July 1, 2025 • 36 mins
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- What's the latest with the big beautiful bill?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 4 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett. All right, we are on time today.
We are here. We are ready to go at little
after four o'clock in the afternoon. We I'm not messing around.
I don't show up late for this show. In fact,
I don't really show up late for anything. I mean,
it's really rare. I can't say I've never been late,
because I know I have. I've just it's very, very rare,
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and it's usually caused by well it's always caused by
bad traffic or some other problem that I ran into
along the way, despite my best efforts of trying to
plant it out so I'd be there just on time.
The reason why I'm bringing up being chronically late, or
being on time, or even being early in some cases
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is everybody has a friend, right, everybody has somebody in
their family that is chronically late. No matter what you do,
they will show up late, And the only way if
you really need them to be somewhere at a certain time,
the only way you can hope in order to make
that work is to give them the wrong time, give
them a time that is much earlier than when you
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would normally expect them to be there, and then they'll
show up when they're supposed to show up, but only
because you had to lie to them. You know, anybody
like that, any of you are, any of you married
to somebody like that. I've seen a lot of especially
I don't mean to make this sexist, okay, but I've
seen this happen a lot in households with wives, in
particular wives who who get ready, Especially if you're going
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out somewhere kind of fancy and you're talking about may
gup and address and shoes and all the things that
go along with it not unusual to have people be
chronically late. There was a big thing on TikTok about this,
and one of the things they came up with in
this story was that meant According to mental health experts,
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there's something called time blindness. Time blindness is a legitimate experience,
especially for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, otherwise known
as ADHD.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
We're blaming this on ADHD now, right, So if you
think it's like just a narcissist, well, they just don't
care about being on time. People with time blindness were
told struggle to keep track of and estimate time. It's
harder for them to gauge how long it will take
to complete a task or how long it will take
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to arrive somewhere. Most commonly observed in people with ADHD.
Time blinde bindness can manifest in anyone with impairment and
executive functions stemming from the frontal lobe area of their brain,
which is responsible for personality, judgment, self control and more So,
you have a frontal lobe brain problem if you can't
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show up on time and I had, Well, let me
play this for you, because this is actually when we
didn't get to this morning. We talk to our listeners
on the morning show on KTRH and ask them to,
you know, give us their opinion. Here people who are
chronically late in particular, and this whole time blindness thing.
Here's what one of our callers have to say. This
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is kind of a scary thought.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Time blindness is not just limited to being on time.
HR departments are now recognizing time blindness as a legitimate handicap,
so employees are now using it to not complete tasks
on time.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
What a legitimate handicap. It's not your fault that you
can't get down with that project that was due by
noon on Friday because you have time blindness. It's not
your fault that you were supposed to be work at
nine but you didn't show up tonight until nine forty
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in the morning because you have time blindness. Man, if
there's one thing we've done a really good job of
in this country, it's creating excuses for people, and it's
amazing how many of us are more than happy to
take advantage of that. All right, but let's get some
more listener reactions here to time blindness and people who
are chronically late. It's called what if time? What if
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there's an accident, what if you have a flat, what
if there's traffic, what if you do get lost? What
if time?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
So I don't know about the ADHD thing. I mean,
I was diagnosed to ADHD long, long time ago.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Back in grade school.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
But I've always been either directly on time or early.
So I'm not saying I can debunk it, but I
just I believe it's a load of hogwash.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Good morning, Jimmy.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
I was always told that if you're five minutes early,
you're ten minutes leep.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
Hey, Jimmy, this is Daniels reporter.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
I'm a prior military guy, and.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Our motto was early is on time, on time as late.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I think most of your prior service guys, especially combat
arms guys, got to live by something similar than we
used to have a saying Murphy follows the infantryment.
Speaker 9 (05:35):
So that's that's that's.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
How I live, sir, Well, listen, that military thing is
a great point to bring up. Do you think that
anybody in the military is going to buy time blindness
and offer that up as an excuse. I'm sorry I
could make revelry this morning, sergeant, because you know, I
got time blindness, and I couldn't. Y'all, I can't respond
to you know, getting up this early in the morning.
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How long do you think that would last in the military. Yeah,
I mean this is to me, time blindness is a
bunch of psychobabble. If you really do have it, there
are more than there are plenty of ways to compensate
for it. Stop making excuses. All right, let's grab a
few more.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, it's a man being in construction and working on
the farm home a lot.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I'm always up early, ready to go.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
Let's get it.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Done time wise for heat and stuff like that. But
what about Dwight Yoakam's always late with your kisses? Are
always whiting on a woman? You know?
Speaker 9 (06:37):
Oh hey, Jimmy, it's David in Jersey Village. But me,
I try to be on time whenever possible, and I'm
pretty good at it. But my brother and I just
want to share. He's always one of those that are late.
As a matter of fact. We go off together a lot,
and if he finds himself running on time, he'll find
something to do like rake the yard, do the dishes,
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do something that just totally makes them fifteen minutes late.
And I witness it all the time. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Take care was he he wants to be fashibally late?
Maybe are there are there still people believe that that's
a cool thing to be fashiably late? Or is it
a passive aggressive thing? To me, it sounds like a
passive aggressive thing. You know, if you have somebody who
really knows you are super bothered by them being habitually late,
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and they go out of their way to be late,
then they're trying to tweak you. That's a very passive
aggressive form of behavior. Right, quick little break back with
Morne moment, Jimmy Barrett Show here on AM nine fifty KPRC.
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My couple little stories to talk about in this segment here,
both of which cost money to you and me as
taxpayers in a whole variety of different ways. One of
them we'll get to here in just a couple of
minutes involves paper plates. Today's July the first, So today,
yesterday was the last day that that car dealers could
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issue paper plates as temporary plates. They're going to metal
plates now. Either when you sell your car, your license plate,
your current license plate, we either transfer over with you,
or you'll end up with a metal temporary plate, not
a paper plate, because there's too much counterfeiting in paper
plates or altering the paper plates and using as a
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way to circumvent registration and insurance for that vehicle. And
it happens all the time. My guess is is that
one of the reasons why it happens is we haven't
put a whole lot of punishment in connection with it.
But we'll get in that a couple minutes. But I
want to start with this because I saw this report
on k h o U eleven about stolen's signs in
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the city. Street signs, stop signs, those type of things. Now,
I remember as a kid, you ever have friend or
friends that they'd had like their bedroom decorated with like
traffic lights or or street signs, or maybe they found
a street sign that had a funny name on it,
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like like butt Lick Drive, you know, so they saw,
I gotta get that sign, so they saw the sign
and they took that sign, or they just want to
have a stop sign in their bedroom or or whatever
it may be. You know, the signs cost money. Let's
get to the report first and see how big of
a problem this is in the city of Houston. Here's
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the report from k h o U eleven.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
Over the past year, driving in her Northeast Houston neighborhood,
Kathy Gunter noticed a powder. She says street signs were missing.
And it wasn't just a few.
Speaker 10 (09:55):
When I couldn't identify where I was, and I said, okay,
that's it's becoming a problem.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
When she and other community leaders in District B started
to track the issue, they found it went deeper. In
just the first six months of twenty twenty five, Houston
Public Works confirms at one hundred and sixty five signs
were replaced in the district, and gunters she has reason
to believe some were stolen.
Speaker 10 (10:17):
When we have an accident or incident like that, you'll
see the poll you know, you see the remnants of
what's left.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
But in many of the cases she encountered, those polls
were undamaged and the hardware meant to hold the street
signs remained with nothing attached.
Speaker 10 (10:32):
Do we pay tax dollars, That's where our money goes
to for street signs roads in different conditions, So we're
paying for that, and so if you're taking and you're stealing, it.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Kind of shocking, but I wasn't surprised.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
In the middle of June, District B Councilwoman Tarsha Jackson
notified Houston City Council about the issue. She tells us
she now suspects that some of the signs missing from
her district may be among those being sold on Facebook
from Houston area sellers, some for as low as thirty dollars.
Speaker 10 (11:01):
You know, people want a street sign with their name
on it, and what way to get it is have
someone take to sign and sell it.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
However, the cost to replace those signs, it's not as cheap.
According to Public Works, the costs one hundred and fifty
dollars to replace a street name sign. Stop signs are
even more. With all the signs replaced across the city
this year for various reasons, that's hundreds of thousands of
dollars spent.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
You know, Stealing a street sign is one thing. I mean,
that's that's an inconvenience. You come up on a corner
and the street sign's gone, so you don't know exactly
what corner you're on. But if you're using GPS, then
that can compensate for it. But stealing a stop sign,
that's like a matter of public safety. If you come
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up with an intersection there's no stop sign there and
you keep running on going and you end up getting
plowed by somebody, you know that that's a public safety issue.
By the way, a distion research the stop sign theyn
mentioned the price and stop sign one hundred and fifty
bucks for a street sign five hundred dollars for a
stop sign five hundred bucks. What in the world makes
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that stop sign worth five hundred dollars. It's not a
complicated pattern, it's not a whole bunch of paint choices.
It's not that big generally speaking. So what is it
about that sign? They cost five hundred dollars? That seems ridiculous.
But anyway, we have a lot of missing street signs
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in Houston. Here's the other thing that happens with street
signs here, and I notice it here more well, in fact,
I know it's here more than any other place I've
ever lived. Is is the heat we get. It gets
so hot here. You know, those street signs are metal,
and it's paint on metal. And what happens over the
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course of time here in Houston, I'm sure you've noticed,
is the sun beats down on this street signs and
the and the paint starts to peel off, and they
get to the point where you can't read them anymore,
and they have to be replaced. That way, I wonder
if you put together stolen street signs with the need
to replace street signs with new ones because the paint
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burned off because of the hot sun. I mean you're
probably talking about a pretty big chunk of change. I
wonder how much Harris County spends every year replacing street signs.
It's got to be quite a bit. Oh And as
long as i'm on the on the topic of the
street signs, is there like a regular program? When when
do we determine that you need to paint or repaint
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the lanes on the highway? When do we make that determination?
I take the North Freeway into work every day, and
there was a part of it too, I want to say,
like two years ago, maybe three years ago. They got
repainted because the lane markers had worn out, had thinned out,
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and you couldn't bear see them. And they repainted. Then
they stopped at a certain point and they'd never gone
back and picked it back up again. And so there's
a section of the North Freeway where you can't really tell,
especially when it's raining. You can't really tell the the disbarket,
whatever the word is, the the you can't really tell
the difference between one lane and the next lane because
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the markers are worn off. I just kind of wonder,
how you know how often they do that?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
All?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Right?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
So that that's the street thing. The other thing is
that the paper plates paper plates, and yesterday I mentioned
that earlier. Here's the report from CBS Texas about the
end of paper plates in Texas and why this is happening. Hello,
we're on.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Patrol with Graham Prairie Police where a fake tag is
often hiding and something worse.
Speaker 11 (14:51):
The reason I'm stopping is the license plates on your
car is not real? What's going on with it?
Speaker 8 (14:54):
Off?
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Sir Thomas Barrettini is with the Vehicle Crimes Unit.
Speaker 11 (14:58):
You knew that the life since flight, it's not real,
and you put it onto your vehicle, you understand that's
a crime.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Right.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
He's seen this over and over, a fake tag slapped
on a car to hide what's really missing, no registration
and no insurance.
Speaker 11 (15:14):
The plate itself, the number comes back to a real car,
comes back to a Honda. It just doesn't want on here.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
So that's where it would have said. Right there is
where it would have said.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Up exactly, Honda exactly.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
But that was that's the limber.
Speaker 11 (15:26):
Yeah, look's got her real license plate underneath.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
For years, Texas let car dealers print temporary tags, but
criminals turned that into a loophole copy paste print and
just like that a ghost car.
Speaker 12 (15:47):
This is devastating, It's devastating.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
In twenty twenty three, Grand Prairie's police she fought to
change the law after one of his officers was killed
chasing a car with a fake paper Fraudulent.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Paper tags are the criminal.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Instrument of choice for drug traffickers, human smugglers, auto theft, rings,
streak gangs.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
That year, lawmakers passed House Bills seven eighteen banning paper
tags for good, but the law was put on hold
until now to give the DMV time to build a
news system, one that ties every plate to a name
an address.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Having that information in advance.
Speaker 13 (16:28):
Are they a documented gang member, let's say, or do
they have a violent history?
Speaker 6 (16:31):
How they tried to kill a police officer before?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Wouldn't you think that'd be helpful for an officer right now?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Before they went up to that window.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Monday was the last day most paper tags can legally
be printed. They'll expire in sixty days, so by September first,
all of them should be gone.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Okay, the law be gone. And so you see somebody
with the paper plate, you know automatically that's the problem.
That's fine, that's all well and good. But here's what
I have to wonder about the paper plates. It's not
illegal to sell a paper plate a fake paper plate
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in Texas. It's not illegal to do that, So there's
no real punishment for whoever provides the fake paper plate.
The only crime is if you displayed, if you put
it on a vehicle in order to avoid registering the
vehicle or having insurance on the vehicle, that part is
the crime. I don't know what the punishment is, and
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it's been interesting to know the in that report, the
police officer who pulled that person over, and I assume
gave them a ticket, right, how much is the ticket?
I mean, how much does that cost. If it's just
a minored, little slap on the wrist fine, then there's
not really much of a penalty to prevent people from
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doing it, in which case maybe that's what the problem
was to begin with. Anyway, we're gonna take a little
break the Senate. Last I heard, and again we're taping
this morning, so maybe something's happened, but it didn't happen yesterday.
In fact, it seems like even fewer people today on
the right are willing to vote for the big beautiful bill.
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So we'll do a big Beautiful Bill Update. See where
we're at. Coming up next Jimmy Part Show here on
AM nine fifty KPRC. All right, welcome back, Big Beautiful Bill.
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Last I heard is still you know, they've been doing
a vote rama in the Senator. You're trying to get
this thing through. There's been changes in this bill, and
the changes were an attempt to get support, and maybe
it will end up working. I'm not sure. But the
problem is is that the changes that they have made
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in the Senate have made the bill even more expensive
and less palapable to people like Chip Roy. And you've
got to remember the bill only passed the House by
one vote. That's it, so you've only got you don't
have any room to lose anybody. And Chip Roy took
the floor of the House yesterday to talk about the
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problems he has with the Senate version of the Big
Beautiful Bill.
Speaker 14 (19:31):
We're not going to devote on our debt. We're not
going to let taxes go up in the end before
this year's over. They don't go up till December. We're
going to do what we need to do on the border.
I'd like to do it in this bill, but I'm
not going to do it in this bill. If this
bill is adding to the debt, not doing what it
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needs to do on the green news scam, not doing
what it needs to do on Medicaid, not doing what
it needs to do on countless other issues, I'm not
gonna do it. If it's going to be a big
giveaway to blue state tax jurisdictions in state and local
taxes where they want my friends in this conference who
represent big tax states like New York, California, Oh, they
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want a bigger deduction for their state taxes. Well, why
the hell should I subsidize their stupid decisions in their
states for their expensive taxes. Why should my constituents have
to do that? Why should we continue to allow food
stamps to go to the able bodied? Why should we
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continue to have Medicaid go to the able bodied and
not have work requirements or not deal with the money
laundering scam. Why shouldn't we, by the way, have health
savings accounts? The Senate bill took our health savings accounts
out of the House bill. Why should we continue to
have taxpayer funded sex change operations? The Senate bill puts
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that back in. Why should we not tax these big
university endowments, these universities that are engaging in political activism,
taking massive federal money and federal student loan support, why
shouldn't we tax more. The Senate reduces our tax on
university endowments to raise revenue by twenty percent.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
So there's a lot of things there to not like
about what the Senate is doing with that bill. Then again,
there are probably a lot of things about the bill too,
like it's the art of compromise, which is how bills
get passed. Unfortunately, most of the time, the compromise is
such that it is water the bill down to the
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point where it's not nearly as good as it should be.
And that may be what's happening here with the Big
Beautiful Bill. Elon Musk certainly think so. In fact, I
think he said today that if the Big Beautiful Bill passes,
he's going to start a third political He wants an
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independent third political party to challenge Democrats and Republicans. So
that's an interesting position he's decided to take. All right, now,
there's still plenty of supporters in the Senate for the
Big Beautiful Bill. One of them, make sure I get
the right name here. One of them is United States Senator.
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Where's this Roger Marshall. That's who it is, Roger Marshall.
Here he is talking about the big beautiful bill vote
a rama, and where he thinks this whole thing is added.
Speaker 15 (22:37):
Well, Liz, we're in deep debate now. We call it
vote rama. We're having lots of amendment votes. And if
I was JD. Vance, I'd make sure I keep tonight open.
We may need him to come and break the tie.
Speaker 16 (22:48):
All right, what do you make of the big fight
over But let me back up? What is the sticking point?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Now?
Speaker 16 (22:52):
There's a big fight over medicaid cuts. You know, people
are saying the Senate is going to cut a trillion
dollars out of Medicaid over a decade, that sixteen million
are going to lose healthcare. What do you say to that?
Or is this about reducing the rate of spending growth
in Medicaid? Medicaid spending will still go up and those
people will still be on Obamacare getting coverage.
Speaker 15 (23:12):
Yeah, Liz, So I'm so proud of the work we've
done on Medicaid. We're going to strengthen it, We're going
to preserve it for those who need it the most.
We are protecting it for seniors and nursing homes for children,
for pregnant women, for people with disabilities. And to your point,
we're actually increasing the spending on Medicaid faster than the
rate of inflation. We're going to spend two hundred billion
dollars more per year. But most importantly, we're going to
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protect and preserve it for those who need it the
very very most, and for rural hospitals. You were kind
of going back and forth of that. We actually have
a big fund for rural hospital.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (23:43):
Of the people that lose Medicaid, probably half of them
are on there fraudulently or through some type of abuse
or air. The other half that are going to lose
Medicaid are people that are refusing to work. When I
say work, all we're asking is people to work or
volunteer or go to school twenty hours a week. Now
back home, people are harvesting week. There were working twenty
hours in a day. So we're asking twenty hours a
week and you won't lose your Medicaid. There's seven million
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healthy American men out there in the country working age
that are not working. Seven million healthy American men not working.
We have seven million open jobs. Let's help those folks
find a job, bring back dignity and purpose to their own.
Speaker 16 (24:18):
Interesting you say that because in a Senate majority with
John Barrasso cited an AI study that found able bodied
adults on Medicaid who don't want to work, they spend
more than four hours a day watching TV and playing
video games.
Speaker 15 (24:31):
Final word, Yeah, let's get this help those folks find
a job.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I have empathy.
Speaker 15 (24:34):
I think a job brings purpose to you. Are community
collegist tech colleges back home. We're going to help you
find a job as well. Let's all live that American dream.
This bill is the start of a new golden economic
era for America. I'm proud to be part of it.
We got to get it across the finish.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
You know, I hear Medicaid. I hear Medicaid all the time.
Being brought as a reason not to support this bill
cuts to Medicaid. The only thing we're talking about cutting
from Medicaid is people who refuse to work, able bodied
people who refuse to work. Medicaid was never intended to
be a health insurance supplement for people who are perfectly healthy, perfectly,
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perfectly able to hold a job. If they're willing to
do so. That's never what the intention of Medicaid was.
It was for people who are disabled, people who can't
provide for themselves, people who can't work, don't have a job,
can't work. We have tons of job openings in this country.
There are plenty of jobs for able to body people.
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The problem is we just can't find people willing to
do the work because we've made it just way too
easy to be unemployed. You know, between SNAP benefits and
Medicaid benefits and other benefits, it's just really easy to
not work. You know, if you don't have a work,
I think you don't have to worry. The country will
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still take care of you. Well, that I guess is yeah,
Well that's that socialism is what that is. That's not capitalism.
That's not you know, we're still, except for maybe New
York City going forward, we're still a capitalist country. Right
at least last time I checked, we were all right.
One more for you this time around. This has to
do with the Fed, as Jerome Powell continues to get
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a tremendous amount of pressure on interest rates and more
and more people are just saying, once again, too little,
too late, they're not they're not taking action. They need
to take action. Here's private wealth. He's a strategist in
private wealth. His name is Jim Thorne, who says the
Federal Reserve is going to have to significantly lower rates
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in the second half of the year to make up
for their inaction.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Now, I think the bond vigilantes are realizing that the
facts are piling up and they realize that the Fed
is on the wrong side of history and that we're
going to have to dramatically cut rates to you know,
two seven to two fifty, something that you and I
have been talking about for a long time. Now it's
going to become consensus. And when that happens, the stock
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market goes higher and we get a period of bull
market stress. Everybody thinks that there's going to be a
retest of the lows. They're absolutely wrong, and Charles is
going to feel like the back half of nine or
the back half of twenty twenty, where you're going to
have people rushing and reaching per performance. It's going to
get crazy in the back half of the year.
Speaker 17 (27:30):
If we make a mistake here, people will pay a benefit.
It will pay that people will pay a cost for
a long time. So when when did when does the
FED realize this?
Speaker 7 (27:41):
I think they're going to try to they're trying to
save face. I mean I watched Powell today and yesterday,
and it's absolutely it's an embarrassment to see how the
FED has devolved into where we are right now. Look,
terrorists aren't inflationary. You take out shelter, which is lagging.
You have inflation below target, Unemployment is starting to rise,
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but yet it's okay. You know, we're going to have
an economy that is going to slow, but we're not
going to go into a recession. So you know, the
FED needs to get to neutral. I think they got
head faked by the Biden administration and they got burned,
and I think they're fearful of an inflation spiral, and
I think they're absolutely wrong.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Huh yeah, well a lot of people would agree with you, sir,
that they are absolutely wrong. We'll see if they make
a correction sooner verses later. All right, quick little break
back with our final segment in just a moment. Jimmy
verchow Am nine to fifty KPRC. All right, welcome back,
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final segment today Here fifty k PORC Jimmy Barry's show,
The Winning Streak. We talked a little bit about this yesterday,
about the winning streak that the president's on and I'm
trying to think of anything that he's lost at recently. Nope,
can't think of a thing. Today he went to Alligator
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Alli in Florida to take a look at the new
detention center that the State of Florida is donating to
the federal government. This is for, of course, for people
who are in the process of being deported. We mentioned
this yesterday with the protesting that was going on. But again,
you know this, this administration doesn't care much about protesting.
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Go ahead, and if you do want to protest, by
the way, and if you do want to cause a riot,
then maybe we'll just sue you about that. Let's start
with this. Here is Attorney General Pambondi. She got asked
about this lawsuit she has filed against Los Angeles and
the mayor of Los Angeles over the ice riots. And
then and she also got asked about something on CNN,
(30:02):
And let me quickly set that up so you know
what she's going to be talking about. CNN yesterday was
showing a video of an app of an app that
tracks ICE and we'll tell you where ICE agents are,
give you heads up warning that ICE is in the area,
which of course can put our ICE agents in danger,
and of course is also helping in criminals because these
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people are here illegally are criminals when you get right
down to it. So here's the Attorney General, Pam Bondi
on both of those issues.
Speaker 18 (30:32):
Yeah, it was Sean in Los Angeles what LA was doing,
and we also sued Karen Bass, the mayor, directly. What
they were doing is they were prioritizing illegal aliens over
American citizens, and you cannot do that. These sanctuary policies
are the root of the cause of violent crime in
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our country. In LA, we saw it with the riots.
We had to send out DEA, FBI atf R US
marshals redize their safety to help enforce the laws of
Los Angeles. We are not going to produce We're not
going to protect illegal aliens over Americans no longer it stopped.
We have sued New York, Illinois, Colorado, New Jersey, and
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now we've sued Los Angeles and we will continue to
sue you if you do not follow the laws of
our country.
Speaker 13 (31:22):
You know, We've had Tom Homan on many times on
the program, and he's talked about a dramatic increase in
violence against ICE agents over four hundred and fifty percent.
I mean, really scary numbers. If you have or put
out an application or a warning system that ICE agents
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are in the area, are you guilty of obstruction? Are
you guilty of aiding and a betting in that case?
And by the way, if you're a sanctuary state, does
that status aid in a bet just the very status
of it.
Speaker 18 (31:59):
Yeah, that's what he's doing. And people, obviously are ICE agents,
all of our federal agents who are working hand in
hand on these task force, our federal agents from the
Justice Department, could be injured there. He's giving a message
to criminals where our federal officers are and he cannot
do that. And we are looking at it.
Speaker 16 (32:20):
We are looking at him.
Speaker 18 (32:21):
And he better watch out because that's that's not a
protected speech. That is threatening the lives of our law
enforcement officers throughout this country. And shame on CNN. I
just saw that for the first time when you showed it,
that they're promoting that app for our law enforcement officers
who are out there protecting them. Protecting all of us
every single day.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Okay, Well, we'll see. We'll see what, if anything, the
Department of Justice does about that. You know, it'd be
interesting for that d end up in court as far
as you know where free speech ends and where aiding
and abutting criminals begins. You know, for a news out
in particular, that that would kind of be an interesting
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line to have to draw on the sand But as
long as we're on the topic of CNN, I will
say this, at least at least one host on CNN
willing to admit that Donald Trump is on a roll.
Speaker 19 (33:17):
I'm talking about offering an objective analysis in view of
what's transpired in the last two weeks that I've laid
out substantively and with data, he's been on a roll.
Who among us could deny how consequential Trump two point
zero is turning out to be. But in order for
you to recognize that, you need to have an open
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mind about what's transpiring.
Speaker 12 (33:40):
Frankly, all these successes bore me one after the other.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Oh my god.
Speaker 12 (33:45):
But you know, we've all been to magic shows as
kids at birthdays, hundreds of magic shows. So when we
see a guy show up with a top hat. Chances
are rabbit's going to come out of it. You know,
when a magician saws a woman in half, you're not
gonna call nine one one, Just wait a minute, she's
gonna come back together. But Democrats are like the guy
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always shocked when he pulls a rabbit out of his hat. Literally,
they're suffering from this delusional amnesia where they cannot grasp how.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Does he keep doing this? He keeps doing this.
Speaker 12 (34:18):
If Chris Murphy watched the magician saw a woman in half,
he would probably run home and tell his wife the
hazards to cutlery are overstated, and then he'd pull out
a large knife and go, let me show you, honey.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
That is how stupid they are.
Speaker 12 (34:35):
Trump never ceases to surprise them with success because it's
based on things they are incapable of grasping, which is
reason incentives. That's the big thing, clear eyed action. But
it really is incentives. And you said, look, it's more
like what Paul said. It's convergence. These things seem to
be coming together, and ideally dem should be happy for
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this because it's good stuff for the country, even if
they hate guy that's behind it. But there was this
new study that shows that pride among Democrats has hit
at the lowest it's ever been. What's interesting about that
was when Biden was in office, eighty five percent of
Republicans were extremely or very proud. So love of country
was on a separate rail from our own politics. And
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that's the problem for the Democrats. If politics isn't going
their way, it affects their brains, it affects their emotions,
it affects their patriotism, it affects their relationships with other people.
They must contaminate all areas with their misery. They have
to somehow their political disappointment must become everyone's problem.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
And that's the truth. Oh, by the way, if thirty
six percent of Democrats, only thirty six percent field patriotic
towards the United States, So and that number keeps getting worse.
We'll tackle that one on tomorrow morning show. Hope you
tune in then I'll hope see you tomorrow morning Biden
early five am on news radio seven forty KTRH. We
are back here at four on a nine fifty k
p r C
Speaker 8 (36:06):
And
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Common breaking down the world's nonsense.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
About how American common sense.
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Will see this through with the common sense of Houston.
I'm just pro common sense for Houston. From Houston dot com.
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Speaker 4 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett. All right, we are on time today.
We are here. We are ready to go at little
after four o'clock in the afternoon. We I'm not messing around.
I don't show up late for this show. In fact,
I don't really show up late for anything. I mean,
it's really rare. I can't say I've never been late,
because I know I have. I've just it's very, very rare,
(00:52):
and it's usually caused by well it's always caused by
bad traffic or some other problem that I ran into
along the way, despite my best efforts of trying to
plant it out so I'd be there just on time.
The reason why I'm bringing up being chronically late, or
being on time, or even being early in some cases
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is everybody has a friend, right, everybody has somebody in
their family that is chronically late. No matter what you do,
they will show up late, And the only way if
you really need them to be somewhere at a certain time,
the only way you can hope in order to make
that work is to give them the wrong time, give
them a time that is much earlier than when you
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would normally expect them to be there, and then they'll
show up when they're supposed to show up, but only
because you had to lie to them. You know, anybody
like that, any of you are, any of you married
to somebody like that. I've seen a lot of especially
I don't mean to make this sexist, okay, but I've
seen this happen a lot in households with wives, in
particular wives who who get ready, Especially if you're going
(01:57):
out somewhere kind of fancy and you're talking about may
gup and address and shoes and all the things that
go along with it not unusual to have people be
chronically late. There was a big thing on TikTok about this,
and one of the things they came up with in
this story was that meant According to mental health experts,
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there's something called time blindness. Time blindness is a legitimate experience,
especially for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, otherwise known
as ADHD.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
We're blaming this on ADHD now, right, So if you
think it's like just a narcissist, well, they just don't
care about being on time. People with time blindness were
told struggle to keep track of and estimate time. It's
harder for them to gauge how long it will take
to complete a task or how long it will take
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to arrive somewhere. Most commonly observed in people with ADHD.
Time blinde bindness can manifest in anyone with impairment and
executive functions stemming from the frontal lobe area of their brain,
which is responsible for personality, judgment, self control and more So,
you have a frontal lobe brain problem if you can't
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show up on time and I had, Well, let me
play this for you, because this is actually when we
didn't get to this morning. We talk to our listeners
on the morning show on KTRH and ask them to,
you know, give us their opinion. Here people who are
chronically late in particular, and this whole time blindness thing.
Here's what one of our callers have to say. This
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is kind of a scary thought.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Time blindness is not just limited to being on time.
HR departments are now recognizing time blindness as a legitimate handicap,
so employees are now using it to not complete tasks
on time.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
What a legitimate handicap. It's not your fault that you
can't get down with that project that was due by
noon on Friday because you have time blindness. It's not
your fault that you were supposed to be work at
nine but you didn't show up tonight until nine forty
(04:17):
in the morning because you have time blindness. Man, if
there's one thing we've done a really good job of
in this country, it's creating excuses for people, and it's
amazing how many of us are more than happy to
take advantage of that. All right, but let's get some
more listener reactions here to time blindness and people who
are chronically late. It's called what if time? What if
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there's an accident, what if you have a flat, what
if there's traffic, what if you do get lost? What
if time?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
So I don't know about the ADHD thing. I mean,
I was diagnosed to ADHD long, long time ago.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Back in grade school.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
But I've always been either directly on time or early.
So I'm not saying I can debunk it, but I
just I believe it's a load of hogwash.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Good morning, Jimmy.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
I was always told that if you're five minutes early,
you're ten minutes leep.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
Hey, Jimmy, this is Daniels reporter.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
I'm a prior military guy, and.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Our motto was early is on time, on time as late.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I think most of your prior service guys, especially combat
arms guys, got to live by something similar than we
used to have a saying Murphy follows the infantryment.
Speaker 9 (05:35):
So that's that's that's.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
How I live, sir, Well, listen, that military thing is
a great point to bring up. Do you think that
anybody in the military is going to buy time blindness
and offer that up as an excuse. I'm sorry I
could make revelry this morning, sergeant, because you know, I
got time blindness, and I couldn't. Y'all, I can't respond
to you know, getting up this early in the morning.
(06:01):
How long do you think that would last in the military. Yeah,
I mean this is to me, time blindness is a
bunch of psychobabble. If you really do have it, there
are more than there are plenty of ways to compensate
for it. Stop making excuses. All right, let's grab a
few more.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, it's a man being in construction and working on
the farm home a lot.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I'm always up early, ready to go.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
Let's get it.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Done time wise for heat and stuff like that. But
what about Dwight Yoakam's always late with your kisses? Are
always whiting on a woman? You know?
Speaker 9 (06:37):
Oh hey, Jimmy, it's David in Jersey Village. But me,
I try to be on time whenever possible, and I'm
pretty good at it. But my brother and I just
want to share. He's always one of those that are late.
As a matter of fact. We go off together a lot,
and if he finds himself running on time, he'll find
something to do like rake the yard, do the dishes,
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do something that just totally makes them fifteen minutes late.
And I witness it all the time. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Take care was he he wants to be fashibally late?
Maybe are there are there still people believe that that's
a cool thing to be fashiably late? Or is it
a passive aggressive thing? To me, it sounds like a
passive aggressive thing. You know, if you have somebody who
really knows you are super bothered by them being habitually late,
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and they go out of their way to be late,
then they're trying to tweak you. That's a very passive
aggressive form of behavior. Right, quick little break back with
Morne moment, Jimmy Barrett Show here on AM nine fifty KPRC.
(07:55):
My couple little stories to talk about in this segment here,
both of which cost money to you and me as
taxpayers in a whole variety of different ways. One of
them we'll get to here in just a couple of
minutes involves paper plates. Today's July the first, So today,
yesterday was the last day that that car dealers could
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issue paper plates as temporary plates. They're going to metal
plates now. Either when you sell your car, your license plate,
your current license plate, we either transfer over with you,
or you'll end up with a metal temporary plate, not
a paper plate, because there's too much counterfeiting in paper
plates or altering the paper plates and using as a
(08:40):
way to circumvent registration and insurance for that vehicle. And
it happens all the time. My guess is is that
one of the reasons why it happens is we haven't
put a whole lot of punishment in connection with it.
But we'll get in that a couple minutes. But I
want to start with this because I saw this report
on k h o U eleven about stolen's signs in
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the city. Street signs, stop signs, those type of things. Now,
I remember as a kid, you ever have friend or
friends that they'd had like their bedroom decorated with like
traffic lights or or street signs, or maybe they found
a street sign that had a funny name on it,
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like like butt Lick Drive, you know, so they saw,
I gotta get that sign, so they saw the sign
and they took that sign, or they just want to
have a stop sign in their bedroom or or whatever
it may be. You know, the signs cost money. Let's
get to the report first and see how big of
a problem this is in the city of Houston. Here's
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the report from k h o U eleven.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
Over the past year, driving in her Northeast Houston neighborhood,
Kathy Gunter noticed a powder. She says street signs were missing.
And it wasn't just a few.
Speaker 10 (09:55):
When I couldn't identify where I was, and I said, okay,
that's it's becoming a problem.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
When she and other community leaders in District B started
to track the issue, they found it went deeper. In
just the first six months of twenty twenty five, Houston
Public Works confirms at one hundred and sixty five signs
were replaced in the district, and gunters she has reason
to believe some were stolen.
Speaker 10 (10:17):
When we have an accident or incident like that, you'll
see the poll you know, you see the remnants of
what's left.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
But in many of the cases she encountered, those polls
were undamaged and the hardware meant to hold the street
signs remained with nothing attached.
Speaker 10 (10:32):
Do we pay tax dollars, That's where our money goes
to for street signs roads in different conditions, So we're
paying for that, and so if you're taking and you're stealing, it.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Kind of shocking, but I wasn't surprised.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
In the middle of June, District B Councilwoman Tarsha Jackson
notified Houston City Council about the issue. She tells us
she now suspects that some of the signs missing from
her district may be among those being sold on Facebook
from Houston area sellers, some for as low as thirty dollars.
Speaker 10 (11:01):
You know, people want a street sign with their name
on it, and what way to get it is have
someone take to sign and sell it.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
However, the cost to replace those signs, it's not as cheap.
According to Public Works, the costs one hundred and fifty
dollars to replace a street name sign. Stop signs are
even more. With all the signs replaced across the city
this year for various reasons, that's hundreds of thousands of
dollars spent.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
You know, Stealing a street sign is one thing. I mean,
that's that's an inconvenience. You come up on a corner
and the street sign's gone, so you don't know exactly
what corner you're on. But if you're using GPS, then
that can compensate for it. But stealing a stop sign,
that's like a matter of public safety. If you come
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up with an intersection there's no stop sign there and
you keep running on going and you end up getting
plowed by somebody, you know that that's a public safety issue.
By the way, a distion research the stop sign theyn
mentioned the price and stop sign one hundred and fifty
bucks for a street sign five hundred dollars for a
stop sign five hundred bucks. What in the world makes
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that stop sign worth five hundred dollars. It's not a
complicated pattern, it's not a whole bunch of paint choices.
It's not that big generally speaking. So what is it
about that sign? They cost five hundred dollars? That seems ridiculous.
But anyway, we have a lot of missing street signs
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in Houston. Here's the other thing that happens with street
signs here, and I notice it here more well, in fact,
I know it's here more than any other place I've
ever lived. Is is the heat we get. It gets
so hot here. You know, those street signs are metal,
and it's paint on metal. And what happens over the
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course of time here in Houston, I'm sure you've noticed,
is the sun beats down on this street signs and
the and the paint starts to peel off, and they
get to the point where you can't read them anymore,
and they have to be replaced. That way, I wonder
if you put together stolen street signs with the need
to replace street signs with new ones because the paint
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burned off because of the hot sun. I mean you're
probably talking about a pretty big chunk of change. I
wonder how much Harris County spends every year replacing street signs.
It's got to be quite a bit. Oh And as
long as i'm on the on the topic of the
street signs, is there like a regular program? When when
do we determine that you need to paint or repaint
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the lanes on the highway? When do we make that determination?
I take the North Freeway into work every day, and
there was a part of it too, I want to say,
like two years ago, maybe three years ago. They got
repainted because the lane markers had worn out, had thinned out,
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and you couldn't bear see them. And they repainted. Then
they stopped at a certain point and they'd never gone
back and picked it back up again. And so there's
a section of the North Freeway where you can't really tell,
especially when it's raining. You can't really tell the the disbarket,
whatever the word is, the the you can't really tell
the difference between one lane and the next lane because
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the markers are worn off. I just kind of wonder,
how you know how often they do that?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
All?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Right?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
So that that's the street thing. The other thing is
that the paper plates paper plates, and yesterday I mentioned
that earlier. Here's the report from CBS Texas about the
end of paper plates in Texas and why this is happening. Hello,
we're on.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Patrol with Graham Prairie Police where a fake tag is
often hiding and something worse.
Speaker 11 (14:51):
The reason I'm stopping is the license plates on your
car is not real? What's going on with it?
Speaker 8 (14:54):
Off?
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Sir Thomas Barrettini is with the Vehicle Crimes Unit.
Speaker 11 (14:58):
You knew that the life since flight, it's not real,
and you put it onto your vehicle, you understand that's
a crime.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Right.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
He's seen this over and over, a fake tag slapped
on a car to hide what's really missing, no registration
and no insurance.
Speaker 11 (15:14):
The plate itself, the number comes back to a real car,
comes back to a Honda. It just doesn't want on here.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
So that's where it would have said. Right there is
where it would have said.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Up exactly, Honda exactly.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
But that was that's the limber.
Speaker 11 (15:26):
Yeah, look's got her real license plate underneath.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
For years, Texas let car dealers print temporary tags, but
criminals turned that into a loophole copy paste print and
just like that a ghost car.
Speaker 12 (15:47):
This is devastating, It's devastating.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
In twenty twenty three, Grand Prairie's police she fought to
change the law after one of his officers was killed
chasing a car with a fake paper Fraudulent.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Paper tags are the criminal.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Instrument of choice for drug traffickers, human smugglers, auto theft, rings,
streak gangs.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
That year, lawmakers passed House Bills seven eighteen banning paper
tags for good, but the law was put on hold
until now to give the DMV time to build a
news system, one that ties every plate to a name
an address.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Having that information in advance.
Speaker 13 (16:28):
Are they a documented gang member, let's say, or do
they have a violent history?
Speaker 6 (16:31):
How they tried to kill a police officer before?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Wouldn't you think that'd be helpful for an officer right now?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Before they went up to that window.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Monday was the last day most paper tags can legally
be printed. They'll expire in sixty days, so by September first,
all of them should be gone.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Okay, the law be gone. And so you see somebody
with the paper plate, you know automatically that's the problem.
That's fine, that's all well and good. But here's what
I have to wonder about the paper plates. It's not
illegal to sell a paper plate a fake paper plate
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in Texas. It's not illegal to do that, So there's
no real punishment for whoever provides the fake paper plate.
The only crime is if you displayed, if you put
it on a vehicle in order to avoid registering the
vehicle or having insurance on the vehicle, that part is
the crime. I don't know what the punishment is, and
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it's been interesting to know the in that report, the
police officer who pulled that person over, and I assume
gave them a ticket, right, how much is the ticket?
I mean, how much does that cost. If it's just
a minored, little slap on the wrist fine, then there's
not really much of a penalty to prevent people from
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doing it, in which case maybe that's what the problem
was to begin with. Anyway, we're gonna take a little
break the Senate. Last I heard, and again we're taping
this morning, so maybe something's happened, but it didn't happen yesterday.
In fact, it seems like even fewer people today on
the right are willing to vote for the big beautiful bill.
(18:12):
So we'll do a big Beautiful Bill Update. See where
we're at. Coming up next Jimmy Part Show here on
AM nine fifty KPRC. All right, welcome back, Big Beautiful Bill.
(18:43):
Last I heard is still you know, they've been doing
a vote rama in the Senator. You're trying to get
this thing through. There's been changes in this bill, and
the changes were an attempt to get support, and maybe
it will end up working. I'm not sure. But the
problem is is that the changes that they have made
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in the Senate have made the bill even more expensive
and less palapable to people like Chip Roy. And you've
got to remember the bill only passed the House by
one vote. That's it, so you've only got you don't
have any room to lose anybody. And Chip Roy took
the floor of the House yesterday to talk about the
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problems he has with the Senate version of the Big
Beautiful Bill.
Speaker 14 (19:31):
We're not going to devote on our debt. We're not
going to let taxes go up in the end before
this year's over. They don't go up till December. We're
going to do what we need to do on the border.
I'd like to do it in this bill, but I'm
not going to do it in this bill. If this
bill is adding to the debt, not doing what it
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needs to do on the green news scam, not doing
what it needs to do on Medicaid, not doing what
it needs to do on countless other issues, I'm not
gonna do it. If it's going to be a big
giveaway to blue state tax jurisdictions in state and local
taxes where they want my friends in this conference who
represent big tax states like New York, California, Oh, they
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want a bigger deduction for their state taxes. Well, why
the hell should I subsidize their stupid decisions in their
states for their expensive taxes. Why should my constituents have
to do that? Why should we continue to allow food
stamps to go to the able bodied? Why should we
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continue to have Medicaid go to the able bodied and
not have work requirements or not deal with the money
laundering scam. Why shouldn't we, by the way, have health
savings accounts? The Senate bill took our health savings accounts
out of the House bill. Why should we continue to
have taxpayer funded sex change operations? The Senate bill puts
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that back in. Why should we not tax these big
university endowments, these universities that are engaging in political activism,
taking massive federal money and federal student loan support, why
shouldn't we tax more. The Senate reduces our tax on
university endowments to raise revenue by twenty percent.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
So there's a lot of things there to not like
about what the Senate is doing with that bill. Then again,
there are probably a lot of things about the bill too,
like it's the art of compromise, which is how bills
get passed. Unfortunately, most of the time, the compromise is
such that it is water the bill down to the
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point where it's not nearly as good as it should be.
And that may be what's happening here with the Big
Beautiful Bill. Elon Musk certainly think so. In fact, I
think he said today that if the Big Beautiful Bill passes,
he's going to start a third political He wants an
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independent third political party to challenge Democrats and Republicans. So
that's an interesting position he's decided to take. All right, now,
there's still plenty of supporters in the Senate for the
Big Beautiful Bill. One of them, make sure I get
the right name here. One of them is United States Senator.
(22:26):
Where's this Roger Marshall. That's who it is, Roger Marshall.
Here he is talking about the big beautiful bill vote
a rama, and where he thinks this whole thing is added.
Speaker 15 (22:37):
Well, Liz, we're in deep debate now. We call it
vote rama. We're having lots of amendment votes. And if
I was JD. Vance, I'd make sure I keep tonight open.
We may need him to come and break the tie.
Speaker 16 (22:48):
All right, what do you make of the big fight
over But let me back up? What is the sticking point?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Now?
Speaker 16 (22:52):
There's a big fight over medicaid cuts. You know, people
are saying the Senate is going to cut a trillion
dollars out of Medicaid over a decade, that sixteen million
are going to lose healthcare. What do you say to that?
Or is this about reducing the rate of spending growth
in Medicaid? Medicaid spending will still go up and those
people will still be on Obamacare getting coverage.
Speaker 15 (23:12):
Yeah, Liz, So I'm so proud of the work we've
done on Medicaid. We're going to strengthen it, We're going
to preserve it for those who need it the most.
We are protecting it for seniors and nursing homes for children,
for pregnant women, for people with disabilities. And to your point,
we're actually increasing the spending on Medicaid faster than the
rate of inflation. We're going to spend two hundred billion
dollars more per year. But most importantly, we're going to
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protect and preserve it for those who need it the
very very most, and for rural hospitals. You were kind
of going back and forth of that. We actually have
a big fund for rural hospital.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (23:43):
Of the people that lose Medicaid, probably half of them
are on there fraudulently or through some type of abuse
or air. The other half that are going to lose
Medicaid are people that are refusing to work. When I
say work, all we're asking is people to work or
volunteer or go to school twenty hours a week. Now
back home, people are harvesting week. There were working twenty
hours in a day. So we're asking twenty hours a
week and you won't lose your Medicaid. There's seven million
(24:06):
healthy American men out there in the country working age
that are not working. Seven million healthy American men not working.
We have seven million open jobs. Let's help those folks
find a job, bring back dignity and purpose to their own.
Speaker 16 (24:18):
Interesting you say that because in a Senate majority with
John Barrasso cited an AI study that found able bodied
adults on Medicaid who don't want to work, they spend
more than four hours a day watching TV and playing
video games.
Speaker 15 (24:31):
Final word, Yeah, let's get this help those folks find
a job.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I have empathy.
Speaker 15 (24:34):
I think a job brings purpose to you. Are community
collegist tech colleges back home. We're going to help you
find a job as well. Let's all live that American dream.
This bill is the start of a new golden economic
era for America. I'm proud to be part of it.
We got to get it across the finish.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
You know, I hear Medicaid. I hear Medicaid all the time.
Being brought as a reason not to support this bill
cuts to Medicaid. The only thing we're talking about cutting
from Medicaid is people who refuse to work, able bodied
people who refuse to work. Medicaid was never intended to
be a health insurance supplement for people who are perfectly healthy, perfectly,
(25:14):
perfectly able to hold a job. If they're willing to
do so. That's never what the intention of Medicaid was.
It was for people who are disabled, people who can't
provide for themselves, people who can't work, don't have a job,
can't work. We have tons of job openings in this country.
There are plenty of jobs for able to body people.
(25:36):
The problem is we just can't find people willing to
do the work because we've made it just way too
easy to be unemployed. You know, between SNAP benefits and
Medicaid benefits and other benefits, it's just really easy to
not work. You know, if you don't have a work,
I think you don't have to worry. The country will
(25:58):
still take care of you. Well, that I guess is yeah,
Well that's that socialism is what that is. That's not capitalism.
That's not you know, we're still, except for maybe New
York City going forward, we're still a capitalist country. Right
at least last time I checked, we were all right.
One more for you this time around. This has to
do with the Fed, as Jerome Powell continues to get
(26:20):
a tremendous amount of pressure on interest rates and more
and more people are just saying, once again, too little,
too late, they're not they're not taking action. They need
to take action. Here's private wealth. He's a strategist in
private wealth. His name is Jim Thorne, who says the
Federal Reserve is going to have to significantly lower rates
(26:43):
in the second half of the year to make up
for their inaction.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Now, I think the bond vigilantes are realizing that the
facts are piling up and they realize that the Fed
is on the wrong side of history and that we're
going to have to dramatically cut rates to you know,
two seven to two fifty, something that you and I
have been talking about for a long time. Now it's
going to become consensus. And when that happens, the stock
(27:08):
market goes higher and we get a period of bull
market stress. Everybody thinks that there's going to be a
retest of the lows. They're absolutely wrong, and Charles is
going to feel like the back half of nine or
the back half of twenty twenty, where you're going to
have people rushing and reaching per performance. It's going to
get crazy in the back half of the year.
Speaker 17 (27:30):
If we make a mistake here, people will pay a benefit.
It will pay that people will pay a cost for
a long time. So when when did when does the
FED realize this?
Speaker 7 (27:41):
I think they're going to try to they're trying to
save face. I mean I watched Powell today and yesterday,
and it's absolutely it's an embarrassment to see how the
FED has devolved into where we are right now. Look,
terrorists aren't inflationary. You take out shelter, which is lagging.
You have inflation below target, Unemployment is starting to rise,
(28:03):
but yet it's okay. You know, we're going to have
an economy that is going to slow, but we're not
going to go into a recession. So you know, the
FED needs to get to neutral. I think they got
head faked by the Biden administration and they got burned,
and I think they're fearful of an inflation spiral, and
I think they're absolutely wrong.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Huh yeah, well a lot of people would agree with you, sir,
that they are absolutely wrong. We'll see if they make
a correction sooner verses later. All right, quick little break
back with our final segment in just a moment. Jimmy
verchow Am nine to fifty KPRC. All right, welcome back,
(28:58):
final segment today Here fifty k PORC Jimmy Barry's show,
The Winning Streak. We talked a little bit about this yesterday,
about the winning streak that the president's on and I'm
trying to think of anything that he's lost at recently. Nope,
can't think of a thing. Today he went to Alligator
(29:18):
Alli in Florida to take a look at the new
detention center that the State of Florida is donating to
the federal government. This is for, of course, for people
who are in the process of being deported. We mentioned
this yesterday with the protesting that was going on. But again,
you know this, this administration doesn't care much about protesting.
(29:40):
Go ahead, and if you do want to protest, by
the way, and if you do want to cause a riot,
then maybe we'll just sue you about that. Let's start
with this. Here is Attorney General Pambondi. She got asked
about this lawsuit she has filed against Los Angeles and
the mayor of Los Angeles over the ice riots. And
then and she also got asked about something on CNN,
(30:02):
And let me quickly set that up so you know
what she's going to be talking about. CNN yesterday was
showing a video of an app of an app that
tracks ICE and we'll tell you where ICE agents are,
give you heads up warning that ICE is in the area,
which of course can put our ICE agents in danger,
and of course is also helping in criminals because these
(30:24):
people are here illegally are criminals when you get right
down to it. So here's the Attorney General, Pam Bondi
on both of those issues.
Speaker 18 (30:32):
Yeah, it was Sean in Los Angeles what LA was doing,
and we also sued Karen Bass, the mayor, directly. What
they were doing is they were prioritizing illegal aliens over
American citizens, and you cannot do that. These sanctuary policies
are the root of the cause of violent crime in
(30:52):
our country. In LA, we saw it with the riots.
We had to send out DEA, FBI atf R US
marshals redize their safety to help enforce the laws of
Los Angeles. We are not going to produce We're not
going to protect illegal aliens over Americans no longer it stopped.
We have sued New York, Illinois, Colorado, New Jersey, and
(31:15):
now we've sued Los Angeles and we will continue to
sue you if you do not follow the laws of
our country.
Speaker 13 (31:22):
You know, We've had Tom Homan on many times on
the program, and he's talked about a dramatic increase in
violence against ICE agents over four hundred and fifty percent.
I mean, really scary numbers. If you have or put
out an application or a warning system that ICE agents
(31:44):
are in the area, are you guilty of obstruction? Are
you guilty of aiding and a betting in that case?
And by the way, if you're a sanctuary state, does
that status aid in a bet just the very status
of it.
Speaker 18 (31:59):
Yeah, that's what he's doing. And people, obviously are ICE agents,
all of our federal agents who are working hand in
hand on these task force, our federal agents from the
Justice Department, could be injured there. He's giving a message
to criminals where our federal officers are and he cannot
do that. And we are looking at it.
Speaker 16 (32:20):
We are looking at him.
Speaker 18 (32:21):
And he better watch out because that's that's not a
protected speech. That is threatening the lives of our law
enforcement officers throughout this country. And shame on CNN. I
just saw that for the first time when you showed it,
that they're promoting that app for our law enforcement officers
who are out there protecting them. Protecting all of us
every single day.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Okay, Well, we'll see. We'll see what, if anything, the
Department of Justice does about that. You know, it'd be
interesting for that d end up in court as far
as you know where free speech ends and where aiding
and abutting criminals begins. You know, for a news out
in particular, that that would kind of be an interesting
(33:03):
line to have to draw on the sand But as
long as we're on the topic of CNN, I will
say this, at least at least one host on CNN
willing to admit that Donald Trump is on a roll.
Speaker 19 (33:17):
I'm talking about offering an objective analysis in view of
what's transpired in the last two weeks that I've laid
out substantively and with data, he's been on a roll.
Who among us could deny how consequential Trump two point
zero is turning out to be. But in order for
you to recognize that, you need to have an open
(33:38):
mind about what's transpiring.
Speaker 12 (33:40):
Frankly, all these successes bore me one after the other.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Oh my god.
Speaker 12 (33:45):
But you know, we've all been to magic shows as
kids at birthdays, hundreds of magic shows. So when we
see a guy show up with a top hat. Chances
are rabbit's going to come out of it. You know,
when a magician saws a woman in half, you're not
gonna call nine one one, Just wait a minute, she's
gonna come back together. But Democrats are like the guy
(34:07):
always shocked when he pulls a rabbit out of his hat. Literally,
they're suffering from this delusional amnesia where they cannot grasp how.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Does he keep doing this? He keeps doing this.
Speaker 12 (34:18):
If Chris Murphy watched the magician saw a woman in half,
he would probably run home and tell his wife the
hazards to cutlery are overstated, and then he'd pull out
a large knife and go, let me show you, honey.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
That is how stupid they are.
Speaker 12 (34:35):
Trump never ceases to surprise them with success because it's
based on things they are incapable of grasping, which is
reason incentives. That's the big thing, clear eyed action. But
it really is incentives. And you said, look, it's more
like what Paul said. It's convergence. These things seem to
be coming together, and ideally dem should be happy for
(34:57):
this because it's good stuff for the country, even if
they hate guy that's behind it. But there was this
new study that shows that pride among Democrats has hit
at the lowest it's ever been. What's interesting about that
was when Biden was in office, eighty five percent of
Republicans were extremely or very proud. So love of country
was on a separate rail from our own politics. And
(35:21):
that's the problem for the Democrats. If politics isn't going
their way, it affects their brains, it affects their emotions,
it affects their patriotism, it affects their relationships with other people.
They must contaminate all areas with their misery. They have
to somehow their political disappointment must become everyone's problem.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
And that's the truth. Oh, by the way, if thirty
six percent of Democrats, only thirty six percent field patriotic
towards the United States, So and that number keeps getting worse.
We'll tackle that one on tomorrow morning show. Hope you
tune in then I'll hope see you tomorrow morning Biden
early five am on news radio seven forty KTRH. We
are back here at four on a nine fifty k
p r C
Speaker 8 (36:06):
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