1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: It's Tuesday at twelve oh six in the West on 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 1: the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Wangs in Culver City. 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 2: John Today is going to be known as dress Rehearsal 4 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 2: Day because Tomorrow at noon, specifically twelve oh five, when 5 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 2: the show starts, we are going to be broadcasting live 6 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:22,760 Speaker 2: on video, on YouTube, on Twitter, and on Facebook. 7 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:28,479 Speaker 1: And today after this show, the wall that is behind 8 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: me is going to be painted. So tomorrow's show should 9 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: be interesting because I'm going to be breathing in paint 10 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 1: fumes for three consecutive hours. 11 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 2: You're not gonna want to miss that show, that's for sure. 12 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 3: I wonder if Barbara Ferreer's a narcan can help. 13 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 2: I don't think it does anything for paint fumes. It 14 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,319 Speaker 2: does help out an obiate overdose, which I don't think 15 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 2: you're going to be experiencing, nor will the vast majority 16 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 2: of people who attend any World Cup events. 17 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, what was she thinking about Socker fans where she 18 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: thinks they're all going to show up and do fentanyl together. 19 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 2: There is an ideology in the harm reduction community that 20 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 2: you need to normalize narcan by thinking that anybody at 21 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 2: any time can overdose fromopiates. Anybody. It could just have 22 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 2: you be walking down the street and you od that 23 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 2: is not actually how it happens. You have to inject 24 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 2: the stuff into your veins, or you have to smoke it, 25 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 2: or you have to chew on it. You can't just 26 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 2: walk past some fentanyl and overdose. 27 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: So her thought was why not start with, Oh, I 28 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 1: don't know, fans of the Jordanian soccer team next. 29 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 2: Side, Well, maybe, just maybe they'll need to drown out 30 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 2: their sorrows with some good old fashioned California fent. 31 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, eight hundred two two two five two two two 32 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: is the telephone number one eight hundred two two two 33 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 1: five two two two. Well, the stady California officially has 34 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: a budget. And to say this budget is bloated is 35 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 1: an understatement to waterweight. 36 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 2: This is a over three hundred and fifty billion dollar 37 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 2: budget in the state of California. It is forty percent 38 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 2: bigger than when Gavin Newsom first got into office in 39 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 2: twenty nineteen. And for exactly what is in all of this, 40 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:37,920 Speaker 2: we go to the best source you can get, Ashley's Evalla, 41 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 2: our friend over at Casey or A three. She breaks 42 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 2: down the budget in this video that she posted on 43 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 2: YouTube as well as on social media. 44 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 4: California longmakers and the governor have one main job, and 45 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:50,679 Speaker 4: that's to figure out how to use your taxpayer dollars. 46 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 4: And tonight they officially figured it out. Governor Gavin Newsom 47 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 4: just signed off on his final state spending plan as 48 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 4: California's governor. 49 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 2: Three hundred and fifty two. It really doesn't sound like 50 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 2: a budget number. It sounds like pounds that I used 51 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 2: to weigh. 52 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: And also, if you've lived here quite a while, and 53 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: you've lived here your entire life, I've lived here my 54 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: entire life. If you look back at the budgets in 55 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: let's say, the nineteen eighties, the nineteen nineties, the early 56 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: two thousands, those budgets were a fraction of what it 57 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: is now. And I felt like back then, the roads 58 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: were better, the schools were better, the public services were better. 59 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: You could use the parks, you could use the beaches, 60 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: you could use the libraries. And now none of that 61 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: is usable and it's costing more money. 62 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 5: It takes effect July first. 63 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 4: This is a three hundred and fifty two billion dollar budget. 64 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 4: This is the largest in California's history. 65 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 2: Most of the states, Okay, I know that budgets are 66 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 2: tight in the media world, but if you watch this 67 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 2: video from Ashley, she's holding up her microphone with a pen, 68 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 2: you guys got to get her like a little boom 69 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 2: or something. 70 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 4: Budget goes toward public schools and community colleges, followed by 71 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 4: health and human services spending, then corrections and rehabilitation, just 72 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 4: to name a few. But in this humongous plan, here 73 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 4: are a few of the noteworthy items. 74 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 5: First, new taxes. 75 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 4: I did an earlier video on some of this, including 76 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 4: an updated tax on health plans. Long story short, if 77 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 4: you have private health insurance in California, your rates are 78 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 4: likely going up because of this. 79 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 2: Oh fantastic, because you know it's one thing that people 80 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 2: never complain about the cost of their health care. 81 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: And that means you and me, Randy, we're going to 82 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 1: see an increase in our healthcare premiums due to this tax, 83 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 1: which is crazy because you go into an emergency room 84 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: talk about things you can no longer use, and you 85 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: look around and you go, Okay, there's like two people 86 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,679 Speaker 1: here with health insurance, so you know you're already paying 87 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: for everyone else to begin with, and now they're going 88 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: to tax you on top of that just to make. 89 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:02,119 Speaker 3: Sure you pay even more. 90 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 2: Well, we need to be able to be paying more 91 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 2: people that are in the private market, or we have 92 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 2: plans through the union, because we need to subsidize the 93 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,480 Speaker 2: one third of Californians that are on medical that don't 94 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 2: have to pay anything. 95 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,039 Speaker 1: And many of them show up to the er for 96 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:25,359 Speaker 1: treatment for issues that are not emergencies, which causes the 97 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 1: cost to explode. 98 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 4: So this budget creates a brand new tax on digital 99 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 4: software as a service for anyone who purchases it. 100 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 5: Digital software as a service. 101 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 4: Being apps like Microsoft Outlook and QuickBooks. 102 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:39,359 Speaker 2: Or the streaming software that I'm subscribed to that's going 103 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 2: to push this stuff out to YouTube starting tomorrow, I'm 104 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 2: gonna have to pay a tax on that. I'm gonna 105 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 2: have to pay a tax on the Adobe audition that 106 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 2: I pay for. I'm gonna have to pay a tax 107 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 2: on all these other kinds of digital services, including like 108 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 2: companies are gonna have to pay taxes for the HR 109 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 2: services they use, like Workday. This is going to be 110 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 2: a huge increas in the cost of doing business for 111 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:06,720 Speaker 2: large and small businesses up and down the state of California. 112 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: Well, it's not just going to be a problem for 113 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: the small businesses that use these tools. It's also going 114 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: to be a problem for the companies that produce them. 115 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: Many of those companies are headquartered right here in the 116 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 1: state of California. If you make it more expensive to 117 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 1: purchase or use those products, fewer people will use them. 118 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 3: It's bad all the way around. 119 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 4: Business groups and tech groups warned that this will raise 120 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 4: the cost of everyday goods and services because most businesses 121 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 4: use these services. Also, in this budget, California lawmakers and 122 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 4: the governor put nothing towards the principle of the debt 123 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 4: that it owes to the federal government for federal COVID 124 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 4: nineteen unemployment benefits. California is the only state in the 125 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 4: nation that hasn't paid this off. 126 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:51,799 Speaker 3: Yep. 127 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: And they expected to have a democratic administration that would 128 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: allow them to kick the can down the road or 129 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: maybe wipe out the debt altogether. And guess what they got, 130 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, And that ain't happening. 131 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 2: But if you think about it, California pushed out thirty 132 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 2: billion dollars in fraudulent unemployment funds, that number could be 133 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 2: even larger, and hasn't paid the money back, even though 134 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two, the state 135 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 2: budget had a one hundred billion dollar surplus. They didn't 136 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 2: even try to pay it back. And every single year 137 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 2: that there's been any kind of talk about putting money 138 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 2: into paid down that debt, something that all forty nine 139 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 2: other states have done, California hasn't done that. So what 140 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 2: happens instead there's an increased payroll tax on every single employer, 141 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 2: once again making it harder to do business for large 142 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 2: and small businesses up and down the state of California. 143 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: And here's what I don't understand. Every person who stole 144 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: edd money from the State of California accepted that money 145 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 1: through some kind of electronic transfer, whether the money was wired, 146 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: whether it was sent in a gift card, whether it 147 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: was sent through the mail in the form of a. 148 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 3: Check, whatever. 149 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: There are electronic footprints of every check that was cashed, 150 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 1: of every purchase that was made, with every deposit that 151 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: was made, every withdrawal. Why isn't that the Attorney General 152 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: of the State of California, Rob Bonta, making it a 153 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 1: top priority to go after those people who stole thirty 154 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 1: billion dollars from taxpayers and put them in prison, or 155 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: at least claw the money back. 156 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 2: They're not clawing the money back. That money is spent. 157 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 2: It is at steakhouses in Vegas. 158 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 4: Every business in this state is picking up the tab 159 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 4: and they do so in the form of increased federal 160 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 4: payroll taxes every year. This year it will go up 161 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 4: again significantly. On how care spending. The state is set 162 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 4: to spend two hundred and twenty billion dollars on its medical. 163 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 2: Program with wait, that's like two thirds of the budgets, 164 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 2: Holy cow. And that's for just a third of Californians. 165 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 4: Which provides health insurance to low income people that includes 166 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 4: undocumented immigrants, which state officials expect to be about twelve 167 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,559 Speaker 4: billion dollars for the upcoming year. Two million undocumented immigrants 168 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 4: get healthcare through this program, but starting next year, they 169 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 4: will have to pay a monthly fee of up to 170 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 4: fifty dollars. 171 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 5: Lawmakers and the governor will have. 172 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 2: To and there's already a lot of pushback on just 173 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:40,559 Speaker 2: charging fifty dollars. 174 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: Well, and don't forget what happened the last time, Randy. 175 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 1: The last time they made an estimate as to how 176 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 1: much it would cost for health care for illegal aliens, 177 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: they had to amend it almost immediately because the number 178 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: was too low. 179 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:57,319 Speaker 4: To work that out. The state also set aside ninety 180 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 4: million dollars for hospitals that are at risk of closure, 181 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 4: and some smaller line items of forty million dollars for 182 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 4: abortion care providers and twenty six million for gender affirming 183 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 4: care providers on public safety. 184 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:09,319 Speaker 5: I know a lot of you are going to ask me. 185 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 1: About that's the forty million dollars for abortion providers in 186 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:17,839 Speaker 1: twenty six million dollars for sex change operations. 187 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 2: Well, California has got a California. 188 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: I think we're spending more money on chop shops than 189 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 1: the people who are still in all the catalytic converters. 190 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 4: Crime measure voters overwhelmingly approved two years ago that ramped 191 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 4: up the penalties and established a treatment mandated FELONEE for 192 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 4: repeat thieves and drug dealers. Lawmakers and the governor say 193 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 4: they put three hundred and seventy five million dollars toward this, 194 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 4: but critics say it's not enough and the use of 195 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 4: the money is ineffective. 196 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 2: We're not even trying to spend what We're not even 197 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 2: trying to spend one percent of the budget on something 198 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 2: that seventy percent of Californians wanted, which was Prop thirty 199 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 2: six treatment mandated felonies, which means we need to build 200 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 2: the treatment capacity and we barely have one percent of 201 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:13,960 Speaker 2: the budget for that. No, no, budgets are about priorities, Randy, 202 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 2: and our priority is making sure that half a Guadamula 203 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:21,839 Speaker 2: gets a sex change operation. Actually, wait a second three 204 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:24,200 Speaker 2: hundred and fifty two billions, so one percent of that 205 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 2: is three point five billion, so we're talking about one 206 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 2: tenth of one percent of the budget goes towards Prop 207 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 2: thirty six. Yikes. That's also it tells you how astronomically 208 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 2: huge this budget is. Separate from that three hundred and 209 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 2: fifty two thousand millions. 210 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,839 Speaker 4: At the budget also includes twenty million dollars to try 211 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 4: to fight human trafficking and one hundred and forty two 212 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 4: million dollars for the state's nine to one one upgrades, which. 213 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: Okay, how many times have they upgraded our nine to 214 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 1: one to one system and it went from something that 215 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 1: work to something that doesn't work like overnight. 216 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 2: Next Gen nine to one one has been a complete 217 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 2: disaster in the state of California, and Gavin put one 218 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:14,200 Speaker 2: of his buddies in charge, the engineers told him what 219 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 2: you're trying to do isn't ready. They pushed it out 220 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 2: to certain places where it was a disaster, and there 221 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:23,719 Speaker 2: is even people suing saying that the lack of care 222 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 2: led their loved ones to die because they could not 223 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 2: get somebody on the phone. And we're still paying to 224 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 2: upgrade it even though it doesn't work, and we're still 225 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 2: paying for the old system because the new system doesn't work. 226 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 2: And this is the technological capital of the world. You're 227 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 2: telling me that we have to find some nonsensical to 228 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 2: recreate the wheel when you have every tech company. Would 229 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 2: have been easy to develop this on day one, but 230 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 2: of course we don't do that. 231 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 1: If you're going to have a heart attack, don't have 232 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: it in California. Have it in Louisiana, and trust me, 233 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 1: it's easy to deal with all the fried foods. 234 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:01,680 Speaker 5: I have been a struggle on elections. 235 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:05,959 Speaker 4: This budget includes twenty nine million dollars for equipment, technology, 236 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 4: and staff to help speed up the ballot counting process. 237 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 2: How much faster is that going to make it? 238 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 3: The problem is the rules. 239 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: You can vote on election day, have it postmarked, your 240 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: ballot gets there three days later, and of course it's 241 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: going to take forever to count those ballots. It's not 242 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 1: the people who are working in the offices who are 243 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: the problem. It's the stupid rules that the state has. 244 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: What is he spending money on to speed up the process? 245 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 1: Someone to stand there with a whip. 246 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 4: It also includes ten million dollars for voter outreach at 247 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 4: the state and local level. 248 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:47,199 Speaker 2: That's a slush fund, yep. 249 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:51,319 Speaker 4: Us nearly a million dollars for state wide efforts to quote, 250 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 4: combat misinformation and disinformation. 251 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:56,559 Speaker 2: Okay, so now we've got money in the state budget 252 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 2: that specifically go into Izzy and the Twitter crew. 253 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 6: Yep. 254 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 4: As California continues to clash with the federal government, state 255 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:07,320 Speaker 4: lawmakers and the governor agreed to give the state attorney 256 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 4: general another ten million dollars to fight the Trump administration 257 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 4: in court. 258 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 1: These are just a few okay, ten million dollars to 259 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: sue Donald Trump. 260 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:17,679 Speaker 3: Yet how much money. 261 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 1: To go after the people who stole thirty billion dollars 262 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: in edd fraud from us, which, by the way, was 263 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 1: the largest theft in the history of the United States 264 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: of America. 265 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 2: Oh, we're not going to spend any money on that, 266 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 2: Bob bonta of. 267 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 4: So many items. We have a big list up right 268 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 4: now on the link in my bio. Let me know 269 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 4: what else you want to know, because I also have 270 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 4: one main job, and that's to tell you how lowmakers 271 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 4: and the governor are spending your taxpayer dollars. 272 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 2: Ashley Zavala. She is the best in the business. And 273 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 2: there you go. That is some of the details in 274 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom's incredibly bloated three hundred and fifty two billion 275 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 2: dollar budget. 276 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 1: Side note, it's very difficult as a broadcaster to take 277 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 1: something that is that complicated as the state budget and 278 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: make it so easy to understand. She is a very, 279 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 1: very very good reporter and a very good communicator, Ashley Zavola. 280 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 2: They knew what they were doing when they made her 281 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 2: political director, and they gave her The Sunday Show, which, 282 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 2: by the way, not just airs on kc or A three, 283 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 2: but it also airs Sunday mornings on Fox eleven and 284 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 2: LA and KTVU Fox two in the Bay. It is 285 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,239 Speaker 2: a must watch for anyone interested in California politics. 286 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 1: It's the John Phillips Show. 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But I'm gonna have to text 308 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 2: with Johnny during the break about that one. 309 00:16:58,920 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 7: Ed. 310 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: We're also starting our very own standalone podcast, The Accountability 311 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:05,919 Speaker 1: podcast with John Phillips and Randy. 312 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 3: Way Accountability, Accountability, Accountability. 313 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 2: It drops tomorrow at midnight, so if you want to 314 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 2: subscribe right now, you'll have it as soon as it uploads, 315 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 2: and that is by searching for KABC on Apple Podcasts, 316 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,639 Speaker 2: you'll see Accountability with John Phillips and Randy Wang pop up. 317 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:24,879 Speaker 2: Or you can go to our YouTube channel because that's 318 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:29,880 Speaker 2: video as well YouTube dot com slash at Accountability Podcast 319 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:34,119 Speaker 2: and Johnny a very first episode is a detailed description 320 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 2: as to why Gavin Newsom will never be President of 321 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 2: the United States. 322 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 3: You cannot miss that one. 323 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 2: It goes up tomorrow, so subscribe and you'll get it 324 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:49,879 Speaker 2: automatically in your system. 325 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:52,439 Speaker 1: In the meantime, what do you say we make a 326 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: couple of listeners very happy. 327 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:58,440 Speaker 2: Well, let's do that right now. 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Good luck dialing, 335 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:31,400 Speaker 2: It's the Giant Philip Show. 336 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 3: It's the gint Philip Show. 337 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 338 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two 339 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 1: two two. If you'd like to email the show, you 340 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 1: can do so at Johnny don't like show at gmail 341 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 1: dot com. That's Johnny, don't like show at gmail dot com. 342 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:11,880 Speaker 1: All right, so we know that the state of California 343 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:16,919 Speaker 1: has a new budget. But the question becomes, how in 344 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 1: the world did the budget grow by forty percent since 345 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom became governor. 346 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,399 Speaker 2: That is a very good question and you're not going 347 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 2: to be surprised with who has the answer. Let's go 348 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 2: once again back to KSEA three and Ashley Zavalla, who 349 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 2: has a great explainer onto how we got to a 350 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty two billion dollar budget when it 351 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 2: was only two hundred billion seven short years ago. 352 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,760 Speaker 8: California lawmakers and the governor tonight are expected to pass 353 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:51,959 Speaker 8: the largest state spending plan in California's history. 354 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 9: It's a big one Caseery three political director ashes of 355 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 9: Alla joins us to explain what this budget includes this year. 356 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, California's three hundred and fifty twenty one point seven 357 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:05,439 Speaker 4: billion dollar budget this upcoming year represents a forty percent 358 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 4: increase in state spending overall since Governor Gavin Newsom took office, 359 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 4: and tonight. 360 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:14,359 Speaker 1: We're taking anybody's life forty percent better. Nope, it's about 361 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 1: eighty percent worse. 362 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 4: Taking a closer look at why. First, let's look at 363 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,879 Speaker 4: the numbers. The first ever state spending plan that Governor 364 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:25,400 Speaker 4: Newsom agreed to with lawmakers was two hundred and eight 365 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 4: billion dollars total. That was back in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty. 366 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 4: You see the numbers climb and now this year at 367 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:33,920 Speaker 4: a record high three hundred and fifty one point seven 368 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,720 Speaker 4: billion to three hundred and fifty two billion rounded up there. 369 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,119 Speaker 2: It's wild when you look at the chart that she 370 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 2: puts up on the video on KCA three, which you 371 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 2: can check it out my substack Randy Wang Radio dot 372 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:48,119 Speaker 2: substack dot com. Is that we massively increase the budget 373 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 2: during the surplus years and then continue to increase it 374 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 2: in the deficit years. It just kept growing and growing 375 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 2: and growing, and since twenty twenty three, we haven't really 376 00:20:58,840 --> 00:20:59,919 Speaker 2: had a way to pay for it. 377 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 1: And keep in mind, the billionaires that are now being 378 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 1: targeted by the SEIU are the ones who pay the 379 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:13,199 Speaker 1: preponderance of this amount of these budgets, and we're chasing 380 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,440 Speaker 1: them out of the state. So you have fewer big 381 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:20,680 Speaker 1: ticket payers and you have more spending going on. That's 382 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: a bad combination and this graph. 383 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 4: So I checked in with our state's financial experts, with 384 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:28,199 Speaker 4: the Department of Finance and the California. 385 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 5: Legislative Analyst Office. 386 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,679 Speaker 4: They both agree that this mainly has to do with 387 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:33,400 Speaker 4: increase spending on education. 388 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:36,199 Speaker 2: And wait a second, this is all going to the 389 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 2: schools that are failing and have enrollment decline. 390 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 3: How in the world. 391 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:46,879 Speaker 1: Can you justify this when in places like Los Angeles 392 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,160 Speaker 1: and Oakland there are so few students they're talking about 393 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 1: closing schools because you can't justify keeping them open. 394 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 5: Health and human services. 395 00:21:56,280 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 4: California's Legislative analysts did do an analysis of california ballooning budgets. Overall, 396 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 4: it found seventy percent of the spending growth has just 397 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 4: been trying to sustain and pay for programs that were 398 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 4: established before the governor took office. 399 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 2: And how did these programs get so much more expensive. Well, 400 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 2: because most of these programs are run by unions, and 401 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:20,640 Speaker 2: the unions are negotiating historic raises every chance they can. 402 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 2: You saw, specifically with the teachers' unions this year, a 403 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:29,159 Speaker 2: coordinated strike from CTA to have teachers unions up and 404 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 2: down the Strait, in large districts and small districts all 405 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 2: strike at the same time to pressure the districts and 406 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 2: the state to spend even more money on education. 407 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: And it's not even just the people who are working now, 408 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: but the state is also on the hook for the pensions, 409 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 1: and the pensions are going to people who are no 410 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 1: longer providing services for the state of California that cost 411 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: a fortune. 412 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,199 Speaker 2: One of the emails that we got yesterday as we 413 00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 2: were discussing the SEIU union healthcare worker backed billionaire tax, 414 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 2: is the fact that a lot of that money that's 415 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 2: supposed to be allocated towards health care is actually going 416 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:12,400 Speaker 2: towards the pension fund for the SEIU, which is massively underfunded. 417 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:14,120 Speaker 3: Now. 418 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 4: The growth in spending under Governor Gavin Newsom has been 419 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 4: on community colleges by an additional thirty seven billion dollars. 420 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 2: That means all the ghost students can go to community college. 421 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:29,880 Speaker 1: I'm surprised that story didn't generate more attention because that 422 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: is like what happened with edd the state being fleeced 423 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 1: by criminals, and no one seems to care. 424 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 2: It's not just the state, it's the federal government as well. 425 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 2: But if you don't know this story, it was a 426 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:45,119 Speaker 2: great investigative report by ABC seven in the Bay where 427 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 2: they found out that sometimes twenty five to up to 428 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,919 Speaker 2: fifty percent of the students who are applying to be 429 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 2: in community college on online courses are AI chat bots 430 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 2: that are using fake names and fake identities to qualify 431 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 2: for grants and loans, and they're getting them, and then 432 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:12,159 Speaker 2: the AI, because it's a robot, actually completes all the 433 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 2: assignments and gets the fake degree. 434 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 1: It's not even just that they're stealing from us, but 435 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:24,159 Speaker 1: many of these courses have caps. So if half of 436 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 1: the class is aichat bots and there are legitimate students 437 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: who want to take a class, but the computer system says, oh, no, 438 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 1: you can't enroll in this class because the class is full, 439 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,680 Speaker 1: but it's actually full of bots, then it may take 440 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 1: you three years to get your degree. Instead of two 441 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 1: because you can't take the required courses. 442 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 4: Medical by an additional twenty five billion dollars plus billions 443 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 4: more for the Department of This. 444 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,919 Speaker 2: And of course the increase in medical spending is for 445 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 2: a whole lot of reasons, but also that Gavin Newsom 446 00:24:56,359 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 2: expanded medical to everybody in the country illegally, not just children, 447 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:05,920 Speaker 2: not just seniors. And when that program was initially enacted 448 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 2: last year, Gavin had to borrow from the state to 449 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 2: pay the balance twice in the tune of billions and 450 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:14,120 Speaker 2: billions of dollars. 451 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 1: And the pushback, as you mentioned earlier, is pretty severe 452 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: from people who are advocates for illegal aliens, who don't 453 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: want them to even have to pay a small token 454 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: of what their healthcare. 455 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 4: Costs, developmental services and home supportive services, childcare slots, and 456 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 4: university universities. 457 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 5: Under Governor Gavin Newsom, now. 458 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:40,719 Speaker 4: Medical is California's health insurance program for lower income people. 459 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 5: Governor Newsom has except. 460 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 2: And when we say lower income people, this is a 461 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 2: huge state and it's a very expensive state. One third 462 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:55,119 Speaker 2: of the population of the state of California, which is 463 00:25:55,280 --> 00:26:00,239 Speaker 2: what twelve thirteen million people, are on medical. 464 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 3: And it costs a fortune, and. 465 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:07,479 Speaker 2: If you have medical, you pay almost nothing and you 466 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 2: actually have a better quality of care than most people 467 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 2: can get on the private insurance market. It gets you 468 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:17,360 Speaker 2: to a point where you're actually disincentivized to make more 469 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,199 Speaker 2: money in the state if you're on medical, because the 470 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:25,160 Speaker 2: program is that beneficial. That program is so good that 471 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 2: if you make enough money to not qualify for it, 472 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 2: now you have to buy your own insurance through Kaiser 473 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,920 Speaker 2: or Covered Californi, what have you, you are going to 474 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 2: lose thousands and thousands of dollars have care that is 475 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 2: worse that you're afraid to even use because you don't 476 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,120 Speaker 2: know what it really costs. 477 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,119 Speaker 4: Span in this program to cover more people, including undocumented immigrants. 478 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,120 Speaker 4: For this year's budget, about two million undocumented immigrants are 479 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 4: on medical. New adults ages nineteen to sixty five are 480 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 4: not able to sign up right now. 481 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 2: But that's right. Gavin had to cut it off because 482 00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,880 Speaker 2: it was blowing up the budget so much. So if 483 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 2: you got in before twenty twenty six, you're in, but 484 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 2: nobody else can get in, And in twenty twenty seven 485 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 2: you're gonna have to pay fifty bucks. 486 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: And two million is just an estimate the number is 487 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 1: probably even higher than that. 488 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 5: Documented children and seniors can. 489 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,120 Speaker 2: Well, that's the number that has signed up for medical 490 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 2: so we know what that number is. The number that's 491 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,920 Speaker 2: in the state. I'm sure that is much higher, right, 492 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 2: So if you take. 493 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 1: More people who are eligible for this or will be 494 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 1: at some point in time, I mean, just think about 495 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:33,280 Speaker 1: what the overall cost would be if every single illegal 496 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 1: alien in California took them up for free medicount. 497 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 4: Now, starting in July of twenty twenty seven, under this 498 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 4: new state spending plan, the state will charge each undocumented 499 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 4: individual fifty dollars a month for that coverage. In a 500 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 4: hearing today, this was a point of tension between the 501 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 4: Republican and Democratic leaders of the Assembly's budget committee, who 502 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,680 Speaker 4: argued about spending on veterans versus undocumented people. 503 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 10: When we are talking about a priority and the budget 504 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 10: reflecting our values, I think it's interesting to say that 505 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,399 Speaker 10: we spend now eight to ten times more on illegal 506 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,679 Speaker 10: immigrant services than we do for the veterans and the 507 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,120 Speaker 10: men and women who have fought and died for this 508 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 10: country in the state. 509 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 11: With all due respect, mister Vice chair, I understand the 510 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,639 Speaker 11: talking points that you're trying to hit but it's just 511 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:22,040 Speaker 11: a complete apples and oranges comparison. Taking care of our 512 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:23,679 Speaker 11: veterans is an extraordinary priority. 513 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 2: I think we really do not need a full time legislature. 514 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 2: This is the kind of stuff they waste their time on. 515 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 11: For everyone on this dias, all of us have incredible 516 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 11: respect for the memory. 517 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 2: Oh that's my guy, Jesse Gabriel. Wasn't he one of 518 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 2: the chairs on Swallwell's campaign. 519 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 3: He might have been. 520 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 11: There's the men and women who have served our nation 521 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 11: and uniform. Many of us count them as family members 522 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 11: people in our communities. Dear friends, we have actually as 523 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 11: a legislature added in additional money to invest in our veterans, 524 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 11: to support them on uplift them. 525 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,640 Speaker 4: Now, that is just one small part of the much 526 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 4: bigger pine that is the state spending plan. Lawmakers are 527 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 4: supposed to finalize the vote on this whole plan by 528 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 4: at around six o'clock tonight, within the next hour, and 529 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 4: the governor is expected to sign it by the end 530 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 4: of tonight. 531 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 2: We are now, of course, this was yesterday, so it 532 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 2: did sign, it did pass, and then Gavin Newsom put 533 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 2: out a twelve minute video talking about how great the budget. 534 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:26,680 Speaker 1: Is he is so done with any California subject, he 535 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 1: probably feels better today than he has any other day 536 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 1: this year that this is finally done and he never 537 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 1: has to go through another budget again. 538 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 4: Working on a web story that will show you a 539 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,480 Speaker 4: lot of the things that this budget includes so that 540 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:42,840 Speaker 4: we can read it exactly. 541 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 5: You can see what's going on. 542 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 9: Yeah, I know a lot of our budget also has 543 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 9: to do with AI and relies on how well AI 544 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 9: is doing. So the governor announced today a new deal 545 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 9: with Anthropic, of course, the AI company. It allows day 546 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 9: agencies to use its AI technology at a discount. 547 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 5: How much is that going to get? 548 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,160 Speaker 2: That is a strange one. 549 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 1: Here is something I don't understand. If we know that 550 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 1: edd had thirty billion dollars stolen from them, If we 551 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 1: know that the junior colleges their computer systems are being 552 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 1: taken advantage of by bots and criminals and money is 553 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:23,840 Speaker 1: being stolen from taxpayers, why isn't there a top priority? 554 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 1: We know the nine to one to one system is failing. 555 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 1: Why isn't there a top priority as opposed to spending 556 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:34,440 Speaker 1: money on illegal aliens and sex change operations and all 557 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 1: of those things, on modernizing our computer system in a 558 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: state that is home to Silicon Valley, so criminals don't 559 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: continue to prey on us and still more money from taxpayers. 560 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 2: That is something Gavin campaigned on didn't follow through on. 561 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 2: It's also something that the California state auditors have recommended 562 00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 2: for years and years and years, including right before COVID, 563 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,000 Speaker 2: and the state completely ignored it. 564 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 5: Cost and is that also a part of the budget. 565 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, we have actually posed these questions to Governor Kevin 566 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 4: Newsom's office. They did not immediately say whether this is 567 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 4: part of the state budget this year. It's my understanding 568 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 4: right now in this very moment, it's not. But yeah, 569 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 4: as far as a dollar amount goes for that new 570 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,800 Speaker 4: AI technology for state agencies, it's really not clear. I'll 571 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 4: also note in the LAOS analysis of why our state 572 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 4: spending has grown nine billion dollars of it is because 573 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 4: of state operations, a lot of that having to do 574 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 4: with it. Now, how much this adds to those costs 575 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 4: will see, I can't imagine. 576 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 2: I wonder how much the state and all the state 577 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,320 Speaker 2: agencies pay HR firms to do the cybersecurity classes. 578 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 3: Probably a healthy amount, and I'm. 579 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,600 Speaker 2: Sure that's also another service that's going to be text 580 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:51,920 Speaker 2: under Gavin Newsom's plan. 581 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not an expert in this, but probably 582 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 4: in the millions of dollars. But I mean, when you're 583 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 4: getting new software for all these different agencies in our 584 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 4: government is so big that will add up. So we're 585 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:05,560 Speaker 4: still waiting to see the cost. Maybe we'll have it 586 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 4: within the next hour. 587 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,560 Speaker 8: Yeah, and of course we can find all of that online. Yep, Ashley, 588 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:10,320 Speaker 8: thank you so much. 589 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:15,080 Speaker 2: So there you go. How California state budget went up 590 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 2: forty percent over the last seven years. 591 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:39,400 Speaker 1: It's the John Phillips Show. It's the John Phillip Show. 592 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two. Is 593 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 1: the telephone number one eight hundred two two two five 594 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 1: two two two the fixed California hour coming up after 595 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 1: the news at one, Jill Cotkin joins us. 596 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 3: So it's not just. 597 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: Illegal aliens and the unions who are gonna benefit from 598 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 1: the new budget coming out of Sacramento, Randy, we're also 599 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:04,840 Speaker 1: spending more money on the bumps. 600 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 2: Nine hundred million dollars of the state budget is going 601 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:13,680 Speaker 2: towards the homeless, which is a fascinating number because eight 602 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,120 Speaker 2: hundred million dollars of the La City budget goes towards 603 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 2: the homeless. For more on where that money is going, 604 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 2: here's a report from ABC ten in Sacramento. 605 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 12: Jenny mentioned the budget agreement includes nearly double the homelessness 606 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,320 Speaker 12: funding Governor Newsom initially proposed. It's money that advocates say 607 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:35,520 Speaker 12: is needed, as a new report shows California making progress 608 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:36,600 Speaker 12: and addressing homelessness. 609 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 2: UH define progress. 610 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 1: They set the metrics as to how much money they're 611 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:48,680 Speaker 1: spending on homelessness, how many programs they've created, how many 612 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 1: people they've hired, when the only metric that really counts 613 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,479 Speaker 1: is are there fewer people living on the streets? And 614 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 1: they don't ever want to talk about that. 615 00:33:58,720 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 5: Aby sends back. 616 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,840 Speaker 12: Hobgger has been following the money and joins US tonight 617 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,120 Speaker 12: with a breakdown Alex. 618 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,640 Speaker 6: A recent report from the US Department of Housing in 619 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:10,480 Speaker 6: Urban Development HUD found California's overall homeless population decreased two 620 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,560 Speaker 6: point eight percent from twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five. 621 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,480 Speaker 2: That is a rounding error in an inaccurate science of 622 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,600 Speaker 2: guessing who is homeless on any given night. 623 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:25,640 Speaker 1: And also understand the fact that in Los Angeles seven 624 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:30,120 Speaker 1: homeless people die per day on the streets. So if 625 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:34,920 Speaker 1: it's down two percent, when seven people are dying per day, 626 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,960 Speaker 1: think about how many new homeless people were producing every 627 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:39,680 Speaker 1: single day. 628 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:45,240 Speaker 6: And specifically, unsheltered homelessness dropped nearly six point eight percent 629 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 6: according to the point in time count estimates. 630 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,359 Speaker 2: These are not numbers to be proud of. 631 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:52,600 Speaker 3: It's pathetic. 632 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,799 Speaker 6: Well, that's why advocates say now is the time to 633 00:34:55,880 --> 00:35:00,239 Speaker 6: keep investing in solutions. Since twenty twenty, this date of 634 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 6: California has been awarding one time annual grants of taxpayer 635 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,960 Speaker 6: dollars to local governments to address homelessness. It's called the 636 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,960 Speaker 6: Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention HAP Grant Program. 637 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:13,920 Speaker 13: We treasure those state dollars. 638 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 6: Jenna Haynes is the public Information manager for Sacramento Counties 639 00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:21,719 Speaker 6: Department of Homeless Services and Housing. Data on happ's website 640 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,920 Speaker 6: shows Sacramento County has received a total of nearly fifty 641 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 6: million dollars since twenty twenty. Haines says it's put to 642 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 6: good use. 643 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:33,680 Speaker 1: With m has it no, this is what happens. The 644 00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:37,840 Speaker 1: money comes from Sacramento to local government, and local government 645 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,920 Speaker 1: takes that money and they spend it on NGOs that 646 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:46,480 Speaker 1: keep homelessness going, because if the problem goes away, so 647 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:47,520 Speaker 1: does the gravy train. 648 00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,760 Speaker 6: Some of the money running county shelters, some supporting youth 649 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:53,799 Speaker 6: in or at risk of homelessness. 650 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,560 Speaker 13: We also have hap dollars allocated to our outreach partner, 651 00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:00,640 Speaker 13: Community Health Works, that does street outreach, and sometimes that's 652 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,640 Speaker 13: a thoroughput to shelter, but they've also been able to 653 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:04,840 Speaker 13: house people directly off the streets. 654 00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:08,080 Speaker 6: She says. The money is distributed to counties and major cities, 655 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:12,400 Speaker 6: in part based on point in time count homeless population estimates. 656 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:16,400 Speaker 6: In twenty twenty, across all local governments, the state distributed 657 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,680 Speaker 6: six hundred and fifty million dollars, the next round three 658 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:23,280 Speaker 6: hundred million. After that, it has been one billion dollars 659 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:24,720 Speaker 6: per year until now. 660 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:29,480 Speaker 2: That is a whole lot of money with very little accountability. 661 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,640 Speaker 1: Nope, but a lot of people working in those homeless 662 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,120 Speaker 1: services organizations got really rich. 663 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,279 Speaker 6: Last year's budget looking ahead to now, earmarked just five 664 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,920 Speaker 6: hundred million dollars for half funding, but the final budget 665 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:47,720 Speaker 6: agreement unveiled last week shows lawmakers added another four hundred million, 666 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,560 Speaker 6: bringing the half funding total to nine hundred million for 667 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:52,759 Speaker 6: this coming budget year. 668 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,680 Speaker 7: The state has now seen one hundred and ten thousand 669 00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,439 Speaker 7: people move back into permanent housing over a three year 670 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,480 Speaker 7: span to the hot program. 671 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,920 Speaker 2: Alan I don't believe that either. 672 00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:08,280 Speaker 1: What evidence is there of this? 673 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,680 Speaker 2: This is another reason, by the way, that we have 674 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,160 Speaker 2: to do this video stuff. The guy that's talking right 675 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:18,080 Speaker 2: now is from the National Alliance to and Homelessness and John, 676 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,480 Speaker 2: what does the sign behind him say? 677 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,880 Speaker 3: It could be any of us housing is solution. 678 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,520 Speaker 2: It could be any of us is the same ideology 679 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:35,560 Speaker 2: that anybody could overdose on fentanyl, just like anybody could 680 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:39,040 Speaker 2: end up in a tent. That is not what happens. 681 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,000 Speaker 2: If you have a hard time, if you down on 682 00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:45,400 Speaker 2: your luck, you lose your job, you probably have a 683 00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,480 Speaker 2: couch you can stay on, or you move somewhere cheaper. 684 00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:51,360 Speaker 2: The people who are on the streets in the tents 685 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,920 Speaker 2: are either mentally ill, on drugs, or both. 686 00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:00,239 Speaker 6: Spysotsky with the National Alliance to End Homelessness says he's 687 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,920 Speaker 6: glad lawmakers added more funds in the final budget on 688 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,719 Speaker 6: the heels of a federal report showing California's homeless population 689 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:08,759 Speaker 6: is decreasing. 690 00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,920 Speaker 7: The progress is a sign that we need to double 691 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:11,960 Speaker 7: down on what's working. 692 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:16,240 Speaker 2: Of course, I'll come on more money, give us more. 693 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:21,200 Speaker 7: Because we know that folks around California are not satisfied 694 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,760 Speaker 7: with a five percent decrease in homelessness, a ten percent 695 00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:28,719 Speaker 7: decrease in homelessness. Everybody wants to see this problem addressed 696 00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:29,360 Speaker 7: for good. 697 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,920 Speaker 2: And it's not going to be addressed anytime soon the 698 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,680 Speaker 2: way that we are addressing it. 699 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,360 Speaker 1: Nope, and that includes giving money to groups like that. 700 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,279 Speaker 1: All right, We've got two more hours coming up on 701 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:46,120 Speaker 1: the John Phillips Show, The Fixed California Hours. Coming up next, 702 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,840 Speaker 1: Joel Cotkin joints us. Don't you go anywhere