Join John Rush on today’s episode as he covers the multifaceted facets of financial literacy. From understanding mortgage intricacies with expert Kurt Rogers to evaluating potential benefits of refinancing or buying points. Listeners will walk away equipped with the knowledge to navigate their financial landscapes. The conversation then transitions to an engaging discussion with Rob Roselli who examines newly released JFK files. Roselli provides a thought-provoking analysis on the implications of the release, igniting a conversation about its impact on public knowledge and historical beliefs about JFK’s assassination.
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All right, Hour 3, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Time for our Monday Mortgage Minute. Kurt Rogers joining us now, Affordable Interest Mortgage. Kurt, welcome.
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How are you, John?
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Very, very well, and the weather this week looks fabulous. Spring has sprung. Doesn’t mean we won’t have any more snowstorms, but hey, we’ll take it while we have it.
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The mountains are getting good snow. That’s great.
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We’ll take it. All right. What’s more important, the rate or the cost?
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The easiest way I would answer that question is I’m going to ask is how long do you plan on staying in the home?
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Okay.
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Because normally if you pay, let’s say, 1% of a $400,000 loan, you pay $4,000. We’re going to save you $60, $70 a month. How many months of that before you get the $4,000 back? Good point. After that, it’s a moneymaker.
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So it’s all a calculation.
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It’s just numbers. I’m either going to pay it here or I’m going to pay it here. What’s more important?
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Okay. Makes total sense. Now, should we pay points to lower that rate, or does that also factor into what you just said a moment ago?
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It pretty much factors in when you’re buying a refinancing home, should you pay the points. In most cases… People that are – if you’re buying the home, I would definitely consider paying the points. The only issue with paying points on a purchase, it’s going to become part of your down payment. If you refinance, it becomes part of the loan in most cases.
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Okay.
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So, again, that’s another one where – It’s not money coming out of your hand.
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Okay. Another one of those where, again, sit down and figure it out, right?
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Mm-hmm.
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Now, question for you. Question for you. Do you help people make these decisions?
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No. I’m not a financial planner. I will talk to them and say, I’ll ask certain questions like, how long are you going to be in the place? Is it worth it to you? If you’re going to be in it five years, you recoup the money in three. This kind of makes more sense. But the decision has to be them. I can’t steer them to one way or the other. Whichever way they go, I still get paid the same. So my job is to show them the options so they can see them.
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So you give them all of the things that might fit their particular situation, and they sit down and figure out, potentially even with a financial person, here’s the best option.
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And there are times like if there’s a 2-1 buy-down in here and paying the points down and stuff like that, I’ll talk them out of it because a 2-1 buy-down gives them an advantage.
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Okay.
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Because that makes no sense because the rates are going to come down anyhow. Those are some of the insights that I have that I’ll talk about.
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Gotcha. All right. Tomorrow, Haystack Help Radio. You take things over every day from noon to 1 right here on KLZ. On Tuesdays, I should say, what are you going to do tomorrow?
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We’re going to be talking with one of our realtors, Heath Satterstrom. He’s one of those ones that will negotiate with you as becoming your buyer’s agent and telling you how the market’s going.
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Okay. Awesome. Kurt, as always, I appreciate it, sir. Thanks, John. You bet. Have a great night. Kurt Rogers, Affordable Interest Mortgage, 720-895-0500.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Appreciate you all joining us today on this fine Monday. And, yeah, again, be sure to listen to Kurt tomorrow. He always takes over Haystack Help Radio from noon to 1. You can listen in there and get into a lot more detail. He’s got a full hour that he can get into things, by the way, that during our Monday Mortgage Minutes we just don’t have a chance to get to. But let’s go to our next guest, Bob Roselli, joining us now. Bob, welcome. How are you? Or Rob. I’m sorry, Rob. My bad.
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Either one is fine, and thanks for having me.
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I appreciate it. Let’s talk about JFK, and there’s been some things that have been released, 80,000 pages, but still the same old questions.
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Look, it’s the same old pile of minutiae. Nothing was released as far as I can tell. No, I didn’t read 80,000 pages that so-called conspiracy theorists didn’t already know. I mean, Oswald was a shady character. Right. controlled by the CIA, all kinds of, you know, spent time in Russia, then came back and had got, you know, mysteriously all kinds of security clearances, yada, yada, yada. Look, it’s just a bunch of minutia put out by the deep state of what I call the un-American genocidal complex to throw us off the trail of who really killed JFK. It’s just the bottom line.
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Do you think that we, I mean, I have my own thoughts on this, but do you think we’ll ever really know the answer? And by the way, if there wasn’t anything new, then why not release them before now, before Trump said to?
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Who knows? But look, if you go back to 1979, I mean, there was a House Committee on Assassinations Committee. that pretty much said, and you can get this on the federal government website, and I’m paraphrasing, that in all likelihood, JFK was killed by a, there was a second shooter involved in the Kennedy assassination. This is almost 50 years ago. So our sellout press should have been all over it 50 years ago. So, you know, somebody should ask the question, what is this? But look, again, it’s all minutia. The people that killed JFK are the same ones behind the Federal Reserve System. I mean, that’s my, you know, I’m 95% confident in that. Am I 100% confident? No. The only one I’m 100% confident in is the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ. And that’s just the way it is, okay? The Federal Reserve, I mean, you got the Rockefeller, you had the Rockefeller front men on the Warren Commission, Alan Dulles, former head of the CIA, John McCoy, Chase Manhattan Bank, etc., etc., okay? These people are all fronts. I mean, you got all the minutiae, okay? You got the Assad, the Australians, the mafia. Who really killed JFK? The most obvious answer, again, is the Federal Reserve System. JFK, you should order Executive Order 11110 that issued debt-free silver coins directly from the Treasury, which would have been a direct competition to the scam federal reserve system to which we are indebted to, which we can mathematically never get out of, a debt bomb which is ready to explode today on America. Now, in JFK’s time, we were still kind of a Christian nation. This was before the separation of church and state scam. We could have gotten out of the federal reserve death trap that we are all now in. and that’s why they killed him in broad daylight. That’s just plain and simple.
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So your feeling is, and I don’t know that I can disagree with you, that because he wanted to change direction not only in that area, but there was many other things. And by the way, Rob, I’ve said this many, many times over since, you know, especially today, JFK couldn’t get elected in his own party. He’d have to be a Republican if he wanted to get elected again today because the knuckleheads that are on that side of the aisle don’t even align with what he was doing back then. Am I wrong in that?
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Oh, no, no, no. Look, the Democratic Party, the far left of this country, they’re just gone. They’re shot, okay? And I’m not completely sold on Trump, okay? I don’t want to go off on that rabbit trail right now. But the left, the Democratic Party, they’re just gone. They’re shot. Talking to them is like talking Chinese to Greek or something. There’s no rationalizing with those people. And JFK would absolutely have to be a Republican if he ran today.
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Yeah, and I’ve said that many, many, many times over, and to your point, given what he wanted to do monetarily speaking, there were people at that time that weren’t going to allow that to happen, period.
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No, no. Too costly. Our controllers, there’s no way they were going to let that happen. I mean, everything else peripheral, I mean, look at the mob. I mean, the mob didn’t have that kind of power to pull off that kind of stunt to kill a president in broad daylight. That’s just ridiculous. Cuba, eh. Bay of Pigs, you know, CIA. The CIA, yeah, they were involved, but they’re a subset of the Federal Reserve System. I mean, that’s the nexus of the so-called conspiracy. So that’s your Occam’s razor conclusion, the most logical and shortest distance to the truth. That’s it right there. That’s just the bottom line, and we’re never going to get to the truth again.
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So what’s your prediction moving forward on how a lot of this stuff shakes out? We’ve got Trump messing around with tariffs and things along those lines. He even came out today and revised some of those, of course. I mean, at the end of the day, he’s got one direction he wants to do. I believe the Federal Reserve has a direction they want to go. By the way, I don’t think those are congruent with one another. So what happens next?
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Well, I mean, look, Trump Trump is an irritant to the so-called New World Order, what I call the un-American genocidal complex. After my second book, which is because it’s much worse than a deep state. These are genocidal maniacs. And I say that literally. But anyway, Trump is. You know, look, Trump’s doing some good things, but ultimately I think this guy’s got ulterior motives. He’s an egomaniac, you know, a megalomania, who knows. But he’s doing some great things for America, but he’s not solving it, nor can he solve the Federal Reserve debt bomb. OK, again, in Kennedy’s time, we still had a modicum of hope to get out of it. But that was before the Vietnam War. That was before the Great Society and all those dark money wars. dark budgets, the Pentagon, the Department of Education, Social Security, which was started by the progressive sellout FDR. OK, it’s just untenable to get rid of the federal reserve system right now. And these little cuts, I mean, all right, so you’re cutting a billion here, a billion there, 10 billion here in Fox News and Hannity are getting all excited. But it’s fractions of a percent of the 36 trillion with a key online deficit and 100 to I’ve heard numbers as high as $300 trillion with a key offline budget of the federal government. It’s just an economic death star is what we’re up against, and Trump is not going to solve it. It’s just plain and simple. And I find it hard to believe that he does not know this. If I’m saying this on the air in public, and I’m just little old me here, So, therefore, Trump is not telling us the whole truth, nor is Elon Musk.
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In defense of those guys, Rob, no offense, you can’t say what you and I are thinking and even you’re saying out loud. The reality is you can’t say that to the American public or it would be an utter disaster.
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No. Yeah, that’s right. I mean, it would cause a panic. It would.
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It would cause a panic, Rob, even from some on the right. yeah but this is this is the situation we’re in i agree i mean i’m with you and it’s things i talk about here on a regular basis and the reality at some point in time we’ve got to pay the piper the problem is i mean i was talking in hour one about entitlements and the reality of you know how much they need to be revamped and changed and so on then the reality is nobody trump included has the political fortitude to do that no that’s what i say it’s politically untenable i mean you can’t get rid of social security you I mean, put it… Rob, it’s not even getting rid of it. You can’t even revamp it.
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No. Look at it from another perspective. If people are flipping out and going crazy over 50 or 100,000 government workers… Right. Imagine what will happen if they try to get rid of, you know, get rid of Social Security, get rid of the welfare state, you know, Lyndon Johnson’s so-called Great Society. I mean… People will go.
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Rob, it would be hard to even do what Clinton did in putting a test into some of these individuals that are even on welfare right now and even making them time capped, which is what he did, by the way. You couldn’t even do that right now.
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No, no. The political left is looking for any excuse to cut the legs out from under Trump. They don’t just hate Trump. They hate America. They hate you.
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Thank you. They hate everything that’s behind him, even. It’s not just he that they hate. It’s the whole system that he represents that they hate.
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Well, they hate America. There you go. They’re just like Jesus in John chapter 8. They’re of their father, the devil. These people are just useful idiots. Like I said, they’re done. They can’t be rationalized with. I mean, look, six, eight months ago, a year ago, Elon Musk was a hero to these people because of the global warming, global climate change scam. Now they want to literally kill them.
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Right. Trashiest cars, on and on we go. Absolutely. Yes.
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You know, and that’s a large, that’s billions and billions of people. You’re not dealing with rational people here. This country is a power keg ready to explode. I hate to say that. I wish I had a better conclusion, but that’s just where we are right now. And, you know, the recent JFK files, look, it’s already getting lost in the news cycles. You’re not hearing about it anymore.
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Right. No, you’re not. All right. So in closing, what’s the fix? I mean, what fix, as in what do folks listening do next? What should be their plan of attack?
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There is no fix. I mean, my website, boxofsunglasses.com, and the most important thing people can get out is God’s Simple Salvation Plan. Look, there is no fix. It’s just not going to happen, and get right with God is my best advice to people. I mean that literally.
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I agree with you. I agree with you. At the end of the day, that’s what it’s all about. That’s what matters in the end. Rob, I appreciate you joining us. I’ll send folks to your website as well, and I appreciate you, sir.
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Hi, thank you. Thank you, man.
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I appreciate you very much. And, yeah, I mean, there’s some things along those lines where you could debate with different people all day long. I, frankly, when it came to some of the JFK files and so on, we’ve had another interview along these lines, there’s not been a lot that’s been uncovered, folks. And I think you’re still going to find some of the same conspiracies floating around when it’s all said and done. The biggest question I have is, you know, why did it take – this long to get those files released, knowing that there wasn’t really any quote-unquote damning information inside of them, other than maybe some of the other ancillary things. We talked about that last week with a particular guest that we had, some of the other ancillary things that you might find coming out of this, which they may have wanted to have hidden for all of this time. But yeah, I don’t think at the end of the day you’re going to get any real revelations out of what actually happen. I think the same thing’s going to happen with Martin Luther King Jr. as well when it’s all said and done. That’s just my take. I could be wrong on that. But we’ll take a break. We’ll come back. Got more to come. Got another full half an hour left of the program today. Geno’s Auto Service coming up next. And as you either head out for spring break or you get ready for summer, summer break, whatever it is, make sure your vehicle’s all ready to go. Talk to Geno’s today. It’s genosautoservice.com. And Geno starts with a J.
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All right, I have an article that I was going to talk about last week that I never got a chance to do, and it hasn’t really, it’s not that dated, so I think it’s something that I can still discuss. This is an article out of Nine News talking about Denver seeing nine outdoor deaths in nine days and advocates push for action. So according to the Denver Medical Examiner, it takes about 70 to 90 days to receive toxology results, which delays an official confirmation of overdose trends. So this article starts off that over the past nine days, this was as of the 19th, over the past nine days, nine people have died on Denver streets, raising concerns among harm reduction advocates who fear the city is failing to adequately address its overdose crisis. Now, I’ve got to take just a stop there. I’m no expert in this. When it comes to homelessness and things along those lines, as you guys all know, I’m not an expert. Although… Although, I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to understand why we have overdoses among certain individuals. And again, I’m no expert. I’m no clinical psychologist or anything along those lines. But when you’ve got the amount of fentanyl, one of the things that Trump, by the way, is trying to stop coming across the border, is when you’ve got the amount of fentanyl that’s now out there, and you’ve got individuals that are hooked on drugs— I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out why we have overdoses. Now, this article goes on to say the recent string of deaths began on March 10th with fatal incidents reported at various locations across the city, including, and it lists all these that are out here. You know, March 10th at 14th Avenue, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The Denver Police Department posted about all of the investigations on X. While the exact cause of these deaths remain unknown, advocates suspect the city’s unregulated drug supply is to blame. OK, now that’s where when I read that, I’m like, OK, wait a minute, time out. The unregulated drug supply. How do you propose we regulate the drug supply? Charlie, you’re a Denverite. Do you have any idea on how we would go about regulating the illegal drug industry? Because last time I checked, things like cocaine and all of the things that are associated with that and fentanyl that can even get mixed in and so on, heroin, last I checked, all of that was illegal. Or did something change? in the last month or so that I’ve missed. And Charlie says, no, it’s still illegal. So I’m confused as to how we would be regulating this supply. So Lisa Reveal, I think I’m saying her last name correctly, executive director of the Harm Reduction Action Center, has been closely monitoring the situation. Quote, people who use drugs are saying it’s the powder right now. Unquote. She said that referring to fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid, but again, they’ll need to confirm that with other folks. Now, okay, I get you need to go confirm that. But chances are, chances are, the people on the streets that are basically saying it’s the powder right now, they’re probably correct, right? They’re probably accurate, meaning there’s fentanyl that’s been mixed in. And depending upon who you are and your body and so on and what the studying that I’ve done and even some of the interviews that we have done of late, fentanyl affects everybody a little bit differently. And one dose might not hurt you, but it might kill the next. And I think, Charlie, from the interviews we’ve done, that’s what I’m saying is pretty accurate. You don’t know. That’s why it’s not a drug to play around with, by the way. And the things that I have learned about fentanyl is the reason why it’s becoming a thing is because it’s easy to manufacture and it’s cheap. Whereby, and I’m no drug expert, but when it comes to opium and cocaine and things like that, there’s a production side of that that is much more difficult to And costly, if you would, to produce than fentanyl or meth, for example. Those are synthetic. Both of those are synthetic drugs. what we would call as synthetic man-made. There’s no, I guess I could say it this way, Charlie, there’s no real organic things that are needed, if you would, to create those particular drugs. Now, I personally don’t know exactly what it takes to make meth or to make fentanyl. I just know they can be produced synthetically, meaning you don’t have to go grow a poppy to make opium. I mean, that’s what you need to make opium is a poppy. You also need, what, the cocoa plant, is it, Charlie, to make cocaine? I’m guessing. I don’t know that much about the cocaine end of things either, but you need a plant to go make cocaine as well. Any of you that know this better than I, feel free to text me because I’m clueless as to how some of this works. I am not a drug expert, as you can all tell. That is an area that COCA, thank you, Charlie, so it is a cocoa plant. Thank you. And as you guys all know, I’ve learned as much about drugs from this show as I’ve ever known prior. And I mean that sincerely. I think, Charlie, you could probably say the same thing. You’ve probably learned as much about drugs from the interviews and things we’ve done on this program than you probably ever have learned anywhere else. Because I am even one of those still to this day to where I don’t know where you buy this stuff. I honestly, I’m so out of the loop when it comes to those things. I haven’t the foggiest idea where you even go to buy these things. Meth, crack, cocaine, opiate. I don’t know. I don’t know where you buy this stuff. I guess there, I mean, not I guess, there are people, dealers and so on that traffic these things. I’m clueless, though, as to where you go to buy this. And I’m being very serious. I don’t have the foggiest idea where you would even go. So that’s about how clueless I am when it comes to drugs. Now, on the same token, I am not so clueless that if we have a string of deaths that I have to wait for a toxology report to come back to tell me what the cause of death was. I don’t need that. Again, I’m not a drug expert, but holy cow, people, are you that stupid that you can’t figure this out on your own? I mean, I think it’s pretty well, I think it’d be a pretty good guess. Let me say it this way. Pretty good guess as to what’s going on with these particular deaths. Now, I’m still trying to figure out, and I never could figure out in this article, how you regulate these drugs and how you do what this particular person is wanting to have done. I mean, what this particular person is advocating is they want a faster turnaround from the Denver Medical Examiner’s Office to find out exactly why these people died. Now… I want to be very careful in how I say this because, you know, no death is good. Every death is a tragedy, I guess is what I should say. You know, these people that are dying, yes, they have family somewhere, and it’s tragic that they’re dying. So I’m not trying to minimize anybody’s death in any way, shape, or form. But I think it’s a very – How do I want to say this? I think your expectations are completely out of whack when you’re expecting the medical examiner’s office to fast-track – and I’m sorry to say it, but a junkie on the street – You’re expecting them to fast track that when they’re I guarantee you there are hundreds, if not thousands of other cases and things that are inside of the medical examiner’s office that need taken care of that I am guessing take much, much, much higher priority than. And again, every life matters. And I’m not saying they don’t. But I get where the medical examiner’s office is coming from and why it might take 60 to 70 days to get a report back, because no offense, it’s not high priority. They overdosed or they had some fentanyl mixed in. I mean, this isn’t that hard to figure out. I mean, I as I was reading this whole article, I’m just thinking to myself, are we really this dumb? Are we really this dumb? And I guess the answer is, yeah, I guess we are. Advocates, by the way, stress the need for more protective harm reduction measures, such as drug testing and increased access to naloxone. I’m guessing that is an opioid reversal medication. Well, again, folks, that stuff doesn’t come free. In this particular case, I can guarantee you that means it’s your tax dollars, either state or Denver local, your tax dollars would then be paying for these things. And again, I’m not trying to minimize anybody that would be on the streets that have overdosed and is dying. I understand all of that. But at what level does personal responsibility come into play? And it’s not the responsibility of the taxpayer to handle that. That’s my whole point with this. You know, this particular person is advocating for a faster turnaround time out of the medical examiner’s office. Also advocating for more, you know, anti-opium medication, I guess you could say, on the street level, which, OK, I’m all for. But I guarantee you there’s nothing that they are looking for that doesn’t come out of the taxpayer’s pocketbook. My feeling is if you’re an advocate for that, go raise your own money and figure it out on your own. Go do a GoFundMe. Go do whatever you need to go do to make this happen. And if that’s what you want to do as a particular charitable organization, knock your socks off. But as a taxpayer, no, I think there needs to be certain lines drawn. And no, I don’t think this is something a taxpayer should pay for. Period. Period. At all. No, I get that they are. that if one of these individuals die and they get hauled to the hospital and even go through the coroner’s office and so on, if there’s no next of kin and there’s nobody to pay the bill, I get it. You and I are paying the bill. And would it be cheaper to give those and give them an anti-opioid on the front side rather than going through all of that? Yes, it probably would, but how many of those are you going to have to give out? That’s my question. In other words, when do you stop the madness is my question. Paul in Denver, you’re next.
SPEAKER 11 :
Go ahead, Paul. Yeah, thanks. Well, it is madness, and they are that stupid, and they continue to be that stupid legitimately. The harm reduction centers have been proven to be totally ineffective in terms of ultimately reducing the addiction crisis around the country, whether it be out of Portland and Philadelphia was affected. They were fighting back and forth regarding that. I don’t know where it is these days. Last I heard, they shot it down, the harm reduction centers. If we go down that road, we’re done for. I mean, we’re in bad shape now in Colorado and in the metro area, but we’re really done for there. I remember when they were trying to put one in at that French restaurant down on Broadway, I think it was, downtown. And that failed. The you know, as long as they keep making it easy for addicts to be addicts.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right.
SPEAKER 11 :
They’re going to be more and more. It’s really that simple. When you provide free housing for folks and don’t require them to be it, you require them to get. either whether it be mental health services, if that’s what’s needed, or certainly not to use drugs and alcohol while they’re getting free housing, then you’re going to have a problem. That’s the bottom line. And speaking of housing, HUD just pulled funding for all HUD funding related to illegal aliens. So that means that Colorado and Denver, of course, are going to be idiots again and refuse to eliminate that benefit to illegal aliens. So our costs are going to go up because we’re going to take the time and take up the additional cost that’s being deduced from the HUD funding. And it goes on and on. So all the real critical… uh… services that the city and state are required and expected to provide are getting reduced to reduce to reduce our taxes are going up and up for this nonsense at some point god help us at some point eyes are going to have to get wide open even from the progressive to some percentage of the progress certainly the independent i don’t know what it will take i thought we’d hit bottom from my perspective this is bottom but i i I guess I could see it getting worse before better.
SPEAKER 16 :
I just got a text message in, somebody listening down in Nashville that says a Nashville fentanyl is being laced into things like vapes, ZYN, you name it. There was a kid who knew he was offered a hit on a vape and he needed Narcon almost died. Don’t take a drink. Don’t use any kind of a pouch. Don’t take a hit on anyone else’s vape. Someone on the radio there said that everyone should be carrying Narcon in their car or a first aid kit. Have we really gotten to that point, Paul, where that’s what’s needed?
SPEAKER 11 :
From what I hear, I mean, I don’t have it personally around me. I have a 21-year-old, and thankfully he’s never indulged with any of that stuff. But it doesn’t take much for some teenager or some young adult to make an error. And that error, you know, Pink Fentanyl has been around forever. the nation for a long time, and even Denver metro area for quite a few years. And it is so much more powerful from everything I’ve read than what has come before it. And it just keeps getting more and more powerful. You know, I think on the federal level, they need to work harder to shut it off At the production end of it, which is China, not just at the border.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, I just got really quick. I got another great text message. This is really interesting, Paul. It says the way that the cartels are getting around the fact that they can’t transport fentanyl over the border is they’re doing things. And this was happening under the Biden administration, especially basically they are. positioning this fentanyl inside of the bladders of fish coming from China. The cartels then take those fish through Canada. They then get imported into the U.S., and that’s a lot of the ways that some of these drugs are actually making it through. And again, going back to the fact that Trump wants to do some things with Canada, there’s living proof as to why.
SPEAKER 11 :
Absolutely. And Trump is going to, you know, stay, work hard on it, keep on pushing and pushing and pushing. It’s going to reduce. There’s no way to get rid of all of it. It doesn’t happen until people just, you know, it’s simple. Don’t do it. Don’t take it. Don’t do it. It’s really don’t even try it that once. It’s that simple. Yeah. Harder for other people depending upon how they grew up, how they were raised, and sometimes even if they’re raised well, a bad choice.
SPEAKER 16 :
And Paul, thank you for saying that. And I get that. And I’m not trying to throw anybody that’s addicted to drugs under the bus. What I’m saying, though, is… Just because they are, why is this now a taxpayer problem to be able to test the drugs that are on the street that these people are taking before they take it and then also give them the remedies? I mean, I get the fact that this is happening, but my point, I’m coming at it more from a taxpayer point of view as to who’s paying. Why is that my responsibility as a taxpayer? Yes, I get it. Yes, I feel bad. I don’t want anybody to be addicted. I get that. But no more than I should be responsible for somebody going to AA, why should I be responsible for this as well?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, that’s the ongoing NGO scam. And You know, feed off the taxpayer cheat. And Trump is doing a great job, an amazing job, at shutting that down as it comes up. I don’t know where they’re getting all the personnel, quite frankly, to do all this work. I mean, when you think about it, you think about all the great things that Trump’s administration is doing now, and all the incredible heads of these agencies that he’s appointed, working every day, example after example, And compare that to what was happening before. What the heck were they doing before? Nothing. I mean, it’s like nothing. Nothing. All these criminals, 500 some odd thousand, you know, criminals and more. I mean, there are millions. And I’m not just talking about people just coming over the border, you know, at the baseline crime. I’m talking about significant criminals. They weren’t doing anything. The drugs, nothing.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and really quick, too, I think the other thing that’s being proven right now, Paul, is how few of people you actually need to get things done when they actually have the desire to get it done. What I mean by that is, Paul, we are taking… a very small sum of people, and literally revamping government when government has 2.4 million federal workers that can’t seem to get anything done at the end of the day. And I know I’m painting with broad strokes, and there’s some folks out there listening that, yes, you do a great job inside the government, and we appreciate you, but you are few and far between. Paul, my point is you’re proving how inefficient government is by the few that are taking charge changing it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hence the rationale for making government at all levels as small as possible. Correct. Give you the smallest footprint, keep control as local as possible, as small as possible, even then. Because certainly Denver, I mean, I can’t tell you how many more gray hairs I have living in Denver and seeing how things go on. And this mayor, I don’t know how anybody could vote for this moron. I mean, he put himself in the crosshairs, appropriately so, and yet I’m sure he’s still going to have incredible support. And Polis, I don’t know how he signs a lot of these bills, like SB 25003, the gun ban type, all these bills associated with that, and how he’s going to sign it off, because within a year… they’re all going to be found unconstitutional. So he’s going to have to put his name on something, as will all these legislators, and shortly after them putting their name on it, it’s going to be found unconstitutional. What are they going to say to their constituents at that point?
SPEAKER 16 :
Absolutely. Last but not least, Paul, I want to close with this. It’s ironic, really. I mean, it’s very self-explanatory, but it’s ironic that with… Faster, higher technology than we’ve ever had. Government should automatically be shrinking, giving the tools that we now have at our disposal, just like corporate America has done. But it’s the opposite. There’s more government workers now than ever, even though we’ve got better, faster technology than we’ve ever had.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s always ratcheting it up. And the only time it slows down, it doesn’t ever go in the other direction. When a Republican is in place other than Trump, the growth slows. But it keeps on moving until structurally it changes. And the mindset within the people, you know, we talk about the laws following the social structure and what people believe in. And that’s really where the change has to happen. People have to start critically thinking. And think about how the heck did we allow the bureaucracy to push the COVID restrictions on us, things of that nature. That was all us that allowed that.
SPEAKER 16 :
I agree.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well said, Paul.
SPEAKER 16 :
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SPEAKER 16 :
All right, a couple minutes left of this Monday edition, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. A report that came out here recently, Fox News actually reported on this, the Biden administration buried for more than a year a final draft report that failed to prove that an increase in U.S. liquefied natural gas export terminals was linked to any meaningful impact on greenhouse gas emissions, according to a copy of the finding exclusively previewed, by the way, to Fox News Digital. The Biden administration stalled the release of the information. Senior Trump administration’s Officials told Fox News, delaying sharing the data with House Oversight Committee Republicans. The Daily Caller News Foundation first reported that the Biden administration intentionally buried the study. Now, a lot like the auto pen, it’s going to be interesting to see how many other things keep coming out that, quite frankly, you have to wonder, did Biden even know this? Or, frankly, did he? Care to know. And in his condition, it could be the latter as much as the prior. In other words, they may have told him. He may have let it literally go in one ear and out the other because his condition is such that, frankly, he probably doesn’t remember from one day to the next what they even told him. But yes, in fact, he was, quote unquote, running the country in these times. I think it’s interesting that you find in this particular case that his staff, the White House at that time, buried all of this information. And keep in mind that he was limiting and at one point in time even froze, I believe this is true, froze exports of natural gas out of our natural gas facilities, which really, again, hampered our own production and what we could make as a country and so on. And he did that all in the name of, quote, unquote, saving the planet. And yet the study has come out that basically says otherwise. There is no ill effect one way or the other. And keep in mind that you got to also now wonder, you know, people talk about the fact that, you know, Donald Trump is somehow in Putin’s back pocket. No, this would be more proof that actually Biden was because Russia exports a ton of of LNG when it’s all said and done. And this would have put a dent, by the way, in what they were actually doing or are doing, I should say. I can talk more about that in the future, maybe even tomorrow, but I would encourage you to go look that up. And those of you that are on the left, why is this stuff getting buried when, in fact, you believe so wholeheartedly in it? I’ll leave you with that. Have a great evening. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 1 :
Bye.
