In this episode of The Kim Monson Show, Kim dives into a riveting discussion about the state of politics and society, focusing on the ever-present tug of war between freedom and force. Special guest appearances include insights on the foundational aspects of private property rights and the essential need for law and order versus chaos in modern governance.
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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’re each 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. 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 Monday, Producer Joe.
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Happy Monday, Kim.
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We’ve got a jam-packed show planned for you today, so fasten your seatbelt. 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 force people to do it. It’s never compassionate nor altruistic to take other people’s stuff away. Whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhood or lives via force. Force can be a weapon, but it could be policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, compliance, government induced inflation. and this agenda by the World Economic Forum and the globalist elites that we’ve seen play out through the United Nations and the Colorado State Legislature, this governor, but also we see it at local, county, and state governments throughout the country. And they can use land use codes and zoning regulations, forest fees, conservation easements, all these things that can take control of your land. and your property. If you don’t own your property or if you don’t control your property, somebody else does. And we are in a very historic time right now regarding private property rights. And private property rights were a foundation to the American idea The idea that people could own the fruits of their labor, a small portion, a limited portion would be used for government. Otherwise, people would be able to keep most of the fruits of their labor so that they could prosper and thrive. And all of that is under attack big time. And we have. A responsibility to reclaim this American idea and reclaim this Colorado that we love. And so remember, my friends, if something is a good idea, you should not need to use force to implement it. And on the show, we will focus on the issues and mention the people behind the issues. But we’re staying out of the personalities, the eighth grade girl fighting on all of that kind of stuff. Let’s see. Our word of the day is, I thought, very appropriate today. one side of the aisle. And this Democrat Party is not the Democrat Party of your grandpa and your grandma or JFK. This Democrat Party in America at this time has been taken over by radical activists with their agenda is totalitarianism and having authority over our lives. And the way they want to accomplish that is through chaos. And with the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we’ve realized that they’re serious about this whole chaos thing. Of course, the summer of love, the summer regarding George Floyd. And I think it was either the governor of Utah. I think it was the governor of Utah. He said that it’s important to realize that. that with the assassination of Charlie Kirk, while there is so much concern and questioning and sadness, there was not rioting in the streets, that instead there were prayer vigils. And that is what we are up against, those that want to foment and push chaos or those that want order. And of course, order, law and order, is again foundational to the American idea. But the law has to be based on the Constitution and all law, whether or not it’s at a local level, all the way up to the federal government. It has to cut the muster of the idea of our Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal. So if we’re all created equal, then we need to be treated equally under the law. And it needs to be impartial. And we’ve gotten way out of whack on things. And then with this vision that all men are created equal, with these inalienable rights from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, So every ordinance, every rule, every regulation, every law must have that at their basis. And if we do, if we have that, then we have law and order. The opposite of order is chaos. And so that is our word of the day. And that is what those that are fomenting chaos want to take down this American idea. And they want to divide us into groups. They want people to be identifying as a group instead of an American. And so that’s our big fight, law or order or chaos. Which do you prefer in your life, chaos or order? So chaos is our word of the day. It’s C-H-A-O-S. It could be a state of utter confusion or disorder. Number two, any confused, disorderly mass. Or number three, it could be the infinity of space or formless matter supposed to have preceded the creation of the universe. Or number four, it could be a chasm or abyss. And I think that most people would like order in their lives. And the order that comes to us through our faith in Jesus Christ. So I went to Edmund Burke for our Quote of the day, and he was born in 1729. He died in 1797. He was an Anglo-Irish politician, journalist, and philosopher who’s regarded as the founder of the social and cultural philosophy of conservatism. Regarded as one of the most influential conservative thinkers and political writers of the 18th century, Burke spent the majority of his career in Great Britain, was elected a member of parliament. and House of Commons. His writings played a crucial role and influenced public views and opinions of both Britain and France following the 1789 French Revolution. He remains a major figure in modern conservative political circles. And he said this, good order is the foundation of all things. And so we’ve got a great show, as I mentioned, planned for you. And all this happens because of the great support of all of you and also from our wonderful sponsors. And a valued partner of the Kim Monson Show is the Roger Mangut State Farm Insurance Team. Roger, we’re talking about insurance reviews over the last few weeks. And in Colorado, every motorist is supposed to be insured, but they’re not. People need to be buying some uninsured motorist coverage, even if you’re probably driving an old, old car, yes?
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Absolutely. Let’s clarify uninsured motorists for most people listening to this program out there. Uninsured Motors is really designed to protect you against that person who doesn’t have any insurance or has the state minimum of insurance. The state minimum in Colorado is $25,000 damage to any one person, $50,000 damage to any number of persons in that same accident. So if you have three passengers, they’re splitting $50,000. If you have… And is that for medical bills, or what’s that for exactly? Yeah, it’s pretty much for loss of income, loss of your inability to… produce or go to your job or something? Yeah, well, lost wages. So if you get into an accident with somebody and you can’t work for six months, you have no disability income and you’re making $5,000 a month, that $5,000 would be paid to you by your own carrier from your own uninsured motorist coverage. So is that important to you to protect that income via that particular coverage? I would say yes. Okay. And the coverage, the state demands that you have if you’re buying insurance is $25,000, $50,000, and the last number is $15,000. That last number is very important because that’s for property damage liability. So if I hit your car and I have no insurance and it costs $30,000 to replace your car. So let me focus on the $15,000 property damage that this underinsured motorist might have in Colorado. And that person is legal to drive in Colorado. They have the state minimum, but the 15,000 property damage, they hit your car and your car’s 30,000 to replace. You only get 15 from that person’s carrier. Where’s the other 15 going to come from? Well, you can’t go to your uninsured motorist coverage because that does not cover physical damage. It only covers damage to you for loss of income, death, dismemberment. So I think a lot of people are very confused about uninsured, underinsured motorists. So you need to protect yourself if you have a car that’s valued at $30,000 and this person has $15,000 to repair your car. You’re going to go to your collision coverage and your own policy to pick up the other $15,000. That’s why you need a review. It gets very tangled in terms of sorting out how coverages are applied.
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I think tangled is the correct word. I don’t see how a regular person without an agent, if they’re just calling an 800 number to get their insurance, they may not be able to get a review, will they?
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I don’t know. Honestly, I’ve never tried, but I knew there was a commercial out there with a company that says, buy only what you need. Buy only what you need. And my reaction to that is, how do you really know what you need? It’s like me with a financial planner. I might make money and do things financially, but I need a planner to help me really know what I’m doing with that money and how it’s spent. Just because I do it and pay for it doesn’t mean I really understand it.
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Right. And I think understanding is really half the battle. Knowledge is power. And so to have knowledge about your insurance coverage, what is that number that people should call?
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and welcome back to the kim monson show check out our website that is kim monson m-o-n-s-o-n.com and sign up for our weekly email newsletter there i want to say thank you to laramie energy for their goal sponsorship of the show because it’s reliable efficient affordable and abundant power from oil natural gas and coal those naturally occurring hydrocarbons the powers our lives fuels our hopes and dreams and empowers us to change our own personal climate And I also wanted to mention Grand Lake U.S. Constitution Week. It starts today, and it’s going to be a great week. The main event is on Saturday. I have the great honor to emcee that event. And the speaker, this is so… appropriate is Jonathan Turley. He is a Georgetown professor who’s written a book, Freedom of Speech in the Age of Rage. And there will be a book signing event with him that you can buy tickets for by going to grandlakeusconstitutionweek.com. So be sure and check that out. Very pleased to have on the line with me, the founder of Free State Colorado, Brandon Wark, and also a candidate for Greeley City Council. Brandon, welcome to the show.
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Well, good morning, Kim, and thank you for having me on.
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Great to have you. And first of all, congratulations regarding Free State Colorado. I think you just celebrated your fifth year anniversary, yes?
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Yeah, five years going strong. The response has been phenomenal. It’s very exciting. And there’s a true hunger out there in Colorado for some pro-liberty policy analysis, reporting on what’s happening in our state. There’s definitely a big gap. And Kim, you do an amazing job. And we have other people, too, in Colorado. But there’s definitely not enough. There’s so much happening in our state that’s presented so one-sided. And unfortunately, the corporate media really doesn’t tell the whole story. It’s up to individuals like us to try and get it out there and share what’s really happening in Colorado.
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And that website is freestatecolorado.com, freestatecolorado.com. Is there any particular issue on a statewide basis that you think people should be aware of? And then we’ll talk about you running for Greeley City Council.
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Well, definitely, Kim. I mean, I think one of the biggest recent stories in Colorado politics has been the recent special session. You know, this morning I’m publishing a new video with the great Natalie Menton giving a recap of the special session and really explaining how the Democratic majority just raised over $300 million in taxes on the backs of Colorado businesses. I mean, this is one of those stories out there where the media reported on it a little bit. There’s a couple good articles out there. Sean Boyd from CBS Denver had a good article. But generally speaking, so much happens in our state government that ends up being a 30-second news clip on the nightly news, or if they even talk about it at all. And here we have businesses who are already struggling to survive here in Colorado in a very tough economy. Now, all of a sudden, with extra burdens, with less tax credits that they had been expecting, with more barriers for them to be able to provide their goods and services to the people of Colorado. And I think that’s a story that needs to get out, because as people learn what our state government is doing, I know that’s going to shift votes. I know that’s going to shift perspective. And I know that’s going to provide an opportunity for some changes here in Colorado.
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Well, and what I’ve learned, I was on city council from 2012 to 2016, is while we certainly need to be concerned with what’s happening at the state legislature, we really need to be watching what’s happening from a local and county government standpoint as well. And so you have decided to run for Greeley City Council. Tell us about that.
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Well, Kim, yeah, I’m running for Greeley City Council on a platform of transparency and affordability. The city government of Greeley, like many others across Colorado, has been making really big decisions behind closed doors. Not only that, they’ve intentionally kept the issue out of the control of voters and instead are forcing it through without voter approval. And I’m talking about this Greeley West project, this Catalyst or Cascadia project, which the city council has been working on for quite some time now. And we’re getting to the point where the city government is going to actually end up owning a water park, a hotel, and a arena for events in the Colorado Eagles hockey team, the minor league hockey team for the Avalanche. And, you know, Kim, I don’t know about you, but I don’t think that’s the proper role. Well, I do know what you think, but I think we both agree it’s not the proper role of government to be owning these entertainment complexes and And especially in a city where we have so many other things neglected, you know, failing roads, homelessness problem, crime issues, so much of what we see across Colorado is happening here in Greeley just the same. And we’re an affordable place to live, and yet our city government seems to be taking advantage of the voters. the taxpayers and the people by really trying to force through this issue of building a massive complex on the west side of Greeley, promising future tax revenue 20, 30 years down the road that’ll end up solving all of our problems, of course, is how they phrase it. So unfortunately, we have some serious issues up here, but I’m finding that people really resonate with this idea of transparency. The people of Greeley are not happy with this project that the city has embarked upon. So much so that the opposition actually got 50,000 signatures to get this issue on the ballot. to put the question to voters and get some public input. Well, they turn in the signatures, the petition signatures, with twice as many signatures as needed to get it on the ballot. But unfortunately, just recently, a judge ruled that it is out of order, that it’s not applicable to be on the ballot this November, unfortunately, after a legal action by the proponents of this measure. So the voters agree they are not going to be able to vote on this. When I go door-to-door talking to people, they’re not happy about it. They want to have a say. They want to have input into our government. And they want to have our government going to the voters and asking for permission before embarking on these big projects.
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Well, and Brandon, well, and I have to agree, is this the proper role of government to be owning, as you say, a water park? I don’t think so. That would be, should be up to private enterprise where that could then compete in the free market for people to enjoy the water park. But it seems to me like it’s a taper question, which is a Colorado Taxpayers Bill of Rights question, because Somehow, somebody’s got to pay for this. It sounds like it’s the people of Greeley, right? And so with Tabor, they’re supposed to be able to vote on it.
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Well, the Greeley City Council has been learning from other places across Colorado, and they’re using these things called certificates of participation. These COPs basically are a year-to-year leasing program, so they don’t have to take out long-term debt. They’re taking debt out every year, renewing it every year, and it’s just a trick. It’s an accounting trick to avoid the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, to avoid asking the voters under the constitutional requirements that TAPER provides. And that’s part of the reason people are unhappy with it. It’s transparent. The only part that’s transparent about this, Kim, is their lack of wanting to ask the voters, is how they’re trying to trick the voters, how they’re trying to circumvent Tabor. And it’s so unfortunate because the people deserve the constitutional protections that Tabor provides, and they deserve to have a say in their local government.
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So, Brandon Wark, you are running for city council. Is this election this November?
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Yes, Kim, November 4th, the first Tuesday in November. We actually have a pretty good election here, a really important election, that is, in Greeley. We have mayor, city council, and of course there’s going to be some statewide ballot measures, which I’ll be talking a lot about on freestatecolorado.com as we get a little bit closer to the election. But, you know, it’s so important to vote in these off-year elections, Kim. There’s so few people participate. Many people don’t know that there’s an election in 2025. But I really encourage people across Colorado to check in with your local government, your local city and town, to see if you do have some races coming on. Because this year, the majority of Colorado’s major cities and towns did have elections, whether they were earlier this year or this coming November. Right. I’m finding great responses as I go door to door. People are hungry. People are interested. People really want to see a change. And we have so much opportunity in front of us, Kim. But like you said, we have to focus on the local level and get involved in our own communities.
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Well, and what I am seeing across the state is these people are paying attention to what’s been happening at their local level. I think that people have not paid attention, have assumed, well, gosh, I’m electing somebody from my neighborhood or from my town, so that would mean that they would have my best interests in mind, meaning mine. me individually being able to thrive and flourish. I like the fact that government would be doing its proper role, but people are realizing that they’re way out of line. And what I’ve seen is very well-meaning people, many times, Brandon Wark, get onto city council or into the mayor’s office. And immediately what happens is there’s a big retreat where staff, the bureaucrats bring them in for maybe a retreat to have all the different departments come in, explain what they’re doing, what their purpose is. And I think that many people at that point, think that they are working for the entity, whether or not it’s the city or the county, instead of realizing that they are representatives of the people and their job is to keep government into its proper role instead of trying to figure out how to drive revenue for the entity. And when they drive revenue, what that means is they are taking more money from the people and the businesses in their community. And we need to remind people they’re representatives of the people.
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Well said, Kim. I’m so glad you bring that up because it’s so often that these city council members, especially the new ones who get elected, are at such a disadvantage to the rest of the city government because we have these entrenched bureaucrats. You know, for lack of a better term, you could call it the deep state. You could call it a lot of things. But you have people who that’s their full time job is to work in the city government, whether they’re a city manager, town manager or just city staff. And they’re continuously, you know, 40-plus hours a week thinking of how they can raise more money, raise more revenue, which means, of course, taking it from the people, like you said, and how they can plan these little projects around the town or the city. Well, you have a city council member who maybe has a full-time job, has a family, goes to church, has other obligations. And maybe they’re only able to put in, you know, 10, 15, 20 hours a week towards the city council. And, you know, it’s a lot of information. There’s a lot there. So when they’re presented with this information and they’re told, well, the town manager approves it, the city planning commission approves it, you know, stakeholders approve it. This has been worked on for years, you know, with plenty of other city council members that came before you. You don’t want to be the one to disrupt this. I think more often than not, these newly elected people, city council members are going to just go along with what they’re told. And, you know, they get the pat on the back, they get the kudos from everybody around them, and it’s easy to keep going. And I see it at the city council, I see it at the state legislature, and it’s so unfortunate where well-meaning individuals who really need to stand on principle get kind of swept up in some of these, you know, some of the entrenched bureaucracies that exist, pulling them towards A bigger government mindset. And it’s so interesting to watch. And we really have to figure out how to combat that and how to stand on principle and how to ensure that these newly elected well-meaning people don’t get caught up in that because they don’t, you know, and I can see it too, Kim. You know, I think about myself if I’m elected, if I’m fortunate enough to be elected by the voters agreeably. I see a huge task in front of me, and I am concerned that if I start questioning, hey, does the police department, are they spending their money properly? Does the fire department budget look too high? Those are sacred cows in local government. Whether I’m wrong or I’m right, just questioning it, I imagine, could create a lot of enemies.
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That is so interesting because, yes, people, it is sacred cows. People want to have a safe community and they want to have the assurance that if their house gets lights on fire that you’ll have the fire department there. As I have looked at, and again, these are different entities that, well, for example, fire districts that are taxing districts, that it’s just almost like people automatically say yes. But when I hear in the metro area have gone by new fire stations that are very, very nice, I’m thinking yes. I’m thinking that they’re probably trying to figure different ways to spend money. I’m not sure if you’ve checked out this organization, Open the Books, but you can easily many times find the salaries of people in these different cities. And is Lee Raymond the city manager?
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No, it’s somebody different now. up here in Wheeling, I believe. I believe it’s, yeah, I’m sorry, it’s Raymond Lee, Raymond Lee.
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Okay, is that I have that back? Anyway, I just took a quick gander at Open the Books. And in 2024, Raymond Lee made $314,000. And that’s not including pension and benefits. So to your point, these are people that many times are… pushing a particular agenda as the bureaucrat. And I think that it’s important to realize that they’re being paid pretty handsomely to do that. So then you get city council members on who, as you mentioned, they have lives, they have jobs because of representative citizen government. And many times they lean on the bureaucrats and You also mentioned that they’re being paid 40 hours a week to try to figure out how to grow government. And I think we’re at a tipping point right now. Your final thought on all of this, Brandon Wark, how can people get more information about your campaign?
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Yeah, electbrandonwork.com, electbrandonwork.com, W-A-R-K. I really encourage people to check out the website, contribute if they can. But, yeah, the fight is at the local level. That’s where we’re going to win. We’re going to lose our liberty. And I think people would be shocked if they understand what’s actually happening in their local governments. So I really encourage people to pay attention, show up at city council meetings, get involved with local candidates. And I really would appreciate the support at electbrandonwork.com.
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And Brandon, that’s B-R-A-N-D-O-N and then W-A-R-K. And Brandon, thank you for stepping forward because this is the battle for our communities and for our state and for our country to really reclaim citizen representation. And so thank you so much, Brandon Wark. And thank you for the great work that you’re doing at freestatecolorado.com as well.
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Thank you so much, Kim. I appreciate it.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter there. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. And do you want more freedom and confidence with your money? Then Mint Financial Strategies can help. They’re an independent firm with over 25 years of experience. And as an accredited investment fiduciary, they put your best interests first always. With a strategy first approach, they’ll help you build a plan first. that fits your life. Call Mint Financial Strategies today. That number is 303-285-3080, 303-285-3080. And do check out the website for the Center for American Values. It is AmericanValuesCenter.org. And they will be having an On Values presentation in October with Norma Let’s see. I’m drawing a blank here. It just changed on me. But it’ll be a great event. And then also you can check out Drew Dix’s new podcast, Words from the Silo. And so be sure and check that out. And I will get that. It’s Norma Donlan. And so be sure and check that out as well. On the line with me is Dr. Brian Joondepth, and he’s written a very important piece, very timely, that I wanted to chat with him about, and that is regarding why so many young people have become radicalized. So welcome, Dr. Joondepth.
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Good morning, Kim. How are you?
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I am doing well. And on Thursday the 11th, September 11th, the day after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, you wrote a piece, Why So Many Young Voters Are Turning Radical. And what we’ve seen, at least the reports are, that the assassin, regarding Charlie Kirk, that he had become radicalized. And I feel so… I feel just so sad about families that have not even realized this has happened with their kids. And so this was published in Rasmussen Reports. Let’s talk about it.
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Sure. Yeah, he was a smart high school kid. He went to college and dropped out after a semester, and apparently that’s when his radicalization began to the point where he felt the need to kill Charlie Kirk and carried it out. And he comes from what sounds like a conservative family, but he was in a gay relationship with a transgendered individual. So the apple fell very far from the tree, but it didn’t really fall. Somewhere after his first year of college, he shifted. The apple moved in a big way. And that’s happening to a lot of kids that go down this dark path. It’s really evil or demonic, if you will. And Many are going down that path, yet many others, many other young people are embracing religion, going back to church, conservative values. There seems to be a big split in that Gen Z of going more conservative or going really radical. And it’s interesting, and I think they’re searching for something that… is not there for their generation that might have been there for our generation, and they’re going in one or two directions, and it’s sort of the existential threat or decision of good versus evil, and God versus the devil, one pulling one way, one pulling the other way, and which way these kids go. What’s more attractive to them at the moment?
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And this radicalization, we’ve seen so much in the education system that many of those seeds have been planted.
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They have. The education system is certainly not helping. They’re promoting… Bad values, at least in my opinion. They may think they’re good values, but this DEI business of everything is tolerated. There’s no absolutes anymore. Your reality and your truth is what you decide it is. That’s a very dangerous strategy. I mean, it’s really… A demonic type strategy where it goes against the founding of the country and the values of America, Judeo-Christian values, and it goes in a very different direction, in a dark direction, and doesn’t lead to good things.
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So in your piece, you’ve talked about some of the things that are facing our young people. And so I would say these young people had gone through COVID, the reaction to COVID. So let’s talk a little bit about what that did to many of these kids. There was a positive response. with the reaction to COVID because parents started to see what was happening in the education system. But to basically isolate these children, these kids, this was very bad to do that. So many of these young people are coming out of that. What can we do about that?
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Well, we have to acknowledge that and I don’t include myself in we because I wasn’t advocating for this, and I don’t think you were either, but those in authority were advocating for this based on whims and not on scientific evidence. The teachers’ unions, they made the rules. They decided schools are going to be closed and there’s going to be remote learning and kids are going to have to wear masks. And this really destroyed a generation of youth impairing their socialization and for the young kids learning to read faces, that’s very important. And you mask everybody up, it’s dystopian, and it damages them. And kids that were on the border anyway, or kids that were neurodivergent or anything, it really set them back. It set back the learning, remote learning, for distractible kids just doesn’t work. Forcing kids to get vaccinated to go to college or go to graduate school. We did a lot of damage using bad science. And the first thing that needs to be done is acknowledgement and accountability for that. I think it’s happening, but it’s sure slow. I mean, I wrote about where’s the reckoning, and we don’t see it. We see… these bad people out and about, and they’re not being held to account. And we can’t fix anything until we acknowledge a mistake. It’s like the first step of the 12-step program, you have to admit you have a problem. And until you do that, you can’t heal from that until you acknowledge that you did wrong.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, and so the reaction to Charlie Kirk’s assassination has been very interesting. And I think it was either the governor of Utah had said that instead of riots and destroying property with the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which in the Summer of Love in, what was it, 2020, We saw communities that were destroyed supposedly in reaction to George Floyd. And I think that it is important to look at the reaction on these. In our word of the day, I chose chaos because there are those that if they can keep us in chaos, if they can keep us fighting each other and identifying into groups and pitting those groups against each other, then they, whoever they are, can sit in their ivory towers and just watch everyday people engaged in this chaos. And the American idea is an idea of a society of order. And so we have a big, big, a big, big issue that we are addressing. And I I’m convinced that we are in the third founding of our country. to determine if, in fact, this American idea of all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness and ordered society, we are at, I think, a turning point, if you will, Dr. June Depth.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, we are. It’s definitely a turning point, to borrow from Charlie Kirk’s organization’s name. It’s how does this all go, and there is a split, but I think… The good is winning out. The people spewing nonsense on social media are being called out. The people celebrating the death, interestingly, they are being canceled. They are being fired. This is a turnabout. Those of us that spoke out during COVID and had licenses threatened, employment threatened, things of that sort for speaking out, now these people that are celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk from airline pilots to healthcare workers to educators, they’re being fired. They’re being called out for this bad behavior, and that’s a refreshing change. I’m not one for censorship. People should be able to express themselves, but this is really kind of vulgar, and it doesn’t represent the employer well. Most job contracts have a morals clause in there where you have to behave in a moral fashion. professionally and personally. And if you don’t, you could be let go. And that’s happening now. And that’s a turnabout. We’ve not seen that before. So this is the pushback that I think many of us have been looking for and hoping for. And it’s refreshing to see.
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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 our text line is 720-605-0647. I do want to hear from you. And also, Grand Lake U.S. Constitution Week starts today. Constitution Day is the 17th, and it was signed in 1787. And the great work that they’re doing is… at Grand Lake U.S. Constitution Week is really terrific. It begins tonight with Professor Rob Nadelson, and he’ll be talking about Rome and our Constitution. So check everything out by going to grandlakeusconstitutionweek.com. And Ginny had a great suggestion. She said, while you’re on your way up to Grand Lake U.S. Constitution Week, get off at the Lookout Mountain exit and stop by Effola French Bakery, which is just down the road a little bit, give them some business. And there is some great news. I wanted to mention GAMI had an excellent suggestion, and that is that as they’re talking with Jefferson County, it would be great if they got a conditional use permit just for their business and their tiny homes there. And also their change.org petition to keep them in business has over 10,000 signatures on that now. And so they’re making great progress on that. I’m talking with Dr. Brian June depth, and he is his most recent piece at Rasmussen reports is why so many young voters are turning radical. And Dr. June Depp, I think one of the ways these voters are radical is because there are so many radical voices out there. And in the reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, there have been those that have really been radical. celebrating this. And I think you use the word vulgar. It really is vulgar. And they are losing their jobs. And so there’s this part of me that I really appreciate free speech to be able to say what people may not like. So I’m struggling just a little bit because I think free speech is so important, but yet people need to be responsible and there need to be consequences. So what do you think about that?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, if you’re representing a company, you’re working for a company, I think that uh, there are guidelines there. These companies have moral clauses in their contracts so that you have to behave in a decent manner. Um, I don’t think it’s censorship. Um, but yes, it’s, it’s a fine line between telling people what, how they can express themselves. But, um, there’s also a decency, a civil discord that we had. Um, You know, you and I grew up 60s, 70s. You couldn’t do stuff like that. You couldn’t behave. That just wasn’t tolerated, and free speech was allowed. This was the era of Woodstock and Vietnam protests, and you could do all that. But, you know, when you cross a certain line of vulgarity, of dancing on somebody’s grave, that has consequences. And… Yes, I think we have to be careful with it because you don’t want the pendulum to go too far. But I think it’s common decency. And as a society and culture, we need to bring some of that back and be respectful toward each other and toward major events like this. And that’s sorely lacking. And unfortunately, the left has started this. Their cancel culture of of people that spoke out against, uh, uh, men competing against women or COVID mandates or, or things like that were, you know, accused of horrible things and literally canceled. So look at JK Rowling and what they’ve tried to do to her for speaking common sense about men or men and women or women. And, uh, Rowdy Gaines and other people the transgender movement has been at the forefront of this with people speaking about common sense and being cancelled for it so this is kind of a blowback
SPEAKER 20 :
I was talking with a millennial yesterday about this, and I said, how could this happen? Where were we? And he said, just basically alluding to what you said, is if you said anything about, just a conversation, if you were having a conversation, I remember in conversations yesterday, For example, I was in a conversation recently with someone that said something regarding Donald Trump. She assumed that and I really appreciate many, many of the policies of Donald Trump and what he is trying to do to get this big ship turned around. But she said something that was really, I would say, against Donald Trump. And I said, gosh, that’s interesting. And then at that point she said, but I don’t really want to talk about politics. And I can’t tell you how many different times throughout many years that people would say something. And it took me a while to get to a point where I could just calmly say, Well, gosh, that’s interesting. But then I thought it was it was so interesting that she kind of threw the the, you know, the shot across the bow. And then when I was going to respond in a calm manner, didn’t want to talk about it anymore. And I think all that’s going to change, though, with this assassination of Charlie Kirk. He was just having a conversation. And the fact that he was killed because people didn’t like what he said, I think has been a lot of people are paying attention and realizing this is very dangerous territory that we’re in.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, he did it the way it should be done. He engaged people. He was a smart guy and could articulate and speak well. And he went on college campuses and let the most radical and most critical come to the front of the line to talk to him and debate him. And he wasn’t mean to them. He spoke. He challenged them. And most of the time, they’re tongue-tied when challenged. They just spew what they hear on MSNBC or on social media, and they can’t defend themselves. But dialogue is what’s necessary. And I think that’s also what endeared him to so many young people. And why he’s so popular now. I mean, killing him has only made his movement that much stronger. And I think by doing that, they’ve unleashed a force that they have no idea what’s coming. I think this will fundamentally change the country in ways that we don’t appreciate now, just like 9-11 did. When 9-11 happened, we knew things were different, and we didn’t know how they were going to be different. Some things good, a lot of things bad, unfortunately. But it definitely changed the country, and I’m hoping this is a change for the good.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, I think it is going to be as well. And this came in from Yvonne. She said professionalism, decency, and decorum are not incompatible with free speech. And William Wilberforce back in England in the 1700s said we need to get to a society of good manners. And dancing on someone’s grave is not good manners. We’ve got a minute left, Dr. June Depp. It goes way too quickly when you’re on the show. What’s your final thought?
SPEAKER 07 :
Thanks. Yeah, I think this is the time to be civil and not behave like the left did when George Floyd died and riot and destroy things. That’s not the solution. And there is a stark difference. If this was Greta Thunberg or David Hogg or somebody that was assassinated by – someone on the right, we’d have riots and all sorts of stuff. And instead, it’s not. It’s civil discourse. It’s at the football games. I understand a lot of the, not all the teams, but a lot of the teams pay tribute to Charlie. And I think that’s a good thing. And it’s smart to tone down the rhetoric and also tone down all the conspiracy theories. This is still an evolving story of, you know, who radicalized this kid and foreign governments and all sorts of stuff. There’s a lot of wild theories going around. And I would encourage people to be patient and remember that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, thank you, Dr. Brian Jundepth. And you can find his piece at Rasmussen Reports. And also many of his pieces are at American Thinker. We’ll talk with you next month. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 07 :
Sounds great. Thanks, Kim. Bye now.
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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’re each 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 really an important conversation with Dr. June Depth in our number one regarding the radicalization of some of our young people. And that will rebroadcast in the one to two o’clock hour. And you can check that out. I did want to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their goal sponsorship of the show because it’s reliable, efficient, and Affordable and abundant power from oil, natural gas and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams and empowers us to change our own personal climate. And also, let’s get over here to our word of the day. I chose the word chaos. And it spells C-H-A-O-S. It could be a state of utter confusion or disorder. Number two, any confused, disorderly mass. Number three, the infinity of space or formless matter supposed to have preceded the creation of the universe. Number four, chasm or abyss. And I think we want order in our society. And this is Constitution Week up at Grand Lake U.S. Constitution, or in Grand Lake. And this is their 14th anniversary of Grand Lake U.S. Constitution Week. The keynote speaker on Saturday is Jonathan Turley. a nationally known professor from Georgetown, and he’ll be talking about his book, which is Freedom of Speech in this Age of Rage. It’s going to be very interesting. There’s going to be also a meet-and-greet that you can buy tickets for the Saturday evening, and you can get your tickets by going to GrandLakeUSConstitutionWeek.com. And you can find out all of the events that are going to be going on. It starts today with Professor Rob Nielsen this evening at 5 o’clock in their community center. So check all of that out. And so our word is chaos, and the opposite of chaos is order. And this is a quote from Edmund Burke. He was born in 1729, died in 1797. He said, “‘Good order is the foundation of all things.'” And we’re at a time right now where there are those who are really trying to push chaos instead of order. And I think this is a turning point, if you will, to take from Charlie Kirk, a turning point in our country with his assassination. And I think that people are realizing that that just anything goes isn’t really the right way to be headed, because just anything goes doesn’t work. We need to have order in our lives on an individual basis and an order in our society, and also an order in our financial life as well. And I have Jody Hinzey on the line with me. She is the owner of Mint Financial Strategies, and Order all the way in our lives is something that we really want. We crave for that. Jodi Hensley, welcome to the show. Good morning, Kim. Chaos is a perfect word of the day. It is. And we are there are those that seem to want to keep us in chaos in our lives. And and we need to in our personal lives, our financial lives, in our country, our society. We certainly need order. But as you and I were texting back and forth regarding what should we talk about? Here is a young father, Charlie Kirk, wife, children, never expected that he would be assassinated. Untimely death is something we never really like to think about, particularly for young families. But September is Life Insurance Awareness Month, and people need to be thinking about having these important discussions with families you know, with you for sure. So talk about that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Agreed. You know, I mean, life insurance is kind of one of those necessary evils for young families. It’s one of the things that I don’t like to talk about because you never wanted to have to have that day where, you know, you have to deliver a check for life insurance, but I will tell you some of the most rewarding days in my career is when I’ve been able to deliver a check, um, Because, you know, you’re grieving. And when you have a young family that is having to deal with something unexpected like this. the last thing they want to have to worry about is what am I going to do with this mortgage payment that I’m stuck with? How am I going to pay my bills the next day? How am I going to take care of my kids? How am I going to pay for their college? And if you have a life insurance policy that’s going to be able to take care of all of those things, you don’t have to worry about it and you can focus on the most important things. So life insurance can solve those things and it’s an important aspect of financial planning and can help reduce some of the chaos that comes around an unexpected death.
SPEAKER 20 :
Again, I don’t think people, young people don’t even think about mortality. Although this whole thing with Charlie Kirk is, I think we’re all still reeling from it. It’s still unbelievable. And I guess that’s on a, he was a public figure, but those same reactions occur if there is an untimely death in a family. So it’s not that different. It’s not.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I think, you know, you can probably even hear it in my voice. I’m still emotional about it. And, you know, I’ve experienced that too. My own dad, as you know, when we first started working together, passed away in a plane accident when I was 14. And, you know, these things just happen. And, you know, the one time that I actually did deliver a check for life insurance was for a young mom who was 34 years old, who was diagnosed with breast cancer and passed away within two years. So, you know, it doesn’t have to be an accident. It doesn’t have to be something like happened last week. You know, these things just unfortunately do occur. And, you know, life insurance. is actually something that can be purchased, especially for young people, at a very, very minimal cost. I mean, I have life insurance on myself. I purchased it when my son, Charlie, was just born. And, you know, I pay less than a dollar a day. I mean, we go out to Starbucks and spend $8, $10 on a cup of coffee without a second thought. And it’s like you can buy life insurance for less than that. So it’s something that we should think about. You know, I don’t believe in buying a bunch of insurance just for, you know, for the sake of it. But, you know, it can really come in handy in these type of situations.
SPEAKER 20 :
So, Jody, if people are hearing this and say, you know what, it is time now that I really put order in my financial life and I want to talk about life insurance, you will sit down with people or either do a phone call. It doesn’t cost anything for that initial. phone call. And I would really recommend that people don’t procrastinate on this, that they reach out to you.
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And FS like financial strategies, so MintFS.com. Excellent. Well, I think also for grandparents, probably need to have a discussion with their children about calling you regarding life insurance and a plan as well. Because these young families, they’re busy. They’re not thinking about a lot of this stuff. And the events of last Wednesday have said, oh, my gosh, we need to think about all of these things. So Jody Henze, Mint Financial Strategies, that number is 303, let’s see, 285-3080, right? I think I have that memorized. Do I have that right? Yes, you do. Okay. Jody, we will talk to you here in a couple of weeks. Have a great day. Thank you for all that you do. I really appreciate you.
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Thank you, Kim. Have a good week.
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Thank you so much for having me, and I’m really looking forward to our discussion.
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Well, let me step back and just give a little context to answer that question. So up until 2013, our nation’s homeless system was pretty diverse. We had, you know, shelters. We had programs, transitional housing programs with services, meaning services such as mental health services. Support drug and alcohol counseling domestic violence counseling employment training. We had that we had some permanent housing and in 2013 the Obama administration. Decided as a nation. And by the way, the federal government is a large defender of homelessness. So when they make a declaration like this, it, you know, it trickles down everywhere. They decided that the only thing we were going to do for the homeless is give them keys to a lifelong subsidized apartment unit. All of the money that we were spending on other things was going to go instead into the creation of housing subsidies, more housing subsidies. This has been and by the way, they said when they rolled this out, you know, there is no one size fits all solution to anything, not in medicine, not in education, not in homelessness. But they said this was going to end homelessness in a decade. And 12 years later, we’re at the highest point ever recorded in our nation’s history, almost a 35% increase. Homelessness has not ended. And what’s happened is because we defunded at HUD and decoupled, a mental health treatment and drug and alcohol counseling. And, you know, about 80% of the homeless are struggling with, with either one or both of those issues because we defunded them. These diseases for these individuals have gotten worse. You know, when, when diseases don’t get treatment, they, they worsen and that’s exactly what’s happened. So you see a lot more street homeless because there’s, there’s, their diseases have gone untreated. And living on the streets creates even further trauma and deepens those diseases. But you’re seeing more of them on the streets as well because we don’t have enough lifelong housing units to provide them. And this has just been an unmitigated disaster. We should have never rolled out a one-size-fits-all approach, certainly not this one that has failed on every level of the system. What needs to be done, this president, his administration laid out the roadmap. What he said in his EO, his executive order several weeks ago, is we need to reprioritize mental health treatment, drug and alcohol treatment. We need to move people out of these encampments that are Very dangerous for them and very dangerous for the general public and move them into places where they can access treatment and get back on a path to individual restoration so He has, you know, what I say often is turn the battleship in the right direction finally. But it’s now up to us to build the system that there’s not enough treatment capacity out there right now for how sick people are. So we’ve got to build those programs. So there’s a lot of work ahead. But I’m so glad to be able to say that the battleship is finally headed in the right direction.
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So, Michelle Steeb, I have thought that there has become, though, a homelessness industrial complex. And as I look at the financials on some of these different organizations, there is big money and big salaries that are being paid to people that, for example, the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless in 2023, their financials, they had… Let’s see, total revenue was $104 million and some pretty healthy salaries as I looked at the 990s, their tax filings. And so just human nature, they’re not going to want to solve that problem when there’s a $104 million gravy train. What’s your thoughts about that?
SPEAKER 05 :
You’re absolutely right. One of the biggest travesties within the last 12 years is this approach that completely eliminated accountability from the homeless, the nation’s homelessness system. So there’s no accountability at the individual level, right? You, you get keys to a lifelong house. Uh, you don’t have to work ever. You don’t have to be sober. You don’t have to engage in mental health treatment. This, this is, there’s no accountability at the individual level. Then at the nonprofit level in San Francisco alone, there are 12, homeless nonprofits, homeless serving nonprofits that are under investigation for misuse of funds for fraud. And at the system level, I mean, again, we, I shared those numbers earlier, right? That the, uh, homelessness was supposed to be eliminated in a decade and it’s on up by almost 35%. So. The president in this executive order is also reinstating accountability at every level of the system. And to your point, the National Alliance to End Homelessness and a bunch of organizations over the weekend have, they’re suing the federal government for instituting this, you know, redirecting funding towards an approach that’s going to be much more effective. They don’t want to let the gravy train go, but we are going to keep pushing in, you know, all of us need to be pushing in this direction. And I would say to your listeners, hold your elected leaders accountable to implementing this, now under this new EO, implementing a system that refocuses all funding on treatment and recovery and restoration. You’ve got to hold them accountable because they will resort back to what they’ve been doing if we don’t step up and ensure that they are reorienting their system.
SPEAKER 20 :
So, Michelle, Steve, there’s nothing compassionate about making someone dependent forever. And I know this is a strong statement, but somebody had said this, that that that treats human beings like pets instead of the unique, precious, treasured individual that they are. And it is so callous to me that there would be those, and I can’t believe what you just said, that there are homeless organizations that are suing to keep this system in place where all that it does is it… is it doesn’t work at trying to help people solve this problem. Ultimately, if we get this right, the homelessness will go down and people will start to live fruitful and prosperous lives. That seems like that’s what the goal should be, Michelle Steeb.
SPEAKER 05 :
One thousand percent. I couldn’t agree with you more. And I often say this policy, right, this policy, that the Trump administration is now dismantling called Housing First, the one size fits all policy approach to homelessness. It is the most oppressive thing we have done, I think, in this century is to keep people down, to keep people locked into the diseases that often accompany homelessness, again, mental illness and addiction, and don’t give them a pathway out to realizing you know the the plan uh you know that uh they’re you know the plan that god had for their lives um whether or not you’re a believer i mean we’re all born with tremendous potential and gifts and none of the people that are doing in their disease on the streets none of them when their first grade teacher said what do you want to be when you grow up none of them chose the life they’re living now, we have to help get them back on, uh, the path to that life. And, and that’s what our system should be 1000% focused on doing. And it is abhorrent that these, uh, these, you know, quote unquote, I always say that quote unquote advocates, right. The national alliance to end homelessness and all these, you know, advocate organizations, it, it, It is abhorrent that they sit back and have watched this explode, just like we all have on our streets and still stand behind the same failed detrimental approach. It’s just abhorrent.
SPEAKER 20 :
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SPEAKER 20 :
Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. As you know, the two nonprofits that I highlight on a regular basis on the show is the USMC Memorial Foundation and and they are taking care of the official Marine Memorial, which is here in Golden, Colorado, as well as working to raise the money for the remodel. And you can help them by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And then the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo. They’re nonpartisan, nonpolitical, just focused on these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. And they’ve put together some great K-12 programs educational programs. They have an opportunity for secondary educators for a training here a little bit later in the month. And you can get more information about all that by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. Talking with Michelle Steeb, she’s the founder of the Free Up Foundation and author of Answers Behind the Red Door, Battling the Homeless Epidemic. Michelle Steeb, first thing, you had mentioned this lawsuit earlier. which was filed just last Thursday. And it’s crazy to me, as I look at this, it says the National, and this is the website National Alliance to End Homelessness. The National Alliance to End Homelessness and Women’s Development Corporation filed a lawsuit, as well as a motion for a temporary restraining order against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD, and the HUD Secretary Scott Turner. The suit challenges new funding restrictions that unlawfully condition access to federal housing grants on compliance with the Trump administration’s partisan agenda. Plaintiffs are represented by Democracy Ford, National Homelessness Law Center, Lawyers Committee for Rhode Island, and ACLU Foundation of Rhode Island. I think the dot to connect is that these organizations want to keep human beings in a subsidized life, very possibly an addicted life for their whole life. And there’s nothing compassionate about that all, Michelle Steeb.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 1 :
1000%.
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s just like I, like we were talking about earlier, it’s unfathomable. You know, I often call this this system that we’re moving away from, thank God, a straitjacket to dependence and misery. And that’s exactly what it is. It’s just been a disaster.
SPEAKER 20 :
So with that, on your book, Answers Behind the Red Door, what’s the red door?
SPEAKER 05 :
I was so blessed to have run a Northern California’s largest program for homeless women and children in Northern California. Uh, it was a very comprehensive 12 to 18. Help these moms become primary providers for their families. And, uh, we chose the red door as our. way more than a logo, right? It was just, it was the essence of who we were, and it symbolized, you know, the red door, and feng shui is good luck, but biblically, it’s, you know, it’s got, you know, great meaning, and slavery times, it was the place where people knew they could go to escape, you know, slavery, being captive, And so it really became our symbol. Every bedroom door throughout our facility was red, painted red, and our front door was as well. And I chose that title for our book because after 13 years of running that program, I felt like I had a lot of I had a tremendous amount of hope that we could turn this crisis around and wanted to provide the roadmap to do that. And that’s just the… Answer.
SPEAKER 20 :
Thank you. Thank you. Let’s talk about Colorado, because our city, Denver, the city that I loved, has become dirty and dangerous. And Mayor Mike Johnston has said he wants to build all of this subsidized housing to address the homelessness problem, which that’s right down what you’re talking about. And then as I look at this as I’ve done research, realizing that there is big money and people are making big money on the backs of the tragedy of homelessness. Have you looked at Denver at all at what’s happening here?
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, certainly. Denver is one of the epicenters of the crisis, as we describe a lot of California cities as well. But I’ve looked at Denver, and in addition to the fact that as a city, you have largely, and region, you have largely followed the housing crisis. first approach and philosophy, you’ve also, you know, have a very permissive, uh, policy around substances around substance, uh, usage and, uh, and that just further exacerbates, uh, what’s already a crisis of, you know, dependency, right. Dependency on substances, dependency on, on the system. So, We talk often and look often at Colorado, and I’ve also testified to the legislature there as I think three times now you all have considered what the advocates call safe injection sites. I don’t call them that. I call them, you know, I have a different name for them, but supervised drug consumption sites is what I call them. Thank God you, you know, you’ve been able to battle back against these sites. They have been another unmitigated disaster. There’s, you know, they’re illegal under federal law. The Biden administration turned a blind eye to four that opened over the last four years in New York and one that opened in San Francisco was since closed. These sites do nothing to help the homeless heal from their addiction. They don’t lead them into treatment and they create tremendous chaos in, you know, around, you know, in the neighborhood where these sites are created. And thankfully, like I said, you know, the The rational part of the legislature has been able to battle these things back, but it’s gotten closer and closer every time. So I do want to call your readers to be focused on that because I think it’s going to come back in this next legislative session. Now, the Trump administration has, in the EO, has said they are not allowing these sites. They’re going to shut down the ones that try and shut down the ones that are currently in existence, but not allowing any further rise of these disastrous sites. But it’s something your listeners definitely want to be paying attention to.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yes, and I need to give a shout out to my fellow Colorado Union of Taxpayer Board members. We’re all volunteers, and we watch legislation down at the Statehouse, and in fact, tonight is our board meeting. So very quickly, I want to say thank you to this amazing group of volunteers, Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamel. Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onozorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. And we’ll have our ratings report out here probably within the next couple of weeks. It’s at the printer. But we analyze pieces of legislation. There were 768 pieces of legislation that were proposed this last legislative session, Michelle Steeb. And we took positions on almost 270 of those. So it’s amazing. group of people that were watching what’s going on, but I remember this safe injection. Again, I have that in air quotes. The idea that we would take taxpayer dollars to support people with an addiction that will ultimately take their lives and takes away their humanity and their prosperity and thriving and flourishing, that we would use tax dollars to do that. There’s something, I think, immoral about that. Just having that system is one thing that I think is immoral, but having taxpayers to forcibly take money from taxpayers, their hard-earned dollars, to pay for it is unconscionable to me.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes. And, you know, out of San Francisco, again, they closed that site down after a year. The community outcry was was just too great for the elected officials to not listen to, thankfully. But there literally were individuals that had been going to that site who overdosed, who literally died from drug overdose. 30 times and were revived all with taxpayer money it’s crazy it is we we don’t even we’re not even talking about the if thankfully they were able to be brought back to life but the effects on the body and the brain of dying and being revived 30 times no one’s even talking about that it’s it’s just horrific so Again, hopefully that doesn’t rear its head again. But like I said, every time, every legislative session that it came up, it got closer and closer to becoming law in Colorado. So hopefully that doesn’t happen. And with your organization’s support and your listeners’ support, now you know to look out for it and prevent it.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, absolutely. Michelle, Steve, this is I’m so pleased to meet you here on air. And you are the founder of Free Up Foundation and also author of Answers Behind the Red Door, Battling the Homeless Epidemic. Thank you. What’s your final thought you’d like to leave with our listeners?
SPEAKER 05 :
I want to leave saying that there is absolutely a pathway to turning this around. I have watched thousands and thousands of people come to us at rock bottom and now be thriving. Some are single mothers in California who are homeowners. This is absolutely able to be turned around, and we need to have that hope, and we need to build a system that helps them thrive. helps them do that. That’s what we need to all be focused on doing, helping people get back on the path to restoration and to thriving.
SPEAKER 20 :
Michelle, Steve, thank you so much. And again, that book is Answers Behind the Red Door, Battling the Homeless Epidemic. And Michelle, we’ll talk again soon.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you. Look forward to it.
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SPEAKER 22 :
Well, actually, I’ve been going to city council meetings for about the last six years or so. And at first I started going, you know, I’m sure all city councils are about the same. The public is invited to be heard for about three minutes on any topic they want to talk about. And our city council in Longmont was pretty much always seven, shall I say, socialists and zero free market people, you know. So I decided to start going and speaking up so at least they can hear the other side of it, another possible solution to a problem because they would just rubber stamp each other. And after years of speaking and also listening and realizing they don’t listen to the public. I was brought up that when you’re a public servant, you’re supposed to basically implement the public’s will that elected you, not do whatever you want. And I ran two years ago, but I was unsuccessful because I ran against an incumbent and I had no name recognition. This time it’s going delightfully different. I’ve got a lot of people that are remembering me from a couple years ago, and I think the problems in Longmont have gotten a lot worse. For one, the Longmont City Council did a survey three years ago, and over 75% of the people felt the biggest problems in Longmont were traffic, crime, and as I heard your earlier person talk about, homelessness. So all the city council has done in the last three years is build hundreds and hundreds of more low-income housing city-owned units. And I keep telling them – well, and obviously that leads to a lot more traffic. So I keep telling them that if the city – 24% of the cost of every residence is city fees and taxes. If the city would quit charging builders these huge fees – to steal their money to build more low-income housing, then everything would be 24% less expensive and more affordable to begin with. Very good point. Well, thank you. They create their own problems and they don’t even admit it. One council member who I ran two years ago wanted to build a free tiny home for every homeless person. And I pointed out that that won’t work because in three days you’d have another 500 homeless people wanting free homes. You know, you’ve got to help people help themselves. You can’t just give them something because that’s not a solution.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, and the important dot that you’re connecting is it’s taking money from other people. And so when they have less money in their pocket, their lives are less affordable. So it’s a downward spiral.
SPEAKER 06 :
Never-ending circle, yeah.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah. Yes. For sure. And so… So this is a November election, correct? This November? Correct.
SPEAKER 22 :
Okay. November 4th.
SPEAKER 20 :
Okay. And so how can people get more information about you? What’s your website?
SPEAKER 22 :
My website is www.stev4longmont.com, and it’s all small letters.
SPEAKER 20 :
So Steve Altshuler, one of the things that we battle, particularly on these off-year elections, is voter apathy. People are busy. They don’t understand the issues. And are you finding that people, as you’re talking with them, are paying attention now?
SPEAKER 22 :
Oh, that’s the $64,000 question. People are paying attention, especially in Longmont, with all the construction they’ve been doing and the fact that for years traffic has been bad and getting worse and worse. That’s pretty much the first thing that comes out of someone’s mouth is what’s going on with all the traffic in Longmont. So every time I talk to somebody, I just stress traffic. You know, I understand you don’t like it. I don’t like it. It’s going against everything that people of Longmont seem to want. But you’ve got to get up and vote in November. So many people will just complain and then they’ll feel like, well, my one vote won’t make any difference. It does. And we need especially conservatives to get out there and vote because we’re outnumbered in the Boulder County area.
SPEAKER 20 :
But I think that people need to connect this dot. They don’t like what’s happening in their community. And so people need to say, well, what is it exactly that is happening? Now, subsidized housing, you mentioned just the cities. the city of Longmont, that their rules, regulations, whatever, is contributing to 24% of the cost of housing. So if you lower the cost of housing by 25%, it then is… People can afford to buy homes. Yeah. But what happens is government loses its control. And that’s, I think, really what it’s about is power and control.
SPEAKER 22 :
I agree 100%. The current city council, and not just in Longmont, but certainly all the little cities in Boulder County, if you look at what they’re doing, it’s all about control. And when I ran two years ago, we were having a similar problem or the same problem. And I was saying, once a person’s income is low enough that they qualify for subsidized housing, they can stay in that subsidized housing for the next 50 years of their life. And that’s just the taxpayers making up the difference. So my suggestion was don’t build so many homes. Help people, but make it for like three to five years. And make it clear that once they have had their three to five years of assistance, they’re out of the program. So they have to get ready to help themselves. Have everyone take one class every semester at Front Range City College to help increase their value as an employee. But if if you just make it, I’ve had people tell me that they couldn’t work any more hours that week because they’d earn too much money and they would lose their benefit. And that’s just that’s stealing from the other taxpayers. It’s ridiculous.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, and it’s also stealing their opportunity, their dignity of hard work, their dignity of taking care of themselves. How about not enabling people? Right, and taking away their drive to do better. And so then they’re just stuck in this spiral. Steve Altshuler, thank you so much for running for city council in Longmont. Again, what is your website?
SPEAKER 22 :
www.steveforlongmont.com. The four is the number four, and it’s all small case letters.
SPEAKER 20 :
And can I throw out one more thing really quick? Yeah, we’ve got about 20 seconds.
SPEAKER 22 :
Okay. I heard the best expression yesterday with all the problems going on in France. The leader of France said, you can overthrow the government, but you can’t overthrow reality. And so many people in Longmont and every other city buy what some people are saying because it sounds good. But if you really look at it, it doesn’t really help the problem. They have to hear the reality and accept the reality and deal with the problem in real terms.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well said, Steve Altshuler. So thank you so much. And again, he’s a candidate for Longmont City Council. I wish you great luck.
SPEAKER 22 :
Thank you, Kim. Nice to talk to you.
SPEAKER 20 :
And the quote for the end of the show, so appropriate, Edmund Burke, he said this, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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