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Five O five fifty five k rC the talk station, Happy Monday.
Seriously, Well maybe I don't.Brian Thomas here, glad to be hope
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you're having a wonderful day this morningso far. Anyway, I got time
smile on your face at some pointtoday as well, as you like to
suggest, even though walking the walkis a little bit more difficult than talking
to talk, particularly giving me crazinessgoing on in the world anyway, Joe
Strucker, Well, I can't seehim computer problems this morning, boy had
to test. I missed the olddays, Joe, when I could look
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Office says our debt will consuh mygod, our debt will consume one hundred
and sixty six percent of gross domesticproduct in thirty years Wall Street spending billions
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on home buying cracking down? Willit crackdown? Come soon? That would
be a reference to these large entities, these large investment companies, managers of
money, going out and buying upall the housing stock and converting it to
rental property. There may be somethingbehind that slightly more nefarious than an investment
opportunity. Considering that the idea ofproperty ownership is steeped in the core of
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the American fabric, much of thechagrin of left is who really don't believe
in it and don't think there shouldbe vivid property ownership. Yeah, welcome
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Veterans Affairs launching the largest expansion ofVA healthcare eligibility under the VA's pac Deact
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so we've got a whole bunch ofdetails to go over. At that at
age forty, I always enjoy hearingfrom UNI five one, three, seven,
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four nine fifty five hundred, eighthundred and eighty two to three taco
with pound five fifty on AT andT phones. And since we talked about
the CBO and the national need consumingone hundred and sixty six percent of gross
domestic product, I was gonna tryto fit this in here at some point
this morning. But let us notdo what other states have done. That's
the beautiful thing about living in arepublic. Beautiful thing about living in a
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republic. We can look at whatother states are doing and find out what
works and what doesn't, and notdo the things that don't work, and
maybe follow the path of the statesthat actually work have their excrement together.
Some states do and some do not. Described as the newest contender for the
most dysfunctional state, let's go anddo against anything that Illinois has ever done,
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Thank you very much. It isjust such a Charlie Foxtrott in the
state of Illinois. Having lived therefor eight years in Chicago, it was
bad then, Actually crime was worsethere when I lived there, but the
things financials TEP are going off therails. It serves as a great illustration
a state modeling this spending of thefederal government, except the state doesn't have
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a printing press, and yet theystill have unions which dominate the conversation literally
in every turn in well, mostlyChicago, with the entire state of Illinois,
fifth highest unemployment of any of thestate, the nation's highest tax burden,
one of n Anyway, Illinois addedtwenty six hundred net jobs in the
last year. They added thirty thousand, one hundred government jobs. Hmmm,
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trending the national trend as well.And of course everybody who is able to
leave the state of Illinois is takingoff and out migrating is what they call
it. Costing the state of Illinois. I guess ten billion dollars a year.
But that's not the real problem.The problem is spending. They have
two hundred and sixty thousand less peoplein Illinois than they did in twenty twenty.
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Senior Fell at the Heartland Institute saidthe opinion poll site high taxes as
the top reason people want to leaveIllinois, with crime and safety second.
Illinois has the fourth most regulations amongthe fifty states which raises prices and kills
jobs. And here's where the realproblem lies. In spite of all the
dysfunctioned in the State of Illinois,City of Cincinnati, you might want to
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look and see what's happened to thestate of Illinois. The Illinois pension debt
one year count of your twenty twentythree it grew two point six billion dollars.
It now is one hundred and fortytwo point three billion dollars in the
hole. What's Governor Pritzker going todo there? Well, he laid it
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out in February. Hike taxes onsports books, extend the cap on how
much operating losses businesses can write offfrom their taxes. This in an effort
to close the budget gap. Accordingto estimates, that will increase Illinois tax
revenue by seven hundred and twenty sixmillion dollars. The state's projected to have
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an eight hundred and ninety one milliondollar budget shortfall this fiscal year. How's
that math working out for your,Governor Pritzker. Maybe you got a spending
problem on your hands, idiot.I just love that anyway. Bryce Hill,
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director of Fiscal and Economic Research atthe Illinois Policy Institute said the state's
projecting budget shortfalls for the next sevenyears absent any changes to spending or revenues.
He's the one that mentioned that outmigration is costing ten billion dollars worth
of annual tax revenue out of thestate. But that's not the root cause
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of the state's budgetary stress, becausethe state also has another very large issue
to contend with, he said,which is unfunded pension liabilities that are eating
into state and local government budgets andcrowding out funding and taking up large sources
of revenue. The heavy tax burnshave caught a lot of major corporations to
leave Boeing, Caterpillar, Hedge Fund, Citadel, among a whole bunch of
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them who've taken off over the lastfew years. Violent crime searched eighteen percent
last year compared to the ten yearsprior. Thefts and carjackings up the most
arrests. However, thank you,defund police had down thirty three percent,
and you got to ask yourself out, I wonder how many of these crimes,
even where there is arrest, haveactually been solved. And then if
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you see a rest are down,you realize crime has not been solved,
meaning there's a lot of victims outthere who haven't gotten any relief psychologically,
emotionally, financially, or otherwise.Then flipping over the teachers union, which
have a lot of sway in thecity of Chicago. This is the Chicago
Teachers Union who parenthetically gave the mayorof the of the City of Chicago millions
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of dollars. Chicago Teachers Union,you ready for this? Don't do this?
Trying to negotiate a new contract withthe public school system calling for an
extra extra fifty billion dollars to payfor wagehikes. It's like a third of
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the entire state's unfunded pension liability.I guess they're members of this unfunded pension.
I may be wrong on that,but in any event, they're demanding
wagehikes and a whole bunch of stuff. It's crazy. The total base tax
receipts with the state of Illinois,you're ready, The total base tax receipt
sucepts for the entire state of Illinoiswere fifty point seven billion dollars. Teachers
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unions asking for an extra fifty billionHow does that math work out? Oh,
and the reward is because only twentyone percent of the city's eighth graders
are proficient readers. Their's success theCourt of the Nation Nation's report card,
So they want more money when theyhave demonstrated epic failure in teaching children.
Union president Stacey Gates Stacey Davis GatesPlan calls for members to bank nine percent
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wage increases every year through fiscal yeartwenty twenty eight. Salary currently ninety three
eighty two. This will take theaverage seat teachers pay to one hundred and
forty four thousan six hundred and twenty, more than double the median household income
in Chicago. Oh that's fair,and I'm sure all the people are really
satisfied about that. Chicago Public schoolbudget will exceed nine billion dollars this year.
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That's up thirty percent from just fiveyears ago. Most of the increase
in higher salaries, which are amongthe highest of any big teachers salaries in
the entire country. On a studentper student basis, they spent twenty one
thousand dollars per student, while thenational average is fourteen three hundred and forty
seven. Let's go back to thefact that only twenty one percent of the
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city's eighth graders are even proficient,let alone reading on a high level twenty
one percent, folks, one outof five. I just what can you
do but laugh at this? AndBrandon Johnson, mayor, former CTU legislative
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Coordinator. The CTO fun of morethan two point six million dollars dollars to
his campaign while he received more thansix million dollars from teachers unions. So
they got an ally in the formof Mayor Brandon Johnson. What are they
asking for? An addition to thesalary increase one hundred percent coverage healthcare benefits
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for abortion care, one hundred percentbenefits for fertility including full coverage for storage
of embryos and other frozen storage needs. They want more taxpayer funds to go
to migrants. They want two thousanddollars to be given to each migrant to
help with academics, transportation, mentalhealth counseling. They also want each of
the six hundred and forty six publicschools to have a quote Newcomer liaison close
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quote for new students IE migrants aswell as migrant students, and unused school
facilities to be converted into housing formigrants. Costs currently unknown. In addition,
these are the teachers, folks.They want educators and to make sure
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educators are trained annually on LGBTQ plusissues as a qualification in their job description.
Mandate every school in the district hasat least one gender neutral bathroom.
They want the board to adopt policiesthat would prohibit any member from being compelled
to tell parents when a student rejectshis or her sex. Oh, okay,
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anything else. You know what?As I read these list of demands
with the backdrop of the insane,poor, terrible fiscal situation for the entire
state of Illinois, I pause andI think of the list of demands the
pro Palestinian pro Homasu people are askingfor in terms of divestment and everything else
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under the sun. When you readtheir list of demands, it has it's
like less and less to do withIsrael and divesting from Israel, although that's
usually number one. They also well, they want to undermine America completely.
They they what reparations they want.It's just a on and on and on.
They also are are wetting themselves,of course, much in the way
the Vietnam protesters of the late nineteensixties web themselves with the environmentalists. That's
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exactly what the pro Palestinian pro Homasfolks are doing now. So you've got
a bunch of green agenda items inthe list of demands for universities along with
all these other devestment demands h outsideagitators. But you can't blame the outside
agitators when you look at Illinois,can ya, no? That would be
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doesn't do either is clean up theirvoter rolls. We're doing it in Ohio.
You can thank Frank LeRose for that. Secretary of State Frank LeRose has
already directed county election officials to beginwhat they call a routine but enhanced search
of voter rolls to well, it'slegally mandated. It is his job to
clean up the voter rolls and getrid of voters who have moved on in
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life or otherwise have moved on tothe next life. Announced the directive,
saying every state is required to havean ongoing process to verify the accuracy of
voter rolls, but Ohio has themost advanced and effective protocols in the nation.
Work not only critical to keeping ourelection honest, but essential making sure
election officials can probably plan for theright number of ballots, voting machines,
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pulling places, and poll workers.So here are the efforts and weather're targeting
four areas. Address changes. Sokeep this in mind if this might be
you, because there is one opportunityfor you to unring the bell of being
taken off the voter ranks. Registrationsthat have here to be inactive because of
a change of address registered with USPostal Service that the voter has failed to
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confirm to their local Elections board.Listings flagged for removal after four years of
voter inactivity fine pass dee removals.Records previously flagged for removal after the required
four year waiting period mentioned before,identified through data integrity investigation conducted by the
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rose's Office of Data Analytics and Archiveas still remaining in the system. So
those are your outliers there, yourstragglers returned acknowledgments. These are new registrations
that counties acknowledged with an informational postcardreturned as undeliverable. According to the law,
these registrations are placed in quote confirmationclose quote status, which sets them
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up to be purged barring eligible voteractivity meaning if you vote, I guess
you removed from that little contingency there. And finally, pure of motor vehicle
mismatches, which are registrations that don'tmatch certain details a person provided to the
DMV like name, birthdate, sosecurity number, driver's license number. Process
can also flag registrations for voters whohave died. Great, all well,
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and good. Now if you fallinto these categories deemed inactive legally qualified for
removal, you're going to be listedfor public review on a registration readiness roster
that's posted on the Ohio Secretary ofState's website, providing you a final opportunity
for voters and voting rights groups tokeep the registration from deemed deleted. Voters
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rights groups have the option, Iguess to do that as well. Anyway,
Thank you Secretary of State Frank LeRosefor at least trying to keep us
honest here in the state of Ohioand avoiding the opportunity for people to well
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which they received Jay your first thismorning, and very happy Monday to you.
Hey, Happy Monday, Brian.Hey, wanted to build on your
comments with the Chicago and the Stateof Illinois dismal indeed. Yeah, but
I'm going to give kudos to youand Americans for Prosperity for bringing to light
that Ohio is still in first placefor Medicaid fraud improper payments. Some people
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call it you add up, here'show bad it is. If you add
up Illinois, New York, andCalifornia Medicaid improper payments. Ohio still beats
all three of those radical blue stateswith a six to twelve billion dollars of
improper payments. And there's been noupdates since Americans for Prosperity submitted a Foyer
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request and what's supposed to be amandatory federally provided report showing improper payments by
state. The Obama administration shut thatdown and said, don't bother sending that
out. You know Obamacare, itwas dry and everything, end of the
dirt financially with medicaid. Kudo isstill Americans for Prosperity. I've talked to
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my state Senator Steve Wilson. Hesaid they are making big progress on it,
but who can tell for sure ifwe don't have the data coming out
of the federal government to say ifwe're still like in worst place or where
are we right now? It isa great point, and let me ask
Let me ask the question for you, Jay, because I think I heard
you coming, because I asked thisquestion all the time. Why in the
hell is the federal government so disinterestedin or refusing to cooperate with just providing
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data that's going to be helpful tothe taxpayers. It's like they refuse at
every turn. I don't care whatit is, some special oversight committee.
They're asking for information of the Americantaxpayers want to know because our representats are
there asking for it, and theagencies behind the scenes are like, mah,
screw you, guys, We're notgoing to give it to you.
I mean they're saying screw you totheir bosses. That's us. Yeah.
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I think it's the fear of ifthat data gets out to the public to
show how bad things really are thatthey don't they don't want to. I
mean, if it was good news, they would be Every press conference with
John Pierre would be would be thehighlight. But I don't understand why Republicans,
with the super majority of Republicans inOhio, why this isn't the most
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fascinating, most urgent thing. Ifthere's six to twelve billion dollars of waste,
fraud and abuse just with Medicaid inOhio, and we're worse in the
country, and we're supposedly read,Why aren't they going after this with zeal
and effort versus The only place I'veever learned about it, Kudos to you
was your program with Americans for Prosperitya few years ago, and it stays
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it remains a silent problem that nobodyseems to care about. Six to twelve
billion dollars. What could we dowith that? Put it back in the
taxpayer's pocket starters that would Yeah,it's incredible. When I did the math,
it's like a dollar for every man, woman and child in Ohio every
day. Take a dollar out ofyour pocket, throw it on a pile,
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burn it. That's the improper payment'scoming out of our current Medicaid system.
Well, nobody cares. Let's callthis a special request of Executi producer
Joe's Ustrecker to get Donovan and Neilfor Americans for prosper to provide an update
on their activities relative to trying toget the data and information and where we
are in terms of progress in thestate of Some of our elected officials are
saying we're making progress. Well,maybe Donovan and Neil and AFP can maybe
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provide some little flesh on the bonesof that general statement. I appreciate it.
I appreciate you staying up on it, Jay, I really do.
I know this is near and dearto your heart, and for very good
reason. This is this is hugemoney. I mean huge money, fraud,
waste, and abuse. That's thebiggest problem, one of the biggest
problems in government. Thank you,my friend. I hope you have a
wonderful week appreciate you staying on Andlet's see what Tom's got this morning.
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Tom, welcome to the program.I hope you had a wonderful weekend.
Hey, kudos to Jay. That'sexactly what we need is people to be,
you know, stay on top ofit. Digilant, Yeah, be
vigilant, don't let it go.Keep up the good work. And I
don't know, this is just kindof weird. I'm I'm actually just parking
at the job site that you see, and I'm parking on a side street
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and and I'm looking directly at thecar in front of me, and it's
from a place called jay Honda.So I don't know, kind of kind
of weird that that just happened.Uh. I don't take take it how
you want to take it, butI just you're talking to Jay and I'm
looking at it and it says Jay. So anyway, the reason I called
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I wanted to UH in in thein the spirit of never leave a dead
horse still unbeaten. I wanted toonce again make sure that the Biden Harris
administration gets all the credit. Andand I don't know if you really want
to call this kudos to them,but UH, you know, thank for
the high gas prices. Uh.We we give all the credit to UH,
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to Joe and his administration whoever itis it's actually running it. And
UH, thank you for the waron UH, on our natural resources.
And then so that races are wayup. So it was crazy because I
happened to go down in the Kentuckyon Friday and I stopped and got gas
on my way. I was onmy way over to Indiana, and you
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know, I got gas for threefourteen, and I was I started to
feel, wow, this is thisis better. Three fourteen should not be
better. It's better than what itis in Ohio. But it's like this
should not be better. This isnot good. So prices are way too
high, and of course we haveto make sure we give credit to the
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Biden Harrison administration for all this.Keep that in mind, folks when you
go to vote, how much extramoney you've had to spend over the last
three or four years because of thiscurrent administration. It's not just oh,
you're you're blaming them, but itwas the market. Now they it shot
up immediately when they came in andthey started changing things and getting rid of
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certain things and putting in new regulationsand all that. This is completely their
fault. So every time you're atthe gas pomp, remember so vogue Democrat,
have a great day, Brian,thank you do the same. Oh
and today's point, President Joe Bidenopening the Affordable Care Act Obamacare to illegal
aliens, immigrants illegal enrolled in formerPresident Obama's DACA program, which DACA was
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created via executive order. And herewe have another executive Democrat magically waving a
pen and expanding the Medica or theObamacare program to all those in the executive
order created thing we call deferred actionfor childhood arrivals. Who's the dictator?
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an iHeartRadio station if you have astacker stupid to dive on into. But
I got callers online as well.I will get to those. But first,
a connection with the Illinois public schoolsand the state of Florida. I
think I've made one real quick herefrom the stack is stupid A short one
right on top. So only twentybasically twenty percent of the Illinois eighth graders
can read at least proficiently. AndI think what happened is with the out
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migration in Illinois because of the justoverall terrible realities that are there, the
crime, the outrageous taxes, andthe uninsurmountable debt challenges. I think one
of those, or at least someof them, moved to Florida to do
road work. Workers in Pembroke Pinesmisspelled the words school on the roadway when
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they were painting the school zone warningon the road. Instead of school,
which we all know school, theyspelled it sc h ol Skohole Johnson Street
near two hundredth Avenue, Okay.Hundreds of kids go to Trapel Trail Elementary,
which is not very far away fromthere anyway, Residents spotted it as
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soon as it was dried, reportedit, and they claimed workers are going
to fix it. Let's just hopethat the workers know how to spell the
word. I mean, seriously,you are working and you can't spell where
you couldn't see that right in frontof your face. Clearly these were illiterate
folks. Don't know, maybe anequity higher. Let's see what Nick's got
this morning, Nick, thanks forcalling this morning. Welcome to the program.
Hey, I got two items.The quickest, easiest one has to
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do with the fuel text that theman was complaining about. Yeah. The
other one, though, I sentyou an email, but it's a little
long, given though that you're acounselor you can read long text. But
at the same time, and ithas to do with overtime and what it's
going to do to the impact onour total inflation rates. And when you
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were a junior counselor, you're goingto really appreciate how well the Bureau of
Labored would have helped you back then. So I sent that in the You
mean, because I made a basesalary with the promise that we might might
may depending upon a financial circums,might get a bonus. But it's not
guaranteed. So I paid X amountfor the year I worked, let's say
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on average six days a week andtwelve hours a day being a litigation attorney.
So I was denied fair compensation?Is that? Is that the boiled
down version say that on July one, twenty four to zero two four,
if you earn less than eight fortyfour a week forty three eight per year,
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you're eligible for overtime. If youanything anything, I'm not lying.
You think about when you're doing abrief before a big case in the boss
is telling you you haven't given meanough documentation. Get on it. Yeah,
Vietnam flashback time. Brother, Ispent the I slept over night at
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the law firm sometimes because of bigcases we're working on, you know,
and you go to sleep. Yeah, I booked the buck twenty seven one
week and alone. I know.Okay, I think my record we weren't
in a way lot less than fortythree five today. Two hundred and seventy
five billible hours in one month Ithink was my record. If I recall
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correctly, we're going back a lotof years. My point is, if
you don't think that I got adaughter that wants to turn around and be
a nurse. Every nurse works isa general rule, works three twelves off,
four twelves on every one of thosefour to twelve weeks. Are gonna
screw this up, all right,and let me with that edict mandate whether
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it gets through or not. Remindfolks, there's your illustration of fascism controlling
the means of production, telling peoplehow they're going to run their businesses,
and telling businesses how exactly their employeesmust be paid, just because and we
got to pay the businesses. Butthere's one last thing on the fuel.
It's quickie. I got a fortyeight gallon hole on the side of my
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truck. You kind of know wherethe intersection of police were saw and Anderson's
ferry is, and they'll close you. And I grew up to it.
I know it will. Okay,it's cheaper for me to turn around and
eat five bucks on anderson Ferry tofill that forty eight gallon hole by going
to Kentucky because Governor Dwiney in hisfirst or second year jack the road taxes
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in Ohio state of Kentucky didn't doit. I can get on that ferry
and go buy fuel a lot cheaperand then even make it better if I
go to Costco and that was GovernorDwiney's a Republican. Yes, yeah,
well, no one has ever referredto Governor de wine as perfect in any
way, shape or form. Youcan't drink after ten pm, lockdown anyway
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out of time, Nick. Iappreciate your observations and comments very much so
five forty six, although in spiteof the fact I'm having Vietnam like flashbacks
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Could you want me to buy kersdetalk station? Happy Monday? Try to
make it so anyway, Monday Monday, spend them in Monday, Orlando,
Sanza Monday at seven oh five,and we'rell's going to give the veterans some
love at eight forty. Real quickhere before I get to the phones,
Paul, hang on one second,uh please respond? On Wednesday to a
wa wah convenience store Fort Pierce,Florida reference to a subject who was previous
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trespassed. The trespass was still active, so police arrested Joseph Delancey placed him
in handcuffs. During the detainment ofJoseph, he was holding half of a
cheeseburger corner of the report. Inthe report. After being provided demands to
drop said burger, he refused todo so. After the handcuffs replaced onto
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him, Joseph forcibly threw the burgerinto my right leg, said the cop.
Cheeseburger hit the patrolman, leaving burgerresidue on his thigh. Glancy.
Charge of trespassing, which is amisdemeanter and battery on a law enforcement officer,
which is the chief Burger. That'sa felony. Locked up in a
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little a ten thousand dollars bond.He does have a rap sheet convictions for
attempted murder, fraudy, and aggravatedbattery with a deadly weapon. Arrested in
twenty twenty two for allegedly attempting tostrike a cop with a metal pole.
Well, at first, Plush,I would have said, come on,
you know, lighting up, francisthat what's the big deal having to wipe
your pants off? But considering theguy's past history, go ahead, pile
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on the charges. Paul, Thanksfor holding there while I got that out
of my assistant. Welcome to theprogram. Hey, no problem. The
going back to Tom's topic, well, his talk just a few minutes ago
about gas prices. I remember distinctlyelection night. My daughter and I are
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watching and we're talking on the phone, and Trump is pretty much winning the
battleground states. And it's about tenthirty. The Trump is up. See
I think I think the total isaround six hundred thousand votes or something in
Pennsylvania. All of a sudden,ten thirty, the notting stop. Something
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changes. What happened. We're talkingfor a little while, and then all
of a sudden it starts up again. And Trump's fleet in Pennsylvania just starts
disappearing, almost within five minutes.And it's crazy, but anyhow, this
is election night. I work thirdshift that night, well that year,
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and I'm coming in to work andI'm looking at the gas prices all up
and down rounde four a dollar eightytwo cents, one dollar eighty two cents.
That was election night. When Bidentook office January twentieth, twenty twenty
one, gas was two thirty two, so it didn't win. Up fifty
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cents from my election night to inauguralday and so, and it's been going
up ever since. So if peopledon't, if an ordinary, average intelligent
person can't see that paying a dollareighty two cents is better than three dollars
and seventy nine cents, then Idon't know what we can do with that
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per well, the only thing Ican suggest is that that person either hates
automobiles probably doesn't own one, isa global warming or climate change believer,
and recognizes what a Barack Obama toldus that the price of gasoline will necessarily
increase, and that is artificially byaction of government, artificially increased to cause
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you to either use less or pursuean alternative, like oh gee, the
electric vehicles, which were only agleam in Obama's eye and are now ubiquitous,
although in spite of their being ubiquitousand becoming more affordable, no one
wants to buy them even though gasis more expensive. They have done a
cost benefit analysis. In their world, it's better to mind an internal combustion
engine or alternatively a hybrid which usesgasoline as well then pursuing an EV.
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So we made up our minds highgas prices. We are still rejecting EVS
as a poor alternative. So,but yeah, gas prices artificially high because
of government action. There's opportunities todrill out there. The Biden administration refuses
to allow it. There's piping apipeline building that wants to happen, which
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will allow the quicker, cleaner orcleaner flow of fuel to wherever it needs
to be to go, like forexample, refineries. No, the Left
won't allow that, causing the priceto go up. Everything is designed to
cause the price to go up inthe name of saving the planet. If
that pesky little religion wasn't involved indecision making, then I get you guarantee
the price of gasoline be closer toa buck eighty per gallon. Appreciate that
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call, Paula, really do Gary, You're gonna have to hang on amount
of time. It's already five fiftysix plenty to talk about in the coming
hour. You can feel free tocall as well. Hope you can stick
around all morning here on the MorningShow. It's what motivates your vote.
The Democrats now and they were theracist back then. Fifty five krs the
talk station. Hi, I'm HenryWinkler. My eyes or Victivity five KRC
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the talk station Monday, like itor not, try to put a smile
on your face, stick around allmorning went on from now the return of
I think he's such a great guy. We're gonna find out how Orlando Sons's
campaign has joined is going to Orlandojoins a program in an hour. We'll
also get his thoughts on all thenews of the day, including university protests,
spending bills, et cetera, etcetera. Orlando terrific, terrific candidate
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Christopher Smith and former Vice mayor ofthe City of Cincinnati. Every Monday,
we enjoy Christopher's company at seven thirtywhat we call this smither vent. Christopher
gets to vent his spleen. Sometimesit sounds like he really needs to do
it, and I'm glad he's gotan outlet here, Chris. I really
appreciate what Christopher has to say.Monday is always mean money Monday with Brian
James A to five Today, CBOsays debt. This is an insane figure.
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We'll consume one hundred and sixty sixpercent of gross domestic product in thirty
years. Let that sink in theentire gross domestic product of the United States
plus sixty six percent. That's thedebt, the debt service, it's your
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credit card interest anyway. So we'lltalking with them about Wall Street spending billions
of dollars on buying up homes,depriving you of the opportunity corporate buying,
and maybe a crackdown's coming on thatone. You got these huge, huge
moneyed interest buying up real estate.Of course they have a lot of cash
on hand, and of course canafford to outbid you in any bidding war,
and then converting them into rental property, thus depriving us the right to
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own private property. I think theremay be something nefarious lurking behind the scenes
on that one. Also six thingsto do if you are nearing retirement Valuable
retirement information from Brian James again ateight h five, follow by Cares the
return of Todd Sledge from the Cincinntiva. We're talking about the Packed Act expansion
and also VA benefits enrollment and allthe things that go along with that.
So if you're a veteran, pleaseD two to fourteen's what you need sign
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up for your healthcare and it isa great plate of benefits. It's healthcare
it's covered and it can go alongwith your existing insurance if you've got insurance
or your employer. And no,you're not taking away medical benefits from your
fellow veteran. You earned it.It was part of the salary that you
didn't get. Let's go to thephones five one, three, seven hundred
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and eighty two to three talk poundFI fifty on AT and T phones.
We dive on a different set oftopics, New Hampshire, Gary, welcome
back to the program and thanks forholding. Good morning, Brian. How
are you. I'm well. Ihope you had a nice weekend. I
hope you and Joel had a greatweekend too. It's good. Life is
good. I'm going to throw alittle spin on two things for you.
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Uh you had? One thing isuh uh Illinois. One thing I've discovered
in my military career, and I'vegone to a lot of what you would
consider failed states I did was taxationand people. Most third world countries I
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ever went to, it was usuallyillegal for the employers to pay their employees
directly. They usually had to godirectly. The eployer had to pay the
government, who in turn and whichin turn paid the employees, and it
was forbidden, and a lot oftimes those checks just wouldn't come to the
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employees or are greatly reduced. Theyhad no say whatsoever in their taxation.
And that's one thing. And Ithink the Democrats, no, I think
both Republicans and Democrats, some Republicansand Democrats. That's the way they see
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it. It's their money and they'regoing to spend it, and they really
don't care what you think. Soin a little Orwellian turn, you defined
the success in a state as youknow, the people thriving. Most governments
like Illinois, California, or Massachusettsdefine that as the government thriving, and
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they could less about the people.They just give it whip service. Well
that may all but will be true, But like the illustration I gave you
from Illinois, their policies must stillhave some logic and reason to them.
Two and two is always four.If you spend five and you only take
in four, you're gonna create ahole that needs to be covered. You're
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gonna have to get somebody to backit with bond issuance or something. And
there's only so much the taxpayers canmanage in terms of you've got to manage
the affairs of state. Fine,have the taxation come in any way,
shape or form. They must beprudent in their expenditures of money and their
outlays. They're not, I mean, just because they want it that way,
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just because they want to continue offerso called free stuff and things.
If the books don't balance, you'regonna have a collapse on your hands.
They can't deny that reality. It'simpossible. I take what they do is
they look at like California, thebullet trait, millions of dollars has Ohio
spent on the bullet training for California? Yeah, and always get it elsewhere.
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Well, you know that at leastthat's a theory. I understand that
that's modern monetary theory that I thinkwe're living a reality right now which disproves
it as a legitimate theory. Youcan't print your way into prosperity. And
if you could do that, whatthey would do is just literally print thirty
four and a half trillion dollars andmake our deficit go away. We wouldn't
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have to worry about one hundred andsixty six percent of gross domestic product consuming
the resources in a mere thirty yearsfrom now, which is we're going to
talk about with Brian James. Imean, it's insane. I think there's
a lot of people they actually wantthe collapse that happen, I know,
so that they could change you want. I agree with that, and I
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say it, I'm on your sidetoo, brother. Yeah, what other
way can you see? I mean, seriously, to someone out there that's
going, oh god, the bunchof conspiracy theorists, how else can you
view this? We are on awe are on a literally unsustainable trajectory.
There is no way you can sustainthis level of spending from federal government,
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period, end of story. Lookat the dead look at the deficit,
look at the tax revenu's relative toexpenditures. It's impossible. It doesn't work
in your family, and it doesn'twork on a federal level either, even
though they run the printing press.So if you want to figure out why
inflation has gone so high, seeZimbabwe, Vimar Republic and other countries who
endeavored in this modern monetary theory andliterally collapse their economy, basically ruining their
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fiat currency the point where it's totallyvalueless. Why did Zimbabwe have one trillion
dollars Zimbabwean notes and you couldn't evenbuy a low for bread with it.
Well, because they printed themselves intoNow I wasn't prosperity, was it.
And it's insane, And so willI introduced the United States Digital Dollary.
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Yes, this savior and also themost orwelling thing in the room at this
moment in time, literally allowing themto track every single purchase you make from
the smallest of the largest through cryptocurrency. It's scary, it's Orwellian, and
it is going to be most likelythe phoenix that rises from the ashes of
the collapse of our fiat currency.Why because the people that we elect are
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not prudent, they're not financially responsible, they don't care. They're fiddling as
Rome burns this undeniable reality. Anyobjective person stepping back from this would say,
well, wait a second, howcan this possibly continue to work?
How? The answer is it can't. Someone would have offered up a solution
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by now. And it's not additionaltaxation. I mean, most people who
have paid attention to economics over theyears realize that no, taking additional taxes
from the taxpayers does not improve youreconomic situation. It causes it to contract.
The number of federal tax dollars goinginto the coffers. It's smaller when
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you increase taxes. As strange asthat might sound, the reality is when
they let us spend the money,they take less of it. We do
smart things. We go, webuy stuff with the money that we are
allowed to buy stuff with by ourown choice. We expand our businesses,
we reinvest the money so that wecan grow even more, benefiting everyone.
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But the creation of more jobs,freeing up of dollars for us to spend,
that results in more money going intothe federal coffers, even though the
tax rates are lower. That's whyTrump's tax reductions work so well. Uh.
I hate hearing that word. Trumpdid something that worked well. Yeah,
well, get used to it.Ignore evil Orange Man in his Twitter
feed and just look what he wasable to accomplish. Look at the economic
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figures on paper after the tax cuts. Democrats are salivating over getting rid of
them. And I don't think it'sin the name of more money coming into
the federal coffers, because in eventhey behind closed doors or if you could
read their brain, would acknowledge whatI just got done, saying yeah,
History's demonstrated that Brian, But wecan't let people decide what to do with
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their money. We have a slavelabor population. Yeah, it's simple.
You're going to work and they're takenaway part of your labor. I use
this illustration all the time. Whatelse can you call that? Did you
volunteers sign up for that? Doyou have any control other than voting people
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in and out of office that mightraise or lower taxes? Beyond that,
No, they do whatever the hellthey want want to go up there.
Raising taxes increases the amount of hoursyou are working for them without your expressed
approval, taking away the flexibility youmight otherwise have in your in your choice
of where to spend money, becausethey've taken more of it from you,
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eight two three talk don't forget ifyou buy case dot com where you can
get the podcast when you can't listen, why get the iHeartMedia ad. Last
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it's renegotiated and probably gonna cost usa lot of money. Let's someone puts
their foot down, maybe a goodIDEA. Tech Friday with Dave had are
always an important thing to listen toas well. Let's see what Mark's got
this morning. Mark, have youMonday? Thanks for calling. Hey,
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good morning, Brian. I wantto drive in today. I heard you
mentioned Todd Sledge. Yeah, andI've listened to a coup of your interviews
with him, and it just promptedme to call in. In my experience
with the VA, okay, Now, I served from July of eighty two
to April ninety one, and whenI got out in ninety one, I
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was reluctant to use the VA anduh. And then in twenty thirteen I
had a injury, I lost myjob, my short term disability, and
that that's when I started using theVA. So my experience with the V
A now Friday. Also, iwas down at the VA hospital and I
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had an Andrew grand dog and I'vehad my dreaded kolonoscopy and stuff like that.
I'm a plumber. I've gone inthere for stitches, you know,
in the emmercy room and let metell you r V A hospital. Those
people down there are awesome, youknow. And uh, you know it's
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like when you when your appointments setfor a certain time, you're getting seen.
They're punctual, You're not hanging around. You know. I've had my
private physicians. If you make anappointment towards the end of the day,
you know, he ain't seeing youwhen he's supposed to see you. He's
seen you about an hour later,you know. But everybody down there is
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so supportive of US veterans and friendly, helpful, you know. So any
any veteran of there that's reluctant twoyears today, I strongly consider, I
strongly encourage them to consider to startgoing to the VA. Mark you know
what. I was waiting for youto take a different turn and say,
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you know, my experience has beena poor one. But I know Todd
and I over the years and whenwe first started talking to Todd's ledgends,
since AVA was back in those BobMcDonald days when VA, when the veterans
were not treated well, when theirappointments had went missing, when they didn't
get the treatment, and they havebusted their hump. I can't say this
about all of the Veterans Administration hospitalsystems around the country, but locally I
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know because Todd would never lie tome. He said, they listen to
the veterans. If you have acomplaint, please register it. They'll do
everything they can to reform the youknow, or of their ways and make
things better. So I'm glad yourexperience has been a real positive one,
Mark, because that's what I hearfrom my veterans and my other veteran listeners.
I have very very few complaints overthe years about the service you get
there, which is why I'm soproud to be able to recommend it to
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my listeners, even though I'm notentire to have any experience with the VA,
having not served my country. Butyeah, I'm glad for you,
Mark, and I'm glad they werethere for you in that time when you
lost your insurance. And if youmake a good point, even if you
have insurance through your employer, youstill sign up for the VA benefits because
you never know what's happening around thecorner. And listen to Mark, all
right, if you need to takeadvantage of it, they're going to take
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great care of you. God blessyou, Mark for your service to our
country and calling in and support thelocals there at the VA. I know
they're really they're passionate about what theydo, and that's serving folks like you.
Mark, take care of my friend. I have a wonder for a
week. Let's see what Bobby's gotthis morning as we close out the segment.
Bobby, welcome to the show,and happy Monday to you, sir.
Happy Monday, my brother. Thanksfor holding that torture freedom up high
(52:40):
and bride every day. And letme tell you one thing, my brother,
you serve this country every day.I well appreciate that. It's nice
to try to make up for it. And since I didn't serve in other
ways, and helping the VA outand my veteran friends in any way possible
is my work around to that failureon my part to not serve the country.
I'd like to give kudos this morningto all your listeners. They're either
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going to work, coming home fromwork, working at the house, or
working for their country. So I'dlike to give a salute to all your
listeners out there. As coach,they're one of the best in the country.
Think you know what, Bobby,You're right, they are the best
listeners, and damn it, Heavento keep me on my toes all the
time. That's the stressful thing,knowing that I got smart people out there
holding me accountable for what I sayhere on the morning show. So God
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bless each and every one of you. Thank you, Bobby, have a
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go ahead and find that podcast lateruh meantime, local stories that you can
feel free to call five one three, seven four nine to fifty five eight
hundred eight two three talk. HighState University confirmed yesterday that a person died
after falling from the stands at Ohiostadium during the graduation ceremony. Cord to
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OSU statement, we are aware ofan incident in the stadium during the today's
commencement. An individual fell from thestands. They are deceased. We have
no additional details to share at thistime. Police and emergency responders are on
the scene. They're offering counseling andother support services. They say they'll be
available. The commencement cerepony kicked offyesterday at noon twelve thousand graduates set to
receive their diplomas. Corner Columbus dispatchofficer called for help twelve thirty in the
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afternoon when the person fell from thestand near eight thirty. It was quartered
off a police tape when first respondersarrive, and that's about all the information
we have right now. Wow,what a sad, sad thing. Butler
County Corner's Office called to a threevehicle crash in Westchester. According to Westchester
Police, took place Cox Row betweenUniversity Point and Service Dry didn't say what
(56:04):
caused the crash, but three peoplewere killed. Two people pronounced dead at
the scene, third at Westchester Hospital, all of them adults. Cox Road
was shut down between both directions LibertyWay and Voice of America Park Drive.
They expected them being closed for hourswhile they conducted their investigation. So that
was from yesterday, so I gotto imagine it's open by now. No
additional details though, and WCPO reportedon that one, so props to them
(56:28):
for doing some local reporting. Gotto appreciate local reporting when you get it.
Fox nineteen on this one, sinceI police investigating a shooting leaving two
juveniles and a sixty eight year oldhospitalized. Happened yesterday afternoon sixteen hundred block
of Lein Street about five pm.Multiple calls in about the shooting their Stanley
Rowe Towers. The tenant, TerryLarkin, District one said police located a
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fifteen year old and a seventeen yearold, as well as a sixty eight
year old suffering from the gunshot woundsto their limbs. Lieutenant Larkin also said
there were two shooting locations, oneat a bus stop on Lynn Street in
front of Stanley Road Towers, anotherin a parking lot behind the complex.
Emergency responders took the fifteen year oldto Sinsit Children's Hospital, the two owner
victims taken to UC Hospital. Allthree victims sustained non life threatening injuries.
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Please say they don't have an officialsuspect description, but our searching for the
vehicle at this point. Please don'tknow the motive, Lieutenant Larkins, of
the public is not in any danger. I'll let you decide for yourself on
that. One. One person shotdead in a shooting at Curtain, Coleraine
Township, early Saturday morning. Courtto Jim Love with the Coleraine Police Department.
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He said officers called it the twentyseven twenty seven hundred block rather of
Niagara Street twelve one in the morningfor report of a person not breathing.
There they found thirty year old DiventreyGill inside a home suffering from a gunshot
wound to the head. He diedat the scene. According to police,
officers haven't yet stated that they havea suspect on this one. Cause of
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the shooting is still an investigation,but if you have information, Sergeant Mike
Stockmeyer the coal Ran Police Department lovedto hear from you five to one,
three, three two one, twentysix seventy seven and let's see here one
more shooting suspect who raised a gunand maybe even a knife at law enforcement
(58:19):
was shot once in the shoulder duringa deputy involved shooting a Liberty Township.
According to Butler County Shriff Richard Jones, don't do that happened during a welfare
check on the suspect in an apartmentcomplex at Hamilton Place Quarter after eleven in
the morning Saturday. Here's a greatone from Butler County cheff Richard Jones.
People. He said, quote shouldnot point guns at police close quote there
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you are, duh Butler Cutty.The deputy, Anthony Dwyers at a mail
with weapons, was confronted by policeofficers and the suspect was shot. It
is not to appeared to be alife threatening injury. Taking to UC Westchester
Hospital with non life threatening injury thecorner of the Sheriff's office. His name
hasn't been released. Not clear atleast as a late Saturday of charges were
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filed. Typically, they say suspectswho go to the hospital after encounters with
the Butlo County Sriff's office are notcharged until they're released into their custody.
Butler County Prosecutor Mike Moser, speakingwith Fox nineteen, said late Saturday,
the Sheriff's called him and notified himabout the incident. Sheriff Jones said the
entire incident was captured on body cameracourt to the prosecutor, a firearm was
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raised and at deputy and possibly aknife. The deputy fired in return for
a situation where the officer was threatenedby means of a firearm. Moser said,
the sheriff leaves he has complete evidencein his body cameras. It will
be a very short investigation because thetell of the story is literally on video.
Prosecutor's office will review the entire incidentonce the Sheriff's office completes its investigation.
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Sonza. We're gonna find out howhis campaign's going. He's a great guy.
You should might consider donating to Orlando'scampaign. I did that, And
if you listen to me regularly,you know that donating to politicians is not
my my favorite expenditure allocation of money. But wow, what a terrific,
terrific candidate Orlando is. Uh.Orlando Sonza dot Com helped him out.
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Maybe work on his campaign. Geta yard sign in your front yard,
Christopher Smith. And at six thirty, and of course it being Monday,
we'll hear from Brian James Monday Mondayat eight oh five and from two hours
from now eight forty kr SE caresand the CINCINNTIV todd Sledge on some updates
and they packed ACKed as well.I find this so wrong on so many
levels. Yes, it's happened again. We have yet another transgender runner beating
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women in the women's event where heshouldn't be allowed to participate. Sadie Schriner
won three women's events at the LibertyLeague Championship Meet Division three. It happened
on Saturday. Attends the Rochester Instituteof Technology. This Shriner FKA woman now
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identifies as a man, won thefour hundred meters and the two under meter
tournament. Both of the times thatwon the women's event would have been last
in the men's races at the meet, but it just so happened that Sadie
Schneider, transgender woman, got recordsin the women's category with these times that
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wouldn't even have placed him if hehad competed as a man. A two
under meter time now at Liberty LeagueCollege Liberty League Conference Women's record. This
Shriner person also the anchor leg offour by four hundred that won by nearly
three seconds. They were in fourthplace when he got the depatan I'm sorry
she and ended up running the fastestanchor leg of the race. Shiner,
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born a man named Candon, attendedHillsborough High School, New Jersey, as
the twentiest twentieth rather best one hundredmeter time for boys at the Hillsboro High
School twentieth best time for boys inthat school's history. Parenthetically, it would
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have been the fastest for the girls. Earlier this season, Shiner also set
a women's record with the three hundredmeters at the Nazareth Alumni Opener Invitational.
Recently posted on Instagram, she hewhatever feels that she does not have an
automatic advantage being a biological male.Quote. Out of all the hate that's
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been shared of me, cheater isthe most common word here. We are
here, we are you ready.In my eyes, the discussion of trans
inclusion and athletics shouldn't even be adebate. Well that's in your head,
but you're not talking to the womenyou're competing against, Sir, ma'am.
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As more research is done, shestated, the more evident this becomes.
There is a reason I'm only asfast as I was in middle school.
And the only variable that's changed overmy nine years of running is my medication.
She went on, Even as Olympicsstudies prove the disadvantage of trans athletes
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is not enough, Really, policiesare being changed before research is done,
and the only way to stay educatedin this process is to talk to the
few trans athletes that are competing andhear their stories, bring them into the
conversation. The only way to makeeducated decision on small handful of athletes is
to hear their voices, not speakfor them, so we can throw out
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the objective information that trans athletes,if they are transitioning from men to women,
end up kicking the crap out ofthe biologically female athletes. It happens
all the time. We read aboutit all the time. There is a
distinct advantage. If you look atthe medical research history and the practical fact
of life, men are usually strongerand bigger than women, period. It's
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a biological fact. Now, that'snot across the board. We all know
that there are some women who cankick men's ass and a lot of women
out there that can kick my buttonin athletics. That's not a high bar
honestly, But overall men enjoy distinctadvantage. But no, he she wants
you to hear their voice, wantsyou to see what's in you know they
perceived in their eyes. I'm nota cheater. I don't feel like I'm
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cheating the women I'm competing against.I feel like I'm a woman, and
therefore I should be allowed to competeagainst them. Even though I have a
biological advantage over them. Look,I just won. I just set records
for all the history of women inthis particular competition. I show up once
designating myself as a guy, andI went across the board. Hey feel
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in my eyes you know what?And that means your opinion doesn't matter.
Let's capitulate to this nonsense, mustn'twe? And on a corollary on that
one, addressing some of his hercomments about how they feel. Europe is
moving ahead. In the latest reviewof transgender youth Medicine finds in sufficient evidence
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for medicalization. In other words,hormone retreatment and lopping off or going on
as the case maybe is verboten inEurope. Now, UK just did this
giant study and issued along away toreport, and they're putting the brakes on
this kind of stuff because rather thanlistening to the feelings of people struggling with
the genderdice morphia, they're looking atthe data and realizing that these medications and
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As we learn more about gender dysfor you, more and more people
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are taking a cautious approach because ofthe damage to be done to kids.
Kind alluded to this in the endof that tail section. With the guys
competing against women biological men claiming theirwomen. England maybe the third country to
withdraw from the gender affirming treatment pathway. This because of a recommendation is from
a longer way to report called theCAST Report. CAST Report the most comprehensive
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summary on transgender youth medicine. Thereview of stated there is insufficient evidence to
demonstrate the long term benefits of medicalizingchildren who want to identify as a different
gender. Instead, the review recommendsfolks using on psychotherapy. National Health Service
Commission the report back in twenty twentysaid it will be committed to following the
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through on the recommendations quote the CASTReview final report will not just shape the
future of health care in this countryfor children and young people experiencing gender distress,
but will be of major international importanceand significant accord to the statement.
With the release of this report,eight days after it was released last month,
Scotland's Health boards announce a pause onnew prescription for puberty blockers and cross
sex hormones as they continue to gatherevidence supporting the safety and clinical effectiveness of
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the medications. OH check this out. The CAST Review, based on the
work of two hundred and thirty sevenpapers, two hundred and fourteen studies,
twenty one guidelines, two position statementscovered data of over one hundred and thirteen
thousand children and young people. Theyanalyze andnonomized data from over thirty seven hundred
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children diagnosed with gender dysphoria, surveyresponses from professionals, and numerous interviews and
testimonies from stakeholders in the issue,including that transdiind wealth she wasn't sorry,
I was going to go down thatroad. Review found insufficient and inconclusive evidence
demonstrating the effect in this and benefitsof gender reassignment treatments for children. Many
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of these children this is something thatwas noted in the report. Many of
the children are on the autism spectrumand also share mental comorbidities often overshadowed by
the medicalization model. In other words, these children can have some disturbing problems
going on in their world. Gendertis for you, just one of them,
So looking at only that subject matterand starting to treat them with drugs
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maybe the wrong way to go.This report is suggesting very strongly Doctor Cass
advise cautionary psychological interventions. The Societyfor Evidence Based Gender medicine. This is
a medical group advocating for driving researchon transgender care, stated that for England
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anyway, maybe soon to be theUnited States to review mark the end of
an era of a highly medicalized approachto the treatment of young people with gender
related distress, which is kind ofbe known as gender affirming care. The
report mentioned that while medicalization compromising pubertyblockers, cross sex hormones, and surgery
aka the Dutch Protocol was invented inthe Netherlands in the nineteen nineties, the
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concept of here we are gender affirmation, which is accepting children's gender identity at
face value, actually originated in theUnited States and then spread internationally, but
there's no basis in it in science. See this goes back to this person.
I feel you need to talk tothe transgender athletes and ask them how
they feel about pumpeting against the womenthat they regularly beat. It's my feelings
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that matter. That's a concept thatwas developed here gender affirmation, and we're
going to accept you at face value. Yes you're a woman, and will
deny the genetic realities that you arefar stronger and more have more stamina than
the women against you who you compete. As a consequence of this study,
children under eighteen in England will notbe treated using this Dutch protocol, but
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with the same level of care aswith other youths with mental health struggles.
In other words, psychotherapy UK catchingup with Finland and Sweden who made these
changes back in twenty twenty three.Well science waiting for us here in the
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United States to get the memo andfor parents out there dealing with a child
that has genderedice for you something youmight want to consider the long term damage
that can be done. And thisstudy also points out that many younger people
who are gendered as folk, whobelieve them to be a different sex quite
often simply grow out of it.Maybe social media has an influence on their
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decision making at that young aide,but give them enough time, they're gonna
come out the other side. Afterthe top of the our news, Orlando
Sonzo in one of House campaign's goinghis thoughts of the news the day,
Christopher Smithman at seven thirty, Isure hope you can stick around. I
don't care about anybody else. It'swhat motivates your vote. There's a evil
for Verden and they're trying to destroyor fifty five krc D talk station.
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This reap seven oh six on aMonday and a happy one to you.
Made it even happier. Got ChristopherSmith at bottom of the air with as
smith Man in the meantime, I'malways pleased to have him on the morning
show. A man well worth votingfor and donating to. Orlando Sonza,
somebody's going to be Greg Landsman.He is the man for the job.
Welcome back, Orlando. Always apleasure to have you on the five PC
Morning Show. Likewise, thanks forhaving me. Well AREM I my listeners?
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West Point Grad where you married andnow kicked your coverage. Beautiful wife
Jessica, she also a West Pointgraduate. You went to law school at
Georgetown. You worked as a financialplanner. You have a degree and tax
and financial planning. You went onand now working for the residents of Hamilton
County in the Prosecutor's office. AndI know you're a law and order kind
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of guy, not a woke guy, Orlando Sanza. So you're in rarefied
era as being one of the fewpoliticians my wife and I have ever contributed
to. So I'm gonna encourage mylisteners to do that. We have got
to beat Greg Lansman. How's thecampaign going, Orlando, Brian, First
of all, thank you so muchto you and your wife for your support.
Listen, momentum is incredibly strong,and you know why because we're going
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to win the setback in November.Because as each passing day comes, voters
are waking up to the fact thattheir current US representative is on the wrong
side of every issue that matters mostof them. Look, I mean,
I call it the abcs of GregLANs and Brian. You've got a guy
who's wrong on appeasement when it comesto appeasing these foreign adverse nations like China
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and Russia. He's wrong on theborder, he's wrong on crime, he's
wrong on defense, he's wrong oneducation, inflation, spending, Israel,
anti thime, you name it.He's wrong on every issue, and voters
are realizing now they want a representativethat's going to be on the right side
of every issue. So momentum strongand we're going to win this seat in
November. I like your optimism,your enthusiasm, Orlando. It's Orlando Sanza
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dot com, Sonza Orlandossanza dot com. You can learn about him where he
is on the issues his endorsements.You've got a lot of endorsements to Orlando.
I note you're racking them up.Yeah, you know, Look,
this is not just a seat thatfolks in southwest Ohio and across Ohio want
to win back. DC and acrossthe nation wants to win this seatback.
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There's no doubt about it. Rightwe're down to a one vote majority in
the US House. And if wedon't take back the majority and grow the
majority in November, then look whatyou're seeing the trend in our country going
down the tubes when it comes toevery issue that I just named, it's
just it's going to continue on andit's going to be detrimental for children and
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grandchildren. And so this is theyear to do it, Brian, where
we're going to have to take backthe House, the Senate and the White
House, and we are going tohave to pair back spending. I'll be
talking with money Monday, Brian James, and the first topic would be the
fact that the Congressional Budget Office saysour national debt will consume this is this
is almost an impossible figure to comprehendby within thirty years, national debt will
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consume one hundred and sixty six percentof our entire gross domestic product, Orlando,
that sounds to me like that isan unsustainable reality and someone's going to
have to get a handle on it. Yeah, it's absolutely unsustainable. I
mean, look, the economy continuesto sputter. We've had one weak economic
indicator after another, just like youmentioned. And Joe Biden says that Bidenomics
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is working well, no one believesthem. And we need to get this
country's economy working for everyone. Andright now Democrat policies have completely failed.
And Ohio voters are ready for achange because they're seeing the Democratic policies are
not working well. Democratic policies arejust really weed to and spring from almost
one hundred percent across the board.This religion that you and I are exhaling
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our way to death. In otherwords, climate change is the number one
imperative and anything they do in thename of climate change requires massive, massive
capital infusion. That's our taxpayer dollarsgoing to seed projects that ultimately cost the
consumer and increased price and energy.Everything that the green is is more expensive.
We have tons of resources, wecould tap them, and we could
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tap into them. We have demonstrablylowered our carbon x our carbon production compared
to every other country in the world. And the elephant in the room on
this self. You know this,this you know I call it. It's
like slicing your own throat. Chinais out producing us in terms of carbon
production every single day. So whateverwe do to reduce our carbon output is
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negated by China, who keeps buildingcoal plans and ignores this whole philosophy.
Right, I mean, look,we've got to regain our energy dominance in
the world. I mean, thedependence on these foreign nations that again have
interests adverse to us, right begsthe question of whether we're actually supporting their
economy or our economy, their peopleor our people. And this is a
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great example of where Greg Lansman hadan opportunity to take a definitive stance his
first one hundred days in office tovote for the Lower Cost the Lower Energy
Cost Act to basically restore Americans energyindependence. Did he do it. No,
He voted no on it. Sohe flies. It flies in the
face of all of the voters andAmericans in Southwest Ohio that are feeling the
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impact of the rising costs in justone example in energy, whether it's gas
prices or their utility bills. GregLandsman again wrong side of this issue.
Well, and of course energy isneeded to produce a the food we consume
and transport it into the Kroger orwherever we shop. That in and of
itself as having an impact on ourgrocery bill. Energy policy is directly connected
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to everything in terms of inflation.That's exactly right. So not only do
we have to get inflation down,where again you see that it's not going
down anytime soon, we've got toget spending down. I mean, it's
this overbloated government spending where the Democratsthink that we can spend our way into
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fixing every single problem. All thatdoes is it passes the buck down to
the consumer, the American family thatfeels it the most, and they're coming
after us with more tax increases too. The wide administration, which demonstrably reduce
the federal tax coffers. It's kindof a crazy way to look at it,
but history is demonstrated. If yougive us freedom and flexibility with all
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allowing us to spend more of ourhard earned tax dollars, it makes the
economy increase. More people have disposableincome. That causes businesses to want to
reinvest in their businesses. We createjob opportunities, which ultimately reduce results in
more tax revenue flowing into government,so they be better off, better serve
leaving the tax rates where where Trumpleft them which helped us immeasurably, or
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then increase them, which they haveto realize, which, like I said,
history demonstrates, is going to reduceor is going to reduce the amount
of money going into federal government.I mean, I just don't get it.
Orlando, Well, you know itdoesn't take a CPA right to realize
that the key word when it comesto taxation is burden. Who is being
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burdened by the tax policy? Andthe only person that gets burdened when you
increase tax is the person who's payingthe tax. And so if you're increasing
the income tax of individuals and families, guess what you're burdening them. And
so that goes completely contrary to tryingto fuel and grow the economy, trying
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to fuel and grow small businesses,trying to fuel and grow consumer spending of
items not just in the grocery store, but in the mall online, if
they're paying this exorbitant amount of taxthat continues to increase. Guess what,
We're not doing the economy any favors. And so it's a backwards philosophy to
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think that by increasing taxation we're goingto somehow fuel this economy. And again
that is wrong. Another example ofGreg Lansley, he's already made a commitment
he's going to be voting for inalongside Joe Biden's wish and desire to increase
our tax burdens on the American family. Well, and it's not just the
American family directly, which this isa direct increase on individual and family incomes.
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It's also an increase on corporate taxes, which they claim corporations aren't paying
their fair share. Corporations don't paytaxes. People, Orlando, I think
you'll agree with me. It's apass through. It's like increased cost of
fuel. It gets passed along thegoods and services those evil corporations provide us.
Right, you're barking on the righttrain because there's nothing else that gets
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me fired up and talking about taxation. And look, good tax policy leads
to good social and economic policy.And it is wrong tax policy to think
that by suddenly increasing the corporate incometax again, you're going to fuel this
economy, and then the American peopleare not going to suffer. They are
absolutely going to suffer. And it'sbecause that when you increase corporate tax,
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the only way that they're going tomaintain their bottom line is either increased prices
that again burdens the consumer, whichis the American family, or they're going
to lower their rate of return forinvestors, again burdening those Americans that are
investing in these companies. Those arethe mechanisms by which they're going to try
to maintain their bottom line. Andso we cannot think that by suddenly increase
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I think from Biden's wish of twentyone percent up to twenty eight percent,
we're suddenly going to do the Americanfamily any favors. It's absolutely not.
Orlandosanza dot com. We're gonna bringit back and talk more about the issues
that he'll be response before when KRSthe talk station seven twenty here for about
Karcity Talk Station Smith event next inthe meantime, Orlandossanza dot com he's running
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for Congress against Greg Landsman. Obviously, Orlando demonstrably better in terms of his
policy positions. Let's dive in afew more of those policy positions. Tough
issue. I know it divides bothparties. The situation in Ukraine. Obviously,
we've got a real problem there.Russia probably has a much stronger military.
Ukraine's running out of forces. Theykeep asking more and more of the
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American people and other countries to fundthe war. I don't see a strategy
in sight here. Where is OrlandoSanza relative to that particular concept or conflict?
Yeah right, I mean there's nodoubt about it. Right As a
former military officer, what you hopefor and want to see, not just
on the ground, but especially athome, is that there is a clear
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path to victory. And so wouldwe want to see more clarity, especially
from Zelensky and the Ukrainians on theground, for a clear path to victory.
Absolutely, But one thing is forcertain is that Orlando Sanza would rather
send resources and equipment than our Americansons and daughters over into EuroAsia. And
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so I understand, just like youpointed out, Brian, that it is
an issue that divides even within theRepublican Party. But I've always stood on
a belief that if we can spareone life of an American soldier from being
deployed. Look look at the disasterthat we saw under the Biden administration with
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Afghanistan and the early withdrawal from Afghanistanthat again just spit in the face of
American soldiers that spent years and alsotheir lives in Afghanistan for over a decade
and then suddenly we pulled out prematurely. And so what we don't want to
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see is another type of conflict ensuewhere we have boots on the ground.
Because there is no doubt that Ukraineand Russia poses a national security threat,
not just for America, book forthe rest of the world. And you
can't talk about Russia and Ukraine withouttalking about China and Taiwan, and that
China looks at how the US respondsto Russia, and it's aggression because Russia
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is not going to stop. They'renot going to stop suddenly into Ukraine.
They're going to try to push intoPoland and try to take all of Eurasia.
China looks at that and sees thatis the American government going to respond
boldly or are they going to respondweekly so that then they feel in bolden
to take over Taiwan, so theyare in tandem. But what we want
to see is absolute accountability for everydollar and equipment and resource that we spend
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there, but a clear path tovictory, a strategic plan that's actually outlaid,
and so I'd want to see both. But at the end of the
day, I'm always going to votefor resources to be spent and equipment to
be spent over there in American lives, all right. I pivoting over to
another highly controversial conflict, the situationin Gazo with Israel. Of course,
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protests are upted around campuses across thisland of ours, very pro Hamas,
so pro terrorists and very well organizedand well funded. So there's separate issues
there, but relative your support ofIsrael as a country and it's right to
defend itself. Where are you,Orlando, So absolutely one hundred percent,
I stand with our Middle East allyof Israel. I mean, what happened
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on October seventh can never be forgotten. Where you had a terrorist group in
Hamas actually brutally murdering men, womenand children, the elderly, you know,
for what end, simply to eradicatethe Jewish people. And what we're
seeing on campuses across the country.It's unacceptable and students, specifically Jewish students,
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are being put in harm's way byterrorist sympathizers. And you know what,
it's the Democrat policy elites that refuseto condemn the chaos. And these
protests are funded by Democrats and JoeBiden's biggest donors. There's a reason Democrats
don't want to speak up. Theyare complicit and don't want to upset their
far left base or their donors.And we need leaders who can speak with
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moral clarity on this issue and rightnow, Sadly, unfortunately, Democrats like
Greg Lansman have failed to meet themoment. Greg Landsman strongly, strongly condemn
what is happening on college campuses becauseanti Semitism is wrong, but targeting Jewish
students simply because they are Jewish iswrong, and it needs to be called
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out right now, well, inthe remaining very few moments we've got,
Orlando, I'm going to toss somelow hanging fruit at you your response to
the unfolding and chaotic situation on oursouthern border. Look, Brian, you
know that I'm a product of alegal immigration system. We've got to secure
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the southern border because what we're seeingis a complete disaster. It's Joe Biden
and Greg Lansman that have created it. So we need to secure the southern
border today and welcome people to comeinto this great country to pursue the American
dream, just like my parents andmyself legally period exclamation point underscore in bold
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Orlando signs. I always love talkingto you, my friend. Just gets
uplifting to hear someone such common senseand such a wonderful alternative with Greg Landsman
again, listeners, please you canget involved. You can volunteer, you
can contact Orlando in the campaign.You can put a yard sign on your
front yard. You can donate,which is really easy to do. Just
kick the donate button. It makesit really simple. Orlando sonsa dot com.
I can't wait to talk to youagain, Orlando. Keep up the
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great work and we're looking forward tothe path of victory this November. Thanks
so much, Brian, Thank you, Take care of my friend. Seven
twenty six fifty five Care City Talks, Dation fifty a Monday, It is
that time you here from former ViceMayor of the City of Cincinnati. Man
with an opinion, a man he'sa vent his spleen and an opportunity provided
by the fifty five care see MorningShow. My dear friend, Christopher Smithman,
(01:30:26):
welcome back. Thank you so muchfor having me on Brian. Like
each week, I don't know whereto start. Oh, I'm going to
kicking it. I'm gonna pick atopic. Man, what a week?
You know? What is happening?First? Let me just share with your
listeners. And I know they knowthis, but I'm in search of the
(01:30:49):
truth, right, this is notabout politics. I will give my opinion
once we've established what the fact patternsare, and you'll hear that today.
But I am in search of thetruth. And so, what is happening
in New York with this da bragthis prosecutor who is prosecuting this hush money
(01:31:14):
case is what they're calling it.That's how they've branded it, related to
former President Trump giving one hundred andthirty thousand dollars to a woman by the
name of Stormy. And I'm sittingback trying to figure out as I'm following
the case, what the charges areand why a candidate running for president is
(01:31:38):
locked down for a month and ahalf in a case that seems like it
shouldn't have been brought, and soit's eight years old. I've been trying
to follow the witnesses to see whatthe fact patterns are, and it seems
like each person who has testified hasactually torpedoed the prosecutor's case. I'm not
(01:32:00):
a lawyer, I'm not a judge. I'm just trying to figure out what's
the crime. They're saying that theformer president spent one hundred and thirty thousand
dollars that he gave to his lawyer. He did not run it through his
campaign. This was not a campaigncontribution that was made that he then redirected
to deal with the personal issue.It was a personal issue where his top
(01:32:24):
eight testified this past week saying,what was my boss's motivation? Because what
the prosecutors trying to figure out waswas this interference in an election? Well,
the top eight said his motivation wasembarrassment. Motivation? Was his wife
right? His motivation? Were hischildren right? Any normal person? And
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what has also been established, whichi'm not at this level, that high
profile people are targeted, meaning itdoesn't have to be true and still be
very damaging. So I'm not evengetting into what the facts are related to
it. But the case is like, what was his motivation? Each person
(01:33:09):
who has testified has torpedoed the prosecutionof this case. I don't understand this
other than saying it is political interference. That is what is happening right now.
I've never seen a judicial system armlike this. Now here's the good
of it. I want the peopleto understand what I'm saying here is that
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the everyday Americans who sometimes goes tothe judicial system has experienced this kind of
unfair prosecution. If you don't havemoney, if you don't have power,
if you can't hire the best legalteam, you are run over by a
da like brags, right. Andif President Trump is elected, look for
(01:33:53):
him to have a better understanding thatguess what, this could happen or might
have happened to other Am Mayora.And so when he looks at cases and
says, you know what, I'mgoing to look at the facts of this
case. I'm going to try todetermine whether I should parton this person.
He's going to have more sympathy becausehe's going to have a but a better
(01:34:13):
understanding that this crap could actually happento a person. I'm not saying this
is a widespread across the system.He's going to have an understanding that there
could be a da there could bea judge, there could be a prosecutor
who's doing this to an average JoeSmoe and totally disrupt their life, put
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them in prison. And he goes, you know what, let's take a
little closer look at this case becausethey did it to me. Yes,
sir, that's an excellent observation.And you know, I know there are
many people in the black community who'vealways believed that the judicial system was stacked
against them for racial reasons. Prosecutionshave gone against people of color that haven't
gone against white people. You've got, you know, the old idea that
(01:34:56):
the throwdown gun, the fake gun, the planning of evidence, all of
that that is you know, manypeople just believe that is the way it
is across the board. This isanother illustration of what can happen in a
corrupt judicial system. Now, I'mnot going to indict all the prosecutors and
police out there in the world claimingthat they're racist, but many people in
the black community know what it's liketo be targeted, you know, driving
(01:35:17):
while black and that kind of thing. Well, this is the disparate outcome
that can happen with a corrupt judicialsystem, and I think that's got to
touch a nerve among people in theblack community. Christopher, real quick,
your thoughts on that observation, Well, there's no question that it touches a
nerve. But what I want tosay to you, it touches the nerve
of the poor. It touches thenerve of the people who don't have the
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resources to fight whom the system iscoming down on you. So Trump is
going out saying, hey, ifthey can put Trump up these charges on
me, ninety one felony charges ina multiple of jurisdictions, they can do
this to anybody could be under thissystem, but they just don't have the
(01:36:01):
money to fight. And I thinkit's gonna change his perspective, just like
it did Martha Stewart when she hadher experiences and now you see her commercials
with Snoop Dogg. That didn't comefrom anywhere, It came from her having
a better understanding that the system canbe stacked against you and you could find
yourself in prison, unfairly charged,unfairly put in prison because you hear this
(01:36:27):
judge oftentimes in this hush money case. This will be my last point before
your break. But here's what they'llsay. I can put you in jail,
and I'm gonna come back and talkabout this gag order. Yeah,
but he keeps asserting, Brian thatI can give you thirty days in jail
if you don't shut your mouth withyour First Amendment rights. Oh yeah,
that can happen to anybody. Yes, talk to Judge of Paul Tannel about
(01:36:51):
that very point. We'll bring Christopherback about that fifty five KARASB talk station
talking with Christopher Smitheman doing the Smithevent of the former vice mayor of the
City of Cincinnati. All right,pivoting over to the gag order. This
is something I find absolutely offensive.And Christopher, I've had conversation with Judge
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of Paulatano about this, and hesaid, you know, I'm unique.
You know my position as a judge, I would be absolutely one hundred percent
against a gag order because it doesfly right in the face of our constitutionally
or protected right to freedom of speech, most notably in the political realm.
Christopher, your your comments, well, look, we have protests that are
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happening all across the country. Mostof them, if not all, are
Democrats, and they're arguing their freespeech. So you have Democratic congressional members
saying, I want to protect evenpeople who are saying the most grotesque things.
They're saying down with America, burningflags on college campuses, they're saying
(01:38:00):
that down with Israel. These areall things that have been happening, and
you have Democratic congressional members saying thatis protected speech. But in the case
of this Hushmuney case, you havea democratic judge, a Democratic prosecutor who
is saying that the former president's enemieswho are attacking him publicly. This guy
(01:38:23):
named Cohen, he's on CNN,he's on MSNBC, he's on his own
blog talking about the case and attackingthe president. The president, the former
president is running for office. Heis the nominee and he will be for
the Republican Party. And as he'sbeing attacked, the prosecutor and the judge
(01:38:43):
is saying, under these circumstances,with this case, you can't say anything.
I'm going to strip you of yourFirst Amendment right. You are unable
to discuss the case, and ifyou do, I'm going to threaten you
with thirty days in jail. Goodluck if they try to do that with
the Secret Service, because that willbe a constitutional crisis. I'm sharing with
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you. I have never seen anythinglike this where you have the judicial system
so obvious, and you have mainstreammedia cheering and on like this is a
good thing. This is horrible forour country. We look like a third
world country to the rest of theworld. This is the stuff that they
(01:39:25):
do that we say is bad forour country. This is a terrible case.
It never should have been brought.We should be ashamed of ourselves and
all of us, no matter ourpolitical persuasion, Democrat, Republican, independent,
African American, you know, white, male, female, transgender,
member of the lgbtqq plus community,It doesn't matter. As Americans, we
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should be denouncing this kind of behaviorthat is happening in New York City.
Couldn't agree with you more. Christydid call me this morning looking for a
fight. No, brother, I'msaying you know that here we have a
guy. If they can put agag order on this guy, we're talking
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the former president of the United Statesof America, I don't have a chance.
And see that is what is playinginto the electorate right now and why
his poll numbers are going up.I'll give the former president a little advice
when he has his next press conference. What he should do is walk up
and say, if it happens tome, it can happen to you.
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That's all he has to say.If it's happening to me, it can
happen to you. I understand yourplight. Guess what will happen? Brother?
It doesn't matter right. People whoare poor experience the same thing.
African Americans who are poor experience thesame thing. If you have money and
(01:40:54):
resources, you have a fighting chanceunder a criminal justice system like this that
tries to destroy you. Well,and you know, there's a lot of
folks in my listening audience who believethat some, at least some, maybe
a lot, of the January sixthprosecutions were just simply a vendetta wage against
Trump supporters. You have grandmothers whomerely walked in the Capitol building being prosecuted,
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being forced to retain expensive lawyers todefend themselves. You got a lot
of people who are not responsible orguilty for committing any acts of violence who
are welcomed into the capital. Asthe video demonstrates by the law enforcement officers,
and yet they were prosecuted. Andthen you flip it over to pretty
much any other area. You've gotevil people ransackings supermarkets and committing acts of
(01:41:41):
violence, and the prosecutors just letthem go. I mean, there's your
dual standard of justice right there.And a lot of my listeners really see
a lot of that going on inthis world, in this country. How
can a federal government see President Bidenhave secret documents in his home, see
(01:42:03):
documents from former President Trump in hishome, and say we're going to prosecute
him, but not prosecute Biden.This makes our hunter Biden or Hillary Clinton.
We can keep going through the list. I'm saying, the people are
seeing and waking up to all ofthese inconsistencies. I look at this,
(01:42:28):
these secret documents that they say theyfound in each person's home, but they
only went after one of those people, right, And so we constantly see
these inconsistencies, which best bottom line, it is absolutely undermining the judicial system.
If you're a judge right now,if you're a prosecutor right now,
you should be looking at these casesand saying, our system, our institution
(01:42:51):
is being underminded. Right now fromthis rogue DA named Braggs, who thinks
that he's bigger than all of us, that he's even tried to make these
things felonies, you know when bottomline, most most legal analysts have said
these are misdemeanors. Yeah, yeah, that's why they've converted them into felonies.
(01:43:14):
So I am totally flabbergastid. Idon't want the public to believe,
as from my mouth as I searchfor the truth, that these charges should
ever be brought. And it hasnothing to do with it being former President
Trump. It has to do withme seeking the truth, me trying to
be a good American, me tryingto be a good citizen and understand what
(01:43:36):
is going on in my country.And I'm saying to you it's all bad.
This is a bad case. Itis undermining and interfering with a political
election, and all of us shouldbe damning the behavior and looking at these
dog on jurors. If they comeback and say this man is guilty based
on what I'm hearing coming from thecourt, it's all politically motivated. I
(01:44:00):
heard there are two lawyers on thiscase. If they can't walk out and
say, man, they didn't provethis case. Last point, Trump should
never take the stand. He willmake a huge decision, a bad decision.
I'm going to take the stand.I'm going to testify. He shouldn't
do anything. When the prosecution isdone, the defense should just almost rest
their case, call a couple ofpeople in there and say I'm done.
(01:44:23):
I'm going back on the campaign trill. They haven't proven anything in that courtroom
that would dictate that the former presidentshould honor them by taking the stand and
trying to defend any of this foolisheitwell in his retort could always be no,
I'm not allowed to take the standof my own defense because the judge
told me I'm not allowed to talkabout the case. Christopher Smithman, always
(01:44:45):
a pleasure to have you on theprogram. Get out of your system here
with my listeners every Monday, beginningat seven point thirty until next Monday.
My friend, I'll look forward tohaving you back on. Best of health
and thank loving your family today fiftyfive cares He the Talk stage Ato six
s on a Monday, Brian Thomas, wishing you a very happy Monday.
(01:45:06):
It's great time to be listening tothink about case. Morning show. This
is a time of week we doa thing called Money Monday with Brian James
from Allworth Financial talking about your financialfuture planning and of course the strong recommendation
from anybody who knows is to geta financial planner who's feed based so they
have your fiduciary interest in mind,helping you to maximize the value of your
portfolio. Brian James, welcome back, man. I hope you had a
(01:45:28):
wonderful weekend. I did. Idid, indeed, and I hope you
did as well. And here wego with another week starting to talk about
money, another week talking about money, and wow, this is a sorry,
sorry state of affairs. A CongressionalBudget Office, often referred to as
nonpartisan, projected the national debt,currently thirty four plus trillion, going to
reach record record highs and ultimately consumeone hundred and sixty six percent of gross
(01:45:54):
domestic product in thirty years. Now, you know, Brian, I'd like
to be optimistic and think I'll bearound in thirty years. I'm thinking I
probably won't. But that's really notthat much. That's a moment in time,
and the problem is is that thenumber just keeps getting worse year after
year until thirty years, hence weget to this one hundred and sixty six
percent figure. It's just there's noend in sight to the rapacious consumption of
(01:46:17):
dollars in spending by federal government.Yeah, so twenty twenty four, where
we're sitting right now, the nationaldebt about ninety nine percent of GDP and
it isn't that crazy. So inother words, what that means, let's
always boil this down to a typicalhousehold. In other words, what that
means is that we are spending everynickel that we bring in. We are
(01:46:38):
living paycheck to paycheck as a country. Unfortunately, So now tis the season,
right, This isn't this shouldn't beshocking news. If this is absolutely
shocking news, then you've been livingunder a rock, true, because this
has gone on for decades and decadesand decades. But at this pace,
as you said, we're going tobe at one hundred and sixty six percent
of GDP in twenty fifty four.That means the US is eventually going to
(01:46:59):
stop getting those card offers from Chinain the mail, by which I mean
what we do right now is weborrow money from other countries who are willing
to lend it to us because weare still quote unquote the safest place to
to lend money to. We'll getright when you put it that way,
and that's always the sort of thequalifier. Yeah, but we're still the
best on the blog in the world. We still represent the best investment,
(01:47:23):
notwithstanding this trajectory that means the entireworld is screwed up. Yeah. Well
yeah, and again not to beatthe you know, the individual family example
to death, but we we're anexample of a family with a really,
really really high income that spends everynickel of it but still doesn't have you
know, but still has the abilityto borrow more as needed. So right
now we're we're able to kind ofI don't want to use the word balanced
(01:47:46):
budget, that's not the case.Right So with the GDP simply matches the
debt that we're that we're incurring rightnow, but it's not going to take
very long before we're going to needto load up those credit cards again and
again and again, and we're goingto go beyond. That's what that anything
above one hundred percent of GDP basicallymeans that we are officially spending more than
we're bringing in. So and ifwe want to think back through history,
(01:48:08):
have we been in this position before? Well, yeah, nineteen forty six,
after we were undoing ourselves from WorldWar Two, we hit one hundred
and six percent, But that wasobviously World War two was a very very,
very different situation, and we areprojected to hit that by twenty twenty
nine. Yeah, so well,yeah, real quick, I got to
intercheck. I mean you say that, and yeah, world War two a
(01:48:30):
rather profound event globally. It impactedliterally every country on the planet, most
notably the ones who were actively participatingin it, US and our allies.
But I mean, we are allthis deficit spending in this accural of this
massive hole has occurred in pretty muchnon wartime situations. The conflicts we were
(01:48:53):
in are small in comparison to ourobligations in World War Two, and we're
like standing next to the brink ofWorld War three something like that were to
kick in. If China, we'reinvays Taiwan and we're already in this sorry
state of affairs financially, I'm sorry, that is a recipe for massive disaster.
Absolutely. What you're referring to WorldWar two, of course, was
an outside stimulus that we absolutely hadto deal with the situation we've put ourselves
(01:49:15):
now has largely been by choice,if not an active choice, just by
active omission. We didn't do anythingdifferent, so therefore we're in the situation.
So yes, if it comes aroundagain, we're going to have some
major bills to pay. I thinkthe problem here, Brian, is that
we simply haven't been able to electanyone who really wants to talk to us
like we are adults. We're notbeing treated by as adults by our political
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leadership. We're being given all thecandy and sugar and crap that we want
because we keep asking for it.Well, and as the information in the
article points out, the budget deficitsare expected a continuity increase driven by the
rising interest costs. Right, wehave to pay more people, We have
to pay a higher rate of returnfor people to take the risk of loaning
us money, so that increasing thecredit card tab on a monthly basis,
(01:50:01):
but also growth and spending on Medicaresocial Security because of healthcare costs increasing and
the aging population. I mean,there's your third well or politics that we
can't be talked as adults about.Correct. Yeah, So there's a lot
of things that are their unfunded budgetaryobligations, such as social social security and
medicare. These are things that weall know are out there. Every last
(01:50:23):
one of us hangs our hat onthese things because it's just something that you
do. You turn sixty five,you go on medicare unless you've got access
to something else. At some point, most people have access to social security.
We take those things for granted.And yet Brian, we don't put
them in the budget. They're notin this budget that we keep talking about.
We already can't afford. Those itemsare treated completely separately. We don't
(01:50:44):
want to put them in the budgetbecause then we have to highlight the fact
that the budget can account for them. Well. And it's interesting another note
in this article, and it's importantto point out. I mean, if
you give yourself some handcuffs, youcan actually change the trajectory. And the
bypart is in Fiscal Responsibility Act includeddiscretionary spending caps which slowed the trajectory of
(01:51:04):
this. So if it works,and it slowed it not quite enough,
then maybe a Fiscal Responsibility Act twopoint zero where they put imposed greater reductions
in spending on government might slow iteven further, it may even write the
ship over time exactly. And there'sthere are examples in the past, Brian,
of countries that have gone through thisand gotten themselves out of it.
(01:51:26):
Now, nobody's going to get excitedby any of this, and you'll probably
recognize all the headlines. So Japanwas the go go economy of the eighties
when they switched to different management structuresand took a lead technologically, but then
they began to run into a lotof demographic issues with age and just a
whole lot of different things that theykind of couldn't control. They're just now,
Brian, forty years later, justnow coming out of that and making
(01:51:50):
it look like the sun might riseagain. And then in some other examples,
this is the kind of thing thatGreece ran into a few years ago
with their austerity measures and all that. And basically those are tiny examples of
what the US might be facing interms of having to fix these problems.
The only way to fix it isto actually start making some sacrifices, which
(01:52:11):
as a country we've been unwilling todo. This is either going to require
more inflow into the taxation or somehowincreasing growth, which we want to do
that at all times. Everybody getsricher when we increase growth. If we
could pull that lever, we'd probablyalready have done it. And I would
also throw out there that the effortsto increase growth have put us in our
current situation with high inflation and highinterest rates. So you can't just unleash
(01:52:35):
the growth machine and not have anykind of downside to it. So there
are paths that we can follow toget the ship righted, but so far
we appear unwilling to take those steps. Well. I refuse to buy into
the idea that increasing taxes results ingrowth, because that takes away discretionary spending
from US, discretionary spending from businesseswho might consider reinvesting in business with lower
(01:52:56):
taxes, hiring more people, whichinfuses more capital or rather taxation dollars into
the federal government. I mean thishas been proven time and time again.
I mean, this is what Kennedyran on back when he was running for
president. I'm going to lower taxesbecause lower taxes rise all ships. It's
not a trickle down effect, it'sa triple up effect, and the federal
government benefits by it with greater taxrevenue coming in the door exactly. And
(01:53:19):
those are the things that we reallywant to hang our hats on. And
we've got a long, long historyof success economically speaking, We've been a
leader in the world because of theeconomic systems that we have put in,
but we have to kind of reinthem in. And you know, I
hate bringing politics into any of this, but we simply haven't had a leader
who's willing to again speak to uslike adults. Maybe this time around,
(01:53:40):
right, whoever we get this time, we won't get again, right,
but both candidates will have already beenin for eight years by then, so
hopefully the next time around will becloser to these crises and we will get
some people who are willing to tellus the truth. New blood developed the
back bench. We sure need anew back bench both parties more. With
Brian James coming up a topic that'sgot me torn, the corporate buying up
(01:54:02):
of Way twenty. I think you'vegot krcdtalk station money Monday, Brian James
Walworth, all right, this hasgot me torn. Brian. I am
not all about you know, dictatorialcontrol and rules and regulations, micromanaging what
you and I do every day andhow we spend our money and that kind
of transit. You know, itapplies equally to businesses well, businesses,
(01:54:23):
and certain of them have found itvery lucrative to go out and buy up
all the housing stock and turn itinto rental property. This is part of
why the housing stock is so limited, I mean the interest rates and it's
difficult to borrow and buy. ButWall Street investors are going out and scooping
them all up. They win andbidding wars because they've got fat bank,
and they rent the homes out.These are transforming neighborhoods from you know,
(01:54:44):
residential dwellings where people be inclined toinvest money in their homes and to well
more like transient apartment complexes, whichI don't think is a good thing.
I mean nobody, nobody rents aplace and puts money into it. Yeah.
Absolutely, This is a situation whereyou and I talk every other week.
It seems like about our the youngpeople we have in our lives that
(01:55:04):
are trying to sort this out.Your kids have bought houses recently, Minor
just entering the rental market, andso it's very attention getting in terms of
what's going on here. There werealready issues with regard to the shift that
happened after COVID. During COVID,where people started to feather their nest and
(01:55:24):
make it nicer places, and thatreally just seemed to have inspired a real
estate boom. And then what happenedwas in twenty twenty one, big investment
firms came along and began to buyat these homes. As you said,
so in Cincinnati, investment firms boughtabout fifteen percent of the homes that sold
that year. In some communities nearlyfifty percent. There's a zip code up
(01:55:45):
in Cleveland where seventy percent of itis owned by corporate investors. WHOA,
yeah, exactly. And that's thefrightening thing because you go, wait a
minute, is who's my kid goingto be writing this rental check too?
Right, I'm on your side interms of want the government to generally stay
out of things. But at thesame time, if companies are allowed to
run rampant and generate generate profit anywhereand everywhere without any kind of regard,
(01:56:09):
we're going to get some kind ofoutcome that we don't want. And so
that's the concern right now. Andso we do steam seem to have bipartisan
interest in stopping this or at leastslow in a tent there is and you
know, Ohio is one of thestates that have had legislative solutions advanced to
try to stop this. But Ican get a load of this, and
I'm from the same article advocates forsingle family rental industry. The folks that
(01:56:30):
are scooping up all these houses,like the National Rental Home Council, They
oppose any of this legislation. Theyblame rising prices on undersupply new construction homes.
And I think, well, ifthey start building more new construction,
then these guys are standing waiting inthe wings to just scoop them up as
they're built, right that the threatdoesn't disappear, right, And that's fairly
self survey. They're not talking about. They have zero interest. And this
(01:56:51):
is the American way, right,We're the United States of profit margin.
They have every right to advocate forwhat they're after. But let's make no
mistake. They are after pure,pure, pure profit. That is it.
They could care less about whether someonecan afford a home, whether families
you know, are needing to movein with their parents and that kind of
stuff. This is much more abouthow can I make as much money as
quickly as possible. And the shinyobject right now is residential real estate,
(01:57:14):
and that's putting us in the positionwe're in right well, And I know
that, as I pointed out before, have a delitarious effect on the whole
home improvement market. Unless they're goingto be really big, you know,
proponents of upgrading the homes that theyacquire. I think they'll act like most
typical landlords and let things completely fallapart, and you have to put in
eighteen phone calls to get somebody overto fix it before they're going to act.
(01:57:36):
So you're going to be stuck withwhatever the house looks like now twenty
years hence, it's going to looklike the same place, but probably in
a worse condition. Yeah, youknow what. So I'm looking at this
article from twenty twenty one that talkedabout this situation in Cincinnati, and one
of the lines in there is,and I vaguely remember this, but I
can't remember where it is, asingle company bought twenty nine houses on a
single street. If I have timethis summer, Brian, this is three
(01:57:58):
years ago. I'm want to driveby and see if those lawns being maintained.
Is their crap all over the place. You know, just see how
that's gone three years from now.Well, bills to block landlords I know,
shout up at Ohio and Nebraska wasanother one that was mentioned. Lou
Blessing. He saw what was goingon in Cincinnati, which prompted it introduced
the bill to tax large landlords soheavily they're going to feel compelled to sell
(01:58:20):
their properties to individuals. That's Isuppose one solution. But you know,
again going back to my concern overgovernment micromanagement and questions whether that ultimately be
declared lawful or not. Yeah,And an interesting thing to think about there
too would be if if those companiesare out and they're dumping those houses,
(01:58:41):
well, what is that going tomean. I don't think it's you know,
the worst thing in the world tokind of legislate this one for all
the reasons we've discussed. But remember, if you have not only reduced the
amount of buyers who can participate inthis market, but induce them to sell,
well, that's going to drive realestate prices down, right. So
if somebody has nothing to do withit and is just trying to unload their
house because they know they need tomove to a for a job or whatever.
(01:59:04):
There's going to be an impact there. And so I'm not saying we
should avoid that. It's just anunintended consequence of when we let something run
too far and we have to unwindit. The ripple effect is there too,
without question. Let's pause, bringit back. Six things you need
to do if you're nearing retirement Soundretirement the talk station, Hey thirty here
(01:59:25):
if you've about kirc de talk station. Brian Thomas to Brian James, Monday
Monday, wrapping it up with onemore segment. Of course, Brian is
somebody who looks up for people's retirements. That's his job every day as a
financial planner. And how about sixthings we need to do if we're nearing
retirement? Qualified uphead? What isnearing retirement? What is where are you
if you are nearing retirement? Isuppose that's rather subjective thing depending on when
(01:59:47):
you want to retire, but howmany years out? Yeah, so I
would say honestly, nearing retirement isevery one of us, Brian, because
it is sneaking up quicker and quicker. So really, when you're starting to
get when you're on the hot seat. I would say really within five years
if you want to, if youwant to be able to have control over
your decision. But again, everythingI'm about to say applies to your twenty
(02:00:09):
year olds too, So if you'rethinking of being out there, of hanging
it up in the next you know, five maybe ten years, And these
are the things that you want tomake sure that you're on top of.
First of all, know where youare right now, what is your lifestyle
like, what do you spend,what is your debt versus your assets?
Just take stock of everything. Andalso, if you're married, sit down
with your spouse and do this.I can't stress that enough. It's hard
(02:00:31):
to get both spouses on the samepage in terms of where the overall finances
are. But if you're going totake you know, to take stock and
do an inventory, involve both partiesbecause both are going to see things that
the other will not. Second thingis you can boost your savings. Right
so, we all know that wecan save in our four to one k's,
four or three bes and iras andso forth, but those limits have
taken a pretty significant leap. Youcan put up to thirty thousand dollars right
(02:00:54):
now. A little over thirty thousandin four to one k's four or three
BES employer type savings plans. That'stwenty three thousand for everybody who can fog
a mere and seventy five hundred andcatch up if you're over age fifty limit
this year Brian for IRAS and rothiras is eight thousand, and then hssays
you can put a little over fivethousand as an individual and ninety three hundred
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for family. So plenty of waysto be putting money away for the future.
And it's a good idea. Allright, Well, I understand all
that, and what about social security? Is it something we can rely on?
Can we plan on having social securityaround going back to our original discussion
about the cash allies from federal governmentthat being one of the biggest problems.
Yep. So here's how we're advisingsocial security the way to think about it.
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First of all, understand how toget your information right, So you're
going to want to go to mysocialsecurity dot gov and get your report.
If you haven't signed up for oneof those profiles yet, please do so,
because that is also a way peoplecan steal identities. If you have
set it up. Then nobody elsecan. But in any case, yes,
there are concerns about Social Security.We were just talking earlier about how
is it is an unfunded obligation.What we are telling people to do is,
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first of all, understand what benefitsyou are entitled to, have a
rough idea of what your requirements aregoing to be in terms of a financial
plan for yourself. Then sit tight. There's no need to panic right now.
If you are of age where youcould file forward, but you don't
need to. You don't have todo it just because it's a bit of
a scary event right now, becausewe're going to have at least a little
bit of lead time. Right ifyour plan is to wait till seventy but
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around age sixty five they start talkingabout maybe reducing the benefits, well,
then that morning you're going to dropyour cup of coffee and run right down
to the Social Security Administration office andturn on this bigot forget your plan because
it has changed. But until then, there's no need to panic over it.
I can't really envision something that's goingto completely eradicate Social Security, nor
can I envision something that's going tocompletely pull taxes out of paychecks to cover
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the benefits unchanged, we're going tohave to compromise. At some point.
When that compromise gets close to afinish line, then we can react to
it. But currently we are havingtrouble getting to the starting well. One
of the things I jump ahead alittle bit is seemingly impossible to plan for
your future healthcare costs. Mean,what a cosmic crap shoot? That one
is? Absolutely so, Just soeverybody knows, when you ternate sixty five
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for most workers, unless you're subjectto a government plan or something like that,
you turnate sixty five, you becomeMedicare eligible, and it is reasonable
to spend somewhere between you know,five hundred one thousand dollars a month on
that. When we build financial plansfor people, For a married couple,
we'll budget about ten to eleven thousanddollars for healthcare expenses. That's inclusive of
the Medicare premium itself. It alsoassumes a supplemental Medicare policy like meta gap
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or advantage or some of those otherthings that are choices. And then the
rest of that index is nickels anddimes for office visits and copays and things
like that. So ten to eleventhousand. If you multiply that over thirty
years of retirement, you're looking atthree hundred thousand. That's just doctor bills,
Brian, doctor bill's prescriptions, thatkind of stuff that is not long
term care. Medicare does not coverlong term care outside of the first thirty
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days as part of some kind ofa health situation you might have, So
long term care is another three hundredthousand on top of that. But I
would also remind people that that threehundred thousand dollars does not get layered on
top of your travel budget and you'reliving expenses and you're all that stuff.
Most people go, oh my gosh, I got to find another three hundred
No, you're not doing all thosethings anymore, might not even be living
in your home anymore. Well soundsand one thing, and I get an
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opportunity to thank my wife from thebottom of my heart for being such a
garden enthusiast. But one of thethings I never think about in retirement is
the expenditure on the extery of ourhouse. And we have a lot,
a whole lot of money invested inthe landscaping, and you know, there
may be a time when we can'tdo it ourselves. We might have to
allocate resources to have somebody come inand take care of it. And you
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know the maults and everything. It'sjust one little component that is just It
just popped into my head over theweekend as I watched her work doing slave
labor in the yard and maintaining ourgarden. So anyhow, we've come a
long way as a society. Thepioneers did not have multi budget. We'll
leave it on that. Smile.Friday James, thanks to all Worth for
learning out every Monday for a fewsegments of talk Money Matters. I appreciate
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it. Thanks for the time spent. I'll look forward to next Monday.
Have a great week, my friend, you too, We'll talk to you
next week. Eight thirty six eightyfive cares to the Detox Station stick around
Todd Sledge from the VA helping upmy veteran friends with some interesting updates on
the Packed Act and uh well alsoVA enrollment benefits. Just generally speaking,
first, the a word for mydear friends at twenty two to three Firearms
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Range Gun to folks our Cincinnati VA. Love what they do, that's their
passion to help veterans get quality medicalcare, and they do their best to
achieve that. They will accept complaintsand they will adjust themselves accordingly if there's
a problem and a man behind allthat demonstrably so over the years. Todd
Sledge, welcome back to the program. My friend I got a call this
morning. I believe his name wasKeith, and he said, I just
want to have a comment to youabout the VA because he heard me mention
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you're going to be on the program, and I'm thinking, oh, here
we go. He started. Hesaid, listen, I lost my job.
He said, I was in themilitary. I think it was a
long time. He obviously had reenlisted a couple of times, but he
either didn't take advantage of VA benefitspreviously or he just signed up, and
either way he lost his job alongwith his medical insurance. He turned to
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the VA and he said, Brian, I couldn't be happier. He said
that when you have an appointment,they're ready for you. Don't have to
sit around for an extra hour likethe doctor's office sometimes does. They honor
their appointments. They take great careof you. He had nothing but great
things to say about it. SoI wanted to pass that along to you
and thank you for helping out theveterans there at the VA. Yeah,
Brian, I really appreciate that,and it's a good start to this week.
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And it really is an example ofso much feedback that I hear from
so many other veterans about the qualityof service, the type of service.
And he's right, you know,are the mandates that we have on us
about how fast we're supposed to seepeople, you know, we don't keep
our veterans waiting around according to thosethings. Well, that's great, And
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I know you wanted to talk todayabout the expansion of the Packed Act,
which a lot would extends the thethe the those eligible for VA healthcare for
exposure to toxic chemicals and toxins andthe like. So let's let's dive on
into that. It just happened,yeah, back on March fifth, you
know, not to not too farback, a couple months back again,
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one of the biggest largest and expansionof VA healthcare that I've seen in my
long tenure under the pac Act.I've talked with you about this a couple
of different times. But what it'sinvolved in this expansion instead of the VA
waiting to roll out the different phasesof this pack Act regarding eligibility for veterans.
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They just said, you know what, we're going to speed up the
five year plan that we have andgo ahead and invoke this. And really
what it means is if you knowveterans who served in the Vietnam War,
Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan orany other combat zone after nine to eleven,
you can enroll and you need toenroll, and so any of these
toxic exposure stuff in Southwest Asia,if you were deployed to certain operations under
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nine to eleven or global warr andterrorism, the door is wide open.
So's it's healthcare we want you toapply for and get in. We also
encourage you to apply for those disabilitycompensations there because it could be some monetary
benefit to you with the healthcare thatgoes along with those toxic exposures that are
veterans were exposed to. Well,it says you can't you can enroll now.
Is that enroll in the VA healthcarebenefits generally speaking with a d D
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two fourteen or is this once you'veenrolled in the v A healthcare benefits that
you need to roll enroll separately underthe packed act. No, it's all
woven together. Yeah, it's allwoven together. So when you're this this
eligibility part of the pack that allowsyou to roll and roll into the VA
healthcare benefits where there used to besome possible barriers, one of those being,
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as you've heard me talked about before, would be income. So let's
say, you know, sometimes veteranshave been denied healthcare access because their level
of income, their success in life, and they don't have a service connection
or other related factor. This allowsthem to roll underneath that blanket. Fantastic
and the benefits of the enrolling inthe VA cannot be understated. And as
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I always like to point out Todd, when you and I are talking,
this was part of your salary.They didn't pay you a lot when you're
fighting people in Vietnam and you gota whole heapload of medical benefits. You
can take advantage of that. Theydidn't give you as real time salaries.
So that's one of the things.And you're not taking away benefit from any
other veterans when you enroll. Theygot you covered. Let's pause for a
minute. We'll bring Todd back andtalk about the benefits of the VA coming
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up at eight forty five, justshy of eight forty five carose he does
care. We notably care a lotabout our American veterans. And also Todd
Sledge from the Cincinnati VA feels thesame way. And I love this VA
has beaten out non VA hospitals andquality ratings and patient satisfaction ratings and the
neat thing about the VA and somethingthat people need to keep in mind,
veterans have unique needs and challenges.I mean, who among us has been
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exposed to all the chemicals and burnpits and the like that they're service for
our country. That's why you havethe PAKDAC. But the clinicians at the
VA understand the specific veterans' needs asdistinct from the general population. Yeah,
Brian, That's one of the thingsthat I like to emphasize a lot,
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and thanks for doing that. Isyou know, we say who knows you
know veterans better than us at theCincinnati VA. And I know some of
our veterans who get some some careoutside of us, who go out and
experience some things they try to takeus some alternatives always come back and say,
my provider really didn't understand the language. I was talking, and so
you know, this is why Ichoose to use the benefits that I have,
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and that leads into you know,another important thing about this Packed Act
and VA eligibility is that you cankeep your private health insurance and use VA.
Yes, and you want to dothat. It's it's a tremendous bonus
to be able to do that.And that's just another one of the big
advantages. And why to enroll.Well, let's cut to the chase.
What do veterans need to do?I know there's veterans out in the audience
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because you running them every day.People who have been discharged honorably with the
d D two fourteen. They've beenout for five years, six years,
three years, maybe twenty years oreven longer. They never did sign up.
It's never too late to enroll.So what do they need to do?
Yeah, it's pretty simple process.A couple of different things that veterans
can do. They can call ourEligibility office at five to one three four
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seven, five six four nine nine. That's five to one three four seven
five sixty four nine nine. That'sa direct dial number, no extend extensions.
You have to push UH to talkto our eligibility specialists there at the
VA, and if you're particularly callingabout to pack that, make mention of
that as well, and that that'llget you get your role in it and
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get your questions answered. Brian.We've also started back up our mobile unit
out to the community. We startedthat two weeks ago. Oh go out
out where we're actually in different locations. We are or were being strategically located
on different Wednesdays, folks. Youcan find that out on our website at
Cincinnati dot VA dot gov. Youcan see it on our Facebook page as
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well. But yeah, we're strategicallybeing located that nku's campus one Wednesday out
in Hamilton. Another Wednesday happened thisweek. We're at the Launchburg Speedway right
there on our large parking lot.And then we're also going to be using
UC Claremont. Our mobile UNIL allowspeople to come right to it with no
appointment, ask your questions about howto get to how to get enrolled,
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and if you've been previously enrolled andhavn't used us in a while, you
can also contact that mobile unit andwe can get you scheduled right away.
One of the things I wanted toemphasize real quick, Brian, is just
by enrolling in VA healthcare, evenif you don't plan to use us,
we still receive that compensation benefit fromCongress. That's part of our budget.
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So even if you sign up andyou're not using the VA, you're still
helping other veterans out by having thatallocation that comes into our system. Oh,
I did not know that. That'sso you can hit the ground running
when that veteran does indeed go infor some medical care. Yeah. Absolutely
So if so veterans out there you'resaying, yeah, the VA is not
for me, I totally get that. There's different reasons for it. But
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just by you signing up and wesee you one time a year, we
get counted for your service, youryour benefit from Congress on how we're funded,
and that money triculates to other veterans. So you are helping out your
feller brother. Well, I haveto ask you this question because you know
the non veterans who don't have thebenefit of one of the VA. You
said seeing the veterans of the VAhospital once a year, can you get
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your maybe your annual fiscal there Imean covered by the VA as opposed to
maybe getting out of pocket responsibility onyour medical plan. Yeah. Absolutely,
we have a lot of veterans thatdo that. They'll use us for their
one time a year physical exam,and you know, if they've got other
insurances, they may use their privateinsurance for other related types of things,
but that one type of year keepsthem connected, keeps them enrolled. And
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I definitely encourage any veterans who areunder the age of fifty five to do
that because then your vest it andyou are enrolled for whenever you would need
us later on in life. Don'twait for that the circumstances to change.
As you said, you know,lost my job or my spouse retired.
Now we don't know what we're goingto do with healthcare coverage. There's so
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many benefits of why just to geteve enrolled well and going back to the
pack Act. Even if you haven'tany you know, manifested conditions as a
consequence of your exposure to toxins,sometimes those do take a long time to
result in a medical problem. Uh. I mean, last thing you want
is something like that to hit youdown the road and you don't plan on
it and roll now and you're coveredby the pack deck Yeah, absolutely,
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there's been. You know, itseems you know, with with all this
stuff, you know, it seemslike nine to eleven has really never ended.
That's what I is when I talkwith with our with our veterans who
have been multiple deployments and multiple differentthings in your right, some of these
things may not surface until later andlater in life. And then when they
do, uh, you know,by being enrolled, you can hit hit
the ground running with us and youknow, get all those things determined.
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The other thing too, with thepacked act. As people are coming in,
they automatically get a toxic exposure screening. That's huge and it's it's not
any blood work, it's no pokingand prodding. There's some questions related to
it. And based off of thatscreening, that toxic exposure specialist will refer
veterans off too specific testing if theyif they identify different things. Todd's listen.
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Since AVA, thanks again for whatyou do each and every day,
and all the folks at the VAfor their hard work on behalf of the
American veteran. I appreciate you comingon the program and passing along the good
news and the information. I'll lookforward to having you back on a program
again, my friend, sounds good, Brian. I always appreciate what you're
doing, and you know, hey, veterans getting rolled, and that's over
simply asking you to do