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- 0:00Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
- 0:04Speaker 1: six forty.
- 0:07Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty Bill Handle. It is a Friday morning,
- 0:12Speaker 2: June twenty six. It's a foody Friday Friday, except we
- 0:16Speaker 2: have no food this Friday because Neil, who hosts Foody Friday,
- 0:21Speaker 2: will not be here talking about food on a Friday.
- 0:26Speaker 2: I think I got that right. And will Cole Schreiber
- 0:29Speaker 2: is going to do the weather on Monday, whether he
- 0:32Speaker 2: likes it or not, because he will not be doing
- 0:34Speaker 2: weather today because it's whether he's here or not.
- 0:38Speaker 1: He actually never does whether he does. Try no traffic.
- 0:41Speaker 2: But yeah, I can't use weather sounds better because you
- 0:44Speaker 2: can use that in a phrase. Just listen, don't interrupt, Okay,
- 0:49Speaker 2: when I'm going off on a tangent, leave my tangent alone.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. Now.
- 0:57Speaker 2: Race for the governorship Hilton and Bisera. This is getting
- 1:02Speaker 2: interesting because this has to do with medical. Medical is
- 1:05Speaker 2: a state program that pays for medical medical procedures, pays
- 1:11Speaker 2: for the health of people who can't afford it, poor people,
- 1:15Speaker 2: and a lot of poor people are illegal, are not
- 1:19Speaker 2: here documented, And let me put it the other way,
- 1:21Speaker 2: A lot of undocumented are poor. I say, most of
- 1:23Speaker 2: the undocumented are poor, and medical is this program that
- 1:27Speaker 2: helps them out, which is one hundred percent paid for
- 1:31Speaker 2: by the taxes for the most part, not one hundred percent,
- 1:34Speaker 2: because there's some federal money it comes in. But there's
- 1:37Speaker 2: a very stark difference in the way this campaign is
- 1:41Speaker 2: being run, and a lot of it has to do
- 1:44Speaker 2: with medical for the undocumented. Now, California is probably the
- 1:51Speaker 2: best state for someone who is undocumented to be in.
- 1:56Speaker 2: Education is free, but it is all around the country
- 1:59Speaker 2: up to the graduating high school because that is now
- 2:03Speaker 2: federal law.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Supreme Court ruled on.
- 2:05Speaker 2: That one healthcare is not a right. Education is a right.
- 2:12Speaker 2: So healthcare depends on the state. And there are some
- 2:15Speaker 2: states that are very generous and some states that are not,
- 2:20Speaker 2: and what California is is very generous. So Biserah is
- 2:25Speaker 2: arguing that the medical program should stay in effect for
- 2:32Speaker 2: undocumented people. Hilton is saying, not a chance. And Hilton's
- 2:38Speaker 2: position is, look how much money we're spending.
- 2:41Speaker 1: We are going broke.
- 2:43Speaker 2: The taxpayer of California is subsidizing healthcare for all of
- 2:47Speaker 2: these people that are undocumented, have no legal status. Our
- 2:51Speaker 2: insurance is going crazy. Our cost of medicine is going crazy,
- 2:56Speaker 2: and it's it's a financial issue. They are not putting
- 2:59Speaker 2: this on a moral basis. I mean, I'm surprised that
- 3:02Speaker 2: there's no morality being talked about. How can you leave
- 3:05Speaker 2: poor people? How can you not offer medicare or medical
- 3:09Speaker 2: help for people who can't afford it?
- 3:10Speaker 1: That's not being argued. You know, we are a nation
- 3:13Speaker 1: of immigrants.
- 3:13Speaker 2: We love people that are illegal coming in because at
- 3:16Speaker 2: one point everybody was illegal. Well that's not true, because
- 3:21Speaker 2: there just wasn't legal or illegal back in the day,
- 3:24Speaker 2: I mean in the turn in the last century when
- 3:25Speaker 2: people came over like crazy. The point is is that
- 3:29Speaker 2: this is being drawn on financial lines. It's that simple,
- 3:35Speaker 2: and it depends on where we want to go. This
- 3:37Speaker 2: is a big issue for this campaign for this election,
- 3:42Speaker 2: and that is do we continue to pay now? The
- 3:46Speaker 2: argument that Biserah is making is we should because if
- 3:50Speaker 2: it turns out that people don't get medicare or don't
- 3:53Speaker 2: get medical and they can't do preventive medicine going in
- 3:58Speaker 2: in early procedures, for example, they're going to end up
- 4:01Speaker 2: dying in the emergency room. They're going to end up
- 4:04Speaker 2: on the floor and you're going to be calling the
- 4:07Speaker 2: paramedics and they're going to be taking them in. And
- 4:10Speaker 2: the cost of someone who is drastically ill or is
- 4:15Speaker 2: really in trouble medically that is astronomical. And you can't
- 4:19Speaker 2: say no someone coming in with a heart attack or
- 4:22Speaker 2: being shot, or having been in a car accident and
- 4:26Speaker 2: going into an emergency room and needing insane amounts of
- 4:28Speaker 2: surgery in a tune of hundreds of thousand dollars. They're
- 4:31Speaker 2: not asked are you legal or are you not? That
- 4:34Speaker 2: question is never asked, can't be asked. So what Hilton
- 4:39Speaker 2: is saying is we shouldn't pay for medical at all
- 4:44Speaker 2: for undocumented people. I mean, we have no choice when
- 4:46Speaker 2: it's really really serious. But Sarah is going, hey, we
- 4:51Speaker 2: don't pay. This is the way it's going to end up.
- 4:53Speaker 2: It's going to cost us more money in the long run.
- 4:57Speaker 2: And now comes the morality of it. Do you say
- 5:01Speaker 2: to hard working people that have been here for decades, maybe,
- 5:05Speaker 2: who pay taxes, who are who follow the law except
- 5:09Speaker 2: they're not here legally. Do you say no to them
- 5:14Speaker 2: and say you're not going to get medical help the
- 5:16Speaker 2: way every other poor person does who is here legally
- 5:20Speaker 2: there's the moral issue. But Sarah says, yes, we can't
- 5:25Speaker 2: say no. Not only he says we can't say no financially.
- 5:30Speaker 2: Hilton says we can't say yes financially.
- 5:35Speaker 1: And there is the breakdown.
- 5:37Speaker 2: That's where once again the issue of illegal immigration is
- 5:42Speaker 2: front and center, and this is California looking at it
- 5:45Speaker 2: front and center.
- 5:47Speaker 1: It is.
- 5:47Speaker 2: The numbers are astronomical. Incidentally, I mean just crazy. What
- 5:53Speaker 2: medical costs in general across the board is almost two
- 5:58Speaker 2: hundred billion dollars a year for California, and the amount
- 6:03Speaker 2: of money that it costs for it is estimated who
- 6:06Speaker 2: are undocumented people is in the range of tens of
- 6:09Speaker 2: billions of dollars.
- 6:11Speaker 1: That's a lot of money.
- 6:12Speaker 2: So I don't know if that is part and parcel
- 6:15Speaker 2: of your vote, but I'm willing to guess it is,
- 6:18Speaker 2: because it certainly isn't my vote, because I'm thinking, gee,
- 6:21Speaker 2: do I want to keep on going with the highest
- 6:24Speaker 2: taxes in the country.
- 6:26Speaker 1: And keep on climbing? Just can't wait for the next one.
- 6:28Speaker 2: Okay, Big, big decisions by the US Supreme Court came
- 6:32Speaker 2: down yesterday while we were on the air, and two
- 6:35Speaker 2: of them and this was what was decided will allow
- 6:41Speaker 2: the Trump administration to push forward the president's plan to
- 6:44Speaker 2: transform the asylum system and expel immigrants who come from
- 6:49Speaker 2: some of the world's most troubled countries. And I'll explain
- 6:52Speaker 2: that in a moment. And this affects immigrants who have
- 6:57Speaker 2: been living in the United States for years, as well
- 7:00Speaker 2: as those that are still seeking entry trying to get
- 7:04Speaker 2: into the United States now. So in one of the rulings,
- 7:08Speaker 2: the court determined that the administration can cancel humanitarian relief
- 7:13Speaker 2: for Haitians and Syrians, which could put all one point
- 7:18Speaker 2: three million beneficiaries of this temporary protective status.
- 7:22Speaker 1: At the risk of deportation.
- 7:25Speaker 2: And some have already had their protection from deportation canceled,
- 7:30Speaker 2: but legal challenges are pending and they will be impacted
- 7:35Speaker 2: by the decision. So here is the big issue, and
- 7:41Speaker 2: that is the TPS program. Temporary protective status has to
- 7:45Speaker 2: deal with people who come from countries in which they
- 7:51Speaker 2: are persecuted or have a very good chance of being
- 7:55Speaker 2: persecuted for political reasons, for religious reasons, for being part
- 7:59Speaker 2: of any group that is an ethmat to the government.
- 8:03Speaker 2: Basically dictatorships that can throw people in jail and kill
- 8:06Speaker 2: them for anything they say that's against the regime.
- 8:11Speaker 1: Also natural disasters.
- 8:13Speaker 2: For example, in Haiti it was as a result of
- 8:17Speaker 2: the big earthquake. And I don't even know when was
- 8:20Speaker 2: the earthquake quake in Haiti. How many years ago was
- 8:23Speaker 2: that earthquake?
- 8:24Speaker 1: I believe that was in twenty twenty one, Okay was
- 8:27Speaker 1: looking up earlier to find out when all the Haitians
- 8:29Speaker 1: came here.
- 8:30Speaker 2: And so that was five years ago was the earthquake,
- 8:34Speaker 2: And temporary status was given to people that were affected
- 8:38Speaker 2: so adversely by the earthquake. Well, let me ask you
- 8:41Speaker 2: this temporary, I guess in many cases is not temporary,
- 8:46Speaker 2: because what if Haiti does not bring itself back to
- 8:50Speaker 2: where it was prior to the earthquake, and it probably won't,
- 8:55Speaker 2: does that mean temporary protective status stays there forever? And
- 9:00Speaker 2: doesn't the president have the right to declare that it
- 9:04Speaker 2: is no longer a temporary status issue? Now he was
- 9:09Speaker 2: able to say no for it based on national security reasons,
- 9:15Speaker 2: he can and has the ability to say it sort
- 9:18Speaker 2: of doesn't matter because if I'm declaring national security, then
- 9:23Speaker 2: that supersedes the program where people are allowed to come
- 9:28Speaker 2: in based on their political, religious, beliefs. So that is
- 9:33Speaker 2: what the Trump administration is arguing like crazy. And on
- 9:37Speaker 2: the other hand, it's on the other side. And here's
- 9:39Speaker 2: where I'm going to agree with the administration, and that
- 9:44Speaker 2: is who decides how serious a natural disaster is?
- 9:51Speaker 1: Does Congress make that decision.
- 9:55Speaker 2: This is immigration, where it is controlled by the presidency.
- 10:00Speaker 2: The president can establish policy and does.
- 10:05Speaker 1: So.
- 10:05Speaker 2: That is one decision that the President came down on
- 10:10Speaker 2: the right side of as far as he is concerned.
- 10:14Speaker 2: And by the way, it affects as I said, immigrants
- 10:16Speaker 2: have been here for literally decades and people coming in.
- 10:20Speaker 2: And the other other decision is called metering. Now, the
- 10:25Speaker 2: law says that anybody that's coming in the United States,
- 10:28Speaker 2: sets foot in the United States can immediately claim asylum
- 10:32Speaker 2: and it doesn't matter how they got here, and they
- 10:34Speaker 2: have the right to an asylum hearing, which can take
- 10:36Speaker 2: years because it's so backlogged with the Trump administration. And
- 10:40Speaker 2: by the way, this was established in during the Obama years,
- 10:43Speaker 2: only used very rarely in only one small section of
- 10:47Speaker 2: the country. What the metering is is that border control,
- 10:53Speaker 2: the border people can stop people from coming in and
- 10:56Speaker 2: asking for asylum. How many times have you heard stories
- 11:00Speaker 2: of people crossing over and immediately turning themselves over to
- 11:03Speaker 2: border control and saying, I'm declaring asylum. I want asylum,
- 11:08Speaker 2: and the law says, yeah, you have it. You get
- 11:11Speaker 2: a hearing, and because we don't have room for you
- 11:14Speaker 2: any place, we're going to let you go into the
- 11:16Speaker 2: general population. Here's your hearing date five years from now.
- 11:21Speaker 2: And strangely enough, a lot of those people disappear.
- 11:23Speaker 1: I don't know the.
- 11:24Speaker 2: Numbers, but the Trump administration is saying it's all fraud.
- 11:28Speaker 2: All the asylum requests are fraud, which of course is
- 11:30Speaker 2: not true. There are plenty of legitimate ones, but there
- 11:33Speaker 2: are plenty of people that want to come into this
- 11:35Speaker 2: country and use that as an avenue. And if you're
- 11:40Speaker 2: arguing that everybody who lives in a foreign country that
- 11:46Speaker 2: is at danger, those people are at danger of the
- 11:50Speaker 2: results of a natural disaster or persecution. Man, that's almost
- 11:55Speaker 2: everybody in the world. That's gotten so bad. How many
- 11:59Speaker 2: countries do not suffer. Certainly all third world countries out
- 12:06Speaker 2: there are suffering from this. So this temporary protect a
- 12:10Speaker 2: status is expected to impact immigrants from all seventeen countries,
- 12:15Speaker 2: and the President has said these are the countries that
- 12:18Speaker 2: we are going to do this metering program or we're
- 12:20Speaker 2: going to stop people at the border and say no,
- 12:23Speaker 2: thank you.
- 12:24Speaker 1: Other countries are not going to do that. But it's
- 12:27Speaker 1: the president's called.
- 12:28Speaker 2: That's what the court have said, and it's basically true.
- 12:34Speaker 1: I think.
- 12:34Speaker 2: So, you know, I may not like it, but the
- 12:40Speaker 2: word temporary doesn't exist for those people that want the
- 12:45Speaker 2: open arms see for people who still believe in what's
- 12:49Speaker 2: at the base of the statue of liberty, the Emily
- 12:53Speaker 2: Lazarus poem, send me you're wretched, send me your poor,
- 12:58Speaker 2: And that's basically everybody.
- 13:00Speaker 1: And is there a line? I mean, is there a limit?
- 13:04Speaker 2: And you ask people who were in favor of outright
- 13:07Speaker 2: immigration from any place in the world that people were
- 13:10Speaker 2: escaping from, is there a limit million, ten million, fifteen
- 13:15Speaker 2: million per year, give me a give me a number,
- 13:19Speaker 2: and they can't. Or it's either everybody or in the
- 13:25Speaker 2: case of the administration, virtually nobody. Big decisions handed down
- 13:30Speaker 2: yesterday by the Supreme Court, all of them as a
- 13:33Speaker 2: matter of fact, bringing in favor of the Trump administration,
- 13:37Speaker 2: the administration in general, and in this case Second Amendment people.
- 13:40Speaker 2: Some big wins for Donald Trump, as far as the
- 13:43Speaker 2: Supreme Court is concerned. But then again he chose, He
- 13:46Speaker 2: selected three Supreme Court justices who turned the court totally conservative.
- 13:53Speaker 2: And yesterday this had to do with a gun ownership,
- 13:57Speaker 2: and the Court ruled that license owners have a right
- 14:01Speaker 2: to carry a concealed weapon into stores and other private
- 14:06Speaker 2: places that public can walk into, the public can go
- 14:10Speaker 2: to unless the owner objects. Six to three decision striking
- 14:16Speaker 2: down laws in Hawaii and California and New York, New Jersey, Maryland.
- 14:20Speaker 2: And what those laws said is that people who have
- 14:24Speaker 2: concealed weapons permits cannot walk into a place of business
- 14:28Speaker 2: open to the public unless the owner gives permission. And
- 14:34Speaker 2: now is you can whether unless the owner denies permission.
- 14:41Speaker 2: In other words, the owner has to say no instead
- 14:43Speaker 2: of yes. It turns it around. It's just easier for
- 14:46Speaker 2: someone to walk into a place of business unless the
- 14:49Speaker 2: owner specifically says.
- 14:50Speaker 1: Nope, no guns.
- 14:52Speaker 2: And I don't know how much that really changes anything,
- 14:54Speaker 2: because to get around it, all you need is sign
- 14:57Speaker 2: on the door. This is we give permission for anybody
- 15:00Speaker 2: to come in and carry a gun, or we deny
- 15:03Speaker 2: permission for anybody to come in unless you have permission.
- 15:09Speaker 1: So it's really two sides of the coin, but.
- 15:11Speaker 2: One leans towards gun ownership and gun rights, and so
- 15:19Speaker 2: it's Samuel Alioto of the Justice said, these new laws,
- 15:24Speaker 2: if uphelled, we're talking about the laws in Hawaii and California,
- 15:27Speaker 2: would impose severe restrictions on the daily activities of residents
- 15:31Speaker 2: who have satisfied the state's rigorous requirements for the issue
- 15:34Speaker 2: of a gun permit. What he's saying is, it's so
- 15:37Speaker 2: hard to get a gun permit anyway. You have to
- 15:39Speaker 2: go through all these hoops that by the time you've
- 15:42Speaker 2: gotten it, it doesn't make any difference. Of course, you
- 15:45Speaker 2: can go into a store unless the store war owner
- 15:48Speaker 2: says no. So it just opens up the ability of
- 15:53Speaker 2: people to go into a place of business that heretofore
- 15:58Speaker 2: they couldn't do according to the laws of Hawaii and
- 16:01Speaker 2: California unless expressly given permission to do so. And so
- 16:06Speaker 2: it changes the paradigm a bit, actually changes that a
- 16:10Speaker 2: law a lot. And this has to do with Second
- 16:14Speaker 2: Amendment stuff. Let's expand the Second Amendment. Also, the California
- 16:21Speaker 2: law listed all of these places that you could not
- 16:23Speaker 2: walk into because of their public places, and we can
- 16:29Speaker 2: control the areas you can come into. Supreme Court said, nope,
- 16:34Speaker 2: we're going to expand those areas that you can go
- 16:36Speaker 2: into unless deny specific permission. It just says you can
- 16:41Speaker 2: do more, a lot more. And these laws which restrict
- 16:44Speaker 2: people from coming in are basically illegal.
- 16:48Speaker 1: And it's you know, just a quick point about Second.
- 16:51Speaker 2: Amendment rights and what the advocates of Second amendments say.
- 16:56Speaker 2: It has to do with the court interpreting the Constitution.
- 17:01Speaker 2: You know, for example, the religious folks say that or
- 17:05Speaker 2: the non religious folks say that the prohibition the law
- 17:10Speaker 2: in the First Amendment says Congress shall not abridge any religion. Well,
- 17:15Speaker 2: that means that Congress or any law past cannot mention
- 17:21Speaker 2: religion at all. Except now you have the religious folks
- 17:25Speaker 2: have argued the other side, and the Court has said, yep,
- 17:28Speaker 2: I mean there is a case that is I mean
- 17:30Speaker 2: completely crazy, and we're going to do that coming up.
- 17:34Speaker 2: And has to do with Texas also Second Amendment. I
- 17:37Speaker 2: want you to ask anybody who says talks about Second
- 17:40Speaker 2: Amendment your right to have bare arms, how many people
- 17:44Speaker 2: know the Third Amendment? Anybody out there know about the
- 17:49Speaker 2: Third Amendment? How about nobody? It's just Second Amendments. So
- 17:52Speaker 2: the argument of constitutional right, customers to right is the croc.
- 17:55Speaker 2: We just want laws that let us do that. And
- 17:57Speaker 2: by the way, again it's interpreting because the language of
- 18:00Speaker 2: the Second Amendment has to do with forming a militia
- 18:05Speaker 2: in order to protect society. Do you know that Supreme
- 18:08Speaker 2: Court the militia language has disappeared completely.
- 18:12Speaker 1: They ignore it.
- 18:15Speaker 2: All the people believe in and the court the right
- 18:17Speaker 2: to bear arms shall not be abridged. Well, how about
- 18:20Speaker 2: militia language, what does that mean? Nope, we're not even
- 18:22Speaker 2: gonna look at it. So it's the court's interpret the
- 18:26Speaker 2: Court's hand down, and so another big win for gun
- 18:31Speaker 2: advocates on this one.
- 18:33Speaker 1: Okay, great story I wanted to share with you.
- 18:36Speaker 2: This is not a New York Times and it starts
- 18:41Speaker 2: with this couple, Alan Hickenbottom and his wife and they
- 18:47Speaker 2: filed for divorce after thirty five years together and now
- 18:53Speaker 2: he still believes the marriage was a success. Earliers were
- 18:56Speaker 2: fun and excited. They bonded over shared love of books, arts,
- 19:00Speaker 2: and doing good things in the world. They raise the
- 19:03Speaker 2: two kids, but then the kids left for college and
- 19:06Speaker 2: hick and Bottom realize that he and his wife are
- 19:08Speaker 2: more like colleagues and roommates than romantic partners. Some people realize,
- 19:12Speaker 2: after fifty years of college of marriage, you know what,
- 19:17Speaker 2: I really hate my spouse. I'm not really happy with
- 19:21Speaker 2: my spouse. And therein lies gray divorces Among people fifty
- 19:29Speaker 2: and older, the divorces rates have sharply risen in the US,
- 19:33Speaker 2: doubling between nineteen ninety and twenty ten, and today forty
- 19:37Speaker 2: percent of divorces are between people that are fifty years
- 19:40Speaker 2: of age or older. And that is fairly new because
- 19:47Speaker 2: well it's getting newer and newer, so many more people
- 19:50Speaker 2: are getting divorced. And why is that, Well, exactly after
- 19:55Speaker 2: fifty years. My parents were divorced for fifty years, I
- 19:59Speaker 2: mean married for fifty they never got divorced, and growing
- 20:02Speaker 2: up knowing they hated each other was really pleasant. And
- 20:06Speaker 2: a lot of people do because they just hang out
- 20:08Speaker 2: together because well, you sort of, it's like an old shoe.
- 20:13Speaker 1: It gets comfortable.
- 20:15Speaker 2: And so the sociologists are calling these empty shell marriages
- 20:21Speaker 2: where people stay married no real connection, one or both
- 20:26Speaker 2: partners aren't happy and what Traditionally, you know, couples decided
- 20:31Speaker 2: to stay together, for example, for the sake of their kids.
- 20:35Speaker 2: You know the story of this couple in their nineties
- 20:40Speaker 2: that hated each other. And why did you stay married? Well,
- 20:43Speaker 2: because we had to wait till the kids were dead. Okay,
- 20:47Speaker 2: you stay together because of the kids. Well, people aren't
- 20:53Speaker 2: no longer, but they stay married because you've got economic stability,
- 20:57Speaker 2: fear of the stigma. If you're married for fifty years
- 21:00Speaker 2: and all of a sudden people think there's something wrong
- 21:03Speaker 2: with you.
- 21:05Speaker 1: One of the reasons is people just living a lot older.
- 21:09Speaker 2: No, it's easy to get get unhappy and just sick
- 21:14Speaker 2: of people that have been around for a whole long time.
- 21:17Speaker 2: I mean, how long have we been together on the
- 21:18Speaker 2: Morning show? I mean years. I am so sick of
- 21:24Speaker 2: you people that I can barely stand it. Three years
- 21:28Speaker 2: for Amy, it didn't take very long. Cono, two years
- 21:31Speaker 2: for Cono, three years for me.
- 21:34Speaker 1: Wow.
- 21:35Speaker 2: And and I am really sick of you folks. By
- 21:37Speaker 2: the way, just want to share that with you. I
- 21:41Speaker 2: want to follow this up when we come back, and
- 21:43Speaker 2: then if we have time jumping into city killers.
- 21:46Speaker 1: What are city killers? I'll explain that one when we
- 21:50Speaker 1: come back.
- 21:51Speaker 2: Okay, Gray, empty shell marriages, which, by the way, if
- 21:56Speaker 2: you stay married for enough length of time, you too,
- 21:59Speaker 2: are going to get sick of your spouse.
- 22:01Speaker 1: Yeah, who wants to stay married? I'll be right back.
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