thing they were supposed to do.
And now 63 years later, we're still paying double the tolls on everything. Not even a plan for a 17 mile bay bridge tunnel to Lewes, Delaware. Today, nobody even knows that's why they created the agency to begin with!
JOHN DEMASI:Wow. What a story.
SETH GROSSMAN: Well, it gets even better. Virginia, which built the original 17 mile Bay Bridge Tunnel, used tolls to pay back the cost of building it in about six years.
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Well, the,
one thing we do a lot at Liberty
and Prosperity
is,
we don't always talk about the big headline
(01:24):
events.
A lot of times, the most important issues
are buried in the back of the newspaper.
And sometimes the most important stories are not
published in the newspaper at all.
And, last week, we had a classic example.
The headline in the back of the paper
was Joel Coppage
of Wilmington, Delaware
(01:45):
will become the sixth executive
of the Delaware River Bay Authority, the DRBA.
And that's the agency
that, runs the Delaware Memorial Bridge, both bridges
there,
the Cape May Lewis ferry,
and it owns five local airports.
Now why is this important?
(02:06):
It it's almost normal that you have this
agency
running these, the furries and running the bridge
and running the airport.
But you know why this agency was created
in the first place?
They don't even mention it. And because they
don't even mention it, you have no idea
what a colossal
waste and failure
this whole agency is.
(02:27):
Do you know the story of it? No.
I don't.
Alright. Well,
you may know that in 1960,
Virginia
started building a 17 mile Bay Bridge tunnel
to connect,
the bottom of what's called the Delmarva Peninsula.
So in other words, if you take the
ferry over into Lewis, Delaware
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and start driving south towards Virginia Beach,
you have a nice drive, and then you
go over the 17 mile bridge, and then
you end up in Virginia Beach. And that
17 mile bridge goes over the Chesapeake Bay.
Well, construction on that Bay Bridge Tunnel, which
was a marvel of engineering at the time,
began in 1960.
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And before they had that Bay Bridge Tunnel,
Virginia had ferries going back and forth from
the bottom of that peninsula
to Virginia Beach.
So in 1962,
New Jersey said this is a great idea.
When Virginia finishes
building its bridge,
they're gonna have those ferries. So we're gonna
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buy the Virginia ferries.
We're gonna have them run between Cape May,
New Jersey and Lewis, Delaware,
which is also a 17 mile gap.
And we're gonna do exactly what Virginia did.
We're gonna run those ferries temporarily,
and then we're gonna double the tolls on
the Delaware Memorial Bridge.
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And we're gonna use the money from doubling
the tolls to build our own bridge from
Cape May to Lewis, Delaware. It's the same
distance. We got the same engineers,
almost the identical plans.
And that was supposed to start in 1964.
So in 1964,
Virginia finishes its bridge.
And,
and we get the ferries.
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And then what happens? We double the tolls
of the Delaware Memorial Bridge,
but we never build the bridge between,
Cape May and Lewis Delaware. We just keep
running the ferries.
They're collecting all this extra money. Where's the
extra money going for?
It goes to, they ran an amusement park.
They did everything except what they were supposed
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to do.
And now sixty three late years later, we're
still paying double the tolls on everything.
Not even a plan of a bridge, and
nobody knows that's why they created the agency
to begin with.
Wow. What a story.
Well, it gets even better.
Virginia,
which which which built the original Bay Bridge
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Bridge Tunnel 17 miles,
they paid back the cost of building the
bridge in six years.
And so they have this extra money. So
what does Virginia do?
In 1997,
they build a second Bay Bridge Tunnel,
17 miles, and the cost of building that
bridge is $800,000,000
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for a 17
mile bridge.
And just to give you an idea what's
going on in New Jersey,
New Jersey,
four years later, builds a three mile bridge
between Somers Point and Ocean City.
And the cost of that three mile bridge
between Ocean City
and Somers Point is 400 miles.
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So basically,
Virginia
built a 17 mile Bay Bridge Tunnel,
over
treacherous open water
for the for on for just twice the
cost
of, New Jersey building a three mile bridge
between Summer Point and Ocean City. Jeez.
And and and that's that's the real problem.
(05:57):
So this is an example. Nobody pays attention
to it, but the fact is every time
you take the ferry, you're being paying double
the cost of the ferry. You're paying double
the cost of the Del Delaware Memorial Bridge.
It's all going for salaries and wages and
contractors and pensions and all that stuff, but
not a penny is going for why they
created the agency in the first place.
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And that's a problem, and no one talks
about it.
Why didn't they,
end up building the bridge
in in '67? That's the question nobody ever
answers.
Probably they did it because,
in in in New Jersey with all the
unions and all the politics and all the
politics and all the payoffs,
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it it would cost us three or four
or five times more than Virginia
to build the same thing. So they said,
well, we're not even gonna try.
But I really invite I'm sure in your
audience, you probably have some engineers or old
timers who remember this. But the fact that
we don't even talk about it, is is
one of the reasons why we have this
corruption that that all we know is we
pay a fortune for tolls, we pay a
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fortune for taxes, we pay a fortune for
all these hidden fees.
We have all these politicians,
who get elected and reelected because they have
all the money and the patronage of these,
authorities,
but they don't do anything for us. So
but but the the issue is to talk
about the stuff that nobody else talks about.
Wow. Well, that's a lot to talk about
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right there.
But but but meanwhile,
whatever what everyone else is talking about is
New York City
where Zoran Mamdani,
won the primary the Democratic Party primary to
be mayor of New York.
And, of course,
he's a 33 year old,
guy,
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from, an immigrant who just became a citizen,
I guess, eight years ago.
He came from
ironically, his family was a Hindu family from
India
that had to leave actually, from from the
part of India that became Pakistan.
So he the family had to flee
(08:03):
persecution,
from Muslims in India, went to an Anganda,
then the family had to flee persecution.
In Anganda, he comes to America.
And as soon as he comes to America,
he tells everybody how much he hates America,
and that we have to fundamentally change.
He hates America. He hates Israel. He hates
our constitution.
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He wants the government to control the economy.
He wants a $30 minimum wage.
He wants the government to outlaw,
rent increases. He wants price controls. He wants
the government to run the supermarkets.
He says we have to shift the city
tax burden so that richer, whiter neighborhoods pay
more.
So so that's
that's who he is,
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and yet he wins the Democratic primary election
in New York.
And, according to the betting odds,
the the, the bettors, the gamblers are saying
he has a 73%
chance of becoming the next mayor of New
York and winning in new in November.
One of the reasons for that is that,
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the opposition is split four ways.
You have, the current mayor, Eric Adams, who's
gonna run as an independent.
You have, Curtis Flea with a Republican
who is still wearing his beret from thirty
years ago.
She looks really yeah. The guardian angel looks
ridiculous.
Andrew Cuomo, even though he lost, says he
might run again, and there's another candidate. So
(09:28):
if the opposition is split three or four
ways, then then the Zoran Mamdani is gonna
walk right in.
So, you know, a lot of people are
saying, well, that'll that'll be great because, you
know, we'll see what a total failure he
is. We'll see how he destroys New York
and,
and then, you know, we'll throw him out.
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And anyone who says something like that
really doesn't know history
because people said the same thing about the
communist in Russia.
When the communist took over Russia, the first
people said,
oh, they'll screw up the economy. People go
hungry. People go broke. People have new jobs,
and they'll throw those communists out, you know,
within a year. And, of course, it didn't
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happen because,
one thing the communists and the socialists are
very good at, whenever they cause misery, whenever
they fail, whenever they don't keep their promises,
they are experts at blaming somebody else for
it. So the communist would blame,
you know, the, the reactionaries. They blame the
old timers. They would round them up. They
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put them in prison.
And so once these guys get in, they
never get out.
They always say, you know, one man, one
vote, one time.
And and they said the same thing about
Hitler and the Nazis in the nineteen thirties.
You know, people said, oh, yeah. Let Hitler
get in. We'll see what a total fool
he is, and he'll screw up the country.
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Same thing. Hitler takes over. He does screw
up the country,
but he he, blames everybody else. He blames
the Jews. He, you know, locks up the
opponents.
So it's gonna be very dangerous when this
guy gets in.
Yeah. And and people yeah. You also forgot,
free bus fare
and, free counseling,
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free psychological
counseling for everybody.
You you forgot that.
Oh, and and I forgot the part about,
no police have social workers instead of police.
Yes. So you so you could reason with
the criminals. Yeah. So what happens is they
they promise everything they they get in. And
when you have high crime, whenever you have,
you know, disaster, there that you go to
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the to your your government run supermarket, you
know, so you don't have to pay high
prices and there's no merchandise in the store,
because, there's there's shortage. But what they'll do
is they'll say, well, that's all the racist
that are causing this, and,
and we have to lock them up. It
really gets ugly because they again, they're they
don't know how to produce, but they know
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how to throw the blame.
Yeah. So so so you ask yourself, well,
so why
why are so many people doing this?
And why do,
well, first, you you know that you have
the the immigrants, the illegal immigrants from these,
Islamic countries, from these communist countries
who have been taught since childhood
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that their countries are poor
because rich Americans rob their countries with colonialism.
So they're all gonna vote the way they
they're told to vote.
You know, the Islamic,
jihad, the the, you know, they're told, well,
you know, this is our job. Our mission
is to make the whole world submit to
Sharia, to submit to Islam.
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So you'll have, you know, one guy will
have four wives, will have 16 children,
and all of them will vote, you know,
for,
whoever the imam tells them to vote for.
And right now, the imam is telling them
to vote for,
Zoran Mamdani.
So you have that. But you also have
American college kids.
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Most Americans 30,
while we are older guys, we we get
our news from Fox News, One News Nation,
and and the Democrats watch the TV news.
Most of the younger Americans get their news
from Instagram, from YouTube
to TikTok.
And if you see what's what they're posting
there,
you know, the most outrageous
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lies,
but their kids don't know their lies. They
they think it's the truth. Yeah. And and
and the other thing that they're saying is
even if that mom daddy doesn't need
this time, don't doesn't win this time, what
they say over and over again
is, well, they could, you know, they could
beat us a little bit this time, but
as soon as those boomers are dead and
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they openly say that. They can't wait till
the boomers are dead, and then we're gonna
be running the country.
And, you know, sadly, that's true.
They are gonna be running the country because
we boomers have not,
taught our kids,
you know, the the truth about the country.
If if you think about,
what we've taught our kids in schools and
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colleges
and almost every Hollywood movie since,
what what Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman?
Remember that one? Yeah. It it's always the
same. The whole world lived in peace and
harmony
and cared for the environment
until five hundred years ago. And then you
had a bunch of Christian, heterosexual
white men in Europe, white and crazy.
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They abused women,
enslaved blacks, genocided the Indians,
and started a whole bunch of wars and
poisoned the planet.
So as far as our kids are being
taught in college,
even in Stockton University,
at Rowan, and, you know, not just in
Columbia,
it's payback
time. It's time for a coalition of,
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of all these, oppressed victims of women, blacks,
gays, transgenders, Hispanics, Muslims,
immigrants
to destroy the patriarchy
of white Christian
heterosexual women, and it's time for them to
take over.
And and and why they believe that?
Well, they don't know stuff like, you know,
those Christian white men, they make the world
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a better place. They invented machines,
productive farming.
Before,
you know, Europeans brought civilization to America in
Europe and the rest of the world,
starvation
was normal.
Genocidal wars were normal.
Before the Europeans got to America, the Apaches
were wiping out the other Indians.
(15:28):
The Powhatan Indians were wiping out people. The
Huron
got wiped out, by the Iroquois.
Rape was normal.
Most children died before they were 10 years
old because there was,
you
know, famine. There was disease.
Twenty percent of all women died in childbirth.
That was normal.
So our kids are never taught
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about how much better the world is,
because of, you know, Christian, European, Western civilization.
And and, you know, how how will they
know if we, boomer parents, send our kids
to school and are never taught this stuff?
Yeah. That's that's a that's a problem.
(16:10):
That you're right. I remember when I when
I was a kid that my favorite stories
were those biographies
of of guys like Carnegie and Ford and,
Thomas Edison. People who started out with nothing.
And, and and they invented, they created, they
spent years and years of hard work to
make it a better place, but you won't
(16:31):
find the biographies of any of those people,
in our schools today because they don't advance
that leftist political agenda.
Yeah. That's a shame.
Really is.
But the the one thing that is also
so it's it's, you know, our liberty and
prosperity,
that's the urgency because we're running out of
time.
If we don't,
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teach our children better than what we've taught
them so far,
when we're gone, you know, aside from who's
gonna fly the planes,
who's gonna make things work,
who's gonna show up at work on time,
who's gonna teach the children? So we've gotta
do that. But there's another side to this,
and I I don't have time to explore
it. But we've also
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we boomers forget how we choked off the
opportunities
for our young people.
When we think about our grandparents,
I remember growing up, so many people started
out poor, so they'd have a store.
And and they'd have the store in front,
the family would live in the back of
the store.
With all of our zoning laws, that can't
happen anymore.
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It used to be somebody would rent a
store, they'd open up a restaurant, open up
a business. Now you need permits. Now you
need so many parking spots for every,
you know, for every customer you have. So
the only people who could afford
to build anything new are your chains like
your McDonald's and your Starbucks,
or the wealthy like,
(17:55):
like your Eustace Meade,
just to build a hotel
on the site of another commercial business. Look
what look what he's going through.
Think of an ordinary person who just wants
to, you know, open up a beauty salon
or wants to open up a restaurant or
a retail store. They, you know, they they
don't have the opportunities that we had. And
we have to start thinking about that. And
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we have to start thinking about,
you know, college. Why did why do you
need a mortgage size loan to go to
college?
Why do you need you know, why can't
you get a house or apartment for 25%
of your income? Our kids can't even afford
an electric bill without government help.
The doctor bill, you know, you you go
in if you don't have insurance, you know,
(18:37):
you the the doctor bill is like, $400
for ten minutes. But if you have insurance,
then it's only, $50.
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Seth, good morning. Welcome.
Good morning. And, of course, Liberty and Prosperity
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Well, the,
one thing we do a lot at Liberty
and Prosperity
is,
we don't always talk about the big headline
(01:24):
events.
A lot of times, the most important issues
are buried in the back of the newspaper.
And sometimes the most important stories are not
published in the newspaper at all.
And, last week, we had a classic example.
The headline in the back of the paper
was Joel Coppage
of Wilmington, Delaware
(01:45):
will become the sixth executive
of the Delaware River Bay Authority, the DRBA.
And that's the agency
that, runs the Delaware Memorial Bridge, both bridges
there,
the Cape May Lewis ferry,
and it owns five local airports.
Now why is this important?
(02:06):
It it's almost normal that you have this
agency
running these, the furries and running the bridge
and running the airport.
But you know why this agency was created
in the first place?
They don't even mention it. And because they
don't even mention it, you have no idea
what a colossal
waste and failure
this whole agency is.
(02:27):
Do you know the story of it? No.
I don't.
Alright. Well,
you may know that in 1960,
Virginia
started building a 17 mile Bay Bridge tunnel
to connect,
the bottom of what's called the Delmarva Peninsula.
So in other words, if you take the
ferry over into Lewis, Delaware
(02:49):
and start driving south towards Virginia Beach,
you have a nice drive, and then you
go over the 17 mile bridge, and then
you end up in Virginia Beach. And that
17 mile bridge goes over the Chesapeake Bay.
Well, construction on that Bay Bridge Tunnel, which
was a marvel of engineering at the time,
began in 1960.
(03:10):
And before they had that Bay Bridge Tunnel,
Virginia had ferries going back and forth from
the bottom of that peninsula
to Virginia Beach.
So in 1962,
New Jersey said this is a great idea.
When Virginia finishes
building its bridge,
they're gonna have those ferries. So we're gonna
(03:30):
buy the Virginia ferries.
We're gonna have them run between Cape May,
New Jersey and Lewis, Delaware,
which is also a 17 mile gap.
And we're gonna do exactly what Virginia did.
We're gonna run those ferries temporarily,
and then we're gonna double the tolls on
the Delaware Memorial Bridge.
(03:51):
And we're gonna use the money from doubling
the tolls to build our own bridge from
Cape May to Lewis, Delaware. It's the same
distance. We got the same engineers,
almost the identical plans.
And that was supposed to start in 1964.
So in 1964,
Virginia finishes its bridge.
And,
and we get the ferries.
(04:11):
And then what happens? We double the tolls
of the Delaware Memorial Bridge,
but we never build the bridge between,
Cape May and Lewis Delaware. We just keep
running the ferries.
They're collecting all this extra money. Where's the
extra money going for?
It goes to, they ran an amusement park.
They did everything except what they were supposed
(04:32):
to do.
And now sixty three late years later, we're
still paying double the tolls on everything.
Not even a plan of a bridge, and
nobody knows that's why they created the agency
to begin with.
Wow. What a story.
Well, it gets even better.
Virginia,
which which which built the original Bay Bridge
(04:53):
Bridge Tunnel 17 miles,
they paid back the cost of building the
bridge in six years.
And so they have this extra money. So
what does Virginia do?
In 1997,
they build a second Bay Bridge Tunnel,
17 miles, and the cost of building that
bridge is $800,000,000
(05:14):
for a 17
mile bridge.
And just to give you an idea what's
going on in New Jersey,
New Jersey,
four years later, builds a three mile bridge
between Somers Point and Ocean City.
And the cost of that three mile bridge
between Ocean City
and Somers Point is 400 miles.
(05:37):
So basically,
Virginia
built a 17 mile Bay Bridge Tunnel,
over
treacherous open water
for the for on for just twice the
cost
of, New Jersey building a three mile bridge
between Summer Point and Ocean City. Jeez.
And and and that's that's the real problem.
(05:57):
So this is an example. Nobody pays attention
to it, but the fact is every time
you take the ferry, you're being paying double
the cost of the ferry. You're paying double
the cost of the Del Delaware Memorial Bridge.
It's all going for salaries and wages and
contractors and pensions and all that stuff, but
not a penny is going for why they
created the agency in the first place.
(06:19):
And that's a problem, and no one talks
about it.
Why didn't they,
end up building the bridge
in in '67? That's the question nobody ever
answers.
Probably they did it because,
in in in New Jersey with all the
unions and all the politics and all the
politics and all the payoffs,
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it it would cost us three or four
or five times more than Virginia
to build the same thing. So they said,
well, we're not even gonna try.
But I really invite I'm sure in your
audience, you probably have some engineers or old
timers who remember this. But the fact that
we don't even talk about it, is is
one of the reasons why we have this
corruption that that all we know is we
pay a fortune for tolls, we pay a
(07:01):
fortune for taxes, we pay a fortune for
all these hidden fees.
We have all these politicians,
who get elected and reelected because they have
all the money and the patronage of these,
authorities,
but they don't do anything for us. So
but but the the issue is to talk
about the stuff that nobody else talks about.
Wow. Well, that's a lot to talk about
(07:23):
right there.
But but but meanwhile,
whatever what everyone else is talking about is
New York City
where Zoran Mamdani,
won the primary the Democratic Party primary to
be mayor of New York.
And, of course,
he's a 33 year old,
guy,
(07:43):
from, an immigrant who just became a citizen,
I guess, eight years ago.
He came from
ironically, his family was a Hindu family from
India
that had to leave actually, from from the
part of India that became Pakistan.
So he the family had to flee
(08:03):
persecution,
from Muslims in India, went to an Anganda,
then the family had to flee persecution.
In Anganda, he comes to America.
And as soon as he comes to America,
he tells everybody how much he hates America,
and that we have to fundamentally change.
He hates America. He hates Israel. He hates
our constitution.
(08:24):
He wants the government to control the economy.
He wants a $30 minimum wage.
He wants the government to outlaw,
rent increases. He wants price controls. He wants
the government to run the supermarkets.
He says we have to shift the city
tax burden so that richer, whiter neighborhoods pay
more.
So so that's
that's who he is,
(08:46):
and yet he wins the Democratic primary election
in New York.
And, according to the betting odds,
the the, the bettors, the gamblers are saying
he has a 73%
chance of becoming the next mayor of New
York and winning in new in November.
One of the reasons for that is that,
(09:07):
the opposition is split four ways.
You have, the current mayor, Eric Adams, who's
gonna run as an independent.
You have, Curtis Flea with a Republican
who is still wearing his beret from thirty
years ago.
She looks really yeah. The guardian angel looks
ridiculous.
Andrew Cuomo, even though he lost, says he
might run again, and there's another candidate. So
(09:28):
if the opposition is split three or four
ways, then then the Zoran Mamdani is gonna
walk right in.
So, you know, a lot of people are
saying, well, that'll that'll be great because, you
know, we'll see what a total failure he
is. We'll see how he destroys New York
and,
and then, you know, we'll throw him out.
(09:49):
And anyone who says something like that
really doesn't know history
because people said the same thing about the
communist in Russia.
When the communist took over Russia, the first
people said,
oh, they'll screw up the economy. People go
hungry. People go broke. People have new jobs,
and they'll throw those communists out, you know,
within a year. And, of course, it didn't
(10:11):
happen because,
one thing the communists and the socialists are
very good at, whenever they cause misery, whenever
they fail, whenever they don't keep their promises,
they are experts at blaming somebody else for
it. So the communist would blame,
you know, the, the reactionaries. They blame the
old timers. They would round them up. They
(10:31):
put them in prison.
And so once these guys get in, they
never get out.
They always say, you know, one man, one
vote, one time.
And and they said the same thing about
Hitler and the Nazis in the nineteen thirties.
You know, people said, oh, yeah. Let Hitler
get in. We'll see what a total fool
he is, and he'll screw up the country.
(10:52):
Same thing. Hitler takes over. He does screw
up the country,
but he he, blames everybody else. He blames
the Jews. He, you know, locks up the
opponents.
So it's gonna be very dangerous when this
guy gets in.
Yeah. And and people yeah. You also forgot,
free bus fare
and, free counseling,
(11:12):
free psychological
counseling for everybody.
You you forgot that.
Oh, and and I forgot the part about,
no police have social workers instead of police.
Yes. So you so you could reason with
the criminals. Yeah. So what happens is they
they promise everything they they get in. And
when you have high crime, whenever you have,
you know, disaster, there that you go to
(11:33):
the to your your government run supermarket, you
know, so you don't have to pay high
prices and there's no merchandise in the store,
because, there's there's shortage. But what they'll do
is they'll say, well, that's all the racist
that are causing this, and,
and we have to lock them up. It
really gets ugly because they again, they're they
don't know how to produce, but they know
(11:54):
how to throw the blame.
Yeah. So so so you ask yourself, well,
so why
why are so many people doing this?
And why do,
well, first, you you know that you have
the the immigrants, the illegal immigrants from these,
Islamic countries, from these communist countries
who have been taught since childhood
(12:15):
that their countries are poor
because rich Americans rob their countries with colonialism.
So they're all gonna vote the way they
they're told to vote.
You know, the Islamic,
jihad, the the, you know, they're told, well,
you know, this is our job. Our mission
is to make the whole world submit to
Sharia, to submit to Islam.
(12:37):
So you'll have, you know, one guy will
have four wives, will have 16 children,
and all of them will vote, you know,
for,
whoever the imam tells them to vote for.
And right now, the imam is telling them
to vote for,
Zoran Mamdani.
So you have that. But you also have
American college kids.
(12:57):
Most Americans 30,
while we are older guys, we we get
our news from Fox News, One News Nation,
and and the Democrats watch the TV news.
Most of the younger Americans get their news
from Instagram, from YouTube
to TikTok.
And if you see what's what they're posting
there,
you know, the most outrageous
(13:18):
lies,
but their kids don't know their lies. They
they think it's the truth. Yeah. And and
and the other thing that they're saying is
even if that mom daddy doesn't need
this time, don't doesn't win this time, what
they say over and over again
is, well, they could, you know, they could
beat us a little bit this time, but
as soon as those boomers are dead and
(13:40):
they openly say that. They can't wait till
the boomers are dead, and then we're gonna
be running the country.
And, you know, sadly, that's true.
They are gonna be running the country because
we boomers have not,
taught our kids,
you know, the the truth about the country.
If if you think about,
what we've taught our kids in schools and
(14:02):
colleges
and almost every Hollywood movie since,
what what Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman?
Remember that one? Yeah. It it's always the
same. The whole world lived in peace and
harmony
and cared for the environment
until five hundred years ago. And then you
had a bunch of Christian, heterosexual
white men in Europe, white and crazy.
(14:24):
They abused women,
enslaved blacks, genocided the Indians,
and started a whole bunch of wars and
poisoned the planet.
So as far as our kids are being
taught in college,
even in Stockton University,
at Rowan, and, you know, not just in
Columbia,
it's payback
time. It's time for a coalition of,
(14:44):
of all these, oppressed victims of women, blacks,
gays, transgenders, Hispanics, Muslims,
immigrants
to destroy the patriarchy
of white Christian
heterosexual women, and it's time for them to
take over.
And and and why they believe that?
Well, they don't know stuff like, you know,
those Christian white men, they make the world
(15:07):
a better place. They invented machines,
productive farming.
Before,
you know, Europeans brought civilization to America in
Europe and the rest of the world,
starvation
was normal.
Genocidal wars were normal.
Before the Europeans got to America, the Apaches
were wiping out the other Indians.
(15:28):
The Powhatan Indians were wiping out people. The
Huron
got wiped out, by the Iroquois.
Rape was normal.
Most children died before they were 10 years
old because there was,
you
know, famine. There was disease.
Twenty percent of all women died in childbirth.
That was normal.
So our kids are never taught
(15:50):
about how much better the world is,
because of, you know, Christian, European, Western civilization.
And and, you know, how how will they
know if we, boomer parents, send our kids
to school and are never taught this stuff?
Yeah. That's that's a that's a problem.
(16:10):
That you're right. I remember when I when
I was a kid that my favorite stories
were those biographies
of of guys like Carnegie and Ford and,
Thomas Edison. People who started out with nothing.
And, and and they invented, they created, they
spent years and years of hard work to
make it a better place, but you won't
(16:31):
find the biographies of any of those people,
in our schools today because they don't advance
that leftist political agenda.
Yeah. That's a shame.
Really is.
But the the one thing that is also
so it's it's, you know, our liberty and
prosperity,
that's the urgency because we're running out of
time.
If we don't,
(16:51):
teach our children better than what we've taught
them so far,
when we're gone, you know, aside from who's
gonna fly the planes,
who's gonna make things work,
who's gonna show up at work on time,
who's gonna teach the children? So we've gotta
do that. But there's another side to this,
and I I don't have time to explore
it. But we've also
(17:12):
we boomers forget how we choked off the
opportunities
for our young people.
When we think about our grandparents,
I remember growing up, so many people started
out poor, so they'd have a store.
And and they'd have the store in front,
the family would live in the back of
the store.
With all of our zoning laws, that can't
happen anymore.
(17:33):
It used to be somebody would rent a
store, they'd open up a restaurant, open up
a business. Now you need permits. Now you
need so many parking spots for every,
you know, for every customer you have. So
the only people who could afford
to build anything new are your chains like
your McDonald's and your Starbucks,
or the wealthy like,
(17:55):
like your Eustace Meade,
just to build a hotel
on the site of another commercial business. Look
what look what he's going through.
Think of an ordinary person who just wants
to, you know, open up a beauty salon
or wants to open up a restaurant or
a retail store. They, you know, they they
don't have the opportunities that we had. And
we have to start thinking about that. And
(18:17):
we have to start thinking about,
you know, college. Why did why do you
need a mortgage size loan to go to
college?
Why do you need you know, why can't
you get a house or apartment for 25%
of your income? Our kids can't even afford
an electric bill without government help.
The doctor bill, you know, you you go
in if you don't have insurance, you know,
(18:37):
you the the doctor bill is like, $400
for ten minutes. But if you have insurance,
then it's only, $50.
Anyway, libertyandprosperity.com.
I I went on a a a tirade
there, but we have a lot of work
to do and we need a lot of
help. So please help libertyandprosperity.com,
and have a great week. You too. You
too, Seth, and happy fourth. Seth Grossman, Liberty
(18:59):
and Prosperity, the website libertyandprosperity.com.
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