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September 25, 2024 • 13 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And Steve Laffy's favorite one Hit Wonder on One Hit
Wonder Day is Brandy by looking Glass. I looked here
in the files in the studio and I could not
find it. Steve, but we won't ask you to sing it,
but I'm going to look it up here in just
a bit. I couldn't find it before the segment.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
I can't say I won't even try to sing here.
I let my daughter singing the national anthems be that
for the whole family at the Red Sox game. But Brandy,
you're a fine girl. What a good girl you'd be? Whatever. Yeah,
I would actually keep it on the list, and I
listened to it all the time. It's I have no idea,
but the band looking Glass got into a fight after
this one hit Wonder and broke up and that was it.

(00:40):
I think it's nineteen seventy two. It's certainly not Don
McLean's American Pie, but it's a good little jingle.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
All right. I'm gonna find it here in the bring.
They have a catalog we're supposed to scroll through and
we're looking forward to. I didn't find it, but t'll
see if we can. Let's dive into the new Steve
Laffy dot com. Steve long term friend of the longtime
friend of the program, and a longtime friend of the program.
And also you have his website Steve Laughy dot com.
We got we're what forty something days from the election.

(01:09):
It's going to be over before you know it. Donald
Trump is floating an idea about a manufacturing ambassador and
also then talk more about tariffs. So give me this
background to this headline because evidently it ticked Mark Cuban off.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, it's ticking off Mark Cuban's probably a very good
idea when you can. But I mean, is a guy
who just made money in one thing. It just goes
on TV and keeps talking and talking like a lot
of people and God bless them. But the backdrop is
that someone should really start to explain to even economists
that I see talking about terrorists who seemingly don't understand

(01:49):
short term and long term implications or elasticity, a demander,
things that you would learn that your son may be
learning an economics class. They don't talk about it anymore.
So the backdrop is that Donald Trump and saying I've
been saying since I sent him a copy of the
movie that we should not be trading which communist China,
and the tariff should be as big as they have
to be percent five hundred percent, so we don't trade

(02:12):
with them at all, and we destroy their economy because
they actually survive. They survived by building up their economy
with slave labor and sending stuff to us. And they
aborted their young girls, right, and so they would have
riots in the streets if these people didn't have jobs.
That was I've been saying this for twenty years. I've
been writing China tariffs one hundred percent. Trump put ten

(02:33):
to twenty percent on them, stopped, Biden became president, didn't
take them off. So you must like something about tariffs.
But the thought process that you would put tariffs on
all the countries around us to bring manufacturing back to
America is generally a very, very bad idea in twenty
twenty four. But I just want to tell what economists say.
And you're going to read this in the headlines as

(02:54):
a matter of which the Wall Street Journal, it's going
to be the Bloomberg, It's going to be any magazine
that some how it causes inflation. It does not. Inflation
has created money by the money supply, which is which
keeps going up unsustainably, right, And that's what is starting
to happen in America. It's a whole different problem. But
tariffs in the short run do this. You put tariffs

(03:16):
on all the countries coming twenty percent of anything coming
into our country, even our allies, which is why it's stupid.
They're going to do the same thing back to us. Now,
some production will have to come back to America. And
that's why most people try to target tariffs.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Right.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
You want to build up an industry, say it's aluminum.
And I've said this so many years. We don't have
the capacity to defend our country if indeed we get
attacked because we don't build up some of the major
things in America. Manufacturing lives. And it will be good
to bring manufacturing back to America, and there's a way
to do it. Some of it involves tariffs. But what

(03:52):
will happen is if we do it to our allies
like the United Kingdom New Zealand. I mean one, we
create massive in a facies and by crazy's massive inefficiencies. Yes,
the consumers pay higher prices for sure, that's it doesn't
mean it doesn't mean that there's inflation. It means they
pay higher prices for that x whatever it is, food

(04:14):
stuff from New Zealand, Kiwi's, whatever it might be, and
they have less money for something else, so they spend
less on something else. So trut I don't know why
he's doing this because this is not really a winner nationwide,
and certainly not a winner among undecided voters, which is
what he's trying to do. If he talked about targeted
tariffs right so that he could bring more American manufacturing

(04:37):
back to America, manufacturing back to America, he would be correct.
I mean it would be it'd be a winning policy.
But tariffs on everybody all the time is not a
winning policy. Number one to win election. It's not really
the biggest loser of all time, but it's not a
winning one, Jimmy. And my biggest point is that it
totally ignores these long term implications when we target tariffs

(05:00):
on people who are dumping stuff like China, and if
we've ever done this and even Trump refused to do it, Jimmy,
you refuse to put one hundred percent terrorsts on these
countries or go to Congress and say we're not trading
with communist China because he thinks he's in a city council,
I mean where other people like communists will change their ways.
They won't. And so this dear lives the story of terrorists.

(05:21):
We forget the short term versus the long term implications
and the long term locations have to be that we
do bring more manufacturing on showing back to not just America,
but to North America, because there are things that Mexico
will continually do better than we do, things that Canada
will do better than we do, and we need to
bring all this stuff back home so that we have

(05:41):
a better national defense policy, but not on our allies,
not on the UK.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
The voice of Steve Laffee's website Steve Laffey dot com.
We'll also get this interview posted up in my website
here shortly after that, we do it Steve Laffy dot com,
Drive websites Jimmy Lakey dot com. All right, another story
that you and I keep circling back to every time
we turn around. We have these Green New Deal people
that put these mandates, so you got to sell this
many electric vehicles and you're starting to see some of

(06:06):
the car companies going, yeah, this is not going to work.
Can't we can't go all electric here is We're not
going to be able to keep up with the government's expectation.
It's not just in the United States. The United Kingdom
is having trouble adopting these electric vehicles because they cost
too darn much to charge out.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
It's an incredible story. I found it at oil pluck
price dot com. I didn't know this story, but in
the United Kingdom it is twice as expensive to charge
up your electric car as to drive a geezer car around.
And so they have the statistics, you know, twenty four
pence per mile versus twelve pence per mile for a
diesel and maybe sixteen for an election for a normal

(06:45):
gasoline car. And that's with all the tariffs that take tariffs,
like all the taxes they have. If you've been to
the United Kingdoms, you've been to Europe, you'll see that
gasoline costs three times as much or whatever. It's as
much as in America because they tax it heavily. But
even that, no one's buying electric cars because they it's

(07:05):
more costly to drive. So people are not stupid. All
this stuff is being unwound and it brings you back
to tariffs, Jimmy in one sense, because China comes true.
What are they doing. They're subsidizing electric cars and want
to shift them to everybody in the world. They're electric
cars that they subsidze that can keep people working, and
rightly so to this credit, Biden responded with one hundred

(07:25):
to two hundred percent tariffs on electric cars. They are
not going to come to this country, and so did
the United Kingdom, and so did in Europe the EU.
So now China's face with this whole thing where they
can't shift these that they build much cheaper because again
they use slave labor and people stay up all night,
and they don't care about their people, et cetera, et cetera.
They keep them working. So but we're finding everywhere we look.

(07:47):
You and I have talked about it now for a
couple of years, whether it's hurts the guy get fired,
whether it's Ford realizing, oh this is costing knows we're
losing fifty thousand dollars every time we build an electric car.
Oh h oh, like they're going to go out of
business doing it. Cars companies will go out of business
doing this now. Could Astor Martin make an electric car
that's so high powered and so cool that people buy.

(08:08):
Of course they could, but the mass production of electric
cars has proven to be just the opposite of the
mass production of computers over the years. There's only so
many people who want them, so many people can charge them.
It's the same thing. It's the same thing with sola
on your route, same thing with wind out. You know
the windmill. I'm in Massachusetts right now. The windmill broke apart,

(08:29):
destroyed the beaches. Can't go on the beaches. You may
not go on some of the beaches now for twenty
years in Massachusetts because the windmills are breaking up. They're
three hundred and fifty foot feet long. So all the
stuff that people ignored, and they ignored it because their
buddies wanted to make billions doing it. That's not because
of the climate, not because of the jimmish we would

(08:51):
have done. It was about the climate. We would have
built nuclear twenty years ago, that we would have eight
nuclear That's what we would have done. How to do it,
France knows how to do it. We would have done that.
It was all about enriching at the beginning. Vice President
Gore's buddies in himself, which they got really rich, and
that's what they still want to do to people and

(09:12):
control their lives. But the evidence is out there and
now the backtrack is coming in full force everywhere around
the world.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
The voice of Steve Laffey Steve Laffey dot com, laff
Y Hey, Steve Rever quick before we go watching all
these poll numbers. And I don't read a lot into polls,
because first of all, they're usually wrong. You've got to
really study the internals of a poll. But I've just
kind of liked to get the sense of what you're
feeling on the ground. I know you're kind of busy

(09:40):
with the hospital and taking care of family things there
in Massachusetts. Getting any feel for Massachusetts. I mean, obviously
it's usually a blue state, but I've got some friends
that live in some other blue areas that say, man,
I'm actually seeing Trump signs in blue areas as very unusual.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
I don't see him here in Boston and Boston just
as a backtrack, much like Denver is a destroyed city,
Like whether it's the traffic, whether it's the cut through
street where I saw five hundred people lying on the
ground with needles all over the ground at eight o'clock
one night. I mean, there's a whole place and they're
trying to barricade this off. But back to the presidential race,

(10:19):
it is still no matter what Trump does, which is
not great campaigning. We talked about, it's still his race
to lose because the polls are wrong and they're going
to continue. Like, for example, someone saying that in North
Carolina they had this crazy I guess governor's race where
the man who's the Republican I guess did some dastardly
things or maybe didn't know.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
I don't follow it too much. But the implication for
Trump and that state are very, very low. But the
Washington Post, of New York Times, the Yahoo whatever, wants
to make it look like Trump's responsible for something in
North Carolina. He should win North Carolina. And I think
that the problem with Kamila Harris, as I said, lost
to the base, and I think that's sort of sinking in.

(11:01):
And I think in these swing states, I think Trump
is ahead because even when they say he's tied, it
means it's ut by three. So it's still Trump's race
to lose, even though it's the worst campaign by both
sides ever run I mean, think about it. I type
into like an AI thing, what would Kamila Harris do
for the middle class? First I typed them what I
would do, and it comes back with nine things that

(11:22):
are all correct. We don't talk about them right now,
but when it comes back to Kamila Harris, all it
is is writing checks. There are four things to help
the middle classes like send them money, send money to people,
which obviously doesn't help restore the middle class. It just
creates more inflation in the government deficit. So we're heading
into a very unparalleled time where both candidates can spend

(11:43):
out the yazoo, both won a week dollar and so forth.
But in the case of Trump versus Harris, I think
I think Trump is going to win. And I think
I see this from from just the answerly evidence, even
in I'm in the Rhoe Island in Maine and places
that I go to when I'm traveling around around here,
even though they are blue places, I see evidence that
he's stronger than I would think he would be at

(12:07):
this time forty days from the debate, and I'm glad
that Trump said I'm not going to debate again. That
seemed to be a good idea by him, because he
was going to get a fair debate again. He had
one with Biden and he crushed them, and he had
one with ABC that was just so gastarly. These people,
I mean, they probably gave the answers again to that.
That lady's still on TV. The lady I forget her name.

(12:27):
She was a congressman who stole all the stuff I
could and she's still getting it for Harris. It looks
like Dona Brazil.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Brazil.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, I mean, nobody cares in this country. But the
fact that debates matter very little unless someone like Biden
starts talking about all the uncles in relatives raping their children,
that doesn't matter. That's got them out of the race,
and other of that doesn't really matter that much except
for Trump's closing statement, which I think really helped them.
As people are realizing around the country, what would Why

(12:57):
didn't she do anything? Why is she done nothing in
her life? At least Trump has been a chief executive
officer of something, including the ed States of America. She's
done nothing in three and a half years except a
void of the responsibility.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yep, Steve Laffey, I'm being told We found a song
that I think you know, and I think this is
the one. Is it? I think it's it? On that
do we hit that button? We found it. I'm gonna
I'm gonna play it. It's Brandy by looking Glass and uh,
evidently it really exists. I don't know it's out there.
Oh there it is, Steve laughy. God bless my friend.

(13:30):
I'll pray for you and your daughter.
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