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your support. So when government fails to focus on priorities,
you end up with the residents, the citizens of that jurisdiction,
suffering the consequences. Now, a lot of politicians will blame
the other guy, the other party, some other branch of
government or maybe a different level of government. You know,
the locals will blame the state, and the state will
blame the Feds or whatever. They always try to deflect
the blame rather than to acknowledge. Yeah, you know, we've
been diverting more money to these other areas and doing
other things with it. These things that we want to have,
but things that we don't actually need to have. And
the very first thing that you need to have is security.
These are first order needs. You've got security, and that's
fire protection, police protection, criminal justice, food, water shelter. These
are the first order issues. Everything else is a nice
to have, right I would say your second order, your
second tier is probably going to be your infrastructure, your
transportation infrastructure, roads and sidewalks and that kind of thing. Really,
anything outside of that is a nice to have, and
if you can afford it, fantastic. But if you can't
afford it, you definitely should not be diverting money away
from the first order things to get to the third, fourth,
and fifth level of services. And the problem is that
the incentives are generally not there for politicians to focus
only on the first order problems because like for example,
out in Los Angeles, and this is also the case
in Ashville, I think that Charlotte has actually done a
pretty good job of maintaining its water infrastructure. Not to
say it's perfect, but they've done a better job, I
think than Ashville has. I mean, Ashville's water system is
a joke. It's just an absolute joke. And they have
diverted money out of their water fund for decades to
fund other projects to subsidize their general fund, keep their
taxes low while they pay for all of these other
things that they want want, you know, like a national
basket weaving monument or whatever. I'm just kidding. They didn't
do that, but it wouldn't surprise you if they did. Right.
Same thing in Los Angeles. The water system, the infrastructure
there is decrepit. So when they start losing focus from
those core services and start doing all of these other
nice to have projects and spending, what happens then is
that those core services suffer and the people's lives that
live there suffer. And then the politicians blame all these
other things and say, well, we need to have or
these other you know, levels of government or the economy
or something else. It wasn't our fault, so now we
need to raise taxes. And if you don't agree with
the raising of the taxes, well, that means you're not
going to get fire service. Were that means you're not
going to get police. And they always throw those things
out at you as the threat. I've told this story
before up on Long Island, where they still have this
system set up where all of the towns have their
own school systems, And the funny thing is up there,
they're like, we should consolidate. That's going to solve the problems.
And then I came to Charlotte and it's all the
consolidated Charlotte Mecklenberg school system, and people were saying, we
need to deconsolidate. That'll solve the problems. I know, the
problem is the model. But they would up there on
Long Island, you would have to put your budgets. As
the school district, you'd have to put your budget up
for a vote every year. So voters were going and
voting on budgets, and of course the school board would
throw out some ridiculously exorbitant budget. It would get voted down.
And what would they do? What would the school district do?
They would cut the after school activities like football, and
they would cut buses, the two things right that hurt
the parents and hurt the kids the most. So there
were I think two or three years in my in
my K twelve experience, and maybe maybe more than that,
where I had to walk to school and the schools were,
you know, one was I think over a mile and
one was about three miles away, and we would have
to walk to school because there were no buses. They
would just scrap all of the buses. No more bus
service as a way to stick it to the parents
to get them to vote for the budget on the
second go round. That's the budget dance. Here in Charlotte Mecklenberg.
It's a little different, where the school district goes to
the county and they ask for an exorbitant amount of
money and the county says no, and then they yell
at each other and then eventually the county says okay
to the second to the second number. Right, that's the
budget dance. It happens like every year here. And so,
just like the Long Island, school districts would analyzed the
citizens and threatened them with removing core elements of the
service if they didn't get all the money they wanted
for these other things, so too do cities do this
with police and fire. And in Charlotte, after the fiery
but mostly peaceful protests that we saw over the course
of years dating back to even before the BLM stuff,
because you had Keith Lamont Scott, you had those riots
that occurred and all those protests and stuff. And I
think somebody actually that was one of the protests where
somebody got killed. At one of the peaceful protests, somebody
got shot and killed by another protester or whatever. So
then what did that prompt? Right this backlash? And then
you have the rise of the DEI stuff, and then
you get an inability to recruit more officers. All of
these things have an effect that downstream onto the citizens.
And all of that is to say that Charlotte Mecklenberg
police reported for the year of twenty twenty four one
hundred and ten homicides, and that is a twenty four
percent increase over the previous year. Now that number might
change if they get you know, certain deaths get recategorized
or something, but it probably won't change much. One hundred
and ten people are still dead twenty twenty four. The
previous year there was eighty nine. The year before that
there was one oh seven, the year before that there
was ninety six, and then going back to the pandemic
year twenty twenty, there were one hundred eighteen, so one eighteen,
ninety six, one oh seven, eighty nine, one ten. So
it kind of goes up and down, up and down.
It's like a plus or minus twenty every year twenty
more deaths or homicides, and then twenty fewer, then twenty more,
and then twenty fewer, and it just goes up and down.
But it looks like we're averaging a little over one
hundred homicides annually. Why is that now? As of January,
CMPD reported and this is reported at the Charlotte Observer,
that CMPD had identified a suspect in about seventy five
percent of the homicide cases, and some of those identifications
occurred within a day of the homicide. The one hundred
and ten total is more killings in a single year
since the start of the pandemic back in twenty twenty.
Looking through some of the data familiar patterns, they say
two lives lost. According to the data as reported by
the Charlotte Observer, two thirds of the people killed were
black and eighty percent of the victims. Of all the
victims were male. Sixty five percent killed were black, twenty
percent Hispanic, and twelve percent white. Eighty percent are males.
The average age of the victims thirty one, the youngest
less than a year. The oldest was eighty two. And
the most cited reason for the homicides arguments an argument
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I saw this story. This is over at inside higher
Ed dot com just real quick. The marching band at
Mississippi Valley State University they got invited to the inauguration
and they said, yes, it's a historically black university and HBU,
and so they launched a GoFundMe to raise money for
its mean green Marching Machine band to go to DC
for the inauguration. And this prompted all sorts of backlash
because it's a black college and how dare you go
and celebrate the inauguration of Donald Trump? Like they got
invited to inauguration by the President, Like why would you
not want that kind of recognition for your school. So
there is a GoFundMe. They're trying to raise three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. I think they're somewhere in the
neighborhood of about two seventy two seventy five now, So
if you if you're interested. Gofund me's got a campaign
for the Mean Green Marching Machine. Mississippi Valley State University
getting all sorts of backlash because they said yes, they
would very much like to participate in the inauguration and
the route, and HBCU Sports has slammed the decision as
an apparent endorsement of Trump, which of course it is
actually not. It is just participation in a nationally televised
event that would be good for your college. Gosh Focus
People Focus House GOP up in Washington. A member of
the House GOP Leadership Team actually from North Carolina, Richard Hudson,
has introduced a new bill to radically expand concealed carry
permissions for Americans across the country. The National Republican Congressional
Committee Chairman, which is the House Republican campaign arm, they
unveiled the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act yesterday. It's already
backed by more than one hundred and twenty House Republicans.
It has gotten support from one member of the House
Democrat Caucus, Jared Golden, Democrat from Maine. Hudson told Fox News,
what we're talking about is just requiring states to recognize
the permit of an other state, just like you recognize
a driver's license. When I drive to d C from
North Carolina across Virginia, I don't stop at the Virginia
line and take a driver's test to get another license.
The state recognizes that that North Carolina license. President Trump
has already said that he would sign such a bill
if it gets to his desk. The bill previously passed
the House back in twenty seventeen, but it was never
taken up by the Senate. Nearly twenty two million Americans
have some form of a concealed carry permit, and Hudson
raised the example of Shanine Allen, a single mom from
Philadelphia who got pulled over during a routine traffic stop
in New Jersey but was arrested for unlawful possession when
she told officers of her concealed carry permit and the
firearm that was in her vehicle. He said, quote, there's
a hodgepodge of different state laws when it comes to
conceal carry, and so this bill just clarifies that and
then rectifies the situation where a law abiding citizen can
become a criminal just by crossing an invisible state line. Yeah.
You know, the people who go through the process to
get concealed carry permits commit far less crime than virtually,
if not all demographics. I remember seeing a stat that
they commit fewer crimes than cops. So this just makes sense.
I agree with the rationale. If you're going to go
through the process, you're going to go through the training
and the class and everything else, and you're going to
go through the background checks and the check and the
mental health facilities and make sure that you are good
to go. And now you're allowed to carry concealed that
that permit should apply no matter what state you go
into that has concealed carry permits. And by the way,
forty nine states allow non resident carry and fifty states
all fifty states do issue concealed carry permits now, so
it just makes sense. We'll see how it goes, all right,
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Pete at the petecallnershow dot com Kirk wants to know
if walking to school when I did it was uphill
both ways in the driving snow. Yes, of course it
was with newspapers wrapped around my feet instead of shoes.
So House lawmakers yesterday afternoon passed the Lacaniley Act. The
Lake Andiley Act passed by a vote of two hundred
and sixty four to one hundred and fifty nine. There
were forty eight Democrats that joined with the two hundred
and sixteen Republicans to pass the legislation. That legislation is
named after the Georgia nursing student who was brutally murdered
last year by an illegal immigrant. It will now go
to the Senate. The legislation requires federal agents to detain
illegal immigrants suspected of committing non violent crimes. So not
violent crimes, nonviolent crimes. If somebody is in the country
illegally and they get picked up for some sort of
misdemeanor charge, they've been arrested, Okay, that's how you come
in contact with them. They end up in the jail.
And you know now that North Carolina has told our
local sheriff here, Gary, not my fault McFadden that you
have to cooperate with Ice. Now they're going to have
to hold these people and then they can be removed
from the country. Last Congress there were thirty seven Democrats,
So what a eight or sorry, nine more Democrats joined
Republicans in voting for this act this year versus last
year thirty seven Democrats joined Republicans. So I guess what
eight Democrats got the message from the election. Maybe the
bill did not go anywhere last year because it went
to the Senate and that was Democrat controlled and so
it died there. This time around, the bill heads to
a GOP controlled Senate, where it is picking up momentum.
There are actually two Democrats in the Senate now who
have endorsed it. They have signed on to it, Gary
Peters out of Michigan and John Fetterman from Pennsylvania. Okay,
I am not on the Fetterman bandwagon yet, but I'm
listening this guy ever since he had you know, the
stroke and got the brain injury. Now it's right, right, yeah, yeah,
I mean like whatever happened there seems to have impacted
him in some way that he now makes more sense.
This time around, it heads to the Senate, where it's
got a couple of Democrats like Fetterman and Peters. According
to Fetterman on Twitter, he said, quote Ice reported tens
of thousands of migrants with criminal records homicide or sexual assault.
Four hundred and twenty five thousand have criminal records in
total and should be deported. I suspect or sorry. I
support a secure border, he says. I support a legal
path for dreamers. I support the Lake and Riley Act.
So what is happening right now? You have a recognition
that is sort of dawning. I think on more and
more Democrats that these policies and Republican voters I think
just got there earlier. But there are different breakdowns inside
of the political parties that cut all sorts of ways.
But at its core, you have this division between elites
and working people and the working class, the so called
elites and the so called working class, and the elites
are pushing and implementing policies and have been, and the
immigration debate is the prime example of it, where these
policies are harming the working class, right, and that's why
you end up. You've heard I'm sure some of these
elite talking heads journalists or show hosts in the daytime
programs or whatever on the view for example, and they
make these bizarre arguments that, well, you know, if you
don't have all of the immigrants, then you're going to have,
you know, higher grocery prices. You know, who's going to
cut your grass, who's going to do your gardening and
watch your kids and all this stuff. Now, most working
class people hear that and they think, well, me, because
I'm doing it now. I will continue to cut my grass,
I will continue to watch my kids and raise my kids.
And labor, just like any other commodity, right when you
have more supply of it, then the cost goes down.
So the cost of labor drops when you have more
of a supply, and so by importing more and more people,
it drives down the wages the call of the labor
because you have more competition and you've got people that
are willing to work for less money because if they don't,
they get deported back, and they don't want to get
deported back. So you actually get to take advantage of them,
which is what the elites do. That's what they've been
doing by hiring people and undercutting wage of hiring people
in the country illegally who are taken advantage of, but
are doing it willingly, voluntarily. They go in, they put
themselves in that position, to be sure, but they do
it why for a better life for their kids. But
they're also afraid of getting deported back. So they are
willing to put up with the deprivation. They're willing to
put up with abuse, They're willing to get taken advantage of.
They're willing to take the risks to live in crummy places.
They're willing to do all of that because the promise
is in their minds that the kids are going to
have a better life. It's a rational thing, by the way,
that is a completely rational thing to think, right, because
we as a society have obviously said, yeah, we're fine
with this line of thinking. So they make those decisions,
and then the working class people they're not the ones
hiring the gardeners. They want to do the gardening work,
and so who really benefits. It's the people in the
upper income strata, right. And I think some Democrats, guys
like Fetterman, I think they're recognizing this, that they are
alienating this huge core that used to be the Democrat
voting base and that's why Trump is peeling them all away.
Will Moore recognize it? I don't know. We'll find out,
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So National Reviews story by James Lynch about the Lake
and Riley Act passing the House yesterday and talking about
its prospects going into the US Senate. Fetterman and and
John Fetterman from Pennsylvania and Gary Peters from Michigan both
say they'll support it. They are both from swing states
that President elect Donald Trump won this past November against
Harris and in fact, Peters is up for reelection in
twenty twenty six and that's expected to be a competitive race.
Senator Katie Britt from Alabama is leading the Republican Senate
push to get the Lake and Riley Act passed ahead
of Trump's inauguration. Now, I am curious to see how
the two senators from Georgia will vote on this measure,
because that's where Lake and Riley was right. She was
a Georgia nursing student. Britt introduced the companion legislation alongside
Fetterman and the Senate Majority Leader John Thune, along with
Republican North Carolina Senator Ted Budd and the rest of
the Senate GOP. The Senate is expected to vote Friday
on the Lake and Riley Act. It needs sixty votes
in order to avoid the filibuster. Jose Antonio Ibarra, a
Venezuelan illegal alien, was sentenced to life in prison for
murdering Lake and Riley as she was jogging around the
University of Georgia's campus. Before killing her, Ibarra had crossed
the southern border, received a taxpayer funded flight to New
York City, stayed at the Roosevelt Hotel along with many
other new arrivals or newcomers as they are called, and
from there he was given a flight to Georgia and
worked at a Korean restaurant. That all is according to
his former roommate, who testified against him at trial, So
we'll keep an eye on that. Then, this story from
Breitbart dot Com by John Binder, illegal aliens, tourists, and
foreign visa workers. Right, So, three categories of people here. Millions,
tourists and foreign visa workers delivered nearly four hundred thousand
children across the US last year. These are the so
called anchor babies, right, You've heard that term before. These
people who aren't US citizens have a child in the US,
and that allows them this access point if you will
to become a US citizen or to stay at the
very least four hundred thousand. I think the number is
like three hundred and seventy two thousand technically, but so yeah,
almost four hundred thousand quote unquote anchor babies. This according
to the Center for Immigration Studies, The term anchor babies
is used to describe the US born children of illegal
aliens and other foreign nationals with no ties to the country.
Anchor babies are rewarded with birth right American citizenship despite
their parents having no legitimate ties to the US, many
having only recently arrived years later, When the child is
considered an adult, they can then sponsor their parents and
foreign relatives to get green cards. That's why it's called
an anchor baby, is that it anchors that family to
the US and that is a generational thing. And then
of course, like they have like hundreds of non thousands
of relatives they have now found It's like when you've
won the lottery and all of a sudden, everybody is
related to you asking for money. It's amazing how many
people that they can sponsor to come over. In twenty
twenty four, close to three hundred thousand anchor babies are
estimated to have been delivered to illegal alien parents, and
then another seventy two thousand anchor babies were estimated to
have been delivered to foreign tourists, foreign visa workers, and
foreign students. Now, this is something that Trump has talked
about getting rid of this birthright citizenship. The US Supreme
Court has never explicitly ruled that US born kids of
illegal aliens have to get citizenship. The US Supreme Court
has not weighed in on this specific issue, and in
the legal community it is actually in dispute. There is
disagreement among lawyers of good faith. I will even say
that right there are good faith disagreements about whether or
not this is legal or not. I don't believe it is.
I don't believe it is. A lot of the conservative
scholars argue that the Fourteenth Amendment and the clause in there,
the citizenship clause, it doesn't provide It does not provide
mandatory birthright citizenship because the kids are not subject to
US jurisdiction, as that language was understood when the Amendment
was ratified. Right subject to the jurisdiction thereof is the
key phrase in that clause. US and Canada are among
only a handful of developed nations, mostly in North and
South America, that have this birthright citizenship policy for anybody,
regardless of immigration status, born within its physical borders. For example, Australia, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta,
New Zealand and Spain reserve birthright citizenship for children born
to at least one citizen parent, and I think that's
a pretty good standard. You should have one parent who's
a citizen. All right. That'll do it for this episode.
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