Speaker 1: You want to be an American idiot, Scott plown back
Speaker 1: on seven hundred WWS. So we have a coalition about
Speaker 1: half of the United States. The United States and District
Speaker 1: of Columbia are suing the Trump administration over the suspension
Speaker 1: of food staff benefits. With the government shutdown happening right now,
Speaker 1: so here in Ohio we can't control DC. But now
Speaker 1: we're going, all right, what about Snap? What about TAMP?
Speaker 1: What about Wick? What about that money if we don't
Speaker 1: get federal funds? With looking that way as we get
Speaker 1: closer to Saturday, locally, Governor Dewin said he's studying options
Speaker 1: involving state money. I had a council member all be
Speaker 1: on earlier this morning and she said the city's looking
Speaker 1: at this too. And the county held they hearing yesterday
Speaker 1: where Alicia Reese was a holding court as she usually does.
Speaker 1: Commissioner Reese welcome, how are you?
Speaker 2: Oh, I've had better days, I'll tell you that, But
Speaker 2: I bet this is toughbelievable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got so to bring people up to speed
Speaker 1: on this. To bring up to speed, one point four
Speaker 1: million Ohio WANs reliance SNAP benefits and about forty three
Speaker 1: thousand kids so roughly one in eight folks who live
Speaker 1: in Hamlin County are getting some form of SNAP benefits.
Speaker 1: Every month in Hamlin County, SNAP pays out nineteen million dollars,
Speaker 1: I said, nineteen million a month. With your budget and
Speaker 1: even the city's budget. I don't know how you overcome that, Alicia.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it, you look at it. We can
Speaker 2: overcome it. I mean, we're talking to almost two hundred
Speaker 2: and forty million a year, and we're looking at ninety
Speaker 2: seven thousand of those people, like you said, right here
Speaker 2: in Hamilton County, and you know they yesterday, the Director
Speaker 2: of Jobs and Family Services. One of the things he
Speaker 2: talked about, these are people who are working. Majority of
Speaker 2: these people who actually work every day, some of them
Speaker 2: working two and three jobs. You're looking at children who
Speaker 2: innocent children. Then you're looking at senior citizens who pay
Speaker 2: their dues. There you know, that's the big chunk of people.
Speaker 1: Serve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, veteran to serve this country. I mean, this is
Speaker 2: uh uh, this is unbelievable. And to deny them something
Speaker 2: as basic as being able to have food on the
Speaker 2: table is unbelievable. And then one of the things the
Speaker 2: food Free Store Food Bank, which you know, uh, the
Speaker 2: in world hunger. That's one of my it's just been dear, dear,
Speaker 2: my heart, and I've always worked with them for you know,
Speaker 2: most of my life helping. One of the things that
Speaker 2: was said that we can't food pantry.
Speaker 3: Ourselves out into it.
Speaker 2: You know, even with the money that we have, uh
Speaker 2: that we had from SNAP. We had SNAP and food
Speaker 2: bank was kind of a gap filler. It was never
Speaker 2: the main line, and so it won't be we won't
Speaker 2: be able to We're going to put more money toward that.
Speaker 2: We as a as a county commission, we've put about
Speaker 2: two million dollars with the URBA money that we did.
Speaker 2: We're looking for more our money. We know we probably
Speaker 2: got at least another two hundred thousand. We're scraping to
Speaker 2: sign some others so that number may go up, but
Speaker 2: we know that that is just a temporary situation. Then
Speaker 2: what people don't understand the economic impact of the SNAP benefits.
Speaker 2: In other words, for every dollar that we put in
Speaker 2: you talked about the nineteen million, we get one dollar
Speaker 2: and fifty four cents back, So we're talking about almost
Speaker 2: you know, over two hundred close three hundred million dollars
Speaker 2: economically in the economy to keep this economy.
Speaker 1: Going, because you're going to buy stuff, You're going to
Speaker 1: go to the store, you're going to go to Kroger whatever,
Speaker 1: and that money gets pumped back into the economy, and
Speaker 1: that means jobs and a few people are done.
Speaker 3: You know, Okay, you don't need that many people at
Speaker 3: Kroger working wherever you get your groceries, and you can't,
Speaker 3: you can't.
Speaker 1: I talked to a Kurt Ryber on Monday Show, Alicia Rees,
Speaker 1: CEO of the Freestar Food Bank, and he was he
Speaker 1: was kind about that. He said, well, I'm optimistic we'll
Speaker 1: get this thing settled now here it is. You know,
Speaker 1: we're heading in the back half the week, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden that's not looking at a certainty or
Speaker 1: a guarantee for sure. But he said, look, we might
Speaker 1: have to open twice a month to folks who are
Speaker 1: on snap as supposed to once a month, and he's
Speaker 1: going to have to lean on his vendors as suppliers.
Speaker 1: And of course the generosity of Cincinnatians and they serve
Speaker 1: not just Cincinnati, but as you know, like twenty counties.
Speaker 1: So if you're hearing this and like I have make
Speaker 1: a donation the free Store food Bank because it's that
Speaker 1: time of the year and now we're getting to you know,
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and Christmas when the need is even greater. It's
Speaker 1: like the worst time possible for this to happen.
Speaker 2: It's the worst time possible. And as you indicate it,
Speaker 2: we looked at also the Director of Jobs and Family Services,
Speaker 2: because all of the snap benefits don't happen just at
Speaker 2: the beginning of the month. Right, We've got half at
Speaker 2: the beginning of the month, so we've got a group
Speaker 2: that will be impacted November first. Then we've got another
Speaker 2: half where theirs are in the middle of the month,
Speaker 2: so theirs would go out right at Thanksgiving. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's believable. And then you talked about Krogers and others.
Speaker 2: They're small, there's farmers' markets, there's smaller retails. Over almost
Speaker 2: ten thousand retails stores throughout Ohio will be affected. So
Speaker 2: now we're talking about some you know, some of the
Speaker 2: smaller stores as well as it affects you know, Krogers
Speaker 2: and all those because the less people buy, right, the
Speaker 2: higher the prices and so and then some of the
Speaker 2: smaller retail stores, the farmer markets and those kinds of things.
Speaker 2: Some of them have indicated they might go out of business.
Speaker 2: And those are the ones that provide the fresh fruit
Speaker 2: into some of these food desert areas. So it's a
Speaker 2: trickle effect. Then you have senior citizens who many are
Speaker 2: on medicine, and some children that have to take medicines,
Speaker 2: and now you have to decide can afford the medicine
Speaker 2: or the food. And everybody knows when you take medicines
Speaker 2: that it says you got to eat with the medicine.
Speaker 2: So it's a trickle down effect. And then we had C. Mha,
Speaker 2: a director come in and he said it also affects
Speaker 2: because now we're talking about housing and his program has
Speaker 2: because of the government shut down. Uh. He indicated that
Speaker 2: it will affect people with affordable housing as well. And
Speaker 2: you know we've been pushing affordable housing. Will people be
Speaker 2: able to have a place to live? Yeah, And you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's just everything. And you know, I've been on
Speaker 2: this property taxes just chilling us, you know, and we
Speaker 2: did that, we did that Bengals deal sloan and they
Speaker 2: took out thirty percent, So we can't even try to
Speaker 2: get the thirty percent rebate, then the state would not
Speaker 2: do anything on the property taxes. Yet they're still fiddling their.
Speaker 3: Trying to figure out what's going on.
Speaker 1: That's that's a whole separate, complex issue, right, and then
Speaker 1: the main time it is coming up, bottom line is Saturday.
Speaker 1: Unless things change in Washington, a lot of people are
Speaker 1: going to have to do without. And I, you know,
Speaker 1: I look at this thing, Alisha Reese's you know, and yeah,
Speaker 1: we've mentioned, for example, the federal workers for example, who
Speaker 1: are working out of the paycheck. And I said, when
Speaker 1: this thing started, I was like, Okay, it's theater, is
Speaker 1: what it is. And then what happens in about thirty
Speaker 1: days that theater becomes reality. So you see the snap
Speaker 1: benefits cut concerns with the FAA. You have Frederick workers
Speaker 1: now missing a couple paychecks. You know most families can afford.
Speaker 1: You know, Okay, can we tighten it up for till
Speaker 1: the next pay cycle? Sure, we do that all the time.
Speaker 1: You start talking a couple of pay cycles, it's a
Speaker 1: different story entirely. And yet these people still have to
Speaker 1: show up to work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got to show up to work not getting paid.
Speaker 2: Now we're in twenty twenty twenty five, right, twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five people working and not getting paid. Come on, in
Speaker 2: this society, there'd be a furlough. These people have home mortgages,
Speaker 2: they will have the property taxes. We do their gas
Speaker 2: and electrics do. Now you're talking over here those with
Speaker 2: the snap benefits. Now they can't get anything to eat.
Speaker 2: Drin's families worried how this is outrageous, and then this
Speaker 2: song we have until this Thursday, and I don't think
Speaker 2: it's going to go. The state then said, hey, you
Speaker 2: fixed the problem on property taxes. And you saw Butler County.
Speaker 2: In Warren County, they looking to double the homestead to
Speaker 2: help the seniors. But it doesn't look like you know,
Speaker 2: I asked the administrator to look at all options, and
Speaker 2: it doesn't seem like I'm going to get the support
Speaker 2: to be able to do that here in Hamilton County.
Speaker 2: So now what do we do. We can't give the
Speaker 2: homeowners to break federal workers furloughs. That's your middle class
Speaker 2: that they're working with no paycheck. Senior citizens have done
Speaker 2: their time and they can't now get anything to eat.
Speaker 2: They don't know if to pay for the medicine or
Speaker 2: can they pay to get something to eat. Children out
Speaker 2: here hungry. These ninety seven thousand people affected about the
Speaker 2: snap benefits, like you said, nutrition and all that, they
Speaker 2: can't even get anything to eat. And most of them
Speaker 2: are working every day. I mean, what what are we
Speaker 2: doing here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean pretty soon it's gonna be You're gonna
Speaker 1: look at it and go, Okay, well I can feed
Speaker 1: my kids, or I can pay the electric bill. And
Speaker 1: you know, you can have a really good job and
Speaker 1: good income stream and still feel the pinch of the spadic. Hell, Alicia,
Speaker 1: you got a couple of your you you make good money,
Speaker 1: and you still have a hard time paying your electric bill.
Speaker 2: Hey, let me just say let me say this.
Speaker 1: Let me say this.
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 2: I am a normal and I and I have the
Speaker 2: struggles of everybody.
Speaker 1: Because this morning Alicia was a little late because her
Speaker 1: phone died because her power went out.
Speaker 3: And I said, well, I mean, you gotta pay that,
Speaker 3: you gotta pay, you gotta pay.
Speaker 2: Duke Kennedy girl, I jumped up, saw, I said, wait,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 4: I got my receipt. I'm gonna go waving in somebody's face. Somebody, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's what it is. I love the conspiracy. I really
Speaker 4: really do to do.
Speaker 3: Alishers County commissioner on the show.
Speaker 2: On It's long, let me just tell a picture. I've
Speaker 2: got the five or three release bus and we have
Speaker 2: helped thirty thousand people where we got the bus going
Speaker 2: all over the county. We're going to try to connect
Speaker 2: people to as much help as we have available to
Speaker 2: them right now. We're bringing food, we're bringing all kind
Speaker 2: of help from jobs and family services, anything we have.
Speaker 2: We're going to try to connect them and answer the
Speaker 2: problems that they may have. And we're also trying to
Speaker 2: get people. Let's get these unclaimed funds, every little dollar count.
Speaker 2: We're in a nine to one one right.
Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, we are, and you hope that cooler heads prevail.
Speaker 1: Like if I were to talk to Democrats and Republicans,
Speaker 1: I think the sentiment of the country is, Okay, you
Speaker 1: made your point.
Speaker 3: You made your point.
Speaker 1: Now now once you get past And the reason why
Speaker 1: the longest shutdown was thirty five days is because after
Speaker 1: you know, first few weeks at theater, once you start
Speaker 1: to get past that thirty day market really starts to
Speaker 1: hurt people who don't deserve it. And so at the
Speaker 1: end of the day is you could play party politics,
Speaker 1: and our sides got to win and crush the other side.
Speaker 1: But you know when when individual families and kids and
Speaker 1: veterans and seniors are getting squeezed out and literally not
Speaker 1: getting food, I think that's time both sides have to go. Look,
Speaker 1: we made our point. We've eventually got a govern here.
Speaker 1: We got to legislate, and let's fix this problem through
Speaker 1: the legislative action, not executive order. And a lot of
Speaker 1: people blame Trump for all this thing, but it's party politics.
Speaker 1: It's the lines are so defined and it's such a
Speaker 1: gap between the two parties right now. This is why
Speaker 1: Congress largely we're sending them to Washington.
Speaker 3: What are they doing. All they're doing is shutting.
Speaker 1: They came and bounce a Budgetala share you got one job,
Speaker 1: you can't do that, and then you shut the government
Speaker 1: down like every ten minutes on the tens.
Speaker 2: Well, we got to come together. But this is an
Speaker 2: economics fight we've got to fight going right now. Sloan
Speaker 2: from creating the have and the have nots, and the
Speaker 2: have nots is growing and getting crushed at whatever they do.
Speaker 2: I encourage all of them to come together, but we
Speaker 2: also got to make sure that we could afford go
Speaker 2: to the hospital. I mean, I mean it's an economics fight,
Speaker 2: like you said, whether it's a snap benefit, whether it's
Speaker 2: a property taxes, whether it's you know, whether it's cannot
Speaker 2: afford to go to the hospital right now, because you
Speaker 2: know we can't. Basically, Americans, we just can't afford to
Speaker 2: pay more. We can't pay more to go to the hospital.
Speaker 2: We can't pay more to go to the doctors. We
Speaker 2: can't go out here and cut our snap benefits. We
Speaker 2: can't pay more for property texes. We just squeezed, you know,
Speaker 2: the economy has squeezed us. And like you said, here
Speaker 2: we are down at the bottom, trying to trying to survive.
Speaker 2: And I think I would want all of them. I
Speaker 2: don't care who you are. Take the posits out of it.
Speaker 2: Fight for Americans to be able to look forward, to live, go.
Speaker 1: Back and negotiate and come up with something. And you know, Democrats,
Speaker 1: it's about subsidy. I think subsidy is terrible because it's
Speaker 1: just making affordable or I guess pretending to make affordable
Speaker 1: something that's not. You're taking cash from one palm, move
Speaker 1: it to another. At the end of the day. This
Speaker 1: is why We've got a thirty eight trillion dollar deficit
Speaker 1: with the subsidies publicans, and I've talked to many of
Speaker 1: my friends in the right side of the OL talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, empowering people to take care of better care
Speaker 1: of their health and incentivizing wellness. That's all well and good,
Speaker 1: but that takes ten, twenty, thirty, forty years or more
Speaker 1: for that to take it. We need a plan right now.
Speaker 1: We need to fix the broken healthcare system right now.
Speaker 1: We don't need more subsidy and we don't need, you know,
Speaker 1: to empower people in future generations to get healthy. We
Speaker 1: still need to have people today that have cancer, that
Speaker 1: have diabetes, that are in wheelchairs, that have mental illness,
Speaker 1: all those things, and we're not addressing that. We're just
Speaker 1: kicking the can down the road. And both sides are complicity.
Speaker 3: That's all it is.
Speaker 1: And it's squeezing out the county, the city, the state.
Speaker 1: We're screwed. We don't have the rainy Day Fund. And
Speaker 1: now that was in the proposals is to get to
Speaker 1: wind to tap the rainy Day Fund. There's four billion
Speaker 1: dollars in that. I don't know how long that would
Speaker 1: fund snap it might get us through another month. But
Speaker 1: the problem with that though is, you know, Alicia, is
Speaker 1: the General Assembly needs to pass the legislation and that's
Speaker 1: not going to happen by Saturday. You can't directly fund
Speaker 1: SNAP because this date only verifies eligibility.
Speaker 3: That's a federal government runs that system.
Speaker 2: Well, I think we all got to have there's unpresidented.
Speaker 2: This is unprecedented what we're doing.
Speaker 3: It's self inflicted. That's the worst part it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with self inflicting, and Americas are getting hurt and
Speaker 2: you're reading articles that you get in ballrooms even though
Speaker 2: it's private money. Can you imagine three hundred million of
Speaker 2: private money immediately? We need two hundred and forty million
Speaker 2: to do SNAP. The money is out there, but they're
Speaker 2: just squeezing everybody to having no money and then only
Speaker 2: certain people have money. And we, like you said, we
Speaker 2: pay our taxes and we got to get a return
Speaker 2: on it. We got to resenting stuff to Washington, and
Speaker 2: damn it, Washington, we got to get it back here.
Speaker 3: Problem.
Speaker 1: That's a problem working people. I mean, you know, let's
Speaker 1: take care of the workers focus. Most of the people
Speaker 1: on SNAP are working. Families are working, at least a
Speaker 1: couple jobs and Connie commissioner at Lisha Reese. I'll let
Speaker 1: you go before I don't know you do. You needed
Speaker 1: a venue money so you can pay your electric bill?
Speaker 3: Can I help you? What can there for you?
Speaker 2: It's been paid? Okay, all right, it's been paid and
Speaker 2: you're wireless?
Speaker 3: Clearly word.
Speaker 2: I don't want to, but there's some people out there.
Speaker 2: Let me just say who can't pay? And I guess
Speaker 2: I got a glimpse of would have liked to be
Speaker 2: in the dark and that day.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you so much, Alicia, thanks for jumping on this morning.
Speaker 1: Take care, have a good one, always bringing the heat here.
Speaker 1: Sure you're not any money that electric bill? Get you
Speaker 1: some cash or cricket wireless? Keep that phone going. She's
Speaker 1: good radio. She is Alicia Reese, Hamlin County commission in
Speaker 1: a very serious issue though. On Saturday. Uh, if these
Speaker 1: benefits expired. I want to believe that even Washington has
Speaker 1: some sense and goes, you know, we we really, we
Speaker 1: really need to come to some common ground here because
Speaker 1: people are going to suffer starting on Saturday. Now, is
Speaker 1: it gonna be Saturday exactly? That all of a sudden
Speaker 1: we're gonna have all Now what four million people starving,
Speaker 1: and no, it's good a few days, but uh, the
Speaker 1: point has been made. It's time to actually govern for
Speaker 1: a change.
Speaker 3: How about that.
Speaker 1: We sent you to Washington to governor, how about governing?
Speaker 1: Why did you do that? Slooney seven hundred w