WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.720 My wife and I went to the coast for the 2 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:05.639 last couple of days. We took our whole family. This 3 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:08.320 is one of the benefits of homeschooling is you can 4 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:16.359 sometimes take vacations during off times. So, you know, yesterday 5 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:21.160 I had the day off for the Bulldog football Coaches show. 6 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:24.679 Tuesday the day off for the debate. So anyway, we 7 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:28.160 went over to Monterey. My mom was already out there. 8 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:29.800 She was there for a medical conference, and it was 9 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:32.640 really fun. It was a really great time. My kids 10 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:34.679 got to go to the beach. We went to the 11 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:37.439 Monterey Bay Aquarium, which my kids had never seen, so okay, yeah, 12 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:39.359 we got some educational stuff out of it for the kids. 13 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:44.479 We went to one of the California missions. A great time, 14 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:50.079 but we were in some kind of through through bougie 15 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:54.840 expensive parts of the Central Coast. We were in Monterey 16 00:00:55.399 --> 00:00:58.439 and then we were bopping over to Carmel to see stuff, 17 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:07.959 and it's obviously a super high income place. All the 18 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:10.519 houses around. My mom was looking around, She's like, oh 19 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:13.000 my gosh, these houses are all like, you know, two million, 20 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:17.000 five million, ten million dollars. I was noticing. One of 21 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:21.439 the things I noticed was that the realtor. The realtor 22 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:23.439 that was selling a lot of these houses was not 23 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:26.879 like your normal realtor, you know, it was not oh, 24 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:29.920 such and such properties. And this is Janie Smith, she 25 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:33.239 is our realtor. She's helping sell this house. No, it 26 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:36.760 was so the Bey's or South of Best however you 27 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:39.879 pronounce it s O T H E. B y Apostrophes, 28 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:47.000 which is the famous London based auction house that that 29 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:53.040 sells this crazy expensive stuff. Apparently, house values in Monterey 30 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:59.840 are so wildly expensive that so the Bees set set 31 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:03.959 up up a whole office in Monterey just to sell houses. 32 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:09.479 And it's one of the things I'm seeing. Holly and 33 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:12.080 I were looking around and we both noticed this. My 34 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:18.800 mom noticed this that basically there weren't a lot of 35 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:22.919 cars like ours. I was driving around in our famili's 36 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:28.240 you know, Dodge Durrango with you know, seven seats and 37 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:34.199 every seat has. Every seat in our Dodge Durrango is filled. Me, Holly, 38 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:40.400 five kids, so seven seat car, seven people. What I 39 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:46.080 noticed was that essentially every car was either luxury car 40 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:54.199 or beat up car doing some kind of service sector job. 41 00:02:56.680 --> 00:03:07.759 Tesla up truck for landscaping, Mercedes Benz pickup truck for 42 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:18.800 auto mechanic shop you know Lexus yeah, BMW or pickup 43 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:22.680 truck for some you know, the restaurant service sector thing. 44 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:30.719 That was a hot much higher percentage of stuff on 45 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:33.719 either end of the spectrum, and very little of the 46 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:38.840 middle class signaling car yeah with our you know, our 47 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:44.159 you know, ten year old Dodge Durango versus again super 48 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:48.680 expensive or super beat up sort of service sector car. 49 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:55.120 And this relates to the one insightful quote that Gavin 50 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:57.719 Newsom has ever made in his life, which I think 51 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:01.599 is totally true. And this was sort of campaigning era 52 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:10.280 Gavin Newsom, which was to say when at one time 53 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:13.599 he said that California is the wealthiest and the poorest 54 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:19.560 state in the nation, and that is one true. I 55 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:24.000 saw this total microcosm of it just going to Monterey, 56 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:30.000 that we have the you've got homeless people on the streets, 57 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:35.680 and you've got guys in you know, seventy thousand dollars 58 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:40.279 BMW as you know elect you know, green SUVs, you know, 59 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:45.800 electric powered SUVs driving past, you know, homeless guy living 60 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:53.000 in a box. And this leads to, you know, our 61 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:56.959 observations of this and this, you know, Monterey is not 62 00:04:56.959 --> 00:04:59.560 the only place in California where you see this. You 63 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:01.800 go pretty much anywhere in the Bay Area you can 64 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:06.680 see this phenomenon where all of the housing is crazily, 65 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:10.519 crazily crazily expensive, and it's alongside people living in the 66 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:14.240 most abject squalor imaginable. You see this in southern California, 67 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:17.319 you see this in Orange County. You see this all 68 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:20.160 up and down the state. Heck, you even see it 69 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:24.319 in you know, you see it in Fresno, where you 70 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:26.959 can be at you know, Shaw and van Ness and 71 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:28.920 see an almost person just sort of walking by, and then 72 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.319 you you know, turn north on van Ness and all 73 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:34.680 of a sudden you're seeing some of the biggest, craziest 74 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:39.519 mansions in the city. You Know, you can go on 75 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:45.040 a fifteen minute walk from Old fig Garden see some 76 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:48.439 of those old houses that are worth gazillions of dollars, 77 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:52.040 and then within a ten or fifteen minute walk you're 78 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:55.759 in the middle of the you know, the highest concentration 79 00:05:55.839 --> 00:06:02.040 of homeless people in the city of Fresno along Blackstone Avenue. 80 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:09.279 This leads to some new numbers coming out from the 81 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:13.720 Census Bureau about California poverty and a piece about it 82 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:17.680 written by Dan Walters. Governor Newsom, he writes, is fond 83 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:20.839 Dan Walters, by the way, who writes for Calumtters dot org. 84 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:24.279 Dan Walters is the best commentator on California politics from 85 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:27.879 a neutral perspective of anyone. He wrote for the Sacramento 86 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:31.839 b for years. He's been covering Sacramento for a gazillion years. 87 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:36.439 He is still the most insightful guy on California politics today. 88 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:39.720 Governor Gavin Newsom, he writes, is fond of comparing California's 89 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:43.720 economy to those of other states, particularly archrivals Texas and Florida, 90 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:48.040 and even other nations. Unsurprisingly, however, there was no braggadocio 91 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:51.439 from the Governor's office Tuesday, when California found itself in 92 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:54.560 a number one economic position, having once again the nation's 93 00:06:54.639 --> 00:07:01.920 highest level of poverty. Actually, California's official poverty number, as 94 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:04.600 calculated by the Census Bureau for the twenty twenty one 95 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:07.959 to twenty twenty three window, was not terrible, at eleven 96 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:10.639 point seven percent of its nearly forty million residents, just 97 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:14.000 slightly higher than the eleven point four percent national figure. 98 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:17.399 But the official percentage calculated by a formula that hasn't 99 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:20.680 changed in decades and assumes the underlying economic conditions are 100 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:25.879 the same everywhere, is widely respected by academics. Responding to 101 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:29.240 criticisms some years ago, the Census Bureau developed a supplemental 102 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:32.079 measure that takes into account a broader array of factors, 103 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:36.680 most importantly the cost of living. Okay, so the original 104 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:39.120 thing says, Okay, California has the worst poverty, but it's 105 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:41.480 eleven point seven percent of the population rather than eleven 106 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:45.199 point four. Eh, that's not that bad. Hang on, that 107 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:49.160 calculation's not taking into account cost of living. Let's take 108 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:55.839 that into account. It's California's supplemental poverty score where you 109 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:59.839 factor in cost of living. That sets the state of 110 00:07:59.879 --> 00:08:04.639 up part. Fifteen point four percent of our population is 111 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:09.000 in poverty. Based on that metric, California is notoriously sky 112 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:12.720 high costs for housing, energy, and other living needs clobber 113 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:16.920 the incomes of working class families, driving them into poverty. 114 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:23.079 And again, just so you understand that the federal poverty 115 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:28.120 line is basically it's been a fairly consistent measurement over 116 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:33.879 the last forty plus years, and it's basically it takes 117 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:38.159 into account number of people in a household and income 118 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:42.960 number of people in a household plus household income, so 119 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:45.799 it factors those two things in. So if you're over, 120 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:50.600 you need a higher amount of household income to get 121 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:52.919 yourself over the federal poverty line if you have a 122 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:58.759 household with six people rather than two people. So when 123 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:01.080 you factoring costs of living, fifteen point four percent of 124 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:08.879 Californians are poor. Now by an even broader measure, California's 125 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:12.840 fifteen point four percent supplemental poverty rate under states its 126 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:17.879 immense economic divide. The Public Policy Institute of California, again 127 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:21.279 this is Walter's writing. Using a methodology similar to that 128 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:23.600 of the Census Bureau, calculated that in twenty twenty three, 129 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:26.639 thirty one point one percent of Californians were either at 130 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:32.039 or near poverty. Thirty one percent of Californians were either 131 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:38.240 at or near poverty. Deep poverty, defined as families with 132 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:40.919 less than half of the resources to meet basic needs, 133 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:46.879 was at three point four percent. At the other end 134 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:48.799 of the scale, the average income of those in the 135 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:54.840 top one percent is one point two million dollars. The 136 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:58.679 calculation that nearly a third of Californians are in serious 137 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:03.000 economic distress. Yes, comports with the fact that more than 138 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:06.759 a third fourteen point five million are enrolled in medical 139 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:13.960 the state's medical the state's healthcare system. So we've got 140 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:17.360 almost a third. Thirty one percent of Californians are either 141 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:25.039 at or near the federal poverty California the California calculation 142 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:30.320 done by the California Public Policy Institute of Poverty, thirty 143 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:36.039 one percent of Californians are living not just not just 144 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:39.720 sort of a modest lifestyle, but like in a dangerously 145 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:45.919 precarious lifestyle close to either definitely not having enough or 146 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:51.240 close to not having enough. It then goes on to 147 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:53.320 talk about Walter just goes on to talk about the 148 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:58.480 racial component of California's economic inequality. Starkly, but regrettably, there 149 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:01.559 is a distinct racial opponent to the California divide, as 150 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:03.960 displayed in a new report that was also released this week. 151 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:09.320 The Oakland based Maven Collaborative, which advocates for economic equality, 152 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:12.399 issued the report entitled Living on the Brink The True 153 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:16.559 Cost of Being Californian that explores vast economic inequality along 154 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:18.799 gender and racial divides in the state, particularly for black 155 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:22.440 and brown Californians with children. It found that the share 156 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:26.240 of households quote barely scraping by increased by eight percent 157 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:29.120 between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three. That quote 158 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:32.200 childless black households who are living paycheck to paycheck is 159 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:36.519 nearly the same as white households with three children. So 160 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:45.440 economically speaking, black households without children are doing about the 161 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:49.559 same as white households with the additional burden the additional 162 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:55.360 economic cost of three children. That economic inequality is highest 163 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:59.399 in Bay Area communities with the highest costs of living, 164 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:02.759 that nearly a third of college educated black women face 165 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:07.759 financial instability, twice the percentage of white men with degrees, 166 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:11.120 and that an adult with one child living in San 167 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:14.320 Francisco an adult with one child living in San Francisco 168 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:16.039 would have to work twenty two hours a day, seven 169 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:21.639 days a week to cover basic living expenses. These findings 170 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:27.200 show California's economic landscape is increasingly becoming one where only 171 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:30.159 the white and wealthy can thrive. Maven's co founder and 172 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:35.240 co president, Jumpa Batacharia said in a statement, lawmakers must 173 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:39.240 take swift, decisive action to reverse these figures, which paint 174 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:42.480 a clear picture black brown and Indigenous families are facing 175 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:46.080 a near impossible financial battle to survive in our state, 176 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:53.679 and Walters concludes it with this short paragraph. California is, 177 00:12:53.720 --> 00:12:57.559 of course a deeply blue state in which Democrats hold 178 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:02.440 almost total political power, enacted multiple programs in declosing the 179 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:07.600 economic divide. However, if anything, if anything, it has gotten 180 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:11.799 wider in recent years, and the state now faces multiple 181 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:19.200 years of budget deficits. It's California's most glaring conundrum. I mean, 182 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:27.600 there you go. The Democrat policies for California economics have 183 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:35.840 for economics, cost of living, housing, they have manifestly failed, 184 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:43.039 complete and utter failure, and they have failed most egregiously 185 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:48.960 for specifically for the minority communities that Democrats purport to 186 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:51.639 care about the most. Okay, that that report I was 187 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:54.279 reading from that, that's I'm pretty sure that's a super 188 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:58.879 left wing entity that's talking about. And with this implication, oh, 189 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:01.320 it's so much harder to be a black person, as 190 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:04.120 if there's racism baked into the system. There's no racism 191 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:08.720 baked into the system. Democrats have made this system. They're 192 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:11.320 not racist, they're not doing this out of racism, and 193 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:22.000 yet this is the outcome. I mean, what a what 194 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:27.039 a colossal, unbelievable failure. And the thing that Walters talks 195 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:32.720 about at the end, which is our constant state of 196 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:39.519 budget deficits other than twenty twenty two. Okay, so twenty 197 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:43.720 twenty two we had a big budget surplus and everyone thought, 198 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:47.559 you know, we were heading for some era of sunshine 199 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:55.480 and rainbows, that fat days were returned. But it was 200 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:57.799 only because we had a bunch of big influx of 201 00:14:57.840 --> 00:15:03.480 federal COVID money. Twenty twenty three, though, big old budget deficit. 202 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:07.639 Twenty twenty four, big old budget deficit. And guess what 203 00:15:08.679 --> 00:15:12.159 the reason for those budget deficits is because in spite 204 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:15.360 of the fact that we have all these absurdly wealthy 205 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:19.120 people along with our absurdly poor people, a lot of 206 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:24.240 the absurdly wealthy people, they're leaving a lot of them 207 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:26.960 from twenty twenty to now, probably a ton of them 208 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:33.120 left because of COVID, during COVID whatever. They're tired of 209 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:36.320 the taxes, they're tired of the regulation, they're tired of 210 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:43.279 all these different things. Because guess what, you can't just tax, tax, tax, 211 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:47.360 sex tax super wealthy people. They will leave. They will 212 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:50.240 they have the ability That's the thing about being wealthy 213 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:53.600 is that you can just up and move. It's a 214 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:56.039 lot easier for a super wealthy person to just pick 215 00:15:56.120 --> 00:15:58.240 up and move to Texas, pick up and move to Florida, 216 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:00.679 pick up and move to Las Vegas. That's a lot 217 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:03.039 easier for a wealthy person to do than someone who's 218 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:11.360 barely scraping by and their income is not coming in anymore, 219 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:15.639 their capital gains income, their work income, that's not their 220 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:18.759 salary income. That's not coming into the state's coffers anymore. 221 00:16:19.159 --> 00:16:21.840 And that's why we're running deficit after deficit after deficit. 222 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:24.120 We're not going to have the fun if we want 223 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:26.919 to address all these problems. And you think there's some 224 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:30.240 state funding solution for it, well, guess what, We're not 225 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:34.799 going to have that funding when we return the vile 226 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:41.279 political forces that keeps that keeps this system intact. Next 227 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:47.120 on the John Girardi Show, noticing all this crazy economic 228 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:52.120 disparity in Monterey, My wife Holly and I were out 229 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:55.159 there with our family for a trip and just noticing 230 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:59.440 again this huge divide between Tesla Tesla, Tesla Tesla Tesla 231 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:03.440 and then beat up service sector car, beat up service 232 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:10.599 sector car, homeless person. And with these new reports coming 233 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:13.960 out about how California when you adjust for cost of living, 234 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:17.720 even if you don't when you don't adjust for the 235 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:19.720 cost of living, California has the highest rate of poverty 236 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:21.079 in the nation, but it's only by a little bit. 237 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:24.599 When you adjust for cost of living, California blows the 238 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:29.440 rest of the nation away in poverty. And especially when 239 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:31.599 you look at the percentage of Californians who are at 240 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:34.319 or near poverty, which is about thirty one percent of 241 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:37.400 Californians are at or near poverty. Fifteen point seven percent 242 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:41.720 of Californians are in poverty when you adjust for cost 243 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:49.799 of living, and you think, why do people just keep 244 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:52.720 voting for this? Why do people just keep voting for this? 245 00:17:56.079 --> 00:18:00.480 What is the madness that we see? How this state 246 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:03.680 has gotten worse and worse and worse decade after decade 247 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:07.720 after decade, the state just gets worse. Democrats have been 248 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:13.200 in complete and utter control of state politics for at 249 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:17.680 this point, you know, almost six years of Gavin Newsome, 250 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:22.960 eight years of Jerry Brown. Before those fourteen years, they've 251 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:25.039 been in complete control of the state legislature for much 252 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:29.319 longer than that. Why do people just keep voting for 253 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:31.720 the same people. Why do they keep voting for the 254 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:34.039 same local politics. Why do they keep voting for the 255 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:36.599 same local politics in San Francisco, which leads the way 256 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:44.119 in poverty and including with racial disparities of it's far 257 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:51.359 worse for African Americans and unracial minorities than for white people, 258 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:56.839 particularly in these liberal enclaves that purport to want to 259 00:18:56.839 --> 00:19:05.559 help African Americans more than anybody else. I think that 260 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:14.519 if there are any powers that be disproportionately, it's wealthy 261 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:20.880 people who I think control the direction of politics. And 262 00:19:20.920 --> 00:19:22.880 I don't think that's a California exclusive thing. I think 263 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:27.079 that's the case throughout the country. Wealthier people vote in 264 00:19:28.160 --> 00:19:29.839 I haven't seen the stats, but I assume this is 265 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:32.559 true that wealthier people are more likely to vote than 266 00:19:32.839 --> 00:19:37.279 people who are living in poverty. Wealthy people are more 267 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:40.359 likely to contribute to candidates than people who are living 268 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:43.039 in poverty. Duh. Wealthy people are more likely to have 269 00:19:43.079 --> 00:19:46.200 business interests that can have a powerful influence on the 270 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:50.960 direction in shape of politics than lower income people politics. 271 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:54.640 You can say it's unfortunate. You can say, well, that's 272 00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:58.279 just a consequence of the First Amendment and money is speech, 273 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:03.519 and they have more money. Whether it's right or wrong, 274 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:09.160 fortunate or unfortunate. Wealthy people have a disproportionate impact on 275 00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:13.200 the direction of politics. And there's a lot of wealthy 276 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:15.880 people in San Francisco, there's a lot of wealthy people 277 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:18.519 all up and down the Central Coast. There's a lot 278 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:26.000 of wealthy people in the various parts of LA and 279 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:31.759 they I don't think they dislike it. I don't think 280 00:20:31.799 --> 00:20:35.920 they dislike the outcomes that we are seeing because they 281 00:20:36.039 --> 00:20:39.359 keep pushing the same policies, they keep voting for the 282 00:20:39.400 --> 00:20:41.519 same people, they keep putting the same people in power, 283 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:44.839 and you can see certain ways in which yeah, it's 284 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:49.200 directly benefited them. These are the people who own all 285 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:52.079 these big fancy expenses. You know, as I was saying, 286 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:55.359 Holly and I took this trip to Monterey and we're 287 00:20:55.400 --> 00:20:57.559 driving around. We see all these houses. They're not being 288 00:20:57.559 --> 00:20:59.839 sold by a normal realder. They're being sold by so 289 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:03.720 the Bees, which is the famous London based auction house. 290 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:06.559 They've got an office in Monterey just for selling these 291 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:11.160 crazy expensive houses. You know, this little tiny house doesn't 292 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:13.079 look like it's anything, and it's going for you know, 293 00:21:13.160 --> 00:21:20.759 five ten million Bucks. People who own real estate out here, 294 00:21:20.759 --> 00:21:23.240 they really don't mind the fact that housing is wildly 295 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:28.000 disproportionately expensive. They don't mind the fact that housing is 296 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:31.839 completely unaffordable along the Central Coast in the Bay Area. 297 00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:36.279 Their houses benefit, their investment in their homes benefits from 298 00:21:36.359 --> 00:21:43.599 housing being wildly unaffordable. They like it it directly. There 299 00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:52.759 are certain people that California's completely screwed up economy massively benefits. 300 00:21:56.240 --> 00:22:01.400 You know, it's really hard with economic regulation, with environmental regulation, 301 00:22:01.559 --> 00:22:05.920 rather to build new housing, new construction, there are people 302 00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:09.640 who massively benefit from that, from there being a scarcity 303 00:22:10.359 --> 00:22:15.400 of housing, because it makes the value of their property 304 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:21.799 go up. So keep voting for the liberals who are 305 00:22:21.799 --> 00:22:25.839 never going to touch California's environmental policy. They'll keep voting 306 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:30.640 for the politicians who keep making all these grand pledges 307 00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:33.279 of basically they're going to subsidize demand, they're never going 308 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:38.160 to increase supply, because that allows their property values to 309 00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:42.480 stay super duper high. I'm convinced there are people who 310 00:22:43.559 --> 00:22:46.559 look at the totally screwed up nature of California where 311 00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:48.599 we're shoving out middle class, where everyone's going to be 312 00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:51.880 either poor or super rich, and the middle class is 313 00:22:51.880 --> 00:22:53.960 going to shrink and shrink and shrink and shrink. And 314 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:56.079 there are some people, the people who are have the 315 00:22:56.119 --> 00:23:00.839 most impact on guiding the course of politics locally and statewide, 316 00:23:01.079 --> 00:23:06.039 who not only don't care, they actually in some cases 317 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:13.000 directly benefit from it. When we return, are Haitians actually 318 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:16.559 eating dogs? Maybe we're asking the wrong questions here. Next 319 00:23:16.559 --> 00:23:20.720 on the John Girardi Show, let's get to the most 320 00:23:20.759 --> 00:23:26.480 important issue in election twenty twenty four? Are Haitians eating 321 00:23:26.599 --> 00:23:31.240 dogs or not? Didn't think this was something I'd have 322 00:23:31.319 --> 00:23:38.079 to debate, but it shows how I really think we're 323 00:23:38.079 --> 00:23:41.759 gonna Trump's gonna lose. I really think he's gonna lose. 324 00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:45.839 I might be wrong. I hope I'm wrong. I don't 325 00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:49.759 want Kamala Harris to win, but I think he's gonna lose. 326 00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:55.319 I think he's gonna lose because of crap like this 327 00:23:55.319 --> 00:24:00.720 this whole Are Haitians eating dogs? Is it bad that 328 00:24:01.319 --> 00:24:08.400 enormous unregulated numbers of immigrants are coming in where we've 329 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:13.039 made a total mockery of the asylum system where we 330 00:24:13.079 --> 00:24:18.960 can't even make legit. Basically, Biden has so radically altered 331 00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:22.200 the system that we can't really make as meaningful distinction 332 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:26.680 between illegal alien versus legal alien anymore, because Biden basically 333 00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:32.400 gave all these people who are coming in claiming asylum, said, okay, 334 00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:34.400 well come into the country and we'll set your court 335 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:36.559 date for your asylum hearing, you know, four years from now, 336 00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:39.640 and we'll surely never see those people again. So these 337 00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:44.240 people basically have parole. So there are they technically illegal aliens? 338 00:24:44.279 --> 00:24:49.160 Not really, But we've added in millions and millions and 339 00:24:49.240 --> 00:24:53.359 millions of people, including not just people from Latin America 340 00:24:53.440 --> 00:24:57.680 but China, tons of Chinese nationals and people from all 341 00:24:57.920 --> 00:25:01.920 over the country realized that there was this free ticket 342 00:25:02.279 --> 00:25:04.519 into the United States as long as you came in 343 00:25:04.559 --> 00:25:07.200 through Mexico and did you know, X, Y and Z steps, 344 00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:12.920 you could get in with no vetting whatsoever. You know, 345 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:16.720 here we are, we just you know, nine to eleven 346 00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:22.440 was yesterday. Here we are just relatively speaking, not that 347 00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:25.839 far from nine to eleven. It was, you know, twenty 348 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:32.680 three years ago. And again I don't mind immigration, but 349 00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:35.559 you know what I like with immigration is doing as 350 00:25:35.680 --> 00:25:38.759 much of a criminal background check on someone coming into 351 00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:47.079 the country as their country's law enforcement system affords. We're 352 00:25:47.079 --> 00:25:51.559 not doing it, And there's no way that our immigration 353 00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:55.319 services have any measure of confidence that the people they're 354 00:25:55.359 --> 00:25:58.839 letting in don't have extensive criminal records aren't coming. And 355 00:25:58.880 --> 00:26:04.160 that's the thing with so much rhetorics surrounding immigrants, it's 356 00:26:04.200 --> 00:26:13.319 that conservatives this is probably a character of the conservative position, 357 00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:18.359 but conservatives basically can get painted into a corner. Say 358 00:26:18.599 --> 00:26:22.960 you think all immigrants are criminals, and you think all 359 00:26:23.000 --> 00:26:26.440 immigrants are criminals, All immigrants are you know, eating their neighbors, cats, 360 00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:31.400 All immigrants are terrible. But then on the left it's 361 00:26:31.480 --> 00:26:34.680 these people are hard working, they're just trying to chase 362 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:36.920 the American dream, just like you. They just want a 363 00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:39.559 better life for themselves. And this country was built on immigration. 364 00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:43.640 And the reality is, yeah, the people coming in are 365 00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:46.559 probably a mixture of both. There are probably a lot 366 00:26:46.599 --> 00:26:50.440 of people coming in who want a better life and 367 00:26:50.680 --> 00:26:54.920 want to work and want to have better opportunity for themselves. 368 00:26:56.200 --> 00:27:01.440 But when you have absolutely no real being of the 369 00:27:01.480 --> 00:27:07.759 people coming in, you are certainly letting in at least 370 00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:11.680 a decent percentage of people who are here to do 371 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:15.640 bad stuff, bad people who want to do bad stuff, 372 00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:23.519 and or who can't really meaningly contribute to our society. 373 00:27:24.319 --> 00:27:29.359 I mean, if, okay, if X number of people, which 374 00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:31.839 is this enormous number of people worldwide, want to come 375 00:27:31.880 --> 00:27:38.799 and live in America, and maybe it's ten percent of X, 376 00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:42.880 I'll just take a random number. Point one X is 377 00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:49.640 what we can actually sustain as far as social services, economically, 378 00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:54.279 having jobs available for them, you know, having housing for them, 379 00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:59.680 blah blah blah blah blah. Then maybe we can be 380 00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:05.680 too in who constitutes that point one x? But no 381 00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:09.799 we're not. We are letting people in on the basis 382 00:28:09.839 --> 00:28:15.720 of did you walk to a checkpoint? And this is 383 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:20.359 what I hate about the way in which the debate 384 00:28:20.440 --> 00:28:24.960 went on Tuesday is Trump bringing up the immigrants eating 385 00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:31.759 cats thing, which is, first of all, the immigrants eating 386 00:28:31.759 --> 00:28:35.440 cats thing. You only know about it if you a 387 00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:39.920 listen to a ton of talk radio or are hanging 388 00:28:39.960 --> 00:28:44.279 out on Twitter all day, if you're not in that group. 389 00:28:44.839 --> 00:28:48.279 And guess what all the undecided voters in Pennsylvania, the 390 00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:51.000 twenty thousand stupidest Pennsylvanians that you have to convince to 391 00:28:51.079 --> 00:28:53.319 vote for you, And that's how our whole democracy will 392 00:28:53.319 --> 00:28:55.359 swing is on the twenty thousand, the opinions of the 393 00:28:55.400 --> 00:29:00.000 twenty thousand stupidest Pennsylvanians, who somehow are still undecided between 394 00:29:00.200 --> 00:29:02.759 Donald Trump, this figure that's been in American life for 395 00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:05.839 like fifteen years now, I'm pretty sure we should all 396 00:29:05.880 --> 00:29:08.559 know what we think about him. At this point. The 397 00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:11.920 twenty thousand stupidest Pennsylvanians are not listening to talk radio 398 00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:14.359 all day, and they're not on Twitter. They've never heard 399 00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:21.880 of this Haitian immigrants eating cats thing. So Trump brings 400 00:29:21.880 --> 00:29:25.279 it up, and then that becomes the argument that becomes 401 00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:29.759