WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:04.040 This November will be quite the time, quite the time 2 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:11.519 for this elaborate house of cards constructed out of proposed 3 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:19.039 bond initiatives for education, and the whole thing could result 4 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:22.960 in a massive amount of increased taxes all over the 5 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:29.320 state of California, or the whole steck of cards, the 6 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:35.399 whole palace of cards could come tumbling down with lots 7 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:42.079 of local and statewide elections all sort of hinging around. 8 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:45.640 Maybe there's money available, maybe people will be dumb enough 9 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:50.560 to vote for all these bond initiatives. And the last, 10 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:53.960 the most recent entity to throw their hat into the 11 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:58.520 ring is the State Center Community College District. So this 12 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:03.880 is the community colleg blood district that runs Fresno City 13 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:07.879 and a bunch of the Fresno Sanwaquin Valley area. Community 14 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:18.239 college is Readley College, Clovis Community, et cetera. The State 15 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:23.840 Center Community College District Board of Directors yesterday voted seven 16 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:26.480 to nothing to put a six hundred and ninety eight 17 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:32.079 million dollars bond measure on the November ballot. There was 18 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:35.760 little discussion by the board before the vote. Oh good glad, 19 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:38.400 we didn't discuss it very much. But the trustees heard 20 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:40.959 from a number of audience members in person and online 21 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:44.760 expressing strong support for the bond measure. The trustees also 22 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:48.680 heard from consultants who detailed community support for a bond measure, 23 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:52.439 in particular from surveyed women who were likelier to vote 24 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:54.760 in favor of the bond measure than the men's surveyed. 25 00:01:57.120 --> 00:01:59.719 One of the things that happened fairly recently is there's 26 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:02.280 been a shift in the national discourse with a certain 27 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:05.680 political campaign, Consultant Catherine lew said, an apparent reference to 28 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:07.560 Vice President Kamala Harris rising to the top of the 29 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:10.960 Democratic ticket, and we are expecting that women will continue 30 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:17.280 to be very energized on a number of issues, including yours. Well, 31 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:19.840 that's good because women's votes count more than that. They 32 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:22.599 get one point five votes and men only get one vote. Right, 33 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:25.120 that is that true? Oh that's not true? Oh okay. 34 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:29.280 The board also unanimously approved a resolution in support of 35 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:33.479 the ten billion dollar Proposition two that would provide state 36 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:38.319 facilities matching funds for school and community college districts. All right, 37 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:42.879 so what is going on? You might be asking yourself, 38 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:45.599 why is Fresno unified? Why do they have a bond 39 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:47.759 initiative on the ballot. Why does Close Unified have a 40 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:49.800 bond initiative on the ballot? What do all these local 41 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:53.360 school districts have bond measures on the ballot? Why does 42 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:55.719 the State Center Community College District? They're getting in on 43 00:02:55.719 --> 00:02:59.800 the act. What's going on? Well, what's happening is there 44 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:09.039 is a state wide ten billion dollar bond initiative, Proposition two, 45 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:14.919 statewide ballot measure that all of the voters of California 46 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:17.520 will be voting on up or down, yay or nay, 47 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:24.560 will we support a ten billion dollar bond measure? And 48 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:32.319 that funding from Proposition two will go to elementary slash 49 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:37.560 primary school school districts the Clovis Unified s, Fresney unifieds, 50 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:40.719 et cetera of the world, and some of it will 51 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:46.080 go to community college districts like State Center Community College District. 52 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:53.639 The catch, though, is that a lot of the money 53 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:59.080 from this statewide bond measure will come in the form 54 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:05.719 of matching funds. So if your local school district can 55 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:08.599 pass a bond measure to raise let's say, four hundred 56 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:12.280 million bucks, you might be able to get in return 57 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:17.160 four hundred million state bucks, but the amount you can 58 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:18.839 get from the state will not be as high if 59 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:26.639 you're not yourself raising local bond revenue money. Now this 60 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:30.000 gets to my This is where I get to my rant, 61 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:36.199 my rant as the apostle against local bond initiatives. A 62 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:42.560 bond is a loan. Fundamentally, I feel like people vote 63 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:47.480 for these bonds and don't really truly understand what they are. 64 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:54.279 A bond is a loan to a municipal entity like 65 00:04:54.319 --> 00:05:00.199 a city or a county, or a school district or 66 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:06.759 a state or a community college district. It is a loan. 67 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:15.439 The school district gets the money up front, and then 68 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:20.360 the voters, who the taxpayers rather who live within the 69 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:25.160 boundary of that school district, have to pay that loan back, 70 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:34.920 usually over a thirty year term with interest. I don't 71 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:37.439 know how many of you follow what's going on with 72 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:43.160 the economy these days, but interest rates are really high 73 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:46.240 right now, much higher than they were five years ago, 74 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:56.000 four years ago, and the amount that we are going 75 00:05:56.040 --> 00:06:01.879 to have to pay back in our taxes is going 76 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:05.079 to be much higher than the sticker price for the 77 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:10.759 bond measure. If that statewide bond measure is ten billion dollars, 78 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:14.319 then the people of California, the taxpayers of California are 79 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:16.439 going to have to pay back over the course of time, 80 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:26.199 probably more than twenty billion dollars. Clovis Unified wants a 81 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:28.759 four hundred million dollar bond measure. We're going to have 82 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:35.319 to pay about eight hundred million back. President Unified wants 83 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:38.879 five hundred million. That'll be about a billion that we 84 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:42.800 have to pay back in taxes. Because that's how loans 85 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:46.800 with interest work. If you've got a loan and you 86 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:49.000 have to pay it back with interest and the interest 87 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:52.399 rate's really high over the a thirty year term, if 88 00:06:52.439 --> 00:06:55.720 your interest rate is over like six percent, which is 89 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:59.519 the ballpark we're in right now, you're gonna wind up 90 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:05.399 paying almost as much in interest as you paid in principle. 91 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:18.040 So it is a preposterously bad deal. I just want 92 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:24.879 to make this clear. This is not a good deal. 93 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:30.399 It is a bad deal for the taxpayer because yeah, 94 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:34.879 oh the school district it's and I have been ranting 95 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:39.959 about this for years. School districts love the mechanism of 96 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:48.399 the bond measure. They love it. They absolutely love it. 97 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:51.959 They can sell it as if it's fake money because 98 00:07:52.519 --> 00:07:56.720 local media never covers it, I think fully the way 99 00:07:56.720 --> 00:08:01.240 they should. I read this old piece in GV Wire 100 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:05.040 about this six hundred and ninety eight, so seven hundred 101 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:07.639 let's call it seven hundred million, seven hundred million dollars 102 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:11.839 bond measure for State Center Community College District. Not once 103 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:15.759 do they mention in the article what is the interest 104 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:20.720 rate at which this bond money would be borrowed and 105 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:24.199 what is the total what is the term of repayment, 106 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:27.879 and thus what is the total amount we can expect 107 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:32.519 to pay? No one ever reports on that. That's never 108 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:37.320 reported on, And I feel like it's such a disservice 109 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:40.200 when local media does this or fails to do this, 110 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:46.159 Rather like every story about a bond measure should say explicitly, 111 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:51.759 this bond measure would provide the school district with four 112 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:55.279 hundred million dollars. The loan would be taken out at 113 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:59.600 this interest rate based on the rates based on the 114 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:01.480 FEDS activity and blah blah blah. This is where interest 115 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:05.320 rates stand. The amount, the total amount that taxpayers would 116 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:07.200 pay back over the course of the thirty year life 117 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:10.600 of the loan, or however long the loan repayment life is, 118 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:16.519 will be this much, barring refinancing of the loan over 119 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:28.200 the course of time. Now because you stack up all 120 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:32.000 these little taxes, you stack up this sales tax and 121 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:35.840 this property tax in this sales tax in this property tax, 122 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:38.519 and all of a sudden, you're the most overtaxed state 123 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:44.080 in the Union. My wife had sent me just you know, 124 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:50.200 for working on this radio segment. It's a picture of 125 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:54.679 our families, you know, property tax statement, the statement of 126 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:58.799 all the different property taxes we are paying as a 127 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:04.519 family for our house, our house in Clovis. And it's 128 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:08.600 just boom boom, boom boom. This Clovis Unified. We have 129 00:10:08.759 --> 00:10:13.799 Clovis Unified bond measures from two thousand, from two thousand 130 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:17.960 and four, from twenty twelve, from twenty twenty. Now we're 131 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:20.480 all still paying for refinancing of those loans of this 132 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:24.000 year and this year. This it's just again and we're 133 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:27.159 paying like layer after layer after layer after layer of 134 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:31.320 bond measures for Clovis Unified. And we've got State Center, 135 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:34.159 Community College, District prior bond measures for them that we're 136 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:41.759 also paying for. So they there's never an end, there's 137 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:45.080 never a sense of, hey, the taxpayers are already shouldering 138 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:48.799 the burden. They've got four existing or five exit whatever 139 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:53.039 it is. Existing bond measures that they are already still 140 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:59.159 paying for that have inflated property taxes within president Unified 141 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:04.320 Clovis Unified ever by this much. And the thing is, 142 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:11.000 any individual one of these taxes is not that great. 143 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:14.679 The state center bond measures tax rate would be twenty 144 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:17.799 dollars per one hundred thousand dollars of assess valuation of 145 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:20.159 a home. So if your home is worth three hundred 146 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:23.320 thousand dollars, you would pay sixty bucks in tax. If 147 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:25.279 your home is worth four hundred thousand dollars, you would 148 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:28.399 pay eighty bucks in tax. And in the grand scheme 149 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:32.120 of things, that doesn't seem like a lot, but it's 150 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:38.799 like every bit contributes, and all these things pile up 151 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:40.960 and pile up, pile up. You know. The measure e 152 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:45.120 folks who were pushing that, they kept trying to advertise 153 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:47.399 it by saying, look, it's only like a quarter of 154 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:52.159 a cent in sales tax. And the voters were just like, well, 155 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:57.799 we don't want to pay every individual single quarter of 156 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:00.919 a cent. That gets at it that you've got this 157 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:04.480 state county wide sales tax in this county wide sales Tex, 158 00:12:04.519 --> 00:12:06.759 and that city sales Tex, and that city sales tex 159 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:12.080 City of Clovis is proposing a big jump in it's 160 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:15.600 sales tax to help pay for public works that'll be 161 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:20.080 on the ballot for Clovis citizens, and coming up. All 162 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:22.879 this stuff just builds up, and I feel bad for 163 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:28.320 these local governments because I think oftentimes their needs are 164 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:32.120 more legit. I mean I would, in general, like I 165 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:37.240 would be much happier to pay more in sales tax 166 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:40.360 to Clovis to help recruit more police and fire. Like 167 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:43.759 the city of Clovis is basically struggling with this because 168 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:48.320 the population of Clovis has grown drastically, the budget hasn't 169 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:51.840 kind of grown yet to meet it. We have a 170 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:55.279 need for more cops, et cetera, we don't have the 171 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:57.799 funding for it to match up with the growth that 172 00:12:57.879 --> 00:13:00.720 the city has experienced. So they're proposing this increase sales 173 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:03.919 tax to he'll pay for this. Like if I wasn't 174 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:06.320 living in a state that was already massively over tax 175 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:11.720 with you know, massive California income tax and property taxes 176 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:13.879 and all this other stuff, I mean, that's the kind 177 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:15.799 of thing I'd be more open to voting for. I 178 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:17.799 think people would be more open to voting for something 179 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:21.639 like Measure E if it wasn't in this context of 180 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:29.240 so many other taxes glombing all over us, and now 181 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:34.840 we've got this tidal wave of bond measures. Now, when 182 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:37.720 we return, I want to talk about how so often 183 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:41.679 it doesn't seem to me that these bond measure proposals 184 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:46.039 are actually funding real needs. And I think this State 185 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:49.799 Center Community College District bond measure is yet another case. 186 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:54.000 That's next on the John Jrardy Show. The State Center 187 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:58.080 Community College District Board of Directors voted seven and nothing 188 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:01.840 yesterday to put a six hundred ninety eight million dollar 189 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:07.480 bond measure on the November ballot. By six hundred and 190 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:10.279 ninety eight million, what we actually mean is probably something 191 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:14.000 more like one point four billion that we will have 192 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:19.080 to pay so that State Center Community College District can 193 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:26.519 get seven hundred million dollars worth of benefit. That's how 194 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:31.960 bond measures work. Bonds are loans to municipal entities that 195 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:34.879 the taxpayers have to pay back with interest and with 196 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:38.679 interest rates where they are right now, we are basically 197 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:41.360 going to pay more in interest than we will pay 198 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:45.480 in principle if it is sort of typically structured a 199 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:49.559 thirty year loan with a repayment with interest rates set 200 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:53.559 it kind of prevailing interest rates. That's what we're going 201 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:57.080 to wind up paying. Now, the thing that annoys me 202 00:14:57.279 --> 00:15:04.320 about local bond measures for school districts and community college districts. 203 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:06.679 And right now the context for why this is happening. 204 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:12.279 California has a statewide education bond measure that is going 205 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:15.000 to be on the ballot proposition too. It'll be ten 206 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:20.279 billion dollars for school districts, you know, K through twelve 207 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:24.639 school districts plus community college districts throughout the state. But 208 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:27.720 again it's it's always labeled as ten billion dollars. What 209 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:31.480 they mean is it's twenty billion dollars in taxes to 210 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:37.559 get ten billion dollars worth of benefit. Now, what's happening. 211 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:40.120 And this is the second time this has happened in 212 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:42.600 the last five years. This happened, this same thing was 213 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:49.080 going on in twenty twenty. Local school districts and local 214 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:52.840 states owner community college districts are putting bond measures on 215 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:59.159 the ballot for themselves, pretending, pretending like they're doing it 216 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:03.080 because there are all these grave needs that the school 217 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:09.000 district has, when really they're just doing it because they 218 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:15.279 want to get matching grant money. Okay, Proposition two is 219 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:18.679 structured such that your local school district can get a 220 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:23.440 bunch of money if you yourself fundraise it in the 221 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:25.960 form of a bond measure. So if your local school 222 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:30.279 district passes a bond measure for four hundred million dollars, 223 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:32.639 you might be able to get an additional four hundred 224 00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:38.120 million dollars in state money from the Prop two proceeds. 225 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:42.559 And everyone just has to kind of all cross their 226 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:46.120 fingers together and hope that Prop two passes at the 227 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:48.799 state wide level and that your local bond measure passes 228 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:51.279 at the local level, and then everyone gets a bunch 229 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:55.960 of money, other than the taxpayers who get to lose 230 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:57.320 a bunch of money because they have to pay it 231 00:16:57.320 --> 00:17:05.160 all in taxes. So the motive from these local school 232 00:17:05.160 --> 00:17:08.279 districts and from the State Center Community College district, it's 233 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:14.079 not coming from some dire need, some dire exigency that 234 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:17.359 exists within Close Unified or State Center Community College or 235 00:17:17.400 --> 00:17:20.720 President Unified or whatever. It's coming from. Well, there's this 236 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:23.720 money available out there from Prop to money, So we 237 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:25.440 got to pass a bond measure so we can get 238 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:29.359 our hands on it. Then we'll be rolling in the dough. 239 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:34.160 But you read like I read this piece from GV 240 00:17:34.279 --> 00:17:42.880 wire written by Nancy Price, one of their journalists, and 241 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:46.559 this is the meeting in which the meeting Sorry, guys 242 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:49.279 going through puberty on the radio. This is the meeting. 243 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:52.240 It literally just did it again. This is the meeting 244 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:58.519 in which the school, the community college district board is 245 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:04.480 discussing approving putting this seven hundred million dollar bond measure 246 00:18:04.680 --> 00:18:08.440 on the ballot, where they would be talking about what 247 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:10.759 kinds of things this would help fund, What what are 248 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:14.759 the needs that this is helping with. So the story 249 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:18.680 says they heard from some consultants about how much women 250 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:26.519 love this issue. Okay, great, Yeah, some political consultants said 251 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:29.240 this was more popular with women voters than with men voters. 252 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:31.680 And that's great because women are awesome and women are 253 00:18:31.680 --> 00:18:36.200 so energized this election because of Kamala Harris. All right, 254 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:45.920 sounds good. Now there isn't though much discussion about like, well, 255 00:18:46.119 --> 00:18:49.559 what are the needs that the community college district is 256 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:55.920 actually facing? And I go through this whole article. It 257 00:18:56.000 --> 00:19:02.079 talks about some idea okay, another although the bond measure 258 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:06.319 would pay for some new construction the Center for Applied 259 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:11.119 Technology and Instructional Complex at Fresnes City College, new multi 260 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:14.200 purpose event and training spaces at Fresno City College's First 261 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:19.400 Responders Academy, an interdisciplinary classroom building and cafe at the 262 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:24.119 College College's West Fresno Campus, new student services at Close 263 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:29.119 Community College, and classroom and ag complexes at Reridley College. 264 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:31.599 But then they always say millions of dollars are needed 265 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:35.200 to upgrade existing buildings for new technology, electricity, and to 266 00:19:35.240 --> 00:19:43.640 fix leaking roofs. So according to SCCCD Chancellor Carol Goldsmith, 267 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:50.759 we need so let me get this straight, because this 268 00:19:50.839 --> 00:19:53.640 is this sounds so similar to Close Unified and Presnew 269 00:19:53.720 --> 00:19:56.960 Unified when they announced there, you know, hundreds of millions 270 00:19:57.000 --> 00:20:02.720 of dollars bond measures. You need a special seven hundred 271 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:05.519 million dollars bond measure, which really what we're talking about 272 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:08.039 for you then is one point four billion because you 273 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:10.279 would ask for matching funding from the state. So you 274 00:20:10.279 --> 00:20:18.200 need one point four billion to deal with upgrading some tech. 275 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:23.559 Which why isn't upgrading tech like part of your budgetary 276 00:20:23.720 --> 00:20:26.960 like line items. That's the thing that just happens. You 277 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:32.920 have to upgrade your tech pretty much every year upgrading 278 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:41.079 buildings for new technology electricity? What about electricity do you 279 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:44.960 need upgrading for? Is this just normal building maintenance to 280 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:50.000 fix leaking roofs? Again, this is this is ordinary building maintenance. 281 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:56.559 State Center Community College District has multiple very large campuses 282 00:20:56.599 --> 00:20:59.960 throughout the San Joaquin Valley. Read the College, President City College, 283 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:02.359 New City College, It's going to be on West Fresno 284 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:09.440 Closes Community, all these different major, huge campuses. You don't 285 00:21:09.480 --> 00:21:13.599 have the money for maintenance like that kind of ongoing 286 00:21:13.599 --> 00:21:16.119 maintenance that that has to be Why do you need 287 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:21.240 an extra bond measure? And they talk about, oh, it 288 00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:26.240 would help funding for all of these different projects, which 289 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:29.200 leads to me to ask two questions. If you started 290 00:21:29.240 --> 00:21:34.039 these projects before you knew of this bond situation with 291 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:36.920 a state bond coming out, and then you're getting bond 292 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:41.960 money to support it, how did you start these construction 293 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:45.279 projects without knowing that this specific bond funding was going 294 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:53.319 to be available. So did you only start them with 295 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:56.599 the idea that this bond money would be available. No, 296 00:21:56.960 --> 00:22:01.880 this bond, this bond funding is the result of the 297 00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:04.720 teachers' unions being mad at Avin Newsom for not getting 298 00:22:04.920 --> 00:22:06.839 enough money in the state budget because the state budget 299 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:10.599 is in it facing a deficit, so they negotiated with Newsom. 300 00:22:10.640 --> 00:22:13.960 Newsom is supporting Newsom is not giving them as much 301 00:22:13.960 --> 00:22:16.079 money in the state budget, but he's supporting this ballot 302 00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:22.319 initiative to get more money for schools. State Center, Community 303 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:25.119 College District didn't know that this ballot initiative was coming 304 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:27.400 like a year ago, and yet they start all these 305 00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:31.799 major construction projects. So if they don't have the money 306 00:22:31.799 --> 00:22:34.160 for those construction projects, why do they start them. But 307 00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:35.839 I think what's more likely is they do have the 308 00:22:35.880 --> 00:22:39.000 money for these construction projects and they don't really need 309 00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:44.319 this bond money. Same thing with Clovis Unified. They're belly 310 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:48.680 aching with their proposed bond measure. Oh well, we might 311 00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:51.799 not be able to finish Clovis South. Why did you 312 00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:53.960 start Clovis South if you didn't have a clear picture 313 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:57.440 of whether you had the funding to finish it. You 314 00:22:57.480 --> 00:23:00.359 didn't know that this bond measure money was coming out 315 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:04.359 like a year and a half ago. Clearly you started 316 00:23:04.359 --> 00:23:08.680 Clovis South a while ago. So you either do have 317 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:10.519 the money to finish Close South and you're kind of 318 00:23:10.599 --> 00:23:14.759 bsing us, or if you didn't have the money. You 319 00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:17.200 were totally irresponsible in the way that you got it started. 320 00:23:19.799 --> 00:23:23.559 So I again just don't believe these school districts or 321 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:27.079 community college districts. I don't really believe they need this money. 322 00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:30.079 I think they are putting forward these bond measures because 323 00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:32.119 the money happens to be out there and they just 324 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:35.400 want to take advantage of it. And what they by 325 00:23:35.839 --> 00:23:37.599 them take advantage of it, what they mean is take 326 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:41.240 advantage of us and our gullibility to vote for these 327 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:43.680 stupid bond measures again and again and again and increase 328 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:48.000 our own taxes for school districts and community college districts 329 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:52.440 that I'm just not convinced desperately need this money. When 330 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:58.000 we return, how transgender hormones are planned Parenthood's new big business? 331 00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:02.240 Next on The John Jardy Show. This is a story 332 00:24:02.279 --> 00:24:08.279 that I've been tracking and following before this article came out, 333 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:09.920 and I've talked about it a bit here. I've talked 334 00:24:09.960 --> 00:24:13.359 about it a bit on Right to Life Radio. We'll 335 00:24:13.400 --> 00:24:15.160 talk about some other stuff on Right to Life Radio. 336 00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:18.279 Right to Life Radio every Saturday morning here on Power 337 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:24.319 Talk at nine am. It's on Power Talk Fresno. How 338 00:24:24.319 --> 00:24:27.640 did planned parenthood become one of the country's largest suppliers 339 00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:31.240 of testosterone. This is a piece from the Free Press, 340 00:24:32.200 --> 00:24:35.400 and it talks with a number of people who were 341 00:24:36.200 --> 00:24:38.799 what we call d transitioners. So these are people who 342 00:24:41.559 --> 00:24:45.559 tried to transition from one gender to the other and 343 00:24:45.640 --> 00:24:49.440 regretted it. And often many such people are in really 344 00:24:49.480 --> 00:24:56.720 tragic situations where they underwent hormone therapy of some sort 345 00:24:57.039 --> 00:25:01.039 or in some cases surgery, and and they are going 346 00:25:01.079 --> 00:25:04.119 to have an extremely difficult time living as their actual 347 00:25:04.559 --> 00:25:12.440 biological birth sex because of the somewhat unrepeatably bad impact 348 00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:16.079 that the gender transitions had on their bodies, including the 349 00:25:16.119 --> 00:25:21.680 hormone treatments from testosterone. For women, basically women who want 350 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:25.359 to transition, often what happens is that they get on 351 00:25:25.640 --> 00:25:31.480 a regime of testosterone in order to have more testosterone 352 00:25:31.480 --> 00:25:36.759 in their bodies and take on more masculine appearance and affect. 353 00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:40.680 And I have talked about this a lot on the 354 00:25:40.680 --> 00:25:44.240 show that and I genuinely believe this that when you 355 00:25:44.279 --> 00:25:48.920 scratch the rainbow, you find green. That's my cheesy slogan 356 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:52.119 for it, but I think a lot of LGBTQ advocacy, 357 00:25:52.160 --> 00:26:00.240 I really genuinely believe this is motivated by a desire 358 00:26:01.240 --> 00:26:10.279 to profit from medical treatments for LGBT persons. I think 359 00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:14.319 a lot of what is underlying the massive push for 360 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:22.119 transgender treatment in America is money. Surgeries for transgender persons 361 00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:28.839 are very expensive and lucrative for the doctors, hospitals, etc. 362 00:26:29.559 --> 00:26:34.640 That do them. Hormone treatments can be lucrative for the 363 00:26:34.680 --> 00:26:40.599 providers who provide them. I will note the different approaches 364 00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:45.640 you see, for example, between America and the United Kingdom 365 00:26:46.039 --> 00:26:50.640 the United Kingdom. Healthcare provision in the United Kingdom is 366 00:26:50.759 --> 00:26:55.680 run by the National Health Service. Okay, the UK does 367 00:26:55.720 --> 00:27:01.519 not have a private sector healthcare industry. They don't have 368 00:27:01.559 --> 00:27:07.640 private health insurance, they don't have private hospitals. The provision 369 00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:10.559 of healthcare is run by the government in the UK completely. 370 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:15.559 So the profit motive. Now that I'm not saying that 371 00:27:15.559 --> 00:27:18.519 that's all peaches and cream and that there's nothing wrong 372 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:21.480 with that setup or that it's a better setup than 373 00:27:21.519 --> 00:27:24.759 the US necessarily, but it's different. And one of the 374 00:27:24.759 --> 00:27:27.279 ways in which it's different when you have a government 375 00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:31.240 run health system is that the profit motive is not 376 00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:37.359 as stark. Okay, the profit motive is not as great, 377 00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:42.960 and in the UK they were actually willing to follow 378 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:50.880 the research to realize, Hey, surgeries for transgender persons don't 379 00:27:50.920 --> 00:27:55.839 actually have any net benefit for the people receiving. All 380 00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:58.400 of our survey studies indicate that it does nothing actually 381 00:27:58.400 --> 00:28:03.839 to improve mental health outcomes, and that in many cases 382 00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:08.880 these are harmful and in various ways not really reversible. 383 00:28:10.759 --> 00:28:15.359 So the United Kingdom basically banned various kinds of transgender 384 00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:22.279 interventions except for experimental trials. So the United Kingdom has 385 00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:28.160 for the most part banned various kinds of gender transition interventions. 386 00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:35.559 That's a big deal. The United Kingdom, not not Estonia. 387 00:28:36.279 --> 00:28:43.119 The UK, right one of the a very advanced, wealthy, liberal, 388 00:28:43.559 --> 00:28:51.359 developed Western country. But in the United States we have 389 00:28:51.400 --> 00:28:54.000 a profit motive associated with this. The government can't just 390 00:28:54.119 --> 00:28:57.160 kind of snap its fingers and ban a certain kind 391 00:28:57.200 --> 00:29:01.640 of medical procedure nationwide the way that that can happen 392 00:29:01.640 --> 00:29:05.440 in the UK. And so what do you see, Well, 393 00:29:05.480 --> 00:29:09.079 you see associates, associations of doctors still trying to say, well, 394 00:29:09.160 --> 00:29:11.680 even though the evidence is kind of not great, that 395 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:14.960 there's a lot of long term benefit, but still we think, oh, 396 00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:18.359 this is important, and well, you have all these doctors 397 00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:24.039 making money directly seeing a profit motive to providing this 398 00:29:24.920 --> 00:29:27.000 in a way that does not exist in the UK 399 00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:36.200 to the same degree. Interesting huh. And this relates to 400 00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:39.279 this story from the Free Press about Planned Parenthood and 401 00:29:39.359 --> 00:29:44.680