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The socialization of transportation, education, energy, housing, and water. What it means is that government controls it through rules and regulations.
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Under this guise of bipartisanship and nonpartisanship, it’s actually tapping down the truth.
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On an equal field in the battle of ideas, mistruths and misconceptions is getting us into a world of hurt.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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Indeed, let’s have a conversation. And welcome to The Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You eat your treasure, your value, you have purpose. Today’s drive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. Thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Monday, Producer Joe. Happy Monday, Kim. And we’ve got a great show, great week planned for you, so button up and let’s get going here. The website is kimmonson.com, and make sure you are signed up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. That way you’ll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. And this essay that we published this last weekend regarding Federalist 42 and immigration games, by Alan Thomas is a really important piece. So I’d highly recommend that you check that out. The website is, or you can email me at Kim at Kim Monson. That’s M-O-N-S-O-N.com. The text line is 720-605-0647. And thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice on an independent station. Searching for truth and clarity as we look at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. And it’s never compassionate to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhood, or lives via force. Force can be a weapon. But it can also be unpredictable in excess of taxation, fees, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the agenda of the World Economic Forum and globalist elites, which they really want to tear down America. And so we are seeing this whole agenda playing out now everywhere. In our communities. And I saw a friend yesterday, and she said, Kim, we are so divided. And I said, we are divided because there are people that want to destroy America, and there are people that want to continue the American idea. And those that want to destroy America are actually willing to kill us. And so it’s pretty difficult to unite with people like that. So we’ve got to elevate the conversation so that we can get past, as Jenny had texted me last week, that we now have a grievance industrial complex. And I think she’s absolutely right. And these are people that are just… just focused on the negative and they’re not focused on this great American idea. Many of them don’t understand it because they were not taught it in school. So this has been an agenda by the globalist elites for a while. We are at a time in our country, 250 years ago, things were hot in 1776 and they’re hot right now. But the divine provider had his hands on our country at its founding, and he still has his hands on our country. So we need to engage in this battle of ideas with our friends and our family and our colleagues. And here at the Kim Monson Show, we are here to help so that you can get your brain around these issues with great conversations, reasonable conversations, and great guests. I did want to say thank you to our goal sponsors today. It is the Harris family. And I greatly appreciate them. And one other thing is on the show, we focus on the issues and try to stay out of all the personality stuff because the personality, the emotion is where you start to make really bad decisions. And so that’s why we will stay focused. focused and disciplined on the issues. Our word of the day, and I want to say thank you to Lisa. She said, she texted me, she said, you know, how about we look at some of these bigger things in history? And one of those is George Washington. His birthday is in February. So we’re going to focus on a lot of things that were happening with George Washington, who is the first president of our country. He And it’s just a remarkable story. And so with that, I chose the word of the day as magnanimous. It’s spelled M-A-G-N-A-N-I-M-O-U-S. And it’s an adjective. It could be highly moral, especially in showing kindness or forgiveness, as in overlooking insults or not seeking revenge. Number two, it could be great of mind, elevated in soul or in sentiment, raised above what is low, mean, or ungenerous, of lofty and courageous spirit. Number three, dictated by or exhibiting nobleness of soul, honorable, noble, not selfish. And we certainly are calling on Governor Jared Polis to be magnanimous and release Tina Peters from prison. So your challenge is to use the word magnanimous in a sentence today. And our quote of the day is from George Washington. He was born in 1732 and he died in 1799. He was a founding father of the first president of the united states a commander of the general of the continental army and let’s he’s commonly known as the father of our nation for his role in bringing about american independence and he said this he said it is impossible to govern the world without god it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty god and to obey his will and to be grateful for his benefits and humbly implore his protection and favor. And there’s no more time than now that we need to, again, I think, get on our knees and ask for the divine provider to be with us in our country as we are in very difficult situations. And in the Declaration of Independence, they refer to God four different times. In the first paragraph, they refer to nature’s God. In the second paragraph, the Creator. Let’s see then in the end. let’s see, I guess it’s both in the last paragraph, Supreme Judge and the protection of divine providence. And so I’ve always thought that’s really interesting how they referred to him four different times. And also, if you look at our our founding, it’s pretty interesting, the divine provider, but the supreme judge, so the justice portion of our government, and then I just think that’s really interesting. Nature’s God, Creator, the Supreme Judge, and Divine Providence, and those are all in the Declaration of Independence. And the, let’s see, how are we doing on time? The bill of the day is House Bill 26-1040, and it’s Sterilization Rights of Persons with Disabilities. And I find it an interesting piece of legislation. And I, as you know, I totally support life. So sterilizing people with disabilities is not something that I think is a good idea. So I agree. I think it’s good to have these protections for people with disabilities. But the but on this, and as I was looking at this, I’m thinking, here we are putting forward a piece of legislation, House Bill 26-1040, giving rights to people with disabilities regarding sterilization, that they should not be sterilized against their will, for sure. But then you go over to this transgender agenda that is being pushed by this legislature where this, these pharmaceuticals, this surgery is sterilizing our children. And I’d like to hear from you all what you think about this. Text line is 720-605-0647. It’s like, and this is Democrat sponsors on this House Bill 1040. I’ll get that for you here in just a second. But I just was struggling with that. And as you know, I was going through all of the bills that are scheduled for hearing by Friday afternoon for our Colorado Union of Taxpayers for us to take positions on these bills regarding how it affects the taxpayer, protecting TABOR, which is Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights, property rights, and parental rights in education. And so this is one of the bills that’s going to be heard, this 1040. And it’s not one that we’re taking a position on at CUT. But I just, I find that interesting, that they want to protect these people from being sterilized. But then over here, pushing all of this, which is sterilizing our children. Just seems like it’s pretty… It just there’s a lot of hypocrisy in all of that. And so let’s see what there was one other thing that I thought I was going to mention to you. But as you know, we are an independent voice. That means, oh, I know what it was. I wanted to say thank you to all of our speakers. Colorado Taxpayers Bill of Rights sponsors. And that is, that board is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onizori, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. These are people that are taking a significant amount of time to watch what’s happening at the legislature, take a position on it. If you would like to receive the weekly email that we send to all the legislators and the governor with our positions, join us at coloradotaxpayer.org. It’s only $25. Again, that’s coloradotaxpayer.org. And we are blessed here at the Kim Monson Show to work with amazing people. And I’m pleased to work with the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team as a valued partner and sponsor of the Kim Monson Show. And Roger, we’re going to have a conversation here. Last week we talked about insurance reviews. And what more should people know?
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You should know what you’re paying for. That would be my strongest message to you. Because if you just keep rolling with your bill every six months on auto and every year on your homeowners, what’s changing, what can be changed to lower those increased coverages that we see coming down the pike? Homeowners we know… Increased coverages or increased costs? Increased… costs not coverages thank you very much you caught me on that before kim and caught me again thank you very much for keeping me straight and narrow that’s my job So anyway, when you get a homeowner’s policy, every year you’re going to get a bump in coverage and well as cost. Because in our homeowner’s policy, we have an inflation guard attached to it. The value of your replacement cost goes up. So we’re going to increase you maybe by $5,000 to $10,000 in terms of coverage on your home every year. Usually that’s not enough in this day and age. So you want to know about that. What would it cost me to increase my coverages more or reduce them because maybe I’m over-covered? Same thing with auto. The client I was talking about last week was paying… 954.32 to be exact every six months for a car. It was an Audi Q5. And we could lower that 954 down to 508 every six months. Imagine that. That is a $444 savings. Well, what is she giving up to get that reduction? I think she’s giving up coverages that probably won’t benefit her. So get rid of maybe comp, no comprehensive and no collision. And that triggers another coverage that you have to remove as part of that comp and collision coverage. But… Everybody’s situation is different, so you need to sit down with your agent and say, let’s take a hard look at this. My lifestyle has changed. I’m nearing retirement, or my kids are, I’m an empty nester now, or my kids are in college. What is that doing to my coverages with State Farm? And that’s really worth having that conversation.
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You know, it really makes sense. And now that you think about it is when your life changes, you need to take a look at these important things in your life, such as your insurance coverage, because things do change. So what worked then may not work now. And so what’s the process? How should people do this insurance review?
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Well, you know, you can call my office and get a review set up, even if you’re not insured with me. If you were insured with another carrier, you emailed your bills to us, we could give you an idea of what cost might be. But with coverages, we need to interface with you and say, tell us about yourself. Where are you in life? And if you’re a young kid and you can’t afford to write a $7,500 check to replace a car, then you need comp and collision. But if you’re 55 years old and you have some money in the bank and you’re paying us all that money for insurance, then you could actually self-insure for the difference. You might want to do that. Because once you give us the money, it’s gone, okay? Whereas if you take it out of your savings account or your investment account, you can always hope that investment account goes up and replace what you just took out.
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So there’s a lot of variables here. Well, and each person is different, and that’s why I love the fact that you want to sit down and customize these plans for each individual. What’s the best number for people to reach you?
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Please give us a shout at 303-795-8855, Roger Mangan Insurance Agency. And I have a great team of five folks who can help you through this. And I’m always going to have some input. And like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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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. And for February, we’re going to go back in history and talk about George Washington because his birthday is February 22nd. And found this, and again, thank you to Lisa for her suggestion on this. She and I met yesterday afternoon to start to work on this. And I found this from American Heritage. It’s called The Miraculous Care of Providence. And it was published February, March 1982 by James Thomas Flexner. And… he said this he said upon at least five occasions when in great danger from gunfire george washington remained unscathed his hat was shot off his head his clothes were torn horses were killed beneath him but the hero was never so much as scratched by a bullet for his for this immunity he thanked providence he also wrote himself down as lucky The problem was never the modern one of attempted assassination. When in the spring of 1791, the first president undertook an official tour through the southern states, Washington had never been south of Virginia, Secretary of State Jefferson was, it is true, worried for his safety. The president planned to travel in a light carriage drawn by four horses, and Jefferson knew that the roads were very bad. The president should lower the hang of his carriage and replace a coachman who sat some distance behind the horses with postulants riding on one of each pair. Washington brushed these suggestions away and had no other worries about his safety, except for servants to attend the nine horses he took with him, the entourage of the President of the United States, embarked on a 1,887 mile journey consisting only of a secretariat and a valet. The close escapes Washington experienced all belong to the military part of his career. The first happened when he was 19. A militia officer with important connections and considerable wilderness experience, Washington was appointed official representative of the British Crown to warn French invaders off land claimed by George II. His mission required that he travel from Backwoods, Virginia, through a permeable wilderness to French forts close to Lake Erie and then back again, some 500 miles. Moving at the head of his little party to the forts proved neither particularly arduous nor hazardous. The conference during which the French denied the British claim was carried out with protocol and courtesy. The problem was that by the time Washington was ready to return, it was midwinter. All water courses were frozen beyond hope of navigation. Along the trail, the legs of Washington’s horses sank deep in snowdrifts to be cut at the ankles by crusts of ice. Progress slowed almost to a standstill, and Washington felt urgency in carrying to the Virginia governor warnings of France’s bellicose intentions. Finally, he left the slow-moving cavalcade behind and advanced on foot. This was also proving torturously slow when an Indian village named Mothering Town, a strange Indian offered to lead him along a shortcut. Despite misgivings, the eager young man agreed. Turning off all trails, they advanced through the ice-covered wilderness, which glowed in daytime like a hall of mirrors, but dimly since the tremendous trees shut out the sun. Suddenly, they emerged into a clearing when sunlight dazzled. The Indian ran ahead a few paces, raised his gun, and fired at Washington. The bullet moved through emptiness without changing the history of the world. So that’s his first time. And so we’re going to take great heart from George Washington, these 250 years celebrating our country. On the line with me is Virginia Maka. And you know her. She is the founder of Stand for the Land Kansas. She is a fierce protector of property rights. And we want to get an update on all that’s happening. Virginia Maka, welcome to the show. Good morning, Kim.
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Good morning, Colorado. That gave me chills, the information that you just gave us about history. And could you imagine? There is no time like the present right now to be a George Washington. So I look to you, Kim, as our George Washington. Thank you.
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Well, thank you, Virginia. We are in a time, I really do think that we are in the third founding of our country. And give us an update. I know you have been very busy. What do you want people to know?
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So this has been one of the first years I started out reflecting, you know, how did we get here? You know, what seems to be driving this entire insanity trying to tax people off of their land? It’s almost as if it’s blatant, and they’re not ashamed to even admit they’re doing it. And so you have this great representative in Colorado. I believe his name’s Ken DeGrasse. Yes. And I follow him on Twitter. And he had the most interesting conversation, and it made me have this… reflection of how maybe it’s just that simple. Maybe what we see, the answer is reflecting on what’s driving it and why are people starting to stand up. And so during the hearing at the SMART Act, House Member Ken DeGraff actually challenged those people with the climate change and the green outcomes he challenged them to what are your outcomes taxpayers in Colorado and both of our states have spent billions billions of dollars and maybe unnecessary tax money to comply with something that can never be complied with and so it’s not realistic what they’re doing and it is realistic for us now to question if that’s not the solution and say there really is you know some goal of lowering our carbon footprint then we’re not heading down the right path and he said something that was so profound was the impact after millions and millions and millions of dollars of hard-earned dollars from taxpayers the impact their impact with all of this climate change and zero carbon and lower the footprint in government regulations regulations that colorado’s coloradans paid dearly for was point zero zero it was my zero zero one percent and that to me is a good reason for everyone that’s elected to office, no matter what the party is, to start questioning these goals that we’re marching to. Because it’s the social cost of carbon that’s hurting our families. It’s not about lowering our carbon footprint. It seems to be about throwing money at something that is just not It’s not sustainable. Reasonable. It’s not sustainable. And so the temperature’s negligible, the temperature change, the higher energy costs for Coloradans are not neglectable because it is really hurting families. It’s massive debt that we’re driving up for our state that our children’s children will have to pay. And so… Tax and debt rebranded as an offer to transfer for transferable tax credits. It’s just not sustainable. So I went back to how did I get into the conversation? And you’ve had a conversation to him about addressing climate change. And we tried to approach those things reasonably. But when I went back, is it reasonable? the way that the regulations are coming down to where it’s impacting owning land what are we doing to our tax basis that we don’t even know property tax it sustains our county budgets are we actually annihilating our county governments because they’re exempting and abating land left and right so by 2030 we probably won’t have anything i mean there you know you you see where we’re going and how fast we’re going there and so i went over to the federal government and i thought well you know it certainly has you know supposedly it’s changed well we still have the office of the federal chief sustainability officer for the council of environmental quality and their goal is net zero emission operations by 2050 and that includes by 2030 their goals should be 65 percent met so that we’re seeing the government expansion of transmission paid for by taxpayers for certain states we’re seeing 100 carbon pollution free electric by 2035 is it is it achievable And so far we see it isn’t. The private-public partnerships that are just taking tax credit after tax credit, transferable tax credits, it has attracted probably people that aren’t very friendly to our country from other countries perpetrating the system they set up. their partners are pretty upset with them. Just take climate action. We’re just not getting there fast enough. And Climate Action still has a great website, and it’s the Climate Action Tracker. And these measurable carbon outputs are not moving on their scale fast enough even with the inflation reduction act and the trillions of transferable tax credits the irs has issued a claim to people will never know they’re anonymous the climate activists blame that bill for not going far enough 10 times faster can you imagine that’s that’s pretty uh um bold And so that’s really what we need to do is really look at where we’re going and is it sustainable. So in your arena, you’ve addressed this with a talk about climate change.
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Right. The documentary, A Climate Conversation, you can watch that for free at the website of climateconversation.com. We filmed that about three years ago. It’s the project of Walt Johnson. And he is a geophysicist, has been in the business for over 50 years, and he just wanted to have a reasonable conversation about this whole climate thing. And this was one of the first conversations that was had. We had it with King Gregory. regarding the actual cost, and it will bankrupt America, and it will bankrupt the West. And so that’s the ultimate goal. The other thing is, is that carbon dioxide, Virginia, is plant food. It’s the way God made this, our great green earth, and that is that we need oxygen, and we expel carbon dioxide, and carbon dioxide, the plants need that to grow. So it’s crazy that we are using something that is part of the whole circle of life, demonizing it, but then demonizing it so that it can be monetized, so that there can be this tremendous wealth transfer, basically from everyday Americans. It’s this huge wealth transfer from everyday Americans, our middle-class Americans, to everyone in this whole agenda. That’s the bottom line, Virginia.
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And the bottom line, Kim, is that they have taken hundreds of years of science and policy, and they literally have tried to change the facts. And so when you look at like Princeton University, we all look up to all of our universities like, you know, those are the research centers. K-State is our research center. And a professor, Eric Larson, from Princeton University, was the climate change czar for President Obama. And when you have a conversation with him, they’re just kind of matter of fact. And the things that they would have to change to achieve their goals was staggering. By 2030, $2.5 trillion would have to be invested immediately for transmission lines to change the practices and the regulations that we have in place that have made this country the greatest country in the world. and they would have to rapidly deploy transmission lines for construction across the country for green energy and they would have to go and and probably the thing that is most precious to all of us is that they would have to ignore your property rights and throughout time throughout our history that the cases that have hit the supreme court about property rights and eminent domain have always ruled in the favor of the people every time because government should not be the one that oppresses you and our constitution is solid in that argument and and there are case after case in in the lower courts and all of a sudden five years ago we’re not winning any cases they’re not even looking at case law so it you see what is upon us and it is it’s a very very aggressive and every every protection that we have has to be ripped away even Warren Buffett has weighed in on of the eminent domain part.
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Well, let’s continue the discussion. Let’s go to break, Virginia. And we’re talking with Virginia Maka. She is the founder of Stand for the Land Kansas. And just regarding this agenda, which is basically to strip everyday Americans, basically, of our property. And it’s through excessive taxation. It’s through eminent domain with these transmission lines. And as we are at our 250 years of our birthday, it seems daunting. They were facing The British Crown was taking their property, overtaxing, and what Britain was taxing compared to what’s happening now to everyday people, it’s not even close to what’s going on right now. So we’re going to continue the discussion, and we have them because of our sponsors. Speaking of property rights, if you need to buy or sell your home or want to change your address, talk to Karen Levine.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And check out the Center for American Values. Their website is AmericanValueCenter.org. They do a lot of great work. One of the things is Drew Dix, one of the co-founders, Medal of Honor recipient for actions he took during the Vietnam War, He has an amazing perspective, great life experiences, and he started a podcast, Words from the Silo. And you can listen to season one, and they’re getting revved up to do season two. So check all that out at AmericanValueCenter.org. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org. Virginia Maka is the founder of Stand for the Land Kansas, and she’s a fierce protector of property rights. And we are realizing that these massive industrial transmission lines are – and then government giving – A non-governmental entity such as Xcel Energy, the power to use eminent domain, is so antithetical to our Constitution and to the American idea. And I need to check with Kerry Giblets out in Elbert County. I know that Xcel’s trying to do all kinds of workarounds because the Elbert County and El Paso County commissioners denied permission for Xcel to put those lines right through the middle of their counties taking people’s land. And so I need to get an update on that. But we’re seeing this across the country. It is a way to, I think, fulfill the World Economic Forum. By 2030, you’ll own nothing if they take your land via eminent domain. They’re supposed to give you fair market value for that, but… Who decides that? And if you receive cash, the dollar, which is declining value because of inflation instead of your land, it’s not an even trade. So, Virginia, it’s pretty daunting what’s happening right now.
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It is, Kim. But what I see are so many people waking up just starving for information. they are coming with two maybe three 700 kilovolt lines actually they’re 760 kilovolts according to the Southwest Power Pool who did a presentation in front of our house energy committee just this week and 760 kilovolt direct current lines coming up through the center of kansas will literally destroy the heart of this country when you build these transmission lines kim that is their right to take in the domain that is where we’re having a huge problem uh with the court cases and and just like albert county you know all of the the plaintiffs being lumped into one case because there’s so many cases on the waiting docket. And these, you know, the electric companies, these giant corporations aren’t patient enough. They want us all lumped together to move us through like cattle in our own courts. And so that, just the sight of one case 350 or 345 going through say dodge city it’s horrendous but when i traveled to reno county to hutchinson kansas last week to be at a public hearing and to testify in front of the kansas corporation commission there will be four of these going through the heart of their city and it just looked like it did not look like the place uh or home to the kansas state fair that’s for sure and these property owners were there at that hearing and they honestly didn’t know they could stand up and actually say something to the commission they were there not knowing the process they were never notified their neighbors notified them and this is just a blatant um you know corruption i’m not following the law for a reason and the way that they do deciding is they use coefficients that perhaps they pick the coefficients themselves so that the line will go right where they want it to so you know the um carbon capture you know they say they need 5 000 miles of new carbon capture pipe you know for um um the Midwest, just the Midwest, 5,000. That’s just unbelievable what that would even look like, that we would be sitting on a pocket, I mean, that much carbon underneath the ground. And the one thing that really gets me, Kim, is the 300 million acres that we will have to reduce Greenhouse gases. So we have to rethink how we do agriculture. Hundreds of years of agriculture. And now we have to rethink it because of the greenhouse gases. 300 million acres in the Midwest be repurposed. That is the word that they use. And the loss of fossil fuel jobs. our oil producers and our gas producers, well, they’ll just be expendable because we have to go to renewables. So these 760 kilovolt lines of DC current mean that they’re going to have to have solar and wind along the line and battery storage all the way across Kansas to the north, going to Nebraska. It’s unbelievable.
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So taking farmland, agricultural land, the land that feeds us and fuels us, when you look at the footprint regarding naturally occurring hydrocarbons such as oil, natural gas, and coal, and the It’s a dense energy source. And so the land footprint is so small compared to wind and solar, which is not reliable because the wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine. And so this movement… This whole Green New Deal, it’s the green that’s going, it’s this wealth transfer is what it is. It’s a wealth transfer from everyday people, everyday Americans, to those in that particular agenda.
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It’s absolutely stripped people of their savings. The property tax debacle we have in this state is to that critical point where people, People can’t pay their property tax because they have appraisals that aren’t sustainable. And they are having to relinquish their homes to land banks. How convenient they would have a land bank. And then the land is resold in the name of economic development. All these things that they are using are… There’s no common sense in the arena. And so I just spent the last week watching an entire legislature just do the craziest things. More tax credits for battery storage. Data centers. The data centers, we’re going to have one on every corner. And the most… egregious thing I believe is the money that they throw in front of our elected officials saying that this is what you’re going to get but a data center you got to think about this Ken a data center is just a developer that has available space for rent let’s just call it a space for rent a processors for rent and the person that walks in with the most money and needs certain information, we will never know because that’s a private business. So we would not know if China is running the entire space at the data center or what exactly that data center is doing with our information. And so there are no guardrails. across the united states in any state when it comes to data centers or ai the technology is moving faster than uh than you can possibly uh vet this in the public arena and the amount of land in kansas that is tied up in eminent domain court is unbelievable over a hundred cases in one county Wow. You get one line.
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Okay. Let’s go to break, Virginia. This is such important information. A couple of things. I wanted to mention Hooters Restaurants. They have locations in Loveland, Westminster, and in Aurora. A great sponsor of the show, How I Got to Know Them. It was one of my first lessons when I was on city council, wrestling with the proper role of government. And so freedom and free markets and capitalism versus politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties with a specific agenda. And so that’s how I got to know the owners of Hooters restaurants. And I do thank them for their support. Great sponsorship of the show. And then also wanted to mention the USMC Memorial Foundation as they are preparing for their golf tournament, which will be in May. And May’s right around the corner. So you can get early bird pricing and you can check that out at USMC Memorial Foundation dot org. And for everything mortgages, you’ll want to talk to Lauren Levy.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And we’ll be talking with Jody Henze with Mint Financial Strategies in the next hour. But she’s organizing a couple of really great events regarding the psychology of retirement. One will be online. The other will be in person. And she’s going to talk with us a little bit more about that in the second hour. But for your own financial freedom, you’ll want to make sure that you talk with Jody Henze and Mint Financial Strategies because she is amazing. She does a really great job, and again, I think it’s wonderful that they’re going to be doing these events regarding the psychology of retirement. Give them a call, 303-285-3080, to get more information. That’s 303-285-3080. Talking with Virginia Maka, who is the founder of Stand for the Land Kansas, and out here in Colorado, uh Virginia we have the Craig power plant which the Department of Education this is the headline from krex out of Grand Junction Colorado challenges the Department of Energy order to keep a plant coal plant fire or coal plant open so here you’ve got a reliable clean burning coal plant that that the state of Colorado wants to shut down. The Department of Energy says, no, we’re not going to do it. And Colorado is challenging them on that, if you can believe it. Virginia?
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Careful what you wish for. That’s what I’ve always been told. And taking down this power plant, literally… will take off the baseload energy that feeds most of eastern Colorado. And I’ve been following that closely because we have two coal plants that our largest utility wants to do the same thing. And I believe your governor is out there saying that he wants to be 100% zero carbon by 2030. And it’s just not sustainable. And so… There’s a lot of, you know, heavy stuff, heavy lifting to be done. But I thought, you know, climate action actually had a great card for the federal government. And it was kind of refreshing to see that they’re not very happy with the federal government because they’re not moving fast enough. You know, the climate financing program. Well, they gave it a critically insufficient. The no carbon targets that they had set are they have have labeled no target. Land use and forestry isn’t moving fast enough. Net zero isn’t being approached fast enough or taken serious now. And so our federal government is disappointing our friends over at Climate Action, which makes me happy. And so I decided to give what’s happening to our two states maybe a grade card, just like they gave… at the federal government and so I called it the carbon report and so on The things that matter to us, and the number one thing is public trust. People are waking up. They’re seeing what’s happening, and they’re interceding in processes they’ve never, you know, ever had to think about before, one of them being at hearings, watching what’s going on at your commission meetings. So public trust, I would give our side, the freedom-loving Americans, an A on that because they’re starting to come to the table quicker than I can answer the phones. And what matters to people now more than ever is freedom. And I give people an A on that, too. As they, what you said, they twist and they turn and they jump over hoops and they create new hurdles for us. We keep going because we know that we have to maintain freedom for the next generation. And so we’ve always been good stewards. the land our freedom to own land and our freedom to build our american dream has given us the individualism that that we need so public trust and transparency are probably two of the most sought after commodities in a person that we send to represent us and i hate to say it but in topeka it’s it’s very um um mia it’s missing in action So thank you for everyone, especially the small groups over in Albert County that has held off one of the largest global monsters that you could ever hold off just by standing their ground. And it’s just been amazing that our schools, our education system would actually take this position and literally want to be the reason in the demise of eastern colorado it’s foolish and people know it and families are paying for it and education should never be in that arena of dictating a good policy especially for that industry for our jobs and that that’s just a silly position for someone in that field you know, we trust our kids with every day. So we have to have bold government leaders like Mr. Kindergarten. Once you engage leaders, I found, you know, they only know what they know. They’re not being told everything. And so I find commissioners calling me, wanting me to appear in front of commissions to just bring them information because they’re there. They want good policy as well and they want to see their counties preserved and they want to see their people prosper and so I have been getting more calls from county commissions to at least bring them a breath of fresh air or throw them a you know a a a rope you know you know throw them some something that they can use and to uh and implement and and that would be moratoriums and so it’s been quite the it’s been quite this um ride since january 1st because the green energy and the utilities are just on the fast track, and they just are running for the door.
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Well, and thank you. We’re out of time, Virginia Maka, but you can find her at Stan, the number four, The Land Kansas, stanforthelandkansas.com. Virginia, we’ll talk with you next month. Thank you. Hey, thank you, Kim, and everyone have a great day in Colorado. And our quote for the end of the show is George Washington. He said, Government is not reason. It is not eloquent. It is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it’s much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. And when the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent, we may be led like sheep to the slaughter. My friends, stay tuned for hour number two. We’ll be right back.
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Indeed, let’s have a conversation, and welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. Thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Monday, Producer Joe. Happy Monday, Kim. And a great conversation with Virginia Maka in our number one. She is the founder of Stand for the Land Kansas, protecting property rights of Kansans and Americans. And she is doing amazing work. If you missed that, the first hour is rebroadcast in the afternoon, 1 to 2 in the afternoon. The second hour is rebroadcast in the evening, 10 to 11 at night. And so be sure and check out our website. We are under construction. We’ve got some new things that are going to be happening in just about a month. And Zach is working diligently. You’re going to be really, really excited about what’s happening with that. But make sure you’re signed up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. And check out the essay by Alan Thomas regarding Federalist Paper No. 42 and immigration games. It’s an excellent piece, and he is really becoming a great student of the Federalist Papers. And so you can find that at my website. That’s KimMonson.com. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com. The text line is 720-605-0647. And as you know, 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 use force to implement it. And on the show, we focus on the issues and And we’ll talk about people pushing those issues, but really try to stay out of the whole personality, emotional side of all that. We want to look at things through reasoned conversation. That is our goal. It can be tricky. Politics is such a messy, messy business. And people might say, oh, I’m not into politics. But politics is into you. As people are learning, for example, with these transmission lines and eminent domain being used to take their land. Politics is into you and you need to pay attention. That’s why we do the show is to help you with that. Our word of the day is magnanimous. And February is actually its president’s birthday month. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan were all born in February. But we’re focusing on George Washington. For most of the month, we will talk about Lincoln and Reagan a bit, but this is a word that’s been used regarding George Washington on a regular basis, and it’s magnanimous. It’s spelled M-A-G-N-A-N-I-M-O-U-S. First definition is highly moral, especially in showing kindness or forgiveness, as in overlooking insults or not seeking revenge. Number two, great of mind, elevated in soul or in sentiment, raised above what is low, mean, or ungenerous, of lofty and courageous spirit. Or number three, dictated by or exhibiting nobleness of soul, honorable, noble, not selfish. And George Washington is many times referred to as a magnanimous individual. And our quote, and George Washington was born February 22, 1732. He died in 1799. He was a founding father, our first president, the commander of the Continental Army. And he is commonly known as the father of our nation. And this is his quote. He said, It is impossible to govern the world without God. It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly implore His protection and favor. I think that’s an excellent quote for all that’s going on in our world today. And if we don’t If we don’t focus on God, well, we as human beings focus on something else. And that something else, I think, is playing out in our cities at this particular point in time. So anyway, we will continue the discussions on all the important things happening. And it happens because of our sponsors. And pleased to have Jody Henze on the line for her biweekly update. Jody Henze, welcome to the show. Thank you. Good morning, Kim. Thank you so much. It’s good to have you. And you’ve got a couple of events coming up this week.
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Yeah, I’m excited about this week’s event. It’s a new topic that we’ve never done before. We’ll be talking about retirement planning, but in a new way. We tend to focus so much on the financial aspect of retirement, but this week we’re going to be talking about the psychology of retirement and emotional readiness. So I’ve been working on my presentation all weekend.
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Well, I think it really is important because people many times are very connected. Their identity is connected to their job or their business. And then retirement rolls around. Like you say, you’ve helped everybody plan from a financial standpoint. But there’s that other part as well. So when are the events? One is online and one is in person, yes? Yes.
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Yes, so we have an online version this Thursday at noon, and then we’re doing an in-person at Maggiano’s in the Tech Center on Friday night at 6 p.m.
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Okay, and how can people get more information and RSVP?
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Yep. So you can call me at the office or text us at 303-285-3080. Again, that’s 303-285-3080. Or you can email me for more information. My email is Jody with a Y. That’s J-O-D-Y at MintFS.com. Again, that’s Jody at MintFS.com.
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And Jody, you do these events on a regular basis for your clients and prospective clients. And when we were talking just recently, you did something so creative during COVID. COVID was such a wild time, but it didn’t stop you. You continue to do some really great events. And tell everybody what you did during COVID.
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Yeah, you know, education has been a big part of what we do here at Mint. And we weren’t going to let the pandemic slow us down. And we’ve been doing education pretty much every year since our founding. And we’ve been doing these educational dinners. And so during COVID, when we couldn’t do it in person, we actually continued our dinners and we had people pick up their dinner and then we would just do it virtually. And then once we were able to get back in person, obviously we came back live and continued in person. But yeah, we had people pick up their dinners.
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I think that is so creative. Go by and pick it up and then go home, eat your dinner, and it would be online. Very creative. Now, how often do you do these special events?
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We have pretty much something going on every month with the exception of November and December. We kind of rotate with some networking groups that we do with our women in wealth, which we’ve announced on your show. So pretty much every month except for the holidays.
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Okay. And then one other thing, Jodi, there’s information, and you brought this forward regarding these Trump accounts, which are accounts for – babies, toddlers during this time and I know you’ve gotten a lot of interest on that. Give us an update on that.
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Yeah. So there was some really good information that came out last week. They had a event out in D.C. And, you know, the Trump accounts aren’t just for babies. They’re actually for kids 10 and younger. But any babies who were born 2025 or later are going to get a thousand dollars from the government. But any kid born or that’s 10 and younger can open a Trump account. And there are essentially ways that parents, grandparents, even employers can help save for college, first time home buyer, starting a new business. And it’s just a way to help educate and create that financial literacy for our kids. So any kids 10 and younger, it’s just new babies get the thousand dollars or can possibly get a gift from the Dell family.
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Okay. I remember in the old days that grandparents or parents, well, grandparents many times birthday or Christmas would give savings bonds. So this might be the 2026 version of a savings bond, maybe?
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Oh, absolutely. Way better, a lot more potential, and a great way to help our young people learn a little bit more about investing. So you can check it out. There’s a website. More information will be coming as these become online. It’s trumpaccounts.gov. So trumpaccounts.gov.
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Okay, great. Well, I love the fact that you keep everyone so informed, and I know you’ve got a great response for your events, and you might even be getting close to sold out, yeah? Yeah. The in-person one’s getting pretty full, but we’ll make room if people want to come. Okay. And again, that number is 303-285-3080, 303-285-3080. Jody, I highly recommend people reach out to you for their financial independence, and we’ll talk with you in a couple of weeks. Good luck on those events. Thanks, Kim. Bye-bye. And, again, we work with amazing people, and the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team wants you to feel safe and well-served and to understand your insurance coverage. Their office will respond to your call or text 24 hours a day. So for that 24-hour peace of mind, call Roger Mangan at 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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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.com. And check out the website for the Center for American Values. That is AmericanValuesCenter.org. And there’s this great podcast that Drew Dix and Brad Petula have put together. They’re the co-founders of the center. And it’s called Words from the Silo. And the season one is totally there. They’re getting ready for season two. And so check that out. That is AmericanValueCenter.org, AmericanValueCenter.org. On the line with us is Wendy Volk. She is a realtor in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and we’ve been going through this journey with her regarding… As she has done more and more research, and it just started with a certified letter, I guess, last June, to where she has figured out that there is a whole bunch of connections throughout Wyoming and a huge wind wall of miles and miles of transmission lines and what that means exactly. So, Wendy Volk, welcome. morning kim how are you today well i am well we’re talking transmission lines and land rights and property rights give us an update what is happening with you’ve just and just tell us again this wind wall is over 200 miles correct and how many acres would it take it’s going to be if you include it it goes across four different counties is kind of what
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Since last June of keeping track of the project that’s being proposed adjacent to our family’s ranch here in Laramie County, There’s a wind project that’s been approved that’s in Albany County, and that’s on 20,000 acres. We already have an existing wind turbine project that’s up between Laramie and Cheyenne, and that’s on 20,000 acres. This project would be 40,000 acres in Platt County at Chugwater. That would be 53,000 acres. And then going up to Casper, there’s Glen Rock Projects. So it’s easily 200,000 acres of prime ranching land that’s being proposed or has been converted to wind turbines, industrial wind projects. and um you know it started last june when we got a certified letter from a spanish company called repsol they have an american subsidiary called connected gen and they started by telling us they were going to be doing 170 turbine wind project near our horse creek property and they were proposing to develop approximately 56 000 acres And their first step was to submit a site permit to our Laramie County commissioners. And in September, our commissioners denied the permit. And that decision was not arbitrary. It was not political. It was based on unresolved deficiencies. that pointed out incomplete road access, incomplete truck haul routes, and their plans with the roads, unanswered questions about emergency response, fire mitigation, unfinalized agreements regarding wildlife, and unenforceable commitments regarding wildlife protection and long-term compliance. So not very long after that permit was denied, the company, they went and appealed the decision with our district court. And the district court judge has not yet weighed in with the decision. But in the meantime, similar wind projects are continuing to advance in our neighboring counties. And that’s when these neighbors reached out to me to say, you know, have you been paying attention to these different wind projects? Which I had not. But oftentimes, what I’m seeing is that at the local level, when our county was one of the first to deny a permit, I think this wind company is assuming that that local decision will eventually be overturned. So each of these projects are being reviewed individually, but collectively, they’re forming an expanding industrial corridor stretching from Rawlins, Wyoming to Cheyenne, Cheyenne north up to Chugwater onwards to Casper. And that these are gonna be 700 foot turbines, transmission lines, substations, access roads, heavy construction traffic and permanent landscape transformation. But I don’t think there’s an agency in our state that’s evaluating what the projects mean collectively. and so they’re not individual projects it’s a cumulative development pattern that’s raising serious questions about long-term land use compatibility and what are we doing to wildlife migration and you know fragmenting their habitat what’s happening then to all the rural road degradation some of these lands are private lands majority of private lands But there’s some state land, and that state land is held in trust. So I’m questioning what kind of stewardship are we looking at? Because these are long-term, 45-plus year leases on land for wind production. And they’re not abstract concerns. They’ve been in the public. They’ve raised great questions. citizens are becoming more informed and they’re submitting their testimony they’re showing up at County commissioner and planning commission meetings they’re providing their written comments but last week the developer had sent us an updated certified letter saying that they were going to have a public open house to give us an update about revisions they were going to be making And I wrote an op-ed to our local newspapers and publications, and we had over 100 people show up at the open house. And when we walked in the room, the company had display boards all along the walls, and then they had maybe 10 people that were representatives or consultants for the company standing next to the display boards. And that was the update. No presentation, no microphone, no chairs for people to sit down and listen to an updated presentation. So we’re kind of seeing a pattern. This is what these industrial companies are doing.
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So what was the purpose of that meeting then, Wendy Volk?
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I think what they’re doing is checking the next checkbox to move forward, as they told us in a certified letter. And they told us at this public meeting when we went up and asked each of the representatives questions. And they couldn’t answer a lot of the questions, but they said their next step was to proceed with the second permit, which is a state permit with our state industrial land commissioners. And, you know, I kept saying, why are you not waiting to see what they do at a local level? The district court at a local level said, and they, the representative, the head project manager told us that, told my husband and myself that they said they were very optimistic and that they said the county wanted this project. and that they were going to proceed with the next step because they were confident the judge would overturn the county commissioner’s decision. And I think public meetings matter and a public open house of course would not resolve the deficiencies that led to the county’s denial or does it substitute for a meeting on land use standards. But when we asked direct questions, like what was the long-term goals and how does this fit into this cumulative Wyoming wind footprint? They couldn’t answer it. We asked questions, what about the amount of water it was gonna take to build 139 wind turbines? They’re talking about for the Laramie Range project, making a smaller footprint instead of 56,000 acres, it would be 42,000 acres. which is twice the size of Cheyenne, and Cheyenne’s the largest city in the state of Wyoming. They’re going to propose going from 170 turbines to 139 turbines. But this is massive. This is where public participation does matter, and it should matter before decisions are finalized. and appeals are resolved, people showed up and they expected transparency and accountability and an honest discussion about these cumulative impacts. I think that’s the part that when I just took a Wyoming map and I printed it and I put it on my wall at my office and any time a neighbor would call or someone across the county would call and say, did you know about this project? i would put a sticky note about that project and so these sticky notes have now been accumulating on this map and it really is a wall of wind projects and i’m sure something could be done similar in colorado of looking at projects but it really has solidified in my mind that this is real this is a very um matter that needs to be brought at a state level and a county level. And so I’m going to continue sharing the map and raising the same questions so that we can make sure we’re planning for the future.
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Well, and you and so many others there have really brought up so many important questions. And so we’re going to talk about some of those when we come back. We’re talking with Cheyenne, Wyoming, realtor Wendy Volk, who has really gone from zero to 100 regarding these issues. Once her family had received a certified letter last June. about an industrial transmission line and wind projects. Well, I guess we’re talking about wind projects on this right now, but then transmission lines have to be connected as well. And we have these important discussions because of our amazing sponsors. And I do so appreciate the Second Syndicate.
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I do too. And, you know, the question keeps, people ask the questions when a project is decommissioned or when the blades are damaged, either by wildlife from, you know, birds and eagles and raptors, bats, or hailstorms. We know that, you know, here in the Rocky Mountain region, we’re prone to hail. What happens to the turbines that are damaged? Where do you put these blades that are 200 feet long. But then long-term, if the project really is a 35-year project and it needs to be decommissioned, where are the funds going to be to decommission them? The company on the Laramie Range project had asked on their site permit to, instead of reclaiming and going down four feet, which is our land use requirement, to go down just three feet so there must be a pretty good reason why the company’s asking to to have an exception on their project but these things are going down the size of a house going down three or four feet but they were asking for an exception to just only reclaim going down three feet underground to reclaim that area and then leave everything else buried underground It’s got to be expensive. And I can’t imagine when you look into a magic crystal ball 35 years from now, if they need to be decommissioned. to make sure the company has to put up a bond. And even though these projects typically are sold multiple times, Repsol builds it and then they eventually sell the project to someone else. Apparently the bond and the decommissioned plan follows the permit regardless of who is running and operating that project. And so I just really would like to know, why don’t we ask the companies to put the money up front and put it into an interest-bearing account that could be compounded to prepare for when they need to be decommissioned. But that’s not the way this game is played. But it’s… It’s happening at such an amazing level. Two other states, Texas and Iowa, they have the most number of wind industrial projects in those states. And, you know, I think we really should pay attention to what those communities are saying about their projects. And did they overbuild? Is it actually being utilized? There was this massive storm we all saw back east. And what they ended up having with their winter storm was not a lot of wind. And so the wind generation on the East Coast was not powering electricity like it was anticipated to do. And thankfully they had other sources for generation of energy to warm people’s homes and businesses. But I think those are, we just really need to pay attention to what we’re relying upon and making sure we have a really good plan in place.
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Well, and we don’t have a good plan in place. And I think with you connecting the dots on this wind wall, it seems to me, Wendy, that these different companies, and many times they’re somewhat connected. I think Repsol, I did some research, and BlackRock is a… shareholder in Repsol, and BlackRock’s a shareholder in many of these different companies that are doing these industrial wind and solar and transmission lines. And so to connect the dots and look into the future about what is going to be happening 35 years down the road to make sure that we protect reclaiming the land when these are decommissioned. It’s really important. And so that is why, you know, interfacing with the electeds is so so important but what we now see though is that these companies are trying to skirt around the electeds if they don’t like the decision and go to for example the wyoming i think it was the land board and that was a heated meeting between the governor and the secretary of state is there any new developments on that they’re going to be having another um
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public meeting for the Wyoming land commissioners this Thursday at eight o’clock. And it’ll be interesting. I know they have a full agenda to talk about several different pieces of business, but it will be interesting that the top five elected in our state, the governor, the treasurer, the secretary of state, the superintendent of education and our state auditor There, I think, have been quite a bit of grumblings about decisions that have been made regarding these type of projects. And the state land trust can override what county local recommendations are for land use. And I think that’s what’s really going to be a topic is, can the state trump the county on these projects? I asked the wind representative the other night to say, why not push these turbines off the ridge adjacent to our properties and take them away from the neighbor’s proximity and push them more onto the state land? Because the revenue generated on the state land is what goes into a land trust fund that helps fund public education in our state. And I said, put as many of those turbines on that land um and don’t hug as close to your neighbor’s properties a thousand feet away is too close too close to be to a neighbor with a 700 foot turbine and then not just one of them but a dozen of them and they were saying well there’s there could be more wildlife impacted in that area according to our studies or it could you know they had all these reasons to say there’s so much more wind that can be harvested on a Ridge There’s plenty of wind in Wyoming that can be harvested. It doesn’t need to be just right on a historic pristine ridge that has, you know, ranching legacy history attached to that area. These are going to be really good conversations, and I hope that our elected officials at a state level and a local level will spend more time really studying it, and then let’s adjust our land use regulations and guidelines accordingly. I just think we’re at such a pivotal stage right now that I hope 40 years from now, you know, the future generations of our family will say, You look back and say, well, you guys were really forward thinking about how you were planning for the future and using the land wisely.
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Well, and we have a responsibility to do this. Now, Susan texted me, and several of our listeners have recommended this television program. I guess it’s Paramount’s program, Landman. which I don’t get around to watching much TV, and I’ve heard the language can be somewhat colorful, so I will try to work through this. But apparently this is Tommy Norris, who’s Billy Bob Thornton in Landman, season one, episode three. It says, do you have any idea how much diesel they have to burn to mix the concrete or make that steel or haul this stuff out here and put it together with a 450-foot crane? You want to guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that thing or winterize it? In its 20-year lifespan, it won’t offset the carbon footprint of making it. And so there’s some – we need to have some real realistic conversations about this. And, Wendy, you mentioned that the footprint to – to secure these wind turbines I think you said that it’s at least the size of a house and that it’s got to be concrete and rebar and the proposal by these companies is that they would just reclaim the top three feet of of the land upon decommissioning in the future not not you know not take care of all of it and that that seems unacceptable to me Wendy
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And I think, you know, the land, I mean, the land is pretty sacred. And to leave these monstrosities either sitting, you know, dormant when a project expires or when they need to decommission it, what they worry about is above ground. But equally as important, I think, is what’s below ground. What have we done to the soil health? And I just can’t, I cannot fathom the size of a house is the foundation that you need to put to stabilize something that’s 700 feet tall. And that’s four times the size of, you know, a lot of, I mean, it’s just. it’s really um these are skyscrapers the size of Denver skyscrapers is the size of these turbines so they have sizable foundations under a skyscraper and that’s exactly what they have underneath a wind turbine so Wendy Volk you are doing a great job getting the information out to your neighbors and your colleagues what’s the next step there’s these meetings coming up what’s the next step yeah i i think what we’re finding is is people are are showing up and i think the one i i try to help is manage people’s expectations is um it’s important at a local level that’s where these projects either need to be stopped or plans need to be revised and you know developed accordingly but when they go to the state level There’s not as much of an opportunity as the public can participate at the live meetings unless you join as a participant. And so I’ve been really trying to educate people about the process when they ask me, I’m going to go and participate. I think it’s just understanding how they can participate. I’m really encouraging people to reach out to your local officials, your county commissioners, city council, and state, you know, leadership to express concerns, raise the questions, ask what the plan is, and are we mitigating all the risks that are associated with something of this magnitude? I think we’ve forgotten how important it is that public engagement.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, and so what you have done, again, and this all began last June when your family received that certified letter, and you have spent a lot of hours to get yourself up to speed on this, Wendy.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you, Kim. And I appreciate the opportunities to be on your show. Other people have reached out to me that are also in the media like Trent Luce. another cohort in helping raise awareness from Nebraska. People have reached out and shared information, and I would encourage that. Share information. Don’t rely on just one source. But I think we’re a lot stronger together in terms of raising the awareness and posing the questions and sharing research so that we can have our state statutes and local statutes reflect responsible development.
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And so, so important. So, Wendy Volk, thank you. We will stay in touch. And this is so important as what we look at what we’re passing on to our next generation. So, Wendy, thank you. We’ll talk again soon. Have a great day. Thank you, Kim. Appreciate it. And these discussions happen because of our sponsors. If you’ve been injured, you’ll want to talk to John Bozen and Bozen Law.
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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. Check out the website for the U.S. MC Memorial Foundation as well. And you can get the information for their upcoming golf tournament, which is right around the corner. It’s in May. So be sure and check that out. That website is U.S. MC Memorial Foundation dot org. great organization to support because we’ve got to remember and honor the stories these men and women that have given their lives for our freedom. And we take it for granted. And it really is under attack at this particular point in time. And it’s our 250th birthday this year. And of course, the father of our country is George Washington. And his birthday is February 22nd. So we are highlighting many things regarding George Washington. And I pulled this from American Heritage, The Miraculous Care of Providence by James Thomas Flexner. It was written back in February, March 1982. And if you look it up, it has this amazing… John Trumbull did a number of beautiful paintings regarding our founders. And this particular one is the Battle of Princeton, and we’ll talk about that in a few days, where he has survived a hail of musket fire before charging after a group of retreating regulars, British regulars. But… I think this is important that we continue to take hope from our history. And I read this in the first hour, but for those of you that didn’t hear it, I think it’s important that we catch it here in the second hour. And it says, upon at least five occasions, when in great danger from gunfire, George Washington remained unscathed. His hat was shot off his head, his clothes were torn, horses were killed beneath him, but the hero was never so much as scratched by a bullet. For this immunity, he thanked Providence. He also wrote himself down as lucky. The problem was never the modern one of attempted assassination, when in the spring of 1791, the first president undertook an official tour through the southern states. He’d never been south of Virginia. Secretary of State Jefferson was, it is true, very worried about his safety. The president planned to travel in a light carriage drawn by four horses, and Jefferson knew that the roads were very bad. The president should lower the hang of his carriage and replace a coachman who sat some distance behind the horses with postulants riding on one of each pair. I think that’ll be our word of the day. I’ve got to figure out how to exactly pronounce that. But anyway, Washington brushed these suggestions aside and had no other worries about his safety, except for servants to attend to the nine horses he took with him. The entourage of the President of the United States embarked on a 1,887-mile journey consisting of only a secretary and a valet. Again, in a wagon, or a carriage, I guess. The close escapes Washington experienced all along belonged to the military part of his career. The first happened when he was 19. A militia officer with important connections and considerable wilderness experience, Washington was appointed official representative of the British Crown to warn French invaders off land claimed by George II. His mission required that he travel from backwoods. So he traveled from Virginia through primeval wilderness to French forts close to Lake Erie and then back again some 500 miles. Moving at the head of his little party to the forts provided it neither particularly arduous nor hazardous. The conference during which the French denied the British claim was carried out with the protocol and courtesy and the problem was that by the time Washington was ready to return, it was midwinter. All water courses were frozen beyond hope of navigation. Along the trail, the legs of Washington’s horses sank deep in snowdrifts to be cut at the ankles by crusts of ice. Progress slowed almost to a standstill and Washington felt urgency in carrying to the Virginia governor warnings of France’s bellicose intentions. Finally, he left the slow-moving cavalcade behind and advanced on foot. Now, think about that. This was also proving torturously slow when an Indian village named Murthington Town, a strange Indian offered to lead him along a shortcut. Despite misgivings, the eager young man agreed. And I’m going to make a comment right there. Whenever you have that feeling in your gut that you have those misgivings, you probably should listen to that, although he was in quite a situation. But anyway, turning off all trails, they advanced through the ice-covered wilderness, which glowed in daytime like a hall of mirrors, but dimly, since the tremendous trees shut out the sun. Suddenly they emerged into a clearing where sunlight dazzled. The Indian ran ahead a few paces, raised his gun, and fired at Washington. The bullet moved through emptiness without changing the history of the world. And so that is the first time that he dodged a bullet. And let’s see here. I wanted to get to a number of these text messages. I had said in the early hour, hour number one, that there are so many that say that we are so divided in our country and that Trump is a divider. Well, I don’t really look back and see Clinton, Biden, Obama as uniters. And I think the thing is, is what do we want to unite around? I think we want to unite around preserving and conserving America and this great American idea. And I mentioned that there are those that want to, and you’re seeing this, this is these organized protests, which is really an insurrection that are happening in these blue cities. And it’s going to be a very dangerous time. And I had found an article, and then I could not re-find it, but it said that there’s nine different cities that are poised to be in very dangerous situations here in 2026. Of course, it’s New York and Chicago, but Denver’s among them as well. And it’s because of the sanctuary policies of this mayor and this governor. And so it’s very difficult to unite with people that want to destroy our country. And this came in from Mark. He said, Absolutely correct. He also says, large and long transmission lines are stupid. 70% of the energy is lost along the way. Solar was supposed to be locally produced on your own house rooftop. Next, this, and on the text line, and that text line is 720-605-0647. This is a very good point. Taking $1,000 per child from working Americans is socialism. I understand the concept, but I think that the implementation is wrong. And yes, this is true. Ideally, what needs to be done is that we lower taxes across the board for everyone. so that parents and grandparents can save for their children. So I think that’s a great point. Going to these wind turbine companies, one of our listeners said that they doubt that they get their money from private investors. Probably a lot of it comes from us, the taxpayers. And it is malinvestment. And with these tax credits that they need to go away because these projects are not economically viable without these tax credits. And so we need to end. And those tax credits where these entities do not have to pay those taxes and these tax credits are transferable, which is crazy as well. And so what happens is many times these companies are selling, getting these tax credits and then selling them at a discount and then taking that cash. And there’s something really wrong with that picture. And that also means that we, the people, have to make up all of those taxes. those taxes and government, oh, this was a headline I just saw. Let’s see if I can find this. And that is that California, and I saw this when I was on city council 2012 to 2016. They were kicking around this idea of a mileage tax, which this is a tax on our freedom of mobility. And California is considering a mileage tax to address their deficit and it would be a mileage tax for both for gas powered vehicles as well as for electric vehicles. Now bear in mind your gas powered vehicles in California are already paying a significant tax at the gas pump and uh let’s see here if I can uh it says um this was an hour ago California is to introduce a mileage tax uh for gas cars and EVs instead of cutting costs in other areas California is going to vote for a new mileage tax which they just continue to go after the middle class in California consistently. It’s so sad what is happening there. And so stay tuned because that will probably be coming to Colorado as well. And, again, that was floated back sometime between 2012, 2016, and there were Republicans that were actually behind that as well. So we’ll have to keep on top of that. Our end of the show quote is from George Washington. He said this, he said, government is not reason. It is not eloquent. It is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they’ve got possession. And when the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter. And that’s George Washington. So, my friends, today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly, 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, and God bless America.
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