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Filling in is Andy Pate, party of choice. And welcome to our number three here on Rush to Reason, KLZ 560. I am Andy Pate filling in for John Rush. On the line right now, we’ve got Jersey Joe. Joe, how are you, sir? Joe, I’ve got to say something I’m going to say to you both today and tomorrow.
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Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you, too.
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Do you like Christmas?
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And then to your lovely wife, Corey, by the way.
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Oh, yes. Yes. Let me check. Yep, still my wife.
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Still your wife. All right. Very good.
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She’s hanging in there. She’s a trooper, Joe. She is a trooper.
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I sent her a little ad for a sweatshirt that I told her she needs to have you buy her and hopefully ask her to look at it when you show her the sweatshirt. You’ve got to buy it for her.
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Okay. I will do that. Whatever it is. Now I’m worried. All right.
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All right. Hey, I want to start off tonight. You know, I normally like to start off with, you know, like my quote of the week. Sure. And tonight my quote of the week is normally from somebody who’s, you know, long deceased. But tonight it’s from some guy named Elon Musk. Have you ever heard of him?
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Let me see. It’s ringing a bell. I think so. Yeah, go ahead.
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Okay. So Elon the other day said. if you take $500 from a worker and give $100 each to five lazy people, you lose one vote, but you gain five. It’s the biggest pyramid scheme in history, and it’s called socialism.
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Boy, that’s brilliant.
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Isn’t it? And that’s exactly, I mean, we’re in a situation where 47% of the people in the households in this country either pay zero or less than zero in income taxes.
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Well, yeah, and think about it for a moment here. Look at productivity, okay? The $500 you give to the person who works gets a certain amount of labor, okay? It’s going to get you, I don’t know, 40 hours of work or whatever. The $500 you give to the other five people gets you nothing.
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Gets you absolutely nothing. And you’ve spent the same amount. You said, yeah, exactly. And, you know, I won’t look it up, but there’s an old quote from Benjamin Franklin that who said that he has observed that the more that is given to people, the less they do for themselves, and the less you give them, the more they do for themselves, and eventually become self-sufficient. And therefore, he said, I think that we should strive not to make living in poverty comfortable, but instead we should seek to drive people out of poverty by making poverty uncomfortable. Now, he’s not saying let’s freeze them, let’s starve them, But what we call living in poverty in this country means you’re living in a house with central heat, central air conditioning, and running water and flush toilets and a working stove. That puts you in the upper 5% of the world’s population. But we make living in poverty so comfortable that you now have – it’s a generational thing. You now have three generations sometimes living in the same home, none of whom have ever held a job.
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Joe, here’s the way that I frame some of this, not all of it, but just a piece of it, because I want to make people uncomfortable. And so I’ve asked young people, I literally have, should people be able to vote themselves other people’s money? OK, so should you and they’ll look at me at first. They’re like, vote themselves. Other people. Yeah. Should let’s say five of you be able to vote. We’ll set one person aside. Ted, you got to stand over there. OK, should you five be able to vote yourself Ted’s money? I mean, is that right? You know, they’ll laugh about it and say, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. But seriously, should you? No, of course not.
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Of course not.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. And I look at them and I say, well, okay. So what if a politician says, I am going to raise taxes on Ted and give more things to you? And you vote for that politician. What have you just done?
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That’s exactly. You’ve just voted to take money. From person A and give it to person B who have not earned it. People B have done nothing at all to earn it. Right.
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And this is why I say what just happened in New York with Mamdani was nothing but looting.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah.
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The looting that we have seen in New York happened like, say, during a riot. It happened again. It was during a riot called Election Night. And that was all looting. And by the way, he’s not even going to be able to come through with a lot of his promises. But setting that aside, the fact that they all voted him for that means a big portion of New York wants to rob people.
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Right. And money is fungible. People are fungible. There’s been story after story about Realtors in some of the Palm Beach and Jupiter Beach areas of Florida are being inundated with phone calls and requests for – and these are $5 million and up condos and homes in those ritzy – Jupiter Beach, Palm Beach, and condos starts at $5 million. And they’re being inundated from people from New York. And, of course, Florida has zero income tax. By the way, between the state of New York and the city of New York and federal – Do you know if you make over a million dollars, 60% of your income is going to taxes?
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That’s insane.
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It’s insane.
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Especially since, look, you are somebody who probably, if you make over a million dollars, you probably help create or manage jobs. Okay? So you are somebody who helps a lot of other people be employed. The last thing we want to do is punish that.
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Yep. And by the way, somebody said, well, we need to, we need to tax billionaires out of existence. And I keep telling these idiots that, look, you can tax them out of the country. You know, they want to impose a wealth tax, right? Nobody should have more than a billion dollars. Look, you haven’t thought, I said, you can tax them out of the country, but you can’t tax them out of existence. If you were to try to get a law passed, let’s say, okay, Elon Musk is worth $600 billion on paper, and Bezos is worth $300 million. If you were to try to pass a law that would confiscate 99% of their income. Before any such law took effect, they would simply up and leave and move to a different, friendlier country. So you wouldn’t tax them out of existence. You would just tax them out of this country. And then when they left, they would take their wealth and the enormous amount of tax revenue that they pay with them. And then who’s going to be left to fill the gaping hole when they say, well, they don’t pay taxes. Well, here’s a stat. The top 1% of this country alone pay more in income taxes than the bottom 10%. 90% of households combined. Think about that. Yeah. 1% pay more in taxes than the bottom 90% of households combined.
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Well, and you say to them, who’s going to pay the bill? Then they say, well, we will, we’ll share paying the bill because we know, excuse me. I just got something in my throat because we now have our fair share. Now we can afford to pay the bill. Answer them.
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Well, I will. Well, first of all, So you all want your taxes to quadruple because that’s what would have to happen in order to maintain the same level of government spending. Remember, the bottom 90 percent collectively only pays 28 percent of the tax burden. So if the other 75 percent disappears, the 28 percent has become 100 percent, which means you go from one quarter.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I know that. But what I mean is that the Marxist is going to say, because remember, I was raised by this. They’re going to say, yeah, but now they’re not the other 90%. Okay, now they have a much larger percentage of wealth. They’re going to have a lot more wealth so they can afford to pay more of the bill.
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Who, the top 1%?
SPEAKER 05 :
No, the 90%. Because you’re going to redistribute that wealth from the 1% to the 90%. Now the 90% can pay more in taxes as well.
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No, but the redistribution won’t happen because before you can seize and redistribute their wealth, they’re going to wave bye-bye. By the way, in 2021, do you know that 6,600 millionaires and billionaires renounced their U.S. citizenship and left the country? 6,600, and that was in 2021. It’s not a rare thing, Andy. Does that count Rosie? Well, actually, she was probably part of it. She was a millionaire, absolutely. Okay. So it’s a good thing. Just saying. Well, again, you can’t… First of all, wealth, by the way, is not a fixed pie. If Elon Musk gets $100 billion richer tomorrow, nobody else in this country got any poorer because his wealth increased. The money supply in this country grows every year. And I use this example. If I’m a farmer and I’ve got 1,000 acres of farmland and they discover oil in my land tomorrow, under my land tomorrow, and I sign a deal to sell the mineral rights under my cornfields to an oil company, I’ll be a millionaire tomorrow. Did anybody else in this country have to get poorer because I became a millionaire overnight?
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No, of course not. Did anyone become poorer when, you know, the, the, the, the tech gods right out in Silicon Valley were working in their garages and came up with the latest brilliant thing, the latest phone or whatever. Did any of us get poorer when they became multi-billionaires? I didn’t.
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No, nobody. And in fact, let me go back to my farmer example. And if in fact, a massive oil reserve was found under that farmer’s land, not only did he get richer, he will probably increase the wealth because if that oil reserve actually drops the price of gas, it will actually increase the wealth of everybody else because they’ll be paying less for gas because gas is one of the biggest expenses every household has. So not only isn’t he taking wealth from anybody else, he’ll probably… improve their standard of living by dropping the price of gas.
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Well, and here’s another thing, Joe. Nobody lives in a vacuum. And this is something I’ve had to tell to some of these Marxist types. I say, okay, so you don’t like that somebody is making, say, $5 billion. We won’t even look at Elon. That’s a different story. $600 billion. Whatever. Okay. Let’s say somebody’s making five bills. Do they live in a vacuum? I mean, you tell me, do you think they live in a hovel or a really nice house?
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Oh, they live in a mansion.
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Oh, so they live in a huge, big, gorgeous mansion, don’t they? They’re living it up. Yeah. Who built it? Who maintains it? Who maintains the grounds? Who does the plumbing? Who did the carpentry? Who does the roofing every time it needs it? Who does everything having to do with that property? Do you think they do? No. Other people do and they’re paid well to do it. So that’s more money. Every single dollar. that these people make is eventually going to work its way right back into the economy.
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And if they build a $20 million mansion on a piece of vacant ground, that’s going to generate enormous tax, incremental tax revenues for the locality where they built the mansion. So you’re going to have the initial rush of, you know, you’re going to have workmen there for two and a half, three years, you know, provide, you’re going to provide, you know, good paying jobs for hundreds of people over the course of a two or three year period. And then once that building is completed and,
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addition to all the maintenance and caretaking and repair jobs uh you’re going to be generating i’m going to guess 100 000 a year in property taxes yeah okay so let’s look at property taxes okay so first you say who built it right who built it who maintains it who maintains the grounds who does this who paints it who does all of this it’s not going to be them they’re busy running their company it’s going to be other people making really good money then those people by the way go out and spend their money at chili’s where your daughter is a waitress and gets a great 20 tip Okay, you see where this goes. Folks, all that money, it’s not trickle down, it’s avalanche down. Okay, they don’t live in a bubble. Nobody lives in a bubble. But now, okay, they own that house. How much taxes do you think they’re paying every year on their, I don’t know, $10 million house? Five, $10 million house. How much do you think they’re paying in taxes every year? Okay, how much money then is going into the schools? How many kids do you think they have? Do you think they have 50 kids?
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No. Do you think Jeff Bezos even has one or two? Yeah. Where he lives?
SPEAKER 05 :
He has one or two kids.
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Well, he doesn’t have any living in his house. He doesn’t have any school-age kids.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. So here you got somebody who doesn’t even have any school-age kids, and he’s putting tons of money into schools where your kids go. OK, that mansion, forget Bezos. OK, let’s keep it reasonable. Five billion. OK, they’re making five bills. That mansion they have is paying huge, huge property taxes into the schools that your kids use. And they have barely any kids and you have three. Think about it. It’s not I never liked the term trickle down. I hate it. I hate trickle down because it sounds like just a few drops coming down from on high to you. You don’t understand. It’s avalanche down. It’s gusher.
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Yes. And by the way, no, no Republican president has ever used that term to describe his economic plan. But by the way, I want to give you one of the greatest examples of what’s referred to supply side economics. So Everybody says, you know, all the liberals hate Reagan because he cut the top tax rate from 70 percent down to 50 and then a few years down to 38. Well, here’s what happened when Reagan did that. Despite that 45 percent cut in tax rates, tax revenues soared by 75 percent. Yep. And why was that, Joe? I’m going to get to that. So GDP growth rates soared from a negative 1.9 because he inherited a recession from Carter. So GDP soared from a negative 1.9 to a positive 7.3, and job growth went from 2.1 million job loss in 82 to 16 million net job gain. Now, when you take 16 million formerly unemployed net tax receivers and convert them into employed net tax payers, what do you think happens to tax revenues? They explode. And that’s exactly what happened when Reagan cut the top tax rates by 45%. Right. He put the money back into the economy.
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So rich people kept more of their money, but they didn’t live in a vacuum, did they? No. Now they had a lot more money to do what? To take the risks necessary to create jobs, and they made a ton of them.
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Right. And by the way, not only was it 60 million new jobs, because the demand for labor began to outstrip the supply chain, Guess what happened to wages? You want to hear some stats, what happened to wages? Oh, yeah, they shot up. Tell us. So over the next six years, the average hourly wage rose by 35% from $7.13 in December of 2018 to $9.60 in December.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, but Joe, how can that be? I mean, come on. The rich just got richer. They got all that money during the Reagan years. I mean, the poor must have been suffering because all that money must have been redistributed from the poor to the rich.
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And then it gets even better. And median household income rose by 54%. Oh, my goodness. In how long? in six years, 54% in median household income in six years. Is that phenomenal?
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s incredible. That’s absolutely, by the way, we’re going to see a little of that, you know, I mean, that’s six years, but we’re going to see a portion of that in 26.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, we already have. And by the way, do you know that the Trump tax plan is continuing to generate new all-time record high tax revenues?
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Yeah, it is. Right.
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By the way, I got a quote here from a crazy liberal. You may have heard of this guy. His initials were JFK. And here’s a quote from this crazy liberal. He said, a tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget. As the national income grows, the federal government will ultimately end up with more revenues. Prosperity is the real way to balance our budgets. By lowering tax rates, by increasing jobs and income, we can expand tax revenues and finally bring our budget into balance. So there’s JFK advocating to cut tax rates, which Reagan, unfortunately, he was assassinated before he was able to make a big dent. But Reagan just did exactly what Kennedy was advocating.
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I would like to see AOC sat down in a chair and forced to listen to that. Okay, AOC, this is John F. Kennedy. Another person with three letters. You’re AOC, he’s JFK. Okay, you’re going to listen to this because he’s one of the greatest presidents we’ve had. Democrat. Correct. I would love to see her forced to listen to that show because right now I look at a lot of these young Democrats and they’re Marxists and they’re advocating for these economic systems that, by the way, people are fleeing. all over the world, and it would just be a nightmare. Hey, Joe, we’ve got to take a break. Let’s come right back with Jersey Joe up next. And up next is Flesh Law. Kevin Flesh, that’s F-L-E-S-H. He’s my lawyer. He can be yours, too. No one’s better than Kevin, so call Flesh Law at 303-806-8886.
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Here’s why you need personal injury attorney Kevin Flesch on your side. He understands the way the jury thinks. In the context of a personal injury case, you’ve been hurt by someone else’s negligence. The idea is that you’re going to try to recover so that you can get back to where you were just prior to that incident occurring. What that really means from a jurist’s perspective is that you’re going to be asking them to award you money. So when we talk about fairness, we’re talking about six people that you don’t know. Those six people view the evidence and make a unanimous decision that will decide what the fair value is. When you’re the one who’s hurt, you have a good idea of what you think it’s worth. The question is, can you persuade those other individuals whom you don’t know and were witnesses to believe that’s what the case is worth? Kevin Flesch understands the way the jury thinks. Call now for a free consultation, 303-806-8886.
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TJ here with KLZ Radio, and I’ve got Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial with us once again. Al, we are coming into a new year here now, and we’ve talked recently about getting a fresh look at our retirement accounts. So tell me what that means a little bit. What kind of stuff do you want folks to look at?
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Well, a fresh look is not only looking at the past and seeing how you’re doing, but putting together what you would like to look like in the future, not just growth, but are things on track? Some other maybe non-financial things. Are there some other things that you have concerns about as you get closer to retirement?
SPEAKER 03 :
Very cool. And what do you do for folks when they come in? And let’s say it’s a potential client that you’ve never seen before. Where do you start looking with a new account like that?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, I have a pretty lengthy conversation where we dive into a timeline when they might like to retire and a few income things so we could get a handle on the amount of money they’re going to need to retire. What does that look like for you? Are you going to be traveling a lot? Are you going to be skiing? Are you going to be spending a lot of time at home? Because some people’s idea of retirement means they’re going to need $10,000, $12,000 a month. Other people, $4,000 or $5,000 is going to be very adequate depending on what kind of things they do in retirement.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s pretty great. Al Smith goes through a lot more than just numbers, folks. He’s about people and really wants to find out exactly what you want to do with your retirement. Al, how do people get in touch with you if they want to start that process?
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Well, you can reach me at the office, 303-744-1128. My cell is 303-875-4572. I reply to texts and And if you’d like to hear about taxes as you get closer to retirement, there’s an event coming up January 10th at Arapahoe Community College. You got it, Al.
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And as always, you can reach Al from the klzradio.com website. Just go to klzradio.com slash money. Al, thanks so much for joining us today.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, you’re welcome. Thanks for having me, TJ.
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This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Andy Paik filling in for John Rush. On the line, we got Jersey Joe. Joe, how do people listen to you?
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If you want to find the podcast, you go on any of the major podcast platforms and just search for Jersey Joe and Jersey spelled J-E-R as in Robert, Z as in zebra, E-E-J-E-R-Z-E-E, Jersey Joe. If you want to find the website and watch the video of the podcast, It’s jerseyjoe.com, and just remember to spell Jersey with an R, Z, and two E’s. And if you want to send me, if you want to get on my distribution list, we do the podcast once a week. It’s 30 minutes. If you’d like to be added to the distribution list for the weekly podcast, just send me an email to justjoe. at jerseyjoe.com. Just remember to spell Jersey with an R as in two E’s. Okay. What do you got for us, sir? All right. I only got 18 topics. I don’t know if we can be able to fill the half hour, John, but that’s going to be great. We’ll do our best. I want to go into education. So I sent you a clip of a woman who claims that conservative kids don’t have student loan debt because they’re too stupid to go to college. Can we play this clip? Here we go.
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We know that MAGA doesn’t have student loans. MAGA doesn’t go to school. They don’t seek higher education. They don’t seek out higher levels of critical thinking skills and analysis. Of course, they wouldn’t have student loans.
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Imagine telling a diesel mechanic who makes like $90,000 a year that he’s an idiot for not taking out a $200,000 loan to get an art history degree that’s landed you a job as a cashier at Whole Foods and thinking that makes you look smart.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, that’s awesome.
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By the way, there are – I’m just trying to think. There are nine – either grandkids, nieces, nephews, and my family can think of that have gone to college. They’re all conservative. They all have conservative. They all have student loan debt, every single one of them. And they’ve all gone to college. And, of course, you’ve got conservative colleges like Hillsdale.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, Joe, really quick here, before you run on from that, doesn’t this really bring up the question, though, the person mocking that saying, yeah, you got a degree and you’re working at Whole Foods as a cashier, which, by the way, is a fine job. I’m all for it. But is it a time we really take a step back and really examine how worthwhile are college degrees? I mean, there are some that are wonderful, but, I mean, overall.
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Right. And let me give you a stat. Now, this data is a little aged because it’s probably seven years old. But because I spent a lot of time at the airport, Centennial Airport down off Arapahoe Road, there’s a Starbucks on Peoria, at Peoria and whatever that turn for the airport is right there. And I got to know the manager pretty well. And one time, you know, I got to know him and I think his name was Frank. I said, Frank, how many people working here have a college degree? He said, There’s 14 people working here, 13 have a college degree, and the 14th is working on it. So here are people with college degrees working as baristas in Starbucks. Now, that may have changed, but I was shaking my head. You know, this is back around probably, I don’t know, 2015, 16. Can you imagine that 14 people working in Starbucks are college graduates and they’re working as baristas?
SPEAKER 05 :
Honestly, Joe, I can’t. i can see that i really can and i guess the big question is this the product education is a product okay so we look at college education it’s a product the product isn’t working okay i’m sorry but the product doesn’t match the market the market is not begging for people who have paid all the money for that product go ahead well it depends on the product now for instance
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You know, I went to an engineering school in New Jersey. It’s kind of the MIT. It’s considered to be the MIT of New Jersey. And our close rival is the New Jersey Institute of Technology. And I happen to know a guy who’s on the board there, and we’re always comparing statistics. First, let me give you a baseline. Brown University, where the shooting took place a couple of weeks ago. You know what the tuition room and board is per year at Brown University? No. $93,000 a year. Okay. 93,000 per year. Do you know what their graduating class employment rate is? I’m looking at the stats right here. What is it? 30 no no it can’t be that bad are you serious uh 495 out of 16 1677 39 that’s horrible now now now is that really quick here is that getting people placed in their career fields or is that just people who have a job
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, that’s in their career fields. Got it. Okay. Just making sure. So only 39% are getting the bang for the buck they put into a certain career field.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right. Now I happen to look up the employment stats for the New Jersey Institute of Technology about two weeks ago, NJIT.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, it’s going to be much higher.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well-respected engineering school. And by the way, you can go to NJIT for about all in room and board. And because it’s a lot of people commute, you know, they save 10 grand a year in room and board. But for $40,000 a year, you can get a degree, a Bachelor of Engineering from NJIT for $40,000 a year.
SPEAKER 04 :
How many years does that take?
SPEAKER 15 :
It’s four years.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, four-year degree, just making sure.
SPEAKER 15 :
Four-year degree, Bachelor of Engineering.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
Their employment rate is 96%, and the other 4% are going on to masters and doctorates. So it’s basically 100% employment. Their average starting salary for the 96% who go into who become employed is $68,500 a year. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Basically the market wants the product that they bought. They bought, obviously they worked for it too, but they bought a degree in that field and the market says, Hey, I want you.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes. I want people with it skills. I want people with chemical engineering degrees. I want mechanical engineers. You know, I want structural engineer. I want civil engineers. You know, I don’t want people with art history degrees, you know, and particularly, by the way, what could be more worthless if you’re going to get a degree in art history from a third race? Now, if you have a degree in art history, you would hope to work in some sort of museum someplace, right?
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Sure.
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or some Ivy League school like that, if you’re going to hire somebody to work in your museum.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, first of all, you’re going to hire somebody from one of the elites. From one of the elites. Yeah, because there aren’t that many jobs like that available, Joe. And so you’re just going to get the ones from the elites. And secondly, Joe, let’s face facts here. Unless it’s for a job where they really have to have supreme knowledge of the arts – Why would you care? In other words, why would you want somebody with a college degree that you’ve got to pay for their student loans? Because they’re going to want raises a lot more quickly. This is why when I was managing at casinos and places like that, we would look at people… potential hirees. And we’d see the ones with college degrees, right? And they want to be a dealer or they want to be whatever. That’s fine. We’d hire anybody. But we kind of knew that the ones who were young and had college degrees were doing what? They were paying them off, which means what? They’d be job hopping to anywhere they could go to get a little better paycheck. Or they’d be wanting a raise much faster than the others. Now, the others… who didn’t have a college degree were just as good at dealing at a table, fixing a slot machine or whatever, right? Just as good. And we didn’t have to worry about them trying to pay off a student loan. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right. Yeah. They, you know, they weren’t, they weren’t looking to make an extra buck 50 an hour. You know, they were under, they weren’t under that pressure. Right. And there’s, there’s more important things, you know, the quality of the quality of your work environment, you know, the quality of your manager, do you have good management? Do you have good coworkers? You know, is it a, Is it a place that I enjoy going to work every day, or is it a place that makes my stomach churn when I wake up in the morning? And that’s more important than the extra buck fifty.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right.
SPEAKER 15 :
So you create, and there’s been all sorts of studies, Andy, about how money is not usually the primary reason people make a job. It is frequently, but it is not the primary. It is more about the quality experience. of your work environment and the quality of your management and leadership and your superior.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, yeah. Well, you got to keep in mind job happiness. Happiness in your job is not just so important during those 40, 45, 50 hours. It’s important your whole week. Why? Because it affects you on your weekend. It affects you everywhere. If you aren’t happy at your job, you spend the whole weekend dreading going in because you know there’s somebody who’s trying to, you know, who’s backstabbing you, who’s trying to damage your career, and you’ve got a boss who’s listening to them, and you’re dealing with all these politics. If you’re not happy at work, the whole weekend sucks.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. Life is too short to work for a jerk or to do a job where you’re not appreciated. Exactly. And I’ve known people to take a cut in pay to go to work for a job where they were happy. A very close relative of mine recently took a cut in pay to go to work where they were going to be happier.
SPEAKER 05 :
And it’s totally worth it, Joe. It’s totally worth it. Tell you what, let’s take a break. We’ll come back. I want to hear more from Jersey Joe. Up next is Geno’s Auto. Great mechanics, loaner cars, everything you need to get back on the road. For the best in auto care, call Geno’s at 303-794-6700.
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SPEAKER 13 :
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Would you recommend RoofMax to friends, family or neighbors and why?
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You’re listening to Rush to Reason. And welcome back to Rush to Reason. Denver’s Afternoon Rush. KLZ 560. KLZ 560. Andy Pate filling in for John Rush. Online we got Jersey Joe. Joe, what do you got?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, let’s stay with education for a minute. There’s been this trend happening over the past 15 years. where we have grade inflation. And there’s a lot of data that shows it. For instance, you’ve got graduation rates, particularly in places like Chicago, where the graduation rates keep going up and up and up, yet the SAT scores keep dropping like a rock. So how do you reconcile the fact that your SAT scores have dropped 30%, yet your graduation rates have increased by 40%? Lowered standards. Lower the standards. And here’s another one. A guy did a study. University of California, San Diego’s latest research on academic preparedness 25% of its incoming students who didn’t know
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