1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: John as Balls with three ten is besides there, Yes, 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 1: I'm protecting the kids. 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:08,800 Speaker 2: The issue is is that. 4 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 1: If you own a liquor, if you own a store 5 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: in Denver and you have someone who owns a store 6 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:17,799 Speaker 1: in Aurora, those profits are going into Aurora. This is 7 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:20,959 Speaker 1: not helping the revenue, says some in Denver. 8 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 3: You're asking for financial sense from our city council in Denver, 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 3: it can't happen. 10 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 2: They're just emotionalistic socialists. 11 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 3: So they are going to close down these smoke shops 12 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 3: that sell Swisher sweets and other flavored tobacco. Yes, old 13 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 3: Grandpa's Swisher sweets. I believe there was a law when 14 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 3: I was a kid that every grandfather had to smoke 15 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 3: a Swish or sweet cigar so that he could smell 16 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 3: like a grandfather. I think that's it was a federal law. 17 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 3: If I'm not mistaken, well, Grandpa's won't be able to 18 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 3: buy those Swisser suites in in Denver if this thing passes. 19 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 2: That's why you need to vote know on three to ten. 20 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 3: But here we have a city where they are laying 21 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 3: off city workers, where they're spending money on illegal immigrants. 22 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 2: So what is the most important thing they could. 23 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 3: Do close down small businesses and send that business to 24 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 3: Aurora or other places where you can where adults can 25 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 3: buy their products. 26 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 2: Insane. I'm John Calderian for the big Man. 27 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 3: I just want to make it clear that it's already 28 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 3: illegal for kids to buy these products. And I fully 29 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 3: concede these products can find their way into young adults'. 30 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 2: Hands, no doubt. 31 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 3: But so does marijuana, So does liquor, So does mushrooms. 32 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 3: So flavored liquor, flavored marijuana, mushrooms also find their way 33 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 3: into the hands of youngsters. Then why doesn't the city 34 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 3: council bar the sale of those items to adults like 35 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 3: they're trying to do with flavored nicotine, like swiss or sweets. 36 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 3: Why where's the consistency? Of course there is none. The 37 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:45,399 Speaker 3: difference is more people use pot, more people use booze, 38 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 3: and they're not going to stop that percentage of people. 39 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 3: The left hates minorities. Let me make it really clear, 40 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 3: they hate minorities. No, I'm not talking about racial minority, 41 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 3: because I'm talking about political minorities. There was a law 42 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 3: that was considered to be anti gay, anti homosexual. The 43 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:10,640 Speaker 3: city council would be like, oh, you can't do that. 44 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 3: You cannot. You cannot discriminate against people on their lifestyle, 45 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 3: on who they are, unless, of course, they smoke Swiss 46 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 3: or sweets, in which case screw them. So in one level, 47 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 3: it's you know, we want to, we want to. We 48 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 3: have to protect those those people in the political minority. 49 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 3: That's why we protect gay relationships. Okay, great, I'm down 50 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 3: for that. Why not the same logic for Grandpa who 51 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 3: smokes a Swiss or Sweet because that would require some 52 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 3: sort of logical consistency and they don't have it. They 53 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 3: just want what they want. They want people to live 54 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 3: the way they live. That's it, maybe really clear. What's 55 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 3: on the ballot has nothing to do with children, no 56 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 3: matter how much Michael Bloomberg will put kids in the 57 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 3: front of his ads. It has everything to do with adults. 58 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 3: Should adults be allowed to buy a Swiss or sweet cigar? 59 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 3: If you say no, then why should an adult be 60 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 3: allowed to have a white claw, which is a flavored 61 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 3: alcoholic beverage. 62 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 2: What is the difference. 63 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 3: Why should an adult be able to buy cherry infused 64 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 3: marijuana or an edible marijuana that's flavored but not not 65 00:04:56,200 --> 00:05:00,080 Speaker 3: a Swiss or Sweet? If you can answer that for me. 66 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,919 Speaker 3: I would love to hear it. Three h three seven 67 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 3: one three eight two five five. I would welcome somebody 68 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 3: who could seriously tell me the difference. And the difference is, well, 69 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 3: fewer people smoke swiss or sweets today then then drink 70 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 3: white claw, So we're going to keep those things legal. 71 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 2: Insane, So ballots are already going out. 72 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 3: Colorado has an election month that does not have an 73 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 3: election day. You will not get your ballot today because 74 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 3: it's Columbus, Indigenous people whatever, whatever victimhood. We're celebrating day 75 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 3: off today and so the government isn't working, so that 76 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 3: means tomorrow you might get your ballot. There is really 77 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 3: only one statewide issue that you need to decide on. 78 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 3: It's broken into two different questions l L and m M. 79 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 3: It's my hope you vote against both of them. This 80 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 3: has to do with our failed free school lunch program, 81 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 3: which is underwater. 82 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 2: What a surprise. 83 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 3: I support free school lunches for kids of poor families. 84 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 3: Little brains cannot learn if there's no food in their tummies. 85 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 3: I think we all can agree on this, and that's 86 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 3: why we provide free lunch for poorer kids. I'll go 87 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 3: a little farther. Maybe that program should be expanded. Maybe 88 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 3: we double the amount of kids raised at the level 89 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 3: by which your kid can get a free meal. Terrific, awesome, spectacular, 90 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 3: let's do that. 91 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and do that. But wait, we didn't 92 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 2: do that. 93 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:10,239 Speaker 3: We passed a program that gives every kid a free meal. 94 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 3: I'm using finger quotes when I say free. Every kid 95 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 3: gets a free meal. Wonderful. No, it's not wonderful at all. 96 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 3: And instead of taxing all of us to give all 97 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 3: of our kids a free meal, we tax those people 98 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 3: who make over three hundred grand a year. Gets to 99 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 3: tax the wealthy scam, and therefore we have wealthy people 100 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 3: being taxed so that just slightly less wealthy people can 101 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 3: get free lunches for their kids. Let me say that again, 102 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 3: because it's really important. Under this program, people who make 103 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 3: over three one hundred thousand dollars a year pay more 104 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 3: in taxes so that people who make two hundred and 105 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 3: ninety nine thousand dollars a year their kids can get 106 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 3: free meals. There's a real moral hazard with this program. 107 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 3: That moral hazard is that we get to give ourselves 108 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 3: a benefit from rich guys. We get to enjoy class welfare. 109 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 3: We get to buy the middle class things at the 110 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 3: expense of those who are more successful. So a guy 111 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 3: named Alexander Fraser Tyler made this statement once. He said 112 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 3: that democracy cannot exist, Democracy is doomed. What he said 113 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 3: was a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government, 114 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,679 Speaker 3: can only exist until the voters discover that they can 115 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 3: vote themselves larges from the public treasury. We have hit 116 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 3: that point in America that we keep getting more and more. 117 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 2: Benefits for ourselves. Yes, Social Security benefits for. 118 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:27,319 Speaker 3: People who who haven't earned and put that money in there, 119 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 3: Medicaid benefits or Obamacare, and it's going to break us. 120 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 3: So in a microscope we get a look at this 121 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 3: here in Colorado, propositions LLL and MM say we're going 122 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 3: to give everybody free stuff at the cost of just 123 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 3: a few So really, what's on the ballot this fall 124 00:09:56,520 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 3: beyond free lunches, is class war or flair class envy? 125 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:09,839 Speaker 2: Who who are we to take somebody else's money. 126 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 3: So basically, wherever you live, you can tax that guy 127 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:20,199 Speaker 3: with a nicer house down the street, and he can 128 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 3: buy your kids food. What's really dangerous about this is 129 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 3: that not only does it mess up our incentives. It 130 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 3: punishes people for being successful, but something much much more. 131 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 3: It treats us like children. It assumes that middle class families, 132 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 3: families earning two hundred and ninety nine thousand dollars a 133 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 3: year unless simply don't have the skills it takes to 134 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 3: make their kids a sandwich, or the money it takes 135 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:03,959 Speaker 3: to let them buy a hot line at school. That's 136 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 3: the problem. If only if only government were here to 137 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 3: tell us where our kids should eat and make those 138 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:15,839 Speaker 3: decisions for us, then we wouldn't have to do so. 139 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 3: What this free lunch program is is really an attack 140 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 3: on family autonomy. It's a creeping bit of socialism where 141 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 3: government elites decide what your kids should and should not eat. 142 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 3: Your kids go to school to be indoctrinated, but programs 143 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 3: like this indoctrinate the adults. It's the kids who go 144 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 3: to school to be re educated, but really it's the 145 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 3: parents now who are being re educated. That buying themselves 146 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 3: little benefits at the cost of the wealthy is okay, 147 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:02,439 Speaker 3: that's a huge danger. I think it warps your mind. 148 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 3: It creates this class welfare that what that guy has, 149 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 3: I can just take it as long as I get 150 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 3: fifty plus one percent of my neighbors to agree with me, 151 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 3: I can take that guy's stuff and use it for 152 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:29,679 Speaker 3: my family. There's also the danger to kids. And yeah, 153 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 3: I'm gonna sound conspiratorial here, but something magical happens in 154 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 3: the lunch room. 155 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 2: You remember this, don't you. 156 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 3: Parents would feed their kids, well, very different things. Every 157 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 3: lunch was a little different. It had some individuality to it. 158 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 3: And what happened during that time of lunch, what happened 159 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 3: during that period period? Potato chips exactly? I got an 160 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 3: apple here? Who will trade me for this apple? Oh? 161 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 3: You got an orange? I prefer oranges. Oh you have grapes. 162 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 3: I'll make a trade. And then you find out how 163 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:16,440 Speaker 3: valuable what the real worth is of a twinkie. Ain't 164 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 3: nobody touching the almond joy though, Yeah you could have 165 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:24,320 Speaker 3: the al I hate almond joys. Coconuts, give me a break. 166 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,680 Speaker 3: But if you had those Oreo cookies, yeah you could. 167 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 3: You could get a peanut butter sandwich. You can make 168 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 3: a good trade. What did what did you trade? Look 169 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 3: at you dragon anything and everything to get something sweeter 170 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 3: or some you know, some cookies or something. The peanut 171 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 3: butter and jelly. I got all right, anybody, it's grape 172 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:47,719 Speaker 3: any grape, jelly, crunch and jelly. It's not even the 173 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 3: butt end of the bread. It's it's you know, it's 174 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 3: it's the good stuff. So economists have this term called 175 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 3: spontaneous order. Basically, he says, you can't stop markets. You 176 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:01,960 Speaker 3: can drive under right, which can't stop markets, And the 177 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,320 Speaker 3: lunch room was a perfect example of that. Nobody had 178 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 3: to educate kids on how to make market trades. Nobody said, 179 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 3: all right, now, here's how the market works in the 180 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 3: lunch room. When you get there, don't mean these people 181 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 3: want no, You just start doing it. And at the 182 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 3: end of the day, kids got more of what they wanted. 183 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 3: Everybody got more of what they wanted. If you traded 184 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 3: your oreo for an apple, it means you wanted an 185 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 3: apple more than an oreo, and the guy with the 186 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 3: oreo wanted or the guy with the apple wanted the oreo, 187 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 3: and you're both better off. You're both happier. It taught 188 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 3: market economics. The beauty from a socialist point of view 189 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 3: of this free lunch program is that there's no trading. 190 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 3: Why because every kid gets to eat the same bland crap. 191 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 3: Here's your slop, the same slop as the guy. The 192 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 3: net guy gets that, the next guy gets the next guy. 193 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 3: It's like going shopping at a Soviet grocery store. Everybody 194 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 3: gets the same thing. There is no market training part 195 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 3: of me for being conspiratorial, but I am convinced this 196 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 3: is a big part of what they do. They want 197 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 3: the elites to decide what your kids should eat and 198 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 3: take away the opportunity for them to experience the marketplace, 199 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 3: and take away your responsibility to feed your own kids, 200 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 3: because good god, we know you won't do a good job. 201 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 3: We the state will do a much better job at 202 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 3: feeding our kids. One of the prime jobs of parenthood 203 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 3: is feeding your kid. That is your responsibility. And so 204 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 3: many Coloraden's over fifty percent of them, we're happy to 205 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 3: force fit that authority over to the state and let 206 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 3: the state decide what my kid should eat. There's also 207 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 3: a broken promise. They said the food would be locally sourced, 208 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 3: because you know, suburbanites are into that. That's never happened. 209 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 3: Right out of the gate, this program was under water. 210 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 3: Why because when you give people free crap, they take it, 211 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 3: and they take it in droves. Why would anybody make 212 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 3: their kid a sandwich now that the school's going to 213 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 3: feed everybody. Therefore, it went right into the red. The 214 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 3: state had to bail it out, meaning there's less money 215 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 3: for roads, less money for anything. I'm very worried that 216 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 3: LLL and MM will pass. It is it's a barometer 217 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 3: on how we feel about taxing people who have something 218 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 3: better than us and not even giving the benefit to 219 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:11,000 Speaker 3: the poor. This benefit doesn't go to the poor, It 220 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 3: goes to everyone, so it's not even targeted. Well, we're 221 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 3: gonna steal from the rich and give to the poor. No, 222 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:19,119 Speaker 3: we're gonna steal from the rich and give it to me. 223 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 3: Everybody gets free lunch. Why does that teach our kids? 224 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:31,360 Speaker 3: And teaches our kids the government, not your parents, are 225 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 3: responsible for your upbringing, and when you become a parent, 226 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:39,720 Speaker 3: well it will be your job to forfeit your authority 227 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 3: to the state, just like mom and dad did. I 228 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 3: hope you get everyone to vote against l L and MM. 229 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:53,399 Speaker 2: What happened to our beautiful stage? 230 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:56,440 Speaker 3: I'm John Calderic. Keep it here six point thirty kow. 231 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 4: Hey, John, don't you think the problem is our definition 232 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:07,360 Speaker 4: of what is rich? Somebody making three hundred thousand dollars 233 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 4: a year, or the couple that does. They're usually the 234 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:14,640 Speaker 4: ones that start a small business which keeps us employed, 235 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,680 Speaker 4: or they spend money at places that do employ us. 236 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 4: They are not the Rockefellers. 237 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:27,120 Speaker 3: They're not the Rockefellers. You know, small business is still 238 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:34,200 Speaker 3: the backbone of our economy. Small businesses grow into large businesses, 239 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:38,919 Speaker 3: or they fail. Large businesses grow into larger businesses, or 240 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:44,400 Speaker 3: they shrink and sometimes fail. There was a time when 241 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 3: Sears Roebuck was the dominant retailer. There was nobody who 242 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 3: was going to knock over Sears. Well, not so much now. Kmart. Yeah, 243 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:02,879 Speaker 3: today it's Target and Walmart. It's a competitive world out there. 244 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:08,879 Speaker 3: What a shame that businesses in Denver have to compete 245 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 3: with regulation. They have to go out there and try 246 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:15,600 Speaker 3: to make a living with a hand tied behind their back. 247 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:21,199 Speaker 3: Have you noticed how many restaurants are going under in 248 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 3: Denver for a variety of reasons, Inflation, which is all 249 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:33,640 Speaker 3: government controlled. Get very clear, inflation is a monetary issue 250 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:37,159 Speaker 3: more than it is anything else. The other disruptions and 251 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:42,919 Speaker 3: supply lines and different things. But when the government doubles 252 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 3: the amount of money out there it. 253 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 2: Means the price of things doubles. 254 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 3: Again, let me give you the the the quick monetary lesson. 255 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 3: When we had a go old standard, when our money 256 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,199 Speaker 3: was limited by how much gold and silver there was, 257 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:10,920 Speaker 3: we had incredible wealth and people earned more. They saved 258 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 3: more because when they saved something, the value of that 259 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 3: went up. Now, because money is printed anywhere, just printed 260 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 3: and printed, you have an incentive to spend your money. 261 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 3: You even have an incentive to go into debt because 262 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 3: thanks to inflation, you will be paying that debt back 263 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:39,360 Speaker 3: with less money. That is, when you go into debt 264 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:45,360 Speaker 3: and you buy something well in the future, with inflation, 265 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:47,920 Speaker 3: you should be making more money, making whatever you're paying 266 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:55,400 Speaker 3: off cost relatively less. If you were nineteen sixty four 267 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 3: and you had a nineteen sixty four quarter, you could 268 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 3: buy a gallon of gasoline with that. 269 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,760 Speaker 2: That quarter is a is a silver quarter. 270 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:06,440 Speaker 3: It has. 271 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 2: Zero point one seven percent of an ounce. 272 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 3: That's worth almost ten dollars today. Do you realize that 273 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 3: what was something you could buy one gallon of gas 274 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 3: with today you could buy three gallons of gas. That's 275 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:30,880 Speaker 3: called deflation. That's what happens when your your money is fixed. 276 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:35,680 Speaker 3: But instead we went off. We went off that gold 277 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:39,679 Speaker 3: standard and turn on the printing presses. The banks love it, 278 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 3: the economy loves it. We all feel like we're wealthy 279 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:47,120 Speaker 3: because our four oh one k's go up, but really 280 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 3: they're not going up. It's just inflation. And so now 281 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:59,159 Speaker 3: we spend not a quarter, but you know, three dollars 282 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:06,880 Speaker 3: a gallon for gasoline. You have an incentive to spend now, 283 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:12,200 Speaker 3: and that's that's going to be terrible. It is going 284 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 3: to break us. So restaurants now have really expensive food costs. 285 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:20,360 Speaker 2: Oh but it's Denver. 286 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:23,920 Speaker 3: So we also have one of the highest minimum wages 287 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 3: in the country. It's nineteen dollars an hour. Have you 288 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 3: noticed that service in Denver restaurants just isn't as good 289 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 3: as it used to be because they can't afford to 290 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:40,679 Speaker 3: hire anyone. Oh it's more than that. Now they have 291 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,920 Speaker 3: to pay for the Family Leave Act. The Family Leave 292 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:51,640 Speaker 3: Act is another nearly one percent wage tax or it's 293 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,680 Speaker 3: split between employer and employee, but doesn't matter. It's the 294 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:59,200 Speaker 3: employer that pays it, and so it makes employment even 295 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 3: more expensive. So you got the minimum wage, you've got 296 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 3: insurance costs in Denver going skyrocketing, partly because of all 297 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 3: the crime. You've got property taxes going up. You have 298 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 3: the Family Leave Act, which means not only do you 299 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,720 Speaker 3: pay more for your employee you have, but when that 300 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 3: employee's gone, you got to hire somebody to fill his shoes, 301 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:33,400 Speaker 3: so you're paying twice. It's just spectacular. Businesses are going under. 302 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,439 Speaker 3: How many restaurants have you seen go under? Now? Some 303 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 3: of the bigger chains can move things around, they have 304 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 3: some economics of scale, but they're not immune either. They 305 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 3: will be closing up shop as well. More and more 306 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:56,959 Speaker 3: restaurants are closing down. It's too expensive and they're certainly 307 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 3: not in the how to put it more pedestrian areas. 308 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 3: At a business lunch in Cherry Creek the other day, 309 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:06,399 Speaker 3: the place was jammed. I'm looking around, going, how is 310 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 3: this jammed when just a few blocks away in downtown 311 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 3: Denver the restaurants are wide open and empty. Well, I 312 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 3: guess people feel safer in Cherry Creek and they're willing 313 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,679 Speaker 3: to spend more money to feel safe. But more and 314 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:31,439 Speaker 3: more businesses are going under. Denver's response to that is 315 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:35,959 Speaker 3: to speed it up. Let's put smoke shops and vape 316 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:42,159 Speaker 3: shops out of business by outlawing flavored tobacco products like 317 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 3: swiss or sweets, or we'll keep the liquor stores open. 318 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 3: That's a white claw, which is a flavored liquor or 319 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:55,359 Speaker 3: peach and fused vodka. We'll keep them. The marijuana shops open, 320 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 3: you know, the ones that have flavor edibles, but flavored 321 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 3: tobacco or flavored nicotine products to help you get off tobacco. No, 322 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 3: can't have that. You can't have that. Anyways, this is 323 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 3: a good year to vote no on well, just about everything. 324 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:24,160 Speaker 3: Let's take a quick look at the shutdown. How bad 325 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 3: has the shutdown been for you? You know, the government 326 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:33,879 Speaker 3: shut down. It's day ten now day ten. Yeah, Trump 327 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 3: flying all over the world putting out wars, but we 328 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 3: can't get our government to work. The media is starting 329 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 3: to tune into the horror stories. Oh, the horror. No, 330 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 3: it's not so bad that the government is shut down. 331 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:55,919 Speaker 3: I wish Congress could be shut down. How about this 332 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 3: story from a website called the Travel Before the govern 333 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 3: shutdown became official, former National Park Service employees were begging 334 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 3: officials to close national parks. 335 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 2: In the event of a closure. That's just terrible writing. 336 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:20,679 Speaker 3: Their primary concern was visitor behavior causing irreversible damage to 337 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:28,880 Speaker 3: the fragile ecosystems given the lack of staff. Dun, dun, dung. Unfortunately, 338 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 3: the Natal National Park Service contingency plan dictated that parks 339 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 3: were to remain as accessible as possible during the shutdown. 340 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:45,159 Speaker 3: Heaven forbid the people's land be open to the people. 341 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 3: Across the country, they write, national parks are feeling the effects, 342 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 3: with Redwood National State Parks dealing with stolen items, and 343 00:26:54,320 --> 00:27:01,520 Speaker 3: Rocky Mountain National Park's latest conservation project in jeopardy. Now 344 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 3: you can hear the emotional music in the back. Now 345 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 3: Yosemite National Park in California is getting its turn, with 346 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 3: unruly visitors taking advantage of reduced staff. Base jumpers have 347 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:21,880 Speaker 3: been spotted jumping off El Capitan, and visitors without permits 348 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:27,879 Speaker 3: are making their way up the cables of Half Dome. Meanwhile, 349 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 3: visitors in the campgrounds are overstaying the reservations, becoming squatters 350 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:43,120 Speaker 3: in one of America's most iconic parks. Hmmm, so therefore, 351 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 3: what exactly what is it you want us to do? 352 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:55,359 Speaker 3: And the shutdown? Okay, go tell the Democrats to vote 353 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 3: for a bill that has less spending in it. On. 354 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 3: All of that comes down to Obamacare. Remember Obamacare, Obamacare 355 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 3: that was supposed to save us money. Obamacare, which was 356 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,440 Speaker 3: supposed to allow us to keep our health care plan 357 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:16,439 Speaker 3: if we want to do You remember Obamacare where we 358 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 3: could keep our doctor if we liked our doctor. You 359 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 3: remember Obama? Well, Obamacare is breaking the bank again. Just 360 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,639 Speaker 3: like free lunches, when you give out free stuff, people 361 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 3: take it. And here they're giving out free healthcare, free healthcare. 362 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 3: Isn't that great stuff? And so the scare of the 363 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,480 Speaker 3: government shutdown, I don't think is as bad as it 364 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 3: used to be day ten and Trump is using this, 365 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 3: hopefully to fire a bunch of government employees. Now, it's 366 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 3: sad when you're the government employee getting laid off, but 367 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 3: somehow the world survives without you. Why is it that this, 368 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 3: this shutdown just doesn't feel that bad. Is there a 369 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 3: reason about that? Let me read something for you that. 370 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 3: Here's here's a few of the broken promises of the 371 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 3: Affordability Act, you know Obamacare, the A c A. 372 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 2: The promise Do you remember this? 373 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 3: The ACA will cut the deficit, will cut the deficit 374 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:02,480 Speaker 3: including its student loan provisions. Hmm. Interesting. Our federal debt 375 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 3: is at an all time high, including these costly student loans. 376 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 3: The ACA would quote bend the cost curve, saving two thousand, 377 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 3: five hundred dollars a year per family. Do you remember 378 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 3: this promise? Instead, individual market premiums doubled between thirteen and 379 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 3: twenty seventeen. And remember they started the Cadillac Tax to 380 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 3: tax nicer, better healthcare plans. Remember the ACA would save lives, 381 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 3: although life expectancy has fallen for three years in a row. 382 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,440 Speaker 3: That the ACA would only be for US citizens. Remember 383 00:30:51,440 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 3: that promise. Yep, many unauthorized immigrants on on healthcare. The 384 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 3: ACA would take this stress out of shopping for health insurance. 385 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,400 Speaker 3: Of course, the portal was one of the most unreliable 386 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 3: websites ever launched. OH penalties on employers that failed to 387 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 3: provide coverage would provide massive revenue, while the actual revenue 388 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 3: collected from these employers less than five percent of what 389 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 3: was projected. The ACA was going to increase economic growth, right, 390 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:40,720 Speaker 3: Medicaid would be an efficient way to increase coverage. 391 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 2: Nope, I loved it. 392 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,000 Speaker 3: If you liked your plan and doctor, you could keep them. 393 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 3: I couldn't keep them, could you? Is this shut down 394 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 3: destroying your life? The Democrats want to continue funding at 395 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:03,959 Speaker 3: high levels the ac Obamacare. Is this the hill they 396 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,760 Speaker 3: want to die on? Is it possible that for once 397 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 3: Republicans can win the PR battle on a government shutdown? 398 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,720 Speaker 3: That breaks my number one rule that whenever there's a shutdown, 399 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 3: Republicans naturally get blamed three or three seven, one, three 400 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 3: eight two five five in for Michael Brown, I'm John 401 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 3: Kelderrek keep it right here, six point thirty k out. 402 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:29,160 Speaker 5: I don't care about what happens in Denver anymore. The 403 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:33,520 Speaker 5: business owner is there, don't figure out that Denver is 404 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 5: a mess and the only way out is to close 405 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:41,560 Speaker 5: shop and go somewhere else. To show Denver a lesson 406 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 5: in what business revenue does for a city, then I 407 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 5: don't have any sympathy. 408 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:55,960 Speaker 3: Sorry, I have sympathy. I absolutely have sympathy. I've never 409 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 3: seen a city that has gone wrong make a really 410 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,280 Speaker 3: good comeback. I guess you could argue New York City 411 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:10,480 Speaker 3: under Juliana made a terrific comeback. I'm not looking forward 412 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:16,560 Speaker 3: to seeing Denver fail. It hurts me. It hurts me 413 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:20,720 Speaker 3: to think that all these businesses that tried so hard 414 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:24,240 Speaker 3: just couldn't get it done, and that it's government that 415 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:29,280 Speaker 3: has made this invasion of homelessness crime, putting small businesses 416 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:34,640 Speaker 3: out of business. Yeah, part of me says, you voted 417 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:39,560 Speaker 3: for it. This is what you're gonna get. What a shame. 418 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:41,880 Speaker 3: We can save Colorado.