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All right, hour number three. Welcome. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Normally we have our Monday Mortgage Minute with Kurt Rogers, but Kurt is unavailable at the moment, so I will help out with the Monday Mortgage Minute. I happen to actually be looking at mortgage rates. This morning I had a client that we were discussing some things, and mortgage rates happened to be one of those, and I did notice that there had been another drop recently. In rates, since we talked to Kurt last week, so my suggestion would be if you’re interested in where things are at and where things might be headed, which, personally speaking, I think, well, not personally speaking, but everything Donald Trump is doing right now, tariffs, all the talk of, and so on, it’s pushing rates down because it has to do with the bond market and what’s happening with T-bills and so on anyways. Talk to Kurt to find out exactly where things are now, where things might be going. He doesn’t have a crystal ball, although I will be hard-pressed to believe that in the next 45 days or so, the next Fed meeting is exactly a month from now, I will be hard-pressed to believe that something doesn’t change then. Already putting downward pressure on interest rates right now with what Trump’s doing. I would be surprised if there’s not a quote-unquote Fed change at that point. Some of you may argue with me, and I may be wrong, but I think you’re liable to see one. Now, it doesn’t mean that because Fed lowers rates that it’s going to lower mortgage rates because, again, they’re tied to things differently than the short-term rate the Fed does, but there’s an overall effect, and you guys understand that. Where I’m going with this is, if you’re thinking about doing anything, even in the next 90 to 120 days, talk to Kurt now. Find out exactly what do I need to do with either my credit, with my score, can I raise it, is it good where it’s at, can I go ahead and get pre-qualified right now based upon the information that you’re giving Kurt. On and on you go. And so my suggestion is talk to Kurt now, even if you’re thinking of doing something in the not-too-distant future, even early summer. Get started on that now. Talk to Kurt. Find out exactly what he can do for you. And get that process going, because if there’s any adjustments or anything that need to be made, credit-wise and so on, much easier to get that done now. than it is down the road and again as you get everything done and settled in now and rates come down you’re in much better shape once that happens so i would call kurt and get that handled 720-895-0500 don’t forget tomorrow kurt takes over haystack help radio from noon to one you can listen to him tomorrow during that time frame is all and even call in and ask questions but best thing to do is just call kurt direct 720-895-0500
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All right, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today. I appreciate it very much. We’ve got a guest joining us here, should have a guest joining us here in a moment. Charlie is getting them rounded up as we speak. And just really quick, going back to Kurt Rogers, for those of you especially that are self-employed, I will just tell you straight up, I had personal experience of this and had some other folks that I’ve been… working with of late and the reality is kurt will work with self-employed individuals where others will not and he will help them with things that others will not and he just has a way of making things work out that way that you really need to be talking to him along those lines but risa ryan joining us next risa welcome how are you
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I’m great, thanks.
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CEO and founder of the Unretire Group. And there’s a lot of things going on in the world today. And something that we talk about here quite a bit, and that is, A, I’m not – I guess I am somewhat – retired now I get up and do what I want to do not what somebody else wants me to do I consider that being retired I know a lot of people might argue with me because I still put in about 60 to 70 hours a week but it’s by my choice not because I have to and I’m one of those that probably never will retire right lucky you well I don’t know I think there are those in in the world that might say you know John you could slow down at some point but that’s just you know it’s my it’s my nature it’s who I am and so on I just was raised that way I guess Risa
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Right, right. No, and that’s great. You know, there are so many people who work to not work. And that is one of the reasons.
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I’ve never heard that. Yeah, work to not work. Good one, by the way.
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Work to not work. And it’s just something that I never understood. Like, why would you spend 30, 40 years doing something so that you don’t have to do it anymore and that you’re just kind of watching the clock? And now there are apps where, you know, it ticks down the nanoseconds until you retire. And, you know, I think that’s nuts. And if you’re doing that, you probably should find something that you enjoy doing so that when you do hit your 50s or 60s, then you don’t want to leave. And yeah, of course, scale it back. You don’t have to work 60 hours.
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No, no, no. I do that because I literally, for me, I love it. I enjoy it. I guess some of it is, in a way, a hobby for me, I guess, Risa. And I’m also one where… And I have to always be careful not to get off on rabbit trails, but I’m also one where God worked six, rested the seventh, not because he had to, but to show us that we needed to have that one day of rest. But we’ve gotten into this world now to where all of a sudden, literally because of Henry Ford, we have a 40-hour work week, two days off on the weekend. And I’m not trying to criticize anybody that doesn’t work six days a week, but that’s not in the Bible.
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But no, we were designed to produce. God made us to produce. We should be producing. And you know what? Sure, you hit 50, 60, 70. You don’t have to work 70 hours a week. But gosh, you do have to produce. That’s what we’re supposed to do. And the other thing about that is the message that it sends to kids or even just the younger generation is, about the dignity of work.
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Good point.
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If we’re working really hard so that we don’t have to work, what does that teach our kids? To do the same. To do the same. And now all of a sudden, what happens to our economy? Nobody’s producing.
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Nobody produces. Yeah, thank you. No, you can… Well, we even got an issue where it’s kind of the opposite end of this. You know, this is a conversation about retirees even going back into the workplace, which we’ll get to, but there’s also now this whole generation of young people that are realizing, wait a minute, I can make just as much money sitting in mom’s basement on unemployment as I can working, so why don’t I go do that instead?
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Well, you know, shame on the generation that has kind of taught them that we’re working to not work. That work is something that’s maybe not so great.
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I want to go one step further. I think in a lot of ways, and again, I try to not get too political in these particular scenarios, but I’m a political commentator and so on and so forth. I think by design, we’ve got now several generations where work is a dirty word.
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It’s a dirty word. Yes, and it has very bad effects. on the person. So there is an increased rate of depression among retirees. So personally, it’s really bad to not work. You lose connections with people. You feel isolated. You kind of lose your sense of purpose. That’s bad. But it’s also bad for the economy. It’s bad for companies. It’s bad for corporate cultures. When companies don’t have that experience and that expertise, to help bring the young kids along and teach them the value of work and what long hours mean. I’m not going to throw my son under the bus, and I hope he’s not listening, but he’s 30 and was working until 8.30 for a stretch. And wasn’t happy about it. And I thought, oh, my gosh. And I was telling a friend of mine about that. And he said, well, that’s because he sees all his friends playing pickleball at 430.
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That’s right. He hasn’t been like I’ve been self-employed since I was 22. So I’ve never, I guess, really been able to look at things the way that he is, because there were a lot of years where 830 was the norm, Risa.
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Right, exactly. You go home for dinner and you go back to the office. Correct, any choice. Yeah, exactly.
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Now, really quick, I want to make sure I throw this in there because I also know and I know of individuals where, you know, they get to that point for whatever reason, you know, something maybe even happened through COVID. I’ve known of individuals where, you know, because of mandates and other things, they decided to just separate from that company and go and do something else. Although I can tell you those particular people that I know while they – will say, listen, quote, unquote, I’m retired. They’re not.
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They’re not. Right, exactly.
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They’re still doing a gazillion things.
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Right, right. But I’ll argue that they probably still should be doing what they had been doing because they were good at it. And the economy needs them to be doing that. The companies need them to be doing what they’re good at. You know, there’s… Go ahead, do board work, volunteer, all of that. But if you’re an accountant, if you’re a lawyer, you’ve been paid for 34 years because you’re good at what you do. We need you to continue doing that.
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Yeah, do it again. Keep doing it. Absolutely.
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Do it 10, 20 hours a week.
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Absolutely.
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But it’s just important. Train, mentor.
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Well, yeah, and you know what? I appreciate you saying that because there’s ways to work and maybe even make a little bit of money, maybe not. I mean, at the end of the day, if that’s not your main goal but you still want something to do, what you just said a moment ago is spot on. You can coach others. You can mentor others. You can volunteer. There’s all sorts of communities. community things you can get involved in. You know, my wife is one, Risa, where my dad’s in memory care, and she spends quite a few hours during the week at a memory care facility, and it cracks me up. Every time you walk in, she knows all the residents, and she knows all the nurses, and I’m like, why don’t you just work here?
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Yes, she is working there.
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Pretty much is, yes.
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Right, exactly. And that’s the thing. It’s not a money thing. No, that’s right. You know, most people, it used to be that people retired Because they were tired. You know, like in the 60s, people retired at 60 and they were probably dead by 70.
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Right.
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Or earlier. Life expectancy. Or earlier. It was actually 68 was the average.
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Right.
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But they were tired. They were manufacturing. They were transportation. They were industrial jobs. Their bodies were tired. Now, we’re not. We’re knowledge workers.
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True.
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And and we’re not tired like they were in those days.
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There’s a lot of folks, Risa, that are, you know, retiring. In fact, IBM did a study years and years and years ago. This is 40 plus years ago. They figured out that, OK, we’ve got some guys that are retiring that are in their mid to late 50s. They’ve started working for us right out of college. They put their 30 years in. They’ve got a nice pension and they’re dying. two to three years after retiring because they have no, all of what you’re saying, there’s no purpose. There’s nothing for them to do. So IBM really quick. So IBM started a program by the way, where they started training them other things, hobbies, whatever, so that that wouldn’t happen to them.
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Yeah. I love it. I love it. The other thing is with, with women and retirement, you know, when I started working in the insurance industry, like 35, 37 years ago, women were making 85% of what men made. And, you know, I’ve never been terribly interested in that. My thought process was, you know what, put your head down, do your work, and good things will happen. That’s right. But, you know what, fast forward, women are still only making 85% of what men make. And I don’t know really what the reason for that is. I don’t think it’s anything nefarious. I think what it is is that women are the primary caregivers when their kids are young, so they’re outside of the workforce, and then they come back for maybe 15 years, and then women at age 50 become the primary caregivers for their aging parents.
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That’s right.
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And so what happens is those women… Their roles change. Their roles change, exactly, whereas the men aren’t. Their roles aren’t changing as much. But what happens, and that’s all great, and that’s kind of the route I’ve taken… But what happens is then women are making less than men, so they’re saving less than men. And their retirement is much less than the men. Good point. And they live longer. Double whammy. Yeah, exactly. I want to get that word out so that women start to think a little differently about what they’re doing and how they’re doing it.
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And, you know, this is a conversation that, you know, my wife and I have a lot, uh, Risa, cause we’re kind of in that same end of things. Um, you know, my dad’s in memory care. Uh, my wife does a lot to do has a lot to do with helping with all of the things that involve that. And any of you that are listening, you understand exactly what I mean by that. There’s just a lot of moving pieces that are always going on when those things are, uh, And so on the same token, Risa, we have a lot of conversations along the lines of, OK, if something were to happen to me personally, what does she then do down the road financially and all of that? And of course, I’ve got all that dialed in and figured out. But those are important conversations to have, by the way.
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Exactly. Exactly. Very important to have. And, you know, a lot of people probably aren’t having them to the extent that you and your wife are.
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You know what? I guarantee you they are not. Some of those are conversations where, I don’t know, Reese, I think some people just feel like, oh, we’ll get to that at some point. Well, some point comes and we never talked about it.
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Right. Exactly. And it comes really fast sometimes.
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Yes. Yeah. Yeah. As a family that we’ve had all sorts of tragedies happen over the last year, year and a half or so. And yes, things happened way beyond our control that we have no idea are coming. And you’ve got to be ready no matter what.
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You’ve got to be ready. Right. Exactly. And that’s why women, I think women need to think about retirement a little bit differently maybe than they have in the past.
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So the Unretire group, talk to us about that and what you guys do.
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Yeah, so it’s a platform, and I quit my job in August and hired a team of six, and we built this platform. So there’s a retiree portal. Retirees can sign up, no charge, and they get into the portal, and they can see all the projects that have been posted by companies. They can apply with one easy click, or… on the, on the company side, the companies see all the retirees, they can post the projects for 500 bucks a month per project, and they can invite retirees to apply to the project. So it’s, it’s a platform that goes both ways. Um, we have over 200, uh, retirees have signed up in the last two and a half months. Um, since we opened it up for them, we launched on the company side, uh, last Tuesday, uh, So we’re pounding the pavement now to get companies to start posting projects. And my view is this should be the go-to place for the insurance industry, for insurance companies, reinsurance companies, agents, brokers, post projects. And retirees, there are so many people that I have talked to over the last couple of months that are just dying to pick up projects.
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And really quick, what these retirees should be, for all of you listening, if you find yourself in that end of things, and given that I coach other businesses and do things along those lines outside of the show, Risa, they should have their own little company formed already, be figuring out exactly what they need to do as far as all that goes tax-wise, because then as they freelance around and have different income, they can then have the right expenses to go against that and not be taxed too heavily. Right.
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Right. Exactly. Exactly.
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Ways to do that to basically unretire, but still do well tax wise.
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Right. Exactly. Exactly.
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Yeah, no, this is great. A, I appreciate you being with us. B, I think that this is something that a lot of people really, they don’t think through this whole process. I mean, to your point, a lot of people work to not work, and then when they’re not working, it’s like, oh, geez, now what? I never really planned for this.
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Now what do I do? And so many people have been downsized or right-sized, and who do companies let go first? They let the 55 to 60-year-olds go. Yeah, that’s right. And those are the guys that thought they were going to work another five years.
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And unfortunately for the company, they’re the smartest of the whole group, but that doesn’t matter to the company.
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No, well, because they’re the most expensive.
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That’s right.
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But companies can get them back in through Unretire, and they’re not paying benefits, so it’s cheaper for the company to go that route. All right, what’s the website? Unretire.io.
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Check us out.
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Okay, we’ll do it. Risa, thank you very much. You’re welcome anytime. Let me know when you want to come back.
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Awesome. Thanks so much, John.
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You bet. Appreciate it very much. Thank you. And again, for those of you that maybe are getting to that point where you’re thinking about retiring or slowing down, quote unquote, but you’re like, listen, I don’t want to slow down fully. I still want to do some things. You know what? That might be an answer for you. Now, for all of you, that’s a little different, and I’m always one to say I cannot tell somebody what – quote-unquote, looks like, because I think that’s different for everybody that’s out there. Some, you know, retirement is, I want to sit home, watch the golf games that are on, you know, the golf channel all day long. Maybe I want to go play a little bit of golf myself, and that’s what I want to do in retirement. Okay, great. Real quick, not for me. That would I would go I would go stir crazy I couldn’t do that that that you could ask my wife even that would not fly for me personally that would literally drive me crazy I’ve got to have something to do a project to work on something to feel How should I say? And fulfilled isn’t the right word for me. I want something that I can see an accomplishment in when it’s all said and done. And partially why I love not only doing this show, but I love coaching as well, because the coaching side of it, especially there’s a huge sense of accomplishment. When I hear some of the things I hear from some of my clients, when certain things go a particular way and there’s a success and there’s a celebration, it’s always a lot of fun. And for me personally, I love seeing that. I love seeing my people be Gino’s Auto Service coming up next. Now, when it comes to your vehicle and the maintenance, repair of, we’ve got you covered. Gino’s Auto Service can take care of you and your vehicle. And as we head down this summer stretch, don’t forget, AC season will be upon us here very, very soon. Ginosautoservice.com, and Gino starts with a J.
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All right, somebody asked again, what was that website to the last guest we had on? It’s unretire.io. Not .com, but unretire.io. And it’s a website. putting retirees, people that have left the workforce but want to get back into it, still have a skill to offer, like she said, accounting, things along those lines, and we’ll pair you up with other projects that are out there where there’s some help needed for a particular job, service, amount of time, whatever the case may be. So, again, you can go check that out, unretire.io. I will put that link in our notes so you can actually find that in our show notes a little later this evening as well. And I’ll have it. But anyways, yes, that’s what that’s for. So somebody actually texted and might have even just caught the tail end of that. That was Risa Raya. Risa Ryan. She was the CEO and founder of the Unretire group. And that’s where that Unretire.io website actually comes from. All right. In other news, I started the show today talking about Democrats and just how scummy they actually are. And yes, I meant that in that in those words. They are now trying to figure out a way. to dismantle Tabor, which we talk about a lot. For those of you maybe that are new to our area or to the state, Tabor is the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. It was an amendment to the Constitution that was done, oh gosh, 1992, I want to say, Charlie, roughly, early 90s. Don’t quote me on that, but I believe early 90s. It’s been around for a while now. And it was designed as a way to keep government in check and not allow overspending by the government. In other words, TABOR only allows a certain amount of increase to the budget on an annual basis based upon inflation and population. That’s it in a nutshell. Am I explaining that clear enough, Charlie? That’s essentially what it does. Now, I realize there’s some other… idiosyncrasies to it but in by and large that’s what it does in fact that’s why in colorado those of you that are new to our state and maybe you’ve registered your vehicle when you got here hopefully when you see the endless amount of fees that are on your license plate registration that is to bypass tabor that’s why they’re called fees they are taxes trust me they’re taxes But they call them a fee, and they structure it in such a way that it’s a quote-unquote fee. And because they structure it as a fee, even though literally it’s a tax, and yes, that’s been challenged in the courts, and the judges still come back because they’re Democrat judges, and they say that, no, it’s a fee, it’s not a tax, and therefore it’s not applicable to Tabor in Colorado. So, given everything I just said, We now have some folks down at the Golden Dome. It’s why it’s so important for our side of the aisle to have a seat at the table down at our legislature, which we don’t right now. We are sorely outnumbered. And that’s a whole other conversation. Andy and I will talk a little bit about that tomorrow. But the reality is we’ve got to get back on track. There’s been a leadership change in the Colorado GOP. And we’ve got to get back on track when it comes to writing things again, if you would, and at least getting a seat at the table because there are – Some Democrat lawmakers, there is a bill down there that basically wants to invalidate and challenge Tabor. So there’s an article in the Colorado Sun today talking about how we as taxpayers could very well be on the hook for paying for both sides of litigation in regards to Tabor. For example, this legislature that do this would challenge this bill. legally with our money and yet the attorney general who has vowed because it’s law he has vowed even though he doesn’t like tabor he would defend tabor ironically he’s also on the payroll on our payroll as taxpayers as well so we essentially as taxpayers would be flipping the bill to not only defend tabor but go against tabor as well how ironically These are the nutjobs. These are the knuckleheads. These are the criminals that we have down at the state legislature that are trying to take your money out of your pocket. I call them criminals because they’re going to steal money out of your pocket. They’re thieves. And that’s what they’re trying to do. It’s thievdom at its best. They’re trying to figure out a way to tax you more, steal more of your money, unlawfully, by defeating Tabor. And I’m using those words on purpose because that’s what they’re doing. They’re going to criminally enact and defeat Tabor so they can take more money out of your pocket. Even though they know it’s against the law, even though they know that there’s nothing unconstitutional about Tabor. Trust me, these people know that. But they don’t care. I don’t know how many times I’ve said this. They don’t care what the Constitution says, locally, in the state, or nationally. They don’t care what it says. They don’t believe in it. Most of these people don’t even believe in our national constitution. So they don’t care that it’s there. They want to see it gone. It’s House Joint Resolution 1023. If it passes as expected, the General Assembly’s nonpartisan, and laugh at that, by the way, Office of Legislative Legal Services would likely hire a group of attorneys to file a lawsuit against Tabor. By the way, this has happened before, unsuccessfully. Cost tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars when it was all said and done of taxpayer dollars. In one case, I believe the litigation took about 10 years, not a year, 10 years to litigate, all the while we as taxpayers paying that fee, meaning the only people getting rich in this case are lawyers. Keep that in mind. Now, these representatives down at our statehouse are telling everybody or trying to make everybody believe that, oh, they think they could get this done pro bono. No, you’re not. No, you’re not. Sean Camacho, by the way, he is a Denver Democrat. He is the lead sponsor of this. Surprising. Surprising. Sanctuary City, Denver. He’s a Denver Democrat, probably is in the same back pocket that Mike Johnson is in with a lot of things that he does. And these are individuals that would love to see Tabor go away. Why? Because Tabor limits how much money they get to spend. And by the way, Sean, you should be ashamed of yourself because you know darn good and well this is an illegal thing to do. You’re going to do it anyways because you’re a thief and you want to steal money from the taxpayers. I’m going to call like it is, guys. No one else on air will, but I will. I’ll call these guys what they are. They’re thieves. They don’t care what Tabor says. They don’t care what the will of the people was back in 1992. By the way, Tabor has been tried to be repealed and or had workarounds done to it over the years, almost every single voting season. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that. And ironically, in Colorado, even though we are very socially liberal, fiscally speaking, they shoot these down all the time. Now, what I don’t understand is they shoot them down, but then vote in the same knuckleheads that will vote for this crap. or that will initiate this crap. I don’t get our voters. Dumbest people on the planet. Fiscally, they’ll vote in favor of anything that is fiscally responsible, keeps taxes lower and so on, but yet they’ll vote in people like this, Sean Camacho, that will go ahead and go down this path. It’s the dumbest thing ever. They’re bipolar. It makes no sense. No sense. No sense. But they do it anyways. And this is the plan now, is to basically fight Tabor. By the way, the reason why they want to go down this path and do it this way is because they know they can’t take this by petition gathering, signature gathering. That alone would be about $2 million. They know they don’t have the money for that. And so they won’t go down that path. And by the way, that’s liable to get shot down anyway. So not only will they not do it because of the initial investment, trust me, they also know they won’t do it because it’ll get shot down. They’ll get voted down. It won’t get passed. And no matter how they word it, there’ll be enough backlash against that where it won’t pass. And they know that. So this is their end around. This is how they’re going to work around Tabor is they’re just going to try to go sue for it and have it dismantled that way. So when I say these guys are thieves, they are thieves. They are thieves. So Camacho, he defended the potential taxpayer burden of the lawsuit, saying it’s the legislator’s responsibility to ensure the state is following the law. We are, Sean. We are. The people spoke. They voted all the way back in 1992. This has been challenged, by the way, in the courts to see if it’s constitutional or not. It hasn’t been overturned yet. You know darn good and well everything I’m saying is right. You’re a scumbag. You’re trying to steal people’s money anyways. You don’t care. I would love to debate any of these people, by the way. It’s really funny that none of them will ever call on the show, call into the show, ask to be on the show. None of them will ever call to defend their position. Not only on my show, but others. They won’t do it. Why do you think that is, by the way? Those of you that are on the left, why do you think they’ll never call in? Is it because I’m a mean, nasty guy that won’t let them talk? Absolutely not. I’ll let them talk. Defend yourself. Tell me why you think Tabor is unconstitutional. I’ll give you reasons why it’s not, of course. I’ll give you reasons why it is constitutional. I’ll go all the way back to 1992, which I was around for all of that. I remember how all this went down. And Sean probably wasn’t here then. He’s probably a transplant. I don’t know that for sure. Somebody could look that up and tell me. Most likely he’s a transplant. Most of our legislatures are, by the way. Very few are natives of Colorado. If you guys haven’t noticed that, very few people running the government right now in Colorado are natives. About the only buddy that is that I can think of is Polis. The rest of them are transplants. And Polis, if you go back and look up all of his info, he had to change his name at one point. He wasn’t a Polis growing up. That’s his mother’s maiden name. I can’t remember what his real name is, but he went by something else growing up. And yes, he is a native of Colorado. How do I know that? Because my family and his family actually did some business back and forth when his family’s card business was in SS Park. I know Jared’s humble beginnings all the way back then. And Jared makes it sound like it was really humble. No, he took what was actually a pretty good business to start with and turned it into something much bigger to his credit. But he didn’t start from scratch. He won’t tell anybody that, but he didn’t start from scratch. And again, I know more about Jared’s history than probably Jared does. Because I was around when he was a young man. And our families did business together back in the day. So that’s another story probably for another day. There might be a few other natives in the legislature, but I guarantee you there’s not many. If there’s any more than him, I’ll be surprised. Almost every single person I ever go to look up has come here from somewhere else. I call them political grifters. They’re politicians. They’re grifters. They just go to a state where they know they can get a paycheck and then put their policies on that state at the same time. So I call them political grifters. And we have them on both sides of the aisle, by the way. I’ve talked about it on our side as well. We have them on our side also. But there’s a lot on the other side. Trust me, we wouldn’t be as blue as we are if that weren’t the case. That’s exactly what happens. These people come here. They get elected. They want to put their values and beliefs upon everybody else in the state. And they win. And they get enough backing and they make it happen. And that’s what’s probably… I’ll look up Camacho during the break to find out where he’s come from. I highly, highly doubt… He’s from our area. I would be really hard-pressed to believe that he’s actually from Colorado, but I’ll check it during the break. Flesh Law coming up next. Kevin Flesh, who I talked about, by the way, in the last hour, talking about some of the red light camera tickets and so on. If you’ve got any questions along the lines of anything, legally speaking, give Kevin a call today. Flesh Law, 303-806-8886.
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Okay, did a little bit of research on Sean. Didn’t have a lot of time, of course. Looks like he was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, although he spent a lot of time outside of the state. He was in the military for quite some time, was actually a military attorney. Smart young man, from what I can see. Although very confused, by the way, in his political beliefs, I would say, because in 2017 he switched from being a Republican to a Democrat, which is, by the way, probably the only reason he’s been… voted in that particular area of Denver because you never would win there as a Republican. But I can tell you by the things that he is proposing and the things that he advances, I guess he pretty well knows who he is because he’s a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat at this point because he’s probably gone against everything he was raised against. Politically speaking, as far as that end of things is concerned, and I don’t know what convinces someone to do something along those lines. I guess no different than somebody that was raised Democrat that becomes a Republican at some point in time. I really don’t understand the switch, so… I will stand corrected that there is now Governor Polis and, I guess, Sean that are natives. Although, Sean, I mean, I don’t want to say somebody’s not a native when they’ve been here for a while, then they leave and they come back because they’re still natives. I’m not taking anything away from those individuals. But has he been through everything in Colorado that a native that has, you know, politically speaking, been here that entire time? No. I’m not taking anything away from Sean in that light of things. But… He is sorely mistaken in regards to this whole Tabor thing, and I would like to know, and this is something I would ask Sean directly, who’s paying him to do this? Who’s funding this on his behalf? Not that I’m saying he’s doing anything illegal with funding or anything like that, but there’s always something. Guarantee, guarantee, he did not come up with this on his own. That he did not just wake up one morning and say, you know, I think Tabor is unconstitutional. Let’s do something about that. Guaranteed, he did not do that on his own. Somebody either planted that seed, paid to plant that seed, funded his campaign to plant that seed. You see where I’m going with this? Somewhere, somehow, something’s happened there because guaranteed that did not just come up out of his own free will. Guaranteed. Because he knows, like I, that it’s definitely constitutional. But yet he’s still going to go ahead and see what he can do on this end of things to spend your money and mine. Again, he’s a thief. He’s going to take your money and mine tax-wise, both sides of the aisle, or both sides, by the way, of this debate, for and against. He’s going to take our money to go fight this battle. Ironic. At any rate. And by the way, he’s a guy that’s actually run for office a few times in Colorado, finally made it this last go around. There is a little bit out there on that. The one thing that’s interesting about him that I always find is really interesting about politicians, and it’s not that there’s anything wrong with this, but most politicians, I think Charlie would agree with me on this, most politicians have a Wikipedia page. Something about where they grew up, what did they do, what are their beliefs, who did they marry, when did they get married, where did they go to school, blah, blah, blah. So most politicians have a Wikipedia page. And normally will come up in the first search of that person’s name. So in this case, you can put in, you know, Sean Camacho, Democrat, Denver. And normally on the first page, you’ll have a Wikipedia link of some kind. Most every single politician you look up will have one. Now, is it a problem when there’s not? You just have to wonder why is there not. Now, the way Wikipedia works, too, for all of you listening is anybody can start a page for anybody. You can start it for yourself. I could start one for Charlie. Charlie could start one for me. I’m not going to. I don’t need one. Charlie doesn’t need one. But bottom line is you don’t have to start your own. And that’s why typically politicians, whether they want it or not, will have a Wikipedia page because people want to know who they are. And again, either they can start it, their campaign can start it, or somebody else will start it. And the other thing about Wikipedia that maybe most people don’t know is, just because it’s in Wikipedia doesn’t mean it’s the gospel. You, if you have your own Wikipedia page, need to be monitoring what’s said, because there can be a lot of things put in there that aren’t true. Lots of people can, there was a story out a while back about a guy that was a quote-unquote editor for Wikipedia. That’s all he did, flaming liberal. Flaming liberal. And would even admit to the fact that, yeah, I put stuff up at times that wasn’t even true. Didn’t matter. Wikipedia would take anything. Am I right, Charlie, in that? It is not fact-checked. Until you challenge it, it is up on Wikipedia. So just because you read something on Wikipedia does not mean it’s true. In a lot of cases, unless it’s been fact-checked by the owner of or who that page is about, may not be true. So just something to remember. But I always find it weird that either somebody running for office or is in office, that there’s no Wikipedia page dedicated to them. I always find that to be a little bit weird. Weird. And in Sean’s case, I can go to I think it’s top of the second page is finally something there about Wikipedia. But when you look at his Wikipedia page, there’s nothing there other than it says he was elected to the House of Representatives in Colorado in 2024. That’s it. That is it. There’s nothing else there. Again, it’s really strange that, A, it’s not on the first listings. B, there’s nothing there. it might as well be blank because it doesn’t tell you anything about him whatsoever. I always find that a little bit weird. It’s like, what are you hiding? Why is there not more here? You’re a politician. Why is there not more information on that? So anyway, just a side note, be watching for that. I’ll keep you guys updated as things come along when it comes to that and let you know how that thing ends up working out because it’s our tax dollars, which shouldn’t be getting wasted on Tabor, by the way, but… They will be in this case. Veteran windows and doors, again, 35% off, up to three windows. And if you go four or more, it’s 40% off with free labor on either ones of those. Just talk to Dave today. Go to klzradio.com.
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