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Mark Belling podcast is presented by ULine. For quality shipping and industrial supplies, youLine has everything in stock. visit youLine. com. The Mark Belling podcast is a production of IiHart Radio podcasts I'm pretty sure there's always been a generation gap. That was the term they used when I was a kid generation gap. And it was huge when I was a kid. I was a baby boomer and there was a massive gap between us and our parents We didn't know where baby boomers at. I don't know when that term came around, but the term for our parents became the greatest generation. That was the term that Tom Brokaw coined in writing about the World War II generation. There's a huge gap then, and there's been gaps forever and ever and ever. And there's one going on right now, but there's a few things interesting about it. including the fact that this one skips a generation There is a clear divide between Gen Z Those are the people roughly twenty five and under and the baby boys And it got exacerbated by A segment that occurred on CNN A few weeks ago when Kevin O'Larary, the guy from Shark Tank, Mr. Wonderfuls his nickname went on there and he was complaining about the Gen Zers that are whining, they don't have enough money When they're eating twenty eight dollars lunches and running to Starbucks all the time to have have latte this and latte that He rolls their eyes and said, Well, of course you don't have any money when you spend it so idiotically You're twenty five years old, you're twenty two years old. Why are you spending this kind of money and why are you wasting money on this sort of crap now? And the gen's ears have blown up They think O'Larary is out of touch and they say the baby boomers had it so soft Well, I think that this is a fascinating discussion There's an essay that's just appeared on Fox News that addresses this. I'm going to use that as my launching off point to share My own thoughts firstirst, when it comes to shipping, packaging, industrial supplies, and equipment, many suppliers offer endless ales of products YouLine knows what you can't do with endless Ises of products Test the quality of each product, ensure everything is in stock and ready to ship the same day, and have a team available twenty fourty seven to answer your product questions ULine only carries supplies and equipment they've tested. triide and often used in their own business experience the U line difference today Visit you line Cob This piece was posted today on foxneews. com by Dan Gainner He's diving into this whole Gen Z versus the baby boom which really erupted, you know in this backlash to the comments that were made by Kevin O'Learary Now I'm going to share his piece. I don't necessarily endorse his thoughts, but I'm going to use it as the launching off point to get into my own He writes And again, this is the voice of Dan Gayor. I'm a boomer a few months older than former President Barack Obama But say that online today and it's like admitting to a war crime The news is full of socialists calling for more taxes. wealth taxes, etcer that would let big government keep taking from successful people for being successful. The New York Times just ran The case for California's billionaire wealth tax. Which officials are learning is also the case for millionaires to move to saner states G Galt apparently is a real thing For months. Social media has witnessed a generation gap the size of the Grand Canyon. M in Gen Z are venomously angry at the boomer generation over financial issues But nothing set them off more than shhark Kank star Kevin O'Leary who blamed young people for foolish spending, quote. I can't stand it when I see kids that are making seventy grand a year spending twenty eight dollars for lunch I mean, that's just stupid He said It was the comment that launched a billion replies Coding It landed after criticism of excess Starbucks and door dash spending among young people. This was the last draw Gen Z responded Boomers had it easy in post World War II America. Low housing costs, cheap college Infinite jobs Boomers knew that that was wrong. because we lived it The thing is The young people aren't entirely wrong about their own situation either because they are living it Both sides need to listen to one another So let's start with a history lesson in slightly more orderly fashion than a Billy Joel song for my fellow boomers Boomers grew up after World War twoo, but we were the first to live under the constant threat of nuclear war. My generation dove under desks to practice hiding from nuclear attacks Good luck with that, but we did it We lived through the constant riots and unrest of the nineteen sixties. Vietnam protests, assassinations of leaders from John F. Kennedy to Martin Luther King We sat in gas lines during the Arab oil embargo or watched others do it when you had to buy gas on alternate days, We lived through Watergate and endured the Jimmy Carter presidency of sweaters. and Malays We had ten percent unemployment and eighteen percent mortgage rates So when the Cold War The dot com crash, nine eleven, the Great Recession, COVID nineteen, and who knows what else Most of us don't have pensches. We got four hundred one Ks in nineteen eighty one Pensions stopped working because workers either switched jobs and lost their retirements or the companies went under four hundred one Ks were designed. portable so you could have a retirement even after you left Except the responsibility got dumped on us to fund them We didn't have air conditioning. We had fans We had a couple of TV channels, not hundreds Hand me down clothes were a fact of life There were a few meals out. There were a few meals out day trips, no long vacations, store brands, black and white TV and more We didn't grow up with cell phones, streaming services, the internet and home computers All that hit during our careers And we had to adapt Itesn't se it easy, does it But It was easier than our parents had it parents were from the Great Depression They knew true hardship They live through twenty five percent unemployment and a stock market crashed so enormous, it scarred people for generations There was no safety net They endured because they had no other choice If things got better, they saved Boomer adults tried to do better for themselves and their kids But now Gen Z blames them For the ills of the world Especially the prices of housing, healthcare and inflation They are right All of those things are insane right now Let's point a few fingers though Housing gets a lot worse when you let in twenty million illegal immigrants They might not be buying those houses, but they are living somewhere and that creates pressure on prices thank Team Biden for much of that Healthca is an epic problem But Obamacare made it massively worse Even if we liked our doctor, We didn't get to keep him And the price of a basic policy now costs the arm and the leg You want the doctor to treat Education has snowballed Government loans made it easy for leftist run schools to keep raising the cost of education. becausecause it seems like young people Pay And they did Big government socialist policies hurt in the long run. And the long run takes us to current events Instead of fighting, we should all want to make things easier on Gen Z just as our parents wanted things to be better for us First Everyone should stop wasteful spending, not just Gen Z. We did I packed a lunch most days for my entire career. Most people I noted Being frugal is smart But no amount of saving is going to fix this So let's start with the number one problem young people have student debt We should let every American with a college loan reference it at zero point zero percent interest as long as they keep paying reliable You agree to the cost so you have to pay it That should satisfy boomers, but we didn't want to cripple you Pay for the refinancing by taxing colleges and university endowments over one hundred million dollars at fifty percent Harvard University's endowment was fifty six point nine billion at the end of twenty twenty five While we're at it, we should government out of student loans entirely That's a start, but it's barely scratching the surface. That's because young people are worried in ways that you might seem before that you might have seen before a huge war They are operating under a dark cloud in fear not just for their jobs but their survival Will AI make every career choice a bad one Will anyone hire them Or will they get stuck begging Uncle Sam for a handout They are right to be worried about an AI future I lived through the collapse of journalism and watched several places I had worked go out of business and friends lose their jobs That was just one sector of the economy AI could reset every sector and young people don't know what it will mean. No one does That's why we need to address all these things together Generational warfare doesn't help anyone. That piece was written by Dan Gayor My thoughts on this. but to break it up into several areas. First of all we have had with each successive generation historical illiteracy I know those words don't go together works for me When I was in grade school History barely got to World War twoo teeachers never finished the coursewk on time Then the millennials came around and they didn't even have history. they had social studies. becausecause nobody really knows much of anything about what happened in the past. Everyone thinks that people before them had it softer One of the reasons that baby boomers is the generation I'm in and we'll get to the we'll get to the two in the middle, the generation Xers and the millennials in a moment get upset with the whining from the G Zs is When they say, well, you guys had it so soft, everything was less expensive Baby boom is a long period of time, eighteen years. But when I got out of college It was right in the middle of Jimmy Carter Everything was double digit Unemployment was terrible Thankfully, I was unbelievably talented in my field, but I don't know how long it would have taken me to get my first job had I not known the guy who hired me at a radio station The Gen' ears talk about housing being unaffordable Housing was impossible when I was young. You had a rent for the longest time because mortgages were well over ten percent Inflation was out of control when they suggest that Baby boomers had it really easy when they were young That's preposterous hardter economy which overlapped into Reag and who fixed it, but it took two years undeniably worse than the one right now There is a lifestyle difference And it's the one that the G Zers don't want to hear about On the other hand, I'll acknowledge that when I was a kid My parents and grandparents thought we did all sorts of things that were insane and we had it too soft Every older generation looks out at a generation younger than them and thinks they spend too much money to the matter is they may be right I make a decent amount of money right now. Everybody knows that But for the first fifteen years of my professional first ten years, I made nothing I had a big job. I was moved from city to city, but I was always a radio news director When I was in Springfield for five years, I also ran a state capapitol news news service. and I was the morning news anchor at a successful station We work at sixty five, seventy hours a week I was And I made nothing. I mean, was it wasn't minimum wage, and I'm telling you, it was close When I went out, it was basically because I went to a bar which I didn't do a lot of during that time because I was getting up too dammer I didn't eat out Maybe if you had a date. I was single Remember hamburger helper? That was what was huge when I was around. That's what we ate Always Bibles my mind that So many young people can't make their own food. Why do you have to doorash every night prettyretty easy to cook Even if you don't want to eat all that processed glop that we ate when we were younger It's still way cheaper to buy something at the grocery store and make it yourself. And And I've been on this one for forever. As much money as I make, I can't understand why people pay money for coffee. I just can't You know those what are what are they K cups or what do they call those things? the c K cups What? I have a cake up machine at home becausecause I don't make it enough to have a whole pot The kickups are still more expensive than the regular thing, but it's a lot cheaper than going to Starbucks And why do you need an orange crusted l latte, this that or the other thing It blows my mind that people spend seven dollars for coffee And some of these are, I just can't fathom it I can't bring myself to do it. The only time I would do it is if I'm traveling like at an airport or something like that and I need the caffeine Fortunately here at our radio station, I know that this is about to end. There's a history and as long as I've been in radio, the coffee has been free in the building I don't know if all employers have it, but coffee machines have always exist. Have you ever worked at a radio station where they didn in a free coffee They always it's the only perk we have So I'll drink coffee in the building And I'll make coffee at home I don't go to Starbucks and I don't run the McDonald's or Dunkin' I don't know why you would do that. It just seems to me that it adds up to so much money It reminds me of this. When I was in college, my freshman year, I started to do something really db I started smoking cigarettes. It lasted two months I never smoked a lot, thankfully And I didn't smoke in the dorm I would like smoke a cigarette on the way to like the cafeteria where we got our meal plans. We lived in the dorm for one year And I was probably smoking two O three a day at most You know why I stopped First of all, I didn't seem to like it. I don't even know why I did it other than, okay, now I'm off to college. I'm supposed to be an adult. let's do something. which is why just about everybody else did t justify going to the university bookstore, which is where they sold the cigarettes. That's also kind of amazing now and spending the money. Thank God, that so I never ended up addicted. I just quit because this is stupid. Why am I doing it? and I want to spend the money I don't see much denial of Frills by Gen Z. And this is the point that O'Lere was making then the travel people in their twenties that go on better vacations than I go on now. I didn't go to Las Vegas until I think it was I was working in Madison And that was at a convention where the company paid a portion of it And until I started making money, The hotels I stayed in were Only half a notch above dumps because That's all I could afford. My first new car was in the eighties. I think it might have been the most inexpensive new car sold that it was a Honda CRX It was the first of the CRX. It was a two cater I think it was like nine thousand five hundred, ten thousand dollars. This is nineteen eighty four is a great c It was inexpensive. It was just a given that you didn't get unless you were born rich or You were somebody that you became a stock broker or something. Those are the only people I knew in my twenties and thirties, born richer. they had one of those really high end jobs They' never had much money Just the assumption was you didn't be you weren't able to do stuff like that til you got older The millennials started this and the Gen Zies are following it that they feel this need to have a high end lifestyle at the beginning of their lives rather than the end of their lives You're supposed to work and work and work and work and make a lot of money and then by the time that you've stashed up some money, then you start spending on nice things So this is where this divide comes in that OLarary refers to fromrom the perspective of the Jen's ears The writer said, Well, they're not entirely wrong either. They're not entirely wrong. But I don' understand I don't think they understand the things that they're right about The reason that some of the things cost as much as they do is because of things that they themselves believe in University education cost is extremely high because the cost of these universities has gotten bloated because we've made student loans available How many of the people taking out student loans worked while they were in college? Not a lot How many of them went to college when They knew that they knew that there was a very good chance they wouldn't complete a four year degree, meaning they wasted that time and wasted that money All of the other stuff that is inflated in cost is because We pay the people who work for government a lot of money and we put too many positions in it. That's driving up all of these costs So then when you propose all of your wealth taxes and so on, so you can get this stuff for free. Do understand that that just drives up the cost of everything even more because if we provide some things for free, it means everything else is going to have to cost more because the money comes from somewhere terms of The writer makes the point that You know, and I understand that saying I just sound like all the old fart sounded when I was a kid. as a kid. I walked ninety seven miles one way to school, all that crap And you knew that they were exaggerating, but I also knew that there was a sense of truth to it people older than me had it way tougher than I was when I was a kid. But at least I knew that I think the gen Zers and certainly the millennials who are more hedonistic They didn't know that I remember there was this this talked about forever. and I talked about it a lot ten, fifteen, twenty years ago millennials were coming of age. They did a survey of millennials and this was Probably Around twenty ten, twenty eleven And they said they had it worse than any generation in American history. And by every measure they had it better There were no wars at that time This is when unemployment was virtually zero. Inflation was manageable They had almost no problems at all. Yet they felt as though they had problems because They had been culturalized by soft parents and then by the educators in school telling them how terrible everything was. Because they were so coddled, they weren't prerepared for the real world I think a lot of the Gen Zers want to get into the real world as opposed to the millennials, the ones who wanted to stay living at home with Mommy and daddy forever and ever and ever They want to get into the real world, but now they're finding that the real world is expensive The millennials were sheltered from those expenses because as I say, they were living at home and living off of mom and dad and mom and dad were still paying for everything. The Jars, I think, show some sense of independence. they want to go do this and they want to travel. et ccetera. But They feel a sense of entitlement to living a fifty five year old lifestyle when they're twenty one years old That's never been the deal The concerns they have over AI, that's certainly real. Nobody knows how AI is going to play out The flip side of that, however, is The G Zers can't make the mistake of the millennials in not developing in themselves skills that will be of value in the marketplace. Now, admittedly AI He's eliminating a lot of jobs The field that I'm in, broadcasting, AI has and other company, not AI just, but technology has wiped out almost all jobs I started you know, TV didn't have any competition Radio is the only thing you could listen to in your car And so on. We now have the internet which allows an infinite number of sources. It provides incredible pressure on advertising dollars. So everybody cuts. and we're at a radio station building in which the building's almost empty. There's hardly any human beings left I was able to survive because I was really, really, really, really good at it, but most people who were very good as well couldn't survive But at least I had a skill for which there was a demand. I admit, I'm glad I'm not thirty with this skill because how many podcasts can there be? But a lot of the millenniials went and spent a fortune, took out this massive student loan debt. Not just to pay their college expenses, but to give them extra money to live on because they were too lazy to work other than one or two majors, don't let anybody tell you that college is so hard that you don't have time to work. College is the softest experience in the United States of America. W the exception of two or three majors in which they have lots of lab work, lab work and this stuff is rigorous I mean, have you looked at a college semester lately The semester that we just ended you when they had all the gr they like graduate on may tenth. The semester starts january twenty fifth If they don't go to summer school, they don't go back to college until after Labor D day and Winterbreak starts december tenth. That's a school here. The full load of credits is like fifteen or sixteen, That's fifteen or sixteen hours of work Hardly any students have Friday classes anymore, so they all have three day weekends And then a huge number of them don't even work So they ended up going to college, claiming it was really tough so they didn't have the ability to go out there and work, got a lot of degrees that were useless that didn't have any application in the workplace any skill that anybody needs, they're terribly undemployed and they wonder now with their college degree why they're a doordash driver Well, that's still on them No matter what your age, you've got to size up what's going on in the economy and figure out how to do something that there's going to be a call for Robots may change this somewhat But it sure seems to me that there's always going to be a need for certain kinds of hands on work Construction can become Somewhat automated But you look at a roue crew You still see lots of people out there on a road crep Down in Florida The high rises are still going on right and left and there's massive work crews that are on them You need a plumber human being show up You need an electrician, human beings show up Your AC system fails, especially these big giant ones that service the big office towers and the high rises. humuman being show up You can go throughout the list But that's still on you to figure out what it is that you're going to be able to do and develop a skill that you're good at so that you can be in some sort of demand. And if you don't have a great skill, There's still going to be a call for certain types of labor. Getting back to the point that capital there raerised point is valid If times are tight for you when you're young and costs are so high It's just an obvious cut some stuff out everyverybody no matter how much money they make has certain things that they're a cheap skate on. I've got my own stuff that I'm a cheapsate on I'll try to park on the street. I do not like to go to pay pay a lot of money to park in a parking. I just't want to do it As I said, I can't justify going to Starbucks I still can't justify eating lunch. Part of it is the hours that I work I don't think I've gone to lunch other than say when I'm in Florida where I goof off Even there I don't go to lunch, I might go out to dinner When do you go to lunch As long as I've been working in the workplace, I have lunch in my office. I bring it in Now maybe it's occasionally you stop at Jimmy Johns or something, which is like going out. and then take it into the office. So what O'Leary, who obviously has a lot of money, shark tank of the whole thing When he's eyeballing up some of these younger people that are doing things that he didn't do when he was younger and Clearly you don't need to do His point is valid. On the other hand, the G Zers are facing cost pressures with the cost of certain things, not just inflation Even adjusted for inflation, certain things like healthcare and so on have gone through the roof, but understand. The thing that you see is the solution To the extent that we've done some of those things already, that's where the costs are as high as they are Obamacare has wrecked healthcare and its financces It wasn't my side that wanted Obamacare One of the reasons that housing costs are incredibly high is because we did allow zillions of illegal immigrants in. creating pressure on the overall housing market. They move into some of the cheaper housing it forces other people into the other housing and so on The level of property taxation in our country is crazy. Look at us in Wisconsin voting to raise our taxes to spend more and more and more money on the schools that the Gen Zers went to. could have done a crappy job of educating him. So this guy's calling for peace talkks saying that everybody needs to understand one another The reality of it is that just about every generation has had it easier than the one before them I will grant you that there is an existential threat to Gen Z and probably the millennials with AI And nobody knows exactly how it's going to play out generenally speaking throughout our history. When there's been a disruption that's eliminated certain other jobs, it's created enough prosperity that there are new jobs that are created in other fields Perfect example of that would be There were no podcasts a few years ago, no everybody under the sun is doing one and some of us are even making a lot of money at it Let me move on Rond De Sanis, the outoing governor Florida, he's term limited. So he'll be leaving office after the November election is now proposing a special session of the Florida legislature so he can get rid property taxes This is a big story And its impact goes way beyond Florida. Florida already has no income tax There's about twelve states in the United States that don't have income tax So when you hear Lfties who run the states that have them and then the lefties who run the states that have extremely high income taxes When they say, well, of course, we have to have them or we wouldn't have services. All you have to do is point to the states Don't have them Florida doesn't have income deax. They have property taxes and sales taxes and then all the regular special taxes that everybody has, water fees, gas tax and so on. De Santas who's leaving Florida. and some of the people criticizing this are saying You're going to be short of money. Why does he care? He's proposing this right before he gets out the door. It'll be the next governor that's going to have to deal with the shortfalls. There may be truth to that Nothing stopped Rond D Saddis from proposing this seven years ago when he was in his first year as governor. Nonetheless, he says the numbers add up And indeed, Florida is running surpluses despite not having an income tax. One of the reasons they're running surpluses is People are moving to the states in droves and now businesses are moving in droves because they're all going there not only for the quality of life, but because the taxes are so low He's not eliminating all property taxes. They would only be for people who live onene principal residence In other words, if you own the place and live in it You wouldn't pay property taxes all rental property, the landlords and the corporations that own them, they woulday they would pay the property taxes. If you own four properties, live in one and rent the three, you'd only be eliminating the property taxes on the one and you have to have been there for five years So anybody who just came in wouldn't be able to do it. You have to establish residency for five years before it would apply. Now, if it succeeds, obviously it goes a long way toward making homeownership in Florida more affordable. by wiping out property taxes. their property taxes, I And people down there bitch constantly about how high they are, but they're lower than Wisconsin's Property valuations in Florida are higher than Wisconsin. but The amount of tax per se, one hundred thousand dollars of assessed valuation is significantly lower in Florida than they are in Wisconsin, but the values of the homes in Florida tend to be for a comparable home much higher Here's the important takeaway from this though if they can do it or at least come close to it, reduce the property taxes when they don't have an income tax This means it's possible to run a government without all these taxes It is simply a myth that high tax states like Wisconsin have a higher level of service than low tax states Some low tax states have crappy services. But some high tax states have crappy services Every service in California is terrible and they're a brutally high tax state I'm down there in Florida. I don't The services to me seem to be just as good as they are here if not better. The roads are way better Partly because they don't do the dumb things that we do on their owns, like put the bump out curbs that littleittle mayayor Chevy puts in all of that but I admit they don't have win the winter conditions which create potholes and all the the roads are fine. The schools seem fine Everything else seems fine When you don't have the tax revenue coming in because in the case of the income tax in Florida, it doesn't exist. You have to make do with what you have Here in Wisconsin, we not only keep taxing ourselves to death. We vote for higher taxes for idiotic things like building new city halls What do he need a new city hall? What to was? Why Well, it's falling apart. Give me a break Or we need new school buildings. Why do you need new school buildings? Enrollments are going down The reality is we could have much less revenue going into government. and if we eliminated the stuff that is waste We'd be just fine Now to Joill Biden Do you see what she said? She's only able to get away with this because I'm just telling you, people have no memory I sometimes think I don't have much of a memory. Th I understand then I realize I remember damn near everything Joe Biden gave an interview. this week in which she said she was horrified by Joe's performance in the june twenty seventh, twenty twenty four presidential deb with Donald Trump. She said she watched Joe on stage with Trump and was horrified. She feared that he was having a stroke on stage I wasn't just horrified. I was frightened Because I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since, never She is lying through her teeth She's never seen Joe like that before sense I go back to the reaction to that debate. And we did a lot of segments back on the old radio show after the debate in twenty twenty four about the reaction from the left to this in which the lefties were freaking out over Biden's performance and just about all of us on the right were' shocked that they were freaking out I was not the least bit surprised that Joe Biden fell apart during the debate Now I did say They usually had the ability when he came out in public, if he disappeared for five days before that, they pump him through enough drugs that he seemed to be alert and lse it for a while In this debate, however, he fell apart the part at which he lost total control of his answer and about whipping Medicare. that was early on in the debate Biden had been acting goofy and wandering around stages and come and mumbling and making statements in which the words didn't go together for years prior to this So why were the lefties so shocked that this is how he's behaving and all I could All I could come up with at the time and I stick with this is But Lies didn't believe their own eyes. They'd watch C it and and MSNBC in the mainstream media and they all said Joe was fine, Joe was fine, Joe was fine, Joe was fine. So rather than believing what they were seeing with their own eyes, they assumed that Joe was fine Most of us on the right who weren't blinded by all of that crap. knew that Biden was in fine. So when we saw Biden behave the way that he did, we weren't surprised. s on Joe Bite I was horrified Joe's never been like that before, as sense Here's the point that I make about people having no memories I wonder now I always know that some of you, there are some people who listen to me Who know everything? We used to prove that during my current events quizz But most of you don't Does anybody remember what happened the night of the debate after it was over? First of all, you know, the pundits afterwards all declared it a disaster for Biden, et cetera. But what was Biden doing after the debate? Does anybody remember? I know y'all don't remember but I'm gonna to tell you because it's integral to this story. after the debate After this debate in which Jill said she was horrified and frightened thinking Jill was having a stroke Did she take Joe home? Did she take Joe to the doctor? Did she take him to the emergency room? Did she even take him to a personal physician? No She went out to a meet and greet with a bunch of supporters Remember this was on stage with Jill, Jille was dragging her on the stage the way that she always did and serving as a cheerleader. wasasn't Joe G? Joe was outstanding and Biden was standing there with his mouth hanging open. He looked just as out of it as he did during the debate. But Jill Biden was personally dragging him out there, bragging up on a great job that he did If she was truly concerned and this was an unprecedented behavior on his part, why would she have hauled him back out there and jumped around to continue to shove him out furthermore When the pressure started coming on Biden to drop out of the race and get, you know T turn the thing over to Kommler or somebody else who fought this the hardest Joe Biden Je Biden's making all of this up And she's making it up in an attempt to repair her reputation Jill Biden didn't want Je to leave because Joill Biden didn't want to not be the first lady. Who was she before this? Nobody knew who Jill Biden was You could tell that she's a pompous ass running around with that doctor title and tryrying to let people think that she's an MD. She has a PhD or whatever it is, it's a doctor But she insists doctor, doctor, doctor She loved living at the White House. She loved going out and making all of these appearances. And she didn't want Joe's sility to take that away from her. Sanoshi offers this spin that she was also surprised by this. and she was horrified by what happened on the stage and had never seen it before Chill Biden is full of crap And she doesn't have the excuse that Joe has. Jill I see no signs of sinility on Jill's part at all She's as mocky avelliant and mean spirited as ever. You know, she ended up hating Kamala because she thought that Kamala is trying to ease Joe out the door So on. and I think that Joe Biden's reputation has taken a great big hit over this because so many people have wondered Why didn't she tell Joe he needed to leave? Why would she humiliate her husband and put him out there and have him do something that he clearly wasn't able to do? So now her spin for historical purposes is going to be Well, he wasn't really like that. And I had never seen him like this prior to that night at all You're listening to the Mark Belling podcast If you've got a great looking car and you want it to look like its very best self, do what I did and take it to Charisma Customs. I wanted to protect my vehicle without doing a lot of maintenance. Charisma Customs makes it simple. prrotection film for chips, ceramic coating for long term shine, and ceramic tint for comfort and privacy. You'll be stunned by the finished result Mine looks better than the day I bought it Charisma customs in Delafield If you want your vehicle done, right? This is the Mark Belling podcast But I criticize the news media for not doing much of themselves. Occasionally you'll see a story that will attempt to do what I'm doing here But it's very rare The media almost never, and I didn't say never, I'm just saying almost never When somebody is arrested or charged or convicted of something or another almost never Do you see the news media go in and tell you about the backstory of all the other crap that the person was convicted of earlier? Almost never. That's the story to me If somebody does something rot And they get arrested and they get some punishment for it You can't look at that in a vacuum To me, the larger point is what did we do the last time he did it in the time before that and the time before that and the time before that I believe the biggest single factor In the crime problem in the United States. is that we don't do much of anything to criminals when they commit crimes. Meaning they're free to be able to commit another crime and another crime and another crime in addition to that. because they know that they're not going to get much punishment for it. There's no incentive not to do it. their behavior is not punished, it is rewarded. They're told that okay, if we catch it, you'll get your wrist slapped We'll do a little bit of this. So why not do it again further Since they're not locked up, they're out on the street and available to do it again. I'm going to bring you now to the end of the story and then go back to the beginning There was just a sentencing in Wacashaw County of a Milwaukee man involved with an incident that occurred last year at the Raazing Cannes Iven't been to raising Kees.ave you been to raising Kyes, Jason It's overpriced People tell me it's sensational Good, but it's expensive I haven't been to one. It's like what it's it like sugary chicken or what is it? what is their thing that Jason thinks that it's overrated. anyway It's like the you know, when Jimmy Johns came around twenty years ago, every his raced it to Jimmy Johns and then Chick Fill A became the what everybody's raising raaising Kansas now Exanding all over the United States and everybody raises about raves about it. So there's raising kids just on the Brookfield side of the Brookfield Milaukee line. one hundred twenty, we did a segment on this in the last podcast. one hundred twenty fourth is the dividing line. There's a big retail center on Capitol Drive. on the west side of one hundred twenty fourth street and the Raising Cynes as part of that thing. So it's about two blocks into Brookfield across the street would be either Milwaukee or Wuatosa There was an incident there at the Raising Cades that was rather frightening Officers found a stolen vehicle and they attempted to apprehend the driver I'm going to quote from the report on this in Tuesday's Wakashhaw Freeman The men were charged after a january eighth, twenty twenty five incident at Rising Kynes two six sixzo West Capital Drive after they were seen on a flock camera driving a vehicle in a drive through that was reported stolen from Water Street in Milwaue So the car comes up stolen from Milwaukee's water street And the police in Brookfield spot them at this raising Kayes Brookfield Police moved in Evans, that's one of the guys involved, the vehicle driver. hisis name is Dmani Evans As police moved in, Evans repeatedly reversed the car into another vehicle containing two people. You see a guy at a drive through Police see you and they start moving in. He now puts the vehicle in reverse and crashes into another car Twice In and of itself, already, you have a scary situation. Somebody's trying to elude the cops and he's ramming the vehicle that apparently is behind him in the drives He then rammed into a squad car My visual on this and this may be one of those cases that the companies that put up the bodycam of the dashcam things on YouTube. they have this, but I don't think I've seen it He then ramed the squad car. So my visual is is that the squad car probably blocked him from the front and he's already blocked in the drive t from behind. So he's trying to ram the vehicles in front of and behind him to get away This is all according to the criminal Fank, pening, continuing Brown then ran but was found nearby and gave police a false name. Brown is the guy who is in the passenger seat So the driver' smacking into ramming the squad car in front of him and ramming a passenger car that's behind him, and his passenger gets out of the car and takes off Evans, that's a driver. resisted police threatened to beat up officers on the scene and was stunned with a taser. There were two females in the car, a nineteen year old and a sixteen year old And they faced reduced charges The story goes on to say that as well as the stolen auto Police found an AK forty seven style firearm Stolen property and numerous drugs, including sixty two grams of pot ten grams of heroin and nineteen grams of cocaine So all right, the vehicle' stolen They have reason obvious they to try to get away, but beyond that They have an AK style weapon, and the term here is AK style. There are numerous weapons like this, AR fifteen AK forty seven that are similar in nature Not a lot of drugs But the cod. Cught They were sentenced this month in Waashhaire County Circuit Ct The main character involved here, the driver who was in charge charge of the vehicle and was doing the ramming of the vehicles and so on That's the Money Evans He had Very good luck though. He continues to have good luck luck is it probably the right term There's something called judicial broulette that I refer to What happens to you often has a more to do than what you did with which judge you have Milwaukee County, we have a few very good judges mostly bad judges and some terrible judges Wacashha County has several very good judges, a few okay judges and a couple of crap heads This is in Walkinstruck Cy Evans was fortunate enough to have his case handled by one of the crap headads William Davina Now the good news Andndomina is he's not running for reelection and his sry ass is going to be off the Waalkashhaire County bench But he's still up there I'm going to give you the sentence that he got after we now go back to the beginning of the story And I've been able to track the beginning of the story through my own reporting. Fortunately, one of the good things we have in Wisconsin courourt records are online. Most states don't have this Wisconsin court records are online, so I was able to go back and trace the arrest and criminal charging record of this guy, Damen Evans, who is twentyw six years old takeake that back. He is twenty Two years old. at twenty two years old He was born august ninth. or three. Math is that makes him twenty two. he'll turn twenty three in August This is the fourth time He's been charged with felony for fleeing from police in the last six years. This is the fourth time he's done it Let's now go through these cases. In March of twenty twenty. Damiian Evans. which charged the Milwaukee Cy Circuit court with vehicle operator fleeing and eluding an officer So this is now six years ago, twenty twenty was COVID year There was a lot of reckless driving going on in Milwaukee at that time. That was also the year of the George Floyd protests and so on He was fleeing from the police They caught him. He cut a plea bargain, pleaded guilty and was sentenced by Judge Glenn Yamahiro to Bation On his age, he was seventeen at the time that he was sentenced We don't know what kind of a jubvenile record he has because juubile records of Wisconsin are sealed. they're not open to the public So y'all me, our seventeen year old kid running for the cops, Okay, I'll give you probation And some of you may say, okay, he ran for thease is his first offense. He's only seventeen, give him probation Well, that's what he got probation Now let me interject I have been critical of this forever What lesson did this guy learn? He learned that if you get you run from the cops at a high rate of speed and get caught They don't do anything to you. And that's what probation is. Proation is they don't do anything to you This was not a probation in which he had to serve a period of time in the House of Correction, either. It was straight probation Follow the dates, that charging date was March of twenty twenty His sentencing occurred In June of twenty one, rememember how slow the courts moved during COVID, they shut out a lot of courts So in June of twenty one, he was sentenced to probation for that incident. Fast forward now too December of twenty two What do you think D Demoni Evans is charged with Vehicle operator, freeing and aloting an officer The same thing. Now I don't know the specifics of what kind of fleeing it was and how fast the speeds were, what roads it was on and so on. But he's facing the exact same felony When it says vehicle operated, that means it's not fleeing on foot. He was fleeing from the police. So this is now H second offense and he did this was charged with this about a year and a half after he got the probation for the other offense This case dragged out For three years. I've made this point repeatedly When you're somebody who does something in which you fear that you're going to go to prison You have every incentive to drag it out and drag it out and drag it out and drag it out and drag it out and drag it out. and when it is being dragged out You may or may not be free during the during that period of time this case W was in Waucashaw Cy and he landed in the courtroom of Yes who William Dominer The same guy whose courtroom he ended up in Last week were the charge for the thing that happened at Raising Kynes last year. So the December of ' twenty two case in Waucashaw County dragged out for three years He finally was convicted late last year for this three year old charge And in this case, William Domina gave him Fifteen months of confinement And here's the key to run concurrent to any other sentence. So if he has any other time that's out there, this is not added onto this. It's concurrent He was in jail in the interim for two hundred and seventy five days so they credit him for time serve. That's about nine months So essentially he was sentenced to six months This is for the incident that occurred in twenty twenty two. in the intervening time In April of twenty three Now remember, follow me on this Help you out. twenty twenty was the first offense, Glen Yam my hero, Milwaukee County gave him probation Then he was arrested and charged again in twenty twenty two In case in Waucashhaw County Case was dragged out for three years Inn that case, he got fifteen months. includluding nine months time sererve credit in between this period of time and April of twenty three So ats someime between the time that he was arrested and charged in Wacashha County and sentenced in Wacashhaire County He was arrested and charged in Milwaukee County. This is in this interim period and it's the point that they make about why these guys like to drag these cases out What do you think he was charged with vehicle operator, fleeing and alluding an officer and a second charge of second degree recklessly endangering safety So this is apparently a really dangerous chase. In this case, he appeared before Milwaukee County judge Jack Davala Not surprisingly, if you guess a Milwaukee Cy judge is bad, you're not going to be right all the time because there's a few that are really good Dava ain't one of them They dismissed several charges, he pleaded guilty to several of them, and read in others I'll read from the sentencing from Judge Jack Navvelo. The court sentenced the defendant to a maximum term in the Wisconsin state prison of five years concurrent. creditited for two hundred and seventy eight days time initially served. The initial term of confinement is two years The courourt stays the sentence, meaning none of it happens So then when he says five years and the original confinement is two years, it's all BS. Staying the sentence means you don't serve it. And they hold it out there in case well, if you do something else wrong, I could put you back on this, which of course they never do Instead, What he did get was six months of Hber privileges in Milwaukee County. That usually means they either put you at the House of Correction or at facility and you get to leave in the daytime you got to sleep there at night That's all he got That occurred In January of ' twenty four So while this case occurred after case number two in Waucashaw County, it was resolved before the Waashaw County case So he gets six months with work release O this offense, which was the third one, but the second one to be adjudicated All of this occurred before The January of last year incident at raising Kid Raising raaising Ks, rightiter or raising kid C with an S or not, plural and has racing ges So he's got three of these With wrist slap three times, the first one, notothing dead at all The second one a little bit of time, the third one even less time The third one of course, ocurred in the middle of the second one All of that is the background. and now here we go You've got this terrifying situation at raising canes. People are just trying to get their fast food. Here's a guy with a stolen car. he rams into another car, rams into a police officer. By the way, the police officer was said to have been injured, but was minor, he was treated at the scenes So no one was badly hurt, but it was a terrifying situation. And then remember also, they find the AK style rifle in the car along with all the drugs His case goes before illiam Dominer. who I described earlier as a cphead I didn't say crack headad. I said crap is in Frap playing crap head. Some will say that that's too harsh. I'm beyond caring. what some lenient judges think about me. I don't know that I've ever cared what lenient judges have thought about me Ralphie Ramirez the other crap head judge in Walkashhaw County can't stand me because I keep pointing out to the residents of Wauckashhaw County what a rotten judge he is We have this impression that the only county that's lingent is Milwaukee County, and Milwaukee Cy usually is lingent But Walkashuck County is either lenient or not almost entirely depending on the judge I'm going to rattle through all the charges that he faced raising cans inc it Possessition of methamphetamine, posossession with the intent to deliver THC Repeater. secondcond degree recklessly endangering safety, use of a dangerous weapon. secondecond degree recklessly endangering safety with a repeater enhancer Use of a dangerous weapon, secondcond degree rellectacy endangering safety, repeater enhancement again. Another count of use of a dangerous weapon, operator fleeing at a leading officer bodily harm property damage. And again, the dangerous weapon that they're referring to here is the fact that he was using the vehicle in an attempt to injure repeating, resisting or instructing an officer battery or threat to a judge prosecutor, law enforcement officer. driver operate a vehicle without consent. Remember, this is a stolen car. I hope you didn't forget about that one and then bail jumping because of course, he was out in bail on some of the previous cases that he had pending on him when all of this happened So again, we caught him and he's charged with all of this The case is resolved, he agrees to plead to some of the charges, others are dismissed in redd When all is said and done The judge Stays sentences on all of the counts except one. He's only punished on the one count and that's count number nine Count number nine was driving or driving or operating a vehicle without consent. That was the ninth count. It's the only one that he sentenced on The sentence here is For three years of imprisonment Two years of which are extended supervision, one year of which is initial confinement. That's it That's it I hope you allall understand the problem One of the things that I try to do and I admit that this is hard is I always try to name the judges It's easier in most of our counties, but not Milwaukee. Milwaukee has more than fifty branches of the circuit court It's just, unless you're really on top of it like me hard to keep track of all of them Walka shota I don't know many branches it can, maybe? It shouldn't be that hard. The maximum punishment for all of these is in the many, many years in prison. Remember, he had multiple counts in here, even with the counts that were dismissed as part of the plea bargain. he was still sentenced on several counts and the judge didn't do anything on most of them. Walershaw County Some people in it at least learned nothing from Daryl Brooks This behavior is Mnie Brooks Bros had multiple convictions. Never had much of anything done to him just like this guy, Evt In this instance, Evans rammed into a car then rammed into a squad car. I say mini Brooks. It's certainly not at the level of Brooks in which he was driving into pedestrians walking through a parade road was not that. He didn't kill anybody But he certainly didn't care if he injured anyone as he tried to get away banging into cars back and forth and so on and showing no desired this is what he does He steals cars and then he flees to the police. and apparently he's got drugs in there and he's got a big AK weapon and so on Some would say, well, this is a good thing that he was caught on the west side of one hundred twenty four streak because he won't get a lofty Milwaukee County judge like Jack Dava to slap his wrist I need to knock you out of that There are some judges in Wacashhaw, County that I think would have handed out a proper sentence. Damond is not one of them. There is never any criticism of any of these judges ever from anyone other than me Occasionally one of the news media and nobody's done it in this instance, at least I haven't seen any story We'll wrad a story in which they go through the track record of all the crap that guys like this do and then point out the the final thing here in which you can put all of the pieces together, but it's hardly ever done. It's easy to do because as I say, all of our online records in Wisconsin, all of our court records are online and you're able to find them We keep getting all at Milwaukee, the suburbs all saying, I'm so tired of this reckless driving. I'm so tired of the stolen c, so tired of the people who flee from the police so tired of this, so tired of that T you not? if you were, We wouldn't be tolerating ratten judges like Damada And again, I'm sure Domina doesn't like the fact that after his years on the bench, Bows out with me using a popular podcast to describe him as Rott term am I supposed to apply for this? It is unclear to me from the court record whether or not there was a sentencing recommendation that was jointed. There usually isn't. After a plea bargain, usually the defense makes a recommendation, the prosecutor makes a recommendation, but the judge can always do what the judge wants to do. It's up to the judge to pronounce the final sentence So with the other cases that he has and the time that he's serving, I'm not sure it's clearly, it's not clear with his other probations that he has out there when the guy's going to be free. What I do know is that Domina added only a year to him This guy to Monie Evans is going to be free again. Who in the world doesn't think he's gonna steal another car? and if he's caught, run from the cops Why wouldn't he? Now you can say, well, he's getting some time is getting summed We stopped doing just the total probation that Yama Ho started him off on his rotten path and And Yamah hero, by the way, is another bad Milwaukee County judge. He's in the bottom half. He's not the worst, but there's so many terrible ones there. It's not a credit to Yam I here there are a judges worse than him This one of the bad, but that's what started all of this. He went back and forth two of the cases of Wakashha County, both went to Domina in Milwaukee County, Yamahiro and Davala, not a good judge in the four Double domina double Dava in Wakasa Cy and then a Yama hero at A Dabola in Milwaukee Cy We do have judicial elections. and in Milwaukee County, as I say, there are two judges that are leaving the bench. This summer, Domina is one of them Tony Evers will name their replacement, but the replacement will only serve until the next spring election as I've been instructing you repeatedly and Walkasha County voters do the right thing They don't ever vote for the Evers appointees. They vote for the challenger. I don't believe any of Evers's appointees has survived election at the ballot Unfortunately You'll sometimes be disappointed by the candidates who say that they are conservative when they run It's too early to make a final decision, but I've I have a red flag out on Scott Wagner. who ran as a conservative ran unoopposed and has handled a couple of cases pathetically. truly pathetically Repeat drrunk driver driving the wrong side of Morland Road, cracks into a squad car got four months from Wagner It' just a disgrace But I'm not going to judge Wagner permanently on one case. It's taken Domin and Ralphie Ramire as the other head judge in Waashaw County. years of being soft, lenient, pathetic. Weinie asses me to be able to feel comfortable describing them in The crude obnoxious terms that I just used, but they're called And you don't think that they're called for, what are you to do about it? All right, let's turn our attention out of this I was going to say weird. It's not a weird story because it's just happening a lot, but there are components of it that are weird There's a guy who was running a martial arts studio in Brookfield, but he lives in River Hills Living in river hills usually means You're rich, but it's that clear to me. There's a couple of streets in iver hills in which you're in River hills only because you're on the right side of the street. Like I think portion of Brownnder Rad is inriverhills and if you're living in Browni R road on the north side of the street, you're still just living in Browner R road But The case was handled in River Hills by River Hills Police. I believe his martial arts studio was located in Brookfield. He might have been doing some work out of his home though. that part is unclear, but the case is The Milwaukee County Case and River Hills was listed as the River Hills pololice for the invvestigating agency. The guy is running the martial arts studio His name is David Kang K A N G. He has the middle names of Sng Chi. David Kang, sixty six years old The criminal complaint accuses him of inappropriate sexual conduct with contact with a minor repeated over a lengthy period of time. I'm going to a quote from the Fox six report Milwaukeeounty prosecutors chargge a longtime martial arrts instructor Tuesday. That would be two days ago. I'm doing this podcast on Thursday. was sexually assaulting a child for years during private lessons David S. Kang, sixty six is charged with repeated sexual assault of a child and second degree sexual assault of a child under age sixteen. According to court filings, River Hills Police met with a child and the child's parents earlier this month The Chh police Kang sexually assaulted them for years private Taekwan Doou lessons and could not go through another summer of abuse The filings say that while police were interviewing the victim Tang showed up at the victim's home and shot himself cant survive. All right, now let me pause here This is canan't say that I've ever heard of a case of a child predator. showing up when the police are investigated are interviewing the victim and the predator then shot himself. Perhaps it'd be a good thing if more of them that did it. Okaykay. they caught me, I'll kill themselves. You wouldn't have any doubt about whether or not it actually was a suicide like Epstein. To this day, I don't think anybody knows whether or not He hung himself or he had assistance on this, but in this case, Kang shoots. Kang shows up where the cops are interviewing the kid and he shoots himself However, he lived which tells me he didn't shoot himself in the head I mean, maybe he did it, boy, boy. I think if you shoot yourself in the head, your chances of living aren't very good, are they Nine millimeter though, Those are really People don't like it whenever I talk about the wimpiness. I'm just say, whenever you hear one of these cases where somebody shot five times and they live, I'm just telling you, it's always a nine millimeter Make of that whenever you will I'm just telling you, look up atd s. Somebody was shot five times in a liim.m just it's a nine millimeter So maybe he shot himself in the head of a nine millimeter where he lived, or maybe he pointed the gun somewhere else other than his head. But if you want to kill yourself, you better I'm just thinkin of put it in your you can't live if you put it in your mouth and pull the trigger, right? Kang, Kang live The story goes on to say The Kang was featured in a F six story when he operated a studio in Fax Point in two thousand nine State records show that Kang incorporated a Tai Kwon D studio in nineteen ninety one Wellile, there' been different locations for several years the studio was located in the shopping center near Port Road and Brown Deer Roads. In Fs pointint. The story goes on to say that Tang has never had a martial arts instructor' license. I didn't even know you had to have one I don't know if you can operate a studio without one, but he's never had one The business is now said to be If follow When cases like this occur often other victims will come forward. So if there are any other kids who went to this alleged pedal for martial arts instructions if something bad happened, contact the River Hills, pololice or whatever the police agency Out there is, it's hard for me to imagine that it was just one kid that he was messing with over all of these years kid went to the police and apparently he's still a minor when he said, I just didn't I guess he was taking the martial arts courses in the summer saying, I just didn't want to go through another summer of this guy doing this stuff to me. Parents contacted the police. they did the investigation Kang must have known that the cops are talking to the kid and the parents. Kang shows up at the house and shoots himself Another crime story This one part of a massive American trend We all know about the scams that have been uncovered in Minnesota where Health care Home health care services and childcare services operated by Somalis have turned out to be massive frauds in Milwaukee, the one that's been investigated for some time now. Pnatal care nonprofits The thing that makes these So open to scamming is you don't have to be a doctor To provide prenatal care, prenatal care is basically let's help mom live healthy while she's pregnant. That's what prenatal care is Damn ne or anybody can run one of these. and you get reimbursement from the government for doing it. But here's the thing quote my favorite line from Fargo. But how do you know How do you know whether or not this person is reporting that they saw ninety seven expected mothers saw any of them Unless you actually follow up and contact all of those ninety seven women, how do you know that she was providing anything Or are all of the buildillings phony We've had a lot of these kinds of things. The other one is childcare. The daycare center is the same kind of thing that's going on in Minnesota President Trump has named JD Vance, the vice president to oversee this investigation into government fraud with regard to Medicare and Medicaid with regard to these programs. And I'm just saying, this is wide open This has been going on for a long time I think a lot of people have known about it and the people that do it often will tell others, hey, you can do this. Some of the tip offs are, look at this person, they live the life of Rilly. They got incredibly expensive cars. They're living in a great house and they're only running this thing. and As Nick Shirley exposed in Minnesota, they went to one of the places, there were no kids there Have there been any moms that went to this woman's place this guy's place. The guy's name is Derl Howard, Mail business is called Fortunate Futures. pleaded guilty to federal charges. Build Medicaid. Medicaid is healthcare for low income people point three million dollars He's to be sentenced next month So the Feds now that we're under Trump are going after this stuff Some of these cases date obviously prior to Trump. They go back all the way to Obama. This kind of scamming has been going on forever and ever and ever This whole area of How much money our government spends. Some of it is overpaying for stuff that they're actually using That's not fraud That's just waste. There's a difference between waste and fraud that too often get lumped together Much I believe of the public schools is waste M Oh mass transit. is waste For example, the Milwaukee trolley is not fraud. We all see that it's there They're not hiding anything It's simply waste. It's something that loses a fortune and doesn't provide any kind of necessary service whatsoever In this instance, I think you have some degree of waste Why do we need to have these nonprofits providing prenatal care? How many mothers need to have somebody tell them what you're not supposed to do when you're pregnant Don't smoke crack, don't drink on take a hammer to your belly. how many things do you need to tell them? On the other hand, some people might need some help because they're stupid or they might need nutrition assistance, etceta. But once we establish these programs And know when ever anybody kind of questions the need for these for you don't want to have care for for preborn children. Here you are, you write to life. So when a woman actually has the baby, you don't want to give them care. So of course we want to have give them care The problem with this is is what is that Kare and who follows up on whether or not it's legitimate as opposed to something that's just scam regular major health carere companies, and I'm not saying that there isn't fraud involved in that But if you go up sayay one of the local hospitals and one of the major healthcare chains around here There's physical offices and there's numerous people involved in billing To submit a photy bill if you're aurar would be, it's not worth the point. You're making too much money on all the actual human beings that are coming in. But when every Tom Dick and Demerl, in this case, DMerl Howard, says, I'm providing prenatal services at some house the on the Northwest side. How do you know they're providing anything How many of them that are operating provided anything at all And of those who did see one or two of the mothers Did they see them more than one or two times? And how do they come up with the dollar amount that they charge the government Back in Minnesota. Walls, the governor said, Well, we uncovered a lot of this. You want covered squat And when whistleblowers were trying in some of these agencies to draw attention to it, they were threatened with firing. In that case, it was because the overwhelming majority of the fraudsters were Somali And the Democrats in Minnesota were U hooking into the political base of the Somalis and getting people elected like Ilon Omar. In this case here in Milwaukee, there doesn't appear to be any kind of specific ethnic group involved. And it was just out and out fraud with a bunch of bureaucrats. And again, eventually they caught it. This person was criminally charged. and usually they theirre charged either because somebody blows the whistle and somebody in the government is willing to listen or It just gets so large and there's so many women that they claim that they're seeing that it doesn't add up and somebody says, Wy, hey, maybe we need to Take a look at all of this Interesting story in the Wall Street Journal, Economic pain is squeezing Tehran The Po of the story is the stalemate in the war negotiations which is clearly causing problems in the United States with the strait of hormz still. in this vague area. oil prices are very high. That means gasoline prices are high. And everybody knows what the downside is to the United States Is it worse in Iran And Po does a rad sayay Uncle and cut a deal with Trump for fear that if they don't There's going to be another revolt of their citizenry. Let me read a few paragraphs of this story At the turn of the year, Iran's regime faced biggest protests in years is anger spread over spiraling prices and a crumbling economy Thousands were killed in a vicious crackdown Now battered by war and suffocated by a U. S. naval blockade, the country is in even worse shape as Washington presses Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormz, leaving its leaders weighing whether they can withstand the pain long enough to extract more concessions This is an interesting perspective because all the reporting in the United States has been How long could Trump hold out before he simply caves in The perspective here is how long can a rad hold out continontinuing Already, the blockade has choked off oil export revenue and raised the risk that Iran will have to shut down wells as it runs out of places to store crude Iranian officials are urging people to conserve fuel Electricity and water A sign that the economic squeeze is spreading into daily life Critical industries have been damaged More than a million Iranians have been left out of work as the national currency falls to record lows prices of staples such as rice, meat, bread and cheese have risen sharply raising the pressure on the government to prevent a repeat of the last wave of street protests President Masoud Hersskian and other pragmatists realize realize the slide will have to be stemmed if they are to maintain stability Meaning the worsening economic picture is becoming a key pressure point in the negotiations with Washington The main war is in the economic field, the President told members of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday If you fail, the country fails If the conflict continues, Iran quote, will'll move into a more negative economic trajectory, that will be very difficult to recover from said and then they could got with a really long name, Chief executive of the economics focused think tank. worse and bizarre foundation So the incentives are there for Iran to negotiate, all right. My take on this everyvery indication we get When Trump keeps saying Iran really wants a deal, I think some in the Iranian government really want a deal Guys like this guy, the guy that's in charge of domestic services to the country, they're worried that there is massive hardship for the Iranian people and what caused them to go out and protest in the streets a few months ago is way, way worse now And even with the threat of being killed, how long before they can keep this powder keg under control Then you've got the hardliners in the military and some of the religious zealots They figure they can wait out Trump because they think the American people are weak and they can' handle a few weeks of high gasoline prices. Right or wrong, that's what they think They think that America will careave that America doesn't have the stomach for any kind of pain The question is Wh Who has more pain right now And who has more leverage I think Trump wants this over On the other hand, Trump hasn't caved to Iran yet because I think he understands. that Iran is really feeling this Let's imagine Trump doesn't buckle for another month. and the embargo remains in place for another month. Well, oil prices remain high because the strait of Hormz doesn there's not much getting out of it That means there's zero money coming into Iran and all of these problems internally there are worse My sense has always been that the only way for regime change in Iran is for the people of Iran to overthrow their government And that means not just the thousands who came out earlier this year Hundreds of thousands just coming out to the street No matter how ruthless the regime, it can be toppled The way it happens is When the masses come out into the street, the people with the guns, the police and the military They side to side with the people Now the problem in Iran is that the Muslims who run that country are zealots. and they may well never side with the people I use as my example Romania. The Tocheskca regime sixties, seventies, and eighties was probably the most ruthless of all of those countries in Eastern Europe Eventually he fell own didn't hold. the people went back to the street and eventually the military formed a new government arrested Chrcesco and his wife had a day later I think they shot him a at a firing squad. It was not thinkable that would occur, but eventually The overwhelming majority of the people in the country said we're not going to take this anymore and stood up in the face of rifle fire and said we want a different government I do not believe that's the only way I think that Iran's government will fall. We cannot go in in a ground war and march all the way to Tehran and kill thousands of American troops and have even more damage. The price of oil will not only go through the roof. There's no appetite for the American public and there's no appetite for me for all sorts of young Americans to be killed to overthrow the government of Iran But what we can do is destabilize this enough that their own people will attempt to take care of the proble Whether or not enough of them are willing to die and whether or not the people with guns, the military and the police will ever decide to side with the masses and move against. They're Stone age Muslim leaders. T close to call This is the Mark Belling podcast How much would it take for you to be wealthy and financially comfortable Schwab recently asked Americans that question. mostost said at least two million dollars You might have a different number for yourself. Makes sense, since you have your own ideas about travel, retirement, and the legacy you want to leave. That means you need custom advice building a personalized plan. The team at Annex Wealth Management is ready to listen and help. Annex Wealth Management. giveive them a call. Know the difference. This is the Mark Belling podcast I want to stress the time we're recording today's podcast. It's right now twelve forty five in the afternoon on Thursday. So when you hear this, some of this information may be outdated. It's current as of now Josh Jacobs of the Packers has not yet been charged in connection with that domestic abuse incident that occurred in Green Bay a few days ago The authorities say they're continuing to investigate He was arrested on charges. and remember when they say arrested on charges, that's separate from charged Police cannot charge. They arrest you on a charge. The bringing of a criminal charge in Wisconsin comes from the district attttorney The district attorney has not charged Jacobs, and he's been released from jail in the interim Sometimes they're not charged because the DA believes there's no case there Also What we don't know is whether or not The victim in this case is cooperating. What happens a lot on domestic cases in Wisconsin, we have a must most states have a must arrest law on a domestic case. If police respond to a situation in which there's a domestic relationship between two people, And there's some sign of physical injury. they have to make an arrest even if the victim doesn't want an arrest Butot Many of those cases never end up going to court or having charges because the next day the victim just doesn't show up and doesn't make a complaining statement. and there's no case to prosecute because of a nonc complaining victim whether the woman is a victim or not. and again, Josh Jacobs' lawyer has adamantly denied all of. didn't do it If the victim is not cooperating at this point with authorities For whatever reason, in some cases, an arrangement is made in other cases T makeup. Or in some cases, maybe the allegation wasn't true At this point, Jacobs has not been charged. And it's certainly possible that he won't be charged And if he is in chargeed then continues to maintain his innocence. barring some sort of compelling evidence that he did something wrong It's too early to prejudge anyone Jh Josh Jacobs did anything. And again, this is called domestic abuse, which usually implies that there is a relationship between the two.