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The Lee Elci Show | 8.31.26 · The Lee Elci Show

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  Speaker 1: Good morning. This is 94.9 News Now and Stimulating Talk.
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  Speaker 1: of politics in Connecticut. And then we're going to have
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  Speaker 1: Both people will be live in studio. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: start out today talking about the scandal of the HP1 program. First,
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  Speaker 1: my name is George Agnelli. I own a couple businesses
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  Speaker 1: up in the Glastonbury area. I fill in for Gary Byron,
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  Speaker 1: the country. And I'll take your calls. I'll take your criticisms.
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  Speaker 1: I'll take a good debate any time you want to
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  Speaker 1: call in. The number is 860-464-9490. My name, again, is
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  Speaker 1: George Agnelli. So this HP1 scandal that's going on that
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  Speaker 1: has been figured out appears to be a conflict between
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  Speaker 1: two separate concepts, Hamashi-Parashi private university fake degree scandal in
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  Speaker 1: India and corporate subscriptions like Hewlett-Packard's Instant Inc. However, the
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  Speaker 1: phrase really goes back to the north side of Himalaya Padash,
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  Speaker 1: where there is just a huge scandal at these universities. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: small universities in India found there were only 5,000 genuine
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  Speaker 1: degrees given out by the college, and 36,000 were completely fake.
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  Speaker 1: And so what has happened is you paid $ 4, 000 American.
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  Speaker 1: To these colleges, and they gave you degrees. They backdated
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  Speaker 1: you so you look like you graduated. They even built
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  Speaker 1: your resume to help you out, and then you had
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  Speaker 1: to pay 20% of your salary back to them. The
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  Speaker 1: Revenue Indians Enforcement Director, E.D., determined that this single university
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  Speaker 1: generated over $ 46 million U.S. dollars over the last 11 years.
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  Speaker 1: And Trump is about to yank 200,000 visas that have
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  Speaker 1: graduated from these colleges in India. And what they're planning
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  Speaker 1: on doing is, you know, how do you do this?
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  Speaker 1: You come here and you lie to your wife, probably
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  Speaker 1: have a couple kids, you.
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  Speaker 2: Own a house. Oh, I'm an engineer. I'm this.
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  Speaker 1: I met you on a dating site and you got
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  Speaker 1: married now and you have kids and everything you did
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  Speaker 1: in your background is completely false. So how does this
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  Speaker 1: how is this going to work out? We're going to
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  Speaker 1: be losing 200000 people that were not qualified that took
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  Speaker 1: American jobs. You know, when you start thinking about all
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  Speaker 1: these different things that that happened in this, your mind
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  Speaker 1: just spins that they are able to figure out 4040.
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  Speaker 1: It's a 45 million dollar scam. So they also had
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  Speaker 1: ghost offices and sham companies set up fake entities or
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  Speaker 1: nonexistent projects solely to file lottery and visa applications. And
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  Speaker 1: so basically what they did was they made a background
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  Speaker 1: that you worked in engineering, you had a job, you
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  Speaker 1: worked for a certain company, and the company never even existed,
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  Speaker 1: but you had an 800 number to call, and you
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  Speaker 1: had somebody behind the computer that actually answered the phone,
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  Speaker 1: had your resume, could tell how great of a person
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  Speaker 1: you were, By the resume they actually made up.
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  Speaker 2: And they were doing this.
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  Speaker 1: And they kept American workers on the bench. And it
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  Speaker 1: just hurt unbelievably. And they submitted multiple coordinating registrations for
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  Speaker 1: single applicants to unfairly boost selection odds. So if you
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  Speaker 1: read in the paper that, oh, I need an engineering
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  Speaker 1: degree in computer science, they built your system. Resume and
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  Speaker 1: your college and all your experience basically for that job,
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  Speaker 1: taking it away from an American person. And they basically
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  Speaker 1: helped you learn. And then the big thing is they
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  Speaker 1: did wage kickbacks. They had to return part of their
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  Speaker 1: legal salary back to the person that did this whole
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  Speaker 1: program for them. So they're using fake academic degrees and
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  Speaker 1: falsifying job histories to meet specialized skill thresholds. So if
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  Speaker 1: you look at all this stuff, you know, and this
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  Speaker 1: is just amazing the amount of fraud that's going on
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  Speaker 1: between the universities, between the built scan.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you just think about this.
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  Speaker 1: If they actually put their mind to good work, what
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  Speaker 1: they would have done great for the for India and
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  Speaker 1: for the United States. I just don't see how this is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, going to going to crack down. But it's
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  Speaker 1: not going to be good because there's going to be 200,000
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  Speaker 1: job openings in the United States and there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be jobs to fill there. And we're not going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to use this HB1 to help fill jobs
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  Speaker 1: that we do need because we won't trust where it's
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  Speaker 1: coming from. And about 80% of the fraud they found
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  Speaker 1: so far is through India. But now that they're looking
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  Speaker 1: into China, they're starting to see that that's another big
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  Speaker 1: area of the same problems going on. This story is
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  Speaker 1: just starting to break in the last couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: and it's going to unfold to be a pretty wild thing.
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  Speaker 2: Attorney....
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  Speaker 1: The attorney general in Ken Paxton in Texas has launched
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  Speaker 1: sweeping investigations into dozens of local sham companies and ghost
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  Speaker 1: offices using fake job postings. And then what they're doing
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  Speaker 1: is they're creating fake job postings for a company that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't exist to get people the visas to come over here.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like a three-ring circles plus. So now that
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  Speaker 1: they're using, they're getting people over here and.
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  Speaker 1: And what Ken Paxton is saying is they built companies
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  Speaker 1: saying they need this job, and they don't even have
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  Speaker 1: the job. But once they get over here on a visa,
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  Speaker 1: then they move around and they find the fraud and
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  Speaker 1: everything else. So now there is a fraud investigation going
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  Speaker 1: on with this HB1, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
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  Speaker 1: has just put out a big bulletin saying the HB1
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  Speaker 1: visa program should help U.S. companies recruit highly scaled aliens...
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  Speaker 1: when there is a shortage of quality workers in the country. Yet,
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  Speaker 1: too many American workers who are qualified, willing, and deserving
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  Speaker 1: of the work in these fields have been ignored or
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  Speaker 1: unfairly disadvantaged. Employers who abuse the HB1 visa program may
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  Speaker 1: negatively affect U.S. workers, decreasing wages and opportunities as they
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  Speaker 1: import foreign workers. Protecting American workers by combating fraud in
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  Speaker 1: the employment-based immigration programs is a priority for U.S.
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  Speaker 2: S.C.I.S.
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  Speaker 1: Continuously works to deter and defraud fraud and immigration. Other
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  Speaker 1: departments going on. Increasing sites, visits, interviews, investigations and petitioners
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  Speaker 1: who use the HB one visa program. These efforts will
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  Speaker 1: assist in prosecuting and violators. American workers are not overlooked
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  Speaker 1: in the process. I think we need to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of the HB one process all the way around. I
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  Speaker 1: think we need to relook at it and we need
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  Speaker 1: to take a strong hold on it. and figure out
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  Speaker 1: what is going on. But if we're paying foreign people
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  Speaker 1: less money to come here, we're creating a bigger housing shortage,
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  Speaker 1: which we already have. We're creating less work for the
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  Speaker 1: people that are capable, and we're getting rid of competition
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  Speaker 1: in the workplace. Because if you need the employees and
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  Speaker 1: you can't find them, then you're going to be willing
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  Speaker 1: to pay a better wage to get that person here. Again,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot of corporate profit. It's always about corporate
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  Speaker 1: profit and Things like that. And I just believe that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we need to change probably the whole system
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  Speaker 1: for it to work right. And we'll take your calls
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  Speaker 1: on it at, you know, 860-464-9490. If anybody wants to
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  Speaker 1: call in and talk about this or if you've seen
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  Speaker 1: scams like this going on. I think it's something that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, really in the next week or so you'll
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  Speaker 1: see brought.
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  Speaker 2: Up to the public.
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  Speaker 1: So then the other thing I'd like to talk about
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  Speaker 1: is the EV scandal that's going on where you and
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  Speaker 1: I are paying for your neighbor's EV charger. So Connecticut
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  Speaker 1: subsidizes EVs and then charges no extra road fee for them.
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  Speaker 1: So there is a small group of EV purchasers with incentives,
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  Speaker 1: and they get purchase rebates.
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  Speaker 2: They get it.
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  Speaker 1: And when you see all these stations out there that
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  Speaker 1: are at businesses where they're charging, they got paid $ 10, 000
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  Speaker 1: or $ 12, 000 or $ 15, 000 to put those in. And what
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  Speaker 1: happens is that money all went into the public benefits bill.
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  Speaker 1: So your neighbor got a free charger, but you and
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  Speaker 1: I paid for it. It's just craziness that goes on. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we are only one of nine states that does not
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  Speaker 1: charge for EVs, does not have a surcharge, does not
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  Speaker 1: have that. EV owners pay $ 270 annually in most towns.
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  Speaker 1: Even Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont now have
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  Speaker 1: a fee for it because they realize that they're killing
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  Speaker 1: the economy because they're not buying taxes for the gasoline.
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  Speaker 1: So they're using the roads. The cars are much heavier.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing it. And it's just craziness that we are
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  Speaker 1: only one of nine states that is not charging for EVs,
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  Speaker 1: any purchase whatsoever. So there's no clean air fee, there's
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  Speaker 1: no transportation fee, and right now we have 73 registered
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  Speaker 1: electric and plug-in vehicles, a 20% increase over the previous year,
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  Speaker 1: and still account for roughly 3% of the vehicles registered
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  Speaker 1: in the state, but that number is rising. So the
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  Speaker 1: state is pushing to do this. We don't have enough charges.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have enough electricity. And it's craziness that we're
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  Speaker 1: not making this a level playing field.
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  Speaker 4: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Connecticut residents pay as much as $ 5, 000 to buy an
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  Speaker 2: So not only are we paying it through the.
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  Speaker 2: We're not only paying these fees.
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  Speaker 1: Through that, we're getting charged a fee when we register
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  Speaker 1: our vehicles to cover their vehicles.
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  Speaker 2: So as this goes.
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• 23:41
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  Speaker 25: I'm Rob Ray. When news breaks, we break in.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Hi, this is George Agnelli, and I'm on 94.9 News
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Now and Stimulating Talk.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: And we're going to take a call from Pete from Northford. Hey, Pete.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: Hey, good morning, George.
• 24:21
  Speaker 41: How are you this morning?
• 24:22
  Speaker 42: Good.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 24:23
  Speaker 43: I'm doing well.
• 24:24
  Speaker 41: Hey, congratulations on your spot here.
• 24:26
  Speaker 43: You're doing well.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate it.
• 24:28
  Speaker 41: My question to you is regarding this college fraud, these
• 24:35
  Speaker 41: degree frauds that are going on that stemming from India, correct?
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: So 80% of it right now is from India and
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: 20% is from China, but they think the China mess
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: might even be bigger.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: But they don't have it. They're working on it.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: The India mess is the one they've been working on,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: and it's getting to be pretty huge.
• 24:55
  Speaker 18: Okay.
• 24:56
  Speaker 41: My question then is it seems like Ken Paxson, right,
• 25:00
  Speaker 41: from Texas, is initiating the lawsuit here.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: He's initiated the lawsuit, and he's uncovered a lot of
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: the fraud. They were doing shell companies to get people
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: over here, creating jobs, and then they were creating degrees
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: for the jobs. So once the gentleman got over here,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: they could apply for other jobs. But then they had
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: to give back 20% of their pay. And some of
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: these universities, you paid $ 4, 000. So not only did they
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: give you a degree, they backdated all your classes so
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: it looked like you got your degree six years ago
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: or eight years ago. and then created a phony company
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: to call up and say, hey, I'm looking at Joe Smith.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Can you tell me about, oh, great guy. He worked
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: here for six years, and they have everything in the
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: whole system. And somebody answering the phone is following the
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: whole program.
• 25:47
  Speaker 35: Right.
• 25:47
  Speaker 41: Well, I guess my point here is this. I can't
• 25:50
  Speaker 41: imagine that this kind of fraud is isolated to one
• 25:58
  Speaker 41: state or anything like that. So I guess what are
• 26:03
  Speaker 41: the chances, in your opinion, that blue states– because Paxton
• 26:07
  Speaker 41: is running for senator from Texas.
• 26:09
  Speaker 18: We all know that.
• 26:10
  Speaker 41: So what are the chances that blue states, especially here
• 26:14
  Speaker 41: in Connecticut– because I'm sure this fraud is all over
• 26:16
  Speaker 41: the country.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: It's all over the world. They found it in Dubai.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: They found it all over the world.
• 26:22
  Speaker 43: Right.
• 26:23
  Speaker 41: But seeing now that we have a sue-happy attorney general
• 26:27
  Speaker 41: here in the state of Connecticut– What are the chances
• 26:30
  Speaker 41: of Connecticut joining in on this lawsuit and trying to
• 26:33
  Speaker 41: stop this kind of fraud from going on here in
• 26:34
  Speaker 41: the state and costing us taxpayers money?
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Well, you have one problem.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Trump is– this is basically not going to be against Trump,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: so he's not going to.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: File a lawsuit.
• 26:45
  Speaker 44: Right.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: He only filed lawsuits against Trump.
• 26:48
  Speaker 36: Right.
• 26:48
  Speaker 41: So basically then this sounds like it's a partisan kind
• 26:52
  Speaker 41: of a thing and that once again– you know, the
• 26:55
  Speaker 41: Democrats will do whatever they need to do to protect
• 26:57
  Speaker 41: whatever kind of fraud that's going to benefit them.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Well, it could be, but I mean, if once, once
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Trump pulls the visas, then he's pulled the visas. So,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: you know, but can you imagine if you're married and
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: you said to your wife on an online dating app, Oh,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I'm an engineer and I work for Texas general and
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: going on and on and on. And you have two
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: kids in the house and then you find out the
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: whole guy was a fraud the whole time.
• 27:19
  Speaker 35: Yeah. Yeah.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: That's going to happen in a lot of households.
• 27:23
  Speaker 41: Absolutely.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 27:24
  Speaker 41: Now, So this is just to benefit future calls and
• 27:29
  Speaker 41: maybe what you're doing here this morning, but it's very
• 27:31
  Speaker 41: difficult for me to hear you on my phone when
• 27:34
  Speaker 41: I'm talking to you.
• 27:35
  Speaker 18: You're very, very light.
• 27:36
  Speaker 41: I don't know if you could do anything about that
• 27:38
  Speaker 41: on your end, but it's very difficult for me to
• 27:41
  Speaker 41: hear you.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: We appreciate it.
• 27:43
  Speaker 36: Okay.
• 27:43
  Speaker 18: Hey, good luck today.
• 27:44
  Speaker 11: Thanks for taking my call.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Yes, thank you. Thanks for calling.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Before we take the next call, I've got to read this.
• 27:48
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• 27:51
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• 27:55
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  Speaker 1: and running. And we'll go to Jan and Eastline.
• 28:03
  Speaker 43: Good morning, George.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Jan.
• 28:05
  Speaker 45: Yep, you're very low. I can barely hear you.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry. I'll talk louder.
• 28:13
  Speaker 45: Okay, I'm just letting you know Pete and I are
• 28:16
  Speaker 45: having the same problem. You know, I looked this morning
• 28:19
  Speaker 45: when I... I'm glad you alerted us to this problem.
• 28:22
  Speaker 45: So I dug in for a few minutes. You know
• 28:26
  Speaker 45: that this scandal was exposed by the Indonesian press in
• 28:34
  Speaker 45: June of 2025, and the American press picked it up
• 28:41
  Speaker 45: a few, but not very much, not very many, about
• 28:46
  Speaker 45: nine months ago, and they still have almost nothing on this.
• 28:52
  Speaker 45: And this is our problem, I think, the media. When
• 28:55
  Speaker 45: people talk about the dangers to democracy, I think one
• 28:59
  Speaker 45: of the big dangers is the media. They didn't report this.
• 29:02
  Speaker 45: Why would that be?
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Well, because, you know, I don't know that they're being
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: paid off, but there's guys like Stephen Mandel who's funding,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: you know, people to run that are more to follow
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: his rule. And, you know, like he gave Luke Bronin $ 265, 000
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: for three weeks of mentoring. To help him do some
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: filing and then helped him beat John Larson because John
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Larson wouldn't take Mandel's money and he wouldn't agree to
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: all the things that Mandel wanted, so.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: He found a replacement.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: So there's some big, big dollar people with a lot
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: of money controlling politics. the politics of the Democrats. And
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't, you know, listen to,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: you know, go to some of these stations or to
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: some of these broadcasters and see if they weren't getting
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: contributed money from these people to control the narrative. The
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: news is supposed to be the news, good news or
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: bad news. I own a real estate company. Yes, your
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: house is closing. We're going to close in four days.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Bad news is you can't be out in four days. OK,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I go tell the other person we negotiated. Hey, I'm
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: sorry your sale fell through. It's just the news. The
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: sale fell through. We'll sell to the next person. So
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I this is what's happened in the news. And there's
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: just no legitimacy in the news anymore. You don't believe anything.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: everything that you hear coming out, and then you don't
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: hear the things that you need to hear, the truth,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: what's really happening, the one-man control of the state. The
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: state of Connecticut Democratic Party is being run by Stephen Mandel.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: He's set up trusts. He's set up hedge funds. You
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: can Google it, read about it. It's not hidden news,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: but you'll never hear about it on Channel 3, Channel
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: 3 Channel 8. But I will tell you this. The
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: biggest scam going on is on the 28th of September.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: that Governor Lamont is having a nuclear conference between all
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: the governors, and they're going to talk about how much
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: they're going to promote nuclear energy, and it'll be all
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: over three, it'll be all over 30, and everybody will
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: think that they're straightening out the problem.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: And guess what's going to happen? Zero.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: It's six weeks before the election, and all it is
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: is going to be a big scam, and you'll read
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: about it on all the different stations.
• 31:12
  Speaker 45: Well, I think you probably know that Tony D found
• 31:16
  Speaker 45: out the paperwork for $ 70 million that Lamont earmarked for
• 31:23
  Speaker 45: the media. So there's that. And George Soros has been
• 31:27
  Speaker 45: buying up radio stations. He goes in there and crashes
• 31:31
  Speaker 45: them in some way and then buys them up. We
• 31:34
  Speaker 45: know this happened down in Virginia as well. So there's
• 31:41
  Speaker 45: also that. So there's the media scandal. And there's our
• 31:44
  Speaker 45: own school scandal that, unfortunately, our students are not prepared
• 31:50
  Speaker 45: because of a lot of reasons. But some of it
• 31:56
  Speaker 45: seems very intentional to dumb down our schools. Now, you
• 32:00
  Speaker 45: brought up an interesting problem. You have all these people
• 32:03
  Speaker 45: living in the country, and they married people here. Maybe
• 32:07
  Speaker 45: they brought a family over. They had children here. Now
• 32:11
  Speaker 45: they're citizens. And the question is going to be, do
• 32:14
  Speaker 45: you get to have citizenship when you're in the midst
• 32:17
  Speaker 45: of an ongoing crime? Because as long as, it would
• 32:20
  Speaker 45: seem to me, as long as you're holding a job
• 32:23
  Speaker 45: and adding to a resume that is fake at the core,
• 32:28
  Speaker 45: that's an ongoing fraud, a crime. So now we have
• 32:33
  Speaker 45: those questions. And what do these questions do? They divide us.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, there's no question that it's going to divide us.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: There's no question that these people came here illegally. They
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: have illegal degrees. You know, there's some sort of penalty
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: for it. So, OK, we'll allow you to leave the
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: country and you pay no penalty and you have to go. Or,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: you know, and you feel bad if you're married and
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: you have children in the country, then you're going to
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: have to work something out. But you shouldn't have the
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: job and you should have to pay back your employer.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: You should have to pay back some penalty to the state.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: You know, there should be some sort of fines. Well,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: if you're going to stay here as a married individual
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: but you came here under false pretenses, there's a $ 5, 000
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: fine so that every person has to pay a $ 5, 000
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: or $ 10, 000 fine back to the country to help pay
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: off our national debt. There has to be something. I'm
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: just throwing out ideas, but it's just things that we
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: need to talk about and things that.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Need to be discussed.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Because if you did marry a person in this country,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: then you will have a right to be here. It
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: means you still have to leave and refile for, you know,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: so if you marry somebody here, it's not like they
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: get to live here. They have to go back to
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: their home country for 12 to 24 months until all
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: the paperwork is processed.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 33:45
  Speaker 45: And sometimes that goes pretty easily. But I would think
• 33:48
  Speaker 45: there's a difference between If you brought a spouse over
• 33:54
  Speaker 45: and had children here, then the spouse was probably part
• 34:00
  Speaker 45: of the ongoing crime, too, whatever. But it becomes really sticky.
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: If you marry an.
• 34:05
  Speaker 45: American citizen over here, well, then your kids have citizenship.
• 34:09
  Speaker 11: Correct.
• 34:09
  Speaker 45: And you have to go, whether or not you should
• 34:12
  Speaker 45: come back when you perpetuated this fraud. I mean, let's
• 34:15
  Speaker 45: look at the deeper implications of this fraud. Somebody comes
• 34:19
  Speaker 45: over here, taking one-to-one example, gets a job. The American
• 34:25
  Speaker 45: who actually has the degree because of affirmative action, whatever
• 34:31
  Speaker 45: you want to call it, doesn't get the job. Now,
• 34:35
  Speaker 45: that person now is delivering at DoorDash while they look
• 34:42
  Speaker 45: for a low-level job, and they have five years that
• 34:47
  Speaker 45: they've missed of income. Who compensates them?
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Right. That's the big problem.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: The other problem you have is that by bringing 200,000
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: or 300,000 people over for certain jobs, you keep that
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: job down. So if there's a need in the United
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: States for plumbers, which we know we need, electricians, which
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: we know we need, and you're going to have to
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: pay them through the nose, then we have to Do
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the same thing here. So if that job, that engineering
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: job should be $ 150, 000 a year, and because we're bringing 200,000
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: engineers over from other countries, we're keeping it at 100,000,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: we're only hurting ourselves.
• 35:22
  Speaker 45: Right. And what about some of the American companies? Some
• 35:25
  Speaker 45: of them may have known. There's just a really deep
• 35:29
  Speaker 45: well here. But it's really sad to think that our country... is,
• 35:36
  Speaker 45: first of all, such a soft target, and second of all,
• 35:40
  Speaker 45: I can't believe this went on without complicit Americans. Our
• 35:45
  Speaker 45: corruption is so deep because if you lived through the
• 35:48
  Speaker 45: fall of the Soviet Union at that time, what brought
• 35:53
  Speaker 45: down the Soviet Union was corruption.
• 35:55
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: So I have to go to another call. This is
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Frank in Watertown. All right.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: And thank you very much, Jan.
• 36:02
  Speaker 11: Hey, George.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Hey, Frank. How are you doing?
• 36:05
  Speaker 17: Good.
• 36:06
  Speaker 43: I was listening with the H-1 visa. I know for
• 36:10
  Speaker 43: a fact, a while back, and this is in Connecticut,
• 36:16
  Speaker 43: Travelers Insurance, and if you follow the money, medium management
• 36:21
  Speaker 43: was forced to take in people from India. They laid
• 36:27
  Speaker 43: off and fired American workers because of the higher rate
• 36:32
  Speaker 43: of pay they were getting, and the medium... management was
• 36:36
  Speaker 43: made to teach the people from India the ropes in
• 36:41
  Speaker 43: traveler's insurance. And I'll bet you a dime to a dollar,
• 36:46
  Speaker 43: they probably had certificates probably from that college or a
• 36:50
  Speaker 43: different college and a scam, and they probably got away
• 36:54
  Speaker 43: with it. It was just a follow-the-money situation. And I'll
• 36:58
  Speaker 43: bet you a dime to a dollar, George, the Democrats
• 37:02
  Speaker 43: are going to pick up on this and say we're
• 37:03
  Speaker 43: picking on foreign people and we need to have them
• 37:07
  Speaker 43: here because americans wouldn't work on a job and when
• 37:10
  Speaker 43: trump is looking to protect the american worker.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: What do you think well there's no question so all
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: all trump has to do is do the opposite for
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: them to do what he needs them to do you
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: know so you know again if he if he uh
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: said that he's going to take uh uh uh, gun
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: rights away from trans people, he'd fight for the Democrats
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: would fight for gun rights for trans people. All of
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: a sudden they'd be fighting for gun rights. You know
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: what I mean? So it's just, it's the way, it's
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: the way it is. You know, this scrutiny revealed that
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: tens of thousands of fake it engineering business diplomas that
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: were flowing out of India and China. Now it looks
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: like it might, you know, it might top India for, uh,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: for this stuff. And, um, Again, one small university with 5,000
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  Speaker 43: This is going to go on, I think, towards the midterms.
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  Speaker 1: The chaos that's going on with all the different things
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  Speaker 26: Oh, it's just an honor to be here. It's always
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so anytime. I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 26: Well, hopefully we can get somebody in Washington to actually
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  Speaker 26: That's a huge chunk of money. And you have to
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  Speaker 26: paying almost double what the national average is in kilowatt
• 55:54
  Speaker 26: per hour. So everything is run on energy. Affordability is
• 55:58
  Speaker 26: run on energy. Businesses need certainty. That's why they go
• 56:02
  Speaker 26: to places that have certainty, not only with energy costs,
• 56:06
  Speaker 26: but predictability, whether it's regulations, what the government is going
• 56:11
  Speaker 26: to say three or four years down the road. So
• 56:14
  Speaker 26: That's why companies are leaving the state of Connecticut. If
• 56:16
  Speaker 26: anybody thinks Stanley Black and Decker left because of a
• 56:19
  Speaker 26: one-sided tape measure, they had the capabilities and the facilities
• 56:23
  Speaker 26: to expand any of the products they own, and they
• 56:25
  Speaker 26: own multiple products, a multinational company. They left because they
• 56:29
  Speaker 26: saw the writing on the wall that Connecticut is not
• 56:32
  Speaker 26: a place where we can do business and a place
• 56:34
  Speaker 26: where it's affordable to do business. Excuse me, so. Yeah,
• 56:39
  Speaker 26: we need lower energy costs here, George.
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  Speaker 2: This is the number one thing.
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  Speaker 1: I think what people don't understand is 38% of our
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: electricity is produced by natural gas. So when you're buying
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: natural gas from a foreign country, such as Tibet or
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: such as Canada, you're paying a ridiculous amount of money.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: You can just Google AI chat and say how much
• 57:00
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• 57:01
  Speaker 1: a billion dollars. So you could put, by putting this
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: gas line in, you could add a billion dollars to
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: our economy.
• 57:08
  Speaker 26: So this administration, President Trump's administration, has temporarily halted the
• 57:14
  Speaker 26: Jones Act, which is great. So now with the hundreds
• 57:17
  Speaker 26: of millions of dollars that they wasted on the New
• 57:19
  Speaker 26: London Pier, at least it's dredged out enough to take
• 57:22
  Speaker 26: in ships from, say, New Orleans with liquid natural gas.
• 57:26
  Speaker 26: If we can open up a liquid natural gas storage
• 57:29
  Speaker 26: facilities in the New London area, it's a temporary fix,
• 57:32
  Speaker 26: but at least relief. The gas prices during the cold
• 57:36
  Speaker 26: winter months where we're shipping it down, I believe, from Maine,
• 57:39
  Speaker 26: which costs a lot of money to do that. So
• 57:42
  Speaker 26: there's so many things that we can do to lower
• 57:45
  Speaker 26: energy costs here in the state of Connecticut. We need
• 57:46
  Speaker 26: to look at everything, every option.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: No, and there's no question. It just keeps going on
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: and on and on. New Haven was dredged to build
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: an oil-to-gas plant. We would save 15 cents a gallon
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: of gasoline if we had an oil-to-gas plant In the Northeast.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: And we don't have one in any of the Northeast states.
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: So one, we would be a lot better on gas.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: Imagine for the rest of your life, a governor could
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: make a sign of order to build something there that
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: would save you 15 cents a gallon the rest of
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: your life.
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  Speaker 26: Yeah, it's just amazing.
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: It's amazing.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: And then again, New Haven wouldn't have to pay property
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: tax because... The plant's like $ 3 billion or $ 4 billion.
• 58:27
  Speaker 26: We are definitely underutilizing our ports here in the state
• 58:30
  Speaker 26: of Connecticut. We have the three largest ports outside of
• 58:32
  Speaker 26: New York City. We have Stanford, New London, and New Haven.
• 58:35
  Speaker 26: If those were dredged, not only could we bring in
• 58:37
  Speaker 26: natural gas, not only could we bring in energy, we
• 58:40
  Speaker 26: could also take a lot of those tractor-trailers off the road,
• 58:43
  Speaker 26: driving up and down our roads on 95. And anybody
• 58:45
  Speaker 26: that lives south of Bridgeport, south of New Haven, understand
• 58:49
  Speaker 26: the traffic juggernaut down there that It's just insane. But
• 58:54
  Speaker 26: we could take so much making shipping facilities and take
• 58:58
  Speaker 26: a lot of those tractor trailers off the road.
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no. And tractor trailer trucks burn diesel.
• 59:05
  Speaker 22: Right.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: So you look at the thing that you want to
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: promote a green economy on the other side. but yet
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: you don't want to do the things that will make
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: it greener. That's what I don't understand. It's 100%. All
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: these things are very simple fixes. They don't seem like
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: simple fixes, but they are if the government cared to
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: make them a simple fix.
• 59:24
  Speaker 26: We have to invest in Connecticut. And they needed a
• 59:27
  Speaker 26: lot of work. I believe it was $ 300 million to
• 59:29
  Speaker 26: waste the energy plant that they had in Hartford that
• 59:31
  Speaker 26: would also lower energy prices but also will take the
• 59:34
  Speaker 26: trucks off the road. We're paying millions and millions of
• 59:37
  Speaker 26: millions of dollars to ship our garbage out of state.
• 59:40
  Speaker 26: And there's going to be a time when those states
• 59:42
  Speaker 26: are not going to take our trash. I mean, it's
• 59:44
  Speaker 26: just completely off subject, but it's another... thing that the
• 59:48
  Speaker 26: state of connecticut is wasting the waste to energy would
• 59:51
  Speaker 26: help lower energy costs but also take a lot of
• 59:54
  Speaker 26: trucks off the road and if we're looking at green
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  Speaker 26: things you once again you're burning diesel and you're traveling
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 26: hundreds hundreds of miles to take our trash out of
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 26: state it just doesn't make any.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: Sense and it's not and it's not one truck it's
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: thousands of thousands of trucks yeah think about how much
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: trash has to be compacted into small cubicles, and you
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: still have weight limits, so you can only carry so
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: much weight on each truck.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 26: And your towns are paying a lot higher to remove
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  Speaker 26: your trash, and that's another reason why your property taxes
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 26: are going up.
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  Speaker 1: So I know, if you look at all these different things,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: if we can get gas built in the state of Connecticut,
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• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: waste energy trash plant, all of a sudden things start
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: to change, and you don't need as much tax dollars
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: to do everything.
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  Speaker 26: We just need predictability in the state of Connecticut, and
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 26: business will show up, you know, Instead of taxing the
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 26: few that are paying, we need to expand the people
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  Speaker 26: that are in the workforce, expand the companies that are
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 26: here paying, and that will definitely lower the taxes and
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 26: people will go to work. It would be a great
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 26: novel idea.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: What the state of Connecticut does, and this is the
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: democratic philosophy, is they tax one person, they give it
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: to 10, and they're doing the same thing with businesses.
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  Speaker 1: So they'll never lose an election because if you're taxing
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: one guy to death, And he doesn't decide to leave.
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  Speaker 2: He's staying.
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  Speaker 1: And that means they can feed 10 other people or
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: hand 10 other people handouts, and then they'll vote for them.
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  Speaker 26: I believe it's close to one-third of the state of
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 26: Connecticut is on some sort of public assistance. And, look,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 26: there is people suffering out there that absolutely need that.
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  Speaker 2: No, 100%.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 26: But when you're living in one of the richest states
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 26: in the country, it's a shame. And where is the
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 26: off-ramp for that? Where is the vision for the state
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 26: of Connecticut coming from this current administration that that, hey,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 26: we're going to be open for business. We're going to
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 26: make sure we lower your taxes. We're going to have predictability.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 26: When you have companies like Schick and Milford shutting down
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 26: 300 jobs, you have Stanley Black and Decker over 300 jobs.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 26: The one we just talked about in Hamden, it was
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 26: 40 to 60 jobs in the manufacturing industry, 1,000 jobs
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  Speaker 26: at Macy's Distribution Center. Talcott and Harford, over 400 jobs
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  Speaker 26: they lost in the IT.
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  Speaker 11: It's just.
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  Speaker 1: But we did get Dave's Hot Chicken opened three franchises
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• 1:02:20
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• 1:02:23
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• 1:02:27
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  Speaker 2: We lost.
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  Speaker 12: you.
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• 1:02:42
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  Speaker 26: We talked about Bristol-Myers Squibb, who left Wallingford, had 900 jobs,
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  Speaker 26: research and development. Actually, when I had my window-cleaning company,
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  Speaker 26: we actually bid on that project down there, and they said,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 26: hold off on the bids, we're closing down, because they
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 26: couldn't make a deal with the state of Connecticut. Just
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 26: two weeks ago, they built a $ 2. 8 billion manufacturing and
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 26: distribution facility, 2,000 construction jobs, 900 permanent jobs. Why aren't
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 26: they building right here in the state of Connecticut? Why
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  Speaker 26: aren't those companies coming to the state of Connecticut? We
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 26: all have that answer. No predictability, high energy costs, high regulations,
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  Speaker 26: and the governor just turns a blind eye. So before
• 1:03:29
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• 1:03:33
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  Speaker 26: I believe Connecticut brings in about 1,000 HB1 visas. You know,
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  Speaker 26: Having my business in Hartford, we've seen a lot of
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  Speaker 26: call them in my restaurant, they used to call them
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  Speaker 26: the ages of 50 and 60 years old in the
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  Speaker 2: And they're forced to train them.
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  Speaker 26: You've got to remember, George, with our age, all you
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  Speaker 26: with master's degrees for a third of what they used
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  Speaker 26: And we also had kids working their way through college
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  Speaker 26: that used to work for me at my restaurant with
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 26: master's degrees that couldn't find work. It's just a vicious
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  Speaker 26: lot of the manufacturers here in the state of Connecticut
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  Speaker 1: And the utility costs are their biggest expense.
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  Speaker 26: It's all about energy. It's all about energy. If we
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  Speaker 26: it would be a wonderful thing. Talk to any manufacturer.
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  Speaker 26: They're buying materials. They're building.
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  Speaker 1: They're equipment. Sometimes you buy their equipment. Well, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to need this in five years to do this, or
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to need this. And I understand being in
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: the jewelry business, we're constantly trying to.
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  Speaker 2: Stay out of the curve.
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  Speaker 1: If gold takes a little dip, we buy our solder
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  Speaker 1: because we need to save costs down for the long-term way.
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  Speaker 26: That metal manufacturer that I visited in Hamden had two
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  Speaker 26: people working there. One was 58 years old. One was
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  Speaker 26: 60 years old. What do you do after being with
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  Speaker 26: a company for 30 years, and then all of a
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  Speaker 26: sudden your job is gone? The two biggest specialty machines
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 26: went to two southern states. North Carolina, why? They have
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  Speaker 26: four nuclear plants. They have a two and a quarter
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 26: percent corporate tax rate. In 2028, they're going to have
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 26: a zero percent corporate tax rate. The other machine went
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  Speaker 26: to Tennessee. You know where the governor's wife says it's
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 26: easier to open up a company in Tennessee than it
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  Speaker 26: is in Connecticut. Maybe the governor should listen to his
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  Speaker 26: wife more often because she is absolutely correct. And we
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  Speaker 26: need to compete regularly. and make sure Connecticut is open
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  Speaker 26: for business. It's not open for business under this administration.
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  Speaker 26: There is no vision. I would hope somebody could call
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  Speaker 26: in and tell me, what is the governor's vision after
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 26: seven and a half years of being in office? He's
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  Speaker 26: going to roll up his sleeves and do what?
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  Speaker 2: We have no idea. That's all.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to go to a caller, Dan from
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  Speaker 1: East Hampton. Dan, you're on with Matt Corey.
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  Speaker 18: Hey, great job, George, just listening to the show over here. And,
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  Speaker 18: you know, you made a comment before that you could
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  Speaker 18: come right out of high school and go get a job.
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  Speaker 18: You know, I mean, that's more or less what I did.
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  Speaker 18: First I wasted some time in college. But, you know,
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  Speaker 18: I think kids used to come out of high school
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  Speaker 18: being able to read, didn't they, and do some basic math.
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  Speaker 18: I mean, now you get a kid coming out of
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  Speaker 18: high school, even out of college, in their pajamas. and
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  Speaker 18: carrying a teddy bear and wearing a furry suit, you
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  Speaker 18: know what I mean, and never look up for their phone.
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  Speaker 1: I'm asking where the safe space is.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff we didn't have. I have a high school degree.
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  Speaker 8: I have.
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  Speaker 1: A license for selling real estate. I'm a real estate
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  Speaker 1: broker as well, but I spent zero time in college,
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  Speaker 1: and I've done very well for myself. I'm not so
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  Speaker 1: sure that common sense and hard work ethic don't count.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have a question for Matt?
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, actually, it's about the lowering. You know, you were
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  Speaker 18: talking before about putting a natural gas storage, you know,
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  Speaker 18: into the dredge port over there and gas prices coming
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  Speaker 18: down 15 cents or something like that. You know, is
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 18: there a surcharge on the gas already, 25 cents or
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 18: something like that, plus the sales tax? I mean, it's
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  Speaker 18: death by a million cuts over here.
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  Speaker 26: Yeah, it's a ton of regulations that The state of
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 26: Connecticut is putting on energy everywhere you look. And they're
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 26: forcing Eversource to purchase energy at a high price. But
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 26: they love using Eversource as a scapegoat. I'm not saying
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 26: they're innocent on a lot of stuff, but it's just
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  Speaker 26: amazing that they say, we're going to lock you into
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 26: a 20-year contract plan, twice the kilowatt hour that a
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 26: nuclear plant would do. And, yeah, we're going to go
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  Speaker 26: this way. And without talking to the people or exposing
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  Speaker 26: what those rates will be, You know, the people that
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 26: are paying those high charges, shouldn't we have a voice
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 26: in that? No, it's just they let Pura do something.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 26: It's unelected bureaucrats, unelected bureaucrats making decisions on how many people,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 26: 3 million people here in the state of Connecticut.
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  Speaker 12: It's not fair.
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  Speaker 18: It's Corey, right?
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  Speaker 26: Matthew Corey.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 18: So, you know, here in Long Island, what they used
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 18: to do is the politicians would run on, we're not
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  Speaker 18: going to raise taxes, we're not going to raise taxes.
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  Speaker 18: And then everyone would be like, yay, they're not going
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 18: to raise taxes. And then when they got elected, they
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 18: just raised the tax on electric. So there was this
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 18: conglomeration happening with the power company. So you get every
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 18: house and you get every household and raise taxes by
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 18: raising the taxes on power. And I think that's a
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 18: lot of what's going on there. And now it's going
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 18: to be water, too. Everything the state gets their hands on,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 18: they seem to take advantage of.
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  Speaker 26: Well, look at your cell phone. I mean, it was
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 26: only a nickel, right? It's only a nickel. At this point,
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 26: it's only a nickel. But it's every little thing that
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 26: they can find to tax. Please don't give them any
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 26: more ideas. But only a nickel turns into a quarter,
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 26: turns into a dollar. We've all seen it. It's just
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  Speaker 26: a money grab. If our money was being spent, our
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 26: tax dollars were being spent wisely, I don't think anybody
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 26: would mind. But when we're being overtaxed, and you look
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  Speaker 26: at the governor with the half-a-billion-dollar emergency fund that he
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 26: can just dole out money at his dispense, knowing that
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  Speaker 26: we've all seen the fraud, waste, and abuse in the
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  Speaker 26: state of Connecticut today, as it takes the FBI to
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 26: come here to investigate, I don't feel safe with the
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 26: governor having to, all that type of money and giving
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 26: it to NGOs that we don't have any knowledge of
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 26: where that money is going. And we've seen it. So yeah,
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 26: it's just, they just keep, it's a money grab all
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 26: the way around.
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  Speaker 18: It's laundering. It's criminal.
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 26: Absolutely, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: We're here with Matt Corey talking about issues in the
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  Speaker 1: state of Connecticut. He's running for lieutenant governor. You won't
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  Speaker 1: Fazio's number, you'll be giving him the support they need
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  Speaker 1: to take over Connecticut and win this. The State Department
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  Speaker 1: not mandatory yet for individual towns and school boards to
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  Speaker 1: choose their own specific offerings about teaching Muslim in our schools.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: We're not allowed to teach about the Bible. We're not
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  Speaker 1: allowed to teach about, you know, pledge of allegiance to
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  Speaker 1: But now it looks like there might be a mandate.
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  Speaker 1: It's not mandated this year, but it might be mandated
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  Speaker 1: next year, where 1% of our population is now going
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  Speaker 1: to control a whole classroom and be made mandatory. It's
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  Speaker 26: Listen, we've got to focus on the basics, reading, writing, arithmetic,
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  Speaker 26: to be college-bound or blue-collar jobs like carpentry mechanics you
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  Speaker 26: to all those shop classes i'm not sure how much
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  Speaker 26: the high schools are doing that but we need that
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  Speaker 26: i'll tell you a story about a couple of new
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  Speaker 26: london that i met a young man went to uh
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  Speaker 26: work at the electric boat because they paid tuition reimbursement
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  Speaker 26: he went down there and became a carpenter within a
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  Speaker 26: half a year told his parents you know what not
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  Speaker 26: I mean, until we introduce these young kids to different trades,
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  Speaker 26: whether maybe it is engineering, but to different trades, whether
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  Speaker 26: it's carpentry, drafting, automotive, machining, they'll never know or be
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  Speaker 26: able to fill out their dreams successfully. They'll just be
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  Speaker 26: left and kicked to the side, and that's what we
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  Speaker 26: don't need. But we don't need extra studies on Muslims
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  Speaker 26: when we've got kids graduating that are illiterate. It doesn't
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  Speaker 26: make any sense. They're just adding more bureaucracy. The teachers
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  Speaker 26: are struggling enough.
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  Speaker 2: The teachers are competing with cell phones in the classroom.
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  Speaker 26: Right now, English is a second language in our schools.
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  Speaker 26: The teachers are struggling to teach these young kids today.
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  Speaker 26: And we want to make sure they graduate and they
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  Speaker 26: can understand functions of life and a lot of them
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  Speaker 26: don't and it's just their dreams are lost because nobody's
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  Speaker 26: paying attention.
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  Speaker 1: The other problem too is we're spending 9 million dollars
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  Speaker 1: a week in the city of Hartford a week to
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  Speaker 1: educate the kids and yet they have a no fail
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: policy until they get to high school and then of
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: course they can't read or write or do basic math
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: and they have to do it in high school and
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: they fail That's criminal. It's criminal. It's absolutely ridiculous what's
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  Speaker 1: happening in our school system to our kids, to our teachers,
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  Speaker 1: to everybody else. And it's also a migration problem. You know,
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: you have Mayberry Village School, you know, with John Larson's background,
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: and it's a lot of transient apartments up there because
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: they're still living in temporary housing that was built in
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: 1941 for people for the war. So why not take
• 1:29:25
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  Speaker 2: Or 250 people.
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  Speaker 1: Almost everybody there said he made sure he made time
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  Speaker 26: Yeah, somebody had just sent me the average cost for
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  Speaker 26: a family of four To live comfortably in the state
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  Speaker 26: of Connecticut is around $ 300, 000. So it's not many families
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  Speaker 2: Especially with all the companies that have left.
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  Speaker 26: Look, that means parents are working two jobs just to
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  Speaker 26: make ends meet. Single parents are just, God bless them,
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  Speaker 26: a family in.
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  Speaker 1: No, and we have to change that. I'm looking for
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  Speaker 26: Unfortunately, every one of my nieces and nephews have left
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  Speaker 26: the state of Connecticut, and that's heartbreaking.
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  Speaker 35: Yeah.
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  Speaker 63: Right.
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  Speaker 2: If we could get them back here, that would even
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  Speaker 1: The Yankee Institute said that Connecticut spent $ 1. 3 billion last
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  Speaker 1: year on illegal immigration, educating them, housing them, clothing them.
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  Speaker 1: I know people in Hartford that have worked their whole
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  Speaker 2: What is your thought about illegal immigration?
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  Speaker 26: The heartbreaking part about it is yesterday, as I traveled
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  Speaker 26: the entire state, I won't name the town, but When
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  Speaker 26: I see 10 cities under overpasses, that's heartbreaking because you
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  Speaker 26: know they're veterans. You know there's people in need right there.
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  Speaker 26: So why aren't they getting the same services? Why aren't
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  Speaker 26: they getting the mental health services they need? You know,
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  Speaker 26: being in Hartford, I've seen and knew a lot of
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  Speaker 26: the homeless people that were walking around the city of Hartford,
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  Speaker 26: and it's heartbreaking. Why aren't they getting the housing? Why
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  Speaker 26: aren't they getting the health care? Why aren't they getting
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  Speaker 26: the food needs that they deserve, that they earned because
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  Speaker 26: they defended our great country? and they're not getting the
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  Speaker 26: same treatment as people who are coming here illegally.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't understand it that if we have one
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  Speaker 1: homeless vet, that's where the money should be going.
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  Speaker 26: And I'm not trying to pit people against each other,
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  Speaker 2: Now, whether they were illegal or not illegal, I at
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  Speaker 26: That money could be redirected. You know, my business, we
• 1:43:19
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  Speaker 26: The younger generation and maybe in the mid 20s or 30s,
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  Speaker 26: We couldn't save them all, but we gave them a job,
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  Speaker 26: an opportunity. That money could be well spent to retrain people,
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 26: to repatriate them into society. There's a lot more we
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 26: can do with the money that we're wasting on people
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  Speaker 1: And as you see, our school system is getting filled
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  Speaker 54: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Agnelli on 94 News Now and Stimulating Talk, and we're
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  Speaker 1: here with Dr. Michael Goldstein, who's running against longtime incumbent
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  Speaker 1: Jim Himes, a Democrat from Greenwich, for the 4th Congressional District,
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  Speaker 1: and You know, he's been in office since 2009. Can
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  Speaker 1: anybody say that he has helped them have a better
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  Speaker 1: life since 2009? He's been there, what, how many years?
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  Speaker 2: Doing what?
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  Speaker 1: I would love to know what he could put his
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  Speaker 1: name on it. He said he did for me or you.
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  Speaker 2: And Dr. Michael Goldstein, who's an ophthalmologist and attorney.
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  Speaker 1: Won the Republican primary, and we're looking for some new
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  Speaker 1: blood in the state of Connecticut. We're looking for somebody
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  Speaker 1: that's actually going to come out and talk to you
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  Speaker 1: and meet with you, not just hide and collect his
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  Speaker 1: paycheck and, you know, do different things. So we're hoping
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  Speaker 1: that this gentleman can unseat, you know, they redistricted about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, seven or eight years ago or ten years ago,
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  Speaker 1: and they made it almost impossible for Republicans to win
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  Speaker 1: in the state of Connecticut. We will be taking your calls. It's... 860-464-9490,
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  Speaker 1: and he'll be happy to answer any question. And we're
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  Speaker 1: going to let him take the lead and let him
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  Speaker 1: talk a little bit about some of the things he'd
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  Speaker 1: like to see done.
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  Speaker 11: Sure.
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  Speaker 67: Thanks a lot, George, for having me on.
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  Speaker 42: And we are living in some of the strangest times
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  Speaker 42: in American history. For the first time, we actually have
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  Speaker 42: socialists who are going to be elected to the United
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  Speaker 42: States Congress. And these people want to destroy the Constitution
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  Speaker 42: of the United States. They want to eliminate the Senate.
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  Speaker 42: They want to eliminate the presidency. They want to change
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  Speaker 42: the Supreme Court. And they want to remove private property.
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  Speaker 42: They want this nationalized health care. And they essentially want
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  Speaker 42: to destroy capitalism and our entire way of life. And
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  Speaker 42: if you look at the history of the United States,
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  Speaker 42: we started out as 13 primarily agricultural colonies. And based
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  Speaker 42: on our constitutional principles and the constitution which governs our
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  Speaker 42: country combined with a capitalist economy, we grew from this
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  Speaker 42: relatively obscurity to the most powerful nation in the world,
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  Speaker 42: both militarily and economically. And yet these people, the socialists,
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  Speaker 42: want to destroy our system and replace it with a
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  Speaker 42: system that has failed in every country in the world.
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  Speaker 42: And you'll notice that people flee communism to come here.
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  Speaker 42: And in communist countries, people are essentially locked in. If
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  Speaker 42: you remember the days when Berlin was divided to East Berlin,
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  Speaker 42: which was communist, and West Berlin, which was free, if
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  Speaker 42: you actually tried to go from East Berlin.
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  Speaker 67: To West Berlin— you would be shot.
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  Speaker 42: So if you have a governmental system which is so
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  Speaker 42: bad that people are essentially caged in and you have
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  Speaker 42: people in this country that are trying to sell it
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  Speaker 42: to you, that's pretty scary.
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  Speaker 67: And I think that this is an important point.
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  Speaker 42: And one of the other things you have to realize
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  Speaker 42: is that Jim Himes is somebody who was voted with
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  Speaker 42: the Democratic Party 95 percent of the time. So If
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  Speaker 42: the socialists will become the tail that wags the dog,
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  Speaker 42: if the Democrats take control of the Congress, he's going
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  Speaker 42: to vote with them. He also has a history of
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  Speaker 42: supporting socialist communist ideas. He wrote, when he was at Harvard,
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  Speaker 42: a 95-page paper and spent two months living with the
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  Speaker 42: Marxist communist Sandinistas and wrote and glorified how wonderful they are.
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  Speaker 42: So I suspect that he's very ripe for supporting these socialists.
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  Speaker 42: So I think that we live in, as I said,
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  Speaker 42: very dangerous times, and the only way to prevent the
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  Speaker 42: socialists from taking over this country is to elect Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so, I mean, this is a— like I said, I
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  Speaker 1: am a registered Democrat, but my party's left me. They've
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  Speaker 1: gone to this crazy side of transgenitalists, and transgenders deserve
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  Speaker 1: to have their say. They can speak. They can— dye
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  Speaker 1: their hair. That's what America's all about. But we can't
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  Speaker 1: make the priority them. We have to make the priority everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody has to be able to have the same priority.
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  Speaker 1: It shouldn't be transgender women and transgender men and women's sports.
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  Speaker 1: Those type of things shouldn't happen. We can create a
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  Speaker 1: transgender sport so there won't be enough people at.
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  Speaker 2: Each high school. That's the way it should be.
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  Speaker 42: Well, I think it's certainly in any kind of contact sports,
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  Speaker 42: having a biological male who is genetically different than a
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 42: biological female in terms of muscle strength and everything else
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  Speaker 42: is dangerous.
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  Speaker 67: It could harm women.
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  Speaker 42: And it's also unfair because a lot of these, you know,
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  Speaker 42: young girls go to school and they become athletes and
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  Speaker 42: they want to get athletic scholarships to go to school
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  Speaker 42: and some of them become professionals in sports. And If
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  Speaker 42: they're deprived of these opportunities because of an unfair system
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  Speaker 42: that is biased against them based on genetics, then they're
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  Speaker 42: the ones.
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  Speaker 67: That are the losers.
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  Speaker 42: Everybody talks about it's unfair to one person, but what's
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 42: unfair to one has consequences, and I think that it's
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  Speaker 42: unfair to women to be forced to compete against someone
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  Speaker 42: who has a genetic advantage.
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  Speaker 39: Right.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same thing. How do we compete with these jobs,
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  Speaker 2: with this HP1.
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  Speaker 1: Fraud going on, where they actually say they have a
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  Speaker 1: degree in the field that they're applying for a job,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't even have that degree, and they're competing
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  Speaker 1: against Americans, and we're getting pushed off to the side.
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  Speaker 42: Well, I mean, I think that there's a difference between,
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  Speaker 42: you know, what you call an America first agenda and
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  Speaker 42: an America last agenda. And I think that it's really
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  Speaker 42: important that the priority is to give jobs to Americans first.
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  Speaker 42: I mean, why would you bring somebody in from another
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  Speaker 42: country to fill a job and leave an American citizen unemployed,
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 42: considering that American citizen's family has paid taxes their whole lives,
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 42: they've contributed to the economy, they've contributed to the society.
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  Speaker 67: We as taxpayers have paid.
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  Speaker 42: To educate them in most cases to do at least
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  Speaker 42: part of their education. So why shouldn't we give them
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  Speaker 42: the first priority? I mean, that's that's any there's no
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  Speaker 42: other country in the world that would function that way
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  Speaker 42: like we're doing with this.
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  Speaker 1: No, we shouldn't be giving away our jobs. We shouldn't
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: be giving away our our food, our shelter, our. It's
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: craziness what we're doing. But, you know, and I agree
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  Speaker 1: there's people in harm's way. But to have an open
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  Speaker 1: border and 50,000 people a day coming over not knowing
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  Speaker 1: who they even are is just absolute craziness. And it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't protect the citizens. And, you know, unfortunately, Mr. Himes
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: believes differently. And, you know, he voted his Constitution when
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 1: he swore in to abide by the Constitution of the
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: United States and protect the American citizens. He really is
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: not doing it. We have– go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Would you have any?
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  Speaker 63: Yes.
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  Speaker 42: I mean, so, for example, there was a rally for
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  Speaker 42: people that had been killed by ICE and Himes was there.
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 42: But there's no rally for Americans that have been killed
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 42: by illegals. And if there were one, I'm sure that
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  Speaker 42: Himes wouldn't show up. He seems to prioritize illegal aliens. So,
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  Speaker 42: for example, he's voted against a law that said anyone
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  Speaker 42: that's convicted of stealing an illegal alien who's stolen money
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 42: from the government should be deported.
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  Speaker 67: He voted against it.
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  Speaker 42: Another bill that was that That was passed that would
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 42: deport illegals who committed violent acts against women and children,
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 42: you know, should be deported. And he voted against that, too.
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  Speaker 42: This all makes no sense to me. I mean, unless
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 42: you view it from the perspective is they want to
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 42: bring all these illegal aliens into the country. They want
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 42: to make them citizens, knowing that they're all going to
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 42: vote for the Democrats that brought them in. and therefore
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 42: the Democrats will just have permanent political power. I mean,
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 42: that's the only logical reason that I can think of it.
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  Speaker 42: And the scarier part is it's all being done at
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 42: the taxpayers' expenses. So you're paying taxes to keep— and you
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 42: had people, like, staying in hotels in New York City
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 42: with several hundred dollars a day, plus getting cell phones
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 42: and getting spending allowances. I mean, and we have people
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 42: that are struggling to pay their bills. It's It's the
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 42: most warped thing that you could possibly think of.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, we have a caller on the line.
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 1: It's Sebastian from?
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  Speaker 2: Colchester. Colchester on the line. Do you have a question?
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  Speaker 11: Hi, Sebastian.
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  Speaker 49: I have a question and I have a couple of comments.
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  Speaker 49: I'm going to make it quick and concise. This guest,
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 49: your last guest, I didn't hear anything new. All I
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 49: heard was stating facts, which is fine. I don't dispute
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 49: the facts that they state. The kids aren't being taught
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 49: the way they should be taught. We have people here
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  Speaker 49: getting money from us, taking away services from quote-unquote citizens.
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  Speaker 49: You know what? That's all. It's like the die is
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  Speaker 49: it has nothing to do with the schools. It's the
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  Speaker 49: other side of the equation, the parents. With the people
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  Speaker 49: that are here getting the money, you know what? Once
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  Speaker 49: bring it back. You know, the horse is out of
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  Speaker 49: the barn or whatever. Let's get some new ideas. I
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 49: hear no new ideas. The only new idea I ever
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 49: heard was Betsy McCoy telling me to ax the tax
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  Speaker 49: in Connecticut. And you see what that got her?
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  Speaker 18: Nothing.
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  Speaker 49: So that was an idea. I don't hear any ideas
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  Speaker 49: other than, it's so easy to point out the problems,
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  Speaker 49: but give me an idea and I'll follow you to
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  Speaker 49: the ends of the earth and say, yeah, you're right. Whereas,
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  Speaker 49: you know, Trump gave me some ideas. I followed him,
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  Speaker 49: but look where I am. So that's all I have
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  Speaker 49: to say, really.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for your time. But, you know, I disagree.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to bring in gas lines. We're trying to
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  Speaker 1: do different things. And You know, having Mr. Goldstein part
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 1: of the team, we'll be able to do the things
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  Speaker 1: that we need to do to bring that gas pipeline
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: into Connecticut. And if you AI it, it says we'll
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 1: save a billion dollars in the first year in expenditures,
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: which is about $ 300 a household. It's about $ 100, 000 a school.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy money for a big high school. And without
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  Speaker 1: these things coming forward, and we're talking about them, but
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  Speaker 1: without being in power, you can't get anything done. So
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  Speaker 1: you know what the Democrats have done. for the last
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  Speaker 1: eight years for you, 12 years for you, since 2009
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  Speaker 1: for you. And if you want to keep going that way,
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  Speaker 1: if you think everything's fine, then I must be living
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  Speaker 1: in a different planet.
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  Speaker 11: Well, sure.
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  Speaker 42: I mean, the bottom line is these problems were created
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  Speaker 42: by the Democrats, specifically the immigration issue. It was created
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  Speaker 42: of the solution. The second part of the solution is
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  Speaker 42: the gangs, the terrorists.
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  Speaker 67: Get the worst people out first.
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  Speaker 42: I mean, when Barack Obama deported more people than Trump
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  Speaker 42: is deporting, the Democrats were silent. Now suddenly they're complaining.
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  Speaker 42: It's pure hypocrisy. We're getting to the issue of the
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  Speaker 42: natural gas. So under the current federal law, the governor
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  Speaker 42: of New York, Kathy Hochul, can block a pipeline that
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  Speaker 42: comes from Pennsylvania to Connecticut. And yet the seven people
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  Speaker 42: that represent us in the federal government, two senators and
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  Speaker 42: five congressmen, not a single one of them has ever
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  Speaker 42: stepped up to the plate and proposed changing that legislation.
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  Speaker 42: So as the press caller said, nobody's saying something. I'm
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 42: saying change the law. I'll go even one step further.
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  Speaker 42: Kathy Hochul then, in pure hypocrisy, is now allowing a
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  Speaker 42: pipeline to come to Long Island to bring natural gas there.
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  Speaker 42: to the state of New York while she's blocking pipelines
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  Speaker 42: to the state of Connecticut. And since Connecticut and New
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 42: York compete with each other for housing and for jobs,
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  Speaker 42: she is essentially acting in what I would call an
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 42: anti-competitive way.
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  Speaker 67: And actually, if we had a.
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  Speaker 42: Governor that's different than the one they had, they might
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  Speaker 42: actually be able to file a federal antitrust lawsuit against
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  Speaker 42: the state of New York. So, yes, there are changes.
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  Speaker 42: But if you want to vote for the same people
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  Speaker 42: and you like the fact that jobs have left the
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  Speaker 42: state of Connecticut You like the fact that the taxes
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 42: are the highest. You like the fact that we're betraying
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  Speaker 42: our young by hiring people who are not citizens over citizens. Well, sure,
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 42: just vote for the way things are. But if you
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  Speaker 42: want something better, you have to vote for different people.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. So the other thing I want to talk
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 2: about is this new act that Trump has put out
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  Speaker 2: called the MOVE Act. And I think it's something that's
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  Speaker 2: going to really need to be passed. I'm sure the Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: In our state will vote against it, but The MOVE
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• 2:05:51
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  Speaker 1: real estate business, and if you have a 3% interest rate,
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  Speaker 2: Still be able to move.
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  Speaker 1: This will not solve the housing shortage, but it will
• 2:06:04
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• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of money into the economy because if I
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: can take my mortgage of $ 300, 000 at 3%, which I'm
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: paying $ 9, 000 a year in interest on, and if I
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: go to buy a new house, that first $ 300, 000 I
• 2:06:19
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• 2:06:21
  Speaker 2: Is $ 20, 000 a year.
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 1: So it's $ 11, 000 more a year to move. But if
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: I could take that mortgage, I would move. Now, what
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 1: does that do? That gives two realtors a commission. It
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: gives the state conveyance tax. It gives Connecticut conveyance tax.
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: It gives the town's conveyance tax, so they.
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 2: Get a percent.
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 1: And every person that buys a house spends an average
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: in your state of about $ 15, 000. on remodeling, painting, kitchens, appliances,
• 2:06:48
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• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: this will be a great act. What do you think
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• 2:06:56
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  Speaker 42: I think it's a great idea because, as you said,
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• 2:07:04
  Speaker 42: in a house, the mortgage is low, and maybe they
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 42: want to buy a bigger house because they have a
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  Speaker 42: growing family, but they can't afford to do that. So
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  Speaker 42: it gives them the chance to move into a bigger house.
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  Speaker 42: And it gives somebody else a chance to buy a house.
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  Speaker 67: You're right.
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 42: It recycles money into the economy. And sure, some of
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 42: these people are even going to spend more than that
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 42: on renovations. And also, what about the company that's doing
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  Speaker 42: the moving? That's also creating jobs. So you're talking about
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 42: a lot of jobs. You're talking about a lot of work.
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 42: And you're talking about also making people's lives better. And
• 2:07:37
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  Speaker 17: Great.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, this is George Agnelli from 94 News Now, stimulating talk.
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  Speaker 1: And we're here with Michael Goldstein. And, you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: something very interesting been proposed, which would be phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, phenomenal. Anybody that has to travel 95.
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  Speaker 1: Try to get a Yankee game or try to go
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  Speaker 1: do things, you understand what that highway can be like
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey or Long Island. You know, I can see
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  Speaker 1: Long Island when I leave my beach house, but it
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  Speaker 1: takes me four hours to drive around and get there.
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  Speaker 1: And from Bridgeport to Kingsbury, they're proposing a six mile
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  Speaker 1: bridge that will be public, mostly public money used for it.
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  Speaker 1: And your commute to Long Island will be 22 minutes.
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  Speaker 67: I mean, I think it's a good idea in a
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  Speaker 67: lot of ways.
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  Speaker 42: Number one, there's more people that live on Long Island
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  Speaker 42: than live in the state of Connecticut, and so that
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  Speaker 42: there could be cross-pollination between the two economies just by
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  Speaker 42: having that bridge. And also, in terms of people that are,
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  Speaker 42: you know, you talk about green energy, if companies come
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  Speaker 42: from New England and have to go to Long Island,
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  Speaker 42: they have to go around this large loop, and they're
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  Speaker 42: burning all this extra fossil fuel, and they're getting stuck
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  Speaker 42: in traffic. So there are economic benefits as well. and
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  Speaker 42: their environmental benefits. And these things have been proposed, I think,
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  Speaker 42: since the 1930s. And yet during the Revolutionary War period,
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  Speaker 42: people took little boats and they went back and forth
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  Speaker 42: between these two places, and there was a lot of communication.
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  Speaker 42: So certainly, it is a good idea. It's the economics,
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  Speaker 42: the feasibility. And let's face it, we don't get our
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  Speaker 42: fair share of federal money anyway. So It would certainly
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  Speaker 42: create a hell of a lot of jobs, and we
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  Speaker 42: need jobs in Connecticut. So I think it's got a
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  Speaker 42: lot of potential. I think it's something that we should
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  Speaker 42: certainly talk about and certainly talk to the people in
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  Speaker 42: New York and see if we can get some support.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the big problem is this needs to go to
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  Speaker 1: the state DOT, and they need to do a survey
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  Speaker 1: on it, and it's been stalled because the governor won't
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 1: send it to the state DOT.
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  Speaker 18: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't understand because Kathy Hochul now realizes she's
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  Speaker 1: got to bring natural gas from Pennsylvania instead of Canada
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  Speaker 1: into Long Island. So the gas is already going to
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  Speaker 1: be in there, and we can make it as part
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  Speaker 1: of getting that pipeline over to us. And like I said,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be putting a lot of money into our economy.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a private bridge. We're not building it
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  Speaker 1: with government money. They need very little money from the
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 1: government to get it started, like 2% or 3%. It's
• 2:25:16
  Speaker 1: a very small amount. And they're going to build it
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  Speaker 1: with their own money and then charge a toll to
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  Speaker 1: go across it. And it will not be federally funded.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not coming out of our pockets. It will
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  Speaker 1: be coming out of the developer's pocket. And he will
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  Speaker 1: charge a certain fee for going across. And it's basically
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  Speaker 1: his bridge to maintain, his bridge to take care of.
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  Speaker 1: And if you want to cross, you can. But here's
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  Speaker 1: the nice part. Just think, if we took half the
• 2:25:39
  Speaker 1: traffic off 95 and put it on this.
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  Speaker 2: Bridge, we wouldn't have to spend any money on 95.
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  Speaker 42: Well, it depends how low down you go. Because a
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 42: lot of traffic on 95 is actually commuting traffic. A
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 42: lot of the average distance that people travel on 95
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  Speaker 42: is under 16 miles. So I think that part of
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  Speaker 42: it you're not going to lose. But the interstate part
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 42: of it you could definitely lose. And the reality is
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  Speaker 42: that's what they do in Florida. They have privately funded
• 2:26:06
  Speaker 42: roads and they charge tolls. And if there is somebody
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  Speaker 42: that wants to invest that much money into doing it–
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  Speaker 42: They should do it, and the tolls just have to
• 2:26:16
  Speaker 42: be competitive.
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  Speaker 67: If the tolls are too high, people just won't use it.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And as you look at the program, it's a phenomenal program.
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  Speaker 1: The state of Connecticut has to come up with less
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 1: money from what I've been reading, that they're just now
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 1: spending 1.6 billion on a rail project to speed up
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 1: trains on the New Haven line so that you can
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 1: get to New York 20 minutes sooner.
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  Speaker 2: So we're spending 1.6 billion.
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: But we're not putting this project in front of DOT,
• 2:26:48
  Speaker 1: which I think they're only asking for $ 1.
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 2: 2 billion, which.
• 2:26:52
  Speaker 1: A lot of that part of it will be federally.
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 1: The beginning part of the project will be funded by
• 2:27:01
  Speaker 1: the state of Connecticut to get it started, but they
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 1: won't even look at the feasibility study of building this,
• 2:27:05
  Speaker 1: which has to get started. Without a doubt, we need
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 1: to have this bridge yesterday, not five years from now.
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  Speaker 42: Well, once again, because of the fact that there's a–
• 2:27:15
  Speaker 42: and they would also stimulate huge interstate economic relationships. But
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 42: getting back to just a quick thing about 95, if
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 42: you actually look at where the federal money is going,
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 42: the overwhelming majority of the federal money that's fixing Metro-North
• 2:27:28
  Speaker 42: is actually going in, once.
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 67: Again, the Hartford area.
• 2:27:31
  Speaker 42: And it's not really going along the part of the
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 42: New Haven line that runs through the coast based on
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 42: the current appropriations.
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  Speaker 35: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Just so you know, the state DOT has spent $ 43
• 2:27:46
  Speaker 1: billion since January 6th. Work being performed by Tilcon is
• 2:27:51
  Speaker 1: scheduled for engineering to see what type of pavement they
• 2:27:55
  Speaker 1: like better, and they're going to use some of that.
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  Speaker 2: So we spent $ 43 billion.
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 1: $ 43, 699, 900 of federal money to redo a couple miles on
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  Speaker 1: Route 2 to test asphalt to see which asphalt we.
• 2:28:11
  Speaker 2: Look like better.
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 1: I don't have all the information on this, but This
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 1: is just craziness, and this is where I'm at.
• 2:28:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, why not rebuild the whole highway.
• 2:28:19
  Speaker 1: For $ 46 million, $ 43 million?
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 2: $ 43 billion, sorry. Is that really getting— Sounded like Biden
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 2: there for a second.
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 11: Yeah, right.
• 2:28:26
  Speaker 67: Really, any $ 43 billion for the roads? I mean, my God,
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 67: that's— There's.
• 2:28:31
  Speaker 2: A sheet that the DOT worker gave me.
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  Speaker 67: That's unbelievable. You could make a whole new highway.
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  Speaker 70: Yeah.
• 2:28:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, we have Frank from Watertown on. Frank, how you doing? Good,
• 2:28:44
  Speaker 1: how you doing?
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  Speaker 57: Good.
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  Speaker 43: I'm listening about the situation with the trains versus the bridge.
• 2:28:51
  Speaker 43: And we always say follow the money. Now, when the
• 2:28:55
  Speaker 43: trains are going to get the money to save the
• 2:28:58
  Speaker 43: 20 minutes, all those union workers on the train and
• 2:29:03
  Speaker 43: all the people in the restaurants and cafes that the
• 2:29:09
  Speaker 43: train supports are voters for the Democrats. So follow the money.
• 2:29:14
  Speaker 43: That's probably why Lamont, there's a bunch of voters he
• 2:29:17
  Speaker 43: would alienate.
• 2:29:19
  Speaker 25: Oh, probably.
• 2:29:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's always follow the money with the Democrats.
• 2:29:23
  Speaker 2: There's no question.
• 2:29:24
  Speaker 1: Did you see any big protests this summer since they
• 2:29:28
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• 2:29:33
  Speaker 1: of that had all the free money going to Uganda,
• 2:29:37
  Speaker 1: circumcisions and, you know, transgender surgeries, USAID?
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 43: Well, you know what? Common sense. Just common sense. We've
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 43: got to take care of ourselves sometime in the near
• 2:29:51
  Speaker 43: future because the Democrats don't take care of us. They
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 43: take care of themselves, voters, and they don't care how
• 2:29:57
  Speaker 43: they get their voters, and that's just the way it
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 43: is with them, and they're getting worse instead of better.
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  Speaker 26: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a question for Dr. Goldstein about running
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 2: for office?
• 2:30:08
  Speaker 43: Well, what I want to say is when you're going
• 2:30:12
  Speaker 43: against I think you're going against Heinz, right?
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 67: Yes, that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 43: You've got... He has a lot of name recognition, but
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  Speaker 43: you are a doctor. You have to use... Don't you
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 43: want to try and, like, promote yourself? Because I feel
• 2:30:28
  Speaker 43: that a doctor would be so much smarter than Jim Heinz,
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  Speaker 43: who was a communist at heart. So I think that
• 2:30:34
  Speaker 43: maybe you should be using your credentials against them, and
• 2:30:39
  Speaker 43: it seems like you have a lot of... better ideas
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 43: on helping the people of Connecticut. I think that's maybe
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 43: where you should be focusing on, that you're helping rather
• 2:30:49
  Speaker 43: than hurting.
• 2:30:50
  Speaker 42: Well, our motto on our signs and our doorknockers is
• 2:30:54
  Speaker 42: put a doctor in the house. So we are actually
• 2:30:57
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  Speaker 43: Right. Doc, you got what they call the Hippocratic Oath.
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  Speaker 11: Is it?
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  Speaker 67: Yeah, yes, not the Hippocratic Oath, the Hippocratic Oath.
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  Speaker 42: Hippocratic Oath, not the Hippocratic Oath.
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  Speaker 43: Yeah, and that you have an oath to help people.
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  Speaker 43: Jim Hines doesn't.
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  Speaker 11: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't see anybody's life being better.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think your life is better or my life
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• 2:31:41
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  Speaker 11: That's, yeah.
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  Speaker 43: Well, good luck to you, Doc.
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  Speaker 67: Well, thank you.
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  Speaker 42: Even though you're not in my district, if you have
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  Speaker 1: Hi, this is George Agnelli from 94.9 News Now and
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  Speaker 1: Simulating Talk. And we're here with Michael Goldstein running for Congress.
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  Speaker 1: Really quick, I just want everybody to take this name down.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give it to you ahead of time.
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  Speaker 1: And doing the research for this show, knowing that this
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  Speaker 1: show man was on, I did the research on Jim Himes.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a guy named Peter Thiel that I think
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  Speaker 1: is going to make Epstein look like an ant.
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  Speaker 2: He has a sex cult. And he's building World War II.
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  Speaker 1: And according to the New York Post, Jim Himes and
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  Speaker 1: him spend a lot of time together on all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not going to go long into this because
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to take away much from callers that
• 2:39:14
  Speaker 1: are calling in and doing that. But according to this,
• 2:39:17
  Speaker 1: Jim Himes and part of this program, and you can
• 2:39:21
  Speaker 1: Google it, research it after the show, and you can
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  Speaker 1: read it all about yourself, is a company called Dialogue,
• 2:39:27
  Speaker 1: which also doubles as a matchmaking service. And some of
• 2:39:31
  Speaker 1: the questions they ask you if you call dialogue is,
• 2:39:33
  Speaker 1: how is your sex life? Build a cult and navigating
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  Speaker 1: World War III. We can help you with all those things.
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  Speaker 1: While exposing the organization's report to assured asset members would
• 2:39:44
  Speaker 1: remain private, all of a sudden these records are starting
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  Speaker 1: to become public. We know the mainstream media will not
• 2:39:50
  Speaker 1: pick up on it, but this was an article in
• 2:39:52
  Speaker 1: the New York Post a few minutes ago. So we'll
• 2:39:54
  Speaker 1: give you a minute to talk about it, and then
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  Speaker 1: we're going to grab the callers.
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  Speaker 11: Sure.
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  Speaker 42: I think it's kind of a shadow government. It's also
• 2:40:01
  Speaker 42: obviously stuff's going on there that is pretty scary. If
• 2:40:05
  Speaker 42: it's a sex club, it's even worse. And it's just
• 2:40:11
  Speaker 42: the fact that Himes is participating in this is really
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 42: kind of troublesome. And I think that this whole thing
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 42: needs to be exposed. The details need to come out,
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  Speaker 42: and people really need to know more about representing them
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  Speaker 42: in Congress and really what the ultimate goals of this
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 42: guy feel are for creating this organization and what he
• 2:40:35
  Speaker 42: really wants to accomplish. A lot of people look at
• 2:40:37
  Speaker 42: these things as shadow governments that try to control governments
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  Speaker 42: from behind the scenes and certainly If that's what's going on,
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  Speaker 42: then that's not really what our democracy is about.
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  Speaker 2: No, not at all.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to take a caller because we're going
• 2:40:50
  Speaker 1: to run out of time, which has been fun being
• 2:40:52
  Speaker 1: with you on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. If you have any criticisms, please send them over.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be happy to take them.
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  Speaker 57: Good morning. This is Reed from the Northwest Hills.
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  Speaker 21: How are you, Dr.
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  Speaker 18: Goldstein?
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  Speaker 67: How are you doing, Reed?
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  Speaker 41: I'm having trouble hearing you.
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  Speaker 67: Okay.
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  Speaker 57: I just wanted to bring up the question of election
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  Speaker 57: projections done by these so-called prediction markets. And just as
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  Speaker 57: with AI, which I suppose this is really a subset of,
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  Speaker 57: there's a lot of people in government talking about regulating
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  Speaker 57: the development of these things at a time when people
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  Speaker 57: who are independent-minded economists warn that regulation on this type
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  Speaker 57: of thing, which is critical to the future of our economy,
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  Speaker 57: is a serious threat. But I find it amazing that
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  Speaker 57: these things get so much prominence and attract so much
• 2:41:52
  Speaker 57: money and betting when they're really not that accurate. However,
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  Speaker 57: having said that, they're really showing, and I tried to
• 2:42:01
  Speaker 57: pick one that was an amalgam so that I wasn't
• 2:42:05
  Speaker 57: biasing at any particular service, there is a huge shift,
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  Speaker 57: according to these prediction markets, coming in both the House
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  Speaker 57: and the Senate. Have you developed any policy thoughts about this?
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  Speaker 42: There's always– one of the biggest problems that we have
• 2:42:23
  Speaker 42: in our country is overregulation.
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  Speaker 11: Exactly.
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  Speaker 42: And so I can tell you as a doctor in
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 42: our health care system, one of the reasons health care
• 2:42:32
  Speaker 42: is so expensive– is the government. The government's regulatory process
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 42: is essentially destroying healthcare. And for example, the average doctor
• 2:42:43
  Speaker 42: spends 20 hours a week doing data entry into a computer,
• 2:42:47
  Speaker 42: rather than taking care of patients. So certainly if what
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  Speaker 42: the government has done to medicine is an example of
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  Speaker 42: what they're going to do to AI, then I think
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  Speaker 42: that it's going to be very problematic. Because once again,
• 2:42:59
  Speaker 42: the people that are doing the regulation don't necessarily understand
• 2:43:04
  Speaker 42: the industries they're regulating. And sometimes they do regulations for
• 2:43:08
  Speaker 42: the sake of regulations or because somebody of some interest
• 2:43:12
  Speaker 42: group is pushing for these regulations. So I think that
• 2:43:17
  Speaker 42: our entire economy is overregulated, and I think it destroys competitiveness.
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  Speaker 42: It destroys innovation. It destroys small businesses. And so I
• 2:43:28
  Speaker 42: think that in our entire government, we need to scale
• 2:43:30
  Speaker 42: back on regulation.
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  Speaker 57: But as to the quality of these prediction markets, are
• 2:43:37
  Speaker 57: you finding that in your own race that there is
• 2:43:40
  Speaker 57: a similarity or a significant difference between what the prediction
• 2:43:44
  Speaker 57: markets show versus your own, I guess, private polling?
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  Speaker 42: Well, we haven't really done private polling at this particular point. Look,
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 42: I know that I'm an underdog. And my race begins
• 2:43:58
  Speaker 42: as a 60-40 race. And from there, it has to
• 2:44:03
  Speaker 42: be brought uphill and it has to change. And the
• 2:44:06
  Speaker 42: way we change it is by changing people's minds. And
• 2:44:10
  Speaker 42: certainly as we go further along, we'll be looking into
• 2:44:13
  Speaker 42: some of these things a little bit more with more clarity.
• 2:44:16
  Speaker 42: But certainly it's just important for people. At this point,
• 2:44:21
  Speaker 42: a lot of it is just trying to get information
• 2:44:23
  Speaker 42: out to people because most people are– surprisingly unaware of
• 2:44:28
  Speaker 42: what's going on when it comes to elections. And a
• 2:44:30
  Speaker 42: lot of people just that don't know that much simply
• 2:44:34
  Speaker 42: will just pick who they're voting for for governor and
• 2:44:36
  Speaker 42: just go straight across that line and vote for the
• 2:44:38
  Speaker 42: same party. And this is this is one part of
• 2:44:41
  Speaker 42: the cycle that we need to break.
• 2:44:44
  Speaker 43: Thank you very much for your time.
• 2:44:45
  Speaker 67: You're very welcome.
• 2:44:47
  Speaker 1: So we're going to we'll be at the 21st. At
• 2:44:51
  Speaker 1: Water's Edge, you'll get to meet a lot of candidates.
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  Speaker 1: I know Fazio's committed. I know that Matt Corey's committed.
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  Speaker 1: I know that several other areas have committed. I just
• 2:45:01
  Speaker 1: don't want to mention all the names on here. A
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  Speaker 1: good friend of mine that's familiar with this radio station
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  Speaker 1: is going to be there if you want to say
• 2:45:11
  Speaker 1: hello to him. Um, and we're going to have a
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  Speaker 1: great time. We're going to give you one minute to
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  Speaker 1: plug in your thing. I thank you guys for listening
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  Speaker 1: to me and giving me the opportunity to come into
• 2:45:20
  Speaker 1: your lives. And hopefully I gave you some information on
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in the world. And, um, I don't
• 2:45:25
  Speaker 1: mind debating back and forth.
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  Speaker 35: Sure.
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  Speaker 42: Just once again, the best way to track me down
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  Speaker 42: and learn about my campaign and volunteer and help is
• 2:45:33
  Speaker 42: at www.goldsteinforcongress.com. This is a race where I'm fighting for America,
• 2:45:39
  Speaker 42: fighting for the future of our country and fighting for
• 2:45:42
  Speaker 42: the future of our health care system, fighting for the
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  Speaker 42: future of Connecticut. And I need your help. I need
• 2:45:50
  Speaker 42: your support. If you can donate money, it's great. If
• 2:45:53
  Speaker 42: you can volunteer, it's great. This is a grassroots campaign
• 2:45:57
  Speaker 42: fighting against an incumbent, which is a tough uphill battle.
• 2:46:00
  Speaker 42: And I would love to have anybody that believes in change,
• 2:46:04
  Speaker 42: that's not happy with the way things are going, that
• 2:46:07
  Speaker 42: feels that our country is heading in the wrong direction
• 2:46:09
  Speaker 42: under the Democrats, Socialists, to step up and join the
• 2:46:13
  Speaker 42: campaign and join the fight. You don't make change by
• 2:46:17
  Speaker 42: being an armchair quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: This is 94.9 News Now Simulating Talk with George Agnelli
• 2:46:23
  Speaker 1: and Michael Goldstein wishing you an amazing rest of your day.