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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Varry Show is on the air, Kelly writes, with regardless,
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straight dogs. It's all over Montgomery County too. These sleeves
bag illegals come in. They don't new to their pets,
they don't care for their pets, they don't feed their pets.
I live in the Woodlands and I have never seen
so many stray dogs posted on social media in all
my life, far more than when I lived in Houston proper.
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People feel uncomfortable talking about this, but there are cultural differences.
There are cultures around the world that eat dogs. It's
a fact. And we have become so stupid in this
country that when you mention that, people affiliated with cultures
that eat dogs say it's very upsetting. You say this,
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it's true, and it doesn't even have to be true.
You see, freedom of speech means the ability to say things,
even things that upset other people. But the strain that
infected this culture is the desire to protect the offended,
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and people will go to great lengths to protect who
they think are the offended, whether that's palestinians, murderers, pedophiles, weirdos, freaks, losers, layabouts.
They've decided that's some great thing for them to do.
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The top news story this morning as I started the show,
was that the CEO of United Healthcare was shot exiting
the hotel that he was staying at this morning, just
before seven am. The person who shot him was apparently
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a white male who was wearing a black mask, who
was waiting on him in the lobby. So this does
not appear to be a random shooting snatch and grab.
He was waiting on him, He took nothing from him.
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He apparently shot to kill and did Brian Thompson, the
CEO of United Healthcare, the largest healthcare company in America
one hundred and eighty nine billion dollars in revenues last year.
One of the things that's been pointed out could potentially
be a reason that someone would have for wanting to
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kill him, was it Brian Thompson had implemented a lot
of very stringent DEI requirements, and that there have been
white males who've been angry at the company for being
overlooked for job promotions as women and minorities were placed
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into those positions, and a policy was stated as such
that could be could be a disgruntled employee. It could
also be a person whose healthcare claim was denied by United,
to be someone who's just tired of all the paperwork
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having had a family member that they cared for. Anybody
who's cared for a family member with a chronic condition
that drags on for some period of time, it's impossible.
My wife handles all that, and thank god she does.
It's impossible to keep all the documentation straight. You get
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bills that say you don't need to pay this, but
this is a bill. You get bills that say pay
this and we'll see if the insurance company will pay it.
You get bills that you're not even sure. You get
bills periods of time later you're not even sure. The
whole thing is an absolute and utter mess. And I
truly believe that the way you solve this problem you
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got to phase it in, because you will create such
a kerfuffle overnight with people that are accustomed to the system,
bad as it is. This was the fear in the
Soviet Union when they began the transition away from the
old Stalinist style, was that as bad as the system was,
it gave comfort because people understood the system no matter
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how wretched a system is. People find comfort and security
in the consistency of it. So you can shatter that
and improve everything. But for a period of time people
feel untethered. They don't they don't know what to do
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because they've grown to work within the labyrinth of you know,
a socialist system, for instance. It still strikes me that
the best way to go about this is that the
same way if you need automobile tires or food or
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anything else. When you need a service, you go to
the doctor and you pay for it. And when you
get to the doctor, just like at the restaurant, they
got the prices on the wall and you say, okay,
that's what it will cost. So when the doctor says
when you go in and the doctor says you need
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this medicine, there would be a list on the wall
of what the pharmacy typically charges for that. Or you
could take your prescription and price shop there, and you
could price shop CVS versus Walgreens versus all the other companies.
The system is too sophisticated at present for outsiders to
penetrate it. That's a big barrier to entry. There are
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reasons the system is and remains the way it is
today because if people had to pay for something out
of their own back pocket, well, people will say, when
I offer this solution, they'll say, but not everybody will
be able to pay for every procedure. Not everybody can
pay for every procedure now, But do you realize that
everybody pays something? Now? Do you realize how much is
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being paid in versus what's getting out. It's as big
a scam as Social Security. But don't you dare suggest
that we reform Social Security because people believe I gotta
get mine. Do you understand that in the course of
your lifetime you will pay in far more than you
will ever take out, particularly when you adjust for the
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time value of money over the course of your lifetime.
George W. Bush, to his credit, had actually begun the
process of talking through how to do that, and then
nine to eleven and nothing else could be done, which
will leave for another day. But imagine if you didn't imagine.
Milton Friedman said in his career his greatest regret was
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when he worked for the government early in his career.
Automatic withholding is it was the worst thing we ever did.
We socialized social Security, and the reason was automatic withholding
was how you ensured if not one hundred percent certainty
of revenue election higher than you would if people had
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to every month make a payment, even if people intended
to make a payment. We forget right. But automatic withholding
meant that you would take it across the board. He
would take it every month. And he said, what I
did not calculate is that earners would not notice that
the money was gone when it was gone, and they
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would not therefore appreciate and protest against increases in withholdings
because they would grow accustomed to not having that withholding.
Fifty five percent of your earnings are gone to the
government before you ever spend them. Between Social Security, between
income tax withholdings, property taxes, state taxes, sales taxes. Michael
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Berry's show How You Doing This is Sharley c.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Liquor with Today's Moment of Literacy.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Curtis of the Michael Pberry Foundation.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Today episode is from Dreams of My Father by Monac
Obamoh My God. With Lolo, I had learned how to
eat small green chili peppers, robbed with dinal Taniel rice
and away from the dinner table, I was introduced to
dog meat, which was tough snake meat which was tougher
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and roasted grasshopper.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Which was crunching.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Who said this Butarack Obama did, No, he did, yes,
he did, just we can. Like many Indonesians, Lolo had
followed the brand of Islam that can make room for
the reminists of more ancient animis and Hindu faith.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
He explained that a man took on the powers of
whatever he ate.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
You a four hundred pound can about litt.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Oh one day soon, he promised he would bring home
a piece of tiger meat for us to share. He
be cat food, Yes, honey, big ass cat food.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
My friend Freddy Aguilar, who is not a cardiologist, is
actually a prominent plastic surgeon, cosmetic surgeon, texted me and said,
what mac is talking about is valves. When he used
the word leaflets, I said that's what I thought. Well,
why did he keep saying leaf or leaflet? And he
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said because older doctors explain it like that. The mitra
valve the aortic valve, they used to be called leaflets
as they are part of the overall valve. Mitrol has
two while the aortic has three. So that's what you
needed to know about mitral valves. Ramon the man arrested
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for the drunk driving crash that killed a seven year
old girl in North Houston has ice holds on him
because he's not a US citizen. More disturbing is the
fact that he was sentenced in September for felony assault.
Why didn't they put an ice hold on him then?
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After his conviction. Investigators say that at the crash scene,
he got out and started taking pictures instead of rendering aid.
A seven year old little girl was killed. The story
from KHOU.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Forty one year old's old Gonzalez is being held on
a one hundred and fifty thousand dollars bond as the
family of seven year old Ivory Smith is the with
unimaginable grief after losing her now. Seven year old Ivory
Smith was killed on Sunday morning while riding in the
backseat of her mother's car as they were heading home.
Investigators say forty one year old Gonzales was intoxicated and
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ran through a red light, te boning Ivory and her
mother near North Beamo Road and North sam Houston Parkway.
Prosecutors say Gonzales then got out of the car and
started taking pictures of the scene without rendering any sort
of aid. We spoke with Ivory's family in court this morning,
who tells us they just want justice for Ivory and
they want stiffer penalties for people involved in these sorts
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of crimes.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
If convicted, it's.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Always the person that's drinking and driving, it gets to
walk away and then the families are left with you
know this, So definitely the laws need to change. We're
definitely worried he could flee. He has no conscience because
he got out and he didn't assist again.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Gonzalez's bond is set at one hundred and fifty thouves
than dollars, and should he postpond, the judge has revoked
his driving privileges and he must submit to alcohol monitoring.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
He also has.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
An icehold or Immigration Custody enforcement hold, since authorities say
he isn't a US citizen, so if he posts bond,
he would then be held in custody by ICE.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Now.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Gonzales is due back in court on February sixth, and
if convicted, could face anywhere from two to twenty years
in prison.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Awful. Another family member was severely injured in that and
faces a long recovery. A second grade student at Klein
ISD's Clink Elementary School killed Hm. You know, she said,
and many people will the law needs to change. Actually,
don't need to change the law that. This is the
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thing that is lost on people. It needs to be understood.
We have laws for all these We have laws for
everything we need to fix. You just have to enforce them.
As simple as that. You just have to enforce the
laws that we actually have. We don't need more gun
control laws. When you catch a felon with a gun, officers,
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tell me if we just prosecuted and held every felon
we catch in possession of a weapon, they're not allowed
to be. That's a guy that's committing more crimes. If
you just held them, your crime rate would plummet, absolutely plummet.
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The mother of the Edna High School cheerleader murdered last
year by an illegal alien stalker says that the system
failed this mother or failed her daughter twice by allowing
the illegal alien in the country in the first time,
and now the trial has been delayed for several months
as she's forced to wait for justice for the murderer
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of her daughter.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
The story from khou I first met Jackie Medina two
days after she found her daughter Elizabeth dead in a bathtub.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
A mother should never go through what I went through.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
A year later, she says, the vivacious cheerleader's sheer presence
is among the things she misses the most.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Her smile, her laves everything.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
Police say sixteen year old Elizabeth was fatally stabbed in
the family's home at the Cottonwood Apartments. Twenty four year
old Rafael Romero, who exhibited stalking like behavior before the crime,
according to court documents, was later arrested in Schulenberg. He
was supposed to go on trial for capital murder this
week back in Edna, but it was postponed until at
least February.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
I was basically the shot.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Heartbroken, Medina says she has mixed emotions about attending the trial,
though it's something she feels obligated to.
Speaker 8 (15:54):
Doding details that you know, mothers don't want to here,
but expecting answers that I've been waiting for.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
She believes stricter laws might have prevented Romero, an a
legal immigrant from Mexico, from ever crossing paths with her daughter.
Speaker 8 (16:11):
I just feel very disappointed in the system now.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
She just hopes the system eventually delivers the justice Elizabeth
deserves and wants no less than the death penalty for
her accused killer.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
So it would have been me years back, I would
say to leave them in jail. But when it happens
to you, as being a mother, and this happens to
your daughter, you want the max, you want the worst,
because he had no mercy on my daughter, so why
should I have any on him.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
I'm told reasons for this trial delay, including Romero's defense
team filing motions in the case, also the need for
more time to review a mountain of discovery materials. I
did reach out to Romero's attorney, whose office is down
in Corpus, but have not heard back.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Convict him and just like the raging pit bulls roaming
through Colony Ridge, take him out in the yard, put
a bullet in him, put him down like the rabid
dog that he is. We told you the story about
Catherine Hudson, Harris County Precinc Five deputy, who was working
an extra job her little daughter, eight year old child Casey,
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in the backseat of her car asleep early that morning
when a driver crashed into them, into the two of
them and killed the mother and the daughter His name
was Jose Alvareto. Alvarado's twenty three years old. He was impaired,
so apparently he was drunk. The car burst into fire,
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into flame. He also ran into a text dot box
truck and that burst into flames. One detail I got
wrong was that she did work for Constable Ted Heap,
and she did work for Precinct five. But she was
not a new deputy. That's what I had been told
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by an officer on the scene. She was an eighteen
year veteran. She had actually transferred to the Civil Division
off patrol so that she could spend more time. She
was a single mother with her daughter. Her daughter, Casey,
was a second grade student at Turlington Elementary School in Waller, ISD.
You know, as a cultural matter, if you notice how
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many drunk driving killings there are, it's more often than
not hispanic Michael Barry Show, come on, let's open the
phone lines for the people. We haven't had many calls
this week because we've had so much to cover, but
we will open them now. Seven one, three, nine, nine,
nine one thousand. News report yesterday that Southwest Airlines would
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be doing away with their DEI department and policies and
I will say it again, well, this is a reason
to rejoice. You've got to understand how that department grew
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within your company and how those policies were formulated and implemented.
You can't simply say, hey, guys, we had a fraud
department that was committing fraud. We've decided that our fraud department,
we're going to go ahead, after these all these years,
we're going to close it down. Okay, well wait, wait
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a minute, good, good, good to know. But how'd you
have a fraud department in the first place? Who suggested
you have a fraud department? Who said, yeah, that's a
good idea. Who said, hey, Bob, you're going to be
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in charge of the fraud department. Why did Bob accept?
Who else did Bob recruit into the fraud department? How
long did they operate? How did you allow them to operate?
Did they report back on how the fraud was going.
You can't simply say, right way, we were doing this
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really really dumb thing. Now we're not going to do
it anymore. As a shareholder, we have the right to
know why did you do that? What'd you think you
were accomplishing? Because this is where you would start to
get to what's important, which is what people claimed they
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were trying to accomplish, or who they were afraid of,
or why they did these things because they suspected that
that would keep them from being intact. No company needs
a DEID department, university, no nothing, diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Why is diversity valuable? Shatter that myth right now? Why
is diversity? Why does diversity matter? Let's take the United
Kingdom that was primarily white, that was a very safe
country for centuries. All of a sudden you introduced these
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Middle Eastern refuge supposed refugees, and you started watching crime
go up, knifings go up, sexual attacks go up. Did
that improve things? Were you better because of it? The
country is rife with riots now. Diversity is not necessarily
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an improvement on anything. Would the NBA be better if
you injected more Asian Americans into it? Would college football
be better if you put girls out on the field,
because we don't have any right now, you cannot buy
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the myth diversity will naturally occur in nature of its
own accord to the extent that it needs to. But
when you buy the premise that diversity is somehow in
and of itself a good thing. You have lost the war,
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and not just some war for white people or for
your own best interest, but for opportunity, for fairness, for openness.
There's a study that was commissioned by the United States
government that was hidden that is now emerging that showed
that all of this talk about diversity and equity and
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inclusion actually led to greater ranker, more anger, more outbursts,
more violence, and not just against the people who are
the victims, white males, for instance. It encouraged people with
bad tendencies to indulge those tendencies. When you give ilhan
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Omar and AOC and Lena Hidalgo and Rodney Ellis and
Sheila jacksually, when you give those people a microphone and
say spill it all out, say what you think, you
encourage and embolden them, and they just get worse and
worse and worse the more you platform them. Lamont on
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the black Line, you're up, sir, Yes, I want to
talk about Michael I'm good, sir, Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
I want to talk about Joe Biden and the pardon.
The pardon on the surfacely didn't care about it. That's
common sense to me. You know, if if my kid
did a victim less crime or a victimist low level
crime and I was in for to, you know, get
them free, I would do the same thing. But it's
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it's completely different with Biden. It's completely different with Biden.
He's a freaking hypocrite. He's a freaking hypocrite. And the
reason I say that is the nineteen nineteen Prime build.
He was the author of that. And a lot of
people are not drawing this connection he put He put
a lot of you know, I'm not gonna say black
and brown people. He put a lot of people in
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jail for doing No.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
They're black and brown. They are, they are factually they
are black and brown, mostly black.
Speaker 9 (24:44):
Okay, But I think it's hypocritically for him to do
that when his son has done the same thing that
he puts them in jail for. Right now, I know
that that's not the cases that are I guessing, but
he gave him pardins. He gave them like a blanket
party for the things that he might have done. I
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think it's real. I think it's real. Bad man, It's
kind of it's.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Kind of sad. I don't even know what to say
at this point.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
Because I just look at that you put all of
those people in jail for the same strup that your
son is doing it, and you don't have a problem
with it. You don't have a problem with it at all.
That's all I have.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Michael Well settlement, thank you, But I want to be clear.
His crimes were not victimist. Hunter's biggest crimes and the
biggest scandal they're pulling off is making people think that
his crimes were doing drugs. Hunter's biggest crimes were taking
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money from the Chinese, Ukrainians and Russians and directing national
policy and billions of your dollars and affecting our country.
That is treason and it should not be the case
that every father gets to pardon their son just because
their president. Absolutely not. Greg Fountain, you are on the
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Michael Berry Show. Welcome sir, Good morning, sir. How are you?
Did you give both names as a kind of a
name drop?
Speaker 10 (26:22):
You know, I was hoping to get a dang out
of it, but oh what I did? There?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
You go, Ramona, you know Greg Fountain, you do well? Okay,
he did work my brother very good. Did he tell
you that or you actually remember that? Wow? I'm impressed well.
Greg Fountain worked with my brother in law enforcement for many,
many many years. Greg Fountain is, how is who I
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first met Tracy bird with in the mid two thousand late,
I don't know, ten, twenty, ten, eleven, twelve, somewhere around there.
And now I believe he has a real estate practice
in Crystal Beach? Is that correct?
Speaker 10 (27:04):
Yes, sir, sweeze through the state if I worked from
my brother in law and his business partner Lands Bradley.
And but you know I was raised kind of Navan R.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Johnson is.
Speaker 10 (27:15):
You know, we weren't dirt for but my dad worked
in the oil field paid so security paid our taxes
and I worked in the oil patch myself before getting
into law enforcement. And you know the work ethics we
were taught people. Our age is to work hard and
you can make something of yourself. And to see the
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point you made earlier about the amount of taxes we
paid as well as Social Security that goes to individuals
that have never paid into it. And it's just disheartening
to people black, white, brown, whatever color, that get up
and go to work every day. You know, in my
real estate career, it's seven days a week if you
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want to be successful, you know that. And people think
if you make money, then it was given to you.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
But it's not.
Speaker 10 (28:10):
If you go to work every day and to see
the waste and abuse that has gone on for decades,
and it's ridiculous, and I'm hoping that those can do
something about.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
It's terribly frustrating because a man should keep what he earns,
what he produces, what he creates. And I think we
all have the idea that we're willing to pitch in
for the things that help us do what we do.
We're all willing to pitch in for the nationalsifs. We're
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all willing to pitch in for roads to the extent
that we need him. We're all willing to pitch in
even charitably, for things that fall through the cracks, you know,
the widow woman whose son goes off to war, or
the situation where someone loses their job. All of this
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within reason. Add to that the money that we tie
to the church for various reasons, and the charitable work
that's done for that. Add to that the charitable work
we each do individually on our own time, with our
own time. It is perverse, however, to take money from
the citizenry in the way that it is done, and
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for folks to have tolerated it for this long, for
folks to believe that this is what is natural and normal,
and to carve around the edges. I'll tell you the
one that gets me. People will say, I don't want
my money sent to Ukraine. We could spend that money
instead on And I realize at that moment we've lost
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this thing. When you find out that we have wasted
your taxpayer dollars, people will say, well, always say, don't
I don't believe we should spend our we should send
our money to this country. I don't believe we should
spend it on this ridiculous project, on this bailout, on
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this subsidy, on this bribe, on this Instead, we could
spend it on No, that money should have never been
taken from the taxpayer in the first place. If Americans
understood the extent to which they struggle, because that which
they earn is taken from them and sent into this pool,
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they would demand it that money be sent back and
lower those taxes. And it can be changed. It is doable.
Let me see if I can find this. I saw
a stat in the Wall Street journalists Morning, Idaho. Listen
to this. This is from an editorial in the Wall
Street Journalists warn Idaho has proved deregulation is possible. The
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state repealed and revised its Administrative Rules Code through a
sunset review process in twenty nineteen. The results from on
were dramatic. Since then, ninety five percent of state regulations
have been eliminated or simplified. And read that again. Since then,
in five years, ninety five percent of state regulations have
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been eliminated or simplified. This guy didn't fall. Most regulations,
when subject to genuine scrutiny, failed to justify their existence.
The federal government should learn from Idaho's success. The result
would be a regulatory system that is leaner, more efficient,
and responsive to twenty first century needs. Can you go
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back to Fountain for a minute, Greg, Yes, what is
going on right now in Crystal Beach? What is the
real estate market? What are we seeing there right now?
Speaker 10 (32:02):
Well, a lot of people that bought in twenty one
and twenty two, you know, the height of the market.
Everything across the state and the nation went crazy, and
people came in and were buying investment properties and some
people were using you know, inaccurate data to see what
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a rental property would bring in, and for that time
they weren't overpaying. But with the market saturation and seven
percent interest, you know, the difference in a four hundred
thousand dollars thirty year note at three percent is about
thirteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
And fifty a month, and it went up.
Speaker 10 (32:43):
To twenty one fifty, another eight hundred dollars a month
at seven percent in interest, and people just couldn't afford.
So it's starting to level out now and I think
you're starting to see the economy. People see that light
at the end of the tunnel starting January twentieth, and
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I think buyers are going to come back out and
be ready to have that second home that they've wanted
all their life, you know, a place for the family
to gather. And you know, we didn't shut down during
COVID in Crystal Beach and that's one of the things
that pushed our market the way it did on the
Oliver Peninsula.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
But you know, I'm heading back from.
Speaker 10 (33:26):
South Texas right now. I've been deer hunting and everywhere
you look you can even see the oil fill work
over rigs getting ready and things like that. Because they
know the economy is going to get better.
Speaker 9 (33:39):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 10 (33:41):
So goes the old patch, goes the rest of the country.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
That's good country. Wisdom from great Fountain right there. I
like that as well, said you get anything down there.
Speaker 10 (33:54):
Yeah. My son killed a nice management buck and a
dough and we had quality time together. He's thirty, but
you know what, he's still my son and I enjoy
time with him.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Of course. What's his full name, Kyle Ale Fountain. Good
for Kyle, Thank you, Greg Fountain, Thank you, my friend.
Take care
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Varry Show is on the air, Kelly writes, with regardless,
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straight dogs. It's all over Montgomery County too. These sleeves
bag illegals come in. They don't new to their pets,
they don't care for their pets, they don't feed their pets.
I live in the Woodlands and I have never seen
so many stray dogs posted on social media in all
my life, far more than when I lived in Houston proper.
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People feel uncomfortable talking about this, but there are cultural differences.
There are cultures around the world that eat dogs. It's
a fact. And we have become so stupid in this
country that when you mention that, people affiliated with cultures
that eat dogs say it's very upsetting. You say this,
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it's true, and it doesn't even have to be true.
You see, freedom of speech means the ability to say things,
even things that upset other people. But the strain that
infected this culture is the desire to protect the offended,
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and people will go to great lengths to protect who
they think are the offended, whether that's palestinians, murderers, pedophiles, weirdos, freaks, losers, layabouts.
They've decided that's some great thing for them to do.
(02:06):
The top news story this morning as I started the show,
was that the CEO of United Healthcare was shot exiting
the hotel that he was staying at this morning, just
before seven am. The person who shot him was apparently
(02:31):
a white male who was wearing a black mask, who
was waiting on him in the lobby. So this does
not appear to be a random shooting snatch and grab.
He was waiting on him, He took nothing from him.
(02:54):
He apparently shot to kill and did Brian Thompson, the
CEO of United Healthcare, the largest healthcare company in America
one hundred and eighty nine billion dollars in revenues last year.
One of the things that's been pointed out could potentially
be a reason that someone would have for wanting to
(03:17):
kill him, was it Brian Thompson had implemented a lot
of very stringent DEI requirements, and that there have been
white males who've been angry at the company for being
overlooked for job promotions as women and minorities were placed
(03:38):
into those positions, and a policy was stated as such
that could be could be a disgruntled employee. It could
also be a person whose healthcare claim was denied by United,
to be someone who's just tired of all the paperwork
(03:58):
having had a family member that they cared for. Anybody
who's cared for a family member with a chronic condition
that drags on for some period of time, it's impossible.
My wife handles all that, and thank god she does.
It's impossible to keep all the documentation straight. You get
(04:19):
bills that say you don't need to pay this, but
this is a bill. You get bills that say pay
this and we'll see if the insurance company will pay it.
You get bills that you're not even sure. You get
bills periods of time later you're not even sure. The
whole thing is an absolute and utter mess. And I
truly believe that the way you solve this problem you
(04:44):
got to phase it in, because you will create such
a kerfuffle overnight with people that are accustomed to the system,
bad as it is. This was the fear in the
Soviet Union when they began the transition away from the
old Stalinist style, was that as bad as the system was,
it gave comfort because people understood the system no matter
(05:07):
how wretched a system is. People find comfort and security
in the consistency of it. So you can shatter that
and improve everything. But for a period of time people
feel untethered. They don't they don't know what to do
(05:28):
because they've grown to work within the labyrinth of you know,
a socialist system, for instance. It still strikes me that
the best way to go about this is that the
same way if you need automobile tires or food or
(05:49):
anything else. When you need a service, you go to
the doctor and you pay for it. And when you
get to the doctor, just like at the restaurant, they
got the prices on the wall and you say, okay,
that's what it will cost. So when the doctor says
when you go in and the doctor says you need
(06:09):
this medicine, there would be a list on the wall
of what the pharmacy typically charges for that. Or you
could take your prescription and price shop there, and you
could price shop CVS versus Walgreens versus all the other companies.
The system is too sophisticated at present for outsiders to
penetrate it. That's a big barrier to entry. There are
(06:31):
reasons the system is and remains the way it is
today because if people had to pay for something out
of their own back pocket, well, people will say, when
I offer this solution, they'll say, but not everybody will
be able to pay for every procedure. Not everybody can
pay for every procedure now, But do you realize that
everybody pays something? Now? Do you realize how much is
(06:54):
being paid in versus what's getting out. It's as big
a scam as Social Security. But don't you dare suggest
that we reform Social Security because people believe I gotta
get mine. Do you understand that in the course of
your lifetime you will pay in far more than you
will ever take out, particularly when you adjust for the
(07:18):
time value of money over the course of your lifetime.
George W. Bush, to his credit, had actually begun the
process of talking through how to do that, and then
nine to eleven and nothing else could be done, which
will leave for another day. But imagine if you didn't imagine.
Milton Friedman said in his career his greatest regret was
(07:42):
when he worked for the government early in his career.
Automatic withholding is it was the worst thing we ever did.
We socialized social Security, and the reason was automatic withholding
was how you ensured if not one hundred percent certainty
of revenue election higher than you would if people had
(08:03):
to every month make a payment, even if people intended
to make a payment. We forget right. But automatic withholding
meant that you would take it across the board. He
would take it every month. And he said, what I
did not calculate is that earners would not notice that
the money was gone when it was gone, and they
(08:26):
would not therefore appreciate and protest against increases in withholdings
because they would grow accustomed to not having that withholding.
Fifty five percent of your earnings are gone to the
government before you ever spend them. Between Social Security, between
income tax withholdings, property taxes, state taxes, sales taxes. Michael
(08:55):
Berry's show How You Doing This is Sharley c.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Liquor with Today's Moment of Literacy.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Curtis of the Michael Pberry Foundation.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Today episode is from Dreams of My Father by Monac
Obamoh My God. With Lolo, I had learned how to
eat small green chili peppers, robbed with dinal Taniel rice
and away from the dinner table, I was introduced to
dog meat, which was tough snake meat which was tougher
(09:35):
and roasted grasshopper.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Which was crunching.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Who said this Butarack Obama did, No, he did, yes,
he did, just we can. Like many Indonesians, Lolo had
followed the brand of Islam that can make room for
the reminists of more ancient animis and Hindu faith.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
He explained that a man took on the powers of
whatever he ate.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
You a four hundred pound can about litt.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Oh one day soon, he promised he would bring home
a piece of tiger meat for us to share. He
be cat food, Yes, honey, big ass cat food.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
My friend Freddy Aguilar, who is not a cardiologist, is
actually a prominent plastic surgeon, cosmetic surgeon, texted me and said,
what mac is talking about is valves. When he used
the word leaflets, I said that's what I thought. Well,
why did he keep saying leaf or leaflet? And he
(10:49):
said because older doctors explain it like that. The mitra
valve the aortic valve, they used to be called leaflets
as they are part of the overall valve. Mitrol has
two while the aortic has three. So that's what you
needed to know about mitral valves. Ramon the man arrested
(11:13):
for the drunk driving crash that killed a seven year
old girl in North Houston has ice holds on him
because he's not a US citizen. More disturbing is the
fact that he was sentenced in September for felony assault.
Why didn't they put an ice hold on him then?
(11:34):
After his conviction. Investigators say that at the crash scene,
he got out and started taking pictures instead of rendering aid.
A seven year old little girl was killed. The story
from KHOU.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Forty one year old's old Gonzalez is being held on
a one hundred and fifty thousand dollars bond as the
family of seven year old Ivory Smith is the with
unimaginable grief after losing her now. Seven year old Ivory
Smith was killed on Sunday morning while riding in the
backseat of her mother's car as they were heading home.
Investigators say forty one year old Gonzales was intoxicated and
(12:14):
ran through a red light, te boning Ivory and her
mother near North Beamo Road and North sam Houston Parkway.
Prosecutors say Gonzales then got out of the car and
started taking pictures of the scene without rendering any sort
of aid. We spoke with Ivory's family in court this morning,
who tells us they just want justice for Ivory and
they want stiffer penalties for people involved in these sorts
(12:37):
of crimes.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
If convicted, it's.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Always the person that's drinking and driving, it gets to
walk away and then the families are left with you
know this, So definitely the laws need to change. We're
definitely worried he could flee. He has no conscience because
he got out and he didn't assist again.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Gonzalez's bond is set at one hundred and fifty thouves
than dollars, and should he postpond, the judge has revoked
his driving privileges and he must submit to alcohol monitoring.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
He also has.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
An icehold or Immigration Custody enforcement hold, since authorities say
he isn't a US citizen, so if he posts bond,
he would then be held in custody by ICE.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Now.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Gonzales is due back in court on February sixth, and
if convicted, could face anywhere from two to twenty years
in prison.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Awful. Another family member was severely injured in that and
faces a long recovery. A second grade student at Klein
ISD's Clink Elementary School killed Hm. You know, she said,
and many people will the law needs to change. Actually,
don't need to change the law that. This is the
(13:50):
thing that is lost on people. It needs to be understood.
We have laws for all these We have laws for
everything we need to fix. You just have to enforce them.
As simple as that. You just have to enforce the
laws that we actually have. We don't need more gun
control laws. When you catch a felon with a gun, officers,
(14:16):
tell me if we just prosecuted and held every felon
we catch in possession of a weapon, they're not allowed
to be. That's a guy that's committing more crimes. If
you just held them, your crime rate would plummet, absolutely plummet.
(14:37):
The mother of the Edna High School cheerleader murdered last
year by an illegal alien stalker says that the system
failed this mother or failed her daughter twice by allowing
the illegal alien in the country in the first time,
and now the trial has been delayed for several months
as she's forced to wait for justice for the murderer
(15:00):
of her daughter.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
The story from khou I first met Jackie Medina two
days after she found her daughter Elizabeth dead in a bathtub.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
A mother should never go through what I went through.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
A year later, she says, the vivacious cheerleader's sheer presence
is among the things she misses the most.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Her smile, her laves everything.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
Police say sixteen year old Elizabeth was fatally stabbed in
the family's home at the Cottonwood Apartments. Twenty four year
old Rafael Romero, who exhibited stalking like behavior before the crime,
according to court documents, was later arrested in Schulenberg. He
was supposed to go on trial for capital murder this
week back in Edna, but it was postponed until at
least February.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
I was basically the shot.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Heartbroken, Medina says she has mixed emotions about attending the trial,
though it's something she feels obligated to.
Speaker 8 (15:54):
Doding details that you know, mothers don't want to here,
but expecting answers that I've been waiting for.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
She believes stricter laws might have prevented Romero, an a
legal immigrant from Mexico, from ever crossing paths with her daughter.
Speaker 8 (16:11):
I just feel very disappointed in the system now.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
She just hopes the system eventually delivers the justice Elizabeth
deserves and wants no less than the death penalty for
her accused killer.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
So it would have been me years back, I would
say to leave them in jail. But when it happens
to you, as being a mother, and this happens to
your daughter, you want the max, you want the worst,
because he had no mercy on my daughter, so why
should I have any on him.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
I'm told reasons for this trial delay, including Romero's defense
team filing motions in the case, also the need for
more time to review a mountain of discovery materials. I
did reach out to Romero's attorney, whose office is down
in Corpus, but have not heard back.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Convict him and just like the raging pit bulls roaming
through Colony Ridge, take him out in the yard, put
a bullet in him, put him down like the rabid
dog that he is. We told you the story about
Catherine Hudson, Harris County Precinc Five deputy, who was working
an extra job her little daughter, eight year old child Casey,
(17:20):
in the backseat of her car asleep early that morning
when a driver crashed into them, into the two of
them and killed the mother and the daughter His name
was Jose Alvareto. Alvarado's twenty three years old. He was impaired,
so apparently he was drunk. The car burst into fire,
(17:40):
into flame. He also ran into a text dot box
truck and that burst into flames. One detail I got
wrong was that she did work for Constable Ted Heap,
and she did work for Precinct five. But she was
not a new deputy. That's what I had been told
(18:01):
by an officer on the scene. She was an eighteen
year veteran. She had actually transferred to the Civil Division
off patrol so that she could spend more time. She
was a single mother with her daughter. Her daughter, Casey,
was a second grade student at Turlington Elementary School in Waller, ISD.
You know, as a cultural matter, if you notice how
(18:23):
many drunk driving killings there are, it's more often than
not hispanic Michael Barry Show, come on, let's open the
phone lines for the people. We haven't had many calls
this week because we've had so much to cover, but
we will open them now. Seven one, three, nine, nine,
nine one thousand. News report yesterday that Southwest Airlines would
(18:50):
be doing away with their DEI department and policies and
I will say it again, well, this is a reason
to rejoice. You've got to understand how that department grew
(19:13):
within your company and how those policies were formulated and implemented.
You can't simply say, hey, guys, we had a fraud
department that was committing fraud. We've decided that our fraud department,
we're going to go ahead, after these all these years,
we're going to close it down. Okay, well wait, wait
(19:37):
a minute, good, good, good to know. But how'd you
have a fraud department in the first place? Who suggested
you have a fraud department? Who said, yeah, that's a
good idea. Who said, hey, Bob, you're going to be
(19:58):
in charge of the fraud department. Why did Bob accept?
Who else did Bob recruit into the fraud department? How
long did they operate? How did you allow them to operate?
Did they report back on how the fraud was going.
You can't simply say, right way, we were doing this
(20:21):
really really dumb thing. Now we're not going to do
it anymore. As a shareholder, we have the right to
know why did you do that? What'd you think you
were accomplishing? Because this is where you would start to
get to what's important, which is what people claimed they
(20:44):
were trying to accomplish, or who they were afraid of,
or why they did these things because they suspected that
that would keep them from being intact. No company needs
a DEID department, university, no nothing, diversity, equity and inclusion.
(21:09):
Why is diversity valuable? Shatter that myth right now? Why
is diversity? Why does diversity matter? Let's take the United
Kingdom that was primarily white, that was a very safe
country for centuries. All of a sudden you introduced these
(21:31):
Middle Eastern refuge supposed refugees, and you started watching crime
go up, knifings go up, sexual attacks go up. Did
that improve things? Were you better because of it? The
country is rife with riots now. Diversity is not necessarily
(21:51):
an improvement on anything. Would the NBA be better if
you injected more Asian Americans into it? Would college football
be better if you put girls out on the field,
because we don't have any right now, you cannot buy
(22:12):
the myth diversity will naturally occur in nature of its
own accord to the extent that it needs to. But
when you buy the premise that diversity is somehow in
and of itself a good thing. You have lost the war,
(22:33):
and not just some war for white people or for
your own best interest, but for opportunity, for fairness, for openness.
There's a study that was commissioned by the United States
government that was hidden that is now emerging that showed
that all of this talk about diversity and equity and
(22:54):
inclusion actually led to greater ranker, more anger, more outbursts,
more violence, and not just against the people who are
the victims, white males, for instance. It encouraged people with
bad tendencies to indulge those tendencies. When you give ilhan
(23:17):
Omar and AOC and Lena Hidalgo and Rodney Ellis and
Sheila jacksually, when you give those people a microphone and
say spill it all out, say what you think, you
encourage and embolden them, and they just get worse and
worse and worse the more you platform them. Lamont on
(23:41):
the black Line, you're up, sir, Yes, I want to
talk about Michael I'm good, sir, Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
I want to talk about Joe Biden and the pardon.
The pardon on the surfacely didn't care about it. That's
common sense to me. You know, if if my kid
did a victim less crime or a victimist low level
crime and I was in for to, you know, get
them free, I would do the same thing. But it's
(24:14):
it's completely different with Biden. It's completely different with Biden.
He's a freaking hypocrite. He's a freaking hypocrite. And the
reason I say that is the nineteen nineteen Prime build.
He was the author of that. And a lot of
people are not drawing this connection he put He put
a lot of you know, I'm not gonna say black
and brown people. He put a lot of people in
(24:36):
jail for doing No.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
They're black and brown. They are, they are factually they
are black and brown, mostly black.
Speaker 9 (24:44):
Okay, But I think it's hypocritically for him to do
that when his son has done the same thing that
he puts them in jail for. Right now, I know
that that's not the cases that are I guessing, but
he gave him pardins. He gave them like a blanket
party for the things that he might have done. I
(25:05):
think it's real. I think it's real. Bad man, It's
kind of it's.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Kind of sad. I don't even know what to say
at this point.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
Because I just look at that you put all of
those people in jail for the same strup that your
son is doing it, and you don't have a problem
with it. You don't have a problem with it at all.
That's all I have.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Michael Well settlement, thank you, But I want to be clear.
His crimes were not victimist. Hunter's biggest crimes and the
biggest scandal they're pulling off is making people think that
his crimes were doing drugs. Hunter's biggest crimes were taking
(25:46):
money from the Chinese, Ukrainians and Russians and directing national
policy and billions of your dollars and affecting our country.
That is treason and it should not be the case
that every father gets to pardon their son just because
their president. Absolutely not. Greg Fountain, you are on the
(26:10):
Michael Berry Show. Welcome sir, Good morning, sir. How are you?
Did you give both names as a kind of a
name drop?
Speaker 10 (26:22):
You know, I was hoping to get a dang out
of it, but oh what I did? There?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
You go, Ramona, you know Greg Fountain, you do well? Okay,
he did work my brother very good. Did he tell
you that or you actually remember that? Wow? I'm impressed well.
Greg Fountain worked with my brother in law enforcement for many,
many many years. Greg Fountain is, how is who I
(26:46):
first met Tracy bird with in the mid two thousand late,
I don't know, ten, twenty, ten, eleven, twelve, somewhere around there.
And now I believe he has a real estate practice
in Crystal Beach? Is that correct?
Speaker 10 (27:04):
Yes, sir, sweeze through the state if I worked from
my brother in law and his business partner Lands Bradley.
And but you know I was raised kind of Navan R.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Johnson is.
Speaker 10 (27:15):
You know, we weren't dirt for but my dad worked
in the oil field paid so security paid our taxes
and I worked in the oil patch myself before getting
into law enforcement. And you know the work ethics we
were taught people. Our age is to work hard and
you can make something of yourself. And to see the
(27:39):
point you made earlier about the amount of taxes we
paid as well as Social Security that goes to individuals
that have never paid into it. And it's just disheartening
to people black, white, brown, whatever color, that get up
and go to work every day. You know, in my
real estate career, it's seven days a week if you
(28:02):
want to be successful, you know that. And people think
if you make money, then it was given to you.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
But it's not.
Speaker 10 (28:10):
If you go to work every day and to see
the waste and abuse that has gone on for decades,
and it's ridiculous, and I'm hoping that those can do
something about.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
It's terribly frustrating because a man should keep what he earns,
what he produces, what he creates. And I think we
all have the idea that we're willing to pitch in
for the things that help us do what we do.
We're all willing to pitch in for the nationalsifs. We're
(28:43):
all willing to pitch in for roads to the extent
that we need him. We're all willing to pitch in
even charitably, for things that fall through the cracks, you know,
the widow woman whose son goes off to war, or
the situation where someone loses their job. All of this
(29:04):
within reason. Add to that the money that we tie
to the church for various reasons, and the charitable work
that's done for that. Add to that the charitable work
we each do individually on our own time, with our
own time. It is perverse, however, to take money from
the citizenry in the way that it is done, and
(29:27):
for folks to have tolerated it for this long, for
folks to believe that this is what is natural and normal,
and to carve around the edges. I'll tell you the
one that gets me. People will say, I don't want
my money sent to Ukraine. We could spend that money
instead on And I realize at that moment we've lost
(29:51):
this thing. When you find out that we have wasted
your taxpayer dollars, people will say, well, always say, don't
I don't believe we should spend our we should send
our money to this country. I don't believe we should
spend it on this ridiculous project, on this bailout, on
(30:12):
this subsidy, on this bribe, on this Instead, we could
spend it on No, that money should have never been
taken from the taxpayer in the first place. If Americans
understood the extent to which they struggle, because that which
they earn is taken from them and sent into this pool,
(30:38):
they would demand it that money be sent back and
lower those taxes. And it can be changed. It is doable.
Let me see if I can find this. I saw
a stat in the Wall Street journalists Morning, Idaho. Listen
to this. This is from an editorial in the Wall
Street Journalists warn Idaho has proved deregulation is possible. The
(31:00):
state repealed and revised its Administrative Rules Code through a
sunset review process in twenty nineteen. The results from on
were dramatic. Since then, ninety five percent of state regulations
have been eliminated or simplified. And read that again. Since then,
in five years, ninety five percent of state regulations have
(31:24):
been eliminated or simplified. This guy didn't fall. Most regulations,
when subject to genuine scrutiny, failed to justify their existence.
The federal government should learn from Idaho's success. The result
would be a regulatory system that is leaner, more efficient,
and responsive to twenty first century needs. Can you go
(31:45):
back to Fountain for a minute, Greg, Yes, what is
going on right now in Crystal Beach? What is the
real estate market? What are we seeing there right now?
Speaker 10 (32:02):
Well, a lot of people that bought in twenty one
and twenty two, you know, the height of the market.
Everything across the state and the nation went crazy, and
people came in and were buying investment properties and some
people were using you know, inaccurate data to see what
(32:24):
a rental property would bring in, and for that time
they weren't overpaying. But with the market saturation and seven
percent interest, you know, the difference in a four hundred
thousand dollars thirty year note at three percent is about
thirteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
And fifty a month, and it went up.
Speaker 10 (32:43):
To twenty one fifty, another eight hundred dollars a month
at seven percent in interest, and people just couldn't afford.
So it's starting to level out now and I think
you're starting to see the economy. People see that light
at the end of the tunnel starting January twentieth, and
(33:06):
I think buyers are going to come back out and
be ready to have that second home that they've wanted
all their life, you know, a place for the family
to gather. And you know, we didn't shut down during
COVID in Crystal Beach and that's one of the things
that pushed our market the way it did on the
Oliver Peninsula.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
But you know, I'm heading back from.
Speaker 10 (33:26):
South Texas right now. I've been deer hunting and everywhere
you look you can even see the oil fill work
over rigs getting ready and things like that. Because they
know the economy is going to get better.
Speaker 9 (33:39):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 10 (33:41):
So goes the old patch, goes the rest of the country.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
That's good country. Wisdom from great Fountain right there. I
like that as well, said you get anything down there.
Speaker 10 (33:54):
Yeah. My son killed a nice management buck and a
dough and we had quality time together. He's thirty, but
you know what, he's still my son and I enjoy
time with him.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Of course. What's his full name, Kyle Ale Fountain. Good
for Kyle, Thank you, Greg Fountain, Thank you, my friend.
Take care
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