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If you're tuned in right now, I have stayed. Representative Jennifer Gross joins the program at seven o five, talk about Ohio Medicaid Committee. We're not really good when it comes to Medicaid payments and ferreting out fraud, waste and abuse here in the state of Ohio. We're gonna find out they're gonna be any changes to the system. Donald and el Americans for Prosperity, protecting prosperity and the Trump tax cuts. Got that event at the farm which is free.

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of Western History. Michael joined the program dato A five on that one and the AA Jay Ratliffe on the Rundown as he is every Thursday at eight thirty. Today, we talked about the latest on the Delta Toronto crash. I did get a chance to watch the video of that. Wow, that's just amazing that no one died in that just really mind boggling. See if he has any insight onto how that actually happened. I've heard lots of speculation on a plane hit the ground too hard, the wind was

blowing sideways, all kinds of speculation on that. Trump firing hundreds of FAA employees and calls in space X to see about needed FAA upgrades. We all know the antiquated system they're using the Federal Aviation Administration and the control towers for airplanes. That goes back to like the nineteen fifties or post World War two. So yeah, probably needed an upgrade. It reminds me of the City of Cincinnati, just you know, having all of these projects that need

to be done, infrastructure that's already in place. Ask screw it, we need something new. Let's go build something new and then ignore that. Please see General Aviation crash claims two lives in a mid air collition. That one just happened the other day. We'll talk about that with Jay see what he knows about it. And Airlines added again seeking to reverse December rule requiring penalties for breaking wheelchairs. Okay, oh man, and pardon me if I'm struggling a little

bit today. I don't know anybody listening audience has had the laser treatment for glaucoma. I do have a family history of glaucoma, and guess what have valcoma. So after taking drops for many years, apparently the drops don't work after a while, and then you get a little holes blasted in your eyeball with a laser. I had that done yesterday in my right eye and supposed to be done again next week for my left My eye hurts like hell today and I'm having a difficult time focusing.

So if I fumble around a little bit more than normal, and I always fumble around, you know the reason why I've got my lights turned pretty low in here today because it's kind of light sensitive as well. Anyhow, sorry for my you know, just letting you know about my own personal troubles. These so don't try to labor the listening audience with them, but just trying to provide you an advanced explanation. Five on three, seven four nine fifty, five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three talk

hit pound five fifty. If you have an AT and T phone, save me from myself, feel free to call. I thought this was cool. I will see if it stands. I probably someone will immediately rush into court to see if they can unring the bell that Donald Trump rang last evening by signing an executive order ending the use of your taxpayer money for federal resources supporting illegal immigration

and illegal aliens. You can do that, apparently, so at least you can try, they said, the goal of the executive order is to ensure that quote, taxpayer resources are used to protect the interest of American citizens, not illegal aliens. Apparently, under the order of the federal departments and agencies have to identify and end all federally funded programs providing financial

benefits to illegal aliens. Also seeks to ensure federal funds are not being used to support sanctuary policies and parathetically, we learned yesterday from Judge ent To Polatano interesting column on that one. The DOJ tabled the prosecution of Mayor Eric Adams in return for his agreement to help the federal government get rid of the illegal aliens, most notably the illegal immigrant criminals that are plaguing New York. Some

people a little miffed about that. I think Judge of Polatana called it out on an ethical question whether or not that should even be, that it is even appropriate, which on many levels I understand, But it was just the funny thing about it was dismissed without prejudice, which in the law means they just stopped the prosecution, but they can reopen it at any time in the future, So they've got this, as the judge referred it, sort

of damnically. He's hanging over Adam's head. So to the extent he doesn't make good on his promises to cooperate with Ice and federal authorities dealing with the illegal immigrant criminal population and getting rid of them, then they'll just open the litigation or the criminal prosecution back up. A dismissal without prejudice means it's done and over with stick a fork in it. You can't bring it back anyhow.

Subtle distinction that, but fifty five care sea dot com for the podcastfeeding in here get to hear judge ended a politana's analysis anyway. According to the reporting, the order states, my administration will uphold the rule of law, defend against the waste of hard earned taxpayer resources, and protect benefits for American citizens in need, including individuals with disabilities and veterans.

According to the fact sheet issued by the White House, President Trump is committed to safeguarding federal public benefits for American citizens who are truly in need, including, as I mentioned, individuals with disabilities and veterans. So the corresponding White House fact sheet quotes the executive order that Donald Trump signed cut and paste now in terms of facts and figures,

whopping amounts spent on illegal immigration. You if you work and pay taxes, we're responsible for an estimated four hundred and fifty one billion dollars to care for illegal immigrants and guideways in the United States unlawfully since just twenty twenty one. And that is according to the US House

and Homeland Security Committee. They did the number crunching on that one You, if you work and Pay taxes, has spent one hundred and eighty two billion, at least annually to cover the cost of twenty million illegal aliens and their children. Sixty six point five billion of that federal dollars and one hundred and fifteen point six billion from

state and local expenses. Apparently, the Center for Immigration Studies estimated that one million illegal aliens cost the American taxpayers three billion dollars annually through welfare programs, which are not supposed to be available to those unlawfully in the United States according to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in nineteen ninety six. Now I'll be the first person,

todmit I wasn't aware of that law. A lot of people have been asking the question out loud, how is it that an illegal immigrant can get money from the federal government. How is it that we keep buying and paying for stuff and things for folks who are here illegally. Well,

according to Fox News reporting, they're not under that particular act. However, there is apparently a caveat illegal aliens granted parole become classified as qualified aliens when it comes to welfare programs, allowing them to become eligible for benefits with full eligibility granted after five years. So maybe it's that parole component that Biden put into place. If you are declared a parole EU are now eligible in spite of that specific

Reconciliation Act in nineteen ninety six. Hmm, magical, isn't it. Let's see here, Executive orders stated the federal and state taxpayers paid more than sixteen point two billion dollars to provide Medicaid funded emergency services to illegal aliens. That estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, not some Republican subcommittee puting numbers together for people who are skeptical and cenecal. But you can be skeptic golden cenecal about the Congressional Budget

Office numbers as well. I'm just quoting the figures that they came up with. It's a lot of money, is the point. Facts, She continued to bude administration gave billions and taxpayer dollars to left wing groups that facilitated mass illegal migration and provided legal services and challenges to deportation orders.

They also pointed out FEMA allocated more than one billion billion dollars to illegal aliens since twenty twenty one, rather than FEMA money going to say, the flooded folks in North Carolina, which comes up in conversation regularly, and as I suppose, I don't know if it's connected with this specific ill order that he signed last night, or it's because Doge has been cracking down on a lot of

these out payments. The US Catholic Bishops have sued the Trump administration for shutting down refugee funding, and it amounts to tens of millions of dollars. So you get hooked up to the aubilical court of the federal government, even if you're the US Catholic Bishops and the Catholic Church. That isn't money you can count on. How much are the parishioners going to give you in church on Sunday?

You don't know how much is the federal government going to give you and how long will they fund your program? You don't know, you're not entitled to. It would be my argument we can get to take a little bit of a dive into the specifics of those allegations in the lawsuit. But the Trump administration also halted seven hundred and sixty nine million dollars for a contract to a left wing group that is really all about keeping the illegal immigrants in our country and doing anything they can

within their power to stop deportation under any circumstances. So you have advocacy groups, groups that are actively facilitating bringing illegal immigrants into our country and advocating that there shouldn't be any specific exclusion on them, that the system is designed intentionally designed to exploit, exclude criminalized detainer to poor people deemed to be undeserving of inclusion in our national fabric,

particularly black and brown people. The Acacias Center seven hundred and sixty nine million dollars for the services they provide, when that is the advocacy that they're involved with. Now, I'm tired of paying for messaging the flies in face of what I believe in, and well ultimately messaging an impact which is harmful to the American people. Go back to the budget amounts and the expenditures I just mentioned, and we're broke by the way, five eighteen ft five kr CD talk station, be right back.

strongly encourage you to download. So back over to the US Cathleen Bishops fire in a lawsuit and where are the where are all this separation of church and state people? I mean, at every turn, the left jumps out of their skin when you find out that federal money or even state money ends up in the hands of some religious organization and they, you know, ACLU or somebody runs in the court to try to stop that from happening.

How come it's different when all these religious organizations are getting your taxpayer dollars to facilitate illegal immigration in our country, not mean just helping people out once they're here, but actually to engage in active you know, bringing them in. So I I'm just curious to know what happened to them usually crawling out of the woodwork. And isn't one of the missions that when you give money to if

you're a Catholic, give money in the plate. Isn't part of the money to serve the Christian mission of helping people in need?

of District Columbia. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops said that six thousand and seven hundred admitted refugees were assigned to the program for Refugee Resettlement, and then the Trump administration ended its funding, which they claim could jeopardize their efforts. Bishops apparently claimed that the funding means it is now on the hook for millions in costs incurred, which they suggest as the violation of federal laws. In other words,

you promised us the money. We actively entered into, you know, a belief that you were going to give us the money, requiring us and obligating us to you know, follow through

with it, and now the money's cut off. Well, if this is part of the Catholic mission, maybe as slice of that plate, money should fill the void here that the Trump administration is taken away just saying, according to the lawsuit, as a direct result of the suspension of the USCCCB has millions of dollars in pending unpaid reimbursements for services already rendered to refugees, and is accruing millions more each week, with no indication that any future reimbursement

will be paid, or that the program will ever resume. They say it has already been forced to initiate layoffs for fifty employees. Joke because of the Catholic organization. Should we feel more sorry for the employees laid off under this program than the federal government employees that have been laid off during this Absolutely not. That was a quick

You didn't even hesitate. If the funding is still suspended without court intervention, the USCCB faces irreparable damage to its long standing refugee resettlement programs and its reputation and relationship with its sub recipients and the refugee population it serves. Huh, knock down a notch in terms of reputation among the refugees. Wait a minute, they're not giving me handouts anymore.

provide the foundation of this private public partnership. Well, I think one could easily observe that this is in fact, the US Catholic bishops are actually fulfilling the mission of the Catholic Church helping out these poor, deprived people that don't have homes and food and shelter and medicine and all that kind of stuff that is I would say, arguably within the confines of the Catholic doctrine and most

Christian doctrines helping those in need. So by the federal government funding this operation, are we not funding these spread of the organization's mission teachings of Catholicism and Christianity generally.

And the American taxpayer money is then given to the Catholic Church, who's worried about its reputation here, right, because if the newly arrived immigrant population are being served by the Catholic Church, they don't know where the Catholic Church got the money, so they give credit to the Catholic Church.

Right And since Catholic Church can't continue this mission without federal taxpayer dollars, their reputation is being harmed, not Donald Trump's the White Houses or the federal government's reputation for cutting off the money the Catholic Church's reputation. So this ultimately is a marketing thing for the Catholic Church, and that seems to me to be potentially a violation of the First Amendment. I'm just saying. By twenty seven, fifty

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thirty seven degrees with mostly clear skies. Fifteen Right now for the five kr CD talk stations about thirty FOP President Ken Kober fast forward one hour from now about the Cincinnati Emergency Communications Center Responders program and some concerns at GP and the fire. The FOP and the firefighters have on that one. Let us see here in the absence of phone calls diving local stories. So we approve recreational marijuana in Ohio, lawmakers now want to limit it

and criminalize certain aspects of it. Senate Bill fifty six would ban public smoking driving while the driver or any passenger in the vehicle is using marijuana, and reduce the number of homegrown plants allowed by half, and increase the tax from ten seten percent to fifteen percent. And I read recently that the Michigan marijuana weed and it's been legalized a lot longer than Ohio. A lot of people go to Michigan. From what I hear, it's about half

the price you pay in Ohio. So by jacking the tax up here in Ohio, I don't know that that necessarily is going to improve the revenue situation. But who am I. None of the proposed rules were part of the constitutional amendment passed by fifty seven percent of the voters here in the state of Ohio. Senator Steven Hoffman tip city behind the changes. In short, this bill is about government efficiency, consumer and child safety, and maintaining access

to voter approved adult use marijuana. This same bill passed the Senate last General Assembly, but it didn't pass in the House. ACLU thinks the bill ignores the mandate from the voters, saying Ohio voters overwhelmingly supported issue too, says Gary Daniels, their chief lobbyist from the ACLU, and doing so,

they endorse policies regarding adult use cannabis. SB fifty six now proposes to roll back these changes in hole or in part, in an affront of those same voters, well, voters who will be able to vote their people out of office around next time around if they're upset about this one anyway. The legislation apparently cuts in half the number of plans that can be grown in a home. You can do twelve now, but they want to cut it back to six. Joe, why not five or eight

or seven? Or stay out of my house. You can get a ton of weed off of one plant anyway. Also lower the THC level from extracts from ninety percent to seventy percent. And also, and I don't know how

you enforce this one ban sharing between adults. Does that mean you can't pass the Ducchi It also says you can't smoke weed after ten PM Joe amendment also mandates some of the tax billers be spent on social equity and jobs programs, but the bill eliminates that provision reduces the money spent to spend it on mental health and addiction services. Well, you know what we always say about

Republicans in Columbus, Joe. From the ACLU's part, Finally, the ACU in Ohio urges this community to not rush this bill through the Senate. There's lots of interest in this issue across the Ohio, but many do not have an opportunity to testify today or have to a chance to fully review be one hundred and forty seven page bill

with numerous provisions introduced less than one month ago. Your constituents deserve the chance to fully weigh on an important issue they pass so resoundingly before it is demolished by politicians. It just says thanks for the first time, Joe. He agrees with the ACLU on that one. Housing affordability says took but Randy Tucker props over to enquire took another hit. Kicking off the new year. In the Cincinnati area, asking rents went higher in January than any other major metro

era in the country. Median asking rent that would be the typical list price for an apartment across all apartment times jump fifteen percent in January compared to the same month a year ago. This reported by Redfinn, biggest year over increase in asking rents among the fifty most populous US metro areas, pushing the typical monthly rent payment in the city of Cincinnati to fourteen and twenty dollars up

from twelve to thirty five over the same period. Now that appropriately time, Joe rents up despite more new rentals coming online in the local market. Some experts predicting would soften rent increases because there's simply more supply to keep

up with demand. But many of the apartments coming on the market in Cincinnati area and new developments high rent neighborhoods downtown over the Rhine, for example, which carries higher rants then while other locations and also provide amenities that people are looking for, pools, dogs, spas, fitness centers, connective communities. Is going to solve all this, though, Joe, just just wait for it. I'm sure those apartments are going to

build in Hyde Park if that goes through. Yeah, those will be really affordable, so affordable five thirty six fifty five KRSED dog station. Stack is stupid? Coming up? Or call five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred eight hundred eighty two to three talk hang on.

the division on that one. But it's an eat, I don't think.

stacks of a million. You know, if you walk through that process, you start realizing how much money you're talking about here, and it's it's it's I mean, it's it's like it's like looking at one of those Hubble space telescope pictures of the universe and seeing all those tiny thousands and tens of thousands, if that millions of blips of light and wreck and noting that each one is a galaxy, not a star, but a galaxy, and it

just it ends up frying your mind out. That's the kind of dollars we're talking about here, Jerry.

So but you know what, I imagine every American since twenty twenty one, they would prefer getting a check for twelve hundred and eighty fi five dollars of knowing it's going to illegal immigrants who really aren't legally supposed to be here. Right right there, you.

church that are not the church. So, uh, this is deep in the weeks, but I think we're in for some more fun with the illegal activities with illegal.

net and it takes time, and it takes effort. At least this administration is in trying to apply the time and effort necessary to ferret it out. Thanks for calling tax Nerd Dave, Good to hear from you. Is for five forty seven for five Kcity Talk station fifty five KRC.

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but in the meantime, stack is stupid. Leading off with Nathaniel, note the name Nathaniel morin California Advisor to the Federal Ministry or Canadian rather Advisor's important that it's Canada because they have different laws there. Canadian Advisor to the Federal Ministry of Women apparently released a statement defending I'm going to say his participation in women's marathons and other running

competitions as a transgender yet biological male. So it's a guy claiming to be a chick, referencing Donald Trump's recent executive order of preventing trans athletes from competing in women's in girls' sports. In the statement quote, I am aware that my participation in so many competitions will be talked about because of my medical history. The situation in the United States, and the elements of certain politicians do not

help either. He she whatever you jar your own conclusions, went on to say, with all due respect to level one level, I compete at amateur recreational levels. Specifically the state of scientific research in the field for the amateur recreation level and the fact that I have undergone a medical transition, I consider that I have the legitimacy to participate in the right category unless the law prohibits me

from doing so. Let us remember that in Canada no law prohibits it, and for other countries, I will comply with local laws in force when it applies. Trans folks only want to fully integrate as their authentic self and be happy in our society. Well it's all about you, then, isn't it. That's not about the other girls that you have advantage over Look. Look right here, we have an

illustration of that morin. She came in, he came. She came in first place in a five kilometer event on February fourth, time, twenty five thirty two, earning the title of quote fastest female close quote across all age categories runner up. An actual girl in the ten to twelve age category who did a twenty six oh eight would have come in first place had this more in we'll call her moron not competed. Had she competed in the men's category, the transgender runner would have come in tenth

place among all male participants. Huh huh, but it's all about him or Two men from Colorad arrested up. They allegedly tried to smuggle tens of thousands of dollars worth of methan, fetamine, and tobacco into a federal prison in Louisiana by launching the contraband over a security wall using

a professionally manufactured cannon. Why are you doing that? Professionally manufactured is in quotes Jose Francisco Herreramunez eighteen, Angel Gonzales Gutierrez nineteen taken into custody, charged with one count each of attempting to induce contract introduce contraband into a penal institution one count each of attempting to distribute meth amfetamine.

News relaates from the Sheriff's office there so the two suspects were attempting to smuggle in eleven one hundred and twelve thousand dollars worth of tobacco and almost ninety thousand dollars worth a methan fetamine using a cannon. Sheriff Off said two suspects, both of whom are from Greely, Colorado, had planned to use the Canada launch the items over a security fence into the group's into the grounds of

the federal prison. The cannon, which was propelled by compressed air, had a range of shooting items more than three hundred and fifty feet. Sheriff told local news there. The two suspects attempted to get the drugs into the facility. It wasn't successful, according to the sheriff, thanks to a very observant deputy, he was able to stop it before they were able to get the drugs into the prison. That much meth would have just been devastating in that population, said.

The cannon they recovered was not a homemade gadget. He said, this was something not this was not something that was homemade. It was bought. It was professionally manufactured, and it's very powerful. Five point fifty five bitch five karosity talk station. Yeah, they could have used the drum. So they keep saying. You know, the border wall that Trump wants to build may very well deter and keep out the flow of

human beings. But you know, modern drones these days, you can get quite a bit of meth over the just by why in it? Five fifty six don't go away? More to talk about plus Can Cober at six point thirty News.

Ohio State Representative Jennifer Gross joins the program to talk about Ohio Medicaid Committee, and we will ask whether there's gonna be any changes to the system described with being filled with sort of fraud, waste, and abuse. Anyhow, how much money is going out the door that shouldn't go out the door here in Ohio. Don't know if she has the answer to the question, but we'll certainly pose

it to her. Donovan and the Americans for Prosperity fast forward to seven thirty Protecting Prosperity and the Trump tax cuts. They got that event at the farm coming up where the Americans for Prosperity is footing the bill for your dinner and explaining the legislation and talking about here in Ohio. Michael Walsh got a book coming up at eight o five, A Rage to Conquer Twelve Battles that change the course

of Western History. And then, of course it being Thursday, every Thursday at eight thirty, we are blessed to hear from I heard me the aviation expert Jay Ratliffe. And let's turn to the phones five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty eight hundred and eighty two to three talk Pete, thanks for calling this morning, and a happy Thursday to you.

I mean, you know, that's kind of the point I was making. It's good marketing for them. They don't go around explaining that all the money that they're spending on the illegal immigrants and these goods and services are providing to them comes from the American taxpayer as opposed to the Catholic Church contributions in the offering plate. Just contemplate it,

that's all. Just you know, I mean, I find many of the arguments that are made about separation of church and state to be posterous, and there isn't a direct support of the church. It isn't the establishment of a religion. We don't have a theocracy here. If they're doing something that the government wants done, just like non religious organizations, and they I think they should have a place at the table to receive money as well. So I'm not

really adopting this theory that I'm talking about. I'm just calling out those who regularly call out or the in file lawsuits to stop that type of thing from happening. Silence is deafening. I thought this is rather comical, of course, the Democrats pulling their hair out over Elon Musk and his efforts with the Department of Government Efficiency to ferret out fraud, waste and abuse and stop programs from getting money and all that kind of thing, and they don't

have anything but screaming and yelling. And there are a lot of folks just making this point. James Carville the other day was talking about how miserable the Democrats look and sound and making these arguments against these cuts, defending the indefensible u On Jesse Waters. The other day, Dan Turantine apparently Democratic advisor asked about democrats strategy to vocally criticize Elon Musk's efforts. The number one thing in politics is you want to respect the people, he said, listen

to them and solve their problems. We're failing the common sense test. Rather than saying, hey, you know, some of what they're finding, anybody in the right mind would say we should end it. Instead, we scream about everything, and so when we find stuff that, in our opinion, probably is worthy of discussion, the average voter says, forget it, and all you do is scream no, and they're crazy.

We all know the government can be inefficient. He said, we all know that the bureaucracy can be bloated. We all worked in the f wording White House. We tried to reorganize the government. We tried to find the efficiency. It's hard to do, said John frou Favreau, another Obama speech writer, sharing love of its frustrations. How about that, No, it's not hard to do. Musk is proving it right now. I love this Wall Street Journal article headline countering what

these morons said. DOGE is searching for wasteful spending. It isn't hard to find. Every year, they point out, agency reports posted online document billions in improper payments, which include fraud, but also under payments, duplicate payments, payments to ineligible recipients for ineligible goods or services, court to the Government Accountability Office. They also include include correctly paid amounts that didn't follow regulations,

such as contracts missing required signatures. So they're tracking this stuff and they have been for quite some time. They point the most recent fiscal year ending September of last year, the agencies that reported their improper payments identified one hundred and forty nine billion, which amounts about three point seven

percent of payments from the four point one trillion. Laid out reports cover a large chunk of total government spending, which the CBO congratulate budget A Budget office puts its six point seventy five trillion dollars last fiscal year. Last year, they write more than ninety percent of improper payments were over payments. Far back as two thousand and two, Congress required agencies to estimate and report improper payments every year.

The low strengthened in twenty ten, twenty thirteen, and twenty twenty. The estimates come from statistical samples of payments that the agencies check in detail, using methods approved by independent inspector general for each agency, like Todd Zenzer used to be inspector in general. So what do they figure out? I mean, here, here's the numbers are right here, Medicare three point one seven billion, Medicate thirty one point one billion, Medicare advantage

nineteen point one billion. I could go on and read all of them, and every single department has already identified statistically that they pay out way too much money, countering what those other clowns said that oh, we wanted to do it, we just don't know how really engage in accounting practices be a little bit more mindful for the money goes out the door, Maybe require the appropriate coding on it, Maybe follow appropriate procedures so when it comes

time to do an audit Pentagon, we'll know exactly what you spent the money on, which presently we don't. They just pay lip service. Over the years. It's a campaign talking point. Yes we're gonna fare it out Fraudway's and Abusess and no they're not. They're not gonna do damn thing about it. Finally, finally, we have an administration who actually is making good on what they promised to do,

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But what we've seen so far is happening is two particular egregious instances is where they showed up a woman who was visibly pregnant, I think she was like eight months pregnant, was injured in an auto accident, and instead of calling for an ambulance, he said, we'll just go to the police district and have a police report filed out. That's what you want to do. So you have an injured pregnant woman shows up at the police district and they're like what is this. Another one was a guy

shows up at the district. So yeah, these civilian people told us to just come here and follow this police report. He goes, but I'm kind of confused because the woman that hit me was visibly drunk.

now we're down one hundred and forty, one hundred and forty. Well, if you had those one hundred and forty officers now working and with the police, with the actively with the police department, would this would these community responders even be necessary? I mean, aren't they supposed to? And this sounds like a band aid solution they came up with to avoid hiring more police officers.

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I don't like government subsidies for them. And without the government subsidies, quite often, you know, things don't work because it's it's a fake business reality, it's a fake business model. It's like going back over to the US Catholic Bishops complaining that the plug has been pulled on all the money that they've been promised from the federal government for

their immigration services. That wouldn't exist. That program and their actions and their activities related to housing and sheltering and feeding illegal immigrants and providing them with legal services wouldn't happen. Without your taxpayer dollars. Ev truck manufacturer Nicola has found that out and just declared Chapter eleven bankruptcy. Another green energy Wall Street Journal rights another green energy unicorn died Wednesday as Nicoll Corp, the electric truck startup, filed for

Chapter eleven bankruptcy. They say it's spectacular market crash, another warning about the perils of industrial policy and chasing government subsidies. Have been at this eleven years. They wanted to be the Tesla of trucks. They went public in June twenty twenty through a blank check merger amid the euphoric pandemic, stock market recovery and the democratic promises of a green

new deal. They fetched twenty seven billion dollars in market valuation, which back then was greater than Ford's market valuation, even though they hadn't sold a single vehicle. Supposedly sophisticated investors were taken in by this marketing hype. General Motors announced in September of twenty twenty that was taking eleven percent stake in Nicola. CEO Mary Barraw held it as an industrial industry leading disruptor, but as the Journal notes, it

was disruptive in a different way. January twenty eighteen, Nicola posted a video on Twitter of its model truck. Get a load of this. This is comical appearing Note the emphasis to power efforts effortlessly down a flat road, with a caption the Nicola Hydrogen electric trucks will take on an any my truck and outperformed them in every category weight, acceleration, stopping, safety, and features, all with a five hundred and one thousand mile range. Close quote that would be revolutionary if it

was true. It wasn't. According to a twenty twenty one federal fraud indictment of the founder, Trevor Milton. It was an inoperable prototype that had been towed to the top of the hill. The Egal employees released the brake so it looked like it was cruising along all while the door was taped shut to keep it from falling off, and its batteries had been removed to prevent the truck from catching on fire. After taking investors for a ride,

mister Milton was convicted in twenty twenty two. Nicola's marketing deceptions and problems spooped investors. In twenty twenty three, Nicola recalled two hundred and nine battery electric trucks because of fires. As of the last October, it sold fewer than five hundred trucks at a heavy law reportingly selling these hydrogen trucks for three hundred and fifty one thousand dollars a piece, which was about half of what it cost to make them, though its sales price was still twice as much as

an internal combustion engine SEMI. This was obviously financially unsustainable, especially amid higher interest rates. California regulators in the Biden administration tried to boost the electric truck market with their mandates and subsidies. Inflation Reduction Act, for example, includes a forty thousand dollars tax credit for buyers of electric trucks.

EPA rule last spring required that electric truck models make up twenty five percent of long haul tractor sales by twenty thirty two, but the government still couldn't induce truckers to buy them. Like other companies in the electric vehicle industry, we have faced various market and macroeconomic factors that have impacted our ability to operate. That from Nicola CEO Stephen

Gersky this week yesterday. Fact in other words, high costs and technological limitations make evs impractical for long distance trucking operations. Another electric truck maker, Lordstown Motors, filed for bankruptcy in twenty twenty three. Fisker Inc. Failed last June. British electric bus startup Arrival sold its assets to another EV startup,

Canoe Ink, which filed for bankruptcy last month. The Biden Energy Department provided a six billion dollar rescue for Ribbon Automotive after it lost one hundred and seven forty three dollars on every vehicle it's sold during the first nine months of last year. The journal concludes props for their humor. Critics say industrial policy is picking winners and looters losers,

but where are the winners? Six fifty six took away State Representative Jennifer Gross After the top of the air news in Donald and Neal on protecting prosperity and the Trump tax.

it's always a pleasure talking with you. Thanks for being on the program this morning.

But moving away from that, and I don't want to put opinions or conclusions into your head or mouth, but there are lawmakers are considering repealing the Medicaid expansion, a medicaid expansion which I suppose occurred back in twenty fourteen, and they're saying they need to do that. We don't have the money here in the state of Ohio unless the federal money that comes in in support of the medicaid program covers ninety percent of those that were at

that enter the system under the expansion. Do I have that accurate?

And in fact, I'm the chair of the Medicaid Committee, So we're trying to protect our traditional medicaid group because I think as a society, that's the part that we pretty much as Ohioans, we believe those people will need to be protected, and so we're looking at that group to be sure that we try to maintain it's you know, we need to have like Civic Conda Civic Medicaid and not Cadillact Medicaid because what I see and what I'm noting is in some cases and those people on Medicaid

may not always agree, but you and your private insurance probably are dealing with things that you that you do and wouldn't have to face on Medicaid. For instance, a child on Medicaid gets mental care and vision, so we don't offer that on a traditional medical plan through your

traditional insurance, so and mental health through our medicaid. A lot of mental health providers try to get Medicaid because we reimburse higher than traditional medicine, and sometimes traditional medicine makes you pay cash for your psychiatric health or mental health care. So there's there are some good things about

our medicaid system. The challenge, like any program, is you know, our number one expense on our SNAP, which is our food stamp program, is soda pop. So the challenge is what's required, right, like what is compassionate, what is loving? What is and is what's compassionate to the taxpayer. Also, we have to not throw out compassion to the medicaid population and then be uncompassionate or dispassionate to the person

paying the bill, which is the middle class. I mean, you're earning eighty eight thousand family of four, which which is not high on the hog. You don't qualify for Medicaid, but you're paying all these benefits. So yeah, finding a balance is important.

the federal government. Right, but it was even under a Republican governor CASEIIC and in many cases the states that yeah and the people that are expanding are under government right now Republican governors. So but anyway, so they said they kind of lured us in with that. Then the population qualification is if you're earning one hundred and thirty three percent or less of poverty level, and you know, and so people got on the challenges. There are some

and there aren't tall. There are a lot of people that are working that are making under the minimum, but there are a lot of really good jobs out there right now, and some people not all. I don't want to have a lot of hate mail to my box, but there are some people who purposely don't work above a limit because they don't want to lose their Medicaid benefits.

And so we're looking at that. And right now you may have seen yesterday that the federal government is talking about cutting eight hundred and eighty billion dollars of Medicaid benefits from the sed They're not going to tell the states they have to, but what that means is you, Brian, get to pay the difference. So if the federal government stops spending ninety cents of the dollar, then ohilends will pick up another ten twenty thirty forty cents, which is

a lot of money. That we call the people that were the expansion group eight. These are people that are not making enough money right now to qualify for healthcare. I mean to to not they're not making they're making as little money as possible to be able to qualify, and or they're working really hard and they can't make enough money to qualify for insurance.

or education classes so you could obtain employment. Is there anything remotely close to that now and are they considering something along those lines?

a waiver. So that's the other thing that's really I think that I really want your listeners and you to hear, is that most of the changes we make to our medicaid system, a lot of them, we have to go back to the federal government because we've taken this money

and asked their permission to do it. So those golden handcuffs came with you have to provide this, this and this, you must do this, this and this, and if we want to change anything, we have to go back to the federal government and say, pretty please, pretty please, can

we change our program? And so that's what I've been asking, you know, my congressman and Warren Davidson, as well as our Senator Bernie Marino, and I haven't had the conversation with the newest Senator Houston, but that we need more flexibility at the state level to be able to manage our program locally. So we filed for work requirements in December. We said we are, we had the intent to file, and then when medicate. Oh and here's the beautiful thing.

Think about this. So the legislature says we want a waiver, I the legislature have to go through the department chair and in that case it's the Ohio Department of Medicaid director have her right the waiver and she negotiates with the federal government. So I have an unelected bureaucrat negotiating with the federal government for what the legislature is saying needs to be done. Now, there's typically a fairly good

back and forth and relationship there. But why we have to go through bureaucrats to get what we want right, And that's in everything. So if we change, for instance, we take soda out of the SNAP program, we have to go back to the federal government. We have to ask them we would like to remove this from our food program. You know, and I think people need to understand it's not just Jennifer Gross, chair of the first Ohio House Medicaid Committee in our history, she can do

all this. No, I mean we can come up with ideas for that. But let me get back to you had asked me about some of these people the group aide are healthy, able bodied people that can work. These are not people that have disability. They're not blind, they're not elderly, they're not developmentally delayed teenagers. These are all people that are able bodied. So we have now submitted a work requirement for that group that is UH and

it's changing right now. It's in a more state. But you have to work a minimum of twenty hours a week, or go to school twenty hours a week, or be taking care of an elderly parent twenty hours a week, and that has to be confirmed. And then I believe we also have a drug rehab component in there as well. A lot of our group bates do have, you know, addiction issues. So those people we won't be able to, you know, really work with as much.

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with it. But at least you have an administration that's probably going to grant you the waiver that we're looking for, Jennifer, is that your expectation from the Trump administration.

of our budget goes to this program. Do you mind? No, so in state spending alone, when we don't add the thirty percent hear me, Well, approximately thirty percent of the Ohio budget comes from the federal government. So when people tell me our whole entire budget, okay, When people tell me, oh, well, you know, we need to go to the federal government, I'm like, okay, you. In order for Ohio to be sovereign, your legislature needs to stop having our handout saying we'll

take the money from the federal government. Well, jin you know, California, I'll get it if we I don't care. I think we're Ohio and we should extract ourselves from dependence on the federal government. Having said that, when without our federal government spend, meaning without the part that the federal government puts into our budget. Medicaid is twenty approximately, don't quote me on all this twenty about twenty seven percent of our entire budget. When it's it's just our house, when

it's just our state. Education is the number one cost in our state. Our constitution says we will educate children. Were a rare state that actually has that in our constitution, but it is the number one spend in the billions. Okay, So then if you add the federal part into medicaid, the expense of Medicaid in our whole entire operating budget is fifty point three percent. I have to ask yes,

So I have to ask the listener. You know you're paying those taxes too, They're just coming from the federal government. Remember the government makes how much nothing? We make nothing. Our job is to spend your money wisely, which is why I don't mean to sound harsh, but we cannot give Cadillac care on Medicaid. That is not I and honestly unless you have concierge care and all of that. I don't think anybody in Ohio gets concierge care unless you're paying up and above and straw for those things.

So I think it's important for the people to understand that the group eight, the healthy body people, when we extended, they're twenty five percent of our spend and this is forty seven billion dollars a year. So yeah, So I mean, let's talk about the money. It's easy to say, well, Jen, you can't make these people go back to work. Well, the business owners are crying for people. I have factories that will pay processing lines people. They'll start at twenty

two to twenty three dollars an hour. If you earn that kind of money, twenty two dollars an hour, twenty dollars an hour, and you work forty hours a week, Brian, and you're married to someone who makes twenty twenty five, you don't qualify.

ask you about fraud, waste, and abuse. My understanding is one of the worst states when it comes to spending and a misspending, I'll call it that generally in the program, Are you doing anything with your committee to get to the bottom of that and drill down, maybe we can find some savings on the money going out the door.

none of it. So now we are but we have to ask for waivers in some of these things. But we're going to do regular cross checks because and that's an answer to the auditor's audit. I mean, what more do I need to say to you? That our auditor found this and what I've found, and it's taken me And this is why, you know, term limits are not

what everybody thinks they are. It takes us a while to figure all of this out, and then in eight years we're gone, but the bureaucrats stay, and so we get into this huge spend because the bureaucrats keep spending and I'm not there to be the doge over you know, this system. But what we found is that we found self attestation. We have self attestation in many areas of

the hospitals. If someone walks in and they're you know, they have a big gash on their arm and they say they're medicaid and they bill it to medicaid, we have to pay simply because the person said they had medicaid. That self attestation. We have no cross check or we don't check lottery winning, we don't check, we don't check birthday, we don't you know.

to be brought to bear. I have my listeners get in touch with their elected officials and screaming, yell about it. Whatever, there's something we can do. Love to help you out with that one?

and medicate our biggest spends. But look in there, look at the details, try to figure it out. Send your recommendations, say we don't need that in our budget. Tell your representative, not always me unless I'm your representative. Tell your representative. I saw this, I want this removed. I saw this, I want this removed. A lot of people want more and more and more, but you're paying. So if you think that's valuable, then say so. But if you think it's waste, you need to go in. And if you

want more information. Right, my colleagues will hate this, but if you want to try to get more information, write your representative and say I think I see a problem here. Can you help me? Because we are there. This is a four thousand page budget. We are a government of for and buy the people.

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It's a lot more work that Speaker Johnson's got to do to keep that conference together.

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But it also ignores the reality that by lowering taxes, more tax revenue ends up flowing into government because we engage in more economic activity with the money we get to keep.

the economy. Right, So we're not talking about eliminating all taxes here. We're not even talking about eliminating the federal income tax, although I'm a fan of that. We're just talking about making a little less burden some for folks so they can choose where to spend their money.

DC doesn't need more of our hard earned money. And then we also need to be having the conversation about what Congress appropriates. Uh, it's two sides of the same coin, Brian, Uh, equally important.

never tinker with their spending. Do you have any hope that this reconciliation bill can actually get through? Donovan?

of the Biden Harris administration. And it's about getting this country funding border security for our border patrol agents so we can have a secure country. It's a lot more than just a recofiliation package.

for what and demand it. Well, they take less money out of our pockets, so these programs necessarily have to go away, which should have been funded in the first place. Now you got a big event coming up February twenty six, next Thursday, at the farm. I understand you're buying dinner.

But they're going to be doing a live recording of the podcast during the dinner, so you'll be able to enjoy that and then talk about this with Americans for Prosperity again picking up the tab for your wonderful meal. I appreciate you doing that, Donovan. I'm sure you get a lot of people showing up for it, and they'll get to learn something, and then you'll have a whole bunch of citizen activists who can start pressuring their elected officials to get the job done.

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in and said, there's not really anything to see. It's not really fraud, it's just improper payments and it's just difficult in computer systems and blah blah blah.

people need some really good relief. And just to know that this much money is going out, I would argue fraudulently or at least erroneously, and it's not eligible to go out of the state. That's an easy fix. Jay, Thank you so much. I appreciate the compliments, and I'm glad you stay on this as well. Seven fifty six right now, A rage to conquer Twelve battles have changed the course of Western history. Michael Walsh, my next guest, after the news.

probably read quite a few of them. Author of Last Stands, more than fifteen other novels and nonfiction book, classical music critic for Time Magazine at one point received the two thousand and four American Book Awards Prize for Fiction for his gangster novel There's Another One You Can Read and All the Saints. He wrote popular comums from National Review, which he used under a pseudonym to put into the

book Rules for Radical Conservatives. There's One for You, and his other books Devil's Pleasure and The Fiery Angel are examples of the enemy heroes and triumphs and struggles of Western civilization, which allows us to pivot over to the book we're talking about today. His new book, A Rage to Conquer Twelve Battles that changed the course of Western history. Michael Walsh, Welcome to the Morning Show. It's a real pleasure to have you on today.

So this book is an outgrowth of that book, and I wanted to look at twelve battles and the command who led them to talk about masculinity again and talk about what it takes to be successful at what is unfortunately one of the most fundamental human endeavors there is, which is warfare.

on the bones of that conclusion. I think I get your point, but that w was just my attention gravitated toward that considering it wasn't, you know, a traditional form of warfare unless you look at sort of maybe our invasion of Iraq.

interested in. But nine to eleven struck me as an example of a commander President Bush who didn't understand the rules of warfare and didn't have the stomach to fight the battle that needed to be fought, unlike all the other guys in the book, which include you mentioned Achilles, who's you know, quasi fictional, but obviously it's based on

somebody real wayback when. But Caesar and Constantine the Great and General Patten and the other people I talked about, And so as a result, we didn't really believe that war was declared on us. And if you think we won the Battle of nine to eleven, go to the airport and see if the letters right.

same thing to us that we're doing to them. Congress never declares war. You get an authorization, you use a military force to deal with nine to eleven, and it ends up lasting twenty plus years to serve as a justification for conflicts literally everywhere.

simply refused to accept. So this event happened, and then we refused to address the issue, and we went to other countries which had little or nothing to do with it.

But something happened there. But what's great about the earli end, First of all, it's a great, great work of art, and secondly, it does describe in graphic and gruesome detail how warfare was conducted around roughly one thousand BC uh and that is the beginning of the West's first clash with the East. So the obviously the Greeks were on the western side of this divide, and the Trojans Troy is now and where western Turkey is they were the east.

And this is a theme that runs throughout Western history. Alexander's fight, Alexander's fighting the Persians. There's this constant battle within Rome against the Parthians, who are also sort of Quasei Persians. It was is one of the threads of the book. But you have to start with the very first war story and that's.

big Norman. The Normans had just conquered England like thirty years before, and many of the Normans joined the Crusade and went to the Holy Land to fight. And Beaumont himself was a Norman from southern had conquered the lower part of Italy and Sicily and ruled it for many, many years. So Vaumont led his troops and he was

a giant of a man. He was a tactical genius and was able to stave off defeat in the very first battle the Crusaders fought against the Turks, and he was able to win and keep the whole the siege of Antioch and caused that city, which was crucial to the path to Jerusalem, which he then took for himself, and he kind of drops out of the crusading narrative.

But in two places he really stepped up and shows the superiority of Western arms and also the size that the Franks were much bigger than the Turks, and they had a problem. The Turks were very mobile, kind of like American Indians against the cowboys or the cavalry in the American West that come in, shoot run away, come in and shoot runaway. The crusaders were frustrated they could ever get their hands on them. Well, Bowman finally did

and fended off this ambush. They could have ended the crusade at a little place called Dora Lam and then regrouped and they marched all the way to Antioch and in a brilliant siege, took Antioch against vastly, vastly superior numbers.

the demands of your God. You hadn't prayed hard enough, sacrificed hard enough, you had you lost because of insufficient fidelity. This is a constant theme throughout Western history. It's very very interesting.

to the eastern edge of the Mediterranean. But there were some some bennies, shall we say, uh with it, But I would say it was mostly fueled by religious ardor. And that was true with the Muslim side too. They believed in the prophet. They were they were undefeated up to that point. They had never encountered any opposition that stood up. They rolled through the remnants of the Roman Empire, they rolled over Persia, conquered Iran, Islami sized Iran. They

were they were used to success. And the first time they came up against the Franks and got walked, and they were it taught them something to and and this war now that particular war has been going on for a thousand plus, that's the Israel Goaza conflict. That's where that starts.

leaders and they accomplished that. It's an amazing logistical feat when you stop to think about it, that they came all that way by land and sea, over terrible reign and lost a lot of their people, but they just kept going. And there were times they didn't want to go,

but they felt they had to go. And so they seized upon any sign that God was with them, most famously at Antioch, where they were getting they were having a very hard time with the giant Turkish army, and then one of them discovered what he purported to be the holy the tip of the Holy spear that had pierced Christ's side at the time of the crucifixion, and using this rusty piece of iron, they went into battle holding it up and won. So actually they thought God

was on their side at that point. The crusader motto was deuslovl God wills it, and they would shout at us they would move into battle.

the book. There's a link to to where to buy it, and it's well received on Amazon and if a fascinating range of topics, again from the Trojan War all the way through nine to eleven. I appreciate you talking with my listeners and me today Michael, and spending some time here, and thanks for writing the book and documenting this important history. Channel and I were the forecast today, cold twenty two for the high with body sky, slick roads. I'm sure

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you see that was it the wind. I know there's some speculation it was like a wind shear coming across the from the west side and the plane was what landing south to north, north to south. I don't know.

they go through the normal the process. I saw the video, though, and it shocked me because I'm thinking, Okay, I understand you have a slightly increased speed on arrival, but the angle that the aircraft comes into the runway and the speed on which it comes in. Matthew Buckley, who was a fighter pilot, I heard him quoted on a news

feed this week. He said that was an aircraft carrier landing, and I thought that was the perfect way to phrase it, because typically when an aircraft comes in right before you have the touchdown, what the crew tends to do is to pull the nose up just a bit. They flared up, so just like you remember the space shield of the landing, the rear gears come down first, and then slowly the front rotates down to where the landing gear touches down.

Here all three seemed to almost hit the same time and at such a speed that it looked like the force of that could have caused and I'm not sure because the investigation is just beginning, the right rear landing gear to collapse. So once you have the right landing gear collapse, everything shifts to the right.

was trailing the fuselage. That was a mirror, definitely a miracle there because you had jet fuel aviations gone everywhere, and that part that was on fire, and of course there's always the fear of explosion, and it was separated from the aircraft, which was good, and the entire interior of the aircraft did exactly what it should have. The

fuselage remained intact. The seats which have been totally and completely upgraded over the decades, which now I think they're rated for sixteen g's of force, they didn't go anywhere. You had everybody hopefully strapped in as they should have been.

You have fire retardant materials inside the aircraft again, because we've learned over the years and we've made things safer that air aircraft, and that accident was probably the poster child for everything that the NTSB has been able to do over the last thirty forty years and constantly learning from every accident in their accident, so every aspect of aircraft aviation we can make safer. And then of course you had the flight attendants do an incredible job getting

people out of the aircraft. Remember, the easiest thing to do is to throw open that door to get everybody out. The problem is you're inverted, so had they not remembered to disengage the emergency slides, you open that door and all they're going to do is drop again. These flight attendants, I cannot brag on their training enough. You've got all

of this going on. It was happening in seconds. They're getting everybody off the aircraft and they did their typical great job, and you know, it reminded me because they're calling this a miracle in Toronto. It was twenty years ago we had a miracle in Toronto and Air France flight comes in lands Long, hits hard. Kind of a similar situation here, playing breaks up, heart catches on fire, three hundred nine people on board, the plane's about to explode.

Now to board three hundred and nine people, it takes you forty five minutes or so. Yeah, the flight attendant's got everybody off in less than ninety seconds. Airplane blows up, no fatalities. You look at the images of Air France three point fifty eight a Google image, and aircraft is completely burnt, totally, it's gone, and you're thinking, good lord,

did anybody survive? Everyone survived. The flight attendants did a great job, you know, and we know that because of all the people who felt compelled before they got out of the aircraft to video everything that was going on, because look, I'm upside down, the airplane may be on fire. Of course I'm going to video what's going on now. I'm gonna get my butt off that airplane. But some people thought videoing it was I might get alike here.

blame him for every airplane disaster it's out there. When Donald Trump wasn't around, it didn't have anything to do with it, but he didn't get rid of some FAA employees and apparently looking to upgrade the FAA flight system because what it's it's it's a legacy system from like the nineteen fifties or something.

traffic control system. And I'm incredibly excited because of all the presidents we've had for the last twenty thirty forty years, you've heard many of them talk about the need for devoting the necessary resources and to get things improved as much as possible. At the Federal Aviation Administration, rarely does it happen. Now, we've had a few projects next gen the tracking system that has been so decades behind schedule,

so far over costs, it's been ridiculous. But the idea of getting this kind of attention now thrills me because if they can attack it like the Manhattan Project, knock it out in two or three years, and come out with something that's state of the art. It means that even if we have air traffic controllers that are working shorthanded as we are across the country, let's at least

give them the state of the art technology. Let's make it as easy on them as we can to do their jobs, which of course is just going to make everything that much more safe. And of course, when Donald Trump comes out and fires four hundred or three hundred people from the FAA, that's what everybody's screaming about. And you know, they asked the Delta CEO at Bastian this week I think it was yesterday about that very point, and he just shrugged it off. He said, look, about

three or four hundred people. They were probationary employees, none of them air traffic control, none of them in a critical supports position. And yeah, it was just part of all the trimming that's taking place right now.

going to be in good shape. Because it was a number of years ago the FAA wanted to be more inclusive. Nothing wrong with that, but they significantly lowered the standards for us bringing in individuals from a qualification standpoint, and that's where I have my issue. I don't care about anybody's whatever. I just want to make sure that they're the most qualified individual, male, female, whatever for that position. And as long as that's the focus, then that's great.

I don't want to have a DEI policy like United wants for pilots where they want twenty percent of their pilots hired to be women or minorities. That's a great goal, but to have that stated that means you're going to say no to very qualified people to bring in less qualified people. And even though some will say, well, that's

not a downgrade and safety because they're all qualified. Look, if I've got an attorney as fifty years experience versus one that's got ten years experience, I know which one I want to go with problems.

Accept at trial when you were asking for your damages and Delta's attorneys, if you have to go through the trial process, would say, well, it needs to be reduced. We did give you thirty thousand dollars, right, so you're part of your pain and suffering or your economic damages or whatever, it has already been reduced by that amount. So but since you're talking about, you know, theoretical numbers, like how much do you get for pain and suffering

and emotional damage? What does that figure really even mean? So it's a random figure that a jury might award you that you're going to be reduced by a thirty thousand dollars amount of Okay whatever, Maybe the jury gave the guy thirty thousand dollars more than he really even needed. I don't know.

sole survivors of commercial crashes. And I'm thrilled that everybody survived, but we would be remiss at not remembering that the emotional stress that these individuals went through is going to be something that for many of them, they're going to be living with and coping with for the rest.

just raises everybody's concern overflying. But one of them was Assessena and those that have flown in Assessina knows the wings over your head, the blind spot is above you. And the other airplane involved was an aircraft that was a low wing, the kind you step onto the wing and then jump in to the end of the interior

of the airplane where the blind spot is underneath. And Brian, we had a situation here in Cincinnati a number of years ago and We've had them around the country where you have this type of scenario where the cessana can't see above it and the other airplane can't see below it, and there's times that they occupy the same airspace collide and sometimes fatalities occur, and I suspect that's what probably happened here. They do not have an air traffic control

tower at this Minera Regional Airport. They've been approved for one, but they're five years behind. COVID really set them back. So you had pilots that were in essence talking to everyone as they were doing what they were doing. And you know, again, we just had two airplanes that were in the wrong position here, at least one of them, and you know, the ntsb'll find out why. But remember, we'll have four or five, maybe six hundred fatalities every

year on general aviation. So in the sixteen years we went without an accident here in the United States, commercially, there were probably seven to eight nine thousand fatalities on general aviation. So wow, it's a norm. So I'm just trying to keep things in proper perspective so people don't think we're having more planes. Swallow of this guy now than we've ever had, because that simply wouldn't be an accurate statement.

doing sight seeing. Well, I think it was only a couple weeks later in the news, and it's the reason he brought the story up. Two of them flew into each other up there.

so they can qualify to become commercial pilots. They're flying some of these smaller tour type airplanes and they don't have quite the experience that we would like him to have, and sadly, sometimes mistakes take place.

airline doesn't have an aisle chair, the smaller, narrow the thing you put a person on, getting them off their wheelchair in the jet bridge and then taking back to road ten or something. Some airlines don't have those at the gate like they're supposed to, even though they have advanced warning, and some passengers have been forced to crawl out of the airplane so they can be then placed

into their wheelchair. So the Biden Administration, to their credit, said, look, when this type of thing's happened, it's an automatic violation of the Federal Air Carrier Access Act, which makes perfect sense.

So the airlines were held to a higher standard. Well, now that we have a different administration, and now that they've already had a victory in court over the fee disclosures on reservations the airlines, for the lobbying group for the airlines or back in court representing five airlines who are challenging this thing. It's not exactly fair for us to have this kind of thing imposed on us, and they're looking for it to be thrown out the window.

Now I suspect, and I really want to be wrong here, they're going to get their way and it's going to disappear because this is a very friendly airline friendly administration, as every other administration has been before. Other than for whatever the reason, the bid administration went after airlines unlike

any that I've ever seen. In the last two years, airlines have been held accountable in ways that I love because finally they're being held to standards, not from a safety standpoint, but from a customer service standpoint, being forced to provide better service. So I'll keep an eye on

this one and I'll let you know. But I suspect that surprise this one will probably be thrown out the window where airlines are no longer required to have specific requirements when they lose or damage wheelchair, many of which that are personally made. You just can't put somebody in a wheelchair that it's in a wheelchair because sometimes for medical reasons, the wheelchair they have this has to be

specially designed. So to misplace one, lose one for ten, twelve, twenty four to thirty six hours, Yeah, puts that individual in incredible pain and suffering while they're waiting for the airline to get their act together to get the wheelchair that they have lost, which should be a priority you know, returned to the customer.

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