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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Seven thirty one, fifty five KRCD talk station, Happy Friday,
Andre Young brother Dre after the top of their news
on the eight point one million dollars settlement, the civil
Rights violation settlement, Iris Rowley Sweetheart Deal, and AFTABS car
trouble along the topics with Andre right now returning to
the fifty five Cars Morning show. Head of the Ohio
(00:21):
Republican Party Alex Cherouta Filo, always great having on the program. Alex,
welcome back in advance. Happy, happy Christmas, Merry Christmas to
you and your family.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, Brian, thank you, and merry Christmas and happy Holidays
and everything to you and your listeners. And always good
to be with you two.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Buddy. All Right, I'm gonna get a We're going to
try to do a bit of a year in review
here and then we'll look forward to twenty twenty six.
And insofar as the latter topic and even the former
topic is concerned, I just wanted to get your reaction
to Governor to Wine statements relative to V. V. Ramaswami,
who I understand enjoys the Republican Party endorsement already, he
won't endorse him yet, and he really tried to salvage
(01:00):
a certain degree Doctor Amy Acton, Amy Lockdown acting Democrat.
He appointed to be the medical director during COVID lockdown times.
She's the one that came up with the concepts like
let's not drink after ten pm, but you don't have
to go home in a bar. It didn't make any
sense Lockdown Amy Acton, but he provided her cover, saying
the buck stops with him, which I agree, But I
kind of wonder why he was trying to provide her
(01:22):
some cover and what his problem is with endorsing VI
vike Ramaswamy, who does have the Republican Party endorsement.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Alex weit covered a lot of ground and it's all fair.
So Brian want to say this to you. First of all,
the vike Ramaswami did receive our full endorsement. You know,
I go way back with a Vike. I've known him
a long time. He's an incredible candidate for the Republican Party,
very strong. Look, no matter what the governor says, Amy
Acton is going to have to answer to Ohioan's for
(01:48):
her conduct in the same way that Anthony Fauci answered
for his conduct. It wasn't Joe Biden or Donald Trump
who made decisions and advised you know, non scientist, non doctors.
So Amy Acting is going to have to answer for
all of those things. You know, you can, the governor
can can continue to do what he's going to do.
But let me tell you it's not going to us
(02:09):
one bit from pointing out Amy Acting's absolute failures in
her job, and also to talk a lot about the
vake Ramaswami and the incredible gifts and talents that he
brings in this job. So yeah, look, I I do
Ultimately Brian is the party's leader here in Ohio. I
expect the governor will endorse the Republican nominee and that's
going to be the vike ramis Swami. I think that's
(02:30):
going to happen. I think in the meantime, you know,
the governor is going to stand up for, you know,
for what he did and say what he did was
what he did, and in one small way you can
respect it. At least you know he's taken them. He's saying, look,
I was the decision maker and that's kind of what
leaders do. But that is not to absolve Amy Act
in one bit for her lockdowns, for masking our children,
(02:52):
for shutting down businesses, and for all the other terrible
and I mean awful decisions that she put upon Ohio
and during COVID disaster. So you know, there's not going
to be any absolution of her, you know, because of
what other politicians might say.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, she's kinda high behind. Well, the information was unfolding.
We didn't have it all in front of us. We
were erring on the side of caution. Well, you didn't
have to shut the kids out of school, one of
the first states to do. So look what Florida did.
They didn't lock down, they didn't have any problems, and
there were multiple directions to go. And of course there
could have been a middle ground somewhere in there, I suppose,
but I mean she went full on shut down and
(03:28):
that ruined so many lives. So yes, I agree, we
will hold her fully accountable as we as we head
on into November. Also notable, and again which makes me
really puzzled, why Dwine won't just go ahead and give
his endorsement, which you expect and I do too. Ultimately,
there's no primary challenger. I mean, what's what's the weight
all about?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, I mean, you know, I've asked him, and you know,
I think he's just going running through his trap. So
what he has said to me is what do you
have said publicly? And I wouldn't disclose any said to
me privately anyway, as you well know, Brian, but I
will tell you that he has said already publicly that
he intends to endorse. I think Camda Vak are just
having a little bit of a warming up period. Look,
this is all going to come together and Ohio's are
going to have a binary choice. I mean we're still nine,
(04:11):
you know, ten months away from the election, so the
answer is going to really be the vake Ramaswami will
be the next governor of this great state. He is
going to have every advantage that the candidate needs. This
is still still very much a red state. The generic polling,
which you know we ask people and polls, Brian, or
you're a Republican or a Democrat, it's still about seven
(04:32):
percentage points in the state. Donald Trump won this state
by eleven percentage points, So you know, we're going to
be in very good shape. And what we did, frankly,
what I did here at the Ohio Republican Party is
we endorse the vake. We endorse them early. We have
recognized a generational talent and one of the most thoughtful
conservative leaders in America, and we're lucky to have him
(04:52):
and Brian. I mean, I'm on the ground, was a
vake all around Ohio, and I really I may perhaps
I'm put to hyperbole, but let me just say this
to you about that. The level of support, the excitement
that I've seen on the ground for Vivike Ramaswami is
unlike anything I've ever seen for any politician other than
Donald Trump in Ohio and Vivig showed up at Miami
(05:14):
University on a cold winter's night two weeks ago and
their students lined up two blocks in the middle of campus.
Yeah to hear from Vivake Ramaswami. My man, that's not
happening for Amy acting. That's not happening for even my
good friends on the Republican side, on the establishment side,
who might show up. So it's an incredible thing. We
(05:35):
have a vake running and no political endorsement or anything
like that is going to Ultimately what gets it done
for him, What gets it done is his his skills,
his acumen. Is a candidate and as a person as
a leader is a completely self made Sincinnati kid. You know,
so it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be a fun campaign, Brian,
It already is.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yes, and he is such an inspirational speaker, sort of
Reagan asking his ability to charge a crowd up and
get them excited and positive thinking, it's wonderful to behold.
We'll bring Alex Chanant to Fila back after these brief
words beginning with plump type plumbing, which.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Is for comedy talk station.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Seven fifty five krc DE talk station Happy Friday, Brian
Thomas with a higher Republican Party Chairman Alex Chairmanta Filo.
Before we look forward, and I know the all important
midterm elections where the party that is not in presidential
power usually ends up scoring some extra seats. We'll get
your analysis of that in the next as we look forward.
But looking back on twenty twenty five, anything you're particularly
(06:34):
proud of that we got to accomplished here in the
state of Ohio. It seems to me, in spite that
we are very red and we have an overwhelming well,
the Republican Party has an overwhelming majority in the state House.
They it's like hurting Cats a lot of times, we
expect a lot more because we all think that the
Republicans will play nicely together in the name of benefiting
all Ohioans. And yet it doesn't always seem to work
(06:55):
out that way. But what's your take on twenty twenty
five before we get to this upcoming year, Alex, Well.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Look, I mean, you know some of this is inside baseball.
But for instance, my organization, we contributed, participated did mail
for one hundred and fifty six races. We won more
than one hundred and twenty of those. So look, I
mean in the suburban communities and the rural communities of Ohio,
we do very well. Look if you live here in Cincinnati,
not so good. And I look, I still spend about
(07:22):
half my time here, live on the West Side and
love my Hamilton County community. But look, I mean, when
you get outside of the Beltway of the three big
seas Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, you know, the Republican Party
does very well. But listen, Rian, you said it, the
pendulum swings back. I've been at this long enough to
know that the party out of power in fact does
suffer losses in the midterms. So we know you know
(07:44):
what the potential is here, and that is that we
we get a bit of a correction back to the center,
God forbid, back to the left. So you know, we're
fighting every single day to keep that from happening. My
further analysis of twenty twenty five is that Republicans cannot
stay home. One of the things that's just kind of
a natural phenomenon in politics is that when the things
(08:06):
that motivated you to go out have been resolved, sometimes
you you know, you tend to just say, well, okay,
things are better. For instance, the one issue that we
have repeatedly seen that motivated voters in twenty twenty four
was the problem at the southern border. Well that's that
problem has been solved. So a lot of Republicans, you know,
not the ones day to day like you and me
(08:26):
that are watching, are like, okay, well, you know, we're
not as energized anymore because of the problem at the
southern border, but a lot of other problems and we
need to stay fully engaged. Got to make sure they
don't impeach President Trump. So, you know, twenty twenty five
was a challenge in the sense that Republicans did not
you know, get out and vote in the numbers where
we need them to vote. If Republicans vote Brian in
(08:49):
twenty twenty six in the same way that they did
in twenty twenty four in Ohio, will win everything again.
You know, we won everything in twenty twenty four, really
had blowout losses. Really in twenty two twenty four with
Bernie Marino, we won, We ousted two Democrats on the
Supreme Court. You know, we won super majorities in the
House and Senate. So look, from a political perspective, twenty
(09:10):
twenty five left me a little disappointed because our people
need to get out and vote. And that's the simple
message for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well, and you know, since we move aside from the
whole healthcare debacle, which I think just illustrates the failure
of Obamacare generally speaking, but that is obviously one of
the Democrats' favorite talking points, and we go into November,
the subsidies are gone, the supplet you know, the enhanced
premiums up there. Well, you know, that's just revealing the
reality of the failure of Obamacare. But that's an issue.
But the other issue that very difficult for Donald Trump
(09:39):
or any president to get on top of his inflation,
and inflation ticked up less this past month than they
were anticipating, but going up two point eight percent as
opposed to three point three percent. That's still going up
and still beyond the desired rate of inflation. What can
you know? Inflation is so complicated. You know, the price
of eggs went up in large part because of the
bird flew. Who's that wasn't a political decision, that was
(10:02):
just the bird flu The beef herds are way down
tonight below nineteen fifties level, as the lowest they've been
since nineteen fifty. Our populations obviously gone up. You can't
just magically create cows to make the price of beef
go down, so that's kind of out of his hands.
So people want to point to these tariffs as being
an inflationary driver, but so far it hasn't been the
disaster that many of the gloom and dumers had predicted.
(10:23):
So what are we going to do about inflation? If
that's everybody on everybody's hearts and minds as a dominant issue?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Alex I think, I think a couple of things are
going to happen. First of all, and again I'm not
this is no spin For me, I feel like my
costs are down, maybe because Brian I spend so much
time driving around the great state of Ohio. Yay, you know,
my two dollars and thirty four cents. I know gallon
and gas is a significant safeties. I went from you know,
(10:49):
close to seventy dollars to film my tank now sometimes
as low as you know, under fifty dollars to film
my tank. So I certainly have seen it. I see
at the end of the month on the credit card
statement that I, you know, perused pretty carefully just to
kind of track our expenses. And you know it's so
I don't know, I personally have seen this change on
gas prices. Others perhaps have not. The polling tells us
(11:10):
we have not. You said it that inflation is a
complex problem. But when I think we're going to see what,
I'm confident we're going to see. Actually in twenty twenty six,
is it going to see more take home paid? Because
the tax cuts you are going to see, the tax
cuts that we're already in place, continue to kind of
drive higher incomes for Americans. You're going to see a
bigger tax return. If you're a person who receives a
tax return, and I think you're going to see this
(11:32):
cost of energy Brian, that we just talked about, that
lower cost of energy should begin to continue to bring
down inflation. I mean, inflation is at the lowest point
that it's been at since COVID. The policies of President
Trump are working. But again, as the President has said,
you know, Rome wasn't built overnight. Joe Biden did, in fact,
and us a crisis on inflation and on the economy.
(11:57):
The laws that he passed when he entered office. That's
blooded our economy with a lot of dollars and a
lot of sort of free printed government money created the
sinflationary crisis. And it's just going to take a while
to make it, you know, to fix it. It's not
going to be fixed overnight. The American people must understand
that this is a problem that is complex and it's
going to take some time to fix. But look, I
(12:18):
think people are going to see relief and already seeing relief,
but are going to see even more relief first quarter,
if not completely, in the first quarter, first half of
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Well, it'd be nice to get a relief from our
Duke Energy bill because of course that keeps going up
and up. Thankfully, we're not living in the Northeast region
of the country where they've gone so far Green New
Deal that they're having rolling power outages and they have
an insufficient supply of electricity to fund the evert growing
demand on the grid. Artificial intelligence being one of the drivers,
at least under the Trump administration, we're backing off that
(12:49):
nonsense and we're going in a saner direction, which will
provide us relief, you know, cheaper energy prices. That's just
one of the drivers of people's inability to even own
a home because you got to deal with that energy bill.
That's an easily accomplishable goal, but it does take time.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Alex, no question about it. And I'll tell you this
is to talk for a minute about the vake ramaswamming
again of a Vek is just absolutely eloquent on what
we need to do in this state to make this
an energy producing state and just free up the market.
The market will drive this, Brian, we're both free market capitalists.
If we allow the free market to operate to produce
(13:26):
energy in the state, we'll be able to not only
keep up with the demands which are growing but also
exceed those demands and make us a net exporter of energy.
But again you have to be a free market capitalist,
remove regulation, walk away from this this green New deal
scam that we all know as a scam. So you know,
hopefully all those things come together to drive down as
(13:47):
energy prices and bring down the prices of everything else.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Alex Jean Defilo, you are always welcome on the fifty
five Carecy Morning Show. I appreciate you willingness to speak
with my listeners and me and on behalf of my
listeners if I may take the liberty to do so,
and Joe Strecker myself again, a really heartfelt Merry Christmas
to you and your family and if you're driving anywhere
going anywhere, safe travels to you and your family. Alex,
thanks again for coming on and we'll do it again
next year for sure.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Thank you, Brian. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to you.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Take care of seven forty nine fifty five care see
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Seven thirty one, fifty five KRCD talk station, Happy Friday,
Andre Young brother Dre after the top of their news
on the eight point one million dollars settlement, the civil
Rights violation settlement, Iris Rowley Sweetheart Deal, and AFTABS car
trouble along the topics with Andre right now returning to
the fifty five Cars Morning show. Head of the Ohio
(00:21):
Republican Party Alex Cherouta Filo, always great having on the program. Alex,
welcome back in advance. Happy, happy Christmas, Merry Christmas to
you and your family.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, Brian, thank you, and merry Christmas and happy Holidays
and everything to you and your listeners. And always good
to be with you two.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Buddy. All Right, I'm gonna get a We're going to
try to do a bit of a year in review
here and then we'll look forward to twenty twenty six.
And insofar as the latter topic and even the former
topic is concerned, I just wanted to get your reaction
to Governor to Wine statements relative to V. V. Ramaswami,
who I understand enjoys the Republican Party endorsement already, he
won't endorse him yet, and he really tried to salvage
(01:00):
a certain degree Doctor Amy Acton, Amy Lockdown acting Democrat.
He appointed to be the medical director during COVID lockdown times.
She's the one that came up with the concepts like
let's not drink after ten pm, but you don't have
to go home in a bar. It didn't make any
sense Lockdown Amy Acton, but he provided her cover, saying
the buck stops with him, which I agree, But I
kind of wonder why he was trying to provide her
(01:22):
some cover and what his problem is with endorsing VI
vike Ramaswamy, who does have the Republican Party endorsement.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Alex weit covered a lot of ground and it's all fair.
So Brian want to say this to you. First of all,
the vike Ramaswami did receive our full endorsement. You know,
I go way back with a Vike. I've known him
a long time. He's an incredible candidate for the Republican Party,
very strong. Look, no matter what the governor says, Amy
Acton is going to have to answer to Ohioan's for
(01:48):
her conduct in the same way that Anthony Fauci answered
for his conduct. It wasn't Joe Biden or Donald Trump
who made decisions and advised you know, non scientist, non doctors.
So Amy Acting is going to have to answer for
all of those things. You know, you can, the governor
can can continue to do what he's going to do.
But let me tell you it's not going to us
(02:09):
one bit from pointing out Amy Acting's absolute failures in
her job, and also to talk a lot about the
vake Ramaswami and the incredible gifts and talents that he
brings in this job. So yeah, look, I I do
Ultimately Brian is the party's leader here in Ohio. I
expect the governor will endorse the Republican nominee and that's
going to be the vike ramis Swami. I think that's
(02:30):
going to happen. I think in the meantime, you know,
the governor is going to stand up for, you know,
for what he did and say what he did was
what he did, and in one small way you can
respect it. At least you know he's taken them. He's saying, look,
I was the decision maker and that's kind of what
leaders do. But that is not to absolve Amy Act
in one bit for her lockdowns, for masking our children,
(02:52):
for shutting down businesses, and for all the other terrible
and I mean awful decisions that she put upon Ohio
and during COVID disaster. So you know, there's not going
to be any absolution of her, you know, because of
what other politicians might say.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, she's kinda high behind. Well, the information was unfolding.
We didn't have it all in front of us. We
were erring on the side of caution. Well, you didn't
have to shut the kids out of school, one of
the first states to do. So look what Florida did.
They didn't lock down, they didn't have any problems, and
there were multiple directions to go. And of course there
could have been a middle ground somewhere in there, I suppose,
but I mean she went full on shut down and
(03:28):
that ruined so many lives. So yes, I agree, we
will hold her fully accountable as we as we head
on into November. Also notable, and again which makes me
really puzzled, why Dwine won't just go ahead and give
his endorsement, which you expect and I do too. Ultimately,
there's no primary challenger. I mean, what's what's the weight
all about?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, I mean, you know, I've asked him, and you know,
I think he's just going running through his trap. So
what he has said to me is what do you
have said publicly? And I wouldn't disclose any said to
me privately anyway, as you well know, Brian, but I
will tell you that he has said already publicly that
he intends to endorse. I think Camda Vak are just
having a little bit of a warming up period. Look,
this is all going to come together and Ohio's are
going to have a binary choice. I mean we're still nine,
(04:11):
you know, ten months away from the election, so the
answer is going to really be the vake Ramaswami will
be the next governor of this great state. He is
going to have every advantage that the candidate needs. This
is still still very much a red state. The generic polling,
which you know we ask people and polls, Brian, or
you're a Republican or a Democrat, it's still about seven
(04:32):
percentage points in the state. Donald Trump won this state
by eleven percentage points, So you know, we're going to
be in very good shape. And what we did, frankly,
what I did here at the Ohio Republican Party is
we endorse the vake. We endorse them early. We have
recognized a generational talent and one of the most thoughtful
conservative leaders in America, and we're lucky to have him
(04:52):
and Brian. I mean, I'm on the ground, was a
vake all around Ohio, and I really I may perhaps
I'm put to hyperbole, but let me just say this
to you about that. The level of support, the excitement
that I've seen on the ground for Vivike Ramaswami is
unlike anything I've ever seen for any politician other than
Donald Trump in Ohio and Vivig showed up at Miami
(05:14):
University on a cold winter's night two weeks ago and
their students lined up two blocks in the middle of campus.
Yeah to hear from Vivake Ramaswami. My man, that's not
happening for Amy acting. That's not happening for even my
good friends on the Republican side, on the establishment side,
who might show up. So it's an incredible thing. We
(05:35):
have a vake running and no political endorsement or anything
like that is going to Ultimately what gets it done
for him, What gets it done is his his skills,
his acumen. Is a candidate and as a person as
a leader is a completely self made Sincinnati kid. You know,
so it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be a fun campaign, Brian,
It already is.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yes, and he is such an inspirational speaker, sort of
Reagan asking his ability to charge a crowd up and
get them excited and positive thinking, it's wonderful to behold.
We'll bring Alex Chanant to Fila back after these brief
words beginning with plump type plumbing, which.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Is for comedy talk station.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Seven fifty five krc DE talk station Happy Friday, Brian
Thomas with a higher Republican Party Chairman Alex Chairmanta Filo.
Before we look forward, and I know the all important
midterm elections where the party that is not in presidential
power usually ends up scoring some extra seats. We'll get
your analysis of that in the next as we look forward.
But looking back on twenty twenty five, anything you're particularly
(06:34):
proud of that we got to accomplished here in the
state of Ohio. It seems to me, in spite that
we are very red and we have an overwhelming well,
the Republican Party has an overwhelming majority in the state House.
They it's like hurting Cats a lot of times, we
expect a lot more because we all think that the
Republicans will play nicely together in the name of benefiting
all Ohioans. And yet it doesn't always seem to work
(06:55):
out that way. But what's your take on twenty twenty
five before we get to this upcoming year, Alex, Well.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Look, I mean, you know some of this is inside baseball.
But for instance, my organization, we contributed, participated did mail
for one hundred and fifty six races. We won more
than one hundred and twenty of those. So look, I
mean in the suburban communities and the rural communities of Ohio,
we do very well. Look if you live here in Cincinnati,
not so good. And I look, I still spend about
(07:22):
half my time here, live on the West Side and
love my Hamilton County community. But look, I mean, when
you get outside of the Beltway of the three big
seas Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, you know, the Republican Party
does very well. But listen, Rian, you said it, the
pendulum swings back. I've been at this long enough to
know that the party out of power in fact does
suffer losses in the midterms. So we know you know
(07:44):
what the potential is here, and that is that we
we get a bit of a correction back to the center,
God forbid, back to the left. So you know, we're
fighting every single day to keep that from happening. My
further analysis of twenty twenty five is that Republicans cannot
stay home. One of the things that's just kind of
a natural phenomenon in politics is that when the things
(08:06):
that motivated you to go out have been resolved, sometimes
you you know, you tend to just say, well, okay,
things are better. For instance, the one issue that we
have repeatedly seen that motivated voters in twenty twenty four
was the problem at the southern border. Well that's that
problem has been solved. So a lot of Republicans, you know,
not the ones day to day like you and me
(08:26):
that are watching, are like, okay, well, you know, we're
not as energized anymore because of the problem at the
southern border, but a lot of other problems and we
need to stay fully engaged. Got to make sure they
don't impeach President Trump. So, you know, twenty twenty five
was a challenge in the sense that Republicans did not
you know, get out and vote in the numbers where
we need them to vote. If Republicans vote Brian in
(08:49):
twenty twenty six in the same way that they did
in twenty twenty four in Ohio, will win everything again.
You know, we won everything in twenty twenty four, really
had blowout losses. Really in twenty two twenty four with
Bernie Marino, we won, We ousted two Democrats on the
Supreme Court. You know, we won super majorities in the
House and Senate. So look, from a political perspective, twenty
(09:10):
twenty five left me a little disappointed because our people
need to get out and vote. And that's the simple
message for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well, and you know, since we move aside from the
whole healthcare debacle, which I think just illustrates the failure
of Obamacare generally speaking, but that is obviously one of
the Democrats' favorite talking points, and we go into November,
the subsidies are gone, the supplet you know, the enhanced
premiums up there. Well, you know, that's just revealing the
reality of the failure of Obamacare. But that's an issue.
But the other issue that very difficult for Donald Trump
(09:39):
or any president to get on top of his inflation,
and inflation ticked up less this past month than they
were anticipating, but going up two point eight percent as
opposed to three point three percent. That's still going up
and still beyond the desired rate of inflation. What can
you know? Inflation is so complicated. You know, the price
of eggs went up in large part because of the
bird flew. Who's that wasn't a political decision, that was
(10:02):
just the bird flu The beef herds are way down
tonight below nineteen fifties level, as the lowest they've been
since nineteen fifty. Our populations obviously gone up. You can't
just magically create cows to make the price of beef
go down, so that's kind of out of his hands.
So people want to point to these tariffs as being
an inflationary driver, but so far it hasn't been the
disaster that many of the gloom and dumers had predicted.
(10:23):
So what are we going to do about inflation? If
that's everybody on everybody's hearts and minds as a dominant issue?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Alex I think, I think a couple of things are
going to happen. First of all, and again I'm not
this is no spin For me, I feel like my
costs are down, maybe because Brian I spend so much
time driving around the great state of Ohio. Yay, you know,
my two dollars and thirty four cents. I know gallon
and gas is a significant safeties. I went from you know,
(10:49):
close to seventy dollars to film my tank now sometimes
as low as you know, under fifty dollars to film
my tank. So I certainly have seen it. I see
at the end of the month on the credit card
statement that I, you know, perused pretty carefully just to
kind of track our expenses. And you know it's so
I don't know, I personally have seen this change on
gas prices. Others perhaps have not. The polling tells us
(11:10):
we have not. You said it that inflation is a
complex problem. But when I think we're going to see what,
I'm confident we're going to see. Actually in twenty twenty six,
is it going to see more take home paid? Because
the tax cuts you are going to see, the tax
cuts that we're already in place, continue to kind of
drive higher incomes for Americans. You're going to see a
bigger tax return. If you're a person who receives a
tax return, and I think you're going to see this
(11:32):
cost of energy Brian, that we just talked about, that
lower cost of energy should begin to continue to bring
down inflation. I mean, inflation is at the lowest point
that it's been at since COVID. The policies of President
Trump are working. But again, as the President has said,
you know, Rome wasn't built overnight. Joe Biden did, in fact,
and us a crisis on inflation and on the economy.
(11:57):
The laws that he passed when he entered office. That's
blooded our economy with a lot of dollars and a
lot of sort of free printed government money created the
sinflationary crisis. And it's just going to take a while
to make it, you know, to fix it. It's not
going to be fixed overnight. The American people must understand
that this is a problem that is complex and it's
going to take some time to fix. But look, I
(12:18):
think people are going to see relief and already seeing relief,
but are going to see even more relief first quarter,
if not completely, in the first quarter, first half of
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Well, it'd be nice to get a relief from our
Duke Energy bill because of course that keeps going up
and up. Thankfully, we're not living in the Northeast region
of the country where they've gone so far Green New
Deal that they're having rolling power outages and they have
an insufficient supply of electricity to fund the evert growing
demand on the grid. Artificial intelligence being one of the drivers,
at least under the Trump administration, we're backing off that
(12:49):
nonsense and we're going in a saner direction, which will
provide us relief, you know, cheaper energy prices. That's just
one of the drivers of people's inability to even own
a home because you got to deal with that energy bill.
That's an easily accomplishable goal, but it does take time.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Alex, no question about it. And I'll tell you this
is to talk for a minute about the vake ramaswamming
again of a Vek is just absolutely eloquent on what
we need to do in this state to make this
an energy producing state and just free up the market.
The market will drive this, Brian, we're both free market capitalists.
If we allow the free market to operate to produce
(13:26):
energy in the state, we'll be able to not only
keep up with the demands which are growing but also
exceed those demands and make us a net exporter of energy.
But again you have to be a free market capitalist,
remove regulation, walk away from this this green New deal
scam that we all know as a scam. So you know,
hopefully all those things come together to drive down as
(13:47):
energy prices and bring down the prices of everything else.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Alex Jean Defilo, you are always welcome on the fifty
five Carecy Morning Show. I appreciate you willingness to speak
with my listeners and me and on behalf of my
listeners if I may take the liberty to do so,
and Joe Strecker myself again, a really heartfelt Merry Christmas
to you and your family and if you're driving anywhere
going anywhere, safe travels to you and your family. Alex,
thanks again for coming on and we'll do it again
next year for sure.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Thank you, Brian. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to you.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Take care of seven forty nine fifty five care see
the talk station, Get in touch with Susan
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