WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:02.279 So Michael, I was just doing it, just a little 2 00:00:02.319 --> 00:00:09.000 rough path here, and ninety three billion dollars they pushed 3 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:13.080 out the door, right, So there's roughly one hundred and 4 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:20.559 forty four million taxpayers. 5 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:19.239 In the US. 6 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:22.440 That comes up to about six hundred and forty five 7 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:27.600 dollars per taxpayer just for that ninety three billion dollars. 8 00:00:28.039 --> 00:00:33.759 I'm pissed off. No, you're a selfish bastard. You went 9 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:36.320 the six hundred and forty five dollars in your own pocket, 10 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:39.320 so you can go waste it on something that's totally 11 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:42.759 useless as opposed to whatever. 12 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:44.520 Wonderful program they're going to put together. 13 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:48.759 It totally useless, like eggs, Yeah, eggs. 14 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:51.840 Or a diet coke or you sounded like he was driving. 15 00:00:52.759 --> 00:00:56.240 He's out there polluting the air right now, probably driving 16 00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:59.799 some damn you know, internal combustion engine and polluting the 17 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:03.520 air ways and causing me to have my allergies this morning. 18 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:04.879 Good grief. 19 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:07.920 Sometimes you call in here thinking you're so damn smart, 20 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:19.120 and you just irritate me. Denver right, headline, Now, where 21 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:19.560 did it go? 22 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:23.280 I'll get the wrong tab open headline. 23 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:26.159 Denver's two hundred and fifty million dollar budget hole will 24 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:33.159 force major cuts, furloughs, freezes, and likely layoffs. The Denver 25 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:37.959 mayor broke the news to city workers yesterday morning. A 26 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:42.439 fifty million dollar deficit for this year, a two hundred 27 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:44.799 million dollar deficit for twenty twenty six. 28 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:48.280 So they're going to slash spending. 29 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:52.959 Slash that's that's their word, not mine, by more than 30 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:56.879 twelve percent, more than during the pandemic when it was 31 00:01:56.920 --> 00:02:01.400 cut nearly ten percent. Now the employees are apparently pissed 32 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:06.680 off because they're going to face furloughs this year, including layoffs, 33 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:10.400 the reduction or elimination of programs, and the consolidation of departments. 34 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:12.000 Now, listen, listen to that. 35 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:20.479 Everything, everything, including layoffs, the reduction, elimination of programs, and 36 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:23.599 the consolidation of departments, is on the table in twenty 37 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:24.639 twenty six, he said. 38 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:26.080 In fact, he says the. 39 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:30.159 City will undergo a massive restructuring with emphasis on making 40 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:36.919 government smaller, faster, and easier. The hiring freezes started today, 41 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:45.439 meaning yesterday. Furloughs begin June one. But but now remember 42 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:50.039 everything's on the table. Then you get down about five 43 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:55.719 paragraphs later and you have this short little paragraph. Johnston says, 44 00:02:55.759 --> 00:03:01.479 he plans to continue spending on homelessness resolution, an investment 45 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:07.560 in downtown and the city. And remember everything was on 46 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:11.879 the table, and despite slashing government, Johnson plans to invest 47 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:24.240 in catalytic projects, catalytic, converter projects, catalytic. Those big projects 48 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:29.240 include downtown reinvestment, the expanse of downtown reinvestment. Oh my gosh, 49 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:31.919 you mean like bus lanes of the middle of Cofax. 50 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:36.479 You mean like bike lanes on Broadway. No, he's talking about, Well, 51 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:40.400 maybe that is downtown reinvestment, the expansion of the National 52 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:43.840 Western Center, and then contributing to a stadium for the 53 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:47.639 National Women's Soccer League, and a debt package he helped 54 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:51.800 voters support in November. So I thought I'd do a 55 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:56.000 little digging. I like to dig, and let's just find out. 56 00:03:56.039 --> 00:04:02.400 For example, let's talk about homelessness first. The homeless population 57 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:05.520 in Denver, based on the most recent data from twenty 58 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:09.800 twenty four point in time, was nine thousand, nine hundred 59 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:13.120 seventy seven. But that's across the entire seven county metro 60 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:16.439 area that includes Adams, Rapo, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 61 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:20.759 Jefferson counties. Now nine hundred and seventy seven across that 62 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:24.680 seven county metro area, but specifically in the city and 63 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:27.959 County of Denver, the number is six thousand, five hundred 64 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:33.480 and thirty nine. Now, we've had program after program after program, 65 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:35.839 so I thought, I wonder what the change has been 66 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:42.120 in homelessness over the past ten years. So in twenty fourteen, 67 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:47.680 the point in time count recorded eight thousand and forty two, 68 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:51.800 though that number was probably underreported because of bad weather 69 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:56.160 and they had few volunteers. Now, remember the current number 70 00:04:56.319 --> 00:05:00.759 is nine thousand, nine hundred seventy seven. Because I'm doing 71 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:03.560 apples to apples here, so I'm talking about the metro area. 72 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:09.399 So the last twenty four point in time count was 73 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:13.240 nine hundred and seventy seven. In twenty fourteen it was 74 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:16.720 eight thousand and forty two. Eight thousand, forty two, I 75 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:20.079 think is less than the current nine thousand, nine hundred 76 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:25.399 almost ten thousand. Twenty fifteen, the data is less comprehensive, 77 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:29.079 but it was estimated to be between sixty one hundred 78 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:32.720 and ten thousand. Denver counted for nearly half of that. 79 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:36.279 So again we're about ten thousand the same numbers today 80 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:40.000 twenty fifteen. So in ten years of spending money, we 81 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:45.000 have maintained the same amount of homelessness. Twenty sixteen, the 82 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:48.519 point in time count about sixty one hundred. Wait a minute, 83 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:54.560 that's the current number in Denver specifically today. So we've 84 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:58.199 and that's just not changed at all. And in fact, 85 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:03.480 the point in time count for twenty sixteen showed a 86 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:07.680 fifty eight percent increase in homelessness since the year noted 87 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:12.319 by twenty twenty three. Twenty seventeen, homelessness was at a 88 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:15.319 ten year high with about fivey one hundred and sixteen. 89 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:16.079 Now, wait a minute. 90 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:19.360 In twenty seventeen, that was fivey one hundred and sixteen 91 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:23.000 was a ten year high. But the point in time 92 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:26.600 for twenty twenty four was ninety nine hundred, almost ten thousand, 93 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:29.920 almost double. So I guess we've reached record numbers, but 94 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:33.199 they don't want to call it record numbers. Twenty eighteen, 95 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:36.680 I say, let's speed up here a little bit. Let's 96 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:39.319 get to twenty twenty three. The count jumped to nine 97 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:41.959 thousand and sixty five, the thirty one point seven increase 98 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:45.079 from the year before. Twenty twenty two, but that does 99 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:53.519 not count Venezuelan immigrants. Why not the federal report estimated 100 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:56.879 ten thousand and fifty four, and that put Denver fifth 101 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:02.800 nationally for homeless population size. So we have a fifty 102 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:06.199 million dollar budget hole this year, a two hundred million 103 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:10.560 dollar budget hole next year. Everything's on the table, but 104 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:13.360 we're still going to spend money on homelessness. So not 105 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:16.160 everything is on the table, and we keep spending more 106 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:22.839 and more money on homelessness, and the numbers increase, they increase. 107 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:26.680 The point twenty twenty four, the point in time count 108 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:29.759 reached a record high of nine hundred and seventy seven. 109 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:31.920 Can I just say ten thousand, which is up ten 110 00:07:31.959 --> 00:07:40.079 percent from last year? Overall growth, the homeless population in 111 00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:43.879 metro Denver has grown significantly. There's been a sixty three 112 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:47.800 percent spike between twenty twenty and twenty twenty four. So 113 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:51.519 I wanted to look at a decade now. It's fluctuated, 114 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:56.120 but it shows a clear upward trend line, particularly post 115 00:07:56.160 --> 00:07:59.160 twenty twenty, and the trend line shows a forty four 116 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:05.800 percent increase between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty three. So 117 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:10.839 everything's on the table except homelessness. So the one thing 118 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:15.680 that does not seem to have any impact on homelessness, 119 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:17.120 that's off the table. 120 00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:23.800 He's still going to do that. Now. There is some 121 00:08:23.879 --> 00:08:25.199 good news in the homelessness. 122 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:30.439 The number of veterans decreased by sixteen percent, but that's 123 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:33.320 probably because they had a program called it was a 124 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:38.360 targeted intervention program called Built for Zero. So for at 125 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:41.919 least for our vets considering that Memorial Day is coming up, 126 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:45.639 at least for our veterans who are still alive, we 127 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:52.120 at least did something for them. So everything's on the 128 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:59.120 table except that. Oh and immigration. Remember remember the story 129 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:04.200 said Johnson says he plans to continue spending on homelessness 130 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:08.639 resolution as an investment in downtown in the city. But 131 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:12.600 it seems to me that the more you spend on homelessness, huh, 132 00:09:12.840 --> 00:09:15.879 the more homeless you get. So that's the investment you 133 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:18.759 went for downtown Denver. Way to go, Mayor. I'm telling 134 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:20.679 you what, you're one brilliant son of a bitch. I'll 135 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:23.639 tell you what you've got the brains of just you 136 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:27.879 know what. Wow, you know you should run for governor. 137 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:30.279 That's what you should do. As long as we're going 138 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:32.080 down in the crap hole, I think you could. You 139 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:35.840 could probably flush the toy pretty damn well. Now the 140 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:39.519 other thing that now, remember, everything's on the table except homelessness. 141 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:45.759 And everything's on the table except oh, immigration, the immigration crisis, 142 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:49.960 as the Denverright calls it. Now they say, in twenty 143 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:53.240 twenty three, the city spent seventy three million dollars on 144 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:57.360 both homelessness and immigration. Then the following year, according to 145 00:09:57.399 --> 00:10:01.000 Denver Right, Denver spent eighty six point six million, and 146 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:03.679 in the following year seventy six point two million. Now 147 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:06.720 again they say that's on both. So I thought, you know, Michael, 148 00:10:06.759 --> 00:10:08.679 why don't you go do some DIGGI let's see what 149 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:14.919 we can find out about homelessness. Now Denver I says 150 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:20.759 it's like seventy one million dollars. Based on available data, 151 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:26.240 the total taxpayer money spent on services for illegal aliens 152 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:30.480 in Denver since December of twenty twenty two, three years ago, 153 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:37.360 is estimated at three hundred and fifty six million dollars. Now, 154 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:40.080 if you take an average of seventy million per year, 155 00:10:40.120 --> 00:10:42.240 that only gets you to two hundred and ten million. 156 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:45.960 And the data that I find shows it's estimated at 157 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:50.360 three hundred and fifty six million dollars. Now, a significant 158 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:54.320 portion of that is attributed to last year. Now that 159 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:57.759 includes spending by the city, schools and the healthcare systems, 160 00:10:58.039 --> 00:10:59.759 which of course are all you know, it's the Denver 161 00:10:59.799 --> 00:11:03.000 Public schools, it's Denver General Health, it's the city and 162 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:07.919 county and Denver All that's reported by the Common Sense Institute. Now, 163 00:11:08.039 --> 00:11:11.840 precise costs for twenty twenty four a loan are not 164 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:16.480 fully isolated in their sources. But here's what I found out. 165 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:22.600 When you do total cumulative spending. Cumulative spending again between 166 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:26.360 December of twenty two and November twenty four, three hundred 167 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:30.240 and fifty six million dollars. That's about seven nine hundred 168 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:36.240 dollars per illegal alien for the estimated forty five thousand 169 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:40.559 who have arrived in Denver since twenty twenty two. That's 170 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:46.440 eight percent of your budget, roughly eight percent. So I 171 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:49.840 don't know, it seems to me. I bet you, I'm 172 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:53.759 just a dummy. If you wanted to start cutting your 173 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:57.840 budget deficit, you wanted to reduce it, you might go 174 00:11:57.960 --> 00:12:00.960 to the one thing that you shouldn't be paid for anyway, 175 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:04.600 which are illegal aliens, which represents a three hundred and 176 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:05.879 fifty six million. 177 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:11.759 Dollars dollar amount and cut it out now. 178 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:16.720 In January of last year, Johnson projected the cost could 179 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:20.799 reach one hundred and eighty million dollars for the year 180 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:24.360 of twenty twenty four if the pace of arrivals continued, 181 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:27.320 though actual spending may have been lower because of reduced 182 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:30.519 arrivals down to less than a dozen per day by 183 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:34.679 November of last year. But the city itself has spent 184 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:38.440 between seventy one and one hundred million dollars directly on 185 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:45.360 illegal alien support programs through mid twenty twenty four. Then, 186 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:51.759 and I found this phrase interesting. The additional costs were 187 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:56.039 borne by the schools and the healthcare systems. Well, wait 188 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:00.320 a minute, in Denver, the city county. I know you 189 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:02.360 have a Denver school where, but it's the Denver publics, 190 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:08.039 the Denver School System, and Denver General Health the healthcare systems. Again, 191 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:14.039 the taxpayers and Denver end up paying for it. So 192 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:20.200 you had education, health care, shelter and housing, case management, work, transportation, 193 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:23.919 other costs like food, childcare, administrative costs, and then you 194 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:26.879 had some one time capital costs. So what do you 195 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:28.919 think those were? Now, Remember we're trying to fill a 196 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:33.519 budget hole. Education between ninety eight to two hundred and 197 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:34.559 twenty two million dollars. 198 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:35.440 Here are the details. 199 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:39.360 Those costs cover education for about sixteen thousand illegal alien 200 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:43.720 students enrolled in seventeen Denver Metro school districts since December 201 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:47.840 twenty two. Now the range reflects uncertain the obviously reporting 202 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:51.000 costs across the districts because I don't know that there's 203 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:55.879 an equal reporting system. But that equates equates to almost 204 00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:59.360 two percent of Colorado's K through twelve education budget for 205 00:13:59.480 --> 00:14:05.080 the year twenty twenty five. Almost half of all the 206 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:08.759 illegal aliens in the school system in the metro area 207 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:14.519 are from Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Now, 208 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:17.240 the Common Sense Institute, again a source for a lot 209 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:20.360 of this information, reports that two hundred and fifty six 210 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:23.399 million of the three hundred and fifty six million total 211 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:31.080 spent was on education. So the one thing that we 212 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:36.960 should be focused on spending for our citizens, it's a 213 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:39.679 damn lot of money going to illegal aliens. 214 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:41.639 Do I remember everything's on the table? 215 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:46.200 Don't forget Denveright and the mayor say everything's on the table. 216 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:52.519 What about healthcare? There's between fifty and one hundred and 217 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:58.519 twenty million dollars in uncompensated care. That's emergency departments. They 218 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:02.679 provided about forty eight million dollars in encompassated care, which 219 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:05.639 averaged to about almost three thousand dollars per illegal alien. 220 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:08.799 The higher estimate of about one hundred and twenty million 221 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:13.960 dollars includes broader health care cross costs across the metro 222 00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:19.320 hospitals because well, obviously illegal aliens probably don't have insurance. 223 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:26.120 Denver Health, the taxpayer funded safety net system, has reported 224 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:33.600 significant strains from unpaid medical visits. Now under under federal law, 225 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:38.240 you can't turn them away, legal or illegal. Somebody shows 226 00:15:38.279 --> 00:15:40.679 up in a hospital with a GSW, you're not going 227 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:43.879 to ask, you know, you're going to treat the gunshot 228 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:47.200 wound first. You're not going to ask, you know, even 229 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:49.519 at that point, you don't even ask about insurance, let 230 00:15:49.559 --> 00:15:53.600 alone your citizenship. You're just going to treat it. But 231 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:56.639 if you give you some context, the forty nine million 232 00:15:56.639 --> 00:16:00.240 dollar figure that cited about from emergency departments has part 233 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:02.639 of the total three hundred and fifty plus million total 234 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:07.120 indicates that are ongoing healthcare costs in twenty twenty four. 235 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:10.559 But I can't find any specific number for twenty twenty four. 236 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:15.759 So that's the healthcare cost. What about shelter and housing costs? 237 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:19.279 Between forty two and seventy one million dollars, that's cumulative 238 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:23.840 through mid of last year. Now, had Denver spent a 239 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:27.919 lot of money on temporary housing, the hotels, the shelters. 240 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:28.240 Rent assistance. 241 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:31.799 By December of twenty three, Denver had spent thirty eight 242 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:37.320 million dollars. By midpoint last year, it was estimated to 243 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:45.559 be seventy one million dollars HM for for estimates for 244 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:49.679 midpoint last year were seventy one million. And we have 245 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:54.320 a fifty million dollar hole this year, which fifty million 246 00:16:54.440 --> 00:16:57.240 is less than seventy one million dollars. Had you not 247 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:00.960 been spending that on homeless, you would have had oh 248 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:02.679 you could have covered your budget deficit. 249 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:06.119 They spent. 250 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:13.920 Just doing casework almost ten million dollars. Let's see, I 251 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:17.559 had a note here about where is it about work authorization? 252 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:17.839 Oh? 253 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:21.759 Here it is. By midpoint last year, Denver had helped 254 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:26.240 sixteen hundred illegal aliens with work authorization. They had a 255 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:32.519 ninety seven success rate. And Denver also helps them support 256 00:17:32.759 --> 00:17:37.839 their asylum claims. So taxpayers are also funding that now 257 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:41.079 I know it's only you know, what was it almost 258 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:44.079 ten million dollars, But when you're trying to fill a 259 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:46.880 fifty million dollar hole for this year and a two 260 00:17:46.920 --> 00:17:50.000 hundred million dollar hole for next year, ten million dollars 261 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:54.279 goes quite away in doing that. Transportation six million dollars, 262 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:57.599 that's what's allocated in twenty twenty four. That's for like 263 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:01.039 free bus tickets, not just to move around Denver, but 264 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:03.319 even to relocate to other places. 265 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:04.799 Food costs. 266 00:18:05.480 --> 00:18:09.319 I can't quite quantify that, but it peers around seventy 267 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:13.039 one million dollars on other support programs, which I think 268 00:18:13.079 --> 00:18:15.039 would include probably food. 269 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:15.720 For illegal aliens. 270 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:19.519 It seems like in the short. 271 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:20.839 Segment, I've almost filled your budget hole. 272 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:27.519 The Common Sense Institute reported that Mayor Johnston spent three 273 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:32.720 hundred and fifty six million dollars on immigrants. Maybe the 274 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:38.759 mayor's name should be changed to Mayor dim Wick. 275 00:18:40.279 --> 00:18:42.480 Mayor no common sense? How about that? 276 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:46.319 Now this isn't exactly having things to do with Denver, 277 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:51.680 but nonetheless I just find it superfluous and stupid. Where'd 278 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:52.079 you get this? 279 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:54.519 Dragon? Where'd this come from? About the walkway? 280 00:18:55.559 --> 00:18:57.440 There would be a nine news one thing I believe. 281 00:18:57.200 --> 00:18:58.079 This is nine news. 282 00:18:58.279 --> 00:19:02.759 The headline is Governor Polus Veil's design for Colorado's His 283 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:08.680 History Pedestrian Walkway. He's unveiled the renderings for the Colorado 284 00:19:08.759 --> 00:19:13.079 one fifty Pedestrian Walkway as a way to celebrate Colorado's 285 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:17.759 one hundred and fiftieth anniversary. A It will connect people 286 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:23.200 to Lincoln Veterans Park and commemorates Colorado's art, culture, and 287 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:27.400 history for the states one hundred and fiftieth anniversary. The 288 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:34.119 eleven thousand square foot walkway will enhance connectivity you mean, 289 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:36.000 I get a better signal on my cell phone. Yeah, 290 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:40.759 of course, Okay, all right, and improve accessibility among downtown 291 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:44.759 Denver's public spaces and monuments. The project that's expected to 292 00:19:44.759 --> 00:19:50.680 be completed in the summer of twenty twenty six. Now, well, 293 00:19:50.759 --> 00:19:52.720 let me tell you about the design first, because this 294 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:56.240 is really important for what I believe this is going 295 00:19:56.279 --> 00:19:59.839 to turn into, you know, it's going to turn into 296 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:02.960 I think it's gonna turn into. The design will be 297 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:08.319 reflective of Colorado's diverse topography, meaning you're gonna it's gonna 298 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:11.680 be what hilly or it's gonna like, you know, have 299 00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:14.839 a you know, a forty five foot in forty five 300 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:16.039 degree incline. 301 00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:17.960 Potholes, potholes. 302 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:26.119 That's what's gonna a. 303 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:25.880 Touche, mister Redbeard. Potholes. 304 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:28.960 And of course, when I tell you what I think 305 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:32.279 it's going to turn into, it'll be like driving on 306 00:20:32.359 --> 00:20:36.480 the twenty five or the seventy during rush hour when 307 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:40.000 there's been a wreck, or somebody has pulled over and 308 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:43.440 has their flashers on, or a cop stops somebody you know, 309 00:20:43.640 --> 00:20:46.519 is investigating a wreck, and so everybody's trying to pull 310 00:20:46.519 --> 00:20:49.759 over and slow down. So it's gonna go nowhere. And 311 00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:51.559 this is what this walkway is going to turn into. 312 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:56.920 It will pay tribute to Colorado's geology by featuring regional 313 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:01.200 material like sandstone, marble granite. It will naturally wine from 314 00:21:01.240 --> 00:21:04.319 the Colorado State Capitals of Lincoln Veterans Park and will 315 00:21:04.319 --> 00:21:11.200 include features like a viewing platform or platforms, sculptural monuments, 316 00:21:11.799 --> 00:21:17.640 commissioned artwork you know like lucifer uh play elements, and 317 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:22.119 different learning and storytelling opportunities for everybody. 318 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:25.240 I know you're you're. 319 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:27.799 I'm in awe back here. Oh I thought you were orgasmic. 320 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:29.519 I thought you were getting close to you know, I 321 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:34.000 was like, you know, the walkway was designed by Studio 322 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:42.799 Gang Studio, Studio Studio Trope, Mundus, Bishop Olin and Thornton Thomassetti. 323 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:48.240 There's a rendering of it. And then let's see is 324 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:49.559 this statement from Polis. 325 00:21:50.519 --> 00:21:55.720 Of course it is. I'm thrilled. He has a thrill 326 00:21:55.799 --> 00:21:56.599 up his leg. 327 00:21:56.920 --> 00:22:00.559 That Coloradins can now visualize this walkway and it's amazing 328 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:04.480 positive impact on our community. Now when Coloradines of all 329 00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:11.359 ages come to visit our state capital, they can more 330 00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:14.599 easily access and enjoy Lincoln Veterans Park while enjoying and 331 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:16.440 learning from art from local artists. 332 00:22:16.519 --> 00:22:18.640 Are curious, is that a thing to people go, hey, 333 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:21.599 I need to go tourists out of state people, maybe 334 00:22:21.599 --> 00:22:23.640 even you know, from from up north to down south? 335 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:23.880 Does it? 336 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:26.680 They say, hey, I need to visit the capitol. 337 00:22:28.279 --> 00:22:30.640 Yes, they think to themselves. I want to go to 338 00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:34.160 the sixteenth Street. I want to I want to go 339 00:22:34.279 --> 00:22:36.519 to Union Station. I want to see if I can 340 00:22:36.599 --> 00:22:39.039 dodge some muggings. I want to see if I can 341 00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:43.039 get stuck on Colefax, you know, behind a bus somewhere. 342 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:44.920 I want to see if I can get killed crossing 343 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:47.920 the street Colefax and then I want to go downtown 344 00:22:47.960 --> 00:22:51.559 and just visit the homeless, you know, pick up a few. 345 00:22:51.640 --> 00:22:53.000 You know, maybe you do. 346 00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:57.160 Insulin injections, or like me, you do testosterone injections, so 347 00:22:57.279 --> 00:22:58.240 I need see needles. 348 00:22:58.440 --> 00:23:00.559 But mostly serious here to do. 349 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:02.680 People come to other states and go I need to 350 00:23:02.720 --> 00:23:03.519 visit the capitolilty. 351 00:23:03.559 --> 00:23:04.160 I mean, I get it. 352 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:08.279 Maybe possibly because it's the gold Dome, not Trump's gold Dome, 353 00:23:08.359 --> 00:23:10.640 but Denver's Golden Dome. 354 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:14.400 If I'm if I'm in a capital city, uh huh. 355 00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:16.559 And I've done this year's because I've been to all 356 00:23:16.599 --> 00:23:18.960 of them. But if I'm in a capital city for 357 00:23:19.079 --> 00:23:22.359 business or work, or or I'm just driving through, I 358 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:24.279 might drive by and look at it. 359 00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:26.039 I mean, because it's I don't necessarily get out and 360 00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:26.319 go in. 361 00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:28.480 You know, my dad's in Salt Lake City and they've 362 00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:31.680 got the Copper Dome, which is green, so it's it's 363 00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:34.039 kind of interesting to drive by and see that and go, oh, 364 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:34.480 look at that. 365 00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:36.119 But I don't know, did you. 366 00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:42.240 Ever go look at the tabernacle? Yes? Okay, yeah, so yo. 367 00:23:43.119 --> 00:23:47.440 But I don't think people first think when they let's 368 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:50.279 take a vacation to Colorado and the kids. 369 00:23:50.039 --> 00:23:51.880 Go yeah, can we go to the state Capitol. 370 00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:53.839 Is that other thing? 371 00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:56.039 I don't think that's the thing dragging all right. I 372 00:23:56.039 --> 00:23:56.720 don't think it is. 373 00:23:57.680 --> 00:23:57.839 Uh. 374 00:23:57.880 --> 00:24:00.000 It's an interactive, active experience. 375 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:03.200 It will showcase Colorado's history and look to our even 376 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:08.720 stronger future. I want to thanks Studio Gang for their 377 00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:10.880 work on this design, as well as all the local artists. 378 00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:12.400 Blah blah blah. Now. 379 00:24:12.839 --> 00:24:16.119 According to the to the press release, it will serve 380 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:20.680 as a new gateway to downtown Denver and is a 381 00:24:20.759 --> 00:24:25.480 major part of the ongoing initiatives to revitalize the Civic 382 00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:31.680 Center area. The initiatives include renovations to the Library, Denver 383 00:24:31.839 --> 00:24:37.720 Art Museum, upgrades the recently open Populous Hotel, the Future 384 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:41.359 fifty two to eighty Trail, the Mcnichol's Building Museum, and 385 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:44.559 improvements to the Greek Theater in the Central Promenade in 386 00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:45.680 Civic Central Park. 387 00:24:47.799 --> 00:24:51.559 I have a theory about this dragon. Do you want 388 00:24:51.559 --> 00:24:55.240 to guess? I don't want it's going to be a magnet. 389 00:24:55.400 --> 00:24:56.720 I don't want to venture into what the heck is 390 00:24:56.759 --> 00:24:57.400 in your mind. 391 00:24:57.440 --> 00:25:00.440 Is, Oh, it's it's going to be a magnet, all right, 392 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:03.880 and it's going to be an attraction it's gonna damn ye, 393 00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:06.720 damn straight. It's going to be a magnet and attraction 394 00:25:10.079 --> 00:25:11.440 for criminals and homeless. 395 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:14.480 No, that's no, no, not a thing. 396 00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:21.400 Talk about a great campground. You know you're homeless. You 397 00:25:21.400 --> 00:25:23.799 can see the mountains you'd like, you'd prefer to be 398 00:25:23.920 --> 00:25:26.680 up there, and you can't. But according to the press release, 399 00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:32.240 it's going to represent Colorado's topography. So just take your 400 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:35.880 tent and pitch it on a fourteen or on the 401 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:42.359