Billy Cunningham, the Grand America. Of course, I love Frisians, I
love Fristians, super Big Boys and more. I love well done Ninion rings,
I love Cherry Coke, and I love pie Babies, and I love
hot fudge cake. I'm now part of the Borg. I've been assimilated.
I'm assimilated. But until then, of course, last night, the Reds
didn't think the game was ever going to be played, and it was played.
Thank god. It was played in Philadelphia, in the rain, in
the midst of the filth and the degradation of the city of Philadelphia. The
best pitcher in baseball was on the mound. The Reds took him down off
day to day, back out at seven game homestand starting tomorrow night. But
until then, David Young is the commission the Commissioner of Warren County. And
David Young, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Dave, how
are you. I am doing well. It's baseball season. I have moved
on, Willie. I've taken my first job other than working for the beloved
people of Warren County for the first time in thirty years. Now that I've
sold my business interests, I have officially taken a new job. I am
the assistant city baseball coach for my alma mater, Sycamore High School, assistant
assisting varsity baseball coach. That's good. Yes, I'm very happy. You
know. Jay Phillips is, superintendent of Deer Park, offered me the job
as assistant eighth grade girls basketball coach, and I said, well, I
can't make a lot of the games, but I'd like to think about that.
Well, let's talk about serious issues. When things are happening poorly in
River City. I want to get perspectives of those who care deeply about our
town and also who have government experiences, whether it's Rob Sanders or whether it's
Dave Young or someone else. And when we have three to five hundred youths
running around on Easter Sunday night, creating mayhem including shots fired, fights everywhere,
and the police show up, they're told don't arrest anyone because if you
arrest one of these five hundred law breakers, guess what's going to be a
mini riot taking place. We don't need that. And then we have the
mayor and others talking about crime is down, crime is way down. Maybe
not give me your perspective on the main streets of Cincinnati before we talk about
national politics. From a Warren County perspective, I think it's indicative of what's
going on in our society really that there's really no personal responsibility, and our
kids, in particular, we have the society have said that it's really not
your fault. You don't necessarily have to comply with the rules. You're special,
you're different. Whatever rules that apply in the past, those are outdated.
You're in a different situation now. So we owe you young people of
today. As a society, we owe you something, and we're sorry for
your plate. We're sorry for your situation. We're sorry that your third grade
teacher was mean to you, or whatever it was with your family situation.
So even though you might have grown up in a very difficult manner, these
rules of society, the rules of the streets don't apply. And so now
we're telling them that, hey, you're special, you don't have to do
this. It's okay. You're not going to get suspended if you cuss out
a teacher, if you spit on a cop, you do all of these
things, you get in a fight in the public streets, nothing's going to
happen to you. So guess what happens all of those things. So it's
literally we're reaping what we sew by instilling in our young people this idea that
the rules don't apply. They don't have, you know, during COVID,
they didn't go to school. You don't really have to show up. You
don't even have to pass your tests anymore, and you just get passed along
because they don't really want to keep you held back and in school anymore.
They need to graduate you out through the system. So there is no ramifications
for actions. And again I'm not surprised at all. Cincinnati's no different than
Dayton or Cleveland, or Washington, d C. Or Atlanta just named the
city. It's all the same liberal democrats promising the moon and delivering nothing.
And at some point I've had on some of these national guests, David Young,
that tell me, well, we're at a breaking point in the cities
which are completely dysfunctional. The schools systems basically don't produce graduates able to read
or write, much less articulate governmental or other human concerns about business or social
issues, whatever it might be. And in Washington, d C. I
watch a couple of mornings ago on Morning Joe, I watch MSNBC so you
don't have to, and Mayor Bowser said they're going to institute starting April first,
a few days ago, a one hundred million dollar program paid for,
by the way, by the federal government. I means you and me to
have more basketball leagues, to have more movie theaters, to have more things
to do. Maybe pickleball is going to be introduced in the grade schools to
teach kids how to play pickleball. And in the city of Cincinnati. Chief
Thiji was with Curtis Fuller yesterday of Channel five, and she touched on the
issue that policemen or police officers make very bad parents. It's not our job
to be mom and dad. It's not our job to sit down with the
kids in the first grade, second grade, and third grade and do homework.
It's not our job to make sure they come to school ready to learn.
It's not our job to help a kid to do homework. That's not
our job. And she said, we've charged two at this point parents,
two mothers, because very few individuals, shall I use the term rioting,
have a functional mother and a father in the home anyway, But they charge
contributing to the delinquency of a minor. And so police officers, corrections officers,
cops are terrible moms and dads. They pick up the pieces of the
failure. If we spend more and more money on movie theaters. Iris Rowley,
the great civil rights activists in Cincinnati, paid for by the taxpayer,
believes that the bus system is at fault. The passes have got to be
changed, or we need we need a big new movie theater downtown so when
the kids come downtown they go eat popcorn, have a coke, and watch
some exciting movie. Is spending that kind of money going to solve the problem
with an interesting question, but there are facts associated with that question. It's
not my opinion. Look at what the Cincinnati Public School spends pupil versus a
King's Local or a Mason or eleven, and there's literally no comparison, since
any public schools spend so much more per student. It is not a question
of how much we're spending on these kids. And it breaks my heart what
is going on with the youth in our inner city. They literally don't have
a chance really because of these policies in the way we're setting them up to
fail. We're not expecting anything out of the these inner city school districts.
We're not. We're just passing these kids along and setting them up and saying,
more basketball. What one in a million kids makes it to become a
professional basketball player. But they're all going to need a job at some point,
and so we're setting these kids up to fail by giving them these false
hopes, of these distractions and looked at the shiny little thing in the corner.
Oh, let's go do more of this. No, they all need
to be engaged in the process. Believe in the American wave capitalism, get
a job, work yourself up, make something better for their kids. That's
the way people survive and have done well for two hundred and fifty years in
this country, Willly, And we're setting this entire generation up to fail.
And it breaks my heart. And I think I quote you all the time,
Willy, what is your favorite statistic? If you graduate from high school,
Yeah, you don't get arrested, and you don't have a kid out
of wedlock. What is it seventy or eighty percent chance you're going to have
a successful, happy life. Well, the differential is is ninety three percent.
Of kids black white, yellow, green polka dot who graduate from high
school, don't have kids out of wedlock, get married, don't commit crime,
and work. The key element is work. If you do those four
things, work, graduate, get married, then have kids, don't have
a criminal record those four things, the odds of you making in an American
society is well above ninety three percent. And it's because that's the formula.
But how many of those kids we see running around Schmeil Park on Sunday night
fit any of those categories? And in fact, if there's no consequence for
bad behavior, when you subsidize bad behavior, you get more of it.
When you tax it, you get less of it. And so if you're
a third fourth fifth grader and you can't read, can't write, and don't
show up when I head on iron out or Wright the superintendent of schools,
she related that the average cost per kid is about twenty three thousand dollars per
kid per year, and I asked her, why isn't there consequences when someone
fails. I think by the time you're eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
you might be done already. But if you're six or seven and you're
in the third grade and you can't read, you can't write. There ought
to be some summer program. The cost of this is fantastic. The summer
program to say we're going to make sure by the time school starts the end
of August, you're going to be able to read and write because you're nine
years old and you got to read and write. Calling the parents and say,
look, this is unacceptable. Can't have a nine year old who can't
read and write. Doesn't work that way, But that is not occurring.
Nor do I understand the school board in every major city. I pick on
CPS, but you can take New Orleans or Baltimore to Land. It's all
the same. It's all the same philosophy. It's CRT, it's DEI that
kind of crap. Instead of saying, mom and dad, this kid's going
to learn how to read and write and attend school because something in the range
of seventy percent of black males and CPS are chronically absent. Think about that,
seventy percent chronically absent. They blow it off. So by the time
you get to be seventeen, eighteen nineteen and you graduate, David Young can't
read, can't write, No educational achievement. A minor criminal record. Are
you ready to work? Are you ready to game the system on the streets.
The streets to allows the job of raising kids, and police officers are
not parents. I would say that money based upon those facts may not be
the answer. Terrible situation, and it's not gonna I don't see it changing.
Page two. We had a discussion off the air about national politics and
the Easter Bunny a year ago made an appearance in the White House, and
this year Joe Biden referred to the to the Easter Oyster. And I've played
the cut a few times. Is now time for the Easter Oyster to step
up and hand out some Easter eggs? And last year there was a White
House staffer dressed as an Easter Bunny. What happened? This is at the
White House. Television was present all over the world. Joe Biden, the
White House staffer and an Easter Bunny. What happened? It's literally unbelievable.
If I didn't see it myself and you and everybody, even though they bury
it a little bit, google it. Look on the internet for Joe Biden
and the Easter Bunny. Literally he's there at the Easter egg hunt. You
know, very benign. This is a happy event. It's it's all about
celebrating, you know, Jesus rising from the dead, It's Easter, Easter
egg hunts. It's a happy time. And Joe Biden made the mistake of
actually getting close to a reporter when he started to actually speak off the cuff
to a reporter as the leader of the Free World, and that's not okay
in the White House. So literally, there is a video of him starting
to engage in a conversation with a reporter and literally a giant easter bunny walks
up, gets in between the Leader of the Free World, and the reporter
grabs him by the arm and starts showing him away. That is literally what
happened at the White House last year. A Easter bunny interrupts the Leader of
the Free World talking to a reporter. Well, we think we have problems,
are you kidding me? Well, you're a Warren County commissioner and you
could be the president and do a ten times better job. But what if
you're doing a news conference and some Warren County staff are addressed as an easter
bunny or an easter oyster kind of gets between you and the reporter and leads
Dave Young after this, when you were doing news conferences on keeping the tennis
tournament and Mason, if some stafford addressed as the Easter Bunny would get between
you and a reporter and say Dave to just come with me over here,
Dave, what would have happened, Well, it's one thing if it happened
to Warren Towley, think about it. If it would have happened in China.
Think about if it would have happened with Putin, those guys would have
been, you know, exercised to Siberia or something. Surely Easter Bunny's head
would have been cut off. I mean it's literally think about the impression that
gives. And you know, we're making light of it, but our adversaries
don't make light of it because it's a serious situation, will he Because now
that's the impression that literally, the freaking easter Bunny can interrupt the pro talking
to a reporter, and that's the person that's going to be on the ball
when Putin invades Ukraine, or Taiwan's messing around, or China's messing around with
Taiwan, or Aram's doing what they're doing, or North Korea is doing what
they're doing. That's now the person with his hand on the button, that's
the person calling all the shots, is literally being controlled, literally controlled by
the easter buddy. Lastly, you're a financial guy. Warren County pays its
bills by issuing a check you don't finance. Every one hundred days, the
American government, on our behalf borrows an additional one trillion dollars. And if
you add up Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, defense spending, federal pension
programs, and interest on the national debt, that's eighty five percent of the
budget one trillion dollars every one hundred days. And now the approach of Democrats
and sadly a lot of Republicans is to spend more money. Where are we
headed? It's going to be a disaster. That is, interest rates are
spiked up. You and I talked about this, and I think you and
I were way ahead of the whole transitory inflationary trend of last year when people
said this inflationary stuff was transitory, and you and I talked about on the
air. No, it's not. Because there's wage pressure that you know,
have an employment company and all that seeing wages going up. That's not transitory,
that's baked into the cake. That's really in there. That when wages
start going up like that. So all of this excess government spending, when
they spend trillions and trillions, and honestly, it's been the last six years,
you know, during COVID that we have spent trillions and trillions of extra
dollars. We are deficit spending at record paces as it speaks. And remember
it's really we lose the argument when they say, oh, we're cutting we're
cutting the national deficit. No we're not. What Biden is talking about is
the growth of the deficit. Instead of it growing at eight or nine percent
each year, it's going at five percent each year, which is terrible.
And they're saying we're cutting it. No, you're nuts. Each each day
we are racking up and now, yeah, it's what thirty four trillion dollars,
it's like ninety five thousand dollars per person, your national debt, that
little baby you just had, or your grandkids, every one, every American
has around ninety five thousand dollars worth of debt. Every taxpayer has around two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of debt. Willy, this is unsustainable.
So we have, honestly, our financial house has to get in order,
and honestly both parties are guilty of it. We need to have a reset
here because this is not going to be pretty. As interest rates go up,
interest on the debt goes up. Are our debt expenditure is going from
like five hundred billion, it's going to go to over a trillion. And
we were like a four or five trillion dollar budget there for a long time.
I were like six or seven trillion. It's just not sustainable, Willie.
No one speaking truth to power in Ohio. I had I head on
Keith Favor the other day. Ohio educates, incarcrates and medicates. That's about
ninety percent of its budget, and federally, I look at eighty five ninety
percent things that nobody thinks should be cut. Of course, social security is
a sacred cow. I'd say rich guys like Tony Bender and you and maybe
me should not receive social Security benefits. If we're multi millionaires, that's a
different issue. But once again, David Young, good to get your perspective
and the easter Bunny us showing you off the stage is safe. But in
the White House when President Jijao Ping and Putin or the Itola looks at our
leadership and saying, man, maybe that's why war is breaking out all over
the country, all over the world, because leaders the despots of the world
understand that there's no functional head of the American government. And David Young give
my best to all the folks in Warren County. Once again, thank you
for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, Dave, God bless
you, Willie, God bless America. Let's continue with war. And by
the way, Easter has nothing to do with the risen Christ. Do not
put a religious symbol on an Easter egg because I may offend the Easter oyster.
Let's continue with more my comments further and next at the Home of your
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