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Mark's 11am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten or filling
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  Speaker 1: in for Mark. Here's Ken Rosatto. Yeah, so nice to
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  Speaker 1: be with you on a Friday. See Mark has to
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  Speaker 1: deal with you Monday, or you have to deal with
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  Speaker 1: Mark Marcus to deal with all of us. I listen
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  Speaker 1: Monday through Thursday. When you're miserable on Monday Tuesday. You
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  Speaker 1: can't wait for the week to get by Wednesday, like
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  Speaker 1: is this over yet? Thursday? Or anticipating the weekend that
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  Speaker 1: I come in and fill in from time to time
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  Speaker 1: on a Friday, and I'm like the lucky grand parent
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  Speaker 1: who gets the child in a good mood and then
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  Speaker 1: has a child back when the diaper needs to be changed.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I am on a Friday. Good to be
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  Speaker 1: with you. Former TV news aker from here in New
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  Speaker 1: York City, Ken Rosato reporting for duty. You'll probably best
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  Speaker 1: remember me from twenty plus years I spent anchoring the
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  Speaker 1: morning and midday show at Channel seven. I was a
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  Speaker 1: Channel five before that, I did Channel fifty five. These days,
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  Speaker 1: I'm on a streaming channel called on New Jersey ONNJ
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  Speaker 1: dot com. I do a show Monday through Friday. There
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  Speaker 1: just not today because I'm here happily. But and then
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  Speaker 1: I also have a website. I have a website for
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  Speaker 1: all you foodies called the Food Dude, so on New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: You can check out at onj dot com and the
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  Speaker 1: food Dude is Thefooddude dot us for a free food website,
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  Speaker 1: thousands of recipes from around the world straight to the
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  Speaker 1: business part of it. We got a lot to talk
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  Speaker 1: about today to wrap up the busy newsweek. In our
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  Speaker 1: phone lines wide open eight hundred three two one zero
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  Speaker 1: seven ten, So you hear a lot from police and officials,
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  Speaker 1: not only in New York City but around the country
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  Speaker 1: talking about how, hey, crime is down. Crime is down
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  Speaker 1: here in Chicago, even though seven hundred people are arrested
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  Speaker 1: this week at crime is down. You know what they
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  Speaker 1: failed to mention is when you change the laws and
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  Speaker 1: you no longer have certain things looked at as crime.
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  Speaker 1: When you decide as a district attorney, you will not
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  Speaker 1: prosecute these seventy percent of the laws. If people violate them,
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  Speaker 1: we will not prosecute them. So you tell your police
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  Speaker 1: don't even bother arresting people for those When you dumb
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  Speaker 1: down people who are arrested for felonies, you dumb it
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  Speaker 1: down to a misdemeanor. Sure, crime appears down when you
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  Speaker 1: say that murder in some cases is an accident. You
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  Speaker 1: know when things like that happen. Statistically speaking, things look
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  Speaker 1: like they're up and up and everything is great and
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  Speaker 1: crime is down. The reality is crime has not dropped.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody who works for the police department here in New
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  Speaker 1: York or anywhere around the country will tell you crime
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  Speaker 1: is not down. These statistics are down. Can that's anecdotal. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to the cops I talk to on a regular basis.
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  Speaker 1: I take calls on my show every day. I talk
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  Speaker 1: to cops all the time. My dad was a cop.
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  Speaker 1: I have a lot of cops in the family. Believe me,
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  Speaker 1: crime is not down, and don't let the Democrats fool
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  Speaker 1: you and tell you it is. And that's by the
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  Speaker 1: way true in Democrat and Republican cities, but more so
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  Speaker 1: in blue cities. Because you don't punish people, you let
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  Speaker 1: there be a revolving door. They come in and out
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  Speaker 1: of the system. Crime just keeps going up and up. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Zoram wants to deploy social workers instead of police,
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  Speaker 1: of course, to respond to nine to one one calls,
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  Speaker 1: but Apparently the plan has already been operating on a
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  Speaker 1: very small level in New York City. They've been testing
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  Speaker 1: it quietly and it's been failing miserably. Published reports say
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  Speaker 1: early results of a program called be Heard shows it
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  Speaker 1: ain't working. Mom Donnie wants to take one point one
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars, shifting it to the Department of Community Safety
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  Speaker 1: for this send social workers plan. And apparently an audit
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  Speaker 1: was done back in May by the city Controller and
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  Speaker 1: they determined this thing is a failure. But yet we
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  Speaker 1: all got suckered into it, right, We all voted for
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  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie, thinking he's going to make things better. We
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  Speaker 1: don't need police. We already have members of the NYPD leaving,
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  Speaker 1: and just wait until he takes office and the NYPD
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  Speaker 1: sees it. They don't get protection by this mayor that
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  Speaker 1: if it comes down to it, that he's going to
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  Speaker 1: turn his back on the NYPD. We hope it doesn't happen,
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  Speaker 1: but based on what he has said of police in
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  Speaker 1: the past, it's likely going to happen. You know, he
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  Speaker 1: out now told us who he is and we just
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  Speaker 1: laugh at his head.
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  Speaker 2: Die.
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  Speaker 1: He's not a socials, he's not a communists. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: you're overreacting. Can you conspiracy theorist? Sob No, he said it.
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  Speaker 1: Why shouldn't we believe them? Apparently sixty percent of the
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  Speaker 1: calls made under this plan, this be heard as it
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  Speaker 1: is called, sixty percent are deemed ineligible in what they tested.
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  Speaker 1: More than thirty five percent of the eligible calls from
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  Speaker 1: mental health professionals never got a response. And for this,
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  Speaker 1: Mam Donnie wants to spend over a billion dollars of
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  Speaker 1: your tax payer money. Sadly, I think people are going
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  Speaker 1: to get hurt or worse, and you'll see crime rising
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  Speaker 1: all over the city. Speaking of crime, we had Mayor
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  Speaker 1: to be Mam Donnie say this.
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  Speaker 2: Police have a critical role to play in creating public safety.
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  Speaker 2: And wh I speak to those officers on the beat,
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  Speaker 2: I hear a frustration from them that we're asking them
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  Speaker 2: to do more than just focus on serious crimes. We're
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  Speaker 2: asking them to do the work of mental health professionals
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  Speaker 2: and social workers, and that reliance on having them deal
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  Speaker 2: with almost every failure of the social safet net is
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  Speaker 2: making it impossible for them to tackle those crimes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds great from a guy who's never held
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  Speaker 1: a job in his life and who sits behind a
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  Speaker 1: desk and pushes pencils around. Go out in the just
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  Speaker 1: go out for a day with the NYPD and see
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  Speaker 1: what they have to deal with, mentally unstable, people who
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  Speaker 1: are stoned, people who were drunk. And then you expect
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  Speaker 1: them to listen to reason and oh, let's sit down,
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  Speaker 1: let's have a nice conversation. Meanwhile, they have weapons. They'll
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  Speaker 1: pick up a broken bottle, they'll throw a stone, and
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  Speaker 1: we're supposed to just think that'll be fine. You know,
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  Speaker 1: someone's going to get hurt. Mayor to be Mamdani unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: and too many people were suckers and bought his whole line.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime, all the promises, all the goodies that
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  Speaker 1: Mamdani promised, all these wonderful goodies, the free buses, the
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  Speaker 1: free childcare, the free supermarkets. He was suggesting raising taxes
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  Speaker 1: on the richest of New Yorkers, those who make a
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  Speaker 1: million dollars or more, which in New York sounds like
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  Speaker 1: a lot. If you lived in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, that'd be
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  Speaker 1: a lot. You live in New York and makes you
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  Speaker 1: middle class. And this is what he said about it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've said time and again that I believe
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  Speaker 2: these are the most straightforward ways that we can actually
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  Speaker 2: fund universal childcare, making buses fast and free. And I've
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  Speaker 2: said that the two clear ways to do so raising
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  Speaker 2: personal income taxes on the top one percent by two
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  Speaker 2: percent and raising the corporate tax to match that of
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  Speaker 2: New Jersey's corporate tax of eleven point five percent. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if there are other ways to raise this money to
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  Speaker 2: fund this agenda, the most important things that we fund
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  Speaker 2: the agenda.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, part of the problem there's zuron is if you're
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  Speaker 1: a multi millionaire or billionaire, like your family is. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, where does your family live? Yeah, they live
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  Speaker 1: here in New York. They also live in Uganda. I
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  Speaker 1: bet you they pay their taxes in Uganda and not
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  Speaker 1: in New York. I don't know. I could be totally wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I might be totally wrong. I don't know. I'm conjuring
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  Speaker 1: that up. I'm just saying I would bet somebody should
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  Speaker 1: check into that. Where do you pay there? Where does
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  Speaker 1: the family pay the taxes here in New York or
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  Speaker 1: in Uganda? The problem is in the real world today,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a multi millionaire or billionaire, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to call New York home anymore. You could call, you know,
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  Speaker 1: walk Ashaw your home, pay the taxes there which you're
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  Speaker 1: little to none, and still do business remotely. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to physically be located here anymore. You can fly
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  Speaker 1: back and forth, not live here, and make a good
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  Speaker 1: living and visit New York for the best of it
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  Speaker 1: and not be here to pay the taxes. Governor Kathy
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  Speaker 1: Hochel said of the buses, I cannot set forth a
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  Speaker 1: plan right now that takes money out of a system
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  Speaker 1: that relies on the fares of the buses and the subways. Translation.
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  Speaker 1: We are billions and billions and billions in debt with
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  Speaker 1: the MTA, and you want us to give away seven
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  Speaker 1: hundred million to a billion dollars more in freebees. Ain't
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen. In terms of funding, Mom, dammy shot back, the.
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  Speaker 2: Most important thing is not how we fund it, but
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  Speaker 2: that we fund it. I think these are the most
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  Speaker 2: direct ways to do so. But any funding stream that
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  Speaker 2: would fund these programs, that is one that we would welcome.
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  Speaker 1: So Zoran is saying, here's a stone, let me try
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  Speaker 1: to get blood from it, because it's never been tried before.
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  Speaker 1: Zoron right right seven ten wore the voice of New
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  Speaker 1: York one eight hundred three to two won zero seven ten,
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  Speaker 1: one eight hundred and three to two one zero seven ten.
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  Speaker 1: It's Ken rozottowin from Mark on a Friday. You know,
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  Speaker 1: back about six years ago, fewer than fourteen million Americans
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  Speaker 1: were on food stamps. We call them snap now, so
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  Speaker 1: no one feels bad. Back in the day, you stood
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  Speaker 1: in line, you were handed actual stamps in a book,
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  Speaker 1: and you got to use those stamps in certain food
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  Speaker 1: stores and they could only be used for certain kinds
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  Speaker 1: of food. Well, there's more and more liberal hands got
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  Speaker 1: involved in the process. The program was made as easy
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  Speaker 1: as possible for people so they wouldn't feel embarrassed. And
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  Speaker 1: that's okay. Look, there are certain people who desperately and
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  Speaker 1: genuinely need assistance. And I think if you're like me,
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  Speaker 1: you have a heart. You don't want to see anybody
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  Speaker 1: ever be at need or want for food, and I would.
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  Speaker 1: I would always offer somebody food. Anytime I've had anybody
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  Speaker 1: beg me for money, I always say, listen, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to give you money, but I'll give you food.
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  Speaker 1: All too often they say I don't watch your food,
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  Speaker 1: I want your money. I've had that told to me
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  Speaker 1: right outside Channel seven studios a number of times, but
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  Speaker 1: times people did take me up and I bought them food.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, stamps got replaced eventually by a debit card,
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  Speaker 1: and instead of standing in line, the government just transfers
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  Speaker 1: the money directly into the debit card account. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: during the government shutdown, that all got paused. For the
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  Speaker 1: most part, people got to choose whatever they want in
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  Speaker 1: the food store. As of late well, since Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: took over as president, the number of SNAP recipients went
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  Speaker 1: from fourteen million to over forty two million nationwide. Now
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't just because the need was higher. A good
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  Speaker 1: chunk of that spike came during the pandemic when the
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  Speaker 1: Democrat controlled government urged people to get in on the program.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, under Biden, SNAP benefits were drastically increased, eligibility
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  Speaker 1: was drastically expanded, so of course people took advantage of it.
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  Speaker 1: Biden used executive and legislative actions to do that, and
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  Speaker 1: unlike President Trump, there were no work requirements, so all
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  Speaker 1: you got to do is say I want SNAP and
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  Speaker 1: you got it. That was it. The sad thing is
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  Speaker 1: there are people who genuinely need food assistance, and this
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  Speaker 1: is now costing US hundreds of billions of dollars and sadly,
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  Speaker 1: millions more people glond onto the system at the time,
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  Speaker 1: which caused more financial burden to taxpayers. Literally, one in
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  Speaker 1: eight Americans now receive SNAP benefits. That money gets again
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  Speaker 1: direct deposited into a debit card from the US government,
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  Speaker 1: and now you get people used to it over not
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  Speaker 1: just a month or two, or even a year or two,
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  Speaker 1: but many years, so it becomes part of what they
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  Speaker 1: rely upon. So where does the US money get that
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  Speaker 1: money from. They don't just print it. It comes from
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  Speaker 1: you and me. You and I work, and the money
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  Speaker 1: we earned gets taxed, and from the taxes, those taxes
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  Speaker 1: go to pay programs like that. Again, I'm not talking
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  Speaker 1: about the mother who is alone the spouse left and
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  Speaker 1: left them alone with children. I'm not talking about that.
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  Speaker 1: Those people need this. That's fine, okay, I believe that's
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  Speaker 1: what the program is for, to help them. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about if you are twenty one years old, you
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  Speaker 1: are able bodied, and you choose not to work, or
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  Speaker 1: you choose to work a job part time, and you
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  Speaker 1: SNAP to pay for your food. If you're eighteen to
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  Speaker 1: sixty four and can work, you should and under the
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  Speaker 1: current rules, Trump is simply saying, if you are able
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  Speaker 1: bodied an adult, you don't have dependence, and you are
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  Speaker 1: between the ages of eighteen and sixty four, you must work,
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  Speaker 1: volunteer or participate in training for about twenty hours a week.
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  Speaker 1: That's it, in order to continue getting your benefits. And
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  Speaker 1: what is the response. The response that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people offering a lot of hate for it, saying why
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  Speaker 1: why seven ten wore the voice of New York Ken
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  Speaker 1: Risotto win for Mark. It is Friday and speaking of SNAP,
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  Speaker 1: that program is run under the Department of Agriculture, and
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  Speaker 1: the person in charge of that department is a person
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  Speaker 1: named Secretary Brook Rollins. Well, after Brooke Rollins got into
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  Speaker 1: office in the beginning of the year, she did a
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  Speaker 1: little research and Secretary Rollins, surprise surprise, found there is
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  Speaker 1: an enormous amount of fraud in the SNAP program. With
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  Speaker 1: just a little research, she found five thousand dead people
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  Speaker 1: still receiving SNAP in some cases for years. Who's spending
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  Speaker 1: that money? Aha? She also found at least half a
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  Speaker 1: million people half a million people receiving SNAP benefits twice
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  Speaker 1: under the same name, so they collected. They had two
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  Speaker 1: different debit cards collecting money every month. She said, over
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  Speaker 1: eighty percent of able bodied Americans on these benefits can work,
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  Speaker 1: but choose not to, and that allows taxpayers to foot
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  Speaker 1: the bill. Right, Why should they work if they could
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  Speaker 1: sit back and collect the money. It's human nature. I
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  Speaker 1: almost don't blame them. We're the stupid people allowing it
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Well, apparently there's gonna be some big announcements
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  Speaker 1: next week with a plan to fix all this. You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of angry people, but it's got
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  Speaker 1: to be done. The party is over. Just remember when
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  Speaker 1: more people get back to work, more tax dollars are
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  Speaker 1: generated to help pay down the debt. And how would
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  Speaker 1: you like to have two thousand bucks in your pocket
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  Speaker 1: for doing absolutely not? Hmm. Sounds like a good segue,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it. President Trump says he plans on sending every
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  Speaker 1: American a two thousand dollars dividend check from all the
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  Speaker 1: extra revenues we got from tariffs. White House Press Secretary
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  Speaker 1: of Caroline Levitt announced that on Wednesday. She said that
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  Speaker 1: a team of economic advisors is looking into the logistics
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  Speaker 1: right now how to do it? Did you to give
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  Speaker 1: him a tax credit. Do you send him a check?
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  Speaker 1: Treasury Secretary Scott Besson initially said the payout may just
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  Speaker 1: be like a tax savings under Trump's One Big Beautiful
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  Speaker 1: Bill legislation. But the President said, no, come on, Scott,
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  Speaker 1: send him money, Send him money, loosen up the purse strings.
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  Speaker 1: The President clarified that to suggest that checks might be
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  Speaker 1: in the mail before you know it. And couldn't she
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  Speaker 1: use two thousand bucks around the holidays. And if you
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  Speaker 1: had ten members of your family, that's twenty grand coming
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  Speaker 1: into your household. Everybody would get one, I guess, unless
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's just specifically taxpayers or if
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  Speaker 1: it's every member of the household. All the details to come,
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  Speaker 1: but that would give a nice quick spikee to the economy.
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  Speaker 1: And one last story here seven to ten. W you
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  Speaker 1: know that swarmy smug SOB meaning son of a bumpkin
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Eric Swalwell of California, the guy who was allegedly
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  Speaker 1: having relations with Fang Fang, the Chinese spy or reports
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  Speaker 1: now say that he's been hit with a federal criminal referral. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: he and Letitia have something in common. The allegation is
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  Speaker 1: that he has alleged mortgage and tax fraud related to
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  Speaker 1: his purchase of a one point two million dollar home
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  Speaker 1: in Washington that he claimed as his primary residence. Again,
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  Speaker 1: this is just an allegation at this point. The problem
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  Speaker 1: is it can't be his primary residence if he is
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  Speaker 1: a congressman from California, because California must be his primary
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  Speaker 1: residence to get elected to go serve in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 1: So what is it with the Democrats lying on mortgage
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  Speaker 1: forms to get a discount on their mortgages, their taxes
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  Speaker 1: and insurance. Lying about a home being primary residence when
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  Speaker 1: it's not. That is a federal offense. You're lying at
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  Speaker 1: federal documents. But once again, if this is true, swallwell
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  Speaker 1: as saying, this is nothing more than political retribution, just
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  Speaker 1: like what happened to Letitia James. The problem is people
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  Speaker 1: like Key and Letitia never come forth and deny they
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  Speaker 1: lied on the forms that you say it's political retribution.
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  Speaker 1: If you committed a crime, whether there's political retribution or not,
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  Speaker 1: you are the one responsible because you, in this case,
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  Speaker 1: allegedly committed the crime. Seven ten WR The Voice of
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  Speaker 1: New York. It is Friday. Ken Risotto in for Mark.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be partly cloudy today and if you
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