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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's seven six here five Karrecity Talk Station. Happy Friday
Eve too. She's already in house, but she'll be joining
the program in studio. COmON Police Court Judge Honorable Leah Dennglocker.
We're talking about her well, running for another term this year.
She's a great judge. We need to elect her. And
Jay Ratlif at eight thirty without further ado, though, I
love when Congressman Moarn Davidson joins the program. Welcome back,
(00:24):
Congressman Davidson. Is always a pleasure to have you on
the fifty five Karrose Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Ryan, It's always an honor. Nice to talk with you.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Too bad, there's nothing to talk about, Congressman Davidson. How's
the family house life treating you?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Now?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Let's move over to Ice. Minneapolis obviously the epicenter of
all the violence that's going on, although it's spread to
a variety of different cities. They're a well organized machine.
These protesters have a question or two about that. But this,
I don't know how it could devolve into it, he said.
She said thing without question. I mean the Constitution as
it's been interpreted and as the Supreme Court has pronounced
(01:00):
federal law exclusively the purview of federal agencies and federal
law enfor enforcement officers don't have to succumb to the
whim of a local municipality or jurisdiction or state. They're
entitled to enter into the area to conduct the federal
law enforcement actions. And that's exactly what they're doing. The
immigration laws have not changed since I don't know what
(01:20):
the nineties or something, the last time we had any change.
They're on the books, they are being enforced now. The
Biden administration just chose not to enforce them. So this
is all above board legitimate activity, is it not?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Well? Look, I mean when we went from the Articles
of Confederation to the Constitution way back in seventeen eighty nine,
one of the main things was you would have a
uniform standard for naturalization, like who's a citizen? You know why,
because who's the citizen matters? Know how you become a
citizen matters. And I won't say we've got that nailed
down perfectly. There's problems with how you become a citizen
(01:57):
and everything. So Democrats decided, oh well, just worrying about
the distinction and flood the country with tens of millions
of people who are here illegally, and they don't just
go anywhere. They tend to go towards sanctuary cities and
states where they know immigration law isn't going to be forced.
You've got local law enforcement running interference on it. And
(02:19):
why are these things happening in Minneapolis and Minnesota because
they're huge sanctuary and so they've flooded that area with illegals.
Other areas, you know, like Butler County, Ohio, well you
don't have this problem because local law enforcements engage. They're
applying the law there and they're helping. So when they
pull somebody over and they're not here legally, they will
(02:40):
detain them and call ICE. ICE will come by pick
them up. Everything's nice and orderly. But in Minneapolis, they're
literally obstructing justice in blocking and then you've got these
citizen observers who want to drive off and disrupt and
make the job very challenging for ICE. And unfortunately, this lady,
(03:04):
you know, she was somehow doing some kind of righteous
cause by preventing there being any accountability for people here
illegally and preventing ICE from doing their job, and unfortunately
she drove a vehicle at an ICE agent hit him,
and you know, he responded in a defensive way with
a very accurate shot, several shots. So in tragic that
(03:26):
she died. In a powerful interview with her father in law.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Recently, I saw that on CNN. Yeah, yeah, I guess
it's her fault. According to her father in law, don't
do that, don't interfere with law enforcement doing their job,
and you won't get hurt. But it's no surprise that
there are people like her out there, and obviously quite
a few of them. We have elected officials, the mayor
of Minneapolis, you got the governor Tim Wallas, and then
(03:50):
locally here we have since a city council passing a
resolution during which discussion one councilman said that these ICE
agents are terror arising our neighborhoods. We had the vice
mayors say that the that ICE is an illegal entity,
and and the egging on and encouragement of this outright
(04:12):
defiance by saying, in spite of the fact that it
is an absolute, absolute, outright lie, that ICE is illegal
and that they're engaging in illegal activities. Going back to
my initial point, the laws are on the books. They
are enforcing federal law.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, they are. And look it's obvious they are. I
mean go back to I mean, you know, iconically for
anybody illd enough to remember, you know, Bill Clinton sent
in you know, you see a swat team to go
extract this little Cuban kid in Florida and they get
a guy with an MP five grabbing the kid to
send them back to Cuba. Apparently they didn't want them
(04:49):
to get exposed to freedom. They needed to make sure
he stayed in a communist place. Now they're bringing the
communism to America and they don't want anybody to leave.
And look, this is what it is. It's a how
Er politics thing, right. I mean, they flooded the country
with tens of millions illegals and they went to sanctuary cities.
Why because they run their cities and states like crap,
so people who can voluntarily leave. So that's where like
(05:13):
you know, the counties the belt around big cities they're growing,
the affluence tends to get out of the city where
they're going to you know, get terrible service for the money,
heavy taxes that they're paying and the heavy regulation they're
dealing with. So they keep moving. And if they can't
get out of the city far enough, they'll get all
the way out of the state. Is California's finding out.
(05:36):
And then when you do the census, you go, wow,
nobody lives in the city. You guys don't have a
full representative anymore. Well, your state's losing representatives and and
they're countering that by flooding it with people. And this
is where we need an honest census. You should only
count citizens when you do the census. California would lose
(05:56):
six or seven representatives if that were true and fair enough.
Other states Texas, Arizona might lose some too. Ohio would
probably gain one or more. But that would be an
honest thing. Right. In Congress, we represent American citizens. We
don't represent foreign nationals. That's why you have embassies and consulates.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, And I always struggle with the concept of that.
The argument, well, the illegal immigrants, while illegal not here
within the United States or here lawfully, they are in
our area, consuming goods and services and things brought by
the government. Ergo, they're impacted by their by whatever vote
is cast, so they should have a vote. And I'm
not buying into that at all. I Mean, the best
(06:38):
you can argue is that someone who is here maybe
not a citizen, but who is lawfully here, is given
a work permit, for example, and is paying taxes, you
at least have a plausible argument for counting them. But
the minutias where the whole thing falls apart.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, I mean, we'll hopefully get a good decision out
of the court Supreme Court here on that and clarify
this hasn't been litigated the right way. And you know,
I think we have a chance to get a better decision.
I think you shouldn't count period unless you're a citizen.
We've got legislation trying to make that happen, and they're
fighting in court to make that happen. But in the meantime, Look,
(07:17):
the way that illegal immigrants should be impacted is you're
you're leaving because you're not here legally, and you know, well,
there should be a path to be here legally. There is.
We have an immigration law and you need to follow it.
And you know, a lot of the people that are
most resentful about illegal immigration are the legal immigrants, the
(07:37):
people that did come here legally. And you know, we
talk to these people all the time, and that that's
the thing. And look, we've got some communities Lachland, for example,
where you have a large flood of people from Eritrea
that you know, you have about as many people who
came there as the whole population of Lachlan. And people say, well,
(07:59):
you know, they're making up resources. We need federal dollars
to deal with this. The federal dollars you need is
to extract the people that aren't here lawfully. That's what
needs to happen. And you know, it's disappointing that we're
having to do this. It seems so bad to have
to get these people out of the country or detained
(08:20):
or whatever. This is all because the Biden administration facilitated
an invasion of our country. They perverted our laws, which
are supposed to be upheld by the executive branch. They're
supposed to go faithfully execute the laws, and they literally
undermine those laws. And we couldn't get a judge to
take action to stop them from ignoring the law and
(08:40):
make them enforced and apply the law. So this is
the corrupted judiciary branch. And now you've got the judiciary
branch out there trying to block President Trump from enforcing
the clear meaning of the law. And when you talk
about clear meaning, of the law. I mean, you get
the Supreme Court this week here in cases where well
(09:01):
we don't really know what a difference between a man
and a woman is in law. I mean, so it's
just nonsensical stuff going on, and it's just hard to
fathom that you're even having these discussions.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Hard to fathom. Indeed, we'll continue with Congressman Warren Davidson.
We're here to break seven fifteen. If you five kre
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Warren Davidson kind of spend time with my listeners and
(09:36):
me every week for a little while. Congressman Davidson pivoting
over are we gonna have another government shutdown? And if so,
is this going to be over Obamacare subsidies, which merely
masks the failing reality of obamacaren does nothing about the
cost of healthcare? Or is this going to be about
maybe funding Ice and its operations. Congressman Davidson, it sounds
like a little bit of both.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I mean, if you listen to Chuck Schumer in the
Senate that seems to say, you know, six weeks wasn't
enough back in the fall. We want to go ahead
and do it some more. And we saw some polling
where Democrats at approval rating with their base actually went
down when they reopened the government. They were happier with
their Democrat leaders when they had the government shut down.
(10:16):
So they seem to say, yeah, let's do it. And
I think, look, the other thing at play here is
the economy is starting to move in the right direction.
There's good momentum behind a lot of things, and Democrats
don't want that to happen in an election year. It
don't want all the results from these policies that have
happened last year, keeping taxes low, driving investment in jobs
(10:39):
coming in, and investment groundbreakings, announced new work out there
for people. They don't want those things to kick in
and have people with more cash in their pocket and
able to deal with the affordability challenges that have been
out there better than they have been. They don't want
that to happen between now and November. And I think
that's part of it.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Well, this affordability argument that they're making is nonsensical. First off,
inflation brought about a lot under the Biden administration for
chucking another eight or so trillion dollars into the economy,
feeding everyone with a whole lot of additional cash while
a lot of us, a lot of the business and
industry was shut down because of COVID. So the demand
(11:19):
went up precipitously because of the infusion of cash, and
yet the supply wasn't there. We all know what that happened.
That results in inflation. But then the vast majority of inflation,
and this so called affordability problem is brought about mostly
by regulation, government intervention, which forces us to have to
spend more to engage in our day to day activities.
The green whole get rid of carbon dioxide plant food
(11:41):
thing causing electricity plants to engage in massive, multi billion
dollar projects to capture carbon that drives our energy bill up.
The sporadic reality of green energy production windmills and solar
panels which go on and off and it ends up
spiking the cost of electricity that increases it all the
and mandates on our automobiles, which Trump thankfully got rid of,
(12:03):
drives the price of automobiles up. I mean, we could
go on and on the key and the most nefarious
element to affordability are massive government regulations and manipulations that
are that are heaped down upon us by oro elected officials.
That's an easy effects get rid of them.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, that's well said Brian. I mean that's exactly what's
been underway is ditching those crazy policies. And you know
the other component of is the spending in the subsidies.
So everything that you subsidize, like okay, get I get it,
it's expensive, Okay, well let's subsidize it. Well, that's going
to cause the inflation to be even higher than it
(12:41):
was before. And the things that are most heavily subsidized, education, healthcare, housing,
these things, the rate of inflation is bigger than the
things that aren't subsidized. And you know, you've just you're
choking on a fatal over to us a government right
out here. And that's what they want to mask with
(13:04):
the Obamacare subsidies. And look, these aren't like everything in Obamacare.
This is a small subset of Obamacare that were COVID
era subsidies. And they're like, well, we need an off ramp.
You're like, well, COVID's been over since twenty one. I
think you've had a pretty good long, pretty long off
ramp here. And Democrats built it. They put it in
in the first place. Yes, they're like, well, Republicans aren't
(13:26):
helping us, and you're like, well, we didn't help you
put it on. It was a whole party, party line
vote to put it in the first place. But there
are some Republicans that want to work with them in
exchange for some reform, but they're like, no, no, we
don't want any of the reform. Part like, oh, then
you don't have the votes, right.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Well, you know, the key, the outphant in the room
on this discussion is why does something need to be subsidized. Well,
you subsidize wind and solar because it's not affordable. It
doesn't produce sufficient energy, and the only reason anybody would
buy it is if you provide tax and centives and
subsidies for the stuff to be built in the first place.
So it's a faux market competition. The subsidies allow it
(14:05):
to compete with something that works really well, like gas
and oil, but then you heap massive energy taxes environmental
rules on the gas and oil production. It pushes that
price up artificially, making wind and sol look better. Same
thing with medical care. Why do you need an Obamacare subsidy?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
What's it?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
The root of the problem. It's the cost of health care.
They haven't done anything to lower the cost of health care.
That's the root of the problem.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, and they don't want to talk about changing any
of those things because they want the problem. I mean,
and look, they're trying to get so much government that
they completely take over healthcare like a lot of other
socialists utopias. Right, So this is the problem with their policies,
and eventually you run out of other people's money, but
they haven't let that be a constraint. Right. So, look,
(14:56):
the idea of a balanced budget. It holds in state,
it's like Ohio where we have to by law. But
at the federal level, you know, we're spending seven trillion
dollars more than seven trillion dollars and five trillion come out.
And I mean, think about it. If you had like
a ten gallon barrel and you took five gallons of
(15:17):
water out of the barrel and you put seven gallons in, well,
the water levels higher if it was fully full to ten.
It's overflowing. That's what's inflation. You're dumping an extra two
trillion dollars in the economy every single year with the
structural defenity we've got, and unfortunately, what we're seeing also
(15:40):
in the Sanctuary city of Minneapolis, or Little Mogadishue as
some have started calling it, you've got these Somali fraud issues,
and you know you're looking at as much as you know,
five to ten percent fraud. And that's why Doge came
in and started saying, look, we got to start shutting
this down. And look sadly, Republicans barely could muster the
(16:00):
votes to defund NPR right, so we haven't been as
aggressive on some of the cutting in Congress as the
administration is. They're like, well, we're simply withholding funds until
XYZ so that they can actually get after some of
the fraud. So I think a lot of things are
going the right way, yes, and Democrats don't like that,
(16:21):
and that's why we may well end up with a
shutdown here on January thirtieth.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Well, if the shutdown the name of getting rid of fraud, waste,
and abuse, I'm all in favor of it. I think
this whole Minneapolis. Reality has settled in Well. I can't
imagine any individual, regardless of political stripe, thinking that ferreting
out and preventing fraud, waste, and abuse is a bad idea, unless,
of course, you're part of the nefarious type which realizes that, well,
my political career or my political party will benefit because
(16:47):
these fraudulent tax dollars are going to end up in
my pocket. That's criminal. So the balance of us, the
rest of us, the saint of us in the world,
realize that taxpayer dollars stolen harm every taxpayer, regardless of
political stripe, and prevent those who may be truly in
need of the services offered by any given program are
going to be deprived of that because of the criminal activity.
(17:09):
That is a bipartisan reality, Congressman Davids, And at least
that's my take.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, common sense, I mean, I think one of the
best phrases was Sarah Huckabye Sanders rebuttal to Joe Biden's
want of Joe Biden's State of the Union addresses is
a dividing lines, not red versus blue, Republican versus Democrat,
but really normal versus crazy at this point, and those
are so many of the kinds of discussions we're having,
and you know, I, you know, I think in our
(17:36):
part of southwest Ohio people are in the We're in
the normal camp here, yep. With some exceptions, as you
point out in the city of Cincinnati, like where it's
controversial to have law and order and put people in
jail for committing crimes.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Some people just like to protest, not really a commitment
to the cause, it's just they want to buck whatever
system they live under. Congressman Warren Davis, and cannot thank
you enough for joining my listeners and me everyone. It's
always a wonderful conversation. It's nice to know that we
have an elected official who isn't insane and who always
does the right thing. Congressman, we'll get you on again
real soon. I hope you have a wonderful week.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You as well. Brian gav Bless you and all your listeners.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Seven twenty eight Common Please court Judge
It's seven six here five Karrecity Talk Station. Happy Friday
Eve too. She's already in house, but she'll be joining
the program in studio. COmON Police Court Judge Honorable Leah Dennglocker.
We're talking about her well, running for another term this year.
She's a great judge. We need to elect her. And
Jay Ratlif at eight thirty without further ado, though, I
love when Congressman Moarn Davidson joins the program. Welcome back,
(00:24):
Congressman Davidson. Is always a pleasure to have you on
the fifty five Karrose Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Ryan, It's always an honor. Nice to talk with you.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Too bad, there's nothing to talk about, Congressman Davidson. How's
the family house life treating you?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Now?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Let's move over to Ice. Minneapolis obviously the epicenter of
all the violence that's going on, although it's spread to
a variety of different cities. They're a well organized machine.
These protesters have a question or two about that. But this,
I don't know how it could devolve into it, he said.
She said thing without question. I mean the Constitution as
it's been interpreted and as the Supreme Court has pronounced
(01:00):
federal law exclusively the purview of federal agencies and federal
law enfor enforcement officers don't have to succumb to the
whim of a local municipality or jurisdiction or state. They're
entitled to enter into the area to conduct the federal
law enforcement actions. And that's exactly what they're doing. The
immigration laws have not changed since I don't know what
(01:20):
the nineties or something, the last time we had any change.
They're on the books, they are being enforced now. The
Biden administration just chose not to enforce them. So this
is all above board legitimate activity, is it not?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Well? Look, I mean when we went from the Articles
of Confederation to the Constitution way back in seventeen eighty nine,
one of the main things was you would have a
uniform standard for naturalization, like who's a citizen? You know why,
because who's the citizen matters? Know how you become a
citizen matters. And I won't say we've got that nailed
down perfectly. There's problems with how you become a citizen
(01:57):
and everything. So Democrats decided, oh well, just worrying about
the distinction and flood the country with tens of millions
of people who are here illegally, and they don't just
go anywhere. They tend to go towards sanctuary cities and
states where they know immigration law isn't going to be forced.
You've got local law enforcement running interference on it. And
(02:19):
why are these things happening in Minneapolis and Minnesota because
they're huge sanctuary and so they've flooded that area with illegals.
Other areas, you know, like Butler County, Ohio, well you
don't have this problem because local law enforcements engage. They're
applying the law there and they're helping. So when they
pull somebody over and they're not here legally, they will
(02:40):
detain them and call ICE. ICE will come by pick
them up. Everything's nice and orderly. But in Minneapolis, they're
literally obstructing justice in blocking and then you've got these
citizen observers who want to drive off and disrupt and
make the job very challenging for ICE. And unfortunately, this lady,
(03:04):
you know, she was somehow doing some kind of righteous
cause by preventing there being any accountability for people here
illegally and preventing ICE from doing their job, and unfortunately
she drove a vehicle at an ICE agent hit him,
and you know, he responded in a defensive way with
a very accurate shot, several shots. So in tragic that
(03:26):
she died. In a powerful interview with her father in law.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Recently, I saw that on CNN. Yeah, yeah, I guess
it's her fault. According to her father in law, don't
do that, don't interfere with law enforcement doing their job,
and you won't get hurt. But it's no surprise that
there are people like her out there, and obviously quite
a few of them. We have elected officials, the mayor
of Minneapolis, you got the governor Tim Wallas, and then
(03:50):
locally here we have since a city council passing a
resolution during which discussion one councilman said that these ICE
agents are terror arising our neighborhoods. We had the vice
mayors say that the that ICE is an illegal entity,
and and the egging on and encouragement of this outright
(04:12):
defiance by saying, in spite of the fact that it
is an absolute, absolute, outright lie, that ICE is illegal
and that they're engaging in illegal activities. Going back to
my initial point, the laws are on the books. They
are enforcing federal law.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, they are. And look it's obvious they are. I
mean go back to I mean, you know, iconically for
anybody illd enough to remember, you know, Bill Clinton sent
in you know, you see a swat team to go
extract this little Cuban kid in Florida and they get
a guy with an MP five grabbing the kid to
send them back to Cuba. Apparently they didn't want them
(04:49):
to get exposed to freedom. They needed to make sure
he stayed in a communist place. Now they're bringing the
communism to America and they don't want anybody to leave.
And look, this is what it is. It's a how
Er politics thing, right. I mean, they flooded the country
with tens of millions illegals and they went to sanctuary cities.
Why because they run their cities and states like crap,
so people who can voluntarily leave. So that's where like
(05:13):
you know, the counties the belt around big cities they're growing,
the affluence tends to get out of the city where
they're going to you know, get terrible service for the money,
heavy taxes that they're paying and the heavy regulation they're
dealing with. So they keep moving. And if they can't
get out of the city far enough, they'll get all
the way out of the state. Is California's finding out.
(05:36):
And then when you do the census, you go, wow,
nobody lives in the city. You guys don't have a
full representative anymore. Well, your state's losing representatives and and
they're countering that by flooding it with people. And this
is where we need an honest census. You should only
count citizens when you do the census. California would lose
(05:56):
six or seven representatives if that were true and fair enough.
Other states Texas, Arizona might lose some too. Ohio would
probably gain one or more. But that would be an
honest thing. Right. In Congress, we represent American citizens. We
don't represent foreign nationals. That's why you have embassies and consulates.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, And I always struggle with the concept of that.
The argument, well, the illegal immigrants, while illegal not here
within the United States or here lawfully, they are in
our area, consuming goods and services and things brought by
the government. Ergo, they're impacted by their by whatever vote
is cast, so they should have a vote. And I'm
not buying into that at all. I Mean, the best
(06:38):
you can argue is that someone who is here maybe
not a citizen, but who is lawfully here, is given
a work permit, for example, and is paying taxes, you
at least have a plausible argument for counting them. But
the minutias where the whole thing falls apart.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, I mean, we'll hopefully get a good decision out
of the court Supreme Court here on that and clarify
this hasn't been litigated the right way. And you know,
I think we have a chance to get a better decision.
I think you shouldn't count period unless you're a citizen.
We've got legislation trying to make that happen, and they're
fighting in court to make that happen. But in the meantime, Look,
(07:17):
the way that illegal immigrants should be impacted is you're
you're leaving because you're not here legally, and you know, well,
there should be a path to be here legally. There is.
We have an immigration law and you need to follow it.
And you know, a lot of the people that are
most resentful about illegal immigration are the legal immigrants, the
(07:37):
people that did come here legally. And you know, we
talk to these people all the time, and that that's
the thing. And look, we've got some communities Lachland, for example,
where you have a large flood of people from Eritrea
that you know, you have about as many people who
came there as the whole population of Lachlan. And people say, well,
(07:59):
you know, they're making up resources. We need federal dollars
to deal with this. The federal dollars you need is
to extract the people that aren't here lawfully. That's what
needs to happen. And you know, it's disappointing that we're
having to do this. It seems so bad to have
to get these people out of the country or detained
(08:20):
or whatever. This is all because the Biden administration facilitated
an invasion of our country. They perverted our laws, which
are supposed to be upheld by the executive branch. They're
supposed to go faithfully execute the laws, and they literally
undermine those laws. And we couldn't get a judge to
take action to stop them from ignoring the law and
(08:40):
make them enforced and apply the law. So this is
the corrupted judiciary branch. And now you've got the judiciary
branch out there trying to block President Trump from enforcing
the clear meaning of the law. And when you talk
about clear meaning, of the law. I mean, you get
the Supreme Court this week here in cases where well
(09:01):
we don't really know what a difference between a man
and a woman is in law. I mean, so it's
just nonsensical stuff going on, and it's just hard to
fathom that you're even having these discussions.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Hard to fathom. Indeed, we'll continue with Congressman Warren Davidson.
We're here to break seven fifteen. If you five kre
CD talk station, let me strongly encourage you to call
the best in the business when it comes to roofing
work and a gutter guard talk station seven nineteen. Here
fifty five kr CD talk station by Thomas the Congressman
Warren Davidson kind of spend time with my listeners and
(09:36):
me every week for a little while. Congressman Davidson pivoting
over are we gonna have another government shutdown? And if so,
is this going to be over Obamacare subsidies, which merely
masks the failing reality of obamacaren does nothing about the
cost of healthcare? Or is this going to be about
maybe funding Ice and its operations. Congressman Davidson, it sounds
like a little bit of both.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I mean, if you listen to Chuck Schumer in the
Senate that seems to say, you know, six weeks wasn't
enough back in the fall. We want to go ahead
and do it some more. And we saw some polling
where Democrats at approval rating with their base actually went
down when they reopened the government. They were happier with
their Democrat leaders when they had the government shut down.
(10:16):
So they seem to say, yeah, let's do it. And
I think, look, the other thing at play here is
the economy is starting to move in the right direction.
There's good momentum behind a lot of things, and Democrats
don't want that to happen in an election year. It
don't want all the results from these policies that have
happened last year, keeping taxes low, driving investment in jobs
(10:39):
coming in, and investment groundbreakings, announced new work out there
for people. They don't want those things to kick in
and have people with more cash in their pocket and
able to deal with the affordability challenges that have been
out there better than they have been. They don't want
that to happen between now and November. And I think
that's part of it.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Well, this affordability argument that they're making is nonsensical. First off,
inflation brought about a lot under the Biden administration for
chucking another eight or so trillion dollars into the economy,
feeding everyone with a whole lot of additional cash while
a lot of us, a lot of the business and
industry was shut down because of COVID. So the demand
(11:19):
went up precipitously because of the infusion of cash, and
yet the supply wasn't there. We all know what that happened.
That results in inflation. But then the vast majority of inflation,
and this so called affordability problem is brought about mostly
by regulation, government intervention, which forces us to have to
spend more to engage in our day to day activities.
The green whole get rid of carbon dioxide plant food
(11:41):
thing causing electricity plants to engage in massive, multi billion
dollar projects to capture carbon that drives our energy bill up.
The sporadic reality of green energy production windmills and solar
panels which go on and off and it ends up
spiking the cost of electricity that increases it all the
and mandates on our automobiles, which Trump thankfully got rid of,
(12:03):
drives the price of automobiles up. I mean, we could
go on and on the key and the most nefarious
element to affordability are massive government regulations and manipulations that
are that are heaped down upon us by oro elected officials.
That's an easy effects get rid of them.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, that's well said Brian. I mean that's exactly what's
been underway is ditching those crazy policies. And you know
the other component of is the spending in the subsidies.
So everything that you subsidize, like okay, get I get it,
it's expensive, Okay, well let's subsidize it. Well, that's going
to cause the inflation to be even higher than it
(12:41):
was before. And the things that are most heavily subsidized, education, healthcare, housing,
these things, the rate of inflation is bigger than the
things that aren't subsidized. And you know, you've just you're
choking on a fatal over to us a government right
out here. And that's what they want to mask with
(13:04):
the Obamacare subsidies. And look, these aren't like everything in Obamacare.
This is a small subset of Obamacare that were COVID
era subsidies. And they're like, well, we need an off ramp.
You're like, well, COVID's been over since twenty one. I
think you've had a pretty good long, pretty long off
ramp here. And Democrats built it. They put it in
in the first place. Yes, they're like, well, Republicans aren't
(13:26):
helping us, and you're like, well, we didn't help you
put it on. It was a whole party, party line
vote to put it in the first place. But there
are some Republicans that want to work with them in
exchange for some reform, but they're like, no, no, we
don't want any of the reform. Part like, oh, then
you don't have the votes, right.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Well, you know, the key, the outphant in the room
on this discussion is why does something need to be subsidized. Well,
you subsidize wind and solar because it's not affordable. It
doesn't produce sufficient energy, and the only reason anybody would
buy it is if you provide tax and centives and
subsidies for the stuff to be built in the first place.
So it's a faux market competition. The subsidies allow it
(14:05):
to compete with something that works really well, like gas
and oil, but then you heap massive energy taxes environmental
rules on the gas and oil production. It pushes that
price up artificially, making wind and sol look better. Same
thing with medical care. Why do you need an Obamacare subsidy?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
What's it?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
The root of the problem. It's the cost of health care.
They haven't done anything to lower the cost of health care.
That's the root of the problem.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, and they don't want to talk about changing any
of those things because they want the problem. I mean,
and look, they're trying to get so much government that
they completely take over healthcare like a lot of other
socialists utopias. Right, So this is the problem with their policies,
and eventually you run out of other people's money, but
they haven't let that be a constraint. Right. So, look,
(14:56):
the idea of a balanced budget. It holds in state,
it's like Ohio where we have to by law. But
at the federal level, you know, we're spending seven trillion
dollars more than seven trillion dollars and five trillion come out.
And I mean, think about it. If you had like
a ten gallon barrel and you took five gallons of
(15:17):
water out of the barrel and you put seven gallons in, well,
the water levels higher if it was fully full to ten.
It's overflowing. That's what's inflation. You're dumping an extra two
trillion dollars in the economy every single year with the
structural defenity we've got, and unfortunately, what we're seeing also
(15:40):
in the Sanctuary city of Minneapolis, or Little Mogadishue as
some have started calling it, you've got these Somali fraud issues,
and you know you're looking at as much as you know,
five to ten percent fraud. And that's why Doge came
in and started saying, look, we got to start shutting
this down. And look sadly, Republicans barely could muster the
(16:00):
votes to defund NPR right, so we haven't been as
aggressive on some of the cutting in Congress as the
administration is. They're like, well, we're simply withholding funds until
XYZ so that they can actually get after some of
the fraud. So I think a lot of things are
going the right way, yes, and Democrats don't like that,
(16:21):
and that's why we may well end up with a
shutdown here on January thirtieth.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Well, if the shutdown the name of getting rid of fraud, waste,
and abuse, I'm all in favor of it. I think
this whole Minneapolis. Reality has settled in Well. I can't
imagine any individual, regardless of political stripe, thinking that ferreting
out and preventing fraud, waste, and abuse is a bad idea, unless,
of course, you're part of the nefarious type which realizes that, well,
my political career or my political party will benefit because
(16:47):
these fraudulent tax dollars are going to end up in
my pocket. That's criminal. So the balance of us, the
rest of us, the saint of us in the world,
realize that taxpayer dollars stolen harm every taxpayer, regardless of
political stripe, and prevent those who may be truly in
need of the services offered by any given program are
going to be deprived of that because of the criminal activity.
(17:09):
That is a bipartisan reality, Congressman Davids, And at least
that's my take.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, common sense, I mean, I think one of the
best phrases was Sarah Huckabye Sanders rebuttal to Joe Biden's
want of Joe Biden's State of the Union addresses is
a dividing lines, not red versus blue, Republican versus Democrat,
but really normal versus crazy at this point, and those
are so many of the kinds of discussions we're having,
and you know, I, you know, I think in our
(17:36):
part of southwest Ohio people are in the We're in
the normal camp here, yep. With some exceptions, as you
point out in the city of Cincinnati, like where it's
controversial to have law and order and put people in
jail for committing crimes.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Some people just like to protest, not really a commitment
to the cause, it's just they want to buck whatever
system they live under. Congressman Warren Davis, and cannot thank
you enough for joining my listeners and me everyone. It's
always a wonderful conversation. It's nice to know that we
have an elected official who isn't insane and who always
does the right thing. Congressman, we'll get you on again
real soon. I hope you have a wonderful week.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You as well. Brian gav Bless you and all your listeners.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
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