November 17, 2025 • 21 mins
(November 17,2025)
California Republicans split on President Trump’s immigration strategy, poll finds. LAX approved $1.5BIL to relieve traffic… opponents say it won’t work. “Things are pretty crappy:” 1 in 4 US households are living paycheck to paycheck. Is more development coming to California’s coast.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty. I am six.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Forty handle here, good morning. It is a not rainy
Monday morning. Certainly was raining over the weekend. DA luge
is the only word that you could apply to the
kind of rain that was coming down coming. I think
tomorrow or Wednesday, we have another one.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Actually, this afternoon is supposed to kind of roll in. Oh,
that's even worse.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
So Wednesday becomes clear again, and then another one comes
in after that. Correct, Welcome to Droughtland. I just wanted
to point that out, all right. I want to tell
you about what's going on the Republican Party. Now, we
already have a split among Republicans with the release of
the Epstein files, no question about that. But there was
(00:52):
a study about Republicans in California. They're more divided than
ever on the immigration Paul And here is no shocker
and no surprise. Latinos, young people from eighteen to twenty
nine and moderate women in the Republican Party here in California.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Boy, have they diverged from Trump's policies.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Forty six percent of the Latino Republicans disagree with deporting
immigrants who have resided in the country for a long time,
compared with thirty percent of white counterparts. And why, well,
you look at the sleeping crackdown on immigration, launching the
ICE raids across the country, removing legal barriers in order
(01:38):
to make deportations faster. I told you about one of
Lindsay's best friends, the mother in law, her son in
law was picked up at the airport and as he
describes that he's in El Salvador right now, he was deported.
He described the horrific treatment that he got from the
(01:58):
ICE agents. Now, to be fair, and I don't know
the answer, but I'm moving towards that the news is
ICE agents treating people like crap. Ice agents actually being
professional you don't see much of. And with all these
thousands of ICE agents, are all of them, most of
(02:19):
them treating these immigrants horribly, I would guess not. Now,
it's the cat that ran that didn't run up the
tree doesn't get the news, and that may be what
this is about. But at this point, and this is
I won't say it's a shocker, but this is the
difference Trump when he was elected this time around, well,
(02:44):
he had made substantial inroads with the Latino community gained
Latino voters far more than typical Democratic candidates. Get now, why,
my guess it was about prices. It was about about inflation.
(03:04):
I think that was the number one issue, inflation and
the prices of goods. And he came into office, he
promised that prices would be lowered. He was going to
come in and make life livable again. Inflation would stop
under his administration, And of course it didn't.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
It couldn't. Inflation is there no matter what.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
And you add people that are having a rough time financially,
more so now than before, who were hoping that his
promises would be kept.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Well they're not. So all of a sudden, this view
of Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
People are not looking at it with these rose tinted glasses.
And what Latinos are seeing is Latinos are getting nailed.
Why because most of the immigrants of vast, vast majority,
of course the Latino where ice pick up Latinos, well,
they go to places where Latinos hang around. You're not
(04:06):
going to see any more people at home depot near
the driveways.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
You don't see.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Many laborers congregate trying to get work. You don't see
many places where you know fairs, events where Latinos hang out,
they're at home, they're frightened of being picked up. And
you have a Latino population that are going, wait a minute,
(04:33):
we're getting nailed as much because we're Latino than we
are about being illegal immigrants. That's the philosophy that we're
now seeing, and they're not liking it.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
We're talking about Republicans now.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Democrats are way way over to the left and do
not like what's happening with immigration. But I have always
been I won't say anti immigration, but a strong believer
in border control. I do believe that there is a
limit to how many people you can let in Ama
Lazarus with send us the poor, the wretched, open arms.
(05:09):
America is the place where people want to go and
we should allow them in, which is kind of crazy.
But have we gone too far? Has the Trump administration
gone too far?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
You bet? You bet?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Now the argument that they haven't gone too far is
ille ill. Immigration crossing the border has dropped to a
trickle relative to what Joe Biden had done when he
was president, And was that wrong? Yeah, yeah, Joe Biden.
Biden went the other way. He was way too liberal,
And now we have people being picked up, and I
(05:44):
mean viciously. They're being picked up. And when Christy Noms
says it's only the worst of the worst, that's simply
not true.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
That is absolutely not true.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
The majority of people that are being picked up do
not have criminal records, and if they have criminal records,
it was There's.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Been some with traffic tickets that are on the record.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
So we'll see how many more Republicans go the way
of not being particularly happy with what's going on. And
I'm part of that group. I'm not a Republican, as
you know. I'm an affiliate, it always have been. I've
never been registered anything. But I'm certainly part of the
group that are going Wait a minute, this is way
way too far.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
All right.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Moving over to lax La International Airport. If you are
going overseas, you're going to have to go to lax
lax is considered one of the worst airports.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
In the world now.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Prior to the Olympics in nineteen eighty four, the lax
was completely revamped and it went from.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Horrible to horrible.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And now we're talking about a one point five billion
dollar program which has just been approved by the lax
which is its own government. Semi government agency to relieve traffic. Okay,
roadway improvements aimed at reducing traffic at entrances and exits
(07:32):
and eliminating queuing on public roads. And they're going to
do this ahead of the twenty twenty eight Olympic Games.
Now I want to point something out. Okay, here is
what it's about. I'm gonna repeat this roadway improvement aimed
at reducing traffic at the entrances and the exits and
(07:57):
eliminating the line on public roads to get into the airport.
Have you noticed I didn't say changing that crazy ass
horseshoe that lax is all about even when there is
no traffic coming into the airport, and there have been
days where there's no traffic coming in. So let's say
(08:22):
this comes into fruition and traffic is released coming in
and exiting the airport. Once you hit the airport itself,
it can take you an hour to go from Terminal
one to Terminal seven all the way around, because people
(08:44):
are parked at the exits baggage claim. As they walk
outside of baggage claim and folks who are picking them
up are now at the curb and then next to
the car at the curb, the next to the car
that's next to the car at the curb. I've never
(09:06):
seen it more than four deep or more than three deep,
because they just don't allow that to happen because that
blocks the roadway completely. So be prepared for a huge
amount of construction, and I mean a huge amount of construction,
and it's not going to be very easy. I hate
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this airport, and there really is no choice Southern California.
If you are going to Europe, for example, if you
are going to Japan anywhere in the East, you're not
taking off from Long Beach. You're not taking off well
obviously from Hollywood Burbank, which is a regional airport. You're
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not taking off from Ontario or John Wayne. To some extent,
you are, but nothing like the trip that you are
going to take. So now they're building two new terminals,
but those have slowed down tremendously and they're just going
to go on for years and years, and they're going
(10:09):
to go at their own incremental speed in terms of construction.
Why is that the terminal expansion plan has been paused
because the projections were that one hundred million visitors were
going to hit lax in the years to come one
hundred million per year. Last year the airport had just
(10:30):
seventy seven million travelers, twenty percent lower than it's twenty
nineteen high.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
So the projects are on hold until.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
They figure out that there are going to be enough customers,
enough travelers, enough people to pick up travelers and drop
them off. So the good news is at seventy seven
million travelers. The bad news is that every one of
them were at the airport when you were driving in
(10:59):
and it was completely crazy. So LAX is going to
go from one of the worst airports in the world
to one of the worst airports in the world. It
was poorly designed day one. Every time has been remodeled,
it's poorly designed. They have to get rid of that horseshoe.
(11:19):
The problem is where is the airport going to be built.
There are no huge areas. There is I think it's
west of the airport.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
There was.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
A community and the airport bought that land to increase
the size and never did the land. The houses where
they're vacant boarded up for years and years and years.
I don't even know what happened to them. I still
think that land is vacant. Ann would you look that
up and tell me if that's true true or not.
(11:53):
The vacant land east of the airport that was bought
by the airport authority, there's no place for the airport
to go. It can't go it can't go it can't
go east. That society, you can't go east, you can't
go west. But building the airport, no, it's not going
to work. So we're screwed when it comes to lax.
(12:17):
That's all it's you're fined. You might as well drive
to Japan's You're probably an evid easier time. All right, guys,
we're done with that now. I want to talk about
how rough it is in the United States to live.
And I think this is happening most of the world,
but you know, we obviously concentrate it. What's happening here
(12:40):
and here is what's really an issue. And this is
from CNN. One in four households are living paycheck to paycheck. Now,
there's already there. There has always been a percentage of
people living paycheck to paycheck, but it has exploded. According
to Bank of America, twenty four percent of US households
(13:02):
are living paycheck to paycheck so far in twenty twenty
five and it may get worse. And Bank of America
come through its internal data and there's a lot of
a lot of information on this. There's a lot of
research they did, and the problem is that twenty four
percent of these households spend over ninety five percent of
(13:23):
their income on necessities, leaving absolutely nothing for the nice
to have things like going out to dinner, even taking
a vacation. And that's not even including savings. We have
that K shaped economy where the K part going up
are the rich people and part of the K going
(13:44):
down are the poor people. And it is very tough.
A lot of people are struggling just to get by.
The President dismisses that as a con job conjured up
by Democrats, and that's all based on on fake news.
That's not true. It is not fake news. It is
(14:04):
real news. And the rule of the thirty percent rule
of which thirty percent of your income should go to
rent or housing has gone by the wayside years ago.
And as an example, Amy has brought this up and
has admitted this fifty percent of her income goes to rent. Now,
(14:31):
you know, usually I make fun of how little money
we all make, but Amy makes a good living. She
makes a decent living even though she works at iHeart.
And that's not because they're wonderful people. She's part of
a union that forces the issue. So Amy is fairly
comfortable no matter what. But let me ask some Amy,
how long has it been since fifty percent of your
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income goes to housing? It's been a while, although they
you know, I mean, I've had my rent go up.
I've been here for forever and my rents increase more
than fifty percent.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
That's true, but we don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
If you look at the figure it has your income
has not gone up as as quickly as the rent
has gone up.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
And that happening. No, no, no, So it's been at
least a few years. Yeah, it's getting worse and worse.
That's the problem.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
And when people who don't make a good living are
nailed with this, it is very, very difficult living paycheck
to paycheck. I am not an exceptionalist. I am not
some that says America is the greatest country. In certain aspects.
It is, but aspects like housing and living paycheck to
(15:47):
paycheck not even close. You go to the Scandinavian countries,
that's where you want to be poor that's where they
have the safety net.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
The US does not. What are you going to say,
we're the greatest country in the world.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Are healthcare is the great is among the greatest countries
in the world, isn't it? Mortality rate is number nineteen
or twenty, literacy rate is down in the twenties, and unfortunately,
living paycheck to paycheck among industrialized nations. Now, obviously you
(16:21):
go to Sudan or Yemen, there is no paycheck and
you're eating sand for dinner.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I got it.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
But when you're talking about industrialized nations, it is very
tough to be poor. And more and more Americans are
living paycheck to paycheck. It is now twenty five percent,
and that is a figure that we should be completely
ashamed of. That's a shanda. I don't know if you've
(16:47):
heard of the Coastal Commission. Here in California. The Coastal
Commission addresses building along the coast. Goes about one thousand
yards inland, and if you want to build along the coast,
have to deal with the Coastal Commission. You know, in
addition to dealing with the cities, for example Malibu, other
cities that are on the coast, including at Orange County
(17:11):
has a lot, a lot of coastline, and the Coastal
Commission is sort of the last bastion of telling you
to go pound sand. Well, actually you can't pound sand
because if you're building on the sand, the Coastal Commission
is not going to let you pound it because you're
not going to live on the beach. And it has
been so difficult to deal with that, people just give up.
(17:36):
They just say no to everything. Well, there is a
big problem with housing, low income housing, and the Coastal
Commission is changing now.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
The Coastal Commission is.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Twelve people on it and three appointing authorities, the Governor,
the Speaker of the Assembly, and the California a Senate
Rules Committee. It was created after the Santa Barbara oil
spill to control what is off the coast and that
includes building. And I have I know developers who have
(18:09):
spent years dealing with a Coastal Commission, and the Coastal
Commission will say no, for example, to certain seasons you
can't build. For example, the huntback turtle. I don't even
know if there is a huntback turtle, but there are animals, flies,
or insects or little mammals fish that are indigenous to
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our area and therefore during mating season you can't build.
And there are other indigenous species which during their mating
system you can't build, and sometimes they overlap, so you
can't build at all. And so you go in front
of the Coastal Commission because those are rules, and you
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ask for a waiver, you ask for permission to build,
and historically they've said no, no, thanks, rather or not,
we want to protect the coastline and we do that
by not letting you build.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Well, it has gone the other way.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Because of the lack of affordable housing, and now we're
going to see are we going to see affordable housing
along the coast? And that makes it I don't know
how in fact, people or any organization or any entity,
(19:28):
any miss municipality or county can possibly buy land along
the coast to build. But there's a land, there's a
coastal lands that belong to the state that have nothing
to do with private ownership, and the Coastal Commission controls ohs,
and so I think what you're going to do is see.
(19:49):
And this is really tough because if you're building a
fourteen million dollar house in Newport Beach for example, along
the coast, is there going to be just up the street,
up the coast affordable housing? And there is tons of
affordable housing out there, just not along the coast. Except
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there's one trailer park in Malibu that overlooks it's on
a bluff and it overlooks the Pacific Ocean. It's one
of the it's a million dollar view and it is
a trailer park. Now nobody leaves, and the ground rent
is an expensive relative to what it would cost to
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rent there or build there. And that's it. It's all
I know as far as affordable housing. All right, we're done, guys,
that's it all right? Coming up?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Oh, Gary and Shannon, of course we're up. Next.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
We start all over again tomorrow morning with wake up call,
and that involves the lovely Amy and Will Coleschreiber, and
then Neil and I jump aboard, and then taking care
of all this is Kono and Ann and off she's
running someplace in the meantime.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Well, I guess we'll see you tomorrow. You know, it's
probably gonna be wet tomorrow, but so be it. This
is KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Forty handle here, good morning. It is a not rainy
Monday morning. Certainly was raining over the weekend. DA luge
is the only word that you could apply to the
kind of rain that was coming down coming. I think
tomorrow or Wednesday, we have another one.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Actually, this afternoon is supposed to kind of roll in. Oh,
that's even worse.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
So Wednesday becomes clear again, and then another one comes
in after that. Correct, Welcome to Droughtland. I just wanted
to point that out, all right. I want to tell
you about what's going on the Republican Party. Now, we
already have a split among Republicans with the release of
the Epstein files, no question about that. But there was
(00:52):
a study about Republicans in California. They're more divided than
ever on the immigration Paul And here is no shocker
and no surprise. Latinos, young people from eighteen to twenty
nine and moderate women in the Republican Party here in California.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Boy, have they diverged from Trump's policies.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Forty six percent of the Latino Republicans disagree with deporting
immigrants who have resided in the country for a long time,
compared with thirty percent of white counterparts. And why, well,
you look at the sleeping crackdown on immigration, launching the
ICE raids across the country, removing legal barriers in order
(01:38):
to make deportations faster. I told you about one of
Lindsay's best friends, the mother in law, her son in
law was picked up at the airport and as he
describes that he's in El Salvador right now, he was deported.
He described the horrific treatment that he got from the
(01:58):
ICE agents. Now, to be fair, and I don't know
the answer, but I'm moving towards that the news is
ICE agents treating people like crap. Ice agents actually being
professional you don't see much of. And with all these
thousands of ICE agents, are all of them, most of
(02:19):
them treating these immigrants horribly, I would guess not. Now,
it's the cat that ran that didn't run up the
tree doesn't get the news, and that may be what
this is about. But at this point, and this is
I won't say it's a shocker, but this is the
difference Trump when he was elected this time around, well,
(02:44):
he had made substantial inroads with the Latino community gained
Latino voters far more than typical Democratic candidates. Get now, why,
my guess it was about prices. It was about about inflation.
(03:04):
I think that was the number one issue, inflation and
the prices of goods. And he came into office, he
promised that prices would be lowered. He was going to
come in and make life livable again. Inflation would stop
under his administration, And of course it didn't.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
It couldn't. Inflation is there no matter what.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
And you add people that are having a rough time financially,
more so now than before, who were hoping that his
promises would be kept.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Well they're not. So all of a sudden, this view
of Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
People are not looking at it with these rose tinted glasses.
And what Latinos are seeing is Latinos are getting nailed.
Why because most of the immigrants of vast, vast majority,
of course the Latino where ice pick up Latinos, well,
they go to places where Latinos hang around. You're not
(04:06):
going to see any more people at home depot near
the driveways.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
You don't see.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Many laborers congregate trying to get work. You don't see
many places where you know fairs, events where Latinos hang out,
they're at home, they're frightened of being picked up. And
you have a Latino population that are going, wait a minute,
(04:33):
we're getting nailed as much because we're Latino than we
are about being illegal immigrants. That's the philosophy that we're
now seeing, and they're not liking it.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
We're talking about Republicans now.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Democrats are way way over to the left and do
not like what's happening with immigration. But I have always
been I won't say anti immigration, but a strong believer
in border control. I do believe that there is a
limit to how many people you can let in Ama
Lazarus with send us the poor, the wretched, open arms.
(05:09):
America is the place where people want to go and
we should allow them in, which is kind of crazy.
But have we gone too far? Has the Trump administration
gone too far?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
You bet? You bet?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Now the argument that they haven't gone too far is
ille ill. Immigration crossing the border has dropped to a
trickle relative to what Joe Biden had done when he
was president, And was that wrong? Yeah, yeah, Joe Biden.
Biden went the other way. He was way too liberal,
And now we have people being picked up, and I
(05:44):
mean viciously. They're being picked up. And when Christy Noms
says it's only the worst of the worst, that's simply
not true.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
That is absolutely not true.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
The majority of people that are being picked up do
not have criminal records, and if they have criminal records,
it was There's.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Been some with traffic tickets that are on the record.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
So we'll see how many more Republicans go the way
of not being particularly happy with what's going on. And
I'm part of that group. I'm not a Republican, as
you know. I'm an affiliate, it always have been. I've
never been registered anything. But I'm certainly part of the
group that are going Wait a minute, this is way
way too far.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
All right.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Moving over to lax La International Airport. If you are
going overseas, you're going to have to go to lax
lax is considered one of the worst airports.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
In the world now.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Prior to the Olympics in nineteen eighty four, the lax
was completely revamped and it went from.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Horrible to horrible.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And now we're talking about a one point five billion
dollar program which has just been approved by the lax
which is its own government. Semi government agency to relieve traffic. Okay,
roadway improvements aimed at reducing traffic at entrances and exits
(07:32):
and eliminating queuing on public roads. And they're going to
do this ahead of the twenty twenty eight Olympic Games.
Now I want to point something out. Okay, here is
what it's about. I'm gonna repeat this roadway improvement aimed
at reducing traffic at the entrances and the exits and
(07:57):
eliminating the line on public roads to get into the airport.
Have you noticed I didn't say changing that crazy ass
horseshoe that lax is all about even when there is
no traffic coming into the airport, and there have been
days where there's no traffic coming in. So let's say
(08:22):
this comes into fruition and traffic is released coming in
and exiting the airport. Once you hit the airport itself,
it can take you an hour to go from Terminal
one to Terminal seven all the way around, because people
(08:44):
are parked at the exits baggage claim. As they walk
outside of baggage claim and folks who are picking them
up are now at the curb and then next to
the car at the curb, the next to the car
that's next to the car at the curb. I've never
(09:06):
seen it more than four deep or more than three deep,
because they just don't allow that to happen because that
blocks the roadway completely. So be prepared for a huge
amount of construction, and I mean a huge amount of construction,
and it's not going to be very easy. I hate
(09:27):
this airport, and there really is no choice Southern California.
If you are going to Europe, for example, if you
are going to Japan anywhere in the East, you're not
taking off from Long Beach. You're not taking off well
obviously from Hollywood Burbank, which is a regional airport. You're
(09:48):
not taking off from Ontario or John Wayne. To some extent,
you are, but nothing like the trip that you are
going to take. So now they're building two new terminals,
but those have slowed down tremendously and they're just going
to go on for years and years, and they're going
(10:09):
to go at their own incremental speed in terms of construction.
Why is that the terminal expansion plan has been paused
because the projections were that one hundred million visitors were
going to hit lax in the years to come one
hundred million per year. Last year the airport had just
(10:30):
seventy seven million travelers, twenty percent lower than it's twenty
nineteen high.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
So the projects are on hold until.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
They figure out that there are going to be enough customers,
enough travelers, enough people to pick up travelers and drop
them off. So the good news is at seventy seven
million travelers. The bad news is that every one of
them were at the airport when you were driving in
(10:59):
and it was completely crazy. So LAX is going to
go from one of the worst airports in the world
to one of the worst airports in the world. It
was poorly designed day one. Every time has been remodeled,
it's poorly designed. They have to get rid of that horseshoe.
(11:19):
The problem is where is the airport going to be built.
There are no huge areas. There is I think it's
west of the airport.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
There was.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
A community and the airport bought that land to increase
the size and never did the land. The houses where
they're vacant boarded up for years and years and years.
I don't even know what happened to them. I still
think that land is vacant. Ann would you look that
up and tell me if that's true true or not.
(11:53):
The vacant land east of the airport that was bought
by the airport authority, there's no place for the airport
to go. It can't go it can't go it can't
go east. That society, you can't go east, you can't
go west. But building the airport, no, it's not going
to work. So we're screwed when it comes to lax.
(12:17):
That's all it's you're fined. You might as well drive
to Japan's You're probably an evid easier time. All right, guys,
we're done with that now. I want to talk about
how rough it is in the United States to live.
And I think this is happening most of the world,
but you know, we obviously concentrate it. What's happening here
(12:40):
and here is what's really an issue. And this is
from CNN. One in four households are living paycheck to paycheck. Now,
there's already there. There has always been a percentage of
people living paycheck to paycheck, but it has exploded. According
to Bank of America, twenty four percent of US households
(13:02):
are living paycheck to paycheck so far in twenty twenty
five and it may get worse. And Bank of America
come through its internal data and there's a lot of
a lot of information on this. There's a lot of
research they did, and the problem is that twenty four
percent of these households spend over ninety five percent of
(13:23):
their income on necessities, leaving absolutely nothing for the nice
to have things like going out to dinner, even taking
a vacation. And that's not even including savings. We have
that K shaped economy where the K part going up
are the rich people and part of the K going
(13:44):
down are the poor people. And it is very tough.
A lot of people are struggling just to get by.
The President dismisses that as a con job conjured up
by Democrats, and that's all based on on fake news.
That's not true. It is not fake news. It is
(14:04):
real news. And the rule of the thirty percent rule
of which thirty percent of your income should go to
rent or housing has gone by the wayside years ago.
And as an example, Amy has brought this up and
has admitted this fifty percent of her income goes to rent. Now,
(14:31):
you know, usually I make fun of how little money
we all make, but Amy makes a good living. She
makes a decent living even though she works at iHeart.
And that's not because they're wonderful people. She's part of
a union that forces the issue. So Amy is fairly
comfortable no matter what. But let me ask some Amy,
how long has it been since fifty percent of your
(14:53):
income goes to housing? It's been a while, although they
you know, I mean, I've had my rent go up.
I've been here for forever and my rents increase more
than fifty percent.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
That's true, but we don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
If you look at the figure it has your income
has not gone up as as quickly as the rent
has gone up.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
And that happening. No, no, no, So it's been at
least a few years. Yeah, it's getting worse and worse.
That's the problem.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
And when people who don't make a good living are
nailed with this, it is very, very difficult living paycheck
to paycheck. I am not an exceptionalist. I am not
some that says America is the greatest country. In certain aspects.
It is, but aspects like housing and living paycheck to
(15:47):
paycheck not even close. You go to the Scandinavian countries,
that's where you want to be poor that's where they
have the safety net.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
The US does not. What are you going to say,
we're the greatest country in the world.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Are healthcare is the great is among the greatest countries
in the world, isn't it? Mortality rate is number nineteen
or twenty, literacy rate is down in the twenties, and unfortunately,
living paycheck to paycheck among industrialized nations. Now, obviously you
(16:21):
go to Sudan or Yemen, there is no paycheck and
you're eating sand for dinner.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I got it.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
But when you're talking about industrialized nations, it is very
tough to be poor. And more and more Americans are
living paycheck to paycheck. It is now twenty five percent,
and that is a figure that we should be completely
ashamed of. That's a shanda. I don't know if you've
(16:47):
heard of the Coastal Commission. Here in California. The Coastal
Commission addresses building along the coast. Goes about one thousand
yards inland, and if you want to build along the coast,
have to deal with the Coastal Commission. You know, in
addition to dealing with the cities, for example Malibu, other
cities that are on the coast, including at Orange County
(17:11):
has a lot, a lot of coastline, and the Coastal
Commission is sort of the last bastion of telling you
to go pound sand. Well, actually you can't pound sand
because if you're building on the sand, the Coastal Commission
is not going to let you pound it because you're
not going to live on the beach. And it has
been so difficult to deal with that, people just give up.
(17:36):
They just say no to everything. Well, there is a
big problem with housing, low income housing, and the Coastal
Commission is changing now.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
The Coastal Commission is.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Twelve people on it and three appointing authorities, the Governor,
the Speaker of the Assembly, and the California a Senate
Rules Committee. It was created after the Santa Barbara oil
spill to control what is off the coast and that
includes building. And I have I know developers who have
(18:09):
spent years dealing with a Coastal Commission, and the Coastal
Commission will say no, for example, to certain seasons you
can't build. For example, the huntback turtle. I don't even
know if there is a huntback turtle, but there are animals, flies,
or insects or little mammals fish that are indigenous to
(18:32):
our area and therefore during mating season you can't build.
And there are other indigenous species which during their mating
system you can't build, and sometimes they overlap, so you
can't build at all. And so you go in front
of the Coastal Commission because those are rules, and you
(18:52):
ask for a waiver, you ask for permission to build,
and historically they've said no, no, thanks, rather or not,
we want to protect the coastline and we do that
by not letting you build.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Well, it has gone the other way.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Because of the lack of affordable housing, and now we're
going to see are we going to see affordable housing
along the coast? And that makes it I don't know
how in fact, people or any organization or any entity,
(19:28):
any miss municipality or county can possibly buy land along
the coast to build. But there's a land, there's a
coastal lands that belong to the state that have nothing
to do with private ownership, and the Coastal Commission controls ohs,
and so I think what you're going to do is see.
(19:49):
And this is really tough because if you're building a
fourteen million dollar house in Newport Beach for example, along
the coast, is there going to be just up the street,
up the coast affordable housing? And there is tons of
affordable housing out there, just not along the coast. Except
(20:10):
there's one trailer park in Malibu that overlooks it's on
a bluff and it overlooks the Pacific Ocean. It's one
of the it's a million dollar view and it is
a trailer park. Now nobody leaves, and the ground rent
is an expensive relative to what it would cost to
(20:33):
rent there or build there. And that's it. It's all
I know as far as affordable housing. All right, we're done, guys,
that's it all right? Coming up?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Oh, Gary and Shannon, of course we're up. Next.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
We start all over again tomorrow morning with wake up call,
and that involves the lovely Amy and Will Coleschreiber, and
then Neil and I jump aboard, and then taking care
of all this is Kono and Ann and off she's
running someplace in the meantime.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Well, I guess we'll see you tomorrow. You know, it's
probably gonna be wet tomorrow, but so be it. This
is KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
You've been listening to the Bill Handle show, Catch my
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