Speaker 1: Hi, Billy cunning in the Great America. Welcome this Thursday
Speaker 1: afternoon in the Tri State Reds Baseball kicks off to
Speaker 1: not of course, tomorrow they're on the big one starting
Speaker 1: about two thirty five, Dela Cruz is hitting the how
Speaker 1: hide off the ball. Great things are happening there in Tito,
Speaker 1: I trust. But until then, there was a lot of
Speaker 1: good news about Warren County. And of course the president
Speaker 1: of the Commission there is David Young, who's the main
Speaker 1: instigator of keeping the tennis tournament in Mason, etc. And
Speaker 1: David Young, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And
Speaker 1: I read this in one of the journals about Warren County.
Speaker 1: There's about three thousand, two hundred counties in America, and
Speaker 1: Warren County is number five. Is it a good list
Speaker 1: or a bad list?
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes I've gotten on some bad lists of
Speaker 2: my life, especially when I was trolling the halls of
Speaker 2: Sycamore High School, I was on some bad lists. But
Speaker 2: right now we're on a very good list. And that
Speaker 2: list is average weekly wage growth AROSS the entire nation.
Speaker 2: In our beloved Warren County ranked number five in the
Speaker 2: nation in the increase in average weekly wage increase, and
Speaker 2: that went from roughly sixty six thousand dollars annualized a
Speaker 2: year ago up nine point seven percent to seventy two
Speaker 2: five hundred dollars in a year. So the people inside
Speaker 2: of our county, their wages are rising. Good.
Speaker 1: In other words, these are private employers, private people, and
Speaker 1: not government.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. Government can't pay people ten percent more
Speaker 2: year every year. It's the private sector. Free market capitalism works.
Speaker 2: When the market decides they want to invest in you,
Speaker 2: your community, your people, then good stuff happens.
Speaker 3: Now do you know the instigator for this? What is it?
Speaker 1: Because so much of America is under stress. I see
Speaker 1: the power grid may have some rolling blackouts this summer
Speaker 1: because we're not invested in that. I see the roads.
Speaker 1: I see your good friend mayor a feb purerival yesterday,
Speaker 1: was on a road crew filling thousands and thousands of potholes.
Speaker 1: They've filled over seven thousand potholes and haven't touched most
Speaker 1: of them. They can't cover snow and eyes, they can't
Speaker 1: remove it in the city of Cincinnati. Explain to me
Speaker 1: what Warren County's doing rights is causing this to happen.
Speaker 2: Well, essentially, I think there's a mentality that government can't
Speaker 2: do everything for everyone, that we stay in our lane
Speaker 2: for the most part. And again I'm not talking about
Speaker 2: cutting out every government service to people that actually needed,
Speaker 2: you know, widows, orphans, disabled folks, of course, veterans. Of course,
Speaker 2: we should be there as a government, and a lot
Speaker 2: of that money does come down from the federal government
Speaker 2: through the state and is passed on to us. But
Speaker 2: you know, we have our own veterans levees and things
Speaker 2: like that inside of the county, so we're actually part
Speaker 2: of our sales tax as opposed to a levee. But
Speaker 2: we try to take care of those who can't take
Speaker 2: care of themselves. But everybody else in the free market economy,
Speaker 2: we expect them to be productive. We're not going to
Speaker 2: pay you to sit home and do nothing. So the
Speaker 2: workforce is super super engaged, Willy. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: out of two hundred and fifty thousand residents, over one
Speaker 2: hundred thousand employees inside of the county. Take a guess
Speaker 2: how many in the last time I checked, and it's
Speaker 2: been a couple of quarters ago, take a guess how
Speaker 2: many were actually on the unemployment role inside.
Speaker 3: Of Warren county. I would assume very few, just around.
Speaker 2: Five hundred kind of over one hundred thousand employees. And
Speaker 2: again assuming national unemployment rates what around three percent or
Speaker 2: four percent? I mean that should be several thousand people,
Speaker 2: and it's not. It's like five hundred people.
Speaker 1: And it's because of available work. You know one thing
Speaker 1: that concerns me all these jobs coming back to America,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure we have our workforce trained and willing
Speaker 1: to work. Medicaid is going to be cut a little bit.
Speaker 1: If you're a healthy American and you refuse to work
Speaker 1: and you get government benefits and you're under fifty five
Speaker 1: years old, Trump's going to make you go to work
Speaker 1: in order to get Medicaid benefits. And that mentality is
Speaker 1: out there that I'm here and you government must support me.
Speaker 1: Are you concerned that long term we're going to not
Speaker 1: have a workforce to handle the jobs that Trump's going
Speaker 1: to bring back.
Speaker 2: There is a fine balance in a free market of
Speaker 2: supply and demand, and when you have too much demand
Speaker 2: and not enough supply. Look what happened even recently under
Speaker 2: paying people not to work. And this is exactly what
Speaker 2: happened during COVID. We paid people not to go to work.
Speaker 2: And there's some justification for that because you know, we
Speaker 2: didn't know there for a while, but then people got
Speaker 2: used to getting these government checks and they left the workforce.
Speaker 2: So what happened Then demand came back, and then what
Speaker 2: happened Wages started spiking because there was not the workforce there.
Speaker 2: And the number one cause of systemic inflation is wage pressure.
Speaker 2: And you and I talked about that a long time ago.
Speaker 2: If you remember, Willy, when the Jerome pal and the
Speaker 2: Federal Reserve was coming out talking about, oh, this is
Speaker 2: just transitory inflation, and I said, no, it's not. Because
Speaker 2: once you start paying somebody that was working out in
Speaker 2: the Amazon factor or distribution center fifteen bucks, and now
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you got to pay them twenty
Speaker 2: bucks next month, you're not going back to paying the
Speaker 2: new employee fifteen dollars. That's systemic. Once it goes that
Speaker 2: wage is set from fifteen to twenty bucks, everybody subsequent
Speaker 2: to that is going to be making the twenty bucks.
Speaker 2: It's not going backwards. So that's entrenched in our economic conditions.
Speaker 2: So that's my concern is if you start all of
Speaker 2: a sudden saying hey, there's a huge demand for workers
Speaker 2: and there's a limited supply of workers, all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: wages are going to shoot up, not naturally like we've
Speaker 2: had in Warren County, where it really is a supply
Speaker 2: and demand issue and it's in balance. Where you artificially
Speaker 2: spike the demand for workers, wages are going to shoot up,
Speaker 2: and then I don't know how you avoid inflationary pressures.
Speaker 1: In fact, I listened to an economists this morning through
Speaker 1: Bloomberg who said that inflation is here to stay because
Speaker 1: there's an imbalance between supply and demand. That is that
Speaker 1: we have a large demand for employees and we have
Speaker 1: a smaller supply, and the more illegal immigrants that leave,
Speaker 1: that's going to cause wage pressures to go up, which
Speaker 1: means inflation is going to be here for a long time.
Speaker 3: Do you buy into that to some degree?
Speaker 2: Yes, And again that's where I think that we one
Speaker 2: hundred percent need to change our immigration policy to greatly
Speaker 2: expand our guest worker program.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: You know, if we can track a package within ten
Speaker 2: feet of anywhere in the world, how in the world
Speaker 2: can we not have a guest worker program to where, hey,
Speaker 2: you're not on a path to citizenship. You necessarily don't
Speaker 2: even necessarily want a path of citizenship. You want to
Speaker 2: come here and earn money for your family and send
Speaker 2: it back by working in the fields or doing drywall
Speaker 2: or doing construction or whatever. You're going to do a
Speaker 2: job that is very difficult for us to fill with
Speaker 2: US citizens. So we import workers that that's a better
Speaker 2: opportunity for them. They make more money while they're here,
Speaker 2: they send it a lot of it back. But while
Speaker 2: they're gamefully employed, they're welcome to be here as long
Speaker 2: as they comply with the law. But then once they're done,
Speaker 2: and we know when they're done with their employment, then
Speaker 2: they have to leave. You know, Trump, they're paying into
Speaker 2: our system. I don't understand why we.
Speaker 3: Don't do that.
Speaker 1: And Trump believes in that too, because we need to
Speaker 1: have millions of guest workers. And if Americans come out
Speaker 1: of living in high school or come out of taft
Speaker 1: and don't want to work, or they don't have the
Speaker 1: work ethic, and they shouldn't be supported by taxes and
Speaker 1: government than guest workers that come here, fingerprints, EPrints, whatever
Speaker 1: it takes. Know who you are, work, do what you
Speaker 1: got to do. Allow them to send money back home,
Speaker 1: whatever it might be, and get that done now. Secondly,
Speaker 1: I want to get your reaction to the Tuesday night speech.
Speaker 1: Of the Trump's speech, he won over several eight twenty
Speaker 1: items that the Democrats loathe, and by the way, this
Speaker 1: morning Al Green, not the great singer, but the congressman
Speaker 1: appears to have been censored. But nonetheless, when he talked
Speaker 1: about criminal illegal aliens out of the country, that's eighty twenty.
Speaker 1: When he talked about the men not playing women's sports
Speaker 1: and boys at Levin In High School not going into
Speaker 1: the girls locker room, that's probably a ninety ten issue.
Speaker 1: Were you amazed at the reaction of the Democrats on
Speaker 1: Tuesday night?
Speaker 2: I mean, I think there's something we've talked a lot
Speaker 2: in politics about playing cards. You and I maybe have
Speaker 2: played a little cards in our life, and when you're
Speaker 2: playing poker, you don't want to overplay your hand, and
Speaker 2: right now I think the Democrats are overplaying their hand.
Speaker 2: That they have such viscery. I mean, they just literally
Speaker 2: hate Donald Trump. I hate to say that, but they
Speaker 2: just can't stand him, and so anything that comes out
Speaker 2: of his mouth, they are saying, we can't agree with
Speaker 2: a little boy. That's you know a cancer survivor that
Speaker 2: they make a secret service agent. You're going to sit
Speaker 2: on your hands for that? Are you kidding me? I mean,
Speaker 2: so it's this worthy opposition. We're the resistance. Nothing this
Speaker 2: guy can do is going to be popular, as you said,
Speaker 2: even though eighty ninety percent of Americans are putting on
Speaker 2: the common sense hat of of course this makes sense.
Speaker 2: Of course we want to do this. Why aren't we
Speaker 2: doing this? And for them to be adamantly opposed to
Speaker 2: every policy position and say nothing that can come out
Speaker 2: of his mouth is true, it's just wrong. And I
Speaker 2: think they're overplaying their hand and I think they're going
Speaker 2: to pay a price for it.
Speaker 1: And as far as tariff's, in addition, being a commissioner,
Speaker 1: you're like an economist, you're a business owner, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Tariffs can be extremely useful because I am told that
Speaker 1: there's close to a trillion dollar annual trade deficit. In
Speaker 1: other words, all these countries around the world have tariffs
Speaker 1: keeping on American products, but our walls are down, their
Speaker 1: tariffs come in. Don't you think in the next month
Speaker 1: or two this is all going to work out and
Speaker 1: it's going to be an agreement of one type or
Speaker 1: another and the market will return to sanity.
Speaker 3: Well I think that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean right now, the number one thing the
Speaker 2: stock market in particular doesn't like is uncertainty. And right
Speaker 2: now we have to some degree nothing but uncertainty because
Speaker 2: the things are changing and it's a rapidly evolving situation.
Speaker 2: So as you know a guy with an economics background,
Speaker 2: that that's always unsettling because we don't know exactly what
Speaker 2: it is. But when you peel back the onion, what
Speaker 2: are we trying to accomplish. It's really fair trade that
Speaker 2: if someone has artificial barriers, like the Canadians that have
Speaker 2: what a two hundred and forty percent tariff on our
Speaker 2: dairy products, that's not fair. So if you want to
Speaker 2: have that, then we're going to hit you with something.
Speaker 2: And then the goal would be for all of these
Speaker 2: tariffs to go away to where it truly is a
Speaker 2: free market and we don't have protected industries. As a
Speaker 2: guy with an economics background, that's what I would like
Speaker 2: to see is more open fair trade to where you're
Speaker 2: good at they're good at something, and we trade back
Speaker 2: and forth and you focus on what you're actually good at.
Speaker 2: But yeah, this idea that America has the intellectual capital
Speaker 2: that we produce most of the startups in the world.
Speaker 2: We come up with most of the new products in
Speaker 2: the world, not every new product, but from drugs or
Speaker 2: technology or AI. Most of the new inventions that have
Speaker 2: been for the good of humanity have come from the US.
Speaker 2: And so that stuff is then gone out and benefited
Speaker 2: all these trading partners. And then for them to say, yeah,
Speaker 2: but we can't let the US dominate our market, so
Speaker 2: now we're going to restrict their products. Then we can
Speaker 2: do the same thing back. So over time it might
Speaker 2: be a little messy here, but over time, you know
Speaker 2: this idea of balance fair trade.
Speaker 3: I'm for balance fair trade.
Speaker 1: Now, lastly, on marijuana, I have on a state Senator
Speaker 1: Huffman on Monday to talk about marijuana. We Ohioan's voted
Speaker 1: like fifty eight percent with the marijuana statue. And you
Speaker 1: and I both know the Governor, Mike DeWine and the
Speaker 1: head of the House in the Senate right now, neither
Speaker 1: one of those guys like marijuana at all. They think
Speaker 1: we made a mistake in voting for recreational marijuana on
Speaker 1: top of medical marijuana. And so now right now there's
Speaker 1: about five thousand Ohioans working in marijuana. Whether it's in
Speaker 1: the laboratories or the processors or in the stores. You
Speaker 1: have a large number of people working and they're productive.
Speaker 1: This year, one billion dollars will be taken out of
Speaker 1: the pockets of drug dealers who otherwise would have a
Speaker 1: billion dollars of Ohioan's money buying marijuana and god knows
Speaker 1: what else. And it's being taxed to ten percent, which
Speaker 1: means the state's getting one hundred million dollars, which is
Speaker 1: a paltry sum compared to the fifty five billion dollar
Speaker 1: annual budget, but it is something. But you know, from
Speaker 1: my perspective, I would afford and encourage that because I
Speaker 1: like the idea of drug dealers making less money, and
Speaker 1: I like the idea of people going to work making
Speaker 1: a product to which so many of my fellow Ohioans
Speaker 1: and Kentuckians want to use. And so now they want
Speaker 1: to double from ten percent to twenty and cut around
Speaker 1: the edges to make it more difficult, and don't give
Speaker 1: the townships and the small cities that allow these dispensaries
Speaker 1: to get to three point six percent. Can you are
Speaker 1: can you tell the American people in Warren County. What
Speaker 1: is happening with recreational and medical pod in Warren County?
Speaker 1: And where do you stand on the state almost regulating
Speaker 1: it out of existence?
Speaker 2: For the most part, I am certainly no expert on
Speaker 2: this issue. That a lot of times this is coming
Speaker 2: up in our municipalities that they are regulating or trying
Speaker 2: to regulate marijuana much more than I am.
Speaker 3: At the county.
Speaker 2: So it really hasn't come before me yet of trying
Speaker 2: to make a decision on what we want to try
Speaker 2: to make this look like. But as a simple guy,
Speaker 2: I go back to some fundamentals. It's all about supplying demand, Willie.
Speaker 2: I hate to say it, that there is a demand.
Speaker 2: Marijuana has been something that's been prevalent in our country
Speaker 2: for sixty years, and people know the upside, the downside,
Speaker 2: or what have you, and there is a demand for it.
Speaker 2: So now we're coming with a choice, which is what
Speaker 2: you were alluding to, who's going to supply it? There
Speaker 2: are people that are going to supply it. The demand
Speaker 2: is there, it's going to be filled, and so now
Speaker 2: are we're going to have it to where it's in
Speaker 2: the government's purview to be regulated and taxed and to
Speaker 2: some degree hopefully made safer because it's not going to
Speaker 2: be painted because you're buying it from an established, reputable
Speaker 2: place and it's not laced with scentinol or something crazy
Speaker 2: that's going to kill somebody. So that's the it's a
Speaker 2: binary choice in my in my opinion, that it's here,
Speaker 2: it's not going away. You know, people know the side
Speaker 2: effects of it, and hopefully, you know, people are making
Speaker 2: their own decisions, but that's up to them. I mean, I'm,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of a libertarian at heart that that's
Speaker 2: their own personal choice. They know the upside and downside
Speaker 2: of this, and why not have this in the purview
Speaker 2: of the government where it can be regulated and taxed.
Speaker 1: Well, State liquor stores are everywhere, and alcohol causes is
Speaker 1: much more difficulties in marijuana. No one gets high on
Speaker 1: marijuana and starts bar our fights. No one gets high
Speaker 1: on marijuana and starts driving recklessly. But with a liquor
Speaker 1: and the states in that business, that happens all the time.
Speaker 1: And if push comes to shove, the marijuana industry will
Speaker 1: put on a constitutional amendment instead of a legislative fix.
Speaker 1: And if it's a constitutional amendment like the damn abortion
Speaker 1: thing that got passed. Then the state legislature and the
Speaker 1: governor will have nothing to do with changing that law.
Speaker 1: And we don't want that constitutional amendment. Do you agree
Speaker 1: that they ought to work together with the industry to
Speaker 1: come up with a solution.
Speaker 2: Billy, It's exactly what I said before about overplaying your hand.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what happened on the abortion and people that
Speaker 2: were pro life. Look what we got stuck with because
Speaker 2: in my opinion, we overplayed our hand a little bit
Speaker 2: because that's not where the public was. Marijuana is the
Speaker 2: same thing. Don't overplay the hand because then you're going
Speaker 2: to start talking about what Portland where all drugs are
Speaker 2: going to be legal and we're going to have it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it would be sickening. You know, Let people
Speaker 2: have what they want within confines, have it regulated, but
Speaker 2: don't try to overplay the hand and say nothing zero tolerance.
Speaker 1: And David Young, Warren County Commissioner. Once again, but there's
Speaker 1: about three thousand and two under counties all of America.
Speaker 1: As far as wage growth, Warren County, Little Warren County
Speaker 1: is number five in the nation, which no other counties
Speaker 1: even close to that, have you thought about conducting classes
Speaker 1: for Hamilton County, Kenton County, Boone County, Butler County and
Speaker 1: all other counties. Have you thought about doing classes?
Speaker 2: I don't know that anyone in certain counties would sign
Speaker 2: up for a masterclass, Willy, but it is very heartening
Speaker 2: that when you know, I hate to lose on anything. Hence,
Speaker 2: you know what we collectively tried to do in Warren
Speaker 2: County with tennis and things like that. But when we
Speaker 2: think about being number five in the nation, it's like,
Speaker 2: why aren't we number one? Well, you know, I actually
Speaker 2: went back and looked at who's number one at through
Speaker 2: four the counties that beat us in wage growth and
Speaker 2: the nation willing I'll name them for you. Number one
Speaker 2: the home of this company called Walmart, Arkansas. Number two
Speaker 2: and number three were two counties in California that were
Speaker 2: a home of a company called Meta Facebook, and the
Speaker 2: other one was the home of Google and county. Number
Speaker 2: four is Midland County, Texas, where it's the home of
Speaker 2: most of the major oil companies in our nation. So
Speaker 2: we lost out to the counties that are home to Walmart, Google, Facebook,
Speaker 2: and oil companies. And then that's Warren County, and I'm
Speaker 2: not exaggerating. That is literally the four counties that beat us.
Speaker 1: Good work only getting better with the Cincinnati Open coming
Speaker 1: in July and August is going to be great. And
Speaker 1: David Young once again, thank you for coming on the
Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham Show. And David, you're a great American. Thank you.
Speaker 3: God bless you, Willie, and God bless America.
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