Brian talks to Senator Jon Husted

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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A very happy Wednesday to you, Brian Thomas. You're happy
to welcome back to the fifty five Caresey Morning Show.
Let me count the ways, how many reasons he is
better than his challenger, Senator John Houston. Of course, going
to be on the ballot next November get pivotal election.
Welcome back to the program. John, It's always a pleasure

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having you on the show.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Brian. Great to be with you. We're really gunning for you.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
I have every confidence in the world you can beat
Shared Brown on a multitude of reasons, not the least
of which is the guy is way too crazy far left.
So let us talk about your big You've been out
and about listening to workers, small businesses, educators, healthcare workers,
you know, fanning out across Ohio as you campaign for
the seat. What are you hearing from folks. What are

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the primary concerns being expressed to you, John Houston?

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well, I think it's always the economy. People want to
make sure that we're fighting it back against inflation, you know,
the Joe Biden inflation that is created. That's certainly on
the top of people's list. Making sure that the economy
is strong. But you know what's emerging a little bit
is in certain areas is crime. People are concerned about growing.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Amount of crime in our in our in.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Our state, and in our communities in our nation. But
you know, it's always about the economy. It's helping make
sure people have the right kind of skills, that they're
getting good pay, that the economy is growing so they're
a ample number of jobs, and and that we're pushing
back against you know, our foreign competitors like China who
have stolen those jobs over the years and undermined, you know,

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basically the global economy. And and you know they're they're
happy that President Trump's fighting back.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, I think most of us are.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
And I saw the US manufacturing recorded at strongest pace
of growth in more than three years in August, caored
to S and P Global. That's positive economic news. There
is a lot of positive economic news out there. But
what is concerning when you mentioned Zijinping China, China, India
and Russia all getting together, the three leaders getting together

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enjoying some smiles and laughs and handshaking, you have any
concern more broadly down the road that the unification of
those three countries the largest by way of population. I mean,
we're all very worried out here, the unwashed masses, about
our fiat currency. We're all worried about thirty seven trillion
dollars in debt and the debt service that keeps growing
on that somewhere out in the world. It wouldn't shock

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me that they people might wake up and say, you
know what, there has to be a better alternative to
the fiat currency of the United States of America.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
John Well, Look, that's why we've passed some of these
bills related to crypto, so that people who have concerns
have the ability to transact in different ways. There's no
doubt about that. But also the situation with China, India, Russia. Look,
I can tell you that people around the world are

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very scared. European powers are scared of the fact that
Putin could turn on them, just like you did on Ukraine.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
And I will I.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Will tell you that when we buy from China, when
we buy from Russia, we're financing that war. We're financing
those you know, in some cases, evil deeds, evil empires,
evil leaders who want to you know that want to
want to you know, they don't want to just compete
with America. They want to defeat America. That's what we

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need to understand in our mentality. And I think the
things have gone wrong with India right now is because
they want to continue to buy oil from Russia. They
want to continue to finance a war in Europe. And
this is a this is a critical time, there's no there.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
This is a tough time.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
In global h economic, military history in terms of how
we need to make sure that America is positioning itself
economically militarily to be strong.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
For the future.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
I guess ultimate does it benefit us to cut off
ties with those countries. I mean, again we're talking about
is it just really Russia Ukraine. I don't think Ukraine
really has any impact on our domestic security. It's my
personal opinion anyway. But India, I mean the old adage
the fool is the one that's not looking out for
his or her own best interest. India needs the oil,
they need the energy supply, and it's the cheapest place

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to get it. They don't have any stake in the
action with Russia and Ukraine.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Look, I can tell you this if you India right
now is this is what the fight is about is
that they are continuing to finance the war, and I
think the President wants to have peace. It doesn't mean
that we have to pick sides. We can be a
fair arbiter in that discussion. But China wants to see

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the war perpetuated. They love it when America and Europe
are occupied with Russia. They can go ahead and put
more money in their coffers, build a bigger military, buil
economic superiority, which is their goal, and we just have
to go eyes wide open. I'm not suggesting that we
can completely decouple from India and China. I'm not suggesting

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that at all. I just think that where our strategic
interests are at hand, we need to make those things
in America for our economic and national security. That's where
I'm That's where I'm really focused with my thoughts on this.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Right, and I've view Chinese Communist Party is a much
much bigger threat than anybody else in the world. Yet
here we are going on and on and on supporting
the Chinese Communist Party and their military build up and
the inevitable takeover of Taiwan by continuing to buy all
of their green products, solar panels, windmills, the component products,
all of our pharmaceuticals, on and on and on. So

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we're doing in essence what India is doing in supporting Russia.
That helps Russia's effort with the Roar. We're helping the
Chinese communist parties effort well attack us in effect monetarily.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Well, we're I think that you know, in my opinion,
that we're decoupling from that with some of our trade policies.
The America First Agenda is about making things in America.
The tariffs are about, hey, let's not let China sell
into our market. Let's level the playing field. Let's have
fair trade. That's allow more of these products to be

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made in America or with American allies. Those are the
things that we need to do to bring back the
critical elements of our like everything that's important, like making
computer chips high on the list of things need to
be made in America, our pharmaceutical supply chain that needs
to be made in America. Every single thing that's essential

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for our war fighting capabilities that needs to be made
in America. Those things need to be decoupled from China
and people who are not friends of us. And that's
where I think we're going with this economy right now
where the president wants to lead.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
All right, Well, pivoting over, I see you join to
bipartisan builder return stolen refund checks to American taxpayers. That
sounds like a good thing. What's this one all about,
John Well?

Speaker 3 (06:57):
A lot of times when we make it hard for
Americans to get back their money from the IRS, and
we want to make it easier to do that, we
have a.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Problem just all of these little things.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Right I'm discovering all of these things about the federal government.
You know, like I knew a little bit about how
difficult it is, but my goodness, this thing is so
big and so hard for the average citizen to.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Get action from.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
This is one of the things we try to do
in my Senate office is fight on behalf of Ohioan's
who can't get the federal government to act. And this
is just one more way to do.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
It, one more way to do it. And I understand
you got another endorsement. International Union of Operating Engineers Local
eighteen scoring a union endorsement.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, it's our second union endorsement in a week. These
are the folks who pave our roads, build our bridges,
things like that, they're working people and they work hard.
These are these unions that have endorsed me, the trade
Union up in.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Up in northwest Ohio.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
And Operating Engineers, construction trades. They endorse me because they
understand growing the pie is essential. They understand that Made
in America is essential. They understand that if you grow
the economy that means that everybody has more jobs, and
that we've been doing that over the past few years
in Ohio, that we're turning the corner on a lot
of these things. And they want a pro growth leader

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in the US Senate. And I'm proud to have their endorsement.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
And finally, before we part company, Senator John Houston akain
a much better choice than we know who the other
guy is, Higo Community College. He's got a message for
the Higo Community colleges with regard to the workforce telgrants.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, because think about this.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
For many, many years, workforce tel grants were for people
to go to college. But TEL grants are for people
who are tend to be lower income. Okay, that's who
we're talking about, right, But they could never be used
for short term credentials skills like where you could earn
these skills in eight to fifteen weeks, all right, and
we change the law to allow that to happen, so

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that now they can get become seeing the machinist welders,
get these credentials and go.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
To work in the trades.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
That's all talking about with the And before it was
like you got to go for two years, you got
to go for four years. Well, a lot of people
can't just take not work.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
For two years or four years.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
They need to They need to go to work, and
they need a job, and they don't want to go
to college.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
They just want to work a skill.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
And this this change that we made to Workforce pal
in the big beautiful Bill, by the way, is allowing
working people to get these skills in a short term
so that don't have college debt. Most employers don't, you know,
don't want degrees, they want skills. This is what's changed
about the world, and it's about time that we get
our systems in line with what's going on.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Out there in the real world.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
That's great, and plus, if you have some work requirements
with regard to receiving federal aid, you can use the
work requirements to apply toward a trade program, which is
only a matter of weeks as opposed to years. As
you mentioned, you'll be hitting the ground running with a
job because there's so many hundreds of thousands of jobs
out there in the trades that are currently unfulfilled. You
got a lot of the illegal immigrant population being booted

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out of the country quite often they might do that.
Those are job openings and availability. That way you get
people off of the system. It's beautiful, Senator Housted.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah, this is absolutely the way.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
This is the way the system should work. But the
you know, the university.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
System and the status quo always said no, no, no,
But now I think we're turning the corner on yeah,
and where people realize, like college, college is fine, but
it's not for everybody, and the most jobs don't require
a degree, they require a skill. And if you want
to go get college beyond that, great, But how about

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getting a skill, getting the job, going to work, putting
some money in your pocket earlier rather than putting debt
on your balance sheet. Right, It's like, think about this.
This is a much better way to go about it.
And it's funny thing. I actually this is one of
the first things I did when I got here. I
was one of the committees. I'm on Overseas Education and
I work with Susan Collins from Maine, and we did

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this like in a very short period of time, and
that's great.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
I'm really happy.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
It's like when I took this job, it's like I
wanted to get some things done. Well, this is getting
something done where we're helping people get workforce skills rather
than have to, you know, go to go to college
for two or four years before they get a degree,
we're putting them to work.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, and a few years down the road, they'll look
back and reflect on the work that you did, Senator
Houston and getting those workforce pelgrants for these skills jobs,
because they're going to be happy. They're going to be employed,
they're going to have a family, they'll have a house,
they'll have an income, and they'll be like, thank God
for John Houston and the others who brought this opportunity
to us. John Houston, I really appreciate you joining the program,
and congratulations on that feather in your cap. You have

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a website you want to refer my listeners to so
they can help out your campaign. Maybe get a T
shirt yard sign that thing as we move forward.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, you know, John Houstaedfsenate dot com. We would value
your support, whether that's a small donation or a volunteer
effort we take. We'll take anything that you can make.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
It's always the case.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
I wish you all the best.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
John.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
You always have an open form here on the fifty
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I got my fingers crossed for you. You certainly have my vote.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Great, thank you, my pleasure.

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