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"Poverty Solutions" (Wednesday August 26, 2025, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Not that I don't have the right to do anything
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I want to do.
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Speaker 2: I'm the President of the United States.
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Speaker 3: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
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here in Louisiana that work on conservative solutions to the
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problems that Dougas doctor ed. Cornegie coming up in a
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little while from the Center for Poverty Solutions. Finally, conservatives
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rolling up their sleeves. It's more of the Trump effect.
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Of course, you heard President Trump there making every never
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Trumper's head explode. You know it's Liz Cheney. We got
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to do a welfare check on Adam Kinsinger. Make sure
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he's okay this morning. You and me at four three
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four eight eight two four to two one seven joining
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us from the Virginia Institute is one of my co
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conspirators in con Conservatives world, Jonathan are not on education.
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Speaker 6: Thanks, It's been a great been a great conference so far,
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and just wonderful to meet, to meet lots of life
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minded people, just so inspirational.
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Speaker 5: You know Jonathan's distinct Southwest Virginia accent. Jonathan, you grew
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up in the UK. Compare you know where we are
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to Europe and you know, and I'm sure the UK
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school situations are different than maybe France or Germany's, but
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certainly the European model is much more top down than
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what we even we do here in the United States.
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Speaker 6: You know, there's an old saying you can either be
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a good example or you are terrible warning. And the
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really sad part of things in the United Kingdom at
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the moment is that we have become the terrible warning.
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It's certainly when it comes to education. Almost everything is
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public sector. The current labor government, left wing government is
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desperate to have as many people within the state education
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system as possible, one mass produced education and of course
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when you have that, government has a massive amount of
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say in what your children are learning. And so there's
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been this this move against any other education option within
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the UK for a number of years and the final
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nail in the coffin for many independent schools, and this
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has been going for a long Time's been a lot
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of other problems, but the final nail in the coffin
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this last year has been that the government has decided
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that school fees should be taxed that the equivalents of
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sales tax vat but at twenty percent.
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Speaker 4: So not only so, not only you have.
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Speaker 5: To pay for a school and you have to pay
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a tax on the money you pay for a school.
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Speaker 6: Well, if you think about it, you're actually paid three times, right,
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because you're paying in your taxes for the education, right
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then you pay the school fees, and then you're expected
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to pay text on top of those school fees.
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Speaker 4: And so what's happening is.
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Speaker 5: Hang on, I'm afraid there are legislators in the United
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States listening saying, oh my god, we thought we write
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this down. Johnny and Jonathan are not from the Virginia
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Institute for Public Policy. Oh my god, taxing you on
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the money, you said down your school feeds.
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Speaker 7: That's just pay no attention. That was all fiction right there.
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But our first things this morning, so that we know
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what we're talking about from the news.
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waiting for news?
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Speaker 7: Okay.
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Speaker 5: In case you're wondering, Taylor Swift is now engaged to
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Travis Kelcey. Senate Banking Committee is preparing to hold a
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hearing on Stephen Moran, the nominee from President Trump for
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Reserve said it will comply with whatever the court ruling
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is on the dismissal of Ms.
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Speaker 7: Cook.
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in its efforts to withhold billions of dollars from foreign
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Speaker 15: Hey, I'm not complete it cover really need to work,
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can get into that with you a little bit. And you're,
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like I thought, with the Trump adminute, I thought it
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was the Bush administration with you to find a way
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to blame it on Trump. I'm sure at some point
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Day morning with our friend James Luck from the Jefferson
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Speaker 7: Good morning, James, How are you, sir? I'm good, well, Joe,
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how are you excellent?
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Speaker 7: How are gold and silver doing, James, Old and Silver had.
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Speaker 20: A pretty strong day yesterday. Gold almost touched thirty four
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hundred dollars yesterday, which is great to see. It's pulled
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just slight leads down fifteen dollars at the moment to
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three thousand, three hundred and seventy eight dollars, so we
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we'll see if we can make another stab at it today.
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The same story with silver. Silver hit thirty nine dollars yesterday,
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which we've been been waiting for, and it just pulled
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back just a little bit to thirty eight dollars and
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twenty six cents overnight. But this is good momentum forwards.
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Speaker 7: This is great well and get yours well.
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Speaker 5: The getting's good, as James calls it, stack in silver
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and some neat ways to do that as gold coins
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on their website as well, but most of the really
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Speaker 7: Correct, it's exactly, really, Joe.
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Speaker 20: That's a good point.
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Speaker 7: That's why we.
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Speaker 20: Pushed silver so much. That's why we talk about it
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because that's really where the exciting upside is right now
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that we talk about with our clients is that, you know,
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gold is at all time highs. It's been at all
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time highs for you know, most of the summer now,
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but silver is all time highs fifty dollars and it
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hasn't gotten there yet. Gold and silver typically moved together,
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so a lot of people see that silver has has
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a little bit more upside right now is a little
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more exciting, uh, and that's why we talk about buying
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silver at these cheap prices.
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Speaker 5: Well, thank you, sir, and and for you and the
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Speaker 7: You have an often awesome tedsty.
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Speaker 20: Thanks Shoe you too.
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Speaker 7: Four three four eight eight.
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Speaker 5: Two four two one seven here at the State Policy
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Network and Will meeting. Like I said, there's still so
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many folks you know, we're going to bring to you.
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We're trying to catch up with the Madison Institute folks,
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so many folks listening in Florida, Colorado. We're gonna get
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with their leadership and conservative voices there, the Pelican Institute
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here in Louisiana. And again thanks to bj and Linda
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and all the folks at WGS gave me a little
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tour yesterday of our affiliate here in the Big Easy
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Jonathan are not former member and Jonathan completely forgot to
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mention that former Member of the British Parliament an MP,
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just like Edmund Burke before him there and highlight of it,
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you know, so you were telling us about how first
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they charge you after they tax you for the schools,
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then they charge you a fee to use the schools,
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and then they tax you on the money you spent.
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Speaker 7: Okay, gosh, no.
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Speaker 5: Wonder, George Harrison and John Lennon wrote, tax men, So
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how does what's the prem behind all this?
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Speaker 6: Well, this is the thing, right, They said that they
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were going to bring money in by doing this, We're
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going to make all this money on school face. Well,
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of course what they do is they take children who
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were being educated in the independence sector who now are
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being educated in the state sector, and of course that
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costs the government money. They thought they were going to
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raise money. And the real question before you do anything
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like that is actually, how much is your ideology going
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to cost this country? Because it's messing up it's messing
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up people's education. You've got schools that didn't have places
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that are suddenly having to try and find places available
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for new students. It is an absolute complete mess and
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nobody benefits. But it's this whole idea that somehow if
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you're independent, that you're elitist, and it's nonsense the whole land.
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Speaker 5: That's what they think in England that if you're an
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independent school, you're like a snob.
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Speaker 19: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I mean if you think about the old the old traditional,
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the old traditional schools like your Etons and your Harrows,
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of course those do have that little elitism thing going on.
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The problem is the vast majority of the independent sector
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isn't that, And quite often it's lower and middle income
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families who recognize.
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Speaker 4: That their child is struggling.
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Speaker 6: They can't cope with that mass produced environment and what
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they want is something different. And the government in the
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United Kingdom says, right, we're going to use that as
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an excuse to stamp on you. And there is something
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completely totally and usterly marvelly wrong about that.
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Speaker 5: So just still, we're clear we're better off here in
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the United States than they are in UK a little
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bit anyway.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, you definitely are doing better in the United States.
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Speaker 7: I would say, we're competitive. We just want to make
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sure we're better than somebody.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think in Virginia there are problems.
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Speaker 6: You look at some of the fifty can research that
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was published a while back, and that shows that Virginia
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in terms of parents feeling that they have a choice there,
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we're looking at someone something like forty fifth out of
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the fifty states. It's it's certainly a long way down
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the list, and so there's a lot of work that
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needs to be done in Virginia. And the work basically
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falls into four categories.
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Speaker 4: In my view.
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Speaker 6: It's about parents having the right to make choices. It's
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about parents having the information to be able to make
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those choices and to make educated choices. It's about supply
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because quite often you've got you've got charter schools, but
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if you don't have the spaces available in those charter schools,
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you for some parents, you might as well not have them,
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because how do you go.
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Speaker 4: And the fourth thing is the dollars. You need the cash.
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You need to have the funding ideally following the child,
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not following the public schools.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, with that money following the channel. And we've
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figured it out after all these years.
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Speaker 7: And you know, somebody's states.
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Speaker 5: And if you've ever heard the phrase Blaine amendment, that
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is usually the phrase that the Marxist big government authoritarians
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used to say you can't have school choice because Blaine amendment.
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Blaine amendments are collaboration of state laws that say you
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can't give taxpayer money to parochial institutions, and the mac daddy,
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the grandpapa of them all, is a little piece of
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legislation called the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom. It was
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written by this fellow, Thomas from Charlottesville. No Jefferson, that's right,
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Thomas Jefferson. And it's considered the Poohbah of these. But
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if you give it to the parent, you're not. And
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then they choose where the money goes. That's what we've learned,
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if we've learned anything from medicaid at all. So here's
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22:26
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22:31
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22:34
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22:41
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Speaker 3: T first Thing Today on the Talk Media Network by
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Joe Thomas.
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again thanks to the Daily Signal Daily Signal dot com.
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It's that rare opportunity where Joe Thomas gets to say,
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I'm associated with some of the great minds and conservative thought,
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and they don't want me to say too much more
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about it because they're probably going to have people quit
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Speaker 7: You know, Victor Davis, ants and stuff like that.
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Speaker 5: But I appreciate their efforts as well as the Virginia
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Institute for Public Policy, my supporters. I've worked with them
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for twenty years and great do tank full of folks
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who are putting the rubber to the road.
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Speaker 7: Our next guests have.
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Speaker 5: Done exactly the same thing. And if there's an issue
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that ten years ago I would have said, is the
29:11
one that's most frustrating to me is that the conservative minded,
29:17
constitutionally based scholars were ceding the playing field of poverty
29:22
to the progressives. The you know, we'll go find the
29:26
rich people, the mysterious rich people, to tax them and
29:29
get money. And it's sixty years since the Great Society
29:33
started and we have four times as many poor people.
29:35
But I'm preaching to the choir a he as she
29:39
just said. Call her Ah from the Center for Poverty
29:42
Solutions and doctor k Eddie Cornegie, both with the Illinois
29:48
Illinois Centers the Institute Illinois Policy Institute. Thank you guys
29:53
both for coming. You are award winners for your efforts
29:56
on poverty. Talk about first off, how did your journey begin?
30:00
I see the Marine Corps pen so oh rah, But
30:05
how did your work in this field begin? Well, thank
30:08
you so much for this opportunity. I've been working in
30:11
the city of Chicago in the Urban center since nineteen
30:15
ninety seven ninety eight. My first point into Chicago was
30:20
into the one of the worst communities. I moved from
30:23
North Carolina to Chicago, which was the Rosen Community and
30:27
started working with men that were in a shelter there
30:32
and created a program in a program for a transitional
30:37
program that we started. And that was my first opportunity
30:42
to actually sit down and listen to community members and
30:45
ask them what they needed and craft a program that
30:49
they had invested in and would begin to transition themselves
30:53
from homelessness into employment and you know, hold some living.
31:03
So I presume you came there from North Carolina with
31:06
thoughts in your head of what you wanted to do.
31:08
How did you have to be flexible? And when you
31:11
started to hear these men's stories, how did you have
31:15
to work on what your thoughts were coming there and
31:19
to get it into practice.
31:21
Speaker 25: Well, I would say that my experiences weren't that much
31:25
different from their own, maybe not to the point to
31:28
where they were so severe that I wasn't able to
31:31
claw myself back. But the compassion that I had came
31:35
with a level of understanding and authenticity and a willingness
31:39
to embed myself in a community that needed me, needed
31:43
my example, and for someone to listen to them and
31:47
to see their value and their worth and their dignity.
31:50
Speaker 7: So to talk about the center and why.
31:57
Speaker 5: The right answers have been a you know, slipping through
32:00
our fingers too frequently, and I don't know why it is.
32:05
I mean, we're flagshiped in Charlottesville. It's one of the
32:08
great university towns in the United States. Yet we have
32:10
this horrific poverty issue that everyone seems to kind of
32:14
keep behind some hedges and nobody talks about it, you know,
32:18
And are we at a tipping point? Where people are
32:22
realizing that all these years, without guilt, without retribution, without
32:28
any sort of rebuke, just say listen, okay, we got it,
32:32
we tried it. We need to try something different. Is
32:35
that where we are today?
32:38
Speaker 26: Yeah, And I would say the biggest answer to that
32:41
is we need to be on the ground. A lot
32:44
of organizations, like corporations and nonprofits, they avoid being on
32:49
the ground. And with the Center for Poverty Solutions, that
32:51
was our number one thing. We work directly with the
32:54
block club leaders on the West side of Chicago, and
32:57
we work with leaders on the South side of Chicago,
32:59
and we built with them, like we go to their events,
33:02
We talk to them about the issues that they're going through.
33:05
We see it in real time while we're there, and
33:08
we bring them into the space where policy researchers and
33:11
policy makers are working together and get the direct answer
33:15
directly from the source. And doctor Cornegaey has this phrase,
33:18
and I'm gonna butcher, I'm gonna butcher. But those who
33:22
are closest to the problem are often the closest to
33:25
the solution. We just have to give them that power.
33:28
And I feel like the Center for Poverty Solutions has
33:30
helped people regain that power.
33:33
Speaker 5: Is that one of the things that we've done over
33:35
these sixty years in our war on poverty is tell
33:39
people no, you can't fix it, somebody else needs to
33:42
fix it for you, instead of saying no, no, you
33:44
know what you're you know what you need to do.
33:46
Speaker 15: Yeah.
33:46
Speaker 26: I think that has been the case for the last
33:49
however so years. That usually someone who doesn't have that experience,
33:54
who doesn't know what it's like to be poor, they
33:57
try to come up with a solution and it doesn't
33:59
quite yet hit the actual problem.
34:02
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, because you show up and you say, well,
34:04
here's what I want you to do, and it has
34:06
little connection to what's going on in the neighborhoods. Crime
34:11
is obviously one of the is it a manifestation of
34:15
or is it one of the causations of the poverty issue?
34:18
I feel like it's a manifestation, but you're there, I'm not.
34:22
You tell me, you know, do you fight crime by
34:25
creating prosperity or do you have to fight crime first
34:28
and then create prosperity.
34:30
Speaker 25: I think that word manifestation is perfect for what we're doing.
34:34
I see poverty as a spirit, poverty as something that
34:38
SAPs self production as well as poverty as a public
34:41
safety issue. And so when you begin to address poverty
34:45
by removing barriers to work, by creating pathways for people
34:49
who might be skilled but uncredentialed, that are already doing
34:53
kinds of you know, small jobs in the community and
34:57
really great examples of resilience, when you begin to look
35:01
at that like that, you see that that restoration of dignity,
35:06
dignity through work and the recognition of their individual value
35:11
and collective value produces a reduction in crime.
35:15
Speaker 4: That's what we believe.
35:17
Speaker 5: Well, it's funny because I have three kids on my
35:20
own and I experienced it with them and their friends,
35:24
and I truly believe this is a spiritual point as well.
35:28
God has given us all gifts. And the most heartbreaking
35:32
thing about poverty is you go into some of these
35:34
neighborhoods and you see people who have either been told no,
35:39
you don't or don't try to find it, and it
35:41
sounds like you've been working in the space of figuring
35:44
out you know, you're gifted at this, you should be
35:46
doing this?
35:47
Speaker 7: Is that Am I too far off?
35:49
Speaker 15: No?
35:49
Speaker 25: No, not at all, and just staying with the God
35:53
purpose and God deemi. He gives us, He gives us purpose.
35:57
And what has happened for many people because cause of
36:00
poverty and because of what it does and how government
36:03
has been used to address it, it SAPs people of
36:07
their purpose. It repurposes them for something that is unnatural
36:11
and and not a designed to actually unlock the real
36:15
purposes that they have. And so when you begin to
36:18
identify them by by by co laboring and co creating,
36:22
it begins to unlock things.
36:24
Speaker 27: UH.
36:24
Speaker 25: We see, we see the potential begin to come out.
36:28
And and I think real examples of American resilience are
36:33
what we are running into. Examples that are that are intergenerational,
36:38
cross cultural, beyond the kinds of constraints that religion or
36:44
ideologies might might persist. So we get at the core
36:48
of people's prejudgments and biases and help them to understand
36:52
that the language of of of of difference UH isn't
36:57
the one that produces the kinds of process, parity and
37:01
liberation UH and and citizenship that that we know will
37:05
connect you to the founding documents, to an understanding of federalism,
37:10
to an understanding of subsidiarity. The methods and methodologies that
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you need to be able to access the great success
37:17
that's embedded in the idea and the ideals of America.
37:23
Speaker 5: Doctor Cornegay, We're going to running into a break here
37:26
Center for Poverty Solutions where you find them. And uh,
37:31
it's Illinois Policy dot Org is the parent website here
37:35
at the State Policy Networks is another one of these, uh,
37:38
you know, amazing people that are actually doing it with
37:42
liberty and and circumventing I mean Illinois, it's JB.
37:46
Speaker 7: Pritzker.
37:46
Speaker 5: It's this is not a state that's like, hey, do
37:50
unto you know, as you see fit uh and uh
37:53
and bless you for finding the answers even within all that.
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On the Gavin Newsom story, as sending in the polls,
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I thought Newsom was just a privileged white man. You
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can't make this stuff up, Ed Cornegie on with us.
44:37
And one of the things about tedsdy ED is that
44:41
it is driven by the idea that we're all gifted
44:45
with something like we were just talking about it. Take us,
44:49
you know, into how you have gotten in and on
44:52
the streets, because it's just you know, once you've opened
44:55
up that bottle, you can't put the genie back in it.
44:58
Once people realize they ca you can't go back and say, oh,
45:02
I'm sorry, we're wrong.
45:03
Speaker 7: You can't again.
45:04
Speaker 5: And that's why I think the liberty message of freedom
45:08
and opportunity is always going to win in the end.
45:14
Speaker 25: Absolutely, I totally agree. And the block clubs that we're
45:17
working with, which I think is a powerful phenomenon in Chicago,
45:21
is a clear example of people when you give them
45:24
the opportunity to take care of their community, they'll do it.
45:27
They're already out there doing the work. We're just coming
45:30
alongside of them. They're the ones that have taken these
45:34
concepts and moved them forward. The one thing that's missing
45:39
is the fact that there's a capstone on their problem
45:42
solving skills, and so what we do is bring that research.
45:46
We bring critical thinking and decision making. We bring the
45:50
ideas of civic engagement involvement and help them to articulate
45:54
their ideas on a higher level so that they increase
45:57
in their agency and can see the capacity before they're
46:00
flourishing to just unfold UH in a in a brand
46:03
new way and that that excites UH the community that
46:07
is champions the cause that I think is a value
46:13
that oftentimes doesn't get articulated.
46:16
Speaker 7: You mentioned block leaders.
46:18
Speaker 5: Is is this something that you know because it sounds like,
46:21
you know, like so many things that are holistic, that
46:24
you have to be doing it on a small level.
46:26
You can't come in and say the whole city of
46:28
Chicago is going.
46:29
Speaker 7: To do it this way. You've got to go to
46:31
each block leader.
46:33
Speaker 5: You know, Now, do you do you find them in
46:35
a you know, community center or do you just find
46:38
that that person on the block that knows everybody?
46:41
Speaker 28: You know.
46:42
Speaker 5: It's just really a catch as catch can. But every
46:45
block has those leaders, well not every block has the leaders.
46:48
But the way that we came into an understand were
46:52
introduced to them was in our community meetings, not sitting
46:56
back in our office, but going out and being called
46:58
into those meetings. And there was a pastor, Dolly Sherman,
47:02
showed up at one of our meetings and her voice
47:04
was just so pronounced. The only thing that I could
47:07
do is say, that's what I'm looking for, and that's
47:09
who I want to work with. And immediately it shifted
47:12
the way that we began to do our work. It
47:14
accelerated it to such a degree that we are able
47:18
to actually, with the help of the Beth and Ravenuel
47:21
Curry Foundation and Rising Tides and Templeton Foundation and SPN
47:26
to be able to put this work on. They recognize that,
47:30
and so is what's exciting about the block clubs is
47:34
that it's a yes, it's a small but mighty coalition,
47:38
and they desire to actually have more block clubs involved.
47:44
But they are examples.
47:46
Speaker 25: I think once they're they're showcase, and once they're infused
47:49
with more support, we're going to see not only a
47:53
deepening of their ability to do what they've done, which
47:55
has transformed their blocks, but for that to spread to
47:58
more blocks in the communities that we're working with right now.
48:02
Speaker 5: I'm a child of the Bussing generation and I found
48:06
very interesting. Oh, you used to work in the Philadelphia
48:08
area and there was a program. It took about twelve years.
48:12
They took a school over and instead of just you know,
48:16
traditional CADA twelve or K to.
48:18
Speaker 7: Eight, K to six, they kept all the kids all
48:21
the way.
48:21
Speaker 5: Through senior in high school and they made the you know, ninth, tenth, eleventh,
48:27
twelfth graders go back and teach part of their English
48:30
class was go back and teach in first grade and
48:35
math and all those other things. And you know, a
48:37
couple of things they learned was not only did the
48:40
graduation rates go up, college enrollment rates went up, and
48:46
that was what they were looking at. But what they
48:47
didn't realize, and this is something I carried with me forever,
48:52
is the college graduates and high and the college participant
48:58
came back to the community and started their businesses. They
49:01
didn't go off and find some other place to live.
49:04
They said, no, I'm going back.
49:06
Speaker 7: Where I grow up.
49:07
Speaker 5: And that sense of this is my community, I think
49:11
is what I'm hearing doctor k talking about, is that
49:14
this is my block and I want to make it
49:17
a great place.
49:18
Speaker 7: Is that what you're seeing.
49:19
Speaker 26: Oh yeah, that's definitely what we're saying. Going back to
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Pastor Dolly, I've been going to their block club parties.
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I've been going to their graduation events, and you'll see
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people coming back and like helping out, Like they're bringing
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food from their houses, like the boys are helping like
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fix the generator in the back. Like they're doing what
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they can to make sure that that community, that neighborhood,
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that block is thriving.
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Speaker 7: And that's unbreakable. And I think, in my mind, so
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is this exportable?
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Speaker 5: I mean, you're doing it in Chicago, in Richmond, in
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the DC area, I mean where I mean it's some
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of the I think I would say DC despite the
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fact that we all see the pretty houses where the
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congressmen and the.
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Speaker 7: Law live, but I mean the people who live in DC.
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Speaker 5: It's one of the most poverty destroyed cities out there.
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Richmond has terrible problems with it. We talk about school choice,
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and that's you know, one of my great disappointments is
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we had a great coalition of black community leaders, inner
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city leaders, poor communities saying yeah, we want that, and
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that's one aspect of it. But how transportable, how repeatable
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is this into other communities, Doctor k I.
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Speaker 25: Think it's it's something that is highly replicable, and that's
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our vision is to take this and scale it across
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the US. And I put it. I put it like this,
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wherever there's a kitchen table, there's an opportunity for a
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block club to emerge. And that's my experiences. I just
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remember how profound the kitchen table was in my parents' home,
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whether it was someone getting jobs, or whether it was
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somebody for you know, organizing to vote, whether it was
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something around school desegregation at time that time, that kitchen
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table was very powerful, and what we're being invited into
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most often when we go out into the communities is
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right into the kitchen tables. And so that kitchen table
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experience is where the movement continues to be carried on.
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And so yes to your question, I think it's for
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big cities, for medium spot size cities, for rural communities
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that have been just gutted because the textile industries have
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left and poverty and violence have come in, and so
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the city scape looks so similar to some of the
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areas on the west and south sides of Chicago. So
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yes to your question, it can work in If it
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can work in Chicago, this is what I've always heard.
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If you can do it in Chicago, you can do
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it anywhere.
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Speaker 5: Well, amenda that, how do people can people reach out
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and say hey, I'm interested. Are you ready for people
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in you know, you know, Norfolk to email you and say, hey,
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I'm ready, I want to get started.
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Speaker 26: Oh yeah, you can reach me yet.
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Speaker 7: No, No, I'm serious.
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Speaker 5: No, I'm serious, because I mean we're on an hundred
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cities across the country listening to this, and I want
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somebody in Portland saying hey, or San Bernardino or you know,
52:09
you know, we're just getting on San Antonio's case because
52:13
they want to spend all this money building an arena for.
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Speaker 7: The Spurs and downtown. I'm like, is this helping anybody
52:20
or is.
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Speaker 5: This just you know, getting you on you know, Cityescapes,
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r US magazine or something. So so I'm really serious.
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Can people go to your website or email you el
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should they do?
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Speaker 26: Yeah, I'm trying to think what's the quickest way for
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people to contact it?
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Speaker 25: Via email at e Cornegie at Illinois Policy dot org
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and e Emia wut at Illinois Policy dot org. That's
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how you can get us or go to our website
52:46
at IPI Illinois Policy dot org.
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