Some Big Beautiful BS Around this Bill

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez, I'll be very happy when all this is
behind us. I'm getting a little tired of the big
beautiful bill.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
What do you think when it's passed or not passed,
he's going to drop that.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah, well that'll be the end of this bill.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Look, it'll be the beautiful law.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's so dumb. This is it's classic Trump. It's there's
nothing different about this bill than in any other spending
or budget bill, or omnibus bill or anything else that
has come down the congressional pike for our entire lives.
Every year. They're multiple spending and omnibus and budget bills,

(00:42):
and every single one of them is pretty much exactly
the same. Are we going to cap the increase in
spending by this much or that much? No one ever
talks about let's actually cut back on spending here. No, no,
it's maybe we'll cut back on the increase and spend.
It's all bull it's absolute nonsense. There's nothing amazing in

(01:05):
this bill that hasn't been there at least discussed in
every other bill that these guys have ever battled about
and fought over and shut down the government over, and
all the rest of this stuff But why is this
one getting so much attention? Because President Trump called it
the Big Beautiful Bill. And now it has a name,

(01:26):
it has promotion attached to it. Suddenly people are more
invested because President Trump gave it a name, the Big
Beautiful Bill. Oh, this bill must be special. Well, I'm
not saying there aren't things in there that aren't special.
There certainly are. I would like to have the twenty

(01:48):
seventeen tax cuts continued. I don't want to pay more
in taxes. That's probably the biggest component of this bill.
Everything else, though, it's all the same garbage that they
vote on every single year, sometimes two and three times
a year. It's all the same thing. The difference President

(02:11):
Trump put a hat on this one. It's the Big
Beautiful Bill. Ooh, this is something completely different than anything
we've ever experienced in our entire lives. No, it's not.
And then you've got the argument like, well, the tax
cuts are estimated to cost nearly four point five trillion

(02:35):
dollars over ten years, all right, point number two? Who cares?
What exactly do you think the relationship is between the
federal government and your tax dollars? Has anyone ever said, like, hey,
the government might lose some money on this one. Do
you know what happens when the government loses money, you

(02:58):
gain it. They don't have a bikini car wash up
there in Washington, DC. Bake sale, they don't have a
bake sale. They don't have a garage sale. They're just
working on your tax dollars and anything else that they
see fit to either print in terms of money not newsprint,

(03:20):
or borrow from other countries. So anyone who wants to
tell you anything about this bill under the lens of well,
these tax cuts are estimated to cost the government, doesn't
cost the government anything. The government doesn't make money, doesn't

(03:40):
cost them anything. What are they producing, Well, they take
care of the military defense, they take care of the
infrastructure of some of the federal parts. That that's great.
It doesn't cost them anything. Tax cuts don't cost the government.
Jack's squat. Anyone that wants to tell you all these

(04:01):
tax cuts are this bill is estimated to cost nearly
and that whatever number they think that they can attract
you with, like a moth to the flame, that's what
that news agency will throw out there. There is a
Congressional Budget Office that does score various bills and every
single one is, well, yeah, if we take in less

(04:23):
money over the next year, it's gonna cost this and
five years that all right, put it out over ten years,
and that sounds like a big number. It's going to
cost four point five trillion dollars. That way they can
start demonizing that money that the government's not bringing in. Well,
there's four point five trillion dollars. That means that they're
probably gonna not spend money on this, and then they're

(04:45):
gonna cut funds from that and all this is gonna
go away, and good luck ever seeing this again. None
of that has come true. None of it is in
the bill, and it's and this whole idea of it
costs the government this much money over the next decade
doesn't include what might happen with our economy once we

(05:07):
have more Americans working, spending money, investing in themselves, investing
in their communities. Businesses are incentivized not through government handouts,
but through this wonderful capitalism that we enjoy in this
country that so many people can't stand because they'd rather

(05:27):
sit around and get paid for it. But when businesses
are incentivized to hire more people, to give them more
money to provide them more benefits to expand their footprint.
That is all going to add more money to what's
coming into the federal government. And this congressional the Congressional

(05:49):
Budget Office idea about how much the tax cuts quote
unquote cost the government doesn't include any of that. What
point am I on? Three? Then we have this idea
that Republicans and Democrats finally found something on which they

(06:12):
can agree. Because here's what the Democrats have done. They
can't stall the bill. This is something where all the
Democrats are going to vote against it. None of that's
going to change. Now you've got a couple of Republicans
and all you need are two three Republicans to vote
against this bill, and maybe the bill goes away or

(06:33):
has to fundamentally change. And you've got a couple of
Republicans who always vote with the Democrats. I don't have
any idea why Lisa Murkowski of Alaska or Susan Collins
of Maine. I don't have any idea why they still
bother to call themselves Republicans. They're not. And then you've

(06:53):
got this guy Tom Tellis in North Carolina says, well,
Trump's mean to me. I'm not going to run for reelection,
as we heard the other day, and who knows what
he's going to end up doing. So in the meantime,
the Democrats are looking to score political and media points
by breaking down the bill into parts and forcing votes

(07:15):
on those parts. So here's how that works. Rather than
in an election season coming up here in the midterms,
rather than saying this Republican we're running against in this
congressional district or this state voted against and then they
can tie in that vote to something that's within the bill,

(07:38):
instead they're getting really specific about it, which isn't so
much for tying anyone to a vote, because they're going
to do that anyway. Instead, they're just holding things up
and making it seem like the Republicans are chasing their
tail and President Trump can't get what they want, so
they're just holding up the works, which is fine. That's

(07:58):
apparently how we allow government to work. So that's what
they're doing. So this morning, one of these things was
we need an unemployment benefits for millionaires, and they got
Republicans and Democrats to agree on it. Senator Jony Ernst
of Iowa has been pushing for this for a couple

(08:19):
of years. And now it looks like this is going away,
Like wait a second, we've got millionaires making a million
dollars in unemployment off of the taxpayer. No, and I'll
tell you how this works next Scott Voice. Adam Sandler
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(08:40):
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(09:07):
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really really cool time and if you were there, I

(09:28):
hope you enjoyed yourself. But right now we're in the
midst of talking about the vote rama as the Democrats
and the Senator are just trying to hold things up
and make it look like the Republicans are dysfunctional. They're
forcing votes on individual parts of the bill, and the
media is saying, well, look at this, we got bipartisan

(09:52):
support for something. Isn't this great? No, this is stupid.
And I'm not blaming Senator Jony Ernst. I'm just saying
that her ire on this one is misplaced, stuck in
a circumstance in the past that I hope doesn't come
to fruition again. The issue is whether or not millionaires

(10:13):
should be allowed to get unemployment assistance. And I don't
know in regular times how many people who previously were
making a million dollars in salary and then they lost
those jobs, and then they went on unemployment and they

(10:35):
were able to get. As Senator Joni Ernst said it,
able bodied millionaires shouldn't expect handouts made possible by the
overtaxed and overworked Americans who are running businesses and creating jobs.
It says thousands of out of work millionaires were paid
more than two hundred and seventy one million dollars and

(10:58):
unemployment assist Well, that's crazy here, I am a hard
working American. My tax dollars going to unemployment and we
got some millionaire, thousands of them making all this money.
All right, everyone sh calm down, calm down. Let's first
look at the timeframe on this one. What was the
timeframe on this one the first year, year and a

(11:21):
half of the Biden administration. What was going on during
the first year, year and a half of the Biden administration.
These these millionaires, these fat cat freeloaders who have businesses,
who have jobs, weren't allowed to do them because the
Biden administration and many state governments, county emergency health departments,

(11:47):
cities told these people, you are not allowed to work.
The first couple of years the Biden administration, in many
parts I know here in Nebraska, we were like, let's go,
we got stuff to do. But not the case in
New York, California, Chicago, you know a lot of these
big cities, Boston, they just didn't allow these people to work. So,

(12:08):
thanks to the Johnson administration, the Great Society era of LBJ,
unemployment benefits are eligible to anyone who loses a job.
It doesn't have an income attached to it. If you
were working and now you have lost your job, you're
eligible to apply for unemployment assistance those who become involuntarily unemployed. Now,

(12:39):
the presumption is that you have no other source of income.
I'd rather than get into the ins and outs on it. Well,
someone's a millionairerator, does that mean that they've got a
million dollars sit in there? No? Not really, it's tied
into this or that it's tied into their business. And again,
going back to the COVID era, it was tied into
people who wanted to work but were not allowed to.

(13:01):
In some instances, it's spouses of those who want to
work but they're not allowed to then apply for unemployment insurance.
A lot of times they did this for employees of
a business and so forth. If if we tell these
millionaires you can't apply for unemployment assistance, well then perhaps
a lot of these people who are not millionaires would

(13:22):
not have continued to draw a salary during the time
of COVID when the government told them they weren't allowed
to work. But are we really talking about that much money?
Are we given millionaires a million dollars a year during unemployment? No?
In twenty twenty we had about nineteen thousand people who

(13:44):
made at least a million dollars that year, who then
after COVID decided to or were directed by their I mean,
these are not people sitting around going let's see, let
me look at my own books here. I mean they
got people who do all this stuff, and the people
are like, you know, you're eligible for unemployment assistance. Let

(14:05):
me just go ahead and do this this, we'll file
this and we'll get it taken care of. So more
than nineteen thousand people who made at least a million
dollars in twenty twenty then collected jobless assistance in that
year and the next year. That included four five hundred
people who earned between five and ten million dollars and
two hundred and twenty nine people who earned eight figure

(14:27):
incomes or more. They received an average in I don't
mean it depends on how long they were getting unemployment benefits,
but the average paid to these people, whether they made
a million dollars or whether they made one hundred million dollars,

(14:47):
the average money that they received was you want to
take a guest, Lucy, just you know, since the media
are saying, well, and Jony Earnst is saying, we've got
millionaires who will be kicked off unemployment benefits. And we
had all these thousands of millionaires getting all this money
and benefits, two hundred and seventy one million dollars in

(15:09):
unemployment assistance. What's the average per millionaire that was received.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Fifty thousand dollars less, seven thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Twice that about fourteen thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
That wouldn't even pay for the gardener.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, so what have we done here? Well, we've kicked
millionaires off unemployment benefits and saved ourselves fourteen thousand dollars
per per millionaire.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
How are they going to pay the water bill?

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah? I don't know. Look, I'm not saying cruel, it's cruel.
How's okay, sarcastic cruel? Sorry I didn't bring my sarcasm
meeter under the studio yet. I left in my office.
Go get it in a moment. But yeah, it's I mean,
every little bit helps here. And from a pr standpoint,

(16:02):
it doesn't look great when Americans are like, I'm getting
taxed here and I'm getting taxed there, and you guys
are doing this, and then some guy who makes you know,
five million dollars a year, like, I'm going on unemployment
but I'm wondering and what we don't know here. We
just have a timeframe. So I have to assume that

(16:22):
every single one of these people who collected this money
in years going back three, four and five years ago,
we're told they couldn't work. It's not like there are
people who had been making three million dollars a year
who've been sitting around the last few years, going, well,
I just I can't until I can get a job.

(16:43):
This pays me three million dollars a year. I'm just
going to sit here and collect and unemployment insurance or
unemployment assistance. I don't think that that's what has been happening.
We don't have IRS data for the last couple of years,
but I'm guessing it pales in comparison to twenty twenty
twenty one in early twenty twenty two. So this idea

(17:05):
that we've just saved a bunch of money, Oh, do
we have a time machine? Because we can save this
money if we go back in time, and if we
choose to go back to the start of the coronavirus
and fiddle around with this area, that maybe we're missing
the bigger picture on what we can do at that
time machine. We haven't saved anything in this We have

(17:28):
a feel good piece of legislation to tell those hard
working Americans. Don't worry. Those millionaires aren't going to be
eligible for unemployment assistance ever. Again, based on what happened
four years ago, we save no money going forward unless
we got another pandemic coming. But that's not gonna happen

(17:50):
until election year. Scott Fordy's News Radio eleven ten kfab
I told you some of the stuff going on with
the Big Beautiful Bill. That is some bully on the
Big Beautiful Bill, some bool but here's some stuff that
actually is pretty good, and you hear a lot of
people yelling and screaming and crying about it. In fact,
there was just an advertisement from a group saying, if

(18:14):
you cut anything from SNAP or Medicaid, people are gonna
die in the street. I'm paraphrasing, but this is what
some people have been saying. If we kick some people
who really are either aren't eligible for or shouldn't be

(18:38):
eligible for taxpayer funded assistance in the form of Medicaid
and supplemental nutritional assistance via that program aka SNAP, otherwise
known as food stamps. They stopped calling it food stamps
because food stamps became kind of a negative connotation. I
don't want to be on food stamps. Well do you

(18:58):
want to be on snap? Ooh snap, yes, I do.
So Apparently that we just changed the name on that
one and made it better. And then anytime anyone's ever
tried to change anything about it, like Governor Pillen this
year saying, look, you shouldn't be using your food stamps
to buy pop and candy and garbage. It should be

(19:19):
used for food. Oh, oh my gosh, how terrible and
probably racist. You know, it's anytime the government says maybe
we can do this, it once you stop trying to
do it or rein it in a little bit, man,
people start crying. So let's look at Medicaid for example.

(19:40):
When you have more and more people on Medicaid, and
these more and more people go into doctors' offices, medical clinics,
and hospitals, the government has to reimburse these medical facilities
as as much as allowed, and a lot of times

(20:01):
it's really not very much. It could be as little
as twenty five to thirty five percent in reimbursement. Some states,
in some instances are able to do more, but it
certainly isn't one hundred percent, So let's say we'll we'll
go to seventy five percent. Will be super optimistic on

(20:24):
this one. All right, So someone who is available, someone
who has Medicaid or you know, some other like program
Obamacare for example, has to go to a doctor. Well,
the doctor says, well, here are the things we need
to do for you. We need to remove that gallbladder.
And they're like, yeah, that's what I suspected. And so

(20:46):
the doctor removes the gallbladder and then they go to
the federal government say gallbladder surgery, and the government says,
all right, here's seventy five percent of what that costs.
And the doctor's like, you know, I really need one
hundred percent. I did one hundred percent of the work.
We removed one hundred percent of the gallbladder. The government's like,

(21:07):
now take it or leave it, so you get seventy
five percent. What do they do? They're just like, well,
we're gonna have to shut down some do especially in
these areas where you got more and more people who
are on programs like Medicaid, when they say like, well
these rural hospitals are going away. When you've incentivized rural communities,

(21:33):
not to I mean to welcome more and more people
who don't have that much money coming in, who aren't
working in some instances, who are in the country illegally.
Therefore they're not allegedly supposed to be eligible for programs
like Medicaid. And then they're all in the community and
they're all going to the hospital, and no medical professional

(21:54):
is getting reimbursed anywhere close to one hundred percent for
the work they're doing. Well, that money's got to come
from somewhere. And what happens next is either you get
charged a lot more. That's why your premiums go up,
your deductibles go up. What you pay for your health
care is not just paying for that which you use.

(22:15):
It's also paying for that which everyone else is using.
And in some instances, not all of them, but we're
trying to figure out in some instances people are using
and taking advantage of. Now, if the federal government says

(22:35):
that we're kicking off those who are abusing the program,
then there's more money available. There are fewer people being
reimbursed at much less than one hundred percent when they
go to a medical clinic, hospital, whatever. So the medical
clinic to hospital, the whatever. The doctor's office is now

(22:56):
getting more money. What happens when the doctor's office are
getting more money, well, potentially and hopefully your health care
costs go down, they're able to stay open, they're able
to employ more people, and they're able to be there
for the community. Because these guys have to make have
some money coming in to be able to pay staff salaries,

(23:19):
keep the lights on, pay for one of those big
cat scan machines, you know, whatever it is that they do.
Why in trying to stop those who are abusing the
program and therefore have more money so we can keep
rural medical clinics open. Why is this suddenly a horrible thing.

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Why are the same people, the same organizations who should
be championing this effort, why are they fighting against it?
I don't know. I don't have an answer. I don't
have a big reveal like, here's why, because they're getting paid.
I don't because I tell you what I think, this
is why. Because Trump is doing it. By the way,

(24:00):
several Democrat president, Senators, members of Congress, governor they've been
saying for generations, we've got to do something about this,
and they never do. They never do. So Trump's actually
doing it. Republicans are actually doing it. And these guys
all hate Trump and his maga Republican types, so because

(24:22):
he's doing it, they hate it. But has anyone actually
bothered to look at what might happen if we actually
incentivize work, if we kick people off who shouldn't be
eligible for this stuff because either they're able bodied and
can work but have chosen not to, or are in
the country illegally and therefore shouldn't be eligible for these benefits.

(24:46):
And anytime, you know, because these are the people we're
talking about. So when they say, like, well, immigrants make
this much money, and no one's talking about immigrants except you,
illegal immigrants is a different classification. People who are freeloaders
is a different classification than this parade of well, here's

(25:08):
a single mom, Ha's got seventeen kids, and she who's
gonna who's gonna pay for all this? Well, we're not
talking about her. That's maybe something that you know, she
should talk about with members of her family and some
experts and therapists, but but we're not from a taxpayer standpoint,
we're not talking about her. So this is part of

(25:32):
when when they're talking about like, well, we need to
rein in those who are abusing Medicaid, food stamps and
that kind of thing. That's who they're talking about. But
we got some people and government who have very different ideas.
One of them wants to be your next representative in
Nebraska's second district. Since the Congressman Bacon announced yesterday in

(25:55):
comments you heard live right here on eleven ten KFAB
that he won't be running for reelection. Now the field's
getting crowded with people that want to succeed him. I'll
tell you the work of one of them and what
that's resulting in right here in our community. Next Scott
byes News Radio eleven ten KFAB in the Zonker's custom

(26:15):
was inbox Scott at kfab dot com. David says, this
says it all. It's hard to unspoil a rotten child.
As I mentioned a moment ago, anytime the government ever
does anything and then someone says, maybe we shouldn't do that,
maybe we can't do that, maybe we can't afford it,
Maybe it's something we can rain in a little bit.
So no one's taken advantage of it. People start whining

(26:38):
and crying and throwing temper tantrums, and that's what we're
seeing here as it relates to those who are saying, well,
you know, there are those who are abusing Medicaid, there
are those who are abusing food stamps. I mean, as
Senator Jony Arnst is saying, we're gonna kick millionaires off unemployment,
and then she cites figures from when millionaires were told

(26:58):
they couldn't work do to the pandemic and were eligible
to collect unemployment and they did, and it wasn't a
million dollars. It was like thirteen thousand, nine hundred dollars
on average per person, much less than one percent of
all of the unemployment assistants that went out. And she's like,
we're gonna kick them off. They get my Squeal Award

(27:20):
Like this, you've done nothing unless you have a time
machine and you can go back and you can slap
them off those rolls. We'll save a couple hundred million bucks,
which is better than nothing. But this is not what's
bankrupting America and causing us to go further and further
into debt. Here's something else that Trump administration has just done.
They've just charged more than three hundred and twenty people

(27:44):
and uncovered nearly fifteen billion dollars. It's what Senator Ernst
and Democrats are talking about with these millionaires and unemployment
from four and five years ago total two hundred and
seventy one million dollars. It's better than a kick in
the face. But this is fifteen billion dollars in false claims,

(28:05):
as they said, According to the Justice Department, this is
the largest coordinated takedown of health care fraud schemes in
Justice Department history. Most of this are foreign perpetrators based
in places like Russia, Eastern Europe, and Pakistan who were
billing Medicare and Medicaid the federal government for healthcare reimbursements

(28:31):
on things that didn't even exist. And they've been working
on this and they say every fake billing, every fraudulent claim,
every kickbat scheme represents money taken directly from the pocket
of American taxpayers. And this is fourteen point six billion
dollars in fraud that they've uncovered, and they're working on
seizing as much as they can in reimbursement of the assets.

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But this is the kind of thing that we've just
been asleep at the wheel on now. In Nebraska's second district. Yesterday,
you heard right here on eleven ten KFAB Don Bacon
say I'm not running for reelection. A lot of people
think he just quit yesterday. He didn't quit. He said,
I'm not running for reelection. Win's he up next week? No,

(29:16):
a year from November, you know, So we still got
eighteen plus months or so of Don Bacon because then
he got the election in the midterm of twenty twenty six,
and he's still in office until January of the following year.
We still got a lot of Bacon. But this has
suddenly now provided a glut of people saying, I want
to be in Congress. I want to be in Congress.

(29:36):
Brinker Harding, Omahasity councilman announced with Gary and Jim on
kfab's morning News right here a couple of hours ago,
I want to be in Congress. He's running. He's already
got a team, and I recognize team members. This is
not something he slapped together yesterday, as he said, We've
been looking at this for a while. Once we kind
of got the inkling that perhaps Congressman Bacon wasn't running

(29:59):
for reelection. So right now he's I would say, the
front runner on the Republican side. There's still a lot
of people are going to get in on the Democrat side.
We got State Senator John Cavanaugh of Omaha. Here's something
that he did that's in the news this week that
Omaha Housing Authority OH is filing a lawsuit over based

(30:19):
on something that he State Senator John Cavanaugh of Omaha did.
He said, if OH, this is Omaha Housing, this is
for people who are just struggling to make ends meet.
In many instances, this is housing available for them, is
run by this department. It's almost impossible to get evicted

(30:41):
from OHA. You look at the Squalor and some of
these buildings are in the horror stories from some of
the tenets in there. To actually get evicted from one
of these places, can you imagine how hard that must be.
So OHA says we're going to evict this guy, and
Center John Kavanaugh said, well, they should pay for the

(31:02):
guy's lawyer. If they're going to evict him, they should
pay for his lawyer. OHA finally going to toss someone out,
probably as other residents of the building are cheering the eviction,
and now OHA has to take money from their own
resources to pay someone who they don't want to live
in that property anymore. This is something State Senator John

(31:24):
Kavanaugh thought would be a fine idea. OAJ says, not
only is this stupid, it's also illegal. Federal funds don't
allow that. We have coming in. Federal government law doesn't
allow them to use these funds for that purpose. So
it's stupid and illegal. And this is your front runner

(31:45):
among the Democrats for Nebraska's second congressional district. For these
news Radio eleven ten kfab they've got lovebugs swarming South
Korea right now. Love bugs are these goofy little flies
that they they how do I put this? They they

(32:06):
become amorous with one another and they stay linked in
that way while flying all over the place, like hey,
you want to join the mile high club? And then
these uh love there. That's why they're called love bugs.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Are talking about bugs?

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yeah, they they stick together, they fly all over the place,
and then after mating, which as I understand from the
female love bugs doesn't take that long. Uh, they stay
connected for several days. And there are just swarms and
swarms of them all over South Korea, blanketing to well, yeah,

(32:51):
they're they're blanketing property, They get into houses, they stick
to car windows. It's just gross that you ever see
those satellite images saying is that a cloud? And like, no,
it's a swarm of bugs. Here in America we get yeah,

(33:12):
we get mayflies. Yeah, but here in America we get mayflies.
There's another lamp what are they called lamp praise? They
get their lamp praise are a little like suckerfish, and
they fly all over the lamp flies. I think they're
called mayflies. Lamp flies. We get a bunch of those

(33:35):
things right, well, yeah, but not as bad, not like that. Yeah.
South Korea is just swarmed right now with love bugs,
and as thick as they are over there, I think
they pale in comparison to what they have in Florida,
which is what President Trump is doing right now. He

(33:55):
and Christy Nome and uh Ron DeSantis are taking a
walking tour of the Florida Everglades. This as the Governor
of Florida. Governor DeSantis said, Yeah, if President Trump is
looking at starting up a new detention center here in America,

(34:16):
We've got a great spot here in Florida in the
Dade Collier Training and Transition Area. Basically it's swampland the
guy from full house. That's Dave Coolier. This is Dade
Collier area. There's an airport there and that's where they

(34:37):
want to put this immigration detention center. And they said, yeah,
if anyone is able to escape from here, they're surrounded
by swampland, everglades and alligators, which is why they call
this place Alligator Alcatraz. So President Trump's been walking around. Yep,
that's a lot of swampland. I don't know why he

(34:59):
has to be down there to do it, but they
it's a four hundred and fifty million dollars facility.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Oh well, we're saying gonna save that for medicaid.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
It's just it's trailers and tents. That's it sprawled over
twenty five thousand acres. I don't think the four hundred
and fifty million dollars is the trailers and the tents.
That was probably like one hundred bucks of the whole cost.
But the rest of it is security and staff and
personnel and all the rest. But this is something where
they say that if you are detained by Immigration Customs enforcement,

(35:40):
we got to put you somewhere. You'll be detained in Florida. Now,
why is Florida so gung how to do this well,
for the same reason that when we talked with the
Pottawatamee County sheriff on this program a year ago. We
talked with him because in Douglas County, the Douglas County
Board of Commissioners would not allow Douglas County and our

(36:01):
detention facilities aka prison, prisons, jails, correctional facilities. We wouldn't
allow these areas to be used for detaining those in
the country illegally while immigration and the federal government were
processing them. When you detain someone in that prison, the
federal government reimburses you for it, and the Douglas County

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Board cared so little about getting that money they would
rather be a sanctuary county. That's why Douglas County has
been on some list of sanctuary counties. By telling ice, no,
we're not going to detain them, Well, how come we
haven't heard more about this? Well, because we detain them nearby.
We don't have an everglade facility surrounded by alligators, but

(36:46):
we do have council bluffs, which is totally different. I'm
not going to make a junk, But in Pottawatamie County,
we send them over there. These individuals arrest here in
Omaha gets sent over to Potawatamee County. They're detained there,
and Potawatamee County makes a ton of money and from

(37:08):
federal government reimbursements just to use an open spot in
a jail cell to keep a dangerous person detained. When
we're talking about people arrested, it doesn't mean this is
someone who is only in the country illegally was otherwise
law bodying and hard work. And these are people who
have been charged with serious crimes and they're in the

(37:34):
country illegally, and we wouldn't detain them here and get
that money. How do you like your property taxes? Now
here in Omaha. Here in Douglas County, we could have
been gutting a lot of money towards that like they
were in Potawatamee County. So why do they want to
do this in Florida because they make money, especially since

(38:01):
every person you'd detain there's a reimbursement rate for that.
The Trump administration is looking to detain a lot more people.
We can put them here more money. It's actually a
very shrewd move by Governor DeSantis of Florida, Like, how
much does it cost to do this? Or we can
make that in a week perhaps with all the people

(38:22):
being detained right now by the Trump administration. So Governor
DeSantis is down there with Secretary Nome and President Trump
and they're walking around going, yep, see that over there,
swamp land as far as the eye can see over there,
that's everglade swamp land. And the alligators are thick over here.

(38:42):
Any place any direction anyone wants to escape from this
facility and run to, they're going to be going through swampland, unless,
of course, you go down the road that we went
down to get here. Then I suppose you probably bypass
the swamp land. But most of it is you know,
will guard the road, and the rest of it is

(39:04):
h is alligator infested swampland. Alligator Alcatraz is ready to open.
And it was so fast they were able to do this.
They just apparently conceived of this idea just a matter
of days, maybe a few weeks ago. It's like we're done.

(39:27):
Speaking of immigration customs enforcement, we now have an argument
here that President Trump is using federal resources that could
be used for fighting wildfires on detaining hard working immigrants
and separating families. Will take a look at this accusation. Next,

(39:47):
Scott Board the latest complaint against the Trump administration, which
holds no water. But that's not stopping the media and
Democrats from continuing to pound this into the ground over
and over again. The latest thing is is that President
Trump is using the National Guard in California for immigration

(40:12):
raids and meanwhile they should be used for helping fight wildfires. Okay,
is it true that there are some National Guard troops
that have been deployed by the President that are responding
to a series of protests against immigration and customs enforcement

(40:36):
raids in Los Angeles? Yes? Is it true that the
National Guard could be used for fighting wildfires? Yes? Is
California currently on fire? No? Are the National Guard troops
actually participating in the ICE deporteeation operations aka raids? No?

(41:05):
Oh wait, but I thought that, Yeah, I know, you
thought that the National Guard was there helping out ICE. No,
the National Guard is protecting private property, business owners, and life,
as well as public property in Los Angeles and the
other areas of California, protecting them after a series of

(41:27):
protests became too much for local law enforcement to either
handle or want to handle. President Trump said, We're not
going to let California burn. As during peak wildfire season,
protesters have been setting fire to anything that they can
in that area. The National Guard has been helping quell
the protests and put out these fires, which actually does

(41:48):
help the fires from spreading. But Governor knew Some and
Mayor Bass of Los Angeles are all mad and they're
trying to get you to believe that. Well, here we
are at peak wildfire season and we are understaffed because
President Trump is using the National Guard troops to help

(42:11):
out ice. That's a lie. If you want the National
Guard troops to be there to fight wildfires, which thankfully
at this time don't exist to where they have been
in previous levels. I'm sure there are some wildfires somewhere
somewhere in California. You got a lot of forest land there,

(42:31):
and apparently the floor of the forest is littered with
dried leaves and dead grasses and stuff that could catch
fire and spread more quickly. But if these officials in California,
the governor, the mayor, want to get their National Guard
troops back, then stop the protests in the communities. So

(42:54):
the National Guard wouldn't have to be there to shut
down riots. Now, another reason why they're saying this is
they're trying to win a public relations battle, as yesterday
the Trump administration sued Los Angeles. That actually happened yesterday,

(43:15):
the Trump administration sued Los Angeles. The argument here is
the Trump administration says that federal enforcement of immigration laws
is being obstructed by the city of Los Angeles. The
lawsuit names Mayor Karen Bass and the Los Angeles City
Council in this and it says the policy is a

(43:38):
prohibiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities and has brought lawlessness, rioting, looting,
and vandalism to the community. And that's why we have
to sue Los Angeles to get them to work with
the federal government to enforce federal immigration law. The Justice

(43:58):
Department lawsuit says that Trump campaigned and was elected on
a promise to deport criminal illegal immigrants, and so the
sanctuary city law in Los Angeles, as one example, is
an attempt to thwart the will of the American people.
I don't know if that's the will of the people
of Los Angeles, but by all means, you want the

(44:18):
city to continue to burn. It won't be wildfires, it'll
be rioters. And now we've got the federal government suing
Los Angeles. A new video with a couple of former
presidents and a big rock stars protesting something else the
Trump administration is doing. We'll have that for you after
a Fox News update. Next Scott Boyes News Radio of

(44:42):
Levinson kfab Lucy. We lost Jimmy Swaggertsture My Lord.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
That was he died like a long time ago.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
Well he may have, but officially as passed today after
suffering cardiac arrest earlier this month. He was one of
the pioneers of these televangelists, bringing the Lord into people's
homes via television, and as was seemingly the case with

(45:19):
just about every single one of them, turns out they
were falling short of their own preachings. I didn't realize
this until I was doing some slap happy research on
Jimmy swagger because that whole prostitution scandal with him was
when I was a kid. I was like, you know, ten, eleven,

(45:41):
twelve years old, somewhere in their late eighties. So I
just remember it seemed like every time the news would
be on like a televangelist today was it seemed like
it was one after another, but Jimmy Swagger was the
big one. And I didn't realize this until today, that
this whole well scandal with Jimmy Swaggert started when there

(46:06):
was another guy, like a minister in the Assemblies of
God ministry that Jimmy Swagger didn't like. This guy's name
was Marvin Gorman, and Swaggert says, this guy, Marvin Gorman,
he's a bad guy. He's cheating on his wife, he's
having several affairs. He's a bad guy. We need to

(46:28):
get him out of here. And his reputation was destroyed.
This man was defrocked from the Assemblies of God. I
have no idea if any of the accusations were true,
but we know what happened next. The aforementioned Marvin Gorman said,
I don't think Jimmy Swaggert is as pure as the

(46:48):
driven snow as he'd like us to believe he is.
Let's tail him. And it was his work that led
to the photographs. So Jimmy Swagger outside a room of
a local motel the travel in in a suburb of
New Orleans, where these two, this guy and a son

(47:10):
in law photographed Jimmy Swagger outside the room with a
local prostitute.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
A local one, even.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
A local prostitute, you know, not one of these foreign
prostitutes coming in here and bringing, you know, taking jobs
away from hard working local prostitute.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
He kind of showed up with her.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
Yeah, that was a local prostitute, and so they got
the picture.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
They tell from the picture that she was a prostitute.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
I don't know. I think it was determined later who
she was, and she was more than happy to tell
some pictures just to be sure. She was more than
happy to talk about all this at one point, saying
that Jimmy Swagger was cheap and kinky and really weird.
And she said in an interview quote to me, he
was kind of perverted. I don't think he should be

(48:04):
teaching children and Sunday school unquote.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
Well, you know that means a lot coming from you know,
working girl.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
Yeah, a local prostitute. So he then admitted, well, he
he didn't give any details in that famous speech on
his TV program, the I have sinned against you, my Lord,
and I would ask that your precious blood would wash

(48:34):
and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas
of God's forgetfulness, never to be remembered against me anymore. God. Yeah, Well,
and God was like, yeah, I'm not going to forget.
So today is the reckoning of Jimmy Swaggert and the Lord.

(48:57):
I don't know. I'm not going to pretend like I
have any idea what that conversation is like. I imagine Jimmy
Swaggart is probably pretty embarrassed by the whole thing. He's like,
I've been I've been looking forward to this moment of
meeting you, my Lord, for the last forty some years

(49:18):
or so. At the same time, I knew it was
going to be a little awkward, awkward. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
I don't either. Didn't Jimmy swagger have a son? Didn't
he any? Wasn't he also go into the ministry? Wasn't he? Also?
Didn't he? Also? I have good English today?

Speaker 1 (49:38):
I don't. No. I think I think you're thinking of.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
The other guy, Yeah, the one with the college.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
Yeah you're thinking, shoot, yeah, you're thinking of I can't
remember his name right now. I can't. I can't come
up with his name. But you're thinking of the other guy. No.
Robertson Pat Robertson.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
No, always think of the fall Weell.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
I don't know about Jerry Fallwell and his son, but actually, yeah,
I think yeah, as a Jerry Fallwell's son that was
in charge of Liberty College.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Yeah, well, let's just pretend that everything he said there
is one hundred percent true. We'll move on here. I
also remember, you know, as we segue into a story,
I had this segment about a rock star speaking out
against President Trump. Wow, where did they find one? Something
else about Jimmy Swaggert, cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
I did know that. I did know that. But then
Jerry Lewis also married a cousin, so I mean.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
It was one of the few cousins that Jerry Lee
Lewis didn't marry. Actually was Jimmy Swagger.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
That's Jimmy Swaggert performed the ceremony though.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
No, I don't know how all that went, but yeah,
they were cousins and Swagger. It was actually Jimmy Swagger
was the one who was really pursuing a music career,
gospel music, which you know here we're going back to
the fifties on this one. So it was you know,
the South gospel, like I'm gonna start a gospel music career, Yeah,

(51:18):
you and everyone else around here. And then Jerry Lee
said I got a different idea and started pounding that piano.
The Devil's music rock and roll. Well, what are your
thoughts on Bono as being a rock star, big rock star?

Speaker 2 (51:35):
I mean, yeah, I have a different idea of rock
music than most not most people, but I have a
different idea of rock music than what you two is,
and that kind of.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
Bono, the lead singer of YouTube, just appeared on a
video tribute to the staffers at us AID, the US
Agency for International Development USAID, or as Lucy called it,
you said, as you might remember, us AID is an

(52:10):
organization that President Trump and Elon Musk and Doge targeted
for either elimination or at least being what is happening
now being absorbed into the State Department. And several people
with this organization were either fired or took advantage of
the government bayout, bailout, buy out, I should say, for
those employees, and it was the easiest one for Democrats

(52:34):
in the media. I think to look at and go
this is just shows you who Trump is. He's a monster.
This organization. USAID is about boosting boosting goodwill, and it's
about helping people, and they're they're helping people out all
around the world. And then other people looked at it
and said are they And they cited several examples and

(52:57):
you can find examples on both sides of where this
organization has done some good things. I mean, this is
something that was created by President Kennedy sixty years ago
as a humanitarian and development organization. You'll find examples of
them providing fresh water to those who need it, educating kids,

(53:19):
you know, being there in the wake of tragedies. And
these guys have been out there.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Helping, but not for the last fifty years.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
And it only happened for like a week, oh, in
nineteen sixty three. No, no, yes, there have been great people.
Most of the people who make almost no money as
either volunteering or being like low level staffers with us AID,
I think are really really good people and they feel

(53:48):
like they're doing the best work they can on behalf
of humanitarian efforts. There are also examples where leadership with
this organisation has done a lot of things with government
money that we would have a lot of questions about.
For example, the forty five million dollars that was supposed

(54:12):
to provide emergency food assistance and economic support for Venezuelan
migrants in Colombia went to the Venezuelan government that we
just gave them forty five million dollars under the communistic
dictatorship of what was going on in Venezuelan. And you
give some of these aid packages to these organizations or

(54:35):
these areas, it doesn't go to the people who need.
It goes to the ruling warlords, drug lords, and all
the awful people to buy guns and drugs. That's something
that USAID did. Did they do it on purpose? Well,
we're trying to figure out. Also have a lot of
questions for this Syrian terrorist who managed to get nine
million dollars of USAID funds for doing who knows what?

(55:01):
A lot of this money went to US colleges. Wait,
we're providing us AID to American colleges. What did they
do with it? Amazing how many of these dollars went
to China, which also brings us to a bunch of
money that went to the wu Han Institute of Virology
in China via USAID. Wu Han is the lab where

(55:25):
the coronavirus allegedly leaked. And there's been also the examples
where they've been supporting LGBTQ rights abroad by not doing
anything in some of the areas where you'll be killed
if you're gay. Rather, it's like we're studying the mating
habits of the gay Sasquatch of Saskatchewan or whatever it is.

(55:49):
I mean a lot of really interesting things that were
done with this money. And the person who was running
it until Trump came under power was Samantha Power. Samantha
Power was the Obama administration's hit person for going out
and doing the wire tapping on the Trump campaign and

(56:11):
then the unmasking of identities like Michael Flynn and on
many occasions during the campaign. This is someone who was
a political hit piece for the Democratic Party, including President Obama.
President Biden says, Hey, we're going to take care of
Samantha Power. We're gonna put her in charge of us AID,

(56:35):
because what from her background in intelligence and politics would
prepare her for taking care of the humanitarian efforts of
the world. Nothing. But it was a nice, big cushy
salary for her and all of her buddies to keep
her quiet or keep her happy, or reward her for
her efforts and doing illegal things against the Trump administration.

(56:57):
During his twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen president campaign, so
President Obama and President George W. Bush and Bono did
a video for the staffers who are today being or
I guess this week being absorbed into the State Department.
Many of them have been gone, and they said that

(57:19):
you guys have done work that matters and will matter
for generations to come. Gutting US eight as a travesty
and a tragedy, said President Obama, because it's some of
the most important work happening anywhere in the world. Important
work like what went on with the Wuhan lab and
getting my political hit person who was wiretapping the Trump

(57:39):
administration a nice, big, cushy salary. You know, important humanitarian
work like that nine million dollars to Assyrian terrorist under
my watch. You know, important work like that. And then
Bono read a poem as if things couldn't be bad
enough for these poor people losing their jobs with USAID,
here comes Bono, he's not even saying anything. Came and

(58:03):
read a poem.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
I think you have just made a really all jokes
aside a really excellent point, because there are hundreds of
really big companies that the some of their employees are
not what the management is. I mean, you can see
that in all industries, yes, companies across the world. So
I think you really bring up a very good point.

(58:24):
There were a lot of people that weren't making millions
of dollars just stacking it away in their checking accounts
or their savings accounts or their vaults. So that thanks
for that. It's something I hadn't thought about, right.

Speaker 1 (58:38):
These are people who have lost their jobs because what
started off as a good idea got completely corrupted by
corrupt individuals, and the people who got hired were like,
I want to dig fresh water wells for the poor
people of Haiti, which is a laudable effort. And by
the way, there are a number of nonprofits who are

(59:02):
still doing that. So all these people who are like,
but who's going to do that? Go start a nonprofit.
Convince people like Bono that this is what we should
be doing, and they'll pay you money to go do it.
It's not like, well, nothing we can do. There are
a lot of people doing great things every single day

(59:23):
without taxpayer dollars. Scott Voice on eleven ten KFAB. I
didn't realize Jimmy Swagger got in trouble again for prostitution.
He was arrested in nineteen ninety one for it, and
when confronted by his congregation, he told those quote, the
Lord told me it's flat, none of your business, and
then stepped away for a time of healing. Guy like prostitutes.

(59:47):
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