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Hour 2: SNAP fraud? · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten woor filling
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Speaker 1: in for Mark.
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Speaker 2: Here's Ken Rosatto.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so nice to be with you on a Friday.
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Speaker 3: See Mark has to deal with you Monday, or you
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Speaker 3: have to deal with Mark Marcus to deal with all
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Speaker 3: of us. I listen Monday through Thursday. When you're miserable
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Speaker 3: from time to time on a Friday, and I'm like
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Speaker 3: the lucky grand parent who gets the child in a
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Speaker 3: good mood and then has a child back when the
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Speaker 3: diaper needs to be changed. That's what I am on
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Speaker 3: a Friday. Good to be with you. Former TV news
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Speaker 3: aker from here in New York City, Ken Rosato reporting
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Speaker 3: for duty. You'll probably best remember me from twenty plus
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Speaker 3: We got a lot to talk about today to wrap
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Speaker 3: up the busy newsweek. In our phone lines wide open
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Speaker 3: eight hundred three to two, one zero seven ten, So
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Speaker 3: you hear a lot from police and officials, not only
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Speaker 3: in New York City but around the country talking about how, hey,
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Speaker 3: crime is down. Crime is down here in Chicago even
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Speaker 3: though seven hundred people are arrested this weeknd crime is down.
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Speaker 3: You know what they failed to mention is when you
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Speaker 3: change the laws and you no longer have certain things
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Speaker 3: looked at as crime. When you decide as a district attorney,
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Speaker 3: you will not prosecute these seventy percent of the laws.
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Speaker 3: If people violate them, we will not prosecute them. So
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Speaker 3: you tell your police don't even bother arresting people for
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Speaker 3: those When you dumb down people who are arrested for felonies,
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Speaker 3: you dumb it down to a misdemeanor. Sure, crime appears
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Speaker 3: down when you say that murder in some cases is
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Speaker 3: an accident. You know when things like that happen. Statistically speaking,
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Speaker 3: things look like they're up and up and everything is
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Speaker 3: great and crime is down. The reality is crime is
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Speaker 3: not dropped. Anybody who works for the police department here
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Speaker 3: in New York or anywhere around the country will tell
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Speaker 3: you crime is not down. These statistics are down. Can
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Speaker 3: that's anecdotal. Yeah. Talk to the cops I talk to
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Speaker 3: on a regular basis. I take calls on my show
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Speaker 3: every day. I talk to cops all the time. My
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Speaker 3: dad was a cop. I have a lot of cops
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Speaker 3: in the family. Believe me, crime is not down, and
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Speaker 3: don't let the Democrats fool you and tell you it is.
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Speaker 3: And that's by the way true in Democrat and Republican cities,
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Speaker 3: but more so in blue cities. Because you don't punish people,
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Speaker 3: you let there be a revolving door. They come in
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Speaker 3: and out of the system. Crime just keeps going up
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Speaker 3: and up. Well, Mayor Zoram wants to deploy social workers
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Speaker 3: instead of police, of course, to respond to nine to
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Speaker 3: one one calls, but Apparently the plan's already been operating
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Speaker 3: on a very small level in New York City. They've
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Speaker 3: been testing it quietly and it's been failing miserably. Published
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Speaker 3: reports say early results of a program called be Heard
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Speaker 3: shows it ain't working. Mom Donnie wants to take one
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Speaker 3: point one billion dollars, shifting it to the Department of
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Speaker 3: Community Safety for this send social workers plan. And apparently
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Speaker 3: an audit was done back in May by the city
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Speaker 3: Controller and they determined this thing is a failure. But
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Speaker 3: yet we all got suckered into it, right, We all
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Speaker 3: voted for Mom Donnie, thinking he's going to make things better.
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Speaker 3: We don't need police. We already have members of the
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Speaker 3: NYPD leaving, and just wait until he takes office and
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Speaker 3: the NYPD sees it they don't get protection by this
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Speaker 3: mayor that if it comes down to it, that he's
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Speaker 3: going to turn his back on the NYPD. We hope
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Speaker 3: it doesn't happen, but based on what he has said
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Speaker 3: of police in the past, it's likely going to happen.
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Speaker 3: You know, he out now told us who he is
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Speaker 3: and we just laugh at his head.
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Speaker 4: Die.
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Speaker 3: He's not a social aus, he's not a communists. Come on,
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Speaker 3: you're overreacting. Can you conspiracy theorist? Sob No, he said it.
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Speaker 3: Why shouldn't we believe them? Apparently sixty percent of the
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Speaker 3: calls made under this plan, this be heard as it
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Speaker 3: is called, sixty percent are deemed ineligible in what they tested.
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Speaker 3: More than thirty five percent of the eligible calls from
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Speaker 3: mental health professionals never got a response. And for this,
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Speaker 3: Mam Donnie wants to spend over a billion dollars of
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Speaker 3: your tax payer money. Sadly, I think people are going
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Speaker 3: to get hurt or worse and you'll see crime rising
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Speaker 3: all over the city. Speaking of crime, we had Mayor
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Speaker 3: to be Mam Donnie say this.
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Speaker 5: Police have a critical role to play in creating public safety.
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Speaker 5: And when I speak to those officers on the beat,
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Speaker 5: I hear a frustration from them that we're asking them
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Speaker 5: to do more than just focus on serious crimes. We're
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Speaker 5: asking them to do the work of mental health professionals
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Speaker 5: and social workers, and that reliance on having them deal
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Speaker 5: with almost every failure of the social safety net is
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Speaker 5: making it impossible for them to tackle those crimes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that sounds great from a guy who's never held
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Speaker 3: a job in his life and who sits behind a
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Speaker 3: desk and pushes pencils around. Go out in the just
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Speaker 3: go out for a day with the NYPD and see
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Speaker 3: what they have to deal with, mentally unstable, people who
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Speaker 3: are stoned, people who were drunk. And then you expect
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Speaker 3: them to listen to reason and oh, let's sit down,
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Speaker 3: let's have a nice conversation. Meanwhile, they have weapons. They'll
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Speaker 3: pick up a broken bottle, they'll throw a stone, and
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Speaker 3: we're supposed to just think that'll be fine. You know,
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Speaker 3: someone's going to get hurt. Mayor to be Mamdani unfortunately,
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Speaker 3: and too many people were suckers and bought his whole line.
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Speaker 3: In the meantime, all the promises, all the goodies that
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Speaker 3: Mamdani promised, all these wonderful goodies, the free buses, the
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Speaker 3: free childcare, the free supermarkets. He was suggesting raising taxes
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Speaker 3: on the richest of New Yorkers, those who make a
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Speaker 3: million dollars or more, which in New York sounds like
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Speaker 3: a lot. If you lived in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, that'd be
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Speaker 3: a lot. You live in New York and makes you
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Speaker 3: middle class. And this is what he said about it.
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Speaker 5: You know, I've said time and again that I believe
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Speaker 5: these are the most straightforward ways that we can actually
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Speaker 5: fund universal childcare, making buses fast and free. And I've
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Speaker 5: said that the two clear ways to do so raising
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Speaker 5: personal income taxes on the top one percent by two
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Speaker 5: percent and raising the corporate tax to match that of
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Speaker 5: New Jersey's corporate tax of eleven point five percent. Now,
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Speaker 5: if there are other ways to raise this money to
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Speaker 5: fund this agenda, the most important thing is that we
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Speaker 5: fund the agenda.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Part of the problem there, iss Zuran is if
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Speaker 3: you're a multimillionaire or billionaire, like your family is. By
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Speaker 3: the way, where does your family live?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: They live here in New York. They also live in Uganda.
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Speaker 3: I bet you they pay their taxes in Uganda and
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Speaker 3: not in New York.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I could be totally wrong. I might be totally wrong.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm conjuring that up. I'm just saying
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Speaker 3: I would bet somebody should check into that.
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Speaker 2: Where do you pay there?
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Speaker 3: Where does the family pay the taxes here in New
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Speaker 3: York or in Uganda? The problem is in the real
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Speaker 3: world today, if you're a multimillionaire or billionaire, you don't
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Speaker 3: have to call New York home anymore. You could call,
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Speaker 3: you know, walk Ashaw your home, pay the taxes there
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Speaker 3: which you're little to none, uh, and still do business remotely.
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Speaker 3: You don't have to physically be located here anymore. You
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Speaker 3: can fly back and forth, not live here, and make
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Speaker 3: a good living and visit New York for the best
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Speaker 3: of it and not be here to pay the taxes.
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Speaker 3: Governor Kathy Hochel said of the buses, I cannot.
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Speaker 7: Set forth a plan right now that takes money out
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Speaker 7: of a system that relies on the fares of the
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Speaker 7: buses and the subways.
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Speaker 3: Translation, we are billions and billions and billions in debt
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Speaker 3: with the MTA, and you want us to give away
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Speaker 3: seven hundred million to a billion dollars more in freebies.
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Speaker 3: Ain't gonna happen. In terms of funding, Mom, dammy shot back.
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Speaker 5: The most important thing is not how we fund it,
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Speaker 5: but that we fund it. I think these are the
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Speaker 5: most direct ways to do so. But any funding stream
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Speaker 5: that would fund these programs, that is one that we
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Speaker 5: would welcome.
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Speaker 3: So Zoran is saying, here's a stone, let me try
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Speaker 3: to get blood from it, because it's never been tried before.
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Speaker 3: Zoron right right, seven to ten wore the Voice of
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Speaker 3: New York one eight hundred three to two won zero
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Speaker 3: seven ten, one eight hundred three to two, one zero
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Speaker 3: seven ten. It's Ken rizzottowin from Mark on a Friday.
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Speaker 3: You know, back about six years ago, fewer than fourteen
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Speaker 3: million Americans who were on food stamps. We call them
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Speaker 3: snap now, so no one feels bad. Back in the day,
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Speaker 3: you stood in line, you were handed actual stamps in
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Speaker 3: a book, and you got to use those stamps in
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Speaker 3: certain food stores, and they could only be used for
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Speaker 3: certain kinds of food. Well, there's more and more liberal
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Speaker 3: hands got involved in the process. The program was made
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Speaker 3: as easy as possible for people so they wouldn't feel embarrassed.
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Speaker 3: And that's okay. Look, there are certain people who desperately
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Speaker 3: and genuinely need assistance. And I think, if you're like me,
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Speaker 3: you have a heart. You don't want to see anybody
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Speaker 3: ever be at need or want for food. And I would.
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Speaker 3: I would always offer somebody food. Anytime I've had anybody
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Speaker 3: beg me for money, I always say, listen, I'm not
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Speaker 3: going to give you money, but I'll give you food.
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Speaker 3: All too often they say, I don't watch your food,
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Speaker 3: I want your money. I've had that told to me
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Speaker 3: right outside Channel seven studios a number of times, but
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Speaker 3: the few times people did take me up and I
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Speaker 3: bought them food. So anyway, stamps got replaced eventually by
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Speaker 3: a debit card, and instead of standing in line, the
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Speaker 3: government just transfers the money directly into the debit card account.
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Speaker 3: Of course, during the government's shutdown, that all got paused.
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Speaker 3: For the most part, people got to choose whatever they
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Speaker 3: want in the food store. As of late, well, since
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Speaker 3: Joe Biden took over as president, the number of SNAP
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Speaker 3: recipients went from fourteen million to over forty two million nationwide.
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Speaker 3: Now it wasn't just because the need was higher. A
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Speaker 3: good chunk of that spike came during the pandemic, when
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Speaker 3: the Democrat controlled government urged people to get in on
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Speaker 3: the program. In fact, under Biden, SNAP benefits were drastically increased,
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Speaker 3: eligibility was drastically expanded, so of course people took advantage
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Speaker 3: of it. Biden used executive and legislative actions to do that,
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Speaker 3: and unlike President Trump, there were no work requirements, so
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Speaker 3: all you got to do is say I want SNAP
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Speaker 3: and you got it. That was it. The sad thing
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Speaker 3: is there are people who genuinely need food assistance, and
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Speaker 3: this is now costing US hundreds of billions of dollars,
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Speaker 3: and sadly, millions more people glond onto the system at
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Speaker 3: the time, which caused more financial burden to taxpayers. Literally,
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Speaker 3: one in eight Americans now receive SNAP benefits. That money
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Speaker 3: gets again direct deposited into a debit card from the
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Speaker 3: US government, and now you get people used to it
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Speaker 3: over not just a month or two, or even a
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Speaker 3: year or two, but many years, so it becomes part
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Speaker 3: of what they rely upon. So where does the US
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Speaker 3: money get that money from. They don't just print it.
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Speaker 3: It comes from you and me. You and I work,
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Speaker 3: and the money we earned gets taxed, and from the taxes,
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Speaker 3: those taxes go to pay programs like that. Again, I'm
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Speaker 3: not talking about the mother who is alone the spouse
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Speaker 3: left and left them alone with children. I'm not talking
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Speaker 3: about that. Those people need this, That's fine, okay, I
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Speaker 3: believe that's what the program is for, to help them.
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Speaker 3: But I'm talking about if you are twenty one years old,
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Speaker 3: you are able bodied, and you choose not to work,
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Speaker 3: or you choose to work a job part time, and
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Speaker 3: you SNAP to pay for your food. If you're eighteen
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Speaker 3: to sixty four and can work, you should. And under
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Speaker 3: the current rules, Trump is simply saying, if you are
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Speaker 3: able bodied, an adult, you don't have dependents, and you
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Speaker 3: are between the ages of eighteen and sixty four, you
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Speaker 3: must work, volunteer or participate in training for about twenty
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Speaker 3: hours a week. That's it, in order to continue getting
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Speaker 3: your benefits. And what is the response. The response that
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Speaker 3: a lot of people offering a lot of hate for it,
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Speaker 3: saying why why? Seven ten wr the Voice of New
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Speaker 3: York Ken Rosatto in for Mark. It is Friday and
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Speaker 3: speaking of SNAP. That program is run under the Department
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Speaker 3: of Agriculture, and the person in charge of that department
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Speaker 3: is a person named Secretary Brook Rollins. Well after Brooke
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Speaker 3: Rollins got into office in the beginning of the year,
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Speaker 3: she did a little research and Secretary Rollins, surprise surprise,
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Speaker 3: found there is an enormous amount of fraud in the
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Speaker 3: SNAP program. With just a little research, she found five
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Speaker 3: thousand dead people still receiving SNAP in some cases for years.
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Speaker 3: Who's spending that money? Aha? She also found at least
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Speaker 3: half a million people half a million people receiving SNAP
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Speaker 3: benefits twice under the same name, so they collected they
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Speaker 3: had two different debit cards, collecting money every month. She said.
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Speaker 3: Over eighty percent of able bodied Americans on these benefits
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Speaker 3: can work, but choose not to, and that allows taxpayers
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Speaker 3: to foot the bill. Right, Why should they work if
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Speaker 3: they could sit back and collect the money. It's human nature.
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Speaker 3: I almost don't blame them. We're the stupid people allowing
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Speaker 3: it to happen. Well, apparently there's gonna be some big
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Speaker 3: announcements next week with a plan to fix all this.
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Speaker 3: You're gonna have a lot of angry people, but it's
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Speaker 3: got to be done. The party is over. Just remember,
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Speaker 3: when more people get back to work, more tax dollars
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Speaker 3: are generated to help pay down the debt. And how
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Speaker 3: would you like to have two thousand bucks in your
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Speaker 3: pocket for doing absolutely noting? Hmm. Sounds like a good segue,
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Speaker 3: doesn't it. President Trump says he plans on sending every
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Speaker 3: American a two thousand dollars dividend check from all the
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Speaker 3: extra revenues we got from tariffs. White House Press Secretary
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Speaker 3: Caroline Leavitt announced that on Wednesday. She said that a
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Speaker 3: team of economic advisors is looking into the logistics right now,
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Speaker 3: how to do it? Did you to give him a
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Speaker 3: tax credit? Do you send him a check? Treasury Secretary
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Speaker 3: Scott Besson initially said the payout may just be, you know,
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Speaker 3: like a tax savings under Trump's one Big Beautiful Bill legislation.
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Speaker 3: But the President said, no, come on, Scott, send him money,
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Speaker 3: Send him money, loosen up the purse strings. The President
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Speaker 3: clarified that to suggest that checks might be in the
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Speaker 3: mail before you know it. And couldn't she use two
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Speaker 3: thousand bucks around the holidays? And if you had ten
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Speaker 3: members of your family, that's twenty grand coming into your household.
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Speaker 3: Everybody would get one, I guess, unless I'm not sure
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Speaker 3: if it's just specifically taxpayers or if it's every member
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Speaker 3: of the household. All the details to come, but that
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Speaker 3: would give a nice quick spike to the economy. And
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Speaker 3: one last story here seven to ten. W you know
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Speaker 3: that swarmy smug SOB meaning son of a bumpkin Congressman
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Speaker 3: Eric Swalwell of California, the guy who was allegedly having
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Speaker 3: relations with Fang Fang, the Chinese spy or reports now
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Speaker 3: say that he's been hit with a federal criminal referral Yep,
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Speaker 3: he and Letitia I have something in common. The allegation
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Speaker 3: is that he has alleged mortgage and tax fraud related
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Speaker 3: to his purchase of a one point two million dollar
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Speaker 3: home in Washington that he claimed as his primary residence. Again,
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Speaker 3: this is just an allegation at this point. The problem
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Speaker 3: is it can't be his primary residence if he is
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Speaker 3: a congressman from California, because California must be his primary
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Speaker 3: residence to get elected to go serve in Washington, d C.
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Speaker 3: So what is it with the Democrats lying on mortgage
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Speaker 3: forms to get a discount on their mortgages, their taxes
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Speaker 3: and insurance. Lying about a home being primary residence when
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Speaker 3: it's not. That is a federal offect. You're lying at
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Speaker 3: federal documents. But once again, if this is true, Swallwell
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Speaker 3: is saying this is nothing more than political retribution, just
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Speaker 3: like what happened to Letitia James. The problem is people
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Speaker 3: like he and Letitia never come forth and deny they
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Speaker 3: lied on the forms that you say it's political retribution.
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Speaker 3: If you committed a crime, whether there's political retribution or not,
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Speaker 3: you are the one responsible because you, in this case
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Speaker 3: allegedly committed the crime. Seven ten wr The Voice of
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Speaker 1: To Mark Simone show on seven ten wr Inn from
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Speaker 1: Mark Today.
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Speaker 3: Here's Ken Rose and did we with you on a Friday?
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Speaker 3: Straight to our busy phones, we go to our friend
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Speaker 3: Vincent in Brooklyn. Good morning, Vincent, Ken.
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Speaker 8: Can you hear me?
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Speaker 3: I sure?
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Speaker 2: Ken?
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Speaker 8: Okay, Ken, I heard the real estate expert that you
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Speaker 8: just had on your show. Ken, Me and my family
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Speaker 8: have been in the real estate business for ninety five
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Speaker 8: years in New York City. There wasn't at one time,
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Speaker 8: there wasn't a neighborhood where my grandfather owned or owned
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Speaker 8: in the past house. He bought his first apartment building
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Speaker 8: two weeks before the Great Depression. One of the biggest
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Speaker 8: drivers of the high rents in New York City is
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Speaker 8: you can't have twenty million immigrants come into this country,
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Speaker 8: and a lot of them are going to the big
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Speaker 8: blue cities like New York, Chicago, La Boston. They also
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Speaker 8: apartments that used to be let's say marginal. Let's say
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Speaker 8: apartments that ah, they were like a let's put it
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Speaker 8: this way. They would be considered starter apartments. There would
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Speaker 8: be an apartment that you rented when you first got
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Speaker 8: out of school, or you first got married or whatever,
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Speaker 8: and then you'd work your way up. Now those apartments
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Speaker 8: are considered high end. That people are not building new
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Speaker 8: buildings here because of all the regulations. Every month there's
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Speaker 8: a new regulation I have to comply with. The newest
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Speaker 8: one was a number of years ago, about ten years ago,
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Speaker 8: there was the lead paint certification. Right, Okay, when you
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Speaker 8: went apartment, you had to certify that there were no
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Speaker 8: children under six years old. There was no lead paint.
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Speaker 8: Everything was either ripped out or painted over, which makes
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Speaker 8: the lead innocuous. Now, recently, two weeks ago, I got
17:51
Speaker 8: an email from the City of New York saying that
17:54
Speaker 8: I have to prove in advance that there's no.
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Speaker 2: Lead supposed to do that.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, here's the here's the can.
18:04
Speaker 8: You have to call up a lead of batement company
18:07
Speaker 8: and they come down and every inch of your house
18:11
Speaker 8: they inspect for lead, paint, vapors, lead paint, lead and
18:16
Speaker 8: paint hasn't been used in a hundred years.
18:19
Speaker 9: The only place. And I used to work in a
18:21
Speaker 9: steel factory sixty or sixty years ago where we used
18:25
Speaker 9: to make fuel tanks for gas nations and for apartment buildings.
18:29
Speaker 9: When they would come off the assembly line, me and
18:32
Speaker 9: this other kid. He was on the right side and
18:34
Speaker 9: I was on the left side, and we have buckets
18:37
Speaker 9: of red oxide primate paith and we would paint the
18:41
Speaker 9: it's anton corrosive anthe we would paint the tanks and
18:45
Speaker 9: then when they were shipped out, the landlord or whomever
18:48
Speaker 9: would paint them.
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Speaker 8: What are the color you want? That's the only place
18:53
Speaker 8: where it was found. So now when I got this letter,
18:56
Speaker 8: I called up some letter batement companies. They want two
19:01
Speaker 8: hundred and seventy five dollars per apartment. She we'll certify
19:06
Speaker 8: that you don't have lead vapors over a certain amount
19:10
Speaker 8: of million.
19:11
Speaker 3: And Vincent, I don't mean to step up the only
19:13
Speaker 3: because it's almost news time at Vincent, I guarantee there
19:16
Speaker 3: are only certain people who qualify to do that job.
19:18
Speaker 3: And I wonder what their connection is with the officials.
19:20
Speaker 3: I'm just saying I don't know. But here I'm gonna
19:22
Speaker 3: leave you with this. Vincent, could you will appreciate this?
19:25
Speaker 3: I saw this story that I thought of you last night.
19:28
Speaker 3: When I read this story, New York City will see
19:31
Speaker 3: a wave of apartment buildings with ninety nine units. Did
19:34
Speaker 3: you hear this? So apparently there's a new tax program.
19:37
Speaker 3: New York City developers have hit a fresh snag and
19:40
Speaker 3: trying to solve the city's housing process. It's a new
19:42
Speaker 3: tax program that costs them extra money if they build
19:45
Speaker 3: a building that has one hundred apartments or more. So
19:48
Speaker 3: what are they doing to save? And it's a lot
19:49
Speaker 3: of money. So they're capping it off at ninety nine.
19:52
Speaker 3: So now you're gonna get like thousands of apartment buildings
19:55
Speaker 3: with ninety nine units or less as a result. Here
19:58
Speaker 3: they want to solve that housing process, the housing crisis
20:02
Speaker 3: in New York City. But yet they impost penalties on
20:05
Speaker 3: landlords who want to build buildings with one hundred units
20:08
Speaker 3: or more. So why bother doing it? This is the Left.
20:12
Speaker 3: They always cut off their noses despite their faces. Vincent,
20:15
Speaker 3: you know, I love talking to you, my friend. Have
20:16
Speaker 3: a wonderful weekend. Enjoy it. Ah, my goodness. All right,
20:19
Speaker 3: we're going to talk about ID. Coming up. It is Friday,
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Speaker 3: Ken Rosato and from Mark. In just minutes from now,
20:25
Speaker 3: we will speak with brand and digital strategist Fisher about
20:29
Speaker 3: a new easy way to get through the airport using
20:32
Speaker 3: your phone instead of a passport, and then we're going
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Speaker 3: to hit on the issue of digital ID. Seven ten
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Speaker 1: The marximone show on seven to ten woor filling in
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Speaker 1: for Mark.
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Speaker 2: Here again is Ken Rosado had.
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Speaker 3: A good Friday to Here's seven ten woar. The voice
20:51
Speaker 3: of New York and whether it's this morning is a
20:53
Speaker 3: man who's on a TV show that I get to
20:54
Speaker 3: do each day on the streaming channel on New Jersey.
20:57
Speaker 3: Brand and digital specialists and strategist Fisher, who can be
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Speaker 3: found on X and threads with username at Fisher and
21:04
Speaker 3: through his website Fisher dot Media to talk about digital
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Speaker 3: ID and how iPhone users can add a digital version
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Speaker 3: of their passport to their iPhones, and then, in a
21:15
Speaker 3: very different version of the story, how the EU and
21:17
Speaker 3: UK are requiring citizens there to have a very different
21:21
Speaker 3: and much more potentially dangerous version of digital ID. Good
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Speaker 3: morning to you, Fisher, Good morning. A lot of pressure there, Yeah,
21:28
Speaker 3: I don't have too high a bar for you. So
21:30
Speaker 3: let's let's let's talk about the practical and safe use
21:34
Speaker 3: of digital ID. And that's the Apple version. Apple has
21:38
Speaker 3: this really cool feature now, digital ID for wallet.
21:41
Speaker 7: Yeah, and Google has the same. With both Apple Wallet
21:45
Speaker 7: and Google Wallet.
21:46
Speaker 2: You can now.
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Speaker 7: Load your passport, your United States passport into this wallet.
21:51
Speaker 7: And if you've used Apple Pay, and if you're in
21:53
Speaker 7: the city, you've used it probably on the subway, rider
21:56
Speaker 7: buses with omni. So it's really easy, really simple. You
22:00
Speaker 7: double click a button on the side of your watch
22:02
Speaker 7: or your phone, you tap to pay. The idea is
22:05
Speaker 7: the same thing. And what's great about this and it's
22:07
Speaker 7: you know, New York has its driver's license in an app.
22:10
Speaker 7: At this point, New Jersey's pass legislation to have their
22:13
Speaker 7: driver's license mobile Connecticut and Pennsylvania is still up in
22:16
Speaker 7: the air as to where that is. Having your passport
22:20
Speaker 7: allows you to go through the airport using an ID
22:24
Speaker 7: where you can tap and if you've been to an
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Speaker 7: airport lately, you have your regular lines, you have your
22:28
Speaker 7: TSA pre check lines, you have your clear you have
22:30
Speaker 7: all that, but there's a digital ID line and normally
22:33
Speaker 7: they do facial recognition, and some people don't like that.
22:36
Speaker 7: They don't want the government to take your picture, even
22:38
Speaker 7: though they're deleted afterwards. It's just verification. But now having
22:42
Speaker 7: your passport in your phone, and most people have a
22:45
Speaker 7: passport in one way or another, you can use that
22:48
Speaker 7: digital ID even if you don't have a you're in
22:51
Speaker 7: a state New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania that does not have
22:54
Speaker 7: a digital driver's license, so it's really convenient. It's also
22:57
Speaker 7: a convenient backup right of you say you've you're traveling
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Speaker 7: and you lost it, you get to a checkpoint at
23:05
Speaker 7: the airport, whatever, you could begin that process of easily
23:08
Speaker 7: easily or easier verifying your identification. So it really opens
23:13
Speaker 7: up now having it on Apple on the iPhone and
23:17
Speaker 7: your Apple Watch and having it in your Google Wallet,
23:20
Speaker 7: of being able to have a standard identification that you
23:23
Speaker 7: can use at all these airports, and then eventually what
23:25
Speaker 7: comes down the line is the ability to verify your
23:28
Speaker 7: identity on your phone or your age. So say you're
23:31
Speaker 7: ordering from Uber Eats and you need to want to
23:35
Speaker 7: order a bottle of wine for Thanksgiving dinner and you
23:38
Speaker 7: need to verify your age, you would be able to
23:41
Speaker 7: do that eventually digitally. So again, you know, there's I
23:45
Speaker 7: know what we're going to go into, but having a
23:48
Speaker 7: digital version of your driver's license or a digital version
23:51
Speaker 7: of your passport isn't as scary as what might be
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Speaker 7: going on in other countries where they're doing national digital ideas.
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Speaker 3: Let me just remind folks, you're listening to seven ten
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Speaker 3: wore the Voice of New York Ken Rosotto and from
24:04
Speaker 3: Mark Simone on a Friday, and we are speaking to Fisher,
24:07
Speaker 3: who is a brand and digital strategist. We're talking about
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Speaker 3: having your passport now on your iPhone or your Android.
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Speaker 3: I found myself the other day. I had driven from
24:16
Speaker 3: Jersey to visit folks in Westchester, and while I was
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Speaker 3: halfway there, I realized, oh my god, I left my
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Speaker 3: wallet at home. But I remembered I have my driver's
24:24
Speaker 3: license in my phone, so at least rather than turning
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Speaker 3: around and going home, I just continued on my way.
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Speaker 3: And I also have a credit card on my phone,
24:31
Speaker 3: so I could tap and use that. But being fifty eight,
24:34
Speaker 3: like I still had a paddic attack not having my wallet.
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Speaker 3: Now we talked about this is the positive right when
24:39
Speaker 3: you use your you have your license on your phone.
24:42
Speaker 3: In New York, New Jersey, all they can do is
24:45
Speaker 3: have access when I say they police or whatever if
24:48
Speaker 3: you got stopped, they only have access to the info
24:51
Speaker 3: on your license with a tap.
24:52
Speaker 2: Correct, correct.
24:54
Speaker 7: So what happens is and eventually as this becomes a
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Speaker 7: standard right and digital IDs begin to roll out across
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Speaker 7: the state. Right now, only twelve states and Puerto Rico
25:05
Speaker 7: have a driver's license vailable in your Apple wallets. Some
25:07
Speaker 7: other states, like I said, New York, Oklahoma, they have
25:09
Speaker 7: their own app. But eventually what will happen is you
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Speaker 7: go to We'll start easy. You go to a bar
25:15
Speaker 7: or a restaurant and again need to verify ID whether
25:18
Speaker 7: you're to get in or at the bar. You would
25:21
Speaker 7: just tap your ID to a reader and it would
25:24
Speaker 7: only give the information needed. So if your picture say
25:27
Speaker 7: that you're over twenty one whatever, that is right, if
25:30
Speaker 7: you get pulled over by an officer, they would have
25:33
Speaker 7: a reader on them. I know there's a lot of
25:34
Speaker 7: skepticism of well, don't hand your the police officer your phone.
25:38
Speaker 3: Absolutely, don't hand anybody your phone.
25:41
Speaker 7: But what they will eventually have is just a reader,
25:43
Speaker 7: probably a small little you know, reader on their vest
25:46
Speaker 7: or on a clipboard or something, and you'll just tap
25:49
Speaker 7: it. It'll only show the information that they need. No obviously,
25:51
Speaker 7: as a police officer, they will probably have your picture,
25:54
Speaker 7: date of birth, you know, driver's license class, you know
25:58
Speaker 7: whether you can drive an eighteen wheel or motorcycle, et cetera.
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Speaker 7: There'll probably be some information. And when you go to
26:02
Speaker 7: tsa same thing. When you tap your phone, it'll give
26:05
Speaker 7: the information needed to verify. You know, it's a real ID,
26:08
Speaker 7: your again, your picture, your name, all of that right
26:11
Speaker 7: to match your ticket. So yes, it is a permission based,
26:16
Speaker 7: you know, kind of identification. So you you only show
26:19
Speaker 7: the information that that we.
26:21
Speaker 3: Had talked about that in the bests. My fear was, oh,
26:23
Speaker 3: you hand your officer the phone and now he could
26:25
Speaker 3: go through and he'll find something well, what's that and
26:28
Speaker 3: you say that can't happen. You do not hand them
26:30
Speaker 3: the phone. It's just a tap. They would have a reader,
26:33
Speaker 3: just like restaurants have a reader when you go to peg.
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Speaker 7: Right, yeah, and it's right that or Omni some I'm
26:39
Speaker 7: not as familiar with the with Google as I am Apple,
26:42
Speaker 7: because as you know, I'm an Apple fanboy. But I
26:45
Speaker 7: have Express Transit, so I tap when I go to
26:47
Speaker 7: the subway. But sometimes you have to double tap, you know,
26:50
Speaker 7: or a double click on the side of your phone
26:52
Speaker 7: and then tap that way, depending on how you have
26:54
Speaker 7: your phone set up. It's the same thing. And when
26:56
Speaker 7: you go to TSA with your passport on your iowas
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Speaker 7: or Google device, Android device, same thing. You would double
27:03
Speaker 7: tap or double click your phone. It would show the ID.
27:07
Speaker 7: You tap it to their reader and then you wait
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Speaker 7: for you know, to verify and then you walk through TSA.
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Speaker 3: And we have two minutes left, so just giving the
27:14
Speaker 3: heads up on that. You are listening to seven ten
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Speaker 3: w R the Voice of New York kens In from
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Speaker 3: Mark on a Friday with Fisher who is a digital strategist,
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Speaker 3: and Fisher talk about the difference between the digital ID.
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Speaker 3: We're talking about here in the US and now the
27:27
Speaker 3: digital ID which gives me the creeps, the big brother
27:29
Speaker 3: version that they have in the EU and in UK exactly.
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Speaker 7: So in Britain they are doing a mandatory digital ID
27:36
Speaker 7: system by twenty twenty nine. They're saying it's to combat
27:39
Speaker 7: illegal working and deter migrants, but it's going to serve
27:42
Speaker 7: as your proof of right to work. It's going to
27:46
Speaker 7: eventually be a way that you can get insurance, buy
27:48
Speaker 7: a house, renting property, opening a bank account, all of that.
27:51
Speaker 7: And as you know you might have heard in China
27:54
Speaker 7: they use they have social credits right, so if you
27:57
Speaker 7: do something or say something, you can be restricted from
28:01
Speaker 7: gaining access to something. That's what Britain's going down the
28:03
Speaker 7: path to is you may not be able to ride
28:05
Speaker 7: the tube or you may not be able to take
28:07
Speaker 7: a plane because you wouldn't be able to get through
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Speaker 7: you know, their version of TSA. It is going down
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Speaker 7: a path of big Brother. And that again is in
28:15
Speaker 7: the UK. It is not the same as digital driver's
28:18
Speaker 7: license or your passport on your phone that we have
28:21
Speaker 7: here in the United States.
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Speaker 3: Something that something tells me the mom dnnis of the
28:25
Speaker 3: world wish it could go that.
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Speaker 7: Way though I would, Yes, I'm sure it would, but
28:30
Speaker 7: it would be in England. It's more like you're on
28:33
Speaker 7: a college campus and you have your idea and you
28:35
Speaker 7: tap it to go everywhere and get into everything. It's
28:37
Speaker 7: that same premise compared to what we have here in
28:40
Speaker 7: the United States, which is not that.
28:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then your ID gets stolen in Britain and
28:44
Speaker 3: then you your screws. Yeah.
28:47
Speaker 7: And if that's right, and we talked about that, if
28:49
Speaker 7: that's a way for you to access your bank account
28:51
Speaker 7: and that ID accesses everything, if that does get you know,
28:57
Speaker 7: hacked in some way in Britain, that can cause a
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Speaker 7: lot of problems because that's one ID for everything that's bad.
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Speaker 3: All right, Well, I love talking to you all the
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Speaker 3: time because you are the man in the no brand
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Speaker 3: and digital strategist Fisher who can be found on x
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Speaker 3: and threads with user name at Fisher and through his
29:14
Speaker 3: website Fisher dot Media, which by the way, I have
29:16
Speaker 3: checked out. It's very cool. Thank you for coming on
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Speaker 3: this morning, Fisher. Thanks talk to you, Larry. You bet
29:21
Speaker 3: it's Ken Rozato went from Mark on your Friday. When
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Speaker 8: And good to be with you.
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Speaker 3: This is a special weekend in my family. I have
29:44
Speaker 3: to take one second, please indulge me. I want to
29:46
Speaker 3: say a very special happy birthday. I have a little
29:49
Speaker 3: great nephew who turns three. Looky, happy birthday. My niece Lauren,
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Speaker 3: my sister law Carolyn, all have birthdays. And my dad,
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Speaker 3: who I'm very blessed to still have with us, he
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Speaker 3: turns ninety five on Sundays, so we're all going to
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Speaker 3: be with everybody. Actually the whole family will be together.
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Speaker 3: But happy ninety fifth to my dad Danny, and also
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Speaker 3: happy belated Veterans Day to him. He was a marine
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Speaker 3: sergeant and very proud to be so happy birthday to them.
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Speaker 6: Good morning, all right, Ken, And I'll just tell everybody
30:25
Speaker 6: that foreign countries like China, Russia, guitar Saudi Arabia amongst
30:29
Speaker 6: many countries. They pour billions of dollars into America through
30:33
Speaker 6: lobbying and business deals. And the first thing those countries
30:37
Speaker 6: say is keep your boarders wide open and increase immigration
30:41
Speaker 6: war and they're flooding it. They have the biggest influence.
30:44
Speaker 6: I hear elderly people calling in. They want to know
30:46
Speaker 6: who's bringing all the money in. Well, they're bringing it
30:48
Speaker 6: in and they're gaining citizenship. Millions of Third worlds have
30:52
Speaker 6: come in to America and millions of a third world
30:55
Speaker 6: is both third world American hating candidates like the Communists
30:59
Speaker 6: mayor elective New York City folks, you shittn't Act Surprise,
31:03
Speaker 6: nineteen sixty five Immigration Act has to go.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's amazing. We have tons of great immigrants.
31:09
Speaker 3: Unfortunately the ones that came illegally did not start the
31:12
Speaker 3: process the right way. The ones who came legally, God
31:15
Speaker 3: bless them, and they helped build a great country. But
31:19
Speaker 3: doing it the legal ways the way we got to
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Speaker 3: do it. Steve, thank you so much. I appreciate the call.
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Speaker 3: Let's go to Glenn in New Jersey. Glenn Good morning,
31:29
Speaker 3: Good morning, Ken.
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Speaker 4: I have a new jersey to the driver's license. Now,
31:32
Speaker 4: employers are prohibited to asking your data birth on an application,
31:38
Speaker 4: but sometimes what they'll do is they'll say, this job
31:41
Speaker 4: entails driving, and we need to just have your driver's
31:44
Speaker 4: license number. We don't need to actually look at it.
31:49
Speaker 4: We're breaking up identify you. The first two is the year,
31:54
Speaker 4: your month, the second is your year of birth, and
31:57
Speaker 4: the last is your eye color.
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Speaker 3: Interesting. Interesting, So you think they could glean a lot
32:03
Speaker 3: from that, right by kind of reading around the lines there.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, because now they know how old you are, and
32:11
Speaker 4: if you're too old based upon your driver's license number,
32:15
Speaker 4: you're not going to get the job.
32:16
Speaker 3: Interesting, So it's age discrimination without saying it's a discrimination, right,
32:20
Speaker 3: Very clever, that's the way it's done well, you know.
32:23
Speaker 3: But again, though, you would think California would have exercised
32:27
Speaker 3: the same caution before they gave out, say, commercial driver's
32:30
Speaker 3: licenses to people who weren't citizens of the United States. Glenn,
32:34
Speaker 3: we appreciate the call. Thank you very much for calling
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