Join Kim Munson in a heartfelt episode as she discusses the significance of memorials and honoring our veterans. With special guest Paula Sarles, learn about the transformative power of the USMC Memorial Foundation and their mission of healing and remembrance. Discover the compelling stories behind the memorial, and consider how engagement and responsibility shape our national fabric.
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KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, and the KLZ app. So you can listen anywhere in the world. And we look at these issues searching for truth and clarity through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And it’s not compassionate to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunities, or lives via force. Force can be a weapon, but policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the agenda of the World Economic Forum, the globalist elites, the United Nations, the Colorado legislature, Colorado governor, World Health Organization. I’m going to put in county and local government. Land, adding on to that list, Joe, land use code, zoning regulations, and forest fees. And remember, if something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people or coerce people or scare people into implementing it. Our word of the day, I went to, and Joe and I talked about this. We thought it was a good word. Let’s see if I can pronounce it. It’s one I always get tripped up on. But I thought, let’s give it a try. And it’s ameliorate. And that is spelled A-M-E-L-I-O-R-A-T-E. And it is to make or become better, to improve. And I think we should be able to use that in a sentence. It’s how do we ameliorate our lives here in America? And that is that we realize that we are a constitutional representative republic and and that we need to be engaged at the local, the county, the state, and the national level on these issues. I know that that sounds like a lot, so my friends, choose one thing. There’s one thing that must keep you up at night. Choose that one thing. Become an expert on it. Become involved in that. It is our civic duty that each and every one of us does one thing. I’m going to be talking with my buddy, Steve Dorman, as our featured guest this hour. Typically, I thought Dr. James Lyons-Weiler had been our scheduled guest, if you’d seen that in the newsletter, and he is under the weather. And so, Steve Dorman, I thought, let’s do something regarding the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And Steve is going to join us here in segments three and four of this first hour. Paula Sarles, we’ll talk with her. And she sent over some good news regarding the food down at Fort Carson. So we’ll want to talk with her about that. And then also the Buy a Brick program for the memorial. Our quote of the day, I went to Thomas Sowell, and he was born in 1930. He’s an American economist, a remarkable story, a social philosopher, political commentator, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute with widely published commentary and books, and is a guest on TV and radio. He’s a well-known voice in the American conservative movement, and that conservative is conserving and preserving this idea that all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. He’s a prominent black conservative. And he was born in Gastonia, North Carolina. He grew up in Harlem, New York City. And it says due to poverty and difficulties at home, he dropped out of high school and worked various odd jobs, eventually serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. afterward he graduated magna cum laude from harvard university in 1958 he earned a master’s degree in economics from columbia university and a phd in economics from the university of chicago and he has held professorships at cornell university brandeis university and the university of california los angeles Since 1977, he’s worked at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy. And this is what he said, and so important. He said, what exactly is your fair share of what someone else has worked for? That’s Thomas Sowell. What exactly is your fair share of what someone else has worked for? This day in history, a number of things that I thought were super interesting. First of all, 1799, George Washington’s body is interred at Mount Vernon. In 1888, Richard Wetherill and his brother-in-law discovered the ancient Anasazi ruins at Mesa Verde in Colorado. That was back in 1888. On this day in 1916, the Battle of Verdun, the longest of World War I, officially ends in the German defeat after nine months of fighting. Imagine that, my friends, and almost one million total casualties. War is such a terrible thing. That’s why we have to engage in this battle of ideas. That’s why we do what we’re doing. In 1917, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution authorizing prohibition of alcohol is approved by the U.S. Congress and sent to the states for ratification. Now, a weather event, and I bring these up because there were those back in the 70s that said that the planet was going to freeze. And then they said it was going to burn up. And now they say it’s climate change, which is also known as weather. And the climate, well, let me rephrase that. We have weather that changes every day. The climate has changed over the years. millions of years that the Earth has been in existence. And so we need to realize that. But anytime there’s a weather event, those on the radical left want to attribute it to climate change. And That is why I’d really recommend that you check out the website for climateconversation.com. You can watch the documentary for free. And then we are doing these amazing podcasts. In fact, we have one that we’ll record this afternoon. But I like to show these weather events just so that you realize that these weather events happened throughout history. So in 1963, Muskegon, Michigan, gets three inches of snow. And then I was talking with a friend yesterday. She said she was out, I guess she was at Costco, and she said there’s all of this Christmas stuff and it’s all about the Grinch. And so we’re like, when did the Grinch Who Stole Christmas come out? And amazingly, it was today in 1966. It says, How the Grinch Stole Christmas airs for the first time on CBS. It’s an animated special directed by Chuck Jones, features voices of Boris Karloff, June Foray, and Thurl Ravenscroft with songs by Albert Haig. Then in 1972, Vietnam War. And we’ve been talking a lot about the Vietnam War and our Vietnam veterans. And we had Doyle Glass on earlier this week regarding his book, Swift Sword. And it’s about the Marines of Mike 3-5 during the Swift Sword operation and their battle on 4 September 1967. And my book has arrived, so I’m going to read that over Christmas break. And then a pretty amazing America’s Veterans Stories. They’re all amazing. But America’s Veterans Stories show. Last week, we broadcast on Sunday afternoon, 3 to 4 p.m., part one with Vietnam veteran. Carl Leppard. And this Sunday, we will broadcast 3 to 4 p.m. the part two. If you miss part one, you can listen to that Sunday night, 10 to 11. Again, that’s on all KLZ 560 platforms. But in 1972, the U.S. launches Operation Linebacker 2, its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam as negotiations to end the Vietnam War collapse. And then 1996, this is during all of this I think dumbing down of our education and not setting kids up for success. And to be able to speak the language, to be able to write the language, to be able to communicate with each other is inherent in the success of our children. And so in 1996, though, the Oakland, California School Board passes a resolution officially declaring Ebonics a language or dialect. And then I thought this again. Politicians 2002 governor of California, Gray Davis, announces the state faces a record budget deficit of thirty five billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier. Wow, he couldn’t get that right. And then 2011, the last of the U.S. troops withdraw from Iraq, formerly ending the Iraq War. And then this last one, I’m like, how does this happen? 2012, Canadian police begin arresting 17 people for the Great Maple Syrup Heist for stealing 3,000 tons from a storage facility in Quebec. Wow. What do you do with 3,000 tons of syrup? I don’t know. That one was quite amazing. Let’s see, our headlines that I wanted to hit. First of all, is these drones. And the government knows what’s going on. I was watching some of the evening shows last night, and when Donald Trump was asked about the briefings on that, he said no comment. So my gut feeling is that this is something from the government. because the FBI warns New Jersey residents not to shoot down drones or point lasers at aircraft. And so I think that they know exactly what, who, what, when, where on these drones are. Of course, there was again on the. reports last night, there was a New Jersey mayor who said that there might be some nuclear radioactive ingredients or something that have unaccounted for. So that’s super concerning. So anyway, stay tuned on this. This is so curious. Next thing, and this is from Fox News, it says Republican lawmakers are calling for political appointees who have already announced roles in outside environmental organizations next year to recuse themselves from pending business, citing conflicts of interest concerns, you think? It says in a letter to the Bureau of Land Management on Tuesday, shared first with Fox News Digital, the Congressional Western Caucus demanded the agency identify these people who are planning to join these environmental, non-governmental organizations. They’re called NGOs, E-N-G-O, and recuse themselves. And the caucus, made up mostly of Republicans, seeks to be a voice for rural America, according to the website. And I was talking with someone the other day with all these billions of dollars of green going out to the Biden sending out to all of these cronies before he leaves office. And then all of these appointees then get these golden parachutes to go work for these environmental, non-governmental organizations. You talk about cronyism. That is extremely remarkable. So those are the two headlines that I want to hit right now. And we do the show because of our sponsors. And I thank the Harris family. 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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And pleased to have on the line with me my friend Paula Sarles. She is a Marine veteran. She’s a Gold Star wife. She’s also the president of the USMC Memorial Foundation. Paula, welcome to the show.
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Well, thanks for having me, Kim. It’s good to be here.
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Well, it’s good to have you. And Paula, first of all, we had reported about the low quality of food at Fort Carson. And many of our listeners reached out. Pam Long put together a list of elected representatives, people down at Fort Carson to contact. Many of our listeners did that. And I think because of that and, of course, the reporting on it, I think it’s made a difference because you sent something over and said that it looks like there’s some improvements, yes?
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Well, at one of the meetings I was at yesterday, one of our leaders had talked to the PR people at Fort Carson, and he said he trusted this person and said, that they were very reliable and that the problem was with fast food delivery, that they were trying to get mobile food out to the troops around the base and that the mess halls had plenty of food. They could go into the mess hall and eat. It was the fast food that was going out mobily to the troops. that they were having some logistic problems with, but they’re working on that and getting it together. So I think it’s maybe not as big a problem as was originally thought.
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You know what I might do is I might reach out to the reporter that broke that story at military.com because he had a picture of a plate with lima beans and a piece of toast, and that’s just not acceptable for our troops. My gosh.
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No, it’s not. Yeah. This guy told me that was not the case.
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We’ll research more on it.
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Yeah, I think that’s what I would do. I haven’t been down there, and I think that’s maybe something that a reporter or somebody should actually go in there and see. That’s a good idea. No one at the meeting I was at had been there to actually go in and see.
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Okay, well, that’s a good idea. We’ll go to work on that. I’ll talk with Pam Long, and we’ll get that figured out. So, Paula, we talk about it on a regular basis. I’m honored to support the U.S. MC Memorial Foundation and the amazing work that you do. The Marine Memorial was dedicated in 1977, and the remodel is so important, but it’s a place of great healing. When I’ve been out there at different events… and seeing you interact with different veterans and just hear their stories. This is a very important place for many of our veterans.
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It is. And I know personally of three suicides over the years that have been prevented. And we featured one story on our Facebook and LinkedIn this summer. And Cesar came to speak at our anniversary event and told how he came there 12 years ago and was contemplating suicide. And just visiting the memorial and talking to me and coming back for the ceremony prevented him from committing suicide. And he turned his life around a few years later with serving veterans. helping veterans with PTSD, and actually in April helped me through a little bit of an issue I was having. So the story came full circle, and it’s just amazing the stories you hear of people at the memorial and how it changes their lives.
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Well, and for you and your husband, Tony, who has passed on from the effects of Agent Orange from the Vietnam War, correct? Right. Right. Okay.
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And we went there in 2002, and it was the first time we really felt welcomed home in 30 years.
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Yeah.
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And the camaraderie that the veterans feel when they go to… There’s a group of people there. It’s amazing.
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So you have on your heart to do this remodel, which is amazing. And one of the great things about it, and people can get more information by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org and see the plans. The plans are really, really beautiful. And Paula, as we see our country, we’ve gone through a period where our memorials have been torn down or renamed or a variety of things. We need to make sure that we remember our history, that we honor those that have given their lives and donated their lives for our liberty, this liberty that we enjoy every day and we take for granted. And so I really recommend that people stop and reflect on this. Tell us about that and what’s going on with them at the Biobrick Program.
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Well, the Biobrick Program is a way that you can donate to help with the remodels. And you get a nice certificate as a keepsake until the bricks are laid when we actually do the remodel. And actually, right now, we have a matching program through the end of the year. So it’s a great time to do it. And it’ll benefit the memorial twice as much. And we’ve actually sold bricks in… 26 different states as of today. I just had two ordered yesterday from New York. Wow. It’s great to see people are hearing about it and moving on. That was from a contact that was made with two Dave Bray who came to play in August for our anniversary. Wow. The word’s getting out.
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Well, and that’s why we continue to talk about it every day. Now, Marines are, I know some Marines have reached out to me, and they’re very protective. They say it’s the Marine Memorial, and they were concerned about a pathways of service for our other branches.
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But address that. There’s one walkway that’s called the Paths to Service. and it’s dedicated to all branches of service. The rest are Marine walkways. But the reason we did that was because when the memorial was dedicated in 1977 by Commandant Wilson, he dedicated it to honor Marines and remember all who served. And as we interviewed over a thousand people to come up with the design, So many of them said, we want to have a place where we can honor the other branches. And there had always been a plan for an all-services monument of some kind in the memorial. It just hadn’t been designed or built yet. So the architect and I came up with the idea of having the walk of service. And that way, if I have a brother or an uncle that’s in the Army, And my dad’s in the Marine, and I’m a Marine, and we can put it all together, have a brick together on that walkway. Or if I had a good friend that was in the Army that saved my life, I could put that on the walk of service and honor him. So it really is a nice way to honor them, and we do plan to. I have a smaller monument on the walkway that’s to the all branches. It has to be redesigned because it’s Space Force, but we’re getting there.
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Okay, well, and I actually have purchased two bricks. Paula, one for my father, who was in the Air Force, and he passed on just a little over a year ago, last December, last December 1st. And it was one of the most treasured gifts that I’d ever given him because if you buy a brick, you get a beautiful certificate. And he had that in his room on the wall. And so it was really, really special to him. And then I shared the story of his cousin who was killed at Pearl Harbor. And his remains were identified just a few years ago, and those were brought home to to Mound City, Missouri, for a final resting place. And you suggested, well, why don’t you buy a brick for Wilbur? And so I did that as well. And I’m so glad that I did. So thank you for that opportunity.
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Well, I’m glad that we could do that. And there’s lots of room for bricks. And as we move forward and get the land across the streets in our building, there’ll be way more bricks. So we’re really excited for people to use this opportunity to donate.
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Well, and how can people do that and get more information?
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They just go to usmcmemorialfoundation.org and click on Buy a Brick.
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Paula Sarles, again, that’s usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Thank you for all that you do to honor our Marines and our other military and veterans. And I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas.
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Well, and you too, my dear. Thank you so much.
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Welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for a weekly email newsletter and you can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something’s a good idea. You shouldn’t have to force people to do it. and very pleased to have on the line with me my colleague, fellow board member of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, Steve Dorman. Steve, welcome to the show.
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Oh, good morning. Top of the morning, Kim. Great to be with you and the smartest audience in Denver.
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I agree. It is the smartest audience in Denver. And one way that they can get even smarter, or maybe I should just say more informed, is to become a member of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And we’re going to be ramping up here after the beginning of the year for the next legislative session.
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coming upon us very quick. As you know, there’s a lot of work involved by a lot of volunteers to read those bills. And we look forward to the duty, but it is duty. And we could use membership. We could use people. If they’re interested in helping read bills, we’d be interested in having those folks jump on board.
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And I always like to say thank you to our fellow board members, Steve, and that’s you, obviously, Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Carl Honecker, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Joseph O’Loughlin, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, and Mary Jansen. This is a group of volunteers that is spending a lot of time going through these bills so that you can be informed. And Colorado Union of Taxpayers was founded in 1976. So these volunteers have been watching legislation all of these years. Last year, I just checked from our Bill Track 50, there were 792 bills that were proposed in Colorado last year. We don’t need one more law. much less 792. And we, Colorado Union of Taxpayers, took positions on 259 of those. And so we’ll look at the bills and take a position if it affects taxes, fees, property rights. You know, those are the things that we really look at, Steve.
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Yeah, exactly. If you asked me to identify core values for us, it would come down to four, in my opinion, and that would be smaller government, lower taxes, defense of TABOR, and also we’re very much in favor of choice in education.
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Yes. And so we take stands on all that. And it is a commitment. But yet, don’t you feel very informed with the work that you’re doing? And we have a front row seat to what is happening down at the state legislature. And There’s some pretty radical activist stuff that is presented. And so, first of all, we have to know about it so that it doesn’t get bias. And what I found frustrating on this sometimes as we’re looking at these bills is that we have Republicans, well-meaning Republicans, that are sticking their names as co-sponsors or sponsors on these bills. And I hope this year we can… It’s really time intensive, but to interact more with the legislators, because I think maybe sometimes they just don’t understand. So I think we need to maybe ramp that up a little bit, Steve.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, I agree, Kim. We don’t always do a perfect job of communicating with them how we are rating bills, and they just don’t understand why would we not like their bill. And I don’t know if they take it personal or not, but it’s certainly not personal with us. We’re rating based on principles, smaller government, lower taxes. And that’s what we’re about. We are the union of taxpayers. The taxpayer is our focus.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and who is the taxpayer? It’s all of us. And so that’s why people should care. It doesn’t cost that much to join us, Steve.
SPEAKER 20 :
$25 a year. Now, you think about it. How many special interests are there in Colorado? And there are a gazillion, every one of whom has a lobbyist. And the taxpayer doesn’t have one, they think. They actually do have one. And it’s us. It’s the Colorado Union taxpayer is their lobbyist. And all we ask is for a $25 a year membership to help us support us in our work. We do have some expenses. We’re pretty lean on spending it for ourselves, but we do have some expenses, some of which, you know, come out of our pockets. But we have some expenses, and we could use some help.
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And so people can go to – the website is coloradotaxpayer.org, and we have a new website, and it’s beautiful, and we have more things that we want to do with it. But you can actually click on the Support Cut tab there at the very top, and then that will take you over so that you can make a contribution. Now, we’ve got a really – important event that will be on January 23rd it’ll be at the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association CADA and there’s great parking it’s located on Speer near Broadway and the cost is well basically we’d encourage you to renew your membership and or join at that time. It’s $25 for that, and then just $10 to attend the event. And it will be our legislative kickoff, and we would love to have people join us for that, Steve.
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Absolutely. We had our first time ever at CADA, which is a fantastic facility, the Automobile Dealers Association at Spear. And I think the address is 200 Spear. I’m not sure. But anyway, it’s a great facility. It was well attended. It was content rich with legislators there giving their views. We had opportunity for people to interact with legislators one on one. before our program began. Fantastic event. Just show up and mingle with some legislators. You can tell them what you think and ask them what they’re thinking. So it’s a great event on January the 23rd.
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And we will be honoring our cut legislators that made the cut, if you will, Steve Dorman. And we’re really pleased about that. But we’re really going to try to reach out to all legislators and really even reach across the aisle to – to try to communicate, I would say, with all of our legislators to try to have them understand how important it is to get government back in its proper role, limited government, and that if people have more money in their pocket, They thrive and they flourish, and our economy will thrive and flourish. And I’m starting to see headlines, Steve Dorman, of these terrible policies that have occurred here in Colorado and the continual assault upon TABOR, our Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights. We used to be near the very top regarding GDP of states in the country. We’re in the bottom ten now. And it’s because of public policy. And I think people might say, well, how can this happen? We’ve got great organizations such as CUT and other organizations here in Colorado. But we’ve continued to move further and further to the radical extremist left. What do you say to people when they ask you that question?
SPEAKER 20 :
Kim, I… you know been thinking about this and in the past Colorado was a deep red state and people who think like you and I do they didn’t have to do much it would happen automatically that we would get a good conservative legislature but times have changed our demographics have changed and the same people who think the same things are still waiting on someone else to do it now I came on the show telling you that I think you have the smartest audience in Denver, and I do, but some of them could do a little more. Voting is great, but it’s not enough. You have to do something. So again, I encourage people, join Colorado Union of Taxpayers, $25 a year, and if you’re so inclined, we’d be glad to have you help us in reading bills. The only way to change the direction of the pendulum is for people to actually do something. Voting’s not enough.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and when you join us, so what happens each week is on Friday evenings, this Bill Track 50 software that we use, and it was created by a woman that used to live in Denver. She lives in London now. And it’s really creative. Actually, she calls it Bill Track 50 because she does this for all 50 states and Congress. But for us in Colorado, she will populate all of the bills that are scheduled for hearing for the next week. and then i as president go through those uh it can take a while and try to look at them as through this lens as you mentioned these four things that we really focus on and if i think that a bill might fall within that realm then i put it on to our software and each of our our board members has a column where they give give what they recommend as a rating and their reasoning And then if we get to a majority one way or another, or it could be do not rate, we’ll either take a position, yes, no, or we won’t take a position depending on what happens there. And then I take all those comments from our board members and collate them together to make a statement. put that in an email and we send that to all the legislators, the governor. And if you’re a member, you will also get that each week. And I tell you, it’s one of the best ways to stay informed. I think between us at Colorado taxpayer and then the great work that, and I know you help Sue more as well over at Liberty scorecard. I think those two volunteer organizations are, are cause we don’t have a, a vested money interest in what we’re doing. It’s the principles that we’re looking at. And you will be so informed that it, and knowledge is power, Steve. So I’d really recommend people join us so that they get those emails.
SPEAKER 20 :
Kim, you hit the key right there. An informed electorate will get us what we want. But just knowing vaguely about issues without knowing specifics, knowing who sponsored such and such bill, I’ve talked to people who think that if their candidate has the right party designation after their name, they must be okay. Not so much. So you have to be informed, and CUT is an excellent way to stay informed, be involved, and not be just part of the great masses.
SPEAKER 15 :
And people can join us by going to coloradotaxpayer.org. It is $25. And then you’ll be getting the information also about our event on the 23rd of January. We’re going to continue this discussion, which is so important. And we normally talk with Lorne Levy for Everything Mortgages on Wednesdays, but the Fed is meeting today. So tomorrow, Lorne is going to give us an update today. He can help you with your mortgage in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York.
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SPEAKER 15 :
and welcome back to the kim monson show be sure and check out our website that is kim monson m-o-n-s-o-n.com sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at kim kimmonson.com as well thank you to all of you who support us we’re an independent voice we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force force versus freedom if something’s a good idea you should not have to force people to do it Another nonprofit that I dearly love and support is the Center for American Values. It’s located in Pueblo on the Riverwalk. And really, it’s a very special place. And I highly recommend that you take the kids down there sometime during Christmas break to take a look at these portraits of valor of over 160 of our Medal of Honor recipients. It is a very reverent place. It’s an inspiring place. And so to get more information about their hours, location, check that out at AmericanValueCenter.org. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org. I have on the line with me my colleague, Steve Dorman, who is a fellow board member on the Colorado Union of Taxpayers Board, which is an all-volunteer organization that has been watching legislation in Colorado since 1976 and super important work. First thing, we also do this ratings report. uh steve dorman that is it’s a really good report where we will actually delve into about 30 different bills and give our scorecard reports and just all kinds of information people can find that at the website but there’s a lot of work that goes into that and it comes out after the legislative session
SPEAKER 20 :
Absolutely. It has, as you said, 30 of the bills that we might call the most egregious bills out of the 200-plus that we rated. What was it, 290 we rated last year? Or 259.
SPEAKER 15 :
259, okay. And…
SPEAKER 20 :
This report contains every legislator’s score and the most egregious bills. So you’ll be very well informed on what was most important that happened during the last session. You know, I keep hitting on people being informed and being involved, and I was thinking about my own participation with CUT. I had known about the Colorado Union of Taxpayers for years, but never did anything with them until… 2017, I was a legislative aide to a really good representative out of Weld County, Lori Sane. And Lori displayed her awards on her desk proudly, dusted them off, polished them. She loved her cut awards, and she was very proud of them. And so after that session, I did. became involved and sought out Bill Hamill, who is our treasurer, and asked him how I could be involved. And so I would encourage others, find a way to get involved, if not with CUT, with some other organization. But again, voting is not enough. You have to do something.
SPEAKER 15 :
You really do have to do something. And I think sometimes it can appear overwhelming, though. Just regular, everyday, hardworking Coloradans just trying to take care of their family, their jobs, you know, keep it all together. And they go 792 pieces of legislation. That is overwhelming. I almost think it’s overwhelming by design. But again, the fact that we delve through this and and we stand for limited government and more money in your pocket, less taxes, protect Tabor, Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights. And so I did want to and let’s address this just a little bit. Our 2024 Colorado Senate taxpayer protectors in the warriors, our taxpayer warriors are Senator Kevin Van Winkle, Senator Mark Baisley and Senator Rod Pelton. And there are two Peltons in these categories. as representatives, or I guess they’re both senators, and they’re cousins. But this is Senator Rod Pelton, who is a taxpayer warrior. Over on the House side, our taxpayer champion was Representative Stephanie Luck, our taxpayer guardians, Representative Ken DeGraff and Representative Scott Bottoms, and our taxpayer warriors, Representative Ron Weinberg, Representative Brandy Bradley, and Representative Don Wilson. Now, we added a new… category uh this year because it’s pretty tough down there at the state house with um the governor and and a majority in the senate and the house it’s pretty tough uh i think to be a legislator down there that’s really representing the people isn’t that crazy well yeah it is and
SPEAKER 20 :
It’s not as if we don’t understand the difficulties that a minority has on their shoulders. They do have to compromise from time to time to get anything done, or more importantly, to stop something bad from happening. So we understand the difficulties. It’s not like we are completely separated and apart and oblivious to the difficulties that they face.
SPEAKER 15 :
And that is why we added in this taxpayer warrior category as well. And Representative Luck, I think this is an important quote from her, and you can see again this at our website, coloradotaxpayer.org. She says, “…the Colorado legislature increasingly disdains people’s inalienable right to property and contract, which means that a family’s wealth amassed by hard work, often over generations, is increasingly at risk of being taken.” While it will require all of us acting together to reclaim our societal understanding of first principles, legislators should lead the charge by voting to restore good governance and secure the rights of citizens. She pretty well nails it there, Steve.
SPEAKER 20 :
You know, Representative Luck is one of my personal favorites. She’s just such a nice, nice woman, an attorney, I think, by trade from South Colorado. And, yes, she thinks about issues, and she thinks about them in big terms, the big picture. She’s not focusing on winning a vote or – You know, her personal brand, she’s principle-oriented, and that’s what makes her one of my favorites.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and let’s talk a little bit about the governor. The governor is – I’ve heard from legislators that nothing happens down at that statehouse without him really knowing about it, approving it. And sometimes it might be somewhat strategic. And this last week he had a photo op for people that – are watching. I think it’s effective. He had on his desk pages and pages of regulation and he was taking a buzzsaw to it to try to imply that he’s getting rid of regulations. But that’s why cut is so important is because we’re watching the legislation, how they’re setting up new bureaucracies or empowering bureaucracies, running around Tabor with these enterprise zones. All of these things are happening. Meanwhile, He is I think he is pretty smart from a kind of a political posturing standpoint. And what do you think about all that?
SPEAKER 20 :
Kim, our governor, is a champion chameleon. He can be anything to anybody, depends on who he is talking to at the moment. And I have also heard what you just said about his involvement with the legislature. He is the invisible hand guiding the directing the play.
SPEAKER 15 :
And this play is really, Colorado is becoming, Denver is dirty and it’s dangerous. We’re seeing from an economic standpoint, you know, they were riding on the coattails of the great effects of TABOR, Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights. And we have seen the continual chipping away at that, at the local, the county, the state, the special district levels. And we’re starting to see the effects of that. Our GDP is in the bottom 10. And we used to be in the top. And we’re seeing more and more commentary from different industries about what this overregulation is doing. And we’ve got to get this turned around. Otherwise, Colorado, which used to be such a desirable place, is no longer desirable.
SPEAKER 20 :
In days gone by, the two political parties, I think by and by, mostly wanted the same things. We wanted good education. We wanted prosperity, health, clean communities. We wanted crime free. And we just disagreed on how to get there. Today, I don’t think the two parties even want the same things. We have one party who is borderline anarchist. They are all in favor of no bail for the most violent of criminals. There is no limit to how much taxes that they want to collect and spend. And so we no longer want the same things. And it’s incumbent upon those of us who look for smaller government. We have a duty to stand up and be involved.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, absolutely. So, Steve Dorman, it is an honor to serve with you on the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. I appreciate all of your hard work.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, I hope we were able to ameliorate support for conservative principles this morning.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well done, Steve Dorman. Well done. We’ll talk soon. Thank you for all you do. You bet. And our quote for the end of the show is from Thomas Sully says, what do you call it when someone steals someone else’s money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else’s money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else’s money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for them? Social justice. So my friends today, be grateful. Read great books. Think good thoughts. Listen to beautiful music. Communicate and listen well. Live honestly and authentically. Strive for high ideals. And like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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And I really enjoyed the conversation with my colleague, Steve Dorman, with the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And again, we’re ramping up for 2025. So join us. You can do that at coloradotaxpayer.org. That’s coloradotaxpayer.org. check out our website that is kim monson m-o-n-s-o-n.com sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at kim kimmonson.com as well and thank you to all of you who support us we’re an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force force versus freedom if something’s a good idea you should not have to force people to do it and um Let’s see here. You can hear the show 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. First hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon. Second hour is rebroadcast 10 to 11 at night. This is on all KLZ 560 platforms. And that’s KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website. and the KLZ app. And then also the next day we have our summary of the show posted on the website. You just click on the image and it’ll bring up the written summary as well as the podcast. And then you can listen to those podcasts also on the streaming services such as iTunes and Spotify. Our word of the day is ameliorate. And Steve Dorman was able to use that in a sentence. And it is to make or become better, to improve. And I think that, let’s see, what would it be? We need to ameliorate the legislation that is being proposed down at the statehouse and so that it reflects a limited government and limited taxes, fees, more money in your pocket. So that is our word of the day ameliorate. And it’s spelled A-M-E-L-I-O-R-A-T-E. Again, A-M-E-L-I-O-R-A-T-E. Our quote of the day is from Thomas Sowell, which he is an amazing economist, an amazing story. He was born in 1930 in Gastonia, North Carolina. He grew up in Harlem. And it says, due to poverty and difficulties at home, just think about that. And those are two of the things that many say that would prevent success. And actually he overcame that. What a great story. He had dropped out of high school. He worked at various odd jobs. Then he served in the United States Marine Corps in the Korean War. And after that, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University. And just an amazing story and a great understanding as well of economics. But I love this quote because how can you answer this? What exactly is your fair share of what someone else has worked for? And I remember I was in a conversation, this was many years ago, with somebody that was actually advocating for more and more taxes, saying that more and more taxes could help people, and that they felt just fine paying more and more taxes. And trying to imply that because I wanted to keep more of my money and make the decisions on who nonprofits or who I would want to fund, or perhaps I might want to hire somebody to help me around my… house or something, and instead of just giving money away, but to trade value for value. And so again, there’s this kind of altruistic claim on other people’s money, and that is not the way it is supposed to be. So that was our quote of the day. And several of our headlines I wanted to go through. This is from the Baltimore Sun. It says President Joe Biden’s approval rating in November was 37%, the lowest mark for any U.S. president at that point in their first term since former President Jimmy Carter, according to the Gallup polling. Interesting. I almost wonder how it could be 37%. And of course, there’s this narrative that they’re trying to say that we have this great economy and everything’s great. Well, the world is in a more dangerous place. The Biden administration, the Biden-Harris administration is putting up all kinds of roadblocks in front of Donald Trump and his new administration. It seems like they are trying to get us into a World War III situation. It’s just all kinds of things that’s happening. I can’t believe that there even is 37% of folks that are approving of him. And then this next thing, this is so irresponsible. Here we are at December 18th. This is from Fox News. And I guess this was published yesterday. Congress unveils bill to avert Friday government shutdown with over $100 billion in disaster aid. If we all lived our lives like this, it’s so irresponsible. So they have to have things figured out by Friday. And this is all on Tuesday. We need to demand more from these elected representatives. And it says that congressional leaders are unveiling this plan. Again, you’re unveiling the plan on Tuesday to avoid the shutdown on Friday. We, the people, would like to take a look at it. And so it says House Republicans release this. It’s 1,547 pages, a short-term extension, a fiscal year government funding levels to give lawmakers more time to agree on funding for the rest of fiscal year 2025. And that may be a good idea. Maybe with the new administration, maybe that is their strategy. And it goes on to say it’s the second such extension. It’s called a continuing resolution since fiscal year 2024 ended on September 30th. And it says the bill extends fiscal 2024 government funding levels through March 14th, while including more than $100 billion in funding for disaster relief after storms Helene and Milton battered the U.S. southeast just months ago. I’m wondering as I’m looking at this, if this is from a strategic standpoint, is to get more of that funding over into when Trump, his administration, is in place. And we’ve seen, though, as the continual counting in some of these states that the majority in the House has become razor thin. And it seems like they keep counting until the Democrats win. It seems like we’ve got to get to a point where we decide everything on Election Day. And next thing, this again, California. It says, and this is from USA Today, California raised the pay and thousands of people lost their jobs. And then it goes on to say, wake up liberals. And this is an opinion piece. And it is by Ingrid Jacques, I guess, USA Today. And it says that… Perhaps California Governor Gavin Newsom thought the $20 minimum wage hike he signed into law last year for most fast food workers would magically skirt the principles of free market economics. If so, he was wrong. The Democrat governor clearly buys into the progressive fallacy that government intervention in the private economy will will yield positive results. And it usually doesn’t. Says the law took effect in April and in a 10-month period since the mandate kicked in, the Golden State shed more than 6,000 jobs. That’s roughly 1.1% drop in fast food employment. So… What happened to these people? Are they now on government assistance? What happened? It says, in contrast, during the same timeframe a year earlier, before the law passed, the California fast food industry experienced a 3.1% increase in employment. We have talked about it on a regular basis. Forced minimum wage. Ultimately, there will be some that will be paid more, but there will be people that lost their jobs. And what percentage of zero is zero? It’s zero. And so. We’ve got to make people understand that we’ve got to keep government out of the private economy. And people have looked to government for answers, and government is not the answer. One other thing I wanted to mention is that AOC lost her battle with Pelosi over the – Oversight Committee post. So there’s infighting certainly within the Democrat Party, and it appears that the radical activists, the really radical activists, may be losing some of their power. 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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And it is Wednesday, so that means it’s a Trent Luce Wednesday. You know him. He is a sixth-generation farmer and rancher and shedding light on the people that feed and fuel us and our freedom. All those things are under attack. Trent Luce, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 21 :
Hi, Kim. Frosty here in central Nebraska today.
SPEAKER 15 :
Is it frosty? Well, it’s supposed to be get up to in the 50s here in Colorado. So but we’ve got a lot to talk about. So let’s start with what you had sent over yesterday. You texted over and that is regarding our power shortages. And this is a Morgan Stanley report. So what should people know about that?
SPEAKER 21 :
yeah i found that interesting it is a morgan stanley research project and they what they did was they took a look at the proposed and planned data mining and ai centers through the next three years through 2028 and the long story short with the demand that will increase exponentially through these data centers and the destruction of our reliable supply of electricity, being natural gas and coal in particular, we will be 32 gigawatts short of electricity for the demand within the next three years. 32 gigawatts with a demand of 57 total gigawatts.
SPEAKER 15 :
So this is because of the data centers and also because of AI, yes?
SPEAKER 21 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 15 :
So out here in Colorado, this has been going on for a long time, where I would say it’s maybe energy shaming. And that is that your neighbors can get a report on how much energy you use. And, of course, the implication is it’s bad to use energy. And we need to be conserving energy. But how is it that these data centers and AI get a pass on using more and more energy?
SPEAKER 21 :
I went to a data center a few years back. Actually, it was about this week, three years ago. I got a call from a gentleman in southwest Kansas who worked for the local electric co-op. And he called and he said, Trent, I think you want to come and inspect what’s going on at this data center they built just outside of town here. So I went down there. I looked at it. And I didn’t really understand Bitcoin mining. I didn’t understand any of this data processing at the time. And once I went to look at it, it’s just massive computers in these little module buildings that they have to continually keep cool because they’re just constantly running like a rapid engine. And then I went and did research into this. The average transaction of one one transaction of a data mining center, it requires 1739 kilowatt hours of electricity. And to your point, that’s the equivalent of two months household, the normal household for two months of electric bill, just one transaction. And they do zillions of transactions in a given day. And the reason this guy called me is he said, I know that their electricity bill is $600,000 per month. And it’s like, how can we think this is sustainable? And then you dig farther into this, Kim, and you find out that that one that I looked at, which many of those in this country are, owned by entities from China. And the one in Kansas is owned by an entity that was in Chicago. But if you go look, it’s easy to find that this is a Chinese-based company owning. And then to make it even more disheartening, not interesting, disheartening, You learn that in 2021, China decided they’re going to ban the infrastructure of data mining and AI centers because guess what? They are too resource intense. They require too much electricity. But they’re coming to build them here. And we are incentivizing and providing subsidies to make it happen.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. That’s what right there. We’ve got to stop these grants and subsidies. That’s one of the first things that Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk need to do, I think, is we’ve got to stop that. And those are going out to the local and the county and the state level, and we’ve got to stop that money trail because all that money is being used on a variety of things to undermine us. It just makes no sense. Okay. And what do you think about my… I just came up with that, and maybe somebody else has already talked about that, but energy shaming. We’ve got energy shaming out here in Colorado. And, you know, it may be that people use more energy at their home because they are… They may be working from home. They may have a bigger family. There may be a variety of things that play into that. But there’s this energy shaming where your neighbors can see just how much energy you use. And the deal with Excel should be this. You provide energy. I pay for it. I make the decision on how much energy I want to use. You, Excel, work to figure out a way to provide reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy at the lowest price possible. And right now, that energy source is oil and natural gas and coal, Trent.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, absolutely. We have 800 years worth of coal left. And let’s just talk about Colorado because How many times have I been to Steamboat Springs? And I usually go when I haven’t been for quite a few years. But I would go because the National Stock Dog Finals were in Steamboat Springs each year. And you’re driving around out in the country and you see all of these abandoned coal mines. Why did we abandon all of these coal mines? We have 800 years worth of coal left in this country. And we have, speaking of China, I think most people know they’re permitting one new coal-fired power plant each week. They’re not building that many, but they’re permitting that many. And if you look at the most recent data, the utilization of coal to produce electricity globally increased by 2.6%, a pretty significant jump if you look at the standards of the past 40 years. And we’re decimating coal as an energy source here. We’re still kind of maintaining our status quo with natural gas. But we are trying to completely abandon coal, the reliable, affordable supply of electricity industry, While China and India both build and continue to grow, we’re getting rid of it. At a time when we’re incentivizing more demand. But we do have a bit of good news, and this may sound very strange. But, you know, we’ve talked about this electric corridor that was to be built across Oklahoma through eastern Colorado. This week we got news that the Oklahoma portion of that corridor is canceled.
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Really? How’d that happen? Yes.
SPEAKER 21 :
Don’t know. All I know is that we’ve been throwing a fit and the people locally have been standing up. And every answer that I have for every dilemma we come up with, Kim, is that we must address these things at the local level. I know there was a tremendous amount of pressure put on state legislators and now state legislators are trying to take credit. And I don’t think they were as responsible as they want us to believe. But it comes down to the people at each county who are standing there saying, no, this is not something we want. Now, while that may sound counterintuitive, we need more electricity. We have an infrastructure that handles the natural gas and the coal. The reason they wanted to build. all of these new infrastructures of transmission lines is because they’re trying to shift how and where electricity is produced. And we know that intermittent electricity through solar and wind is not going to generate the reliability and the affordability that we can have with the resources such as coal and natural gas. Look at California. California tops the list in terms of kilowatt per hour, 36 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity. The national average is 17 cents. I’m very lucky. Custer Public Power, we pay less than 10 cents. Let’s get back to the basics and what people can actually afford when it can be very affordable. It does not need to be 36 cents a kilowatt hour.
SPEAKER 15 :
But then what happens, PBIs lose their control. Correct. And that’s one of the things this is all about. So this is – it’s really just dumb. I don’t know what else to say. It’s just dumb for us as Americans to be doing this. And I think that people still are taking so much for granted and don’t understand that right underneath the surface, this – this really blessed life that we have here in America with what still appears as a semblance of liberty and still being able to generally afford life. I don’t think people realize that all that is really very tenuous and that’s why we have to engage in this battle of ideas. So I want to change gears here. And I saw this headline the other day and had meant to mention this to you. This was a couple of weeks ago. Tyson Foods has said that it’s going to close an 809 employee facility in Kansas by mid-February. And then I’m seeing this other headline from three days ago. It says, Animal Charity Hopes to Convert Meat Plant into an Animal Empathy Museum. Okay. So talk to me, first of all, about Tyson closing this facility.
SPEAKER 21 :
You’re talking about the beef facility at Emporia, Kansas. But I don’t know why. I’m really intrigued at this. That beef plant captured attention, got headlines. But on the same day, Tyson announced that they were closing four different plants, meat processing plants around the country. The only one in the beef world. was the one in Emporia, Kansas. Well, that’s not true. There were some further processing plants. Two of them were in Pennsylvania. And at the same time, Smithfield Foods, owned by WH Group from Hong Kong, a China-owned entity, has announced that they are going to spin off a portion of their pork production in the United States, which, if you don’t know, China currently represents and owns one in three pigs produced in the United States. So what does that mean that they’re going to spend that off? What does it mean that Tyson is reducing and Cargill at the same time talked about reductions in the meat processing? It all means that we’re going to be more vulnerable in our food stability than anybody realizes. because it’s much like the coal conversation, and it’s why it’s so important to talk about what’s happening with coal because you’ve built an infrastructure. You can have coal, but in order to get it to the coal-fired power plant, put it in the transmission lines, and send it down to the people who need it, that’s the infrastructure that you don’t just wave a magic wand and it’s there. When we lose the infrastructure for food production… again, you can’t just wave a magic wand and say, okay, we’re going to go back into this. Now, let’s also not ignore the fact that there was a grand opening last week in North Platte, Nebraska, for a producer owned in partnership with Walmart, I might add, beef sustainable, it’s called a sustainable beef plant at North Platte. And so that’s infrastructure that’s coming online. And we can’t ignore that. And at the same time, there’s a a brand-new what they’re calling state-of-the-art cattle feed yard, which is going in in Binkleman, Nebraska. So we’re not just eliminating old infrastructure, but you have to pay attention to what’s going on with that so that we do not become vulnerable. And we are. We already are. Again, we’re relying on imported food, and that is not a place we want to be.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and it’s not necessary. The American farmer and rancher has been if they don’t have their hands tied and if they don’t have all of these increases in their input costs, they can feed the world. And they’ve done that before. I remember my father said he he loved what he did. He wanted to take care of his family and he wanted to feed the world. And we were getting to a point where we were. there was less hunger in the world. But now these policies will make it so that we’re going to have more hunger in this world. So that’s why we have to have these discussions. And very appropriate that we’re having this discussion as we talk about Lavaca Meat Company. It is really a premium product, a premium beef product and great protein source and truly that steakhouse experience at home.
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SPEAKER 15 :
And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. And thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And I wanted to mention the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team. Roger’s been in business for 48 years, taking care of his clients and his family and giving back to the community. And you don’t stay in business for 48 years unless you strive for excellence. It is an amazing agency. And so set up a complimentary appointment to go over your coverage. That phone number is 303-795-8855. Trent Luce is on the line. He is a sixth generation farmer. farmer and rancher and we talk about uh fuel and uh fuel and freedom and fiber and uh few what is it food fuel fiber and freedom i guess it is how’s that uh and it’s under attack and this what’s that that works Okay. Bird flu. We’re starting to see more and more headlines about bird flu. And then the answer is to destroy flocks. And when you destroy flocks, you destroy food source. So is this our next pandemic?
SPEAKER 21 :
It is. I have no question about that. I’ve been talking to folks in California. The folks in California, particularly the dairy industry, are starting to reel in this and I want to get back to the dairy industry because it seems to be affecting the dairy industry extremely at a high level. But this has been an interesting 30 days as it involved food prices, and Teresa Platt, who joins me from France on Across the Pond, was in California for a couple of weeks, and she was paying $9 a dozen for eggs, and we talked about that. And so when she was telling me that, I went and looked across the board, And wholesale egg prices had gone to $7.50 in California. And many states throughout the nation were reporting accelerating cost of eggs. And it seems as though that’s relaxed a bit in the last week. I find that fascinating. I looked it up this morning in our Grand Island, Nebraska, and just a run of the mail grocery store, eggs are $2.88 a dozen today. But I do believe that there is a priming for something to come because all of the avian influenza at this point has been, they’ve tested it and they’ve said that it’s H5N1. H5N1 really is very limited to birds and now we find it in lactating cows and that obviously is not new. It started happening in Texas in February, Texas and a little bit of Kansas. I really believe that they will mutate this because the gain-of-function research was done in 2014. I can find all the documentation into H7N9, which is much more aggressive and much more serious to the human population. But what is more troubling than anything is how some of our commodity groups are reacting to this. I have many friends in Wisconsin. Wisconsin, obviously, we know is the cheese state. Wisconsin is full of cheeseheads and dairy farms still scattered throughout Wisconsin. And a friend of mine who, family operation, they milk, I think they milk 60 cows. He called me the other day and he said, Trent, we are being forced to test every cow now. for H5N1 avian influenza, dairy cows. And we’ve seen restrictions and limitations on dairy cows crossing state lines due to regulations, and Michigan’s been a terrible state for this. Anyway, my friend, longtime friend, 30-plus years, is currently the executive of the National Milk Producers Federation. I sent him a note, and I said, what’s going on with this mandated testing of avian influenza and cows across the board? Well, it’s not costing them any money, and we’re just going to verify that this is not a serious problem in the industry, then we’ll move away from it. And I said, Greg, I want to take you back to December 28, 2003. It was a major day for me as it relates to the government and controlling of food and doesn’t care what it costs. Ann Veneman, speaking at a press conference, who was then the Secretary of Agriculture for the United States Department of Agriculture – Ann Veneman had a press conference and said that in an abundance of caution, we will remove all critical material from a beef animal because, for those that may not remember, 2003, December 2003, we had what we called the cow that stole Christmas. That was a cow that tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE, in the state of Washington. And so what happened as a result of that, Kim, is that Ann Veneman put in place a new rule that cost the industry $150 per head to do. And guess how long that went into play before it was rescinded and they no longer did it.
SPEAKER 15 :
You said that was 2003?
SPEAKER 21 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 15 :
Six months?
SPEAKER 21 :
It’s still in play today. Oh, okay. So once a government regulation, something in an abundance of caution, is put into play on behalf of the government, you can’t show me where they ever take it away. What does that mean? What does that mean to the consumer? It means that we have continued artificial cost in getting the food from our farms to our grocery stores to our consumers today. What are they doing in Australia where we’re now importing a record? I’m not picking on Australia. I’m just giving a point, even better yet. What are they doing in Brazil, another place where we’ve accelerated our importing of beef? Are they removing the specified risk material of every animal in Brazil and importing it into this country? We don’t really know. And yet we require this threshold of hurdles in the name of protecting the consumer from what? We just have a government that’s completely out of control and continuing to pile costs, which brings me back to my biggest gripe that’s ending the calendar year 2024 in the agricultural world. We’re now approaching a $45 billion trade deficit in agricultural imports versus our exports. And what I said is we’re importing $45 billion more agricultural products than we’re exporting. We are a resource nation. Exactly how can that be?
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, my. Well, we know this. Okay. The PBIs that are in charge, they do not want people to be entrepreneurs. They want people to be relying on government. You’re an American rancher and farmer. They are the epitome of the entrepreneur. And so it seems like they are on the very front line of all this regulatory and legislative attacks. And in doing so, it’s crazy that we have an import deficit on food products. I guess, okay, let me back up.
SPEAKER 21 :
Forty-five billion, Kim. Forty-five billion.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. I do find it, though, amazing that it can be December in Colorado, and I can go and get avocados and blueberries and oranges. So I do think that that’s pretty cool. But $45 billion, I can’t get my brain around this. I don’t quite understand how this can be happening.
SPEAKER 21 :
We’re importing a record number of amount of beef into the United States right now that we’ve ever imported. But it comes back to one thing. Do you know how many miles the average food travels from production to consumption in the United States alone? No. 2,000 miles. Hmm. In contrast… In 1992, when the Soviet Union busted up and those, what was it, nine countries, I believe, all like Latvia, Ukraine, they all achieved their own individual status. The average food mile at that time when that country broke up into individual countries was 50 miles. If you can’t see that our food miles puts us in a vulnerable situation, look, 80% of all produce grown in the United States is grown in the valleys of California. I was literally on a strawberry farm in Chino, California one day, and they were picking strawberries. They were packaging them right in the field, putting them in a crate, and that night that crate was going to LAX. It was in the bottom of a commercial flight. The next day, those strawberries were consumed in New York City. Well, that’s tremendous as long as that infrastructure holds itself. But when you have restrictions in fuel, when you continue to make fuel more expensive and harder to come by, how are you going to continue that? We’ve become very vulnerable. Exactly. We’ve become so vulnerable. And quite frankly, when you start putting it on a plane and bringing it from L.A., if you can put it on a plane and bring it from Buenos Aires cheaper – People are going to do it. The market is going to go to where the lowest hanging fruit is, pun intended. And that’s exactly what’s happening. We are importing food because they have less restrictions in other countries and less cost to get it to the consumer. That’s, at the end of the day, what’s happening.
SPEAKER 15 :
And it’s the PBIs, it’s the rules and regulations and taxes and fees and all that that’s making the American product more expensive. This is in from a listener. Let’s take this question, then we’ll go to break. It says, Trent, what needs to happen so that Americans and American companies own these processing plants and own more ranches and farms rather than foreign entities? I know that’s a loaded question. What would you say to that?
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, I think that’s a great question because if you look at all of the recent investment in American agriculture and food, it’s not domestic investment that’s happening. It’s foreign investment. And I had a situation last week from Japanese folks coming into Illinois looking at buying corn with a lower carbon intensity score. We didn’t even know how to generate a carbon intensity score. Now, all of a sudden this week, I see Japan is talking about investing in American agriculture again. We have such a limiting factor. And look at what BlackRock, BlackRock, who now I understand is maybe going to be purchased by the Israel Sovereign Fund. And BlackRock owns eight to 10 percent of all of these food companies like Tyson Foods. That’s a BlackRock driven company. John Deere is a BlackRock driven company, along with Bill Gates, the largest independent owner. You have all these people who do not care about the United States citizen who continue to come to the forefront.
SPEAKER 15 :
So what do we do about that? How can we get well?
SPEAKER 21 :
There’s one easy answer. Where do you spend your money? Do you go spend your money at Lavaca Meats? Or do you go to Walmart and buy products as cheaply as you possibly can? Because Walmart does not care about where it is produced. While Walmart does own part of this 51% of this plant that I’m talking about that’s opening in North Platte, Nebraska, for the most part, they import those products because they can import them cheaper. So the consumer absolutely is the driver in this scenario. But I am continually told it takes too much time to go buy from people that I know and trust. I just have to be convenient. That convenience… is driving us to an imported food nation. No different than we are with steel, than we are with lumber, than we are with textiles. 87% of all textiles, all clothing is made outside of the United States. And at one point in time, great state of Colorado. And look at the western slope and all the sheep and the merino sheep and the wool industry that was there is gone because we went to the store to buy the cheapest product instead of buying from somebody who has our interest at heart.
SPEAKER 15 :
But that is innately the consumer. And to be fair, people, of course, I think it’s all connected, but people are being so squeezed because of taxes and fees and government-induced inflation that some people have to make that choice for the cheapest, best product that they can purchase, Trent.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, I agree 100%. That’s why I bring it back to the testing of avian influenza in dairy cows. That’s why I bring it back to the bovine sponge form of cephalopathy example from 2003. And I just looked it up because I wanted to have my own data. The steel industry in the United States imported in 2014, 10 years ago already, the steel industry imported 39 million tons of steel today. and exported 11 million tons. We’re following the same path of so many industries before us. We’ve got to get back to maintaining the people and the skill set that we have to take care of these resources and produce the essentials of life for mankind, domestic, here at home.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you shouldn’t have to force people to do it. And I so thank the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show. They’ve been with us since the beginning, and I really appreciate it. We’ll be starting our seventh year of solo broadcasting at the beginning of 2025. And also a nonprofit that I really support is the Center for American Values and would highly recommend that you take the children. down to Pueblo sometime over Christmas break. And you can enjoy the great restaurants there on the Riverwalk, but also at the Center for American Values. It’s a very reverent place to be with looking at these portraits of valor of our Medal of Honor recipients. And of course, get that little quote book of Medal of Honor recipients as well. That website is AmericanValuesCenter.org, AmericanValuesCenter.org. On the line with me is Trent Luce, sixth generation farmer and rancher. And we’re Taking calls, that number is 303-477-5600. And we have Ginny on the line. Ginny, what’s on your radar?
SPEAKER 11 :
Good morning, Trenton, Tim. There’s a lot on my radar, but let’s just start with this. Let’s go back to 92, Daddy Bush signed on to Agenda 21. Bill Clinton then put in Executive Order 12852, saying, So what we need to do is to create sustainable development in the U.S. So the first thing or second thing that Trump needs to do is to reverse that executive order that takes us off and out of the game of sustainable development. And then we start defunding all these NGOs. So the U.S. out of the U.N. and the U.N. out of the U.S., So, you know, we go back to the Hegelian dialectic. They create the problem. We suffer. They have the solution. Well, Trent is talking about meat production and all our food supply being reduced. Well, just recently at this COP 29, the U.N. speakers declare war on farmers. Producers of meat and dairy should pay for the damage they cause to the climate. So they’re calling for a meat tax. So now it comes down to me personally, over 100 years of homestead land in southeast Colorado. Trent mentioned that they abandoned the line coming through Oklahoma. How will that affect the connectivity up into southeast Colorado? Because right now, my 96-year-old fighting aunt and my brother are trying to fight against All the other ranchers in the area which see this as a windfall for them because now they can’t make a living ranching. So my brother and my 96-year-old aunt are trying to fight against ranchers who have short lot syndrome, and plus that transmission line will go directly through our homestead down there. So how will this affect us up here in – Colorado. Because wasn’t that line also to connect into Elbert County? That’s the thing. This transmission, none of the electricity that’s generated out there stays into the area. And what is it? A third of it is at least lost in transmission.
SPEAKER 15 :
There’s a lot there, and she’s super informed. What about that? I was thinking that same question. If they’re not going to let that transmission line go through Oklahoma, then does that mean that the one in Colorado is dead in the water as well?
SPEAKER 21 :
So there’s no message about that yet, but, Jenny, thanks for bringing that up because I was going to mention it before. I would, even though there’s no indication that that’s the case, It would stand to reason that if they cave in Oklahoma, they should be able to cave in Colorado. But do not overlook Jenny’s point about people who are willing to sign up to take the dollars. And why are people willing to sign up to take the dollars? All of the reasons we talked about before. We have a government that has created such an unsustainable scenario, despite the terms of sustainability by Bill Clinton or whoever else said it. created such an unsustainable, high property tax, high input costs, two families working. They look at this as a lifeline when, in fact, it’s not a lifeline. It is the final nail in the coffin if you cave and take money from any of these projects. And how we explain that, I’m not sure. But what I do know, Jenny, is that if we get enough from one of the counties that are involved in this transmission line, We’ll get the same result that we’ve gotten in Oklahoma, and we absolutely need to do that. The only other thing I’m going to take issue with you on is that Donald Trump coming in, if he truly wants to be a constitutional president, instead of going back and reversing those executive orders you mentioned about sustainability, he should say executive orders are not constitutional. I hereby disagree.
SPEAKER 15 :
ban all of them we will have zero input from the past executive orders and there will be no new ones and that will fix virtually everything yeah that is uh that’s really important we had some um i wanted to try to get to some of these uh text lines as well um okay first question did trince say over 1700 kilowatt hours to mine one bitcoin is that what you said Whoops. Did we lose him there? Okay. Okay. Let’s continue on here. Okay. Let’s see. So Joe, just confirm with me that we’re on here.
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Okay, my friends, today be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Had a little technical difficulties, but we’ll be back tomorrow.
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