November 20, 2025 • 36 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- What is afforable?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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here's Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
All right. We're to start our show today talking about
what is affordable and what isn't and how that's changed
over the course of the last few years. Certainly it
changed over the course of the four years of the
Biden administration. We got to remember this president has only
been in office since January, so he you know, he
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hasn't been there a year yet I think he's made
great strides. We've certainly have seen the price of oil
come down. We've seen the price of gasolte and come
down as a result of that, So that's trending in
the right direction. The price of beef has gone nowhere
but up, but that is an agriculture problem that can
only be solved with more supply, and that that's the
first thing on my affordability list. I think I have
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a tendency to notice food prices. Maybe that's why I
talk about food so much. I noticed the food prices
before I notice anything else. And as I was saying
this morning, going to the supermarket a grocery store, going
to the meat counter kind of reminds me now of
going to a jewelry store. I feel like I'm there
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looking at you know, cuts of steak and other beef cuts,
prime rib and those types of things. And I'm looking
at those things like I'm looking at diamond rings. Oh
that really looks good.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, I'd love to love to get my hands on that,
but I I just can't justify spending that kind of money.
Or I would love to. I would love to buy
that Tomahawks steak and cook it medium rare and seizon
it up nice, but I can't afford it. How much
for a ground beef today. I mean, that's how I
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feel every time I go past the meat counter. It's
like I'm at the jewelry store looking at dazzling things
that I can't afford. It's like a scene from a
Christmas carol, you know, where the kids buying a prize
turkey for the Cratchett family. I mean, yeah, Ebenezer Scrooge
can afford it, but the Cratchets can't afford to get it. So,
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I mean, that's exactly how I feel. So we asked
the question this morning on the show, what are the
things that you no longer feel like you could afford?
I mean, you have no choice sometimes but to get
them or to buy them, but they just seem unaffordable.
And we got some very interesting answers, and I sensed
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a trend with a lot of these answers. Let's take
a listen.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Hey, Jimmy, this is Mark copper Field, stop by to
get too barbecue.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Say which is last night?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
It was thirty two dollars.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
That's what hurt my pocket last night.
Speaker 8 (03:17):
Under Biden, everything I paid for in my life has
at least doubled.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Jimmy, this is Gerald from wood Forest. The two most
expensive things in my life is taxes and insurance. It's
government and government's cousins.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
They both take.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Money from you, but they provide very little when you're
in time of need.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Jimmy, this is Mike from Montgomery. Where I'm getting hurt
the most is in property taxes and insurance. You're going
to hear insurance come up quite a bit. And I've
noticed that as well. As far as the high cost
of insurance, I've been noticing that for several years. Last
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was it last year?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I think it was last year right around this time,
because this is the time of the year where my
homeowner's insurance comes up for renewal, and last year it
went from basically twenty nine hundred dollars a year on
my homeowner's insurance, it went to like four thousand, So
that's about what a thirty plus percent increase in one year.
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This year it went up again, but it only went
up by about two hundred bucks, so a negligible difference
between last year and this year. It was last year
where that really hit in. But insurance gets mentioned a
lot by a lot of people now that that's not
the only insurance I have. We also have the beach
house in the in the flood insurance. Between the flood
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insurance and then I've mentioned this before, between the flood
insurance and the homeowner's insurance and the win and hail insurance.
I mean, that's like a seven thousand dollars a year deal.
That's a lot of money. Now that property gets rented
out quite a bit, so there's something there to offset
the cost, but it still pains me every time that
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has to be paid new cars.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
It's an appreciating asset. In absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
The prices are easily a greatdown payment for a house,
which is an appreciated asset.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Figure it out.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
This is Danny from Spring. I think the most in
an affordable item today is cars.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
First and foremost to be property taxes.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
Eliminate those and I'll be happy. I think a lot
of it are trd of brunting our land from the government.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Also groceries, pu's get those down, and insurance would be
the third one in the list. I'm talking about car insurance.
Speaker 10 (05:55):
Dave on Lake Conroe, food fish, shrimp and steaks, and
then you got the toilet paper.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
I want to acquire a new diesel pickup truck, but
I got to see the price is either reduced or stabilized,
because I need to make sure that I financed appropriately
and with my longer commute, I'm going to need an
engine to last a whole lot longer. Everybody knows that
a diesel pickup truck engine lasts a lot longer than
a gas pickup engine.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Okay, Yeah, I would be embarrassed to say what I
paid for the pickup truck I have now, because it
just all right, I'll say it anyway at the risk
of embarrassing myself. I guess I'm not the only one
that's spent fifty eight thousand dollars on a pickup truck. Luckily,
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the interest rate was like super low, which was one
of the incentives on that, plus there was I mean,
I guess I didn't pay fifty eight. The fifty eight
was before the incentives, and there was about ten thousand
dollars worth of incentives when I bought it. I'm not
sure that in my mind that pickup truck is worth
forty eight thousand dollars even after the discounts. But it's
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the going rate, and it's pretty routine for people to
spend fifty thousand dollars plus these days on whatever it
is they're driving, whatever vehicle they have. But the insurance
part keeps coming up. Yeah, the car inshurts, just like
the homeowners and shirts. The car insurance has. It hasn't
doubled in the last two or three years, but it's
probably up at least thirty percent.
Speaker 9 (07:26):
Skip from Webster, property tax, insurance, and the price of
a new pickup truck. It just makes you not want
to have any of the above. Now, I guess that's
why I drive an old truck.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
This is Nancy from Angleton dog Food. I used to pay.
Speaker 9 (07:41):
Seventy five dollars a bag for prescription dog food for
my dogs.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Now it's one.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
Hundred and twenty five dollars for a.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Twenty four bag of dog food. Everything's going up except
for month acheck.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
You know what I don't do anymore. I don't buy
dog food. I have to buy cat food that's going off,
but I don't buy dog food. I just try to
get extra of whatever it is that we're going to
have for dinner. And when we eat pretty healthy these days,
so Swiper gets like salmon, we just get enough salmon
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so he can have some of our salmon h hamburgers.
He'll he'll get he'll get his own burger. Y'all, just
get some ground beef and and make him a burger
of his own. I don't think that's any worse for you.
It's probably better for you than the dog food is
to begin with. In most cases, he doesn't need a
prescription or anything special. But I'll tell you what does
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drive me crazy going to the vet. The price of
going to the vet is it's crazy. The vet is
like it's like going to a regular doctor for a
human being. How much they charge these days to go
to the vet? All right, let's grab two more up.
I lost her. Hang on a second, I'll get her
back here. She didn't she didn't like the way I
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was touching the buttons. Here we go. That's two to row.
Still is like the way I'm touching my buttons. Okay,
I'm gonna try real gentle this time.
Speaker 11 (09:06):
Cassy from Kingwood, and I will join the ranks of homeowners.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Insurance is out of control.
Speaker 10 (09:13):
Everything is too expensive now, especially groceries. Ten short years ago,
the cost of groceries was at least half, if not
more than half, the cost of housing on a monthly
basis in the Houston area. Now it's more than doubled.
The food should never cost more than housing. And we
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don't care if it was Biden's fault. We just want it.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Fig And that you know, that's why the Midtermber elections
become really kind of important. We don't care whose fault
it was, We just want it fixed, and we don't
have a lot of patience for however long it's gonna
take to fix it. All right, quick little break bag
with one a moment, Jimmy Barrett show here a name,
nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
So let's let's spend our second.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Say with today talking about the potential for a coup.
This is another one of those progressive left I know
you are, but one of my jokes. Every time every
time they make a claim about Trump, virtually one hundred
percent of the time they make it claim about Trump,
what they're really talking about is themselves. It's like, whatever
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it is they're trying to do, they claim that Trump
is doing it, and then they justify their actions of
what they want to do in Trump, which is the same. Well,
I'll give you an example. Yesterday, I'm hearing them talking
about a coup, about telling US military members to resist,
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to not follow orders from the President of the United States,
the commander in chief, that is, that is asking the
military to perform a coup. And they claim that the
reason why they want the military to resist Trump is
because Trump is going to use the military to prevent
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another election. How many times are they going to run
that one? They've been running that one since the first term,
that Trump is going to interfere with the election. Yea,
Trump is a danger to democracy? How many times do
we have to hear this? How is it that is
so effective with the followers of the Democrat Party Anyway,
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Laura Ingram last night talked about it. We begin, though,
with what some of these Democrats are saying about how
the military US military should resist.
Speaker 11 (11:56):
We want to speak directly to members of the military
and the intelligence commu to take risks each day to
keep Americans safe. We know you are under enormous stress
and pressure right now.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Americans trust their military, but that trust is at risk.
Speaker 11 (12:09):
This administration is pitting our uniform military.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And intelligence community professionals against American citizens like us.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
You all swore an oath this constitution.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
Right now, the threats to our constitution aren't just coming from.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Abroad, but from right here at home.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Your vigilance is critical, and.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Know that we have your back. Don't give up the ship.
Speaker 8 (12:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Let's be clear, they're playing games with one of the
gravest outcomes for our country, a military uprising or coup
against a duly elected president, of course, being the frauds
that they are. Many of the same Democrats and others
have accused Trump of doing exactly what they're tiptoeing toward
right now.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Donald Trump does not back the blue He backs the
coup the president incited. In the insurrection, there was.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
An attempted political coup organized by the President of the
United States.
Speaker 12 (13:14):
January sixth was the culmination of an attempted coup.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
Knelment to the Republican Party believes their political viability hinges
on the endorsement of an attempted coup.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
And Senator Slodkin, who thinks a lot of ourself, tried
to justify turning the military against the White House with
a series of empty left wing talking points.
Speaker 11 (13:38):
Trump is following the same playbook as almost every authoritarian
in history, and from everything we've seen so far, the
Caribbean strikes the list of domestic terrorists, military and law
enforcement deployments across our American streets. He seems to be
laying the groundwork to stay in power. Elections therefore could
be canceled, where if they happen, he could surround polling
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places with military and federal law enforcement to intimidate voters.
SUMP could use the irs to make it impossible for
Democrats to fundraise.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
First, these are all lies, every last one of them. Second,
even if they weren't lies, the proper remedies for Congress
to challenge the president's decision making is either through the
courts and they're certainly doing that, impeachment and they'll try
that again, or.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
The ballot box. Better luck next time.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
But Alyssa and Mark are writing their own rules and
playing a very dangerous game here. There are two things
that are true here. Number one, the president has no
constitutional authority to use the military as his own personal
army to rule the country and to then stay in power.
And number two, the army must obey the legitimate commands
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of the civilian commander in chief elected by the American people.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
That's a good explanation, Thank you, lor Ingram. But you
see what I'm saying here about I know you are,
But what am I right now? They are obsessed the
idea that we need to convince the American people that
President Donald Trump is using the military illegally because he
is setting up a coup so that we cannot have
free elections. He wants to remain in power as a
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dictator therefore, you know, and they have people who actually
believe that on their side. That's how gullible some of
the followers of the progressive left r at this particular
point in time. Now. One of the things that they
mentioned also is blowing up these cartel boats. Is this
something new? Did they think this has not happened? What
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do they think has happened in previous administrations when we
either had a problem coming from a foreign country that
we couldn't get the leader of that country to do
anything about, so we took military action without congressional approval.
I might add Bill O'Reilly talks about that. He talked
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about that the other day about how the best way
to wage war in the cartels is exactly the way
that Trump is doing it. And this is nothing new,
you know, blowing up boats, regime change, that's absolutely nothing
new in American politics.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
Barack Obama used the exact same technique that Donald Trump
is using to wipe out ISIS in Iraq, and he
declared isis a danger to the United States, and then
he whacks them to the tune of maybe five thousand,
didn't consult with Congress, didn't consault with anybody. Nobody knew
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about it, nobody could get any information out of the
Defense Apartment about it. It's all secret. Special forces were there,
drones were there, wiped them out. Obama loses, Obama ends
his second term. Trump comes in, follows the exact same
policy as Obama, didn't change anything. And then about eight
months later, Trump came out and said, isis is done.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
And it was done.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
That is exactly what's happening now with Venezuela's same dictum,
same thing. Then you get back a little further, maybe
when you were in high school and Bush the Elder
removed Noriega in Panama under the and he didn't even.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Bother with Congress either.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
He just said, this guy's running a narco state and
we're taking them out.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
And US troops went in, Okay, took.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Him out, installed a much friendlier government to the United States.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
So that just want to put it on the record.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
It's not Trump doing something that hasn't been done. He's
just using every bit of power he has.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Now. Does he want Meduro out? Yes he does.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Is this a pretense to shake up Maduro?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (17:43):
It is are drugs a danger to the United States?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Yes? They are.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Has this been going on far too long for decades?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Yes it has.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Is there any other way to beat the cartels?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Know they're not, Aha, and there you go. Is there
any other way to beat the cartels? I would agree, No,
there's not. The Mexican government is not going to deal
with the cartels. The Venezuelan government is not going to
deal with the drug runners. So the only thing you
can do is pick off the drug runners and put
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a lot of pressure on the Venezuelan people to do
something about the dictator that they have. And maybe this also,
at some point in time puts pressure on the Mexican government.
They may not be as directly involved with the cartels
as they were in the previous administration, but there's still
the cartels are still in charge, and there's plenty of
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corruption and money involved in that for these politicians who
look the other way. I'm sure the Claudia Shinbaum last
thing she wants is for the cartels to go out
of business, because I'm sure she's making a pretty penny
from that. To be making a pretty penning from that,
and what does Mexico got going for it other than
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the cartels. Well, they used to have a pretty flourishing
tourism business, which I can't imagine is doing great these days.
I know when the last time was that you went
to Mexico on vacation. But it's been a long while
for me, and you know, there's there's not a not
a lot of interest in going right now. There's there's
some parts we had who do we have on our
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show that was talking about Cabo San Lucas and how
it's like the mafia is running the city. The cartels
are in charge of Cabo San Lucas at this point,
and there's infighting between cartels, you know, fighting for control.
You want to go there as a tourist, as an
American and risk being kidnapped or murdered or even just
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robbed or mugged. No, that's not my deal of a
fun vacation. I wouldn't want to be going and doing that.
All right, There's gonna be a Veteran Job Fair coming
up on the twenty fifth. We love our veterans, we
love helping our veterans get jobs. We'll be joined by
a guest here who's the chief communications Officer and outreach
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officer for this organization that is putting on this job fair.
He is a a Marine and an Air Force veteran.
That's going to be interesting. You don't normally hear about
people who served with two different branches of service, but
he did. We'll talk to him coming up next year
on a nine fifty KPRC and the Jimmy Fair Show.
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All right, we love helping our veterans, and what better
way to do that than the telling you about a
job fair this week going out to dyke in Park
on the twenty fifth, joining us talk about it is
the chief Communications and Outreach officer for this and Claire
and Dan. I. I was looking at your background and
it said that you're a veteran of the Marines and
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the Air Force. You served in two different branches.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Absolutely, I did. I was in the Marine Corps first,
then I joined the Guard right before nine to eleven.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Wow, that's kind of unique. I mean, I've never met
anybody who served in two different branches of service. What
was the biggest difference between the Marines and the Air Force?
Speaker 4 (21:27):
You can imagine it was.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
It was, yeah, I can I think the Marines.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
Was a little more relaxed, very professional, environment in both cases,
but I really appreciate the technical abilities that I saw
in the Air Force.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Yeah, I'm thinking I think anybody who knows Marines knows
how tough Marines are, how tough the training is for Marines,
you know, semper fi and I mean that they're a
fighting machine. And the Air Force strikes me, as you said,
as being a little bit more laid back. It is
a little bit all right. So what what was your
favorite part of serving in either and or the Marines
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In the Air Force?
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Well, you know, I was a broadcaster from the military,
so I had a great time. I was a newspaper
reporter for a while, so I had one of those
careers that translates pretty well.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
You know.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
I flew on nine to eleven. That to me was
probably the highlight of my military career. We took the
FEMA teams to New York, one of the only planes
in the air flying back on September twelfth. So that's
my greatest memory for military service.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Wow, I can see why that would be. I remember that.
While we all remember that day very well. I was
doing a morning show in Richmond, Virginia at the time,
and my wife was here in Houston, ironically, because she
worked for Continental Airlines, and of course what nine to
eleven happened, everything got grounded and she was basically stuck
here for five days, which I guess was okay because
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I was stuck on the air for the better part
of five days just trying to keep keep people informed
about what was going on. Any of us who are
around for nine to eleven, it's like the Kennedy assassination
or any other milestone type of news event, is something
you remember in vivid detail for your entire life.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Yeah. Absolutely. We're flying back talking about the airlines, and
I was with these Reserve Air Force reserve pilots and
they flew for United and they were flying over Chicago
and they called me up to the cockpit and they said,
look around. This is the most miraculous thing I'd ever
said that I've ever seen. And I look out the
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cockpit and there's nothing up there, and I said, I
don't see it, and they said, well, of course, this
is the busiest airspace in the world and there's not
a plane in the sky right now.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yeah. Yeah, I don't think we'll ever see a day
like that again, God knows. I hope we don't tell
me about this Veteran's Job fair. This is coming. You
know how many people are participating in it? What types
of jobs are we talking about?
Speaker 8 (24:01):
This is a d D career fair, so it's for veterans,
their families and spouses. We anticipate probably about three or
four hundred people participating. It's a it's going to be
a great event. Talking is free, which is a rare thing,
so we're excited about kicking it off, getting it going.
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We have a lot of great employers who are participating,
so we're excited about it.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
And of course, you know, we love the idea of
giving veterans maybe a little bit of special treatment when
it comes to defining jobs. I know that in everybody's world,
and I'm sure in your world too, and you can
probably speak very well to this. There's a transition between
military life and home life. Maybe less for you because
of what you did in the military, but for a
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lot of people that's a big transition. And the longer
you served, I would think the more difficult the transition is.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
Yeah. Absolutely, And usually people are coming back to a
home that they left maybe you know, four to twenty
years ago, and they don't have the same network that
they had when they started in the military. So these
career fairs are an opportunity for people to meet great
employers and get some feedback as well, so that they
can develop professionally and personally.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yeah, one of the things I've also found, at least
from many of the employers I've talked to, they love
the opportunity to hire military veterans because they know they're
getting people that are generally more disciplined, more task oriented
than the average person in the public.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
Absolutely, we hear that from employers all the time. They
tell us that they started out thinking, well, we're going
to hire veterans because it's the right thing to do
and it's a patriotic thing to do. It makes us
a more inclusive employer. Now they're looking at they're saying,
this is our bottom line. Veterans are helping our bottom line.
They're great contributors, beteam, the resilient, they're they're they're hiring
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veterans for the right reasons, which are there. They're going
to be contributors.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Now, there's a couple I should mention. There's more than
one job there. There's a virtual job fair that one
is on the twenty fifth. When is the one.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
That's on November twenty fifth.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yeah, how would somebody participate in the virtual job fair.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
The same way that they would participate initially in the
in person job fair at Dacon Park on December fourth.
They can visit us at jobs dot dav dot org
and learn more about the employers who are going to
be involved at that virtual event we have at and
T We have a bunch of federal agencies involved. Wells
Fargo is going to be their border patrol, Discount Tire.
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We're gonna have a lot of great employers there, Houston
and Dacin. We've done sixty four events in Houston and
this one's really exciting. We have free to lay there United.
One of the federal agencies hiring is the FBI, So
if you are ready to go into your secret service mode,
you can check it out too.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, it's amazing how many job openings are out there
are out there, especially in police departments. I don't know
if you're having any police representation. You mentioned the FBI,
but I don't know if you're gonna have any local
police representation. But I know, for example, the city of
Houston has several thousand police officers that they need to hire.
So do you have military members there that might be
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recruitable for police and fire?
Speaker 8 (27:27):
You know, absolutely, we always have law enforcement first responder
opportunities at our career payers, and I think that's what
people think about a lot with the military. They think
about thirty about policing things like that. But veterans are
very well rounded. They're great logistics, they're great at maintenance,
they're great in business leadership and operations support. So we're
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telling veterans to be prepared for a wide range of
opportunities because there's a wide range of jobs at these careers.
The employers are there because they want to hire veterans
or people connected to veterans.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I'm guessing that there's a website that veterans can go
to to to find out more about both the virtual
job fare and the one that Dike in Park. Where
should they go?
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Yeah, absolutely, visit us at jobs.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Dot dav dot org.
Speaker 8 (28:17):
You can learn about that, you can learn about an
entrepreneur program that we have that might be exciting to
some of your folks. So check us out at jobs
dot dav dot org.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Terrific and Dan Claire, thanks for being our guest today.
Pleasure to talk to you and thank you for your service.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
Happy holidays, Thank you very much for considering veterans.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
You bet. That is Dan Claire. He's the chief Communications
officer for Disabled American Veterans. Back with more in a moment.
Jimmy Verschow here at AM nine fifty KPRC. All right, sayment,
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before we go on vacation, we'll have by the way,
we'll have a best up show for you tomorrow and
Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday, and then on Thursday and Friday,
we have some special programming we're gonna share with you
here on AM nine fifty KPRC. So the wee can
go enjoy our holiday, just like you're going to go
enjoy yours. Be careful out there if you're driving. It's
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gonna be crazy as it always is. The airports will
be crazy like they always are. But at least, thank goodness,
they settled the government shutdown because that was having a
real impact on air travels. So, I mean, air travel
is gonna be tough enough during the holidays with how
having to deal with delays and cancelations because of air
traffic control not being fully staffed. All Right, issue that
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we talked about this morning I'm gonna share with you
right now. My guest was doctor Robin Armstrong. We've talked
to him numerous times about a whole variety of different things,
but this is kind of not only comes under his
political baileywick, but also under his d title as well.
There are states blue states that are shipping things like
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abortion pills, assessed suicide medications, those types of things to
states like Texas which have banned those items, and there
is a law in those states, most of those states,
at least twelve of them anyway, that prevents anybody from
punishing somebody from that state for sending that material to
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a place like Texas. So I talked to doctor Robin
Armstrong about this. Here's our conversation from earlier this morning
on our morning show on KTRH. How are these shield
laws being used currently and can they be used to
protect people who want to send these types of drugs
into Texas? Well, Yes they can.
Speaker 12 (30:48):
They're being used right now predominantly in the abortion space
for these morning after pills, where where people could take
them and induce an abortion.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
These pills are are.
Speaker 12 (31:00):
Not legal in the state of Texas, but many of
these Blue states are wanting to export their values to
Texas and and so certainly they can be spread out.
These can use in other areas as well. They can
be used to send puberty blockers potentially to underage children,
which which Blue states also think is okay and acceptable
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to do it without parental consent. They could also be
used to potentially send suicide drugs. You know, we have
eleven states now who who have a physician assisted suicide
and so these could be done. And in Canada, for instance,
right now, twelve they're trying to make it to where
twelve year olds could actually have access to these drugs
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to kill themselves if they think they're they're depressed. And
so it's it's shameful what the left is pushing. But
but they're wanting us to also not just tolerate their values,
but they want us to to active em in our
own lives and they want us to celebrate them as well.
And so it just the solution to this has to
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be a federal involvement to where we have to get
Defeds involved to prevent them from doing this, because if not,
there's just going to be unrest. But you know, Texas
is not going to tolerate this happening in our state
and then corrupting our children in this way.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I don't mean to put you on the spot for
this next question, but I was in Michigan when doctor
Jack of Vorkin was doing his thing, and of course
that was highly controversial at the time assisted suicide, And
I understand exactly what you're saying about kids. Nobody wants
drugs being sent to kids who are depressed or think
they are depressed, or have some other issue that is
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worthy of suicide and ending a young life. But I
would again, I don't mean to put you on the
spot with the question, but I think assisted suicide exists
in hospitals, even in states like Texas, for people who
are old and are in the process of dying and
are in pain and need the little help to cross
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over to the other side. I think that happens all
the time, don't you.
Speaker 12 (33:09):
Now it doesn't happen. No, it's not assistant suicide. I
mean in that sense, it's not euthanasia. What it is
is it's a form of hospice care, which is you know,
that's dying naturally with dignity.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
You know.
Speaker 12 (33:22):
I think that people should not have to die in
pain or discomfort. So I think keeping people comfortable is
one thing. I think assisting them to die and actively
participating giving them drugs that will actively kill them, I
think that that's a different thing. And so that's not
happening in Texas today. This is giving them medications like
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potassium or cyanide or something to actively kill them. And
so that's definitely not the case, and so I think
that we cannot allow that to happen. We can't cross
that ruber concuse once we go there, there's a slippery
slope that that that leads us to doing this for
for for young people and for children and underage folks,
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and so I think we have to draw the line there.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
I think in Texas we have.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
I think in some states they've allowed it.
Speaker 12 (34:13):
But but I think that that that definitely there's a
difference between keeping people comfortable and then and then assisting
them to die.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
So what should happen to, you know, to try to
curb the problem. If if if we don't have the
legal ability to prevent this from other states from sending
this material into Texas, if if the shield laws are
protecting them, what needs to happen I guess we need
much a federal law that would ban all shield laws.
Speaker 12 (34:39):
Well, well, there are laws today that that that prevent
people from I mean, it's it's all.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
It's a federalist issue now, it really is. It's a
state rights issue.
Speaker 12 (34:48):
And so red states ought to have the ability to
not participate in things that that that they believe are
are illegal and that they have decided as a society
societal norm in those states that that is something they
don't want to do, and.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I we have to have that right.
Speaker 12 (35:04):
And I think federally the law, there are laws that
exist today that that that can charge these folks. You
can sue them civilly as well. You can see those physicians.
And then I think that there ought to be an
ability to I think they're breaking a federal crime when
they when they when they do this against another state's rights.
And so I I believe that those laws exist today.
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They haven't been used very often, but I think now
since the Democrats are always pressing the envelope and trying
to do things radical and outside the box, I think
we have to start enforcing those laws.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
That is doctor Robin Armstrong, Yeah, I think there's a
fine line on the assistance suicide thing, even if we're
talking about older people, because I know that there are
people who have shortened their lives that's just say, or
been hastened to get to their death for their request.
I I you know, there are compassionate people in healthcare
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who I think help elderly people who are in the
process of dying anyway, just die a little bit sooner.
And I have no problem with that. They did it
for my mom. Hey, they did it for my dad. Hey, listen,
enough of that, y'all have a great Thanksgiving. We're on vacation.
I will see you a week from Monday at five
on News Radio seven forty k t r H. Well
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back here at four on Monday, December the first here
on AM nine fifty k p r C
Well, what we need is more common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We got the Youth College breaking down the world's nonsense
about how American common sense. We'll see us through with
the common sense of Houston. I'm just pro common sense
for Houston. From Houston dot com. This is the Jimmy
Barrett Show, brought to you by viewind dot com. Now
(00:29):
here's Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
All right. We're to start our show today talking about
what is affordable and what isn't and how that's changed
over the course of the last few years. Certainly it
changed over the course of the four years of the
Biden administration. We got to remember this president has only
been in office since January, so he you know, he
(00:53):
hasn't been there a year yet I think he's made
great strides. We've certainly have seen the price of oil
come down. We've seen the price of gasolte and come
down as a result of that, So that's trending in
the right direction. The price of beef has gone nowhere
but up, but that is an agriculture problem that can
only be solved with more supply, and that that's the
first thing on my affordability list. I think I have
(01:17):
a tendency to notice food prices. Maybe that's why I
talk about food so much. I noticed the food prices
before I notice anything else. And as I was saying
this morning, going to the supermarket a grocery store, going
to the meat counter kind of reminds me now of
going to a jewelry store. I feel like I'm there
(01:42):
looking at you know, cuts of steak and other beef cuts,
prime rib and those types of things. And I'm looking
at those things like I'm looking at diamond rings. Oh
that really looks good.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, I'd love to love to get my hands on that,
but I I just can't justify spending that kind of money.
Or I would love to. I would love to buy
that Tomahawks steak and cook it medium rare and seizon
it up nice, but I can't afford it. How much
for a ground beef today. I mean, that's how I
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feel every time I go past the meat counter. It's
like I'm at the jewelry store looking at dazzling things
that I can't afford. It's like a scene from a
Christmas carol, you know, where the kids buying a prize
turkey for the Cratchett family. I mean, yeah, Ebenezer Scrooge
can afford it, but the Cratchets can't afford to get it. So,
(02:42):
I mean, that's exactly how I feel. So we asked
the question this morning on the show, what are the
things that you no longer feel like you could afford?
I mean, you have no choice sometimes but to get
them or to buy them, but they just seem unaffordable.
And we got some very interesting answers, and I sensed
(03:03):
a trend with a lot of these answers. Let's take
a listen.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Hey, Jimmy, this is Mark copper Field, stop by to
get too barbecue.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Say which is last night?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
It was thirty two dollars.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
That's what hurt my pocket last night.
Speaker 8 (03:17):
Under Biden, everything I paid for in my life has
at least doubled.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Jimmy, this is Gerald from wood Forest. The two most
expensive things in my life is taxes and insurance. It's
government and government's cousins.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
They both take.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Money from you, but they provide very little when you're
in time of need.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Jimmy, this is Mike from Montgomery. Where I'm getting hurt
the most is in property taxes and insurance. You're going
to hear insurance come up quite a bit. And I've
noticed that as well. As far as the high cost
of insurance, I've been noticing that for several years. Last
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was it last year?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I think it was last year right around this time,
because this is the time of the year where my
homeowner's insurance comes up for renewal, and last year it
went from basically twenty nine hundred dollars a year on
my homeowner's insurance, it went to like four thousand, So
that's about what a thirty plus percent increase in one year.
(04:31):
This year it went up again, but it only went
up by about two hundred bucks, so a negligible difference
between last year and this year. It was last year
where that really hit in. But insurance gets mentioned a
lot by a lot of people now that that's not
the only insurance I have. We also have the beach
house in the in the flood insurance. Between the flood
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insurance and then I've mentioned this before, between the flood
insurance and the homeowner's insurance and the win and hail insurance.
I mean, that's like a seven thousand dollars a year deal.
That's a lot of money. Now that property gets rented
out quite a bit, so there's something there to offset
the cost, but it still pains me every time that
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has to be paid new cars.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
It's an appreciating asset. In absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
The prices are easily a greatdown payment for a house,
which is an appreciated asset.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Figure it out.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
This is Danny from Spring. I think the most in
an affordable item today is cars.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
First and foremost to be property taxes.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
Eliminate those and I'll be happy. I think a lot
of it are trd of brunting our land from the government.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Also groceries, pu's get those down, and insurance would be
the third one in the list. I'm talking about car insurance.
Speaker 10 (05:55):
Dave on Lake Conroe, food fish, shrimp and steaks, and
then you got the toilet paper.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
I want to acquire a new diesel pickup truck, but
I got to see the price is either reduced or stabilized,
because I need to make sure that I financed appropriately
and with my longer commute, I'm going to need an
engine to last a whole lot longer. Everybody knows that
a diesel pickup truck engine lasts a lot longer than
a gas pickup engine.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Okay, Yeah, I would be embarrassed to say what I
paid for the pickup truck I have now, because it
just all right, I'll say it anyway at the risk
of embarrassing myself. I guess I'm not the only one
that's spent fifty eight thousand dollars on a pickup truck. Luckily,
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the interest rate was like super low, which was one
of the incentives on that, plus there was I mean,
I guess I didn't pay fifty eight. The fifty eight
was before the incentives, and there was about ten thousand
dollars worth of incentives when I bought it. I'm not
sure that in my mind that pickup truck is worth
forty eight thousand dollars even after the discounts. But it's
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the going rate, and it's pretty routine for people to
spend fifty thousand dollars plus these days on whatever it
is they're driving, whatever vehicle they have. But the insurance
part keeps coming up. Yeah, the car inshurts, just like
the homeowners and shirts. The car insurance has. It hasn't
doubled in the last two or three years, but it's
probably up at least thirty percent.
Speaker 9 (07:26):
Skip from Webster, property tax, insurance, and the price of
a new pickup truck. It just makes you not want
to have any of the above. Now, I guess that's
why I drive an old truck.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
This is Nancy from Angleton dog Food. I used to pay.
Speaker 9 (07:41):
Seventy five dollars a bag for prescription dog food for
my dogs.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Now it's one.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
Hundred and twenty five dollars for a.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Twenty four bag of dog food. Everything's going up except
for month acheck.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
You know what I don't do anymore. I don't buy
dog food. I have to buy cat food that's going off,
but I don't buy dog food. I just try to
get extra of whatever it is that we're going to
have for dinner. And when we eat pretty healthy these days,
so Swiper gets like salmon, we just get enough salmon
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so he can have some of our salmon h hamburgers.
He'll he'll get he'll get his own burger. Y'all, just
get some ground beef and and make him a burger
of his own. I don't think that's any worse for you.
It's probably better for you than the dog food is
to begin with. In most cases, he doesn't need a
prescription or anything special. But I'll tell you what does
(08:36):
drive me crazy going to the vet. The price of
going to the vet is it's crazy. The vet is
like it's like going to a regular doctor for a
human being. How much they charge these days to go
to the vet? All right, let's grab two more up.
I lost her. Hang on a second, I'll get her
back here. She didn't she didn't like the way I
(08:57):
was touching the buttons. Here we go. That's two to row.
Still is like the way I'm touching my buttons. Okay,
I'm gonna try real gentle this time.
Speaker 11 (09:06):
Cassy from Kingwood, and I will join the ranks of homeowners.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Insurance is out of control.
Speaker 10 (09:13):
Everything is too expensive now, especially groceries. Ten short years ago,
the cost of groceries was at least half, if not
more than half, the cost of housing on a monthly
basis in the Houston area. Now it's more than doubled.
The food should never cost more than housing. And we
(09:37):
don't care if it was Biden's fault. We just want it.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Fig And that you know, that's why the Midtermber elections
become really kind of important. We don't care whose fault
it was, We just want it fixed, and we don't
have a lot of patience for however long it's gonna
take to fix it. All right, quick little break bag
with one a moment, Jimmy Barrett show here a name,
nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
So let's let's spend our second.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Say with today talking about the potential for a coup.
This is another one of those progressive left I know
you are, but one of my jokes. Every time every
time they make a claim about Trump, virtually one hundred
percent of the time they make it claim about Trump,
what they're really talking about is themselves. It's like, whatever
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it is they're trying to do, they claim that Trump
is doing it, and then they justify their actions of
what they want to do in Trump, which is the same. Well,
I'll give you an example. Yesterday, I'm hearing them talking
about a coup, about telling US military members to resist,
(11:04):
to not follow orders from the President of the United States,
the commander in chief, that is, that is asking the
military to perform a coup. And they claim that the
reason why they want the military to resist Trump is
because Trump is going to use the military to prevent
(11:26):
another election. How many times are they going to run
that one? They've been running that one since the first term,
that Trump is going to interfere with the election. Yea,
Trump is a danger to democracy? How many times do
we have to hear this? How is it that is
so effective with the followers of the Democrat Party Anyway,
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Laura Ingram last night talked about it. We begin, though,
with what some of these Democrats are saying about how
the military US military should resist.
Speaker 11 (11:56):
We want to speak directly to members of the military
and the intelligence commu to take risks each day to
keep Americans safe. We know you are under enormous stress
and pressure right now.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Americans trust their military, but that trust is at risk.
Speaker 11 (12:09):
This administration is pitting our uniform military.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And intelligence community professionals against American citizens like us.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
You all swore an oath this constitution.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
Right now, the threats to our constitution aren't just coming from.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Abroad, but from right here at home.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Your vigilance is critical, and.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Know that we have your back. Don't give up the ship.
Speaker 8 (12:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Let's be clear, they're playing games with one of the
gravest outcomes for our country, a military uprising or coup
against a duly elected president, of course, being the frauds
that they are. Many of the same Democrats and others
have accused Trump of doing exactly what they're tiptoeing toward
right now.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Donald Trump does not back the blue He backs the
coup the president incited. In the insurrection, there was.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
An attempted political coup organized by the President of the
United States.
Speaker 12 (13:14):
January sixth was the culmination of an attempted coup.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
Knelment to the Republican Party believes their political viability hinges
on the endorsement of an attempted coup.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
And Senator Slodkin, who thinks a lot of ourself, tried
to justify turning the military against the White House with
a series of empty left wing talking points.
Speaker 11 (13:38):
Trump is following the same playbook as almost every authoritarian
in history, and from everything we've seen so far, the
Caribbean strikes the list of domestic terrorists, military and law
enforcement deployments across our American streets. He seems to be
laying the groundwork to stay in power. Elections therefore could
be canceled, where if they happen, he could surround polling
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places with military and federal law enforcement to intimidate voters.
SUMP could use the irs to make it impossible for
Democrats to fundraise.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
First, these are all lies, every last one of them. Second,
even if they weren't lies, the proper remedies for Congress
to challenge the president's decision making is either through the
courts and they're certainly doing that, impeachment and they'll try
that again, or.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
The ballot box. Better luck next time.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
But Alyssa and Mark are writing their own rules and
playing a very dangerous game here. There are two things
that are true here. Number one, the president has no
constitutional authority to use the military as his own personal
army to rule the country and to then stay in power.
And number two, the army must obey the legitimate commands
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of the civilian commander in chief elected by the American people.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
That's a good explanation, Thank you, lor Ingram. But you
see what I'm saying here about I know you are,
But what am I right now? They are obsessed the
idea that we need to convince the American people that
President Donald Trump is using the military illegally because he
is setting up a coup so that we cannot have
free elections. He wants to remain in power as a
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dictator therefore, you know, and they have people who actually
believe that on their side. That's how gullible some of
the followers of the progressive left r at this particular
point in time. Now. One of the things that they
mentioned also is blowing up these cartel boats. Is this
something new? Did they think this has not happened? What
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do they think has happened in previous administrations when we
either had a problem coming from a foreign country that
we couldn't get the leader of that country to do
anything about, so we took military action without congressional approval.
I might add Bill O'Reilly talks about that. He talked
(16:01):
about that the other day about how the best way
to wage war in the cartels is exactly the way
that Trump is doing it. And this is nothing new,
you know, blowing up boats, regime change, that's absolutely nothing
new in American politics.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
Barack Obama used the exact same technique that Donald Trump
is using to wipe out ISIS in Iraq, and he
declared isis a danger to the United States, and then
he whacks them to the tune of maybe five thousand,
didn't consult with Congress, didn't consault with anybody. Nobody knew
(16:36):
about it, nobody could get any information out of the
Defense Apartment about it. It's all secret. Special forces were there,
drones were there, wiped them out. Obama loses, Obama ends
his second term. Trump comes in, follows the exact same
policy as Obama, didn't change anything. And then about eight
months later, Trump came out and said, isis is done.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
And it was done.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
That is exactly what's happening now with Venezuela's same dictum,
same thing. Then you get back a little further, maybe
when you were in high school and Bush the Elder
removed Noriega in Panama under the and he didn't even.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Bother with Congress either.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
He just said, this guy's running a narco state and
we're taking them out.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
And US troops went in, Okay, took.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Him out, installed a much friendlier government to the United States.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
So that just want to put it on the record.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
It's not Trump doing something that hasn't been done. He's
just using every bit of power he has.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Now. Does he want Meduro out? Yes he does.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Is this a pretense to shake up Maduro?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (17:43):
It is are drugs a danger to the United States?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Yes? They are.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Has this been going on far too long for decades?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Yes it has.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Is there any other way to beat the cartels?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Know they're not, Aha, and there you go. Is there
any other way to beat the cartels? I would agree, No,
there's not. The Mexican government is not going to deal
with the cartels. The Venezuelan government is not going to
deal with the drug runners. So the only thing you
can do is pick off the drug runners and put
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a lot of pressure on the Venezuelan people to do
something about the dictator that they have. And maybe this also,
at some point in time puts pressure on the Mexican government.
They may not be as directly involved with the cartels
as they were in the previous administration, but there's still
the cartels are still in charge, and there's plenty of
(18:44):
corruption and money involved in that for these politicians who
look the other way. I'm sure the Claudia Shinbaum last
thing she wants is for the cartels to go out
of business, because I'm sure she's making a pretty penny
from that. To be making a pretty penning from that,
and what does Mexico got going for it other than
(19:05):
the cartels. Well, they used to have a pretty flourishing
tourism business, which I can't imagine is doing great these days.
I know when the last time was that you went
to Mexico on vacation. But it's been a long while
for me, and you know, there's there's not a not
a lot of interest in going right now. There's there's
some parts we had who do we have on our
(19:27):
show that was talking about Cabo San Lucas and how
it's like the mafia is running the city. The cartels
are in charge of Cabo San Lucas at this point,
and there's infighting between cartels, you know, fighting for control.
You want to go there as a tourist, as an
American and risk being kidnapped or murdered or even just
(19:49):
robbed or mugged. No, that's not my deal of a
fun vacation. I wouldn't want to be going and doing that.
All right, There's gonna be a Veteran Job Fair coming
up on the twenty fifth. We love our veterans, we
love helping our veterans get jobs. We'll be joined by
a guest here who's the chief communications Officer and outreach
(20:11):
officer for this organization that is putting on this job fair.
He is a a Marine and an Air Force veteran.
That's going to be interesting. You don't normally hear about
people who served with two different branches of service, but
he did. We'll talk to him coming up next year
on a nine fifty KPRC and the Jimmy Fair Show.
(20:46):
All right, we love helping our veterans, and what better
way to do that than the telling you about a
job fair this week going out to dyke in Park
on the twenty fifth, joining us talk about it is
the chief Communications and Outreach officer for this and Claire
and Dan. I. I was looking at your background and
it said that you're a veteran of the Marines and
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the Air Force. You served in two different branches.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Absolutely, I did. I was in the Marine Corps first,
then I joined the Guard right before nine to eleven.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Wow, that's kind of unique. I mean, I've never met
anybody who served in two different branches of service. What
was the biggest difference between the Marines and the Air Force?
Speaker 4 (21:27):
You can imagine it was.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
It was, yeah, I can I think the Marines.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
Was a little more relaxed, very professional, environment in both cases,
but I really appreciate the technical abilities that I saw
in the Air Force.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Yeah, I'm thinking I think anybody who knows Marines knows
how tough Marines are, how tough the training is for Marines,
you know, semper fi and I mean that they're a
fighting machine. And the Air Force strikes me, as you said,
as being a little bit more laid back. It is
a little bit all right. So what what was your
favorite part of serving in either and or the Marines
(22:02):
In the Air Force?
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Well, you know, I was a broadcaster from the military,
so I had a great time. I was a newspaper
reporter for a while, so I had one of those
careers that translates pretty well.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
You know.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
I flew on nine to eleven. That to me was
probably the highlight of my military career. We took the
FEMA teams to New York, one of the only planes
in the air flying back on September twelfth. So that's
my greatest memory for military service.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Wow, I can see why that would be. I remember that.
While we all remember that day very well. I was
doing a morning show in Richmond, Virginia at the time,
and my wife was here in Houston, ironically, because she
worked for Continental Airlines, and of course what nine to
eleven happened, everything got grounded and she was basically stuck
here for five days, which I guess was okay because
(22:56):
I was stuck on the air for the better part
of five days just trying to keep keep people informed
about what was going on. Any of us who are
around for nine to eleven, it's like the Kennedy assassination
or any other milestone type of news event, is something
you remember in vivid detail for your entire life.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Yeah. Absolutely. We're flying back talking about the airlines, and
I was with these Reserve Air Force reserve pilots and
they flew for United and they were flying over Chicago
and they called me up to the cockpit and they said,
look around. This is the most miraculous thing I'd ever
said that I've ever seen. And I look out the
(23:37):
cockpit and there's nothing up there, and I said, I
don't see it, and they said, well, of course, this
is the busiest airspace in the world and there's not
a plane in the sky right now.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yeah. Yeah, I don't think we'll ever see a day
like that again, God knows. I hope we don't tell
me about this Veteran's Job fair. This is coming. You
know how many people are participating in it? What types
of jobs are we talking about?
Speaker 8 (24:01):
This is a d D career fair, so it's for veterans,
their families and spouses. We anticipate probably about three or
four hundred people participating. It's a it's going to be
a great event. Talking is free, which is a rare thing,
so we're excited about kicking it off, getting it going.
(24:22):
We have a lot of great employers who are participating,
so we're excited about it.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
And of course, you know, we love the idea of
giving veterans maybe a little bit of special treatment when
it comes to defining jobs. I know that in everybody's world,
and I'm sure in your world too, and you can
probably speak very well to this. There's a transition between
military life and home life. Maybe less for you because
of what you did in the military, but for a
(24:49):
lot of people that's a big transition. And the longer
you served, I would think the more difficult the transition is.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
Yeah. Absolutely, And usually people are coming back to a
home that they left maybe you know, four to twenty
years ago, and they don't have the same network that
they had when they started in the military. So these
career fairs are an opportunity for people to meet great
employers and get some feedback as well, so that they
can develop professionally and personally.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yeah, one of the things I've also found, at least
from many of the employers I've talked to, they love
the opportunity to hire military veterans because they know they're
getting people that are generally more disciplined, more task oriented
than the average person in the public.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
Absolutely, we hear that from employers all the time. They
tell us that they started out thinking, well, we're going
to hire veterans because it's the right thing to do
and it's a patriotic thing to do. It makes us
a more inclusive employer. Now they're looking at they're saying,
this is our bottom line. Veterans are helping our bottom line.
They're great contributors, beteam, the resilient, they're they're they're hiring
(26:02):
veterans for the right reasons, which are there. They're going
to be contributors.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Now, there's a couple I should mention. There's more than
one job there. There's a virtual job fair that one
is on the twenty fifth. When is the one.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
That's on November twenty fifth.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yeah, how would somebody participate in the virtual job fair.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
The same way that they would participate initially in the
in person job fair at Dacon Park on December fourth.
They can visit us at jobs dot dav dot org
and learn more about the employers who are going to
be involved at that virtual event we have at and
T We have a bunch of federal agencies involved. Wells
Fargo is going to be their border patrol, Discount Tire.
(26:44):
We're gonna have a lot of great employers there, Houston
and Dacin. We've done sixty four events in Houston and
this one's really exciting. We have free to lay there United.
One of the federal agencies hiring is the FBI, So
if you are ready to go into your secret service mode,
you can check it out too.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, it's amazing how many job openings are out there
are out there, especially in police departments. I don't know
if you're having any police representation. You mentioned the FBI,
but I don't know if you're gonna have any local
police representation. But I know, for example, the city of
Houston has several thousand police officers that they need to hire.
So do you have military members there that might be
(27:23):
recruitable for police and fire?
Speaker 8 (27:27):
You know, absolutely, we always have law enforcement first responder
opportunities at our career payers, and I think that's what
people think about a lot with the military. They think
about thirty about policing things like that. But veterans are
very well rounded. They're great logistics, they're great at maintenance,
they're great in business leadership and operations support. So we're
(27:52):
telling veterans to be prepared for a wide range of
opportunities because there's a wide range of jobs at these careers.
The employers are there because they want to hire veterans
or people connected to veterans.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I'm guessing that there's a website that veterans can go
to to to find out more about both the virtual
job fare and the one that Dike in Park. Where
should they go?
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Yeah, absolutely, visit us at jobs.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Dot dav dot org.
Speaker 8 (28:17):
You can learn about that, you can learn about an
entrepreneur program that we have that might be exciting to
some of your folks. So check us out at jobs
dot dav dot org.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Terrific and Dan Claire, thanks for being our guest today.
Pleasure to talk to you and thank you for your service.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
Happy holidays, Thank you very much for considering veterans.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
You bet. That is Dan Claire. He's the chief Communications
officer for Disabled American Veterans. Back with more in a moment.
Jimmy Verschow here at AM nine fifty KPRC. All right, sayment,
(29:00):
before we go on vacation, we'll have by the way,
we'll have a best up show for you tomorrow and
Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday, and then on Thursday and Friday,
we have some special programming we're gonna share with you
here on AM nine fifty KPRC. So the wee can
go enjoy our holiday, just like you're going to go
enjoy yours. Be careful out there if you're driving. It's
(29:21):
gonna be crazy as it always is. The airports will
be crazy like they always are. But at least, thank goodness,
they settled the government shutdown because that was having a
real impact on air travels. So, I mean, air travel
is gonna be tough enough during the holidays with how
having to deal with delays and cancelations because of air
traffic control not being fully staffed. All Right, issue that
(29:46):
we talked about this morning I'm gonna share with you
right now. My guest was doctor Robin Armstrong. We've talked
to him numerous times about a whole variety of different things,
but this is kind of not only comes under his
political baileywick, but also under his d title as well.
There are states blue states that are shipping things like
(30:07):
abortion pills, assessed suicide medications, those types of things to
states like Texas which have banned those items, and there
is a law in those states, most of those states,
at least twelve of them anyway, that prevents anybody from
punishing somebody from that state for sending that material to
(30:29):
a place like Texas. So I talked to doctor Robin
Armstrong about this. Here's our conversation from earlier this morning
on our morning show on KTRH. How are these shield
laws being used currently and can they be used to
protect people who want to send these types of drugs
into Texas? Well, Yes they can.
Speaker 12 (30:48):
They're being used right now predominantly in the abortion space
for these morning after pills, where where people could take
them and induce an abortion.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
These pills are are.
Speaker 12 (31:00):
Not legal in the state of Texas, but many of
these Blue states are wanting to export their values to
Texas and and so certainly they can be spread out.
These can use in other areas as well. They can
be used to send puberty blockers potentially to underage children,
which which Blue states also think is okay and acceptable
(31:24):
to do it without parental consent. They could also be
used to potentially send suicide drugs. You know, we have
eleven states now who who have a physician assisted suicide
and so these could be done. And in Canada, for instance,
right now, twelve they're trying to make it to where
twelve year olds could actually have access to these drugs
(31:44):
to kill themselves if they think they're they're depressed. And
so it's it's shameful what the left is pushing. But
but they're wanting us to also not just tolerate their values,
but they want us to to active em in our
own lives and they want us to celebrate them as well.
And so it just the solution to this has to
(32:07):
be a federal involvement to where we have to get
Defeds involved to prevent them from doing this, because if not,
there's just going to be unrest. But you know, Texas
is not going to tolerate this happening in our state
and then corrupting our children in this way.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I don't mean to put you on the spot for
this next question, but I was in Michigan when doctor
Jack of Vorkin was doing his thing, and of course
that was highly controversial at the time assisted suicide, And
I understand exactly what you're saying about kids. Nobody wants
drugs being sent to kids who are depressed or think
they are depressed, or have some other issue that is
(32:43):
worthy of suicide and ending a young life. But I
would again, I don't mean to put you on the
spot with the question, but I think assisted suicide exists
in hospitals, even in states like Texas, for people who
are old and are in the process of dying and
are in pain and need the little help to cross
(33:04):
over to the other side. I think that happens all
the time, don't you.
Speaker 12 (33:09):
Now it doesn't happen. No, it's not assistant suicide. I
mean in that sense, it's not euthanasia. What it is
is it's a form of hospice care, which is you know,
that's dying naturally with dignity.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
You know.
Speaker 12 (33:22):
I think that people should not have to die in
pain or discomfort. So I think keeping people comfortable is
one thing. I think assisting them to die and actively
participating giving them drugs that will actively kill them, I
think that that's a different thing. And so that's not
happening in Texas today. This is giving them medications like
(33:45):
potassium or cyanide or something to actively kill them. And
so that's definitely not the case, and so I think
that we cannot allow that to happen. We can't cross
that ruber concuse once we go there, there's a slippery
slope that that that leads us to doing this for
for for young people and for children and underage folks,
(34:07):
and so I think we have to draw the line there.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
I think in Texas we have.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
I think in some states they've allowed it.
Speaker 12 (34:13):
But but I think that that that definitely there's a
difference between keeping people comfortable and then and then assisting
them to die.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
So what should happen to, you know, to try to
curb the problem. If if if we don't have the
legal ability to prevent this from other states from sending
this material into Texas, if if the shield laws are
protecting them, what needs to happen I guess we need
much a federal law that would ban all shield laws.
Speaker 12 (34:39):
Well, well, there are laws today that that that prevent
people from I mean, it's it's all.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
It's a federalist issue now, it really is. It's a
state rights issue.
Speaker 12 (34:48):
And so red states ought to have the ability to
not participate in things that that that they believe are
are illegal and that they have decided as a society
societal norm in those states that that is something they
don't want to do, and.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I we have to have that right.
Speaker 12 (35:04):
And I think federally the law, there are laws that
exist today that that that can charge these folks. You
can sue them civilly as well. You can see those physicians.
And then I think that there ought to be an
ability to I think they're breaking a federal crime when
they when they when they do this against another state's rights.
And so I I believe that those laws exist today.
(35:26):
They haven't been used very often, but I think now
since the Democrats are always pressing the envelope and trying
to do things radical and outside the box, I think
we have to start enforcing those laws.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
That is doctor Robin Armstrong, Yeah, I think there's a
fine line on the assistance suicide thing, even if we're
talking about older people, because I know that there are
people who have shortened their lives that's just say, or
been hastened to get to their death for their request.
I I you know, there are compassionate people in healthcare
(36:01):
who I think help elderly people who are in the
process of dying anyway, just die a little bit sooner.
And I have no problem with that. They did it
for my mom. Hey, they did it for my dad. Hey, listen,
enough of that, y'all have a great Thanksgiving. We're on vacation.
I will see you a week from Monday at five
on News Radio seven forty k t r H. Well
(36:23):
back here at four on Monday, December the first here
on AM nine fifty k p r C
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