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Join Kim Monson as she delves into the nuanced discussion of the socialization of vital sectors such as transportation, education, and energy. Discover how government controls these through rules and regulations and what this means for the future of freedom versus force. The episode also examines the current political climate, looking at bipartisan politics and how they influence public perception and access to truth.
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The socialization of transportation, education, energy, housing, and water. What it means is that government controls it through rules and regulations.
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Under this guise of bipartisanship and nonpartisanship, it’s actually tapping down the truth.
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On an equal field in the battle of ideas, mistruths and misconceptions is getting us into a world of hurt.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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Indeed. Let’s have a conversation. And welcome to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured. You’re valued. You have purpose. Today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. Thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Wednesday, Producer Joe. Happy Wednesday, Kim. And if it is Wednesday, that means that it is Wings Day at Hooters restaurants. You buy 20 wings, you get an additional 10 for free. That’s for to go or to dine in. Their locations are Loveland, Westminster and in Aurora on Parker Road. And just a great, great way to take it home to the family. and have some great wings so be sure and check that out we’ve got a lot going on out there before we get into all of it i wanted to say thank you to laramie energy for their gold sponsorship of the show because it’s reliable efficient affordable and abundant power from natural occurring fuels such as oil natural gas and coal that powers our lives fuels our hopes and dreams and empowers us to change our own personal climate to be warm in the winter and cool in the summer This industry has been under legislative and regulatory attack. And connect the dot. Then what is under attack is a reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power source for we, the everyday Americans. And so we need to understand what’s going on out there and shed light on it. Let’s see. Next thing, let’s get over here to our word of the day. And it is… And it could be an alteration intended to improve or number two, the removal of errors, the correction of that which is erroneous or faulty, alteration for the better or correction. So I would say that President Trump is trying to use emendations to reclaim our American founding. And we see so many different things. I’m going to go through some of the headlines that have been occurring just within the last 24 hours, and it is pretty remarkable what is going on out there. I went to Thomas Sowell for our quote of the day. He was born in 1930. He’s an American economist, economic historian, and social and political commentator. He’s a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute with widely published commentary and books, and is a guest on television and radio. He’s a well-known voice in the American conservative movement as a prominent black conservative. He was born in Gastonia, North Carolina, and he grew up in Harlem, New York City. Due to poverty and difficulties at home, he dropped out of high school and worked various jobs, eventually serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. Afterward, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1958. He earned a master’s degree in economics from Columbia University the next year and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1968. And he’s held professorships at Cornell, Brandeis, and the University of California, Los Angeles. And this is… Sorry, this is what he said. He said, And that is from Thomas Sowell, the great economist. Okay. Let’s see. I wanted to mention also the Grand Lake U.S. Constitution Week. And this is coming up. It’s going to be fantastic. It starts on Monday, the 15th, and Constitution Day is September 17th. And this is their 14th annual U.S. Constitution Week. And you can go to GrandLakeUSConstitutionWeek.com for all of the information, and you can see all of the events that they have coming up and all the speakers. It will culminate – actually, on Sunday morning, they do have a church service, but Saturday is the big day. And there will be a parade, which is so fun. It’s such a taste of Americana. And I typically get to ride in the parade, which is a lot of fun. And then I will be the emcee, the master of ceremonies for the event. And the… Keynote speaker is Jonathan Turley, who is a Georgetown professor, nationally recognized as a constitutionalist. And he’ll talk about his new book, Free Speech in an Age of Rage. So go to Grand Lake U.S. Constitution Week to get more information about the event. It’s going to be great. And again, that is September 15th through September 21st, which is right around the corner. Let’s see, the next thing that I wanted to mention, let’s just go through some of the headlines there. This is a big deal. I was talking with Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins with the Second Syndicate, which is a sponsor of the show. They’re bringing all these voices together to take action down at the legislature as we get ready for this next election. legislative session regarding our Second Amendment rights, which is our rights to keep and bear firearms so that we can protect ourselves against bad actors. And this is really terrific news. This is from the Center Square. It says, And the suit is brought by the Colorado State Shooting Association and litigated by Mountain States Legal Foundation regarding the constitutionality of Senate Bill 25003. The suit argues the new law puts in place an onerous permit to purchase scheme. And Senate Bill 25003 was passed by the Democrat majority in the last regular legislative session and signed into law by Democrat Governor Jared Polis, who is a defendant in the lawsuit. And so this is great news and very pleased that this is occurring. And so stay tuned on that. Next headline that I pulled in, I was in a text thread back and forth regarding the reports that Donald Trump was going to send federal troops to Chicago. And I would really like to know the constitutionality of that. I want to make sure that we stay within the confines of the Constitution. The District of Columbia, there’s a lot of federal buildings there. It is our nation’s capital. And my understanding is that from a constitutional standpoint, for Trump to send troops into Washington, D.C., that that was within the confines of the Constitution. I don’t know about sending troops into these other cities. And actually, when we reported yesterday— that Denver actually is more dangerous than Washington, D.C. Denver is the ninth most dangerous city in the United States at this particular point in time, as reported by The Hill. And So one thing for people to live, and this back and forth thread is, gosh, if there are sleeper cells of cartels, of terrorists in our communities, gosh, it would be great to get them out of there. True. And these mayors and governors have an obligation to do that. However, instead of protecting American citizens, we’ve seen here in Colorado both Mayor Mike Johnston of Denver and Governor Jared Polis and this legislature welcome people into our community who we don’t know who they are. So that is a breakdown in their responsibility. So they have not kept up their part of the bargain. We have dangerous people in our communities. We’re a very dangerous community. I don’t see actions that are being taken to turn that around. So would we want federal troops to come into Denver? The precedent that that could set for a president down the road, I’m concerned about that. So I’d like to – I guess I’m going to need to go to work and get a constitutional expert on to just kick this whole idea around on whether or not this is constitutional, what that looks like. But the bottom line is, is the mayor of Chicago, the governor of Illinois – The mayor of Denver, the governor of Colorado are letting the people of their states and communities down. We need to hold them accountable at the ballot box. But that segues into the next thing, and that is that Trump says that he is going to have an executive order to get rid of mail-in ballots. And these mail-in ballots offer the opportunity for funny stuff to happen. And that’s why the lawsuits that we filed, because all of you helped raise the money, to two things, with Unite for Freedom. That particular lawsuit says that Colorado is not meeting the minimum standards as set forth by Congress for our elections. It’s a civil rights issue, and it says we don’t care how you do it, but you need to get to these standards. And the standards are pretty low, and we’re not even hitting those. The other lawsuit with Wisconsin Center for Election Justice is that there are people or there are ballots that are being cast in Colorado elections that are not valid, basically. And there’s a myriad of things. But so this whole mail-in ballot thing is a problem. And Trump realizes that. He can’t do anything about state elections, but he needs to assure – we need to assure – And I think he’s within the Constitution that federal elections are meeting these standards. And so the fact that we anticipate he will issue that executive order is a pretty big deal, shedding light on that. So the next thing, this was a huge headline as well, that Trump says he is moving the Space Command from Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama. And this is from The Hill. Trump says Colorado’s mail-in voting played a role in the Space Command move. And he says, this is Trump, the problem I have with Colorado, one of the big problems is they do mail-in voting. They do all mail-in voting so they have automatically crooked elections, Trump said. And we can’t have that. When a state is for mail-in voting, that means that they want dishonest elections because that’s what that means. So stay tuned on that. That’s going to be super interesting. And we’ll go through some of these other headlines throughout the show as well. There is a lot going on in our world. Regarding EFOLA Bakery, we are going to do – I haven’t told Joe this. We are going to do an on-location at EFOLA a week from – or EFOLA next Friday. And they are asking for a public hearing – regarding their permit denial. So stay tuned on all of that as well. 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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That’s KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. All kinds of great information there. And be sure and sign up for our weekly email newsletter highlighting our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays that goes out on Sunday. We typically only send one email. We will not just inundate your email inbox. And so be sure and sign up for that. I’m very excited to talk with Mike Rolick. He is a citizen activist who is just really watching a lot of local things that are happening. And this is so important because there’s a lot going on out there. Mike Rolick, welcome to the show.
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Kim, good morning. How’s it going?
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It’s going well. And, Mike, we’ve been talking about Efula French Bakery on Lookout Mountain Road. And we’ve been talking about the fact that they need a variance so that they can keep these tiny homes on their property so that they can have their bakery be successful. And interestingly enough, Jefferson County in the winter will be closing Lookout Mountain Road from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. So that would if they were not on location working, you know, living near where they work. I don’t know how that they would get to their bakery for a 7 a.m. open because it takes a while to bake things if you’re going to have them fresh at 7 a.m.
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Well, are they inside of where the gates are?
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I’m not exactly sure where the gates are, but I do think it’s important. I’ll verify that, exactly where they are.
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Yeah, I’m not familiar with where they are, but yes, in general, the idea of closing a road at nighttime to vehicular traffic was… shocking, as it were, when I found out last year. The reason that they wanted to make this closure happen, according to Jeffco Open Space and Denver Mountain Parks, is the perpetrated level of crime that happens on Lookout Mountain Road at night. The gates are only supposed to shut off the land that runs over Lookout Mountain Road at Sorry, the Jeff Goldman Space portion of the land of Lookout Mountain Road. So hopefully the bakery is not inside that.
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I’ll find out.
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However, you know, the idea of restricting vehicular access is an interesting one. It’s a scary one. And it is kind of indiscriminate in my mind because bicycle traffic and pedestrians are still allowed during these nighttime closures. And it’s going to happen summer and winter, winter with shorter hours, summer with a longer hour of being open. But, yeah, the gates went up, I believe, last year. And the scary part about all this is kind of how it came to be. Jeff Colton’s face in Denver Mountain Parks had thought about how to reduce crime And they had some of the stakeholders involved, such as the folks down in Beverly Heights, I think the neighborhood’s called, and some other neighborhoods down in Golden. But they kind of left out the folks on top of Lookout Mountain in general. And I’ve talked to several. We had a small group going to try to go to some of these meetings and to present the case of the folks on top of the mountain. And it really didn’t go so far. Um, the HOA leaders that I’ve talked to feel largely left behind and ignored by the county and the other entities that were making this decision. And I found out about this whole thing kind of, uh, during a, during a planning commission meeting, frankly, um, because the location and extend process was the only process used to, to instill these closures. It wasn’t by the board of county commissioners. This was the planning commission alone. Um, The weird thing here, though, is they were trying to figure out, well, can we let the neighbors on the top of the hill access via some RFID card and the gates would open and close and the folks on the bottom said, no, that’s scary because they’re going to be piggybacking. And also, if I’m riding my bicycle at night, I heard one person say, how would I know there’s a car on the road? It’s a road. So that’s… So it’s interesting there. This is the National Scenic Byway as well. So when I did talk to the National Scenic Byway folks, they weren’t aware of the nighttime closure either. They don’t have much binding, but they could be a stakeholder. And everything just comes down to crime. Now, what’s interesting, though, is moving forward. There is a plan in place right now. They’re looking at different iterations of having a bike lane on either side and only one vehicle lane going up or down. And I was just looking at the latest traffic study that was included in the February workshop, and they determined uphill. Vehicle traffic is better than downhill vehicle traffic because of the brake noise. So this seems to go far beyond just the idea that there’s crime at night if they really want to change the whole character of the road to one-way vehicles and two-way bicycles. Kind of a scary precedent.
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So I know that it is a favorite road for bikers. And so if you had one lane up, then people obviously have to use an alternative route down, right?
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That would seem to be the case because, you know, you take your vehicle up there, then you have to go some other way. And there was a lot of discussion, you know, during the meeting that I was at last July where they said, hey, well, we use Google Maps and to get down to a medical facility or whatever down in Golden, it’s just as fast to go around on take I-70. As take a look at Mountain Road itself. There was discussions about the gates being then used as a mission creep for when there’s accidents or Fourth of July. So so they can control traffic and not have trailers go up there. And it was kind of scary because the Jeff Goldman space person had said a few times that people need babysitters. i.e., you know, she was annoyed when people took a trailer that was too long and got stuck somewhere along Lookout Mountain Road because of the hairpin turns. So folks need babysitters. So it was kind of an offensive thing there. But the rationale for the closure is the real kicker, I think, and then what happens with state law after. This could be considered a public highway under state law. It does run over public land. but it connects to private and private land on either side. And it’s not a right-of-way. It literally just goes right over public land. So there was discussion if there is a right-of-way on this part of the road or not. But what they did is they shared data from cell phones. There’s a company called Placer.ai, and they look at cell phone data as it passes certain locations and aggregates it to try to come up with different patterns of use of certain public areas. and what have you. They also use it for office buildings to see, I was looking at some things since COVID, they would say, okay, well, the office building traffic is backed up using Placer.ai. It looks like more people are going in and out of offices as opposed to working from home. Placer.ai could be used for trail usage. Hey, this many people are using the trail. But what they did here, which I think should be alarming, is they used Placer.ai to determine where the nighttime users are coming from. And based on zip code, local versus non-local, they determined that only 2.9% of the folks that were using the road at night with vehicles were from the local zip code. The other 97.1% were from other zip codes and therefore basically need not apply. And it’s shocking to think about a county-maintained road that also got some grant money for some of the vehicles the more historic features, being shut down to people from the wrong zip code, even mine or yours, any zip code. You know, I’m only one zip code away, and I’m not welcome at night because I’m not the local zip code.
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Okay, let me put on a tin hat then, Mike Rolick. I had no idea that we had this placer.ai. And we know, I know it sounds, if you’re not looking at the World Economic Forum, it sounds crazy. But there is an agenda, and you can see it playing out right here in Denver, and that’s 15-Minute Cities. And that is where PBIs want to force people to live in these, or coerce people to live in apartment buildings, get rid of their cars, and only travel around on buses and trains and bicycles and walking. And you can look at legislation happening down at the statehouse. You can look at the fact that Denver City Council is eliminating minimum parking requirements for new apartment buildings. So let’s say that you’re in this 15-minute city and you want to go outside your 15-minute city at night. There is now AI that’s going to say maybe not, right? Is that crazy for me to go that far?
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Partially yes, partially no to me because the 15-minute city versus what they did in Oxford, England, where they actually had the passes for local and non-local uses and the fines if you went past certain checkpoints too many times. I don’t know if that lasted in Oxford. I know it met with some resistance. But there was a lot of conflation between that and the 15-minute city concept from a design perspective. So that And I would agree. Anything that’s going to restrict travel is wholly on its face unconstitutional and not freedom-based. I would contend that if someone designed a rational, economically-based 15-minute city where I chose that everything was there and I chose to live there, I don’t have a problem with that if it’s my choice to say everything’s here within 15 minutes. And we know some developers who are making rational designs based on economic models as compared to, you know, the top-down model. But, yes, this seems to become an issue with restrictions if there’s a reason to restrict. And I was looking at this a little bit when it comes to what is places AI actually picking up. And we can get into this a little bit further, but just – just for kicks you know first of all i can’t find the contract for placer ai in denver and and but i’ve got some emails from a core that say denver mountain parks was sharing this information with jeff co-open space i did uh core requested about six different departments in denver city and no one can seem to find this particular contract so that’s interesting but what they pick up here because i do have some some of the information They’ll say the impressions on your cell phone, lower entrance is $112,900 per year. The upper entrance is $71,000. This is January 1st, December 31st, 2022. And they do time of day, midnight to 6 a.m., right? And so what they actually look like here is then they go into median household income. If they have a bachelor degree, medium age, ethnicity, and persons or per household, all off your cell phone data when you visit this particular upper or lower entrance of the park.
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Wow.
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That’s some scary stuff. And so they’re saying, okay, well, on the lower entrance, you have a median income of $67,900 a year. Only 34% had a bachelor’s degree. The median age was 36.2 years old. And most common ethnicity, which… I don’t even know why we’re looking at ethnicity. And then persons for household was 2.46 versus Colorado at 81.3 household income and 42% have a bachelor’s degree. So they’re kind of making the case here.
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just by the data that the folks using the park make a little bit less interesting and not as many people have a bachelor’s degree and all of a sudden we’re closing a road and and this is not freedom at all not it’s not freedom at all not at all hey mike we are out of time i appreciate these weekly updates and so we’ll continue this discussion next week this is so important i know there’s some other other things that we did not get to today so mike rollick thank you uh for this and we’ll talk with you next week
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Thank you, Kim. Have a great day.
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Well, we’re a national free market advocacy group. We work really on all the fiscal, economic, and regulatory issues. And we try to Focus on the fights where the outcome is in doubt, where if we can get people a little more involved, get them a little more information, help them write letters to Congress or to regulatory agencies, we can win some of these fights and tip the outcome in a more free market direction. And all of our stuff is on AmericanCommitment.org.
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Well, this is really important work. And every day it seems like there’s a headline with President Trump and his administration saying, working to roll back regulations. Of course, tariffs are a big thing. What do you think about the economy, what’s happening with the deficits? Big questions.
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Well, I think that the economic outlook right now is reasonably good. We got a pretty good GDP report for the second quarter of 3%, then revised up to 3.3%. We now have lifted the risk of a huge tax hike coming at the end of the year, which had been a major concern. And we’ve accelerated some other key tax provisions as well, brought back full business expensing on a permanent basis. And so a lot of those things are very positive. I think energy policy now. is much more bullish than it had been in the recent past, and the outlook for gasoline prices in particular now is that they’re probably going to decline, continue to decline through the end of the year, which is a big positive for not just household budgets, but for the cost of everything grown, shipped, and manufactured. So that’s very positive. And you mentioned the regulatory outlook. That’s also really, really good. In Trump’s first term, he had a rule to get rid of two old regulations for every one new one. This time his rule was to get rid of 10 old regulations for every one new one. I’ve been very encouraged. by what we’ve seen on the regulatory front, we’ve got all these positives. The one negative, which you mentioned, is the tariffs, which are a continued source of uncertainty and friction and potentially a very large tax hike as well. If they actually stay in place over the next decade, that could be a $4 trillion tax hike, which is almost as large as the tax hike that was prevented by the big, beautiful bill passing. It’s very similar, actually, in size. And so What we’re hoping is that we’ll get resolution on the trade front, get positive concessions from a bunch of our trading partners where the tariffs can come off and we actually end up in a better place on that front as well. And then I think we would really be off to the races. But on balance, I’m reasonably optimistic about the economic outlook. The other thing that I think is really important is the – The employment numbers, the composition of employment has changed pretty substantially. We’re looking at a 300,000 person reduction in the federal government payroll, and I think we’re going to start to see stronger expansion in some of the more productive sectors in the private side. So far, a lot of the job growth has been state and local government and healthcare sector. I’m really watching and hoping that we’re going to see a pickup in manufacturing and some of the other construction industry, some of the other things that could really benefit from the expensing provisions, in particular, that were in the big beautiful bill. And I’m hoping that when we get third quarter GDP, and we’ve got a month left in this quarter, and then it’s a little while before they release the data, but I’m hoping we’ll see another 3% plus growth quarter. And the forecasters have been a little bit all over the map. I think the blue chip forecast is only about 1% growth. I think they’re going to be way low. Atlanta Fed, last time I looked, was at about 3%. And I think that we’re likely… see a pretty significant increase in capital expenditures in the third quarter. And business investment is so important. It’s so important because when business investment rises, when companies are able to buy more equipment, more software, invest in their facilities upgrades, that means the people who work there will be more productive. And when people are more productive, they can be paid more. And so really, if we can see productivity rise with the increase in capital expenditures that i think we’re seeing uh that’s going to lead to uh you know in a significant increase in in real wages and by the way cam and you stop me i know i’m ranting a little bit but real wages are finally out of the hole which is to say the average median weekly earnings now are back to setting records again after really being in a ditch during biden because of you know how much inflation sort of lowered the standard of living people are kind of finally caught up out of that hole on average and uh I think if we can continue to grow from there, the psychology is going to turn much more positive in this country.
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Well, I had talked to people after Trump took office, and many of us agreed it’s going to be rocky and rough to get through the years and years through the Biden-Harris administrations. But even before, we’ve had Republican administrations that have grown government significantly. And and even with the Trump first, his first administration, government grew under that, didn’t it, Phil?
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Well, government always kind of grows. It grows faster under the Democrats than under the Republicans. And, you know, I think that. You know, you can sort of forgive Trump a little bit for deferring to people like Fauci and Birx, but his last year in office was very bad, his last year of his first term when he sort of turned things over to the lockdown artists and they passed massive, massive spending and subsidy bills and giveaways and all of that. So, I mean, his first three years were outstanding, and we had outstanding income growth in his first three years. His last year was very poor, but I think he learned a lot of lessons from that. Yeah, I did too. And I don’t expect anything like that to happen this time.
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Yeah, I do as well. What about, well, a couple of things. We continue to see headlines of these big companies that are committing to bring business back to the United States. Talk a little bit about that. Are they getting special deals to bring their businesses back or just getting rid of regulations? Or what does that look like? And I know that’s a blanket question that may be difficult. Yeah.
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yeah we are we’re seeing a lot of commitment to invest in u.s. facilities especially the pharmaceutical sector they’ve announced hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars of commitments which is going to be enormous enormous boom both economically and strategically if we have for pharmaceutical production in this country we’re not at risk of supply disruptions from China and that kind of thing it’s kind of an important sector and I think most of what Trump has done in terms of getting commitments for foreign investment has, I mean, some of it’s negotiations, and obviously in these trade deals he’s getting specific commitments for investment into the U.S., but I think a lot of it just has to do with the environment being much more conducive to doing business in the US, to your point about regulations being more reasonable, about energy policy being more accommodating, we’re becoming a much better place to do business, and tax policy has become much, much better as well. And that was one of the key legacies from the first Trump term, is we took our federal corporate rate from 35 to 21. And we were extremely uncompetitive internationally before. We’re still a little bit on the high end compared to a lot of our peer countries, but You know, when you’re in the range, at least, on corporate tax, then some of these other factors become significant. And, of course, we’re the biggest market in the world. And so if you want to sell in the U.S., producing in the U.S. has a big advantage as well. So we are seeing, you know, these major, major commitments for foreign direct investment in the U.S., which I think is a huge positive. And, you know, as long as we’re running trade deficits, which is likely to continue for a long time, There are going to be a lot of dollars that are sitting abroad from all the products that we bought, all the imports that we bought. Those dollars are going to be sitting abroad. To me, it’s much better if those dollars get invested in the private economy than if they just go into Treasury purchases that finance government spending. And so I’m very happy to see these commitments for investment in the U.S. private sector.
SPEAKER 16 :
So, Phil Kirpin, what about this report that the government is going to take a 10% interest in Intel? That’s not really the proper role of government, I don’t think.
SPEAKER 08 :
What’s your thoughts on that? No, I don’t like it. I’m very nervous about this, and I think Intel’s making a mistake agreeing to this, frankly. And, you know, look, with Trump in office, you can say, well, you know, he’s got a government that is pro-business and has good business sense, and them as a partner, you know, might be a positive. And, you know, okay, I might concede that, but he’s going to be president and the democrats will get into a company that we have an ownership they can need to do this laundry list of liberal political things uh… you know for the common good and that kind of thing and i think you’re going into business with the government is uh… usually a mistake it usually doesn’t work out well and also this idea of like national champion businesses that have uh… you know close relationships with huge subsidies and government ownership stakes that’s not the american economic model that Japan pioneered in the 1980s that everyone thought was so great, and then it totally collapsed in the 90s and 2000s. And so I don’t think that’s the path we should be following. And in the semiconductor industry in particular, the number one company in the world by far with a $4 trillion market capitalization is NVIDIA. which did not take any of the subsidies, did not participate in the CHIPS Act. And I know they’ve got most of their production in Taiwan, and I understand we’re concerned that potentially that’s at risk if China invades and that kind of thing. But frankly, that might be a reason to increase defense commitments to Taiwan. That’s not a reason to start taking stakes in private companies, in my opinion.
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I agree. Thank you, Phil Kirpin, on that. We’re going to continue the discussion with Phil Kirpin. He is the president of American Commitment, which is a think tank doing great work regarding our economy. These discussions help you know what’s going on, and they come to you because of our sponsors. For everything mortgages, reach out to Lauren Levy.
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It is Wednesday. Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That’s Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Also check out the website for the Center for American Values, which is AmericanValuesCenter.org. And they are going to host a program for secondary educators on September 23rd. which will be focused on the values of the center, which is located in Pueblo, of honor, integrity, and patriotism. And so get more information. Go to that website. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org. I’m talking with the president of American Commitment, Phil Kirpin, about our economy. And Phil, it’s been so interesting to watch the back and forth with President Trump and trying to put pressure on Jerome Powell, the chair of the Fed and Federal Reserve, to lower interest rates. What’s your thoughts about that particular dance?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, you know, I think the Fed has been extremely political under Jerome Powell. And there’s nothing really in the data – They would suggest that rate cuts made sense last year when they did them, but they don’t make sense this year. Nothing has really changed other than who the president is. And I think that I relate to the president’s frustration, because if long-term rates came down, the cost of capital for businesses and generally in the economy would be lower, and we’d get faster economic growth. The challenge is that inflation has remained a little bit higher than we’d like. It’s in the 2% to 3% range. It has not settled back to 2%. Part of that is the upward pressure from the tariffs. Maybe if we can get resolution on the trade front, that would ease that. I do think, though, the Fed is going to cut at their meeting this month, and we’ll probably get one more cut before the end of the year. That’s kind of been telegraphed. in uh… some of the speeches that we’ve seen from the chairman and of course uh… chairman pal’s gone may fifteenth he’s not the chairman anymore in the president will be able to to name a new chairman and so he’s sort of waiting him out although we’ve also got this drama around Lisa Cook, one of the members of the Board of Governors, who had three primary residences, according to her mortgage documents, at the same time, including two that she bought within one week of each other and listed them both as the primary residence in different states. And so, you know, the president may get effective control of the Board of Governors even before Powell leaves. He may have four of the seven votes, although A lot of the votes they take that matter for interest rates are of a larger 12-member board called the Federal Open Market Committee, and that might be a little more difficult to get control of because there’s a bunch of Fed Reserve Bank presidents on it and so forth. But the main thing for most people, the main thing that most people need to think about, and I think this is so important and underappreciated, is the only rate that the Fed sets or targets is the overnight increase interbank lending rate that’s called the federal funds rate. That is the shortest of short-term rates. They do not lower long-term rates when they lower that rate. And last year when they cut their rates, when they cut the federal funds rate, the rate on 10-year treasuries and the rate on 30-year mortgages actually went up, not down. And the reason that can happen is if you add sort of monetary stimulus to the economy in the near term, but the long-term outlook is still for huge government deficits, then people look at that and they think, okay, inflation in the long term is going to be high, and they don’t lend unless the interest rate is higher than their inflation expectation. And so adding more fuel to the economy in the near term, if you don’t solve that long-term, medium and long-term inflation expectation, can actually increase rather than lower those long-term interest rates. And so to me, I think it’s fine if we get a few Fed cuts, although I’d feel a little bit better about it if we had resolved the trade front, which has only partially happened so far. But the much more important thing, if we want to get the 10-year Treasury rate down and the 30-year mortgage down and give some relief to the sort of frozen housing market is government spending. Congress has got to cut spending. We’ve got to see meaningful reforms so that the medium and long-term inflation expectations come down. Without that, we’re not going to get those long-term rates down.
SPEAKER 16 :
Phil Kirpin, you are very in tune to what’s happening on Capitol Hill. Is there any political will anywhere to reduce government spending?
SPEAKER 08 :
uh… you know i think there is i think there is you know i it’s very easy to underestimate this speaker i’ve been guilty of a myself but he said he was going to get that first reconciliation bill uh… making all the tax cuts permanent done by july fourth i think a lot of us thought it was going to take until december and there was no chance and he delivered he did it exactly when he said he would do it he did it by july fourth and now we have to saying that they’re going to do a second reconciliation bill this year which has never been done before but I don’t doubt that he could because he delivered on a lot of the things that he said. And if you look at what the House Budget Chairman, Jody Arrington from Texas, is saying right now, he says they want to start with two things that I think are fantastic things to start with that not only would save a lot of money in terms of federal spending, but would also make health care a lot better. And those two things are. He wants to make it so that Medicare is what’s called site neutral. So we pay the same amount for an office visit, whether your physician is an independent physician or part of a hospital system. Right now, we have this insane situation where if you go to your doctor and it’s an independent doctor and you have a visit, Medicare will pay one amount. But if that exact same doctor gets bought by the local hospital system and then you go to his office and now his office is called the satellite location of the hospital system even though it’s literally the same doctor in literally the same office medicare paid a lot more so what happens we waste a lot of money and we have this massive consolidation all these mergers in the health care sector we we incentivize that we created that i think it’s made health care a lot worse so uh… he wants the number one star with fixing that getting rid of that problem which could save a lot of money and reverse maybe this mega merger trend in health care, which I think would be really, really good for improving the quality of health care. And the other thing he wants to start with is the unfinished business from the last reconciliation bill, which is the overmatch. for the overmatch for able-bodied working-age adults in Medicaid, which the way it works now, if a state Medicaid program covers the traditional Medicaid population, you know, a pregnant woman, a poor family with children, an elderly person, a disabled person, they get about $1.35 in federal funding for every dollar of state spending. But if you cover an able-bodied, non-disabled, working-age adult, the Obamacare expansion population, you get $9 of federal spending for every dollar of state spending. And so you get seven times more money for a state Medicaid program if you cover the less needy, the non-disabled, working-age adults, than you do for covering the needy. That is a massive waste of money, but it’s also very destructive and perverse in its incentives. So those are the two things they want to start with for the next reconciliation bill, which really makes me happy. If they can accomplish those two things, it would be huge to reduce spending and to make health care better. And so we may get an opportunity to get significant spending reductions this fall. So we’ll be watching that and hoping that succeeds.
SPEAKER 16 :
Phil Kirpin, we are basically out of time. I have an hour more worth of questions to ask you. We’ve got a minute. How would you like to button this up for our listeners? Really, I think there’s a lot of positives that I hear. I’m really excited about that. Your final thought, Phil Kirpin, President of American Commitment.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I’ll just mention that I think the biggest thing going on right now on the regulatory front, which we didn’t get into, is that Trump this time around is going root and branch at the whole regulatory apparatus around greenhouse gases much more aggressively than he did in his first term. And I think that’s so important that we support that effort because the left-wing groups and green groups are flooding the EPA right now with comments saying not to do it. And that idea that greenhouse gases are pollutants that need to be regulated under the 1970 Clean Air Act was the root cause of almost all of the really destructive regulatory mischief of the Obama and Biden administration. So that’s the big letter-writing campaign that we have going right now on AmericanCommitment.org. We’ve got pre-written letters that you can send into the EPA to bolster their efforts, or you can edit them however you want, and we’ll get them delivered. But I think we need to make sure that the record is not one-sided, so that this effort succeeds. So I would encourage people to go to AmericanCommitment.org and fill out that form and weigh in on that, because that’s the So that’s the multi-trillion dollar regulatory question is whether we’re going to have EPA regulation of greenhouse gases. And if they can do this well and do it successfully, it’s going to be much, much harder for the next Democratic administration to bring that back.
SPEAKER 16 :
Wow. Okay. And that’s AmericanCommitment.org. Phil Kirpin, thank you so much. We’ll talk again very soon.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right. Have a good one.
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indeed let’s have a conversation and welcome to our number two of the kim monson show thank you so much for joining us you each are treasured you’re valued you have purpose today strive for excellence take care of your heart your soul your mind and your body my friends we were made for this moment in history and thank you to the team that i get to work with that’s producer joe luke rachel zach echo charlie mike theresa amanda and all the people here at crawford broadcasting happy wednesday producer joe Happy Wednesday, Kim. Boy, there was a lot we covered in hour number one that we’ll rebroadcast today in the one to two hour. So be sure and check that out. As we get into all this, I wanted to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show because it’s reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power from naturally occurring fuels such as oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and and empowers us to change our own personal climate to be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. And so greatly appreciate them. Let’s get over to our word of the day. It’s emendation or emendations, and it could be an alteration intended to improve, or number two, the removal of errors, the correction of that which is erroneous or faulty, the alteration for better correction. I would say that we could say the Trump administration, as they are putting forth policies or emendations to really push back on years and years of… And spending and regulations and just so many things. And he’s working really quickly. On day one, he began and we talked about the Trump administration and the spending of the last his last year. He really had things rocking and rolling from an economic standpoint. People were thriving and flourishing. And then the reaction to COVID. And at that time, Trump deferred to experts. If I were Trump, he probably looked at that. He said, I’m not the expert. They’re the expert. In his hometown of New York, I remember a friend of his died from COVID. There were Pictures of body bags outside of hospitals. And so at that point in time, he deferred to Fauci and Birx. And I think that was a mistake. I think he realized that realizes that. I think that Phil Kirpin alluded to that as well. And so we need to stay the course to reclaim this fabulous country, this American idea. Based on the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, that these are inalienable rights. And they are so under attack here in Colorado with this legislature, this governor, but even at the local and county level as well. That’s why we focus on these issues. It’s so important that we do so. Our next thing is our quote of the day from Thomas Sowell. who is, he was born in 1930. He’s an American economist, economic historian, and social and political commentator, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford. He said this, he said, “‘Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, “‘not by the power of our enemies, “‘but by the ignorance of our teachers “‘and the dangerous nonsense “‘they are teaching our children. “‘In an age of artificial intelligence, “‘they are creating artificial stupidity.'” And that, again, is why we do this show, is to help all of us get our brains around these issues. And it happens because of our sponsors. And for everything mortgages, reach out to Lauren Levy. As when we were talking with Phil Kirpin in Hour Number One with American Commitment, is there’s the anticipation of lowering of interest rates. Phil mentioned the same thing that Lauren says to us on a regular basis. Even if the Fed lowers interest rates, that may not correlate to a reduction in mortgage rates. So Lauren, welcome. So we had an affirmation of the thing that you say all the time.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, that makes me feel good.
SPEAKER 16 :
So, with that, have interest rates come down on mortgages?
SPEAKER 19 :
We had about, I would say, heading into the end of last week, Thursday, Friday, we did have a little dip. You know, I talk to you about the 10-year note all the time. It fell down again to like 422, which is nice because it’s been in the 430s range. And so there was a couple opportunities there for people that we’ve had that have been waiting, which was nice. But then over the weekend, we had the stuff with the Trump tariffs possibly being deemed illegal and the talk of this refund stuff, which sent the Dow and the markets down yesterday. And that caused the 10-year note to go back to around 428. So it was short-lived. So this brings back the time you and I talked ad nauseum about how you need to be ready, you know, and take advantage of opportunities when it calls, because there might be an opportunity that just lasts for a day or a weekend, and then it’s gone by some news or some data point that came out. And so they’re still lower, but it was like a real nice opportunity for a couple people right there.
SPEAKER 16 :
Can you give me an example of what happened? I know you can’t give details exactly of the person, but just a detail with these people being ready to move.
SPEAKER 19 :
How much did they say per month? Some people have times, you know, some clients… think more in the range of dollars. Like, you know, if I call them and say, you know, we can save you X amount of dollars per month. And other people have numbers in their head that they want where they say, you know what, I don’t want to do anything until I can get to six and a half, let’s say. And that’s what happened with this one person. On Friday afternoon, we were able to get this six and a half number that they had wanting. And they’re, you know, they’re over seven and a half now. So they were an old school person that wanted to go down by at least a percentage point if they did a refinance and they were able to get it. And then yesterday it was, you know, We did it over the weekend, and then yesterday it was close again to where it had gone to like 6.625, so not quite. So that’s the type of thing where some people are like, if I can get this number, let me know. And if we can get that done in advance and have an idea and make them happy that that’s the savings they want, then we can jump on it when it’s there and it’s available. And it’s just a matter of responding to a text or responding to a voicemail in a timely fashion. This week is a big week because on Friday we have the jobs data, which is always probably the biggest number of the month that moves markets. So things are going to be moving around again towards the end of this week. So whenever there’s an opportunity, we just need to jump on it.
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So what would this look like? Let’s say somebody’s out there. They want to be ready. What’s the time frame? What does that look like exactly, Lorne?
SPEAKER 19 :
So the time frame, you know, there’s a couple of time frames involved. There’s a time frame as far as getting a loan done, which that’s just usually at this point with technology, you know, two to three weeks to get a loan done from start to finish. But as far as, you know, the timing of, you know, once the markets close, typically, you know, at 4 o’clock Eastern, 2 o’clock here, If something happens overnight or whatever, we can still work through the night and before we face new rates the next day. So people have time when they get a call, but they don’t have days. It’s usually like, hey, talk to your spouse and see if you want to do this and call us back this evening and we’ll get started, you know. And then do you lock in that rate at that time? Yeah. Yes, banks will let you lock in typically up until midnight of the night before or 11 p.m. So you have what’s called protection overnight. So nothing’s happening until the next morning. But as soon as the new rate sheet comes out, which has now been affected by news from the evening or data points that came out early the next morning, things can change.
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Okay, so I’m just an example. Let’s say I’m sitting out there on a 7% mortgage right now, and I have not worked with you yet. And I’ve listened to you on the Kim Monson Show, and if somebody needs an appraisal, You pay for the Kim Bunsen Show listeners appraisal. So I’m like, ah, I think that I want to do something. I’m going to call Lauren. Can something happen within a day? I’m trying to figure out how people can be ready.
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Yes, absolutely. So the initial phone call, more of a consultation can take 20 minutes, 30 minutes. And then once there’s some sort of determination made, you know, that the people qualify, which happens quickly. And, yes, the answer to your question is yes, all of this can happen within a short period of time. The application itself, if we go that far, takes 10, 15 minutes. And then once that’s done and all the information is in hand, the rate can be locked in a matter of seconds. And so, yes, everything can happen in the same day. And so it happens quickly once things get started, yes.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, so how can people reach you, Lorne Levy?
SPEAKER 19 :
The best way, as always, is just give us a call at the office at 303-880-8881.
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Again, that’s Lorne Levy, Everything Mortgages. He can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York. Lorne, thanks so much. We will talk next week. You got it, Kim. Thank you. Again, Lorne Levy, 303-880-8881. And another great sponsor of the show is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. And Roger has served his customers for over 50 years, also taking care of his family, giving back to the community. And so for help with all of your insurance needs, call Roger Mangan at 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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I was looking at my calendar thinking, Kim just said it’s Constitution Day. It’s September 3rd. What the heck is she thinking? She’s smoking too much methane. What’s wrong with her? Oh, then you corrected yourself. You didn’t correct yourself. It’s how you set it up. But I thought I missed something.
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Well, it is September 17th. It’s hard to believe that it is September. And Trent Luce, I was back in my hometown once. for a family reunion, which was great fun.
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Oh, sweet.
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And saw the corn. And I ran into a bunch of rain. I ended up getting my vehicle so muddy. I had 10 miles on a muddy road. And I thought, if I don’t keep this car on the road and I end up in the ditch, my brother’s gonna be really mad at me if he has to get a tractor out to pull me out of the ditch. So I did a really good job, but my car was trashed.
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Yeah, I laugh at that because there’s just been a lot of rain. And we were at a wedding near Valentine on Saturday, and there was a big rain the night before, and the wedding was actually on a gravel road. Oh, boy. There were a lot of people going to the wedding that don’t normally travel gravel roads, and so it was a major experience. And I was just thinking to myself, My goodness, we’ve come so far that even if we drive on a gravel road, we think the world’s coming to an end. It was a day when nothing was paved. Main Street was just horse manure. And, you know, to this day, I walk on the street side of the lady, whether it’s a daughter or Kelly, my wife. Because I don’t want that carriage to come by, that horse and carriage to come by and slap water and mud up on the lady. So, you know, we need to get back to some of those things.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and that’s a really important point, and that is being a gentleman. And to your point, the gentleman always walks to the side of the street or the road just because of that. But it’s really a great just kind of a chivalry of protection of women, of females. And I love that, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 09 :
I do it all the time, and it’s strange to me how many people, I mean, when you’re in a setting where there’s multiple people, it’s like, what are you doing? I’ve got to get on the right side. I’m not going to be on the wrong side of this equation. And they don’t even know.
SPEAKER 16 :
And I love that. I love that. Let’s get into, there’s so much going on in the text line is busy 720-605-0647. And we haven’t even started talking yet in the text lines busy.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s great. Well, what are we going to let them decide what we’re talking about? Well,
SPEAKER 16 :
A couple of things. You sent early this morning, texted a photo of coal miners going into a mine. And where did you source this? Where did you find this photo? It is pretty riveting. And it is basically they’re in cages, dirty faces going into a coal mine. So source this and tell us a bit about this particular photo.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I found it on Labor Day, and it wasn’t necessarily about Labor Day, the picture itself, but it just spoke to me very loudly that it represents a time and an era not that many generations ago. We’re talking some cases, one, at the most two generations ago, when men… obviously pre-World War II, would go do whatever it took. And some of these coal miners were doing it after the 40s, no doubt about it, in West Virginia. And to me, that picture showed there was a couple of wives standing there watching their husbands go down this shaft and they’re going to spend all day and hope they come back out. And we know the conditions were less than favorable there. And so I wanted to put it in the context of because people can misconstrue it and they say, well, you know, the employers didn’t care about what the working conditions were. And that was the case in some of the early packing plants, too. And if you know the history of particularly the Great Plains of America, and I’m going to include Chicago in this particular scenario, you know, it was so much of the packing industry that enabled people to be able to provide for their families. And I just put into context the toil and the absolute physical exhaustion that men would put in to be able to provide for their families and that day. Today, we go to a coal mine and they’re not underground. You know, they’re doing it. They’re doing strip mining. They’re doing things and then they replace it all. It’s just absolutely fantastic. And I’m using that as an example. But We have labor so easy and convenient today, and I think much like paved roads, we just take it all for granted. And that picture to me just shows where we’ve been and what people were willing to risk to enable. And I’ll take it back another generation. Think about being in Pennsylvania in 1845, and you decide that life is so bad here. I’m going to load my family, my kids, and everything I own into a wagon, get behind a team of horses, and go take on every weather extreme there is, crossing rivers, going through some cases hostile territory, to find a better life. And we’re very transient today, but we’re not really seeking a better life. We’re looking for more fun. I just, that picture to me showed where we’ve been and what generations were willing to endure in order to provide what we have today. Don’t take it for granted.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, so a couple of things. That’s important because these people came to, many of these people came to America for this. They were not here for free stuff. They were willing to, as you say, physical labor and toil. Now, the working conditions are, Were terrible. And I wanted to mention the packing plants. When I was in high school, I read the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, which was about the packing and underage labor in the packing houses in Chicago. And looking back, there are those that say that he embellished some of the stuff in that book to try to push an agenda. Your thoughts about that?
SPEAKER 09 :
So he did embellish some stuff, but he did highlight some very poor working conditions that needed to be fixed. And that led to many labor acts that became law in terms of how employers treat people. Again, I tied the packing industry to the coal mining industry because we can have a discussion about what employers would make employees endure to be a part of the system. And that wasn’t what I was focused on on Labor Day. I was focused on what men and some women were willing to do. Well, all women, because when their husbands were gone in this environment, they had to pick up the extra mile. And it was a tough time for everybody. So I was speaking to what… Men and women and families were willing to endure to create a better opportunity. Upton Sinclair was ahead of his time. He was a vegan. He did not believe that people should eat animals. So he wrote that book. And now let’s stop.
SPEAKER 16 :
I want to make sure that we clarify. Ahead of his time was regarding the vegan movement, not necessarily that beef is bad for you.
SPEAKER 09 :
Correct. 100% about the vegans. Well, that’s not a totally accurate statement either, because prior to that, you had Helen White create the Seventh-day Adventist church, which she was employed by the Kellogg brothers in the sanitariums, and she wanted to convert everybody from bacon and eggs for breakfast to cereals because she too was a vegan and wanted people to stop eating meat. So there were a couple of people that were so instrumental, but Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to move people away from meat consumption. His goal was not to improve working conditions. He thought that that was a way to make his point, which he did ultimately get new laws put into place that improved the requirements for employers and employees But the point about Upton Sinclair that is always left out of the equation is that within five years of publishing The Jungle, he had a medical doctor that told him his health was so bad that if you do not start consuming animal protein and animal fat, you will die. And he did. He started consuming animal fat, animal protein, so that he could improve his health, not his wealth, but his health. And that gets left out of the equation all the time.
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SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. And did want to mention Little Richie’s. From Parker to Golden, Little Richie’s Pizza and Pasta is your go-to for real New York-style pizza, hearty pastas, and that unbeatable local vibe. Little Richie’s is serving up daily specials, quick and tasty weekday lunch deals, and a happy hour the locals actually build their plans around. Whether you’re bringing the crew, catching up with friends, or flying solo for a hot slice, Little Richie’s is your neighborhood hangout. And I can attest they have wonderful calzones, so be sure and check that out. And Trent Luce, I mentioned it in your first segment, Grand Lake U.S. Constitution Week. That needs to be on your agenda. Maybe this year?
SPEAKER 09 :
Probably not.
SPEAKER 16 :
I had a feeling you were going to say that. I just want you to put a few more miles on that pickup truck.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, actually, I plan to be in Illinois that weekend.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. Well, it’s going to be a great event, and I guess everybody will be there but Trent Luce. And so more information, go to Grand Lake U.S. Constitution Week. It begins on September 15th, culminating with the main event on the 20th in the park. Jonathan Turley will be the keynote speaker, and then the next day there will be a church service in the park as well. More information, go to GrandLakeUSConstitutionWeek.com. That’s GrandLakeUSConstitutionWeek.com. Trent Luce, in the last segment, we talked about this photo that you sent of coal miners. This is pre-World War II for sure, maybe pre-World War I, basically in cages going into a coal mine, dirty faces. There’s a couple of women watching them as they go down, and they never knew if they’d come back up. It was very dangerous work. And of course, mining coal so that people could have coal to heat their homes was important. And we talked about what people were willing to do. to create a better life for themselves and their families. That’s inherent in the American idea. But we do need to talk about the employers. These were really tough conditions, and there were those that made a lot of money on this. So what would you say to those that say, well, those employers were just taking advantage of those poor coal miners. So how does that conversation go when people talk with you about that?
SPEAKER 09 :
Clearly, we are taught and conditioned to believe that the owners and the employers of that day treated workers as a commodity. And you lose one and you move on. You get another one. You don’t really care about their long-term viability. I probably struggle with that more today than ever before because I learned so much of what we learn as history is jaded by those who recorded it. So while I don’t believe that they had the best interest of their employees as their primary focus, I would like to time travel and find out exactly what the thought process was of those employers of the day. You know, the Carnegies of the world. Did they care about the people that built their wealth? How did that all play out? I got a pretty good handle on what was going on in the packing plants. And, you know, just think about electricity changed everything. We didn’t have electricity in those early days in either one of those scenarios at the abundance that we do today. And that is what I fight for on a daily basis. How do we maintain this energy supply of abundance that’s still affordable so that we can have our conditions of living and working in a better environment?
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, we live in a time of plenty and of abundance. People have been able to go to the grocery store in these urban areas and be able to have choices that are affordable and abundant. And I think that that could segue into our next subject that we had teased last week, and that was food waste. And in fact, I saw a Republican… legislator introduce legislation. And this is a great time to mention the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. I am just about to put the finishing touches on the ratings report for this last legislative session to go to the printer. And this group that I get to work with are all volunteers. And I want to mention them. Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onazorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. Join us at the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. It is your shortcut to know what is going on at the legislature, and you can do that by going to coloradotaxpayer.org. But I saw a Republican legislator that introduced legislation regarding food waste. OK, wasting food is not a good idea. But I also think the government getting into regulating food waste is a terrible idea. What’s your thoughts?
SPEAKER 09 :
I think government getting into regulating anything is a horrible idea. But we are now approaching and I’m not butting that that justified what just happened. But what I do here is what I know. we now have 40% of the food that is produced going into landfills. That is unimaginable, nearly half. And 7% of the potential food into landfills is going to livestock. And livestock, including things like mink, which have been frowned upon for how long, are the ultimate recyclers if you look at the bigger picture you know a lot of food would be wasted at the farm level if it were not for livestock the reason that cows are running in cornfields after the corn harvest has taken place is the cows are capturing what would otherwise be wasted along with the deer and the wildlife and upcycling that into something that we can use my biggest angst on this is really that if you look at the emissions But I want to also qualify, what are emissions? Emissions are all responsible for plant growth. And government intervening into emissions and trying to say that cows are contributing to methane and causing this global warming challenge is just a load of bovine fecal matter, purely. There is great evidence that the landfill emissions… is seven times greater than all of the emissions from vehicles that are on the road in the United States. And so my angst is here we have the EPA and we have government intervention trying to fix emissions from petroleum, emissions from cows, emissions from all these other aspects. But the one glaring thing that is really getting in our way is that we just want to ignore, until you brought up this one Republican legislator, the emissions that come from food waste. And that just seems to be against everything we’ve ever been taught, that you don’t waste any food. And if you talk to somebody who immigrated to the United States from a country where that country recently experienced famine, food waste is not an option. But it speaks to what you did in setting this up, the abundance and the affordability that our forefathers created in a system that enables laziness. And that’s really what we’re dealing with.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, but I still see danger, danger. So, Trent, years ago, I was 30 pounds heavier than I am now. And I did not go through the official Weight Watchers program, but my mom and my grandmother were, so I did the whole thing, weighing food and counting calories, and came to the decision that I’m not going – and this is a luxury that we have in America – that I would not – that I would not eat something that wasn’t worth the calories. And again, that is because we live in a place of abundance. And I was able to lose that weight. But sometimes I don’t totally clean my plate. If I get to a point where I’ve eaten and I’m full, I don’t clean my plate. Now, I know I should take smaller portions. I’m trying to do that. But I’m concerned with the narrative on food waste that we start to have that narrative. And PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties, they want to regulate our naturally occurring fuels such as oil, natural gas, and coal. I could see them wanting to regulate our food waste and then connecting the dots. And again, I know I sound like I have a tin hat on today, but we’re seeing all these different municipalities that want to move to no choice on food. trash haulers, that they have a chosen trash hauler. For example, up in Fort Collins, Fort Collins has a chosen trash hauler. If you don’t choose that trash hauler, you still have to pay for it, even if you have your other trash hauler. But what I then see is getting into AI and a Government looking at your trash, saying that you are wasting too much or not recycling enough, and start to dictate your trash. Now, I hope I’m not losing anybody with my tin hat on that, but yet I think it could happen. What do you think, Trent?
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, I don’t argue with any of that. And I’d be completely in your camp in that scenario. What I’m talking about, the solution, is more of what’s happening in Las Vegas. And I don’t know if you’ve heard the story of Hank Combs or not, but there’s basically one pig farmer in the state of Nevada. And it’s Hank Combs. He’s just outside of Las Vegas. And I don’t know how many, but a majority of the smorgasbords that are in Las Vegas, you can only imagine the amount of food that’s wasted in Las Vegas. He picks that up every day, brings it to his place. He cooks it because any raw garbage needs to be cooked before it’s fed to livestock. And he turns Las Vegas food waste into pork bellies and bacon and the pork products. What I’m requesting, and I’m not requesting the government, I’m requesting more innovation to divert that food waste from the landfill to upcycle into improving our food system in some way.
SPEAKER 16 :
So creativity and innovation, which is the foundation of the American idea. That’s where you’re at. Okay, I can agree with you on that. But you can see how, and again, having legislation proposed, I don’t like that at all. But let’s use creativity and innovation. So we have to really watch this narrative, Trent Luce, because I could see PBIs coming in and, you know, Take it a little bit, and the next thing you know, you’ve got a Mack truck on trying to control our food. And so I’m concerned about that. Talking with Trent Liu, sixth-generation farmer and rancher. A couple of things I wanted to mention. The USMC Memorial Foundation is hosting a 5K run on September 20th. You can get more information by going to their website. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. These discussions happen because of our sponsors. If you’ve been injured, reach out to John Bozen at Bozen Law.
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SPEAKER 02 :
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SPEAKER 16 :
Indeed, it is a great day to be alive. And do check out the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. They’re going to have a very important event. They do a great job in recognizing and the reverence of 9-11. And you can get more information about what that event is going to look like by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. That is their website, AmericanValueCenter.org. And also make sure that you take a look at GrandLakeUSConstitutionWeek.com. That website has all of the events for the week, and you’ll want to make sure that you get your reservations made. You can contact the Grand Lake Chamber of Commerce regarding that. But certainly, you know what, I did want to mention this, and I told Mark that I would do that. I hope I brought that with me. And I think I’ll have to do that tomorrow. But I do know the Gateway there in Grand Lake is a great place for accommodation. So be sure and check that out. And that is the Gateway facility there in Grand Lake. Trent Luce, we’re talking about food waste. Also, we’re talking about people, what they would do for a better life. And so this came in. from yvonne she said that the u.s is a place of weight great waste and the third world uses everything but again i think we have to be careful on that narrative because governments pbis will want to swoop in and start to regulate things so my dad as a farmer said okay go go
SPEAKER 09 :
What Yvonne is speaking to is not government regulation. It’s that the people have a better appreciation for what is taking place because they’ve had a tough time. Their history and their generation ago, they experienced famine. We need a culture that doesn’t want 40% of the food we produce to go into the landfill, not a government. Government will never be a part of that solution. It has to be the culture fixed so people say, I’m going to be a part of the solution.
SPEAKER 16 :
Excellent point. And what about what would you say to the fact that Americans generally are overweight, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 09 :
You can’t argue that. All you need to do is keep your eyes open when you walk around. And overweight seems to be affecting all generations, but I am legitimately concerned about the 20-somethings and younger. And we have a daughter that is a registered dietitian, and she has got some horror stories of teenagers with diabetes and what their consuming habits are. And she has seen the ugly side of this obesity thing at a very young age. And here’s the I just give you this little cliff note on what she tells me. And it’s like, oh, my goodness. She will lay out as a registered dietitian what the plan is to fix this obesity and this diabetes program. And invariably, the parent, not the kid, not the 15-year-old kid, the parent who is there with her will ask the same question. Do you know what that question is?
SPEAKER 16 :
I know what the question is because you’ve told me this. Do you have a drug that can fix this?
SPEAKER 09 :
Don’t you have a pill that can take care of this?
SPEAKER 16 :
So I knew someone that said the best exercise that anyone can exercise is to push yourself away from the table. What do you think of that?
SPEAKER 09 :
I agree. I mean, the human body was made to consume a large amount of calories. I’m convinced of that. But it was also made to extol those calories through your everyday activities. And we are still at one part of the equation. In fact, we’ve accelerated total caloric intake and we’ve decelerated the number of calories that we burn. The balance is off.
SPEAKER 16 :
Speaking of that, recently there was the 48th anniversary of the USMC Memorial and went to dinner with Paula Sarles, the president, Mary, who’s on the board, her son and David Bray, the Marine who had died. He was a Navy corpsman and also Marine, and he was a performer. And he’s in great shape. And I was astounded at dinner. He ordered extra bread, extra butter, steak. I was astounded at the calories he was intaking. And I said, Dave… I cannot believe what you’re eating here. I’m surprised you’re not 400 pounds. And he said he basically focused on eating one big meal a day and working out. And so he’d augment those calories throughout the day. But I found that just fascinating as I was watching all the bread and protein and butter that he was intaking, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 09 :
First of all, fat does not make people fat. It’s carbs that make people fat. fat will actually decrease your fat, percent of fat in the human body. But all the data, if you really look at the dietetics and the data says that the first meal of the day, we’ve always heard it, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But nobody went the next step. Why is breakfast the most important meal of the day? Because when you consume a high level of fat and protein on your first meal of the day, you turn your metabolism on. And that metabolism, then with the balance of exercise and burning calories, will allow you to consume basically what you want within reason and still live a healthy lifestyle. But look at what people have gravitated to in their breakfast, the most important meal of the day. A bagel as they’re running out the door to go to work. That in no way, shape, or form is going to turn your metabolism on. It’s going to do the exact opposite.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. I’ve got to change my plans here. Before we get into this, I did find this regarding Grand Lake U.S. Constitution Week, and I told Mark Auville that we would mention these large sponsors. It’s the Gateway Inn, and that is gatewayinn.com, Sun Outdoors, Rick and Cindy Johnson, who own the Grand Escape Cottages and Hydrotech Plumbing, and wanted to say thank you to all of them for their contributions to make Grand Lake U.S. Constitution Week happen. Okay, Trent Luce, then let’s get back to, oh, go ahead.
SPEAKER 09 :
I want you to finish this sentence that I interrupted. Okay. My dad always said, because there’s nothing more important than what my dad always said. You said that.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, my dad always said that he farmed for several reasons. He farmed to take care of his family and to feed the world. And the American farmer has done an amazing job of that. And I wanted to bring that back to just, I think you said it was Hank Combs?
SPEAKER 09 :
Combs. Combs. Yeah, Combs. Combs.
SPEAKER 16 :
Hank Combs. He’s taking all of this food waste from Las Vegas. He has this big pig farm. And then that food that he has grown there with these pigs, he can feed America and he can help feed the world, yes?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, absolutely. He’s following through on your father’s goal in life.
SPEAKER 16 :
And we see constrictions on just being back in Kansas, talking with all these farmers about the cost of their inputs, their diesel fuel, their fertilizer costs. All of those things are important. Now, we’ve got Ron on the line. Ron, what’s on your radar?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, Kim, about the dieting. I found that I’ve been checking on it, and if you find yourself dieting, is if you snack. If you don’t snack and you only eat… Are you there? Yeah, we’re here. We’re listening. Oh, I got another. You’re talking on the radio. I don’t know.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, something’s maybe in the background. Okay, I’ll have Joe get on that. So, okay, go ahead, Ron.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, yeah, it’s… If you find yourself, a lot of people, they’ll snack. If you just eat breakfast and lunch and dinner and not snack, you’ll find that you’ll lose weight.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, good point. And also, I think that in between meals, if you do happen to have a snack, something healthy. Ron, thank you. Trent, it’s always super interesting. We’ve got a minute. How would you like to button this up?
SPEAKER 09 :
I just want to come back to where we started. I so appreciate the sacrifice that people made, particularly those. I’ve had some conversations in the past week with folks in New England, and I just can’t get on the same page with where they’re at. And then I realized that, you know, it was the venturesome, spirited people that came west, and I’m going to call it tamed the west for what it is. And that spirit and innovation is what really built the United States of America for the police, the people of the world to want to call home. We cannot allow that to die on our watch. We each need to be a part of continuing innovation and finding a better way for the next generation to excel, not just be here.
SPEAKER 16 :
We have a duty and a responsibility. That’s why you do what you’re doing, Trent. That’s why we do what we’re doing. And I am encouraged that people are waking up to this third founding of our country. Trent, we’ll talk next week.
SPEAKER 09 :
Can’t wait. Thanks, Kim.
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