October 2, 2025 • 31 mins
The next vote to end the government shutdown is tomorrow, and it's not going well for Democrats. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews economist Steve Moore. Steve breaks down how the government shutdown is affecting the economy. GDP growth over the last few quarters has increased in the USA.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, this is the Mark Simon shall On seventoor. Okay,
well it's Thursday. Lots to get to today. We'll get
to the mayoral race, a lot going on there. We'll
get to President Trump and the shutdown. We'll get to
the Yankees in the news. You got a horrific anti
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Semitic terrorist attack in Manchester, England on a synagogue. Got
a crash last night, a fender bender on a runway
at La Guardia Airport. Two planes that one of the
tail hits the nose of the other. Lots of damage.
Not good, not good at all. It's jong Kapoor today,
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although a little less traffic today. Restaurants packed last night.
I don't understand that they're supposed to be empty last night,
but I was on a lot of restaurants in the
world jammed last night. So the shutdown nothing will happen today.
I don't know if it's part well, in part the holiday,
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but also just nothing is today. The next vote on
the shutdown on fixing this is tomorrow, Friday, eleven am.
It's not going well for the Democrats. There's a lot
of pressure on Schumer to just turn around and get
out of this ridiculous position he's put himself in. The
problem is, well, you got two problems. One, we've had
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a lot of shutdowns, they happen all the time, but
this is the first time we've had when we got
two real ridiculous figures running the Democratic side. You got
Schumer and Hakeem Jefferies. Now, the problem is they're both
from New York, they're both from Brooklyn. They both come
from a liberal, far left echo chamber, and that's all
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they know. These two have no contact with actual America, normal, regular,
normal Americans. They just know left wing Brooklyn, that's all
they know. Left wing Manhattan, that's all they know. So
that they exist in that bubble, and they look at
it with that perspective, which is not helping them. Schumer's
problem is he's old, tired, desperate, frightened. He's at the
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end of the line. His political career is over. He
realizes it. He's going to get wiped out if he
ever tries to run again. So he's catering to the
left right now, or he thinks he is, in an awkward,
klutzy sort of way the way he does everything. And
the other problem is he got Hakeem Jeffries who's a
total humorless stiff, just a ridiculous guy who's not an
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effective leader, just speaks in these stiff proclamations. He doesn't
look good on camera, he doesn't seem real. He just
looks like a mannequin. Trump has gone after him and
Schumer with the sombrero memes, which are hysterical. If you
haven't been watching he's check my Twitter. I remember most
of them are up on my Twitter. It's Schumer, Hakeem
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Jeffries with the sombrero and the mustache and the Mexican music.
They're his stare recle and very funny. Everybody's laughing at them.
And Hakeem Jeffries made a huge mistake the first day
or two. He just got pompous and so serious and uh.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
It's a disgusting video, and we're going to continue to
make clai biggotry will get you nowhere.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
It's a meme, it's funny, they're hysterically. Nobody can watch
them and not laugh. Uh. And then the fake news
tried to play it up, you know with Civan. I'm
not siv jd Vans, jd Vans and so what about
these you're biggot memes.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Well, I think it's funny. The president's joking and we're
having a good time. You can negotiate in good faith
while also poking a little bit of fun at some
of the absurdities of the Democrats' positions, and even you know,
poking some fun at the absurdity of the Democrats themselves.
I mean, I'll tell Hakeem Jeffries right now, I make
this solemn promise to you that if you help us
reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
But they're very funny. Take a look at it. They're
up on my Twitter. You can see them. Somebody must
have gotten a Hikeem Jeffries or a bunch of somebodies
and said, will you lighten up? Will you stop with
this pompous act you're doing? You look ridiculous. So now
he's trying to fight back with his own memes against Trump.
Maybe it was Gavin Newsom. Newsom has become very good
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at that. He's become the king of fighting Trump fire
with Trump fire. Whatever tactics Trump uses, he'll use him
right back.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I guess you know, you could say, you know you're
not supposed to be if you're the president of the
United States. You're not supposed to be like a kid
putting funny memes up on TikTok. Well, yeah, maybe that's
the nineteen ninety nine rule or even the two thousand
and six rule, but it's twenty twenty five. The game
is being reinvented. And Trump, for all his great stuff
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he can do as president, he is and you can
argue whether it's right or wrong, but he is like
a big kid. He's like a kid having fun. He's
still a private sector guy. He's not a you know,
formal you know, government politician, Washington formal, none of that
false formality. It's just himself. And this is what business
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guys do. You know, This is what Wall Street guys
are famous for. It passing jokes around, memes around, laughing,
you know. So Trump has brought that sensibility to the
White House, and that's that might be the problem. He
you know, Trump is a cutting edge guy, leading the
way ahead of the curve. The problem with Schumer is
he still looks like it's nineteen ninety three. Even when
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he makes those videos it's him on the Capitol steps
with the Capitol behind. It looks so old and how
dated and stiff. The whole fight now is Republicans have
reduced it to Democrats want health care for illegals, And
they'll argue and argue and argue, it's not true.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Donald Trump and Republicans have shut the government down because
they don't want to provide healthcare to working class Americans.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Now, of course that's not true. So you got lives,
you know, going all over the place. There's two lies
they'll tell. Trump wants to get it to working Americans,
and the way one way you do that is get
the illegals off off the rolls there because they're draining money.
And then the other big Democrat lie they always do
is he wants to throw them off and use the
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money to hand the money to his billionaire. If nobody's
handing any money to any billionaires, the last thing the
billionaires need is government handing them any money. But does
it provide health care for illegals? Yes, absolutely, absolutely, Even
Jake Tapper, you can't get more fake news, biased left
wing than Jake Tapper. Even he last night had to
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admit on the air that he's carefully read it all.
It does give health care to illegals. Now it doesn't.
Trump is exaggerating when he says it hands them a
Cadillac plan. That doesn't do that. It doesn't do that
at all. But if they do get health care, if
they do go to the hospital, they will the hospitals
everybody does get reimbursed, and that would be paying for
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illegals health care. So the fight will I don't know.
Friday eleven am is the next vote. It might be
over then there. I don't know who's going to be
bugging Schumer all day and night to get off this position.
He's in a weird, weird position. Everybody thinks he's totally frightened,
scared that AOC is going to wipe him out in
the next election, and he's terrified of AOC, and that's
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why he's catering to them. Here's what she had to say.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
There is one reason and one reason.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Well, here's Mike Johnson.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
There is one reason and one reason alone that Chuck
Schumer is leading the Democrats off this cliff. He is
trying to get political cover from the far left corner
of his base. He's afraid of a challenge for his
Senate seat by AOC.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
He's worried he's going to get a primary challenge from AOC.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
He is afraid of AOC over a clean sard.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Chuck Schumer is afraid of his own shadow.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
And I actually think that shadow's name is AOC.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, now one at AOC. What did she say about it?
Speaker 6 (08:01):
This is so not about me in this moment. If
those senators think that we're having a shutdown because of me,
they're free to enter my office and negotiate, because what
we're not going to do is allow all of millions
of people in this country to not be able to
afford their insulin and their chemotherapy. So come strike a
deal with me, if that's what they really think.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Is going on.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
The real answer, yes, he's afraid of AOC. The problem
is he's at the end of his ropes, end of
the line. He can't get reelected. He's finished. He's another
Jerry Nadler. He's done. The Democrats hate him, they don't
want him. He's out. If AOC decides to run for Senate,
be easy as can be. She'll be able to fund.
The one secret of Schumer is his fundraising. Nobody is
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bigger with taking care of billionaires and donors than Schumer.
That's all he does. Donors service, and that means billionaires,
special interests, unions. He takes care of them, as they'll
all the billionaires will tell you, Even the Republicans one
back Schumer. They'll say, I could wake this guy up
at two in the morning. He'll do anything I want.
They all have his cell number to get anything. Now
they have to give massive donations in exchange. So he's
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always been the king of fundraising. That's why he was
never scared of an opponent. But AOC could be a
fundraising machine. She could raise a ton of money very
very fast. So he's terrified to her. If now it's
a way off, it's a year and a month from now.
By early next year, Schumer may realize there's nothing he
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can do. It's over. He would announce. Then he's not
gonna seek reelection, and then he'd be free to go
back to the old Chuck Schumer from forty years ago.
Just act on principle, but don't count on it. Don't
count on it. Hey, the mayoral race, here's the problem.
The election is thirty three days away. Only thirty three
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days till the election. Here's a bigger problem. It's only
twenty three days till early voting begins three days. The
debate is two weeks from tonight. Two weeks till the debate.
That could change things. Mom Donnie's very good in debates.
He ducks questions. It's not like he gives you solid answers,
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but his manner. You know, he talks very quickly anytimes,
like he really knows what he's talking about. And if
you talk a little quicker, you can sound very smart.
And he's got a wonderful tone that makes him sound
like he's trying to help you. And Curtis is an
excellent debater. He's the only professional debater in the race.
He's been doing it for thirty five years. Cuomo talks
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so slow. He's a bad debater, and he's a horrible debater.
That's why we have Mon Donni. If it hadn't been
for Cuomo, you would not have Mom Donnie. Cuomo gave
you Mom Donnie democratic debate, both of them, two of them.
Cuomo was so weak and old and tired and talks
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so slow, and Mom Donnie was able to easily wipe
him out, and that's how he got the nomination. So
this could be in two weeks a bad, bad night
for Cuomo. Mam Donnie's great in debates, Curtis's great in debates.
Cuomo will talk so slow that he'll look so Cuomo
could wipe himself out in two weeks. Now you're gonna say, well,
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he's gonna prepare and prepare and train, and they'll give
him write all kinds of lines for him. The youth. Well,
when he got wiped out in the first debate, they
did that for him in the second debate. And no
matter what he hit when Mom Donnie with Mom Donnie
just pounded him into the ground. So uh now, hey,
the commercials are running. Mom Donnie's got very sharp looking commercials,
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very sharp, very well done. Mom Donnie is heavily financed.
You know, he keeps talking about these billionaires. Meantime he's
got billionaires all over the place back in him, big
money commercials. Cuomo has a new commercial which looks a
little silly. It looks like a very expensive commercial. It's
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about the commercial says I don't know how to do
a lot. There's a lot of jobs I go. And
then it shows him working at a car wash. Then
it shows him hanging off a skyscraper as a window washer,
and then it shows him driving the subway train, all
these different looks very expensive, all these things. Well, it
turns out it was AI and it's very well done
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with AI. Looks very real, but it shows him in
all these different sort of jobs. And then it comes
to but there's only one thing I know how to do,
and that's run government. But it's kind of a silly commercial.
I don't know. Now there's one that Curtis has a
lot of good commercials. They're not attacking Mamdannie so much.
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They're more pro Curtis and the latest one. Half the
commercially he's got the Bereton. Half the commercially he doesn't
have the Bereton. But they're very good commercials. Mamdannie and
Curtis definitely the best commercials. Cuomo's look a little silly. Hey,
by the way, You know how they always say, ohoh,
never apologize. You know, he killed ten thousand seniors, He
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killed people's grandparents and nursing homes, and a lot of
the critics say that's his main problem. He's never been
able to apologize. He can't admit to it, he can't apologize,
and that's been the case. But he made a video
apologizing to the Jewish community, the Orthodox Jewish community. He
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made this video and distributed it just within the private
Orthodox community. You can find it online if you're looking
for it. But he apologizes to them. He said, I
sincerely apologize. He apologizes for the lockdown and what he
did and how he locked everything down, and he said,
I didn't realize how he was interfering with some religious
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practices of yours and some important cultural traditions of yours.
And I sincerely apology was very, very sincere apology, but
just for this one group. And the problem is is
that starts to leak out the seniors that were killed,
all the people that had people killed, robbed, raped, or
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became crime victims as a result of Cuomo's no bail,
no jail. They're all gonna say, where's our apology, where's
our apology video? How come we didn't get it?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Speaking of which, great speech by Ray Kelly yesterday for
our Police Athletical League lunch and Ray Kelly the greatest
police commissioner ever. But you know, Mamdani, everything he proposes
is a complete hoax. I'm gonna make free, the buses
will be free. He has no power to make the
buses free. It's the MTA or whatever he's proposing, he
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has no power to do it. Now, one of the
big proposals, I'm gonna have social workers answer domestic violence calls. Now,
you know, any cop will tell you the most dangerous
thing you can respond to is these domestic violence calls.
That's where there's a gun and knife, a bat. It's
really dangerous. So he keeps talking about that we don't
need to send the cops and will send in social workers.
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So Ray Kelly points out, now, nobody knows policing and
law enforcement better than Ray Kelly, and he's been doing
it for years and years and years, points out, and
I didn't realize this. The police department, the NYPD has
tried that dozens of times over thirty years. They've tried
it a number of times. They've tried it over and
over and over again. A doesn't work and b ends
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up in a total disaster for these healthcare workers. Also,
one of the reasons they have a problem with it,
the social workers won't do it. They don't want to
go into one of these the most dangerous police call
there is without police with them. They don't want to
do it. So he also pointed out Memphis just tried
it and it ended in total disaster. It never ever
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ever works. But that's a Mamdani theme. Socialism. Whatever doesn't
work everywhere it's tried. That's what I'm proposing. Hey, we'll
take some calls. Next eight hundred three to two one
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Speaker 1 (16:10):
Back to the Mark Simo show on WOR. Hey, let's
take some calls. Let's go to Victor in Pennsylvania. Victor,
how you doing.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I'm doing great. First thing is I just heard this
morning that Leticia the idiot James is suing Trump again.
When is she being brought up on.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Her yess getting closer. It's getting closer. She will be
charged with mortgage fraud in Virginia. You got a new
US attorney who's in there working on it. She will
be charged. And look for Adam Schiff to be on
the list. Look for John Bolton to be indicted. He's
in real trouble. Let's go to Joe in New York City.
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Joe how you doing.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Good morning, Mark, Mark. Some people do not want to
vote because they think their names we put on your
jury duty. You listen, they don't want to do jury.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah. No, let's just point out that's a total myth.
Maybe that was true fifty years ago. They get the
list from drivers' licenses, from rent rolls, from taxpayer roles.
It has nothing to do with them, nothing to do
with voting, nothing to do with no connection. They use
every list imaginable now, so that that's an old myth.
Let's go to Richard and Bayshore. Richard, how you doing.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
I'm doing well, Mark, good morning. You know right now,
forty five percent or so of MTA bus passengers are
not paying their fares anyway, it's through law enforcement, nullification
of the law, let's say, by the mayor if it's
made public.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That true. Excellent point. You know this crazy MTA, Jano
liber and Hokel. They've decided to raise the fare on
the subways and buses, and there is an actual, formal,
actual study that's come out showing that half the people
are not paying the fare. They're just not paying and
nobody's enforcing it. And the what they claim they need
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with the fare increase, could you could easily get much
more if you just started enforcing the fares so and
it's easy to do. You can stop turnstile jumping in
two weeks. Ray Kelly did it, Bratton did it, Giuliani did.
It's easy to do. You just started enforcing it where
it gets around real fast and nobody jumps the turnstile anymore.
So no need for that increase that they're they're going
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to push on us. Let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent,
how you doing?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Good morning, Mark, Mark. I'm okay. Mark. You forgot to
mention the fact that also yesterday, with these fare increases,
they're raising the easy pass holes in everything.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, you're right now, all the bridges, tunnels,
everything exactly.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
So gee, I thought the congestion pricing was supposed to
take care of all of this. I guess it's not so.
Mark AOC was crowing about if Trump doesn't sign this
Hakeem Jeffreys healthcare bill, this budget bill, people are gonna
go without their cancer tree and people are going to
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be dropping dead in the streets. Well, hello, I hope
the Supreme Court revisits the case about people showing up
at the er with no health insurance and making the
state and the city have to pick up the tab.
Because when and you'll remember this, when Bill Deblasia was
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running for math, there was a hospital of my neighborhood
and he actually got arrested. He went in front of
the hospital and said, there's no way you're going to
close this hospital, this, that and the other. Right, Okay,
Bill de Blasio got elected. The hospital was losing twenty
five million dollars a month because when you would go
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in the er and I knew a god that was
working in the ear, it looked like the Bowery in there.
It looked like bum's row. Right, So it was losing
twenty five million dollars a month. And a lot of
the hospitals in New York City, downstate Beth Israel, a
lot of same things they closed exactly because all these
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bums shown up at.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
The Now, that's what that's what, that's what really is
in the fight that you want to Democrats say it's
not going to cover health care for It absolutely does.
Absolutely these fact checkers, all these fake factcheckers, it absolutely does.
That's where it covers it. It reimburses the hospital for
all those costs and exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
But there is a lot of costs like for example,
yesterday I had to go and see a new orthopedic surgeon.
I wasn't in the system, so I had to So
when they when I made the appointment, the secretary told
me you got to bring your insurance god, and you
got to bring positive ID. You got to bring a
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driver's license or a passport unless you're not going through
the front door, because they want to know that if
you don't pay, if some something is not paid out
on they want to know where to bill your vincent.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Great call, thanks for calling always great.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
By the way, oh, we have to have a driver's license.
Well they've come out with a new driver's license now
with no name on it. It's a it'll actually say
where the name is. It'll say no name given. You
can have a blank driver's license with no name. This
is not a joke. Remind me. We'll get to it
in the next hour. But when we come back, Steve
Moore will be with us. The brilliant economist coming up
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next on seven to ten wor.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Mark Simon.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
We're looking for Steve Moore. What a shot, hun Now
he'll turn up. I'll bet you we find him. You
know then I don't want to predict, but I bet
you we'll find him. So hey, if you want a
luxury home, how much you have to spend a luxury home?
What's considered a luxury home? How much? A million dollars? No,
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that won't do it anymore. It used to, but according
to realtor dot com, a millionion dollars will no longer
buy a luxury home in America anymore. A new analysis
shows one point three million, at least one point three
million starting point for a luxury home, and that they
could what they call luxury home is if it's in
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the top ten percent of the home listings. But to
get in the top ten percent, you now need to
spend one point three million. Just ten years ago, it
was eight hundred thousand. Now if you want to get
in the top one percent, got to be five and
a half million. And obviously geography is a factor. It's
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different in different areas, so prices and you know, prices
keep going up here in New York. I know, the
birthing small. Everybody's going to flee if Mom Donnie comes in,
and it's going to cause a real estate crash. Prices
are going up every day for rentals, for sales everywhere. Well,
we got Steve Moore, the great economist. Get his book,
The Trump Economic Miracle. Check out. He runs the Committee
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to Unleashed Prosperity. Go to the website. Sign up for
the daily briefing, best news and analysis. Just go to
Unleash Prosperity dot com. Steve Moore, how you doing well?
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Hey, Mark, Good to be with you. And a terrible
because you know the I just can't sleep at night
because the Labor Department and Education Department are closed down.
I mean, how am I going to go forward?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah? Hey, don't you know we've got.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Thousands, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of these
quote non essential you know that's their term, non essential
government employees. And we've got we've got an enterprise year
that's losing two trillion dollars a year. Hmm. Maybe Russell
Bob is right. Maybe we just do away with all
these non essential people and we can move to a
balanced budget.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yeah, you know, people forget we have a government shutdown
every week five o'clock Friday night, they shut down for.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Two days exactly. Well, you know, the funny thing is
I guess it's funny. But you know, every I think,
as you know, Mark, every Friday morning, the first Friday
of every month, at eight three in the morning, I'm
with Maria about Aroma. Who does the jobs report? You
know when the big jobs number comes out. They're not
going to do it tomorrow. Did you know that? It's
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I've been told that there will not be a jobs
report because they can't I guess count when the government
to shut down. So we'll we will see about that.
But look, if this is, uh, this is the Schumer shutdown.
You're there in New York, so you've got a lot
of New Yorker voters there. Schumer wanted the shutdown. I
said this a couple of weeks ago, that Schumer was
going to shut the government down. That's exactly what he
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has done. But it's not working for the Democrats. I
don't think Mark. I mean, I'm talking to his normal
people all the time. They're like, why are the Democrats
doing this? Is it really because they just want to
provide free healthcare? They're legal immigrants.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Now they'll say that's a lie, it's a Republican lie.
But tell us the truth.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
It does but it's not a lie. I mean is
I read the text of their version, and it repeals
the provision in the Republican budget that says you are
not permitted that Medicaid dollars can only go to people
who are either legal citizens or legal immigrants in the country.
So that pretty much leaves illegal immigrants out.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
But I was watching Morning Joe, and according to him,
you guys, you're just all to give money to billionaires.
That's all came.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Right, like, though he doesn't say the billionaires are playing
more of the taxes than ever before in American history.
The top one percent pay a larger share of the
tax of income tax than anytime ever since we invented
the income tax and back in nineteen thirteen. So those
are those are just talking points from the Democrats. But
I just don't get it. I mean, I think Schumer's
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kind of thing is is bath learned he lost, as
you know, he lost three Democratic senators in the vote
that happened before that, and I think if you had
another vote, he'd probably lose another three or four. And again,
I want to make sure people understand this mark because
you know, we have Byzantine rules in Washington, so people say, well, look,
the Republicans don't call the House the Senate and the
White House. Why is the government shut down? It's because
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it takes sixty votes in the Senate, sixty out of
one hundred to pass the budget, and all the Republicans
and three Democrats voted for that. But that only brought
us to what fifty five or fifty six, So that's
why there's still five votes are short. But I bet
if they had a vote tomorrow, I think you've been
getting close to sixty. Because the Democrats are getting hammered
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on this. Nobody understands what it is that they're after here.
It's just show voting and trying to embarrass Trump and
trying to get more money. And by the way, I'm
very pro immigration. I think immigrants are great, but no,
you can't let all these people come into the country
and then go to the go and use our healthcare
services and you and I pay for it.
Speaker 8 (26:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
No, we love immigration. We just don't like illegals. I mean,
I love far exactly, I love pharmacists, but I don't
like you illegal drug.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Dealers, I mean legal exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Apparently there is a vote tomorrow eleven am. That's when
they may vote again tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Okay, and I'll bet you I don't know if they'll
get to sixty, but they're going to get close because
the Democrats are feeling the anger of the American people.
And by the way, this does cost money. That's the
other thing that rush Bott is saying is like, well,
you know, when we have these non essential people not
go to the office, did you know they get paid? Yeah, everybody,
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They still get paid. Now, showing on for not having
to work costs. I wish my boss had said that
you can I show up for the office tomorrow, but
I'm still going to pay you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Hey, Steve Moore, let me ask you something. You're a
brilliant economist. We've got great economists, you, Art Laugher, Larry Cudlow,
Steve Forbes. Then you got forty thousand other economists. They
never know what the hell they're talking about, and they're
always wrong. Why is that?
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Yeah, well, we had something in our hotline this morning
about that, and if you want to get that for free,
focus go down leash prospirty dot com and sign up
for free. But we looked at the forecast of all
the blue chip economists, all the smartest economists at all the
big you know, banks and investment firms and so on,
the ones that are paid million dollars a year to
come up with these forecasts, and they are the blue
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chip all the blue chip forecasts. There was almost no exceptions.
They all basically, Oh, we're gonna have one and a
half percent economic growth this year, blah blah blah. Guess what,
both in the second and third quarter we had a
closer four percent growth. How could they be more wrong?
I mean, I would take it's almost like playing pin
the tail on the donkey with the blindfolded person and
you know, trying to put I mean their their projections
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have been completely wrong and the economy's done much better
this year than almost all of the economy. Remember Paul Krugman,
that one he said, oh my god, we're gonna have
a second great depression of Trump goes back into office.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
I looked at the stock markets doing pretty well.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Well. You know, I could understand the New York Times
hiring a total sleazy, biased economist. But if you're a
big Wall Street firm, you got to get it right.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
How can we got it all wrong?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Don't you have to fire the economists to get I mean,
baseball manager gets fired if you losees too many games.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Exactly. No, But that's the thing about you know, the
the economics and power takes it. It doesn't matter how
much many times.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
You're wrong, you know.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
I mean people have written whole books about Paul Krupman
about almost every prediction he ever made. You know, he
remembers he said Internet, that's just a passing fab remember
that one.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
The dumbest guy ever. Doesn't he have a Nobel prize.
Speaker 7 (29:18):
He does, he has a Nobel Prize in economics. So
that's you know who deserves. By the way, since this
is Nobel time, you know the guy who really does
deserve the Nobel Prize, who's probably the most influential living economy.
I mean I don't think probably, I think certainly is
the most impactful economists over the last you know, twenty
five years all over the world is out there laugher
(29:41):
and he still doesn't have a he doesn't have a
Nobel prize yet.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Well, he's got to be Trump bashing.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
And he's got to be much he did that, he
gets that Nobel prize in five minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Well, Steve Moore great work. Now he runs the committee
to Unleashed Prosperity. Go to Unleashed prosperity dot com. You
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Unleash prosperity dot com. Steve Moore, thanks for being with us.
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Okay, Mark, you have a great weekend.
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Yeah, this is the Mark Simon shall On seventoor. Okay,
well it's Thursday. Lots to get to today. We'll get
to the mayoral race, a lot going on there. We'll
get to President Trump and the shutdown. We'll get to
the Yankees in the news. You got a horrific anti
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Semitic terrorist attack in Manchester, England on a synagogue. Got
a crash last night, a fender bender on a runway
at La Guardia Airport. Two planes that one of the
tail hits the nose of the other. Lots of damage.
Not good, not good at all. It's jong Kapoor today,
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although a little less traffic today. Restaurants packed last night.
I don't understand that they're supposed to be empty last night,
but I was on a lot of restaurants in the
world jammed last night. So the shutdown nothing will happen today.
I don't know if it's part well, in part the holiday,
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but also just nothing is today. The next vote on
the shutdown on fixing this is tomorrow, Friday, eleven am.
It's not going well for the Democrats. There's a lot
of pressure on Schumer to just turn around and get
out of this ridiculous position he's put himself in. The
problem is, well, you got two problems. One, we've had
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a lot of shutdowns, they happen all the time, but
this is the first time we've had when we got
two real ridiculous figures running the Democratic side. You got
Schumer and Hakeem Jefferies. Now, the problem is they're both
from New York, they're both from Brooklyn. They both come
from a liberal, far left echo chamber, and that's all
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they know. These two have no contact with actual America, normal, regular,
normal Americans. They just know left wing Brooklyn, that's all
they know. Left wing Manhattan, that's all they know. So
that they exist in that bubble, and they look at
it with that perspective, which is not helping them. Schumer's
problem is he's old, tired, desperate, frightened. He's at the
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end of the line. His political career is over. He
realizes it. He's going to get wiped out if he
ever tries to run again. So he's catering to the
left right now, or he thinks he is, in an awkward,
klutzy sort of way the way he does everything. And
the other problem is he got Hakeem Jeffries who's a
total humorless stiff, just a ridiculous guy who's not an
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effective leader, just speaks in these stiff proclamations. He doesn't
look good on camera, he doesn't seem real. He just
looks like a mannequin. Trump has gone after him and
Schumer with the sombrero memes, which are hysterical. If you
haven't been watching he's check my Twitter. I remember most
of them are up on my Twitter. It's Schumer, Hakeem
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Jeffries with the sombrero and the mustache and the Mexican music.
They're his stare recle and very funny. Everybody's laughing at them.
And Hakeem Jeffries made a huge mistake the first day
or two. He just got pompous and so serious and uh.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
It's a disgusting video, and we're going to continue to
make clai biggotry will get you nowhere.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
It's a meme, it's funny, they're hysterically. Nobody can watch
them and not laugh. Uh. And then the fake news
tried to play it up, you know with Civan. I'm
not siv jd Vans, jd Vans and so what about
these you're biggot memes.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Well, I think it's funny. The president's joking and we're
having a good time. You can negotiate in good faith
while also poking a little bit of fun at some
of the absurdities of the Democrats' positions, and even you know,
poking some fun at the absurdity of the Democrats themselves.
I mean, I'll tell Hakeem Jeffries right now, I make
this solemn promise to you that if you help us
reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
But they're very funny. Take a look at it. They're
up on my Twitter. You can see them. Somebody must
have gotten a Hikeem Jeffries or a bunch of somebodies
and said, will you lighten up? Will you stop with
this pompous act you're doing? You look ridiculous. So now
he's trying to fight back with his own memes against Trump.
Maybe it was Gavin Newsom. Newsom has become very good
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at that. He's become the king of fighting Trump fire
with Trump fire. Whatever tactics Trump uses, he'll use him
right back.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I guess you know, you could say, you know you're
not supposed to be if you're the president of the
United States. You're not supposed to be like a kid
putting funny memes up on TikTok. Well, yeah, maybe that's
the nineteen ninety nine rule or even the two thousand
and six rule, but it's twenty twenty five. The game
is being reinvented. And Trump, for all his great stuff
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he can do as president, he is and you can
argue whether it's right or wrong, but he is like
a big kid. He's like a kid having fun. He's
still a private sector guy. He's not a you know,
formal you know, government politician, Washington formal, none of that
false formality. It's just himself. And this is what business
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guys do. You know, This is what Wall Street guys
are famous for. It passing jokes around, memes around, laughing,
you know. So Trump has brought that sensibility to the
White House, and that's that might be the problem. He
you know, Trump is a cutting edge guy, leading the
way ahead of the curve. The problem with Schumer is
he still looks like it's nineteen ninety three. Even when
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he makes those videos it's him on the Capitol steps
with the Capitol behind. It looks so old and how
dated and stiff. The whole fight now is Republicans have
reduced it to Democrats want health care for illegals, And
they'll argue and argue and argue, it's not true.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Donald Trump and Republicans have shut the government down because
they don't want to provide healthcare to working class Americans.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Now, of course that's not true. So you got lives,
you know, going all over the place. There's two lies
they'll tell. Trump wants to get it to working Americans,
and the way one way you do that is get
the illegals off off the rolls there because they're draining money.
And then the other big Democrat lie they always do
is he wants to throw them off and use the
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money to hand the money to his billionaire. If nobody's
handing any money to any billionaires, the last thing the
billionaires need is government handing them any money. But does
it provide health care for illegals? Yes, absolutely, absolutely, Even
Jake Tapper, you can't get more fake news, biased left
wing than Jake Tapper. Even he last night had to
(06:40):
admit on the air that he's carefully read it all.
It does give health care to illegals. Now it doesn't.
Trump is exaggerating when he says it hands them a
Cadillac plan. That doesn't do that. It doesn't do that
at all. But if they do get health care, if
they do go to the hospital, they will the hospitals
everybody does get reimbursed, and that would be paying for
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illegals health care. So the fight will I don't know.
Friday eleven am is the next vote. It might be
over then there. I don't know who's going to be
bugging Schumer all day and night to get off this position.
He's in a weird, weird position. Everybody thinks he's totally frightened,
scared that AOC is going to wipe him out in
the next election, and he's terrified of AOC, and that's
(07:25):
why he's catering to them. Here's what she had to say.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
There is one reason and one reason.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Well, here's Mike Johnson.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
There is one reason and one reason alone that Chuck
Schumer is leading the Democrats off this cliff. He is
trying to get political cover from the far left corner
of his base. He's afraid of a challenge for his
Senate seat by AOC.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
He's worried he's going to get a primary challenge from AOC.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
He is afraid of AOC over a clean sard.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Chuck Schumer is afraid of his own shadow.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
And I actually think that shadow's name is AOC.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, now one at AOC. What did she say about it?
Speaker 6 (08:01):
This is so not about me in this moment. If
those senators think that we're having a shutdown because of me,
they're free to enter my office and negotiate, because what
we're not going to do is allow all of millions
of people in this country to not be able to
afford their insulin and their chemotherapy. So come strike a
deal with me, if that's what they really think.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Is going on.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
The real answer, yes, he's afraid of AOC. The problem
is he's at the end of his ropes, end of
the line. He can't get reelected. He's finished. He's another
Jerry Nadler. He's done. The Democrats hate him, they don't
want him. He's out. If AOC decides to run for Senate,
be easy as can be. She'll be able to fund.
The one secret of Schumer is his fundraising. Nobody is
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bigger with taking care of billionaires and donors than Schumer.
That's all he does. Donors service, and that means billionaires,
special interests, unions. He takes care of them, as they'll
all the billionaires will tell you, Even the Republicans one
back Schumer. They'll say, I could wake this guy up
at two in the morning. He'll do anything I want.
They all have his cell number to get anything. Now
they have to give massive donations in exchange. So he's
(09:09):
always been the king of fundraising. That's why he was
never scared of an opponent. But AOC could be a
fundraising machine. She could raise a ton of money very
very fast. So he's terrified to her. If now it's
a way off, it's a year and a month from now.
By early next year, Schumer may realize there's nothing he
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can do. It's over. He would announce. Then he's not
gonna seek reelection, and then he'd be free to go
back to the old Chuck Schumer from forty years ago.
Just act on principle, but don't count on it. Don't
count on it. Hey, the mayoral race, here's the problem.
The election is thirty three days away. Only thirty three
(09:52):
days till the election. Here's a bigger problem. It's only
twenty three days till early voting begins three days. The
debate is two weeks from tonight. Two weeks till the debate.
That could change things. Mom Donnie's very good in debates.
He ducks questions. It's not like he gives you solid answers,
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but his manner. You know, he talks very quickly anytimes,
like he really knows what he's talking about. And if
you talk a little quicker, you can sound very smart.
And he's got a wonderful tone that makes him sound
like he's trying to help you. And Curtis is an
excellent debater. He's the only professional debater in the race.
He's been doing it for thirty five years. Cuomo talks
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so slow. He's a bad debater, and he's a horrible debater.
That's why we have Mon Donni. If it hadn't been
for Cuomo, you would not have Mom Donnie. Cuomo gave
you Mom Donnie democratic debate, both of them, two of them.
Cuomo was so weak and old and tired and talks
(10:55):
so slow, and Mom Donnie was able to easily wipe
him out, and that's how he got the nomination. So
this could be in two weeks a bad, bad night
for Cuomo. Mam Donnie's great in debates, Curtis's great in debates.
Cuomo will talk so slow that he'll look so Cuomo
could wipe himself out in two weeks. Now you're gonna say, well,
(11:17):
he's gonna prepare and prepare and train, and they'll give
him write all kinds of lines for him. The youth. Well,
when he got wiped out in the first debate, they
did that for him in the second debate. And no
matter what he hit when Mom Donnie with Mom Donnie
just pounded him into the ground. So uh now, hey,
the commercials are running. Mom Donnie's got very sharp looking commercials,
(11:38):
very sharp, very well done. Mom Donnie is heavily financed.
You know, he keeps talking about these billionaires. Meantime he's
got billionaires all over the place back in him, big
money commercials. Cuomo has a new commercial which looks a
little silly. It looks like a very expensive commercial. It's
(11:58):
about the commercial says I don't know how to do
a lot. There's a lot of jobs I go. And
then it shows him working at a car wash. Then
it shows him hanging off a skyscraper as a window washer,
and then it shows him driving the subway train, all
these different looks very expensive, all these things. Well, it
turns out it was AI and it's very well done
(12:21):
with AI. Looks very real, but it shows him in
all these different sort of jobs. And then it comes
to but there's only one thing I know how to do,
and that's run government. But it's kind of a silly commercial.
I don't know. Now there's one that Curtis has a
lot of good commercials. They're not attacking Mamdannie so much.
(12:43):
They're more pro Curtis and the latest one. Half the
commercially he's got the Bereton. Half the commercially he doesn't
have the Bereton. But they're very good commercials. Mamdannie and
Curtis definitely the best commercials. Cuomo's look a little silly. Hey,
by the way, You know how they always say, ohoh,
never apologize. You know, he killed ten thousand seniors, He
(13:04):
killed people's grandparents and nursing homes, and a lot of
the critics say that's his main problem. He's never been
able to apologize. He can't admit to it, he can't apologize,
and that's been the case. But he made a video
apologizing to the Jewish community, the Orthodox Jewish community. He
(13:25):
made this video and distributed it just within the private
Orthodox community. You can find it online if you're looking
for it. But he apologizes to them. He said, I
sincerely apologize. He apologizes for the lockdown and what he
did and how he locked everything down, and he said,
I didn't realize how he was interfering with some religious
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practices of yours and some important cultural traditions of yours.
And I sincerely apology was very, very sincere apology, but
just for this one group. And the problem is is
that starts to leak out the seniors that were killed,
all the people that had people killed, robbed, raped, or
(14:06):
became crime victims as a result of Cuomo's no bail,
no jail. They're all gonna say, where's our apology, where's
our apology video? How come we didn't get it?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Speaking of which, great speech by Ray Kelly yesterday for
our Police Athletical League lunch and Ray Kelly the greatest
police commissioner ever. But you know, Mamdani, everything he proposes
is a complete hoax. I'm gonna make free, the buses
will be free. He has no power to make the
buses free. It's the MTA or whatever he's proposing, he
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has no power to do it. Now, one of the
big proposals, I'm gonna have social workers answer domestic violence calls. Now,
you know, any cop will tell you the most dangerous
thing you can respond to is these domestic violence calls.
That's where there's a gun and knife, a bat. It's
really dangerous. So he keeps talking about that we don't
need to send the cops and will send in social workers.
(15:00):
So Ray Kelly points out, now, nobody knows policing and
law enforcement better than Ray Kelly, and he's been doing
it for years and years and years, points out, and
I didn't realize this. The police department, the NYPD has
tried that dozens of times over thirty years. They've tried
it a number of times. They've tried it over and
over and over again. A doesn't work and b ends
(15:22):
up in a total disaster for these healthcare workers. Also,
one of the reasons they have a problem with it,
the social workers won't do it. They don't want to
go into one of these the most dangerous police call
there is without police with them. They don't want to
do it. So he also pointed out Memphis just tried
it and it ended in total disaster. It never ever
(15:43):
ever works. But that's a Mamdani theme. Socialism. Whatever doesn't
work everywhere it's tried. That's what I'm proposing. Hey, we'll
take some calls. Next eight hundred three to two one
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Speaker 1 (16:10):
Back to the Mark Simo show on WOR. Hey, let's
take some calls. Let's go to Victor in Pennsylvania. Victor,
how you doing.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I'm doing great. First thing is I just heard this
morning that Leticia the idiot James is suing Trump again.
When is she being brought up on.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Her yess getting closer. It's getting closer. She will be
charged with mortgage fraud in Virginia. You got a new
US attorney who's in there working on it. She will
be charged. And look for Adam Schiff to be on
the list. Look for John Bolton to be indicted. He's
in real trouble. Let's go to Joe in New York City.
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Joe how you doing.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Good morning, Mark, Mark. Some people do not want to
vote because they think their names we put on your
jury duty. You listen, they don't want to do jury.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah. No, let's just point out that's a total myth.
Maybe that was true fifty years ago. They get the
list from drivers' licenses, from rent rolls, from taxpayer roles.
It has nothing to do with them, nothing to do
with voting, nothing to do with no connection. They use
every list imaginable now, so that that's an old myth.
Let's go to Richard and Bayshore. Richard, how you doing.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
I'm doing well, Mark, good morning. You know right now,
forty five percent or so of MTA bus passengers are
not paying their fares anyway, it's through law enforcement, nullification
of the law, let's say, by the mayor if it's
made public.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That true. Excellent point. You know this crazy MTA, Jano
liber and Hokel. They've decided to raise the fare on
the subways and buses, and there is an actual, formal,
actual study that's come out showing that half the people
are not paying the fare. They're just not paying and
nobody's enforcing it. And the what they claim they need
(18:00):
with the fare increase, could you could easily get much
more if you just started enforcing the fares so and
it's easy to do. You can stop turnstile jumping in
two weeks. Ray Kelly did it, Bratton did it, Giuliani did.
It's easy to do. You just started enforcing it where
it gets around real fast and nobody jumps the turnstile anymore.
So no need for that increase that they're they're going
(18:21):
to push on us. Let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent,
how you doing?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Good morning, Mark, Mark. I'm okay. Mark. You forgot to
mention the fact that also yesterday, with these fare increases,
they're raising the easy pass holes in everything.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, you're right now, all the bridges, tunnels,
everything exactly.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
So gee, I thought the congestion pricing was supposed to
take care of all of this. I guess it's not so.
Mark AOC was crowing about if Trump doesn't sign this
Hakeem Jeffreys healthcare bill, this budget bill, people are gonna
go without their cancer tree and people are going to
(19:00):
be dropping dead in the streets. Well, hello, I hope
the Supreme Court revisits the case about people showing up
at the er with no health insurance and making the
state and the city have to pick up the tab.
Because when and you'll remember this, when Bill Deblasia was
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running for math, there was a hospital of my neighborhood
and he actually got arrested. He went in front of
the hospital and said, there's no way you're going to
close this hospital, this, that and the other. Right, Okay,
Bill de Blasio got elected. The hospital was losing twenty
five million dollars a month because when you would go
(19:42):
in the er and I knew a god that was
working in the ear, it looked like the Bowery in there.
It looked like bum's row. Right, So it was losing
twenty five million dollars a month. And a lot of
the hospitals in New York City, downstate Beth Israel, a
lot of same things they closed exactly because all these
(20:03):
bums shown up at.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
The Now, that's what that's what, that's what really is
in the fight that you want to Democrats say it's
not going to cover health care for It absolutely does.
Absolutely these fact checkers, all these fake factcheckers, it absolutely does.
That's where it covers it. It reimburses the hospital for
all those costs and exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
But there is a lot of costs like for example,
yesterday I had to go and see a new orthopedic surgeon.
I wasn't in the system, so I had to So
when they when I made the appointment, the secretary told
me you got to bring your insurance god, and you
got to bring positive ID. You got to bring a
(20:41):
driver's license or a passport unless you're not going through
the front door, because they want to know that if
you don't pay, if some something is not paid out
on they want to know where to bill your vincent.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Great call, thanks for calling always great.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
By the way, oh, we have to have a driver's license.
Well they've come out with a new driver's license now
with no name on it. It's a it'll actually say
where the name is. It'll say no name given. You
can have a blank driver's license with no name. This
is not a joke. Remind me. We'll get to it
in the next hour. But when we come back, Steve
Moore will be with us. The brilliant economist coming up
(21:20):
next on seven to ten wor.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Mark Simon.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
We're looking for Steve Moore. What a shot, hun Now
he'll turn up. I'll bet you we find him. You
know then I don't want to predict, but I bet
you we'll find him. So hey, if you want a
luxury home, how much you have to spend a luxury home?
What's considered a luxury home? How much? A million dollars? No,
(21:53):
that won't do it anymore. It used to, but according
to realtor dot com, a millionion dollars will no longer
buy a luxury home in America anymore. A new analysis
shows one point three million, at least one point three
million starting point for a luxury home, and that they
could what they call luxury home is if it's in
(22:15):
the top ten percent of the home listings. But to
get in the top ten percent, you now need to
spend one point three million. Just ten years ago, it
was eight hundred thousand. Now if you want to get
in the top one percent, got to be five and
a half million. And obviously geography is a factor. It's
(22:36):
different in different areas, so prices and you know, prices
keep going up here in New York. I know, the
birthing small. Everybody's going to flee if Mom Donnie comes in,
and it's going to cause a real estate crash. Prices
are going up every day for rentals, for sales everywhere. Well,
we got Steve Moore, the great economist. Get his book,
The Trump Economic Miracle. Check out. He runs the Committee
(22:59):
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Unleash Prosperity dot com. Steve Moore, how you doing well?
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Hey, Mark, Good to be with you. And a terrible
because you know the I just can't sleep at night
because the Labor Department and Education Department are closed down.
I mean, how am I going to go forward?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah? Hey, don't you know we've got.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Thousands, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of these
quote non essential you know that's their term, non essential
government employees. And we've got we've got an enterprise year
that's losing two trillion dollars a year. Hmm. Maybe Russell
Bob is right. Maybe we just do away with all
these non essential people and we can move to a
balanced budget.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yeah, you know, people forget we have a government shutdown
every week five o'clock Friday night, they shut down for.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Two days exactly. Well, you know, the funny thing is
I guess it's funny. But you know, every I think,
as you know, Mark, every Friday morning, the first Friday
of every month, at eight three in the morning, I'm
with Maria about Aroma. Who does the jobs report? You
know when the big jobs number comes out. They're not
going to do it tomorrow. Did you know that? It's
(24:08):
I've been told that there will not be a jobs
report because they can't I guess count when the government
to shut down. So we'll we will see about that.
But look, if this is, uh, this is the Schumer shutdown.
You're there in New York, so you've got a lot
of New Yorker voters there. Schumer wanted the shutdown. I
said this a couple of weeks ago, that Schumer was
going to shut the government down. That's exactly what he
(24:29):
has done. But it's not working for the Democrats. I
don't think Mark. I mean, I'm talking to his normal
people all the time. They're like, why are the Democrats
doing this? Is it really because they just want to
provide free healthcare? They're legal immigrants.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Now they'll say that's a lie, it's a Republican lie.
But tell us the truth.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
It does but it's not a lie. I mean is
I read the text of their version, and it repeals
the provision in the Republican budget that says you are
not permitted that Medicaid dollars can only go to people
who are either legal citizens or legal immigrants in the country.
So that pretty much leaves illegal immigrants out.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
But I was watching Morning Joe, and according to him,
you guys, you're just all to give money to billionaires.
That's all came.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Right, like, though he doesn't say the billionaires are playing
more of the taxes than ever before in American history.
The top one percent pay a larger share of the
tax of income tax than anytime ever since we invented
the income tax and back in nineteen thirteen. So those
are those are just talking points from the Democrats. But
I just don't get it. I mean, I think Schumer's
(25:39):
kind of thing is is bath learned he lost, as
you know, he lost three Democratic senators in the vote
that happened before that, and I think if you had
another vote, he'd probably lose another three or four. And again,
I want to make sure people understand this mark because
you know, we have Byzantine rules in Washington, so people say, well, look,
the Republicans don't call the House the Senate and the
White House. Why is the government shut down? It's because
(26:01):
it takes sixty votes in the Senate, sixty out of
one hundred to pass the budget, and all the Republicans
and three Democrats voted for that. But that only brought
us to what fifty five or fifty six, So that's
why there's still five votes are short. But I bet
if they had a vote tomorrow, I think you've been
getting close to sixty. Because the Democrats are getting hammered
(26:21):
on this. Nobody understands what it is that they're after here.
It's just show voting and trying to embarrass Trump and
trying to get more money. And by the way, I'm
very pro immigration. I think immigrants are great, but no,
you can't let all these people come into the country
and then go to the go and use our healthcare
services and you and I pay for it.
Speaker 8 (26:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
No, we love immigration. We just don't like illegals. I mean,
I love far exactly, I love pharmacists, but I don't
like you illegal drug.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Dealers, I mean legal exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Apparently there is a vote tomorrow eleven am. That's when
they may vote again tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Okay, and I'll bet you I don't know if they'll
get to sixty, but they're going to get close because
the Democrats are feeling the anger of the American people.
And by the way, this does cost money. That's the
other thing that rush Bott is saying is like, well,
you know, when we have these non essential people not
go to the office, did you know they get paid? Yeah, everybody,
(27:16):
They still get paid. Now, showing on for not having
to work costs. I wish my boss had said that
you can I show up for the office tomorrow, but
I'm still going to pay you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Hey, Steve Moore, let me ask you something. You're a
brilliant economist. We've got great economists, you, Art Laugher, Larry Cudlow,
Steve Forbes. Then you got forty thousand other economists. They
never know what the hell they're talking about, and they're
always wrong. Why is that?
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Yeah, well, we had something in our hotline this morning
about that, and if you want to get that for free,
focus go down leash prospirty dot com and sign up
for free. But we looked at the forecast of all
the blue chip economists, all the smartest economists at all the
big you know, banks and investment firms and so on,
the ones that are paid million dollars a year to
come up with these forecasts, and they are the blue
(28:02):
chip all the blue chip forecasts. There was almost no exceptions.
They all basically, Oh, we're gonna have one and a
half percent economic growth this year, blah blah blah. Guess what,
both in the second and third quarter we had a
closer four percent growth. How could they be more wrong?
I mean, I would take it's almost like playing pin
the tail on the donkey with the blindfolded person and
you know, trying to put I mean their their projections
(28:24):
have been completely wrong and the economy's done much better
this year than almost all of the economy. Remember Paul Krugman,
that one he said, oh my god, we're gonna have
a second great depression of Trump goes back into office.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
I looked at the stock markets doing pretty well.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Well. You know, I could understand the New York Times
hiring a total sleazy, biased economist. But if you're a
big Wall Street firm, you got to get it right.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
How can we got it all wrong?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Don't you have to fire the economists to get I mean,
baseball manager gets fired if you losees too many games.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Exactly. No, But that's the thing about you know, the
the economics and power takes it. It doesn't matter how
much many times.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
You're wrong, you know.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
I mean people have written whole books about Paul Krupman
about almost every prediction he ever made. You know, he
remembers he said Internet, that's just a passing fab remember
that one.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
The dumbest guy ever. Doesn't he have a Nobel prize.
Speaker 7 (29:18):
He does, he has a Nobel Prize in economics. So
that's you know who deserves. By the way, since this
is Nobel time, you know the guy who really does
deserve the Nobel Prize, who's probably the most influential living economy.
I mean I don't think probably, I think certainly is
the most impactful economists over the last you know, twenty
five years all over the world is out there laugher
(29:41):
and he still doesn't have a he doesn't have a
Nobel prize yet.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Well, he's got to be Trump bashing.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
And he's got to be much he did that, he
gets that Nobel prize in five minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Well, Steve Moore great work. Now he runs the committee
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Speaker 7 (30:08):
Okay, Mark, you have a great weekend.
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