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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 each are treasured, you’re valued, 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 Wednesday, producer Joe.
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And that important story is at my website, so you can find that there. as you know we search for truth and clarity on the show by looking at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force force versus freedom something’s a good idea you should not have to force people to do it and it’s never compassionate to take other people’s stuff whether or not it’s their rights their property freedom livelihood opportunity childhoods or lives via force and force can be a weapon but it could be policy unpredictable in excess of tax taxation Fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the agenda of the World Economic Forum and globalist elites. And we’ve seen that played out at the United Nations. We’ve seen it at the state level, Colorado State Legislature, the Colorado governor. But it’s really being doubled down right now at the local and county governments. As one of our listeners, Jenny, said, they are thinking globally. which is antithetical to the American idea of the sanctity of the individual, that all of us are created equal, and we have these unalienable rights from God of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. And the globalist elites agenda is opposite to that. And we are seeing that play out big time right now in our local and our county governments. And I am getting there’s several people that are stepping forward to run for city councils. We’ll talk with Karen Gorday tomorrow. She is also an entrepreneur and. owner of radiant painting and lighting but people are stepping forward so stay tuned we’ll have some other announcements as well but we’ve got to get this stopped at the local and the county level with all of these comprehensive plan rewrites land use codes rewrites zoning regulations all of that and it’s happening right under our noses so that is why it is so important that we shed light on all that is happening. So let’s see. The next thing… Yesterday, Lori Gimmelstein was on. She is the co-founder of CPAN, Colorado Parents Advocacy Network. And she’s doing amazing work. But she said… Through all of this, we must show grace. And I thought, well, gosh, grace would be a great word of the day. It’s spelled G-R-A-C-E, but there is a lot of different definitions. So you should easily be able to use grace in a sentence today. And number one is a noun. It could be an unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification. B, a virtue coming from God. C, a state of sanctification enjoyed through divine assistance. And then number two, A, approval or favor, such as state in his good graces. B could be mercy or pardon. C, a special favor or privilege. This is a quote from Rudyard Kipling, each in his place by right, not grace, shall rule his heritage. And then D in that a disposition to an act or instance of kindness, courtesy or clemency. And E on that a temporary exemption or a reprieve. Number three, it could be a charming or attractive trait or characteristic. And let’s see, it could be, oops, they doubled that one up, a pleasing appearance or effect. John, the quote on this was, all the grace of youth. And then C, ease and suppleness, such as dancing with grace. And then four, it could be used as a title, as reference for a duke, duchess, or archbishop. Number five, it could be a short prayer at a meal asking blessing or giving thanks. And it could be, grace is plural, our three sister goddesses in Greek mythology who are the givers of charm and beauty. And number seven there, a musical trill. Number eight, a sense of propriety or right had the grace not to run for elective office. And that’s a quote by Calvin Trilling. And then 8B, the quality or state of being as considerate or thoughtful. So that’s a lot. And it can be a transitive verb. It could be to confer dignity or honor on. So the king graced him with his rank of knight or two to adorn or embellish. And this is a quote from J.A. Mishner, graveled walks graced with statues. Really, though, grace, I think extending grace to another person, it is foundational in Christianity because of the grace that we receive from God. So I decided to go, I was looking for grace quotes, and I ended up with a quote from John Stott. And he was born in 1921, died in 2011. He was a British Anglican pastor and theologian who was noted as a leader of the worldwide evangelical movement. He was one of the principal authors of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974. And in 2005, Time magazine ranked Stott among the 100 most influential people in the world. And he said this, he said, God does not love us because Christ died for us. Christ died for us because God loved us. And I thought that was just a great quote for the day. Let’s see, let’s get through some of these headlines. And we get to do that because of our sponsors. And one of those is the Harris family. And I thank the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. The first headline that I wanted to hit is, yes, indeed, this is from KUSATV. Governor Polis is expected to announce a special session today, and that will probably commence on the 18th of August. And this is from the article. It says multiple legislative sources confirm with nine news that they expect Governor Jared Polis. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And it says a spokeswoman for Polis said that the governor has not made a final decision regarding a call for the special session or what the topics would be that would be included. And I think it would be nice if he would let us know that earlier, sooner versus later. But I think it’s also a strategy as they are doing all this. Next, Vibrant Denver. I don’t know where they think all this money is going to come from. But it says, and this is from CBS Denver. It says, on November 4th, voters in Denver will decide on a $950 million bond proposal to revamp portions of the city. The Denver City Council unanimously approved the proposal that allocates that money to 60 projects throughout the city. And as Jason Bailey would say, and I agree, no new debt. I would encourage the voters of Denver to say no to this. And again, I cannot believe it, $950 million. So we’ve got a billion dollars over at the state. Now Denver is asking for almost a billion dollars in new taxes. This is not sustainable. And the answer has to be no on that. Next thing, then the war on cars continues in Denver. This is from the Denver Gazette. It says Denver ditches minimum vehicle parking requirements. What happens then is, first of all, it’s so inconvenient for people that would be living in these apartment buildings today. to have to try to find parking. So then that spills over into the neighborhoods really and affects the neighborhoods as well. And I think those that have the war on cars realize that. And the plan that they have is that people live in these teeny tiny apartments and they ride around on buses and bicycles and walk instead of having the freedom of mobility with their own personal vehicle. And the Colorado vibe used to be that, gosh, I’d live in Colorado and on the weekends I’d go skiing or I’d go to the mountains and I’d hike. How are you going to get up there? How’s that going to happen? So ultimately, this war on cars is a war on freedom. And so the report on this is the Denver City Council repealed the city’s minimum vehicle parking requirements on Monday, opening the door for builders and developers to take on new projects without having to incorporate parking spaces during the planning stages. It was a 9-3 vote on this, and it says parking requirements for all types of land used will be abolished, including projects like the city’s forthcoming new soccer stadium. And it says most speakers at the late-night public hearing on Monday supported the measure, arguing the move will benefit the environment, spur more affordable housing, and reduce urban sprawl. And so let me just re-mention that. It’s going to take away the freedom of mobility. It is going to spur more government housing. And it’s going to reduce single-family home ownership, which is a way that people have been able to create wealth for many, many years. The next headline that I wanted to hit is, this is from… news week. And it is that RFK Jr. makes a major vaccine announcement. It says the Department of Health and Human Services will end funding and cancel contracts for a series of mRNA-based vaccines aimed at preventing major respiratory illnesses, Department Secretary Robert F. Kennedy announced on Tuesday. HHS will pull a total of $500 million in funding for the vaccines and says why it matters. 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Good morning, Madam Patriot. How are you today?
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Well, I am doing well. And, Cut, I have actually been a little bit out of pocket the last couple of weeks. Today is the day that I am going to take all of the great work that you’ve all done, and we’re going to be getting our ratings report out very soon on the Colorado State legislators from this last legislative session. And we also wanted to be able to comment on this upcoming session special session as well. It looks like the governor is going to call that today, Steve.
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Okay. Well, listen, Kim, first I want to take a moment of personal privilege because you have been so good about giving recognition to others. I want to take a moment and give some recognition to you. Your listeners may not know exactly how much you’re involved in. In addition to putting on this show for content and staying engaged with your advertisers, You oversee CUT. You oversee some activities with military and the veterans. And you are just a whirling dervish of activity on the patriot front. So thank you for all that you do.
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Thank you, Steve. I appreciate that. And I want to say thank you to our team, the other board members. And that’s you, obviously, and Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen. Raimi Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onizorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. And when we meet, I really feel that it is in the spirit of our founding fathers as we kick the tires on these issues and look at them through the lens of what is best for the taxpayer. And all of us are taxpayers. And this country was founded on people that were frustrated with overtaxation, Steve Dorman.
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Absolutely. And, you know, every special interest in the state has a lobbyist or two or 10 down at the state legislature. And who does not have one is the taxpayer. Well, actually, you do have a lobbyist and that’s the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. We are down lobbying on your behalf, whether you are a paying member or not, which brings me to. paying members. We have some, and we could use some more. People can go to our website, coloradotaxpayer.org, and you’ll find a donate button on there, and you can join in with fellow citizens and be an active participant in A body that wishes to control you from the time you get up to the time you go to sleep. They want to control you. They want more and more and more of your money. Their appetite for your money is insatiable. We need the help.
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Well, and we really do. So we will be watching this special session as well. This is going to be super interesting because in the first segment of this hour, I mentioned that the Colorado state budget is a billion dollars out of whack. And it would really be great if they just lowered the spending by a billion dollars. So it’s going to be interesting what happens with that. And then Denver is going to be asking for $950 million in new debt from the taxpayers. And the taxpayers have to pay that off. That’s a lot of money right there. And that doesn’t even include the school districts and the fire districts and all the fees. As you see, it’s insatiable. Steve Dorman, and yes, we would love to have people join us at coloradotaxpayer.org. Now, Steve Dorman, you also wear another hat, and I want to give a shout-out to another group that does excellent work, and that is Liberty Scorecard. So tell us just a little bit about that, because you, Sue Moore, that whole team is doing great work watching legislation down at the Statehouse from a Liberty perspective. which is very – it aligns closely. We look at things a little differently with our mission statements, but we both are really looking out for the individual, which, you know, that’s the basis of America, that we’re all created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. So what about Liberty Scorecard?
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Well, you’re exactly right, Kim. We cut and Liberty Scorecard – perform the same function, but we do it with different focus. At CUT, we are focused on fiscal matters, money, taxes. Liberty Scorecard, we have a worksheet that we use based on limited government, based on individual rights and free markets. So CUT, we’re taxes and a heavy emphasis on TABOR and heavy emphasis on choice in education.
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And property rights, that’s our other thing. And all those, again, all those are so connected. So there’s a lot happening here in Colorado. But you also watch what’s happening on the national level. And this is pretty interesting regarding the whole Russiagate thing and Tulsi Gabbard. And so I wanted to ask you what your perspective is about that.
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You know, when I first mentioned to you about the disclosures from Tulsi Gabbard, I wanted to just go through it chronologically. And reading up on it is such a tangled web. It’s where do you start? Where do you begin to unravel this thing? So I’ll try and do it best I can. First, I knew of it was in April of 2016. And that’s when a man from Fusion GPS named Glenn Simpson. Glenn Simpson is a founder of Fusion GPS. And Glenn Simpson and Fusion GPS were hired by the law firm of Perkins Coie. Now, Perkins Coie happens to be the Democrat National Committee’s law firm. And let me just connect it.
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Let me let me just connect the dot as well is as I’m also doing election work. Chris Beale, I think it was, who was the Deputy Secretary of State here in Colorado, left the office and he was overseer with Jenna Griswold when the bios passwords were on the website. But the gentleman that has come in to take his place as Deputy Secretary of State, this is as of a few months ago, I haven’t checked recently, comes from that same law firm from Perkins Coie, as you mentioned. So I thought, let’s connect that dot and let people know that they’re here, right here in Colorado.
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Oh, I’ll be darned. I did not know any of that. So thanks for the point of clarification. But anyway, the Christopher Steele from Fusion GPS, he went to London and met with Christopher… I misspoke. Glenn Simpson went to London to meet with Christopher Steele. Christopher Steele is a retired… British spy, okay? And his instructions to Christopher Steele were to dig up dirt on Donald Trump. What is not known is exactly how those instructions were given. Were they given as find what you can, or were they given as find what you can and add what you can’t find? That’s what’s not known. So then… They hired Bruce Orr’s wife, Nellie Orr. Bruce Orr was a high-ranking Department of Justice official. Okay? So after Tulsi released that, then Chuck Grassley released the 2018 Horowitz report. Horowitz was an inspector general. Now, an inspector general’s job is an internal watchdog. What they discovered there is quite troubling. The FBI under Comey, they intentionally ignored evidence. The FBI had five thumb drives containing Obama emails, and then they had multiple meetings about what to do with these. You would think if you’ve got these Thumb drives with emails, you’d look at them. But no, they had meetings after meetings, what to do with them. And the ultimate decision was don’t open them. In that meeting was the FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and also this is White House counsel was sitting there, a guy named Neil Eggleston. White House counsel sitting in on an FBI meeting wherein the subject of White House emails was being discussed. That seems pretty out of bounds to me. Okay, so we move forward. There’s a lot of speculation that it doesn’t matter because the statute of limitations has probably run out on any and all crimes. Okay. Obama directed James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper to reach stronger, different conclusions than investigators had reached. Investigators had reached a conclusion, there’s nothing here. Hillary is suspected to be involved. But anyway, John Ratcliffe, who was a former CIA director – said that he does not think the statute of limitations has expired because the conspiracy is ongoing. All right?
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All right, I’m reading through my notes. An Obama spokesman, he replied to all of these accusations that says, paraphrasing, nothing in Tulsi’s document undercut’s wildly accepted conclusion that Russia did work to interfere in the 2016 elections. Well, nobody’s ever disputed that. Russia did work. I think they spent $150,000 on Facebook ads, but that’s not the point. What Trump was being accused of was colluding with the Russians, and there’s zero evidence of that. So that’s just a thumbnail of what I’ve been able to find, that there was emails sent, that the FBI intentionally covered up evidence, and here we are.
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Well, I think, Steve, thank you for connecting those dots. That’s a lot of names. And it is, as you mentioned, it is quite a web. But I think something historic is happening and is going to happen. And Colorado, I think there’s going to be some good news here in Colorado soon, I think, as well. And it’s happening because there’s so many good people that are stepping forward and doing the research and shedding light on things and searching for truth. So I really appreciate that. And Steve, just one more advertisement. What is our website so that people can join us and support us? We are all volunteers and call us crazy. We also pay our dues so that we can do all this volunteer work. But we think it is so important in the spirit of our American founding.
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Well, Kim, that website is coloradotaxpayer, and it’s not plural. It’s not taxpayers. It’s one word, singular, coloradotaxpayer.org. Go ahead. Yeah, we have some expenses. We use some software that has cut our volunteer time. Mine personally was about… three to five hours a week reading bills. And this has cut it back to two to four hours a week. So we have that expense. We have some administrative expenses. We have mailing expenses. And if you’re not, if you have paid and are not receiving our weekly emails, if you’re not receiving our annual published report, it’s because you may have joined and didn’t give us your contact information. So if you’re a paid member and not receiving those communications, please go to our website, which is coloradotaxpayer.org. Send us a note. Give us your contact information if you’re not getting that which you are due.
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Okay, and definitely, and that’s coloradotaxpayer.org. Steve Dorman, thank you for all the great work that you do for the people of Colorado.
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And back at you, Kim. Thank you, too.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out the USMC Memorial Foundation. They are going to be celebrating the 48th anniversary of the Marine Memorial, which is located right here in Golden, Colorado at 6th and Colfax. That will be on August 23rd, which is right around the corner, and it’s going to be a great evening. So go to USMCMemorialFoundation.org for more information and to buy your tickets. On the line with me is Daniel Turner. He is the founder and executive director of Power the Future. Daniel Turner, welcome to the show.
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Tim, always great to be on with you. Thank you so much for having me back.
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Well, you are all over the place on national news, local news, and things have changed from the first time you were a guest on the show, which was back during the Biden administration. Things are different now. There’s a new sheriff in town, isn’t there?
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Boy, there really is when it comes to energy and environmental issues. And we all see President Trump’s executive orders on energy, on oil, gas, coal, nuclear, on mining. And that’s dynamic, and there’s a ton to talk about. What I think is also really interesting is how the climate movement itself – seems to have lost a lot of its steam. And I do think fatigue kicked in. I think you can only play Chicken Little for so many years before people stop believing you. I think it’s seasonal. I don’t know about lovely Colorado Springs where you are, but here in Virginia we had a very hot July. Well, no, we had a July. It was hot. It wasn’t crazy. It was just normal hot July in Virginia. But the last two weeks have been absurdly cool. And climate – it’s hard to protest climate change when you’re not hot and sweaty, right? It’s hard to protest climate change when there aren’t a ton of hurricanes. And thank God there haven’t been a lot of hurricanes this season. I don’t know why. Meteorologists don’t know why, but there haven’t. The climate movement itself – seems to not be what it was a couple of years ago. And there are multiple reasons, great conversation and things to think about. But ultimately, I think it’s just because truth prevailed and people realized that the climate hysteria was one gigantic lie that was forcing them to compromise their property, their rights, their freedom, and people have pushed back.
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Well, here in Colorado, Daniel, we have a governor and Colorado state legislature that are being controlled by the radical activist Democrats. And I want to make a point. Those Democrats are not the Democrats of JFK or your grandpa and your grandma. These are radical activists that want to totally control your lives. And one of the ways they’ve done that is through the climate narrative. And I had Steve Dorman on, a fellow board member on the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And even this last legislative session, we continued to see pieces of legislation that were based on this climate narrative. And this is a point I want to mention our documentary, which is the project of Walt Johnson, a climate conversation. We did that about three years ago. And Walt just wanted to have an honest conversation about this whole narrative. And he was really ahead of his time, I think. on that. It’s been on Newsmax, a whole bunch. And then we did this great podcast series. And you were one of our guests for that podcast series as well, Daniel, a great interview. And people can find that at climateconversation.com.
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Well, thank you. And it’s an amazing documentary, and I encourage everyone to watch it. And you were ahead of your time. You were three years ahead of the national conversation of people saying, I don’t know if I believe all this climate stuff, right? I don’t know if I believe that if I have to give up my gas-powered car, that that’s going to save the environment. And yet you look at what India does, what China does, what Russia does. And you say, well, why do I have to sacrifice it? Why do we have to have exuberantly high prices for food, for electricity, for utilities, when the rest of the world or many other countries in the world just ignore these edicts that come out of the Paris Climate Accords? Or why does John Kerry get to always be on a private jet? Why does Leonardo DiCaprio – I put this on my social media not long ago – photos of him, you know, the paparazzi taking photos of him on a yacht in San Tropez. The amount of diesel that his yacht burns every day is larger than the equivalent amount of gallons of gas you would burn In months of the average American, months and months, why does Leo, who tells us all about climate change, get to have such a great life? Because he’s rich? Because he’s famous? So the climate narrative is unraveling, and your documentary was well ahead of the curve and, quite frankly, helped push the conversation on the right directly, and you all deserve credit for that.
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Well, and Walt and Ramey Johnson, they took money out of their retirement plan to do that because they thought it was so important. But with that, Daniel, there is still a war on cars. And we have it front and center. In fact, the Denver City Council… just voted to no longer have minimum parking spot requirements for new construction. This war on cars is really a war on the freedom of mobility for people to go where they want to, when they want to. It’s a war on people having employment options because people may be able to thrive and flourish if they can go to a job that may not be on a light rail or bus line. What do you think about this war on cars?
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It’s an important point, and it’s one of the main reasons why I would never buy an EV. And I believe in freedom. If you want to buy an EV that makes sense for you and your lifestyle, go right ahead. I’m not going to try to prevent you from buying one. But the larger EV conversation for me is a conversation about freedom and freedom of mobility. If you work in downtown Denver and you live in the suburbs and you do the same commute five days a week, and you have a charging station at your house and a charging station at work, okay, if you want to get an EV, I don’t really care. But what if you decide to change jobs and you head in a new direction and they don’t have charging stations or there isn’t a charging station along the way? What do you do now? What if you decide at the last minute, I want to go see grandma? Do you have enough electricity in your car? The problem overall at the 30,000-foot level is that The fuel for our vehicles, which is our autonomy and our mobility, is storable, and it is very inexpensive, and it’s incredibly abundant. Obviously, I’m talking about gas. The fuel for your EV is none of those things. It is not storable, and it is not readily abundant, and it’s also not very inexpensive. And that puts you at the mercy of the fuel suppliers. And in that case, the fuel supplier is the utility, which is a quasi-government entity. You’re at the mercy of someone putting in a charging station, which is the government. I don’t want to be at anyone’s mercy for my movement and my autonomy. The environmental left will always point to China and say, China leads the world in EVs, and they do, per capita. China, it is by far the most common vehicle in China. But China has two main reasons why they push EVs. They don’t have a domestic supply of oil, and we do. Colorado has enough oil for the entire nation, quite frankly. So they don’t have a gas supply and that’s bad for China, good for us. And secondly, They can shut people out of their car if they don’t like what you’re doing. If Kim Monson is Chinese and we don’t like what she put on social media and she tries to go to work tomorrow, her car just won’t start. Her EV won’t kick in because they can control you. They can control your movement. If Kim Monson is Chinese and she has the car going to a pro-life rally – again, these are all examples – and we don’t want people attending that pro-life rally, we can shut off her car. Now she can’t go to the rally, right? If Kim Monson’s going to her grandmother’s house and we think her grandmother is a pro-democracy activist, her car won’t go, right? Or we know what she did. And that’s why China loves EVs. They love it for fuel reasons because they don’t have gas, no oil to make a gas, but they love it for control reasons. And that second reason, that control, that monitoring activity and deciding whether or not you have mobility agency, that should scare the heck out of every single American. And I do not want that in my lifestyle, and I will never voluntarily invite it in.
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Well, this is an important discussion, and I want to just leave that out there. I’m going to ask a question when we come back, and that’s regarding smart meters. We’ve got real movement by Xcel Energy to put smart meters in Colorado, and I want to know if that’s happening in Virginia. So we’ll ask that question of Daniel Turner first. When we come back, these discussions are really, really important, and they happen because of our sponsors. And for everything mortgages, Lauren Levy can help you.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That’s KimMonson.com. I am talking with Daniel Turner. He is the founder and executive director of Power the Future. And I love this cliffhanger, Daniel Turner, and that is these smart meters that Excel is just putting on people’s homes. You have to opt out. of it. And I’ve even heard of people opting out and yet Xcel has put them on and it’s where they can control, they can know exactly in your home where you are using your electric power. And then also they can charge you more at different parts of the day. And I guess you can at this point opt out of that. I don’t think that’ll continue for much longer, but what’s your thoughts about smart meters? Do you have them in Virginia?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I would never get one. The utility company is always offering to install one and give you a $20 gift card, and people fall for it. But I tell people all the time, do not do it. Actually, I just had to have – sadly, my old farmhouse needed a new HVAC system. This year, that was a pretty penny. Yes. And when they had it installed, they gave us new digital thermostats. And when we got to the point of the gentleman saying, OK, now let’s connect to the Internet. I was like, just please turn all of that off. I am never connecting this thing to the Internet. I’m never connecting. And he tried to convince me. But, you know, you’re in bed. You can just use your phone. And so can the government. And I know that makes me sound crazy, but your issue in Colorado has gotten a lot of national activity. We’ve talked about it a lot at Power the Future. And what the power companies do is they’re bridging to the point now that when the governor says, hey, we’re in a heat wave or we’re in an energy crisis, I need everyone to turn their thermostat to X. If you don’t comply, they’ll just do it for you. If they can determine that you’re not in your house because you’re working, but you leave your thermostat at 75 degrees and they say you should raise it to 85 degrees, they can charge you additional. They are doing this because we are in an energy crisis. That’s why President Trump declared one. We do not produce enough electricity in America for how much we consume. It’s why everyone’s prices are 30 and 40 percent higher. And the only way, as people know, the basic laws of supply and demand, the only way for the grid to survive is to raise prices. And they will do it against your will. And so, no, never get a smart meter. If you have one that you think it’s cool because it’s connected to your phone, I would encourage everyone to just turn the Internet off them. Again, I think you’re inviting control into your life. And that’s where governors and power companies want to go because they need to control you because they do not do their job properly. They don’t build roads properly, so they need to control how many cars are on them. And that’s why they have fines and why they have speed cameras and why they have congestion pricing in my native New York City. They don’t produce enough electricity. And so that is why they have to punish you for using more than they think you should be able. So no smart meter, never, never, never, never.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and Daniel Turner, the issues that you have just mentioned is because of public policy. Because I believe that Americans, and I know that you do as well, the people that feed and fuel us of rural America, which is why you founded Power the Future, with creativity, innovation, and hard work, we can address all these challenges. But if we address these challenges and solve these problems, then they no longer have control. And that’s why they don’t want to do that. So I did want to make sure that the issue that I thought that we could talk about, because this is fascinating, but you had done a recent piece and you’ve been all over national news regarding Trump’s deal on energy and the EU. Now, if we don’t have enough energy here, is it smart for him to be exporting energy? Tell us what’s your thoughts on that.
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Yeah, I should have been clearer because sometimes I use energy in a pretty vague sense. We don’t produce enough electricity. We have plenty of oil and gas and coal and all of the resources for nuclear and even resources for geothermal and hydro energy. We don’t build the necessary facilities. And obviously, when it comes to fossil fuels, you have governments that are actively trying to shut them down. We shouldn’t have an energy crisis because we are genuinely blessed. I mean, God has loved this country and the soil below our feet and has blessed it with tremendous resources. The scarcity doesn’t come from nature or it doesn’t come from human American hard work. The scarcity comes from socialism, as socialism always breeds scarcity. So we have plenty of energy, raw energy. What we don’t have is enough electricity to produce from that energy. But we do have enough to give to our allies. And I think that’s why this plan of President Trump to kind of force the hands of the European Union and compel them to buy more American energy is important. One, because it’s good for our energy, oil, and gas producers. It’s good for our coal producers. More markets is always a good thing when you are producing a commodity. But two, it will compel Europe to stop buying it from Russia. And the same people who tell us about the war in Ukraine and how we have to end it are also the same people who normally support policies that have made Vladimir Putin very, very rich. Despite the oil and gas embargo, when the war started, Putin never stopped selling oil and gas. In fact, he sold more than ever before. He just used third-party mediaries. Russia would sell to the South Koreans. They would sell to the Turks. They would sell to the Egyptians. And then those countries would sell to Italy, France, and Germany, and Spain, and Portugal at an upcharge. And so if Europe doesn’t stop buying Russian energy, Russian threat is never going to disappear. So President Trump has a twofold purpose here. Make America rich and make Putin poor. And that is good for world peace.
SPEAKER 17 :
That is good for world peace. I did see a headline that there is a refinery that’s being closed in, I think, the UK. Also, I saw there’s a refinery that I think is being closed in California. And again, this is a public policy thing, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
It is. And California already pays the nation’s highest for gas, minus Hawaii. But remember, Hawaii is an island in the middle of the Pacific, and it’s very hard to get gas. oil and refined oil and gas to that island. And it’s expensive. So Hawaiians know that their gas is expensive and they’re kind of accustomed to it. California used to have amongst the cheapest gas, but multiple refineries have closed in California because of policies that Gavin Newsom has pushed that have driven them out. And when you pass policies – and sadly, Colorado is headed in this direction too – when you pass policies that compel people – Out of the state, businesses will leave the state. I don’t want to have to sell my ranch or my oil rights or my mineral rights in Colorado, but if Jared Polis continues to make it so difficult to work, I’ll leave. And Coloradans will eventually, and businesses will leave the state. And then who fills those voids? Sadly, you get a lot of what you see on the streets of New York, the streets of D.C., and the streets of Denver. That’s who fills those voids. So California is making all of its own errors deliberately, and he celebrates it. Gavin Newsom celebrates the direction California is going in. They pay 40% more for electricity. They pay almost $3 more per gallon for gas. They have hemorrhaged hundreds of thousands of people. 500 major corporations have left the state. Most of them have gone to Texas. And this is the man they think is going to be president in twenty twenty nine. Why? Why would anyone give him a promotion when his state, let alone the fires, let alone the crime, let alone the sanctuary cities, let alone the attacks on culture and life and family? Who in the heck would look at Gavin Newsom and say, yep, that’s what I want is California. Even Californians don’t want Californians.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and Colorado, with Jared Polis, is not far behind. And Jared Polis’ ear to the ground is that he would like at some point in time to run for president as well. So all the things you just said about Gavin Newsom, I think you could say pretty much about Jared Polis as well, Daniel Turner. We’ve got about 30 seconds. How can people get more information about you, power the future, support you? You’re doing great work.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you, as are you, and you’re a voice for your wonderful state and for rural America, and we so appreciate it. Powerofthefuture.com, or if people want to ask me a question or have any concerns, shoot me an email, danielatpowerofthefuture.com. I love hearing from folks, and I love being on your show, Kim, so thank you so much.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, love having you as well, Daniel Turner. Greatly appreciate it, and we’ll get you back again soon, and keep up the great work, and I thank you so much.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you. God bless.
SPEAKER 17 :
God bless you as well. And our quote for the end of the show is from John Stott. He said this, Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love. And so, my friends, be grateful. Read great books. Think good thoughts. Listen to beautiful music. Communicate and listen well. Live honestly and authentically. Strive for high ideals and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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Indeed. Welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson Show. And thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured and 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. And 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 Wednesday, producer Joe. Happy Wednesday, Kim. And our number one, we’ll rebroadcast today, one to two in the afternoon on all KLC platforms. And really a great conversation, both with Steve Dorman, my fellow Cutboard member, and the founder and executive director of Power of the Future. And that is Daniel Turner. I did want to mention the Center for American Values. And Drew Dix, co-founder of the center, has started a new podcast series. And they publish it every Wednesday. And the one that just got published is Democratic Republic or Socialist Republic. So I’ve got to make sure that I listen to that a little bit later today or sometime this week. But you can get that by going to their website, which is AmericanValueCenter.org. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org. Our word of the day is grace. And I chose that because yesterday when I was talking with Lori Gimmelstein, who is a co-founder of CPAN, which is the Colorado Parents Advocacy Network, she said in this time that we’re living in, there are those, and I’m going to paraphrase what I think that we were really talking about, there are those radical activists who that are really bent with, I think, an evil agenda. And there are those. And then there are those that have been duped, perhaps, and have been trying to do the right thing. So the whole radical activist transgender agenda has been sold to people as being tolerant and being kind. And then as that has happened, there are people that have thought that that is what they were doing. And those seem to be like noble things that people would want to do, to be tolerant of others and also to be kind. But when we become tolerant of evil agendas, That is a real problem. And so we have to realize that there are those that have been duped and extend grace, but speak truth to what is happening there. And that’s what we try to do on the show is to speak truth and realize that yet we need to have grace towards others as well. So the word of the day is grace, and it has a lot of different meanings. So I’m just going to run some through some of them because we went through almost all of them in our number one. It could be an unmerited divine assistance given to humans as a virtue coming from God. It could be approval, favor, mercy, pardon, kindness, courtesy, clemency. It could be a charming characteristic or trait. It could be grace as in moving gracefully. It could be a title as your grace. It could be a short prayer before a meal. That could be grace. It could also, as a transitive verb, could be to, for example, to confer dignity or honor. The king graced him with the rank of knight or adorn or embellish as graced with statues. But the word grace, your challenge is to use that in a word differently. or in a sentence today. And so with that, I was looking for grace quotes. And I ended up with a quote from John Stott, who was born in 1921. He died in 2011. He was a British Anglican pastor and was a leader of the worldwide evangelical movement. He said this, God does not love us because Christ died for us. Christ died for us because God loved us. And I thought that that was just a great quote for grace. And it is Wednesday, so that means we get an update from Lorne Levy, who is everything mortgages. He works with different companies, so that means there’s lots of different options. He can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York. Lorne Levy, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hey, good morning, Kim.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I mentioned a headline yesterday that apparently there’s been some of the Federal Reserve. Are they called governors? Is that what they are?
SPEAKER 03 :
There’s a couple of different kinds of them. There’s governors and then there’s like bank presidents or whatever, regional presidents.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. And is it the governors that vote on the interest rates?
SPEAKER 03 :
There’s there’s 12 voting members and they kind of rotate around on one year terms. And, you know, and some of them are governors. I think eight of them and then four are like rotating presidents to make up 12 along with the chairman is one of them. So, yeah, they have different names, but there’s 12 that vote every time.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, well, it was in the headlines that there were two of those that vote that had broken ranks and become public that they think interest rates should come down. So what’s your thought? And this hasn’t happened since 1993. So what’s your thoughts about that? Is this considered a brouhaha at the Fed?
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, they asked, when you watch the Fed… You know, there’s two components to their announcement every time they have a meeting, and that’s why we usually move our calls to the next day because it’s not only when they announce their actions, but then he takes questions after. And, you know, they asked him that about the two dissenters they’re called. And he said, Powell said it was great. He said that’s what’s supposed to happen. You know, there’s 12 people that are supposed to have their own opinion. And as long as they back that opinion by their own data and research and thoughtful consideration, he loves it, you know. So he actually said it was one of the best meetings that they thought they had had since he’s been Fed chairman because everyone had given proper consideration and thoughtfulness to their stance, you know. And he’s like, we’re a committee. We’re supposed to not just be rubber stamp stuff. We’re supposed to have opinions. So according to Powell, he thought it was great. So there were two. And then there was another woman that recently resigned or is resigning until when Trump replaces her. So we’ll see what happens with that. But I think the tide is turning a little bit. And I do think now, you know, the next meeting is September, and then there’s definitely one in December. There might be one in November. I’m not sure. I think you might see something happen in the fall with a cut. I heard something yesterday that was interesting. It was just someone’s opinion. And their opinion was that they thought when Powell decides to cut, the reason he’s waiting so long is he doesn’t want to just cut once just to appease someone. He wants to, when he starts to cut, make it a series of cuts, you know, maybe several meetings in a row with a cut. And he’s not ready to do that yet, but he doesn’t want to just do one just to make everybody happy. Here’s your one and then not cut anymore. They thought when he does start to cut that it would start to be meaningful. So that was some food for thought. But that’s just an opinion. It doesn’t mean it will happen.
SPEAKER 17 :
So, Lauren, I find it interesting that Powell would say, oh, this is good that we’re having a conversation, that we have some people that have looked at their data and it’s different. Does that mean, and probably hard to know, but does that mean since 1993 that they have rubber stamped all 12 of these people that make decisions? Have they normally been unanimous or do we not know or what?
SPEAKER 03 :
I don’t know if it’s since 1993 that they’ve been unanimous or, more importantly, that they haven’t gone public with their dissent. Because usually that was even coming up before. All the people that vote have a window where I think it’s like two weeks before their meeting they can’t speak publicly. And so they give their opinions before and then… after when they interview Powell, he’ll say, look, I’m sure some of our people will come out and tell you what they were thinking. And so I’m not sure if it’s the public dissent that’s rare. I’m sure there’s people that haven’t agreed with the vote every time, you know, but maybe they just keep it to themselves or they don’t release who it is. Where in this case, it was definitely two people and, and, you know, it made it political because it just happened to be two people that had been appointed under Trump, you know? So it was just furthering the politicalness of it. But, No, I would be surprised if it’s unanimous every time.
SPEAKER 17 :
Sure. Okay, that’s good perspective on that. Then lastly, then there should be opportunity for people that might be in mortgages or people that there’s a lot of inventory out there for a new home. And so giving you a call, preparing for what might be coming down the pike, I think would be great advice.
SPEAKER 03 :
I agree. And actually, we talk all the time about the 10-year treasury. I refer to it all the time. This past week, we’ve seen the 10-year treasury dip down to the low 420s, which was the lowest it’s been in three months. So we’re starting to see opportunity not only for buyers. And so I had a client yesterday who made a bid on a house that had to be in at 1 p.m., and they found out at 4 p.m. there was three offers, and they won. So it was a multiple-offer situation. But things can pick up quickly, especially when rates dip. And so it might be an opportunity for people even this week. We’re starting to look at some possible refinances for folks that have purchased, you know, over a year ago to see if we can get them a little bit of relief. So you always want to be prepared and be in contact to take advantage of when an opportunity does show itself because it can happen quickly and it can go away relatively quickly as well.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. So what’s that phone number to reach you, Lorne Levy?
SPEAKER 03 :
The best thing is always just call 303-880-8881.
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That’s Lauren Levy, Everything Mortgages. And don’t procrastinate. Give them a call. 303-880-8881. Lauren, thanks so much. We’ll talk with you next week.
SPEAKER 03 :
You got it. Thanks, Kim.
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Time’s flying. Before you know it, Kim, it’s going to be August.
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Can you believe how fast time goes? It’s crazy. So how’s the corn crop look out there in Nebraska? Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 08 :
Why do you ask me that?
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Just because, what is it? They say knee-high by 4th of July. Yeah, we made it.
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We made it. We barely made it. We got there. It’s tasseling by the 4th of July. So I did a video, a short video from a cornfield. Well, two weeks in a row I’ve done short videos from cornfields. And I’ve driven in the last 30 days, well, let’s just say last 45 days, comfortably 8,000 miles. And I, in my lifetime, and I’m having other people tell me in their lifetime, they have never seen from the road… a potential yield, and a crop of corn and soybeans like we’re fixing to do in 2025. And my common phrase of the year has been, it’s been the quietest summer I’ve experienced in Nebraska. And what I mean by that is, to the south of me, I’ve got an entire section of corn that’s got center pivots running, and those diesel engines run, and they just make a lot of noise. They’ve not been running. We’ve had… Over our average rainfall in the last 45 days, we’re normal 21 inches. We’re topside of 25. And all of that means that the corn and soybean crops are going to be absolutely incredible.
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Well, and I’m going to knock on wood because as you know, as farmers, you’re always at the mercy of nature and storms can always come through. So I’m knocking on wood and praying that you don’t have those devastating storms that can come through. I guess I clearly am a farmer’s daughter on that because I realized that. So let’s talk. We have not gotten to this issue. And there are many things. I had Daniel Turner on in hour number one regarding energy. He’s really happy with what’s happening with the Trump administration and energy policy. I’m going to have General Joe Arbuckle on tomorrow. He’s excited with what’s going on in the military area. But you’re a little frustrated with immigration policy, and I want to talk a little bit about that because you have some real frustration with that, Trent.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, I’m not frustrated with immigration policy. I wish we would enforce the immigration laws that we’ve had on the books forever. That’s the only policy problem that we have. What I’m concerned about is that we are creating a – a very unsettled workforce and I don’t generate this. I don’t go looking for it. And then the past week I had more business owners and farmers tell me that they’re struggling with labor like never before because people are just nervous and they’re not showing up and it’s causing a problem.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. So are they not showing up because they are here illegally or what?
SPEAKER 08 :
We had JBS Swift, uh, tell 100 employees last week their work visas, their legal work visas are being revoked by the Trump administration and they have to go back to where they came from. This is an Oskaloosa, Iowa plant. 100 legal workers been working at JBS for quite some time. They got to go home. Why? No answer. They’re just They fit the stereotype of where they should not be here working. And that is happening. I’m just giving a little microcosm of what I see. And the bigger picture is this is going to lead to a very widespread labor issue like we have never seen before.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, so I’m trying to understand this because clearly we, so you’re saying these people have legal visas. Were these possibly people that came in under the Biden administration and, you know, they fast-tracked? My understanding is that they fast-tracked visas for people to get them in the country before Trump began his second term. Are these people that have worked at JBS for a long time? Do we know the answer to that?
SPEAKER 08 :
No, I don’t know the answer to that question. And I’m not familiar with one case of where the fast-tracking of immigration into the United States illegally that Biden facilitated and just may happen on a regular basis. I don’t know one person who was given a work visa in that process. I think they were all just illegally brought in here. They were incentivized. They were given money. They were given phones. They were given housing. I never heard anybody get a job.
SPEAKER 01 :
These are –
SPEAKER 08 :
Day in and day out, problems have been people who have been here. And I’ll just use my buddy Hank Vogler as an example. He’s been using immigrant laborers, H-2A workers, through the Department of Labor for 27 years. And they are threatening to take his away from him right now. They still are saying they’re going to remove his legal H-2A workers from him. Some of them have been there for 20-plus years. They go home, they do their time at home, and then they come back and fulfill their contract here, and they are literally going to take them away. And another interesting development in terms of labor that I stumbled on this week is I don’t know how many people are familiar with corn detasseling. Did you detassel when you were a kid, Kim?
SPEAKER 17 :
No, I did not.
SPEAKER 08 :
But you’re familiar with the process?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I am not sure I am. Tell me.
SPEAKER 08 :
So in the genetic selection and producing of… seed corn, which is corn that people buy. And the seed corn suppliers, honestly, we only have a few, a handful of American-owned seed corn companies anymore, which again speaks to the problem. Obviously, the one everybody knows the most about probably is Bayer, who purchased Monsanto. But there’s Pioneer, which still has some American ownership. And then Syngenta, which obviously gets a lot of attention in today’s world because of a supposed Chinese investment. That’s not my topic for today. My topic for today is that these seed corn companies have had, they have to detassel the corn while it’s growing. And that detasseling is right now finishing up. And what that amounts to is they plant a field of corn, they go through and remove the tassels from the certain male plants that they do not want to pollinate the crop. They leave a row of males that they want to pollinate the rest of the crop. And that’s how hybrids were created. So we have hybrid corn, which is more intense or more rigorous and a better yield. And so for years, in fact, I never participated, but my wife as a teenager, detested corn, two of our daughters detested corn, and they have really worked with teenagers who come in early in the morning, they walk through, they got project leaders and teenagers being 14 and up, they do not hire anybody below. But in rural areas, detasseling corn has been great money for teenagers in a short period of time, work for 30 days and get paid quite a bit of money. And in 2002, there were 100,000 teenagers detasseling corn. So all of that is the setup this week. I was driving home from Oahu, Nebraska, and I saw a detest thing. You can tell because they always meet at a central point. They get on a bus, they go to the cornfield, and you’ve got people walking out through the fields. And I noticed that these were not teenagers. These were Hispanic descent adult males. And I knew this was taking place. In the past 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, just let’s talk about Nebraska alone. In 2015, there were, no, in fact, it was 2019, there were 31 contract detaskling units that hired teenagers, and today there are 16. So there’s a factor of many things involved in that. Number one, we all know that kids don’t have the work ethic that they once did. They don’t need the money like they once did because money is just created and allowed for them instead of having them go out to work. And I think a huge component of this is that they’re hiring these, again, I researched this, these are H-2A workers. But the fact that they cannot get enough people, whether they’re immigrant laborers or teenagers, to work to detassel corn, to me is just a snapshot of where we are at in terms of labor from farm to fork. And I’m talking about it as much as I am, Kim, because the consumer who’s completely disconnected from any part of the food chain 22 million people, 17% of the U.S. workforce has been involved in your food from the time it’s on the farm until it gets to your plate. This labor situation is going to affect food supplies.
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I miss me. And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That’s kimmonson.com. And also check out the website for the USMC Memorial Foundation. It is August and the 23rd. There will be a great anniversary celebration for the 48th anniversary of the Marine Memorial, which is located right here in Colorado in Golden at 6th and Colfax. You can buy your tickets by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. I will be out there. I’d love to have you join us. So, again, that website is USMCMemorialFoundation.org. Talking with Trent Luce, sixth generation farmer and rancher from Nebraska. He is focused on the people that feed and fuel us. And those industries have been so under attack. And we had wanted to talk about immigration because. Well, Trent, you said that we should be enforcing our current laws. And then I posed the question regarding the many JBS workers that were told that they had visas, but they needed to go home. And so I did a quick search during the break regarding this CHNV parole program. And this is from Homeland Security. This was issued June 12th. It says the program was abused by the previous administration to admit hundreds of thousands of poorly vetted illegal aliens into the United States. So I agree that we need to be, those that were fast-tracked, I think that we need to be addressing that. Now, your friend Hank Fogler, who’s had people working for him for many, many years, I find that frustrating. And so they’re kind of two different issues, I think, Trent Luce. What’s your thoughts?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, they are two different issues. One is the Department of Labor. with H-2A programs, which we have an H-2A program, which was set up as a temporary agricultural worker program from its inception. And I get, it’s not just Hank, I’m getting many people telling me how frustrated they are with this program that continues to create hurdles that is tough to legally employ somebody. Okay. Again, I don’t know. Two things. If we have people who came in here during the Biden fast track and are doing the jobs that Americans are not willing to do, do you want to go load them up and send them home?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I think you’re speaking to a bigger societal problem. And that is when people… Well, you’re not going to solve the work ethic problem by continuing to have people not work and be on government assistance. And so we’ve got a bigger societal problem there. And so we’ve got to work on our work ethic. And I am looking at another thing. This is from Global Health. Refuge Connect. It says, what is the CHNV parole program? It says, learn about the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela parole program, a humanitarian initiative that allows certain nationals from these countries to enter the U.S. for two years, find out how it works, why it’s important, and what are the latest legal challenges to it. So are you… Are you saying that because Americans won’t work that these people that came in and were fast-tracked, and one of our listeners said absolutely they were fast-tracked and given jobs in Colorado, and this person says they have e-mails and conversations to prove it. So do we keep them here because Americans won’t work?
SPEAKER 08 :
I’d love to see those, by the way. CurrentLuce at gmail.com.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. I bet we can make that happen. Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
That would be great. This is easy to fix, Kim.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
Stop all subsidies. Stop paying people to do nothing. Stop paying 81% of the U.S. farm bill. Actually, it was 71% of the U.S. farm bill as SNAP program benefits. Stop giving farmers subsidies. Stop giving airlines subsidies. If you stop subsidies and quit this government picking who’s winning and who’s losing… This will all take care of itself. Government continues to be the problem. And with this Trump administration and what we’ve seen in terms of accelerating subsidies, it’s only going to get worse.
SPEAKER 17 :
OK, well, in some areas he is is getting rid of subsidies. So some a whole bunch of these big grants that were given by the Biden administration on the way out. Those are being clawed back. I agree totally with you, though. And I know that many of our listeners will as well. This this corporate welfare policy. where big business and government like to get in bed with each other because then they can give subsidies, grants, different things to different entities. That has got to stop. I totally agree with you on that. And so I’d sent this over, and several listeners had sent over this post from Laura Logan. And she said, guess who is the biggest beneficiary of the U.S. Farm Bill? Is it the farmers? No. No. She said, it’s Walmart. She says, when people think of the U.S. Farm Bill, they think about money going to farmers. But the truth is, most of that money goes to food assistance programs like SNAP. And I remember during the Obama administration where there were ads on the radio to sign up for SNAP. and it was put in place to help low-income families buy groceries. But it says where it gets interesting is Walmart is the biggest grocery store chain in the country, so it gets a huge amount of that money. And it says over a 10-year period, Walmart gets $315.5 billion. Your thoughts on that, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 08 :
To take it one step further, during that Obama administration, when they were advertising people to sign up for SNAP, they were also there. I don’t remember the exact number now, but it was in the millions of dollars spent advertising that same message in Mexico. They were advertising in Mexico for people to sign up for SNAP, and it was actually Jeff Sessions that blew the whistle on that and ultimately got it stopped. But we have been recruiting people to sign up for SNAP programs. And this is a discussion that’s happened within the agriculture community for quite some time because there’s been a big faction of the farmers who say, well, we get a negative eye because people look at the amount of money that goes into the farm bill, and we don’t even get that. Eighty-one percent of the farm bill goes to supplemental nutrition and assistance programs, SNAP. 2024, by the way, it was 71%. 2023, it was 81%. The trend is the right direction. So the people in the agricultural community have some said, well, separate it out. We want the farmers to have a separate pavement and the SNAP people to have a separate pavement. And then others say, no, no, we’ll get completely lost. The only reason they even give us any money is because we’re part of a whole package. And, well, we’ll just take out what we can. And just for the record, about 6.7% of what the farmer actually does get in terms of a subsidy is something that you referenced earlier, Kim, and that is crop insurance. Crop insurance is absolutely unaffordable without a subsidy. I’m in favor of privatizing that, and there are people telling me that can’t happen. It will take care of itself if we just go that direction, but that’s not really the topic of the day. The majority of the farm bill does not go to the farmer. it goes to these same corporate entities that we’re talking about here through people who claim to be needy. And again, you eliminate that subsidy, they will go fill the jobs that they have people that come in from other countries doing. Do you think Hank Vogler wants to hire people from Peru? He doesn’t want to, but in 27 years, he’s had two American citizens apply to be a sheepherder at his operation in Nevada. Two.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, so work ethic is important. But if you incentivize people to not to work, then they’re not going to work. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out. But if this is couched under, people are getting squeezed. And the reason that they’re getting squeezed is because of government policy, because of taxes. Because of fees. And so people are getting squeezed. And our hearts say we don’t want people to go hungry in America. Hence, the PBIs come in with the SNAP program. And bear in mind, there is a lot of people that have their hands in the till of all that money going through the Farm Bill. And that is not getting to farmers or to people that are going hungry. But there’s a lot of people that’s making money on that as well. And that’s why privatizing things, you get rid of all the grifters in doing so. Yes?
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, 100% agreement.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s not a hard fix. Just need somebody to be a leader.
SPEAKER 17 :
But politicians are being influenced by the lobbyists for all of these different entities, right? So Walmart, well, goodness, they certainly benefit significantly from the Farm Bill. Although, okay, let’s think about this, Trent. If people were not receiving SNAP assistance, we must lower taxes. We must make life more affordable for people. The way to do that is to reduce taxes and fees so that they have more money in their pocket. Yes?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes. And if you eliminate subsidies, that will take care of itself. Not just automatically. You still need to be a dutiful citizen. You still need to show up at your school board meetings and your county commission meetings and put pressure on them to be smaller, not bigger. Well, and I talked about… And you’re leaving one out, too, that I’m now calling a tax, and that is insurance. Between property tax and insurance, this is putting people out of business. This is putting people in a position where they cannot afford their homes. It’s putting people in a position of what you’re describing. But insurance… which is a result of poor mandated policy, is contributing to that high cost of living that people cannot handle.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. We’re at, I don’t know if the proper word is inflection, but I think it is. We are at an inflection point in our country right now. And yesterday we were talking about, let’s see, I was talking with Kevin Lundberg and And he said, we were talking about, well, you know what, let’s go to break. When we come back, but I’ll let you be ruminating on this just a little bit. He said in 1970 was when he started to see this movement towards this narrative on the environment. So I took a quick look, and in 1970, the U.S. debt was $331 billion. Now in 2025, it’s $37 trillion. That is not sustainable. And a big part of this is because government has gotten bigger, bigger, and bigger at the cost of all of us and our children and grandchildren. So we will continue the discussion with Trent Luce. And this happens because of our sponsors. If you’ve been injured, reach out to John Bozen and Bozen Law.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Yes, check out our website. And also check out the website for the Center for American Values. That is AmericanValuesCenter.org. And they are featuring Drew Dix’s podcast, Words from the Silo. And he publishes those on Wednesdays. This week’s just went up. It’s Democratic Republic or Socialist Republic. Super interesting and love Drew’s work. uh take on what’s going on in our country right now he is a really a deep thinker he’s also a co-founder of the center for american values and that is americanvaluecenter.org trent luce you’ve nailed several things and that is taxes insurance property taxes fees All of these things are taking money from everyday hardworking people. And as I mentioned with Steve Dorman, my fellow board member in our number one, is America was founded on the idea that people didn’t like the fact that they were being taxed too much and they really didn’t have representation doing so. And here in Colorado, we have TABOR, Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights, which is an amendment to the Constitution that But the ink wasn’t even dry on that when that was passed in 1992 before PBIs on both sides of the aisle said, how can we start to undercut this? Because they have this insatiable appetite for money and our money. And we see it play out through insurance and property taxes and fees and taxes. And so I think people are paying attention finally on this, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 08 :
I agree. There’s one other thing that I wanted to address because Colorado is in the mix of this. You know, within the last week, Lee Zeldin, who is the director of the EPA, has come out with a big statement about emissions equipment on vehicles has really cost us and we’re going to move away from that. And at the same time in June, I believe it was June 22nd, H.R. 4117 was introduced, which basically states that needs to happen. And that’s going to put everybody in an unbelievable position, to be honest, because we don’t want the federal government ever to control states’ rights. And they try to include the state being controlled by these emissions standards in the elimination of them. And I don’t want this emissions equipment on my vehicles. In fact, my vehicles don’t have it because I drive old stuff. To that point, I did not know Kim, and I learned. And the whole EPA is trying to rein in California and the stupidity that California continues to do with the emission standards. But did you know that there are 17 states that simply just follow whatever California emission standards are, 17 states plus the District of Columbia? And Colorado is one of those seven. Absolutely. Absolutely. And I can see where this is going to be hitting everybody against each other in this particular situation. These emission standards are rendering our engines to be half of what they should be. They’re not improving the environment like we’re told that they are. They require DEF. Truckers have to add or even pickups have to add diesel exhaust fluid. There’s so many things that need to be fixed about this. But yet we don’t want the federal government telling, hey, California or Colorado, you can’t do this. And you know California is going to just bow their neck and say, we’re going to do this because we’re going to have a clean environment. Well, we can have that discussion. But then you have these other states like Colorado that are just going to do whatever California does. How did that happen? How did the states say, we’re just going to let California be the lead and we’ll do what you do?
SPEAKER 17 :
I don’t know exactly. I think both legislature and then these appointed boards and commissions agree to that as well. But, Trent, I think that this is one of the things that falls under the Constitution, that this is for the general welfare. You can’t have a rogue state like California say, we’re going to put in these more rigorous regulations. and I have standards and air quotes on these emissions, because in essence, that tail is wagging the whole dog for all of America. And I think the founders realized that, yes, we want to make sure that individuals have rights, states have rights, but on something like this, where an individual state is trying to, you know, wag the dog, if you will, Our founders said, no, no, no. If it affects everybody like that, that affects the general welfare. And that is where the federal government can step in. So I don’t think that the federal government is overstepping their boundaries on this to claw back the The the waiver that California had regarding this. And as you mentioned, many states and most of them are all the the radical activist states have followed suit. So I think it I think it is proper that Zeldin is doing this, Trent.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, I’d never agree to. Federal government telling states what to do. And I don’t know where you get that out of the Commerce Clause. That’s the only thing I’m aware of in the Constitution that could lead you to that.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, and it would be the Commerce Clause. Yes, definitely.
SPEAKER 08 :
But the problem isn’t California. Let California do what they want to do and completely eliminate their population. The 17 other states that want to be like California is where the problem needs to be fixed. And it’s not just with EPA emissions issues. We have the same exact thing happening in food, animal agriculture, including your chickens and where we talk about a lot the eggs and Proposition 12, which California passed. And it puts a whole different level of what they’re calling standards on how animals are going to be housed, which is going to increase cost of food significantly. And that spills over into every other state. But I say I said all the time, let California starve. Let California deal with no cars. That’s California. If they don’t like it, they can leave or fix it. Why do 17 other states just follow suit?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, but I guess under your premise that they would have the state’s rights to do so. But when California makes those emission standards, as I’ve talked with Lauren Fix, Car Coach reports, then what that means is car manufacturers can’t just manufacture cars for California or these 17 other states. They’re manufacturing for all of America. So under the Commerce Clause, you have California that is affecting California. affecting something for all 50 states. So that’s why I think that it makes sense regarding this under the Commerce Clause, because they are, in essence, affecting all of Americans with their standards in California.
SPEAKER 08 :
If you follow that logic, you would never have states’ rights implemented.
SPEAKER 17 :
Not necessarily. I don’t think so. Now, for example, regarding the stipulations on egg, on our chickens, People could, you could have a chicken farm in another state. So what you would see is from a capitalistic standpoint, you would see that the states that don’t have those stipulations would, and boy, we’re starting this and we’ve got a minute left. How do you want to wrap this up? And we’ll continue this discussion next week, Trent Luce. This is a good one.
SPEAKER 08 :
The answer is always the same. These policymakers are going to continue to do what they do until they feel enough heat from the people who put them there. You, the constituent, hold the key. You have to get local.
SPEAKER 17 :
I totally agree, and we are seeing that, but we’re also seeing these boards and commissions not paying attention. But the first thing is to know what’s going on. Trent, you’re doing a good job on informing people. We’re working hard here at the Kim Monson Show to make that happen as well. We do need to get involved. I think things will change, but we are at a real time in our country. Trent Luce, as always, how can people find you? It’s always a great conversation.
SPEAKER 08 :
Just search Trent Luce. You’ll find me in many places. Tell me you don’t want to be or Trent on the loose or loose tails. And it’s always a pleasure, Kim. Thought-provoking conversation. That’s the key to our free future.
SPEAKER 17 :
Absolutely. And Luce is spelled L-O-O-S. And again, Trent, we’ll talk next week. Thank you.
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