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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Krc the talk station.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Seven nine. It's Wednesday, and a happy one to you.
After the top of the air news suffering the slings
and arrows of outrage from Donald Trump, Congressman Thomas Massey,
we'll talk about his latest anti Massy treat Where in
the hell are the Epstein documents? That's a good question
for Massy government shutdown coming your way. Compliments of the
Democrats wanting to defund ice. Yeah, that's the thing. Plus
(00:28):
maybe a common or two about Venezuela in Iran. But
in the meantime, welcome back to the fifty five KRCY
Mornings from America from Americans for Prosperity. Donovan O'Neil, it's
always a pleasure to have in you on the show,
Donovan Brian, Happy Wednesday to you. I'm happy you bringing
up the topic today that you want to bring about,
the affordability argument. Democrats have just a couple of things
to hang their hat on as we move toward election.
(00:49):
Of course, the anti Ice and their immigration policy standpoint.
I'm not sure if that's going to benefit them or not.
I know the anti Ice rhetoric is getting hotter and
every day, but it seems to me based on prior pulling.
The vast majority of Americans are happy to get rid
of murderers, rapists, child molesters, drug dealers, illegal immigrants, most
(01:10):
notably with criminal records representing a danger to society. Most
people want them out. So will the Democrats be able
to win on that anti Ice strategy remains to be seen.
The other one, of course, subsidies for Obamacare, which doesn't
fix the problem of the expense of healthcare. Will that
work for him? Don't know. But the third one that
I can come up with, other than just Donald Trump,
(01:31):
evil orange man, the affordability argument. Everything's unaffordable. You know
this overlooks at least the initial argument is disingenuous because well,
of course, Joe Biden's responsible for a large portion of
the massive increase in prices of goods and services we face,
because he's the one that threw an initial eight or
so trillion dollars into the world, which of course waters
(01:51):
down the value of the currency. So moving aside from that,
they're the ones that put in all kinds of rules
and regulations, forcing the price of gasoline to go through
the roof environmental regulations which increase the cost of electricity,
housing restrictions, water flow restrictions, Lord Almighty, I could go
on for hours and hours about things that politicians due
to us, Donovan, which increase the cost of living in
(02:14):
our world, which would not have happened in normal economic
factor situations. I used the price of eggs earlier. Sorry
for the rant, Donovan, but I'm a little hot into
the collar on this one. You can't control the price
of eggs unless you somehow get involved with environmental regulations
or rules about egg production, et cetera, et cetera. If
you got bird flu and the chickens die, the price
(02:35):
of eggs is going to go up. So there's no
legislative solution for that. But most everything else people are
complaining about, it's a self inflicted wound from overly zealous regulators,
people who want to get rid of plant food from
the environment. I could go on and on, Donovan, how
come this isn't you know resonating with the American people
that these are self inflicted wounds, And well, our politicians
(02:58):
and elected officials could easily relieve the burden of all
of this stuff just by removing the regulatory burdens they
threw in our way.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Well, I share the UH. I share the sentiment on
a Wednesday morning. It is rantworthy because you just kind
of slap your face and wonder, how the heck are
we in this situation? You know, Chuck Schumer, Center Schumer,
Nancy Pelosi Democrats. We've noticed they've started an uptick in
talking about things to the lens of affordability. And you
(03:28):
look at that and you say, well, wait a minute,
Wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
You are the fools.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Who, you know, over the Biden Economy Eras era enacted
five point five trillion in new spending that pushed us
up to forty year record high inflation. You're the same
folks who believe that top down government policies on emission
standards and the kinds of vehicles we can buy, and
the tax credits for evs and the desire to like
(03:53):
over the next decade or two eliminate, you know, affordable
gas powered vehicles. You're the folks who did this. The
affordability crisis that Americans have been feeling for the last
several years that were beginning to find our way out of,
was caused by the policy, the very policies that folks
like Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jefferies, Greg Landsman, sher Brown and
(04:15):
others want to see brought back to this country. And
it's just it's why we're in the situation we're in,
these top down policies, mandates pushed from Washington, d C.
Or Columbus, Ohio, that make life less affordable for so
many people.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well and in the economic reality of all this is
revealed in the well the most recent statements from the
Governor of California, Gavin Newsom. Last week he did the
State of the State address, and among the other comments
he made, we California are approving that out of the
mouse in his pocket, are proving that a progressive tax
structure works, and that in the following week he is
(04:49):
advocating against voting for the five percent tax on the
wealth of residence with a network of the worth of
a billiona Moore. Why because they all the billionaires started
leaving the state of California last December. Because this would
be a retroactive tax to anybody who is still residing
in California. It's been reported. I saw the Washington Times
report on this that one bill a trillion dollars of
(05:10):
the two trillion dollars in billionaire wealth that existed in
California has left, So those folks have gone to Texas
and Florida, among other places. They're running away from outrageous regulation,
outrageous taxation, all these things that the government did to them.
And now they've got this bounty on their heads taking
five percent of their gross ownings or everything of their
(05:34):
material wealth, which means a lot of them would have
to liquidate things they own. We've talked about this in
the past. They don't have cash on hand to pay
billions of dollars in this tax. No, they're going to
have to sell stuff they own to do it. It's
a recipe for disaster. As Governor Newsom is finding out,
this is what they did to themselves. Can we not
learn a lesson from the cautionary tale that is the
(05:56):
state of California and it's colossally screwed up budget deficits
in spite of how much they exact from their citizens.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well, and just look at the Obamacare debacle in this
current debate around the ACA subsidies, right, you know, I
look at the election in twenty twenty four is where Ohioans,
you know, had been told for a decade by by
some by people like Shared Brown that Obamacare, the affordable
so called affordable character is going to lower costs in
(06:26):
their healthcare. We knew that wasn't going to be the case.
We called that those of us who know that that
when you force mandates down on people, and you you
constrain systems, and you you don't let the free market operate,
costs go up, pain ensues. But they rejected those ideas, right.
They had finally said enough is enough, there's no more
(06:47):
making a bad system work. We need to change course.
And they did that right least so by electing Senator
Bernie Moreno. I think these same policies though, are you know,
around affordability or a challenge in that it's the to
say to to the voter, to the citizen, just give
me a little more control, right, let me pass some
more laws, some more rules, some more regulations. I can
(07:09):
I can fix your problem. That's the politician at large, right,
the Washington d C.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Environment.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
What we really want though, and I think what voters
will reward come November isn't polishing all their problems, or
pass a law, or spend more of their harder and
tax dollars, you know, robbing Peter to pay.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Paul.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I think what voters are going to reward are bold
lawmakers who charted different course. It's why folks, you know,
even when they're upset with Trump, still love them, right,
because he's doing something and he's moving he's moving the
country in a in a in a in a different
way than that that sort of status quo. Right. And
but what it also takes isn't just bold leaders who
(07:50):
are going to chart a different course. Uh, We've got
to go out there and we've got to talk about
these things. We have to actually communicate with voters that hey, yeah,
you know, putting a subsidy on one thing isn't the
best course. Russian need to unravel that system and free
let the free market lead.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Well at free market lead, but also don't mask the
reality of what's going on here. They promised to lower
health care costs. They're not lowering health care costs. The
reason the premiums have gone through the rules because the
cost of healthcare hasn't come down. That's what happens. They
are masking the cost. Masking by giving you a subsidy
to cover the premium does not eradicate the underlying problem
(08:25):
with the outrageous increase in the cost of medicine. Why
is the cost of medicine so damn expensive, Donovan, That's
the root of the problem. That's what needs to be
a deealt with Donald Trump reacts by saying, Okay, I
want Most Favored Nation status for pharmaceuticals. If X country
gets to buy a pharmaceutical for ten bucks and we're
paying one hundred in the state or in the states, no,
it's going to become ten. That's a solution. Agree with
(08:49):
it or not from a market force perspective. However, the
pharmaceuticals run, We're never going to have any new pharmaceuticals.
If you do that, it's still a solution that goes
directly to the cost of the good getting rid of
pharmacy benefit managers, pointless stupid middlemen who are making the
price of pharmatacles pharmaceuticals go through the roof. I haven't
heard a whole lot of talk about that. That would
(09:10):
is what I would think. It would be an easy
legislative solution to part of the healthcare cost problem. But
then you got this whole affordability thing, resulting in Donald
Trump doing things that Democrats might typically do, like mandating
ten percent cap on credit card fees. Now, I know
it's not an executive order, it's just an ask. But
that's government telling business how to run itself. Telling institutional
(09:33):
investors that they can't buy real estate sounds like a
Democrat idea. Might it cause a little relief in home
ownership issues maybe down the road, but you know, desperate
times call for desperate actions. But you know, this affordability
argument they've got has sort of sent Donald Trump over
into the realm of Democrat proposals. Donovan O'Neil pause, answer
(09:55):
that or address that we come back, As Joe's screaming
at me, I have gone way over seven thirty nine
right now. Fifty five krc DE talk station Zimmer Heating
and Area talk station set three. Here fifty five KRSD
talk station Bryan Thomas with Americans for Prosperities, Donald Reneo.
Sorry to rant and unload on you at the end
of their bran a Donovan, but this is one that
(10:16):
just irks me to know when if people paid attention
and had some basic economic understanding, they would fully appreciate
that most of this affordability crisis, if they want to
call it, that is self inflected and I rambled on
a little bit toward the end there. But your reaction
to the extent you can manage one.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Well, No, I think what you're pointing out there, right is,
this isn't a problem that is unique to one political party.
It's it's natural human nature right to say, you know,
I'm feeling some pain and if somebody can come along
and make those promises to alleviate that pain, I'm going
to yield some of my freedom, some of my autonomy
to them. Right. And the problem here is is as
(10:56):
Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, I think the thing the
illustrate here right is is Chuck Schumer Democrats in this
election year start making that authoritability argument and saying, hey,
give us back that power, give us that ability. We're
going to pass some laws. We're going to tax the rich,
we're going to regulate and secure the economy, and it's
all going to get better. That's the playbook. We know
that put us in the situation that we're in today,
(11:17):
right And so you know, challenging that, pushing back against that,
and pointing out that the way you actually solve this
supportability crisis isn't a quicksilver bullet of an executive action
or a new bill being passed. It's actually unwinding the
disastrous effects of Bidenomics right by unleashing permitting reform, by
(11:38):
eliminating subsidies to Obamacare that are masking the true costs
of health care, by unleashing our economy, and allowing people
to innovate and grow and create wealth once again in
this country. Those are the things you got to do.
It's really getting the government out of your life rather
than inviting it further and deeper into our pocketbooks.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, I mean, you know, looking at the environ mental
nonsense that I keep referring to the religion that we've
all apparently following with the exception me heretic, I am blasphemer.
But windmill and solar farm subsidies the only reason those
things were even economically viable, it's that government manipulation. For
whatever reason, they want to get rid of carbon based fuels,
(12:20):
or you want to get rid of gasoline, the natural
gas and all the things that work. They won't allow nuclear,
even though we all know that that doesn't produce carbon dioxide.
So we go to windmills and solar panels and they
sell the idea that it's affordable and it will work
because you and I are subsidizing the building and creation
and acquisition of these windmill farms and solar plants. If
real market forces were at work, and if government didn't
(12:41):
subsidize them with our ever growing deficit dollars, then they
wouldn't be there as an option because they can't compete
and they are unreliable.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Well in, subsidies drive up the costs. You know, one
of the things that Santa Marino had mentioned to me,
and I'd looked into it, and that it appears to
be true is not that I have any reason not
to believe among this prime but the EV subsidies, seventy
EV subsidies. Guess what happened when they eliminated those EV subsidies.
Did the price day seventy five dollars higher? The price dropped.
(13:14):
Subsidies artificially increased the price of goods and services. Right,
because if if you're company and you're looking at that
and you're saying, well, hey, look it's not gonna hurt
my customers, they're gonna get it on the back end
through these you know, through the taxpayer subsidies funded subsidies
we'll just jack the prices up a little more and
push our profits up.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
You know the funny part about that, DATAVA is, in
spite of the subsidies, all the automobile manufacturers were losing money,
losing money. They couldn't make money with a subsidy. Billions
of dollars written off by all these major automobile manufacturers
because they chase this elusive zero carbon world that the
(13:51):
government forced them to chase. A Cafe standards make it
so much so that you can't have an internal combustion
engine that could ever, because physics comes into equation. You
can't change the law of physics. I'm sadly for some
congressmen that don't understand that. But physics prevents you from
getting whatever the CAFE standard is, so you got to
default to EV. So you manufacture a bunch of evs
(14:13):
to make your overall fleet look like it's compliant, but
nobody's buying the damn evs, which means you end up
making a loss on the production of EV's. Great yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It's the lunacy of top down control right with folks
in Washington, bureaucrats in the you know, the deep state,
say just trust me, right, you know the people don't understand.
It's the trust the experts. Brian, Where have we been
with that?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
We've heard that before. Trust the yea have ye for
those who want to look back at the hockey stick
when that was the religion and gospel for global warming. Yeah,
they don't use that anymore. Dot of It or Neil
AFP Call to action for our listeners, how can they
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Please let them know. Well, if you.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Like ranton and you like good food, you can join us.
We don't, I promise though, to your listeners. We don't
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Speaker 2 (15:19):
It's easy to do. Dot AFP makes it so easy.
Donov and Neil, thanks for everything you're doing. Thanks for
coming to the program every week. We'll look forward to
next week in another discussion and another perhaps endorsement, Stay
tuned Folk Congressman Massey after the top of the hour news.
That's going to be fun, and I will ask him
where in the hell of the apps
Krc the talk station.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Seven nine. It's Wednesday, and a happy one to you.
After the top of the air news suffering the slings
and arrows of outrage from Donald Trump, Congressman Thomas Massey,
we'll talk about his latest anti Massy treat Where in
the hell are the Epstein documents? That's a good question
for Massy government shutdown coming your way. Compliments of the
Democrats wanting to defund ice. Yeah, that's the thing. Plus
(00:28):
maybe a common or two about Venezuela in Iran. But
in the meantime, welcome back to the fifty five KRCY
Mornings from America from Americans for Prosperity. Donovan O'Neil, it's
always a pleasure to have in you on the show,
Donovan Brian, Happy Wednesday to you. I'm happy you bringing
up the topic today that you want to bring about,
the affordability argument. Democrats have just a couple of things
to hang their hat on as we move toward election.
(00:49):
Of course, the anti Ice and their immigration policy standpoint.
I'm not sure if that's going to benefit them or not.
I know the anti Ice rhetoric is getting hotter and
every day, but it seems to me based on prior pulling.
The vast majority of Americans are happy to get rid
of murderers, rapists, child molesters, drug dealers, illegal immigrants, most
(01:10):
notably with criminal records representing a danger to society. Most
people want them out. So will the Democrats be able
to win on that anti Ice strategy remains to be seen.
The other one, of course, subsidies for Obamacare, which doesn't
fix the problem of the expense of healthcare. Will that
work for him? Don't know. But the third one that
I can come up with, other than just Donald Trump,
(01:31):
evil orange man, the affordability argument. Everything's unaffordable. You know
this overlooks at least the initial argument is disingenuous because well,
of course, Joe Biden's responsible for a large portion of
the massive increase in prices of goods and services we face,
because he's the one that threw an initial eight or
so trillion dollars into the world, which of course waters
(01:51):
down the value of the currency. So moving aside from that,
they're the ones that put in all kinds of rules
and regulations, forcing the price of gasoline to go through
the roof environmental regulations which increase the cost of electricity,
housing restrictions, water flow restrictions, Lord Almighty, I could go
on for hours and hours about things that politicians due
to us, Donovan, which increase the cost of living in
(02:14):
our world, which would not have happened in normal economic
factor situations. I used the price of eggs earlier. Sorry
for the rant, Donovan, but I'm a little hot into
the collar on this one. You can't control the price
of eggs unless you somehow get involved with environmental regulations
or rules about egg production, et cetera, et cetera. If
you got bird flu and the chickens die, the price
(02:35):
of eggs is going to go up. So there's no
legislative solution for that. But most everything else people are
complaining about, it's a self inflicted wound from overly zealous regulators,
people who want to get rid of plant food from
the environment. I could go on and on, Donovan, how
come this isn't you know resonating with the American people
that these are self inflicted wounds, And well, our politicians
(02:58):
and elected officials could easily relieve the burden of all
of this stuff just by removing the regulatory burdens they
threw in our way.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Well, I share the UH. I share the sentiment on
a Wednesday morning. It is rantworthy because you just kind
of slap your face and wonder, how the heck are
we in this situation? You know, Chuck Schumer, Center Schumer,
Nancy Pelosi Democrats. We've noticed they've started an uptick in
talking about things to the lens of affordability. And you
(03:28):
look at that and you say, well, wait a minute,
Wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
You are the fools.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Who, you know, over the Biden Economy Eras era enacted
five point five trillion in new spending that pushed us
up to forty year record high inflation. You're the same
folks who believe that top down government policies on emission
standards and the kinds of vehicles we can buy, and
the tax credits for evs and the desire to like
(03:53):
over the next decade or two eliminate, you know, affordable
gas powered vehicles. You're the folks who did this. The
affordability crisis that Americans have been feeling for the last
several years that were beginning to find our way out of,
was caused by the policy, the very policies that folks
like Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jefferies, Greg Landsman, sher Brown and
(04:15):
others want to see brought back to this country. And
it's just it's why we're in the situation we're in,
these top down policies, mandates pushed from Washington, d C.
Or Columbus, Ohio, that make life less affordable for so
many people.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well and in the economic reality of all this is
revealed in the well the most recent statements from the
Governor of California, Gavin Newsom. Last week he did the
State of the State address, and among the other comments
he made, we California are approving that out of the
mouse in his pocket, are proving that a progressive tax
structure works, and that in the following week he is
(04:49):
advocating against voting for the five percent tax on the
wealth of residence with a network of the worth of
a billiona Moore. Why because they all the billionaires started
leaving the state of California last December. Because this would
be a retroactive tax to anybody who is still residing
in California. It's been reported. I saw the Washington Times
report on this that one bill a trillion dollars of
(05:10):
the two trillion dollars in billionaire wealth that existed in
California has left, So those folks have gone to Texas
and Florida, among other places. They're running away from outrageous regulation,
outrageous taxation, all these things that the government did to them.
And now they've got this bounty on their heads taking
five percent of their gross ownings or everything of their
(05:34):
material wealth, which means a lot of them would have
to liquidate things they own. We've talked about this in
the past. They don't have cash on hand to pay
billions of dollars in this tax. No, they're going to
have to sell stuff they own to do it. It's
a recipe for disaster. As Governor Newsom is finding out,
this is what they did to themselves. Can we not
learn a lesson from the cautionary tale that is the
(05:56):
state of California and it's colossally screwed up budget deficits
in spite of how much they exact from their citizens.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well, and just look at the Obamacare debacle in this
current debate around the ACA subsidies, right, you know, I
look at the election in twenty twenty four is where Ohioans,
you know, had been told for a decade by by
some by people like Shared Brown that Obamacare, the affordable
so called affordable character is going to lower costs in
(06:26):
their healthcare. We knew that wasn't going to be the case.
We called that those of us who know that that
when you force mandates down on people, and you you
constrain systems, and you you don't let the free market operate,
costs go up, pain ensues. But they rejected those ideas, right.
They had finally said enough is enough, there's no more
(06:47):
making a bad system work. We need to change course.
And they did that right least so by electing Senator
Bernie Moreno. I think these same policies though, are you know,
around affordability or a challenge in that it's the to
say to to the voter, to the citizen, just give
me a little more control, right, let me pass some
more laws, some more rules, some more regulations. I can
(07:09):
I can fix your problem. That's the politician at large, right,
the Washington d C.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Environment.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
What we really want though, and I think what voters
will reward come November isn't polishing all their problems, or
pass a law, or spend more of their harder and
tax dollars, you know, robbing Peter to pay.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Paul.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I think what voters are going to reward are bold
lawmakers who charted different course. It's why folks, you know,
even when they're upset with Trump, still love them, right,
because he's doing something and he's moving he's moving the
country in a in a in a in a different
way than that that sort of status quo. Right. And
but what it also takes isn't just bold leaders who
(07:50):
are going to chart a different course. Uh, We've got
to go out there and we've got to talk about
these things. We have to actually communicate with voters that hey, yeah,
you know, putting a subsidy on one thing isn't the
best course. Russian need to unravel that system and free
let the free market lead.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Well at free market lead, but also don't mask the
reality of what's going on here. They promised to lower
health care costs. They're not lowering health care costs. The
reason the premiums have gone through the rules because the
cost of healthcare hasn't come down. That's what happens. They
are masking the cost. Masking by giving you a subsidy
to cover the premium does not eradicate the underlying problem
(08:25):
with the outrageous increase in the cost of medicine. Why
is the cost of medicine so damn expensive, Donovan, That's
the root of the problem. That's what needs to be
a deealt with Donald Trump reacts by saying, Okay, I
want Most Favored Nation status for pharmaceuticals. If X country
gets to buy a pharmaceutical for ten bucks and we're
paying one hundred in the state or in the states, no,
it's going to become ten. That's a solution. Agree with
(08:49):
it or not from a market force perspective. However, the
pharmaceuticals run, We're never going to have any new pharmaceuticals.
If you do that, it's still a solution that goes
directly to the cost of the good getting rid of
pharmacy benefit managers, pointless stupid middlemen who are making the
price of pharmatacles pharmaceuticals go through the roof. I haven't
heard a whole lot of talk about that. That would
(09:10):
is what I would think. It would be an easy
legislative solution to part of the healthcare cost problem. But
then you got this whole affordability thing, resulting in Donald
Trump doing things that Democrats might typically do, like mandating
ten percent cap on credit card fees. Now, I know
it's not an executive order, it's just an ask. But
that's government telling business how to run itself. Telling institutional
(09:33):
investors that they can't buy real estate sounds like a
Democrat idea. Might it cause a little relief in home
ownership issues maybe down the road, but you know, desperate
times call for desperate actions. But you know, this affordability
argument they've got has sort of sent Donald Trump over
into the realm of Democrat proposals. Donovan O'Neil pause, answer
(09:55):
that or address that we come back, As Joe's screaming
at me, I have gone way over seven thirty nine
right now. Fifty five krc DE talk station Zimmer Heating
and Area talk station set three. Here fifty five KRSD
talk station Bryan Thomas with Americans for Prosperities, Donald Reneo.
Sorry to rant and unload on you at the end
of their bran a Donovan, but this is one that
(10:16):
just irks me to know when if people paid attention
and had some basic economic understanding, they would fully appreciate
that most of this affordability crisis, if they want to
call it, that is self inflected and I rambled on
a little bit toward the end there. But your reaction
to the extent you can manage one.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Well, No, I think what you're pointing out there, right is,
this isn't a problem that is unique to one political party.
It's it's natural human nature right to say, you know,
I'm feeling some pain and if somebody can come along
and make those promises to alleviate that pain, I'm going
to yield some of my freedom, some of my autonomy
to them. Right. And the problem here is is as
(10:56):
Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, I think the thing the
illustrate here right is is Chuck Schumer Democrats in this
election year start making that authoritability argument and saying, hey,
give us back that power, give us that ability. We're
going to pass some laws. We're going to tax the rich,
we're going to regulate and secure the economy, and it's
all going to get better. That's the playbook. We know
that put us in the situation that we're in today,
(11:17):
right And so you know, challenging that, pushing back against that,
and pointing out that the way you actually solve this
supportability crisis isn't a quicksilver bullet of an executive action
or a new bill being passed. It's actually unwinding the
disastrous effects of Bidenomics right by unleashing permitting reform, by
(11:38):
eliminating subsidies to Obamacare that are masking the true costs
of health care, by unleashing our economy, and allowing people
to innovate and grow and create wealth once again in
this country. Those are the things you got to do.
It's really getting the government out of your life rather
than inviting it further and deeper into our pocketbooks.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, I mean, you know, looking at the environ mental
nonsense that I keep referring to the religion that we've
all apparently following with the exception me heretic, I am blasphemer.
But windmill and solar farm subsidies the only reason those
things were even economically viable, it's that government manipulation. For
whatever reason, they want to get rid of carbon based fuels,
(12:20):
or you want to get rid of gasoline, the natural
gas and all the things that work. They won't allow nuclear,
even though we all know that that doesn't produce carbon dioxide.
So we go to windmills and solar panels and they
sell the idea that it's affordable and it will work
because you and I are subsidizing the building and creation
and acquisition of these windmill farms and solar plants. If
real market forces were at work, and if government didn't
(12:41):
subsidize them with our ever growing deficit dollars, then they
wouldn't be there as an option because they can't compete
and they are unreliable.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Well in, subsidies drive up the costs. You know, one
of the things that Santa Marino had mentioned to me,
and I'd looked into it, and that it appears to
be true is not that I have any reason not
to believe among this prime but the EV subsidies, seventy
EV subsidies. Guess what happened when they eliminated those EV subsidies.
Did the price day seventy five dollars higher? The price dropped.
(13:14):
Subsidies artificially increased the price of goods and services. Right,
because if if you're company and you're looking at that
and you're saying, well, hey, look it's not gonna hurt
my customers, they're gonna get it on the back end
through these you know, through the taxpayer subsidies funded subsidies
we'll just jack the prices up a little more and
push our profits up.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
You know the funny part about that, DATAVA is, in
spite of the subsidies, all the automobile manufacturers were losing money,
losing money. They couldn't make money with a subsidy. Billions
of dollars written off by all these major automobile manufacturers
because they chase this elusive zero carbon world that the
(13:51):
government forced them to chase. A Cafe standards make it
so much so that you can't have an internal combustion
engine that could ever, because physics comes into equation. You
can't change the law of physics. I'm sadly for some
congressmen that don't understand that. But physics prevents you from
getting whatever the CAFE standard is, so you got to
default to EV. So you manufacture a bunch of evs
(14:13):
to make your overall fleet look like it's compliant, but
nobody's buying the damn evs, which means you end up
making a loss on the production of EV's. Great yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It's the lunacy of top down control right with folks
in Washington, bureaucrats in the you know, the deep state,
say just trust me, right, you know the people don't understand.
It's the trust the experts. Brian, Where have we been
with that?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
We've heard that before. Trust the yea have ye for
those who want to look back at the hockey stick
when that was the religion and gospel for global warming. Yeah,
they don't use that anymore. Dot of It or Neil
AFP Call to action for our listeners, how can they
get involved in matters here in the state of Ohio.
Please let them know. Well, if you.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Like ranton and you like good food, you can join us.
We don't, I promise though, to your listeners. We don't
just redn't just complain about the no. No, we get
to the work about it. Buckeye Blueprint dot com. Go
to Buckeye blueprint dot com, get caught up with our calendar,
join us at an event near you, or reach out
and ask to start a chapter in your community today.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
It's easy to do. Dot AFP makes it so easy.
Donov and Neil, thanks for everything you're doing. Thanks for
coming to the program every week. We'll look forward to
next week in another discussion and another perhaps endorsement, Stay
tuned Folk Congressman Massey after the top of the hour news.
That's going to be fun, and I will ask him
where in the hell of the apps
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