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<v Speaker 1>Hi, Billy cunning in the Great America. Welcome this Thursday

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<v Speaker 1>afternoon in the Tri State Reds Baseball kicks off to

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<v Speaker 1>not of course, tomorrow they're on the big one starting

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<v Speaker 1>about two thirty five, Dela Cruz is hitting the how

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<v Speaker 1>hide off the ball. Great things are happening there in Tito,

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<v Speaker 1>I trust. But until then, there was a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>good news about Warren County. And of course the president

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<v Speaker 1>of the Commission there is David Young, who's the main

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<v Speaker 1>instigator of keeping the tennis tournament in Mason, etc. And

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<v Speaker 1>David Young, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And

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<v Speaker 1>I read this in one of the journals about Warren County.

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<v Speaker 1>There's about three thousand, two hundred counties in America, and

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<v Speaker 1>Warren County is number five. Is it a good list

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<v Speaker 1>or a bad list?

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<v Speaker 2>You know, sometimes I've gotten on some bad lists of

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<v Speaker 2>my life, especially when I was trolling the halls of

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<v Speaker 2>Sycamore High School, I was on some bad lists. But

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<v Speaker 2>right now we're on a very good list. And that

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<v Speaker 2>list is average weekly wage growth AROSS the entire nation.

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<v Speaker 2>In our beloved Warren County ranked number five in the

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<v Speaker 2>nation in the increase in average weekly wage increase, and

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<v Speaker 2>that went from roughly sixty six thousand dollars annualized a

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<v Speaker 2>year ago up nine point seven percent to seventy two

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<v Speaker 2>five hundred dollars in a year. So the people inside

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<v Speaker 2>of our county, their wages are rising. Good.

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<v Speaker 1>In other words, these are private employers, private people, and

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<v Speaker 1>not government.

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<v Speaker 2>One hundred percent. Government can't pay people ten percent more

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<v Speaker 2>year every year. It's the private sector. Free market capitalism works.

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<v Speaker 2>When the market decides they want to invest in you,

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<v Speaker 2>your community, your people, then good stuff happens.

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<v Speaker 3>Now do you know the instigator for this? What is it?

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<v Speaker 1>Because so much of America is under stress. I see

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<v Speaker 1>the power grid may have some rolling blackouts this summer

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<v Speaker 1>because we're not invested in that. I see the roads.

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<v Speaker 1>I see your good friend mayor a feb purerival yesterday,

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<v Speaker 1>was on a road crew filling thousands and thousands of potholes.

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<v Speaker 1>They've filled over seven thousand potholes and haven't touched most

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<v Speaker 1>of them. They can't cover snow and eyes, they can't

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<v Speaker 1>remove it in the city of Cincinnati. Explain to me

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<v Speaker 1>what Warren County's doing rights is causing this to happen.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, essentially, I think there's a mentality that government can't

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<v Speaker 2>do everything for everyone, that we stay in our lane

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<v Speaker 2>for the most part. And again I'm not talking about

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<v Speaker 2>cutting out every government service to people that actually needed,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, widows, orphans, disabled folks, of course, veterans. Of course,

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<v Speaker 2>we should be there as a government, and a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of that money does come down from the federal government

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<v Speaker 2>through the state and is passed on to us. But

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<v Speaker 2>you know, we have our own veterans levees and things

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<v Speaker 2>like that inside of the county, so we're actually part

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<v Speaker 2>of our sales tax as opposed to a levee. But

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<v Speaker 2>we try to take care of those who can't take

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<v Speaker 2>care of themselves. But everybody else in the free market economy,

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<v Speaker 2>we expect them to be productive. We're not going to

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<v Speaker 2>pay you to sit home and do nothing. So the

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<v Speaker 2>workforce is super super engaged, Willy. As a matter of fact,

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<v Speaker 2>out of two hundred and fifty thousand residents, over one

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<v Speaker 2>hundred thousand employees inside of the county. Take a guess

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<v Speaker 2>how many in the last time I checked, and it's

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<v Speaker 2>been a couple of quarters ago, take a guess how

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<v Speaker 2>many were actually on the unemployment role inside.

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<v Speaker 3>Of Warren county. I would assume very few, just around.

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<v Speaker 2>Five hundred kind of over one hundred thousand employees. And

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<v Speaker 2>again assuming national unemployment rates what around three percent or

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<v Speaker 2>four percent? I mean that should be several thousand people,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's not. It's like five hundred people.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's because of available work. You know one thing

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<v Speaker 1>that concerns me all these jobs coming back to America,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure we have our workforce trained and willing

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<v Speaker 1>to work. Medicaid is going to be cut a little bit.

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<v Speaker 1>If you're a healthy American and you refuse to work

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<v Speaker 1>and you get government benefits and you're under fifty five

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<v Speaker 1>years old, Trump's going to make you go to work

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<v Speaker 1>in order to get Medicaid benefits. And that mentality is

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<v Speaker 1>out there that I'm here and you government must support me.

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<v Speaker 1>Are you concerned that long term we're going to not

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<v Speaker 1>have a workforce to handle the jobs that Trump's going

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<v Speaker 1>to bring back.

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<v Speaker 2>There is a fine balance in a free market of

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<v Speaker 2>supply and demand, and when you have too much demand

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<v Speaker 2>and not enough supply. Look what happened even recently under

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<v Speaker 2>paying people not to work. And this is exactly what

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<v Speaker 2>happened during COVID. We paid people not to go to work.

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<v Speaker 2>And there's some justification for that because you know, we

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<v Speaker 2>didn't know there for a while, but then people got

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<v Speaker 2>used to getting these government checks and they left the workforce.

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<v Speaker 2>So what happened Then demand came back, and then what

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<v Speaker 2>happened Wages started spiking because there was not the workforce there.

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<v Speaker 2>And the number one cause of systemic inflation is wage pressure.

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<v Speaker 2>And you and I talked about that a long time ago.

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<v Speaker 2>If you remember, Willy, when the Jerome pal and the

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<v Speaker 2>Federal Reserve was coming out talking about, oh, this is

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<v Speaker 2>just transitory inflation, and I said, no, it's not. Because

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<v Speaker 2>once you start paying somebody that was working out in

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<v Speaker 2>the Amazon factor or distribution center fifteen bucks, and now

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<v Speaker 2>all of a sudden, you got to pay them twenty

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<v Speaker 2>bucks next month, you're not going back to paying the

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<v Speaker 2>new employee fifteen dollars. That's systemic. Once it goes that

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<v Speaker 2>wage is set from fifteen to twenty bucks, everybody subsequent

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<v Speaker 2>to that is going to be making the twenty bucks.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not going backwards. So that's entrenched in our economic conditions.

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<v Speaker 2>So that's my concern is if you start all of

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<v Speaker 2>a sudden saying hey, there's a huge demand for workers

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<v Speaker 2>and there's a limited supply of workers, all of a sudden,

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<v Speaker 2>wages are going to shoot up, not naturally like we've

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<v Speaker 2>had in Warren County, where it really is a supply

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<v Speaker 2>and demand issue and it's in balance. Where you artificially

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<v Speaker 2>spike the demand for workers, wages are going to shoot up,

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<v Speaker 2>and then I don't know how you avoid inflationary pressures.

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<v Speaker 1>In fact, I listened to an economists this morning through

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<v Speaker 1>Bloomberg who said that inflation is here to stay because

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<v Speaker 1>there's an imbalance between supply and demand. That is that

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<v Speaker 1>we have a large demand for employees and we have

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<v Speaker 1>a smaller supply, and the more illegal immigrants that leave,

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<v Speaker 1>that's going to cause wage pressures to go up, which

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<v Speaker 1>means inflation is going to be here for a long time.

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<v Speaker 3>Do you buy into that to some degree?

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, And again that's where I think that we one

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<v Speaker 2>hundred percent need to change our immigration policy to greatly

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<v Speaker 2>expand our guest worker program.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, if we can track a package within ten

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<v Speaker 2>feet of anywhere in the world, how in the world

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<v Speaker 2>can we not have a guest worker program to where, hey,

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<v Speaker 2>you're not on a path to citizenship. You necessarily don't

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<v Speaker 2>even necessarily want a path of citizenship. You want to

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<v Speaker 2>come here and earn money for your family and send

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<v Speaker 2>it back by working in the fields or doing drywall

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<v Speaker 2>or doing construction or whatever. You're going to do a

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<v Speaker 2>job that is very difficult for us to fill with

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<v Speaker 2>US citizens. So we import workers that that's a better

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<v Speaker 2>opportunity for them. They make more money while they're here,

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<v Speaker 2>they send it a lot of it back. But while

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<v Speaker 2>they're gamefully employed, they're welcome to be here as long

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<v Speaker 2>as they comply with the law. But then once they're done,

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<v Speaker 2>and we know when they're done with their employment, then

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<v Speaker 2>they have to leave. You know, Trump, they're paying into

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<v Speaker 2>our system. I don't understand why we.

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<v Speaker 3>Don't do that.

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<v Speaker 1>And Trump believes in that too, because we need to

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<v Speaker 1>have millions of guest workers. And if Americans come out

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<v Speaker 1>of living in high school or come out of taft

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<v Speaker 1>and don't want to work, or they don't have the

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<v Speaker 1>work ethic, and they shouldn't be supported by taxes and

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<v Speaker 1>government than guest workers that come here, fingerprints, EPrints, whatever

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<v Speaker 1>it takes. Know who you are, work, do what you

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<v Speaker 1>got to do. Allow them to send money back home,

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<v Speaker 1>whatever it might be, and get that done now. Secondly,

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<v Speaker 1>I want to get your reaction to the Tuesday night speech.

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<v Speaker 1>Of the Trump's speech, he won over several eight twenty

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<v Speaker 1>items that the Democrats loathe, and by the way, this

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<v Speaker 1>morning Al Green, not the great singer, but the congressman

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<v Speaker 1>appears to have been censored. But nonetheless, when he talked

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<v Speaker 1>about criminal illegal aliens out of the country, that's eighty twenty.

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<v Speaker 1>When he talked about the men not playing women's sports

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<v Speaker 1>and boys at Levin In High School not going into

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<v Speaker 1>the girls locker room, that's probably a ninety ten issue.

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<v Speaker 1>Were you amazed at the reaction of the Democrats on

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<v Speaker 1>Tuesday night?

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, I think there's something we've talked a lot

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<v Speaker 2>in politics about playing cards. You and I maybe have

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<v Speaker 2>played a little cards in our life, and when you're

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<v Speaker 2>playing poker, you don't want to overplay your hand, and

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<v Speaker 2>right now I think the Democrats are overplaying their hand.

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<v Speaker 2>That they have such viscery. I mean, they just literally

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<v Speaker 2>hate Donald Trump. I hate to say that, but they

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<v Speaker 2>just can't stand him, and so anything that comes out

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<v Speaker 2>of his mouth, they are saying, we can't agree with

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<v Speaker 2>a little boy. That's you know a cancer survivor that

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<v Speaker 2>they make a secret service agent. You're going to sit

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<v Speaker 2>on your hands for that? Are you kidding me? I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>so it's this worthy opposition. We're the resistance. Nothing this

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<v Speaker 2>guy can do is going to be popular, as you said,

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<v Speaker 2>even though eighty ninety percent of Americans are putting on

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<v Speaker 2>the common sense hat of of course this makes sense.

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<v Speaker 2>Of course we want to do this. Why aren't we

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<v Speaker 2>doing this? And for them to be adamantly opposed to

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<v Speaker 2>every policy position and say nothing that can come out

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<v Speaker 2>of his mouth is true, it's just wrong. And I

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<v Speaker 2>think they're overplaying their hand and I think they're going

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<v Speaker 2>to pay a price for it.

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<v Speaker 1>And as far as tariff's, in addition, being a commissioner,

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<v Speaker 1>you're like an economist, you're a business owner, et cetera.

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<v Speaker 1>Tariffs can be extremely useful because I am told that

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<v Speaker 1>there's close to a trillion dollar annual trade deficit. In

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<v Speaker 1>other words, all these countries around the world have tariffs

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<v Speaker 1>keeping on American products, but our walls are down, their

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<v Speaker 1>tariffs come in. Don't you think in the next month

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<v Speaker 1>or two this is all going to work out and

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<v Speaker 1>it's going to be an agreement of one type or

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<v Speaker 1>another and the market will return to sanity.

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<v Speaker 3>Well I think that.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean right now, the number one thing the

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<v Speaker 2>stock market in particular doesn't like is uncertainty. And right

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<v Speaker 2>now we have to some degree nothing but uncertainty because

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<v Speaker 2>the things are changing and it's a rapidly evolving situation.

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<v Speaker 2>So as you know a guy with an economics background,

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<v Speaker 2>that that's always unsettling because we don't know exactly what

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<v Speaker 2>it is. But when you peel back the onion, what

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<v Speaker 2>are we trying to accomplish. It's really fair trade that

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<v Speaker 2>if someone has artificial barriers, like the Canadians that have

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<v Speaker 2>what a two hundred and forty percent tariff on our

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<v Speaker 2>dairy products, that's not fair. So if you want to

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<v Speaker 2>have that, then we're going to hit you with something.

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<v Speaker 2>And then the goal would be for all of these

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<v Speaker 2>tariffs to go away to where it truly is a

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<v Speaker 2>guy with an economics background, that's what I would like

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<v Speaker 2>to see is more open fair trade to where you're

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<v Speaker 2>good at they're good at something, and we trade back

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<v Speaker 2>and forth and you focus on what you're actually good at.

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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, this idea that America has the intellectual capital

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<v Speaker 2>that we produce most of the startups in the world.

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<v Speaker 2>We come up with most of the new products in

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<v Speaker 2>the world, not every new product, but from drugs or

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<v Speaker 2>technology or AI. Most of the new inventions that have

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<v Speaker 2>And so that stuff is then gone out and benefited

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<v Speaker 2>all these trading partners. And then for them to say, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>but we can't let the US dominate our market, so

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<v Speaker 2>now we're going to restrict their products. Then we can

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<v Speaker 2>do the same thing back. So over time it might

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<v Speaker 2>be a little messy here, but over time, you know

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<v Speaker 2>this idea of balance fair trade.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, lastly, on marijuana, I have on a state Senator

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<v Speaker 1>Huffman on Monday to talk about marijuana. We Ohioan's voted

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<v Speaker 1>like fifty eight percent with the marijuana statue. And you

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<v Speaker 1>one of those guys like marijuana at all. They think

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<v Speaker 1>top of medical marijuana. And so now right now there's

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<v Speaker 1>about five thousand Ohioans working in marijuana. Whether it's in

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<v Speaker 1>the laboratories or the processors or in the stores. You

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<v Speaker 1>have a large number of people working and they're productive.

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<v Speaker 1>This year, one billion dollars will be taken out of

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<v Speaker 1>the pockets of drug dealers who otherwise would have a

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<v Speaker 1>billion dollars of Ohioan's money buying marijuana and god knows

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<v Speaker 1>what else. And it's being taxed to ten percent, which

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<v Speaker 1>means the state's getting one hundred million dollars, which is

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<v Speaker 1>a paltry sum compared to the fifty five billion dollar

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<v Speaker 1>annual budget, but it is something. But you know, from

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<v Speaker 1>my perspective, I would afford and encourage that because I

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<v Speaker 1>like the idea of drug dealers making less money, and

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<v Speaker 1>I like the idea of people going to work making

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<v Speaker 1>a product to which so many of my fellow Ohioans

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<v Speaker 1>and Kentuckians want to use. And so now they want

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<v Speaker 1>to double from ten percent to twenty and cut around

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<v Speaker 1>the edges to make it more difficult, and don't give

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<v Speaker 1>the townships and the small cities that allow these dispensaries

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<v Speaker 1>to get to three point six percent. Can you are

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<v Speaker 1>can you tell the American people in Warren County. What

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<v Speaker 1>is happening with recreational and medical pod in Warren County?

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<v Speaker 1>And where do you stand on the state almost regulating

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<v Speaker 1>it out of existence?

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<v Speaker 2>For the most part, I am certainly no expert on

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<v Speaker 2>this issue. That a lot of times this is coming

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<v Speaker 2>up in our municipalities that they are regulating or trying

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<v Speaker 2>to regulate marijuana much more than I am.

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<v Speaker 3>At the county.

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<v Speaker 2>So it really hasn't come before me yet of trying

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<v Speaker 2>to make this look like. But as a simple guy,

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<v Speaker 2>I go back to some fundamentals. It's all about supplying demand, Willie.

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<v Speaker 2>I hate to say it, that there is a demand.

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<v Speaker 2>Marijuana has been something that's been prevalent in our country

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<v Speaker 2>for sixty years, and people know the upside, the downside,

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<v Speaker 2>or what have you, and there is a demand for it.

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<v Speaker 2>So now we're coming with a choice, which is what

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<v Speaker 2>you were alluding to, who's going to supply it? There

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<v Speaker 2>are people that are going to supply it. The demand

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<v Speaker 2>is there, it's going to be filled, and so now

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<v Speaker 2>are we're going to have it to where it's in

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<v Speaker 2>the government's purview to be regulated and taxed and to

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<v Speaker 2>some degree hopefully made safer because it's not going to

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<v Speaker 2>be painted because you're buying it from an established, reputable

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<v Speaker 2>place and it's not laced with scentinol or something crazy

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<v Speaker 2>that's going to kill somebody. So that's the it's a

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<v Speaker 2>binary choice in my in my opinion, that it's here,

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<v Speaker 2>it's not going away. You know, people know the side

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<v Speaker 2>effects of it, and hopefully, you know, people are making

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<v Speaker 2>their own decisions, but that's up to them. I mean, I'm,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, kind of a libertarian at heart that that's

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<v Speaker 2>their own personal choice. They know the upside and downside

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<v Speaker 2>of this, and why not have this in the purview

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<v Speaker 1>Well, State liquor stores are everywhere, and alcohol causes is

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<v Speaker 1>much more difficulties in marijuana. No one gets high on

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<v Speaker 1>marijuana and starts bar our fights. No one gets high

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<v Speaker 1>on marijuana and starts driving recklessly. But with a liquor

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<v Speaker 1>and the states in that business, that happens all the time.

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<v Speaker 1>And if push comes to shove, the marijuana industry will

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<v Speaker 1>put on a constitutional amendment instead of a legislative fix.

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<v Speaker 1>And if it's a constitutional amendment like the damn abortion

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<v Speaker 1>thing that got passed. Then the state legislature and the

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<v Speaker 1>governor will have nothing to do with changing that law.

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<v Speaker 1>And we don't want that constitutional amendment. Do you agree

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<v Speaker 1>that they ought to work together with the industry to

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<v Speaker 2>Billy, It's exactly what I said before about overplaying your hand.

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<v Speaker 2>That's exactly what happened on the abortion and people that

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<v Speaker 2>were pro life. Look what we got stuck with because

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<v Speaker 2>in my opinion, we overplayed our hand a little bit

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<v Speaker 2>because that's not where the public was. Marijuana is the

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<v Speaker 2>same thing. Don't overplay the hand because then you're going

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<v Speaker 2>to start talking about what Portland where all drugs are

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<v Speaker 2>going to be legal and we're going to have it.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, it would be sickening. You know, Let people

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<v Speaker 2>have what they want within confines, have it regulated, but

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<v Speaker 2>don't try to overplay the hand and say nothing zero tolerance.

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<v Speaker 1>And David Young, Warren County Commissioner. Once again, but there's

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<v Speaker 1>about three thousand and two under counties all of America.

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<v Speaker 1>As far as wage growth, Warren County, Little Warren County

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<v Speaker 1>is number five in the nation, which no other counties

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<v Speaker 1>even close to that, have you thought about conducting classes

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<v Speaker 1>for Hamilton County, Kenton County, Boone County, Butler County and

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<v Speaker 1>all other counties. Have you thought about doing classes?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know that anyone in certain counties would sign

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<v Speaker 2>up for a masterclass, Willy, but it is very heartening

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<v Speaker 2>that when you know, I hate to lose on anything. Hence,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what we collectively tried to do in Warren

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<v Speaker 2>County with tennis and things like that. But when we

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<v Speaker 2>think about being number five in the nation, it's like,

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<v Speaker 2>why aren't we number one? Well, you know, I actually

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<v Speaker 2>went back and looked at who's number one at through

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<v Speaker 2>four the counties that beat us in wage growth and

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<v Speaker 2>the nation willing I'll name them for you. Number one

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<v Speaker 2>the home of this company called Walmart, Arkansas. Number two

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<v Speaker 2>and number three were two counties in California that were

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<v Speaker 2>we lost out to the counties that are home to Walmart, Google, Facebook,

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<v Speaker 2>and oil companies. And then that's Warren County, and I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not exaggerating. That is literally the four counties that beat us.

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<v Speaker 1>Good work only getting better with the Cincinnati Open coming

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<v Speaker 1>in July and August is going to be great. And

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<v Speaker 1>David Young once again, thank you for coming on the

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<v Speaker 1>Bill Cunningham Show. And David, you're a great American. Thank you.

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<v Speaker 3>God bless you, Willie, and God bless America.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, let's continue with more news is next plus

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<v Speaker 1>my comments on all the current issues happening in this

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<v Speaker 1>great country of ours. Plus Reds Baseball kicks off three

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