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Los Angeles State of Emergency | United States of Illiteracy · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're list Saints KPI AM six forty The bill handles
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  Speaker 1: show on demand on the iHeartRadio FFI AM six forty
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  Speaker 1: handle here on a Wednesday morning, October fifteenth.
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  Speaker 2: More going on in Gaza.
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  Speaker 1: Hamas has not returned the majority of the dead. Israelis
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  Speaker 1: the hostages pursuing to the ceasefire agreement. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how good an idea that is, because once again
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  Speaker 1: Hamas is doing no favors.
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  Speaker 2: For itself, to say the least.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Yesterday, moving to La County, Yesterday, La County
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  Speaker 1: officials voted to declare a state of emergency that gives
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  Speaker 1: them the power to provide assistance for residents they say
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  Speaker 1: have suffered financially from ongoing federal immigration rates. Thousands of
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  Speaker 1: people have been picked up, a few American citizens, a
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  Speaker 1: few legal residents, the majority illegal residents. But as Christinomes said,
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  Speaker 1: these are the worst of the worst, right, all of
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  Speaker 1: the people that are picked up, thousands and thousands, they're
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  Speaker 1: all vicious criminals, members of gangs.
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  Speaker 2: Well maybe not, probably not as a matter of fact.
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  Speaker 1: And what it does allow Ellie County Board of Supervisors
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  Speaker 1: to provide rent relief for people who have fallen behind.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, that's pretty generous and that makes sense
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  Speaker 1: to help people. However, there is a big other side
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  Speaker 1: to this. So two things are happening. One is that
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  Speaker 1: the raids have taken away the breadwinners in the family. Two,
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  Speaker 1: the breadwinners that are still here are afraid to go
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  Speaker 1: to work and they're not leaving the house, especially if
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  Speaker 1: they work in construction or they work at you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're in front of home depot asking for labor, or
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  Speaker 1: they're working at factories where there is a big population
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  Speaker 1: of Latino immigrants, of which probably good portion are illegal.
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  Speaker 1: I've talked to a lot of business owners who said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but without them, we don't function. Okay, So funds are
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  Speaker 1: going to be available for rent for people who apply
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  Speaker 1: these an online portal. The La County Supervisors voted four
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  Speaker 1: to one in favor of this extended ban. Well, it
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  Speaker 1: could be an extended ban, it could be another moratorium.
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  Speaker 1: You've got money and you have a moratorium. Those are
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  Speaker 1: the two issues. So the money part, the apartment owners
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  Speaker 1: are saying, okay, we're fine with that, although it's a
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  Speaker 1: tax issue, and how much money is a county pay
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  Speaker 1: in taxes? The moratorium is a very different issue because
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  Speaker 1: that means rent is not paid during a moratorium, and
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  Speaker 1: those who are you in favor say, yeah, but the
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  Speaker 1: rent is due at the end of the moratorium. I
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  Speaker 1: asked Ann this morning to give me a percentage of
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  Speaker 1: those who did not pay their rent during the moratorium
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  Speaker 1: during COVID and could not afford it. So here you
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  Speaker 1: have someone or a group of people who do not
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  Speaker 1: pay rent and they're struggling to pay the rent and
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  Speaker 1: they don't have to for a year, which happened during COVID.
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  Speaker 1: And let's say you're paying three thousand dollars a month
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  Speaker 1: the two thousand dollars a month for an apartment here
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  Speaker 1: in southern California, La County. So by the end of it,
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  Speaker 1: you owe twenty five thousand dollars and you could barely
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  Speaker 1: scrape for the rent in the first place. On handle
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  Speaker 1: on the wall, I got a lot of phone calls saying,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the moratorium.
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  Speaker 2: What do I do?
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  Speaker 1: I say, you take that money and you put it
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  Speaker 1: in the bank, because when this ends, you are going to.
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  Speaker 2: Owe the money.
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  Speaker 1: That is what the law says right there, and the
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  Speaker 1: landlord will go after you.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: You go after people that have no assets, how many
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  Speaker 1: people actually have twenty five thousand dollars at the end
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  Speaker 1: of it, of course, almost nobody landlord got stuck. All
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  Speaker 1: manned to the landlords get stuck on this one. And
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  Speaker 1: now we're talking about the same thing. And here is
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  Speaker 1: the real issue. Government in this case liberal government board
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  Speaker 1: of supervisors say, real, simply illegal undocumented aliens are more
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  Speaker 1: important to us than landlords. Even though landlords pay the taxes,
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  Speaker 1: even though landlords pay mortgage payments, they keep the banks going.
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  Speaker 1: It's the undocumented people we have to protect. And so
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  Speaker 1: which way do you go on this one? It is
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  Speaker 1: so tough. And I asked and this morning to do
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of research during the course of the
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  Speaker 1: show to ask what percentage of people who did not
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  Speaker 1: pay their rent at the end of the more at
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  Speaker 1: people that owed twenty twenty five thirty thousand dollars because
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  Speaker 1: rent was due at the moment the moratorium in fact ended.
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  Speaker 1: And we couldn't come up with the exact figure because
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  Speaker 1: that's that specific figure is not easy to come by.
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  Speaker 2: But if you look.
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  Speaker 1: At the story and you extrapolate other non payment of
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  Speaker 1: rent issues, a real good, big percentage of people at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the moratorium simply didn't pay the rent
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  Speaker 1: and they were evicted or they declared bankruptcy, and the
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  Speaker 1: landlords got absolutely nailed. Most of the apartments in La
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  Speaker 1: County and Orange County are owned.
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  Speaker 2: By small owners. Now they're not owned.
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  Speaker 1: By these huge corporations that owned thousands of units. I
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  Speaker 1: mean there are some, but most of them are owned
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  Speaker 1: by mom and poppers, people like me. I had two
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  Speaker 1: units a while ago, and I got rid of him
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't want to be a landlord anymore. But
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  Speaker 1: how many people, and I know people have three units
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  Speaker 1: and four units and small duplexes, and how do they
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  Speaker 1: pay the mortgage? Well, two bad guys. The money is
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  Speaker 1: owed at the end of more, to the end of
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  Speaker 1: more the moratorium, and you buy it, you pick it up. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Moving over to I guess first Amendment issue. The Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration has just revoked the visas of six foreigners who
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  Speaker 1: have been deemed to have made derisive comments or made
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  Speaker 1: light of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Yeah it was
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  Speaker 1: good he was assassinated, or what a jerk he was,
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  Speaker 1: or look at the saw which side he's on? Whatever,
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  Speaker 1: derisive statement. Now saying you appreciate the assassination. Yeah, it's disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. Saying that you like the assassination of a
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  Speaker 1: thirty two year old because you disagree with his politics
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  Speaker 1: is completely disgusting. On the other hand, have you ever
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  Speaker 1: heard of the First Amendment? And the State Department said
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  Speaker 1: they should lose their visas after reviewing their online social
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  Speaker 1: media posts and clips about Kirk. This is you're losing
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  Speaker 1: your visa because you said something negative about Charlie Kirk,
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  Speaker 1: not that you're a national risk, not that you have
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  Speaker 1: ties to isis.
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  Speaker 2: It's because you said something negative about Charlie Kirk. That
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  Speaker 2: is scary.
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  Speaker 1: And the administration is straight out targeting people for their
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  Speaker 1: comments about Kirk and asking for the firings of journalists, teachers,
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  Speaker 1: and others. And it raises all kinds of free speech concerns.
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  Speaker 1: And the six foreigners were for the most part in
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  Speaker 1: South America. And here is what the State Department said,
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  Speaker 1: Trump and the Secretary of State Marco Rubio will defend
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  Speaker 1: our borders, our culture, and our citizens by enforcing our
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  Speaker 1: immigration laws.
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  Speaker 2: You attack Charlie Kirk.
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  Speaker 1: Verbally, and somehow you're attacking our borders in our culture.
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  Speaker 1: Aliens who take advantage of America's hospitality while celebrating the
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  Speaker 1: assassination of our citizens will be removed. They don't have
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  Speaker 1: First Amendment rights. Only American citizens have First Amendment rights.
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  Speaker 2: WHOA and JD.
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  Speaker 1: Vance and other top officials have encouraged people to call
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  Speaker 1: out the offensive language about Kirk they see online. You
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  Speaker 1: tell us some of the offensive language and will throw
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  Speaker 1: those people out.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And so the administration is ramped up its efforts to identify,
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  Speaker 1: potentially expel thousands of foreigners in the United States, students
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  Speaker 1: notably who have phonem in it or participated in unrest
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  Speaker 1: in publicly supported protests. Now, it's already happened a couple
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  Speaker 1: of times. So some guy from let's say a Mid
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  Speaker 1: East country stands up and promotes gaza in the United
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  Speaker 1: States just says, I believe the United States is wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Is that deemed a security risk this country? According to
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  Speaker 1: the administration, it is. And it's getting pretty scary because
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  Speaker 1: this administration is targeting people who are saying.
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  Speaker 2: Negative things, not just acting out. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: If someone is out there and saying the US should
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  Speaker 1: be attacked, okay, they're out. If someone, although that's a
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  Speaker 1: First Amendment right to say that. Did you know that
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  Speaker 1: I can stand out there and I could say the
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  Speaker 1: president should be assassinated.
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  Speaker 2: I have a right to say that.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm going to get a nice, long, long visit
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  Speaker 1: from the FBI.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to happen. But do I have a right
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  Speaker 2: to say that? Yes? Do?
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  Speaker 1: If I advocate, If I say, go ahead and do it,
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  Speaker 1: that's a different animal. But giving your opinion, that is
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  Speaker 1: that's allowed under our constitution.
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  Speaker 2: That's the First Amendment right. It is. It's that simple.
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  Speaker 1: And the courts have been very strict about the ability
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  Speaker 1: to say things like that. We are allowed to in
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  Speaker 1: this country. And here is presidential power going that way.
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  Speaker 1: And the president has said outright, if you speak against Kirk,
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  Speaker 1: We're going to throw you out if you have a visa.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready for this?
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  Speaker 1: South Africa's ambassador of the US was thrown out for
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  Speaker 1: comments critical of Trump. Palestinian President Mahmoudabas was not given
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  Speaker 1: a visa to attend you in General Assembly because he's
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  Speaker 1: pro Palestinian.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously he is Palestinian. I mean, this is scary stuff
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  Speaker 2: and how far does it go?
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  Speaker 1: For example, the president has said that the cities of Chicago, Portland,
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  Speaker 1: LA are out of control. Not any Southern cities. Not
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  Speaker 1: one is out of control. There isn't one Southern city
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  Speaker 1: in the United States or pro Trump city the vote
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  Speaker 1: a Republican that has a problem.
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  Speaker 2: Only Democrat cities.
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  Speaker 1: And the President also said he is cutting off funding
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  Speaker 1: for Democrat controlled programs. If there is a literacy program
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  Speaker 1: that has been established by Democrats, he's yankee federal funding.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, I'm scared about this, I genuinely am.
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  Speaker 1: Now, is it a far jump for if you say
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  Speaker 1: something negative about the president somehow that's going to be
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  Speaker 1: deemed a treason unconstitutional?
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  Speaker 2: Is that a far jump? No? Not to me. Not
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  Speaker 2: to me. I'm pretty scared, I am. You know. Do
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  Speaker 2: I think it's gonna happen? No? But let me ask
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  Speaker 2: you something.
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  Speaker 1: Would you think there would be a move that President
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  Speaker 1: Trump would go for third term and Congress is going
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  Speaker 1: to push it. How many members in the Republican Party
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  Speaker 1: are going to push for a third term for President Trump?
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  Speaker 1: And let's say he declares if do I think he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna do it?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: But let's say he declares statements against the administration treason.
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  Speaker 2: How many Republicans you think would join that? All of them?
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  Speaker 1: Of course, not some of them. Yeah, yeah, so there
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  Speaker 1: I am. I guess the b bails you, right, you
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  Speaker 1: left wing bastard.
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  Speaker 2: You you're just part of.
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  Speaker 1: The radical far left, and you are destroying America. You
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  Speaker 1: with this free First Amendment crap, are destroying this country.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I want to switch gears.
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  Speaker 1: Let me go to the topic of illiteracy in the
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  Speaker 1: United States now, and I've said this many times, I
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  Speaker 1: am not an exceptionalist. When I hear America is the
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  Speaker 1: greatest country in the world, you have to break it
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  Speaker 1: down in many ways.
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  Speaker 2: It is. In many ways. It is not.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to higher education, I mean really high
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  Speaker 1: education Ivy League schools and the number of them, America
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  Speaker 1: is the top of the heat. When it comes to research,
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  Speaker 1: medical research, America is the top of the heap. You
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  Speaker 1: can easily say America is the greatest country in the world.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to opportunity, it's certainly among the greatest
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  Speaker 1: country in the world, among the greatest countries of the world,
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  Speaker 1: and you can argue it is the greatest country in
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  Speaker 1: the world. Now, let's go to a few other topics.
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  Speaker 1: I bring up the topic of healthcare, Are you going
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  Speaker 1: to tell me we're the greatest country in the world
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  Speaker 1: in terms of health care? How about infant mortality? Where
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  Speaker 1: we're number twenty two or twenty three among industrialized nations?
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  Speaker 1: Actually among the world? Are we the greatest country in
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  Speaker 1: the world? How about a safety not how many poor
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  Speaker 1: people we have? Are we the greatest country in the
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  Speaker 1: world of industrialized world? How about the number of prisoners
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  Speaker 1: we have? We have more people in prisoners prison not
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  Speaker 1: only numbers, but per capita than any country in the
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  Speaker 1: world by a long shot. Are we the greatest country
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  Speaker 1: in the world. It depends on where you are and
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  Speaker 1: depends on what you're looking at. You can't do this
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  Speaker 1: with broad strokes. You have to do it with pecificity.
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  Speaker 1: So let me get specific for a moment. Illiteracy. Are
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  Speaker 1: we the greatest country in the world? I can think
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  Speaker 1: right off the bat, and that's without looking at sheer numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Cuba as a higher literacy rate, South Korea has a
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  Speaker 1: higher literacy rate.
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  Speaker 2: The United States. Don't know what number it is, but
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  Speaker 2: it ain't up there.
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  Speaker 1: And so let's go back historically a little bit with
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  Speaker 1: the United States at the start of the century, American
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  Speaker 1: students registered steady improvement in math and reading, okay from
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and on, but around twenty thirteen the progress
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  Speaker 1: began to stall out and then to backslide, and I
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  Speaker 1: mean dramatically. And by the way, this decline began way
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  Speaker 1: before the pandemic. So you can't explain COVID disruptions that
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  Speaker 1: alone to explain it.
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  Speaker 2: So what are some of the reasons.
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  Speaker 1: And some of them are logical, some of them are physical,
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  Speaker 1: just what's going on physically.
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  Speaker 2: And some are culturally.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, for example, maturity if you can somehow measure maturity,
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  Speaker 1: and there are sociologists who can states is not anywhere
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  Speaker 1: near where other countries could be, although you can argue
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  Speaker 1: both sides of that. In that way, we're not the
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  Speaker 1: greatest And as I said, illiteracy not even close, and
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  Speaker 1: we have dropped so dramatically.
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  Speaker 2: Smartphones and social media. One reason.
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  Speaker 1: A pervasive refusal to hold kids to high standards. I've
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  Speaker 1: shared this story so many times. My kids, when they
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  Speaker 1: were I think eight or nine, went to a birthday
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  Speaker 1: party of a neighbor and it was at a bowling
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  Speaker 1: alley and it was I mean, they had little leagues.
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  Speaker 1: They separated the students and they had individual achievement and
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  Speaker 1: they had team achievement. At the end of it all,
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  Speaker 1: every single kid got a trophy that said world's greatest bowler.
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  Speaker 1: No one came in first, no one came in last,
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  Speaker 1: No team did better than any other team. They were
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  Speaker 1: all the world's greatest bowlers. Holding people accountable. That has
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  Speaker 1: gone into the toilet. Pretty sobering stuff, it really is.
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  Speaker 1: There's an organization called NAYIP and AEP National Assessment of
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  Speaker 1: Educational Progress.
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  Speaker 2: This year they released a study.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty three percent of eighth graders are reading at a
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  Speaker 1: level below basic third, struggling to follow the order of
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  Speaker 1: events in a passage or even summarize the main idea.
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  Speaker 1: That's the highest share of students who are effectively illiterate
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  Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety two. Fourth graders forty percent or below
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  Speaker 1: basic in reading. That's the highest since two thousand. We're
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  Speaker 1: way down the heat. Member. We're the greatest country in
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  Speaker 1: the world except for a few areas. Literacy is one
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  Speaker 1: of them, certainly among kids. American school children have well
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  Speaker 1: given up almost all the gains they achieved at the
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  Speaker 1: start of the century, where we really had gone up.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm going to share with you.
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  Speaker 1: Where the best place to go to school is if
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  Speaker 1: you're really poor. The best school systems in terms of
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  Speaker 1: grading and in terms of achievement according to this test
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  Speaker 1: or according to these metrics. First of all, as you
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  Speaker 1: would imagine, the learning losses are not distributed equally. The
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  Speaker 1: results show the top tenth of students are doing as
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  Speaker 1: well as they've always done. Those at the bottom are
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  Speaker 1: doing worse. The disparity is hitting all over again. So
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  Speaker 1: let's look at some of the reasons. One of them
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  Speaker 1: they're looking at is insufficient spending. Now, the reality is,
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  Speaker 1: school spending did not decline from twenty twelve to twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. In fact, it increased even after adjusting for inflation.
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  Speaker 1: It went from fourteen thousand a year to more than
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  Speaker 1: sixteen thousand a year per student. That's across the country.
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  Speaker 1: And the large amount of money that was dropped on
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  Speaker 1: schools in the world of the pandemic, well that has
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  Speaker 1: failed too. Congress appropriated one hundred and ninety billion dollars
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  Speaker 1: to ameliorate the loss the learning loss.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: School district states were given complete latitude to spend the money.
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  Speaker 1: So you had districts spend money for professional development or
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  Speaker 1: capital expenditures such as replacing HVAC systems or getting electric buses.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the money went, and it was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: go to help students become well more literate. So here
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  Speaker 1: and so so far, we've come up with a couple
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  Speaker 1: of reasons. Smartphones, and I think that's a legitimate reason.
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  Speaker 1: Expectations they're way down. What we want for excellence is
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  Speaker 1: so less than what we did. There is no such
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  Speaker 1: thing as true excellence anymore.
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  Speaker 2: You get nailed. Who gets f's.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, when I was going to school, you
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  Speaker 1: had a D average, you got tossed from high school.
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  Speaker 1: Today you can have f's and you still graduate.
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  Speaker 3: You don't think there's other things, you know. You look
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  Speaker 3: at the literacy rate by state handle. The lowest adult
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  Speaker 3: literacy in the United States is California. The highest adult
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  Speaker 3: literacy is New Hampshire. Yeah, so you have a lot
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  Speaker 3: of immigrants. That's where California. Yeah, you have you have
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  Speaker 3: immigrants come in in New Hampshire. You don't, right, that
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  Speaker 3: is a reason when you have an average, because when
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  Speaker 3: you have kids that don't speak English, but no, and
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  Speaker 3: you're right, I'm not arguing. Unfortunately, this is a national average,
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  Speaker 3: but it's still even in California, even in in New Hampshire.
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  Speaker 2: I'm guessing the rates have gone down.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have those figures, but this is across the board,
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  Speaker 1: and the study shows across economic grounds and across geographical grounds.
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  Speaker 2: It's still worse. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's better in New Hampshire. But then I want
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  Speaker 1: to go to the question, and that is, if you
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  Speaker 1: are poor, if you want the best educational system, the
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  Speaker 1: best increase in terms of literacy from twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: which really dropped, or even twenty twelve, where do you
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  Speaker 1: think those states would be for the best advancement or
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  Speaker 1: the best place for these kids to go to school?
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  Speaker 2: How about Mississippi?
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  Speaker 1: They're calling it the Mississippi Miracle, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, the
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  Speaker 1: Southern Southern Surge. Reading performance declined among fourth graders in
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  Speaker 1: forty six out of fifty states, including New Hampshire, including Massachusetts,
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  Speaker 1: and only two states Mississippi and Louisiana, did they meaningly
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  Speaker 1: improve as against the other states, not just from complete
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  Speaker 1: ill literacy to moderate ill literacy.
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  Speaker 2: That's against New Hampshire.
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  Speaker 1: That's against California, which, as you said, has among the
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  Speaker 1: lowest because of the huge influx of immigrants where English
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  Speaker 1: is a second language, but also the northeastern Eastern states.
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  Speaker 2: Go figure, Mississippi.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, courses like how to make shoes because you don't
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  Speaker 1: have any at home. All right, we're out of here
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