Latest / First Thing Today with Joe Thomas / FTTxJT 061726 Nobody Doesn't Like Barbara Lee
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- 0:07Speaker 1: Challenge one hundred to do list. Putting the radio on
- 0:13Speaker 1: is the first thing today.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
- 0:18Speaker 2: on this tedsdy so much to get into. I want
- 0:22Speaker 2: to circle back to a couple of things as well.
- 0:26Speaker 2: With apologies to Jen Sacke, who that was her catchphrase
- 0:32Speaker 2: for many years, I want to pick Barbara Lee is
- 0:36Speaker 2: running in California, and of course you know you take
- 0:41Speaker 2: with a grain of salt, it's California. I was asked
- 0:44Speaker 2: at a debate last night.
- 0:46Speaker 3: You're calling for a fifty dollars an hour federal minimum wage.
- 0:50Speaker 3: That's seven times the current national minimum wage of seven
- 0:53Speaker 3: twenty five an hour.
- 0:54Speaker 4: Can you explain?
- 0:55Speaker 5: First, let me say I owned and ran a small
- 0:58Speaker 5: business for eleven years. I created hundreds of jobs. I
- 1:04Speaker 5: know what worker productivity means, and that means that you
- 1:07Speaker 5: have to make sure that your employees are taken care
- 1:11Speaker 5: of and have a living wage.
- 1:13Speaker 2: So we went and checked and none of Barbara Lee's
- 1:16Speaker 2: employees made forty or fifty dollars an hour as a
- 1:19Speaker 2: minimum wage. So what she means is she wants you
- 1:24Speaker 2: to have to pay people fifty dollars an hour minimum wage.
- 1:28Speaker 2: And what would what would the cost of a service
- 1:30Speaker 2: be if you know you had to pay a person
- 1:36Speaker 2: fifty dollars an hour for it? Because this is the
- 1:41Speaker 2: part they always leave out. It sounds great, it's it's
- 1:45Speaker 2: amazing pandering. I think everyone here should make more money.
- 1:52Speaker 2: And it's pandering like we should expect anything else from
- 1:58Speaker 2: Barbara Lee. But it's dangerous, just as dangerous as the
- 2:07Speaker 2: anti Semitism and the anti Israel rhetoric out of a
- 2:12Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders or an AOC was to the nut clusters
- 2:17Speaker 2: that were apparently planning to fly a bunch of drones
- 2:21Speaker 2: over the UFC fight on the White House lawn and
- 2:25Speaker 2: start shooting people like Jared Kushner as he fled the scene.
- 2:31Speaker 2: They had a list, a targeted list of Jewish administration members.
- 2:39Speaker 2: Why not just shoot President Trump? I mean, if he's
- 2:42Speaker 2: the guy who hired it, Their premise, I guess is,
- 2:45Speaker 2: and I've seen some of this nut clustery is that
- 2:49Speaker 2: he's forced to do it by them. It's the them
- 2:53Speaker 2: people again. But the you know, saying stuff like we
- 2:59Speaker 2: should do a fifty dollars an hour minimum wage means
- 3:08Speaker 2: that your groceries are going to go up by seven
- 3:11Speaker 2: times the cost unless you're going to invoke price controls,
- 3:15Speaker 2: and then eighty percent of your jobs are going to
- 3:18Speaker 2: go poof. She went on to say in the Bay Area,
- 3:26Speaker 2: I believe it was the United Way noted Big Industry
- 3:29Speaker 2: Right came out with a report that very recently, one
- 3:32Speaker 2: hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars for a family of
- 3:36Speaker 2: four is just barely enough to get by. And I
- 3:42Speaker 2: will ask barb how many Republicans have been trying to
- 3:49Speaker 2: administer the fiscal and economic landscapes of San Francisco. Barbara
- 4:00Speaker 2: Lee goes on to quote another survey, it's one hundred
- 4:03Speaker 2: and four thousand dollars for a family of one, barely
- 4:06Speaker 2: enough to get by low income because of the affordability crisis.
- 4:11Speaker 2: And there's a phrase that pays. Abigail Spanberger, governor of Virginia,
- 4:18Speaker 2: just drove a big gun manufacturer out of the state,
- 4:21Speaker 2: took one hundred jobs with them because they moved to Thomasville, Georgia,
- 4:32Speaker 2: where it's I think sixty percent the cost of living.
- 4:40Speaker 2: Whole company just up and said, well, we'll go make
- 4:42Speaker 2: our guns in Georgia. Affordability crisis is driven by the
- 4:52Speaker 2: devaluation of our dollars, Barb, how are we going to
- 4:57Speaker 2: get our dollar to be more value up bowl? You
- 5:02Speaker 2: won't let us claw back monies that are being wasted
- 5:05Speaker 2: hand over fist. Gavin Newsom and his administration so bad
- 5:10Speaker 2: at it. They were being investigated by the Biden administration.
- 5:14Speaker 2: I know Gavin Newsom is out there telling everyone, oh,
- 5:17Speaker 2: Trump is targeting me with this, just like Louise Lucas,
- 5:22Speaker 2: who we heard from before on today's program. The investigation
- 5:26Speaker 2: into the fraud against taxpayers was started by Merrick Garland
- 5:33Speaker 2: and the Department of Justice under Joe Biden. Why probably
- 5:38Speaker 2: because Joe and Hunter and the rest of the family
- 5:42Speaker 2: were taken out of the grift. So if Josh, darn it,
- 5:47Speaker 2: if we can't be skimming a little off of the
- 5:49Speaker 2: Barisma holdings till nobody can. Living wage first off, as
- 6:00Speaker 2: we just said, Thomasville, Georgia, living WAGS is much lower
- 6:03Speaker 2: than it is in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where the gun manufacturers
- 6:08Speaker 2: ride out was located. And why is that? Because these
- 6:16Speaker 2: do gooders, these protectionists, restrict what kind of housing you
- 6:21Speaker 2: can build in our flagship area central Virginia. It costs
- 6:26Speaker 2: you by and you can go to free Enterpriseforum dot com,
- 6:33Speaker 2: Free Enterpriseforum, pardon me, Free enterpriseforum dot org and look
- 6:39Speaker 2: up the research on Central Virginia. It costs two hundred
- 6:44Speaker 2: thousand dollars just in regulatory costs before a home builder
- 6:51Speaker 2: puts one shovel into a piece of dirt. The house
- 6:58Speaker 2: already costs two hundred one thousand dollars before the first
- 7:02Speaker 2: two by four shows up on the job site, before
- 7:05Speaker 2: the first hole is dug, before the first truckload of
- 7:09Speaker 2: PVC pipe gets dropped off. This is under regulatory capture,
- 7:16Speaker 2: This is under permits, This is under viewshed regulations. Barbara Lee,
- 7:20Speaker 2: there are hundreds of ways to address the affordability problem
- 7:24Speaker 2: that doesn't include mandating a fifty dollars an hour minimum wage.
- 7:32Speaker 2: And you know, it's funny because in California they ought
- 7:35Speaker 2: to know better because when they did that with the
- 7:40Speaker 2: restaurant workers, all the restaurants started closing, and they tried
- 7:46Speaker 2: to come up with a way to stop that, and
- 7:48Speaker 2: they couldn't come up with one fast enough to keep
- 7:51Speaker 2: the restaurants open. But I mean, there were people in
- 7:54Speaker 2: the California General Assembly talking about making it illegal to
- 8:00Speaker 2: close a business that employed more than I think it
- 8:03Speaker 2: was fifteen people made it. They were going to try
- 8:08Speaker 2: to criminalize closing a business because it's the land of
- 8:12Speaker 2: fruits and nuts. Let me get to you. We're coming
- 8:16Speaker 2: up on the news here. We may have to indulge
- 8:18Speaker 2: some indulgences here. Good morning. Who's this, hey, Joe, it's Clark. Hey, Clark.
- 8:23Speaker 2: News is bearing down on us because service elements and
- 8:27Speaker 2: telling people, you know, what what went on last night
- 8:29Speaker 2: and what the weather's going to be is important.
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- 10:46Speaker 2: Morning Radio at gmail dot com. Before we headed to
- 10:49Speaker 2: the news, just there, Barbara Lee was telling us how
- 10:52Speaker 2: she wants us to have a fifty dollars national minimum wage. There,
- 10:59Speaker 2: of course running in California. Doctor Clark had a thought
- 11:02Speaker 2: about that. Clark, I imagine, go ahead, sir. Thank you
- 11:06Speaker 2: for hanging on through the news.
- 11:08Speaker 4: Yes, sir, So you know, if the government can mandate
- 11:13Speaker 4: a minimum wage and it will work, why do fifty
- 11:16Speaker 4: dollars an hour? Joe?
- 11:17Speaker 2: Why do fifty dollars? May get two hundred.
- 11:20Speaker 4: Dollars an hour? Yeah, two hundred dollars an hour, and
- 11:26Speaker 4: you work a forty hour week, that would be eight
- 11:30Speaker 4: thousand dollars gross, work fifty weeks a year, that's four
- 11:37Speaker 4: hundred k. The government gets half. That's two hundred thousand
- 11:40Speaker 4: dollars from every minimum wage worker. The government would.
- 11:45Speaker 2: Be rich, right, we'd close that deficit.
- 11:48Speaker 4: Pretty minimum wage worker two hundred thousand dollars. What's medium
- 11:53Speaker 4: income right now, something like sixty thousand or something like that.
- 11:56Speaker 4: So that's that's three and a half time the median.
- 12:02Speaker 2: Yep.
- 12:02Speaker 4: Everybody would be so much better off, Joe, two hundred
- 12:05Speaker 4: dollar an hour minimum wage. I'm for it.
- 12:08Speaker 2: Let's see, except for the ones who don't have jobs.
- 12:12Speaker 4: Well, and a happy meal is going to be three
- 12:17Speaker 4: and fifty bucks. I mean, you know, I'll promise you, Joe,
- 12:23Speaker 4: and you've been in the fast food industry, I have
- 12:25Speaker 4: not I promise you. At some managerial level, they have
- 12:31Speaker 4: a formula that factors how much they're paying for labor
- 12:37Speaker 4: into what they're charging for a meal.
- 12:39Speaker 2: Yes, they do.
- 12:40Speaker 4: I guarantee you there's some kind of formula there. There's
- 12:43Speaker 4: no way that some economists has not come up with
- 12:47Speaker 4: that now, and food coms as well. So when I
- 12:49Speaker 4: was wanting to get the trucking, I don't want to distract,
- 12:54Speaker 4: because we want to I want to get our first
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- 12:58Speaker 2: But go ahead, finish your thoughts.
- 13:01Speaker 4: I'll finish it. It's not about getting people more money
- 13:05Speaker 4: per hour. It's about control. It's about putting more people
- 13:10Speaker 4: on the doll Because you get a fifty dollars an
- 13:12Speaker 4: hour minimum wage, you're going to have more people unemployed.
- 13:15Speaker 4: Those people will receive benefits.
- 13:17Speaker 2: Sure those are Democrat voters now well, and you'll also
- 13:20Speaker 2: need the permanent underclass that we're fighting for just like
- 13:24Speaker 2: the last civil war. This is why I say we're not,
- 13:27Speaker 2: you know, running headlong towards the new civil war. We're
- 13:30Speaker 2: just about to reignite the old one, with a permanent
- 13:34Speaker 2: underclass being the focal point of it as well, doctor.
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- 15:02Speaker 2: With that's what we do on Tedsday at four three
- 15:06Speaker 2: four eight eight two four to two one seven minimum
- 15:10Speaker 2: wage value of a dollar nineteen sixty one, when John
- 15:17Speaker 2: Kennedy said we need to go to the Moon and
- 15:20Speaker 2: the other things. This decade, you could buy something for
- 15:26Speaker 2: ten cents that today you need a dollar for. And
- 15:34Speaker 2: it's all really because we continue to print dollars. And
- 15:44Speaker 2: I got an email last week. I think it was
- 15:47Speaker 2: you have the pile over there. I know it was
- 15:50Speaker 2: before we went to West Virginia Beach. Just I'll paraphrase
- 15:55Speaker 2: it if you can find it again. But the email
- 15:57Speaker 2: was basically pushing back on the idea that this was
- 16:00Speaker 2: Lyndon Johnson's fault, that it was Richard Nixon's fault because
- 16:05Speaker 2: you know you they were demigrateful and a Republican fault.
- 16:10Speaker 2: Come on, guys, can we please evolve past that. Yes,
- 16:14Speaker 2: Richard Nixon's administration is the one that did the deed
- 16:18Speaker 2: on pulling the plug on the gold standard. And I
- 16:22Speaker 2: have said that. I don't know if you listen or not,
- 16:25Speaker 2: but maybe somebody told you I said this about the
- 16:30Speaker 2: value of the dollar, because people will react. They'll hear.
- 16:36Speaker 6: Oh.
- 16:36Speaker 2: I was listening to this radio show and he said,
- 16:38Speaker 2: Lyndon Johnson started the Great Society, and that's why we're broke,
- 16:43Speaker 2: and that's why the dollar is not worth anything. Well,
- 16:45Speaker 2: gold standard, of course, it was of course taking us
- 16:48Speaker 2: off the gold standard? Is there Barry? And I please
- 16:55Speaker 2: thank you for finding if Barry is the author, I
- 16:58Speaker 2: think unless Barry is an allusion to the forty fourth
- 17:04Speaker 2: president of the United States, Little Barry Seto. But of
- 17:10Speaker 2: course Richard Nixon is the one who pulled the plug
- 17:12Speaker 2: on the gold standard. I'm not arguing that he did
- 17:15Speaker 2: it because the Great Society commitments had already threatened to
- 17:22Speaker 2: bankrupt a country that was chugging along with a pretty
- 17:26Speaker 2: decent budget. Certainly nothing devolved like it is now. And
- 17:35Speaker 2: so they were faced with the political third rail. Do
- 17:38Speaker 2: you cut the programs that you can't afford or do
- 17:47Speaker 2: you find a way to start affording them? And so
- 17:49Speaker 2: what they did is they found a way to start
- 17:51Speaker 2: affording them. They said, if we can just print more
- 17:58Speaker 2: money and come up with some ridiculous oh, it's the
- 18:02Speaker 2: full faith in credit of the US government. And you know,
- 18:10Speaker 2: I wrote a column for Daily Signal yesterday, probably going
- 18:16Speaker 2: to publish today, and it's about some issues here in
- 18:19Speaker 2: Virginia that could have been avoided years earlier if the
- 18:30Speaker 2: Republicans had turned out to vote. First and foremost being
- 18:37Speaker 2: the fact that you can't gather to have a political convention.
- 18:39Speaker 2: And I'm speaking in defense of political conventions that I
- 18:45Speaker 2: don't like. I don't like political conventions as a way
- 18:51Speaker 2: of choosing nominees because I find them exclusionary. I find
- 19:03Speaker 2: them to be a way to tell people you're not included.
- 19:13Speaker 2: And that's not a way to grow a party or
- 19:15Speaker 2: a grass whose movement or anything. To say, no, we
- 19:18Speaker 2: have special people that are going to choose the nominees only.
- 19:22Speaker 2: But I'll defend your right to hold one. But in
- 19:27Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, Republicans allowed the Democrats to take over the
- 19:31Speaker 2: House in Virginia and they passed laws that said you
- 19:36Speaker 2: can't gather to have a political convention anymore because COVID
- 19:41Speaker 2: and Republicans had no majority and didn't have the inclination
- 19:45Speaker 2: to try to fight it parliamentarily, so they let it
- 19:48Speaker 2: go and then whether or not to fight constitutional amendments again.
- 20:02Speaker 2: Tens of millions of dollars float into Virginia to win
- 20:05Speaker 2: you know, half a dozen state House seats by a
- 20:10Speaker 2: couple of hundred to a couple of you know, to
- 20:12Speaker 2: one thousand votes in each district, a paltry percentage and
- 20:19Speaker 2: easily available because none of these instances the voter turnout
- 20:24Speaker 2: was over fifty percent. So there's a whole lot of
- 20:28Speaker 2: just registered voters, never mind the unregistered ones. They're ready
- 20:33Speaker 2: to vote. If they had been so motivated, neither of
- 20:38Speaker 2: these controversial issues would be on the floor of anything
- 20:44Speaker 2: this morning. If people had gotten up and you say, well,
- 20:47Speaker 2: what about what does this have to do with a
- 20:48Speaker 2: great society? There was a guy. There was a guy
- 20:51Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty four, as the Great Society was justestating
- 20:57Speaker 2: was sitting in the incubator of the Leonatal Communist care program.
- 21:02Speaker 2: And it says our.
- 21:03Speaker 6: Moral teacher and our leader, And he says, he is
- 21:06Speaker 6: hobbled in his task by the restrictions of power imposed
- 21:10Speaker 6: on him by this antiquated document. He must be freed
- 21:14Speaker 6: so that he can do for us what he knows
- 21:17Speaker 6: is best. And Senator Clark of Pennsylvania, another articulate spokesman,
- 21:21Speaker 6: defines liberalism as meeting the material needs of the masses
- 21:26Speaker 6: through the full power of centralized government. Well, I, for one,
- 21:30Speaker 6: resented when a representative of the people refers to you
- 21:32Speaker 6: and me, the free men and women of this country,
- 21:34Speaker 6: as the masses. This is a term we haven't applied
- 21:37Speaker 6: to ourselves in America. But beyond that, the full power
- 21:41Speaker 6: of centralized government. This was the very thing the founding
- 21:45Speaker 6: fathers sought to minimize.
- 21:48Speaker 2: Nineteen sixty four, Great Society hadn't even really metastasized yet,
- 21:54Speaker 2: and Ronald Reagan was out there warning against it drove
- 21:58Speaker 2: him out of the Democratic Party. Now he was speaking
- 22:04Speaker 2: on behalf of Barry Goldwater at that point. And it
- 22:10Speaker 2: leaves one, if you're anything of a science fiction time
- 22:13Speaker 2: travel guy, to think what if you could go back
- 22:16Speaker 2: and convince President or convince Governor Reagan to just run himself,
- 22:22Speaker 2: or Goldwater to put Reagan on the ticket, how much
- 22:31Speaker 2: sooner Reagan and conservative policies would show up in Washington,
- 22:36Speaker 2: how much damaged Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon and the
- 22:40Speaker 2: Great Society and the capitulations would have caused. That's where
- 22:44Speaker 2: Barbara Lee comes up with this fifty dollars an hour
- 22:47Speaker 2: minimum wage, because she's cut from the same bolt of
- 22:50Speaker 2: fabric Ronald Reagan was talking about. With these liberalisms, they knew.
- 22:54Speaker 6: That governments don't control things. A government can't control the
- 22:58Speaker 6: economy without controlling people. And they know when a government
- 23:02Speaker 6: sets out to do that, it must use force and
- 23:04Speaker 6: coercion to achieve its purpose.
- 23:07Speaker 2: And with that, there's an organization actually dedicated to fighting
- 23:11Speaker 2: that kind of thing. It's called anti Fascist. Oh hold it, No,
- 23:16Speaker 2: they're just out there to fight Donald Trump. And you
- 23:22Speaker 2: wonder why we can't figure out ways out of this.
- 23:25Speaker 2: People have been trying to show us the ways out
- 23:27Speaker 2: of these conundrums for generations, and maybe we want to
- 23:34Speaker 2: invent our own way, but there's not a new way
- 23:38Speaker 2: to do it. Mousetrap is a mousetrap is a mousetrap