Friday March 22 - Full Show

Okay, now you're talking. You're right. This is hurting the American brand. What's going on in New York is, it has nothing to do with Trump. That case is over.

What's going on now is concerning financial markets all around the world because in the United States, and everybody, I don't care what color you are, red or blue or independent, doesn't matter, we are the bastion of safety when it comes to investing large pools of capital. That's what America represents. We have property rights, we have an appellate system, we have law, people, trust, and we give you good returns with the least amount of resistance. And what's happening in New York is tainting the American brand. Think about it.

What Mr. Wonderful just said. from the chart tank, the the shark tank. The American market, the American capital, the opportunity to Put money here and get a good return on it in safety in a legal system that would normally be safe for everybody. Right now, The political machinery Democrat Party run promising and running on the promise to go after an individual they hate, Mr.

Orange Mann. Donald Trump. They have succeeded. And going after him, a judge, a prosecutor. and going after his assets now, Donald Trump in New York.

In a place that normally would be safe. For capitalists, for venture capitalists, for investors all over the world to sink their money and get a return.

Now they have to fear that. Maybe through a court, through prosecution, through litigation, that they would in essence be canceled? And more than not only be canceled, but their bank accounts and their assets and their investments would be canceled. Akin to what, like Venezuela? Taking over assets or a banana republic going after political foes?

My goodness. Happy Friday, friend. Welcome to the Dana Show. I'm Sergio Sanchez, and for my friend Dana Lash, and we're broadcasting to you nationwide, worldwide, online as well from the Dana Show Affiliate Studios, K-U-R-V-R-G-V of Texas, just down the road from Starbase and Brownsville here in Deep South Texas. We are Mm.

Providing the world, well not we, I'm not doing anything, stupid prosecution, down to persecution that is, of Donald Trump up in New York, banana republic style, political culture. That dominates the halls of so-called justice or the courts and also controls. The narrative from the press. can persecute you, can cancel you, just like Donald Trump. they can do it.

They can do it to you as well. My goodness. I got some breaking news this hour. Trying to keep up with the news right now. They just passed, they just approved a trillion-dollar plus government spending bill up in D.C.

In a situation where normally you'd see like 219 or 220 or, you know, I guess whatever it is, 214. Yeah, 286 to 134. passing the U.S. House. And why is it not even that close?

Well, because everybody's getting paid. There are enough Democrats, there are enough Republicans. Not enough Republicans saying no. Yeah, you won't see any Democrat saying no to some of these spending measures as well, because after all, you won't see a Democrat that won't love big government. And these days, sadly, you won't see a lot of Republicans that don't like big government as well.

A lot of people getting paid, a lot of pet projects. district projects taking place. the spending of our nation by committee. I don't know how we're ever going to fix this because this is the way that we're set up. We're set up in a way where it's supposed to take time.

to pass something. It's supposed to take debate, send things down to committee, shoot things down to committee, hopefully, send enough people to Washington, D.C. where. Or you think that they would have the best interest of the country and be constitution-minded, but they haven't been for. For centuries now.

Whether it's at the outset of our country where you got farmers and farmer groups and ag groups that were jockeying for position, elbowing in to see how much they can get from the trough, just feeding at the trough like pigs. To eventually industry toward the late 1800s, unions and all that jazz. who can go feed most at the trough and bring back the bacon to their district. And um um And that's the way our founding fathers set us up by committee. In my opinion, to slow things down, but this has been greasing the skids of fast-tracking legislation to sink us even more.

It's cut to. Phil, cut two. You got Chip Roy commenting on this boondog of a spending measure that just passed moments ago. Go ahead, brother. Our Border Patrol and people in National Guard are getting overwhelmed right now in El Paso with a flood of migrants flooding across the border.

We're going to fund that. That's what Republicans are going to do in this bill. We're going to continue to fund that. If you care about the border, you're getting nothing here. It is completely false to say that we're getting anything here that will help.

And in fact, what we're going to get is more money to process more people, which means you're going to get more people at the border. Nothing is going to stop the flow of the border in this bill.

So we're funding open borders. We're funding the mass releases of people in violation of the law using parole, the same laws that were violated to release the individual who came in and killed Lake and Riley. I can't do that. No Republican should. Any Republican who votes for this bill should be ashamed of themselves.

Mike Johnson is getting paid with this bill. His office is getting a big sum of money on this one. No wonder he's in favor of it. And you got little pet projects. There was one complaint online I saw on X and Twitter just moments back that Folk Hannis.

Elizabeth Warren, she's getting like almost a million dollars. I think it was like $800,000 or $900,000 for some of the pet projects and LGBT nursing homes, things like that. Just all that stuff adds up. We cannot afford this. We're 30, what is it?

I already forgot. It was like $37 trillion, $34 trillion in the hole. And we just add another trillion to that. But you see, we deserve this as the American people. We deserve the government we have because at all congressional districts, we voted all these clowns in, and you keep doing so every two years.

And when given an opportunity to replace them, Number one, you don't run against them. Most Americans don't. And sadly, when you look at the end result after an election, how many people actually don't vote? In bigger elections, more popular elections, we have over a third. Of these so-called independents, all these about a north of a third of people in some of these political jurisdictions, they don't participate.

It's like some vote D, some vote R, some vote local, but in the sexier races, which would be the presidential elections, in some of these jurisdictions, you've got about one-third of people not voting. And in others, even worse than that, more than half. In a particular city or county won't be voting.

So we deserve what we have because, number one, you got to be ready to run against individuals like that. to try to take back your government. Speaking of immigration, that was Chip Roy, by the way, that we just heard from. We got lots of great audio today. on the subject of immigration and to show you Um The chasm, the separation, the mindset that separates left and right.

Left, is open border. Let everybody in. The left will say all these people crossing the border illegally, they're migrants, they're refugees that need to come in. And it's all for their political gain. I was talking to a friend, um Over at, he does work for like the Spanish networks, Telemundo and other Spanish networks.

And I was just tossing this little tidbit of information back and forth. It's like the question was. How is it that you got millions upon millions of illegal immigrants that are gaming the system, flooding the border, and then staying here because they're gaming the asylum system? How is it that some people claim? That they'll be screwing up the elections.

They'll be messing with American elections, with American representation, will be messing with it. There might be, and I would not be surprised at some individuals. or maybe hired contractor. To go represent some dead person on a poll and then vote on their behalf. That would not surprise me.

But that's not what I'm referring to. You see, when you have millions upon millions of illegal immigrants who cross the border, and fill up empty spaces. Of people that left, for example, the People's Republic of California, they came to Texas, Americans who packed up their bags and. Hired one of those U-Haul trucks to move to Florida and left that state because of onerous regulation, excessive taxation, and just a stupid political culture that they cannot defeat anymore because people of California have voted themselves into, you know. Overpriced home market.

It's way too much taxation and regulation. Homelessness rampant all over the place with politicians doing absolutely nothing, just taking taxpayer money and wasting it. Like one story a couple days back: $600 million in Los Angeles, California. That a judge has demanded that they open up the what happened with $600 million that was meant. To try to solve the homeless situation in the state of California.

But that's what they have in California.

So you got the exodus of. Do I call them conservative? or business people. But just regular American Joes and And Joann's going to Texas and Florida.

Well, how are you going to fill that population gap? It is the senses that determine the representation of all states, right? I mean, this is pretty basic knowledge. The census will determine, and every single year we'll provide a new estimate based on migration patterns, and every ten years we'll do the whole census thing as well. The census will count not only citizens and residents, the census will count illegal immigrants, so long as those butts are in the state.

Everybody gets counted by the census.

So if you have at this moment Compliments of the federal government, which, by the way, is sending 300-something plus. Illegal immigrants, let's call them what they are. The euphemism is migrant. But the federal government, Joe Biden sending in 300,000 plus over the past fiscal year into the interior through non-governmental organizations, you know, the charities, the different ministries and charities that see these people at the outset when they arrive. Our governor here in Texas, by charter bus, sending them to New York, that New York's seeing a population drop of citizens.

New York, at present, is seeing a population replacement. with illegal immigrants. Same thing in the State of Illinois. Same thing in the state of Massachusetts. Same thing for California.

And Colorado. Those are the popular destination points for the illegals. They cross the border, they ask to go to certain markets. That's where they go. That's where the governor here in Texas is sending them.

If there is a population, citizen population exits from California, from New York, and we know that there is. These illegal immigrants are helping Democrats and the left. Pad and fill. Those empty seats, empty apartments, empty housing projects. Thereby, next time you have a census, sure, taxes, and Florida and other places, they picked up more people, be more citizens.

Because the business people, they backed up, the citizens packed up, they decided to go to places with less taxation, more of an opportunity for prosperity, and to grow their business again, get the government monkey off their back, understood. But you still need. Numbers. You still need thousands to replace them. That's what the illegals are doing.

Having those illegal immigrants in New York State, having those illegal immigrants in the state of Illinois, Massachusetts, in California specific. That's how you pad the numbers to make sure that you don't lose congressional representation because the census will say you have X amount of people, you lost X amount of people, but you gain X amount of people from all the illegals. You know, and there were migrants. There you go. Problem solved.

You see it? Oh, and of course there's the issue of crime as well and I've got one bit of audio I'll play here after we go pay some bills. From the Massachusetts governor. Absolutely disgusting, this mindset. They just, on the left, they just don't get it.

On the left, it's not America first. On the left, obviously, it's not an issue. Of security, it's not an issue of crime. If it were, For them, and it might eventually become personal because they might get car j, they might get broken into their kids. might get assaulted, or their daughters might get raped.

Then and only then will it become An issue for them. Maybe, maybe. It definitely will become an issue if they see that their political career is under fire, is being threatened as a result of the public not happy with illegal immigration. They shouldn't be. But I just hope this translates properly in November.

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I'm Sergio Sanchez, in for my friend Dana, Amazon in the news, along with some of the big box retailers, Amazon and other retailers. Under investigation from the Federal Communication Commission, the alleged sale of wireless signal jammers. I was surprised to see this a few days back. I thought these things were still legal. Those wireless signal jammers, you know, like you say, you put one in the middle of a theater and nobody can use their cell phone or put it in the middle of the classroom like at college during lecture.

Nobody can use it and just jam those things.

Well, those devices, those wireless signal jammers, Uh they're black. Disrupt signals from cell phones, other electronic devices, GPS things. They're illegal. When did that happen? And you can't sell those, you cannot advertise those.

And Amazon has been accused of doing that. Other retailers as well. Other stores, part of the investigation.

Some consumer stuff, let's see. Before um Mercedes-Benz owners, they're recalling 116,000 vehicles. There is a risk of fire. What the problem is, some loose electrical wiring beneath the passenger seat, those wires can overheat. To create a fire.

No injuries have been reported so far in some of these Mercedes-Benz vehicles. More recall stuff. Let's see here. Nestle is recalling over 440,000 Starbuck mugs. They were part of a 2023 holiday Starbucks branded gift set, sold nationwide, many retailers.

Walmart, Tarze, all that.

So the Consumer Product Safety Commission is saying that those mugs overheat. Can break. And yeah, it can burn you, cause some injury.

So stop using them. And several reports of injuries reported. And did you know that? used cars or under fire, all part of the Joe Biden administration tailpipe requirements that were announced a few days back. We heard a lot of headlines related to this.

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Check out the best highlights from every show in Dana's Absurd Truth podcast, posted daily from The Dana Show. The vetting process falls far short. And to be able to say honestly that you're truly vetting anyone, I think, is dishonest. The governor says Alvarez came to Massachusetts through a federal program. This is also an individual who came in lawfully under the federal government through a federal program.

You know, it speaks somewhat to the issue that states are having to deal with now in terms of the mass numbers coming across the borders. We asked Governor Healy if she can prevent this type of incident from happening again. You know, unfortunately, we have security and systems in place. We have vetting in place. It is unfortunate that from time to time things will happen.

But Representative DeCoast. My goodness. More Healy. Massachusetts governor, did you catch that little snippet? She said, Well, they crossed legally, they've they crossed uh uh th they've they've been allowed into the country legally under these programs.

It's the abuse of the asylum program that's taking place. It's the parole, the abuse of the parole. The option that's available for these immigration authorities is to let everybody in under Joe Biden's watch. I'm Sergio Sanchez, and for my friend Dana. This is the Dana Show coming at you from South Texas.

Governor Morhealy. On this illegal immigrant, that report on and an illegal immigrant. Call them what it is. Illegal alien.

Someone who's gaming the system to stay in this country, abusing the asylum program. Raping a 14-year-old girl. Oh, it's unfortunate that time to time things like these will happen.

Okay. Obviously she wouldn't be saying that. If it was her kid. Right? Or is it disturbingly possible that maybe Maybe some of these Democrats Or maybe so devoid of a soul and any moral compass, That in their political effort to continue to put everything upside down.

It's America last on immigration, on trade, on the economy, on security, you name it.

Now the immigration issue. that they will prioritize the Perceived needs of the illegals, the perceived needs of these migrants, because somehow they're better than citizens. They deserve more. They deserve that. The money, the taxes of citizens be redistributed so as to provide housing and opportunities and employment and health care and education for all these illegals.

There, my friends. Just another example of why you guys need to think carefully how you vote and how your family and your friends vote this November. There really is a major reset that we need in this country. Back, in my opinion, back to America first for everything. And you know what that means.

A tailpipe rule that Joe Biden put out there. Earlier this week, a new tailpipe rule calling for A majority of new passenger vehicles and trucks sold in the country that they either be all EV electric vehicles, that they be hybrid. But you know what's missing in the follow-up report to this? Because I have not seen like the top of the hour or the cable channel panel discussing all this. You know, My friend Tim Snyder, I'm gonna share a conversation with him just in a second.

Used vehicles, the used vehicle market. Used in a few, as early as three years from now, down the road, some of these vehicles. They will demand that some of these used vehicles of the secondary market have sold at numerous, like thousands of car lots nationwide.

Now, you know, mom and pop shops and individual selling vehicles on their own, just he was an owner. It might be illegal for you to sell those vehicles without getting some sort of test to make sure that they meet emission standards based on the new rules from the Biden administration. We're looking at a potential nuclear bomb. For the used vehicle market. And that conversation coming up in just a little bit.

Let me get to some other news here that I had in the stack. Oh, yeah, the brackets, the brackets. Like I I'm you and I are probably similar. We j we only watch A little bit of college basketball. That is so fun.

I love college basketball. I love the fact that at the very final minute, it seems like many of these games, if not the majority, I know, but a whole bunch of these games are decided at the very last minute. It's back and forth, back and forth, and that they miss a free throw, and the three-point shot wins everything. It's just exhilarating. And some of these people are making money with some of these brackets.

That's a lot of teams. That's a lot of matchups.

Well, yesterday, I would say that the majority of those brackets got blown to smithereens. Kentucky stunned. It was what? Ranked number three, Kentucky this year, was stunned by. Oakland.

When was Oakland a powerhouse in basketball? Look, I may not follow NCAA basketball. I don't recall Oakland being a common name. 80 to 76 is Kentucky. Oh, the players going back to the fryers.

Go make some fried chicken. My goodness. So we continue with a turning. If you're tuning in to the Danish show this weekend, of course, it's. was broadcast and And record it on Friday for you this weekend at your affiliate.

Or you listen to it later.

So we got UConn, Purdue, and the Cougs from U of H. I'm a Texas boy, I'm a Houston boy, and I'm pulling for my Cougs tonight. All right, I've got about 20 minutes left in this hour. Go to you on this. Biden administration new tailpipe rule.

new passenger vehicles, trucks to be sold. They must be electric. They must be hybrid. But there's a lot of news related to this when it comes to important news you should know when it comes to used vehicles. Here's my conversation with my friend economist Tim Snyder.

Let me go straight to your tailpipe. But what? What? Actually, Tim Snyder, my buddy from MetadoreEconomics.com, please explain what I just said. The Biden administration wants to go EV or hybrid, which hybrid would be the second priority for him.

But this week there was an announcement on this whole tellpipe emission standards and EV and demanding that the industry provide the overwhelming majority of new vehicles as electric.

So let's do a quick recap of that. Let's do that. And while I would love to just let you hang for a minute or two on Let's Talk About Your Tailpipe, we'll just leave that one alone. Mm-hmm. There is a, let's go directly to the heart of the matter, okay?

The EB push, electric vehicle push. is requiring that new vehicles have uh you know that are re are going to be uh electric So they reduce their carbon emissions and all that kind of stuff that's actually probably. Probably not true, but it's being hyper ventilated on the public and making things crazy. But that's on new vehicles. The standards.

that they initially wrote in their in their mandate for change were on new vehicles. We all know there's a larger segment of the vehicle population, if you can call it such a thing. is used vehicles And the way that this administration decided to attack The existing vehicles that we have in the United States was to deal with it from the standpoint of tailpipe emissions.

So, the VOCs, the volatile organic chemicals that are released, including carbon and other sorts of methane and other sorts of things. Um They are addressing those issues which will further restrict Yeah. The use of an ICE or an internal combustion engine.

So this is a severe ratcheting down. of uh and elimination Of the internal combustion engine no matter what year or if you buy a new or used vehicle, period. Oh, see, okay, let me do press the pause button like Joe Biden when it comes to new L and G exports. Let me press the pause button. You're telling me that Joe Biden's saying Use vehicles We won't be able to sell our used vehicles.

We won't be able to buy used vehicles unless they meet those vehicles, too. They meet. A certain st standard? Wow. Yes, sir.

Yeah, quite simply, the answer is yes. And that's what that's what I'm not sure the mainstream press has drawn has. Has grabbed onto this. I mean, if I was talking to Davis Rankin yesterday, and we were talking about, you know, you drive down the highway from the studio to your house or your favorite, you know, Mexican food restaurant down there in McAllen or wherever you happen to be. And you look at the vehicles on the road.

How many of them you can count the number of electric vehicles that you see or new electric vehicles that you see on the road, and then you compare that to the number of vehicles that you see that are older, maybe ten years or older. Try like 18 years built off of those vehicles. Yeah, try like 18 years for my truck, but man, that is. That's Earth shattering, that is industry shattering. That's consumer shattering.

And really, no pushback, no really noise about that. And that's probably the biggest part of the headline. Was that Used vehicles will be s uh they will be set to that same standard. That that means you won't you won't be able to buy or sell anything that's used then. By when, by the by the way, when by what year?

Well, the beginning of this whole thing is twenty twenty seven.

So we're just three short years away. That's number one. Number two, by the deadline of twenty thirty two. Deadline. And of course, they had Jennifer Granholm, the Energy Secretary, make the announcement on Wednesday afternoon in the shadow of the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell having his press conference talking about he wants to have three more rate cuts, or not three more, but three rate cuts this year without doing anything up until maybe June or July.

So, you know, that all just got overshadowed. The markets went crazy. And the Granholm, the announcement on tailpipe emissions just kind of got swept under the rug.

Okay. What if? Tim Snyder, MetadorEconomics.com. He's helping me and you review this whole tailpipe emission story came out from the Joe Biden administration, putting harder goals for new electric vehicles. But also, the bigger part of the story is use vehicles that will not be able to flow back and forth, exchange back and forth sometime starting in the very near future because, hey, they don't meet emission standards as well.

And that is huge. Man, I just. I can just see some of these moms and dads out there working for a living, thinking, oh, I can buy a new vehicle for my kid, you know, be graduating in about three, four years, and buy a used vehicle for them to go off to college, something like that. That might not be the case.

So, what if, though? What if. We do ex here in Texas, we ex We exchange, we sell, because All these License plates, all these little stickers that you put on the vehicle, all these inspections, those are state functions. They're not federal functions.

So, what if we just ignore that and keep going? Are we like breaking the law? We could be subjected to arrest as a result of selling these vehicles? Or how do you see this playing out if we? Traditionally.

State environmental programs, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. follows EPA regs. And so what may happen, there may become a federal registry. for vehicles. that that will have to be followed and traced.

And you know, what's basically going to happen is it's going to kill the value. your older vehicle, your internal combustion engine vehicle, In favor of forcing you into the Electric vehicle, which nobody, which I don't understand this either, Sergio, nobody's complaining about the price. Of the new electric vehicles, or the price of a repair on the new electric vehicles, or the price of what it's going to cost this. Uh country. In terms of the federal government building the recharging stations, what that's going to cost.

The economy or what it's going to cost us in terms of time. in building and not only building the infrastructure, but number two, and most importantly, how long it takes to recharge these vehicles. And then let me give you another issue. I sent you a text, a little message that said something about lithium. November of last year, the price of lithium was trading at around eighty thousand dollars per metric ton.

There has been a shift in the marketplace. And the price for lithium today, which is one of the primary components of our newer battery technologies. The price of that lithium has now dropped. dropped to around 11 to 15. Yeah.

a metric ton. All I hear when you say that and other rare earth minerals, I'm thinking. America will, if this were to play out the way Joe Biden and his leftist tree hugging kooks, they wanted to work out All I hear is dependence. On China. All I hear is dependence on any place in the world that is scratching and using slave labor and little kids to dig out some of these rare earth minerals, but more importantly, China.

Would be dependent on them to get all these batteries, all these rare earth minerals, in order to produce the vehicles that we need to run the society. Man, we are asleep at the wheel. We cannot allow this to happen. Completely. My goodness, that's that's just crazy.

Maybe Donald Trump will win. Maybe he'll go back to the White House. Maybe he'll reverse all this craziness. Uh You know, brain in all these environmental and regulatory agencies that'd be pushing or shoving the stuff down our throat. Economic reports of late showing unemployment not where some of these eggheads wanted, employment more than expected, the Fed saying that they are keeping rates as is, although there might be some cuts later in the year.

I'm thinking it might be all politics that cut the rates to make everything look good right before the November election for the Democrats. Thank you, Tim, and have a wonderful weekend and have a safe Easter holiday as well, brother. Good to talk to you again. Yes, yes, sir. You too.

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Why are tax returns lower right now? They say that some reports say that like 29, 30% of them are lower this year compared to last year. And they're lower by almost a third.

So I brought in a friend of mine who's a tax pro accountant. Talk about some of the um Some of the forms that you may have submitted last year that probably changed the numbers for you. And New York City, of course, they're dealing with theft. They're dealing with crime in parks. They're dealing with fighting in the streets, cops getting beat up, all that stuff.

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Now, no, that's not happening. You we have to budget everything down to the finest thing. And the cost of health care and medical has gone up. That's the magic word is budget. Yeah, I hope, and millions of Americans, in order to avoid increasing just the jaw-dropping amazing.

debt that we have now in credit cards has reached an all time record in this country. Everybody's swiping, swiping that car and let's go. I need to swipe the car and go buy some gas, swipe the car and go buy a two dollar twenty five cent candy bar. Swipe that card. That's got to stop.

It's got to stop. I mean, we're going to hit the financial side of the mountain here pretty soon. Families all over the place, bankruptcy under Biden inflation. And these prices, they're not going down anytime soon, friend. These have been baked into the economy already because of some of these prices for all these consumer goods, for the fuel, the fuel doesn't need to be.

That is the only. Big item that we spend on on a monthly basis that could come down if we had the right administration in Washington, D.C., that thought about us. The voters, the citizens. The consumers first. Energy.

Let American treasure, American energy flow.

So that we have an abundant supply of it. And the more supply you have of it, well, guess what? It's a lot cheaper. It's just common sense, basic economics. Welcome to hour two of the Dana Show.

I'm Sergio Sanchez. And for my friend Dana Lash, I'm reporting to you from her affiliate here in KURV in South Texas, my studio here in Mission, in McAllen, Edinburgh, Tech. We're just right down the road, literally down the highway from Starbase, Elon Musk, our neighbor, down the road. He doesn't have to worry about, I mean, Elon, yeah, he's probably spreading the wealth, which, by the way, just sidebar mentioned, in case you haven't made it down here to see his Starbase thing here in Deep South Texas, you really should. You really come down and see South Potter Island, spend a few days at the beach, but go right next door to Starbase.

Man, you can literally like walk up to the rockets, be right next to it, look straight up into the sky and know that, you know, this puppy's going to go up into the atmosphere here pretty soon. The public can have access to this. And nearby, he's going to be building like restaurants and shopping centers. It's amazing what's taking place down here. Thanks to Elon Musk.

Thank you, SpaceX. Thank you, Elon. He's got like a million square feet of construction going to be taking place here in South Texas. Man, they should be building, I say local leaders in South Texas, with everybody that's benefited in Texas from his economic activity. You know, in central Texas, in the weird, all weird Austin with a giga factory building Tesla trucks, they should be building like 50-foot statues to this dude in celebration of him.

Well, he doesn't have to worry about how much he spends on dinner, how much he spends over at the local grocery store, but. Unfortunately, millions of Americans do, and we got Prices 20, 30% more than we're paying for at the supermarket. Same thing over in dining. And I was running, and I'm on a different budget now. And I I did an interview when I filled in for Dana just a few weeks back.

Did an interview with somebody who was talking about coupons and gift certificates. And some people say it's all the gift certificates are a scam. But when I buy gift certificates, I buy for places that I know. That yours truly and mama and our boys are going to go visit. And then, if you have a supermarket that gives you.

like their gift certificates. Like buy 30 bucks of gift certificates and we'll give it $10 of our certificate.

Well they're going, you just bought, you know you're going to go visit that steak place or that fish place, whatever. But that you get like a $10 gift card from the supermarket. There's deals out there that you need to go investigate. You need to go check with Publix or Albertson's or whatever store you have nearby and all these different affiliates, nationwide. Go check out the gift card section.

Sometimes they do that. They'll sell you like $30, $40 of, I don't know, I'm trying not to mention too many. Like, say, like Chili's, for example, right? You buy $30 worth of Chilis, and we'll give you a $10 gift card.

So there you go. You got yourself some.

Well, with $10, what is it like? Five bucks for a gallon of milk, six, and then maybe four dollars for eggs. We got milk and eggs. Right. and maybe maybe a you know a market brand loaf of bread.

You just got the dinner that you wanted for a special occasion, and that's what's happening more these days. As the The going out experience, which used to be more common. And I know millions of people are doing this. Like Mama's working. I'm working.

The kids are busy. Oh, if you're lucky, you can go down the street and go buy like a rotisserie chicken at the local supermarket. Or even Walmart does this, right? At the hot kitchen, they got like a rotisserie chicken. Get one of those and split it all up, make some sandwiches, and open up a can of green beans.

And there you go, presto dinner. Mm-hmm. But If you can get like free food, With a purchase of gift certificates to restaurants that you know you will be going to, maybe after church on the weekend, there are ways to go about it, but we all have been forced into this scenario by an individual, Joe Biden, and his minions, who do not care about the working people, who do not. And it's not, it's one of those situations, like my dad used to say. Don't tell me that you love me.

Show me. that you love me. I I I'm not much into words, he said. Show me by your actions. And all these Democrats all these years, sadly.

You know, they're for the working people, they're for the poor, they're for regular Joes and working families, all shut up already. Joe Biden and his minions have done from the very beginning, go, you know. Roll it back to the very first few days of the administration, the supply chain problems that yes, he had to deal with, but we needed a competent business-minded manager, business-minded present CEO of this economy to do the right thing. Number one, when it came to energy. We have the energy.

We were an exporter. We were the number one exporter. We have it still in the ground. It's available to us. Oh, no, because.

Of this crazy leftist religion that all the world's come to the end. You know, we get everybody belaying the stupid little high school kid, Greta Tunberg, that we're all going to die in five or ten years. And war's all that. It's just. It's it's a ploy.

It's a scam. I do believe in climate change. Absolutely. It's part of nature. The atmosphere of weather is dynamic.

It's always changing. It always has. If you look at history, you study some of the the commentary from folks that look at dinosaurs and what how the continents used to look like millions of years ago. The sea, the Gulf of Mexico, stretched all the way inland up to an area that we call Colorado now. I mean, there was much more water back then, a lot more green life, a lot more farting dinosaurs.

Talking about global warming, it should have been much warmer back then. The atmosphere is dynamic, it's always changing, but a lot of people have been duped and fooled into believing that the world's coming to an end. This chicken little mentality, everything's coming to an end, unless. You allow the government to seize control, to stop all use, any use of fossil fuels in the world, and a lot of people have been duped. Into accepting maybe the establishment of a new system where you would be taxed for the use of certain products based on.

on fossil fuel content in all those, or the credits that you need to pay to offset whatever use of fossil fuels that you have. It's just a money-making scam. But sadly, You know, the leftist media that carry the water for all these new preachers, all um, all this. New intelligentsia, this global, globalist, say, earth environment danger thinking crowd have convinced way too many governments to go along and try to establish that new taxing formula. In the meantime, the American people, thanks to the Democrat establishment that is right now in power in states, in Washington.

They're having to figure out how to make ants meet because not only is food, not only is energy more expensive. But also the light bill, the water bill, everything that month to month.

So budget is the word that has been forced into everybody these days.

So think about all these things. We need to change. Back to America first. Where we have the energy, we can lower the cost of energy and hope and pray that by extension. And some of the common goods that we get, that we pay for at the grocery, eventually those prices go down because as prices have gone up everywhere, sadly, wages needed to go up.

So those wages that went up at industry, at businesses, those will not be coming down anytime soon. There was another cut I saw here.

So I want to get the politics out of the way. Oh, yeah, here's that silly one. It's cut for Phil. Look who's thinking about running for president again. Like for his own self-serving purpose.

And to hurt, you know who. It's Chris Christie thinking to run it. It's cut four. Is that something that you are considering? You know I think the way I would look at it is I will do whatever I can.

to try to make sure That the country doesn't go through what I think will be the misery. of a second Shrub term. I wouldn't preclude anything. At this point, David, we've got the most unsettled. political terrain we've ever had.

What about the misery of another four years of Joe Biden, Bidenflation, open border mindset, America last and diplomacy and everything that's put us up against the wall?

Well, you think do you think seriously, my friend, that we can survive another four years under Joe Biden? under this fiasco. Former Governor Chris Christie, I don't know what that dude is smoking. Seriously. He's part of that never Trumper crowd, no matter.

No matter what, at all costs, at the cost of our nation, I would say. He's willing to hurt him and say anything in order to siphon any votes away from him, from the never-Trumper crowd within the GOP, all these rhinos in there, in order to allow Joe Biden to go back to the Oval Office for another four years? Are you serious? My goodness. Former President Donald Trump, let's say, in case you want a piece of the action, just like earlier this week.

There was an initial public offering for Reddit, I believe, a very popular Reddit. Looks like former President Trump's social media company going public. all part of a merger. Digital World Acquisition Corp voting today is going to approve a merger with Trump's media company, Trump Media Technology Group. It's a truth social platform if you're doing that.

Former President Trump. would hold 80 million shares in the merger. Valued at about $3 billion. He needs to hang on to those for about six months.

So yeah, that's not going to help him with that case up in New York, the Cheshire James going after him trying to get his properties. It's crazy what's taking place up in New York. And as I told you last hour, If a prosecutor, if a judge, that they hate you so much and they want to treat you differently for political reasons compared to how they treat other businesses and try to, and as a result of those is cool the market of investment in our country by going after a multi-millionaire in the richest city on the planet, which is New York. And try to cool investment. Because if you don't speak right, if you don't align yourself politically with the powers that be that are filling up the courts, filling up the prosecutor's office, filling up the State House.

They'll come after you and take your assets, just like they're trying to do against Donald Trump right now, and likely lining up the seizure of some of his assets on Monday, because he needs to have like $500, almost $500 million in the bank. For Bond, and that bogus case brought against him. That no one complained. There were no victims. No bank, no lender ever complained against Donald Trump in the business kneelings.

He paid everything back on time. He provided millions of dollars in interest payments to all these folks that provided him the money for his business kneelings up in New York, but no. They promised, and they did it up in New York. He's never Trumpers. They were going to go after him, and they've succeeded so far.

Remember that. And tell that to your friends and family. who have been duped into thinking that they should vote or they could vote for For Joe Biden for another four years. I don't think. I don't think we come out the other end.

With four more years of Joe Biden. I'm Sergio Sanchez. You're listening to the Dana Show. We're broadcasting today from South Texas. Goldco.

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Well here we go again kids Maybe another speaker in the near future? I don't know, but you got Georgia Republican Marjorie Teller Greene out there. Today. Jump down. Posting legislation trying to oust Mike Johnson from power.

Marjorie Jetta Green, filing the motion to vacate Johnson from the speakership because he supported the $1 trillion-plus government spending measure that just passed his Earlier today. And why not? I mean, the speaker's office was set to receive millions and millions of dollars as well, and likely other friends. And it passed with a wide margin. If you're driving a Chrysler, 280,000 vehicles being recalled, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, da-da-da-da-da, saying that the issue involves right and left airbag inflators could cause them to rupture on the chargers.

and the Chrysler 300 models from 2018 to 2021. Sad follow-up to one of the local stories up in Tennessee that made national news. The search for a missing University of Missouri student ended in tragedy. Police confirming that Riley Strain's body w was found in a Nashville River. Today, 22-year-old.

Had not been seen since March 8th. He likely went to some bar and was in town, out of town, visiting a fraternity. Let's see what else is here for today. Oh, yeah. And follow-up to the spending bill, the trillion-dollar spending bill, they're calling for a Mike Johnson's head.

But rightfully so, complaining, many conservative Republicans are complaining right now because at a time when we have literally an invasion of America taking place, have you seen the video? from Arizona. The Reika is taking place, how authorities have been overrun and individuals is running toward the border, running to the fences in Arizona. At a time when we should be prioritizing this invasion in the country, they're spending over a trillion dollars again. I'm Sergio Sanchez, and for my friend Dana Lash, this is The Dana Show.

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So DHS didn't file the notices to appear before the scheduled court dates. According to the nonpartisan group TRACK, DHS is backing up the courts by scheduling immigration hearings before the agency is actually capable of filing the notice to appear. Right now, there are over 3 million pending immigration cases. DHS can restart the process after its mistake, but according to TRAC, that only happened 25% of the time. And the migrants that you see here crossed into Yacumba, California yesterday, 150 of them.

Uh m With a bipartisan piece of legislation that has been used by Joe Biden and a bunch of people on the left to say, The most aggressive, the most conservative approach when it comes to immigration reform, bipartisan effort. Oh, we promise that we'll shut down the border. Once 1.8 million people cross the border illegally come into this country. They're not doing it now. What makes you think that after another 1.8 million people crossed the border illegally?

They'll start doing anything. And worst of all, that legislation they're talking about, that would actually codify. 1.8 million people crossing the border illegally before the executive branch pretends to do anything. They don't have enough people. They don't have enough judges.

They don't have enough border patrol. They don't have enough folks to process all these cases. Folks abusing the asylum system in this country.

Okay. I'm Sergio Sanchez. You're listening to the Dana show. We're coming at you from South Texas. 200,000 deportations.

That would be immigration, customs, and enforcement. ICE. Oh, a bunch of Democrats up in Washington, D.D.C. want to get rid of all that ice. 200,000 deportation cases thrown out because of incompetence.

And I would add one word: willful incompetence. It's nefarious. It's all done on purpose, in my opinion. Just bring them in, bring them in, pad those numbers in California, pad those numbers in New York. Just pad those numbers.

We got people leaving for the Southwest. We got people leaving for Texas and Florida. Yeah, we need to put some more butts in those states. In order to keep. Congressional representation, where it is right now.

for the Democrats. Let me share some other stuff. I got a conversation I want to share with you here in just a little bit with. Mr. Micah Akinzua, we're going to talk about the refund checks, the IRS refund checks that are About 30 to 30 percent lower right now compared to this time last year.

The first thing that crossed my mind was that. The Trump tax cuts that are expiring and all that, he'll explain what's going on. It's actually a function of paperwork that might be done wrong on the part of many American workers, but that's coming up in just a little bit. Let me share some other headlines I thought were pretty interesting. This bizarre story from Little Rock, Arkansas.

The director, and I just like I'm today old. Learning that there is an actual airport named Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport. I think it's in Little Rock, Arkansas. I didn't realize it had both their names on there. I mean, well, of course, they're from Arkansas, but he was governor.

Okay, there's some folks in Arkansas are still very proud of Slick. The director of Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, is dead after being shot by police when they were serving a warrant at his home. 53-year-old Brian Malinowski was shot during an exchange of gunfire with ATF agents this week, Tuesday morning. Not much more information provided. I just thought that was a pretty bizarre story that was worth looking at.

A man recovering well after receiving a kidney transplant from a pig. Surgeons in Massachusetts. Saying that Rick's layman, they referred to him as a hero because he volunteered, agreed. to submit to this operation just a few days ago. Rick Sleyman had previously failed human kidney transplants.

So there's currently a massive shortage of human donor organs, and researchers say if they can modify the pig kidneys a little bit, there you go, Presto. They they might have a New product that they can use to save more people.

So he said to be doing okay, but again, this is just a few days after surgery. And I was joking around with the morning crew around here at the station. I wonder if Rick Slayman is getting a hankering for him. maybe some slop and maybe take a mud bath. One of the political notes for the week: President Joe Biden visiting the Southwest.

If you've been paying attention to the headlines this week, he went to Nevada. What's up, Larry? He he went out to Nevada and promised a new program to help with the down payments to purchase a new home, like money, money, money, all over. Went to California, stuck his hand out, received a bunch of money from a bunch of lefties over in California. Um Hollywood people all say.

Then went over to Arizona was talking about computer chip manufacturing and talking about how they changed the law, incentivizing new jobs that are computer chip manufacturing. That's fine. That's fine. Not all is is Rosy and as peachy as Joe Biden would say. And I'm telling you this from my perspective here in deep South Texas.

We were set.

Well, not we. I mean, I didn't do anything, just report the news and talk with some of the economic development chiefs. But long story short, man, they had worked here in the. In the RGB, some local leaders had worked. To the point where investors were like, they had put the pen to paper just about the sign.

And I was told that policy changes up in D.C. that seemed to be contradictory to this whole effort, this legislation that had been passed to incentivize computer chip, computer wafer, advanced technology manufacturing in this country to wean us from dependency on Taiwan and China to manufacture. We were supposed to produce computer chips here in Texas, here in South Texas. Those investors bolted, went back to Asia. They went back.

Because of policy Gerrymanning, policy maneuvering up in D.C. that did not favor our country.

So As Joe Biden was in the state of Arizona talking about computer chip manufacturing and all these new jobs, all this investment, at the same time, we're over here losing the opportunity because policies are not aligning with. The political speak. I wish that maybe the Wall Street Journal, somebody with a lot of money, would look into that. Why did South Texas lose a major $2 billion project?

Well, for political reasons, you got Joe Biden in Arizona this week talking about. computer chip manufacturing, that legislation is not as I don't think it's made out to be. Anyway, Joe Biden making a trek to... Nirvana California. Arizona, Texas, who's around here in Dallas and Houston, sticking his hand out, getting some.

Some oil money.

Okay. Call it what it is, man. It's oil money. Medical sector? connected back to oil is oil money.

Him to Texas for that, ironically, right? Trying to fatten his conference for reelection. But strategically going to the Southwest and trying to play up the whole Latino. The mention. Joe Biden has been losing support among Hispanics, among Latinos.

Donald Trump gaining ground big time. And in fact, there's some polls, a few polls out there showing that Donald Trump is ahead of Joe Biden when it comes to Latinos. When it comes to Hispanics. Right now, this trend continues. That's not good.

And among black voters, there's some trends out there saying that maybe, maybe on a good day, Donald Trump might get up to perhaps maybe 18, 20 percent of black voters, if all things stay the same, as miserable as they are right now, and they're not properly able to turn things around for the benefit of. Americans for America first before the November election, don't count on it. The only ones who could lose this are Republicans in not properly messaging this before November. One of the reasons that Latinos and a lot of people They've soured on Biden for Bidenomics, for the Biden border miss and all that. One of the reasons is that they have less money, things cost more.

We have less money. And if you were counting on having a bigger Paycheck, a bigger check, you know, tax return check from the IRS.

Some of y'all. You're going to be disappointed, maybe up to one-third of y'all. Here's a conversation I had with a tax pro, Mike Akinzua. Check the calendar. Check the calendar.

We're about to. Three weeks away from the filing deadline. That's right, it's tax season, and we're almost done with it. You know, accountants and tax preparers left and right, running all crazy. It's Super Bowl time for them right now.

IRS saying so far this year, tax returns are almost 30 percent less. The average tax return closer to 2,000 last year, and it's around 1,400 right now. Let me bring in an expert who's probably very busy taking time away from preparing taxes to talk to me from Good Stewart Accounting is Mike Akinzua. Mike, I appreciate your time.

Okay, man, so what's going on? Why are the returns so s much smaller right now? You know, that was interesting that the IRS actually admitted to it because in the season, I thought it was just Some trend data I was noticing in my own practice. But I think I've attributed it to part of it at least. to the new W four form that came out in twenty twenty.

Because a lot of people are shocked when they're getting their return back. They're like, what do you mean? And it's all boiling down to not enough tax being withheld. During the year, or maybe not even not enough, not at the level that it once was. And that was by design.

That's why the IRS came out with that W-4 form. In the old days, we used to inflate the amount of exemptions.

so that we can take more and now check.

Well, with the new W four form, you're taking home Lessen your check. Or actually, if you didn't do it right, your checks are too big anyway.

So you end up at the end of the year when we're filing, getting a lesser refund. First thing crossed my mind when I was reading this business write-up. And what the IRS was admitting to as far as the smaller returns, I was thinking, maybe this has something to do with every now and then you hear in the business new news broadcast the Trump tax code expiring or going away. Does that have to do anything with With with that?

some of the things and not that I could see and yes, some things are going to start expiring next year. But for this year, they're still in full swing. In fact, the standard deduction has increased the amount that we can chuck away in retirement has increased.

So as far as little policy changes, it actually is in our favor. The biggest thing that I've kind of seen was That W4 causing confusion. If we didn't update our W-4 information, then you have an old W-4. with a new tax law.

So you have a pre-2017 W-4 and then you have the Tax cuts and job acts activity.

So they're not reconciled.

So I would just encourage people to update that W-4. And then look at your pay stub. Make sure that your check is not bigger than it needs to be because that means they're not withholding. Is there anything else you'd recommend to individuals who can sock away money for the future, maybe some retirement account, and still get the benefit from it on taxes? Anything else that you recommend between here and mid April, the filing deadline?

Between now and mid April, one of the biggest things I like to do is take a look at retirement. You can kind of chuck away some things for retirement. That's really one of the only things you can do to impact twenty twenty three. Um but for the most part, once that ball drops for New Year's, Anything that didn't happen with the 2023 date on it, it's too late.

So for business owners, you can still. Increase a contribution up to the contribution limit, and that will inflate your expense, which, by the way, I think everyone should have a home-based business. You know, I called that the corporate glove. If you put gloves on when you touch something hot, It protects you from harm.

So we need to look at our money in the same way. You pay income tax on income.

So if we can introduce a home based business or maybe even a corporate entity into our financial structure, we can stop classifying income as income and start calling some of it cash. Because it's all there for us to do legally. But we just got to pay that That game, you know, pay the entry fee.

So that means pay somebody to incorporate you, and then we can add corporate law to your tax structure. What is that? Maybe, what, a couple of thousand bucks to get all that paperwork set aside properly?

Well, It uh it depends on who you go to. Like for me, I make it accessible. Um, so a shameless plug here, you know, you can go to putyourgloveson.com. And we specialize in helping the average Dan and Jill. fix it because if you're going to pay two, three grand in taxes, and we charge something less than that or something that's comparable, that makes sense, I think people will find it it's worth its while.

Mike Akinzua, he helps with taxes. He's got good steward accounting, and he's also author of I Want You to Finance Your Life, Seven Wealth Secrets That You Need to Know. And as we get closer to the filing deadline here in mid-April, this might be the year that you convert that hobby, maybe the things that you're selling every now and then, small markets converted into a business. And that could get the benefit from using a room in your house. As an office and buying equipment, and some of the travel that you do, and all those things.

But of course, keep all the receipts on that one and do the calculation properly on the light bill and everything else. I might get a benefit for something like that. All right, Mike, appreciate your time. And again, watch out for the expiration of some of those Trump tax benefits here. Unless, of course, Congress gets its act together and brings them back.

Don't gamble on that. I sure won't. Thank you, Mike. Where do folks find you online, brother? Um, yeah, you can find me at putyourgloveson.com.

Easy enough? You be safe, brother. I'm Sergio Sanchez in for my friend Dana Lash. You're listening to the Dana Show. We got Florida Man around the corner.

Stick around. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. I was reading this one from Pinellas County in Florida. I think this one should be called a delicious assault.

A guy in Pinellas County arrested. This past weekend, records show that he threw a Chick-fil-A drink at a woman, punched her during a road rage incident. I mean, I'm I'd be fine with that if it was like one of those delicious lemonades at Chick-fil-A. I think they got Chick-fil-A. I think they've got like.

The best tart lemonade period. And next to that, if you guys haven't tried the lemonade over at Pretzel Place? the national chain, anti-Ants, they've got the best. The second best, in my opinion. Let's see, other Florida man stuff.

Oh, here's the cat dude. Four in a man accused of shooting a roommate during a an argument. about cats. This Florida guy from Lee County. behind bars allegedly shot his roommate ten times.

You know, I think that the big story here is that the roommate was shot 10 times. Roommate is still alive. Cat dude's name is Glenn White. He's 59, facing several charges, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. The incident happened back on March 8th.

Deputies responded, referenced to a shooting, found a woman inside multiple gunshot wounds. She'd been shot in the hand, beneath her torso, like her legs, and shot twice in the ribs. Ten times she was, she's still alive. And this man, He was allowed to be her roommate. He was homeless.

Like, come and stay with me. Brought his three cats. Problem is, every single day he kept bringing a new cat, a new cat. Argument ensued, and there you go. The woman who was so nice to bring him in with all the cats, she's the one who got shy.

Stick around. I'm Sergio Sanchez. This is the Dana Show coming at you from South Texas. It is Plantation capitalism. To have someone paying forty, fifty, sixty percent of their salary towards rent.

That is plantation capitalism. Rent should be capped at 20% of someone's salary. That's where we need to take it. And as we rebuild our cities and as we rebuild our country to ensure that every single person has a home, We need to invest and pass the Green New Deal for public housing. Absolutely.

It deals with the issue of. Unemployment and underemployment. It deals with the issue of the climate catastrophe that we are living in, and it deals with the issue of lack of affordable housing in our country. As the senator said, win, win, win. Yeah.

God save us. From all these Democrat socialists, oh my goodness. He's up in New York. That's... He's in the U.S.

House Representative Jamal Bowman, and he is a Democrat socialist. Oh, this centralized decision-making. Iron fist approach to market activity. We need to freeze the prices, seize control 20% only for housing. The market be damned, market forces don't matter what's happening with everything else from materials for construction, regulations at the local level that create a burden and prohibit more construction.

You know, let's say California. For example, all this craziness. Just, Lord, save us from this. Plantation capitalism. That's a new.

A couple of words, buzzwords. Welcome to hour three of the Dana Show. I'm Sergio Sanchez, and for my friend Dana Lash, you can say hi online, Sergio at Kurv.com, or at Sergio Talk on X on Twitter. And we're broadcasting today from the radio studios here at KURV, RGV of Texas. We're just down the street from Starbase with our friend Elon Musk here, our neighbor Elon Musk here in South Texas with his Rockets.

Yeah, who was it that was it? Was it Joe Biden? I think it was back four years ago, right? Almost four years ago. He was the one who was saying that.

I think it was him, said, Republicans gonna put you back in chains, right? The People's Party, the so-called Democrats, the modern incarnation of the Democrats. I do not believe. You know, look, this, this party is not. JFK's party.

This is not the Democratic Party. JFK today probably would be like, he'd be referred to by some on the left as a xenophobe, racist, Hitler type, as they always like to use that, another Nazi. It is drove by the modern incarnation of Of these socialists, these Democrat socialists, these individuals that are hogtying America. I've said it plenty before. It all starts with energy policy.

Energy policy that make you make fuel less expensive for people to get to work. And we have the treasure. We don't need to be importing. like dirtier fuel from Venezuela. And we need we don't need to be dependent.

In my opinion. When it comes to the cartels. I know we have a close working relationship with Mexico. Mexico's part of the oil cartel. But we have the treasure.

Here in Deep South Texas, let me give you an example. You might want to look this up and you'll find it to be true. I'm sitting here in my studio in here in Mission McAllen, Deep South Texas. It's called the Burgos Basin. The Burgos Basin here in South Texas, all the way deep into Mexico and far into West Texas, with Eagle Ford and the extraction of natural gas out there and the pipes that are going all over the place with this rich resource that we have, which is natural gas or petroleum and all the fracking taking place.

We have the resources we were exporting. We can get to the point where we. We could, if we want to, as a nation, with warlike speed, Well, flood the market to the point where we do drive the price to the point where we make it. That folks that are extracting and exploring and bringing it to market can make some money for it to the point where we bring it very cheap. for the American consumer, folks driving, and more importantly, the diesel part of it.

the big trucks that are taking everything to the market, part of the distribution of all sorts of consumer goods to the market. And the creation, if petrol goes into the creation of some of these consumer goods, at the same time make it less expensive. We have the energy. Um If our immigration policy Well, one that prioritized our nation, and we brought in talent to benefit our nation, whether it's high-tech or academic, medical, whatever it is. If we brought in the talent that we needed, We could provide more nurses, more doctors, more medical.

more researchers, whatever is necessary in order to provide more product, more medicine, more services, and bring the price down for that. And the The management or in this case the mismanagement. Of the supply chain in this country by someone who had no idea at a time when, yes, because of the unnecessary COVID shutdown of absolutely everything in our society, Joe Biden mismanaged everything. For the leftists, for the Democrat socialists, for the modern incarnation of the Democrat Party that wants government control, government seizure. over everything, your assets.

Industry All these companies, transportation, everything else. Centralized decision-making doesn't work. Iron-fisted approach to the market doesn't work. The richest In Latin America, the richest country. the most prosperous economy For example, Mexico, Mexico.

I'm not talking about Mexico. Mexico has a resource. Mexico has a natural resource. Just south of my border, Mexico has the natural resources with copper, with all sorts of minerals. Of course, the petroleum, of course.

They've got the natural resources and the beauty of it from. From all the minerals that they could put into market, if they had the technology and the drive to properly export it and put it into the market and did not have so much corruption that the cartels are running everything south of the border and complement that with great tourism and everything else that beautiful Mexico could provide, they could be the number one economy in Latin America. They never were. It was Venezuela. In Venezuela, voters there.

Folks in Venezuela bought the lie of the left. They bought the lie of socialism, of Marxism, of redistribution of natural wealth, the seizure by the government of industry, of factories, of foreign investment set up, in factories that had been set up in Venezuela. And they voted, literally, Venezuela voted themselves into misery and into poverty. And if we are not careful in this country, the last bastion, the largest economy on the planet. We still are.

China's trying to catch up to us. And that's our fault, by the way. We created our competitor. We created our economic enemy. That's our fault.

But he said, well, we're still number one. And we're the safe haven for investment as well, so long as you can keep politics out of the courts and prosecution of individuals that do not align with the powers. Whether it be in New York, which by the way, New York is still. Top of the list when it comes to richer cities. The big apple, number one.

With nearly 350,000 millionaires, 60 billionaires in New York City, and with a political climate that exists right now that's heavy-handed, top-down, in control. That is absolutely incompetent, allowing this illegal immigration mess to come to their shore. They've invited it up in New York. They have seen the accident. of Lord knows how many millionaires and some billionaires out of New York to Florida, the Texas.

And if this continues, and I would hope and pray, look, I wonder why so many people stay in New York when they have so much incompetence when it comes to policy and government up there. I I think for the most part It's just that most New Yorkers are so dirt and poor, don't have any extra money to leave New York. And I wonder why it is that Donald Trump. doesn't move out of New York. I know he's in Florida, he lives in Florida.

But I at this point I should have, woulda, coulda because they might be seizing some of his assets come Monday since he can't make probably will not be able to make almost a half billion dollars in a bank account to postpone the judgment. Unjust. That judgment made against him. by that biased political court and trying to seize his assets. But that's another story.

And I hope that the American people do see that case for what it is. I think in my opinion, Donald Trump should have divested, sold his assets up in New York, had left the Northeast, moved everything either move everything either to Florida or move everything to Texas, in my opinion. We're rich down here, too.

Now New York is still number one when it comes to riches. having the most millionaires, the most billionaires, but they're leaving. Leaving quick. Of course, the second, third biggest cities in the country, like Chicago stuff, but Houston and Dallas. Miami, some of the top cities when it comes to riches as well.

It's already 15 minutes after the hour. Let me get to some of the other news. Demand for homes pushing the median price up again. Median price nationwide, $380,000. They said that during the month of February, we saw the biggest increase in home sales, home purchases that we've seen in a year.

That's despite interest rates being very, very high. They continue to say over at the Fed that they might be lowering interest rates here pretty soon, maybe by summer or in the fall. I don't know what to make of that. Maybe it is just for political reasons. But there is there's no slowdown.

And the purchase of homes despite the fact that That there's less of them, the inventory just isn't there. And interest rates are north of six, maybe seven percent on average. We're now people still needing to buy homes, and most of the demand taking place in places that were. New Yorkers and folks in California have left to, like Texas and in Florida. Greg Abbott's in the news this week, Governor of Texas.

It's saying that individuals who crossed the border illegally to Texas from Mexico. might carry out some terrorist attacks on our on our nation. Governor Greg Abbott making the announcement a few days back was speaking at a conference at a conservative think tank. And Governor Greg Abbott. Is pretty much parroting the same thing that the FBI Director Christopher Wray was saying just a few days back, like last week.

made very similar remarks to folks in Congress. Abbott has, he's been warning for the longest time because you've got a flood of uncontrolled migration, illegal immigration. We're looking at maybe 6 million people, both processed. And the gotaways Under Joe Biden so far, you got a small percentage, even a minute, a crumb of a percentage. of six million people But you know it's going to be a lot of criminals.

And even the government admitting that they've been able to catch some individuals on the terror watch list. You got a bunch of criminals in here and you just don't know what nefarious intent they have, especially some of these radical Muslim crazies that they just salivate. The opportunity to put some mushroom clouds over major American markets, just kill the great Satan. And with things so riled up right now between. Uh the um folks in Gaza, which I'm not going to use the whole Palestinian thing because that never was a Palestine.

There is no such thing as Palestinian people. It just doesn't exist. Period. That's just history there. But after October 7th and the terror attack, everybody all round up, and a bunch of.

A bunch of ignorant fools in this country, many of them academics, and encouraging all this ignorance in college campuses and protests in favor. Uh in sympathy. Of Jewish hating all these radical Muslims, the terror group Hamas, right now. Lord knows how many of the people that Border Patrol and Border Authorities were able to take into custody. and you have almost an equal amount of gottaways.

Lord help us that we don't see something like it. Christopher Wray at FBI, the director of FBI, has been very nervous.

Now, this is like the second time I see a report where he goes in front of lawmakers saying, Look, I'm not feeling good about this. We got way too many criminals that got away, too many potential Islamic terrorists that have gotten into this country. I just say, Lord, help us. It's already 19 minutes after the hour. You're listening to the Dana Show.

I'm Sergio Sanchez, reporting in for my friend Dana Lash. You want to say hi online? It's Sergio at kurv.com or. At Sergio Tonicon X and on Twitter. Stick around.

I'm going to share with you. Speaking of immigration and all that stuff, I got my friend. Joe Cardinell Cardinelli. Joe Cardinelli. He's a retired NYPD commander.

He gives me a status report on the decreasing security situation up in New York because they're flooded with illegal immigrants. This is the Danish show. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. U.S.-sponsored Gaza ceasefire resolution has failed over at the UN Security Council to date.

State farm insurance. Wanting to leave California, well, many policies. The state farm leaving thousands, tens of thousands of people on the west coast in California because of risks in the market. They're planning not to renew about 72,000 policies starting this summer. It was a few months back that State Farm Insurance said that it would not accept new applications for property for business insurance, and they cited increasing costs in the state of California and all the risk from natural disasters, wildfires, and other challenges like policy issues in California.

From Washington State, Boeing, ready to report, reporting a massive loss this first quarter. And yes, it was that door plug blowout incident back in January that was responsible for the lack of confidence in Boeing stock and a retreat in their numbers. The head of the Social Security Administration, Martin O'Melli, in the news warning against raising the retirement age for Social Security. When I was reading deeper into that, that's all you need to know on that headline. He goes to the same module: oh, people deserve it, and they pay into it, blah, blah.

Okay, fine, I got you, I got you. But like I tell the crew around here at the radio station, look, we got a problem, got a technical issue, we have, you know, whatever's going on. Yes, tell me the problem. But also come at me. With a reasonable, workable solution.

I'm sure Mr. O'Malley says, Well, we need to tax more. We need to tax the younger generation more. No politician is going to put that on paper. No politician is going to be sacrificing his or her career by increasing taxes.

So, Mr. O'Malley, next time you say that, come at us with another solution on how to save Social Security.

Okay, stick around. This is the Dana Show. I got the best job for introverts. I hope to get to that. And also, a status report on the decreasing security situation in New York City.

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Carol was so wonderful in her. introduction to list what could be you know, my husband Doug says we could it's like a C V S receipt. We could just go on and on with what we've got on the list. But I will say what everyone here knows. I do believe strongly that this is a very decisive decade that we're in.

And the moment is now. Yeah, on that Madam Vice President, on that, Madam, borders are, I would agree. Yeah, the November election is critical. They keep saying that every four years. Every two years, man, oh, this is important, the most important election, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

This goes around? Yeah, because I don't think four more years. Of Joe Biden is at all good for the country. Yeah, that's the Vice President. That's also the Borders Arm, Kamala Harris, saying that she and Joe Biden, we've done it, Joe, we've done it.

I think the se second part of that load coming, we've done it y'all, we've done it. Yeah, we managed to flush the country down the toilet. That's a long list. And a very long list of illegal immigrants that have come into this country on Joe Biden's watch, and Kamala Harris, who, by the way, she's the border czar. And you can also blame her for this mess that we're in.

I'm Sergio Census, and you're listening to the Dana show coming at you from Texas, from South Texas. Dana is up in North Texas. Actually, she's doing other work right now somewhere. But I'm in South Texas. Blessed soil.

Double blessing is the U.S. and is Texas. And you want to say hi online, Sergio at kurv.com at Sergio Talk on Twitter. I got some breaking news I need to share with you real quick. There is reported chaos in Moscow this.

Well, for them, it'd be another part of the day. Downtown Musco. Gunmen opened fire inside A popular concert hall, they say. There's some social media posts related to all this showing several individuals, men in combat fatigues. Opening fire.

And there are some reports that over a dozen people are dead. There are unconfirmed reports, just people posting stuff online. But it's one of those rolling news bits that you need to pay attention to this afternoon. And there now appears to be a big fire in the vicinity. Of this event, and this, I don't know what it is, attack, terrorist attack, I have no idea.

So there you go. You might remember if you were paying attention to the news a few days back. Americans were urged to leave Russia. a few days back saying that there were some extremists had imminent plans for an attack. Right now, it's currently nighttime in Moscow, Russia, again.

Several gunmen opening fire inside a popular concert hall and unconfirmed reports of maybe a dozen people dead.

So one of those news reports to watch. Normally, on another news note, normally I would not. Uh say much about the royal family. Yeah. I just, I don't, I don't get it.

I'm sorry. Like, maybe it's because. I don't know. For example Like Sergio Sanchez. My parents.

were born Mexican, Mercifully, I was born in this country. They did the whole they love this country and they they worked to Methodically, patiently, and at great expense, worked to naturalize the citizens back in the early 80s down here. But man, I don't recall ever hearing, because in Spaña, in Spain, they've got a royal court as well. They've got a king and a queen. They don't make as much hoopla.

In Mexico and Latin America, they do mention the royal family and España as well every now and then, but they don't make a big deal out of it. Maybe 'cause there's a mix of Spanish and French, and the French used took care of that. off the with their head, right? They got rid of that monarchy a long time ago. But I just don't get it.

You white people, I don't know what else to go. If you my brethren, you guys from England and the ancillary states from the British Empire, what is it with your obsession up in New York with the royal family? I don't get it.

Okay, now having said that, I don't mean to be disrespectful. I just need to mention this because it is news. Sadly, bad news is new.

So K Princes of Wales. They say it has been diagnosed. With cancer, I'm not getting more information on this. They're just saying that it's In the early stages. It's just one of those news snippets that you need to know.

Speaking of cancer, Fitness group Richard Simmons is in the news.

Now, a few days back, he went to social media and made a splash and said, I'm dying, I'm dying.

Something like that. He's 75 years old, by the way. And he followed up, and his people said, Oh, there's nothing wrong. Anyway, he just mentioned on social media, I guess, within the last day or so, it is basal cell carcinoma, it is skin cancer. That he's fighting now.

That's that's Richard Simmons. Let me see what else to mention before we take a look at New York City and the status report. the security or decrease in security there. Oh, I promised you this one a second ago.

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That way, you're alone, but yet you're productive, making lots of money. All right, status report: New York City and the decreasing security situation there. Let me share a conversation with a friend. Go ahead. Let us return now to the sanctuary city of New York.

My friend Joe Cardinelli, he's a retired New York Police Department lieutenant commander. Joe, I'm going to another story. I know I was supposed to call you about something else, about crime rates and all that stuff. I want to hear from you because you're keeping up with all the news up in New York City from the parks to the shelters to the hotels to the subways and all that.

So now that you're flooded with tens and tens of thousands of illegal immigrants, compliments of taxes, and some of the compliments of the federal government as well, Joe Biden doing his part to send in 300,000 plus illegals over the past year everywhere, especially New York, because they want to go to New York.

So what's the latest, man? What do you hear? Reaction from City Hall, from your incompetent mayor, all these Democrats trying to run things into the ground up in New York. What's going on as far as the crime situation in all those places up in New York?

Well, as you You would well imagine up here in New York with the influx of the illegal migrants. As you said, courtesy of Texas, and rightfully so, you declare yourself a sanctuary city, you get what you wish for. All right, and he got it in doses. Adams got it in doses like he never dreamed. And what does our wonderful governor do?

She earmarks $2.4 billion to go for the illegal migrants in different fundings. Yet, our Our veterans are sleeping on the street because she threw them out of their shelters, all right, with no medical, no food, no shelter.

So that doesn't resonate well with New York State, especially out here in Long Island. New York is the place that's been handing out some of these debit cards, right? Like free money. All over the place. Money, mold money, mold money all over the place.

Like thousands of dollars on those debit cards, right? Oh yeah, yeah, and and the best is my uh my alma mater of Brooklyn, all right, was born and raised in Brooklyn, moved out to Long Island. All right, so there's an area called the Mill Basin section, which is, you know, pretty affluent to a degree, and it's got King's Plaza over there.

So what they do is they put up these huge tents over there. And now they find that they cannot heat them properly, so they shut down a high school, throw the kids out, say, go back to go go home, learn from home, you did it for COVID, so you could do it again and they put them in there so they have heat. All right, and it's not, they don't, they do it without batting an eye, without consulting with anybody. And what happens Crime goes up, burglaries go up, car break-ins go up, people are actually accosting people that stop at uh traffic lights, telling them they need money and we don't give it to them. They slam on their cars, pound on the cars or they throw themselves in front of the cars and demand money 'cause they say they hit them.

And it's not even summer yet. Yeah. Yeah, people tend to be a bit more active on the streets when the weather's much nicer. But come on, Joe. This is not the illegal immigrants' fault.

You're just being xenophobic. And racist by pointing to all the increase in crime and thuggery taking place in parks and the subway. It's not their fault, Joe. Come on, Joe. No, it's not their fault.

Just like uh just like the uh homicides. That are occurring from the illegals are not anybody's fault.

Well, it is everybody's fault. It's the Republicans and Donald Trump. When all else fails, blame Donald Trump and the Republicans. That's, you know what? That's the go-to for so many years.

You can only go to it so much. People see what's going on in this country firsthand, especially down in your area. You guys have been getting a dose of it, and I'm glad the other cities are getting a dose of it to the degree that they do, because this is what's happening across America. Those borders, and God bless Texas for what they do, all right, those borders are so important and they just open the floodgates. What needs to happen is that iron wall has to come down that they can't penetrate.

We are shut. for migration. That's it. We're shut. And until Biden takes that executive order and stops blaming it on both houses, Shut the border down until you get a fix for this because The people that are coming across are unfettered to the degree of they are actual terrorists.

on the watch list that are walking amongst us.

So people better get real in the North and they better stop coddling them saying, Oh, but we have to be so gracious. You know what? Charity begins at home. Take care of the people out of here that are crying for it. We have enough people here that are running that are running uh afoul with their everyday lives, and it's compounded by the fact that Rates keep going up for everything.

Can't buy a home. Can't get the groceries on the shelves because the truckers can't do anything about it. And the drugstores, the shelves are empty because they go in and they just wipe them out and there's no repercussions. And on the issue of charity, Joe, charity comes from the individual. Charity does not come from the state.

When you default and you surrender charity to the government, that's why we have the mess that we have in all these government programs and checks. Charity, by definition, should come from an individual voluntarily, not by edict from the state. From New York, former New York PD, Lieutenant Commander Joe Cardinelli, a friend of mine, which, by the way, Joe, since August 2022, Illegal immigrants, you know, what the left calls migrants, the people who cross the border illegally. New York is the number one destination from Texas. On this charter program, charter bus program, almost 40,000 had been sent to New York.

That's it, only 40,000. That's like a fraction of the monthly total that crosses the border illegally. You guys can't handle that up in New York anymore. I understand that you're running for office. Is this mess the reason you're running for office up there?

What are you running for? As I'm running for the New York State Assembly, District 11, which is Suffolk and Nassau County, my hometown. with you know, Amityville, Copag and Lindenhurst and the surrounding areas, some of Massapequa. And that's uh actually so that your listeners can uh You know, put a uh, what do you call an area to the uh map over there? It's you know, the body part case where they were just let loose, they were arrested for dismembering a body and uh distributing the parts in two different towns.

Well, that's right here in District 11.

So, yes, I'm running because of this bail reform, I'm running because of this illegal migrant crisis. It's affecting Long Island to the tune right now, the government cut back $76 million. She wants to cut back for the schools. Yet, Our kids have to go without, and she'll give it to illegal migrants. All right?

It's ridiculous. Is there any. indication. any glimmer of hope. That the electorate is waking up in New York, or are they going to continue to vote stupidly, just vote for other Democrats up there?

You know, Sergio, it's the question of the year. Are they just going to keep going by what they see? on what they hear. from the misinformation that's being spread. Or are they going to actually open their eyes and see what's going on in the towns around them?

All right. Simple things, Sergei. Quality of life crimes. You wake up in the morning, your catalytic converter's gone on your car. All right, your insurance rates are going up.

Now the insurance rates go up on your house as well. You can't buy a house. And it's hard to feed the family these days. If that doesn't resonate, combined with the crime, the people on the other side and they don't wake up, there's no hope for them. They'll give in to anything.

They'll be the lemmings that they have been and continue to be. You need to stop voting party line and vote common sense. 10-4. My friend Joe Cardinali up at New York City. He's a retired lieutenant commander from New York, PD.

He's now running for state assembly up in New York. And I wish you the best, my brother. I hope you can get up there. Let me ask you real quick, since we were reviewing all the security situation in New York, the governor, Kathy Holkle, who had an epiphany. I'm thinking maybe it's an election year for her as well.

But she sent out the National Guard to the subway system in New York. And the mayor out there, he put in a curfew in certain areas near parks where people were getting harassed and fleeced by some of these illegal immigrants. Tell me how that's going along, the curfew and the National Guard that's been deployed. Oh, it's go it's going so wonderful. If you go on my Instagram, Joe Cardinelli for Assembly, you'll read the piece I wrote about it that she puts this veneer of uh of uh safety uh in place with the National Guard and Penn Station, one of the busiest hubs in the country.

And yet two miles away in Brooklyn on the A train, all right, there's that shooting that went viral of the guys getting into a confrontation, shots being fired, that guy having his own gun taken uh away from him and shot in the head. All right, and people are on the floor on the train screaming to let them out and everything. Chaos to the utmost, all right, and yet. This is what she professes, that don't worry, we're doing something about it. No, you're not.

You're putting a band-aid on a gaping wound. Is the curfew holding the one that the mayor put in place in another part of town? that's another facade. You know what he needs to do? He needs to challenge his city council to the degree that they have to be challenged to take the handcuffs off the cops, let street crime go back out there.

Do the CRT teams that they have, that's nice. But you need good old-fashioned policing where they actually stop people that have the guns, challenge them at the turn.

Now listen, you don't have to give summonses to everybody. That's the discretion of any cop. It's not mandated you must give one out unless you're ordered to, but it's still the discretion of a police officer.

So if they jump the turn sign and say, listen, I'm late for work. I'm sorry, I don't have this. You know, you toss them, they don't have a gun, they're okay. You let them go. No big deal.

But the ones that are getting through with the guns and getting onto the subway, you know, now they're cracking down on it. They should be doing this above the ground. Above the ground, above the subway, before they get down into the subway. Joe, best of luck, brother. Thank you for your run for State Assembly up in New York.

Retired New York PD Lieutenant Commander, my friend, Joe Cardinelli. I'm Sergio Sanchez, and you are in tune with The Dana Show. Got an update for you in just mere moments on that shooting in Moscow at that concert hall. Thank you much for tuning in. This is The Dana Show.

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