October 3, 2025 • 42 mins
You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for October 1, 2025.
0:30 We discuss the recent arrests at LSU during the university’s presidential search committee meeting. Seven students, including members of the Students for a Democratic Society, were taken into custody after disrupting the proceedings, refusing to yield the microphone, and attempting to block police officers. We break down what really happened, examining the difference between free speech and disorderly conduct, the meaning of democracy versus mob rule, and how campus activism is being reported in the media.
9:50 Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
23:00 We discuss a tragedy in New Orleans. A father was shot and killed while picking up his child from daycare in Mid-City—another example of how everyday life in the Crescent City can be shattered in an instant. We look into the circumstances of the killing and why Governor Jeff Landry is calling for the National Guard to step in.
26:50 We Dig Deep into where jobs and growth are headed in 2026 and 2027—and the results may surprise you. From LNG terminals in Lake Charles to the new Meta data center in Monroe, Louisiana’s economy is entering a period of strong expansion.
32:30 Get Prodovite from Victory Nutrition International for 20% off. Go to vni.life/agr and use the promo code AGR20.
33:30 At the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, a shocking breach of protocol raised questions about Secret Service accountability. Reports reveal that one agent allegedly fell asleep on duty and later left his semi-automatic rifle unattended during a bathroom break—while assigned to protect some of the highest-profile world leaders.
36:00 Plus, we guess which nations have the most slavery.
40:45 We break down the Schumer shutdown, comparing today's standoff to the 2018 shutdown over immigration.Democrats are willing to close the government to keep the border open. House Republicans passed the necessary funding, while most Senate Democrats voted to stall, leaving federal workers and services in limbo.
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0:30 We discuss the recent arrests at LSU during the university’s presidential search committee meeting. Seven students, including members of the Students for a Democratic Society, were taken into custody after disrupting the proceedings, refusing to yield the microphone, and attempting to block police officers. We break down what really happened, examining the difference between free speech and disorderly conduct, the meaning of democracy versus mob rule, and how campus activism is being reported in the media.
9:50 Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
- The former director of the Orleans Parish 911 system has been sentenced to one year in jail for covering up a car wreck he was involved in while driving a city vehicle.
- A former contract worker at the Lafayette District Attorney's Office has been sentenced to 4 years in jail for participating in a bribery scheme.
- Several Students at LSU were arrested during a presidential search committee meeting for the next leader of the university.
12:30 Get Performlyte from Victory Nutrition International for 20% off. Go to vni.life/agr and use the promo code AGR20.
23:00 We discuss a tragedy in New Orleans. A father was shot and killed while picking up his child from daycare in Mid-City—another example of how everyday life in the Crescent City can be shattered in an instant. We look into the circumstances of the killing and why Governor Jeff Landry is calling for the National Guard to step in.
26:50 We Dig Deep into where jobs and growth are headed in 2026 and 2027—and the results may surprise you. From LNG terminals in Lake Charles to the new Meta data center in Monroe, Louisiana’s economy is entering a period of strong expansion.
32:30 Get Prodovite from Victory Nutrition International for 20% off. Go to vni.life/agr and use the promo code AGR20.
33:30 At the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, a shocking breach of protocol raised questions about Secret Service accountability. Reports reveal that one agent allegedly fell asleep on duty and later left his semi-automatic rifle unattended during a bathroom break—while assigned to protect some of the highest-profile world leaders.
36:00 Plus, we guess which nations have the most slavery.
40:45 We break down the Schumer shutdown, comparing today's standoff to the 2018 shutdown over immigration.Democrats are willing to close the government to keep the border open. House Republicans passed the necessary funding, while most Senate Democrats voted to stall, leaving federal workers and services in limbo.
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Speaker 2 (01:05):
But apparently at LSU. You know, the LSU Search Committee
is searching for interviewing for a new president of the university. Right, Well,
apparently seven students were arrested by LSU Police Department today
at the presidential Search Committee after a very let's just
(01:28):
call it a very lively public comment section. Right, So,
the altercation apparently began when Gabriella Wolri is an officer
of the Students for a Democratic Society, and she believes
in democracy so much that she refused to give up
(01:49):
the microphone after her public comment time was up, and
so this.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Is a very democratic does not seem like authoritarian, right
if we're gonna be because this committee of the search
committee was in open meetings, which is part of a
democratic process. She was intentionally disrupting a democratic process. But
she says that she's in favor of democracy. Well, see,
democracy isn't just your voice. Democracy is letting everyone else speak.
(02:16):
If you're not going to let anyone else speak, then
that's not democracy. That's totalitarianism. You're trying to control the government.
That's not yours. That's not how democracies work.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, the government was controlling her because the police officers
who are employed by the Louisiana State University campus there
escorted her out, and she continued as they did. They
continued to she continued to scream obscenities towards the committee members,
(02:50):
and then you had a bunch of students following her
out who they were being belligerent as.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Well, so they got arrested as well.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Well. They were chanting shame at the police officers who
are arresting her. And then when they put her in
the back of the police car, they then tried to
block the police car from being able to go wherever
it needed to go. And so yeah, so then they
got arrested too.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I mean what, I so they think they're staging some
noble revolution, shouting down a presidential search committee, right, refusing
to yield the microphone, screaming obscenities, acting like their three
minute soapbox entitled them to seize control of the entire process.
This isn't democracy. This is mob rule dressed up as
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student activism, and it is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Well, what's even more ridiculous is the reason they were
trying to block the proceedings is they said they didn't
want anybody MAGA. Wait, what's Donald Trump have to do
with any of this? Donald Trump didn't get rid of
the last president of LSU, he left on his own
for Rutgers. Donald Trump didn't appoint anybody to the select committee.
(04:00):
That was Jeff Landry. No, there's there's no Donald Trump
or jd Vance involved in any of this. Why are
we Why are we throwing a fit about MAGA when
Maga's got nothing to.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Do with it.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Because they say the committee is illegitimate. The committee, the
search committee is illegitimate because they say it is. The
committee has been stacked with members to appease Governor Jeff Landry.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
So, were any of those people put on that committee
in violation of state law or in violation of rules?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
No, what soever?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Those people. Are any of those people ineligible to serve
on the committee in any way, shape or form because
they're not you know, the right residency, or they don't
have any qualification?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
No. So so then the just because somebody is on
the committee who has a different political viewpoint than you
do doesn't make their appointment to the committee illegitimate. It
makes your argument illegitimate, but it doesn't make the appointment illegitimate.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Right. But I mean, they could disagree all they want,
but you don't get to invent your own legitimacy tests. Right,
that's anarchy, right, So I mean the university, I mean,
I'm sorry, but the university governance doesn't run on who
can scream the loudest.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
No, democracy is not the same thing as mob rule.
Although look, our founders were very afraid of straight democracy,
of pure democracy, because they pointed out it would devolve
to mob rule. They said that democracy is two wolves
and a sheep deciding what's for dinner. And that's where
the left gets confused. About what we actually live in.
(05:33):
We don't live in a straight democracy. We live in
a democratic republic where you have to respect the rights
of people you disagree with.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
They weren't there to respect.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Of which means they don't understand wanted to hijack the hearings, which.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Means they don't understand what America is about. They do
not respect the rule of law. They do not respect
this nation's foundings. Because if you think that you have
the right to rant and rave and stop anybody else
from getting there their opinions across. If you think that
simply somebody having a different political opinion makes them an
illegitimate person, you have got a lot of things wrong
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in between your ears.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Right, And I think that's a crucial point. Free speech
is the right to voice your opinion. It is not
the right to hijack hijack someone else's microphone. It's not
the right to ignore time limits. It's not the right
to disrupt a meeting until no other voices can be heard.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And just because you have the right to speak doesn't
mean I have to be forced to agree with you. You
don't have the right to force me to agree with you.
I still have freedom of thought. But I can still
analyze what you've said and find where the flaws are
in it and either accept what you've said or reject
what you said. That's my right. You don't have the
(06:46):
right to change that.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
So this woman was a member of this or an
officer of these Students for a Democratic Society.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
That's a misnamed organization.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
It is, and it's not some innocent campus club.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
It's a group with a history of radical disruption tracing
back to the to the nineteen sixties, and their ideology basically,
it's anti establishment, it's anti capitalist, it is anti authority.
I mean, their playbook is built on confrontation, not compromise.
So they see the LSU Committee as of course, they're
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going to see the LSU Committee as illegitimate.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Wait did you say that the Committee for a Democratic
Society is anti capitalists?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
One hundred percent?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
You can't have a democracy and not have capitalism because
capitalism is the democratic use of your finances. I get
to decide how I want to spend my money. I
want to decide how you to spend your money. Your choice,
my choice. That's that's caued capitalism.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
What we're really talking about are democratic socialist.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
But see that's an oxymoron because you can't have socialism
and have it be democratic, because again, socialism requires on
the government being able to control minds and actions.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So just watch for it. Watch this is being reported.
This happened today, somewhat breaking news, but just see how
it's reported, because it will be reported and it may
be picked up by some national networks. And the headline here,
I'm going to make a prediction, the headline is going
to be students arrested for exercising free speech.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
That's what the headline will be.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
So far, the headlines I've seen have not said that,
but it's possible if this does get picked up on
a national level that you could see those headlines. So far,
that's not the headlines i've seen. Headlines i've seen so far,
at least in Louisiana, seem fairly balanced.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
But see this story.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I mean, the real scandal isn't that the police acted.
The scandal is that, in twenty twenty five, we still
have to explain to young people and older people alike,
that free speech isn't free reign, that disorderly conduct isn't
noble resistance, and that screaming obscenities doesn't make you a
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freedom fighter.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
This scandal is that apparently LSU has done an awful
job of teaching civics to its students because they've behaved
in a very uncivil manner. Let's get to the top
three things you need to know before tomorrow. First thing
you need no before tomorrow. The former director of the
(09:22):
Orleans Paris nine to one one system has been sentenced
to one year in jail. Tyrell Morris was found guilty
of covering up a car wreck he was involved in
while driving a city vehicle. A jury took just one
hour to find him guilty of malfeasance in office, insurance fraud,
impersonating a police officer, and falsifying records. Criminal District Judge
Simone Levine sentenced him to ten years in prison, with
(09:45):
all but one of those years suspended. He must also
pay a restitution for a two thousand dollars fine and
serve five years of parole.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
You know, and we can talk about him and how
outrageous this is, but really I think this is a
personnel issue and that in all of these Democrat led cities,
they're hiring the wrong people for these jobs because they're
obviously not qualified either competence in terms of professionalism or
their ethics.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Second thing in you before, a former contract worker at
the Lafaya District Attorney's office has been sent us to
four years in jail for participating in a briber's scheme.
Guidry admitted to taking more than eight hundred thousand dollars
in kickbacks from local businesses involved in pre trial diversion programs.
Guidry would advise people to sign up with specific companies
instead of going to trial, and he would get kickbacks
from those companies for each person he sent their way.
(10:34):
Guidry's legal problems continue, however, as he still faces drug
charges in Saint Martin Parish.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
And look, there are a lot of folks who work
for the government, who are elected officials as well, that
do the right thing.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
We don't want to paint them all with a very
broad brush, but it's just two. But you can't look away.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
If you're in a position of leadership, you have to
uphold the highest of integrity, not just for yourself but
for all those in your employee.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
One thing we need to know before tomorrow, as we
were just talking about off the top, several students at
LSU were arrested during a presidential search committee meeting for
the next leader of the university. During the public comment section,
the students started a no MAGA protest. Students are part
of a group called the LSU Students for a Democratic Society.
Even though their actions were literally disrupting a democratic proceeding,
the leader of the group was arrested and let out
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of the chamber by LSU police. Six other members of
the group were then detained by police as they attempted
to block the police car taking the suspect of jail.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
But you know what, if you look at this situation,
it has played out at a national level, but with
United States senators, there have been many at some of
the ice detention facilities. You have had United States Senators
that arrested that have been forcibly removed because they were
protesting that this student is just doing the same.
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Speaker 2 (13:17):
Well, there is good news on the education front, and
that is you know, because Louisiana is a state that
I mean, look, if we're being honest here, we have
lagged behind many other states in just about everything, maybe
not maybe not cuisine.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
I think we lead. I think we lead the nation
in cuisine. Right. Some of the best cooking, the best food.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
The best seafood, sure, yeah, I think, but nevertheless, but
in reading and look, this is according to the Urban Institute,
which is not exactly some right wing propaganda mill.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
No, no, no, it's not.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Well.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
They have put out some numbers that absolutely obliterate the
conventional wisdom about education in this country. And the numbers
show that when you adjust for race and income, which
you must if you're going to be honest about education
in this country, Louisiana fourth graders, Louisiana fourth graders are
out performing their peers in nearly every other state.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
In reading, Yeah, no, that's great, but there's a reason
for it.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Let me let me repeat that just a moment, because
that folks, Louisiana ranks second in the nation, second in
the nation in reading.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Who's first?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
But who is first here on this list here I
don't have first.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
It should be Mississippi. If they're ranking what I think
they're ranking, it should be Mississippi number one, not in
this story, Louisiana number two. But that's because those are
the only two states that have actually fully rec from
COVID when it comes to the loss in education.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
So we're the only Mississippi, missip you are correct, Mississippi
is first, Louisiana's second, I already support.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
From the Florida is third, right, and Florida, I think,
was just ranked number one by US News and World
Report for education. That may have just been for the
college one, but yes, Florida has also done pretty well
after COVID. George has also done pretty well, especially in math.
Isn't that interesting? You've got states in the South that
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are leading the country when it comes to education recovery
and so when education growth after COVID, And yet the
left will tell you over and over and over that
it's the Southern states that are so backwards. It's the
Southern states. Like think about how Hollywood portrays people in
the South. If you have a Southern accent and you're
in a Hollywood film, they just assume you're dumb. Right,
(15:55):
That's how the left thinks of the South. They think
of the South as being racist, They think of the
South as being dumb. But the problem for that stereotime
is that the South has actually focused on the fundamentals
of education. The Left has gone off on education and
thinking that education is about how you feel, that education
is about gender ideology, that education is about safe spaces.
(16:18):
And the Southern states, starting with Mississippi, then followed by Louisiana,
and then Florida and Georgia are picking up this as well.
The South went no education is first and foremost. Teach
the kids to read, and then after they can read,
use those reading skills to teach them everything else.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
But see here's the kicker. So yes, we are second
in the nation in reading as far as fourth graders.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Up to fourth concern because again Louisiana really puts a
strong focus now on the science of reading, on phonics
up through third grade, and you cannot move on to
fourth grade in the state of Louisiana now if you
can't read.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
And Louisiana is doing it virtually at a bargain when
you compare it to other other states, right for example,
in Vermont, in Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Alaska. I
mean they're like triple like Vermont, thirty three thousand per student.
(17:16):
It that's what it costs in the state of Vermont.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
That's what they spend in the studio. It's not necessarily
what it would cost. That's what they're spent.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Okay, same difference in that respect, except that.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
When you say that's what it costs, and that makes
it sound like, well, that's the minimum that we could spend.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well no, no, I see you're yeah, you're you're really
splitting hairs there words happening. But at the same time,
learn how to read. No, I understand. I understand. But
Louisiana only spends thirteen thousand, eight hundred dollars per student. Okay,
compare that to Vermont is thirty three thousand, Connecticut twenty
five thousand.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
And this is one of the things that the left
focus is on Incorrectly. They will they will see a problem.
It doesn't matter what they say. The problem is all
there's too much sludge in our sewer system. And so
a Democrat will come out and they will say I'm
going to spend five million dollars to get rid of
the sledge in the sewer system. And everybody's like, oh, well,
that's wonderful. You spend five million dollars to get rid
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of the sledge and the sewer side, how that's wonderful.
No one ever comes back and goes, hey, did we
actually get rid of the sledge in the sewer system
or did we just spend five million dollars because the
left will tout how much they're spending. Right now, the
Democrats have locked down the entire federal government over how
much they're going to spend on health care for illegals.
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They're not focused on what is the outcome of that spending.
They're just saying, we're shutting down the government until we
spend more money. Well, that's ridiculous when it comes to education.
We shouldn't be focused on spending more and thinking that
just because we spend more money on education, we're going
to get a better result. We need to be focused
on the result.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
What you need to be focused on the result, but
you also need to be focused on what actually generated
aids or creates the result they you're after, right, it's
not more spending. It's not throwing billions of dollars to
the Department of Education exactly. Because, by the way, the
single greatest predictor of educational success in America isn't how
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much money you spend per student. No, very Frankly, it's
whether a child grows up in a two parent home,
and you look at study after study, decade after decade.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
It proves it.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
The United States Department of Education has shown that children
from a two parent household consistently consistently perform better on
standardized tests, they have higher GPAs they are far more
likely to graduate from high school and go on to college.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
The left likes to.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Say that there's white privilege, remember Black Lives Matter, talking
about all this white privilege, white privilege. There is no
such thing as white privilege. And what there is such
a thing as to parent privilege. It's real, it's powerful,
and we should all be working to make sure that
our kids have two parent pres every single day.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
And I was going to say, if you don't trust
the numbers coming out of the United States Department of
Education the US Census Bureau, maybe you don't trust them either,
but their data shows children living with married parents are
twice as likely to finish high school as those living
with a single parent.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Now take that data, which is true, that there really
is two parent privilege, that kids do better when they're
growing up in a house of two parents, and now
apply that to the success Louisiana has had, and it
makes the reading successes Louisiana's had up through third grade
even more pronounced. Because Louisiana has one of the lowest
rates of two parent households anywhere in the country, and
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it's mostly pronounced. You see it more often in black
communities here in Louisiana, especially in the cities in Treeport,
in Bote, In Baton Rouge, in New Orleans. The black
communities there have very very low rates of two parent households,
and yet we're still focused on the science of reading,
and we're getting results for those kids, even though they're
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not getting some of the benefits of having two parent
households that kids in other states would.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
But I also want to give a shout out to
all the single parents who are doing their very best
and grandparents who are raising their grandchildren exactly because it's
not easy. No, it's not easy. I mean because think
about it. When you've got a single mom working two
jobs just to put food on the table. How much
time does she have to sit down and go over
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math homework. How much energy does she have left at
the end of the day to read to her child?
And none of this is her fault. Now, I know
a lot of folks may say, well, you know some
of it.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
We don't know individual circumstances.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Some of it may, but in a lot.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Of cases it's not, but two parents can divide the responsibilities,
they can share the load, and in the end, the
child benefits.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
And if more families in Louisiana buy back into that
model of what a family's supposed to look like, our
kids' education is going to go up even further because
they're going to get the benefit not just of what
the schools are doing, but what the families are then
able to do better on a daily basis.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
So it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Louisiana second in the nation with regards to reading skills
and proficiency for fourth graders.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
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Stephen Parvard lewis terrible story coming out of New Orleans
right now, you know, and we're told that the New
Orleans Police Department can handle things. We're told that the
city just needs more community programs, better outreach. How's that
working out? And the reason I say that is that
a father was picking up his child from a mid
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city daycare center and the father was shot and killed
by a twenty one year old man who allegedly was
trying to break into some vehicles, was spotted by this
man the deceased and was shot at and was killed.
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So he's just picking up his child, a father doing
one of the most basic, beautiful things in life, picking
up his child, taking him home, and in an instant,
his life is taken away. I mean it is. And
this is why National Guard troops are needed in New Orleans.
(24:09):
This is why Governor Landry is calling for this. This
is the reality of crime. And it's not just a
New Orleans all across our state, but in New Orleans,
it's a new normal there. And it's really not a
new normal. It's an old normal where criminals feel emboldened,
where law enforcement is stretched thin, and where political leaders
(24:33):
can't or won't get serious about restoring order.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
And again, to be fair, the crime rate in New
Orleans has been going down basically ever since Da Jason
Williams himself was carjacked with his mother, So apparently at
that point he finally decided to get serious on cracking
down on crime. Before then, it really wasn't coming down
(24:59):
and again, Mayor LaToya Cantrell went to a carjacking trial,
if you'll remember, and she sat on the side of
the court of the teenager who was accused of carjacking someone.
Instead of sitting on the side of the court where
there were people saying we should be enforcing lawn orton,
instead of sitting on the DA side, she sat on
the defendant side. The mayor of New Orleans was in
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favor of someone who had carjacked somebody else.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Now, this is very disappointing. And you know, I don't
know that I've ever shared the story online on air,
but you know, my wife and I when we lived
in New Orleans, we were we were mugged or otherwise
robbed at gunpoint.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I did not know this.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
They're in New Orleans on South Carrollton, right along the
trolley line. Wow, cars coming up and down South Carrollton.
It's a very busy street, trolley cars coming up and
down the street. And we were robbed. It took he
stole everything we had, He left us with our lives,
(26:11):
took my wife's wedding ring. It was it was absolutely terrifying. Yeah,
And the fact of the matter is that has been
the story of New Orleans for far too long.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
And maybe that's why Jeff Landry wants to send in
the National Guard to try and it not just bring
crime down, but to eliminate it in our state's largest city.
Let's dig deep.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Going down, down down.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
So Lauren Scott and Associates put out their economic forecast
for Louisiana today, the Louisiana Economic Forecast. It's a nice title.
It covers projected growth for twenty twenty six and twenty
twenty seven. And I'll sort their projections by growth rate.
They put it out by MSA, that's the metropolitan statistical area. Okay,
So I thought we'd start with the areas of the
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state that are supposed to grow the fastest over the
next two years, and then we'll go down to the
ones that are growing the slowest. Fair enough, all right, Okay,
First Lake Charles. They say Lake Charles is going to
add eight six hundred jobs over the next two years
and eight percent growth rate for the city. That's pretty
four percent per year.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Well, you know, we have one of the largest or
the largest natural gas ports.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
That's exactly what they're talking about. The LNG growth that
the LNG terminals is what's driving the growth in Lake Charles.
They also talk about how it's got very good gambling
gaming casinos that are doing well. They think that's going
to help.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Lake Charles is a nice, nice community.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Number two Monroe. The Monroe area is going to add
seven five hundred new jobs. That's a seven point five
percent growth rates. And that's all about that new meta
data center coming in and then the new natural gas
power plants that are going to be fueling that absolutely,
so that's that's a big, big deal for Monroe. They're
basically saying Monroe is going to be going into a
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golden age here. Baton Rouge came in at third. This
is twenty one thousand, six hundred jobs, a four point
nine percent growth rate for twenty twenty six and twenty
twenty seven. This is actually more about Ascension Parish than
Baton Rouge itself. There's lots of new projects coming into
Ascension Parish that's included in the metropolitan statistical area and
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still several big projects coming. And it's the highest number
of jobs projected anywhere in the state.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Oh my, yeah, that's that's that's a big number. Twenty one,
twenty one thousand jobs.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yeah, and again almost all of that. In Ascension Parish
Saint Tammany, they're getting three thousand, six hundred jobs according
to this projection. That's a three point four percent growth rate.
In Hammond also looking at a three point four percent
growth rate with about one thousand, eight hundred jobs. Shreveport Boser,
the MSA is expected to gain five thousand, seven hundred jobs,
a three point three growth rate. But the report says
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the Shreport Boser MSA is one that might seriously exceed
our forecast. Okay, so they're saying this is our forecast,
but they're saying, if anybody's got an upside that's going
to go over what we're projecting, it's Shreeport Bosure. And
the reason they're saying data centers, there's there's rumors, there's
there's talk behind the scene, there's scuttle butt that a
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data center like the one that's going in over in
Monroe could be coming into Shreeport Bosure. If that happens
this this job, they're going to blow the jobs projection
out of the water. They said. There are also some
prospects out there for the cyber research centers and the
old GM plant. So you've got a couple of things
that are like in the works, but none of it
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fully announced. And if some of this comes through, then
Sreeport's looking at even more growth than that. So that's
all the growth over three percent in the state. Everything
else is blow three percent over the next two years.
So Lafayette, they're saying you're going to add about five
and three hundred jobs in Lafayette. That's a two point
eight percent growth rate. They're talking about how oil drilling
in the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Has decreased the Gulf of America.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Actually, sorry, and that's that's going to be hurting Lafayette.
And I'm like lawsuits anyone, all those all those lawsuits
against the oil and gas coup, All right, but let's
be hurting.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Let's be honest here and I'm going to say it,
and here is why it is. Here's why all of
that great news is occurring.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Why's that.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
It's the Trump effect, It's Donald Trump's economic and foreign policies.
I mean, let's start with the obvious.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Energy.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Louisiana is an energy state, always been, always will be,
and so.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
We would be doing even better if we weren't playing
around with all these dumb little lawsuits about the oil
and gas industry, because otherwise we could be adding oil
and gas on top of the LNG.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Now I give kudos to President Trump, but we also
have a Republican governor. We do, and that creates a
stable I think for the most part, You've got a legislature.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
That is dominated by Republicans.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
So you have aisla legislature that is dominated by Republicans.
You have Jeff Landry in the governor's mansion, and that
creates stability in terms of a business environment, and businesses
crave stability.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
However, New Orleans projected to have eleven four hundred new jobs.
That's a two point four percent growth rate. That's just
over a one percent growth rate per year. That's not great,
especially for our state's largest city. If New Orleans were
to get it back together and become a business friendly
environment again, imagine what that could mean for the rest
of the state of Louisiana. Alexandria expected add one thousand,
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one hundred jobs. Home expected at seventeen hundred jobs, and
basically the state looking at a growth of three point
seven percent. We'll be back to stick around.
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Speaker 3 (33:17):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Paul Lewis sar Avalona.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Of course, the President spoke at the United Nations General
Assembly last week in New York City, and one of
his secret service agents apparently fell asleep. Fell asleep on
the job and when it came time for him to
take a bathroom break.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
The president or the Secret Service agent.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
The Secret Service agent.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Okay, when it came time for the Secret Service agent
to take a bathroom break. He then this was after
being asleep, which you know never find I don't leave
it there. He left his semi automatic rifle unattended while
he went to the bathroom. Oh no, so here, First
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he was asleep while protecting some of the most high
value targets on the planet.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Well, while they were supposed to be protecting you, you
can't say he was.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
And then he left his rifle unattended for anyone to grab. Now,
as you might expect during a Biden administration, it's such.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Incompetence was discovered, dereliction of duty.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
This guy would still have a job, yes, but under
the Trump administration he's fired.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Good should be.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Well, there's no margin for error here, there's no oops,
there's no I was tired.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
I just needed a break.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
When you're in the Secret Service, especially it's something like
the UN General Assembly where you've got presidents and prime
ministers and dictators, I mean all in one place.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
I mean, you've got to do your job.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Well, especially when you're guarding someone who's had more attempts
on his life than any president since gerold Ford, and
probably more threats on his life than any president since well. Ever,
and yeah, that this is a this is a no
failure job. You cannot fail. It's too important to the
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entire world for the Secret Service to be excellent at
their job.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
I mean, here we are, just months after Butler Pennsylvania, right, right,
I mean, if you needed any evidence that being vigilant
and not slacking or sleeping on the job can be
deadly goodness, gracious, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
No, that's that's absolutely unconscious considable. But it's good that
the Secret Service is changing the way it behaves and
saying that that failure is not acceptable. Tell you what,
let's shift gears. Let's play a game.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Black battleship. Shall Well.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
The left likes to say that to slavery in the
United States of America was the worst kind of slavery ever. Right,
One of the things they don't talk about is modern slavery.
There is still slavery in nations on every continent on Earth,
people forced to work against their will. A lot of
it sexs slavery, but there's also hard labor in minds
and factories and plantations.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
But you know it isn't all slavery. Slavery abhorrent. I mean,
is there really a sliding scale of slavery?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:33):
No, it's like saying all the it's like saying this
is a this abuse is worse than that abuse. It's
still abuse, all right. So which nations have the most
slavery per capita per one hundred thousand people?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
China, China not on the list. China is not on
the list, not make the list. Nigeria, Nigeria did not
make the list. Yeah, I'm going with some low hanging
I thought I was going with some low hanging fruit there.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
There aren't bad guesses. They're in the top half.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
Okay, how about India, India, no, not in the list.
North Korea number one, oh, number one.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
They have one hundred and four point six slaves per
one hundred thousand people in North Korea. Oh my today.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
How about how about Russia.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Number eight, thirteen slaves per one hundred thousand people in Russia.
Afghanistan number nine, tied with thirteen slaves per one hundred
thousand Iran, Iran not in the top ten. I believe
they're just out I think they're in the top twenty.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Is that tough?
Speaker 2 (37:41):
This is a tough question to tough ques slavery. What
about someplace like Indonesia.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Indonesia not in the top ten?
Speaker 4 (37:51):
All right, you know, I'm gonna bow out here.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Here's the list, North Korea one hundred and four point six, Eritrea,
which is ninety points, that's in the Horn of Africa.
You have Mauritania thirty two, Saudi Arabia number four on
the list, twenty one point Saudi Arabia, then Turkey at
fifteen point six, to Jikistan at fourteen. You've got the
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United Arab Emirates thirteen point four.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
The United Arab Emirates. Slavery is legal there.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Well, it happens there. Some of this was you mentioned
India when they were building the World Cup stadiums in Codder.
What happened was they'd have Indian immigrants come into the
country and the people that were employing the Indian immigrants
would steal their passports and then force them to work
for free in order to get their passports back. So
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that was in Codder. You see similar types of things
in the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Afghanistan and Kuwait round
out the top ten. So of that list, seven states
are Muslim states, the other three are dictatorships. Dictatorships. Wohend
you look at the list of the states that have
the least slavery Capitay, you've got Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Ireland, Japan, Finland.
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All of those are democracies, and nine of the ten
have Christian roots and large Christian populations.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Wait, wait just a minute.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
You just listed the top ten nations who have the
least slavery per capita. Yeah, where's the United States on
this list?
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Higher up? We're in the bottom half. We're in the
bottom quarter.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
But because of all that thing, where's the slavery?
Speaker 3 (39:39):
The illegal immigration leads to sex trafficking, leads to people
having to pay off that the cartels. So the cartels
are running slavery in the United States today, especially under
the Biden administration.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
We'll be back.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You're listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Parver with Lewissar Eval.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
So the government is in partial shutdown as of twelve
o one a m. Today, And let's not kid ourselves
about who owns it. This is not the Trump shut down.
This is that the Dvance shut down.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
This Trump hasn't wanted to shut down, He hasn't advocated
for a shutdown, he hasn't threatened to shut down.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
This is the Schumer shutdown, one hundred percent, top to bottom,
straight down the line.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Chuck Schuber and his Democrats own this mess.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
And look, I'm not proud to say that, but that's
the reality. They are lying to the American people.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Yeah, way they say.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
They have absolutely no shame, no shame. And look, this
isn't the first time Democrats have played this game. Remember
in twenty eighteen, Schumer did the exact same thing. He
shut down the government over illegal aliens and the so
called dreamers. Well back then it was a three day
mess because the principle was the same. The Democrats will
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gladly close down the United States if it means keeping
the border open and their future voting base flowing in.
So when the media and Chuck Schumer and other prominent
Democrats tell you this is congressional dysfunction, that this is
the Republicans in Congress.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
The Republicans in the House passed everything they need to pass.
The Republicans in the Senate except for Ran Paul, voted
to keep the government open. But you had the Democrats
except for John Fetterman, voting to shut down the government.
It's the Democrats in the Senate who are doing this,
that's what the math says.
Speaker 4 (41:58):
Well, and you're absolutely right. Here's the kicker.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Congress is leaving town now to observe a Jewish holiday,
which scheduled, which means that Schumer, this Schumer shut down
could drag on till at least Friday. So they shut down.
So Congress shuts down the government. Democrats shut down the government. Yes,
and then they leave town.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
Guess what.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
They still get their paychecks, They still enjoy their catered meals,
their security details, their perks. Meanwhile, ordinary Americans who depend
on government paychecks or services are left twisting in the wind.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
It's a problem, but we're gonna be talking about it
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We choose to go to the mood and do the
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
It is time for us to realize that we're too
great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams.
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Speaker 4 (00:36):
This nation will rise up, live out the true meaning
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Speaker 3 (01:01):
Par with Lewis sar Avlona.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
But apparently at LSU. You know, the LSU Search Committee
is searching for interviewing for a new president of the university. Right, Well,
apparently seven students were arrested by LSU Police Department today
at the presidential Search Committee after a very let's just
(01:28):
call it a very lively public comment section. Right, So,
the altercation apparently began when Gabriella Wolri is an officer
of the Students for a Democratic Society, and she believes
in democracy so much that she refused to give up
(01:49):
the microphone after her public comment time was up, and
so this.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Is a very democratic does not seem like authoritarian, right
if we're gonna be because this committee of the search
committee was in open meetings, which is part of a
democratic process. She was intentionally disrupting a democratic process. But
she says that she's in favor of democracy. Well, see,
democracy isn't just your voice. Democracy is letting everyone else speak.
(02:16):
If you're not going to let anyone else speak, then
that's not democracy. That's totalitarianism. You're trying to control the government.
That's not yours. That's not how democracies work.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, the government was controlling her because the police officers
who are employed by the Louisiana State University campus there
escorted her out, and she continued as they did. They
continued to she continued to scream obscenities towards the committee members,
(02:50):
and then you had a bunch of students following her
out who they were being belligerent as.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Well, so they got arrested as well.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Well. They were chanting shame at the police officers who
are arresting her. And then when they put her in
the back of the police car, they then tried to
block the police car from being able to go wherever
it needed to go. And so yeah, so then they
got arrested too.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I mean what, I so they think they're staging some
noble revolution, shouting down a presidential search committee, right, refusing
to yield the microphone, screaming obscenities, acting like their three
minute soapbox entitled them to seize control of the entire process.
This isn't democracy. This is mob rule dressed up as
(03:36):
student activism, and it is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Well, what's even more ridiculous is the reason they were
trying to block the proceedings is they said they didn't
want anybody MAGA. Wait, what's Donald Trump have to do
with any of this? Donald Trump didn't get rid of
the last president of LSU, he left on his own
for Rutgers. Donald Trump didn't appoint anybody to the select committee.
(04:00):
That was Jeff Landry. No, there's there's no Donald Trump
or jd Vance involved in any of this. Why are
we Why are we throwing a fit about MAGA when
Maga's got nothing to.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Do with it.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Because they say the committee is illegitimate. The committee, the
search committee is illegitimate because they say it is. The
committee has been stacked with members to appease Governor Jeff Landry.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
So, were any of those people put on that committee
in violation of state law or in violation of rules?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
No, what soever?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Those people. Are any of those people ineligible to serve
on the committee in any way, shape or form because
they're not you know, the right residency, or they don't
have any qualification?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
No. So so then the just because somebody is on
the committee who has a different political viewpoint than you
do doesn't make their appointment to the committee illegitimate. It
makes your argument illegitimate, but it doesn't make the appointment illegitimate.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Right. But I mean, they could disagree all they want,
but you don't get to invent your own legitimacy tests. Right,
that's anarchy, right, So I mean the university, I mean,
I'm sorry, but the university governance doesn't run on who
can scream the loudest.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
No, democracy is not the same thing as mob rule.
Although look, our founders were very afraid of straight democracy,
of pure democracy, because they pointed out it would devolve
to mob rule. They said that democracy is two wolves
and a sheep deciding what's for dinner. And that's where
the left gets confused. About what we actually live in.
(05:33):
We don't live in a straight democracy. We live in
a democratic republic where you have to respect the rights
of people you disagree with.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
They weren't there to respect.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Of which means they don't understand wanted to hijack the hearings, which.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Means they don't understand what America is about. They do
not respect the rule of law. They do not respect
this nation's foundings. Because if you think that you have
the right to rant and rave and stop anybody else
from getting there their opinions across. If you think that
simply somebody having a different political opinion makes them an
illegitimate person, you have got a lot of things wrong
(06:07):
in between your ears.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Right, And I think that's a crucial point. Free speech
is the right to voice your opinion. It is not
the right to hijack hijack someone else's microphone. It's not
the right to ignore time limits. It's not the right
to disrupt a meeting until no other voices can be heard.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And just because you have the right to speak doesn't
mean I have to be forced to agree with you. You
don't have the right to force me to agree with you.
I still have freedom of thought. But I can still
analyze what you've said and find where the flaws are
in it and either accept what you've said or reject
what you said. That's my right. You don't have the
(06:46):
right to change that.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
So this woman was a member of this or an
officer of these Students for a Democratic Society.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
That's a misnamed organization.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
It is, and it's not some innocent campus club.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
It's a group with a history of radical disruption tracing
back to the to the nineteen sixties, and their ideology basically,
it's anti establishment, it's anti capitalist, it is anti authority.
I mean, their playbook is built on confrontation, not compromise.
So they see the LSU Committee as of course, they're
(07:20):
going to see the LSU Committee as illegitimate.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Wait did you say that the Committee for a Democratic
Society is anti capitalists?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
One hundred percent?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
You can't have a democracy and not have capitalism because
capitalism is the democratic use of your finances. I get
to decide how I want to spend my money. I
want to decide how you to spend your money. Your choice,
my choice. That's that's caued capitalism.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
What we're really talking about are democratic socialist.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
But see that's an oxymoron because you can't have socialism
and have it be democratic, because again, socialism requires on
the government being able to control minds and actions.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So just watch for it. Watch this is being reported.
This happened today, somewhat breaking news, but just see how
it's reported, because it will be reported and it may
be picked up by some national networks. And the headline here,
I'm going to make a prediction, the headline is going
to be students arrested for exercising free speech.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
That's what the headline will be.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
So far, the headlines I've seen have not said that,
but it's possible if this does get picked up on
a national level that you could see those headlines. So far,
that's not the headlines i've seen. Headlines i've seen so far,
at least in Louisiana, seem fairly balanced.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
But see this story.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I mean, the real scandal isn't that the police acted.
The scandal is that, in twenty twenty five, we still
have to explain to young people and older people alike,
that free speech isn't free reign, that disorderly conduct isn't
noble resistance, and that screaming obscenities doesn't make you a
(09:00):
freedom fighter.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
This scandal is that apparently LSU has done an awful
job of teaching civics to its students because they've behaved
in a very uncivil manner. Let's get to the top
three things you need to know before tomorrow. First thing
you need no before tomorrow. The former director of the
(09:22):
Orleans Paris nine to one one system has been sentenced
to one year in jail. Tyrell Morris was found guilty
of covering up a car wreck he was involved in
while driving a city vehicle. A jury took just one
hour to find him guilty of malfeasance in office, insurance fraud,
impersonating a police officer, and falsifying records. Criminal District Judge
Simone Levine sentenced him to ten years in prison, with
(09:45):
all but one of those years suspended. He must also
pay a restitution for a two thousand dollars fine and
serve five years of parole.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
You know, and we can talk about him and how
outrageous this is, but really I think this is a
personnel issue and that in all of these Democrat led cities,
they're hiring the wrong people for these jobs because they're
obviously not qualified either competence in terms of professionalism or
their ethics.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Second thing in you before, a former contract worker at
the Lafaya District Attorney's office has been sent us to
four years in jail for participating in a briber's scheme.
Guidry admitted to taking more than eight hundred thousand dollars
in kickbacks from local businesses involved in pre trial diversion programs.
Guidry would advise people to sign up with specific companies
instead of going to trial, and he would get kickbacks
from those companies for each person he sent their way.
(10:34):
Guidry's legal problems continue, however, as he still faces drug
charges in Saint Martin Parish.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
And look, there are a lot of folks who work
for the government, who are elected officials as well, that
do the right thing.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
We don't want to paint them all with a very
broad brush, but it's just two. But you can't look away.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
If you're in a position of leadership, you have to
uphold the highest of integrity, not just for yourself but
for all those in your employee.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
One thing we need to know before tomorrow, as we
were just talking about off the top, several students at
LSU were arrested during a presidential search committee meeting for
the next leader of the university. During the public comment section,
the students started a no MAGA protest. Students are part
of a group called the LSU Students for a Democratic Society.
Even though their actions were literally disrupting a democratic proceeding,
the leader of the group was arrested and let out
(11:21):
of the chamber by LSU police. Six other members of
the group were then detained by police as they attempted
to block the police car taking the suspect of jail.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
But you know what, if you look at this situation,
it has played out at a national level, but with
United States senators, there have been many at some of
the ice detention facilities. You have had United States Senators
that arrested that have been forcibly removed because they were
protesting that this student is just doing the same.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
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Speaker 2 (13:17):
Well, there is good news on the education front, and
that is you know, because Louisiana is a state that
I mean, look, if we're being honest here, we have
lagged behind many other states in just about everything, maybe
not maybe not cuisine.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
I think we lead. I think we lead the nation
in cuisine. Right. Some of the best cooking, the best food.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
The best seafood, sure, yeah, I think, but nevertheless, but
in reading and look, this is according to the Urban Institute,
which is not exactly some right wing propaganda mill.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
No, no, no, it's not.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Well.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
They have put out some numbers that absolutely obliterate the
conventional wisdom about education in this country. And the numbers
show that when you adjust for race and income, which
you must if you're going to be honest about education
in this country, Louisiana fourth graders, Louisiana fourth graders are
out performing their peers in nearly every other state.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
In reading, Yeah, no, that's great, but there's a reason
for it.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Let me let me repeat that just a moment, because
that folks, Louisiana ranks second in the nation, second in
the nation in reading.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Who's first?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
But who is first here on this list here I
don't have first.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
It should be Mississippi. If they're ranking what I think
they're ranking, it should be Mississippi number one, not in
this story, Louisiana number two. But that's because those are
the only two states that have actually fully rec from
COVID when it comes to the loss in education.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
So we're the only Mississippi, missip you are correct, Mississippi
is first, Louisiana's second, I already support.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
From the Florida is third, right, and Florida, I think,
was just ranked number one by US News and World
Report for education. That may have just been for the
college one, but yes, Florida has also done pretty well
after COVID. George has also done pretty well, especially in math.
Isn't that interesting? You've got states in the South that
(15:33):
are leading the country when it comes to education recovery
and so when education growth after COVID, And yet the
left will tell you over and over and over that
it's the Southern states that are so backwards. It's the
Southern states. Like think about how Hollywood portrays people in
the South. If you have a Southern accent and you're
in a Hollywood film, they just assume you're dumb. Right,
(15:55):
That's how the left thinks of the South. They think
of the South as being racist, They think of the
South as being dumb. But the problem for that stereotime
is that the South has actually focused on the fundamentals
of education. The Left has gone off on education and
thinking that education is about how you feel, that education
is about gender ideology, that education is about safe spaces.
(16:18):
And the Southern states, starting with Mississippi, then followed by Louisiana,
and then Florida and Georgia are picking up this as well.
The South went no education is first and foremost. Teach
the kids to read, and then after they can read,
use those reading skills to teach them everything else.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
But see here's the kicker. So yes, we are second
in the nation in reading as far as fourth graders.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Up to fourth concern because again Louisiana really puts a
strong focus now on the science of reading, on phonics
up through third grade, and you cannot move on to
fourth grade in the state of Louisiana now if you
can't read.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
And Louisiana is doing it virtually at a bargain when
you compare it to other other states, right for example,
in Vermont, in Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Alaska. I
mean they're like triple like Vermont, thirty three thousand per student.
(17:16):
It that's what it costs in the state of Vermont.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
That's what they spend in the studio. It's not necessarily
what it would cost. That's what they're spent.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Okay, same difference in that respect, except that.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
When you say that's what it costs, and that makes
it sound like, well, that's the minimum that we could spend.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well no, no, I see you're yeah, you're you're really
splitting hairs there words happening. But at the same time,
learn how to read. No, I understand. I understand. But
Louisiana only spends thirteen thousand, eight hundred dollars per student. Okay,
compare that to Vermont is thirty three thousand, Connecticut twenty
five thousand.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
And this is one of the things that the left
focus is on Incorrectly. They will they will see a problem.
It doesn't matter what they say. The problem is all
there's too much sludge in our sewer system. And so
a Democrat will come out and they will say I'm
going to spend five million dollars to get rid of
the sledge in the sewer system. And everybody's like, oh, well,
that's wonderful. You spend five million dollars to get rid
(18:13):
of the sledge and the sewer side, how that's wonderful.
No one ever comes back and goes, hey, did we
actually get rid of the sledge in the sewer system
or did we just spend five million dollars because the
left will tout how much they're spending. Right now, the
Democrats have locked down the entire federal government over how
much they're going to spend on health care for illegals.
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They're not focused on what is the outcome of that spending.
They're just saying, we're shutting down the government until we
spend more money. Well, that's ridiculous when it comes to education.
We shouldn't be focused on spending more and thinking that
just because we spend more money on education, we're going
to get a better result. We need to be focused
on the result.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
What you need to be focused on the result, but
you also need to be focused on what actually generated
aids or creates the result they you're after, right, it's
not more spending. It's not throwing billions of dollars to
the Department of Education exactly. Because, by the way, the
single greatest predictor of educational success in America isn't how
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much money you spend per student. No, very Frankly, it's
whether a child grows up in a two parent home,
and you look at study after study, decade after decade.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
It proves it.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
The United States Department of Education has shown that children
from a two parent household consistently consistently perform better on
standardized tests, they have higher GPAs they are far more
likely to graduate from high school and go on to college.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
The left likes to.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Say that there's white privilege, remember Black Lives Matter, talking
about all this white privilege, white privilege. There is no
such thing as white privilege. And what there is such
a thing as to parent privilege. It's real, it's powerful,
and we should all be working to make sure that
our kids have two parent pres every single day.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
And I was going to say, if you don't trust
the numbers coming out of the United States Department of
Education the US Census Bureau, maybe you don't trust them either,
but their data shows children living with married parents are
twice as likely to finish high school as those living
with a single parent.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Now take that data, which is true, that there really
is two parent privilege, that kids do better when they're
growing up in a house of two parents, and now
apply that to the success Louisiana has had, and it
makes the reading successes Louisiana's had up through third grade
even more pronounced. Because Louisiana has one of the lowest
rates of two parent households anywhere in the country, and
(20:43):
it's mostly pronounced. You see it more often in black
communities here in Louisiana, especially in the cities in Treeport,
in Bote, In Baton Rouge, in New Orleans. The black
communities there have very very low rates of two parent households,
and yet we're still focused on the science of reading,
and we're getting results for those kids, even though they're
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not getting some of the benefits of having two parent
households that kids in other states would.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
But I also want to give a shout out to
all the single parents who are doing their very best
and grandparents who are raising their grandchildren exactly because it's
not easy. No, it's not easy. I mean because think
about it. When you've got a single mom working two
jobs just to put food on the table. How much
time does she have to sit down and go over
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math homework. How much energy does she have left at
the end of the day to read to her child?
And none of this is her fault. Now, I know
a lot of folks may say, well, you know some
of it.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
We don't know individual circumstances.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Some of it may, but in a lot.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Of cases it's not, but two parents can divide the responsibilities,
they can share the load, and in the end, the
child benefits.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
And if more families in Louisiana buy back into that
model of what a family's supposed to look like, our
kids' education is going to go up even further because
they're going to get the benefit not just of what
the schools are doing, but what the families are then
able to do better on a daily basis.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
So it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Louisiana second in the nation with regards to reading skills
and proficiency for fourth graders.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
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Speaker 2 (22:58):
Stephen Parvard lewis terrible story coming out of New Orleans
right now, you know, and we're told that the New
Orleans Police Department can handle things. We're told that the
city just needs more community programs, better outreach. How's that
working out? And the reason I say that is that
a father was picking up his child from a mid
(23:23):
city daycare center and the father was shot and killed
by a twenty one year old man who allegedly was
trying to break into some vehicles, was spotted by this
man the deceased and was shot at and was killed.
(23:47):
So he's just picking up his child, a father doing
one of the most basic, beautiful things in life, picking
up his child, taking him home, and in an instant,
his life is taken away. I mean it is. And
this is why National Guard troops are needed in New Orleans.
(24:09):
This is why Governor Landry is calling for this. This
is the reality of crime. And it's not just a
New Orleans all across our state, but in New Orleans,
it's a new normal there. And it's really not a
new normal. It's an old normal where criminals feel emboldened,
where law enforcement is stretched thin, and where political leaders
(24:33):
can't or won't get serious about restoring order.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
And again, to be fair, the crime rate in New
Orleans has been going down basically ever since Da Jason
Williams himself was carjacked with his mother, So apparently at
that point he finally decided to get serious on cracking
down on crime. Before then, it really wasn't coming down
(24:59):
and again, Mayor LaToya Cantrell went to a carjacking trial,
if you'll remember, and she sat on the side of
the court of the teenager who was accused of carjacking someone.
Instead of sitting on the side of the court where
there were people saying we should be enforcing lawn orton,
instead of sitting on the DA side, she sat on
the defendant side. The mayor of New Orleans was in
(25:23):
favor of someone who had carjacked somebody else.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Now, this is very disappointing. And you know, I don't
know that I've ever shared the story online on air,
but you know, my wife and I when we lived
in New Orleans, we were we were mugged or otherwise
robbed at gunpoint.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I did not know this.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
They're in New Orleans on South Carrollton, right along the
trolley line. Wow, cars coming up and down South Carrollton.
It's a very busy street, trolley cars coming up and
down the street. And we were robbed. It took he
stole everything we had, He left us with our lives,
(26:11):
took my wife's wedding ring. It was it was absolutely terrifying. Yeah,
And the fact of the matter is that has been
the story of New Orleans for far too long.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
And maybe that's why Jeff Landry wants to send in
the National Guard to try and it not just bring
crime down, but to eliminate it in our state's largest city.
Let's dig deep.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Going down, down down.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
So Lauren Scott and Associates put out their economic forecast
for Louisiana today, the Louisiana Economic Forecast. It's a nice title.
It covers projected growth for twenty twenty six and twenty
twenty seven. And I'll sort their projections by growth rate.
They put it out by MSA, that's the metropolitan statistical area. Okay,
So I thought we'd start with the areas of the
(27:05):
state that are supposed to grow the fastest over the
next two years, and then we'll go down to the
ones that are growing the slowest. Fair enough, all right, Okay,
First Lake Charles. They say Lake Charles is going to
add eight six hundred jobs over the next two years
and eight percent growth rate for the city. That's pretty
four percent per year.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Well, you know, we have one of the largest or
the largest natural gas ports.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
That's exactly what they're talking about. The LNG growth that
the LNG terminals is what's driving the growth in Lake Charles.
They also talk about how it's got very good gambling
gaming casinos that are doing well. They think that's going
to help.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Lake Charles is a nice, nice community.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Number two Monroe. The Monroe area is going to add
seven five hundred new jobs. That's a seven point five
percent growth rates. And that's all about that new meta
data center coming in and then the new natural gas
power plants that are going to be fueling that absolutely,
so that's that's a big, big deal for Monroe. They're
basically saying Monroe is going to be going into a
(28:06):
golden age here. Baton Rouge came in at third. This
is twenty one thousand, six hundred jobs, a four point
nine percent growth rate for twenty twenty six and twenty
twenty seven. This is actually more about Ascension Parish than
Baton Rouge itself. There's lots of new projects coming into
Ascension Parish that's included in the metropolitan statistical area and
(28:28):
still several big projects coming. And it's the highest number
of jobs projected anywhere in the state.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Oh my, yeah, that's that's that's a big number. Twenty one,
twenty one thousand jobs.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yeah, and again almost all of that. In Ascension Parish
Saint Tammany, they're getting three thousand, six hundred jobs according
to this projection. That's a three point four percent growth rate.
In Hammond also looking at a three point four percent
growth rate with about one thousand, eight hundred jobs. Shreveport Boser,
the MSA is expected to gain five thousand, seven hundred jobs,
a three point three growth rate. But the report says
(29:03):
the Shreport Boser MSA is one that might seriously exceed
our forecast. Okay, so they're saying this is our forecast,
but they're saying, if anybody's got an upside that's going
to go over what we're projecting, it's Shreeport Bosure. And
the reason they're saying data centers, there's there's rumors, there's
there's talk behind the scene, there's scuttle butt that a
(29:24):
data center like the one that's going in over in
Monroe could be coming into Shreeport Bosure. If that happens
this this job, they're going to blow the jobs projection
out of the water. They said. There are also some
prospects out there for the cyber research centers and the
old GM plant. So you've got a couple of things
that are like in the works, but none of it
(29:46):
fully announced. And if some of this comes through, then
Sreeport's looking at even more growth than that. So that's
all the growth over three percent in the state. Everything
else is blow three percent over the next two years.
So Lafayette, they're saying you're going to add about five
and three hundred jobs in Lafayette. That's a two point
eight percent growth rate. They're talking about how oil drilling
in the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Has decreased the Gulf of America.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Actually, sorry, and that's that's going to be hurting Lafayette.
And I'm like lawsuits anyone, all those all those lawsuits
against the oil and gas coup, All right, but let's
be hurting.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Let's be honest here and I'm going to say it,
and here is why it is. Here's why all of
that great news is occurring.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Why's that.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
It's the Trump effect, It's Donald Trump's economic and foreign policies.
I mean, let's start with the obvious.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Energy.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Louisiana is an energy state, always been, always will be,
and so.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
We would be doing even better if we weren't playing
around with all these dumb little lawsuits about the oil
and gas industry, because otherwise we could be adding oil
and gas on top of the LNG.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Now I give kudos to President Trump, but we also
have a Republican governor. We do, and that creates a
stable I think for the most part, You've got a legislature.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
That is dominated by Republicans.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
So you have aisla legislature that is dominated by Republicans.
You have Jeff Landry in the governor's mansion, and that
creates stability in terms of a business environment, and businesses
crave stability.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
However, New Orleans projected to have eleven four hundred new jobs.
That's a two point four percent growth rate. That's just
over a one percent growth rate per year. That's not great,
especially for our state's largest city. If New Orleans were
to get it back together and become a business friendly
environment again, imagine what that could mean for the rest
of the state of Louisiana. Alexandria expected add one thousand,
(31:45):
one hundred jobs. Home expected at seventeen hundred jobs, and
basically the state looking at a growth of three point
seven percent. We'll be back to stick around.
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Speaker 3 (33:17):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Paul Lewis sar Avalona.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Of course, the President spoke at the United Nations General
Assembly last week in New York City, and one of
his secret service agents apparently fell asleep. Fell asleep on
the job and when it came time for him to
take a bathroom break.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
The president or the Secret Service agent.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
The Secret Service agent.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Okay, when it came time for the Secret Service agent
to take a bathroom break. He then this was after
being asleep, which you know never find I don't leave
it there. He left his semi automatic rifle unattended while
he went to the bathroom. Oh no, so here, First
(34:11):
he was asleep while protecting some of the most high
value targets on the planet.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Well, while they were supposed to be protecting you, you
can't say he was.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
And then he left his rifle unattended for anyone to grab. Now,
as you might expect during a Biden administration, it's such.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Incompetence was discovered, dereliction of duty.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
This guy would still have a job, yes, but under
the Trump administration he's fired.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Good should be.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Well, there's no margin for error here, there's no oops,
there's no I was tired.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
I just needed a break.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
When you're in the Secret Service, especially it's something like
the UN General Assembly where you've got presidents and prime
ministers and dictators, I mean all in one place.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
I mean, you've got to do your job.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Well, especially when you're guarding someone who's had more attempts
on his life than any president since gerold Ford, and
probably more threats on his life than any president since well. Ever,
and yeah, that this is a this is a no
failure job. You cannot fail. It's too important to the
(35:22):
entire world for the Secret Service to be excellent at
their job.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
I mean, here we are, just months after Butler Pennsylvania, right, right,
I mean, if you needed any evidence that being vigilant
and not slacking or sleeping on the job can be
deadly goodness, gracious, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
No, that's that's absolutely unconscious considable. But it's good that
the Secret Service is changing the way it behaves and
saying that that failure is not acceptable. Tell you what,
let's shift gears. Let's play a game.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Black battleship. Shall Well.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
The left likes to say that to slavery in the
United States of America was the worst kind of slavery ever. Right,
One of the things they don't talk about is modern slavery.
There is still slavery in nations on every continent on Earth,
people forced to work against their will. A lot of
it sexs slavery, but there's also hard labor in minds
and factories and plantations.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
But you know it isn't all slavery. Slavery abhorrent. I mean,
is there really a sliding scale of slavery?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:33):
No, it's like saying all the it's like saying this
is a this abuse is worse than that abuse. It's
still abuse, all right. So which nations have the most
slavery per capita per one hundred thousand people?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
China, China not on the list. China is not on
the list, not make the list. Nigeria, Nigeria did not
make the list. Yeah, I'm going with some low hanging
I thought I was going with some low hanging fruit there.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
There aren't bad guesses. They're in the top half.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
Okay, how about India, India, no, not in the list.
North Korea number one, oh, number one.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
They have one hundred and four point six slaves per
one hundred thousand people in North Korea. Oh my today.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
How about how about Russia.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Number eight, thirteen slaves per one hundred thousand people in Russia.
Afghanistan number nine, tied with thirteen slaves per one hundred
thousand Iran, Iran not in the top ten. I believe
they're just out I think they're in the top twenty.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Is that tough?
Speaker 2 (37:41):
This is a tough question to tough ques slavery. What
about someplace like Indonesia.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Indonesia not in the top ten?
Speaker 4 (37:51):
All right, you know, I'm gonna bow out here.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Here's the list, North Korea one hundred and four point six, Eritrea,
which is ninety points, that's in the Horn of Africa.
You have Mauritania thirty two, Saudi Arabia number four on
the list, twenty one point Saudi Arabia, then Turkey at
fifteen point six, to Jikistan at fourteen. You've got the
(38:15):
United Arab Emirates thirteen point four.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
The United Arab Emirates. Slavery is legal there.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Well, it happens there. Some of this was you mentioned
India when they were building the World Cup stadiums in Codder.
What happened was they'd have Indian immigrants come into the
country and the people that were employing the Indian immigrants
would steal their passports and then force them to work
for free in order to get their passports back. So
(38:45):
that was in Codder. You see similar types of things
in the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Afghanistan and Kuwait round
out the top ten. So of that list, seven states
are Muslim states, the other three are dictatorships. Dictatorships. Wohend
you look at the list of the states that have
the least slavery Capitay, you've got Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Ireland, Japan, Finland.
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All of those are democracies, and nine of the ten
have Christian roots and large Christian populations.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Wait, wait just a minute.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
You just listed the top ten nations who have the
least slavery per capita. Yeah, where's the United States on
this list?
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Higher up? We're in the bottom half. We're in the
bottom quarter.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
But because of all that thing, where's the slavery?
Speaker 3 (39:39):
The illegal immigration leads to sex trafficking, leads to people
having to pay off that the cartels. So the cartels
are running slavery in the United States today, especially under
the Biden administration.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
We'll be back.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You're listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Parver with Lewissar Eval.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
So the government is in partial shutdown as of twelve
o one a m. Today, And let's not kid ourselves
about who owns it. This is not the Trump shut down.
This is that the Dvance shut down.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
This Trump hasn't wanted to shut down, He hasn't advocated
for a shutdown, he hasn't threatened to shut down.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
This is the Schumer shutdown, one hundred percent, top to bottom,
straight down the line.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Chuck Schuber and his Democrats own this mess.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
And look, I'm not proud to say that, but that's
the reality. They are lying to the American people.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Yeah, way they say.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
They have absolutely no shame, no shame. And look, this
isn't the first time Democrats have played this game. Remember
in twenty eighteen, Schumer did the exact same thing. He
shut down the government over illegal aliens and the so
called dreamers. Well back then it was a three day
mess because the principle was the same. The Democrats will
(41:18):
gladly close down the United States if it means keeping
the border open and their future voting base flowing in.
So when the media and Chuck Schumer and other prominent
Democrats tell you this is congressional dysfunction, that this is
the Republicans in Congress.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
The Republicans in the House passed everything they need to pass.
The Republicans in the Senate except for Ran Paul, voted
to keep the government open. But you had the Democrats
except for John Fetterman, voting to shut down the government.
It's the Democrats in the Senate who are doing this,
that's what the math says.
Speaker 4 (41:58):
Well, and you're absolutely right. Here's the kicker.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Congress is leaving town now to observe a Jewish holiday,
which scheduled, which means that Schumer, this Schumer shut down
could drag on till at least Friday. So they shut down.
So Congress shuts down the government. Democrats shut down the government. Yes,
and then they leave town.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
Guess what.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
They still get their paychecks, They still enjoy their catered meals,
their security details, their perks. Meanwhile, ordinary Americans who depend
on government paychecks or services are left twisting in the wind.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
It's a problem, but we're gonna be talking about it
more coming up in the next hour of American Ground
or Radio Stick Around. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
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