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Speaker 6: At the heart of this path is a property tax increase.
This would effectively be a tax on working in middle
class New Yorkers who have a medium income of one
hundred and twenty two thousand dollars. The second path also
requires us to raid our reserves. It would mean with
drawing nine hundred and eighty million dollars from our city's
Rainy Day Fund in fiscal year twenty twenty six, and
two hundred and twenty nine million dollars from the Retiree
Health Benefit Trust in fiscal year twenty twenty seven. These
are steps that have been taken before, but only in
moments of extraordinary external crisis. Mayor Bloomberg's response to the
two thousand and eight financial collapse and Mayor Deblasio's response
to the enormous revenue shortfall caused by the pandemic. We
do not want to have to turn to such drastic
measures to balance our budget.
Speaker 3: Ha h.
Speaker 7: Let's see. We're gonna raid the We're gonna raise their pensions,
We're gonna raise the rainy day fund. We have to
pay for the illegal somehow, and we're gonna raise your
property taxes.
Speaker 3: Ten you voted for this and knowledge you've got it. Baby. Oh,
Welcome my friends. I love it. Every time I hear it,
I love it.
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our fastest our in American media.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 7: We're gonna start off as a happy birthday. It is
Yoko Ono's birthday today you know, and Yoko Ono was
born in nineteen thirty three. She's hanging in there. But
Philip Philip, who knows so much about music. These young
guys blow my mind because they know so much. Like
Philip and Kevin and all these guys, they know so
much about me Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono band or the
plastic band. We would sing, do we have anything in
the library from Yoko Ono?
Speaker 3: I hope not. I guess we did. That was Yoko Yeah?
Was that recorder when a car ran over her foot?
Was that?
Speaker 7: There was another one that I first heard and literally
she was throwing it sounded like she was regurgitating. I
guess it was early performance art and h So Happy birthday,
Yoko Ono. Okay, the Mandami business, folks, let's just jump
right into it. Let's go to cut. You heard, you
heard the highlight of it. But let's just go to
cut to with Zoran Mandami, the Mayor of New York City.
Speaker 6: For those who have watched budget after budget, it is
tempting to assume that we are engaging in the same
dance as our predecessors. Let me assure you nothing about
this is typical. That's why our solutions won't be either.
There are two paths to breage this gap. The first
is the most sustainable and the fairest path. This is
the path of ending the drain on our city and
raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers and the most
profitable corporations. The onus for resolving this crisis should not
be placed on the backs of working and middle class
New Yorkers. If we do not fix this structural imbalance
and do not heed the calls of New Yorkers to
raise taxes on the wealthy, this crisis will not disappear.
It will simply return year after year, forcing harder and
harsher choices each time. And if we do not go
down the first path, the city will be forced down
a second, more harmful path. Faced with no other choice,
the city would have to exercise the only revenue lever
fully within our own control. We would have to raise
property taxes.
Speaker 3: And there you have it.
Speaker 7: The Queen's Borough President is a gentleman by the For
those of you outside of the New York area, the
Big Apple, as it were, is divided into five distinct
If you were overseas or maybe in a British country,
we would call them provinces. In New York we call
them burrows. The barrows. You have the Barrow of Stanton
oiland the Richmond actually Borough of Richmond. You have the
Kings and Queen's Counties, the boroughs of Queen, Yes, Kings
and Queen's Counties. Queens it is Queens County. Kings is Brooklyn.
So you have the Borough of Brooklyn and the Borough
of Queens. Then you have the Borough of the Bronx,
and of course the Borough of Manhattan. All five of
those comprise the big Apple New York City, the five barrels.
Queens is an interesting borough. Queens was the first major
it's a city unto itself.
Speaker 3: Back in the nineties.
Speaker 7: I want to say, could have been the eighties, but
I believe it was the nineties. For the first time,
the median income of Black Americans in the Borough of
Queens was higher than any other group. It is Southeast
Queens particularly, and I grew up in South East Queens.
Speaker 3: You have and part of what contributed to.
Speaker 7: This was an influx of our neighbors from the Caribbean nations,
especially the West Indies. And let me tell you, folks,
these are some industrious people, industrious, highly educated, a lot
of liberals, sadly, but highly educated, highly entrepreneurial in spirit,
and they many of them flocked to Queens, especially in
the areas of Laurelton, Cambria Heights, Saint Albans, Springfield Gardens,
and the Light in Queens. And it is their legacy,
along with the Native Black Americans that resided in Queens.
My family was among the first moved there in the
nineteen fifties. It was still mostly a white all of it,
and then white flight came. You know, we got some
things moving in. Let's move out. All my little white
friends disappeared, Danny Boy and all that. They were getting
out of here, moving to Breezy Point, moving to wherever
they left. And slowly, it didn't happen at first. It
started slowly, and then it picked like an avalanche. Sections,
entire sections of Queens became all black. Then you had
other waves, like the Caribbean waves. Then you had waves
of other immigrant populations from India, from Asia, from all over.
Speaker 3: You have other areas.
Speaker 7: Some of the Russians, as you know, settled in to Brooklyn,
and then you had a contingent of others. People moved
into Bay Ridge and so New York has this amazing history.
It is truly a melting pot. But or digress. Black
residents in Queens are a major population force. So let
us listen in to Queen's Borough President Donovan Richard in
the Borough of Queen's Yes, that would be cut five
with his reaction to Mayor Zordan Mondami demanding stick him up, Kathy,
either you raised the tax on biggness Like I said,
I want to slap everybody with an almost ten percent
increase in their property taxes to get out of this hole.
And here is what Queen's Borough President Donovan Richards has
to say, Well, we.
Speaker 3: Sought a foreclosure crisis.
Speaker 8: Where did it peas the foreclosure crisis always peaked in
Southeast Quentys. So, without a doubt, you're pushing people out
of their home. And even as we talk about a
pathway to affordable housing and a pathway to ownership, it's
hard to buy a home now. That's really setting back
generation well and they're going to force people out of
their homes. And we know we already see what happened
in two thousandy. The Southeast Queens was hit hard.
Speaker 7: Excremium Southeast Queens was hit hard you do this, you're
going to force people out of their homes because they
will not be able to afford this humongous tax bill. Now,
there was a candidate for city council. Her name is
Latina Brown. I doubt whether Latina is a Republican. I
doubt whether she even Well, that's not fair. I don't
know her. I don't know whether she knows any Republicans
or not. You know, Queens used to have have a
Black Queens used to have a Republican party in Southeast Queens.
Even in black neighborhoods, there was still a Republican party presence.
They high tailed out of there too. They got the
hell out of Dodge after it became overwhelmingly I don't
know whether some Republicans have wandered back in now. I
think maybe a few, but for a long time they
just vanished. But anyway, here is New York City Council
candidate and activist Latina Brown on the idea that Mondami
is going to raise property taxes in New York to
ten percent.
Speaker 9: Hey guys, this Latinia fairy community advocate. This video is
for Governor Kathy Hokeel. I am calling on you and
your administration to strip financial power away from Zoan Mundani
because he is clearly unfit to lead the city as
a leader. And on top of that, this budget that
he puts together, he is merely focused on illegals. He
is not focused on the American people. He's not focused
on the taxpayers. If he accomplishes raising the New York
City property tax, it is going to be a domino
effect and the black community will feel it first. It's
gonna start from condos to co ops, to buildings that
black homeowners own. You're gonna push out your voting block.
You're gonna push out the people who have been carrying
the burden of the Democratic Party for decades. Calling on
Governor Hokl to do a removal power from Mayor Zorra Mundani,
remove his financial powers. That budget is a dam slapping
the face to the black community and to all of
the small property owners. And you know it, City Council,
do the right thing and shut down that preliminary budget.
Speaker 3: You already know what's going to happen that hole.
Speaker 9: Oh, you're going to raise the taxes for people that
make over one hundred and twenty two thousand dollars a year,
as a damn joke.
Speaker 4: And you know it.
Speaker 9: There are people who are barely making ends meet, so
you're gonna hit them additional taxes? Really because he can't
get his way, because he wants to fund his illegals,
the illegals that come in. They are benefiting off of
the backs of the taxpayers.
Speaker 3: That's what this is all about.
Speaker 9: Let's stop this already, Governor hokl do the right thing,
remove financial power from Mayor Mondani.
Speaker 3: Well well, well, oh, I don't believe it.
Speaker 10: We have here a black liberal woman suggesting that Montdarmi
is trying to hurt Black Americans, legal citizens of the
United States of America in favor of illegals.
Speaker 3: Why why, what is happening here? Now? Let us take
a quick break.
Speaker 7: There is more, and we have other things to discuss
besides Mondanmi trying to get rid of black people homeowners
in queen trying to destroy the black home ownership.
Speaker 3: Class in Queen's We have other things.
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Speaker 11: Rush marry for twenty eight years to my husband who
is being deported right now, by ice twenty eight years.
Speaker 2: He's been here over thirty years.
Speaker 3: Everybody to know nobody gives it.
Speaker 11: You have family, if you have kids that don't give
a shit, and they're taking your your husband and your
father away.
Speaker 9: They are taking my husband away.
Speaker 12: These are FBI agents.
Speaker 3: Who work for Border Patrol.
Speaker 11: Okay, I want everybody to know my family was just separated.
They have taken my kids love and they don't give it.
You have taken my husband away. I want everybody to
know they have taken my husband away.
Speaker 2: They don't care.
Speaker 11: They're separating family. Please nobody, I need somebody who will
help me. I want everybody to know what they're doing.
They are taken my husband away.
Speaker 13: They don't do it.
Speaker 3: Hmmm.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's heart wrenching though, right. People in law enforcement
take people's husbands away every day when they do something illegal. Though,
that's just part of you know what it's like when
you do something illegal. They law enforcement comes. Speaking of husbands,
you know, we played John Travolta America. Small caffeinated mom
just sent me a picture of she and her husband
from the early days of their marrage their marriage, and
if you didn't know any better, you would think you
were looking at John Travolta. He looks he could be
Travolta's twin. He's got a suit on ie suit. And
by the way, Ronda looks like she could be casted
in the handmaiden's tail, just saying did you ever see
that that? I finally had to stop watching it. It was
too depressing. But what a hoot? What so it is sad?
I just got something from Debbie Duhae about the cut
with the woman. They're taking the Okay, let me just ask. Yes,
it is heart wrenching. I said that to hear this
woman they're taking my husband away. We have never seen
these types of videos on social media when the police
show up at the house to arrest somebody. My husband
has been in the country twenty eight years. They just
took him away.
Speaker 3: What did he do?
Speaker 7: He committed a crime. They're taking him away, they're separating.
We don't see that or this is what happens when
you are apprehended having broken the law. Is it sad? Yes,
it's sad. Are we not supposed to enforce the law
because it's sad. This happens every day in America. We'll
be back, folks, James, go and snurly whatever you do,
stay right there, don't go away.
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Speaker 7: Rush Ladies, Ladies, ladies, Hello, lay days, ladies. Please pay
attention to your fellow lady here coming up in a moment,
and please please tell me. You know you can text me,
you can email me, whatever, well, we can talk about
it Saturday. Please tell me what advice you would give
to this woman, especially if you're like Princess Died, like
Lady Benedict, like like the Countess of Conspiracy, like America's
small caffeinated mom ladies, or these beautiful we have so
many beautiful, wonderful ladies in this audience. Please tell me
what advice you would give to this woman.
Speaker 14: Hi, Hi, TikTok so Hi. I'm kind of nervous to
post this, but I'm just wondering if there's anyone else
out there like me who is married to Omega. I
have been thinking about leaving since the election, and we
ended up going to counseling, which honestly really doesn't help
because I'm not going to change my views and he's
not going to change his views. I don't really see
any other way out of this except the divorce. I
don't know what to do. It's it's painful. I still
love him, and I honestly did think that once this
crazy person took office and all of these things started
happening to our country, which they are now, he my husband,
would see it and he would say damn, maybe not
even admit he's wrong, but just damn. I'm not on
this side. But he appears to be doubling down and
making excuses for what is going on. And I don't know.
Speaker 12: I can't.
Speaker 14: I live in reality and.
Speaker 3: You do.
Speaker 14: I can't split my world and live in reality and
also live in this fantasy that everything is fine. Is
anyone with me? Any advice?
Speaker 3: Hmm? I wonder what advice you would give to her?
M that's just that's just the shame. What advice would
you give to this woman? Well, some women wouldn't do
anything for you and get a divorce. I'm in there.
Speaker 7: If any women. Are you married to a marga? Are
you married to a maga? James Golin snurwly with you here.
We went through make a man Dommy and I'm gonna
tell you something. This, what he's doing, folks, is disgraceful.
This has real world impact on people. Never once do
you hear any of these Democrats say, you know what,
we are spending too much money, let's take it's time
for the austerity budget. Yeah, Carlos, you ought to know
this because let me tell you something. In Greece, Carlos
hail from Greece, my friends, when you were a young
child in Greece, and you may not remember any of this,
the country went damn there bankrupt and they had to
have The world was, I think shocked by the level
of the spending cuts that they did to regain their
fiscal sanity as a nation. There were news stories about
it for weeks and months on it, and massive protest
because they had to cut spending like very few governments
cut spending in order to maintain their fiscal stability as
a nation.
Speaker 15: I was not that young, and they were still, like
you know, dealing with the aftermath of it. I want
to say until like five or six years ago, and
we had something that I haven't seen like ever before.
They were called capital controls where you can only withdraw
sixty euros per day from your bank account in order
to retain the cash flow. And people, you know, because
people were panicking, they would not you know, withdraw huge
amounts of cash because they were not enough cash in
the banks.
Speaker 3: Wow. So they only they limited how much money sixty
euros per day. Wow.
Speaker 7: And right now Greece is healthy financially, things are better. Yeah, yeah,
But you never hear that from Democrats. It's like there's
this endless pool of someone else's money that they want
to tap into rather than and here's New York mandamis
to go and say that he's gonna continue spending money
on illegal immigrants, people that don't even belong in this
nation and drive out American citizens, particularly black citizens and queens.
It's not only gonna affect affect black people, but in
Southeast Queens, which by the way, is Alexandria Ocasio's district
as well as the Bronx her district. The way that
they did the lines goes into Southeast Queens and they're
gonna wipe people out and I just wonder you guys
voted for this. Alright, then you voted for this. Okay,
let us go to another Democrat mayor of another major city.
Speaker 3: You've got New York.
Speaker 7: Now, let's go out to the left coast of America,
cut one and take a quick, quick visit with Mayor
Karen Bass. She is asked, that is a bonic question,
my friends, she's asked a question by NBC News. And
here is what the question and answer sound blaw like.
Speaker 6: Sixteen thousand homes and businesses were destroyed in the fires.
Speaker 2: But at this point we just heard Liz, there fewer
the ten homes have been rebuilt in La County.
Speaker 3: How do you explain that to the people of your city.
Speaker 12: The first few months after a disaster like this, the
attention is paid to clearing out the debris that took
several months. So if you're gonna look at the rebuilding,
you could say that it's started in around April. The
fact that we have over four hundred homes in the
Pacific Palisades that are acting under construction. Now there's about
two that are pretty much ready to move in and
several more that will be ready in the next few months.
I know that it is very difficult for anyone who
is not in their homes, but this is actually pretty quick.
Speaker 3: Are you satisfied? Are you know of the effort.
Speaker 12: I'm not trying to say everything is wonderful here. We
have thousands of people out of their homes. And by
the way, in terms of the numbers in the Palisades,
there were five thousand homes that were destroyed. We have
approved the rebuilding of eight hundred homes. Four hundred are
in construction now. And people's challenges are complex. Our responsibility
is permitting process and also the advocacy so that they
are able to get the insurance and the relief from
banking in terms of their mortgages.
Speaker 3: What would you have done differently?
Speaker 12: Oh my goodness. Let me just tell you that Los
Angeles face See, this disaster is something that Los Angeles
has never seen before and what we are bracing ourselves for,
and I think a lot of other places around the
country are weather events that we've never had and would
have never expected. Those were hurricane strength wins in an
area that has never seen a hurricane. And so in
terms of our preparation, way more aggressive looking at expecting
events that we would have not experienced in our city before.
Speaker 7: All right, let's just go back through this. Sixteen thousand
homes burned down. Let me just say that one more time.
Sixteen thousand homes burnt down over one year ago. Yes,
this is we We are well past the anniversary of
these fires in la which, by the way, seemed to
have in large part been spread because of negligence, and
that is being reported on negligence. They did not do
the necessary work to make sure a fire that was
put out was completely out. It was smoldering underground. When
the winds came, it kicked it into high gear. Negligens
on behalf of the city, at least part of it.
Sixteen thousand homes burned down, Yes.
Speaker 3: And only five percent is scheduled to be rebuilt.
Speaker 7: And only five percent of them are scheduled. Thank you,
he did the ASCU. Thank you, Carlos. Only five percent,
over a year later, have any schedule to be rebuilt.
The number of homes that have been rebuilt according to
an article I read last.
Speaker 3: Week one she says ten. What I read was one.
Speaker 7: But okay, maybe somehow miraculously they built nine more in
about two weeks. But I read one and that one
had been permitted before the fire started. Now she says
two are ready to move in, two houses over a
year later, and she's pretty much saying, you know, it's difficult, folks.
This not and by the way, and she pointed to
most of those houses are in the Pali sage.
Speaker 3: Do you know.
Speaker 7: There is a black community in LA and the reports
coming out of LA is that that black community's houses
were while they were on fire, were pretty much ignored
by the city.
Speaker 3: Yes, my friends, ignored.
Speaker 7: And you don't hear her talking about any rebuilding that's
going on there. I'll have to dig out the name
of that community. So here you have New York Zorn
Mandami is about to sock it to all New Yorkers
hardest hit people of color, who they are fine with
chasing out of their houses with high taxes. In Los Angeles,
everybody's gets slammed. But apparently, the way we're reading the
latest coming out of the fires, people of color hardest hit. Again,
what does all of this tell you about your Democrat
Party leadership? Friends, I'm just acting now, and we had
some other things in here. You know, Stephen Colbert is
making a big deal because he wanted to have this guy,
which his face is running against Jasmine Crockett. The FCC
raised eyebrows over at CBC. You got a CBS. You
guys are gonna do equal time, and this guy's panties
are in a bunch, went on the air slamming CBS.
Speaker 3: I don't want to just get rid of this guy.
Speaker 7: Now equal time just so everybody radio has to live
by equal time rules in political elections. All of us
that do shows. Red Apple Media is serious about making
sure that everything is letter of the law perfect. And
each election season we are given the legal advice about
equal time and what you do. And so unless you're
going to let all parties do at certain points, you
can't do interviews unless you're going to equal to do
equal time. And this guy's acting like some kind of
Prima Donna. Panties in a bunch because now he has
to actually obey the law of the public airwaves. And
I just want to add a caution. It's not just
equal time for dinner Democrats. Cobert, if nobody ever told
if you want to put on these Democrats, somebody needs
to check that you're putting on an equal number of
Republican candidates vying for the same office too, not just Democrat.
The lazy days of Democrat ignoring the law are apparently over,
So get your panties unbunched and deal with it. Everybody
else in broadcasting has to deal with it.
Speaker 1: Hmmm.
Speaker 7: I'm getting some advice on that woman who's married to
the Margo who might have to divorce him. I ain't
still love him, Bamy devorcee him because there isn't a
couple of agrees with everything. I'm sure he's contemplating the same.
Focus on what brought them together, and leave politics aside.
And if that doesn't work, bend your head against the
wall and knock some sense into yourself. That advice.
Speaker 3: See, I like that. Leave the politics out of it.
Speaker 7: You know, James Carville and Mary Madden have been married
for I don't know how long. You talk about two
people that are the complete opposite and they manage to
have a beautiful, wonderful marriage together. There isn't a couple
of degrees worth everything. I'm sure he's contemplating the same
focus on what brought them together. Leave the politics out
of it aside. If that doesn't work, bang your head
against the wall and knock some sense into yourself. That
is from the Countess of conspiracy like that, keep it
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Speaker 7: You know, my friends, in California, there are over seventy
card rooms places where people can go play cards for money.
Normally California is now they employ about twenty thousand people
and they raise over five hundred million dollars a year,
provide almost four hundred million in state taxes and another
one hundred million in local taxes. California is now going
to ban blackjack from these card rooms only. Indian casinos
apparently are supposed to be able to have a card
game where the players play the house, and there's a
was a loophole that so what up? They're gonna ban blackjack,
which to me just sounds horribly racist. I mean, to
black jack being banned in California, what else black do
you want to ban out there Newsome nineteen fifty nine,
Ray Charles on this day recorded one of his biggest
hits ever in New York City. What I Say It
was a recalling response song with Ray Charles and his
backup singers, the Raylettes, And that's how it started. We
Gotta go. May God blessed protect each and every single
one of you, your families, your loved ones. Love and
gratitude for your being here with me, allowing me to
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