WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.919 Gather around my friends. Let old Johnny g give you 2 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:07.759 the story of his field trip to Sacramento. So yesterday 3 00:00:07.799 --> 00:00:12.519 I went to Sacramento. I went to testify in a 4 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:15.960 hearing of the California State Senate Health Committee about a 5 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:20.640 bad abortion bill. Basically, it's this bill Abe forty. It's 6 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:25.679 basically trying to replace this bad Biden era regulation that 7 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:32.079 Trump just rescinded to try to interpret a federal law 8 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:36.000 governing emergency rooms and emergency rooms that take Medicare and 9 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:40.000 Medicaid patients, trying to say that they have to do 10 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:43.600 x Y and z, and that X y and Z 11 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:47.840 is provide abortion. So I went to testify against it. 12 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:50.159 So I testify during this committee. 13 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:52.079 Hearing, and I want to. 14 00:00:53.679 --> 00:00:56.880 Not so much that committee hearing. I mean, I think 15 00:00:56.920 --> 00:00:59.399 that bill is bad. I could probably talk about it 16 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:01.520 on Right to Life radio. There's not too much to 17 00:01:01.560 --> 00:01:04.599 say about it. It's really bad. I mean if I 18 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:07.560 went on and on about every single bad pro abortion 19 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:10.879 law that's being passed in the state legislature, it would 20 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:13.120 you know. That's why we have a whole show for it. 21 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:19.280 But and you should encourage your state senator and encourage 22 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:21.640 your state assembly member to vote no on AB forty. 23 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:22.799 It's a really bad bill. 24 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:26.959 I think they kind of want every emergency room in 25 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:31.280 California to have the resources on hand to perform abortions. 26 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:34.239 I don't think they actually want it for emergency abortions 27 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:37.719 even I think they just want everyone performing abortions all 28 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:40.439 the time. They want emergency rooms to have MiFi pristone, 29 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:43.239 which is the abortion pill, which is not used for 30 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:47.439 emergency situations anyway. 31 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:48.799 AB forty is really bad. 32 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:51.879 But I want to tell you about the broader experience 33 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:56.719 and just the atmosphere in Sacramento, because it is so 34 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:05.560 divorced from reality. First, I get there and I park, 35 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:08.000 I find a meter, and I park a couple of 36 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:11.919 blocks away from the capitol, and I walk past the 37 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:16.400 offices of SEIU. S CiU has a big office right 38 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:19.879 near the Capitol, which I laughed, I joked about. 39 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:22.360 I took a picture of it and posted it on Twitter. 40 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:24.360 Oh, it's so fun to visit the seat of all 41 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:27.439 political authority in California. Hey, there's a big building with 42 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:29.199 a dome on top of it over there. Maybe I'll 43 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:32.919 go check that out too. Just because SEIU basically runs 44 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:36.000 the state legislature and Indeed, I don't think I've ever 45 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:39.520 been to the Capitol, and I've been there a bunch 46 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:39.879 of times. 47 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:41.080 I don't think I've ever been to. 48 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:48.159 Sacramento and not seen a large presence of SEIU T 49 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:54.560 shirt clad people out there lobbying for something. And indeed, today, 50 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:57.840 yesterday rather it was no different. I go there, s 51 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:00.439 CiU has a whole like. 52 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:08.000 Picnic lunch going on on the lawn outside of the 53 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:08.759 Capitol building. 54 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:13.520 They've got DJ playing music, They've got food, They've got 55 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:16.039 T shirts that the people are sitting around having like 56 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:23.039 a gazillion people. I saw their charter buses parked nearby. 57 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:26.479 Looked like they were bussed in from San Francisco, if 58 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:28.840 you know, that's where the charter bus was from anyway, 59 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:31.479 So uh, and you know, just having a good I 60 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:33.599 don't even know what they were lobbying about. I assume 61 00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:38.400 they're lobbying about the budget bill, because as I for 62 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:41.240 reasons I will get into as we go along, there's 63 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:44.039 a lot of agita on the left about the whole 64 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:51.479 situation with California state budget. Now, I was I met 65 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:53.599 with some folks who were helping me out with coordinating 66 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:58.479 the testimony, and then I walked over to that. They're 67 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:02.319 they're renovating the Capitol right now. It's a gazillion bajillion 68 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:06.080 dollar renovation that of course, the state legislature passed a 69 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:12.479 law to exempt that construction process from SIQUA, the California 70 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:15.599 Environmental Quality Act, and other kinds of environmental laws that 71 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:17.759 us little folk have to deal with if we want 72 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:20.040 to build anything or do any construction. But the state 73 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:24.600 legislature managed to exempt themselves for the project of renovating 74 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:27.879 the state capital. They passed a law to exempt themselves 75 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:32.120 from that. But the renovation to the state Capitol building 76 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:35.800 is costing a gazillion dollars, way more than is necessary, 77 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:38.600 and they've been working on it for years. So they're 78 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:42.079 holding a lot of hearings, and that they've moved all 79 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:45.519 the senators and the assembly members' offices to this other 80 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:48.240 building that's on O Street, a couple about a block 81 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:51.439 or two away from the actual capital building itself, and 82 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:54.959 that's where they have a lot of committee hearings. So 83 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:59.319 I walked over to O Street. I go into the 84 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:04.040 committee room, and I'm supposed to go to a Senate 85 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:09.160 Health Committee hearing. My bill is the first bill they're 86 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:10.839 going to hear, So I get there. I try to 87 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:13.680 get there early. I get there about fifty minutes forty 88 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:17.920 five minutes early, and I get there for the tail 89 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:23.160 end of the Senate Budget Committee their meeting. 90 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:25.600 Now, I don't know. 91 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:29.720 How closely you followed the news, but there's a lot 92 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:35.279 of storm and drawing over California's state budget over the 93 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:36.040 last month. 94 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:41.000 Governor Newsom in May did his it's. 95 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:45.879 Called the May revise, so every May the government, So 96 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:49.240 let me take it back in January, the governor gives 97 00:05:49.240 --> 00:05:50.319 his budget proposal. 98 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:55.560 After the April tax Day. 99 00:05:56.839 --> 00:06:00.240 The governor then gives what's called the May revive, is 100 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:03.240 to the budget. He revises his budget proposal from January, 101 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:08.959 and this revision is meant to reflect whatever changes updates 102 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:15.639 in expected revenue have happened since April fifteenth, which is 103 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:21.319 tax day. Okay, So if we gathered as much in 104 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:24.600 state tax revenue as we sort of anticipated back in January, 105 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:27.240 then we don't need to change very much. If we 106 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:29.199 collected a lot less, then we got to cut things. 107 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:31.959 If we collected a lot more, maybe we allocate things differently. 108 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:37.000 So back in May, Governor Newsom announced his revision to 109 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:41.639 the state budget, and it's a dire, dire, dire budgetary situation. 110 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:45.360 We're staring down the barrel of a twelve billion dollar 111 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:49.199 deficit again, another you know, thirty year in a row 112 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:54.639 with a big deficit. California is now facing. According to 113 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:59.560 sort of the non partisan budget analysts from the state, 114 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:05.199 California's facing what's called a structural deficit. What that means is, 115 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:07.759 it's not like, oh, we just had another happened to 116 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:12.279 have another bad year and revenue, you know, is getting 117 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:17.040 outpaced by spending. No, we have now put ourselves in 118 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:23.279 a position where our spending commitments are going to outstrip 119 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:29.639 revenues on a consistent basis. We are, in a consistent 120 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:31.920 basis of year over year, we're going to have deficit 121 00:07:31.959 --> 00:07:36.120 spending by about ten to twenty billion dollars unless we 122 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:42.240 really course correct and cut back, hold back, retreat from 123 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:47.160 a lot of the commitments we have made. Now, Governor 124 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:53.720 Newsom gives his May budget revision proposal, and I cannot 125 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:58.240 express to you how furious everyone in the Capitol is 126 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:03.839 with him. Everyone who can't do math is really angry. 127 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:08.040 And that's most of the people in the building. Okay, 128 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:15.319 they are so mad, and it's a thing of they 129 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:19.519 live on a different planet from us, from you and me, 130 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:22.000 from those of us who can do math, who say, well, geez, 131 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:24.759 we're deficit spending, so I guess we gotta cut things. 132 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:30.439 That's not gonna be fun, you know, But eventually there's 133 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:32.039 a thing you have to cut that someone will be 134 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:36.600 upset about. Anyone who's run a business knows that feeling 135 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:39.000 that eventually you have to cut things, and you have 136 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:41.840 to cut things in ways that are unpleasant and not good. 137 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:44.559 And that's just the way it is. 138 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:53.519 Now, one of the big things that was brought up. 139 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:57.360 So I'm in this. I get there early. I find 140 00:08:57.399 --> 00:09:00.360 myself in the room for the tail end of Senate 141 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:01.440 Budget Committee hearing. 142 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:03.600 And this is a committee hearing. 143 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:09.559 To review the budget bill, not Governor Newsom's may revision 144 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:13.279 to the budget bill, but sort of the counter proposal 145 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:17.799 to Newsom coming from the state Legislature itself, from the 146 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:20.159 State Assembly in the State Senate. The State Assembly and 147 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:23.840 the State Senate work together. They put together their sort 148 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:27.799 of response to Governor Newsom, and it's it deficit spends 149 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:32.000 more than Newsom. Basically, it cuts fewer things than Newsom cut. 150 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:41.759 It rolls back a lot of his cuts, and the 151 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:44.240 format for the Budget Committee hearing was a little weird. 152 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:46.039 It seems different from what I'm used to. Maybe that's 153 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:49.120 just the way the Budget Committee works is you had 154 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:58.840 just a whole line of folks from different organizations coming 155 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:02.000 up to the microphone to talk for I don't know 156 00:10:02.039 --> 00:10:04.120 what the time limit was, if it seemed like everyone 157 00:10:04.120 --> 00:10:08.080 had about four or five minutes apiece to talk, representing 158 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:15.000 different organizations, to say what they thought about the new 159 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:21.480 Senate and Assembly budget bill. And everyone was trashing the 160 00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:25.480 Newsome budget proposal. Everyone was talking about how horrible the 161 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:30.159 Newsome budget proposal is, how punitive it is, how it's 162 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:36.480 hurting people precisely when the Trump administration is using militarized 163 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:43.519 Everyone thought everything Ice was doing was militarized militarized attacks. 164 00:10:44.759 --> 00:10:45.559 On immigrants. 165 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:47.639 No one ever said illegal aliens, No one ever made 166 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:55.559 any distinction between documented or undocumented, just immigrants. And it's horrible, 167 00:10:55.639 --> 00:10:58.399 and that governor knew some cut these programs. 168 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:01.919 This is horrible. These weak and vulnerable communities. 169 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:05.159 To do this at this time is terrible, And it 170 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:09.000 was just taken as a given by like all these 171 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:11.559 people who are clearly very at home being in the 172 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:23.679 Capitol and talking, it was clear that Newsoone's persona on grata. 173 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:26.679 When it came time for the members of the Budget 174 00:11:26.679 --> 00:11:34.639 Committee to vote, the vote was really quite surprising. Now, 175 00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:41.399 all of the committees in Sacramento, they're they're heavily stacked 176 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:44.440 in favor of Democrats, and that kind of makes sense. 177 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:50.639 Democrats have, you know, three quarters of the seats, so 178 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:56.039 they have, you know, obviously the overwhelming majority of everyone 179 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:57.799 on an individual committee is going. 180 00:11:57.679 --> 00:11:58.559 To be Democrats. 181 00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:02.200 So the Budget Committee had eighteen members, five of whom 182 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:05.200 are Republicans. Not all the Republicans are there, not all 183 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:12.200 the Democrats are there either, And you've got person after 184 00:12:12.279 --> 00:12:16.840 person after person coming up and being like Newsom's thing 185 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:19.879 is terrible. But one of the things that was really 186 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:24.080 surprising to me was that, Okay, so here's Newsom's proposal. 187 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:28.519 Newsom's proposal is still deficit spending, like it's not a 188 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:33.080 thing Republicans would like. Then you've got the State Assembly 189 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:39.399 and State Senate budget bill. They're spending more. We Republicans 190 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:44.399 would like it less. But these left wing groups that 191 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:48.000 feel so totally at home, that feel so comfortable that 192 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:52.919 feel like they deserve their place and are outraged that 193 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:55.360 they're not getting what they want in Sacramento. 194 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:02.159 These left wing groups, a lot of them were mad 195 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:08.759 not just at Newsom's proposal, but at the more fiscally 196 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:13.600 profligate Assembly and State Senate proposal. They thought they. 197 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:22.279 Weren't spending enough, so much so that the bill passed 198 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:25.039 out of the committee on a vote of ten to six, 199 00:13:29.399 --> 00:13:35.879 with three Democrats voting no on it. I'm presuming the 200 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:38.639 other Republicans were going to come and probably put it 201 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:41.639 to ten to eight or closer than that, but only 202 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:47.360 ten Democrats as of yesterday voted for the thing. Three 203 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:53.200 Democrats voted no Senator Derazzo, Senator Menhevar, and Senator Weaver Pearson, 204 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:55.639 who voted not present, which is effectively the same as no. 205 00:13:55.879 --> 00:13:59.279 So you had two senators vote no. One refused to 206 00:13:59.360 --> 00:13:59.799 vote on it. 207 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:08.840 A sizeable chunk of Democrats in the state legislature, they're 208 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:11.679 not even apparently there's gonna be a decent chunk of 209 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:14.360 Democrats in the state legislature who are not going to 210 00:14:14.440 --> 00:14:23.039 vote for this because it's not profligate enough. So again, 211 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:26.600 like I just want to emphasize this to you guys. 212 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:30.679 These people have so many more votes than we do 213 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:34.159 in the state Assembly, in the state Senate. These people 214 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:37.240 have so much more power in Sacramento than you and 215 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:40.960 I do. You know, don't let anyone show you some 216 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:41.919 like county map. 217 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:44.600 Well, what if we got rid of the fraud. Okay, guys, 218 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:46.440 even if we got rid of all the fraud. 219 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:49.399 I'm not sure that it does anything. I mean, you 220 00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:52.639 look at favorability ratings. Gavin Newsom is still at forty 221 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:56.080 four percent and Donald Trump's at twenty nine percent. I 222 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:00.559 don't think we're flipping the state read anytime soon. I 223 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:04.639 don't care how many county wide maps you show me showing. 224 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:06.919 Oh, look at all this red area of California. Yet 225 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:08.759 nobody lives in a lot of the red areas. 226 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:12.919 There's like three blue areas, and it's where the huge 227 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:19.919 majority of the people live. And I'm just saying, these 228 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:26.200 people are living in an alternate reality where math doesn't exist, 229 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:30.360 where spending to a deficit doesn't exist, where we don't 230 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:34.399 have to account for that somehow. Now, when we return, 231 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:38.440 I want to talk about the attitudes surrounding illegal immigrants, 232 00:15:38.440 --> 00:15:43.559 illegal immigration, how it relates to the Trump The Trump 233 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:49.440 initiated raids by ice and again, how everyone in that 234 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:55.120 building in Sacramento is thinking in ways that are completely. 235 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:56.480 Foreign to you and me. That's next on the John 236 00:15:56.519 --> 00:15:57.159 Girardi Show. 237 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:00.960 There's a pole that's been put out by the Public 238 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:07.519 Policy Institute of California. Should California provide health insurance to 239 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:16.759 undocumented immigrants? Fifty eight percent of Californians oppose giving health 240 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:25.279 insurance to quote, undocumented immigrants illegal aliens. Only forty one 241 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:29.960 percent of Californians are in favor. That's a big split. 242 00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:36.440 Fifty eight percent of Californians oppose giving health insurance to 243 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:43.080 illegal aliens, forty one percent are in favor. Now, as 244 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:45.360 I've been talking about in the first segment, I went 245 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:47.879 on a trip to Sacramento yesterday. For the day, I 246 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:51.960 went to testify in opposition to a bad abortion related 247 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:53.440 bill in the state legislature. 248 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:54.559 But I got to. 249 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:58.320 Kind of hang out and see other committee hearings and 250 00:16:58.440 --> 00:17:02.039 hear other things and learn sort of the attitudes of 251 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:05.480 what's going on in that place, and had the luck 252 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:10.039 of sitting in on a State Senate Budget Committee hearing. 253 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:10.880 Yesterday. 254 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:14.799 The State Senate Budget Committee voted to pass the Joint 255 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:20.160 Assembly and Senate budget deal, which is clawing back a 256 00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:22.680 lot of the cuts that Newsom has made. Newsome made 257 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:24.680 a bunch of cuts to the state budget in recognition 258 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:26.440 of the fact that we're staring down the barrel of 259 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:31.880 a twelve billion dollar deficit. And I want to talk 260 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:36.920 about just the attitudes towards illegal aliens that that committee 261 00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:44.799 hearing sort of evidenced. First, you got to understand, Sacramento 262 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:47.960 is crawling with lobbyists. It's crawling with people who represent 263 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:51.680 and lobby for all kinds of different organizations, people who 264 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:55.640 make the trip up from La or over from San Francisco, 265 00:17:55.880 --> 00:17:58.839 or you know, lobbyists who just live in Sacramento and 266 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:02.599 represent a number of different clients. But it's these people 267 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:05.799 who seem very comfortable to me anyways, seem very comfortable 268 00:18:05.799 --> 00:18:10.160 and confident being there, that they work for, as you know, 269 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:12.440 lobbying entities for all these different industries or for all 270 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:15.000 these different entities. And so many of the people in 271 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:19.720 the room for that budget committee hearing were representatives of 272 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:23.640 different kinds of left aligned nonprofits that do all kinds 273 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:29.319 of stuff with immigrants, with various kinds of you know, 274 00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:32.039 child welfare. This that the other, you know, County of 275 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:39.279 Los Angeles doing a gazillion different organizations that all of 276 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:42.880 a lot of whom might seem like, well, they're helping 277 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:45.440 feed the poors, so that's not politically aligned. 278 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:46.759 But obviously everyone there is a. 279 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:50.920 Liberal, and that's just I feel like if you take 280 00:18:50.920 --> 00:18:53.359 a survey, that's a huge percentage of everyone who's just 281 00:18:53.440 --> 00:19:00.319 walking around in the halls in the state legislative office buildings. 282 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:10.799 The attitude that they took towards Newsome rolling back coverage 283 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:17.440 for illegal aliens for medical and that's the signature thing 284 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:23.359 that Newsom has cut is limiting that we're not going 285 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:27.519 to accept certain kinds of illegal aliens into medical because 286 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:30.440 we accepted a bunch of illegal aliens into medical and 287 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:32.440 it was way more expensive than we anticipated. 288 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:33.559 So we're going to freeze that. 289 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:37.839 We're not going to let any basically limiting the eligibility 290 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:43.359 of these groups. The budget proposal from the State Assembly 291 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:47.200 and State Senate, I think it softens newsome position a bit, 292 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:49.799 but it still retains that there's certain groups of illegal 293 00:19:49.799 --> 00:19:51.799 aliens that are not going to be eligible for medical. 294 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:59.480 This was the chief point of furious. 295 00:19:58.680 --> 00:20:04.519 Anger, as Samuel L. Jackson said during Pulp Fiction, furious anger. 296 00:20:05.880 --> 00:20:09.400 The chief point of furious anger on the part of 297 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:11.200 these liberal activists who are in the room for this 298 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:12.200 Budget committee hearing. 299 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:17.440 How can you do this to immigrants when the Trump 300 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:24.160 administration is weaponizing military raids with ice and attacking immigrants. 301 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:25.880 Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. How can you 302 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:29.519 do this? This is the most vulnerable population in California. 303 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:34.799 To this extent, I want you to understand how these 304 00:20:34.799 --> 00:20:38.200 people think, and so much so that there are several 305 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:40.279 Democrats who voted no on this bill. 306 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:42.440 I don't know all the reasons why they voted no, 307 00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:45.480 but I suspect that's one of them. Okay, so yeah, 308 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:48.640 you had two Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee vote 309 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:50.680 no on it. One refused to vote on it, which 310 00:20:50.680 --> 00:20:56.799 has the same ultimate effect as voting no. When you 311 00:20:56.880 --> 00:21:03.720 and I see that someone's in the country unlawfully without permission, 312 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:06.880 without appropriate legal permission, either they snuck across the border 313 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:11.640 when they weren't supposed to, evading immigration authorities, or they 314 00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:16.279 over state of visa or whatever. You and I look 315 00:21:16.319 --> 00:21:20.480 at that and rightly think, well, that makes us less 316 00:21:20.599 --> 00:21:26.160 inclined to give them some form of government aid support, largesse. 317 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:30.319 You've broken the law. You now shouldn't be. 318 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:35.079 Here because the penalty for what you're doing is usually deportation. 319 00:21:35.880 --> 00:21:39.480 So we don't want you. You're not supposed to be here, 320 00:21:39.519 --> 00:21:42.039 You're legally not supposed to be here. So no, I 321 00:21:42.039 --> 00:21:45.599 don't want to give you more stuff. That is how 322 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:47.759 we think of it. In fact, that's how fifty eight 323 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:50.680 percent of Californians think of it. In a very liberal state, 324 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:52.880 even still fifty eight percent of Californians think that way. 325 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:57.400 They don't want to give health insurance medical coverage to 326 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:05.519 illegal aliens in that building in Sacramento. They view the 327 00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:11.000 fact that you're in the country illegally as actually a 328 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:19.279 greater incentive to give you aid, largesse and help because 329 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:22.119 you're more vulnerable as a result. This is our most 330 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:24.559 like I remember one of the people coming up and 331 00:22:24.599 --> 00:22:27.079 speaking about this during this budget committee hearing. One of 332 00:22:27.079 --> 00:22:31.359 these activist group representatives said, this is the most vulnerable 333 00:22:31.400 --> 00:22:36.599 patient in California, the most vulnerable group of people in California, 334 00:22:36.720 --> 00:22:39.519 and they're so vulnerable right now they're facing attacks from 335 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:44.039 the Trump administration. How can you cut back their healthcare 336 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:46.240 coverage at a time like this, and this group of 337 00:22:46.279 --> 00:22:52.240 all people, they it's almost like they genuinely view not 338 00:22:52.359 --> 00:22:56.920 being in the country legally as like a protected category 339 00:22:57.359 --> 00:23:00.519 that should be deserving of, like a form of affirmative action, 340 00:23:01.559 --> 00:23:03.480 like the way that they would want to do for 341 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:07.160 you know, giving racial preferences or you know, preferences to 342 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:07.960 LGBT persons. 343 00:23:08.039 --> 00:23:11.319 The fact that you're in the country illegally puts you. 344 00:23:11.559 --> 00:23:16.920 Higher in the area of people we should be concerned about. 345 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:27.039 That is how totally backwards these people think. When we 346 00:23:27.079 --> 00:23:32.440 return the idea of new taxes and the lack of 347 00:23:32.519 --> 00:23:38.119 second order thinking. Next, on the John Girardi Show, there's 348 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:43.599 a proposal that Democrats are kicking around that is so 349 00:23:43.759 --> 00:23:47.480 stupid that I kind of makes your head explode, but 350 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:51.720 it sort of reveals the absolute lack of any kind 351 00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:57.839 of second order thinking, thinking through not just the immediate result, 352 00:23:58.240 --> 00:24:00.759 but the consequences that will follow. 353 00:24:00.519 --> 00:24:03.119 After the immediate result. 354 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:05.640 I don't feel like Democrats think about this at all, 355 00:24:05.720 --> 00:24:09.400 especially in California. I just think that they assume that 356 00:24:09.960 --> 00:24:15.559 you can impose some kind of regulation or duty on 357 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:19.200 a business and then they will just comply with that thing, 358 00:24:19.559 --> 00:24:24.000 accept something that hurts their profits and then not do 359 00:24:24.240 --> 00:24:28.319 anything else. In response, Newsom clearly thought that with his 360 00:24:28.599 --> 00:24:32.680 stupid regulation on oil refineries in California, oh, just maintaining 361 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:34.960 a higher supply of oil all the time to avoid 362 00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:37.400 gas price hikes during the summer. 363 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:41.880 Easy. Oh, these greedy oil companies spike their prices. They 364 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:43.960 know that there's going to be an increase in demand. 365 00:24:43.960 --> 00:24:45.920 They should just keep a higher supply all the time. 366 00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:49.960 And the oil companies say, you realize if we do that, 367 00:24:50.039 --> 00:24:52.880 it's going to add tons of costs to us, and 368 00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:55.680 we have to make the calculus of like, is it 369 00:24:55.759 --> 00:24:59.440 worth our time to keep investing the money to maintain 370 00:24:59.480 --> 00:25:01.599 these refined if we can't make as much money and 371 00:25:01.599 --> 00:25:04.640 we have to keep our prices high inflated all the time. 372 00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:07.720 If you pass this law, we might just pull out 373 00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:12.720 our refineries. And that would be disastrous for you because 374 00:25:12.759 --> 00:25:15.559 it would massively lower supply of gasoline in California and 375 00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:20.240 massively increase prices. And Newsom said, whoh, well, I don't 376 00:25:20.279 --> 00:25:23.839 care you gas companies are greedy. So he signs the law, 377 00:25:24.839 --> 00:25:28.559 and what happens two major oil refineries in California shut 378 00:25:28.599 --> 00:25:31.000 down and we're going to be looking down the barrel 379 00:25:31.039 --> 00:25:34.400 in twenty twenty six of gas being like six dollars 380 00:25:34.400 --> 00:25:38.279 a gallon, six seven dollars a gallon up and down 381 00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:43.240 the state gas prices are about to spike massively, so 382 00:25:43.440 --> 00:25:47.640 there's no second order thinking. Democrats get so myopically focused 383 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:51.440 on whatever their hobby horses, either corporations being evil or 384 00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:54.279 something like that, that they'll just impose some tax and 385 00:25:54.319 --> 00:25:57.880 pose some regulation to show those greedy companies, those greedy 386 00:25:57.880 --> 00:26:02.839 corporations what for, without thinking through, oh, well, that could 387 00:26:02.920 --> 00:26:06.200 have bad consequences on the little guy. Because I can 388 00:26:06.400 --> 00:26:11.640 assure you the multi gazillionaire, multi multimillionaire execs at the 389 00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:16.839 oil company you hate, they're not suffering. And you know 390 00:26:16.839 --> 00:26:19.640 who is suffering, Everyone who had a job at those 391 00:26:19.640 --> 00:26:22.279 oil refineries who's now lost their job. And now everyone 392 00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:24.799 in California who has to pay way higher gas taxes 393 00:26:25.480 --> 00:26:29.200 because Gavin Newsom had a little fit of a little 394 00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:40.000 fit of peak at greedy gas companies. A similar thing 395 00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:42.759 I feel is about to happen now. It's just at 396 00:26:42.799 --> 00:26:44.880 the discussion phase, and I don't know that Democrats have 397 00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:49.119 the votes to do it yet, but it's getting kicked 398 00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:51.920 around and you've got people like Scott Wiener saying, oh, 399 00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:53.839 it's an interesting idea. Scott Wiener, by the way, who's 400 00:26:53.880 --> 00:26:57.359 the chair of the Senate Budget Committee. 401 00:26:58.200 --> 00:27:01.839