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Brian James, Every Monday at eight oh five. Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs, tariff tariffs. Also among other topics with Brian James, fed says it's stay and put GDP Slow's four point twenty five four point five percent, more and more young families unable to afford a home, which is a real sad state of affairs, and that is just a practical reality.

Karrisee Caris Sincidiva and the studio at eight forty or on the program at eight forty, always enjoy helping out the cincinnti VA spreading the news and the information about the benefits of signing up for you your VA coverage. So it's more than just medical. It's especially medical care. People kind of view it as medical insurance, but no, it's actual care. So VA does good things for our local veterans. And not all vas are built the same.

Not al of them as well oiled a machine. And I know the Cincinniva is not perfect, but it really is striving to do the best it can for the American veterans. And I truly appreciate him for that work and that effort. So I also appreciate hearing from you. You've got a comment, maybe something about the tariffs. I do have a feeling that's going to impact all of this. Five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred eight two to three talk found five fifty on

at T funds. And in case you're looking for clarity on why Trump is imposing the tariffs or has imposed the tariffs, twenty five percent additional tariffs and imports from Canada and Mexico ten percent on additional teriffs from China. It's all about and I got this statement from the White House, all about illegal immigration and entanyl. And if you stop for a moment, you think about the chaos that's going to ensue, and oh my god, the price

is going to go through the roof. And you know, our relationships with Chai, with Canada and Mexico going to be strained, already strained with China, hell, probably couldn't be strained anymore. It's all about fentanyl and illegal immigration. And they have to ask myself out loud, and I'll ask you out loud, maybe even answer to this, Why in the hell would in Canada and Mexico be interested in helping stop the production and in an importation of fentanyl.

Just ignore the migrant situation for a moment, because of course, if we had really strong border security, and I recognize the number of miles along the border between the United States and Canada, the United States and Mexico make it a little difficult to secure it one hundred percent. But the Biden administration didn't do anything whatsoever to secure the border.

In fact, facilitated people coming into the country CVP one application where you could just apply for coming into the United States and then get flown directly from your country into the United States. That's not border security. But we could do something about the border. And I don't think it's possible to stop the flow of drugs into the

country given that. I mean, hell, a drone can carry quite a bit of a payload if you flew a drone from Mexico over the wall, if one existed, then you wouldn't have any problem getting drugs into the country. But ignoring those practical realities, why wouldn't those two governments want to help us stop that? I think it's an illustration, at least in Mexico, the fact that the cartels pretty much run the country, and they of course make billions of dollars. We obviously have a strong demand here in

our country. What is with everybody in the United States? What you get all whacked out on drugs? For anyway, it's cocaine for a long time, you know, the cartels built the cocaine trade, and now it's fentanyl. Unbelievably deadly stuff that is anyway, Donald Trump calling in an emergency situation international Emergency Economic Powers Act. That's what he asserted,

because of yeah, fentanyl and immigration. John taking bold action to hold Mexico, Canada, and China accountable for the promises of halting illegal immigration and stopping poisonous ventanyl and other drugs from flowing into our country. He said. Chinese officials have failed to take the actions necessary to stem the flow of precursor chemicals to known criminal cartels, which they do. They send them directly and the cartels put it together and ship it off to the United States. Canada is

involved in that too. According to the release, a recent study recognized Canada's heightened domestic production of fentanyl and it's growing footprint within international narcotics distribution. Doesn't Canada have a vested interest in putting a halt to this? I just don't understand the reason we have to go down this road. I can't we all agree that fentanyl bad, fentan bad. I just don't understand. Tariff they said, we're remain in effect until such time as drugs in particular fentanyl and

all illegal aliens. Stop this invasion of our country. It's got an exclamation point out of it. It's statment from Donald Trump. So what's gonna happen?

they're really really good. You get the right brand and they have that sweetness that you know full sized tomatoes have. But cherry tomatoes on the list. Canada big supply to the of cherry tomatoes. I guess us Canadian producers grow them in giant greenhouses near the United States border. Mexico also supplies tomatoes. Economist warning the domestic producers will be tempted to increase their prices to match price on imports. Yes, we do grow them here and they're easy to grow, folks.

Will I will tell you that Tonka trucks, Joe, You're gonna be able to handle a ten percent increase on Tonka trucks coming from China? Do you think so? Ten percent import on tariff on Chinese goods will raise the retail price of the Tonka trucks. With over a million of those Tonker trucks sold in the United States each year, every one of them made in Ohio. Currently priced twenty nine to ninety nine, they might rise to about thirty four to ninety nine, according to a chief executive of

Basic Fund, the toys manufacturer guy named Jay Foreman. Interestingly enough, it's not just Tonker trucks. More than eighty percent of toys sold in the United States are manufactured in China, data shared by the Toy Association, which is described as an industry group. Maple syrup just tapped the maple trees in the Thomas Yard today. You can do that. It's pretty simple to do. We've been making maple syrup now

for a couple of years. Tap the trees, get a bucket, boil it down, and you've got unbelievably wonderful maple syrup. So if you don't want to go to the store and pay a lot for the tariff Canadian maple syrup. More than sixty percent of Canada's production is exported into the United States. Canada and the United States are the only two countries that produce commercial scale level maple syrup. Now you don't have to go with commercial scale. You got a maple tree in your backyard, tap it. It's

not difficult. It's also fun. I mean, how many people out there can say, hey, I made my own maple syrup. Tequila? Uh oh yeah, we are the largest market for Mexican tequila, apparently much more popular now than it used to be. And uh oh, saygabydy or avocado toast. More than eighty percent of US avocados come from Mexico. Cord of the US Department of Agriculture in Mexico provides about half. Here's

a more troubling figure. Mexico provides about half of the United States fresh produce imports, and, notably, given the climate difference between Mexico and the United States, described as a particularly important supplier of produce in the winter time. So undoubtedly your grocery bill is going to get higher if you spend any time in the produce department of your local grocery, sport, smartphones from China. Of course, now you know, Trump's not the only one. We have tariffs on the

on industrial goods from China. Biden administration also plays tariffs on industrial goods. However, most consumer goods like smartphones were spared from the additional import tariffs in what the journal describes as an effort to avoid the wrath of American consumers and across the board. Ten percent tariff on goods made from China, which is what it is, will also include smartphones for the first time, and maybe it will

cause price increases. I think you can say possibly or maybe and strike that from the sentence and say they will. This was a particularly funny reference because you know, you could probably pick out a litany of fact thousands of different products which are going to be impacted by the tariffs. Well, the Street Jaranoil identified sledge hammers made in China. Sledge Hammers made in China already face an import tariff of twenty five percent when they're imported here in the United States.

The additional tariff will of course raised the price even further. However, take a quick look there are several sledgehammer models made here in the United States. You needn't rely on Chinese made sledge hammer bless America all because of fentanyl and illegal immigration. Does anybody think there's any other perhaps reasons to want to engage in this tariff war that we

now have going on between Canada, Mexico and China. And of course Canada Mexico already renounced retaliatory tariffs over the weekend in retaliation for the ones that Trump announced, So nobody saw that coming. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on his way out of office. The actions taken today by the White House split US apart instead of bringing us together. They are placing matching twenty five percent tariffs up to one hundred and fifty five billion dollars in US imports,

including alcohol and fruit. Kentucky bourbon producers probably a little upset about that. Trudeau, warning of economic pain due to the tariffs, encouraged Canadians to choose Canadian products and services rather than American ones. Right, It's gonna have real consequences

for people workers on both sides of our border. He said, we don't want to be here, we didn't ask for this, but we will not back down in standing up for both Canadians and for the incredible successful relationship between Canada

the United States. For her part, Mexican President and then Claudia Scheinbaum also ordered retaliatory tariffs, saying, we categoryally reject the Right House slander that the American government has alliances with or that the Mexican government has alliances with criminal organizations, as well as any intentions of meddling in our territory. Well, I'm surprised she's able to say that through a straight face. Nobody's paid attention to the situation deteriorating as it has

been deteriorating for decades. Has to recognize the Mexican cartels pretty much had the upper hand when it comes to who controls Mexico. If you're a politician running for office in Mexico, or if you're an elected official in Mexico and you take a stand against the cartels in any way, shape or form, you end up dead. It's like a

foregone conclusion. Shinebold says the United States government's agencies wanted to address the serious fentanyl consumption in their country, they could fight the sale of drugs on the streets of their major cities, which they don't do. And the laundering of money that is illegal activity generates that has done so much to harm its population. I can't disagree completely

with that. You know that whole defund the police movement and the decriminalization of drug use, You think that's had an impact on increasing or decreasing the demand for drugs

in our country. If you defund the police and not as many officers on the street, given that there's the ratio of officers to humanity in any given city, even in the most highest employment of officers point in history, like if we had a full contingent, it would only be like eleven hundred cincin anty police officers to deal with like roughly two hundred and fifty three hundred thousand people. How could you possibly control all of the drug activity

in any given neighborhood with that ratio? You can't. Maybe if our demand went down, maybe if we reflected on ourselves as a society and realizing we're propping up all of this criminal enterprise and we're now in a trade war with Canada and Mexico as well as China because we just can't say no to the drugs. Five twenty fifty five case detalk stations stick around more to talk about your Phone calls are always welcome, so feel free to call up at the bright back with age a

lot of people. Is there a tax on this too, he said Chuck MANGIONI, well, I don't want you to play more than twenty seconds. You're you're not You're not you? You did avoid the tax. You know you're not old enough to remember when you couldn't get away from that damn song They played it like every five minutes on radio back in the seventies. God, I not gonna have an earworm in my head coming off the heels of a week of having fear as never boring run through

my head. Just full that song up from the Raisins, Joe. I made a lot of people smile when I posted that on Facebook, anyway, and that allows me to use up the balance at the time for this segment. Getting back on time, local stories or phone calls, you can feel free to call it prefer talking with you and doing local stories, but hey, I'll take it either way.

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a lot of residents in the area are frustrated. I hear the complaints and I know they're legit because I see it myself. Speed limit Amsterdam Road twenty five miles per hour. Apparently everyone driving more than forty miles per hour, and they've also notes that they blow the stoplights. Are the stop signs off? Studied by the police department last year found that during one week in January seventy, roughly

seventy percent of drivers were speeding. Similar study conducted in August, number of speeding drivers decrease, still showed nearly a quarter. We're going over the speed limit. I just said, the biggest people is people. The biggest problem is people during the stop signs, says, people don't even tap the brakes. Sometimes they go right through the stop signs. Growing tired of the problem, he is now working with police to

increase patrols in the area. So we just want people to slow down and think about safety again for themselves and others Fort Right Police, saying that there is a heavy police presence now and it will be seen in the area for the foreseeable future. So if you're getting ready to drive down Amstein Avenue, keep your eyes peeled for the cops because they may be there. Potter City wants to make it clear not to meet some of

a sort of quota. He said. The city doesn't benefit financially from police citations, saying almost none of that money comes back to the City of Fort Wright, simply a matter of keeping people safe. Quote, let's not create a situation where someone gets injured or killed simply due to bad driving behavior when it's something that's so simple to stop.

Sounds right. Peter Crabel sitting in the parking lot of Coraine Township Walgreens when a bullet went through the back of his van and into his liver stray shot fired by a publicly unidentified publicly unidentified suspect in the double killing of two brothers across the street at Popeye'es over a couple of weeks ago. He's been recovering since he's picking up a prescription from Walgreens, apparently for a toothache. He found himself needed to roll out of the car

and go inside to ask for help. I guess after his liver had been punctioned by the air bullet. Two women came to his aid after he entered the Walgreens, applying pressure to the wound while he waited for paramedics to arrive. Grab told the women applying the pressure to tell his wife, Sander he loved her, as he didn't know if he was going to make it to the hospital.

Wow brought to the ICU at University of Sincinni Medical Center, where his liver and a cracked rib had been healing from the gunshot, and his gallbladder had to be removed. He said. After a couple of surgeries and a lot of procedures, I become stable and getting better. So I remember everything from the bullet to the operating room. I

woke up feeling blessed to be alive. Amen. Colerain Township police call it just before one pm January sixteenth, to the intersection of Cole Rain in Springdale, where Rashaan Robinson and his brother Willie Dishawn Robinson died at the scene shooting in the parking lot of the Popeyes Louisi in the kitchen, one of the brothers inside of Blue, Infinity in the other just outside of the vehicle. According to the Cornine Townships Plus spokesperson, Infinity had twelve gun shots

through the passenger window. Police haven't yet released a motive or announced any arrest in the shooting. However, court records show that Rashawn Robinson publicly expressed his fears of being killed in a court filing years before his death. Spokes Version confirmed Crable was not an intended target in the shooting, but he says he's facing months of rehab after he's discharge from the hospital. No kidding, dangerous out there, good Amazewell, Kentucky or A body of a Mazell woman who was

reported missing for weeks found over the weekend. On Saturday morning, court to the Maysville Police, They along with the Buffalo Trace Search and Rescue, found the body of Eugena Harris Cooley, forty seven years old, near the area of Walld Park in Mason County. Not clear what happened to her or Dota daughter Jidjishaw West that her mom was last seen walking out of her apartment complex December twenty first. Police working with the Mason County Coroner's office to investigate the

cause of death. Boone County judge has ousted all Union City commissioners, avoiding the commission's in tired November general election after claims of election fraud. Decision came out on late Friday, Boon County Circuit Court Judge Richard Bruggaman granted former Union City Commissioner Doug Bind's election contest. In December, Boon County Judge Niner restraining order that would have prevented the newly

elected commissioners from taking their seats January first. The attempt came after buying fout a lawsuit contesting the results of the November election. With this decision, all three newly elected commissioners, John Mefford, Brian Garner, and Eric Delaney have been ousted from their seats. The decision leaves Mayor Larry Solomon as the only member of the city Commission. Solomon will now hold a commission meeting. I guess today it is a third,

isn't it. Yeah, sure is, and he'll likely begin the process of appointing new members as the commission, as directed by the court. BiiN has requested a new citywide election instead. Of appointments because due to scheduling, the appointments will continue until twenty twenty seven. Brugerman agreed with Byn's lawsuit claims that hundreds of illegal votes in Boone County changed the outcome of the commission race, which he lost. Five candidates

running for four open seats. Buying lost by sixty five votes. His lawsuit claims that more than five hundred people illegally voted in Union Precinct one and Union Precinct four. EECE Judge Bergermann and his judgment quote there could be as many as eight hundred invalid votes between Union one and four. Some parties contend that nine hundred and thirty two ballots were cast. It could be equally assumed that all city ballots had been given to the twelve hundred and fifty

nine non city voters. In any event that disparity is greater than five hundred and ninety nine votes, Find's attorney, Steve Murgerley said after the ruling he plans to reach out to the Assistant Attorney General nominee for the Civil Rights Division and request a federal audit and investigation. Huh voter fraud Joe, It does exist someplace five thirty six many five krs de talk station. You got pain, knee pain, hip pain, back pain. That our threat is pain and

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from Mexico and Canada. Mexico's got the cartel situation they have to deal with prevents them from actually doing anything about it. Canada, I don't know, but they say that fentanyl production is increased in Canada as well. But as far as Chinese is concerned, I mean, selling fentanyl precursors to Mexican cartels is an act of war. I think they enjoy and are gleefully watching the damage that's being done to our country with this massive amount of death

and destruction and dependence that fentanyl has created. Aug what are the points it was made in Trump's announcement last year Customs and Border Protection handed more than twenty one thousand pounds of fentanyl at our borders, enough to kill I'm just staring at all at this figure. Enough to kill more than four billion people, and that's what they found. A lot of it's making it into the streets. Yeah, it's is. It is a subtle, nefarious, that yet genuine

act of war. It's like the the info wars that we're engaged with, and the gathering up of data and the attacking of our computer systems and the installation of nefarious software so they can flip a switch and shut us all down a moment's notice. Anyhow, Yeah, I'm aware of that. Over the stack is stupid Detroit, a priest who hosts an exorcism podcast. Thank you, Joe, That's exactly what I was thinking. Facing charges after he allegedly took a piece of hair from a teenage girl's head and

used it to floss his teeth. There's no flag for us, amen, and there isn't for this, one, prosecutor said January twenty second. The criminal complaint about Michigan priest Father Carlos Martins of Detroit, that he placed hair of a miner in his mouth in an insulting or provoking nature. That's part of the complaint. He's the host of and you can check it out for yourself the exorcist files. Why you want to check

that out beyond my understanding. Charged with mis demeter, battery, and Illinois over the lleged incident happened November twenty fifth, He says he's denied the allegations. Ledgend incident had happened in the Diocese of Joliet, where Martin's ministry group was there while on a nationwide American tour with the Relic of Saint Jude Okay, teenage boy told police, who's waiting the line to see the relic when bald? And he is?

I see his head bald and Martin's made jokes about what he used to have hair, and then he grabbed the thirteen year old girl's hair and put it in his mouth. Okay, I guess People magazine reporting on this when the boy told police that Martin then allegedly proceeded to make a flossing motion with the girl's hair and later that day sat behind the girl in the pew

and made growling noises. Diocese a Joli had released a statement about the incident and said they ordered Martin's to quote depart from our parish and out of our diocese close quote taking it to custody January seventh, and charged with battery. What what the HELLI forty five five karosity talks dacy for in exchange, get your imported car service at for an exchange. It's the right thing to do

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a started the extent she's known by people. Anna Beatriz Pierra Alves is known online as to her fans as Anna Polly. Died after four long from a hotel balcony in Brazil January twenty third. Court to the reporting, she was in the middle of filming a pornographic scene with two men and that's when she fell to the ground floor courtyard of the Mont Blanc Apart hotel, described as a four hotel. A four star hotel located in the Nova Iguacu, Brazil, Wherever the hell that is. Don't know

court to the reporting. When questioned by authorities, the two men offered conflicting testimonies, but police released the men after questioning. Foul play has not been ruled out, though, according to the police spokesperson, the comp this is a complex case. We don't rule out any possibility, from an accident to possible crime. Was reported that her boyfriend I struggle with that she's a pornographic actress. How do you maintain a relationship with a woman who is having sex with other

people for a living. Can't reconcile that. Maybe maybe I'm just more of a traditionalist anyway. Pedro Henrique Pedro Enrique went on social media to morning passing, writing as the hours pass, it's starting to sink in and the whole phrasing, thank you, Joe. The hole in my heart is only getting bigger. If someone is to blame, they will pay and the culprit will be found. His hole's getting bigger, Joe frazing, Bobby, Welcome to the five Caresey Morning Show. Happy Monday to you, my friend.

Twenty nine year old Ashley began having serious issues with the relationship with twenty eight year old Cody Deleisa, largely surrounding her difficulty in finding work. According to the press release in the District Attorney's office there, at some point, White became so frustrated with the relationship that she attempted to drown and burn his cat well While attended a job interview eight August thirteenth, twenty twenty, and rode home in a public bus while texting Deleise about how it went.

He apparently expressed skepticism about her chances of getting a job, which frustrated her. Or to the release, White met with a man on the bus who called himself Scott and asked if she was in a relationship with a man and whether he raped her. This doesn't make any sense to me. Wright responded that he had, and Scott then said they must kill him. White and Scott got off the bus together. The pair shot a gun belonging to Scott before making the way into White's home and confronting Delesa's.

Scott introduced himself to de Lisa as White's brother from Texas, and at some point after the pair arrived at Delesea's he was shot twice in the head.

feel free to call. Maybe you got something on your mind other than impaling people as a deterrent to outsiders. I'll be right back after the news.

Brian James. Fast forward two hours. We'll hear from Brian James on tariffs, talk about a little bit about those. In the last hour, four point twenty five to four point five percent to the Feds, at least insofar as Federal Reserve holding interest rate to four point twenty five to four point five percent reigns inflation a rather gross domestic product group two point five percent slowed slightly in the final quarter. We talk about that home affordability crisis

is taking a toll on America's young adults. Sad reality that knows the topics of Brian James. I just appreciate hearing from Brian, I always appreciate hearing from U two five, three, seven, four, nine fifty five, eight hundred and eighty two to three talk and does care and the charsee cares section which takes place at eight forty. When we have it, We're going to have the Cincinntiva to talk about four significant Cincinnati VA facility improvements scheduled to be completed this year.

As I pointed out, a VIA takes great care of the veterans and they're always trying to improve things. So thank God for the American veteran and I'm glad we have a pretty gosh darn good VA here in the city of Cincinnati. Not every city can say that anyway, Ah that bump bump bum. I saw this Alisa Finley article and I thought it was rather interesting. Now, I remember the Trump administration paused federal grants, completely paused them, and then of course withdrew that pause after the uproar.

But it took a moment to I mean, did the pause that kind of shook the framework of a lot of Democrat states and Democrat cities, because well, they are almost entirely dependent upon you and I working out here in other flyover states to keep their their systems going, and that's what her observations were in this Democratic States are wards of Washington subtitle There's a reason for the panic over the Trump white House's temporary federal spending pause.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy was complaining, fifteen percent of our workforce are funded by those dollars, and that in and of itself is a frightening thing. Lawsuit brought by all twenty two states with Democratic attorneys general plus the District of Columbia detailed a litany of programs funded by you and your labor in your perhaps red state. Washington said it received one hundred and twenty one million dollars last year for allergy and infects his de's disease research.

Illinois claimed federal Medicaid funds made up sixty percent of its twenty twenty three spending on critical health services. New York Governor Kathy Hogel Washington, do you realize the consequences of what you've done here and you really want us to not fund law enforcement? Do you allow us to not fund roads and bridges? Lissa Finley notably interjects, well,

what are New York state taxes for? Right the freeze didn't apply to the most federal dollars of float of states for social welfare, education, transportation, since those are based on statutory formulas, although the administration's original memo didn't explain that clearly, and on Wednesday last week, the administration recinded the memo after a judge blocked it. Democratic states and their economies depend much more on Washington than Republican states do.

This year, New York received roughly four thousand, nine hundred dollars per capita from the Feds California forty three hundred dollars. That's two to three times as much as Florida seventeen hundred, Texas fifteen hundred. It's because Democratic states provide more generous social welfare, which is increasingly funded by Washington thanks to

regulatory changes by yeah the Biden administration. Democratic states also received a disproportionate served more than one trillion with a te that Congress sent the state and local governments in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one as pandemic relief. Between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two, twenty twenty two, federal dollars flowing to red states and local governments increased by five hundred and fifteen billion dollars, more than the rise

in Social Security and medicare combined. And you know that we're still spending money on COVID. It seems to be kind of comical to me, says Most COVID funds are running out, though the Biden Federal Emergency Management Agency planned to hand out disaster relief funds to states and cities for pandemic quote unquote emergency spending through August of twenty twenty six. See this is a big scam, folks. And I kind of made comments and was painfully or wherever

while it was going out. They were throwing money all over the place. And a lot of these democratic cities before COVID had run themselves into the ground with overspending. Look at the pension problems that Illinois faces, and New York and other cities the overwhelming nightmare that their budgets are. And oh my god, look here's COVID money from the federal government. Let's pay off our debts. And that's what was done. And here we are talking about additional pandemic

spending through twenty twenty six, She writes. This year's Los Angeles City budget includes two hundred and eight point two million in FEMA COVID funds one city, including housing vagrants in hotels. What's that got to do with COVID? New York State's budget this year includes nearly three and a half billion dollars in FEMA dollars for COVID quote emergency protective matters close quote like home test kits? Are people

still using those home test kits? I mean, by this point in time, I think we're all painfully aware that the COVID pretty much like a regular, good old fashioned cold unless you're in a comorbid category three. Only five billion dollars after blowing through federal pandemic, largest states and localities are tapping FEMA to backfill their budgets. Congress and

Turns keeps back filling FEMA rents and repeat. Government Accountability Office last summer projected that the COVID disaster quote unquote disaster will be the most expensive in FEMA history. Bretherident Trump is right to call for shifting more FEMA responsibilities to the states. Federal spending on disaster relief creates a moral hazard by reducing the incentive for states to invest in disaster preparedness and mitigation see Los Angeles sam goes

for social welfare. States have lessons center to help lift people out of poverty, since they receive more federal dollars if people stay poor. When you're spending someone else's cash, there's hardly an his center to spend it prudently. Medicaid state's biggest source of federal dollars in courages. In efficient spending, states receive one to three dollars from Washington for every dollar they spend on Medicaid nine dollars for lower income,

able bodied individuals covered under Obamacare's expansion. Democratic states provide more expansive benefits and easier eligibility, and writing more money out of Washington. Some are ringing more money out of Washington. Some thirty six percent of Californians are covered by medicaid. Compare that to Florida, where it's nineteen and in Texas, where it's fifteen. Thirty six percent federal share of California's Medicaid spending nearly one hundred and twenty billion, is more

than Florida's entire budget. America's Welfare Queen New York federal dollars make up roughly forty percent of the state's budget. Let that sink in. Some forty four percent of New Yorkers are covered by medicaid or quasi public option for lower income people, including migrants. Thanks to a Biden regulatory waiver, they've fed foot about ninety five percent of this public options cost, translated to eleven point seven billion dollars this

year alone. Government social assistance and healthcare account for nearly all new jobs added in such Democrat run states as California, nearly all also in New York, Minnesota, in Illinois, nearly all new jobs from your taxpayer dollars. Their high taxes and excessive regulation of suppressed job creation by private businesses, so that government spending is now the main engine of

employment and growth. How long can that last? Soaring pension bills I mentioned in a moment ago for government workers or crowding out public services. Lawmakers have in turn hiked taxes, but the resulting population flight has shrunk their tax This is a total recipe for disaster, and it's unfolding before our very eyes. All this has made them more dependent

on Washington spending. Why should taxpayers in Houston and Jacksonville and Cincinnati subsidized mismanaged government in Sacramento, in Albany, that's a rhetorical question. They shouldn't. By slashing federal spendings, Republicans in Washington could give progressive governments an impetus to reform and escape their welfare trap. Call it tough love. Yeah, thank you, Listen Finley, more people were aware of this reality, more people would rebel against it. Six sixteen fifty five

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have a wildfire recoveries our. His named Steve Soberov, and apparently he was on a phone call with Hollywood talent executives and he was telling them, do not accept the low ball offers, the receiving on their properties house burns of the ground, and no end in sight in terms of, you know, getting the home rebuilt or no idea insight

when the home could possibly be rebuilt. He said, whether you're broke or you're old, don't sell now, because in one year we're going to be putting billions of dollars in your neighborhood of improvements. Now, going back to the article by Elysa Finley, does anybody think that one billion dollars or more is going to come from the state of California or do you think you and I are going to be shouldering that bill? He said, you'll get

triple what these guys are offering you. Now, it's like William Morris Agency and these other talent agencies, you know folks that represent One was identified Jake Tapper, United Talent Agency of Beverly Hills was on the meeting, so all the movers and shakers in the Hollywood area, I suppose During the call, he said half hour labor could get deported before the Palisades is rebuilt, which he said could

be extremely expensive. Also warning the folks on the call not to take the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power testing at face value, not reassuring this one, saying don't bathe your baby in their water. All right, he said on the call, construction costs are going to be as high, going to be high because the demand for commodities is going to be high, the demand for labor, whether or not half our labor is deported before this happens.

Obviously a shot out of the ballot Donald Trump and rather insulting to the construction labor for suggesting that they're all made up of illegal immigrants. He says, it's going to be high. We're going to be recruiting people from around the country to come and live at Motel sixes. Like the Alaska gold Rush. It's going to take a

long time. So on one hand, don't sell because ultimately, at some point way down the road, when taxpayer dollars are going to be injected and fused into the area, we'll finally be able to rebuild and you won't have to sell it at a no pun intended fire sale price. You're just going to have to wait for it. In the meantime, if you don't have any money, and you maybe inherited your home or has been in your home generations, where are you're going to be living? Pacific Palisades not

presently inhabitable anyway. Back over the water situation, referring to the Los Angeles Department or to Water and Power. Just because the DWP says your water is safe, have somebody tested before you move back in. And when they say drinking water, use bottle water, Well, it's easy for him to say, isn't it, And maybe easy for the executives on the call to say, I imagine that they probably have money and maybe their houses didn't burn to the ground.

What they don't say? He went on, and they're starting to say it now. Don't bathe your baby in their water, don't take a bath in the water, don't take a shower, don't do your dishes, don't do your laundry. You don't want to do anything with that water until it's deemed safe, and then personally, if you can afford it, I would get an independent agency or maybe there's a kid at CBS that can tell you if your water is safe. Yeah,

but the CVS burned down too. Sober Off said it could take as long as ready five years for people to rebuild the destroyed homes. Said, I thought you said it wasn't going to be political. Now I want you on the I want you on the bus to yes hit this analogy. You're either on the yes bus or the no bus. Criticism is a bus to know what

he's on the yes bus, he says. He acknowledged that only about five percent of Palisades residents can afford their house now, given that many are generational owners or bought their houses before construction costs in real estate products for the skyrocket and ready for this, he predicted the cost would be in his words, nuts, explaining that we'll probably cost one thousand and to twelve hundred dollars per square

foot to rebuild. Said there's no one in Polisades that won't have a gap between what their insurance policies will pay out and the costs to reconstruct their homes. As he doesn't know what kind of aid will be available to make up the shortfalls. Still, he told these Witzy executives on the call, the best thing for people to do is ready they're building plans, hire legal help. There's another cost many people might not be able to meet.

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Thankfully never happened to me. I did quit on my own accord, but god knows whether I'd still be there. I had stuck it out in Anthon, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and you know what, there is no guarantee that I'm going to be able to keep this job either. But thank God for my listeners, which I take that concern off of my lap. But you know what, times change and new shriffes come into town and people get people lose their jobs. And I'm quick to point out, you know who has any pity for folks in the

coal industry. You know, this whole global warming thing resulting in so many coal jobs just being completely deleted. I sucks to be you. You're in a dirty industry. We don't care about you. But when you go ahead and you start firing government employees, it's like, well, you can't do that. Why not everybody else's face is being fired at some point. You know, I'm not gonna weep over And I have accountants that are friends of mine and I get an accountant to help with my taxes every year.

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You know that's not burnt to an ash to look at that For the next five years, and then you've got to wonder what that's going to do to everybody's the tax space, right and you know, so the tax space is going to have to decrease, which means that they're going to have to rely on the people that stay. Same thing with the workforce for rebuilding everything, which is going to be extra high. Same thing with supplies are going to be extra high. So you've got high taxes.

There's really unsafe water. And you know how they environmentalists out there, they won't even bathed in the water now, you know, probably for just cause now and they'll just they'll spread. They don't have to put up with that.

And you're right, I agree with you completely. Who would really seriously want to wait around for between one and five years to have their house rebuild when the next door neighbors and most of the people across the street didn't even have enough insurance to do a rebuild, they're going to have to sell, and that land is going to go to a for a low ball offer for a long time, because only I would think some sort of corporate investment entity could sink the kind of money

you need in to acquire a bunch of land out there and then afford to be able to wait around until the conditions are ripe to have the homes rebuilt in their own image or vision, right. I mean, everybody was talking about this thing having so many parallels to the Lahina fire that they're now having all the restrictions

on rebuilding. Those houses were in people's families for generation after generation after generation, and they don't meet modern building codes, so they're not going to have their homes rebuilt the way it used to be in the line, and it's going to be pursued into some grand strategy and probably a walkable community type phenomenon, like they're trying to shove

down everybody else's throat out here. Oh yeah, and you're right, you know what, didn't it be interesting question to have answered Gary The total taxes that the collective communities that burned in the ground paid in Los Angeles area like how many tax dollars were collected from the people who used to live in the now burned down Pacific Palisades. I bet it is an outrageous amount of money and it's gone.

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that were the real problem in this country. So say, with the Biden FBI anyway, trans Vegan terror cult, check the right boxes, you too could be remember of the trans vegan terror called Zi's cult blame for a string of what they call brutal murders as well as mayhem in the United States, including the recent fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont. Nationwide manhunt underway for Michael zecho Z A Jko described it as a trans

non binary person. They say he's the one that bought semi automatic weapons used by two other excuse me trans individuals to shoot and kill Border Patrol agent David Maylon back in the twentieth of January during a traffic stop in Vermont. Several of the associates now in custody for various violent crimes, while the leader, Jack ziz La Soda, described as a vegan who also goes by the name Andrea Phelps, is at large after he faked his own

death to escape prosecution. Jacko, connected with the group an online posts also a person of interest in the double murder of her parents in connection with the slang of the Vallejo, California landowner named Curtis Linde alleged cult tied to a string of killings which they say are reminiscent of the murders carried out by Charles Manson and his followers.

Lesota himself currently not charging any of the killing. Some members of this ziz group charged with gravely injuring and later murdering that Curtis lind landowner, who they attacked with a sword after he tried to kick him off from squatting on his property. He was eighty two years old, shot and killed one of them in self defense, lost an eye. The January seventeenth in attack, he was poised to testify against these jailed assailants when he was stabbed

to death outside his home. They arrested a guy named Maximilian Bentley Snyder, who has connections with his trans vegan cult, in charge him with murder. Prosecutor said Lynn was intentionally killed for the purpose of preventing his testimony in the criminal proceeding. Andy No, writer for The New York Post, described Losodas group known as the Zizians, as a highly educated trans vegan rationalist to hold fringe esoteric ideological beliefs

about transhumanism and animal rights. Brian Thomas, hosted the fifty five Care Morning Show, calls them cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Lysoda was at the scene of Lynn's first attack and was squatting on that property. Please let him Goole Go. Though all the skipped court appearance on unrelated charges, police records show a pattern of violence among members associated with him.

Felix Ophelia Buckholt University of Washington, Teresa Milo Consuelo young Blood, two trans individuals fired at Maryland fired at Mayland during the traffic stopped, killing him, according to the complaint. As for mister Delsoda, his whereabouts are currently unknown. Arrested in twenty nineteen while protesting and then barricading a workshop put on by Berkeley based Center for Applied Rationality. And I read that and I go, oh, there's one of those too, huh.

His mother and associates claimed he later died in a boating accident and produced an obituary. Coastguards, however, conducted a search, never found a body, and police later made contact with Lysoda at the scene of Lynn's first attack, but again he wasn't arrested or charged. So we have those trans vegan terror cults. Five six fifty seven. Don't go away. We've got more to talk about aft top of the ur News and then Christopher's Smithman at seven twenty. I hope you stick around.

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fifty on AT and T phones. And one of the things Trump did he got rid of gender pronouns employees and all the federal agencies in order to remove pronouns from their email signatures by last Friday afternoon. This according to internal memos citing two executive orders signed by Donald Trump his first day in office seeking to curb diversity,

equity and inclusion programs. Accord to the one message sent to the Center for Disease Control staff, and any other information not permitted in the policy must be removed from employee signatures by five pm Friday. Employees instructed to remove the pronouns from everything from government grant applications the email

signatures all across the departments. Plays of the Department of Energy received similar notice were told this was meet to meet requirements in the executive order, including removal of all DEI language and federal discourse communications and publications. The result of Trump administration's pushed to do away with all DEI efforts and it's rolling out across the board. And this

is just one little illustration of it. But you know, how did we end up in this bizarre, weird, crazy idea that these and I pulled it up because l g b t q I a UC Davis dot edu. They have a department. It's the LGB T t QI a Resource Center. And in case you're wondering what all those they stay for at Lesbian gets Bisexual, which we all understand and can understand that quite clearly, all of which relate to one's sexual proclivities. Then transgender queer intersection

asexual and I get kind of fuzzy on that. If you are a transgender woman, it means you're a guy biologically you could still be attracted to, at least from a you know, sexual proclivity standpoint, to women you just like dressing up black a gal. I think ed Wood Glenn or Glenda is a movie you can check out on that one right if you get done watching Plan nine from Outer Space. But they have examples of pronouns on this list, and I never heard of a lot

of these. We're supposed to keep track of this, which is why I'm so happy to see the federal governments getting rid of them. CO co, O, N E N. And they put it in context like co laughed or you know, you would say normally he laughed or she laughed CO or N laughed, E y and he. They actually have he, she and they on there. But then again, some people refer to themselves collectively as they more than one person roaming around on their head. And I've made

that observation many times before. But if you go around telling me that you want me to meet to call you. They when I'm referring to you with the pronoun, I'm going to laugh at you and suggest maybe you need some psychological counseling, because apparently you've got more than one

person roaming around inside your head. G X I E y O y O z E. And then the final one they have here is v V E. They also admonish you try to avoid using the phrase preferred pronouns or preferred name, as these suggest an element of flexibility or that someone's identity is less than valid. Someone's name and pronoun are not suggestions and are not preferred over something else. They are inherent to who we are. YO said that, I guess maybe Sanity's finally returning to the world.

I don't know, I'd like to think so. Federal agencies and departments were given a deadline of five pm on Friday to implement Trump's order mandated the US government recognize only two sexes that are, in Trump's words, not changeable.

Memocent Wednesday to agency heads detailed the launder lists of tasks required to comply with the order, including sweeping directive to withdraw all relevant documents directives, orders, regulations, materials, forms, communications, statements, and plans, along with far more specific requests to change gender to the word sex on government forums, disable any email prompts that ask users for their pronouns, and cancel any employee resource groups that include or promote ideology. I

wonder if the UC Davis website will soon disappear. It's still up as of this morning. I do believe they receive federal funds. That's why I kind of uttered that out loud. Agencies also ordered to take down any what they call outward facing media that could be interpreted as promoting a view of gender that isn't in liign with the current administration's policies on gender. In other words, there's two jack, two genders, period, end of story. It's what

you were born with. So apparently, by Friday afternoon, search results for gender on the US Center for Disease Control and Preventions website all dead links, which had been active even earlier in the day. On Friday, websites of the Department of Health and Human Services scrubbed all the pages

on gender affirming care and LGBTQ plus rights. CDC representatives didn't respond to her quest for common Trump said such actions were intended to defend women's rights and protect freedom of conscious by using clear and accurate language in policies. Which take me over to the former Lea Thomas swimmers. Lea Thomas a man pretending to be a woman. We've

all probably familiar with her. Georgia State Senate Committee passed the Fair and Safe Athletic Opportunities Act last Thursday after testimony for multiple female athletes who have been complaining about sharing locker rooms with transgender athletes. So this bill requires athletes to participate on teams that align with their biological sex at birth. It's anticipated it will be signed into law.

Former North Carolina State women swimmer Kaylie Alans, thirty one time All American a two time NC two A champion, spoke about the experience of competing against and sharing a locker room with Thomas. Quote, this is a great statement

from her. We are were sorry. We all were just guinea pigs for a giant social experiment formed by the NCAA regarding how much abuse and blatant disregard women would be forced to take in silence, said she recount of the emotion she felt when competing in areas with Leah Thomas and how much sadness she felt watching women lose out on chances to compete fairly at the event, claiming she wanted to cry and leave the event after seeing Thomas win the five hundred meter freestyle. It all just

felt so off and wrong. Did I go to the locker room in that day to see Thomas and realize there is no escaping this nightmare no matter where I go. I had no idea he was going to be allowed in the women's locker room, as we did not consent

to have a man in our locker room. And I'm immediately on every time I enter a locker room afterward, knowing any moment a man can walk in, walk on enemy while I'm changing, said she felt so uncomfortable that she started abandoning the locker room and instead began to

change in a storage closet behind the bleach. One other University of Kentucky summer, Caitlin Wheeler said young women teenage girls were forced to undress next to a fully intact biological male who exposed themselves to us while we were simultaneously fully exposed. We were never asked, we were never

given a choice. In another option, we were just expected to be okay with it, to shove down our discomfort, our embarrassment, our fear, because standing up for ourselves would have been being labeled as intolerant or hateful or bigoted. And one doctor, because some people were opposed to this,

then get over it. Doctor Jody Greenwald, described as a pediatrician in Roswell, speaking to this panel that was discussing this, told the panel that transgender girls are not predators and warned that transgender youth are more at risk for suicide. And I circled that. Now she can't say on a

quivocally that transgender girls are not predators. They may very well could be, and we know from the news that some of them are, notably the guys that go in the women's locker room and pleasure themselves in front of the other women in the locker room. I would call that predatory behavior. I don't know what your definition of it is, but it certainly falls into mind and I can understand. And it's a sad thing that transgender youth

probably more to risk for suicide. If you really truly believe in your mind, and I believe that many do, that you are really deep down inside a gender that you're not born with. You look down, you got twig and berries, and yet you identify as a woman, and you really believe in your heart of hearts that you

are a woman. I can understand how that might be a massive psychological burden for you, recognizing as any sane rational person would, that there is nothing any doctor or scientist or surgeon can do to transform your chromosomal reality. They might be able to change the exterior a little bit, and part's not going to work like the originals do when you're born that way, but you know, you got to go through your life recognizing that that is an

impossible thing to accomplish. Period, end of story. Might that lead to suicidal ideation? One can make a logical conclusion that it might, but that they are more of a risk to suicide, should imperil the hearts and minds and create an unfair competitive reality for some of them and

for the women in sports. We're gonna turn the entire world upside down because some percentage have suicidal ideation, much like sadly, a pretty substantial percentage of the former folks in uniform serving our country proudly, sadly their numbers are a lot higher in terms of suicide than the general population seven to seventeen. Right now, if you five cares

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my love goes out to those families. And uh, you know, we still have the safest transportation with plane travel, you know, even when you see things like this happen. Obviously, they're going to have to deal with things at that airport with with the military doing exercises there and commercial planes landing and taking off, they're going to have to change what they're doing there, obviously. But what a tragedy on both in both cases.

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in our fifty two neighborhoods, this is completely outrageous. Right, It's one thing to turn on MSNBC and listen to them talk about ICE is separating families, which is just a lie. This administration has only focused on gang members, criminals, drug drug dealers, I mean a rapist. Those are the

people that are being thrown out. And I think that they're talking points, whether it's the View or CNN or MSNBC, they don't understand that what they did over the last call of ten years, people have now caught up with them and they understand that they're lying, right, and so this note they keep coming back with the same sound bite. We're separating families, and we're putting mothers and we're taking them out of the people who are legally here. They're

being handcuffed. I heard it all this weekend and it's all nothing but lies. And so to hear our mayor say that he would not cooperate with ICE to remove criminals who are in our country illegally, meaning they've already broken the law to come here illegally. And you're talking about a gang member that might be in one of our fifty two neighborhoods that you're directing in some way

that Chief Fiji of the Cincinnati Police Department doesn't cooperate. Man, this is where insanity and no common sense his the role. This is where he thinks as a Democrat, a liberal Democrat, that is somehow he's gonna win. What do you think University of Cincinnati is gonna think, Cincinnati State? Right? What do you think that that the Xavier University is gonna think? You know when Mount Saint Joseph if one of their children, one of the kids on those campuses comes up dead.

Because we have a mayor that says, hey, I was unwilling to cooperate with ICE, right, But it's so serious, meaning the mindset is so serious that we've got to deal with it because he's down there clownings right, and the reality of it is I don't blame the police chief. I blame all nine members of council because they have the power to check the mayor. They should be passing a resolution today saying we're cooperating with Ice. Yeah, and we're gonna hold the mayor accountable.

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others in such a broad way. And so this notion when people approach me, it's like it's like they're having no conversation with me about the context of what is going on. And they say, man, I'm so worried about this protester that hit a police officer and he was pardoned, and I'm and I'm thinking in my head, I'm going, when when did Democrats discover the police? I mean, this was this clearly was the party that wanted to defund

the police, reimagine the police department. They have been so unsupportive of law enforcement, peace officers across the United States and the world. They've been shutting down entire highways by walking on them with flags and and taping themselves to the high way so traffic can't get by gluing themselves to the road. This is what the Democrats have been doing.

So it's been so strange when I'm looking at the mainstream media Brian Thomas, and they're there trying to make me think that they care about law enforcement now and what's happening here as it relates to January sixth, But they never mention President Biden's parton of his entire family. They haven't learned anything from the previous election. They're right back on their talking points, whether you're listening to the View, whether you're listening to MSNBC, whether you're listening to CNN.

It is so outrageous how they continue to put out lives about what's happening, whether we're talking about immigration or whether we're talking about the pardons. And it's just under my craw I couldn't take it this weekend because they kept coming back talking about January sixth, as if they gave a damn about law enforcement.

to track every single one of them down. Can you imagine they put that much effort into tracking down I mean, true genuine criminals. And I understand the point that he can be made because FOP president made it on this program and he made it in the Inquirer. I believe it was inquiring but local news that you know, it was only only the people who violently attacked police that he had a problem with. And I don't abide attacking the police, but in the broader scheme of things, you know,

you look at the state of California. You got people going in and shoplifting and cleaning out and looting buildings.

There never brought it to criminal justice, and and you know, there's this weird double standard that exists, and you can highlight it if you want, But if you know, if you want to go ahead and say he shouldn't have pardoned the January sixth ers, and you can pivot over and say, well, how on the hell did he end up partnering a bunch of people who were not subject to even prosecution, like his family members with the exceptional

Hunter Biden. You know, they hadn't been accused formally on anything. How did they get a pardon for literally everything that they had done for the prior ten years.

he's going to do over these four years. But the reality of it is people who come to this country illegally. And by the way, if anybody listening tries to go to another country illegally, figure out what will happen.

they said they were dropping charges against them. That was just this weekend. And so the reality of it is what what what President Trump has learned is that the criminal justice system at times can be weaponized because he went through it. See I'm a believer in God, and see what happens here is that people were looking at President Trump is said if they can do it to him,

they can do it to me. And so he understands that now, and so he's looking at the justice system a little differently, and he's looking at these cases saying, man, I know what they did to me, I can see what they did to you. You know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna use my power to relieve the system off of you. That's one of the things that you're gonna constantly see a drum beat through these four years with

President Trump. He's going to continue to go and say, no, the DOJ went too far here, No, this judge went too far here. I understand what they did to me in Manhattan, New York. I understand what they did to me in Florida. I'm not gonna let it happen to somebody else. And I think that's a positive.

being taught at schools. Isn't it a parent's prerogative to raise their voice at the appropriate meeting, the school board meeting where people do have the opportunity to speak their mind to the school board so the school board can understand and learn what the parents that have children in the school have on their minds, only to be shut down, thrown out, or otherwise gone after by law enforce horsman.

It's just, it was, it just, it was It's just it was a crazy, crazy period of time, Christopher.

we need to have vision. And it's not just in Cincinnatians. Across the United States of America. We've got babies that are graduating that cannot read and write. This is very serious. And by the way, we've got third world countries that are beating us in the space of education. We're spending more per pupil than than any country in the world, but we have our young people getting further, further and behind in the areas of math, in the area of English, in the area of reading. So we've got to wake

up and hold these school boards accountable. We've got to hold our teachers. And by the way, let me shout out to our public school public school teachers across the United States of America. They have a very hard job because the families are not where they are where they were fifty to one hundred years ago. So they're asked. Our teachers are being asked to be mom and dad. Our coaches are being asked to be uncle and aunts

and all that kind of stuff because our families. The families are being blown up across the United States of America. So the Cincinnati public school kids, whether it's Toledo, whether it's la whether it's Chicago, have really hard jobs out here trying to teach our babies or are who are struggling at home, who are underpaid and overwork. So I give that to them, but it still means that we've

got to educate our babies. We cannot have kids, you know, who can't read and write, graduating from the twelfth grade and think they're going to make get in our society. It just is not going to work. Thomas.

in one room of all different grades. But you know, the bells and whistles that people have this expectation should exist at a high school level like these grand facilities and these brand new, massive complexes with all this taxpayer dollars. Is that necessary to educate a child? Really? I mean you really need all those extra bells and whistles. And the answer is clearly no, you know, I mean, it's not more money that's needed, it's it's maybe a different

approach at how children are taught. Perhaps that's the fit, the focus, and of course an involved yeah.

in classrooms. If you talk to teachers, they'll tell you that, look, i've got thirty kids in here, and let's say say twenty five of them are great, but five of them disrupt my class every single day, and nobody gets those five kids out of the classroom so that the other twenty five can learn. That's what we've got to do. Our public school system is broken because they have this notion of no child left behind. I don't want to

leave a child behind. Nobody wants to. But if you're unwilling to hold those five children accountable so that the other twenty five can learn, right, what you're going to have is pandemonium. And that's what we have in our public school systems across the country. And by the way, this is not about black and white anybody listening. These are about American children, no matter where they are. People

try to separate us about public education around race. And by the way, I graduated from public education the School for Creative and Performing Arts in downtown Cincinnati. The reality of it is is where we are now is everybody wants to divide everybody around race. This is about teaching our American children, who are our future, and we can't have these kind of bad kids in schools disrupting classrooms for these teachers and think everybody's going to learn. Brian Thomas,

we have a weak system around accountability. If the kid doesn't want to learn, you're give them one or two or three or four chances, whatever it is, and you're out of here. You're out of here because I've got twenty five other kids here who want to learn, who want to read, who want to get their algebra done or their geometry done. I'm tired of it, Brian Thomas. If we don't turn our public education around in a serious way, this the United States of America as we know it is going down the toilet.

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and I have talked about in the past. Everything has to do with common sense. I mean, if you see something done wrong, then use common sense to fix it. And for some reason, our government has been one of the biggest advocates of using insanity instead of common sense for quite a few decades now.

a service to that young person. If you cannot read at grade level and you get moved to the next grade, you're just going to be that much further behind. And that makes absolutely no sense none. All in the name of the little Johnny is going to feel badly because he's not moving along with the rest of his classmates. Well, you know, if I was a parent along those lines, i'd say, good, you can't move forward. We need to get you at the grade level you're in first, then

you can move on. So anyway, I appreciate it, Jeff. I can't argue with you. I know you didn't call looking for an argument. Let's do it, Chuck, Scott, Chuck, thanks for calling the Morning Show, and a happy Monday to you.

fentanyl and the borders, the illegal immigration. Those are the two main things that he is he's promoting these tariffs for. He's, you know, shut down the borders or help us with border security and quit shipping fentanyl into our country. Declaring a national emergency based on that under the International Emergency

Economic Powers Act. I guess I have to ask out loud, not knowing really anything about the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, is this something that could be subject to legal charger illegal action or Congress could step in and take them away? I really, I really don't know that. I'll stay out loud.

seen before. Obviously, we know he's willing to push the envelope. He certainly is this time around with kind of nothing to lose as a basically a lame duck under current rules because he can't run for election again. So yeah, that's what we've been seeing. And everything has come fast and furious since inauguration.

Journal identified, like cherry tomatoes, Tanka trucks. They mentioned this specifically because they're all in China, but they also pointed out that more than eighty percent of toys sold in the United States are made in China. Maple syrup, you know, tap your own maple trees in the backyard like we did, I guess, tequila, avocados, smartphones from China subject to a ten percent increase in tariffin in the last one. I really got to kick out of sledge hammers made in China.

Sledge hammers are already subject to a twenty five percent import tax, although we do have some sledge hammer manufacturers here in the United States. But it goes way beyond those ones that were identified, it does.

the promises that he made. Now, one thing he didn't seem to have mentioned until now is that, oh, by the way, this is going to cost us. As you were hinting, prices are going to go up. There's no way to avoid that. Over the weekend he said, yeah, price must be paid, but the end result will be all worth it. But there could be some pain in the near future here so he didn't really mention that during the campaign. That's obviously not something you expect to

gain any votes by really shining a light on. But there is no way to slap tariffs on companies who are looking to make a profit and force those companies to only take it out of their profits. They're going to raise prices. This is the United States of profit margin companies who are having to deal with these costs. And it might might it might be a company that you perceive is an American company, but they may be bringing parts in from to build. Cars are a great example.

For one, part inside of a car may literally go back across the border of Canada and or Mexico several times before it lands in its final car. So it may be an American brand, you may beying it from what you feel in American dealership, but the parts in it could be coming from multiple countries that will all add up and wind up on that windowsticker.

they're cracking down on it already. We did have a more secure border in prior administrations, but more resources went down there for walls and security and warm bodies in the form of ice agents. I think you could curtail one of the two identified problems to a large extent. Now Canada represents a more sizable challenge considering that is pretty much a why open border, and it is a

big one. But I guess I'm just wondering what resources the Mexican government could even bring to bear since their country is largely controlled by and feel free to disagree, but it's been my conclusion over the years that the CAR tells they have a substantial amount of power in Mexico, and here's Trump trying to take away one of their primary sources of income, which is drugs and varying illegal immigrants to the southern border.

I think it's becoming a more popular news item where people are going, huh, I didn't know that Canada is the largest of among the countries the United States brings in oil from Canada is the largest one, so that that's so obviously we were trying to poke them in the eye. Of course, that's maybe maybe there's better ways to handle up. That's effectively what we're doing to get their attention on the fentanyl issue. But I think also

what's underlying this. To me, this is the first shot across the bow of we want to be producing much more. We want to import less and produce more domestically. So first off, let's just make domestic oil more expensive. However we can do it, and we'll call it fentanyl, and we'll call it illegal immigration or whatever. But let's just slap oil tariffs on Canada. That will force us to say, hey, imported oil is more expensive. It's going to drive the

price up. That will get the attention of the domestic drillers and the drill baby drill thing. Right now, domestic oil companies don't really want to drill so much. They're not super excited about it because oil prices are not that high. If we drive it up, this is Trump's thinking. I believe if we drive that price up, they'll be more attracted to go drill. And take into account the executive orders he has put out there over the past

few weeks to make drilling easier. Right now, the profit isn't there for them, but based on oil futures from last night that bounced about two percent to the upside, it looks like it's going to go more attractive for him.

I haven't heard that since the since the election.

and different. That's the reality that we're curry in currently.

it's just I don't get it. That just seems to be should be another way to skin a cat, if you know what I mean, Rather than going down this road, but here we find ourselves.

you're gonna struggle. And we tend to, unfortunately take advantage of that group of people. And I think that has a lot to do with the addiction issues that we've seen. I don't know how to fix it. And if you and I could push a button right now this morning, we do it. But right now, profit margin Trump's everything.

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So we're falling a little bit short of the economists want two point tanted two point six percent, So we fell a little bit short of that. Things seem to be. I do think some of that could be accounted for by the idea that, especially toward the end of the quarter, companies may have been backing off a bit on investments that they were going to make, waiting for this inauguration to occur and to see what's coming here in the first quarter. In darn it all, we sure are seeing

it here in the short run. So Federal Reserve as for their position, they held the interest rates, and we want to keep an interest rates in the target right now four and a quarter four and a half percent. This wasn't a big surprise. We kind of expected this pause really for the same reason Jerome Powell has said he wants to see how the economy is going to respond to the different changes coming out of the Trump administration.

So we're not seeing the kind of things yet that the Fed would indicate or are going to be inflationary, and therefore we need to react at this point. Though the market bonds are trading as though we're going to see a cut in June. That is a very very short term here's what's happening right now type of an update. Let's keep an eye on out of the next few weeks and see if that holds true.

So Donald Trump would like to see lower rates sooner rather than later, but he does not appear to be ready to get rid of Jerome Powell to the extent that he could at at this point.

how that's going to be positioned. So I'm pretty sure Trump looks at this as though he's got some headroom to work with.

of THETALKX station. One more with Brian James. We're gonna hear from todd Sledgeman since Anyda some big angels coming to the VA locally. I'll be right back after these brief words.

the retirement either. Brian, this is a sad reality settling in here, lack of affordable housing and the American dream elusive, a lot of kids still living at home with their parents, and I understand that it's just an Is there any end in sight on this and what would it take to change this landscape?

launch themselves into the world and be independent. It's a challenge even if they can afford the house payment that almost always comes direct in the face of oh yeah, by the way, don't forget you're gonna have to fund your own retirements because social Security is probably not going to look much like it does right now. So don't forget that mortgage payment and retirement all by the way, got by lunch too, So it's a tough challenge right now.

with homes. Homes stopped being the American dream. They became an investment, just like anything else, a speculative, commoditized investment, sometime in the past, well really slowly over the past several decades. So the economy as a whole doesn't really care that it costs young people an awful lot more as a percentage of their paycheck to own a home.

All we really care about is, hey, that's an investment I can throw money at and it will grow, and I don't really have to worry about the side impacts on other people because I'll just blame them on spending too much on avocado toast. Well that's our philosophy right now.

view of life. And you know, just work for IBM, and I just I think our expectations on what we're supposed to have by way of house has changed dramatically, and they just they start churning out these big houses, these mega mansions, and even the smaller homes are much much much bigger than they used to be, and of course that's going to directly impact affordability. You see some sort of perhaps sea change in how we perceive housing,

like the smaller houses being becoming more popular. Obviously they're cheaper to build.

I think what you're referring to, though, is that some generation, at some point is going to have to be the one to capitulate and say, you know what, we simply will not have it as good as our forebears did. We're going to have to take the hit before we

get to move forward. And if I'm fortunate not to be in that situation, and I'm trying to guide my kids away from getting too hung up on that because the world is just plain changing, but I can see where I would be extremely frustrated and bitter if I was the one told you know what, it's just not going to be as good as what you grew up watching.

things like that. If everybody in China, and I know they have a housing issue in China of a different type, but if every one of the one point two or four billion people in China had felt that they had to build a three thousand and four thousand, five thousand square foot house, I think that would cause a problem in terms of like natural resources and the ability to

even accomplish that. Yeah, I've thought of that a lot recently too, as we you know, because the big pushback here can be against suburban sprawl, because you know, every year there's a new call to sat going up in a cornfield somewhere.

to know here in Cincinnati. Yes, indeed, So what is coming to the VA this year, Well, many of our veterans that are listening know that we've we've been under a lot of construction for a very long period of time, and so there are four significant plan completed projects for twenty twenty five, and I just wanted to point those out, Brian, because two of them are really going to be phenomenal for us, and they involve two of our community based

out patient clinics where we are expanding, we continue to expand, So those veterans out in Claremont County, the Eastgate area, Milford and Mount Orb and Georgetown and the East side of Cincinnati will be moving to a new new location this fall.

twenty six thousand square foot facility. And then Hamilton the same way. So both of these facilities brand new, first floor, state of the art, plenty of parking, great expansion of it.

So if you think about these two facilities being like a just a normal shoebox size, the providers do all their work in the middle of the building and on the between the two sides the right and left, there are doors that access from like this inner inner circle or inner working hub, and the provider goes from room to room instead of the patient or the veteran going room room to room for different specialties, so it's a.

outgrown it. And then every veteran knows who comes to the facility come through this big, large revolving door we have. Our lobby's been under renovation and it's starting to show glimpses of what that's going to look like. And we're very excited about how that's going to look where things are just more serviceable, it's not chopped up and more inviting, with a really really nice main lobby, piece of piece of marble that's in the middle of that's going to be very attractive.

a VA healthcare part of their healthcare portfolio. And I think some of the myths and misconceptions about who's eligible for VA healthcare is really coming to place. So we're really excited about our efforts and how we're reaching folks, and we're looking to expand that as well. And I've always said, what not a better place to be served every day by a staff who know exactly what veterans are looking for and the different things that they deal with.

And it's so Treely he absolutely the hearing loss and the prosthetics and the the eye here, and but particularly the toxic exposure stuff, which we're really high on here over the past two years. Well, let's pause, we'll bring Todd back talk about enrolling and what types of healthcare services are there and how veterans can apply and all these good fun facts more with todd Sledgem the Cincinniva. After these brief.

the veterans enrolled in the VA health system. How can enrolling in the VA health services improve a veterans over all health and well being?

As you're probably well aware, there's a lot of different specialty type services in the community that are very hard to get into the dietary dermatology sometimes you know, seeing an audiologist, some different folks and these are things that we by mandate, we have to get you a scheduled appointment within thirty days to be seen or find some other arrangements for you to be seen. So that's you know,

that's one of the overall health and well being. But one of the main things is is our preventative medicine model, where you know, we can do things with different specialty tests and prevention measures of things that the private sector really can't offer or they're going to run through your insurance. So I always encourage people to do that. And you know this when it comes to again, I'm going to

repeat myself when it comes to the eyeglasses and hearing aids. Yeah, cost efficient measure of that, but more particularly, you know, and I think of services like mental health helping that you know, with with with all the mental health services that we have, our home care programs that we have in house care of things, and just you know, an

overall really old family medicine style. You know, you know, your provider's my name, you know your nurse is by name, which is a very different relationship when it comes to I think people going to the doctor, especially stubborn people that avoid the doctor, like myself, oh.

walk in. So for example, the clinics that I mentioned that are expanding, they all have their same assigned person that walks in and not nine out of ten times.

they're eligible for. And first it starts with us by calling five one three four seven five sixty four ninety nine. That's a direct dial number two or Eligibility office. Anybody can call that and find out what their veteran Level one would be entitled to and how to enroll in doing that. So you know, again that's five one three four seven, five sixty four nine nine.

You know, it's not about that you get hurt in active duty. It's there's more things to it that makes it complex, and we want to make sure we have all those boxes checked and the people that know eligibility you know how to navigate the series of questions based upon a veteran's responses or a spouse's responses to Thanks.

doing for the American veteran each and every day. I always enjoy our conversations and I really do enjoy spreading the word about what is available at the VA for them.

He was on a tear this morning Monday, Mondays, Brian James and of course the information from Todd Sledge fifty five KRC dot com for all that and so much more. Tune in tomorrow for the Insight Scoop with Breit Barton, Daniel Davis Deep Dive. Thank you Joe Strecker for all you do producer of the program. The Folks Stick Around run backs up.