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The Ron Verb Show - 5pm Hour Wednesday, 07/29/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: Back to it, NewsRadio 570 WKBN with Tom Zammery on
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  Speaker 2: this situation in Poland Township, which I think is a
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  Speaker 2: dire situation at this point in time.
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  Speaker 3: Would you agree with that, Tom?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, if they don't have the money to pay employees
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  Speaker 4: and they don't have the money to keep the continued government,
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  Speaker 4: it is. And something has to be done. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know enough about it because I haven't studied it. to
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  Speaker 4: say what should be done. Obviously, something needs to be
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  Speaker 4: done in a way of getting money. And I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they're asking a three mil levy. I have
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  Speaker 4: no idea how much money that is. And I think
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  Speaker 4: it needs to be looked at like anything. Like the
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  Speaker 4: last time I called, they talked about, you know, they
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  Speaker 4: pay out all this money and nobody takes a look
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  Speaker 4: at what's happening with it. You know, what are we
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  Speaker 4: doing with this money? You know, I thought I heard
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  Speaker 4: something about the WRTA spending $ 60 million on their garage
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  Speaker 4: down there to put in and build a new garage
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  Speaker 4: with place for electric buses and everything else, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you've got to be kidding me, you know. And all
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  Speaker 4: these things are happening, and no one puts the whole
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  Speaker 4: picture together to say, where's all this money coming from?
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  Speaker 4: And so I don't have an answer for polling except
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  Speaker 4: that unless they take a short-term levy, like you can
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  Speaker 4: have it for two years or something like that, and
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  Speaker 4: in the meantime you're going to have to do something
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  Speaker 4: to correct your spending. But I really don't have, I
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  Speaker 4: couldn't make.
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  Speaker 2: A clear judgment. Let me bounce this off of you.
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  Speaker 2: There's a couple of things. First of all, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think you can always cut your way out of some
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  Speaker 2: of these situations. I don't think you can say, well,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to cut and we're going to get out
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  Speaker 2: of this situation. And let me just explain that for
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  Speaker 2: a minute and see if you agree. Townships, government is
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  Speaker 2: affected by inflation as well. Like I've said a million times, Tom,
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  Speaker 2: look at what a fire truck used to cost and
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  Speaker 2: what it costs today. Look at what a police car
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  Speaker 2: used to cost and what it costs today. Look at
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  Speaker 2: what health care benefits used to cost and what they
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  Speaker 2: cost today. I mean, they are affected by inflation just
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  Speaker 2: as anybody else is.
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  Speaker 3: Affected by it.
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  Speaker 2: So it's hard for them to operate without some additional
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  Speaker 2: money to be able to provide the same level of services,
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  Speaker 2: not additional services, the same level of services that they have.
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  Speaker 4: I agree with you on that.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You're coming, though, at a time when there's a much bigger–
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  Speaker 2: so we agree on that. But here's what the problem is,
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  Speaker 2: the statement that you made earlier. We are at a
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  Speaker 2: situation where people can't afford this in their own households either.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have enough people looking at what's happening to
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  Speaker 2: the homeowner and their finances in their home.
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  Speaker 3: You follow me?
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  Speaker 2: So they're not– They're not looking carefully at that particular
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  Speaker 2: situation because that person in the home is saying, now
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  Speaker 2: what do I do or where do I cut or
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  Speaker 2: I can't afford to live in my home anymore because
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  Speaker 2: you taxed me out of it. So I go back
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  Speaker 2: to say, why is it that the states give so
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  Speaker 2: much money to Youngstown? and tells the citizens of the
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  Speaker 2: city of Canfield, well, you pay state taxes too, but
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to get very much back because you
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  Speaker 2: should tax yourself more because you're in a fluent community
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  Speaker 2: to replace your middle school, which needs replaced. You follow me?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's so unfair. It penalizes people. Would you
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  Speaker 2: agree with that?
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  Speaker 5: I agree. I agree.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know why. I know there's a great difference
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  Speaker 4: between what per capita given per student in Youngstown versus
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  Speaker 4: the other townships around. It's a lot more money that's
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  Speaker 4: given to the city of Youngstown. They spend a lot
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  Speaker 4: more money per student. And that has to be looked at, too.
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  Speaker 4: What are you doing with all that money? What are
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  Speaker 4: you doing with $ 150 million?
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  Speaker 2: I would propose to you, Tom, and you're a smart guy,
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  Speaker 2: I think the entire system is collapsing. And I think
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  Speaker 2: it's collapsing for a number of reasons. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: collapsing because you have incompetent people sitting in some of
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  Speaker 2: these elected positions that really aren't very good fiscally.
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  Speaker 3: At running an organization.
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  Speaker 2: And I think they're nothing short of incompetent when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to that. The second thing is we are at
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  Speaker 2: a time when government continues to grow and these people
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  Speaker 2: think government should just continue to do more and more
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  Speaker 2: for everybody instead of saying no. So, I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: basic functions of government, plow your roads, be able to
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  Speaker 2: replace the plow trucks, which are expensive, and pay your
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  Speaker 2: people that are plowing the roads and cleaning the culverts.
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  Speaker 2: Have a police department that will respond to your calls
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  Speaker 2: and have a fire department and.
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  Speaker 3: A zoning office.
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  Speaker 2: The basic necessities of what a township or a township.
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  Speaker 2: The city can afford. This is what you have. And
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  Speaker 2: this is what what what are the expenses of that?
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have a park. Somebody's going to mow it.
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  Speaker 2: But we're not going to have some elaborate stuff in
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  Speaker 2: the park because we can't afford it.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: We can't.
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  Speaker 2: It's just not affordable. So that is how your community
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  Speaker 2: has to operate. And then we got to take a
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  Speaker 2: look by saying. by looking at the effect of the
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  Speaker 2: first appraisals and how much taxes went up, now the reappraisals,
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  Speaker 2: and they're going to go up even more, even though
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  Speaker 2: Dave Thomas has it restricted to the rate of inflation.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of... There's so much that needs
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  Speaker 2: to be looked at, all of this stuff, and fixed.
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  Speaker 2: But the immediate problem in Poland Township is, are we
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  Speaker 2: going to be able to pay the cops?
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  Speaker 5: Right. I..
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  Speaker 4: Without having done any study, I would say a levy
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  Speaker 4: of a short period of time to solve this problem
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  Speaker 4: and in the meantime work on, if you can, come
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  Speaker 4: up with some other measures to reduce spending or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: If you can reduce it. Right, if you can. If
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  Speaker 3: you can, because... You might not be able to reduce
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  Speaker 3: it is what I'm trying to say.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just surprised that they would go and spend money
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  Speaker 4: on things that weren't absolutely essential. That's a big headache
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  Speaker 4: as far as you're pulling. You're spending things on some
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  Speaker 4: kind of a park. Again, I haven't been paid.
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  Speaker 3: But you bring up an excellent point on the other things.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, for people, people voted for the forever sales
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  Speaker 2: tax for WRTA. It generates about $ 10 million and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: more than that a year. So I say it again,
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  Speaker 2: WRTA's biggest problem is figuring out how to spend all
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  Speaker 2: the money they get coming in every year.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and that's why they're doing all these stupid things.
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  Speaker 2: Well, maybe we should say that isn't necessary and.
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  Speaker 3: That should be adjusted.
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  Speaker 2: Or when you're taking a look at the library and
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  Speaker 2: all the extra money they have in their bank accounts, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's your tax dollars. That's your property tax money. Why
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  Speaker 2: do they have all of that? That's your money. That
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  Speaker 2: should be in your bank account, not their bank account.
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  Speaker 2: And where's the commissioners or the people to say no?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I sit here and I tell people, do
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  Speaker 2: not vote for the library levies.
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  Speaker 3: I don't. I won't.
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  Speaker 2: And they have more money than they know what to
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  Speaker 2: do with. They have all this money in a bank account.
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  Speaker 2: And now they're top heavy with hiring all these people
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  Speaker 2: that aren't doing maintenance on the buildings you've invested in,
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  Speaker 2: but are instead doing nothing but insulating the president of
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  Speaker 2: the library who doesn't seem very vocal or reaching out
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  Speaker 2: to say, I want to address the community in which
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  Speaker 2: is paying me for this position. I'm going to hire
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  Speaker 2: all of these mouthpieces to do hit jobs on architects
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: That's exactly what's happening. That's true. In particular one, I
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  Speaker 4: won't get into the names, but I noticed more articles
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  Speaker 4: in the paper supportive of the library. That's another thing.
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  Speaker 4: The media, they were in favor of all this stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Before they start endorsing things, they better start doing some study.
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  Speaker 4: They better start looking at it. If you don't know
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  Speaker 4: what you're talking about, don't go out there endorsing a levy.
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  Speaker 4: That's what happened with That's what happens with the tripling
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  Speaker 4: of the property tax for the library. That's what happened
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  Speaker 4: with WRTA getting that kind of money. I can think
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  Speaker 4: of one horrible example of tax money going somewhere, and
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  Speaker 4: that's Jobs Ohio. Have you ever heard of that, Jobs Ohio?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 4: One of your callers one day called in, Jobs Ohio
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  Speaker 4: and Jobs Ohio Beverage. They get hundreds of millions of
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  Speaker 4: dollars a year from the state from some type of
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  Speaker 4: a beverage tax. And then that's used supposedly for economic development.
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  Speaker 4: And when Kasich was governor, he allowed the legislation to
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  Speaker 4: be passed that you couldn't. That wasn't subject to the
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  Speaker 4: Open Records Act of Ohio, and you didn't always know
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  Speaker 4: what they were doing with it. So it's at all levels.
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  Speaker 4: But in addition to, you know, they better start taking
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  Speaker 4: a look at what's going on closer, everybody. It just
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  Speaker 4: can't go on like it is.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: No, it can't because you see the ramifications of what's
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  Speaker 2: happening now.
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  Speaker 3: It is genuinely. Take a look at the homeowner, Tom.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, the initial increases that came at the
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  Speaker 2: last appraisal, the additional increases that are coming as a
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  Speaker 2: result of this appraisal. Their electric bill has doubled. Their
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  Speaker 2: gasoline price is $ 4 a gallon. Groceries have gone up.
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  Speaker 2: Healthcare costs have gone up. How much do these local
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  Speaker 2: politicians think you can put on that local household for
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  Speaker 2: it to survive? How much more can that person take
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  Speaker 2: before you put them right into the poorhouse or price
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  Speaker 2: them out of their house. Don't give me the lip service.
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  Speaker 2: Talk is cheap. Deeds are precious. Let's do something about it. Let's,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and you got to look at the state
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  Speaker 2: as well. and how they're running the facility but so
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  Speaker 2: much so much work to do here and they know
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  Speaker 2: the federal government's a whole other problem to say the
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  Speaker 2: least all right all right my friend it's always a
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  Speaker 2: pleasure to hear you thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you all right you're on here.
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  Speaker 6: Hey ronnie how you doing today good Hey, yeah, the
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  Speaker 6: boss lady, I love her calls, but I hope she's
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  Speaker 6: got like a heart monitor going on there.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, she needs to go get some, what did she say?
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  Speaker 3: She's Italian. She needs to get some good Italian food tonight,
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  Speaker 3: I think. You know what she needs? A good pizza.
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  Speaker 4: There you go.
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  Speaker 5: There you go.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, but you guys are talking about, you know, the
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  Speaker 6: mismanagement of spending and how they're trying to take money
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  Speaker 6: from the rich to give to the poor. You know,
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  Speaker 6: the whole Robin Hood thing, which growing up, you know,
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  Speaker 6: listening to Robin Hood, you think, oh, that's a pretty
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  Speaker 6: good deal. You know, Robin Hood, you know, stealing from
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  Speaker 6: the rich and giving to the poor. But that's communism.
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  Speaker 5: Basically, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that is what the state is doing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, seriously, God forbid for the people in the
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  Speaker 2: city of Canfield, if the MRDD levy would pass, which
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  Speaker 2: I hope it doesn't, and if they would pass the
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  Speaker 2: school levy there, in addition to the reevaluation increases, can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine the tax bills that those people could get
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  Speaker 2: in Canfield if all of that is successful?
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  Speaker 3: Can you imagine it?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's insane.
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  Speaker 6: And I think I told you before, I think since
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  Speaker 6: like 2000 till 2020 till now, my home evaluation almost doubled,
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  Speaker 6: almost doubled.
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  Speaker 5: But my main point.
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  Speaker 6: In calling is that I think I might have told
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  Speaker 6: you before to look it up. I don't know if
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  Speaker 6: you ever heard it, but Rush Limbaugh, every Thanksgiving he had,
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  Speaker 6: I think it was called the true story of Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 6: And every Thanksgiving, he would talk about when the pilgrims
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  Speaker 6: came over. And you can look it up on YouTube.
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  Speaker 5: There are several of.
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  Speaker 6: Them because, like, every year he did one. He read it,
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  Speaker 6: the same story. But, yeah, look for the, like, it
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  Speaker 6: takes like 20 minutes, but it's very, very interesting. And
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  Speaker 6: I wish that all these young communists, you know, would
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  Speaker 6: listen to this. and find out what really happens with communism.
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  Speaker 2: All right, my friends. The Unknown Caller, thank you. News
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  Speaker 2: Radio 570 WKBN 519. Ron Verb, you're on the air.
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  Speaker 4: G2.
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  Speaker 5: Good evening, Ron.
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  Speaker 3: Big problems here.
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  Speaker 5: I heard about this polling meeting, and I'm a little
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  Speaker 5: bit astonished all the time by these governments saying they
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  Speaker 5: always need more money. So... You get new development. You
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  Speaker 5: have appraisals changing on a regular basis. That means taxes
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  Speaker 5: are going up with inflation, right? Your appraisals are rising.
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  Speaker 5: The tax base is going up. The tax receipts are
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  Speaker 5: going up. And yet somehow they then come back and say, oh, wait,
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  Speaker 5: there's inflation. We have to not just raise your basis.
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  Speaker 5: We have to raise your rates. We have to take
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  Speaker 5: more of what money you have. It doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, shouldn't it be just that they keep their
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  Speaker 5: budget in line with these appraisal increases, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 5: I don't think are limited to homes? So you've got
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  Speaker 5: your residential plus commercial real estate all being reappraised every
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  Speaker 5: six years, right, unless there's a mid-cycle, and there are.
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  Speaker 5: And yet they need more cash. Getting in a situation
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  Speaker 5: where you've got a brand-new Suburban and you can't afford
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  Speaker 5: to have it outfitted with the proper signage and gear, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: this is clearly a group that's in trouble. So I
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  Speaker 5: guess the question is, what happens next in Poland? And
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  Speaker 5: while I do not accept any of these sort of
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  Speaker 5: blanket solutions, like regionalization is somehow going to save money,
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  Speaker 5: I don't believe that's actually probably true. Regionalization means a
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  Speaker 5: bigger government with a bigger appetite and more ideas.
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  Speaker 7: Yep.
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  Speaker 5: But here you've got Poland Village and Poland Township that
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  Speaker 5: are interconnected like two little puzzle pieces. And yet they
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  Speaker 5: have duplicative services, duplicative agencies. Why not merge them? Why
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  Speaker 5: not bring these together, have one police department and one fire?
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  Speaker 5: They have two separate, don't they?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe so, yes.
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  Speaker 5: So why not merge these things and start consolidation to
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  Speaker 5: reduce costs? Because you've got a very small geographic footprint.
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  Speaker 5: It just doesn't, none of this makes sense to me.
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  Speaker 5: I don't understand. Hmm.
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  Speaker 3: It's, it is just a mess.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, when we talk about these problems, like I
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  Speaker 2: was saying to him, I'm not saying that government isn't
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  Speaker 2: affected by inflation. I mean, for their employees, their health
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  Speaker 2: care costs go up, the cost of their equipment goes up,
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  Speaker 2: and they often need more money to be able to
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  Speaker 2: just stay even with the services they're providing if, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: they're operating efficiently on everything else. There's the key. If
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  Speaker 2: we're operating efficiently, they might stand by. Back with G2
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  Speaker 2: in a minute. NewsRadio 570, Dodie Kivian. Welcome to Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: July 29th at 79 degrees. Ron Verb from the Kingdom
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  Speaker 2: of Mahoney.
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  Speaker 8: If you run a business, you know how hard..
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  Speaker 1: And Talk Station 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how you don't... You just look at
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  Speaker 2: this situation, G2, on a local level, and you say
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  Speaker 2: things are really messed up. As I was saying to Tom,
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  Speaker 2: you take a community like the city of Canfield who
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  Speaker 2: pay state taxes and say, well, you guys are more affluent,
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  Speaker 2: so you've got to pay even more in property taxes
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  Speaker 2: if you want to update your middle school, which needs updated,
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  Speaker 2: but we're going to give... All of this tax money
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  Speaker 2: is state tax money to the city of Youngstown. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it isn't even equitable to what what they're doing as
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  Speaker 2: far as your state tax dollars going back to your schools.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, so you got them facing a big
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  Speaker 2: school levy in Canfield. You got this ridiculous MRDD levy,
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  Speaker 2: which which they want to put on people. And if
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  Speaker 2: those levies pass, in addition to the current reevaluations, how
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  Speaker 2: do people stay in their homes in the city of Canfield?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how do they expect people to afford this?
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  Speaker 3: No one cares.
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  Speaker 8: They don't.
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  Speaker 2: It would be absolutely impossible for them to care less.
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  Speaker 2: But I say to you, the entire system is blowing up.
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  Speaker 2: The entire system is exploding, in part due to inflation.
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  Speaker 2: And in part due to the growth of government. Government
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  Speaker 2: getting bigger and doing more than it should probably do
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  Speaker 2: in the first place and the cost of it. It's
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  Speaker 2: just out of control. Even at the county level, certainly.
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  Speaker 2: Any comments?
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  Speaker 5: I know a county that just hired a chief experience officer.
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  Speaker 5: A chief experience officer. I mean, so... Again, if your
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  Speaker 5: appraised values of the real estate that you're taxing are
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  Speaker 5: going up, that means you automatically get property tax increases.
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  Speaker 5: And those property tax increases may even exceed inflation because
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  Speaker 5: real estate's popped more than some other things. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you look at inflation since 2020. We talked about this
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  Speaker 5: the other day. It's net about 30%, right? We see
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  Speaker 5: this every day when we go to the grocery store.
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  Speaker 5: I know it's low now. It's like 2.10, but it's
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  Speaker 5: cumulatively very, very... But what's property done in the Mahoney Valley?
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  Speaker 5: It's up at least 30%. It's probably more than that.
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  Speaker 5: So looking at the amount of tax they're taking in
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: and comparing that to the actual rate of inflation would
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: answer the question, and maybe we'll do this. We'll see
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: if we can figure this out. Are they actually being
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: forced to raise rates because of inflation or because they
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: just simply can't ever, ever have enough money? They always
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: need more. And I think it's the latter. You know,
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: you've got a stakeholder relations officer at the library system.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: It's a library. What are they doing? When you talk
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: to Gino and you hear these stories about how he
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: has to, oh, all this spending, right? I didn't understand
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: until I was in the job. Now we have to
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: spend money on all these things. I haven't heard anyone
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: say and Gino say anything about a single amount of
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: expense that he has suggested be cut. or a single
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: suggestion that could result in the reduction of the taxes
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: being burdened on the people of the Mahoning County. So
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: it's this insatiable demand and the belief that government is
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: a higher priority than businesses. And what I mean by that,
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: you know, if any government entity starts talking about pay
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: cuts or reducing its workforce, everybody goes nuts as if
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: somehow the government worker is sacrosanct. You can fire everybody
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: that worked at everything from LTV to Schwebel's and everything
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: that happened in between. Fire them all. Nobody cares. You
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: fire one government worker, they're ready to go out and
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: burn things down. Listen, government also has economic realities to
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: deal with, or at least it would if its citizens
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: demanded that taxes stop going up. And again, you've got appraisals.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: So total taxes paid are going to increase. there is
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: no justification for any entity to raise the tax rate
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: if you got it if you got an income tax
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: well that goes up of course with inflation if you've
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: got a sales tax it automatically goes up with inflation, right?
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: I mean, so you've got a sales tax, and that
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: price is up 30%. That means overall, let's just say
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: the consumer goods that are being taxed are up 30%. Okay,
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: that means they just got an adjustment reflecting the inflation.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: They don't need to raise sales tax rates. There is
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: never an argument to do that. No justification whatsoever, period.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: It's time for governments to be held in the box,
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: in the same economic constraints that companies and individuals face.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: But for reasons that go to culture and the way
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: we've been groomed, we view government as... As the savior,
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: the parent, the one that takes care of us, the
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: one that should be paying for everything, this is what
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: I call the Sovietization of the United States. It simply
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: has to stop.
• 20:41
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• 20:44
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• 21:03
  Speaker 8: The deal we reached with Iran. The devil's in the details.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a second.
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  Speaker 3: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Ron. Have a good day.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Dick, from Dayton. You're on the air.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: Man, finally.
• 23:16
  Speaker 11: The first time I called you was at 305. And
• 23:20
  Speaker 11: then I had to go through an hour of me
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: being called bad names because I'm a Democrat.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Not me personally, but Democrats. Yeah.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: It was directed at you personally.
• 23:29
  Speaker 9: G2.
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: I heard..
• 23:34
  Speaker 11: The conversation you and Ron had yesterday. That's when I
• 23:37
  Speaker 11: wanted to call you. And there's two quick things that
• 23:41
  Speaker 11: I don't know if you're aware of, that you're totally
• 23:43
  Speaker 11: aware of what's going on.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Are you ready? Go ahead. Okay.
• 23:50
  Speaker 11: Now, I heard you and Ron having a discussion yesterday
• 23:54
  Speaker 11: about the flex cameras and the SAVE Act. Have you
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: read the SAVE Act?
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 24:06
  Speaker 11: Okay, so you okay with the government, i.e., Donald Trump,
• 24:11
  Speaker 11: taking over the elections? And this is the same guy
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: that said, if I win, it's okay. If I lose,
• 24:19
  Speaker 11: I'm going to fight it.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Are you okay with that part of that? So here's
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: the point. We have foreign nationals in our voter rolls.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: We have duplicates. We have, I think it's 12 states
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: with more registered voters. than people that are eligible to
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: be registered voters. So what we have is a badly
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: broken election system. We have states that don't have voter ID.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: Ohio does. We have states using these ballot marking devices,
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: like Ohio uses in some cases, that are absolutely untrue.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: You cannot tell how that vote was calculated. So what
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: we have is a system that's extraordinarily vulnerable. and for
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: reasons that seem obvious a lot of elected officials want
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: to keep the system the way it is and make
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: sure it remains vulnerable no other organization but government would
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: run in uh..
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: Uh..
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: A product like that's probably one is critical of elections
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: now you you want to bring trump into it it's
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: got nothing to do with trump this is about making
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: sure that when the public that our elections are secure
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: So what we need as a nation is clean voter
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: rolls and secure process. And we just don't have it.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: So not only am I okay with this, it is,
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: I believe, a significant existential threat to the country that
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: our elections are so vulnerable and are obviously manipulated. And
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: I've got direct evidence of fraud that I've seen myself.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: And then if you look across the nation, there's a
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: lot more of it.
• 25:56
  Speaker 11: Okay, the second thing real quick. Well, a lot of
• 25:59
  Speaker 11: people don't understand what's going on with Iran.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: Now, you do understand.
• 26:05
  Speaker 11: The difference between the Shiites and the Sunnis, right? The Shiites, right,
• 26:11
  Speaker 11: believe that you should vote for the person for the leader.
• 26:17
  Speaker 11: The Sunnis believe, you know, like when Allah died, the
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: Sunnis believe there should be somebody in the family. That's
• 26:23
  Speaker 11: because you have kings in Saudi Arabia and kings in
• 26:26
  Speaker 11: other places, and you don't have kings with Iran, the Houthis, and.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: Lebanon.
• 26:34
  Speaker 11: So my question to you is, don't you understand that
• 26:37
  Speaker 11: this is a doggone religious war that's been going on
• 26:40
  Speaker 11: for 100 years?
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Well, the war between the Shiites and the Sunnis have
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: been going as long as there's been Islam, right? So
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: that's not new, if that's what you mean.
• 26:54
  Speaker 11: Well, what I'm saying is this. Let me say this
• 26:56
  Speaker 11: real quick, then I'll listen to you. Let me say
• 26:57
  Speaker 11: this real quick.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: We've always.
• 27:01
  Speaker 11: Sided with the Sunnis. You know, the Saudi Arabias, the Iraq,
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: you know, the Sunnis. We have never really sided with
• 27:09
  Speaker 11: the Shiites.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: Why are we doing that? Well, look, as you know,
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: places like Saudi Arabia and Qatar depend upon the United
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: States helping protect them in order for them to maintain
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: their kingdoms. If it wasn't for our military there, those
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: kingdoms would have been overthrown long ago. They have so
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: much wealth concentrated in such small hands, small number of hands,
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: and just the nature of this Sunni-Shia battle and all
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: the other internet scene fighting that goes on, you know,
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: our military presence in the Middle East, in part, provides
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: stability in those countries and, therefore, stability for the world.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: That's actually a positive of us being there. But I
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: don't think we're ever going to solve the fight between
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: those two groups if we could simply, though, get them
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: to the point that it's collaborative. I mean, this advancement
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: with the Abraham Accords was a truly remarkable change. where
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: you could start going in other countries without having your
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: passport stamped outside of your passport because one country might
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: not let you in because you have another country's passport
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: stamped because you went there once. I mean, it was crazy.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: You weren't able to make phone calls in some cases
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: between countries. A lot of that got resolved in that
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: first Trump term, and that was a really good thing. Now,
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: this thing with Iran, as everybody that knows except Frank,
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: because he doesn't seem to listen very carefully, he's got
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: a cognitive issue or something, I was never in favor
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: of this war in Iran. When Trump attacked them last year,
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: I was extremely concerned until I saw the way he exited.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: He took that nuclear threat that all the globalists and
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: Israel and everybody was screaming about, he took it off
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: the table. It was a brilliant stroke because he did
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: it with minimal loss of life, a tremendous execution by
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: the U.S. military, and just took it, it just ended it,
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: and didn't go further with the war. Well, that wasn't
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: good enough for Lindsey Graham and all these others, so...
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: He had to go in again, and this was, I think,
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: a significant mistake for Donald Trump to launch that attack
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: against Iran when he did. I do not believe there
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: was a significant nuclear threat at this time. I do believe,
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: based on the fights in the White House, that Assad
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: and Israel convinced him to do it and convinced him
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: it would be easy. This was Trump's biggest mistake. It
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: is blocked at this war. Now, nevertheless, now it's launched.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: We can't put that genie back in the bottle. So
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: what do we do? And that's where we came to
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: last night with the two options. Maybe more than two
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: if you dig in, but generally two. Withdraw, declare victory
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: and withdraw, or isolate the country economically until they finally
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: come to an agreement that works and they could be
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: held to that agreement. Not a small task.
• 30:06
  Speaker 9: I appreciate you taking my call, but I still think
• 30:12
  Speaker 9: the biggest mistake Trump did was not releasing Epstein's file.
• 30:16
  Speaker 9: Once again, thanks for taking my call, man.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: That's what we do.
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: I appreciate it. And that would be We could analyze
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: that for a while because that was the first major break.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Well, you were opposed to that, too. I mean, you
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: thought that was a bad move on Trump's part, too.
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: I think he should have just dumped them. I don't
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: care what his role is. He should have just put
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: them out, let them be what they were, and all
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: these pages that are still hidden should be released as well.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Right. I mean, if you go back, you were opposed
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: to the war from the very beginning and you were
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: for putting the Epstein files out there. And if you
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: take a look at Trump's declining poll numbers, they seem
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: to correspond with those two issues.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Would you not agree?
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: Oh, absolutely. Those were the two major hits that he took. And,
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: you know, as Emmanuel said, it's not just Republicans or
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: what is Ted always talk about the MAGA cult or whatever? No, no, no.
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: This was something that went across the entirety of the
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: coalition that voted for Trump. And in the case the
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: Epstein filed, people that didn't vote for Trump. But, you know,
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: Israel has a strong voice. This was their operation. I'm
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: sure the CIA joined them in it. And, you know,
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: they got the big, beautiful bill passed.
• 31:27
  Speaker 9: Netanyahu flies to.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: Town and Epstein becomes a hoax. I think this was
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: a major mistake. Trump should have told whoever he had
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: to tell, he should have released everything. And the way...
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: bondi went through the theater i thought my dad in
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: that silly thing with the with the file she handed
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: to the to the social media influence that's the worst
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: messaging we've ever seen from donald trump i mean i
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: that was just terribly terribly poorly handled and it cost
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: him and you know now what i see is massive
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: amounts of money being poured into social media and corporate
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: media to further divide that coalition they got trump elected
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: because that coalition The coalition that stands up for the
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: United States in the interest of its people is the
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: greatest threat to the globalists and all the foreign powers
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: that want to control this country, the cartels, right, who
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: lost billions of dollars when Trump stopped the border flows, right,
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: the Indians whose H-1B visas and worker outsource programs are
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: a major part of their economy. Israel, who obviously controls
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: much of Congress and would like to control more. And
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: if you don't believe me, listen to Barry Goldwater, for
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: God's sakes. I mean, this isn't new. Right? All these
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: forces that want to control the United States, all of
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: whom seem to have a voice in Congress except us. So,
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: I mean, we've got a problem here. And unless the
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: American people get more activated, we're not going to fix it.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it is a major issue that's that's going
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: on now. By the way, you want to talk about
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: an issue here, you know, let's see, Republican Governor Mike
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: DeWine stated that, let's see, wait a minute, I want
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: to back up here.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: I want to make sure I get this straight. Okay.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: A Republican governor in a state that voted to elect
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: President Donald Trump is facing intense backlash online after an
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: interview arguing against the president's order to end temporary protective
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: status to migrants from the United States. Republican Mike DeWine
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: states is home to an estimated 30,000 Haitians. He told
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: CBS earlier this week that the Haitians shouldn't be sent
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: back to their country of origin. Haiti is hell today,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: so you'd be sending people back to hell. Very few
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: of these Haitians will voluntarily go back to Haiti. If
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: they have to leave, they'll go somewhere else.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: They want to work.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: They want to support their families. They will not go
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: back to Haiti. This is DeWine, a Republican governor here.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: Well, a quasi-Republican. So, look, this is a man who
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: has a school that he sponsors in Haiti. He's very
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: active in Haiti. He's gone down there a lot of times.
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: You could hear him just gush about how much he
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: loves Haiti until it's time to send a Haitian to Haiti.
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: And then suddenly it's hell.
• 34:25
  Speaker 9: Well, listen..
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: I say we make Haiti great again. And we do
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: that by sending these people there, because we're told that
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: the only thing that makes the United States great is
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: this mass migration, because all these people are better than us.
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: Send them home with all the skills they acquired when
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: they took jobs like the jobs in Springfield that they
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: took in manufacturing facilities at 50% of the wage an
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: American would be paid for that job. So here what
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: you have is now a highly trained workforce, that's willing
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: to work at a very low wage. Send them home.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: Let's make Haiti great again. And I know it's going
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: to be uncomfortable for the employer to actually go hire
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: Americans to fill those jobs. But you know what? You're
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: going to have to do that. You're going to have
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: to just go hire Americans as much as you hate it.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: What did you make of Fauci today taking the fifth
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: and all the lawyers around him?
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: What did you make of that fiasco?
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: Well, first of all, obviously it was predictable. We knew
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: the man wouldn't say anything that was in any way meaningful.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: But what I found interesting is that so many senators
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: stood up and made statements or asked questions that inferred
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: statements that reflected the things that we talked about on
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: this show. And we were called crazy for things that
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: people told us could not be true. You know, and
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: somebody earlier said that Fauci is a mass murderer, and
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: the conversation popped up twice today in two different settings,
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: where he was being compared to Pol Pot. Now, you
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: think about Pol Pot, who we think of as one
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: of the biggest mass murderers in history, right? The guy
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: from Cambodia. Well, Pol Pot killed one-third of his population,
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: so by that rate, he's one of the most significant.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: But he only killed two and a half million people.
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: Cambodia was seven and a half million about the time...
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: People can look at those numbers more carefully. I haven't
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: looked at this in a long time. Let's call it
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: 2.5 million people. Fauci killed more people than Pol Pot
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: between his sick testing, lying about the disease, lying about
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: its implications, and enforcing deadly treatments. I actually heard a
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: senator today, I can't remember who it was, maybe it
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: was Ron Johnson, who said... that the nurse is called remdesivir, run,
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: death is near. I heard that from a nurse in Ohio.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: I heard that back then. I said that on this
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: channel a thousand times. They forced these patients to take
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: deadly treatments they knew were either ineffective or could possibly
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: kill them. I heard a story once where a nurse said,
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: She watched somebody carry five treatments or five, you know,
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: I don't know, doses, if you will, courses of treatment
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: of remdesivir up to the COVID ward, and then they
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: carried out five bodies. You know, so these things were
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: said in the U.S. Congress today. This is something we
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: couldn't even imagine five years ago when they said we
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: were all crazy, when we were looking at the numbers
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: and reading newspapers from around the world and reporting what's
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: actually going on. So there was a huge breakthrough from
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: that standpoint. Now, the fact that Fauci sat there looking
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: a little glum, right? He's used to being praised and
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: polished by whoever. The way he treated him, of course,
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: was obscene. So watching him sit there and at least
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: take some medicine was great. But the point I think
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: you made earlier in the show, he will never be prosecuted.
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: And it doesn't matter that he's got a federal pardon.
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: He's got state issues, too. But he'll never be prosecuted.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: None of the thousands of people that are complicit in
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: the murder of Americans will be dealt with. All those
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: people who were killed in nursing homes in New York
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: and Michigan and California and other states, none of that
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: will be dealt with. So we'll never see justice done.
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: But at least we're at a point now where the
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: conversation in Congress is rational and they're talking about real justice.
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: actual things that happened during that time. We can never
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: allow the government to do that to us again. Not
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: create the disease, not force a deadly medicine on us,
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: and not shut down the economy because, you know, they
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: want to destroy us and get total dictatorial control.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: How about his statement that he made in public versus
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: what he wrote in his diary?
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, he knowingly knew he was lying.
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: Oh, he knew. He knew.
• 38:46
  Speaker 9: We knew.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: He knew. The only people that didn't know that he
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: knew were the people that believed ABC, CBS, NBC, you know,
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: the Wall Street Journal, and the rest of it. If
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: you were listening to corporate meeting, you thought, well, they're experts.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: If you thought that guy that was on CNBC all
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: the time, can't remember his name, but he was a
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: board member from Pfizer, and people, Gottlieb, Scott Gottlieb. If
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: you thought Scott Gottlieb was telling you the truth because
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: he had a resume, well, then you didn't know what
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: was going on.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: Hang on there.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Back in a minute. News Radio 570 WKBN.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: I'm not the WKBN.
• 39:22
  Speaker 8: I'm 90 WKBN.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Looking at the countdown, 555 till... We wrap it up
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: 77 degrees on this Wednesday, July 29th. I mean, the
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: whole Fauci thing to me, nothing's going to happen to him.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: That's what my problem is. I mean, they funded the
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: lab in Wuhan. And so there's zero accountability for the
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: damage that was done to the economy, the people that died.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, COVID was a real thing. COVID wasn't fake.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: COVID was something created in a... in this gain-of-function lab
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: in China funded by Fauci. He won't be held accountable.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: He won't be held responsible. And basically, they're going to
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: get away with it, just as the people who perpetrated
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: the Russian hoax.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Well, pretty much they got away with it.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Everybody says, boy, when Trump gets in office and we're
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: going to get some degree of justice.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: Nothing happens. These people all get away with all of
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: this craziness that's detrimental to the country.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: They hurt the country for three years by saying Russia, Russia, Russia,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Russia when it came to Trump's first election. They hurt
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: this country. No one's held accountable for that at all.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Zero. What they did with COVID. No one's held accountable
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: for it. Zero.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: So this idea of we'll hold these hearings, they don't
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: accomplish anything other than informing us of what went on,
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: which we already knew was what was going on. But
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: the Democrats still don't believe anything about Fauci, which is
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: just bizarre to me that they just sit there.
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: It's not that they don't believe it, Ron. They know
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: exactly what happened. They're simply covering their position. They know
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: what happened. They are criminal co-conspirators. Those senators that sat
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: there today and said there's nothing to talk about, that
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: it's a shame that this great man is being questioned,
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: all of them know what happened. None of them are confused.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: They are criminal co-conspirators.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: But do you know where I'm coming from?
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: That all of this stuff that we're going to make
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: sure gets done, it seems like when the Republicans are
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: finally in that position, there is just zero accountability.
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: And there you come to the Uniparty. I mean, they
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: give speeches when they serve in power. When they have
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: power to actually take action, they do nothing. And it's
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: the deep state. It's this massive problem we've got with
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: the federal government and state, local, county, townships, library boards,
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: school boards. It's all of this. It is a broken model. And,
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: you know, I think the burden it's placing on the
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: economy is, is what you keep talking about, this economy
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: being stressed. When you look at these debt numbers on
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: the household, you see the rise in defaults for household debt.
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: You know, you see corporate debts getting in trouble. You
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: see crazy things like this AI investment, but there's no
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: economic model that can support it. There's none. There's no
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: economic model that supports these AI numbers. And yet, they're
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: dumping trillions in. They want to do a trillion and
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: a half dollars more on top of what they've already done.
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: It's insanity... And we're simply a system out of control.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: It is just so damn disappointing. And somewhere along the line,
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: the Republicans haven't codified these executive orders. They haven't got
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: back to the American agenda. It is just so damn disappointing.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: And the Democrats aren't a choice with their wacky agenda.
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: No, they're not. No. Many Republicans gave MAGA speeches to
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: get elected, and now they're saying, wait a minute, this
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: America First thing, that would require good policy. I'm going
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: to fight that. That's a bunch of them. So the
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: American people just simply have to put the foot down
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: and stop accepting it.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: Thank you, G2. Appreciate it.
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: G2.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: And a lot to talk about today. Stay tuned. Hannity's
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: coming up next. Ron Furb checking in with Bob Dieter.