WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:04.559 Attention. You're listening to the Tod Huff Radio Show, America's home for conservative 2 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:08.720 not bitter talk radio. Be advised that the content of this program has been 3 00:00:08.759 --> 00:00:12.439 documented to prevent and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean 4 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:32.840 to the right. Here's your conservative but not bitter host, Todd Huff. 5 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:39.039 All right, my friends, there we go, there we go. Welcome 6 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:43.920 to today's program. I am your host, the ever so lovable Todd Huff. 7 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:47.640 Email. So do you want to be part of the conversation toddatodhoffshow dot 8 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:52.799 com. We can also text three one seven two one zero twenty eight point 9 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:58.880 thirty. I said in a in a previous hour of the program, we 10 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:04.400 were wanting to get to, well, the hour of the program where we 11 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:12.319 talked about let's see the simulations that had been run by Bloomberg showing that the 12 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:18.159 United States. Of course, we knew this was on an unsustainable path towards 13 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:25.200 fis school just a nightmare federal debt unsustainable, which of course we knew that, 14 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:33.359 but now we know statistically that it's arguably even worse than we thought. 15 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:36.200 If I don't know if it could be that, but we use that to 16 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:41.359 talk about the problem the reason that we're in this mess. It's not our 17 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:45.879 system of government, it's the people that are making decisions in our government. 18 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:51.200 And we went through that. I had intended to also get in that particular 19 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:57.359 hour. I had intended to also get to the California minimum wage law, 20 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:05.680 since we were talking about economics and so forth finance here in this country, 21 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:09.439 and so I want to talk about that today. There's also a Wall Street 22 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:16.919 Journal poll that shows Biden trailing in six of the seven swing states, even 23 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:23.039 though Jill Biden, doc excuse me, doctor Jill is out there on television 24 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:28.879 denying that her husband is actually trailing in those swing states. So, and 25 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:32.479 of course there's other things that we'll probably hit on in the news narrative as 26 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:36.800 well. You can always take a look at what we've got in the stack 27 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:40.280 of stuff. 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You will get free shipping on your entire order, or 52 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:42.959 you can call if you prefer to do that. Eight hundred five four four 53 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:48.000 eighty nine thirty nine, eight hundred five four four eight nine three nine. 54 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:53.279 Just be sure to use my name promo code Todd and you'll get free shipping 55 00:04:53.399 --> 00:05:03.399 on your entire order. So let us look at the California minimum wage law. 56 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:10.480 I want to talk about that today because again it kind of that this 57 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:16.360 conversation kind of dovetails with our conversation about the US debt and the simulations run 58 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:23.279 by Bloomberg, which I reference here at the top of this hour. So 59 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:30.680 let's look at this, this minimum wage law. This is in California. 60 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:35.240 Now, I'm going to read to you from a New York Post editorial written 61 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:43.360 by the Post Editorial Board because New York wants to implement the same minimum wage 62 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:47.800 laws or very similar minimum wage laws as California did. So headline here California 63 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:54.399 fast food minimum wage laws already a disaster, and New York wants some too. 64 00:05:55.639 --> 00:06:00.000 California's absurd fast food wage law has been in at for less than a 65 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:06.920 week and it's already made prices hotter than a friolator. The law mandates. 66 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:12.399 So this is California law. It mandates a twenty dollars an hour minimum wage 67 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:16.920 for fast food workers. Now what's interesting here is that there was a carve 68 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:21.439 out. There was a carve out, there was an exemption. Now, 69 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:28.240 this is a campaign donor of Gavin Newsom, this is a business buddy of 70 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:36.879 Gavin Newsom. The carve out, the carve out was for restaurants. Let 71 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:42.959 me make sure I get this right. You did not have to be you 72 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:49.120 didn't have to meet the minimum wage law requirements in California. If at the 73 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:55.000 time the law was passed, you were cooking. I'm trying to think of 74 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:58.959 I'm trying to find the exact wording here, but basically, if your restaurant 75 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:06.480 made fresh bread, made fresh bed bizarre. This is another there's a link 76 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:12.839 to a previous editorial from The New York Past and it says this that there 77 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:19.839 was a carve out in the law custom made for Panera franchise billionaire Greg Flynn, 78 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:25.800 a campaign donor and former business partner of Governor Gavin Newsom. I'm sure 79 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:32.680 that that is totally a coincidence. The bizarre exception for restaurants that bake and 80 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:39.759 serve bread as a standalone item. That was the carve out. So if 81 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:44.800 you bake and serve bread in California as a standalone item, you do not 82 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:53.240 have to abide by the twenty dollars an hour minimum wage law for fast food 83 00:07:54.319 --> 00:08:00.319 restaurants. And that basically, I don't know if there's anyone else but that 84 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:07.040 we the writers here believe, And again I don't want to say with absolute 85 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:11.040 certainty, but that basically seems to mean that it's just Panera bread. So 86 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:15.120 the carve out was And what does it have to do with anything? I 87 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:16.560 mean, that's that's the question, right, What does that have to do 88 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:24.319 with anything? Why does that impact whether or not a restaurant should have to 89 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:31.840 follow minimum wage laws? So everybody fast food industry makes twenty dollars an hour 90 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:39.440 in California. Now unless you bake and serve bread as a standalone item, 91 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:48.320 which of course just means just means that this is the campaign donor and the 92 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:52.600 business former business partner of Gavin Newsom. That's who this that's who it is 93 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:58.960 just happens to be. What a series of coincidences to arrive at this point. 94 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:05.159 So let's put that aside for a moment and let's look at the impact 95 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:13.240 the impact to food prices, fast food prices in the People's Republic of California. 96 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:22.440 So the one example there was a big fish meal at Burger King fifty 97 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:28.960 three percent higher after the law had passed than before the law had passed. 98 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:37.039 There is a picture here of some prices on in and out Burger which is 99 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:41.399 a great place, by the way, I went. I've been a couple 100 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:48.960 of times. There's one in I went to one in Los Angeles with a 101 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:54.000 friend who got married out there, and I think I've been to one in 102 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:56.480 Vegas. They don't have them here, at least they don't think they do 103 00:09:56.639 --> 00:10:00.799 in my neck of the woods. But just a great story, by the 104 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:05.240 way, that's just a well run organization, some really strong principles in an 105 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:11.440 out Burger, but their prices have have gone up twelve percent increase it looks 106 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:16.320 like on the double whopper at Burger King. So the point is this is 107 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:22.879 obviously going to impact This is obviously going to impact food prices. I mean 108 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:28.480 it's it's it's inevitable. How much is still yet to be to be seen. 109 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:31.559 So, but let's talk in general about what happens here. Why does 110 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:37.799 the government Why is the government coming in and mandating a certain minimum wage for 111 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:41.240 a certain type of worker. What gives them the authority or the right to 112 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:48.759 do that? Is the is a just a theoretical question, a philosophical question 113 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:52.399 here as to the role of government, Well, Todd, if the government 114 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:58.879 didn't intervene, businesses would pay the least amount that they possibly could. That 115 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:05.799 I mean going to be true, businesses will pay the least amount that they 116 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:11.759 can. They have to keep their expenses down because customers are going to want 117 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:16.480 to buy food at the cheapest prices that they can. It's kind of the 118 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:22.480 name of the game. But what's interesting is businesses are also not stupid. 119 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:28.120 Businesses know that, first of all, if they want to keep and retain, 120 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:33.679 attract and retain talent, they are going to have to pay much higher 121 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:41.480 prices, much higher wages than even minimum wage businesses, folks. Businesses when 122 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:46.679 they're hiring positions that are they look at the value of the position, they 123 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:54.759 look at the overall value that that position helps them to generate, and they 124 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:58.879 come to an idea of what the value of that position is, or they 125 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:03.039 they come to an idea on what it's going to take to attract someone to 126 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:09.440 do that job and to do it well. Now, fast food workers are 127 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:18.559 different in the sense that, again the issue here is the more skilled that 128 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:22.840 the labor or the more skilled that someone has to be to perform a job. 129 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:28.279 Or if you have someone, let's say, in a sales role, 130 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:33.200 someone who's very proficient in their skill set, if they can bring in multiple 131 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:39.080 times more revenue than someone else who's just okay or not very good at their 132 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:45.840 job, then that can warrant that can warrant a change in what the value 133 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:48.000 is as well. But no matter how we slice it and dice it, 134 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:52.879 something is not worth something because some third party steps in and says that it 135 00:12:52.960 --> 00:13:01.360 is. Businesses have costs. Businesses have to have to balance the cost to 136 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:07.639 provide the product. In this case, fast food fast food products. They 137 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:13.840 have to factor in the cost of getting the ingredients, a cost of building 138 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:20.360 and maintaining that brick and mortar location, the cost of attracting customers to come 139 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:24.879 in, the cost of running that business, and then that includes the labor 140 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:31.679 to provide the product to the customer. And then they also have to say, 141 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:35.799 what can we sell that for? What is someone going to pay for 142 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:41.960 that product? And then say what sorts of margins are we going to be 143 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:48.600 able to have, Because if there's no way to make money as an investment 144 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:54.600 on a particular restaurant franchise, or if it's a corporate store, if there's 145 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:58.039 no way to make money, then there's no reason to have the store to 146 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:03.120 have the restaurant. And so there's there's this. The business is the one 147 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:07.159 that's doing all the balancing, right. The business has to say, I 148 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:11.679 have to move the product at this cost. I have to secure the cost 149 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:15.919 of goods here. I've got to bring in, you know, recruit and 150 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:20.679 train and bring in labor to do this. And they have to then say, 151 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:26.120 once my costs are paid and my product is sold and everything's cleared out, 152 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:31.320 I have X amount of money in the bank. Every month, and 153 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:35.000 if they can't get to a certain amount to where it's a reasonable return on 154 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:39.440 their investment, the restaurant just won't be it will not exist. And so, 155 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:43.399 but what's happened in California, and by the way, has he happened 156 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:48.679 elsewhere as well? The government has created this problem to begin with, because 157 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:52.240 why does the government think that the least amount of money someone should make for 158 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:56.960 working a faster restaurant is twenty dollars? Why twenty dollars? Why not thirty 159 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:01.120 dollars? Why not forty? Why not fit? Why not five thousand? 160 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:07.919 Because see, when you ask that question, you realize, you realize that 161 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:13.480 there is a point that it's absurd and it's not reasonable to pay someone five 162 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:20.039 thousand dollars an hour to make hamburgers, because they will the person running the 163 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:26.519 restaurant, the owner of that restaurant, will never recoup the cost to provide 164 00:15:26.519 --> 00:15:31.840 that product. And so everyone knows this. But now the question becomes, 165 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:37.679 well, can we squeeze the business owner the restaurant tour for a little bit 166 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:41.240 more? Why does he or she need to pocket that extra a little bit 167 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:45.799 that should go to the worker. Well, pause for a moment, Why 168 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:48.720 is this the government's responsibility. You do know, by the way, that 169 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:52.759 the vast majority of people make well more than minimum wage. And that's because 170 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:58.399 what we talked about earlier, it is because the position is more valuable than 171 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:02.759 the minimum wage. A company realizes to bring in the best people, they 172 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:06.879 have to put together the best packages, the best incentives for bringing them in, 173 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:12.080 pay and benefits, whatever else they come up with. And so this 174 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:17.960 doesn't even affect most people, which says that businesses, while they're certainly trying 175 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:21.840 to keep their costs down, they have to. That is a requirement of 176 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:26.799 business. They can't pay more than they should or they can't stand business not. 177 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:30.000 If they do that enough times across the board, it will destroy the 178 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:36.799 ability for that business to generate a profit. And so the question is the 179 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:47.039 question is if minimum wage law is what ensures businesses pay their employees to live 180 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:51.120 a living wage, as we like to say, if people are being paid 181 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:55.600 much more than minimum wage and the vast majority of instances, then does that 182 00:16:55.759 --> 00:17:00.320 not blow out of the water this idea that says businesses will only pay the 183 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:07.319 bare minimum. Businesses want to pay the least amount of labor for labor and 184 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:11.920 for you know for staffing and so forth as possible, but they don't want 185 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:15.480 to pay less than they should. In fact, zig Ziggler an individual that 186 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:18.440 I have a well he's passed away, but I had a huge amount of 187 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:23.079 admiration for him, a wonderful human being. He said, wouldn't you agree 188 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:26.920 that it's better to pay a little bit more than you expected than less than 189 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:30.119 you should, Because if you pay less than you should, you lose your 190 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:33.960 entire investment. But if you pay a little bit more than you expected, 191 00:17:36.359 --> 00:17:41.640 maybe it's gonna hurt a little bit, but you're getting what you need so 192 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:45.000 that you can probably over time you're going to get even more than you thought 193 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:52.039 you would if you hire the right people. So this all happens without the 194 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:56.400 interference of government. So why is the government interjecting itself here? 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One of the reasons why there are so many fires in 212 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:48.240 California is because there are they're not allowed to properly def well properly clean up 213 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:52.640 the areas around power lines. Do controlled burns and so forth, and so 214 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:59.759 what happens is there's overgrowth, there's some dead trees in that overgrowth. Power 215 00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:04.000 line will snap in some of these storms. California is a huge, huge 216 00:20:04.039 --> 00:20:11.799 state. The sparks from the power lines will ignite and start a fire, 217 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:15.039 or maybe it's a lightning strike. But the bottom line, the government prevented 218 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:25.680 the well certain activities that would prevent creating a tinderbox in California, and so 219 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:30.759 they have more forest fires. The government comes in and mandates all sorts of 220 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:36.559 things that make the cost of operating a business more expensive. So when it's 221 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:42.519 more expensive, everything goes up. Everything goes up for the consumer, including 222 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:48.279 the cost of living. You've got housing going up astronomically, so then you 223 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:56.920 have all sorts of welfare programs or entitlements that are provided in the state of 224 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:00.839 California, and all these things drive things the cost up. It makes it 225 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:07.400 harder for businesses to balance the cost and revenue, you know, in and 226 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:12.359 out ebbs and flows, and so that impacts their ability to hire people and 227 00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:18.480 impacts their ability on what they can pay. It creates a problem that it 228 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:22.359 begins to be magnified, and then the government steps in and says, well, 229 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:23.400 you got to do this. Why aren't you paying your people more? 230 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:29.160 You should pay them twenty dollars an hour, and so there will be unintended 231 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:34.880 consequences of this. The government creates the problem then tells the private sector you've 232 00:21:34.880 --> 00:21:40.720 got to fix it. You're the one private sector. You're the one restauranteur. 233 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:45.880 You're the individual who has to carry the financial burden here, not us, 234 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:49.880 not me. Right, it's your problem, you deal with it. 235 00:21:51.039 --> 00:21:53.440 We create it. Now, they won't admit that they that they created it, 236 00:21:53.480 --> 00:22:00.559 but they've created a tremendous amount of problems by government overreach, big bloated, 237 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:03.559 out of control government. I mean, just look at some of the 238 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:08.920 cities out there. San Francisco. San Francisco is a mess, tremendous homeless 239 00:22:08.920 --> 00:22:14.079 problem. We had an app that was created because people were defecating all over 240 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:17.039 the streets of San Francisco and they wanted to map out where it was. 241 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:22.839 There was literally an app that provided that service. I mean, it is 242 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:26.920 completely a disaster in the state of California. And who do they blame for 243 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:33.039 it? They blame they blame the individual, They blame the business. They're 244 00:22:33.039 --> 00:22:37.599 not doing their fair share. They'll say businesses are being greedy and so forth. 245 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:41.039 But businesses have to make money to pay the incredible amount of taxes that 246 00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:44.759 they have to pay out there thirteen percent, by the way, thirteen point 247 00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:48.559 three. I believe state income tax government has created this problem. They are 248 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:52.079 not the solution. They are the problem. I've got to take a break 249 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:59.640 with my friends. Sit tight back in just a minute. That my friends, 250 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:07.200 so, I want to continue this conversation about minimum wage laws, how 251 00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:11.920 the government creates the problem and then puts the burden to solve the problem on 252 00:23:14.079 --> 00:23:18.200 the private business. And this just goes on and on, and it's amazing 253 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:22.759 to me how many people cheer on, cheer on the government. They have 254 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:30.640 it in their mind that government is this unbiased, fair minded group of people 255 00:23:30.680 --> 00:23:36.039 that's never in the wrong. And in fact, the same people who demonize 256 00:23:36.079 --> 00:23:38.279 corporations. And look, there are some bad things that happen in corporations. 257 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:42.799 I'm not denying that for a moment, But there are things that the American 258 00:23:42.839 --> 00:23:48.880 people can do, and honestly, things that free markets do to ensure that 259 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:55.759 we have competitive forces that keep them from abusing abusing their power. I mean, 260 00:23:56.319 --> 00:23:59.839 if there's competition in the market. They can't just go out and charge 261 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:02.799 eighty five dollars for a gallon of milk if I can go down the street 262 00:24:02.839 --> 00:24:07.400 and get it for three forty nine or whatever it is. So, but 263 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:12.400 the same people who demonize these executives who are in the private industry, these 264 00:24:12.680 --> 00:24:18.119 corporate executives and so forth corporations, as soon as these people are appointed by 265 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:26.359 some government agents, by some politician to run some government agency, suddenly they 266 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:30.839 find no problem with this. And ironically, it should be more concerning when 267 00:24:30.839 --> 00:24:34.920 these people are in government, because government is force. There is no competitor. 268 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:40.759 There are no free market forces to ensure competition. Take the post office 269 00:24:40.759 --> 00:24:44.039 for example, and just talking about this with my father the other day, 270 00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:49.119 there's no competitive forces in the post office, so customer service can be as 271 00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:55.359 bad as it can possibly be. And unless someone up the chain of command, 272 00:24:55.880 --> 00:24:59.359 here's enough about it to just want it to stop hearing about the problem. 273 00:24:59.400 --> 00:25:02.960 There's not going to to be anybody that's going to lose their job over 274 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:07.559 this, especially when they're unionized. And so you can see the problems that 275 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:17.960 exist here. Government is this massive bureaucratic red tape nightmare that candidly creates environments 276 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:22.839 and problems for environments to exist in and thrive in. And then they say 277 00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:26.799 to the public, to the private sector, you go out and you finished 278 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:29.920 it. You fix it. I should say, you fix the problem. 279 00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:33.960 So anyway, I got a few more things to say about that. But 280 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:37.039 let me tell you a little bit about our friends at nick Knack Naturals. 281 00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:41.720 Again, one of my favorite names to say of any of our advertisers and 282 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:47.400 partners here on the program. They are an American small business that prioritizes customer 283 00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:53.240 health and they use premium all natural ingredients to produce naturally better nicotine. Now, 284 00:25:53.240 --> 00:25:59.119 their product contains nicotine, so this is not for anyone who is currently 285 00:25:59.160 --> 00:26:04.359 not using nicketine. 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So, now it's 294 00:26:56.519 --> 00:27:03.839 not the state of California's fault that they're inflation. Inflation is specifically a problem 295 00:27:04.039 --> 00:27:10.799 created by the federal government. It's a federal government problem. No other state 296 00:27:10.839 --> 00:27:14.920 can cause this, and no other state government can cause this, no business 297 00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:18.640 can cause this, no person can cause this, well unless they're working in 298 00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:27.440 the government. The cause of this is federal government monetary policy. Inflation exists 299 00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:37.319 when more dollars are created than actual value of economic output that exists in our 300 00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:45.799 economy today, and so the federal government is solely responsible for that. So 301 00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:52.799 the inflationary pressures that have been created on residents of California and residents of all 302 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:57.240 states for that matter, is not the problem of the state government. That's 303 00:27:57.279 --> 00:28:02.759 not Gavin Newsom's fault. That is the problem of the jokers and clowns running 304 00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:07.680 the show in Washington, DC. Federal spending has gotten to such a level, 305 00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:11.359 and instead of directly raising taxes, what they do is they increase the 306 00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:17.079 money supply, and then it's a backdoor tax on the American consumer, on 307 00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:22.920 the American business, on the American taxpayer. And so that part is not 308 00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:27.240 the fault of the state. However, what is the fault of the state. 309 00:28:27.720 --> 00:28:30.160 The fault of the state are some of the things we talked about last 310 00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:34.920 segment. The fault of the state are some of the state welfare programs, 311 00:28:34.920 --> 00:28:42.119 are the state entitlements. The added cost for being a sanctuary state or a 312 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:48.039 sanctuary city. These things are the responsibilities of the state or in some cases 313 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:52.400 of the municipalities, the city governments, and so these things create conditions whereby 314 00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:57.960 you can't make it in California. You can't make it in California without a 315 00:28:57.960 --> 00:29:02.960 certain amount of money. Amount of money in fact, I saw. I 316 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:07.119 saw now in order to qualify well, to be able to afford a house 317 00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:11.680 in many states now you need to be making six figures. And so in 318 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:15.799 California it's even much worse, especially if you're along the coast or in some 319 00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:21.559 of those expensive, expensive areas. So it's a mess that's been created by 320 00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:27.160 government in general, they point the finger. They place the blame on individuals, 321 00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:32.559 on companies, They say, you're being greedy, you're not paying your 322 00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:36.200 fair share, and oh, by the way, you need to start paying 323 00:29:36.279 --> 00:29:42.079 twenty dollars an hour for this particular position. And what happens is now you 324 00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:47.319 have pressures. I don't know if you've been into a fast food restaurant recently, 325 00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:52.160 but a lot of these places, I mean the older generations are going 326 00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:55.640 to have problems ordering food because you walk in there and a lot of these 327 00:29:55.640 --> 00:29:59.279 places will just have kiosks. Now you have a kiosk where you've got to 328 00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:02.200 put your order in. No one even comes to the counter to take your 329 00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:06.640 order if you're of course walking into the restaurant, so you place your order 330 00:30:06.680 --> 00:30:12.079 there because again they've determined that it helps save in long term labor costs if 331 00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:17.480 they invest in this technology and don't have to pay the labor and don't have 332 00:30:17.559 --> 00:30:21.440 to worry about people not showing up, and don't have to worry about a 333 00:30:21.480 --> 00:30:23.839 whole litany of things that happen if you have to fire someone or they don't 334 00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:27.359 do their job, or they create problems with the customer, whatever. And 335 00:30:27.440 --> 00:30:33.759 so this is what these again, you could say the unintended consequences of these 336 00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:38.200 laws create. So then you're going to have a group of people you have 337 00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:44.119 a type of job that is good for, you know, young people to 338 00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:49.480 have that you've eliminated. So now what are young people going to do about 339 00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:56.000 getting in just getting some work, experience, learning the process of earning their 340 00:30:56.039 --> 00:30:59.720 own money creates all sorts of problems. And if you don't make your own 341 00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:04.359 money, who does the government tell you to look to to provide, you 342 00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:07.519 know, provide you with what you need. Well, you turn to the 343 00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:11.880 government, and this is just a massive mess, and it's it's spreading, 344 00:31:11.960 --> 00:31:15.000 by the way, New York wants to do it as well. Anyway, 345 00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:18.799 I just wanted to talk about that a little bit today, in the time 346 00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:22.000 we have remaining. I do want to shift gears a little bit. Do 347 00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:22.920 you want to shift gears a little bit? I want to talk about a 348 00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:30.279 recent Wall Street Journal poll see that shows President Trump leading Biden leading Biden in 349 00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:36.079 six of the seven well six of seven swing states. The only swing state 350 00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:41.160 that Biden was leading in out of these you know the course swing states. 351 00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:48.440 So they were the swing states, Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, Nevada, 352 00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:53.720 Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. Wisconsin's the only swing state that Biden 353 00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:59.240 had to lead over Trump, and I believe that was a three point lead. 354 00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:04.200 Now, now this is in polling where third party candidates are involved. 355 00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:08.000 So Biden Trump is ahead in the other states by anywhere from two to eight 356 00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:15.599 percentage points. Biden is ahead in three by three percentage points. In Wisconsin, 357 00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:21.359 however, if you take independent or third party candidates off of the ballot. 358 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:25.200 If you do that, then Trump and Biden are tied. This is 359 00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:31.559 bad news for Biden, absolutely terrible news for the Biden campaign. But that 360 00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:36.279 is the reality in the lay of the land. 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And I've got to take a break with my friends. 379 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:04.240 So SITSI. You're listening to conservative not Better talking on your host DoD 380 00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:22.920 Huff Back in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. So I 381 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:30.559 shared with you some pulling before the break. I also mentioned that doctor Jill 382 00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:39.239 Biden is out there basically denying that her husband is behind in these swing states 383 00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:45.079 and it just gets me to wondering. It gets me to wondering, is 384 00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:53.000 that just her trying to change the narrative. Is it her trying to just 385 00:34:53.880 --> 00:35:01.519 deny that this is in fact a problem for President Joseph Robinette Bribery or does 386 00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:06.280 she know something that we don't know? And that's the part, that's the 387 00:35:06.280 --> 00:35:12.519 part of this that really honestly scares me, because you begin to wonder, 388 00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:19.519 You begin to wonder, what does she know, possibly that the rest of 389 00:35:19.599 --> 00:35:23.679 us don't know, and what are the ramifications of that. Now, I'm 390 00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:31.280 I'm not saying that she's even if she does quote unquote know it, I'm 391 00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:35.880 not saying that she's right, and I'm not saying that she's not just trying 392 00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:40.639 to re redirect the narrative here. But I do I want to play this 393 00:35:40.679 --> 00:35:47.960 soundy she's on CBS Mornings. I don't know she's on here. What is 394 00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:52.760 this Teacher of the Year's surprise, First Lady Jill Biden, that should say 395 00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:59.480 doctor Jill. First Lady doctor Jill Biden drops by to honor teacher Missy Testerman. 396 00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:06.159 So they're all on there having a good old time. She's teachers being 397 00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:12.400 you know, someone from the ruling class has taking a moment to step down 398 00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:20.880 from their throne to to just meet the common peasants. This the common average 399 00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:23.159 people like us. And so she's on TV here, but she's asked, 400 00:36:23.199 --> 00:36:29.920 doctor Jill is asked about these polls, and she denies that President Biden is 401 00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:32.880 trailing. So I'm going to play this really quickly and then talk about something. 402 00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:37.480 Just mention something to you that if you haven't looked into it yet, 403 00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:40.559 you might want to do. And if you have, it's something that is 404 00:36:40.599 --> 00:36:45.679 on my radar to discuss once I kind of have a little bit more of 405 00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:52.000 a handle on some things that I'm still trying to figure out precisely well what 406 00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:57.880 some of this information means. But here she is denying that President Biden is 407 00:36:57.880 --> 00:37:00.840 trailing in these polls in swing States. How was the campaign going before? 408 00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:05.400 Oh, my gosh, it's going great. I have been traveling every day 409 00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:09.880 that I'm not in the classroom. People are excited, and I really feel 410 00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:13.719 like, you know, people know the choice, the selection. They can 411 00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:19.280 choose chaos or they can choose you know, steady wisdom, experience. So 412 00:37:19.320 --> 00:37:22.920 it's not that's a little worried. No, No, I've killed her a 413 00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:25.159 lift. I feel that Joe will be reelected well when these poles like the 414 00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:29.400 Wall Street Journal one land in the White House and he's losing all the battleground 415 00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:32.199 states. No, he's not losing in all the battle He's coming up and 416 00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:37.760 he's even or doing better. So you know what, once people start to 417 00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:44.119 focus in and they see their two choices, it's obvious that Joe will win 418 00:37:44.159 --> 00:37:47.400 this seleuch all right anyway. But that's that's what she's saying. She denies 419 00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:52.480 that he's down in these poles. You can say the polls are incorrect. 420 00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:54.519 You can say that she didn't say this. She said he's not down in 421 00:37:54.559 --> 00:37:59.280 these polls, and he is. She's We're are the fact checkers here, 422 00:37:59.320 --> 00:38:02.719 the BacT checker should say, doctor Jill Biden, where are the people that 423 00:38:04.760 --> 00:38:08.000 counted the number of lies that Trump allegedly told while he served in the White 424 00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:10.400 House, because we need to hear from them. We need to hear that. 425 00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:14.280 This goes on to the list of lies that have been told to us 426 00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:20.239 by the Biden family the Biden White House. Anyway, I don't so much 427 00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:23.000 care about that. I'm just illustrating the stupidity of some of this stuff and 428 00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:29.039 the duplicity and the double standard here, the duplicity of the media, the 429 00:38:29.039 --> 00:38:32.000 double standard and so forth. But does she know something we don't know or 430 00:38:32.079 --> 00:38:36.519 is she just trying to redirect the narrative, you know, given what we 431 00:38:36.599 --> 00:38:44.000 do know about the twenty twenty election, some of the things that were brought 432 00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:47.280 to light, I guess due to the documentary two Thousand Mules as an example. 433 00:38:47.559 --> 00:38:51.000 There's a lot of things that are problematic out there. But one of 434 00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:53.039 the things, and this is what I just want to mention to you here 435 00:38:53.079 --> 00:38:57.519 at the end of the program. And I don't know if you've some of 436 00:38:57.559 --> 00:39:00.840 you may have looked into this and are familiar, some of you may not, 437 00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:07.119 But there is a website that shows raw data on the number of people 438 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:12.880 in each state in the country every week who are trying to register to vote. 439 00:39:12.880 --> 00:39:17.840 And there's columns that show that these are people who are trying to register 440 00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:25.639 without a driver's license. Sometimes it'll show like the number of people who match 441 00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:30.320 their name in the last four of a social Security number. Then there's a 442 00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:36.480 column that shows the number of people who tried to register who are dead. 443 00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:40.519 That's a column on there. And if you look at the number of voters 444 00:39:40.519 --> 00:39:45.800 that are trying to register in swing states. I know in Texas there's been 445 00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:52.239 weeks, think about this, weeks where over two hundred thousand people have tried 446 00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:59.679 to register to vote. And so this website is really just a collection of 447 00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:05.920 days that's being reported. But it's I mean, some of it's dumbfounding in 448 00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:09.119 the states that are swing states, States well Swing states, and a couple 449 00:40:09.159 --> 00:40:12.880 of others. But you'll see a lot in Georgia. Now, some of 450 00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:15.760 that might make sense. Maybe it's just people trying to register. I don't 451 00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:23.480 know, but there's definitely should be concerned, especially especially when you factor in 452 00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:30.599 that these people are trying to register sometimes you know, without a license, 453 00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:35.199 and then the amount of people, the percentage of people who are not matching 454 00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:39.480 completely, some of these people even being dead, which of course should send 455 00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:43.679 out all sorts of alarm bells. But the left act like there's no problem 456 00:40:43.719 --> 00:40:45.960 here whatsoever. But that's something I want to talk about as I learn more 457 00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:49.360 about it. I just want to put that out there, but I've got 458 00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:50.760 to go. Thanks for listening. STG