100224 Steve Laffey

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Neighbor. Good to have you here on the show. Simmy
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(00:20):
us and consume the broadcast broadcast, I'm glad you do
and appreciate you. All right, It's again hump Day halfway
till Friday. Talking a little bit about the debate that
happened last night between Timmy Waltz and jd Vance And
that was a big time debate last night kept me
up past my bedtime, but it was worth it for you,
the radio listeners. And I do it all for you,

(00:43):
my friends that believe me. I'd do it for you
every Wednesday. This time, also we welcome in Steve Laffey, author, filmmaker,
former presidential candidate. We all know Steve. We don't have
to give a big introduction. Steve Laffy dot com. Steve,
good morning to you, sir, how are you, Jimmy.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
It's great to be with the great analysis so far.
Take it wherever you want, because it was really boring
in many respects. Anyway, I thought.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
It was interesting the things they didn't bring up. We
didn't talk about that when they asked about the hurricane,
they didn't ask about, Hey, how do you think FEMA's responding,
how do you think that people are? How are we
going to help people? It was all about climate change. Now,
first of all, that could be an issue they can
talk about and that you can do that, but man,
we got an election coming up in thirty four days now.

(01:30):
The top three issues on the table don't include a
matter of fact, the top ten for most surveys don't
include climate change. But in all of these debates, they
keep bringing the topic up and Americans have other concerns
right now, and yet the media keeps pushing things that
they're answered. They're asking questions that America is not asking
your thoughts about the topics they didn't cover last night

(01:53):
of the debate.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, I think that's really the important thing. It must
be that CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox News and the candidates
don't really care about what is really really the problem
because last night and Advance clearly won. He he appealed
to some people in the middle and he had some
good lines and Waltz is a complete war. So but

(02:17):
let's just go over something I like. Is the military
of our country ready to respond? Is it fit? Do
we have enough people? All right? So was supposed to
be the present supposed to be defriending the country? Do
we have that in place? And if we don't, why
don't we have a discussion about it? What about the
two trillion dollars budget deficits that are being run as

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the economy supposedly is expanding at two percent. That's okay
with everybody, It's okay. There's not a question about that
in any debates. How about the US dollars starting to
get weaker, which will cause more inflation. How about the
world's federal reserves have increased the money supply over the
last year by seven trillion dollars and about half a

(03:00):
year it's going to hit inflation. How about the roads
that the federal government's responsible for that I've been driving
on uh in Boston area. I'm back and forth Collins
and how are they doing? How do they Why do
we look like a third world country when it comes
to roads. How about the schools? What about the Apartment
of Education? Should it exist? It should not, But what

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about the schools and the test scores for kids that
are really a disaster. What about the Federal Reserve and
the terrible job they've done on transitory inflation that have
really destroyed the middle class. I mean, I just gave
you like seven things that haven't been brought up in
any debate, quite frankly, and and and they're vastly important
to people. Now we know immigration was covered, okay, and

(03:45):
Jadvance did a much better job on that talking about
how we would get rid of people and self deportation
and arrest. You know, they didn't get into it specifically.
Is maybe you should have. But these things aren't even covered.
And when I go around, they're gigantically important to the
people of America.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Jimmy, Yeah, you know what you mentioned. The military is
the one you led with. You've got two guys that
have served their country, and I appreciate both of them
serving their country. Why not ask them a military question. Hey, guys,
we're on the brink of World War three, Maybe we're
in World War three. I ran just attacked Israel, one
of our greatest allies. If we get sucked into this thing,
if we're involved, how prepared do you think we are?

(04:22):
I mean, how good is our military right now? Have we?
I mean, there's so many questions you could have asked
both of them, and both of them have military involvement,
but CBS decided to not even ask about the response
of the hurricane. Instead asked a climate change question. I mean,
it's just bizarre. Military would have just been an open
volley for both of them.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, and Jimmy just the only question about the military,
tangentially was simply that does Israel have the right to
attack unilogically? I ran or whatever? Why not? Why haven't
we attacked Iran since nineteen seventy nine? Like what they've
killed American soldiers? Like what are they talking about? Of

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course Israel does. But those questions, by the way, by
either one of them, weren't really answered. I mean a
lot of these questions weren't answered anyway, and they could
have been answered, And so this is the default. This
is what I mean. Vance did a bet. I'm sorry, Yeah,
Jdvance did a much better job of just parlaying the
thing right, I mean, and appealing to the people in
the middle and defending the president and saying he was

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wrong about stuff. Okay, but it doesn't really help the
middle class people. And if the answer to helping the
middle class, which they both stay they want to do,
is simply sending checks. Now, the Waltz people and arispeople
will always send more money. They're going to send six
thousand dollars to every family. They're gonna give twenty five
thousand dollars to everybody wants to buy a home for

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the first time. To figure about the people who bought
one this year. They're going to be really upset. Right,
It's like the student loan stuff. Right, you paid a
few student loans and they want to make it free
for the other people. And then they want to get
fifty thousand dollars. Anybody wants to start a small business.
So you and I would just have to do ten
of them next year and make each one fifty grand,
and we'll get to the ductions. I mean, the whole
thing is, and all you need to do is get

(06:09):
an LLC, are a corporation or whatever they want to do.
I mean, there's similar ways around this, but no one
even says, are you gonna do that again? What about
that PPP program that Trump came up with and signed
off one where there was nothing but for it? Are
you gonna let this happen again? So you know, there
weren't a lot of great answers to the plight of
the American people. Now Vance hit on it. Now he

(06:32):
had some, He had some good comebacks. I mean, I
have him right here. You want me to a couple
of them? Book did to go over, you know, so
he says at one point, so what Tim Walltaz is doing?
And honestly, Tim, I think you've got a tough job yet,
because you got to play whack a mole. You got
to pretend Donald Trump didn't deliver rising take home pay,
which of course he did. And that's a good line.
And then you got you got other ones where he
goes literally after Kamara Harris for the three and a

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half years, which I would just say four years. What's
the three and a half years thing going on? That
she had three and four years? Do any of this stuff?
And one of the best lines that JD. Vance came
up with. He turns to the governor Waltson says, Governor,
you say trust the experts. But those same experts of
forty years said, as we shipped that manufacturing based off
to China, we get cheaper goods. They lied about that.

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They said if we shipped our industrial base off to
other countries, to Mexico and outsire, we would make a
stronger middle class. They were wrong about that. And it
goes on, that's powerful stuff from Vance and sort of
like me saying it in a way. It's powerful stuff.
And he dominated over that. So good to him. I mean,
he's a Yale graduate, he should dominate the They and

(07:36):
Waltz came off as a complete clown, but there were
there were good things in there for JD. Vance to
defend Donald Trump in a way that was calmer than
you know, I guess. I guess Donald Trump's around saying
that people had headaches when I ran Iraq with a
missile and US soldiers had dachs. I mean, this is
this bizarre stuff. He's not trying to win the election again.
He probably will, but he's not really trying.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
The voice of a Steve Laffey Steve Laffey dot com.
You mentioned the PPP. It takes me back to the
COVID days. One of the most ingregious Uh, I guess
offenders of civil rights? And uh was Tim Waltz went
in the way he handled COVID. And in none of
these debates have I heard in one of the reasons
our economy and are spending or so out of control
is because of what happened during COVID. Nobody has asked

(08:20):
any questions in any of these debates what went wrong,
what went right? What would you have done different? Looking
hindsight better than foresight, mister Walson, you were shooting paintballs
and tear gassing people to get back in their house
and not stand on their front porch. You let Minnesota burn,
and your wife opened the windows of the mansion to
smell the tires burning. I mean, none of this has
ever come up in a debate. And these are big deals,

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they really are, the handling your COVID, the burning down
in Minneapolis, and the George Floyd riots. And they didn't
manage to answer that asked even ask that question last night.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
And and and Jadivan should have went to that and
just answered one of these questions quickly and moved right
into like what Waltz did. But again, maybe people don't
care about Waltz. Maybe it's really about protecting Trump and
making Trump look more reasonable, which jade Vance did, and
making Trump happy. He probably is happy that he dominated
to debate. I don't know. But in the end, Jimmy,

(09:17):
this is the nation. Our nation is in such trouble
that we have both parties that are into blowout spending.
Jade Vance isn't the blowout spending. He's not going to
run any battance budgets if he was president, and Trump
get keeled over on the first day, Trump isn't. They're
all going to outspend each other. And by next March
April May, we may have, quite frankly, a stronger economy,

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but we may have four percent inflation going with it,
which means people can't keep up again. And that's going
to be a problem for whoever's president. And they don't
seem to have any way to deal with this other
than what's going to happen, make the dollar week of
repress rates. The Fed will act to print more money,
and then they'll try to keep the treasury solving. But
look what's happened already. When the Fed cut interest rates,

(10:00):
the ten year yield, which is what mortgage is based
upon are up, so houses are mortgage gets harder to
buy a home. That's going to keep in my prediction,
that's going to keep happening no matter who the president
is unless we get out spending under control. And we're
not going to So what are they going to have
to do get people fifty thousand dollars to buy all

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and so one day this whole thing collapses, and that
day is not far off.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Jimmy, Yeah, I sent you a new story, and I
don't know if you had a chance to look at it,
but there's an economist now in the organization that says
neither Trump nor Harris has released a dedicated policy plan
for addressing the nation's deficit. Trump's sixteen point policy plan
on his website mentions the word deficit once. Harris's economic
platform mentions it several times and says she's just committed
to fiscal responsibility, but only suggested increasing taxes on the

(10:48):
wealthy and corporations that's the solution, and the organization of
Tax Foundation senior Economists says, I think that the reason
that neither candidate is really talking fiscal responsibility is because
neither candidate is physically responsible.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Exactly. That's a good Neither candidate is the vice president
of candidates aren't. And the American people seem to accept
this even though they know what's wrong, even though that's
why a great majority of Americans. Another article about people
who worked at Boeing for years, just look at what
happened to the middle class. They got a father, a
grandfather who did find a father who has bought a

(11:27):
home for one hundred fifty grand years ago. He's fine,
is going to retire, he's got a pension. And the
two kids working at Boeing the last ten years can
barely make ends meet, even though they work at Boeing
making forty six thousand an hour. Whatever it is, aren't
not it's skilled. They but they didn't go to college,
these kids. So that is what's happened. That's exactly what's happened.
So what's the answer for these people. They're going to
give more money to people so they can have children.

(11:49):
I guess, rather than making an economy that one person
could work, one person could stay home and two kids
could be raised and go off to a better college.
That's that's not happening. It's not going to happen. And
so this is the disaster. I mean, the Lackey kids,
all six of them are gonna be fine. Uh, sarah'sa kids,
but she's gonna graduate degree. And but they've been raised

(12:12):
a vastly different than what most Americans can do. And
as I say all the time, which person listened to
the show who makes seventy grand a year, makes one
hundred game a year owns lots of silver? Nobody which
person can can get around the whole thing by being
in commodities? Do people realize that the commodity basket of
our country has risen nine percent? That means corn, wheat, oil,

(12:33):
all these things a version nine percent over the last month.
You're not gonna You're not gonna see it in the
prices three months from now, of course you are. And
your wages don't keep up. So this is gonna keep
happening over and over unless the people rise up and
say they want someone and I hate to say, it's
so less than humble, someone like me. Not necessarily. Maybe
someone says, we're gonna throw a cod lip of down

(12:55):
your oil, but we're gonna fix this problem. We're gonn
run a balanced budget. And four years from are you
going to thank me. That's the message people would listen to.
It's not the message that anybody at the major networks
would allow allow to be heard. They're not going to
allow it.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
The voice of Steve Laughy. You know, anytime you've even
had to talk about social Security form, the media picks
up on the narrative rather than fact checking anything.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
You know.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
I remember Paul Ryan, who I'm not a big fan of.
They accused him of any mention of social Security. He's
going to push Grandma off the cliff and talk about
fact checking. The media just goes along with the narrative.
So a politician knows that they're going to get plaid
whack them all with, and they're going to be taken
out of context if they do put out the truthful
message of what needs to happen in the con liver oil.

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Because the media isn't about journalism, it's about propaganda. And
so the media is leading us down this primrose path
of destruction. Because maybe that's why some politicians are afraid
to speak the truth.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, and that's exactly it. And yet all the young
people listening to the show who are under forty years
old years old, under fifty, maybe I don't know. Certainly,
are all going to continue to get hoes by older
people taking from you, because when they come up with
these solutions to social security, it's gonna bean less for

(14:09):
younger people. And I'm sixty two, I'm in it's gonna
be more for me. I'm trying to help younger people.
The younger people don't seem to care about being helped.
They don't seem to want a better college, they don't
seem to want a better job. Young men and their
parents continue to put up with watching TV shows and
commercials that show men as complete and income boops right,

(14:31):
and they wonder why men underperform women nowadays. But it
just goes on and on and on. Not your child,
not my children, but the vast majority of children have
a very bleak future in anybody under forty has a
very bleak future in America.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, the consumer Price Index the last several years has
risen about twenty percent. Wages haven't kept up. No one
question about that last night. That probably much tells you
all you need to know. Now, one question, how are
you gonna help? Wages haven't kept up with consumer price
in deck, So if your wages are the same you're
living off a hell of a lot lesson you used
to be, and probably not making ends meet at all,

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and credit card debt skyrocketing, and nobody's answered asking those questions.
But hey, when it comes to a hurricane, we got
to ask about climate change. That's a real big topic. There, Steve,
one more thing that I thought was kind of calmic,
go but kind of sad, And you sent me a
funny retort to it as well. Is they asked him directly,
They said, Tim watsh you said you're in Tianimate Square

(15:27):
during the big protest. That's inaccurate. What do you say?
And he says, I'm a knucklehead. That's all I canna say.
I'm a knucklehead. I was there in the protest, and
you know, you don't make stuff up like that. And
I don't understand why these politicians feel they have to
say they worked in McDonald's when they didn't. I don't know.
I would, you know, I want to raise money for
my charity in Rwanda. Maybe I could raise more if

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I told people that I was there during the Rwandan genocide.
But the truth is I didn't get there till ten
years later. And you could maybe make a big write
a book if you would, because you spend time in Memphis.
Were you there for the MK assassin?

Speaker 2 (16:02):
That's what I sent over to you. You know what,
if I got there in ninety two to live in
Memphis for nine years, it'd be like saying, yeah, I
was there for them MLK assassination in sixty eight and
it changed my life. But I'm full of rhetoric. Like
it'd be like saying, like Morgan Keegan was a ten
billion dollar revenue company when we left, it wasn't. It
was five hundred million. I joined, it was roughly one

(16:22):
hundred million. It was fine, it was great, wonderful people.
I was a president's coeo Oh, I wasn't the CEO.
It's so forth. But I mean these things like this
is why Tim Waltz can't be the vice president, this
e brisk that seems to follow people around. I mean,
I wish that Advance had been more humorous about this
kind of stuff. I mean, I think I would have

(16:42):
turned to Waltz and said, listen, it's been mentioned that
you're the worst vice presidental can of dains in history.
I don't think you are, But I think Thomas Eagleton
was back in seventy two. But you just could tell
people right now, you haven't had any electric shock treatment,
have you. I just let it go. Oh, well, he's
the kind of things I would do. But that's why
I'm not there. I guess he well, he was.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
In Tianamate Square. And remember Joe Biden said he got
arrested in South Africa during the apartheid fight. Apartheid fight
that never happened, but he said he did. I'm making
stuff up, and I'm a big time talk show host, right,
I'm big time, big time, big time well respected it. Okay,
yeah that's a lie too. I'll be back Lakey six
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