55KRC Thursday Show - FrankLaRose, Tim Keller, Dr. Paul Winfree, Jay Ratliff

darn it heat when Joe's not here. Anyway, Joe's entitled would take a day off even if he's not going to be having a good time during his day off. If I just leave it at that anyhow, Joss Jreckers that I get producer of the fifty five Cassite Morning Show and liner upper of Guesters coming up on the fifty five Cars Morning Show in studio. I told you I just stopped in his studio. I said, if I'd have owned, Frank LeRose is going to be in studios.

Secretary of State Frank LeRose to talk about voter turnout for the primary as poultry and sad as it was qualified immunity Amendment and running for state auditor. I wouldn't have worn the T shirt that I have on today, which is a T shirt bearing the words defund politicians. It just picked that one up recently. Joe anyway, Uh, I don't know if I own an apology or not. I think he'll get That's what Joe's reaction was, Well,

he'll get it anyway. Stecorty. Secretary of State Frank LeRose in the studio coming up at seven o five, followed by Tim Keller, founder of US Diabetes Care. He'll be talking about educating the public about ending the diabetes epidemic in America. And it is send you adults with chronic conditions, including diabetes. We got a real problem with hypertension and obesity in this country. Interesting timing on this headline for the Wall Street General. How chronic disease become became the

biggest scourge in American health. Americans live shorter and sicker lives than people in other high income countries. Hypertension number one. Percentage of adults with hypertension just under fifty percent, Obesity a little bit north of forty percent. This is the entire US population the adult population, diabetes coming into number third.

About fifteen percent of the nation's adults have diabetes. Kidney disease right behind it, just by a tiny little bit asthma about eight percent, and then COPD looks like about five or six percent. So we're in a sorry state of affairs when it comes to our health. And you know, cheers the RFK Junior for trying to bring it all to our attention. You know, again, I've talked mentioned many times.

I was really happy that he got that appointment because he's not going to touch the crazy stuff that he believes in, like, for example, the Green New Deal crap, which I'm going to touch on just here in a second. So following Tim Keller from US Diabetes Care, we'll hear from doctor Paul Winfrey, CEO Economic Policy Innovation Center on Medicaid reform. He happens to be a former White House Budget Director. And then, of course it being Friday Eve,

Jay Ratliffe. I heard me the Aviation Expert at eight thirty every Thursday, and I certainly enjoy talking to Jay Ratliffe. Also enjoy talking to you. If you can, feel free to call five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three Talk found five fifty on AT and T phone, and a shout out to Jenny, who sent me an email after my conversation yesterday with Judge Hannona Paulaitano, who is a massive Pete Rose fan, and I know they had that big celebration

last night. She agrees with me, least in so far as my view of his violation of the cardinal rule of baseball, which he knew well, he knew about well in advance, then his repeated lies to all of his fans that he never bet at all on sports, and then never bet on baseball. Oh then I did bet on baseball, but I never bet on the Reds. And then oh yeah, I did bet on the Reds, but I never bet against him. Okay, I know he's one of the greatest, if not the greatest game player in

the game of baseball of all time. Statistics do not lie. I watched him play. I know all that. But you know, gotta be consequences for violating the rules anyhow. But thank you, Jenny. She sent me an in some message on Facebook saying, I agree with you. So I just wanted to nothing not alone anyway five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty, eight hundred and eight two three Talk Time five fifty on eighteen de funes. Care to call a comment, I'd

love to hear from you. I enjoyed talking with the listeners. I really do. Judge Nita Polatano yesterday you can hear Congressman Massi preceding Judge Nita Politano and mostly the Budget Reconciliation Bill, and they're still arguing over that, which is why I'm glad we got the uh uh, the Economic and Policy Innovation Center guide doctor Paul Win for you on talk about Medicaid reform, because the Left is just nuts on this one. Oh my god, they're going to

take medicare away from millions of America. We're talking about able body, working age people they should be working. Got almighty. That's it, really, I mean, it doesn't really cut that much out. It's just that, dude, you use the job opportunities out here, and we're only asking to work twenty hours a week, work twenty hours a week. Put that work, make that effort toward getting a career in the trades. Look, thousands and thousands and thousands of trade jobs are out there.

And available waiting to be filled. People from the industries are out going into high schools and hiring juniors in high schools to work for them. Another article just was several days ago, if not when we last week, was within the last week, talking about that kid out of high school starting hitting the ground running at seventy thousand dollars a year, because as the company went into the school and started soliciting young people to work for them,

get him interested in the trades. Hey, look, you know you can be an electrician. I'd love to have you working at my company. Let's start you on the right path. You're in shop class. Great, that's the kind of people we're looking for. So you know, there's all these able bodied people out in the world. And they're also removing illegal immigrants from the medicaid roles or medicaid availability, which

is good. And you know, Gavin Newsom's wanting to run for president because he just now has proposed to freeze on allowing adult illegal immigrants to join California's medicaid program. Oh why, because it's wildly popular in California's found itself in a twelve billion dollar budget hole. Got to find the money somewhere, don't you. Let's not give it to

illegal immigrants. They're straining the system. It's one of the reasons why the open borders created a massive problem for our economy and for local school districts and everything else that they flooded. It's one of the areas the Democrats are on the wrong side of the Ledger politically. Maybe it's why they're failing so bad. And I can pivot over to this given the amount of time I have left in the segment. Joe Biden is obviously a problem. You and I knew about it. We talked about it

all the time. His cognitive decline was evident for the whole world to see. It was an embarrassment, a global embarrassment. We all knew about it, and yet everybody around him

kept saying nothing wrong with him. He's sharp as attack. Well, all these new books are coming out from all the left wingers who defended Joe Biden and said he was not cognitively impaired and there was no doubt downhill slide, And so a lot of the former Biden's supporters or deniers as I should I could say, are being asked questions about it. There's a new talking point in town, folks. And when you read it all together in one article.

I got this Fox News article by Hannah Panrik, it comes across as just comical, which is why in the five o'clock I remay as well focus on a little comedy like we do with the Stacker is stupid. They're deflecting questions about President former President Biden's cognitive decline since all these books are coming out with specific quotes and examples and illustrations of it. Sentimnority leader Chuck Schimmer dismissed questions surrounding this latest book to come out with allegations

of the president's decline. On cn and MSNBC, various media outlets that are typically left winning are asking pointed questions about Biden. So he's on CNN, Casey Hunt is asking him a question, did you really not have any idea that he was not fit to serve a second term? Straightforward question? His reply, Cassie looking forward. Then he pivoted over to Medicaid, which wasn't part of the question. We have the largest Medicaid cut in front of us, we

have the whole federal government. That's kind of where he ended. But she pushed back, is that not Joe Biden's responsibility for deciding to run again? Meaning the fact that Donald Trump is president of the United States of America. Now. His reply, We're looking forward. Then she said that's it. Schumer said, that's it, and that was, in fact the

end of the interview. So the most recent book Jack Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson have this book coming out, and there's a lot of quotes from it out there in the world already original sin President Biden's decline, it's cover up, and his disastrous choice to run again.

Schumer over on MSNBC being interviewed by Katie Turr, who asked him, well about a quoted a specific portion of the book, and then then and asked, do you think Biden deserves the blame for the loss in twenty twenty four, on the heels of a question about one of these batcrap and saying statements that Biden had made to Chucky. His reply, you know what's coming, Katie, We're looking forward. We have the largest medicaid cut in history. Facing this, we are focused on the future and doing right for

the American people. Plain and simple sounds remarkably similar to his pat answer over in CNN.

His reply, you know, it's we're looking forward. Gave the same responsoring a press conference early today when reporter asked if he was being straight with the American people and posting on X in June that the president was quote in command and impressive close quote that's Chuckie Schumer's ex post report apparently juxtapost Schumer's post with an insider describing

Tapper and Thompson a terrifying that's in quotes moment. That same month, when Biden failed to recognize award winning actor George Clooney at a June fundraiser, Schumer dismissed the question, saying, ready, we're just looking forward. Asked by a reporter on Tuesday, whether it was helpful for Democrats Democratic Caucus to have

these books about Biden in the twenty four campaign. Oh yeah, it's really helpful, and whether he wanted Biden to help campaign for Democrats Minority Leader Hakim Jeffreys, pivoting over to another Democrat politician who got the same talking points, quote, we're not looking backward, We're looking forward at this particular moment in time. Thanks Hakem. Moving over to Governor J. B. Pritzker, who would like to be president. I think they'll have

to enlarge the Oval office if he becomes president. He said the commentary about the president self was very backward looking. On CNN a sort of a twist on that we're looking forward talking point from Pritzker. Amy Klobashar, Senator mission Minnesota on NBC talking to Christen Welker about Biden's insistence that it didn't matter they drop out of the race in July, only giving former President of Vice President Kamala Harris ninety days the campaign. You know, everything we look

at in a rear view mirror after you lose an election. Yes, we would like to have been served better by a primary, but we are where we are. We're not in the history channel right now. And I believe that President Biden can come out and speak and do interviews whenever he wants, but I will say this, we're not in a history channel doubling down. So there's your Democrat talking point. They don't want to answer any questions about they're lying to you, and that's kind of worth pointing out. He was a

starry state of affairs. He wasn't in control of his own faculties. The executive pen was not being wielded by Joe Biden's own hand. That was being wielded by a machine. We all joked about wondering who the puppet masters were for years during the Biden presidency. Who's the puppet masters, Who's the one pulling the strings? A lot of my listening audience believed to be Barack Obama. Maybe it was doctor Jill. I don't know, but the Democrats surrounding him

lied to you. Not worthy of being rewarded for that lying to you. Five nineteen fifty five kres see the dog station and feel free to give me a call. I got more to talk about coming up right back

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of prescription pharmaceutical drugs. Listen to most Favored nation status. Say what you want about it. It's price fixing. Republicans aren't into that, but you know what, it's an unequal playing field. Why do other countries get the benefit of lower pharmaceuticals shouldering, leaving the burden, just leaving us to shoulder the burden of all the fat profit for the pharmaceutical companies funding research and development. That's one of the

cries from people who are against the proposal. But I've been speculating and wondering what the Democrats were going to do by way of response to that, because you know, evil orange Man proposes literally anything, and they're against it just because well, evil orange Man said it. So I was actually surprised. Representative Rocanna, no right winger or Trump fan, Rocana, Democrat from California, he has introduced legislation to codify Trump's

executive order. He shared a video which he spoke from the House floor, explaining that if he can cross the aisle and support Trump's executive order and legislation, each Republican should be willing to cross the isle as well. Will basically not him across theil just support Trump and his efforts to make this and make this a law. You say, the only way lawmakers could stand up the big farmer is to codify in legislation what the President wants to

do in an executive order. Today, I am introducing legislation to codify President Trump's executive order he wrote ensuring Americans do not pay more than people in other countries for drugs. Will Congress members stand with sixteen billion dollars in big pharm of money, meaning that's to be the campaign contributions that farmer shells out or with the American people by co sponsoring this bipartisan legislation. How about that? So Trump

did something the Democrats like, well, at least one. It'll be interesting to see where this goes. And this legislation, the Democrats legislation apparently comes as Representative Andy Ouggles of Tennessee and sixteen other colleagues working to encourage Mike Johnson Speaker to start codifying some of Trump's other executive orders

into law. So maybe we'll have nice big package of executive orders codified, which will remove the argument that Trump does not wield the authority with his executive pen to make such sweeping changes to the landscape out there. I know that's a criticism from the left about Trump the imperial presidency. I have concerns about it myself, generally speaking, because you know, someday there may be a Democrat in office and he or she may wield the pen even

more than Donald Trump's wielding it. So anyhow, there's the answer to my question. I guess the Democrats actually have found something that Donald Trump does that they don't get wigged out over. Five twenty five. I five KRCD talk stations. Stick around. IVE got local stories coming up. Alternatively your phone calls, which I appreciate, but there is plenty to talk about local stories and be right back fifty five krc the talk station.

addicted to it. The problem gamblers. That's why we have, you know, a gambling addiction clinics and programs out there in the world. That's a proposal here in the State of Ohio. Legislation introduced in the State House legalizing eye gaming. This making it easy for you to gamble right from your phone. Some of the states have already done this. Senate President Rob McCauley Napoleon Republican, once to potentially legalize

a new form of gaming. Talking to State House News Bureau, it might be the time to make the movie, he said, I think there's a different tone and tenor about some of the things that maybe there there was ten than there was ten years ago. I think a lot of times Ohioans want to have a little bit more choice and how they spend their money and spend the recreational time. I think it's something we're going to talk about. Well, the reason he's doing this is because it's a huge

amount of taxes that will be generated on it. They point out it will generate millions of tax revenue. Michigan in twenty twenty four collected four hundred and fifty one million dollars. Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania brought in eight hundred and four one million dollars. Oh look a revenue source. Yeah, let's make it really easy. You can place slot machines on

your cell phone. State Representative Bride Rose Sweeney, she's a Democrat from West Lake introduced legislation asking that any new money generated from this be spent on K through twelve, public education, publicly funded childcare, and yes programs to address problem gambling, facilitate the problem gambling, and then seek to solve the problems from your facilitation. Again, I'm not against it, mainly because I think people should be free to spend

their money as they wish. I just realize that this is going to create more problem gamblers out there, so easy to just pick your phone up and go down that road. Since any father accused of recklessly fleeing a traffic stop and almost causing a crash with his newborn baby, a toddler and cocaine in the car, please say it happened Tuesday afternoon in Baltimore Avenue near President and Drive according to his ticket for reckless driving and driving under

a suspended license. To Von Lowe, twenty three years old, of Villages at roll Hill, under arrest on two counts each of a dangering children in Fairey to comply with the police. His two month old infant and three year old toddler he was caring for at the time were in his Nissan at the time of the charges. Also charged with felony possession of drug. Police found four point four grams of cocaine in the center console of his car.

Green Township Police are investigating a single vehicle cafedal crash happened early yesterday morning Piers the result of the driver's suffering from a medical episode. According to Lieutenant Sabers, speaking of Fox nineteen, please shut up thirty two hundredlock North End Road for the report of a vehicle that went off the road and hit a utility pole. Witnesses reported it to nine poet one as a vehicle into a

pole that's split in half. Female driver taking a UC medical centem where she was pronounced dead corner Helen County Corners Office. Tishia Schaeffer, forty eight years old, a Mount Area. According to police identification, her passenger, a forty eight year old Mount Healthy man, taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Duke Energy had to be called into repair and replace the damaged poll. Witnesses, if you're out there, the Green Township Police Department would love to hear from you. Five

one three five seven four zero zero zero seven. No charges will be filed against the Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper who killed the wrong killed the wrong way driver in Union Township this back in April. Climont County Prosecutor Mark to Culvey announced yesterday that the trooper's actions April eleventh were, in his words, reasonable and appropriate for him to protect his own life in the lives of others. Officer involved shooting took place on IW seventy five year,

Ohio thirty two in Clairemont County eleven fifteen pm. Troopers saw maroon suv driven by thirty four year old Kelsey Hildall of Blue Ash, traveling northbound in the South Mountains. After getting a clearance from a supervisor, the trooper decided he uses cruiser to make a controlled physical contact with the suv pit maneuver, probably Prosecutor's office rode in a press release, he was able to pin her vehicle against

the concrete barrier, bringing it to his stop. When he exited his cruiser, he noticed the driver brandish a firearm, all seen on bodycam video. Trooper told Hildaal to drop the weapon multiple times. According to the prosecutor's statement. After initially complying with the troopers commands, mus Hildahal picked up the firearm again. That's when the trooper discharged his firearm,

killing her. Killing her inside the vehicle body and vehicle bodycam footage shows a Glock forty three nine millimeters semi automatic pistol following from the SUV and the gun was loaded. They also found two Mosburg five hundred shotguns in the vehicle prosecutor's office seven, all of which were legally owned by her. Shooting was investigatate by investigative by the High

Bureau of Criminal Investigations. Based on their findings, Prosser to call they will not be pressing charges against the truer, saying, I want to extend my deepest appreciation to the dedicated law enforcement officers who risk their lives each day to ensure the safety of our communities. It should be clear to all the police officers have the right to protect

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of sheds on display. It was shed number four or fifth when they located the suspect lying on his back, pants around his ankles, using an open container of asolene and what is described in the article Fox nineteen reporting an electronic device while pleasuring himself with taser drawn please say, the officer order the man to pull up his pants and roll onto his stomach to be handcuffed. Well, at least they wanted him do that. For the purpose of

being handcuffed. Please say the man complied without resistance. Reportedly admitted to his actions. I guess soustance. They caught him in the middle of it, telling officers he was watching you two tube at the time. Rested on one count of vicinity and booked into jail the residence of Slidell, Louisiana'll be happy to know the man was not from their town. Wow. That paints a real wild visual, doesn't it.

We go to West Virginia, Clawdon, West Virginia, specifically, mom from there ran and hid from Child Protective Services during a welfare check. Corning to the criminal complaint, deputies and child Protective Service workers has arrived at Brittney Vandale's home in Culdon. No one answered the door. Officials walked around back to the home and heard a child crying in

the bushes nearby. When asked why she ran into the woods with the child, Vandell reportedly said she was tired of dealing with the cops and CPS.

this one. We'll get to Pokemon cards in the next one. Shoe Norwalk, Ohio, Chief police there said South of Sandusky confirmed a man was recently arrested arrested for his congratulations twentieth DUI courtA Chief Scott Dollgren. Seventy five year old Spencer Baltanik arrested in May second while driving erratically rest of fort States. He was driving under the speed limit fifteen miles per hour and of twenty five, then sped up,

then slowed down to fifteen and a thirty five. After stopping his van in a crosswalk and seeing the plate was registered to a suspended driver, the officer pulled him over and an officer smelled a strong art of alcohol. Baldnick tried to explain he spilled beer in the van. This was a twenty time he's been arrested, but the

last time was in twenty twelve. Baltnick arrested for DUI in twenty twelve to two thousand and nine, two times in two thoy nine, nineteen ninety nine, ninety four, ninety three, eighty nine, twice in eighty eight, eighty four, eighty three, eighty two, twice, three times in nineteen eighty, nineteen seventy nine, and nineteen seventy four. I don't know if they gave him a plaque for this one, Joe, I mean, it is kind of a a milestone state of how does

have a habitual ov IDUI registered website. It says Baltnick doesn't qualify to be listed on the side of person must have five convictions during the past twenty years, and at least one of the convictions must have been since the law took effect, which was September thirtieth, two thousand and eight, five forty five ety five K see the talks station odor exit. It would get rid of the smell of beer. If he had otoor exit products, maybe he wouldn't have he wouldn't have smelled like beer, although

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Tomorrow's high eighty two, overnight low is sixty two with rain ending and a partly cloudy dry Saturday with the highest seventy three sixty four. Right now, time for traffic probably you see how Traffic Center.

that's a lot of tequila. Alabama, Limestone County, specifically, a commercial truck driver charged with murder accused of causing eight crashes over the span of miles during rush hour traffic

on I sixty five. I've Alabama Uniform Traffic crash report says John McAdams admitted to state troopers to drinking, in his words, quote an unknown amount of tequila that before the crashes that spanned about twenty eight miles on the interstate seven May sixth He's since been charged with murder, driving under the influence, and leaving the scene of an accident. Accused of killing Willie Hendrick of Adamsville. Hendrick's mother said he was driving home that day when the crash happened.

He played football for Austin p State University. Thirty state reports have been completed for about four to eight crashes. The corner of the report's first crash six forty five pm, McAdam store investigators he pulled over a semi truck at the three hundred and sixty five mile marker to arrest and drank tequila before taking a nap a cord to the officer's report. After waking up, he got back on the road, but didn't remember the specific details of when

or why. Shortly after pulling back on the interstate, McAdams twice hit a driver in the sedan while going eight e five miles an hour. Driver able to exit the Interstate was transported to the Athens Hospital, and then he picked up speed before slamming into Hadric's car. Six miles after the first crash, going ninety miles an hour corner of the troopers report, McAdams aggressively struck Hadrick's vehicle, forcing him off the road into a ditch, and then it

rolled several times. Hadrick partially ejected from the car a corner of the prish he was pronounced oad oft the scene. Next crashed a few minutes later miles down the road. The Godoms accused of crashing into the back of an suv going ninety miles per hour and partially over rode the bumper driver was able to pull off to the

side next crashed mile posts three forty six. Victim told investigators he saw the semi truck in his rear view mirror and sped up to move to a different lane, but was still hit from behind and forced off the road. The Godams continued driving down I sixty five southbound for twelve more miles before he could no longer operate the vehicle and came to a controlled stops. He agreed to field sobriety tests, which revealed several clues of impairment, according

to the troopers. Not clear how much time passed between his admission of drinking tequila and his booking into the Limestone County Jail. Court records vealed the result of his breath alcohol tests being point zero nine above the legal limit. Yeah h Pokemon cards. I guess there's still a thing. Florence, Kentucky. Businesses on Mall Road and Florence have claimed a pair of thieves caught stealing over one thousand dollars worth the Pokemon cards. Thank you, Joe, you could have a semi

truck filled with Pokemon cards. I wouldn't give you a thousand dollars for him? What is with people? Spot? Fox nineteen spoke to the man reportedly chased him out of the game Stock parking lot immediately after the second incident. Owner of Mall Road Treasures, a vendor there the mall, told Fox nineteen that on May eighth, the two men caught on surveillance video breaking into a display cabinet stealing the three Pokemon cards, posted the video on social media.

The interviewed Jerry Carpenter, also a vendor at mal Road Treasures, saw the surveillance video. Carpenter said he was down in the street down the street at game stop the next day when he saw a pair of men. Soon realized they were from the surveillance video, got on the back of his car and looked to the video up on his phone to confirm it. That's when Carpenter said the men bolted out of the game stop. He said they had stolen a whole rack of Pokemon cards and jumped

into the car. Carpenter said he told his son to buckle up. They followed the car to the parking lot. He said he called nine to one one while his son took pictures of the vehicle they were driving. He said police told him to stop following the car, so he went back to the game stop to tell the manager that he had been robbed. Fox nineteen speaking with the manager, who said he didn't realize what had happened, said he called nine to one one and police told

him the alleged thieves had already been caught. Merchandise was returned the next day. Merchandise stolen from All Rose Treasures again, allegedly worth over one thousand dollars. I like the fact that the word allegedly is in there, Pokemon cards. You're reading my mind this morning, Joe five fifty five ify five krs of the talk station, feel free to call feel lonely this morning five one, three, seven two three Talk down five fifty on your AT and T phones.

And I knew it. I knew it. Chinese are the ones that are shoving this green energy crap down our throats because they make fat bank off of it. But they also are spying on us and could put us at risk. Scary stuff to report coming up after the top of the hour. News will be right back. Another update coming up.

the US Diabetes Care It's an organization. He's going to be speaking about educating the public about ending the diabetes epidemic in America. And it is really a bad situation we've got going on here. Doctor Paul Winfrey, CEO Economic Policy Innovation Center on to discuss Medicaid reform, which has got the Democrats all wigged out. The former White House Budget Director Jay Ratliffe, I heard med the Aviation Expert

every Thursday at eight thirty. Quite a few topics to go over with Jay and Jack Dan in the show. On a fun note on a Thursday, which is typically the case with Jay Ratliffe. Love hearing from you. Going to go to the phones right now, five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred eight hundred eight two three You talk pound five fifty on AT and T phones. Jay, thanks for calling the program this morning. And Happy Thursday, Hey, Happy Thursdayday, Bryan.

And the State Auditor's Office sent me an email back saying, quote, we discussed it, it's staff and decided there's nothing nothing really to pursue here. And that's all the response I got from the Auditor's Office, which I think their purpose and the reason they exist is to make sure that

Ohio tax dollars aren't being wasted. The other point I made to them is recall that Jobs Ohio exists is a private public partnership where all the liquor license sales in the state of Ohio goes to Jobs Ohio, and that's where our economic development dollars are supposed to be be coming from and funded through Jobs Ohio, which just recently got like a ten or fifteen year extension. This is the six hundred million that the Browns didn't come

from Jobs Ohio. They came out of just general legislation, out of the you know we're gonna we're gonna raise bonds to fund this called the Attorney General's office, and it wasn't any better. They they pretty much told me that if I wanted to get any help, I need to have to hire a lawyer. And I told them I already did. It's called the Ohio Attorney General's Office, and I'm asking them, do you not support the Ohio taxpayers? And they told me no, we represent the state of

Ohio and the departments within the state of Ohio. I had to go up through three people before I was able to get a hold of a guy who agreed with me that they're supposed to be acting on behalf of the Ohio taxpayers. But then he told me to stay tuned. You know that gun contact my legislator. Yes, he said, well, it hasn't been voted on in the Senate. I said, this is not the point. I'm not talking

to you about what the legislative process is. I'm asking you, are you the highest law enforcement and can you put your finger on the part of the constitution that what allows this to happen? And how is this any different from Larry Householders bail.

interested in helping the Browns. And I suppose the retort will be that, well, this is a worthwhile investment because the amount of taxpayer dollars that will be generated as a consequence of this stadium and the activities that go on around it will be a net plus for the

state of Ohio, or at least for Cuyahoga County. So and they'll cite some nonsensical Barber Streiss in a foundation survey that will support that, Yeah, this is going to bring in a lot of jobs, is going to bring a lot of tax revenue, it's going to generate a lot of interest, et cetera, and ergo, it's worth the investment. And you know, I'm using that term delicately of six hundred million dollars in Ohio tax payer dollars and the debt goes along with it.

it looks kind of hard. Therefore, I'd rather not which Frank LeRose take that on, and would he also take a look at this, as somebody explained to me, the difference between Larry Householder and First Energy and Matt Humpman and the Cleveland Browns.

the House and Senate. It's just the way politics works.

we're supposed to come out of there. What's this other bucket of money coming out of the general fund that we're going to raise debt to go fund. I haven't heard anybody ask that question. That seems like we've extended jobs Ohio ten fifteen more years recently the inxpectation to death six hundred million come out of there.

do every day on every level in every jurisdiction. Yeah, well, at least the Hamlin kind of voters got to say when they voted to build the stadium here so long ago. The deal that was worked out was obviously not what was sold to the public generally speaking before we voted on it. So but in this particular case, our elected officials were sent there for a reason to represent us and our best interests, and I think they failed across

the board in letting this get through. So like the phones up, get in touch with your senators and tell them hell no, appreciate the call Jay six fifteen right now if you have KCV talk station. Sounds like you could probably use a little bit of time at Gata Heaven Cemetery to relax and engage in quiet contemplation maybe prayer reflection. It's a perfect place to do that. It's gorgeous. I drive by it every single day on my way home from work on Montgomery Road. It is beautifully maintained.

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the Browns, we got the Bengals. So there's that rivalry that's built in there. And of course Cleveland does have this have its problem but you make a valid point about Cincinnati. How I can't argue with you.

on this. This is scary stuff corner Reuter's sources, who did speak on a condition of anonymity because they were not given permission to speak on the record. The rogue components provide additional undocumented communication channels that could allow firewalls

to be circumvented remotely with potentially catastrophic consequences. And as something that Tech Friday's Dave Hatter talks about this Internet of Things, they say that illustrates the security issues that have haunted analysts since the dawn of Internet of Things, where every single thing we buy for some reason has to be hooked up to the Internet, which Dave Hatter always points out is extremely dangerous because they don't provide

security within these little devices like your coffee maker, which can then gain access to your home Wi Fi SISM, which then is where the nefarious activity shows up. This is signing the longest exact same line. Number of devices broadcasting information online grown exponentially, of course, but the dangers that go along with that also have grown exponentially. In the case of these suspicious Chinese power inverters, the device is designed to connect solar power arrays and windmills to

the power grids. They have Internet capabilities so the performance can be monitored and their software can be updated easily. But knowing this to be the practice, it teams that solar and wind farms set up firewalls is a precaution to prevent the devices from sending these unauthorized signals. They also physically inspect equipment from China to look for bugs

that they find with shocking regularity. According to the statement from Reuters, the two people who decline to name the Chinese manufacturers of the inverters and batteries with extra communication devices, nor say how many they found in total, but the existence of the rogue devices has not been previously reported. The US government has not publicly acknowledged discoveries. They say these road communication devices could do a lot more than merely spy on the American power grids that use them.

Cybersecurity experts been warning that these well the Chinese Communist Party in this particular case, very interested in targeting America's infrastructure. Hidden internet connections could allow the attacker to yes shut down the power grids or damage sensitive machinery, apparently not

even a hypothetical threat. Back in November fifteenth last year, users of inverters manufactured by a Chinese company called Dye the Eye reported their units suddenly displayed a pop up bear message and became what they call bricked, basically unusable

hmm now. For its part, Die said the units were sold without proper authorization outside of the normal distribution contracts with Western Hemisphere, but users doubt that explanation, and they believed I did use remote commands to kill the invert described as an unwelcome reminder for solar panel owners and their equipment that could be controlled or shut down using

the Internet. Carlos jim And as a Republican out of Florida in the House of Representative, Senator Rick Scott, along with Democrat Maggie Hassan, introduced legislation trying to decouple US companies from batteries made by Chinese companies. Cybersecurity vulnerability listed as one of the most important reasons to move away

from Chinese equipment. Senator Scott said, well, listen when our country nation, with our nation currently sourcing a majority of its batteries from Chinese link manufacturers, were subject to major unnecessary risk or our national security. One of the fun facts revealed in this In Europe, they say exercise and control over just three to four gigawatts of energy could cause widespread disruption of electricity supplies. European Solar Manufacturing Council

they have one of those estimates. Over two hundred gigawatts of European solar power capacity is linked to inverters made in China, which is equivalent to more than two hundred nuclear power plants. Get your head wrapped around that. At the end of last year, three hundred and thirty eight

gigawatts have installed solar power in Europe. According to Industry Association Solar Power Europe one cybersecurity program director, if you remotely control a large enough number of home solar inverters and do something nefarious at once that could have catastrophic implications to the grid for a prolonged period of time, we invite these enemies into our own home. And so this is why I say this is a nefarious link.

You know, social media and global pressure and all these crazy organizations who think we're all going to die because plant foods going out into the world, but from a production of fossil fuel electricity. They try to convince you and legislate and mandate and dangle carrots, have incentive for you to go fully electric. EPA issues edicts and mandates to convert your otherwise totally reliable and superior gas stove to an electric one which will cost more, won't last

as long, and which requires electricity to work. Right, We're pressured into this more and more and more, and think of all the components that go into these things made by Yes China, and every company in China is obligated to report its activities to the Chinese Communist Party. That's how they do business there, So does it come as a shock to anybody that these inverters would be able to communicate with China? You know, the beginning of the war.

The lights are going to go out, That's how you know, and China's going to invade Taiwan, or that's how you know when the Chinese are on the shores of the United States of America, because the lights will go out, the grid will come to a screeching hault, catastrophe will ensue. People be screaming and yelling in the streets. You know, Bobby calls every once in a while and talks about the seventy two hours you got. That's basically how long it's gonna be before it completely hits the fan, because

guess what. The grocery stores are gonna be closed, the gasoline pumps aren't gonna work, You're not gonna have a lestricity in your home. And you know, it's just the ripple effect is profound. And here we have given an opportunity openly buying products from China, which is the only place that manufactures them, giving them a clear opportunity to cause that chaos that I just mentioned six twenty eight, Maybe we get Dave had to talk about that tomorrow.

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when there's no school and when temperatures rise. Data collected by since Ant Police showed about five percent of the city's area considered summer hotspots and since At Police Chief three strategic used the data. Says the department now able to focus on specific high crime areas. Said they're focusing on six high priority areas with more patrols and towing of illegally parked cars. She said a significant number of people came down park wherever they wanted to and went

to different areas and created problem. So you take one simple action item and we saw that that made a significant gains for us. Impound lots going to be staying open longer. Additionally, data shows that juvenile car thefts or thefts from cars is above the three year average, with the Chief saying this is an area we will focus on heavily throughout the summer, and one of the ways

we do that is by engaging with the youth. Apparently that's where Cincinnti Parks and the Cincinnti Recreation Commission comes in. Numerous opportunities, and they've done this before for kids and teens at local rec centers, pools and parks. This year, all twenty three public pools and the CINCINNTI Rec Center will be operating in full swing. First few open May twenty fourth. Kid number one, this is editorial commentor from

Joe Strecker. Hey man, let's break into cars, Kid number two, No way, I want to go watch Finding Nemo at the rec Center. Do you think that's the way that's going to shake out? Hi, Joe reck at night, that's back, they say by popular No Man teen event will take place every Saturday, June seventh through August ninth at the Lincoln Hers Rec Center. According to Rec Commissioner Director Daniel Betts, last year we served over three thousand teens. This year

we're amy to googin higher. We ended up having on any given Saturday night four to five hundred teens at both sites. Other youth programs the Camp CRC free golf lessons and two hundred job opportunities for teens. City leaders launching mitigation efforts at riverfront parks after new data showed teens are clustering in those areas. Won't they then be clustering altogether at the rec center. I thought the problem was getting all these teens in one spot. That's where

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going on. But this is one of those issues where the vast majority of American people are all on the same side of the ledger, and it is not on the left wing, far progressive side of the Democratic Party who are really struggling mightily to come up with a message that's palatable to the American people. I see the Justice Department is taking funds that are for that were formerly granted to groups supporting transgender ideology and diversity along

with the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. And that word group in there troubles me because they're in lies the challenge we face and one of the problems with the federal government spending. They get all of this money in a big pile, and as we mentioned earlier about picking and choosing the winners and losers. For example, the context of the state of Ohio choosing that the Browns are going to get six hundred million dollars of Ohio taxpayer money.

What about the rest of the teams out in the state. Nope, nothing for you. There are a whole bunch of non governmental organizations out there in the world, and they get theyd a lot of money. Even though they're listed as non for profit, each and every one of them gets a salary, and sometimes very large salaries, and I think their mere existence is to extract taxpayer dollars and really

not accomplish anything. Some of that money goes back to the politicians who picked the ones that got the money. There's that money train, the circular money train, although unfortunately you're not part of the circle. It just comes from you and ends up from the politicians into the NGOs who then contribute back to the politicians. Anyway, back over to the point of this one. That money is now

going to be going to well law enforcement. Justice Department officials speaking with Fox News under Attorney General Pam Bondy, they claim they will not be wasting funds on DEI, with the statements saying, the Department of Justice under Pambondi will not waste discretionary funds on DEI passion projects that do not make Americans safer. We will use the money to get criminals off the streets, see drugs, and in some cases fund programs that deliver a tangible impact for

victims of crime. Seems to be a higher priority in a more worthy pursuit don't you think. On our first day at work, Bondi directed officials to ensure that all DEI programs were terminated, demanding the removal of all references to DEI training programs and ending the emphasis on race and sexual criteria, refocusing hiring and promotion on guidelines solely on merit. Back to a meritocracy. Who should get the job?

I mean, she seems so illogical and unreasonable, the Defendantcy's DEI programs, And really all that's saying is you must fit a certain criteria that has nothing to do with your abilities, has nothing to do with the merit, nothing to do with your worth in terms of your ability to perform the functions of any given job. You have to be fill in the black, black, or Asian or not white. Of course, you have to be transgender, you have to be a woman. I mean, all these things

that have no connection with merit. It's the same thing that goes on in our K through twelve education system. Now having merit and being able to perform at grade level is no longer relevant. Oh, we need to advance them, we need to bring up to the next grade, because well, they can't ever really answered the question why what it's not fair to pass a child you can't meet the grade level criteria.

undermining the fabric of our nation. We're creating a nation of idiots. And maybe that's the point of it all. I mean, you think you move down that path where you turn all the children are a vast majority of in the idiots, they become then useful idiots for a nonsensical, illogical and failed political philosophy which is either socialism or Marxism. Oh the other company countries who've tried it just didn't do it right. How many times you heard that in

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you are impacted by property tax as well. So if there are enough people that will be against this, I just I'm wondering what they're going to do elected officials in Columbus, if this actually comes to pass and property taxes banned under the Hong Kong Constitution, how are schools going to be funded they.

to start? What are the suggestions? Was increase the sales tax, which conceptually I'm not necessarily against, because everybody buys things at some point or other. Some people buy more than others. Of course, more disposable income, the more options you have to actually buy things. But if you're buying something, you're going to be helping to pay for something that you

might not be paying for but enjoying. Think of the park district, for example, maybe you have people who aren't property owners are going to the parks.

think is a fairer way of approaching it. I'm sure you'll get some advocates for the poor and folks on life's margins who will screen their bloody heads off over that that these evil property owners should be shouldering the burden because they're elite and they're well off. But you know,

I really feel for the seniors out there. You've been in your home for forty years, maybe you've got it paid off, and you're living on social Security or some modest form of income, and along comes the assessment and you find out your property taxes bill has gone up thirty percent, and that puts a dent in what you've

got left over. Maybe you can't afford it. I mean, there's been arguments over the years that maybe at some point in time, like when you own your home fully or something, you reach some certain age that you no longer have to pay property tax. A lot of different ways of looking at it and viewing it. But in the final analysis, that's the ballot initiative is going to

be circulated. The language has to be approved. The title has already been approved, so phase two is approving the actual language in the ballot initiative, which again is a constitutional amendment six to fifty five. Fifty five kres to the Talk Station. After the top of the r new is Secretary of Frank Secretary Steve Frank lro is supposed to be in studio talking about the paltry voter turnout.

I think that's one issue if it's on the ballot, would bring out voters qualified immunity amendment and his run for state auditor. So that'll be next after the news. I hope you can stick around, stay on top of the day's biggest stories at the top of the hour, and that's so important. Another update coming up on fifty five KRC the Talk Station. This report is sponsored by seven six Here at fifty about PARCD talk station. Happy Thursday Friday Eve is what I prefer, and I always

prefer having guests in the studio. And it is a wonderful thing to look across the booth here and see Secretary of State Frank LeRose in the studio to talk about a variety different topics. Welcome man, good to see you again.

pay debt service on. I don't I don't understand where that come from, How that can be, How in a representative government that all the Ohio tax payers are going to beholding the burden for debt service so the Browns can get their new playfield and this this, this, this facility. It's just it's really rubbed my listeners the wrong way. And I know you're not.

And I think that the thought by a lot of our legislators is, well, we're not going to unil lot of early disarmed because all these other states are putting public money and public bond deals into these stadiums, and so Ohio doesn't want to be the state with shabby stadiums where we can't have big national events where we can't attract top talent, and Lord knows the Browns need all the help they can get when it comes to

attracting talent. So again, there's two sides to this. I can see your point completely.

masters are ever going to get into. So it's like, oh, we need four hundred million dollars or tw hundrellion dollars or whatever, and you know the X amount of that, A large slice of that is going to go to the private booths where the elite get to watch the games and let's face it, the unwashed masses and Zip champagne cavias they wash. Yeah, I'm sorry to get down that road. We had a conversation early in the program this morning about it. Let's talk about voter turnout, which

was pathetic. Yeah, I mean, I know it was an off cycle election. I fully appreciate that, but you know, issue too, was there there was a reason to go out and vote?

And when we went over ten percent, everybody cheered, and I was so excited that we went over ten percent, and then I said, stop, team, just realize here that we're celebrating that ninety percent didn't vote. I know, only ten percent, But listen, when we have a party, we don't want people to not come, and so we want to see high voter turnout, and so we were happy to see that it went over ten percent because we

weren't expecting much. I mean, the total number was eight hundred and sixty eighty one hundred and twenty four of our fellow Ohioans who bothered to get off their butts and participate in one of the three forms of voting we have either early voting for a whole month, or absently voting where we literally mail your ballot to your

house for you, or election day voting. Now, again, it's hard to get people excited about what they're so called off year elections, these these even these odd numbered years like twenty twenty five. Now contrast that, though to the even number years twenty twenty record breaking year twenty twenty two, we broke the record for a goom viatorial election. Last year in twenty twenty four, we broke the all time record for early voting. So it's not that Ohioans are

not civically engaged. Ohioans care about voting, and they're engaged in it, and they know that it's both easy to vote and hard to cheat in our state, and they show up in record numbers when they care. The problem is getting people to care about local issues, local elections. People get excited about presidential elections. People get excited about governor's elections, US senate races. It's hard to get people excited about the mayor's race and the city council race

and a statewide ballot issue. And it's unfortunate because listen, it matters who lives in the White House. As a soldier, I can tell you this, I leave for army duty next week, and as a reservist, it matters who my commander in chief is. But who lives in the White House is probably not as important in your daily life as who works at the courthouse and the schoolhouse and at city hall. And in twenty twenty five and years

like that, that's when we make those decisions. So you know, get off your button, go vote well.

of all three good options. It's like if you're a football coach, you can score points by by running, passing, or kicking. You'd be foolish to only use one of those three. We need to make sure that people vote whichever way is convenient for them, but they got to vote. Well, what percentage of eligible islands voted in the presidential election? Generally, like if you had ten percent in Ohio for the off cycle election, we just went through. Yeah, it's always

north of fifty. I mean sometimes we get into the sixties and seventies. I tell the story about when I was when I was serving in Iraq. This is go back to two thousand and five, had their first real election. They'd had the BS elections where Saddam Hussein got one hundred percent of the vote. Everybody knew that was nonsense, but I was there as a soldier to see their first real election. So the Purple Finger and I tell the story. People were being threatened though these Islamist groups

from backed by Iran. We're telling people that it was un Islamic to vote. That's a lie. They were saying that if they saw that purple ink on your finger, they would cut your finger off. And so when those Iraqis held that purple finger in the air, it might as well have been another finger. They were saying, I'm not afraid of you. And so that election we saw over seventy percent. I always joke that listen, nobody's threatening to cut fingers off in a while. No, and we

almost never get over seventy percent. But again, it shows you that free people can make a difference when they go out to vote, and we need to not take that right for granted here well, and to.

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a fixed income. They've paid off that mortgage, they burned that note already, and now it feels like they're renting their property from the state government, from the local government. Too high. Property taxes are too high. This may not be the way to fix it, though, right and so I think that things like putting a cap on it, revisiting a thing called the homestead exemption that provides property

tax relief for seniors. And something I'm going to focus on as the state auditor, is who the heck's spending all this money at the local level and are they accountable and are they efficient? Really, the State Auditor's Office could be o DOGE, Ohio Department of Government Efficiency. And you know, if you're not happy with your county commissioners, you know who to vote out. If you're not happy

with your city, you know who to vote out. But how about the local housing authority, how about the planning commission? How about the park district? Who do you hold accountable for that kind of stuff?

How it will be characterized as a complaint. Isn't there some mechanism we could refuse to pay our property taxes because the Supreme Court has declared it unconstitutional at least that portion of the property taxes.

between that. Honestly, that part has been largely fixed through a thing that the Ohio the state government calls the school Facilities Commission. You've noticed a lot of nice schools built over the last few decades in Ohio. Maybe some of them too nice College University exactly. But that was the School Facilities Commission. So we've largely fixed the disparity

in school buildings. Now what happens inside of those is still a problem, right, And we know that your zip code has a lot to do with what quality of schools you have. And I think, honestly, this is why school choice is so important. I think the school choice is the civil rights issue of our era. Amen, no kid. If we believe in a meritocracy, we do that any kid should be able to grow up and make something of themselves and live up to their God given potential.

It has to start with good schools for any kid. By the way, this was one of our founding ideals when the Northwest Ordinance created this thing that we now call Ohio Right public schools was a revolutionary idea that didn't exist and and and so you know, we need to have good schools and property tax is currently part of the mix. Now here's the problem too, though. If you get rid of property taxes, are you relying entirely

on state level taxation. You don't have local taxation because guess what, the people that are paying are making the decisions. And so if you want to have local control over your schools, you need to have some level of local funding as well.

be a police officer. If your personal assets, your home, your personal wages could be taken away to compensate some bad guy's family. It's a crazy idea and it's something that really, if it makes the ballot, Ohioan should roundly reject it in the name of public safety and standing with police. Now, let me be clear, ninety nine point nine percent of the time the men and women in law enforcement do the right thing. On that fraction of a percent. When they don't, they'll face justice for it.

They need to write and their consequences. But qualified getting rid of qualified immunity is a kooky idea.

insurmountable challenge in and of itself. Most people can't afford that kind of money, and to foist that upon law enforcement officers, it's just going to be a horrific thing. So, Frank LeRose, a comment on your run for state Auditor, just a real brief before we part company this morning. Yeah.

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We're talking about diabetes and apparently you can reverse it and that's what they're all about, not just using drugs and lifetime a lifelong use of medications and all that, but they focus on reversal there, so you can reverse type two, type three gestational and insulin resistance in I think that's pretty clearly what you said in the last segment. I guess it boils down to a simple question.

medicine is broken. Doctors don't have any nutrition training at all. They treat a symptom, not a patient, and they have very little education around nutrition. They tell diabetics they can't eat fruit. It's the most ridiculous lie. For all the fruits and vegetables you want actually, and you know, lend

me your meat intake. The problem is there is a lot of the meat that we're sourcing is you know, blockbuster, a big process to agriculture meat, which is been people are consuming meat breakfast, lunch to dinner for every meal.

It's just unnecessary, it's inflammatory. And then all the processed foods are throwing on top of it, It creates an intelliate lipid fat in your cells, which fells the metabolic stelluar dysfunction and the lifestyle changes we we we've got about a ninety percent reversal rate of diabetes on people to actually finish and graduate from our program through education.

I bring it up. But uh, what I learned over the process though, by reading labels, sugar is everywhere. It's in everything added sugars. I kind even quit eating ketchup because there's like a whole bunch of it in the tablespood.

bract of cancer. You know, this is the thing about our lifestyle for diabetes. You start founding our lifestyle for diabetes, I mean, we're we can help you, you know, curve. You know cancer as well, Cancer lives in the cnic environment, right and they acid dry as a cancer and a lot of that acid comes from sugar. So if you stuff off sugar and the acid in the body, cancer can't survive. So you know, there's no guarantee around that.

But you know, we've had patients you know, ironically that have diabetes and cancer on our lifestyle platform and they've been able to reverse their disease.

half now as well as dibescare dot com. You can go to our website, hit learn more tab and get our app through there are you can go on Apple and Android the App Store and usib's Career Education and get our app that way. But the key to all this, you know, taking apart the clinical side, is for everybody who's really educated about the truth about diabetes. We talk about more thanch is what you put in your mouth. We talk about oxidative stress. We talk about healthy fats,

good versus good fats. We talk about brain health and beyond. I mean, we really dive into things that people just aren't learning in regular western ice medicine. And you can't learn it when you have a two hour wait in the way room and you get a five minute appointment. You're not going to change somebody's life.

and common sense approach to dealing with it. But as you point out, you know, one of the big elephants in the room is the existence of these pharmaceutical companies and they're in the business of getting people to pop pills. That's how they make their money, and they're happy to see more and more people have to pop them or you know, buy the insulin.

drugs out there for diabets right now. I mean, we're our goal to get people off. But if there's a good drugs, Juardians is a really good drug and it's like thirteen hundred dollars on homes cash out of pocket, and means who can afford that? And so we and we spend a lot of time fighting with the insurance companies to pay for these drugs for diabets that really need them, and so that that's a big problem too.

So I think along with you know, the thirty percent off, they need to you know, look into the middleman of the drugs too.

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the cost of pharmaceuticals, lower the cost of pharmaceuticals? Are you going to accomplish that? So lo and behold. Donald Trump comes up with the executive order and says, here's how you do it. Most Favored Nation status that whoever's out there paying the least price for a pharmaceutical, they're working with the pharmaceutical companies. How is it that Europe gets their drugs for cheaper than the United States. How is it the candidate gets there's cheaper than the United States? Well,

I guess because socialized medicine. They pleaded the pharmaceutical companies and say, hey, you know, go builk the Americans for the high cost of medicine. They'll fund your research and development and your profits. We need a cheaper price. Well, I guess it's time to spread the spread the burden on a broader number of people in the world. So that's what's going on. I had asked, what you go,

how are the Democrats going to object to this? Because you know, anything evil Orange Man does, they're going to say no to It doesn't matter how much sense it makes. If this Trump arrangement syndrome, it's built into literally everything. Well, I was pleasantly surprised. The Representative ro Kana, no right winger ro Kana, Democrat out of California, has introduced legislations to codify President Trump's executive order. Say that's the right

thing to do. Today introduced bipartisan legislation to codify Trump's executive order ensuring Americans do not pay more than people in other countries for drugs, asking Congressional members to stand with Rocana in codifying the executive order. So this is one that they're not going to stand in the way of. At least there's one that's not going to stand in the way of it. So good, let's hope that that bears fruit seven fifty five fifty five KRC, the talk station.

After the top of the R news Doctor Paul Winfrey, CEO the Economic Policy Innovation Center. We're going to talk Medicaid reform. Apparently he's a former White House Budget director, so that'll be after the news, followed by iHeart Media aviation expert Jay Ratliffe at A thirty. I hope you can stick around at the top of the hour. Every day we discover something new and important, the day's top stories on fifty five KRC the talk station.

Policy Innovation Center. He served a top management policy roles in the White House, US Senate as well as think tanks, and during the first Trump administration. He served as the Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of Domestic Policy Council. His research has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Investors, Business Daily, The USA Today, in Congressional Quartery, among other publications.

Also the author of the History and Future of the Budget Process in the United States. Doctor Winfree, Welcome to the program. It's a real pleasure to have you on, sir. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Well. When you read the news, you think the world is coming to an end. Oh my god, eight point six million people are going to be deprived of healthcare if these reforms

go in that the Republicans are talking about. Let us start with it seems to me that many of the Democrats who are railing against requiring people who are able bodied in their prime work years to actually participate and work or do something for twenty hours a week, they shouldn't be on Medicaid. Can you remind my listeners who may be on this fence and about the issue what Medicaid was originally designed to do.

eligible for Medicaid. And everybody else are working age adults who are healthy and currently on the program and don't have any don't have any requirement to work. When the program was created, as you mentioned, in the nineteen sixties, this was a program for the vulnerable folks, the disabled,

the blind, pregnant moms and kids. And what we've seen over the last ten years is the program has evolved to benefit the healthy adults without dependence over the truly vulnerable, which is changing the way that medicine is delivered and ultimately making it harder for folks who truly need the Medicaid program to see to see doctors, and to get the healthcare that they ultimately need.

And so if you think about it that way from a state's perspective, they're literally rewarded by the federal government for enrolling and shifting medicine towards it's healthy adults over people who truly need it, and and that those those incentives have become even more strengthened because of some Biden regulations that have been pushed out over the last four years that have just accelerated that and encouraged states even

more to take up the Obamacare expansion. And that's that's that's really what we're talking about here.

the Medicaid program. What that means is that right now today there are about seven hundred and ten thousand disabled Americans on Medicaid waitlists to get things like home health care because the states have again been incentivized not to spend on that population because that's what the federal government

has been telling them to do. And if they keep moving this in the tenet non expansion states expand Meday cave like Texas and Florida and Georgia, then we are going to become that much closer to a Medicaid for all system where there's just a takeover of healthcare and it's all run out of HHS. That's where we're going right now. Eighty million Americans are on Medicaid, a program that was originally intended to.

The states then split the money that they get from the federal government with the providers, so they send it to the insurers and through higher capitation rates or higher premiums, and they send it to the hospitals to higher payments. But here's the really wild thing that's going on here again. Because states get nine dollars from the federal government for every one dollar that they spend on the healthy population, they're incentivized to gain this in particular in the direction

of the healthy population. And so what we're seeing right now play out in quite literally real time is that there's a collusion between state governments and the hospitals and the insurers to figure out ways in which they can increase premiums and prices for the healthy adult population to take advantage of these money laundering schemes. And what that's doing is it's quite literally redirecting the way that medicine is delivered so that the vulnerable folks don't want to

be seen by doctors. Rather, the doctors want to see healthy folks because they get paid more for seeing them by the federal and state governments. And if in personally, I mean just as a as a tax paying American, I think that that's wrong and I don't want to see my own my own tax dollars go for things like.

They've then used the profits from these money laundering scams to provide health insurance Medicaid for illegal immigrants, but also to pay for things that have absolutely nothing to do with healthcare to fund budget shortfalls in their own states. And they're doing this on the backs of Medicaid. They're literally using Medicaid to funnel federal money back to the

state to fund their budget fund their budget shortfalls. And so Congress is looking right now at closing or at least limiting some of those loopholes, But really I think that they can go even even further than than what they're.

them anyway. But the idea that this system has been so upside down that it incentivizes treating the healthy people to the exclusion of the original point of medicaid, I think would rile people up and will be anger.

Based on their estimates, If you divide the seventy one billion by the two million, you get about thirty thousand dollars a year that the federal government is paying to ensure the marginal person on the Medicaid program, even though the even though the federal government tells us that it only costs about eight thousand dollars to ensure a person on Medicaid. So one has to ask the question where

did the other twenty two thousand dollars go? And the answer is that it's being channeled to the state governments and the insurers and the hospitals, which is why those groups are the ones that are actually panicking about what Congress is doing right now and trying to incite a riot in Washington, DC amongst the vulnerable Medicaid recipients.

five point two million people in America. This is the highest compensated health insurance CEO.

and enroll people. And then that gives those same NGO's access to you know, names and addresses, which allows them to go out and and increase turnout right and into put into the harvest and uh and so you know, by by expanding the welfare state, not only are we creating a culture of dependency, but we're also creating a culture that feeds one party, one political party over the other. And that's intentional. They that's they they know that that's what they're doing.

Thank you so much for spending time with my listeners and enlightening them and me on the how bad this is out there, and let's keep our fingers crossed and we do get some reform passed, because this is a this is a sinking ship round. This is just one part of the of the budget and clearly we have outspent ourselves to a degree that I think it's an existential threat to our existence as a country. Thank you very much for having me. I really appreciate it. It's

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Traffic fax to one twenty ninth set fand seventy one continues to run an ex to fifteen minutes field zirdle to Red Bank northbound seventy five close to a fifteen minute to lay out of Florence.

point because they literally have nothing to talk about. But it's not just that simple, because as I've read, according to three aviation experts feed with nbcn IS, it would cost more than a billion dollars and take years to retrofit it. So this isn't exactly a great deal.

fifteen years. But they're not delivering right.

And I said no, not if I could avoid it, And so all he did was a just things as you and I would. It's a lot like, Okay, it's January, I'm flying United. Am I going to connect through Chicago for Houston? I think I'll choose Houston because we know what happens in Chicago in the month of January. So when they make these ridiculous arguments, it's like, that's really

what you want to jump up and down on. That's the point you're going to try to make to make yourself look I don't know better politically, it's stupidity, and I did. I just don't get well. I'm glad I don't get it because you and I don't think that way.

or you know, layover in Newark? And I think my initial reaction, regardless of the status of the air traffic control system, will we know right out of the gate, I don't want to go to Newark for any reason. But most notably they have made the news regularly lately with their with the outages. So what's the story behind this one, Jay.

primary and the secondary systems that are being effected. And what's happening is this technology that is so old it's simply just wearing down. It just cannot withstand the demands that are being placed on it. So what we're seeing is the same system which is used across the country. I look at Newark as an indication of this is just the beginning. We could see other types of situations like this occur, and that is certainly something that's an issue.

controllers do not get overwhelmed with. Obviously, you want them to have the technology working, because look, we're forty air traffic controllers short in Newark at this point in time that part of the country, and what's taken place is

three thousand air traffic controllers short across the country. So you have air traffic controllers that are working over time because they are short staff, and you have a situation where they don't they can't count on their technology because it's failing, and you have a lot of these individuals that are just saying, look, I'm going to go get a less stressful job, like you know, bomb detection or something, because this is just if we've had five of them

that had to take a leave of absence because of the emotional distress that they had when they lost contact with their aircraft for ninety seconds. Now, sometimes I would be like, oh, not come up, but what these men and women are going through, I totally understand that where they're taking a forty five day leave of absence and

going from there. The problem, of course, Brian, is neither of those two systems are two issues with the shortage of air traffic controllers or technology is anything we can fix fast. In other words, it's going to take years for us to get the technology updated. Thank god President Trump has made this an item of priority. And if we have a Manhattan Project kind of approach, all hands on deck, we can knock it out maybe two years.

That's great staffing. It's going to take years for the staffing to get up where it needs to be, which means neither of these situations are going to be resolved anytime soon. And when Sean Duffy comes out as the Transfer taking Secretary saying that some of these parts are so old from the last century that they have to go to eBay to buy the parts for the FAA, if that doesn't tell you what we're up against, I

don't know. That's terrifying and scary at the same time, because it's one thing to find people qualified to still work on equipment from the seventies and eighties and nineties, but to find parts on eBay to do so again. Thank God, President Trump's doing something because all these useless people in Washington, d C, on both sides of the aisle that want to use this as a political ping

pong ball. Excuse me, you've been in DC for forty fifty years, thirty years, twelve, and you've done nothing to address this FAA issue, which we've known it was coming. But the idea is, it's a lot easier to give money for a bridge where I can get my picture taken versus spending it on something boring like the FAA's upgraded computer system. We've waited too long and we're behind the eight ball, and we've got to do a lot, and I'm glad President Trump's at the helm to.

try to keep them cool from overheating. And I'm thinking we've had their traffic controllers have to have an umbrella at their desk inside the Why because it leaks at the ceiling. I'm trying to keep water off of my computer. Look at all of these different things that they have to deal with.

has needed all these years. It reminds me of let's say, social security and some of these other things that they just don't want to touch. And you know, there're gonna spend more time seeing that they can blame versus trying to fix the problem.

But look, only a portion of those make it through the training, and it could be three years, four years or even longer before you're final fully trained at your post by yourself.

their seniority where they can call the shots. If I get promoted and I'm sitting in the left seat when I'm at the bottom of the list and I can't have that much control over my schedule, yeah, I would get paid more, but I control my life more in

this situation. And these air traffic controllers, it's the same thing when they get there and they're saying, I'm going through so much for this when I could be happier doing something else, and all of that stuff not all, but a great deal of it is stuff that we shove on them because we're giving them tools that they can't depend on, and we're asking them to do the job of several people because we can't keep everything staffed

as we should. And a lot of these people are just saying I've had it in a way they go and Brian, I can't blame them, because if every single day you're in charge of the safeguarding the lives of people that are you know that you're helping to facilitate the movement of those aircraft. There's no room for margin as far as for safety. You've got to jump in there and do your job, and everything has to work as it's supposed to, and you're worried every day is

it really gonna work? Am I gonna be able to get through my shift without a problem? And you know that's certainly a concern.