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<v Speaker 1>You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM six.

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<v Speaker 2>Fortyfi Handle and the Morning Crew on Aday Wednesday.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, I want to invite you to join me this Saturday.

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<v Speaker 2>Night at the Walt Disney Concert Hall where I amc

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<v Speaker 2>the LA Lawyers, Philharmonic and Legal Voices. These are lawyers, judges,

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<v Speaker 2>pair of legals who are world class musicians who wanted

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<v Speaker 2>to make a living in the legal profession and not

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<v Speaker 2>starve as musicians. And it is this Saturday at the

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<v Speaker 2>Disney Concert Hall.

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<v Speaker 1>I am am seeing it, which I do every year.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm in a tuxedo. I make an ass out of

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<v Speaker 2>myself as you can imagine, and it is just terrific music.

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<v Speaker 2>For example, selections from Phantom of the Opera and then

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<v Speaker 2>a couple of classical pieces like Carmina Burana. Anyway, please

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<v Speaker 2>join me. You can get tickets, and tickets are inexpensive.

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<v Speaker 2>They go from twenty dollars on and this is a benefit.

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<v Speaker 1>So go to LA lawyersphil dot org. That's LA Lawyers

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<v Speaker 1>phil as.

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<v Speaker 2>In Philharmonic La lawyersphil dot org and love to have

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<v Speaker 2>you join me. All right, let's start with what happens

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<v Speaker 2>here in California.

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<v Speaker 1>Money wise.

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<v Speaker 2>Gavin Newsom, who is going to run for president, is

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<v Speaker 2>an interesting guy.

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<v Speaker 1>He is a devout liberal, but at the same.

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<v Speaker 2>Time he's turning out to be a physical fiscal conservative

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<v Speaker 2>in a bunch of ways. So the Democrats and Newsom

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<v Speaker 2>announce a new budget three hundred and twenty one billion

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<v Speaker 2>dollar budget deal. Budget has to be in place by

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<v Speaker 2>July first, that's the law. We have to have a

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<v Speaker 2>balanced budget by July one and in the constant that's

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<v Speaker 2>the constitution. So how do you make it happen with

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<v Speaker 2>a deficit of twelve billion dollars?

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<v Speaker 1>Well, you play games, is what you do.

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<v Speaker 2>You borrow money, you move money around, you do accounting,

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<v Speaker 2>You put programs together and then take them away. Democrats

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<v Speaker 2>in this state, there is a philosophy. Look up Will

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<v Speaker 2>Rogers if you don't know who Will Rogers is. By

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<v Speaker 2>the way, it's worth it. He Owes a great commentator,

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<v Speaker 2>by the way, out of KFI is when he did

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<v Speaker 2>his commentating, and he was a man that was beloved

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<v Speaker 2>by virtually everybody in this country. He was a radio

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<v Speaker 2>commentator and he also had a column, etc. And when

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<v Speaker 2>he died on his tombstone it was written, I never

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<v Speaker 2>met a man I didn't like. Very famous, every Democrat

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<v Speaker 2>who has ever served in the Assembly or the Senate

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<v Speaker 2>on their tombstone will be I never met a tax

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<v Speaker 2>or a social program I didn't like because our state legislature,

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<v Speaker 2>which the Dems have a super majority, is basically nuts.

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<v Speaker 1>What happens is programs are placed.

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<v Speaker 2>Into law, put into law, and start, and when there's money,

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<v Speaker 2>there are new programs that are put into place, or

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<v Speaker 2>existing programs are expanded, like for example, medical care for

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<v Speaker 2>undocumented immigrants that we now have including dental.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, just it's crazy. No other state does that.

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<v Speaker 2>So they've come to an agreement that is the legislature

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<v Speaker 2>newsome and we're going to have a budget, and one

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<v Speaker 2>of the principal aspects of the budget is housing reform.

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<v Speaker 2>Interestingly enough, everybody's on the same side of housing reform,

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<v Speaker 2>yet you've got the Dems in the state that will not,

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<v Speaker 2>for example, limit environmental controls, what stops development.

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<v Speaker 1>Regulations.

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<v Speaker 2>And by the way, I have built before I grew

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<v Speaker 2>up in the construction business, I've known a whole lot

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<v Speaker 2>of people. I've built a house and remodeled a bunch

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<v Speaker 2>of houses, and the requirements are completely crazy. Department building

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<v Speaker 2>in safety. Getting permits is nuts.

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<v Speaker 1>Why.

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<v Speaker 2>One of the reasons is environmental protection. Let me give

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<v Speaker 2>you an example. The California Coastal Commission, which runs several

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<v Speaker 2>miles inland from the coast, controls all that property and

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<v Speaker 2>you have to if you're building, you have to comply.

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<v Speaker 2>And they are crazy, okay, they have to say no

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<v Speaker 2>to everything.

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<v Speaker 1>It takes weeks and weeks.

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<v Speaker 2>Then you have local for example in Calabasas, if someone

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<v Speaker 2>is building in the West Valley, they have their own regulations,

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<v Speaker 2>and then you have the County of Los Angeles, which

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<v Speaker 2>has its regulations.

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<v Speaker 1>Then you have the state of California.

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<v Speaker 2>Which has its regulations, and some of them contradict each other,

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<v Speaker 2>if you've got a state minimum requirement some environmental issue

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<v Speaker 2>where you have to limit your building, and county is

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<v Speaker 2>more strict, the county controls, and if the city is

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<v Speaker 2>stricter yet, then the city one controls. Effectively, you can't build.

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<v Speaker 2>It is impossible to build. It is just they make

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<v Speaker 2>it so difficult. And one of them is the environmental control.

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<v Speaker 2>So we get lip service from the Democratic legislature. Lots

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<v Speaker 2>and lots of lip service. But in the end, oh

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<v Speaker 2>my god, you can't screw around with the environment. You

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<v Speaker 2>can't screw around with the protections. I mean, we've got

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<v Speaker 2>to protect our land, especially the land under your house.

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<v Speaker 2>So the California Constitution demands a balanced budget by July one,

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<v Speaker 2>So there's only a week to go, and the scramble

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<v Speaker 2>still is going on.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe a deal is in.

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<v Speaker 2>Place, the governor being conservative relative to the Democratic legislature,

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<v Speaker 2>the Senate and the Assembly, Republicans having virtually no say

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<v Speaker 2>because it's a super majority among the republic among the.

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<v Speaker 1>Democrats.

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<v Speaker 2>So, as I explained earlier in the last segment, we

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<v Speaker 2>are looking at a twelve billion dollar budget deficit, and

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<v Speaker 2>we're looking at a California legislature that doesn't.

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<v Speaker 1>Want to get anything up.

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<v Speaker 2>It just is willing to, I don't know, kick the

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<v Speaker 2>can down the road.

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<v Speaker 1>How do you make a budget work?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, you borrow money, an issue a bond, No, that's

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<v Speaker 2>off the table as something else.

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<v Speaker 1>You move money around, You do what you can.

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<v Speaker 2>And this deal that is cutting into place relies mainly

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<v Speaker 2>unborrowed money and going into state reserves and shifting funding around.

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<v Speaker 2>So it becomes an accounting issue, and the budget continues

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<v Speaker 2>the practice of state programs and it spares the state

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<v Speaker 2>programs because that's what the Democratic legislature wants.

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<v Speaker 1>And what it does is.

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<v Speaker 2>It stops us from immediate pain. This budget is going

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<v Speaker 2>to work and long term budget will just keep on

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<v Speaker 2>keeping ongoing. Republican Leader James Gallagher of the Assembly says,

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<v Speaker 2>we're in this situation because of overspending.

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<v Speaker 1>It's that simple.

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<v Speaker 2>We've made long term commitments that the Democrats have wanted

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<v Speaker 2>and now, just like everybody warned, the money's not there

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<v Speaker 2>and they don't want to cut back on the programs.

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<v Speaker 2>The day expanded. And here's what happens when there is

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<v Speaker 2>a surplus. And some years there is a surplus when

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<v Speaker 2>the economy is good and California is their revenues. California's

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<v Speaker 2>the income tax like eighty percent.

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<v Speaker 1>People in the top twenty percent pay well.

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<v Speaker 2>When the economy goes south, you know, you don't make

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<v Speaker 2>as much money. Now, rich people don't make as much

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<v Speaker 2>money as they did the year before.

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<v Speaker 1>When the economy is good, which means the revenues to

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<v Speaker 1>the state dropped.

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<v Speaker 2>Dramatically, and what Democratic legislators do when there's money.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh boy, let's start a program.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's expand a program, much like expanding medical to include

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<v Speaker 2>all illegal immigrants, including dental, and the state legislature or

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<v Speaker 2>is still going for it. Newsoma says, we can. We

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<v Speaker 2>have to stop that. I mean, we're done with that.

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<v Speaker 2>We now have to restrict. Now, the governor still wants

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<v Speaker 2>to provide seven hundred and fifty million dollars to expand

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<v Speaker 2>the film and television tax credit, which so, how can

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<v Speaker 2>you expand How can you spend money on that and

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<v Speaker 2>cut these programs Because when you spend money on the

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<v Speaker 2>film and television tax credit, it's money coming in. It

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<v Speaker 2>provides income to the state. It provides jobs. Believe me,

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<v Speaker 2>medical does not provide jobs. It's expenditure. And the issue

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<v Speaker 2>is medical should be there, but do you also offer

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<v Speaker 2>it for illegal migrants? And the big change is medical

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<v Speaker 2>cost overruns, major problems, higher than expected price tags for

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<v Speaker 2>expansion that the healthcare system put into place.

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<v Speaker 1>Newsom's budget budget trims a lot.

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<v Speaker 2>Of that for people who are undocumented, and of course

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<v Speaker 2>the liberal Democratic legislature.

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<v Speaker 1>Saying, oh no, not at all.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, he wants to include freezing new enrollment as of

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<v Speaker 2>January first, requiring all adults, including illegal migrants, to pay

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<v Speaker 2>one hundred dollars a month for premiums, eliminating long term

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<v Speaker 2>care benefits long term care you don't have long term care,

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<v Speaker 2>but illegal migrants do, and cutting full dental coverage. So

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<v Speaker 2>here's what the lawmakers ultimately agreed on, which is kicking in.

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<v Speaker 2>Undocumented immigrant adults ages nineteen to fifty nine are to

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<v Speaker 2>pay thirty dollars monthly premiums beginning in.

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<v Speaker 1>July of twenty twenty seven. Thirty bucks a month. That's

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<v Speaker 1>what they're going to pay now.

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<v Speaker 2>The argument is that there are migrant families that are

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<v Speaker 2>so poor that thirty dollars actually mean something. But at

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<v Speaker 2>at the same time, I mean, how much does the

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<v Speaker 2>state pay? Well, California is the great state to come here.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know how many homeless people are in upstate

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<v Speaker 2>New York. In Buffalo, for example, in the middle of winter,

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<v Speaker 2>when it's forty degrees below zero, I'm assuming there are

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<v Speaker 2>plenty of shelter beds. But I can guarantee you New York, well,

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<v Speaker 2>New York State isn't a bad place. It's not California

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<v Speaker 2>in terms of benefits, but it's better than Alabama, Mississippi.

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<v Speaker 1>Those are not good places to be homeless.

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<v Speaker 2>So expanding housing by cutting down environmental controls, which we love,

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<v Speaker 2>and bringing down social programs because when there's money, the

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<v Speaker 2>legislature goes crazy. And the problem is those become permanent

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<v Speaker 2>programs and when there is no money, they're still in place.

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<v Speaker 2>Welcome to California, all right now, talking about Iron's nuclear program,

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<v Speaker 2>you know where it all started. The United States started

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<v Speaker 2>their program. Now a little of handle history here. There

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<v Speaker 2>was a speech the President Dwight Eisenhower delivered nineteen fifty

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<v Speaker 2>three in which he talked about Adams for Peace and

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<v Speaker 2>he warned of the dangers of a nuclear arms race

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<v Speaker 2>with the Soviet Union.

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<v Speaker 1>That's it, nothing more, nothing less.

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<v Speaker 2>And at that time the nuclear bomb was only held

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<v Speaker 2>by the United States, Russia, which we were enemies, and

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<v Speaker 2>then France and.

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<v Speaker 1>Great Britain, who were allies, of course.

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<v Speaker 2>And what ended up happening was that the United States

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<v Speaker 2>actually sent Tehran sent Iran a full nuclear reactor, and

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<v Speaker 2>it's in Tehran's northern suburbs. It's a small nuclear reactor.

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<v Speaker 2>It's used for only peaceful purposes. It was not the

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<v Speaker 2>target of the Israeli or the US campaign. And it's

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<v Speaker 2>a research reactor and its real significance is really symbolic.

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<v Speaker 1>It doesn't do much.

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<v Speaker 2>It was shipped to Iran by the US in the

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<v Speaker 2>nineteen sixties part of the Atoms for Peace program that

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<v Speaker 2>Dwight Eisenhower established, sharing nuclear technology with our allies, which

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<v Speaker 2>Iran was at that time, and that was to modernize

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<v Speaker 2>their economies that's in quotes, and have them move closer

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<v Speaker 2>to Washington in a world divided by the Cold War. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>the reactor does not contribute to the enrichment program of Iran.

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<v Speaker 2>The processing of uranium it runs on nuclear fuel far

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<v Speaker 2>far too weak to power a bomb. Now. A couple

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<v Speaker 2>of statistics here. In order for a bomb to be

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<v Speaker 2>successfully manufactured, uranium has to be purified to ninety percent.

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<v Speaker 2>And you do that with centrifuges, centrifuge centrifuges, and that

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<v Speaker 1>A little purer, a little purer, a little puer.

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<v Speaker 2>Right now, Iran has brought it up to about sixty

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<v Speaker 2>Get how much a peaceful nuclear reactor uses in terms

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<v Speaker 2>of uranium with the processing, how much purity. It's two

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<v Speaker 2>to three percent.

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<v Speaker 1>That's it.

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<v Speaker 2>So what ended up happening is when that nuclear reactor

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<v Speaker 2>was shipped to Iran, it quickly became an object of

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<v Speaker 2>national pride, first of all as an engine of economic growth. See,

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<v Speaker 2>we're going to grow with nuclear power, because that was

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<v Speaker 2>the US, and that was as the potential source of

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<v Speaker 2>ultimate military power read the atomic bomb. Robert Einhorn, who

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<v Speaker 2>negotiations with Iran, said, we gave.

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<v Speaker 1>Iran its starter kick. He delivered.

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<v Speaker 2>Eisenhower delivered that speech in December of nineteen fifty three,

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<v Speaker 2>and he actually warned of the dangers of a nuclear

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<v Speaker 2>the world to lead the world out of this dark

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<v Speaker 1>And here's what he explained.

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<v Speaker 2>The world should better understand the destructive technology and understanding

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<v Speaker 2>how dangerous nuclear arms are. Because you're looking at the

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<v Speaker 2>destruction of the Earth. I mean we have at one

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<v Speaker 2>point we had thirty thousand nukes. Russia had twenty five

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<v Speaker 2>thousand nukes. Can you imagine where one good sized nuke

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<v Speaker 2>blows up a city. So Eisenhower said that the secrets

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<v Speaker 2>of nuclear power, low grade uranium to power power to

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<v Speaker 2>power plants produce electricity.

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<v Speaker 1>That should be shared.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not enough just to take this weapon out of

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<v Speaker 2>the hands of soldiers. Because as soon as the atomic

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<v Speaker 2>set off in Hiroshima in Nagasaki under the civilians actually

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<v Speaker 2>under military control. And what he's saying is what Eisenhower said,

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<v Speaker 2>it has to be put in the hands of people

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<v Speaker 2>who know how to strip the military casing and adapt

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<v Speaker 2>it to the arts of peace. We have to use

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<v Speaker 2>nuclear power for peace. Therefore, we sent a reactor to

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<v Speaker 2>Iran that started all of this. Now it was back

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<v Speaker 2>in the fifties, actually was in the sixties when it happened,

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<v Speaker 2>and this had to do with Eisenhower. President Eisenhower with

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<v Speaker 2>the program Adams for Peace, Adams being atoms and a

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<v Speaker 2>different world. Because the Cold War, we were in the

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<v Speaker 2>middle of the Cold War, and we wanted the Western

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<v Speaker 2>and take our technology and create a better economy and

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<v Speaker 2>join the modern world with nuclear power, not nuclear weapons.

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<v Speaker 2>And so Eisenhower explained, the world should better understrand the

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<v Speaker 2>understand the destructive technology, but the secrets should be shared

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<v Speaker 2>and put to constructive use. And boy, you think he

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<v Speaker 2>was a little pie in the sky, And why did

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<v Speaker 2>he do it well? To gain influence over important pieces

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<v Speaker 2>of the Cold War Chess Boar, which incidentally included Israel,

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<v Speaker 2>Pakistan and Iran given nuclear information and training and equipment,

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<v Speaker 2>all for peaceful purposes, right, science, medicine, energy. So that

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<v Speaker 2>reactor that was actually given to Iran in sixty seven

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<v Speaker 2>very different from the reactors today, that's for sure. And

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<v Speaker 2>at that time we gave it to the Shaw. The

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<v Speaker 2>Shaw was a very westward leaning monarch, is what he

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<v Speaker 2>was put into place in a nineteen fifty three coups

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<v Speaker 2>a little bit upset about how their government, their elected

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<v Speaker 2>and the Shaw, Pavlavi modernized the nation world power with

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<v Speaker 2>American backing. And he was a liberal secularism, western education,

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<v Speaker 2>repressed political opposition which turned the United States against him,

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<v Speaker 2>or really cared no women's veil modern art. Actually, Andy

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<v Speaker 2>Warhol once painted his portrait literacy infrastructure, and he budgeted

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<v Speaker 2>billions of dollars for the Iranian nuclear program. And what

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<v Speaker 2>he did is switch the premise of this is for

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<v Speaker 1>And that is what changed everything.

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<v Speaker 2>And of course nineteen seventy nine the revolution took place

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<v Speaker 2>in Iran. At first, they really didn't care about the nukes.

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<v Speaker 2>The Humani at that point was just not ignoring it.

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<v Speaker 2>He was establishing the country and changing into a religious theocracy.

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<v Speaker 1>And then quickly realized.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what, this is good, especially after the eight

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<v Speaker 1>So what's the takeaway here? As you look at Iran.

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<v Speaker 2>Processing uranium and making it as quickly as it can

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<v Speaker 2>into did bomb grade material. It was all started by

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<v Speaker 1>We didn't know.

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<v Speaker 2>Different time, different place, KFI AM sixty.

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