September 9, 2025 • 42 mins
You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. Today we start with the collapse of local journalism in Louisiana. The decline in journalists threatens freedom, accountability, and community awareness, and why stories about school boards, sheriffs, and local taxes matter more to your daily life than headlines out of Washington. Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
New Orleans now has a huge Amazon same-day delivery site. Will it affect local businesses? Plus, we Dig Deep into how the ICE raid at Hyundai's Georgia plant might impact the plant being built in Ascension Parish. The site is projected to create over 1,500 jobs, but will those jobs go to local Louisianians— or will Hyundai's history of employing illegal aliens and using child labor be a problem?
Small businesses are leveraging the Trump tax cuts to create jobs, increase pay, and invest locally. And we have a little fun guessing which states have the lowest umemployment rates. Play along!
Check out Magnolia Pit BBQ for some Louisiana-style barbecue!
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- An audit reveals that Shreveport incurred a $1.6 Million ACA Fine under former Mayor Adrian Perkins.
- The North Louisiana Economic Partnership is acquiring the old Libby Glass Factory in Shreveport in hopes of revitalizing the the inside and making it attractive to potential buyers.
- Chief Administraive Office for Baton Rouge Charlie Davis is transitioning to be the Chief Efficiency Officer for the parish.
New Orleans now has a huge Amazon same-day delivery site. Will it affect local businesses? Plus, we Dig Deep into how the ICE raid at Hyundai's Georgia plant might impact the plant being built in Ascension Parish. The site is projected to create over 1,500 jobs, but will those jobs go to local Louisianians— or will Hyundai's history of employing illegal aliens and using child labor be a problem?
Small businesses are leveraging the Trump tax cuts to create jobs, increase pay, and invest locally. And we have a little fun guessing which states have the lowest umemployment rates. Play along!
Check out Magnolia Pit BBQ for some Louisiana-style barbecue!
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Speaker 4 (01:03):
We have had a total collapse of local journalism in
Louisiana in particular. I know, I know across the country,
Oh happy Monday.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Happy Monday, but that's how you start off Monday. We've
had a total collapse of local journal but we have.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
And this is more than just about newspapers. It's more
than just ink on a page. This is about This
is about whether America remains free. It's about whether we
the people you know, just everyday folks in towns and
parishes all across Louisiana still know what's going on in
our communities. And here's the bombshell Louisiana. Here's the headline.
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Louisiana has fewer local journalists than the average city or
the average state, I should say, across the country. So
these so called you know, of course journalists used to
be the so called watchdogs of government, Uh, the chroniclers
of our community so to speak. I mean, they're thinning out.
(02:02):
Then the numbers don't lie. Nationwide, the United States has
dropped to eight point two local journalist equivalents they call
it lges for every one hundred thousand people. That is down.
This is nationwide. It is down seventy five percent since
two thousand and two. And in Louisiana it's even worse.
(02:25):
So nationwide eight point two local journalist equivalents per one
hundred thousand people. In Louisiana, it's seven point six per
one hundred thousand people. Okay, And that's not just a statistic.
I think that that truly is. You know, as much
as we complain about you know, fake news and you know,
(02:48):
the lying leftist media.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It is important.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
And I know a lot of folks get their news
on Facebook and Twitter and TikTok But do you think
Mark Zuckerberg is going to tell you when your local
school board is raising taxes? You think some nineteen year
old influencer in Los Angeles is going to tell you
whether your sheriff is cutting deals under the table. A
healthy free press is essential to a free America. It is,
(03:17):
and I think our founding fathers understood that. That's why
the First Amendment is the first Amendment. It's not the fifth,
it's not the ninth, it's the first. It protects freedom
of speech and of the press, because if you don't
know what your government is doing, you can't stop it.
And if you can't stop it, you're no longer free, right,
I mean, it's that simple.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Well, in addition to the collapse of big media and
the consolidation of local media, so you've got more We've
talked about this here in Louisiana recently, you've got more
and more local stations that are owned by bigger and
bigger companies. Tenet Media is being bought out by I
don't remember Next Star, I think, and so you've got
(04:00):
media they still in the market. I'll give you an example.
I first started working at my second station I worked
for was KALTV and Tyler Texas. And when I started
working for there, at KALTV was part of a three
station group, so it was one in Lufkin and one
in Jackson, Mississippi, and one in Tyler. Those were the
three stations that was the ownership group. And then halfway
through my term, they got bought out by a company
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and now it was a twelve station group, so they
merged in another company. Now you got twelve stations in
one corporate. And then before I moved to Shreaport, it
got bought out by Raycom, and now we've got a
forty five station group. And that was how I got
Streetport forty five. So I went from three to forty five.
And then when I left, Raycom got bought out by
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another company and now it's a ninety eight station group
across the country. So the same Tyler's station, which was
a three station group back in the late nineties early
two thousands, is now part of a TV group that's
ninety eight stations all across the country. Unless whoever's running
that local station is very very focused on making sure
(05:02):
this is a local TV station, it quickly gets nationalized.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Oh absolutely, And and Louisiana is running below average in
the local journalists per capita. So that means you've got
fewer reporters in Lake Charles and Shreveport, Monroe, Homa. Uh,
small towns like Windfield on Faraday and moreover.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
The reporters that you have, I don't know what they're doing. Well,
I hate to say or I hate to say it.
They're fresh out of school.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Or they're working for a conglomerate like George's media group
they cover, they have he George, Uh, what is it?
The guys advocate George's Uh, what's no, no anyway. Nevertheless, Uh,
the Georges media group they cover. Uh, they own the
Advocate right and the Time Time's picking you right, and
(05:51):
Nola dot Com right Online Advocate and the Shreeport Bousure Advocate.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yes. Absolutely. And so if you live in rural of.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Oils Perish, who's telling you whether the hospital is solvent?
If you live in repeads Perish, who's covering whether the
sheriff's department budget is being spent responsibly?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well, and too often it's no one. And again I'm
going to come back to. Part of the reason for
that is the vast majority of reporters now are fresh
out of school. There are folks that are getting jobs
in big markets a year or two after having been
in college. You never would have done that twenty years ago.
You never would have made it to New Orleans be
working in New Orleans with only a year or two
(06:33):
under your belt. And now they're hiring people straight out
of school. So you've got people who have literally no
institutional knowledge of how a newsroom is supposed to work
running some of the biggest newsrooms in our state, and
I think don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I think a lot of that is because trust in
the media has collapsed. And it's not just bias, although
that is real, it's also absence. There is no coverage.
When people don't see journalists in their community, they assume
that presses some distant coastal elite enterprise, and too often
they're right. So I guess where I'm going with this
is that CNN can talk about Washington, Fox News, can
(07:10):
you know hammer what's going on in Congress?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
But you know what really affects your life, whether your
property taxes go up, whether your local water system is
poisoning your kids, I mean, whether your child school is quietly,
you know, adopting these radical curriculum changes. That's the stuff
that shapes your daily freedom. And if there's no one
there to report it, you don't know until it's too late.
(07:35):
And that is why as patriots, I mean, this isn't
I'm not being nostalgic for newspapers, right, I mean, although
I certainly grew up reading newspapers. But this is about
This is about preserving the infrastructure of freedom, because a
free press is a check on power. Now, when it vanishes,
guess what government expands, corruption festers, liberty shrinks. I mean,
(08:02):
how more plainly can I put it?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Now, At the same time that big media is losing
relevance and yet gobbling up stations, there's another thing that's
going on. There's another trend, and that is of the
independent journalists. There are websites, Facebook pages of people that
are just going out and covering the news. No their
nonprofit newsroom. No, I'm not talking about nonprofits. I'm talking
(08:25):
about independent citizens journalists, citizen journalists. But they're for profit.
Now they're going to make money off of the views
and off the clicks and stuff like that. But these
are individuals who have said, you know, what I see
it opening and I'm gonna go do what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
And that needs a little bit more of that. That
means we've got to have citizens who support those citizen
journalists exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
We've got to value it, we've got to support it,
and we've got to share it. When they do a
good job. You need to be sharing that out on
your social media. And part of that is what you're
listening the medium that you are listening to right now,
I think we're a talk radio. Share it out with
your friends. Speaking of let's get to the topic. Things
you need to know before tomorrow cours you need know
(09:15):
but before. Louisiana Legislative Auditor's Office says the City of
Streetport incurred a one point six million dollar fine for
not filing a required Affordable Care Act form properly. That
mistake was made in twenty twenty one while Adrian Perkins
was mayor, but the fine had to be paid in
twenty twenty three, in the first year of the Arsenal administration.
There were some other smaller errors noted in the audit,
including improper payments to two different police officers and errors
(09:37):
in calculating time off for some employees. Mayor Tom Arsenal
told KTBS that he has not yet had time to
go through the entire auditors report and does not yet
have a comment.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
First of all, if the city, let's see he became
mayor what twenty three, twenty twenty three. Ye, Look, this
says a lot about Mayor Arsenal because he could have
made a lot of political hay sure over the fact
that his predecessor has caused the city to incur this
huge fine.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
One point six million, and he didn't. Yeah, second thing
you needed before a while. The North Louisiana Economic Partnership
is buying the old Libby Glass factory in Shreatport. The
fifty four acre complex next to I twenty has been
empty since Libby Glass shut it down back in twenty twenty.
The nl EP hopes to make the inside of the
manufacturing facility attractive to other potential buyers rather than just
letting it slowly decay. Justin Dixon, president's CEO of n
(10:27):
l e P, said, with the right preparation, this site
can once again become a source of growth and pride
for Streetport in the and the.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Entire region, absolutely revitalizing that area, shattering the glass ceiling.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Oh wow, I just hope they do a better job
of dealing with this than they did with the GM plant,
which you know we said, Oh Elio Motors is coming
in there. That never happened. So yeah, Libby Glasses is
an important location. It's an important site for the future
streetport and they need to do a better job than
they did with GM. And the third thing you need
(11:00):
know but for a while, the Chief Administrative Officer for
Baton Ruse is changing jobs. Charlie Davis was appointed CAO
when Mayor Sid Edwards came to office earlier this year.
Davis is now transitioning to be the Chief Efficiency Officer
for the parish. In his new job, he will be
responsible for streamlining processes and eliminating unnecessary costs. Mayor Edwards
(11:20):
said Charlie has done a remarkable job as interim CAO,
moving the needle Indeast Baton Rouge Parish in a positive
and profound manner. But given the scale of the challenges
before us, it has become clear that his talents are
needed at a big picture level, radically reshaping how government
operates for the future of our parish. Davis will be
involved in the search for his replacement as CEO.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
You know it started at the top in Washington, d C.
With doughe right, and it is now infiltrated a local
government trying to be more efficient.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
And yeah, I buy Baton Rouge could be more efficient. Bye,
by that sounds reasonable to me.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
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Speaker 2 (13:14):
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Speaker 4 (13:18):
Last month in August, it saw the most significant one
month shift in Louisiana's voter registration numbers so far this year,
really with Republicans cutting the Democrats registration lead by twenty
five hundred voters twenty five hundred seventy three. Okay, So
(13:38):
Republicans continue to hold their advantage with active voters throughout
throughout the state of Louisiana. So right now in Louisiana,
there are a little over one million, forty seven thousand
Republican voters, one million, forty seven thousand Democrat voters, h million,
(14:01):
eighty nine voters eighty nine thousand, one million, ninety thousand
will round up, Okay, So it's a it's about what
it's about fifty or forty thousand voters difference between Republican voters,
registered registered Republican voters and registered Democrat voters.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Which is an interesting It is an interesting number because
we think of Louisiana as being a very red state. Yes,
one hundred percent, Yeah, absolutely, and yeah, we'll look at
look at state wide office, look at state white office.
It's not a single Democrat that has a state wide office,
(14:41):
and for the eight years prior to this, the only
state wide office a Democrat had was a governor. So
it's interesting that you think of Louisiana as having been
such a strong red state and yet Democrats still outnumber
Republicans in terms of registered voters. Now, some of that
(15:05):
may be changing, in part because of the closed primary
for the state Senate office, or not states, but federal
Senate offices and for the House of Representative offices. I
think if you had brought that closed primary down even
to statewide offices, to state senate, state house level offices,
(15:25):
I think you'd see even more of a shift, because
people would want to be able to impact what's happening
in those elections, because those elections, in many ways will
determine who will win the final election, the big election,
I mean, whoever's for the most part, if you look
at the Senate race, whoever wins the Republican primary of
the Senate race is most likely going to win the
(15:47):
state Senate race. I can think of only a handful
of scenarios where that would not be the case, one
of which being if Cassidy wins the primary and John
Bell Edwards gets into the election. I could absolutely see
John Bell Edwards being our next Senator. But for the
(16:08):
most part, state party registration is becoming more important because
those elections will be decided in the primaries, especially again
for representative and for Senate.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Well, and look, you got to go back. Let's go
back to two thousand. The year two thousand, you had
registered Democrats in Louisiana. They outnumbered Republicans by more than
nine hundred thousand. So twenty five years ago, Democrats in
Louisiana held a one nearly a one million voter registration advantage,
(16:43):
and now you're down to what fifty thousand, We're down
to approximately, I mean that is that is remarkable. You
go twenty five years ago almost a million, and that
wasn't a small lead, that was dominance. But Democrats at
that time held sixty percent of the voter registration statewide
and Republicans barely above twenty five percent, barely above. So
(17:07):
in twenty five years we've nearly doubled as Republicans the
percentage of registered voters in our state.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
And for Democrats, that's a massive collapse, and it's not
isolated to Louisiana. You're seeing Democrats collapse in voter registrations
across the country, even in blue states. Democrat voter registration
is down and Republican voter registrations are up, even states
like California. That's part of the trend. Let's see.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I think there's this. I think there's this resurgence of
faith in our country. I think President Trump.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Okay, what do you mean faith in the United States
of America or spiritual spiritual faith?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
And I think that is Look, Louisiana is a god fearing,
church going, family oriented state. It always has been. And
the Democrat Party. I think this is one of the
reasons that so many folks are leaving the Democrat Party
in Louisiana is because the Democrat Party used to at
least pretend to respect faith and family and traditional values.
(18:07):
But in twenty twenty five, forget it, forget it. They
are done with us, they are done with Louisiana. Democrats
have become the party or to Louisiana values. I should
say that they're done with Louisiana values because Democrats have
become the party of drag, Queen Story Hour, and abortion
on demand. And letting biological men compete in women's sports.
(18:28):
This doesn't sell in Shreveport, or in Lafayette, or in
Late Charles or in Homa. The Republicans, for example, I mean,
they've leaned into defending religious freedom and protecting the unborn
and standing up for women's rights. That's the message that
resonates with Louisiana voters who still believe in right and wrong.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Only thirty seven percent of Democrats nationwide call themselves Christians,
only thirty seven percent, and that is the lowest number ever.
And if you were to remove of African Americans from
that number, you'd be hard pressed to find any Democrats
who called themselves Christians. That the vast majority of Democrats
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who called themselves Christians are Black Democrats who are still
in the party. And I'm not fully sure why, but
they are. And so that really is a crisis of
faith within the Democrat Party for them to have abandoned God. Yeah,
states where people still believe in God, like Louisiana, they're
going to abandon the Democrat Party.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
And there's a lot of other reasons. Crime and safety, right,
oil and gas, taxation, education in parents' rights.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, the COVID lockdowns. It was the Democrat governors all
across the country. You know, much better off Louisiana would
have been if Democrat governors hadn't shut down their states.
John Bell Edwards did such damage to the state of Louisiana.
Imagine how good our test scores for our kids could
be if we hadn't had to spend two years catching
(19:58):
up to John Bell edwards lockdowns. Imagine how far ahead
our kids would be in school right now. We've recovered
more than any other state in the country. But imagine
if Kate Bromley, our state superintendent, didn't have to battle
the lockdowns and the school closures that John Bill Edwards
insisted upon.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Let's see, I think, and let's talk about the elephant
in the room, or should I say the donkey in
the room? Right, and that is New Orleans. Yeah, because
it is still heavily Democrat. It is overwhelmingly blue. But
I think there are cracks that are showing. I think
black voters certainly under the.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
True New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
I think all across the country, in very heavily populated
African American cities, Democrat led cities, and I think it's
all because of Donald Trump. Look Donald Black Americans voted
for Donald Trump in twenty twenty four in larger numbers
than that voted for a Republican. Black voters voted for
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a Republican right in larger numbers than at any time
I'm in our nation's history.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
And and yes, I see that. So I think they're
a country. I think there are cracks showing. I think
we didn't see that in New Orleans necessarily.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
No, it is a stronghold. But I do think there.
I think the fractures are there. I think the beginnings
of the fracture is there.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Okay, because they got they got a race for mayor
right now, it's not a single Republican the race. They've
got a race for sheriff right now, I got a
single Republican on the rest.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Look at President Trump what he got twenty twenty five percent.
Then you get twenty twenty five percent of the black vote,
of the black or the young male, the male black vote. Yes, okay,
If we in Louisiana ever start winning twenty to twenty
five percent of the black male vote in Louisiana, the
Democrats are finished for good.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
And I think those numbers are I think those numbers
are creeping up. Well, it's slow, but I can see
a light at the end of the tunnel.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
It's gonna take more than that for the Republicans to
be able to gain power in New Orleans and turn
New Orleans around. It's gonna take bigger numbers than just
twenty five percent of the male black vote. You're gonna
need fifty sixty percent, and maybe one day we get there,
and for the good New Orleans we need to and
with these voter registration numbers at least satting in the
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Speaker 4 (23:01):
Okay, so in New Orleans. Amazon now has this massive
one hundred and fifty thousand square foot same day delivery
site in New Orleans. So think about that. Here's a
building that will process thousands of customers orders every single day, right,
(23:21):
and they've got these you know, advanced robotic technology, et cetera,
et cetera. My question is, and I look, I I
I do it every day as well. Okay, is this
good for local retailers?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
It's not?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
What does this mean? What does this mean that that
Amazon in New Orleans? Because you know, you got to
wait a couple of days, that might discourage a lot
of folks from ordering. Not not everyone. I know, two
days is not sometimes it's the very next day. But
now we're talking about same day delivery from Amazon for
(23:58):
millions of different product right.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
But I think it's it's going to be depending upon
what you're shopping for. There are some things that if
you buy online, it doesn't matter if you get it
that day or not. You're asking for problems. If you're
buying clothing online.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Oh, come on, and Steven, lots of folks buy clothes online.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
How many how many videos are there of people buying
clothes online and they show up and they're not at
all what they were expected, then they can return them.
But I'm just I'm just saying there's folks out there
that you buy, you buy shoes online, they may not fit, right,
there's there's some things that it's still so much better
to actually go do that shopping in person. You can
try it on, you can see if it works. That
(24:38):
type of stuff is so much better.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Even come on, you know you're telling me, I'm yeah, absolutely,
one hundred percent. Your kids would be They would be
diametrically opposed to that.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
No, my kids don't buy shoes online. Okay, well because
it because it would. I have a daughter and she
she buys shoes online. I don't know it works out,
and she goes shopping before the works, tries them out.
I mean, now she might go to thrift shops. She
loves shopping thrift shops. But well there are thrift websites,
their thrift websites as well, and again on some of
(25:08):
that buyer beware. I'm just saying, is this going to
gut local retail any more than it already any more
than Amazon already has? I don't know. If it does
it a whole bunch more than it already has. I
think that's already kind of factored in. It's this is
this is I think more Amazon competing with Walmart than
it is Amazon competing with Mom and pop. That that
(25:30):
that ship's already said.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
You think that's already gone. You think the fact that
Amazon has this one hundred and fifty thousand square foot facility,
will they where they will deliver virtually anything in this
universe on the same day, It is not going to
have an even greater impact I think on local retailer.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I think this is a this is a competition with
Target and Walmart more than it is with mom and pop.
But the product selection from Amazon is so much greater
than But it already has been. It already has been.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
And you know, it's it's not just on mom and pop,
but the real estate market because when local retailers use
foot traffic and I know what I'm saying, and what
we're talking about here, you know isn't breaking news, right,
But the fact that more and more of these large,
mega facilities are opening up, Yeah, I feel like it
is accelerating whatever impact it has had thus far.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Let's stick deep, going down, down down.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I wonder if we need to start being concerned about
one Hyundai has planned for its plant in South.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Louisiana, down in Gonzales. You remember last Weeking Parish, You
remember last week ice agents raided a Hundai plant in
Georgia outside Savannah, and they rested four hundred and seventy
five illegal aliens there, the largest workplace ice raid in
American history. Okay, most of the illegal aliens at the
plant were from South Korea. Three hundred of the four
(27:01):
hundred and seventy five. That's about two thirds. Now, Hyundai
is a South Korean company. What are the odds that
two thirds of the illegal aliens at their plant just
happened to be South Korean?
Speaker 4 (27:14):
You know, I don't know that I would read too
much into that, because look, anytime a corporation opens up
someplace or a factory, Yeah, you bring folks over from
from the facility, from the main facility, the headquarters.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Okay, to help.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Do training, et cetera, et cetera. Now, why whether or
not their paperwork was in order.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
You don't. You don't smuggle people into the country to
do that. You don't sneak Okay, wait.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Wait, wait, wait, wait, where's the evidence that they smuggled
folks in. You have illegal aliens in the country, Well,
there's thirty million of them, and they didn't all get
smuggled in. They came across the border.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Glad you mentioned that thirty million, because only about one
point five of the illegal alien population in the United
States comes from South Korea. So for there to be
more than sixty percent of the illegal aliallians at South
Korea's plant at that South Korean plant from South Korea
itself suggests that this is not just simple random circumstance
people kind of crossing the border on their own. So
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did Hyundai intentionally bring in South Koreans who were not
given work permits? A lot of these people said that
they were given permits to come into the US. Those
were not work permits to come into the s US
where they tourist visas. Maybe yes, so maybe so if
the company is bringing them in and the company is
(28:33):
not trying to follow US customs off because you're telling
me Hyundai doesn't know the difference between a work visa
and a tourist visa, I find that hard to believe.
And if they've done that there, have they done it elsewhere?
And would they be planning on doing that in Louisiana? Again,
this was Hyundai who was employing these illegal aliens to
(28:54):
build their battery plant. And although Hyundai said it wasn't
their fault, but the fault of their subcontractors. They said, quote,
we are reviewing our processes to ensure that all parties
working on our projects maintain the same high standards of
legal compliance that we demand of ourselves. This includes thorough
vetting of employment practices by contractors and subcuntries. Remember that,
by the way, that they're blaming contractors and subcontracts for this.
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South Korean government put out a statement demanding the US
respect to their workers. This was Lee Jang Wung, spokesman
for South Korea's Foreign Ministry, complained about the raid, saying,
our company's economic activities and our people's rights should not
be infringed unfairly in the US legal enforcement process. So
South Korea didn't say, oops, our bad, we got those
(29:37):
forms wrong. They said those are our workers, all right now.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
It's not just okay, but if there is a staffing
agency okay that is in South Korea, okay. And so
Hyundai might have said, hey, mister staffing company, all right,
missus staffing company, you know, we would like as many
of our perhaps Hyundai workers from South Korea okay, to
(30:05):
come over to the United States just to help get things.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
In order, all right now, to start things off. But
see this plant in Louisiana that's not supposed to be
creating jobs for South Koreans, supposed to be creating jobs
for Louisianians.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Oh, but I understand, But they are right. I'm just saying,
now there's a proclamations here.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
There's another potential problem here, because it's not just about
Hundai bringing in illegal aliens from South Korea to work
at their plants. There's another employment problem. This is from
a report in twenty twenty two by Reuters. Child workers
found throughout Hyundai Kia supply chain and Alabama quote. At
least four major suppliers of Hyundai Motorcorp. And sister Kia Corp.
(30:41):
Have employed child labor in Alabama factories in recent years,
a Router investigation found, and state and federal agencies are
probing whether kids have worked at as many as half
a dozen additional manufacturers throughout the automaker supply chain in
the southern US CBS. Last year, FEDS accused Hyundai and
two suppliers of using labor. Again, Hundu's blaming the subcontractor.
(31:04):
The move comes after federal investigators found a thirteen year
old girl working up to fifty to sixty hours a
week on a smart assembly line in Luverne, Alabama, operating
machines that turn sheet metal into auto body parts. The
Labor Department said the child works at the facility, which
provides parts at Hundai Motor Manufacturing, Alabama, over a period
of six to seven months, and instead of attending middle school,
(31:26):
she worked in an assembly line making parts. The legal
documents said. This is supposed to be a six billion
dollar steel mill in Louisiana, projects supposed to create seventeen
hundred new jobs. But for the record, Hyundai has said
in a statement to news outlets that it has a
zero tolerance policy for child labor and they have cooperated
(31:47):
in every aspect of the investigation. Yep, we'll be back.
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Speaker 4 (33:15):
Well, small businesses are certainly taking advantage of the Trump
tax cuts. They're expanding. Many small businesses are growing, they're hiring,
wages are up. This is according to the Job Creators Network,
which they say they are the largest small business advocacy
(33:36):
group in the country and they set a full forty
two percent. This is just months what a month or
so after it's been two months maybe since the Big
Beautiful Bill was signed into law. Yeah, well, since that
bill was signed into law, forty two percent of American
(33:57):
small businesses plan to raise in employee wages and benefits. Wow,
as a result of their tax cut savings. Ninety one
percent plan to expand, or hire or reinvest in their communities.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
But this really shouldn't be that big of a surprise,
because this is exactly what we saw back in twenty
seventeen when the initial Trump tax cuts went into place.
Part of what the Big Beautiful Bill did was to
extend those same tax cuts. We saw businesses saying, hey,
we're going to expand. We saw that in the data
(34:34):
they were hiring more people, they were paying their employees
more money.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
But this isn't the rich getting richer. See, this is
what the left doesn't understand. They pooh poo this whole
one big beautiful bill. They denigrate so called voodoo economics
or trickle down economics. But if you have small businesses,
which are the backbone of this economy of our country,
(34:59):
and they're planning to hire more people, they're hiring people
that live in your community, that build houses, that buy refrigerators,
that buy new cars, that keep the economy humming along.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
And I know the left likes to call it voodoo economics,
it is technically called supply side economy.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
And actually it was George H. W. Bush that coined
that term voodoo economics. And then he was running against Ronald.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Reagan, but then had to become a proponent of it because, frankly,
it worked. The economy of the nineteen eighties heck of
a lot better than it was in the nineteen largest
peacetime expansion in American history. And frankly, Bill Clinton for
the most part kept it going with that Republican Congress
that it had, so then they can say it doesn't work,
but you kind of did. Led to the dot com boom, right,
(35:49):
and the fact that small businesses are growing and hiring.
That's great news.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
I think.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
So let's play a game black battleship, shall we say?
So we had those jobs numbers and the unemployment numbers
that came out last week, and you know, frankly, those
job numbers were rather disappointing, But we get to look
at the state by state numbers too, So which states
(36:17):
have the lowest unemployment rates in the United States of
America right now? Which states lowest unemployment? Let's go with Texas, Nope,
Texas about in the middle. Florida Nope, Florida's about in
the middle. Hmm. Oklahoma, Oklahoma number nine three point one
percent unemployment. Arkansas, Arkansas nope. Tennessee, Tennessee, Nope. Really, Virginia,
(36:48):
Virginia No. A lot of federal lowest unemployment numbers. A
lot of federal workers being laid off in Virginia right now. Oklahoma,
I don't know. Oh uh. South Dakota number one, one
point nine percent unemployment in southeast. A lot of fracking
going on. There's a lot of the Dakota and there's
(37:09):
farming and there's work to be done. North Dakota number two,
two point five percent unemployment. Unemployment.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
This is.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
I mean, you go with the big states, certainly, not California, Arizona.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Arizona, No, Utah, Utah, No, that's a good guess to it. No,
they're in the top half. But let's see here. New Hampshire,
New Hampshire number eight, three point one percent.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Massachusetts, Massachusetts. Nope, Okay, we're running out of time. I am,
I am failing, miserable.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
It's a bit scattered. But here's here's We've got South
Dakota one point nine percent, North Dakota two point five percent,
Vermont two point six percent. Hawaii completely shocked me, But
Hawaii is unemployment rate two point seven percent, Montana two
point eight Alabama three point Nebraska three point zero, New Hampshire, Oklahoma,
and Wisconsin all come in at three point one. You
have six red states, two purple and two blue Alabama. Yeah,
(38:08):
that surprises me. They're three point Oh they're pretty good,
all right. Which states have the highest unemployment rates the
most people in the job market out of work, out
of work? Gotta be California number number one, five point
five percent. They lead the nation in unemployment. Illinois Illinois no, surprisingly, hmm,
(38:28):
West Virginia, West Virginia, No, the left love's making fun
of West Virginia. They're unemployments a lot better than California.
Kentucky Kentucky number seven four point nine percent unemployment unemployments
at Illinois, Michigan, Michigan number three five point three percent, Minnesota, Minnesota, Nope, Wisconsin, No,
(38:53):
they were in the top ten.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Oh, that's right, that's right. Let's see the highest unemployed
rates New York, New York, so close. New Jersey number
six four point.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Nine percent, same as Kentucky. Washington state No, Oregon Oregon
number four five point zero. Tell you what, we are
starting to run out of times. So we've got California,
Nevada at four point five percent or five point four percent.
Excuse me, Michigan, Oregon, Ohio at five point each. New
Jersey and Kentucky are both at four point nine. You've
got Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Alaska coming in at four
(39:27):
point eight. So you've got five blue states, three purple,
and two red. Noticed trend five blue, three purple yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
So the lowest unemployment rates, six red states yep. The
highest unemployment rate rates five Blue states.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Including California. Gavin Newsom says the rest of the country should
be like California. Hardly it's millions of people out of work.
We'll be back.
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Speaker 4 (41:18):
All right, did you see this sixty six year old
l Issue freshman that basically got to see.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
His dream come true? Okay, to be part of the
Lsue band. It's really cool. Yeah, I saw. I briefly
saw that story, and I should probably dig into it more.
But that really is cool. You ever done marching band?
Speaker 4 (41:45):
I have not, not whatsoever, But it is. It's tough work.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
It is, It absolutely is. And at you know, sixty six, Hey,
you got to be in shape to be able to
do that. That's one of the things I think people
don't really get is that as you if you're playing
an instrument, so you're blowing out air as powerfully as
you can, as you're also marching, trying to stay in
formation and be coordinated with everybody else. That really is
(42:10):
hard work.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
No, but look, I think this story proves that dreams
don't expire, they don't have an age limit, they don't
have a statute of limitations. If you've got the fire
in your belly, if you've got the courage, if you're
willing to show up, there's room for you. There is
even in the LSU Tiger Band.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
I think it's a great story. And congratulations to congratulations
to the whole Tiger Band. I mean, that's just sixty
six years old to be a college freshman, for one,
and then to be in the band, marching, marching into
the hearts of everyone back a way. We got more
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Speaker 4 (01:03):
We have had a total collapse of local journalism in
Louisiana in particular. I know, I know across the country,
Oh happy Monday.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Happy Monday, but that's how you start off Monday. We've
had a total collapse of local journal but we have.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
And this is more than just about newspapers. It's more
than just ink on a page. This is about This
is about whether America remains free. It's about whether we
the people you know, just everyday folks in towns and
parishes all across Louisiana still know what's going on in
our communities. And here's the bombshell Louisiana. Here's the headline.
(01:40):
Louisiana has fewer local journalists than the average city or
the average state, I should say, across the country. So
these so called you know, of course journalists used to
be the so called watchdogs of government, Uh, the chroniclers
of our community so to speak. I mean, they're thinning out.
(02:02):
Then the numbers don't lie. Nationwide, the United States has
dropped to eight point two local journalist equivalents they call
it lges for every one hundred thousand people. That is down.
This is nationwide. It is down seventy five percent since
two thousand and two. And in Louisiana it's even worse.
(02:25):
So nationwide eight point two local journalist equivalents per one
hundred thousand people. In Louisiana, it's seven point six per
one hundred thousand people. Okay, And that's not just a statistic.
I think that that truly is. You know, as much
as we complain about you know, fake news and you know,
(02:48):
the lying leftist media.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It is important.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
And I know a lot of folks get their news
on Facebook and Twitter and TikTok But do you think
Mark Zuckerberg is going to tell you when your local
school board is raising taxes? You think some nineteen year
old influencer in Los Angeles is going to tell you
whether your sheriff is cutting deals under the table. A
healthy free press is essential to a free America. It is,
(03:17):
and I think our founding fathers understood that. That's why
the First Amendment is the first Amendment. It's not the fifth,
it's not the ninth, it's the first. It protects freedom
of speech and of the press, because if you don't
know what your government is doing, you can't stop it.
And if you can't stop it, you're no longer free, right,
I mean, it's that simple.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Well, in addition to the collapse of big media and
the consolidation of local media, so you've got more We've
talked about this here in Louisiana recently, you've got more
and more local stations that are owned by bigger and
bigger companies. Tenet Media is being bought out by I
don't remember Next Star, I think, and so you've got
(04:00):
media they still in the market. I'll give you an example.
I first started working at my second station I worked
for was KALTV and Tyler Texas. And when I started
working for there, at KALTV was part of a three
station group, so it was one in Lufkin and one
in Jackson, Mississippi, and one in Tyler. Those were the
three stations that was the ownership group. And then halfway
through my term, they got bought out by a company
(04:21):
and now it was a twelve station group, so they
merged in another company. Now you got twelve stations in
one corporate. And then before I moved to Shreaport, it
got bought out by Raycom, and now we've got a
forty five station group. And that was how I got
Streetport forty five. So I went from three to forty five.
And then when I left, Raycom got bought out by
(04:42):
another company and now it's a ninety eight station group
across the country. So the same Tyler's station, which was
a three station group back in the late nineties early
two thousands, is now part of a TV group that's
ninety eight stations all across the country. Unless whoever's running
that local station is very very focused on making sure
(05:02):
this is a local TV station, it quickly gets nationalized.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Oh absolutely, And and Louisiana is running below average in
the local journalists per capita. So that means you've got
fewer reporters in Lake Charles and Shreveport, Monroe, Homa. Uh,
small towns like Windfield on Faraday and moreover.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
The reporters that you have, I don't know what they're doing. Well,
I hate to say or I hate to say it.
They're fresh out of school.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Or they're working for a conglomerate like George's media group
they cover, they have he George, Uh, what is it?
The guys advocate George's Uh, what's no, no anyway. Nevertheless, Uh,
the Georges media group they cover. Uh, they own the
Advocate right and the Time Time's picking you right, and
(05:51):
Nola dot Com right Online Advocate and the Shreeport Bousure Advocate.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yes. Absolutely. And so if you live in rural of.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Oils Perish, who's telling you whether the hospital is solvent?
If you live in repeads Perish, who's covering whether the
sheriff's department budget is being spent responsibly?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well, and too often it's no one. And again I'm
going to come back to. Part of the reason for
that is the vast majority of reporters now are fresh
out of school. There are folks that are getting jobs
in big markets a year or two after having been
in college. You never would have done that twenty years ago.
You never would have made it to New Orleans be
working in New Orleans with only a year or two
(06:33):
under your belt. And now they're hiring people straight out
of school. So you've got people who have literally no
institutional knowledge of how a newsroom is supposed to work
running some of the biggest newsrooms in our state, and
I think don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I think a lot of that is because trust in
the media has collapsed. And it's not just bias, although
that is real, it's also absence. There is no coverage.
When people don't see journalists in their community, they assume
that presses some distant coastal elite enterprise, and too often
they're right. So I guess where I'm going with this
is that CNN can talk about Washington, Fox News, can
(07:10):
you know hammer what's going on in Congress?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
But you know what really affects your life, whether your
property taxes go up, whether your local water system is
poisoning your kids, I mean, whether your child school is quietly,
you know, adopting these radical curriculum changes. That's the stuff
that shapes your daily freedom. And if there's no one
there to report it, you don't know until it's too late.
(07:35):
And that is why as patriots, I mean, this isn't
I'm not being nostalgic for newspapers, right, I mean, although
I certainly grew up reading newspapers. But this is about
This is about preserving the infrastructure of freedom, because a
free press is a check on power. Now, when it vanishes,
guess what government expands, corruption festers, liberty shrinks. I mean,
(08:02):
how more plainly can I put it?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Now, At the same time that big media is losing
relevance and yet gobbling up stations, there's another thing that's
going on. There's another trend, and that is of the
independent journalists. There are websites, Facebook pages of people that
are just going out and covering the news. No their
nonprofit newsroom. No, I'm not talking about nonprofits. I'm talking
(08:25):
about independent citizens journalists, citizen journalists. But they're for profit.
Now they're going to make money off of the views
and off the clicks and stuff like that. But these
are individuals who have said, you know, what I see
it opening and I'm gonna go do what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
And that needs a little bit more of that. That
means we've got to have citizens who support those citizen
journalists exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
We've got to value it, we've got to support it,
and we've got to share it. When they do a
good job. You need to be sharing that out on
your social media. And part of that is what you're
listening the medium that you are listening to right now,
I think we're a talk radio. Share it out with
your friends. Speaking of let's get to the topic. Things
you need to know before tomorrow cours you need know
(09:15):
but before. Louisiana Legislative Auditor's Office says the City of
Streetport incurred a one point six million dollar fine for
not filing a required Affordable Care Act form properly. That
mistake was made in twenty twenty one while Adrian Perkins
was mayor, but the fine had to be paid in
twenty twenty three, in the first year of the Arsenal administration.
There were some other smaller errors noted in the audit,
including improper payments to two different police officers and errors
(09:37):
in calculating time off for some employees. Mayor Tom Arsenal
told KTBS that he has not yet had time to
go through the entire auditors report and does not yet
have a comment.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
First of all, if the city, let's see he became
mayor what twenty three, twenty twenty three. Ye, Look, this
says a lot about Mayor Arsenal because he could have
made a lot of political hay sure over the fact
that his predecessor has caused the city to incur this
huge fine.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
One point six million, and he didn't. Yeah, second thing
you needed before a while. The North Louisiana Economic Partnership
is buying the old Libby Glass factory in Shreatport. The
fifty four acre complex next to I twenty has been
empty since Libby Glass shut it down back in twenty twenty.
The nl EP hopes to make the inside of the
manufacturing facility attractive to other potential buyers rather than just
letting it slowly decay. Justin Dixon, president's CEO of n
(10:27):
l e P, said, with the right preparation, this site
can once again become a source of growth and pride
for Streetport in the and the.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Entire region, absolutely revitalizing that area, shattering the glass ceiling.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Oh wow, I just hope they do a better job
of dealing with this than they did with the GM plant,
which you know we said, Oh Elio Motors is coming
in there. That never happened. So yeah, Libby Glasses is
an important location. It's an important site for the future
streetport and they need to do a better job than
they did with GM. And the third thing you need
(11:00):
know but for a while, the Chief Administrative Officer for
Baton Ruse is changing jobs. Charlie Davis was appointed CAO
when Mayor Sid Edwards came to office earlier this year.
Davis is now transitioning to be the Chief Efficiency Officer
for the parish. In his new job, he will be
responsible for streamlining processes and eliminating unnecessary costs. Mayor Edwards
(11:20):
said Charlie has done a remarkable job as interim CAO,
moving the needle Indeast Baton Rouge Parish in a positive
and profound manner. But given the scale of the challenges
before us, it has become clear that his talents are
needed at a big picture level, radically reshaping how government
operates for the future of our parish. Davis will be
involved in the search for his replacement as CEO.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
You know it started at the top in Washington, d C.
With doughe right, and it is now infiltrated a local
government trying to be more efficient.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
And yeah, I buy Baton Rouge could be more efficient. Bye,
by that sounds reasonable to me.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
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Welcome back to American Ground Radio, Stephen Parker, the Wivelona. So.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Last month in August, it saw the most significant one
month shift in Louisiana's voter registration numbers so far this year,
really with Republicans cutting the Democrats registration lead by twenty
five hundred voters twenty five hundred seventy three. Okay, So
(13:38):
Republicans continue to hold their advantage with active voters throughout
throughout the state of Louisiana. So right now in Louisiana,
there are a little over one million, forty seven thousand
Republican voters, one million, forty seven thousand Democrat voters, h million,
(14:01):
eighty nine voters eighty nine thousand, one million, ninety thousand
will round up, Okay, So it's a it's about what
it's about fifty or forty thousand voters difference between Republican voters,
registered registered Republican voters and registered Democrat voters.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Which is an interesting It is an interesting number because
we think of Louisiana as being a very red state. Yes,
one hundred percent, Yeah, absolutely, and yeah, we'll look at
look at state wide office, look at state white office.
It's not a single Democrat that has a state wide office,
(14:41):
and for the eight years prior to this, the only
state wide office a Democrat had was a governor. So
it's interesting that you think of Louisiana as having been
such a strong red state and yet Democrats still outnumber
Republicans in terms of registered voters. Now, some of that
(15:05):
may be changing, in part because of the closed primary
for the state Senate office, or not states, but federal
Senate offices and for the House of Representative offices. I
think if you had brought that closed primary down even
to statewide offices, to state senate, state house level offices,
(15:25):
I think you'd see even more of a shift, because
people would want to be able to impact what's happening
in those elections, because those elections, in many ways will
determine who will win the final election, the big election,
I mean, whoever's for the most part, if you look
at the Senate race, whoever wins the Republican primary of
the Senate race is most likely going to win the
(15:47):
state Senate race. I can think of only a handful
of scenarios where that would not be the case, one
of which being if Cassidy wins the primary and John
Bell Edwards gets into the election. I could absolutely see
John Bell Edwards being our next Senator. But for the
(16:08):
most part, state party registration is becoming more important because
those elections will be decided in the primaries, especially again
for representative and for Senate.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Well, and look, you got to go back. Let's go
back to two thousand. The year two thousand, you had
registered Democrats in Louisiana. They outnumbered Republicans by more than
nine hundred thousand. So twenty five years ago, Democrats in
Louisiana held a one nearly a one million voter registration advantage,
(16:43):
and now you're down to what fifty thousand, We're down
to approximately, I mean that is that is remarkable. You
go twenty five years ago almost a million, and that
wasn't a small lead, that was dominance. But Democrats at
that time held sixty percent of the voter registration statewide
and Republicans barely above twenty five percent, barely above. So
(17:07):
in twenty five years we've nearly doubled as Republicans the
percentage of registered voters in our state.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
And for Democrats, that's a massive collapse, and it's not
isolated to Louisiana. You're seeing Democrats collapse in voter registrations
across the country, even in blue states. Democrat voter registration
is down and Republican voter registrations are up, even states
like California. That's part of the trend. Let's see.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I think there's this. I think there's this resurgence of
faith in our country. I think President Trump.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Okay, what do you mean faith in the United States
of America or spiritual spiritual faith?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
And I think that is Look, Louisiana is a god fearing,
church going, family oriented state. It always has been. And
the Democrat Party. I think this is one of the
reasons that so many folks are leaving the Democrat Party
in Louisiana is because the Democrat Party used to at
least pretend to respect faith and family and traditional values.
(18:07):
But in twenty twenty five, forget it, forget it. They
are done with us, they are done with Louisiana. Democrats
have become the party or to Louisiana values. I should
say that they're done with Louisiana values because Democrats have
become the party of drag, Queen Story Hour, and abortion
on demand. And letting biological men compete in women's sports.
(18:28):
This doesn't sell in Shreveport, or in Lafayette, or in
Late Charles or in Homa. The Republicans, for example, I mean,
they've leaned into defending religious freedom and protecting the unborn
and standing up for women's rights. That's the message that
resonates with Louisiana voters who still believe in right and wrong.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Only thirty seven percent of Democrats nationwide call themselves Christians,
only thirty seven percent, and that is the lowest number ever.
And if you were to remove of African Americans from
that number, you'd be hard pressed to find any Democrats
who called themselves Christians. That the vast majority of Democrats
(19:11):
who called themselves Christians are Black Democrats who are still
in the party. And I'm not fully sure why, but
they are. And so that really is a crisis of
faith within the Democrat Party for them to have abandoned God. Yeah,
states where people still believe in God, like Louisiana, they're
going to abandon the Democrat Party.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
And there's a lot of other reasons. Crime and safety, right,
oil and gas, taxation, education in parents' rights.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, the COVID lockdowns. It was the Democrat governors all
across the country. You know, much better off Louisiana would
have been if Democrat governors hadn't shut down their states.
John Bell Edwards did such damage to the state of Louisiana.
Imagine how good our test scores for our kids could
be if we hadn't had to spend two years catching
(19:58):
up to John Bell edwards lockdowns. Imagine how far ahead
our kids would be in school right now. We've recovered
more than any other state in the country. But imagine
if Kate Bromley, our state superintendent, didn't have to battle
the lockdowns and the school closures that John Bill Edwards
insisted upon.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Let's see, I think, and let's talk about the elephant
in the room, or should I say the donkey in
the room? Right, and that is New Orleans. Yeah, because
it is still heavily Democrat. It is overwhelmingly blue. But
I think there are cracks that are showing. I think
black voters certainly under the.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
True New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
I think all across the country, in very heavily populated
African American cities, Democrat led cities, and I think it's
all because of Donald Trump. Look Donald Black Americans voted
for Donald Trump in twenty twenty four in larger numbers
than that voted for a Republican. Black voters voted for
(20:56):
a Republican right in larger numbers than at any time
I'm in our nation's history.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
And and yes, I see that. So I think they're
a country. I think there are cracks showing. I think
we didn't see that in New Orleans necessarily.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
No, it is a stronghold. But I do think there.
I think the fractures are there. I think the beginnings
of the fracture is there.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Okay, because they got they got a race for mayor
right now, it's not a single Republican the race. They've
got a race for sheriff right now, I got a
single Republican on the rest.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Look at President Trump what he got twenty twenty five percent.
Then you get twenty twenty five percent of the black vote,
of the black or the young male, the male black vote. Yes, okay,
If we in Louisiana ever start winning twenty to twenty
five percent of the black male vote in Louisiana, the
Democrats are finished for good.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
And I think those numbers are I think those numbers
are creeping up. Well, it's slow, but I can see
a light at the end of the tunnel.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
It's gonna take more than that for the Republicans to
be able to gain power in New Orleans and turn
New Orleans around. It's gonna take bigger numbers than just
twenty five percent of the male black vote. You're gonna
need fifty sixty percent, and maybe one day we get there,
and for the good New Orleans we need to and
with these voter registration numbers at least satting in the
(22:16):
right direction one hundred percent, we'll reback. Instagram.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
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Speaker 4 (23:01):
Okay, so in New Orleans. Amazon now has this massive
one hundred and fifty thousand square foot same day delivery
site in New Orleans. So think about that. Here's a
building that will process thousands of customers orders every single day, right,
(23:21):
and they've got these you know, advanced robotic technology, et cetera,
et cetera. My question is, and I look, I I
I do it every day as well. Okay, is this
good for local retailers?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
It's not?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
What does this mean? What does this mean that that
Amazon in New Orleans? Because you know, you got to
wait a couple of days, that might discourage a lot
of folks from ordering. Not not everyone. I know, two
days is not sometimes it's the very next day. But
now we're talking about same day delivery from Amazon for
(23:58):
millions of different product right.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
But I think it's it's going to be depending upon
what you're shopping for. There are some things that if
you buy online, it doesn't matter if you get it
that day or not. You're asking for problems. If you're
buying clothing online.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Oh, come on, and Steven, lots of folks buy clothes online.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
How many how many videos are there of people buying
clothes online and they show up and they're not at
all what they were expected, then they can return them.
But I'm just I'm just saying there's folks out there
that you buy, you buy shoes online, they may not fit, right,
there's there's some things that it's still so much better
to actually go do that shopping in person. You can
try it on, you can see if it works. That
(24:38):
type of stuff is so much better.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Even come on, you know you're telling me, I'm yeah, absolutely,
one hundred percent. Your kids would be They would be
diametrically opposed to that.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
No, my kids don't buy shoes online. Okay, well because
it because it would. I have a daughter and she
she buys shoes online. I don't know it works out,
and she goes shopping before the works, tries them out.
I mean, now she might go to thrift shops. She
loves shopping thrift shops. But well there are thrift websites,
their thrift websites as well, and again on some of
(25:08):
that buyer beware. I'm just saying, is this going to
gut local retail any more than it already any more
than Amazon already has? I don't know. If it does
it a whole bunch more than it already has. I
think that's already kind of factored in. It's this is
this is I think more Amazon competing with Walmart than
it is Amazon competing with Mom and pop. That that
(25:30):
that ship's already said.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
You think that's already gone. You think the fact that
Amazon has this one hundred and fifty thousand square foot facility,
will they where they will deliver virtually anything in this
universe on the same day, It is not going to
have an even greater impact I think on local retailer.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I think this is a this is a competition with
Target and Walmart more than it is with mom and pop.
But the product selection from Amazon is so much greater
than But it already has been. It already has been.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
And you know, it's it's not just on mom and pop,
but the real estate market because when local retailers use
foot traffic and I know what I'm saying, and what
we're talking about here, you know isn't breaking news, right,
But the fact that more and more of these large,
mega facilities are opening up, Yeah, I feel like it
is accelerating whatever impact it has had thus far.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Let's stick deep, going down, down down.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I wonder if we need to start being concerned about
one Hyundai has planned for its plant in South.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Louisiana, down in Gonzales. You remember last Weeking Parish, You
remember last week ice agents raided a Hundai plant in
Georgia outside Savannah, and they rested four hundred and seventy
five illegal aliens there, the largest workplace ice raid in
American history. Okay, most of the illegal aliens at the
plant were from South Korea. Three hundred of the four
(27:01):
hundred and seventy five. That's about two thirds. Now, Hyundai
is a South Korean company. What are the odds that
two thirds of the illegal aliens at their plant just
happened to be South Korean?
Speaker 4 (27:14):
You know, I don't know that I would read too
much into that, because look, anytime a corporation opens up
someplace or a factory, Yeah, you bring folks over from
from the facility, from the main facility, the headquarters.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Okay, to help.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Do training, et cetera, et cetera. Now, why whether or
not their paperwork was in order.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
You don't. You don't smuggle people into the country to
do that. You don't sneak Okay, wait.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Wait, wait, wait, wait, where's the evidence that they smuggled
folks in. You have illegal aliens in the country, Well,
there's thirty million of them, and they didn't all get
smuggled in. They came across the border.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Glad you mentioned that thirty million, because only about one
point five of the illegal alien population in the United
States comes from South Korea. So for there to be
more than sixty percent of the illegal aliallians at South
Korea's plant at that South Korean plant from South Korea
itself suggests that this is not just simple random circumstance
people kind of crossing the border on their own. So
(28:11):
did Hyundai intentionally bring in South Koreans who were not
given work permits? A lot of these people said that
they were given permits to come into the US. Those
were not work permits to come into the s US
where they tourist visas. Maybe yes, so maybe so if
the company is bringing them in and the company is
(28:33):
not trying to follow US customs off because you're telling
me Hyundai doesn't know the difference between a work visa
and a tourist visa, I find that hard to believe.
And if they've done that there, have they done it elsewhere?
And would they be planning on doing that in Louisiana? Again,
this was Hyundai who was employing these illegal aliens to
(28:54):
build their battery plant. And although Hyundai said it wasn't
their fault, but the fault of their subcontractors. They said, quote,
we are reviewing our processes to ensure that all parties
working on our projects maintain the same high standards of
legal compliance that we demand of ourselves. This includes thorough
vetting of employment practices by contractors and subcuntries. Remember that,
by the way, that they're blaming contractors and subcontracts for this.
(29:17):
South Korean government put out a statement demanding the US
respect to their workers. This was Lee Jang Wung, spokesman
for South Korea's Foreign Ministry, complained about the raid, saying,
our company's economic activities and our people's rights should not
be infringed unfairly in the US legal enforcement process. So
South Korea didn't say, oops, our bad, we got those
(29:37):
forms wrong. They said those are our workers, all right now.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
It's not just okay, but if there is a staffing
agency okay that is in South Korea, okay. And so
Hyundai might have said, hey, mister staffing company, all right,
missus staffing company, you know, we would like as many
of our perhaps Hyundai workers from South Korea okay, to
(30:05):
come over to the United States just to help get things.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
In order, all right now, to start things off. But
see this plant in Louisiana that's not supposed to be
creating jobs for South Koreans, supposed to be creating jobs
for Louisianians.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Oh, but I understand, But they are right. I'm just saying,
now there's a proclamations here.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
There's another potential problem here, because it's not just about
Hundai bringing in illegal aliens from South Korea to work
at their plants. There's another employment problem. This is from
a report in twenty twenty two by Reuters. Child workers
found throughout Hyundai Kia supply chain and Alabama quote. At
least four major suppliers of Hyundai Motorcorp. And sister Kia Corp.
(30:41):
Have employed child labor in Alabama factories in recent years,
a Router investigation found, and state and federal agencies are
probing whether kids have worked at as many as half
a dozen additional manufacturers throughout the automaker supply chain in
the southern US CBS. Last year, FEDS accused Hyundai and
two suppliers of using labor. Again, Hundu's blaming the subcontractor.
(31:04):
The move comes after federal investigators found a thirteen year
old girl working up to fifty to sixty hours a
week on a smart assembly line in Luverne, Alabama, operating
machines that turn sheet metal into auto body parts. The
Labor Department said the child works at the facility, which
provides parts at Hundai Motor Manufacturing, Alabama, over a period
of six to seven months, and instead of attending middle school,
(31:26):
she worked in an assembly line making parts. The legal
documents said. This is supposed to be a six billion
dollar steel mill in Louisiana, projects supposed to create seventeen
hundred new jobs. But for the record, Hyundai has said
in a statement to news outlets that it has a
zero tolerance policy for child labor and they have cooperated
(31:47):
in every aspect of the investigation. Yep, we'll be back.
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Speaker 2 (33:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Power of lewisar
avalon a.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Well, small businesses are certainly taking advantage of the Trump
tax cuts. They're expanding. Many small businesses are growing, they're hiring,
wages are up. This is according to the Job Creators Network,
which they say they are the largest small business advocacy
(33:36):
group in the country and they set a full forty
two percent. This is just months what a month or
so after it's been two months maybe since the Big
Beautiful Bill was signed into law. Yeah, well, since that
bill was signed into law, forty two percent of American
(33:57):
small businesses plan to raise in employee wages and benefits. Wow,
as a result of their tax cut savings. Ninety one
percent plan to expand, or hire or reinvest in their communities.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
But this really shouldn't be that big of a surprise,
because this is exactly what we saw back in twenty
seventeen when the initial Trump tax cuts went into place.
Part of what the Big Beautiful Bill did was to
extend those same tax cuts. We saw businesses saying, hey,
we're going to expand. We saw that in the data
(34:34):
they were hiring more people, they were paying their employees
more money.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
But this isn't the rich getting richer. See, this is
what the left doesn't understand. They pooh poo this whole
one big beautiful bill. They denigrate so called voodoo economics
or trickle down economics. But if you have small businesses,
which are the backbone of this economy of our country,
(34:59):
and they're planning to hire more people, they're hiring people
that live in your community, that build houses, that buy refrigerators,
that buy new cars, that keep the economy humming along.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
And I know the left likes to call it voodoo economics,
it is technically called supply side economy.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
And actually it was George H. W. Bush that coined
that term voodoo economics. And then he was running against Ronald.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Reagan, but then had to become a proponent of it because, frankly,
it worked. The economy of the nineteen eighties heck of
a lot better than it was in the nineteen largest
peacetime expansion in American history. And frankly, Bill Clinton for
the most part kept it going with that Republican Congress
that it had, so then they can say it doesn't work,
but you kind of did. Led to the dot com boom, right,
(35:49):
and the fact that small businesses are growing and hiring.
That's great news.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
I think.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
So let's play a game black battleship, shall we say?
So we had those jobs numbers and the unemployment numbers
that came out last week, and you know, frankly, those
job numbers were rather disappointing, But we get to look
at the state by state numbers too, So which states
(36:17):
have the lowest unemployment rates in the United States of
America right now? Which states lowest unemployment? Let's go with Texas, Nope,
Texas about in the middle. Florida Nope, Florida's about in
the middle. Hmm. Oklahoma, Oklahoma number nine three point one
percent unemployment. Arkansas, Arkansas nope. Tennessee, Tennessee, Nope. Really, Virginia,
(36:48):
Virginia No. A lot of federal lowest unemployment numbers. A
lot of federal workers being laid off in Virginia right now. Oklahoma,
I don't know. Oh uh. South Dakota number one, one
point nine percent unemployment in southeast. A lot of fracking
going on. There's a lot of the Dakota and there's
(37:09):
farming and there's work to be done. North Dakota number two,
two point five percent unemployment. Unemployment.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
This is.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
I mean, you go with the big states, certainly, not California, Arizona.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Arizona, No, Utah, Utah, No, that's a good guess to it. No,
they're in the top half. But let's see here. New Hampshire,
New Hampshire number eight, three point one percent.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Massachusetts, Massachusetts. Nope, Okay, we're running out of time. I am,
I am failing, miserable.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
It's a bit scattered. But here's here's We've got South
Dakota one point nine percent, North Dakota two point five percent,
Vermont two point six percent. Hawaii completely shocked me, But
Hawaii is unemployment rate two point seven percent, Montana two
point eight Alabama three point Nebraska three point zero, New Hampshire, Oklahoma,
and Wisconsin all come in at three point one. You
have six red states, two purple and two blue Alabama. Yeah,
(38:08):
that surprises me. They're three point Oh they're pretty good,
all right. Which states have the highest unemployment rates the
most people in the job market out of work, out
of work? Gotta be California number number one, five point
five percent. They lead the nation in unemployment. Illinois Illinois no, surprisingly, hmm,
(38:28):
West Virginia, West Virginia, No, the left love's making fun
of West Virginia. They're unemployments a lot better than California.
Kentucky Kentucky number seven four point nine percent unemployment unemployments
at Illinois, Michigan, Michigan number three five point three percent, Minnesota, Minnesota, Nope, Wisconsin, No,
(38:53):
they were in the top ten.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Oh, that's right, that's right. Let's see the highest unemployed
rates New York, New York, so close. New Jersey number
six four point.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Nine percent, same as Kentucky. Washington state No, Oregon Oregon
number four five point zero. Tell you what, we are
starting to run out of times. So we've got California,
Nevada at four point five percent or five point four percent.
Excuse me, Michigan, Oregon, Ohio at five point each. New
Jersey and Kentucky are both at four point nine. You've
got Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Alaska coming in at four
(39:27):
point eight. So you've got five blue states, three purple,
and two red. Noticed trend five blue, three purple yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
So the lowest unemployment rates, six red states yep. The
highest unemployment rate rates five Blue states.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Including California. Gavin Newsom says the rest of the country should
be like California. Hardly it's millions of people out of work.
We'll be back.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
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Speaker 2 (40:14):
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Speaker 4 (41:18):
All right, did you see this sixty six year old
l Issue freshman that basically got to see.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
His dream come true? Okay, to be part of the
Lsue band. It's really cool. Yeah, I saw. I briefly
saw that story, and I should probably dig into it more.
But that really is cool. You ever done marching band?
Speaker 4 (41:45):
I have not, not whatsoever, But it is. It's tough work.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
It is, It absolutely is. And at you know, sixty six, Hey,
you got to be in shape to be able to
do that. That's one of the things I think people
don't really get is that as you if you're playing
an instrument, so you're blowing out air as powerfully as
you can, as you're also marching, trying to stay in
formation and be coordinated with everybody else. That really is
(42:10):
hard work.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
No, but look, I think this story proves that dreams
don't expire, they don't have an age limit, they don't
have a statute of limitations. If you've got the fire
in your belly, if you've got the courage, if you're
willing to show up, there's room for you. There is
even in the LSU Tiger Band.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
I think it's a great story. And congratulations to congratulations
to the whole Tiger Band. I mean, that's just sixty
six years old to be a college freshman, for one,
and then to be in the band, marching, marching into
the hearts of everyone back a way. We got more
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