WEBVTT - 10-16-25 America's Truckin' Network 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:16.560 This is America's Trucking Network with Kevin Gordon. Welcome more. 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.800 Thanks for tuning in on this Thursday morning. I get 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:23.119 to start off with saying that, well, yesterday, when I 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.479 got off the air, I thought that I had said 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:28.960 something wrong, so I went back and checked it, and 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:33.199 actually I was right. So I was wrong about being wrong. 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:37.440 Which what does that do? It actually makes me right right, 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:40.839 So a good thing. I didn't have to correct it 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:44.360 because you know that would lose you would lose faith 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.519 in me, because you know, on this program atn we're 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:48.200 never wrong. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.559 So good thing. I didn't misspeak yesterday. 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:53.600 And I when I thought I was wrong, I was 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.080 actually wrong about being wrong, So I guess it was right. 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.560 You know, last week we talked about this government shut down, 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.120 all these scare tactic tactics that everybody were going to 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:04.960 be using, and one of the big things that they 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.839 brought up was, well, you know, although social Security checks 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:10.480 are going to be coming out, that's not going to 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:14.120 be affected. But whatever the annual cola that cost of 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:18.000 living index or cost of living allowance is adjusted, is 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:21.000 going to be pushed back some and it may not 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.800 get there by January. Now, mind you Okay, we're not 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.080 in the age of you know, calculators and pencils and 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.880 people having you do things manually. I made the comment 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:33.759 at the time that you know, you make a credit 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:38.039 card payment online and immediately, within seconds, the money's out 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:43.360 of your account. Certainly they have got some mechanism that 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:47.040 they can make this adjustment. And they talked about during 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:52.320 that particular story that normally the adjustment last year came 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.600 out on October the tenth, and that the government shut down, 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.320 it wasn't due to be released until the fifteenth of 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:02.600 this month, which is today, no yesterday. And so I 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.640 mentioned at the time that even if it's delayed a 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.400 few days, because most of these government shutdowns, the longest 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:13.640 one was during the first Trump administration with the Democrats 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.680 in charge, and that lasted for thirty five days, We're 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:20.240 already into what three and a half weeks, so this 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:21.920 should be ending pretty shortly. 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.639 But I mentioned that, you know, this is just scare tactics. 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.520 And the way the headline was written, and I've talked 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.920 about this before, is that people generally, or there's a 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.040 lot of people that all they do is they look 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.360 at the headlines on their phones. They don't dig into 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:37.880 the stories the way we do here on America's truck 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.840 A Network, pick apart the stories, dissect them, and come 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.360 up with the nuggets of journalism that's been committed within 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.680 the story buried however, but we've dug them out and 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.920 talked about it, and in some cases we pointed out 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.600 that sometimes the last paragraph of the story pretty much 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:59.320 negates everything that was said during the regular story. And 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.919 I've brought up several times that the headline doesn't even 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.840 match the story. So when we were digging into this 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:10.160 details last week talking about this, the headline and as 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:11.720 I said, most people will just be. 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:12.800 Looking at the headlines. 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:16.720 The headline said government shutdown could delay yearly Social Security 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:21.600 payment announcement. Now, because there's limited space on your phone 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:25.760 in terms of the sentences, they may have cut that off. Now, 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.480 in some instances, when you look at Google and they 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.000 kind of do an explanation of what the stories are, 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:35.080 sometimes the last word or two are left off. Government 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.800 shutdown could delay yearly Social Security payment. That might be 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:40.960 what some people just saw. So they would be going, 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:42.560 oh my god, you know, so security is going to 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.920 be delayed, And I said, you know, let's be calm 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:45.440 about this. 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.160 They've got other ways. In fact, all they have to 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:48.960 do is take. 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.000 The average from the beginning of the year up to 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.680 It'll be one month short. But take that average and 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.880 use that well low And be hold all the handwringing, 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.360 all the stuff that was last week that oh, this 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.480 is going to be delayed. We don't know if this 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.080 is going to get into effect by January. The effect 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.920 that the checks may not be adjusted. They'll have to 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:10.240 go back and adjust. 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:11.920 That later on. Well, no, okay. 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:16.560 New Social Security cola release date confirmed amid government shutdown. 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:20.000 The announcement of the Social Security annual inflation adjustment to 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:23.479 benefits has been delayed due to the government shutdown, but 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:27.279 the agency responsible for handling the benefits increase has set 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:31.039 a date for releasing the data next week. SOBI Security 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.920 benefits undergo a cost of living adjustment COLA, as it's called, 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:39.400 every year, which updates benefits amounts to account for inflation 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.400 over the last year. The size of the annual cola 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.279 is determined by the rise in the consumer price index 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:46.560 over the prior year. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:48.120 And again, if they're. 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:51.560 Having problems with this, you already have January February, already 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:56.679 have through the month of September. Well, yeah, August at least, 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:58.960 so you got at least eight months worth of data, 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.320 or maybe a and a half months worth of data. 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:02.840 If you have a. 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.120 Problem with that, that's right, because this Consumer Price Index 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:07.839 comes out the middle of the month, so we already 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:09.920 had September, so she got nine months of the year. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.520 Take the average of that, or take the number of 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.400 that and use that that tenth month is going to 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.120 make that big of a difference. Bureau of Labor Statistics 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.360 releases the CPI on a monthly basis to gauge how 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:25.039 much higher inflation has pushed the consumer prices. However, the 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.560 September CPI data that was supposed to be released October 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:32.960 the fifteenth and complete the COLA calculation was delayed by 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:37.200 the government shutdown. BLS announced it had recalled some of 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.520 the workers who were furloughed due to the government shutdown 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:44.640 to complete the CPI report and allow COLA to be released. 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.800 The BLS will now release the September CPI on Friday, 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.440 October the twenty fourth, while the Social Security Administration will 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:57.120 announce the twenty twenty six COLA the same day. Experts 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:01.680 anticipate now this is what's interesting, which really wouldn't have 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:05.640 changed if you would have taken the last CPI report 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.760 where inflation was somewhere between two point seven and two 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.360 point nine percent. If you were to used that number, 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.800 that's exactly where they're going to be at. Experts expect 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.640 that the twenty twenty six COLA will raise Social Security 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:22.960 recipient's benefits payments by more than two point five percent. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.919 Senior Citizens League estimated last month that the COLA for 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:30.000 twenty twenty six will be two point seven t Let 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:36.640 me see. T SLC noted that the estimate in higher 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:40.360 than what was PROMOTE projected in the outset of the year, 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.400 when it was estimated would be two point one percent. 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.640 The group also noted that two point seven COLA would 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:50.000 be about average of what the historical standpoint, So if 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.640 it was two point six two point seven, some are 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.800 estimating its as high as two point nine percent. They 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.039 knew this before the September data would even come out. 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.680 And why they did all the hand ringing, why they 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:07.240 did all the I don't know, trying to scare people, 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:10.400 scare tactics put pre well, if they would put pressure 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:14.160 on the Democrats to end the Schumer shutdown. That would 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.800 be good, that would be good for the country, good 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:21.040 for us. But quite honestly, have many people notice that 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.960 the government has been shut down. I know there's been 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.200 some things in talking about certain things going out as 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:32.440 far as health premiums and insurance subsidies and that type 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:33.520 of thing, but that's. 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.440 All going to be worked out. That could be worked 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:36.360 out a different way. 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.720 So all these scare tactics they've been talking about, at 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.440 least they're not in office and creating headaches for us 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.600 during the government shutdown. So I just thought it was 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.360 interesting that we talked about this just last week, talked 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.960 about how that this isn't that big a deal, that 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.400 there are numbers that they can use and are available 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.240 that they could use and just implement that. And if 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:04.000 they're implementing it, and if their system is up to date, 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.280 it shouldn't take two and a half months to make 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:12.600 an adjustment on those security payments. So bottom line, once again, 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.520 America's truck A network is far ahead of the curve. 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.400 We had this information last week, talked about it not 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.840 big deal. Now all of a sudden Wednesday, actually Thursday, 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:26.960 well yesterday of this week, they finally get around to saying, oh, whoops, 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:32.720 never mind, it's just spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media. 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.240 They always got to glom onto something. And as I've 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.440 been saying all along, it appears as though that the 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.920 mainstream media, the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media, 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.920 and certain people I think within the Federal Reserve, are 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:49.320 trying to manufacture a recession. And fortunately for you, me 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.720 and everybody else in this country, we are way too smart, 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.280 way too resilient to get through that or to allow 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.240 that to happen, and we will push through because we 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:03.360 are tough, rugged individualists. I'm Kevin Gordon, America's truck a 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:13.400 network seven hundred WLW. I'm Kevin Gordon, America's truck in 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:18.840 Networks seven hundred WLW. Well, it looks as though that 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.840 even though there's a government shut down, and even though 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:26.600 the government well isn't open, which means that it's not 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.800 creating headaches for you and me, there are per people 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:33.200 within the administration that are taking a look and have 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.400 been taking a look at projects and things since the 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.480 beginning of the year and making a termination of do 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.800 we really need to be spending money on this kind 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.079 of stuff. There was a report at the I think 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:49.000 last week, the Department of Energy and seven point five 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:53.720 billion dollars in grants. Now, seven point five billion dollars 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.040 in grants may not seem a lot in terms of 0:09:56.400 --> 0:10:00.840 if we're talking about trillion dollar deficits. However, as I 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.960 forget who it was, they were on either the Carson 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.600 Show or one of these shows way back when, and 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.839 they were talking about the budget. They were talking about 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.640 spending and government and the federal government and so on, 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.840 and this guy says, you know, a million dollars and 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.840 back then a million dollars right, as opposed to billions 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.400 of dollars now a million dollars here and a billion dollars, 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:24.440 million dollars there. 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:26.480 Sooner or later it adds up to a little bit. 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:27.920 It adds up to some money. 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.880 Well, you know, when you're looking at the bloated government 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.240 and the fact that every year, and I've talked about 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:38.240 this before, Ran Paul Senator from Kentucky, every year around 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:40.880 towards the end of December comes up with what they 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:45.120 call the Festivus Report, where he goes down very various 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.360 items that have come to his attention or stuff that they 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.959 look at things he's picked out of the budget, waste, fraud, 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:54.000 and abuse, and he puts those in a report. Last 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:58.520 year's report was one point one trillion dollars in cuts 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:02.920 of wasteful spend by the federal government, the Office of Management, 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:08.120 Management and Budget, the Congressional Budget Office, these different agencies, 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:12.679 the Inspector General's Report periodically come up with these lists 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:15.800 of stuff that's being spent and what it's being spent on. 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.880 And it's always a punchline or as part of a 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:24.080 joke that people do, as opposed to saying, you know, 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.679 when somebody says, well, you know, they spent this kind 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:28.800 of money on this report, and isn't that just stupid? 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:32.559 And rather than saying, you know what, call your congressman, 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:34.840 call your senators, say what the hell are you guys doing? 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:37.520 Why is this in the budget? Why are you reaching 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:38.360 into my pocket? 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.960 Why are you confiscating my taxes and spending you know, 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.640 eleven million dollars on circumcisions in Zimbabwe, I mean, for 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:52.720 crying out loud, I mean we have veterans living on 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:57.760 the street, we have senior citizens that are struggling, We 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.000 have army veterans that can't get the health care. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:02.280 That they properly needed. 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.000 They are the ones that fought and died for this country, 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.880 and yet we're spending billions and billions of dollars and 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:12.319 in some cases trillions of dollars on other social programs 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:17.880 that are just wasteful, that can show no actual progress 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.400 in terms of what problem they're trying to solve. And 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:25.000 we've talked about on this program a number of times. 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:26.920 I mean, you're out there on the road every day. 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.280 You see how the roads have deteriorated. I made a 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.240 mention a couple well, about. 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:33.640 Two years ago. 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.360 I used to go back and forth between Cincinnati and 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.200 Louisville on a fairly regular basis. Not I wouldn't say, 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.920 you know, every week, every month, and every couple of months, 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:46.880 i'd find myself going down to Louisville. And once you get, 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.360 you know, to a certain area, I mean, it's clear sailing, 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.760 it's really nice. But I hadn't gone down to Louisville 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.719 for about I guess it was about two years, and 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.280 I had to go down Louisville for something, and I 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.480 was absolutely shocked. I thought it was I thought it 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:05.520 was in a Connostoga wagon going through the wagon wheel 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:09.160 ruts trying to avoid the potholes, and some of those 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:14.400 things were like, you know, teeth chattering potholes, and I 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.280 can you know when you see that and you know 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.680 how much money goes into the Department of Transportation, goes 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.840 into the Federal Highway Trust Fund, and then you realize 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.320 that thirty three percent of that money is wasted on 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:26.960 another project. 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.920 We pointed out one the other day of where you know. 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:34.640 The FMCSA, the salaries and wages of the FMCSA comes. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:35.280 Out of that budget. 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.040 Department of Energy comes out of the regular taxes that 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.880 are paid, the Department of Education comes out of the 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:44.280 regular taxes that are paid. But the FMCSA that comes 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.640 out of the Federal Highway Trust Fund. The money that 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:50.200 we pay as a result of our gasoline tax, diesel taxes, 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:54.640 excise taxes on your tractors, your trailers, the you know 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.160 semis going down the street on your tires and so on. 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.880 So all these excise taxes we've been told goes into 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.440 the Highway Trust Fund that are supposed to repair our 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.319 bridges and roads, that that money is going to be 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.319 funded by that. No, they pull money out to fund 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:14.840 the North What was it Northeast Corridor, that train that 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:18.959 runs from basically Washington, d C. And New York up 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.040 into Connecticut, New Hampshire and Delaware and so on, so 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.240 that people can commute on the train, take a forty 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.120 five fifty minute ride to get out of the city. 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.720 But we're subsidizing that. Why are we subsidizing something that 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.880 is not the highway, something that is not bridges and 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.360 roads and stuff like that. Why are we subsidizing that? 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.880 Why are we subsidizing hiking and biking trails that comes 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:43.120 out of the Highway Trust Fund. 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:45.280 Not opposed to hiking and biking. 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.400 Trails, But by god, if they can tax us for 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:51.040 our tires, tax us for our gasoline, taxes for our diesel, 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.200 can't they put some sort of a tax on the 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.680 bike helmets, the bike gloves, the bicycles themselves, the tires 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.080 on the bicycles, and put a little bit of money 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:02.360 aside to build these hiking trails, biking trails and so on. 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.720 Look at all the equipment that goes into the hiking boots, 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.840 the socks, there's certain shorts, there's walking sticks, all this 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:10.480 kind of stuff that's done. 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:11.480 They could tax that. 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.040 They could put a small price on that and then 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:15.119 fund these things. 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.480 Instead of us. Because again when. 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.000 They're told, you know, when you're going through these highways 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.200 and you come upon a toll, they are told they 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.160 are tolling that road because they didn't have the money 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.640 in order to fix that road or to build that road. 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.680 And they're saying, well, it's a user fee, you use it, 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.920 you pay for it. Well, if you're using the biking trail, 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.520 and you're using the hiking trail, or you're using the 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:41.320 train going up to Connecticut, that's the same train that 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.480 Joe Biden bragged about using every. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.440 Day so he could go home to his family. Applaud 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.440 him for that being home for his kids. 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.560 That's probably one of the nicest things I can say 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.240 about it, and the only nice thing. But again, we're 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:57.680 subsidizing those trips for those commuters going to and from work. 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:02.600 Who's subsidizing aren't who's subsidizing our gas and oil? 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.760 It's not anybody else. We're paying for that. 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:07.960 And then to have this money pulled out of the 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:12.360 Federal Highway Trust Fund is ridiculous. Again, it's they tell 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.920 us the tolls are a user fee, all right, Well, 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.160 then put a user fee on the hiking trails and 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.360 biking trails. Don't put that, don't take that out of 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.000 the Highway Trust Fund, and quit whining to us the 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.400 fact that you don't have enough money to repair these 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.680 resident Oh, by the way, let's not forget that when 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.920 the highway system went into place in the first place, 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:36.640 back in nineteen fifty six during the during the Eisenhower administration, 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:40.800 after he saw during World War Two what the autobahn 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.560 did in Germany from the troops being able to be 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.640 moved from one end of the country to the other, 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.480 and recognize that in the United States, if you're going 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.360 from one end of the country to the other, it 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.400 would take you two and a half to three weeks, 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.360 two and a half to three weeks from going from 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.240 the east coast to the West coast, or vice versa. 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:02.040 He recognized what a that was, especially going into the 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:05.400 Cold War, said we're going to develop the Federal Highway 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:09.000 Fund or the Federal Highway System, and it was put 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:14.800 as the National Defense System and Highway Fund, and so 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.320 this was part of the federal government. The federal government 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:22.439 at that time paid ninety percent of the cost of 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.959 the Federal Highway interstate highway system and if they recognized 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:30.360 that that was a national security issue, why isn't part 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.520 of the money coming out of the Defense Fund to 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:36.800 repair repair bridge and bridges and roads. Why isn't that 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:41.080 still part of the federal the Defense Fund. We've got 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.600 the Highway Trust Fund which can do that as well. 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.120 But again, the government at the time recognized the importance 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.600 of this not only for troop movement, but then also 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:53.000 as a side benefit, a benefit to the consumers out there, 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.000 so that they could travel from one end of the 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:56.880 country to the other in a short period of time 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.320 and enjoy more of leisure life in terms of their 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.320 family vacationations and stuff. And how much that opened up 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:04.399 in terms of being able to spend time with their 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:06.600 family going to different places. I mean, if you live 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.119 in Michigan and you can go all the way to 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:10.320 Florida in a couple of days as opposed to a 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.560 four or five day trip down there, at benefited us 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:15.840 in terms of our leisure time. So the fact that 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:19.040 they recognized this at the time should be something that 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:23.199 they recognize today. So again, all this stuff, as far 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:27.360 as these projects and this money being spent, is unbelievable. 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:28.720 And we'll get back to what I was. 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.119 Going to talk about in the first place, this seven 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:34.640 point five billion dollars in grants that have been pulled back. 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:38.760 I'm Kevin Gordon, america'struck a Network, seven hundred WLW. 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.520 Here's your trucking forecast for the Try State and the 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:50.520 rest of the country and the Try State. Over Night, 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.440 partly cloudy, the low down to forty eight Sunday, Thursday 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:56.360 high of sixty nine mostly Sunday. Friday high of seventy 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.960 one Saturday, mostly sunny with a slight chance of afternooner 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.639 and warmer Ahia eight two. Rain moves in overnight and 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:06.000 continues into Sunday. Nationally, heavy snow will be seen uper 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.439 parts of the Northern Rockies Thursday, while there is a 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.240 chance of showers and storms upper parts of the Northern Plains, 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:14.240 of the Southern Plains and Upper Great Lakes region Wednesday 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:15.000 and Thursday. 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:20.680 Seven hundred WLW. 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:27.400 I this is America's Hello, seven hundred w LW's Americans 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:28.159 Tracking Network. 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:29.040 I'm Gavin Gordon. 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:33.920 By the way, programming no Thursday night football game Bengals 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.760 are on. They're playing Pittsburgh Steelers, so we will be 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:39.919 preempted tomorrow. So there will be no Friday show. By 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:41.800 the way, if you miss any of our programs, make 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:44.480 sure you hit up that iHeartRadio app of course, brought 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:46.680 to you by our friends at Rush Truck Centers. 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:48.719 I was talking about this particular story. 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:52.320 Department of Energy ends seven point five billion dollars in 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:56.640 grants for Biden approved projects. Department of Energy terminated seven 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:59.520 point five billion dollars in grants for two hundred and 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:03.720 twenty three projects approved by the Biden administration. Imagine how 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:06.800 many roads and bridges or something that that could fund, 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.479 or benefits for veterans who are out on the street, 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:14.520 housing for homeless veterans, and so on. Seven point five 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:17.359 billion dollars has not jump change. On day one, the 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:21.080 Energy Department began a critical task of reviewing billions of 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:24.600 dollars of financial awards. This, according to Chris Wright, the 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:28.440 Energy Secretary looked at critical task of reviewing billions of 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:33.320 dollars of financial awards many rushed through the final months 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:38.600 of the Biden administration with inadequate documentation by any reasonable 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:44.360 business standard. President Trump promised to protect taxpayer dollars, expand 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:50.000 America's supply of affordable, reliable, and secure energy today's cancelations 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:55.720 deliver on that commitment. Rest assured the Energy Department will 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:58.000 continue reviewing awards. 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:01.199 To ensure that every dollar works for the American people. 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:06.040 Wright's office stated that twenty six percent of the projects 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:11.000 worth more than three point one billion dollars were awarded 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:17.120 between election day and inauguration day. I'm sorry, my friends 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:20.560 that once the election was determined and we knew who 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:23.199 the new president was going to be, there should have 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:26.399 been damn little that was shoved through in terms of 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:32.000 additional spending or grants issued between election day and inauguration day. 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:36.879 To me that and follow the money is probably a 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:39.040 bunch of payoffs to a bunch of cronies. 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:42.160 The total of three hundred and twenty one financial. 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:47.040 Awards were approved under the Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy, 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:54.160 the offices of Clean Energy Demonstrations, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 0:21:54.520 --> 0:22:00.320 Fossil Energy, grid Deployment, Manufacturing, and Energy supply Grants. I mean, 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:04.080 there is so much redundancy in the federal government that 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:07.480 every little department has to have their little section of 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:10.240