The Price Freeze Trap

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Cooner. Contrary. Okay, my friends, the start of
the Democratic National Convention is today. Already they're anticipating ANTIFA,
Black Lives Matter, There's gonna be a lot of pro
Palestinian pro Hamas protesters. In fact, tens and tens of thousands,

(00:21):
according to the media, are now reportedly getting ready to
descend upon Chicago. Chicago, and we'll see many are fearing
serious political violence, potential rioting, looting. But whatever happens, in
some ways, it's a side show. And the reason why

(00:45):
it's a side show is because Kamala Harris has now
made not just the greatest mistake of her campaign, it
is a fatal mistake. She unveiled her economic plan in Raleigh,
North Carolina, on Friday, and what everybody had been reporting

(01:06):
beforehand turned out to be correct. She now is openly calling,
openly calling for Soviet style price controls on food. You
can't make this up. Listen to Comrade Kamala in her

(01:26):
own words, roll cut one, Mike.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
I will work to pass the first ever federal ban
on price gauging on food. My plan will include new
penalties for opportunistic companies that exploit crises and break the rooms.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Now to show you how incompetent she is. And this
is why they don't like her giving speeches no matter
how script did they are. Did you catch the fatal
and that means a silly mistake? It's supposed to be
price gouging, but she can't even get that right to
show you what illiterate this woman is on so many levels.

(02:15):
She you know, it's price. Let's play it again, Mike, Listen,
it is instead of price gouging, it's price. Well play
it again, Mike.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
I will work to pass the first ever federal ban
on price gauging on.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Food, the lemons of property.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
My plan will include new penalties for opportunistic companies that
exploit crises and break the rules.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Incredible, I mean, it's just she even blows the central
line of her entire economic program. Okay, I mean this
is what I mean. Look, stop hitting the bottle. Okay,
she's got Rumors are now flying and the Trump campaign
is finally now discussing these reports that are surfacing that
she has an issue with drinking, that she's a lush

(03:09):
as I put it on X last night, And this
is going to be more more obvious as the campaign
goes on because the media cannot cover it up, and
her campaign can't cover it up. And that's why she
often slurs her words. That's why she often doesn't make sense.
That's why she delivers frequent word salads. That and obviously

(03:30):
the very heavy marijuana use. Okay, she's a pothead and
has been for a well documented for a very very
very long time. And that's why this woman can't make sense.
But let's leave that, Let that go, as I would
like to say. Okay, as I like to say, even

(03:51):
the New York Times, even the Washington Post, even this
is CNN have trashed her price control plan. In fact,
according to them, they can't believe she went ahead with
this destructive, reckless, juvenile idea because let me tell you

(04:16):
what has happened every time anywhere, any place, and I
don't just mean for the last hundred years, literally for
the last two thousand years, every time price controlled on
food in particular, but price controls in general, but on
food in particular, has been tried, it led to an

(04:40):
absolute disaster. The Roman Empire. The Romans tried it, and
what do you think happened? The Romans, which had a
much simpler economy than we have today. The Romans tried it,
it led to massive starvation and food shortages. Let's not
go back two thousand years, Okay, everywhere it's been tried,

(05:05):
the Soviet Union, Venezuela, Cuba, China. It doesn't matter. Wherever
you've had price controls imposed on food and food production,
it always, always, inevitably leads to chronic, serious food shortages,

(05:27):
in some cases outright famine and starvation, and in the
end long lines and no food, no food. It is
one of the most disastrous policies ever ever in human history.

(05:48):
And yet this is the central plank of our entire
economic plan to bring down prices at the grocery store. Now,
as I talked about on Friday, and this is a
multi to importante point, okay, the mother of all points,
as Saddam Hussein would put it. Grocery stores and generally

(06:09):
big food producers have about a two percent, one two
in some cases three percent, but mostly one to two
percent profit margin. The profit margins are extremely low. If
you start freezing prices across the board, what do you

(06:30):
think is gonna happen? Because labor continues to go up, utilities,
energy bills, overhead, everything else, it's still going up. So
what's gonna happen is inevitably they go out of business.
Producers say, well, why should I make pork, or why

(06:52):
should I make beef, or why should I make chicken?
There's no money in it. They're freezing all the prices.
I'm losing money. No one's gonna work for a profit
for a loss. People want to work for a profit
to live, to put some money in their pocket. And
so what happens is grocery stores are gonna start to

(07:12):
shut down. You're gonna have food production begin to get disrupted,
and you're gonna start to see our supply lines be
utterly destroyed when it comes to food. Don't take my
word for it. That's literally happening in Venezuela. Go and
look at the pictures of grocery stores in Venezuela. There ampte,

(07:33):
theare ampte, or like in the old Soviet Union, there's
like thirty cans of ham and there's three hundred people
lined up outside the store. Then you've got to call
in the police, seriously, the police and the parking lots
to prevent riots from breaking out. Then people begin to
attack the trucks, the convoys carrying the food, so they

(07:55):
have to have armed guards. It becomes an absolute breakdown
in society. That's why the Washington Post, her media allies,
and the New York Times, and by the way, former
Obama economists have come out and said, this is one
of the craziest ideas I've ever heard in my life. Now,

(08:20):
the last time we tried price and wage controls in
this country, it was under Richard Nixon, Tricky Dick as
he was known in those days. Listen now to Tricky
Dick announced price and wage controls over fifty years ago.

(08:42):
Roll cut one a mike.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
The time has come for decisive action, action that will
break the vicious circle of spiraling prices and costs. I
am today ordering a freeze on all prices and wages
throughout the United States for a period of ninety days.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Okay, what do you think happened after three months? It
was a disaster. He had to end it after three months,
And what do you think happened? Prices went up even more,
inflation went up even more, even more, and then eventually
you had the energy crisis of the nineteen seventies, and

(09:28):
they imposed what do you think oil and gas price controls,
and what do you think happened? Let long lines, shortages,
and oil and natural gas people took forever to get
to wait for hours just to tank up your car.
And even then they told you can only put five
dollars or ten dollars in your tank. Do you remember

(09:49):
those days under Jimmy Carter? This is exactly what we're
going to get here in the United States. But what's
never been tried before is this ban on so called
price gauging. Okay, price gouging, that's never been done before.

(10:10):
Waging price controls. Yes, they've been a disaster, But how
do you define price gouging? How do you define it?
She doesn't even define it herself. So what are you
gonna do? Now? You're gonna set up a secret IRS
police and they're gonna go to grocery store after grocery
store after grocery store and look at a Cannabians and say,

(10:31):
I don't know here, two ninety eight. I think it
needs to be two fifty eight mm Kraft mac and cheese. Uh,
you know what a buck forty nine? No, that's price gouging.
I think it needs to be one nineteen. That's I'm
telling you that's what's gonna happen. And what you're gonna
see is grocery stores are gonna close and you're not

(10:55):
gonna be able to get food. Okay, uh, trust me
when I tell you this. This is a huge fatal
mistake on the part of Kamala Harris and her campaign.
She is not going to recover from this. And Trump
is already seizing the massive opportunity given to him and
he just now needs to keep driving this point over

(11:17):
and over and over again. The centerpiece of an economic
plan is now Soviet style literally from the Soviet Union.
They were the ones who really went all in on
this price control policy on food, in particular food and
food production. And this is communism and every other country

(11:41):
that has tried it, whether it's the former USSR, China, Venezuela, Cuba,
North Korea, Cambodia, name your country, it has led to
mass starvation and chronic food shortages. This woman is crazy.

(12:02):
She's an absolute lunatic. You can tell she's a red
diaper baby because her father, who as you know, was
a Marxist professor of economics, was also an advisor to
the government of Jamaica, to the government of Jamaica in
the nineteen seventies and they had raging inflation and what

(12:24):
did he recommend, same thing, massive price controls. And it
was a disaster. It was a dismal failure. In fact,
it eventually led to prices going much higher. But before then,
well you think happened long lines, food shortages, and the
beginnings of a famine of real hunger in Jamaica. So she's,

(12:49):
you know, the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.
Her mother was a communist, her father was a communist.
This is not name calling. This is literally what they were.
They were Marxist Leninists, and they believed in La Revolution.
Now let me just say this and then I want

(13:10):
to open it up to the phone lines, because there's
a lot more to discuss. Sixty one seven, two six six,
sixty eight, sixty eight is the number. The fact that
this woman would publicly and openly adopt price controls on food,
combined with this is the part that's that's a complete

(13:32):
mind bender, a federal ban on price gouging. Never before
has that been done in American history. In fact, it
looks I mean outside of Marxist economies, okay, literally like
out of the Eastern Bloc communist countries. No Western country

(13:55):
has ever tried a ban on quote unquote a national
federal on so called price gouging, or she likes to
call it price gauging. Now, how do you define what's
an excessive profit? What is too high a price? What
actually is gouging? What is it? What is it? So

(14:20):
to find that out, they're gonna go grocery store to
grocery store, or farm to farm, or meat processing plant
to meet processing plant, or they're gonna go to you know,
craft or Tysons or these big food producers, and they're
gonna go into these plants and they're gonna start to check.

(14:41):
The government literally is gonna start to check, and they're
gonna arbitrarily decide what's acceptable and what's not an acceptable price. Now,
what do you think is gonna happen? This is the
same government that can barely deliver the mail. This is

(15:02):
the same government that, what is it spent twenty five
billion dollars to build EV stations and I think in
total they've built eight. But they're going to control our
entire country's food supply and food production and food delivery,

(15:23):
our entire food supply chain. You know, my wife, God
bless her, made a brilliant point over the weekend, you know,
and she she really reemphasized it to me during dinner
last night. She said, Jeff, think about it. Really. How
hard is it to you know, to think of just
sit back objectively? Okay? How hard is it to just

(15:44):
control one person? Say you want to do? You know,
you want to you want your wife to do something,
or you want your husband to do something, whatever it is,
or your children, your kids aye ya yaye? Oh you know, hey, Ash,
can you clean up your room for the five hundredth time?
You know? Could you stop teasing your sister relentlessly for

(16:07):
the five hundredth time? You know, I could just go whatever?

Speaker 4 (16:11):
Eva?

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Could you stop leaving a mess every time you have breakfast?
Can't you put everything back? Throw things out? Put everything back,
and then what you you know what, what's what's the way?

Speaker 3 (16:22):
You know?

Speaker 1 (16:22):
What's what's you know what? You can't put back? Throw
it out and put in the garbage? Can clean up
after yourself? For God's sake? Do you know how many
times I've had this conversation with my two children? Now,
the point being, because you're gonna say Jeheff Jeheff, What
does this have to do with economics? If you can't
control one person, you're going to control an entire economy.

(16:47):
You're going to control three hundred and thirty million people.
You're going to control one of the most complex food
supply chains in the entire history of the world. Once
you start messing with supply chains. Didn't the pandemic teach

(17:07):
us anything anything. Once you start messing with supply chains,
especially when it comes to food, that's the one thing
you don't play with because that you know, that's hunger.
That's you go to the grocery store. Now, honestly, what
do you think is going to happen? We go to

(17:28):
the grocery store and there's nothing there. Okay, I'm gonna
go right to the phone lines. Phone lines are jammed,
but many of you on the text line you can
text us seven zero four seven zero seven zero four
seven zero. And you've also been messaging the Kooner man
on Messenger and of course emailing me, and all of
you are making the exact same points, which is a

(17:49):
brilliant one, and saying please mention this, Jeff, Please mention this, Jeff.
And you're right you're completely right. Every country that has
tried this kind of uh ban on so called price gouging, gauging,
as she puts it, that moron. And by the way,
people ask me how much you know, how much pot?

(18:11):
How much weed has Kamala Harris smoked in her life
more than Cheech and Chong combined that that's how much.
So maybe that explains this. So, you know, this so
called economic plan, this Marxist program for the United States.
But anyway, let that go. When you impose these kind

(18:32):
of draconian price controls on food, inevitably, not only do
grocery stores go out of business, they go bankrupt, food
producers go out of business, they go bankrupt. Then the
government steps in and they buy the grocery stores, and

(18:54):
they buy the food production facilities. They eventually end up
buying the farmland from the farmers. So the government then
takes over the entire food supply chain. And that's when
they impose rationing. They give out ration cards, and that's

(19:14):
when they really control you. That's when they have you
really by the you know, by by you know, by
the throat. They've got their boot on your neck, and
then they control the entire population and there's no accident here.
They're telegraphing this is a hammer and sickle revolution. This

(19:38):
is a communist revolution. Colm November, if they can steal
this election, because now the only way they can win
it is to steal it. There is no way in
hell that you propose something as insane as this and
as destructive as this, and you're thinking you're gonna win
the election fair and square. It's it's impossible. Look and again,

(20:02):
I don't want to repeat myself. I could play the clips,
we've got them, I'd rather listen to you and go
to the phone call. So I'm not gonna play them.
But when you have CNN's economists, when you have the
New York Times economists, when you have economic editorial writers
for the Washington Post, the biggest water carriers for Kamala,

(20:24):
their words not mine. This is an extraordinarily bad idea.
Every time this has tried, it has been a dismal failure.
Their words not mine. They're begging her walk this thing back,
Just walk it back, run away from it, dump it,
get rid of it. No Waltz loves it. Kamala loves it.

(20:52):
Why would Waltz love this? Her VP pick the Marxist
from Minnesota, because, as we're now finding out, he has
traveled to China over thirty times. Both he and his wife.
They honeymooned in China. He was a teacher in China.

(21:13):
Do you know what to teach in China under that
brutal communist regime? The only way you get a permit
is if you're a fellow traveler. That's the only way
you think they allow some non communists to teach in
anywhere in communist China. And in fact, someone who worked

(21:34):
with him said, no, he's a Mauist. He's an admirer
of Mao. Waltz is admirer of Mao. Who do you
think impost price controls on China and led to massive
starvation of the population Mao. So no wonder, he's fully

(21:54):
on board. And if no one else has the guts
to say it, I'm gonna say it. Let me tell
you the ultimate reason why. Yes, it's about power, Yes
it's about control. Yes it's about a communist takeover of
the United States. There's no question. Now, okay, there's no question.
This is an openly Marxist policy, which, by the way,

(22:16):
to repeat again, was implemented by her Marxist professor father
when he was advising the Jamaican government in the nineteen seventies.
And what do you think happened in Jamaica, asked the Jamaicans.
They went hungry. They went hungry until they said, end
this fiasco before we all starve to death. Jean Frecois,

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John Kerry, Klaus Schwab, George Soros, Bill Gates, Barack Hussein Obama.
You can look it up. Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, the
entire globalist cabal, Jeff Bezos have all come out and

(23:06):
said that there are at least three to four, if
not five billion, too many people in the world. That
the world, according to them, is over populated. And what
you need is you need depopulation. And how do you

(23:26):
get depopulation famine and mass starvation and war, but especially
famine and mass starvation. If you want famine and mass starvation,
I'm telling you this is the way to do it.
Don't just impose draconian price controls on food and grocery

(23:51):
stores and food production, but then throw on top of
this vague, nebulous, nefarious, frankly sick idea, we're gonna go
after price gouging. What what the what the hell is
what is price gouging?

Speaker 5 (24:09):
We don't know.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
We'll say it when we find it. This is a
war on capitalism. This is a war on business. This
is a war on free enterprise. This is a war
on property ownership. This is deliberate. This is a war
on America's food supply itself. Donald Trump hammers this point

(24:35):
home again and again and again, because now she can't
run from her own program. She can't run now from
common nomics, because that's what this is, Kamala nomics leading
to common muism, Kamala communism. That's what this is all

(24:55):
leading to. He exposes her. This election is over. Agree, disagree.
Sixty one seven two six six, sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. Okay, lines are jammed. Russ in Boston.
You're gonna kick us off for us. Thanks for holding

(25:18):
and welcome, Jeff.

Speaker 6 (25:20):
Good money, Hi the sunshine today in America. We'll put
it that way. First of all, I want to thank
you for doing the pain and suffering for me by
watching this calm Max convention, because I'm afraid my blood
pressure going up if I watch this insanity. Okay, now, Jeff,
I remember the Nixon price control flop, I remember the

(25:42):
Kada gas lines in the rationing. As a former world traveler,
I remember before Kada, we could travel the globe and
know the government had our back. If anything happened, they
would get us out of the country. Whatever problem is
in the world. It's no longer that way from Kada
to this idiot in here with Afghanistan and that other

(26:03):
which you know, his vice president, Kamal Harris. Now, Jeff,
it's the economy stupid, without question. Okay, it's the economy stupid.
The biggest problem is the cost of energy. Biden and
Harris and the useful idiots, and they're in bed with
the environment. Profit is the environment Nazis and the environment

(26:24):
panic peddlers. The real Blobar arming will come from an
atomic war. Understand that, and I'll tell you something today.
The alarcome people at the head in the sands, okay,
because most of them don't even want to know what
to do if we're under attack. Now, I because as
a kid, I remember duck and cover. If you're not

(26:45):
close to ground zero, Duck and cover still makes sense.
They're not teaching any of us. Most of these idiots
are not going to know what to do at all.
If we're under attack. It is unbelievable, Jeff, how stupid
we become because of these so be politician to Washington,
the stupid idiots, the fall of the Democrats, Republicans are them.

(27:05):
It's so stupid. Fatter on these idiots, You've got to
wear about your own survival. You cannot depend on government.
The government is not your friend, without question.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
All right now, Russ, can you just hang on because
we got a break.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
I will work to pass the first ever federal ban
on price gauging on food. My plan will include new
penalties for opportunistic companies that exploit crises and break the rules.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Honestly, I don't even think she knows what she's reading.
I mean, that's what Sandy and I were talking about
before the show. I think, honestly, I think she's such
an economic illiterate, Comrade Kamala, I think she has no clue.
She just you know, you could tell she didn't even
read the script once or twice before she went out
on stage in North Carolina. And remember this was her

(28:02):
big rollout. We waited twenty five days for this twenty
five days. Apparently she was in the basement, she was
hiding in the bunker to put forth a policy that,
let's put it charitably, that was tried fifty years ago
under Nixon and failed dismally. So at its most charitable,

(28:26):
I mean this, the wheels of this campaign have already
come off. I'm telling you this now that we know
what to expect in her first she says she's going
to do this in her first hundred days. If she
wins in November, start learning to grow food in your garden.

(28:46):
That's the only advice I can give you. Six point
fifty one here on the Gray Wrko Jeff Cooner Boston's bulldozer.
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. Okay. I want to go right back
to the phone lines. But first, this is from Kevin
in an email, and he hits the nail right on

(29:07):
the head. Jeff, the price of food and every other
commodity is directly tied to the cost of energy, in
this case the price of fuel. Under these two jackasses
parentheses Biden s Arris, fuel costs have skyrocketed, thereby raising

(29:30):
the cost to produce and ship all goods, raising the
cost of everything you buy, including food. This is classic
problem reaction solution. They created the problem, they're staging the reaction,

(29:52):
and now they're coming in with the solution. It all
begins and ends with them, bing go who created the inflation,
Biden and Harris, This is all at their feet. Who
spent nearly six trillion dollars five point eight trillion, that'd

(30:15):
be more exact, all of it, By the way, debt deficits.
When you spend that much money, you inevitably create massive inflation.
When you borrow that much money, then you have to
print that much money that inevitably leads to inflation. Remember

(30:37):
this fundamental economic truth. Never forget this government creates inflation.
Let me repeat that only government can create inflation. No
one else can create inflation. And so they created the inflation.

(30:58):
Spend spend, spend, and then borrow, borrow, borrow, and of
course print print print, And now, after having created the crisis,
like typical leftist politicians, they then offer themselves up with

(31:19):
the solution. Yet the solution is even worse or the Yeah,
the solution is even worse than the cure, So this
is now, or the cure is even worse than the
forgive me, then the the solution is worse than it
was worse than the problem. The cure is worse than
the disease. That's what we're seeing now. These price controls

(31:45):
are worst paying a ton at the grocery store. Believe me,
it hurts. Inflation hurts, price controls. The cure is even
worse than the disease. Price controls. You will starve, you
will go hungry under price controls. So they create the

(32:07):
problem and then they offer government as more solution, which
means makes the problem even worse. But notice the whole time,
their power and their control grows and grows and grows.
And what scares me is that you have so many
bills in Sudbury I'm being serious now, and Bend's in
Northover and Chris is in Gloucester. Economic illiterates. Okay, as

(32:34):
the Russians would say, idiots, idiots, You're like, oh, i'll
make sense to me. Oh whah, just freeze all the prices.
Ah ah, go after them for price gouging. Ah. You
scapegoat those businesses, You'll scapegoat those grocery stores. You'll go

(32:58):
and get them. Yah. She's playing to the rabble, she's
playing to the low information voter, and Trump now needs
to hammer her and hammer her, and hammer her because
God forbid. Now we know for certain she wins in November.

(33:24):
This country is finished, finished, and you're gonna see something
that we haven't seen since the Great Depression, real hunger
and real starvation and real breadlines. Six one seven two
six six sixty eight sixty eight is the number. By

(33:44):
the way, all you need to know the plan that
she unveiled one point seven trillion dollars. One point seven
trillion dollars. That's what it's gonna cost us. This is
on top of it administration that has given US two
trillion dollar budget deficits year after year after year. The

(34:08):
budget deficit projected for this year one point nine trillion.
Let's not quibble two trillion dollars. What does she propose
an extra one point seven trillion dollars in spending on
top of the two trillion in deficits. Every economist has
now come out the Brookings Institution, Liberal Institution, Tax Policy Center, nonpartisan.

(34:34):
I could go on and on. All of them is said,
the price controls will lead to food shortages and this
massive spending blowout will bring record inflation, record inflation. Now,
either they're colossally stupid like a child with a gun

(34:56):
and they're just waving this thing around and eventually someone's
gonna get shot. Or this is deliberate, This is Cloward
Piven overwhelm the system, to destroy the system, to then
control the system. Six one seven two six, six sixty
eight sixty eight is the number. I don't care how

(35:18):
you slice it. This is now the most far left wing,
dangerous Marxist presidential ticket in the history of the United States,
in the history of the United States. There's no way
they win this at the ballot box. There's no way.

(35:41):
And I'm telling you it's obvious they're going to try
to steal it. They're going to try to steal it
because this is not a winning message. This is a
recipe for decline and disaster. Rob in New Hampshire, thanks
for holding Rob and welcome.

Speaker 4 (36:03):
Hey, Jeff, Hi, Jeff back in back in New England.

Speaker 5 (36:08):
Let me tell you how they're going to sell this.
And they're going to sell this slick and easy, Jeff.
This is there's there's already fifty percent of us were.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
Falling for their crap.

Speaker 5 (36:25):
They're going to do what I used to do when
I taught undergrads. I would first day I would turn
them into a little socialists and do something similar to
holding up a grocery store item as saying this is
eight dollars and it only costs the producer a dollar

(36:46):
twenty five to produce. It is that fair?

Speaker 4 (36:50):
No, that's not there.

Speaker 5 (36:51):
Kamala is going to do things like that. They said
this stuff sells itself, it sells easy because they won't
mentioned the factors of production well, such as the fuel
costs are a factor of production. That's variable. You know
it's going up, so the food process food is for you.
But they won't even mention the workers in the field,

(37:14):
the five eighteen wheeler trunk rides that that can of
green beans has to go through to get from Yuma, Arizona.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
To hear.

Speaker 5 (37:27):
They they play on the they will play on the emotion.
And they did this in China and Cuba and Vuela
to a team where they emphasize there the gouging is
is profit making, and they will they will, they will
look at the difference between the seventy five cents to

(37:49):
throw the green beans versus the two fifty to sell
it as profit. People the Commis and socialists distort the
word profit all the time. And they know exactly what
they're doing, and they exploit it because they know the

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slack jawed Joe six facts fall for it. And when
you're in the supermarket, you're looking at an eight dollars
or a ten dollars pork ross saying this is this
is this is Campian, this is two dollars just a
couple of years ago. They don't ask themselves how did

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it get that way? And they don't think about the
factors of production, all the various factors of production.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
The fact that we're.

Speaker 5 (38:44):
Going to pay every factory worker more because of the
fuel prices to get him to work, let alone the
eighteen wheelers. They won't cover that.

Speaker 4 (38:55):
And the press is going to have her back.

Speaker 5 (38:58):
They are going to support her and reinforce her lives.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
I gotta say, though, Rob, I agree with everything. And
by the way, you're dead on, brilliant, absolutely dead on.
You look at labor costs, you know what you have
to pay for workers, overhead, energy, electricity, utility, transportation, everything
that it takes, you know, whatever the aluminum, the canning

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process to put the green beans inside the can, like
everything from beginning to end. The left has no concept
of how complicated and complex that entire chain of production
is and how intricate it is. And now at every
stage there are costs, and they don't get it that
the profit margin is very small now. And the other

(39:46):
thing is, don't even take my word for it, rob okay, please, don't.
I want you to look it up. Venezuela by the
late nineteen nineties was one of the wealthiest, if not
the wealthiest country in all of Latin America, all of
South America, all of Central America. They got a ton

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of oil, They had a big and growing middle class.
The Venezuelans were on the move. And then this guy
called Hugo Chavez came along, this socialist, a Marxist firebrand,
a demagogue like Kamala Harris, like Joe Biden, like Barack
Hussein Obama, and he exactly what you're saying. He said,

(40:31):
why are you paying this at the grocery store. While
you're paying exactly ten bucks for pork roast, you should
only be paying six. And I'm gonna squeeze them. And
I'm gonna squeeze these bloodsuckers, as he called them, these
price gougers, that was the term that he used. These
are prize gougers, and he implemented massive price controls on food.

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Within a couple of years, grocery stores shut down, food
producing facilities, shut down, long lines, massive famine and starvation,
to the point that millions are fleeing Venezuela. They're still
fleeing Venezuela. And the government now all grocery stores in

(41:18):
Venezuela government owned, all food processing government owned, most of
the farmland government owned, and the people are just getting
hungrier and hungrier and poorer and poorer. The only thing
I would disagree with you on, Rob is that on
this one particular policy, at least for now, I'm just

(41:41):
going by the last couple of days. I mean, you
had an official, unsigned editorial by the Washington Post saying
this is one of the dumbest, stupidest ideas they've ever heard,
that they cannot believe that she came out with this idea.
Take it back the New York Times. I mean almost
you know, I almost spit my food out yesterday. You're

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reading the New York Times and they're like, this is
a horrible They're they're citing Obama economists saying this is
going to lead to high, much higher food prices. In
the end, it's going to lead to a surge in
inflation because these things collapse, and it's going to lead
to massive food shortages. So the media is so far

(42:28):
here I'll play you CNN, Rob, don't take my word
for it. Here is CNN never criticizes Kamala Harris. They've
bent over backwards for Kamala Harris, but not on this
because they know this spells disaster, literally disaster. Roll cut seventeen.

(42:49):
This is Catherine Rample going after Kamala Harris on her
price controls. Roll cut seventeen. Mike, It's not going to
be markets.

Speaker 7 (42:59):
It's not going to be supplying demand that's determining how
much your grocery store charges you for milk or for eggs.
It's going to be some bureaucrat in DC, which seems
like totally unworkable.

Speaker 4 (43:11):
First of all, for.

Speaker 7 (43:13):
The FDC to be deciding like how much Kroger charges
for eggs in Michigan, but it also would be very
bad for markets. We've seen this kind of thing tried
in lots of other countries before Venezuela, Argentina, the Soviet Union,
et cetera. It leads to shortages, it leads to black markets,

(43:33):
you know, plenty of uncertainty. And beyond that, the specific
way this bill is written might actually increase prices. So anyway,
you know, the devil's in the details. I guess for
that bill, but it's really hard for me to imagine
any form of legislation that preserves the spirit of what
she's proposing that would not be you know, at best,

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do nothing, at worse, cause a lot of harm.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Final word to you, my friend.

Speaker 5 (44:03):
Well, well, we'll have to wait and see and watch
how the mainstream media supports.

Speaker 4 (44:10):
Her or criticizes this idea.

Speaker 5 (44:14):
But Joe Sixpack and and and Mary Kitchen Cooker are
looking at the prices in that meat section on the
beanshel and they don't read the news. They don't read
the New York Times or the Washington Post. That's it's Jeff,

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have a good day.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
Thank you, Rob. I appreciate it. Well, look, we haven't
done this in a while, in a long long time.
But I'm gonna, you know, suggest it to Sandy and
we'll see when we get to break. But I'm thinking
of opening up the lib line, reopening the lib line
and asking them do they support Kamala Harris's price controls,

(44:56):
you know, and let's see what the bills in Sudbury
on the Chris Is in Gloucester, and the Benz in
North Andover and all the other moonbats. And there's many
of them who listen to the show if they support it.
And I will bet you the best steak at the
Post nineteen seventeen steakhouse, and they have phenomenal steaks. Believe me,

(45:17):
I will bet you the best steak at the Post
nineteen seventeen steakhouse that every single one of them right
down the party line. Baby, Yeah, it's a great idea.
Oh well, love it, we love it. They're gouging, they're bloodsuckers,
they're taking too much profit, they're exploiting us. Get them,

(45:41):
go get them. I guarantee you that they support this
insane policy. I guarantee it. By the way, Uh, go
to a steakhouse now while you still can. Six one
seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Victor in Georgetown.
Thanks for holding Victor, and welcome tuner Man.

Speaker 8 (46:04):
Happy Monday morning.

Speaker 4 (46:05):
Brother.

Speaker 8 (46:07):
You know, these people are supposed to be the brightest
people that we elect to go to d C. And
they're talking about the profits that the grocery stores make. Jeff,
I guess they didn't get the news flash that we
have ten million people that invaded our country in the
last three or four years. Do you think those people
eat groceries? Do you think they go to the store and

(46:29):
make purchases? And the grocery stores are doing more business
now than ever before. The population is the largest it's
ever been in the United States. Of course, the grocery
stores are going to make money. But like everything else,
the politicians have to take a you know, take advantage

(46:49):
of any anything that can keep them in power. And
speaking of that, Kumy Fitzpatrick was the mayor of Detroit
before he went to prison for eighteen years federal prison
because he was stealing out of seventy million dollars worth
of federal contracts and identity politics, politics get us their Jeff.

(47:12):
They have elected him, say oh, we've got a black man.
He cares about the people in Detroit. They don't care,
you know anything. It's like if you ever go to
the carnie. You know, if you go to the carnival
and you play one of them silly games, it's already
stacked against you. And any time that we expect politicians

(47:32):
to take from someone else, you know, you know, the
guy behind the tree, and give it to us. We're
playing the Carnegie's game. They love that, and they never win.
If you look at the war on drugs, how did
we do on that? The war on poverty, the war
on their literacy? These people never win anything, Jeff. The

(47:53):
last thing I want to say is the solution is
with people like you, me and your list. We need
to ask two of our friends to request their absentee
ballot vote early asked them to do the same thing.
We are the conservative movement. No one is coming to
save us, Jeff. No one is going to save us
from these moronic people that just sit there and vote

(48:18):
for these clowns, irrespective of the damage that is done.
When I was a little kid and with this, when
I was a little kid in school, I remember the
United and I was so proud. The United States of
America sent millions of bushels of wheat just to Russia
because the people were starving.