WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:08.000 Good morning, Cooner country. Okay, my friends, just a few 2 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:13.919 hours ago, the House of Representatives passed the bill that 3 00:00:14.039 --> 00:00:17.920 was also passed the day before in the Senate, the 4 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:22.960 Recisions Package that Trump promised he would muscle through Congress, 5 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:26.079 and they did just in time. They had a Friday 6 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:30.199 deadline later today, and both the Senate and the House, 7 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:36.960 under Trump's prodding and leadership, have now delivered nine billion dollars. 8 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:41.880 It is a spending cut, so called Recisions Package, that 9 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:49.640 now will completely cut spending to the United States International 10 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:55.880 Agency for Development USAID. All of that foreign aid is 11 00:00:55.960 --> 00:01:02.600 now gone, PBS, NPR, their funding has now been cut 12 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:08.239 completely for the next two years gone, So nine billion 13 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:14.400 dollars in total in real spending cuts as the as 14 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:17.959 many papers have pointed out, this is the first time 15 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:24.359 in over twenty five years that there's actually been a 16 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:31.640 spending cut enacted by Congress, a true recisions package, not 17 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:38.040 the usual slowing the growth of spending, but actually cutting something. 18 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:44.239 And look, it was pretty obvious by going after USAID, 19 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:49.120 which was the Democrats's private slush fund in which they 20 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:53.439 use to bribe the media to send money to their 21 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:59.079 favorite NGOs so they could continue to have open borders 22 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:04.000 and resell settle this country with illegal aliens, and of 23 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:11.280 course paying for transgender sex change operations, say in places 24 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:19.560 like Columbia, or a pushing for DEI in Serbia and 25 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:24.439 places all over the world. This was how the swamp 26 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:29.000 a was able to buy off and control the media 27 00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:35.479 and b use money to subvert and control countries around 28 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:40.879 the world. That pot of cash, that massive slush fund, 29 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:47.199 is now gone. As for NPR and PBS, look, they 30 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:51.759 say they can survive without taxpayer dollars. They've been claiming 31 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:56.439 now for years that they're so profitable on their own, 32 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:01.879 that they're generating all of this money from donation, from revenue, 33 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:06.919 from support from viewers. Well, and that taxpayer dollars are 34 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:10.159 just a drop in the bucket. Well, if that's the case, 35 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:13.800 then you should have no problem with this. Instead of 36 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:17.560 course NPR and PBS, we're acting like the sky is 37 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:23.639 falling now. The question that they can't answer is these 38 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:29.319 are both very far left media operations, so not even 39 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:35.879 media this has They are left wing propagandists. So they're 40 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:40.080 not interested in being nonpartisan, in being objective, which is 41 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:45.439 what they should be. Remember it is National Public Radio 42 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:53.080 NPR PBS. It is the public broadcasting service. It is 43 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:58.080 supposed to be for all Americans of whatever political persuasion 44 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:03.400 or stripe. And that's why you're receiving taxpayer money instead. 45 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:08.800 For decade after decade after decade, not only have they 46 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:13.120 been Democrat partisans, but they have been on the hard 47 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:20.519 socialist left, pushing anti Americanism, hatred for this country, hatred 48 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:26.160 for Conservatives, Republicans, the family, you name it, across the board. 49 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:31.879 And so now finally the reckoning came. And why should I, 50 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:36.920 as a conservative, why should you, as Trump supporters, have 51 00:04:37.079 --> 00:04:42.600 your taxpayer dollars go to fund a far left wing 52 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:48.480 propaganda operation in the name of quote unquote public broadcasting. 53 00:04:49.079 --> 00:04:53.000 So no, they don't deserve and they shouldn't get our 54 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:58.160 taxpayer money. Trump. Many Republicans have talked about it for 55 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:02.519 decades to cut funding to NPR and cut off the 56 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:06.680 money the flow to NPR and PBS. Trump is delivered. 57 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:12.120 Many Republicans and conservatives have said it's time to cut 58 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:16.839 foreign aid. Trump has delivered. So this is it's not, 59 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:19.600 you know, nine billion in the larger scope of things, 60 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:23.000 is you know, a drop in the ocean. I understand 61 00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:27.439 it's a seven trillion dollar budget. But it's an important 62 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:31.120 step in the right direction. It may be a small step, 63 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:39.279 but it's an important step. Now. The reason why this again, 64 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:46.160 victory after victory after victory, The reason why the left 65 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:49.360 is freaking out, and I mean they are losing their 66 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:54.360 minds over this, is because not only is NPR and 67 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:57.800 PBS now going to be in big trouble, so part 68 00:05:57.839 --> 00:06:04.279 of their media apparatus, their propaganda, state run media apparatus, 69 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:08.639 just took a major blow. But it cuts off their 70 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:13.879 ability now to bribe and redirect funds to prop up 71 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:19.879 the New York Times, CNN, other Reuters, other media outlets 72 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:25.279 that were receiving USAID money. So the swamp now has 73 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:33.560 seen its power diminished substantially overall with this shows and 74 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:36.920 as I was going to talk about this yesterday, but 75 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:41.959 of course the whole, the whole Epstein scandal flared up again. 76 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:46.639 But there's no question if you just stand back objectively, 77 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:53.240 Trump is clearly on a roll. Trump is achieving and 78 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:57.639 has racked up some historic achievements, whether it is on 79 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:02.439 the border, whether it's with Iran, whether it's in foreign policy, 80 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:06.680 whether it's with energy, whether you can run down the 81 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:12.000 women in sports. He has broken to the University of Pennsylvania. 82 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:17.720 He is breaking Havid over anti Semitism. What you're seeing 83 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:24.319 is accomplishment after accomplishment after accomplishment. And this recisions package, 84 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:26.199 which is now going to go right to his desk 85 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:29.959 for him to sign, comes on the heels of the 86 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:37.959 big beautiful bill. What Now, there's a poll out and 87 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.120 I think this explains not everything, but it explains a lot. 88 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:46.360 That even in the midst of the Epstein uproar, you 89 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:52.000 would think Trump's poll numbers would be dropping like a stone. No, 90 00:07:55.160 --> 00:08:01.160 Trump's poll numbers are in fact going up amidst Epstein scandal, 91 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:06.319 not going down. They're going up. And I believe, and 92 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:09.199 you may disagree with me, but this is what I 93 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:13.000 wanted to do on yesterday's show, which is to talk 94 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:18.959 about Trump's, to me, I think, to tremendous handling of 95 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:22.759 the economy. One of the reasons why his approval ratings 96 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:27.639 are getting, you know, are going up and they continue 97 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:32.320 to go up, and why so many are giving him 98 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:36.360 high marks is because, yes, he's done a phenomenal job 99 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:40.320 on the border. Yes they agree with his deportations, but 100 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:45.039 the American public now are starting to feel that we 101 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:50.039 are in the midst of a booming, roaring economy, and 102 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:54.639 he's doing a great job on the economy if you 103 00:08:54.799 --> 00:09:01.240 just stand back objectively. He has tamed inflation. Inflation now 104 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:07.039 is essentially dead. He has lowered gas prices. I talked 105 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:10.360 about this yesterday. A little bit I can tell you. 106 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:15.320 I mean, I know in my area regular I put 107 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:18.840 regular in my car two ninety nine, it's under three 108 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:23.399 bucks when I tank up. It's about fifty fifty two 109 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:28.000 bucks now to tank up my car under Joey it 110 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:34.799 was eighty dollars seventy eight, seventy six, seventy nine that range. 111 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:40.320 I am saving at least twenty five dollars a week 112 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:43.919 every time I tank up my car. I mean, you 113 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:47.000 just do the math. That's one hundred dollars a month. 114 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:50.559 That's one thousand, four hundred dollars, sorry, a thousand, two 115 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:54.519 hundred dollars a year. I mean it adds up. You know, 116 00:09:54.559 --> 00:10:00.600 it's not peanuts. He's now brought in true millions of 117 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:07.200 dollars in foreign investment. He's now unleashed a manufacturing renaissance 118 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:11.320 here in the United States. He has won the trade 119 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:15.679 war with China. Everybody said it couldn't be done. He's 120 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:20.279 done it. He has slashed the budget deficit by a 121 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:26.679 third a third, and in the Big Beautiful Bill, he 122 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:31.799 has delivered the biggest tax cut in US history. So 123 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:35.840 you look at what Trump has accomplished, and this is 124 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:40.919 in just six months. It is absolutely incredible. And I 125 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:44.399 believe the economy is only going to get stronger and 126 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:50.679 stronger and stronger. And so my question to you, and 127 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:53.759 I really want this to be a caller driven show 128 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:57.279 today because you're the ones that can really answer this. 129 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:03.360 Are you the benefits of the Trump economy? Okay, a 130 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:06.080 couple lines are open. Once the lines are full, cooner 131 00:11:06.120 --> 00:11:09.879 Man's gonna unleash the hounds. I would like to ask 132 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:14.759 all of you, the great audience of Kooner Country, are 133 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:20.120 you feeling the benefits of the Trump economy? Yes or no? 134 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:24.000 Whether it's paying your bills, whether it's when you go 135 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:28.720 grocery shopping, whether it's going out to eat or whatever 136 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:32.440 it is, or you're tanking up you know, at your 137 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:37.600 local gas station. Is the economy getting better for you? 138 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:42.039 Because if you look at what's at least the statistics, 139 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:46.320 if you look at the data, the numbers, there's no question, 140 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:51.279 absolutely no question, that the economy now is getting better 141 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:56.919 and better and better. Remember just three months ago, they 142 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:00.840 all said the sky was falling. That when Trump announced 143 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:04.519 Liberation Day on the tariffs, they said this was going 144 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:08.960 to spark a recession, maybe even a great depression, That 145 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:10.720 it was going to lead to a crash in the 146 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:14.039 stock market, that it was the end is nigh, that 147 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:19.679 this was going to be economic armageddon. And instead stock 148 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:25.639 market now all time high. It's never been higher, and 149 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:27.720 I think it's going to continue to keep going up 150 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:32.159 and up and up. He's now cutting trade deals. He 151 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:34.960 just did a big deal with Great Britain. He's done 152 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:39.919 a deal with Vietnam and Indonesia, and of course he 153 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:43.120 has now broken China in that trade war. He has 154 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:48.440 won the trade war with China. Revenue from customs is 155 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:53.879 now pouring into the treasury over twenty five billion dollars 156 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:58.679 a month billion with the b So we're going to 157 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:01.799 get about two hundred and five fifty billion dollars more 158 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:10.600 in the budget because of Trump's tariffs. So manufacturing now 159 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:15.919 is booming. You just had in Pennsylvania another big deal 160 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:23.080 announced by Trump, Artificial intelligence, new technology ninety two billion 161 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:26.679 dollar investment. Pennsylvania is going to be at the hub, 162 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:32.679 the very center of the AI new technology revolution. Nearly 163 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:39.799 ten trillion dollars in foreign investment pouring into our country. Factories, 164 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:45.320 plants are being built everywhere. As I mentioned, the budget 165 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:50.559 deficit is now being cut by a third. You have 166 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:55.080 the big beautiful bill, no taxes on tips, no taxes 167 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:58.879 on overtime. You've got the biggest tax cut in history. 168 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:03.279 Go on and on and on. Now I can just 169 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:10.440 say this because this is where Grace and I slightly disagree. 170 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:14.799 I believe now we are starting to enter just the 171 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:19.720 beginning of Trump's golden age. I do the shopping in 172 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:25.000 the house. Prices could be lower, I agree, But eggs 173 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:29.360 are way down. Eggs under Biden went up over two 174 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:32.960 hundred and twenty percent. Under Trump, they have gone down 175 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:38.559 sixty nine percent. I'm I'm able now to get eggs 176 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:42.080 at about three dollars three fifty maybe even four, you know, 177 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:44.919 four bucks, but more like three fifty three dollars for 178 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:52.360 twelve eggs. Under Biden it was practically double. So I 179 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:57.000 see the price of eggs. They're coming down. Meat, it's 180 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:59.840 starting to It's still high, but it's starting to come down. 181 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:05.360 Fruits and vegetables, they're starting to taper down. Look what's 182 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:09.960 happened is they're not going up, and the prices at 183 00:15:10.039 --> 00:15:13.519 least when I shop, have stabilized. For for some things. 184 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:17.080 I'm starting to notice a little here, a little there, 185 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:21.279 prices are starting to slowly come down. I mention when 186 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:25.159 I tank up, I clearly see the difference. Now I'd 187 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:27.639 like it to be, you know, a buck eighty nine 188 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:31.440 a gallon, like we had under Trump in his first term. 189 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:35.840 I'm still paying almost three dollars a gallon. I think 190 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:38.600 I was like maybe thirty eight or thirty six dollars 191 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:40.440 he would cost me to tank up under Trump in 192 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:43.600 his first term. You know, I'm about fifty now fifty 193 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:47.519 two dollars, but it's not eighty as it was under Biden. 194 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:53.039 So I feel it every time I tank up my car. Now. 195 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:58.320 Grace disagrees. She says the tariffs are now causing a 196 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:01.399 little bit of inflation. She works in the housing she's 197 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:04.440 a real estate agent, so she says the housing market 198 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:08.720 is dead. People are not buying homes, they're not selling homes. 199 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:12.320 To me, that's because of Jerome Powell. I think Trump 200 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:14.080 should fire him. I think he has the right to 201 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:16.840 fire him. I think he should fire him. I think 202 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:20.440 what's killing the housing market is not the tariffs. I 203 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:23.240 believe it's the high interest rates. They're way too high, 204 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:28.480 absurdly too high, and they're they're they're they're they're they're 205 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:32.000 like they're suffocating the economy, at least in the housing sector. 206 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:36.799 So you know, if Powell should be cutting rates and 207 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:40.720 cutting rates substantially, and so I think he's trying to 208 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:46.240 sabotage the Trump economy. Okay, but that's me. But Gray 209 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:50.279 says the housing market's not moving. She says she's not 210 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:54.600 seeing the differences in prices going down when we go shopping. 211 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:59.000 We got ourselves a membership at Costco. This is maybe 212 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:02.320 about two months ago, and Grace says, the only reason 213 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:05.319 why I'm seeing prices go down is because now we're 214 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:07.599 shopping at Costco, which you know, you buy in bulk, 215 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:11.039 but you get good deals. She says, No, it's the 216 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:14.319 Costco effect. That's what I'm She says, that's what you're 217 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:18.279 not seeing. She agrees gas prices are a little bit down, 218 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:22.839 but she said I wanted more and I expected more, 219 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:27.640 So according to her, she says, I we're not feeling it. 220 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:32.920 She says, what Greek, Jeff, what economic Golden Age? Things 221 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:36.079 aren't worse. Things would have been much worse with Biden 222 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:41.079 and Kamala, according to Grace, But she said so far, 223 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:46.759 she claims she's not feeling the Trump economy. I am, 224 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:51.559 I want to hear from you. Six one seven two 225 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:57.319 six six sixty eight sixty eight is the number. Are 226 00:17:57.359 --> 00:18:01.160 your bills getting lower? Are your way is going up? 227 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:06.200 Are you feeling lower prices at the gas pomp when 228 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:09.240 you buy food groceries, when you go out to eat. 229 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:13.599 Is your standard of living starting to get better under Trump? 230 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:19.319 Or has not much changed? Six seven two six six 231 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:22.799 sixty eight sixty eight is the number. You can also 232 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:26.720 text the cooner man seven zero four seven zero seven 233 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:30.480 zero four seven zero. This is from six to three. 234 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:34.920 And honestly, the biggest complaint I'm getting. I mean, I 235 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:37.680 notice it as well, obviously, and Grace tells me about 236 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:40.480 this every night. But I mean, from the audience, from 237 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:43.839 this great audience about the economy is the housing market. 238 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:47.240 A the rental market, which is way too high, but 239 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:51.720 the housing market, how so many homes are preposterously expensive. 240 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:55.920 So this is from six to oh three, Jeff. In 241 00:18:55.960 --> 00:19:00.160 the housing market, it's not just the interest rates that 242 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:05.079 are affecting buying. Have you seen the ridiculous prices they're 243 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:09.440 asking for houses. A place that should run two hundred 244 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:12.839 to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is going for 245 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:17.400 four hundred to four hundred and fifty thousand. They've literally 246 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:22.839 priced potential buyers right out of the market by doubling 247 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:27.079 the cost. So buying has cooled off. You see, I 248 00:19:27.079 --> 00:19:30.119 could tell that's a New Hampshire text, not just by 249 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:35.119 the area code, but by the prices. A home that 250 00:19:35.160 --> 00:19:38.359 should cost you two hundred and fifty thousand they're charging 251 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:43.200 for four hundred or four hundred and fifty thousand. Sandy, 252 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:48.680 what is two fifty get you here in Massachusetts? Hell? 253 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:54.039 What is four fifty get you here in Massachusetts today? No, 254 00:19:54.160 --> 00:19:57.920 I'm not talking twenty thirty years ago, but today? What 255 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:01.480 a shock? You know? I mean, obviously it depends where 256 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:06.279 you live, but in many areas six' oh three you're 257 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:10.440 looking at seven, hundred eight, hundred nine hundred thousand a million. 258 00:20:10.599 --> 00:20:19.519 Easy in so many parts Of, massachusetts it's it's. Insane, yeah, Yeah, 259 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:22.160 sandy says in my. Ear you, know Through, mike you 260 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:24.559 know four hundred thousand may get you a box under 261 00:20:24.559 --> 00:20:29.960 a bridge here In. Boston you know you're you're with 262 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:34.359 the homeless people with four hundred. Thousand let me just 263 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:35.640 do one more and Then i'm going to go to 264 00:20:35.720 --> 00:20:39.519 the phone lines six one seven two six six sixty 265 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:44.599 eight sixty. Eight this is From nancy on, Messenger, JEFF 266 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:48.599 i do feel some relief on prices at the grocery, 267 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:52.720 store and WHEN i fill up my, car the only, 268 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:56.240 bill and this is very, true the only bill that's 269 00:20:56.319 --> 00:20:59.559 not going down is my electric. Bill same thing with. 270 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:05.000 Me that's my biggest complaint every freaking month is that 271 00:21:05.240 --> 00:21:09.440 energy slash electric. Bill but let that. Go the only 272 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:12.599 bill that's not going down is my electric. Bill SO 273 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:16.079 i have to disagree With. GRACE i think in another 274 00:21:16.279 --> 00:21:20.519 six months this country will be booming and then we 275 00:21:20.599 --> 00:21:25.039 will all be saving. Money And Jerome powell has to. 276 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:31.240 Go we must get interest rates. Down the housing market is. 277 00:21:31.319 --> 00:21:35.960 STAGNANT i agree with, You, nancy right across the, board 278 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:40.160 every single. Point get rid Of. Powell if we just 279 00:21:40.160 --> 00:21:43.880 get rid of him and start cutting interest rates, already 280 00:21:43.920 --> 00:21:46.759 you're going to feel the housing market start to really pick. 281 00:21:46.839 --> 00:21:51.240 Up six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty 282 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:57.359 Eight scott In New. Hampshire thanks for Holding scott and. 283 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:01.920 WELCOME i LOVE i love your. SHOW i love listening to. 284 00:22:01.960 --> 00:22:03.920 YOU i listened to you all the. TIME i have 285 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:07.319 TO i have to be On grace's side right. Now 286 00:22:07.880 --> 00:22:09.960 and let me preface that by, Saying i've been in 287 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:16.599 the construction market for forty. Years i've seen, many you, know, recessions, 288 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:22.720 booms Bus i've seen it. All and What grace has 289 00:22:22.759 --> 00:22:27.880 put her finger on, is, yes the construction houses are, 290 00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:35.680 down but also building, warehouses building, schools building police, stations 291 00:22:35.720 --> 00:22:40.480 industrial buildings is also. Down, Okay and and and there's 292 00:22:40.519 --> 00:22:45.680 a real good reason for. That the, developers the people 293 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:49.599 who actually want to start a new warehouse or a, 294 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:54.880 school they're in a state of. Flux and the reason 295 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:58.799 they're in a state of flux is because they're they're 296 00:22:58.960 --> 00:23:01.880 Very the banks are very hesitant to lend them the 297 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:07.160 money because the interest. Rates look at it like, This, 298 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:11.759 jeff if you're gonna build a ten million dollar project 299 00:23:12.440 --> 00:23:16.319 and you're being, told, well the interest rates are gonna 300 00:23:16.480 --> 00:23:20.640 come down a little, bit you, know if you to 301 00:23:20.799 --> 00:23:25.480 apply for a construction. Loan if you if, you if 302 00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:28.279 you just Say, JESUS i can just hold, off you, 303 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:31.799 know a quarter or a half percent. Interest you know 304 00:23:31.799 --> 00:23:35.079 how much money that's gonna save me over. Time that's 305 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:39.880 that's one reason that developers are hanging holding off is 306 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:42.640 the interest. Rates the other thing is there's a big 307 00:23:42.680 --> 00:23:47.440 sense of caution with the. Terraffs just the terraffs people 308 00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:50.839 are holding. Back there's a sense of caution out. There 309 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:53.960 And i'll explain it to you one more one more, Way. 310 00:23:54.160 --> 00:23:59.839 Jeff when when a when a project goes out forbidding 311 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:03.599 a year, ago And i've seen, this AND i always 312 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:09.000 ask the developersiness and the construction general construction, MANAGERS i 313 00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:13.160 say house, Business and a year ago they, said, Well 314 00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:17.680 i'm pretty, busy you, know and they're hesitant to get 315 00:24:17.720 --> 00:24:22.599 any more bid any more jobs because they're quite. Busy 316 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:26.319 they're booked for the. Year so most projects have two 317 00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:30.359 or three. BIDDERS i talk to those same people this 318 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:35.519 year and they're bidding much more because they're not booked 319 00:24:35.720 --> 00:24:40.160 with construction. Projects and now it's more competitive and they 320 00:24:40.200 --> 00:24:43.799 have six or seven bidders on that same. Job what 321 00:24:43.839 --> 00:24:46.640 does that tell you it tells you there's not as 322 00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:47.920 much work going. 323 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:52.799 On And, scott you're saying that you think a lot 324 00:24:52.839 --> 00:24:55.319 of it HAS i, mean interest rates are too high 325 00:24:55.359 --> 00:24:57.559 and they sense they're going to come. Down so if 326 00:24:57.599 --> 00:24:59.119 you were, saying let me, wait because it's going to 327 00:24:59.160 --> 00:25:02.440 save me a lot of. Money so that's freezing some, 328 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:05.359 ACTIVITY i hear. You but you're saying a lot of 329 00:25:05.359 --> 00:25:08.440 it has to do with the tariffs because it's causing 330 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:13.559 uncertainty and people fear that it could lead to price, 331 00:25:13.720 --> 00:25:19.440 increases so they're, saying let me hold, on let me, wait, correct. 332 00:25:20.839 --> 00:25:23.240 Correct let me let me just talk to you about 333 00:25:23.519 --> 00:25:26.720 one little. Thing, Okay so if you're going to bit 334 00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:30.480 a job and you're an, electrician electricians have miles and 335 00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:34.519 miles of copper just to bit a. Job IF i 336 00:25:34.839 --> 00:25:41.160 did a job AND i and my copper, WIRE i 337 00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:44.200 bid it for ten thousand dollars for the, job and 338 00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:47.440 then the project gets developed and in six months it. 339 00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:52.839 Starts now that same copper could be thirty thousand, Dollars 340 00:25:53.319 --> 00:25:55.039 so there's also that sense of. 341 00:25:55.160 --> 00:26:00.880 Caution, Interesting, scott do you, think let me just ask you, 342 00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:04.160 this do you Think trump made a mistake in imposing the, 343 00:26:04.240 --> 00:26:08.240 tariffs or do you think the mistake is he hasn't 344 00:26:08.319 --> 00:26:11.759 settled on a. Number in other, words he's doing different 345 00:26:11.799 --> 00:26:16.359 deals with different. Countries the negotiations are dragging. On he 346 00:26:16.480 --> 00:26:19.880 pushed a deadline back again To. August in other, words 347 00:26:19.960 --> 00:26:23.279 is it a tariff itself or is it just the 348 00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:28.079 uncertainty because it's different tariffs for different countries and they 349 00:26:28.119 --> 00:26:30.200 haven't settled on a number yet because he's still. 350 00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:35.599 Negotiating these negotiations are taking way too, long you, know 351 00:26:35.720 --> 00:26:40.279 it's just dragging out the uncertainty and it's holding off 352 00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:44.400 more projects. Longer he's got to get this thing, done you, 353 00:26:44.440 --> 00:26:50.359 know one way or the, other so businesses can actually 354 00:26:50.559 --> 00:26:55.519 plot their clus coming, forward but they can't right now 355 00:26:55.559 --> 00:26:56.920 because we're in a state of. Flux. 356 00:26:57.440 --> 00:27:03.640 Interesting, Interesting, scott really really informative. Call, Scott thank you 357 00:27:03.799 --> 00:27:06.519 very much for that. Call so, there, yeh you, KNOW 358 00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:10.000 I trump's people are, listening you, KNOW i, mean here's 359 00:27:10.039 --> 00:27:14.559 a business, guy a construction, guy contractor saying it's not 360 00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:17.759 even the tariffs you, know whatever go ten percent across 361 00:27:17.799 --> 00:27:21.160 the board or twenty percent or twenty five. Percent. Okay 362 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:27.480 really it's. Remarkable it really is. Remarkable President trump's approval 363 00:27:27.559 --> 00:27:33.759 rating goes up during The epstein. Uproar the latest batch 364 00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:37.880 of polls Shows trump is actually getting even more, popular 365 00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:41.480 and there's a lot of reasons for. That he's had many, successes, 366 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:47.000 obviously but many people are saying when they Pull, americans 367 00:27:47.720 --> 00:27:51.559 they're Starting, many not, all but many are, Saying i'm 368 00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:55.039 starting to feel better in my. Pocketbook many are saying 369 00:27:55.039 --> 00:27:57.880 their wages are starting to go, Up prices at the 370 00:27:57.880 --> 00:28:03.160 grocery store elsewhere coming, down gas coming. Down they feel 371 00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:07.480 inflation now is slowly being, tamed and they feel now 372 00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:10.759 that things are starting to turn a. Corner how is 373 00:28:10.799 --> 00:28:14.839 it in your? Life is your life getting better or 374 00:28:14.839 --> 00:28:19.119 worse Under President? Trump six one seven two six six 375 00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:23.720 sixty eight sixty eight is the? Number, okay let me 376 00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:27.519 ask all of. 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Housing the, HOUSE i, mean especially around. HERE 398 00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:12.039 i think it's more so more because the prices are 399 00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:15.279 so not, more BUT i think a lot of the 400 00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:18.279 reason about what the housing. Is the prices are just really, 401 00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:24.480