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Speaker 1: Can't find AM six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're going to tell you now we've been last hour, we spent some time on more detail. Gavin Newsom exposed oh Bill Saley, and the FEDS did a big bust yesterday, arrested fifteen people accused of sixty million dollars worth of fraud. Hospices, medical care, fraud, fake patients, fake businesses. They just filled forms online. And Newsom's responsibility, this is basic governance. You license these medical facilities, these hospices, you vet them, and you make sure that their businesses are real, that the patients are really patients, that the hospice. You know, with hospices, people in most cases die in the hospice. That's the purpose. To give him a comfortable, dignified demise, and there should be death certificates inspected. Right. Newsome did none of that. And I don't care about all his high minded nonsense about climate change and transgenderism. You have to run the basic nuts and bolts of government, which is boring a lot of the time, but it's our money and it's in this case sixty million dollars they're suspecting billions of dollars by time they're done going through all the fraud cases in various in various departments. We're really talk now with Megan Barth, who writes for californiaglobe dot com. She's got a story because this is classic Newsome. He does one of these grand standing press releases or public announcements saying he's going to spend twenty million dollars on a consulting group to go after government, waste twenty million dollars on who. Well, we're going to find out who. Megan Barth, welcome.
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, good to be back with you.
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Speaker 1: Don Nice to have you here. I was at the Lincoln Club in downtown LA today. They'd asked me to speak at their luncheon and there were people there saying nice things about you.
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Speaker 2: Oh, they must not know me that.
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Speaker 1: Well, well that's what I thought. I just wanted to let you know.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: You've got people there who apparently you've completely fooled. Wonderful Gavin Newsom gave twenty million dollars to Who.
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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom blew twenty million dollars on Boston consulting group, which there which employs his former Cabinet secretary and Department of Finance Director Anna J. Matto santos So, his former finance director who oversaw I guess all the finances of California has now been given twenty million bucks to come in and investigate where all the money went. And originally the contract was for or at least they believed they were going to deliver two billion dollars in savings by the fiscal year twenty twenty eight to twenty twenty nine.
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Speaker 1: But pump the.
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Speaker 2: Brakes because reality is that maybe perhaps eight hundred and ten million will be is projected in savings. So not even half of what they promised to deliver is going to be delivered in savings.
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Speaker 1: And I guess then honest entirely missed all the medicaid fraud.
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Speaker 2: Well, I guess so because BILLI Saley. One thing about that operation. It was called Operation Never Die. And the reason it was called Operation Never Die is because the hospice patients never died. But she.
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Speaker 1: Right, well, there were doctor, there were there were no hospice patients to begin so yeah, they could never die.
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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, Ghosts don't die. And so when you look at you know, I've been reporting now on California just for a short time since September, But I lived in California. I escaped in twenty fifteen.
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Speaker 1: I was not.
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Speaker 2: Aware of the controller's position within state government. This is an elected position that the controller is authorized constitutionally to root out all of this corruption, to audit these agencies, to ensure that the money going to people are people who actually exist in businesses who actually exist. Well, get this, so herb Morgan, who is running to replace who is running for controller to replace Controller Malia Cohen. Malia Cohen's business in twenty twenty one has had its license suspended by the Franchise Tax Board for failure to file TA returns and pay taxes. More than a decade ago, the state controllers San Francisco condo went into foreclosure. I mean, is this a resume of someone that should be in charge of the fiscal state of the state.
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Speaker 1: She can't even pay the mortgage on her condo, and.
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Speaker 2: She can't even pay her taxes on her.
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Speaker 1: Business, and she's controlling the state finances.
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Speaker 2: Correct, She's the state controller, so.
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Speaker 1: She's supposed to pay all the bills, and she's supposed to audit all the invoices and charges.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds like she's just cutting checks like blank checks.
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Speaker 1: Well, I I've never heard of this woman. I heard of the office, but I never heard of her.
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Speaker 2: Right, And I hadn't either. But you know, again, I've been gone for a long time, I haven't it. But the more I've been reporting on California, the more not only do I realize I dodged a bullet, but then I'm not talking about bullet trained nowhere. But what I cannot wrap my head around is you have an estimated four hundred and thirty five billion dollars of fraud that has been reported. I include everything that the California Globe has covered, and we're talking we've covered this for up to ten years.
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Speaker 1: Can you hang on because I'd like to go through the list that you put in your story today about all the different categories of fraud. These numbers are so huge that I think the average person is overwhelmed by the numbers. You know, a lot of people can't handle math after probably eighth grade. I think that's where most people top out. And these numbers are so big that it's hard, I think for people to feel just how overwhelming it is. Although you do have a couple of good comparisons in here. You compare the stolen money to the GDP of a certain country, and I think maybe that might so we'll talk about that when we come back. We got Bagan Barth who writes for californiaglobe dot com. Gavin Newsom having had nothing to do with the sixty million dollars of fraud that led to fifteen arrests yesterday by Bill A. Saley and the Feds over hospices and medical care facilities that are phony. He missed sixty million there, but he spent twenty million on consultants that used to be in his cabinet, and they didn't find even half as much fraud as they promised. They fined eight hundred and ten million, when there are hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud out there.
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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six.
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Speaker 1: Forty John Cobelt Show CAFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, and we can follow us to John Cobelt Radio on social media at John Cobelt Radio or subscribe on YouTube No End. Subscribe on YouTube YouTube dot com slash at John Covelt Show. And we have a video that goes up every night after the show, and if you subscribe, you get a notification. We won't charge you anything, at least not now. We won't charge you anything. Let's go back to Megan Barth. Megan writes for californiaglobe dot com, and we're discussing another as stupid, Gavin, youw some publicity stunts in the wake of all these billions of dollars of fraud that's being uncovered by the Trump administration, among others. He says, well, I'm going to spend twenty million on a consulting group, the Boston Consulting Group, twenty million dollars, and we're going to go after government waste. They'll be spending twenty million to go after the government waste. And he's hired the same company that employs his former Cabinet secretary. She also used to be the Department of Finance Director Anna Metasentos. And in Megan Barth's story again at californiaglobe dot com, she has a list in fact you want, I think you should read this article and print this out at home and memorize all this. This is, this is because this is all your money. And Megan go through the list of all these departments, all these different agencies, and how much money has been wasted mostly through fraud.
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Speaker 2: Here call it rearranging the deck cares on the four hundred and thirty five billion fraud Titanic. It's four hundred and thirty five billion dollars, which is identical to the entire GDP of Columbia, the country of Columbia. So our here is the break.
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Speaker 1: Our waste in fraud equals the GDP.
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Speaker 2: Of Colombia, Columbus, Columbia. So there's a enough waste in fraud in the California government to run an entire mid sized country for a year four hundred and thirty five billion dollars. And here is how it breaks down. And this is across major programs, medical ninety five to one hundred and forty six billion dollars in fraud, Unemployment, insurance otherwise edd thirty one to fifty five billion, Homelessness and housing programs twenty five to thirty seven billions just disappeared. Cal Fresh otherwise known as food stamps twenty to twenty five billion, Capital projects and infrastructure, which includes the train to nowhere twenty excuse me, thirty to fifty billion, and then other miscellaneous programs, healthcare, welfare, et cetera. It adds to the rotting pile of garbage, and that comes to approximately three hundred and twelve to four hundred and thirty five billion dollars in fraud.
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Speaker 1: Go through the forms of waste and fraud that it takes to get to four hundred and thirty five billion dollars. Because people are hearing an overall number and they're wondering, Okay, how is it wasted? How are is all this money being defrauded out of the government.
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Speaker 2: Because there has sorry go ahead.
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Speaker 1: No, because I mean, because there's a process to all this.
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Speaker 2: Correct and because there has not been a watchdog. Here's a good example, the hospice fraud that is Nick Shirley has uncovered, the DOJ has uncovered, Federal agents have uncovered that from in ten years hospice care increased fifteen hundred percent in California or less than ten years, excuse me, fifteen hundred percent. That should have been an automatic red flag to the state agency is responsible for licensing and auditing these facilities. So what the scammers did, and we're talking international theft rings, Russian theft rings, Middle Eastern theft rings, you name it, international theft rings. No, because they talk, okay, gangsters talk amongst each other. They have crews, so they're just like, hey, I made you know, ten million dollars on the hospice care down in Santa Monica. So his buddies like, well, if it's that easy, why don't I open my own. That's why you saw the explosion of fifteen hundred percent in hospice care in less than a decade. I think it was five years, honestly. So those red flags were completely ignored by elected officials and their related agencies. And another thing I'd have to point out is California's population only grew point four percent in the last decade, zero point four percent, but the number of state employees grew by nearly twenty five percent, and the total state spending, despite the reduction in populate or the marginal increase in population, grew by forty eight percent. So when you look at those numbers, you can understand how fraud and how waste and how bloated government bureaucracy enables the.
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Speaker 1: Fraud We got a story in LA this week about an official with the Los Angeles Unified School District twenty two million dollars of fraud stolen with a contract with an outside vendor, and she got a kickback. She got several million dollars of it. How much of this is explained by the kickbacks that employees or our politicians are getting, because there has to be an incentive for them to allow all this to go on. There must be a reward they're getting. Right.
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Speaker 2: So, in one instance that I can report from Bill A. Siley's raid yesterday and Operation Never Die, is one fraudster was giving her patients six hundred dollars in kickbacks, and she was getting six thousand dollars per patient, so she was giving them what you know, percent of the cut.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so ten percent went to the fake patient who agreed to sign the paperwork.
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Speaker 2: Correct.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you have you have let's see with unemployment insurance here you talk about the prison inmates getting the money, the out of state scammers, imaginary claimants, you have medical overbilling, ineligible recipients, kickback schemes like you were just talking about.
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Speaker 2: The and zero verification. If there's real verification then everyone. I mean, look, thieves talk.
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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah they do. I guess they you know, they have their chat rooms and they're Reddit threads and uh yeah, they're they're text chains, and uh I think what's stunning is is the thieves around the world have come together here to uh rip Californians off.
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Speaker 2: Correct. And when when doctor Oz pointed that out on a video that he did in downtown l A specific to you know, a Middle Eastern I believe it was community, he was uh charged as.
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Speaker 1: Being a racist. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well no, it's an international crime ring.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I mean this, and it makes sense you'll have uh it prevalent in certain ethnic groups because, like you said, they tell all their friends, so things will spread very quickly in their social circles. Correct.
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Speaker 2: That's why they're called fraud rings. They're rings, but they're rings of people.
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Speaker 1: All Right, Megan, good work making barth California Globe.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for coming on anytime. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: All Right, when we come back, we're gonna talk about this. Matthew Seedorf report. He went and visited a homeless encampment near Griffith Park one day last week, and a few days later one of the people in that encampment died. We'll tell you the whole story. Nobody did anything about it even after it made the TV.
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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am six forty.
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Speaker 1: We're on from three to six after six o'clock. John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app. So Matthew Sedorf has been doing great reporting on Fox eleven and covering a lot of the homeless atrocities that are going on in Karen Bass's world. And here's one. This is about a guy found dead in a tent along the La River near Griffith Park. Wait wait, wait, and he came just a few days after Fox eleven had done a story on that area. So it makes you know their ten o'clock news and does Bass clean it up? No, it's left there and one of the guys dies. Listen to this report, Matthew search.
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Speaker 4: An investigation at a homeless encamment along the La River. A man found dead in his tent near Griffith Park Thursday morning, just three days after our first report here, highlighting drug and safety concerns.
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Speaker 5: I felt sick in his stomach.
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Speaker 4: I feel angry, an advocate says the man known as Venezuela was in his thirties, seen here just days ago, meeting with outreach teams after.
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Speaker 5: Drug drugs and in a very dangerous position. He had no guidance, he had no roof over his head, he had no staff, no one looking out after him.
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Speaker 4: The same conditions still here, needles, drug paraphernilia, with people living in tents and storm drains. How long have you been out here for Mannie? This is a long time home.
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Speaker 1: They're not looking to leave.
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Speaker 4: I mean, would you want help and resources and to get out of this well?
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Speaker 2: I would love.
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Speaker 3: Somebody has to.
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Speaker 4: Be on the river Across La County, more than six homeless people die every day, this man the latest victim. Earlier this week, we asked councilwoman and mayoral candidate Nathia Rahman about conditions here. She said the area is difficult to clear with steep slopes and hard to reach colverts, so she calls this death a devastating loss, adding no one deserves to die on our streets. We have the funding, we need the political will to get it out the door, to connect people to the services and housing that can save lives. Hours after his death, some walk away with items he left behind, a stark reminder of how quickly life out here can turn deadly.
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Speaker 5: Living in the bushes on the side of the La River is not a productive life, nor is it continuing to do drugs while you've been howse in how housing first places, but people continued to do drugs and die in those.
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Speaker 4: Another homeless person died along the same stretch of river roughly three weeks ago. Some are wondering if it could be connected, possibly to the same drugs.
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Speaker 1: By the way, the woman who is talking about what's going on with the homelessre's Cameron Flannagan, clinical therapist and an advocate. But you see Nythia Ramen, she blows off trying to save that guy, saying, well, they're hard to get to, steep concrete slopes and culverts, hard to reach sections along the river. Well, these drugged out vagrants reached them, but there's nobody in the city with all their outreach programs, and so I don't understand. Now, if you took them in and forced them into drug treatment, maybe they would, maybe they would recover and then live a much better life. But they don't do that. They are still see they insist on this housing first notion, which I used to think was just a stupid piece of ideology, and I realize now it is the cover story for the racket as long as you don't take them into drug treatment or mental health treatment. You could use the dodge by saying, well, we believe in housing first, then we'll get around to drug and mental health treatment. But the first thing is housing. Well, the housing never comes because it takes ten or twenty years. It's a million dollars in apartment now, and the money's drawing up meantime. I don't know if you caught it there, but based on the rate of death six a day, that is over two thousand people, two thousand people dying in the city of Los Angeles every year, two thousand. Because Ramen won't bother like Bess, they won't bother and get people off the streets and force them into treatment. They let them die. And I'm thinking, you know, it kind of goes with the policy. You know, a lot of these progresss believe in assisted suicide, that we should respect people that if they want to exit and help them along and give them the injection they need or the pills they need. However, they do assisted suicide. I haven't spent a lot of time researching that, but it's definitely the same kind of philosophy they have, and I guess this is an extension of that. The freedom to die in the way you wish. And if it means climbing up a steep hill and flooding your body with poisonous drugs and then you die, you die in a ditch one day, well we have to let them do that. In the meantime, we pay for a tremendous amount of outreach. Not only do they foul our parks. This is Griffith Park, This should be the jewel of Los Angeles. But these vagrants can foul the park. They're allowed to die in the park. Ramen doesn't give a rat's ass about any of these people. She doesn't care about their suffering. Just let them die, and that's the choice they want to make. That's their philosophy. Everything else they're cover stories because she can't really can't pan on. Let them die, but that's her homeless philosophy. Let them die. It's fast as too. But I tell you Ramen is even worse because she'll let more die. I mean she won't. She sees these people to hear that woman, that little uh, the woman in the middle of that report, croaking. She sounded like she was two thousand years old. I was shocked. It was a woman. No one deserves to die on our streets, says Romen. We have the funding, Well where to go? Canabass lost two billion and hired all those attorneys so she wouldn't have to testify in court about where the two billion went. What's this political will to get it out the door? Be talking about? You are the political will, You're the CID council. Bass is the mayor. You propose the spending, she signs off on it. She's in the executive in charge of the programs. What do you mean the political will. There's been plenty of political will. You've blown through billions of dollars and you have no account for it. She just says nonsense. She speaks gibberish. When people are left on the street, their mental health, addictions, and physical health are all exponentially worse, said Bass of a statement. Thanks genius, So why do you leave them out in the street. Why don't you force them into addiction? Force them into mental health treatment and addiction treat beat you don't You and Raman believe they should have the freedom to do that. We know it gets worse. We have to step over their bodies and feces and needles every day. I love when that she makes a statement, a dramatic statement, tells you the obvious. We know that, bozo, we know it gets worse. We see it. We have to live with it. You don't do anything. You have to force them, force them, force them, threaten them with arrest with police at gunpoint. A harmlessness is not a crime, but everything they all their actions are crimes. Should be a crime. To be laying out on the street, should be a crime, to doing drugs in the street. Anything's down a crime, that's a dodge, that's a cover story. You don't have to charge it with the crime. You force them into treatment and they won't do it, and then two thousand more die. Hear from today, there'll be two thousand dead thanks to Karen Dash and Nathia Ramen. Maybe that's what they're way of lowering the homeless numbers. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: John Cobelt's show Moist line is coming up twice next hour at five twenty and five point fifty if you want to get on the train for next week eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven seven Moist eighty six, or use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Oh train supposedly sixty minutes is running a segment on the high speed rail. You saw that I did, and I'm very excited because CBS is under new management now, because CBS News so under the old management, I think they would have done a puff piece on how how much in the way a greenhouse gases it save if we're all stuck on a train, But instead I think they're actually going to focus on the waste. And what is it now? It is seventeen and a half years. It's we're in our eighteenth year since we voted for this thing. And it was supposed to be thirty three million dollars and go from Sacramento to La No, Sacramento to San Francisco to La to Anaheid to San Diego, all that for thirty three million, and you know now thirty three billion. Now it's one hundred and twenty eight billion, and it's obviously gone nowhere. So I am hoping maybe the old sixty minutes is coming back and they'll absolutely disembowel and inviscerate all the politicians and the bureaucrats who have stolen that money. That money is stolen, it should be reported as stolen. These are criminals who've been running this thing. The Musim administration is filled with credit criminals, and so is that stupid high speed rail authority. And you know, I don't you know, I don't have a whole lot of faith and the way the networks cover this stuff, because this is going to make a progressive governor look bad, and this is also going to cast dispersions on a climate friendly alternative. But if you're shooting straight, you're saying whether this was a good idea for the climate or whoever the governor was doesn't matter. It's like the governor and his administration are corrupt. The high speed rail authority is corrupt because you got seventeen billion dollars wasted and no track built and no trains are running. There is no other conclusion, There is no other side to this. So I'm going to see if I'm not holding out a whole lot of hope. But maybe maybe since they had new management. We'll see and along those lines. We talked about this the other day, but the Wall Street Journal has done a story on it. The Trump administration, the EPA administrator Lee Zelden announced in February that the stop start mechanism on your car is no longer be no longer going to be included. And this is really one of the most irritating things ever developed for cars, and it was put into effect by the Obama administration. Well, of course they were actually says, federal incentives, so they were paying car companies to install a stop start button so that when you stopped at a lighter or a stop sign, the whole car just seized up and then it took a couple of seconds to kick back in. It's incredibly annoying. It is in the top five list of annoying progressive innovations, right up there with these flimsy idiotics, stupid compost bags for the lettuce I feed my lizard. You know, in twenty twelve, less than one percent of cars had the stop start feature. By twenty twenty four, it was fifty eight percent. Now there are ways around it. My wife has this, her car goes into sport mode. You put it into sport mode for some reason that keeps the engine from shutting off. And then I wish I'd heard of this years ago. There is a product called Auto Stop Eliminator. You ever hear of this? Ninety nine dollars ninety nine cents works in some car models and it'll disable the stop start button without drivers having to lift a finger. And they have one guy hero who's interviewed. They have a number of people in the story 're interviewed and really really hate it. But one guy was interviewed. He'd gotten a new car, he had the stupid stop start button, and he went to Thanksgiving and he thought, you know, his mother, brother, sister, and brother in law would all agree with him, right, they could come, is it right? And he was disappointed because none of the relatives were as annoyed as he was. Why is that? Why aren't people annoyed by things that are really really annoying like that? I can't stand people who welcome government intrusion. Stop start button. Literally, every time I forget to turn it off and my car halts trying to well, I'm trying to accelerate from a traffic light. I curse do some to the gods, and I hope he rots in hell for the stop start button. No wait, that was Obama, right, Newsom's behind the grocery bags, the composting grocery bags, which are impossible to use. But I cursed Obama for the stop start Well, I cursed them both. Annoying little one. Nanny's all right when we come back. You know, I mentioned before you have a little luncheon talk today at the Lincoln Club, La County Lincoln Club in downtown LA And I was thinking about what I was going to talk about last night, and I came to some I don't know, some meanderings, and I thought, you know, I should talk about this on the air too, because you know, we have a little window this year where things could change a lot, depending how the elections go. We have a lot of weird, quirky, unusual things happening at the same time, and maybe if you pay attention and focus, we can pull off some major change here. We'll talk about it coming up after five o'clock, which is right after Debor's news. You ready to go. I've been ready, Debra Mark live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. You've been listening to The John Cobelt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on CAFI AM six forty from three to six pm every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime onto de Manned on the iHeartRadio
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Speaker 1: Can't find AM six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're going to tell you now we've been last hour, we spent some time on more detail. Gavin Newsom exposed oh Bill Saley, and the FEDS did a big bust yesterday, arrested fifteen people accused of sixty million dollars worth of fraud. Hospices, medical care, fraud, fake patients, fake businesses. They just filled forms online. And Newsom's responsibility, this is basic governance. You license these medical facilities, these hospices, you vet them, and you make sure that their businesses are real, that the patients are really patients, that the hospice. You know, with hospices, people in most cases die in the hospice. That's the purpose. To give him a comfortable, dignified demise, and there should be death certificates inspected. Right. Newsome did none of that. And I don't care about all his high minded nonsense about climate change and transgenderism. You have to run the basic nuts and bolts of government, which is boring a lot of the time, but it's our money and it's in this case sixty million dollars they're suspecting billions of dollars by time they're done going through all the fraud cases in various in various departments. We're really talk now with Megan Barth, who writes for californiaglobe dot com. She's got a story because this is classic Newsome. He does one of these grand standing press releases or public announcements saying he's going to spend twenty million dollars on a consulting group to go after government, waste twenty million dollars on who. Well, we're going to find out who. Megan Barth, welcome.
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, good to be back with you.
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Speaker 1: Don Nice to have you here. I was at the Lincoln Club in downtown LA today. They'd asked me to speak at their luncheon and there were people there saying nice things about you.
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Speaker 2: Oh, they must not know me that.
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Speaker 1: Well, well that's what I thought. I just wanted to let you know.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: You've got people there who apparently you've completely fooled. Wonderful Gavin Newsom gave twenty million dollars to Who.
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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom blew twenty million dollars on Boston consulting group, which there which employs his former Cabinet secretary and Department of Finance Director Anna J. Matto santos So, his former finance director who oversaw I guess all the finances of California has now been given twenty million bucks to come in and investigate where all the money went. And originally the contract was for or at least they believed they were going to deliver two billion dollars in savings by the fiscal year twenty twenty eight to twenty twenty nine.
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Speaker 1: But pump the.
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Speaker 2: Brakes because reality is that maybe perhaps eight hundred and ten million will be is projected in savings. So not even half of what they promised to deliver is going to be delivered in savings.
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Speaker 1: And I guess then honest entirely missed all the medicaid fraud.
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Speaker 2: Well, I guess so because BILLI Saley. One thing about that operation. It was called Operation Never Die. And the reason it was called Operation Never Die is because the hospice patients never died. But she.
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Speaker 1: Right, well, there were doctor, there were there were no hospice patients to begin so yeah, they could never die.
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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, Ghosts don't die. And so when you look at you know, I've been reporting now on California just for a short time since September, But I lived in California. I escaped in twenty fifteen.
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Speaker 1: I was not.
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Speaker 2: Aware of the controller's position within state government. This is an elected position that the controller is authorized constitutionally to root out all of this corruption, to audit these agencies, to ensure that the money going to people are people who actually exist in businesses who actually exist. Well, get this, so herb Morgan, who is running to replace who is running for controller to replace Controller Malia Cohen. Malia Cohen's business in twenty twenty one has had its license suspended by the Franchise Tax Board for failure to file TA returns and pay taxes. More than a decade ago, the state controllers San Francisco condo went into foreclosure. I mean, is this a resume of someone that should be in charge of the fiscal state of the state.
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Speaker 1: She can't even pay the mortgage on her condo, and.
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Speaker 2: She can't even pay her taxes on her.
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Speaker 1: Business, and she's controlling the state finances.
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Speaker 2: Correct, She's the state controller, so.
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Speaker 1: She's supposed to pay all the bills, and she's supposed to audit all the invoices and charges.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds like she's just cutting checks like blank checks.
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Speaker 1: Well, I I've never heard of this woman. I heard of the office, but I never heard of her.
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Speaker 2: Right, And I hadn't either. But you know, again, I've been gone for a long time, I haven't it. But the more I've been reporting on California, the more not only do I realize I dodged a bullet, but then I'm not talking about bullet trained nowhere. But what I cannot wrap my head around is you have an estimated four hundred and thirty five billion dollars of fraud that has been reported. I include everything that the California Globe has covered, and we're talking we've covered this for up to ten years.
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Speaker 1: Can you hang on because I'd like to go through the list that you put in your story today about all the different categories of fraud. These numbers are so huge that I think the average person is overwhelmed by the numbers. You know, a lot of people can't handle math after probably eighth grade. I think that's where most people top out. And these numbers are so big that it's hard, I think for people to feel just how overwhelming it is. Although you do have a couple of good comparisons in here. You compare the stolen money to the GDP of a certain country, and I think maybe that might so we'll talk about that when we come back. We got Bagan Barth who writes for californiaglobe dot com. Gavin Newsom having had nothing to do with the sixty million dollars of fraud that led to fifteen arrests yesterday by Bill A. Saley and the Feds over hospices and medical care facilities that are phony. He missed sixty million there, but he spent twenty million on consultants that used to be in his cabinet, and they didn't find even half as much fraud as they promised. They fined eight hundred and ten million, when there are hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud out there.
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Speaker 1: Forty John Cobelt Show CAFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, and we can follow us to John Cobelt Radio on social media at John Cobelt Radio or subscribe on YouTube No End. Subscribe on YouTube YouTube dot com slash at John Covelt Show. And we have a video that goes up every night after the show, and if you subscribe, you get a notification. We won't charge you anything, at least not now. We won't charge you anything. Let's go back to Megan Barth. Megan writes for californiaglobe dot com, and we're discussing another as stupid, Gavin, youw some publicity stunts in the wake of all these billions of dollars of fraud that's being uncovered by the Trump administration, among others. He says, well, I'm going to spend twenty million on a consulting group, the Boston Consulting Group, twenty million dollars, and we're going to go after government waste. They'll be spending twenty million to go after the government waste. And he's hired the same company that employs his former Cabinet secretary. She also used to be the Department of Finance Director Anna Metasentos. And in Megan Barth's story again at californiaglobe dot com, she has a list in fact you want, I think you should read this article and print this out at home and memorize all this. This is, this is because this is all your money. And Megan go through the list of all these departments, all these different agencies, and how much money has been wasted mostly through fraud.
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Speaker 2: Here call it rearranging the deck cares on the four hundred and thirty five billion fraud Titanic. It's four hundred and thirty five billion dollars, which is identical to the entire GDP of Columbia, the country of Columbia. So our here is the break.
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Speaker 1: Our waste in fraud equals the GDP.
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Speaker 2: Of Colombia, Columbus, Columbia. So there's a enough waste in fraud in the California government to run an entire mid sized country for a year four hundred and thirty five billion dollars. And here is how it breaks down. And this is across major programs, medical ninety five to one hundred and forty six billion dollars in fraud, Unemployment, insurance otherwise edd thirty one to fifty five billion, Homelessness and housing programs twenty five to thirty seven billions just disappeared. Cal Fresh otherwise known as food stamps twenty to twenty five billion, Capital projects and infrastructure, which includes the train to nowhere twenty excuse me, thirty to fifty billion, and then other miscellaneous programs, healthcare, welfare, et cetera. It adds to the rotting pile of garbage, and that comes to approximately three hundred and twelve to four hundred and thirty five billion dollars in fraud.
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Speaker 1: Go through the forms of waste and fraud that it takes to get to four hundred and thirty five billion dollars. Because people are hearing an overall number and they're wondering, Okay, how is it wasted? How are is all this money being defrauded out of the government.
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Speaker 2: Because there has sorry go ahead.
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Speaker 1: No, because I mean, because there's a process to all this.
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Speaker 2: Correct and because there has not been a watchdog. Here's a good example, the hospice fraud that is Nick Shirley has uncovered, the DOJ has uncovered, Federal agents have uncovered that from in ten years hospice care increased fifteen hundred percent in California or less than ten years, excuse me, fifteen hundred percent. That should have been an automatic red flag to the state agency is responsible for licensing and auditing these facilities. So what the scammers did, and we're talking international theft rings, Russian theft rings, Middle Eastern theft rings, you name it, international theft rings. No, because they talk, okay, gangsters talk amongst each other. They have crews, so they're just like, hey, I made you know, ten million dollars on the hospice care down in Santa Monica. So his buddies like, well, if it's that easy, why don't I open my own. That's why you saw the explosion of fifteen hundred percent in hospice care in less than a decade. I think it was five years, honestly. So those red flags were completely ignored by elected officials and their related agencies. And another thing I'd have to point out is California's population only grew point four percent in the last decade, zero point four percent, but the number of state employees grew by nearly twenty five percent, and the total state spending, despite the reduction in populate or the marginal increase in population, grew by forty eight percent. So when you look at those numbers, you can understand how fraud and how waste and how bloated government bureaucracy enables the.
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Speaker 1: Fraud We got a story in LA this week about an official with the Los Angeles Unified School District twenty two million dollars of fraud stolen with a contract with an outside vendor, and she got a kickback. She got several million dollars of it. How much of this is explained by the kickbacks that employees or our politicians are getting, because there has to be an incentive for them to allow all this to go on. There must be a reward they're getting. Right.
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Speaker 2: So, in one instance that I can report from Bill A. Siley's raid yesterday and Operation Never Die, is one fraudster was giving her patients six hundred dollars in kickbacks, and she was getting six thousand dollars per patient, so she was giving them what you know, percent of the cut.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so ten percent went to the fake patient who agreed to sign the paperwork.
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Speaker 2: Correct.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you have you have let's see with unemployment insurance here you talk about the prison inmates getting the money, the out of state scammers, imaginary claimants, you have medical overbilling, ineligible recipients, kickback schemes like you were just talking about.
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Speaker 2: The and zero verification. If there's real verification then everyone. I mean, look, thieves talk.
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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah they do. I guess they you know, they have their chat rooms and they're Reddit threads and uh yeah, they're they're text chains, and uh I think what's stunning is is the thieves around the world have come together here to uh rip Californians off.
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Speaker 2: Correct. And when when doctor Oz pointed that out on a video that he did in downtown l A specific to you know, a Middle Eastern I believe it was community, he was uh charged as.
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Speaker 1: Being a racist. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well no, it's an international crime ring.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I mean this, and it makes sense you'll have uh it prevalent in certain ethnic groups because, like you said, they tell all their friends, so things will spread very quickly in their social circles. Correct.
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Speaker 2: That's why they're called fraud rings. They're rings, but they're rings of people.
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Speaker 1: All Right, Megan, good work making barth California Globe.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for coming on anytime. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: All Right, when we come back, we're gonna talk about this. Matthew Seedorf report. He went and visited a homeless encampment near Griffith Park one day last week, and a few days later one of the people in that encampment died. We'll tell you the whole story. Nobody did anything about it even after it made the TV.
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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am six forty.
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Speaker 1: We're on from three to six after six o'clock. John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app. So Matthew Sedorf has been doing great reporting on Fox eleven and covering a lot of the homeless atrocities that are going on in Karen Bass's world. And here's one. This is about a guy found dead in a tent along the La River near Griffith Park. Wait wait, wait, and he came just a few days after Fox eleven had done a story on that area. So it makes you know their ten o'clock news and does Bass clean it up? No, it's left there and one of the guys dies. Listen to this report, Matthew search.
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Speaker 4: An investigation at a homeless encamment along the La River. A man found dead in his tent near Griffith Park Thursday morning, just three days after our first report here, highlighting drug and safety concerns.
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Speaker 5: I felt sick in his stomach.
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Speaker 4: I feel angry, an advocate says the man known as Venezuela was in his thirties, seen here just days ago, meeting with outreach teams after.
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Speaker 5: Drug drugs and in a very dangerous position. He had no guidance, he had no roof over his head, he had no staff, no one looking out after him.
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Speaker 4: The same conditions still here, needles, drug paraphernilia, with people living in tents and storm drains. How long have you been out here for Mannie? This is a long time home.
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Speaker 1: They're not looking to leave.
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Speaker 4: I mean, would you want help and resources and to get out of this well?
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Speaker 2: I would love.
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Speaker 3: Somebody has to.
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Speaker 4: Be on the river Across La County, more than six homeless people die every day, this man the latest victim. Earlier this week, we asked councilwoman and mayoral candidate Nathia Rahman about conditions here. She said the area is difficult to clear with steep slopes and hard to reach colverts, so she calls this death a devastating loss, adding no one deserves to die on our streets. We have the funding, we need the political will to get it out the door, to connect people to the services and housing that can save lives. Hours after his death, some walk away with items he left behind, a stark reminder of how quickly life out here can turn deadly.
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Speaker 5: Living in the bushes on the side of the La River is not a productive life, nor is it continuing to do drugs while you've been howse in how housing first places, but people continued to do drugs and die in those.
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Speaker 4: Another homeless person died along the same stretch of river roughly three weeks ago. Some are wondering if it could be connected, possibly to the same drugs.
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Speaker 1: By the way, the woman who is talking about what's going on with the homelessre's Cameron Flannagan, clinical therapist and an advocate. But you see Nythia Ramen, she blows off trying to save that guy, saying, well, they're hard to get to, steep concrete slopes and culverts, hard to reach sections along the river. Well, these drugged out vagrants reached them, but there's nobody in the city with all their outreach programs, and so I don't understand. Now, if you took them in and forced them into drug treatment, maybe they would, maybe they would recover and then live a much better life. But they don't do that. They are still see they insist on this housing first notion, which I used to think was just a stupid piece of ideology, and I realize now it is the cover story for the racket as long as you don't take them into drug treatment or mental health treatment. You could use the dodge by saying, well, we believe in housing first, then we'll get around to drug and mental health treatment. But the first thing is housing. Well, the housing never comes because it takes ten or twenty years. It's a million dollars in apartment now, and the money's drawing up meantime. I don't know if you caught it there, but based on the rate of death six a day, that is over two thousand people, two thousand people dying in the city of Los Angeles every year, two thousand. Because Ramen won't bother like Bess, they won't bother and get people off the streets and force them into treatment. They let them die. And I'm thinking, you know, it kind of goes with the policy. You know, a lot of these progresss believe in assisted suicide, that we should respect people that if they want to exit and help them along and give them the injection they need or the pills they need. However, they do assisted suicide. I haven't spent a lot of time researching that, but it's definitely the same kind of philosophy they have, and I guess this is an extension of that. The freedom to die in the way you wish. And if it means climbing up a steep hill and flooding your body with poisonous drugs and then you die, you die in a ditch one day, well we have to let them do that. In the meantime, we pay for a tremendous amount of outreach. Not only do they foul our parks. This is Griffith Park, This should be the jewel of Los Angeles. But these vagrants can foul the park. They're allowed to die in the park. Ramen doesn't give a rat's ass about any of these people. She doesn't care about their suffering. Just let them die, and that's the choice they want to make. That's their philosophy. Everything else they're cover stories because she can't really can't pan on. Let them die, but that's her homeless philosophy. Let them die. It's fast as too. But I tell you Ramen is even worse because she'll let more die. I mean she won't. She sees these people to hear that woman, that little uh, the woman in the middle of that report, croaking. She sounded like she was two thousand years old. I was shocked. It was a woman. No one deserves to die on our streets, says Romen. We have the funding, Well where to go? Canabass lost two billion and hired all those attorneys so she wouldn't have to testify in court about where the two billion went. What's this political will to get it out the door? Be talking about? You are the political will, You're the CID council. Bass is the mayor. You propose the spending, she signs off on it. She's in the executive in charge of the programs. What do you mean the political will. There's been plenty of political will. You've blown through billions of dollars and you have no account for it. She just says nonsense. She speaks gibberish. When people are left on the street, their mental health, addictions, and physical health are all exponentially worse, said Bass of a statement. Thanks genius, So why do you leave them out in the street. Why don't you force them into addiction? Force them into mental health treatment and addiction treat beat you don't You and Raman believe they should have the freedom to do that. We know it gets worse. We have to step over their bodies and feces and needles every day. I love when that she makes a statement, a dramatic statement, tells you the obvious. We know that, bozo, we know it gets worse. We see it. We have to live with it. You don't do anything. You have to force them, force them, force them, threaten them with arrest with police at gunpoint. A harmlessness is not a crime, but everything they all their actions are crimes. Should be a crime. To be laying out on the street, should be a crime, to doing drugs in the street. Anything's down a crime, that's a dodge, that's a cover story. You don't have to charge it with the crime. You force them into treatment and they won't do it, and then two thousand more die. Hear from today, there'll be two thousand dead thanks to Karen Dash and Nathia Ramen. Maybe that's what they're way of lowering the homeless numbers. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: John Cobelt's show Moist line is coming up twice next hour at five twenty and five point fifty if you want to get on the train for next week eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven seven Moist eighty six, or use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Oh train supposedly sixty minutes is running a segment on the high speed rail. You saw that I did, and I'm very excited because CBS is under new management now, because CBS News so under the old management, I think they would have done a puff piece on how how much in the way a greenhouse gases it save if we're all stuck on a train, But instead I think they're actually going to focus on the waste. And what is it now? It is seventeen and a half years. It's we're in our eighteenth year since we voted for this thing. And it was supposed to be thirty three million dollars and go from Sacramento to La No, Sacramento to San Francisco to La to Anaheid to San Diego, all that for thirty three million, and you know now thirty three billion. Now it's one hundred and twenty eight billion, and it's obviously gone nowhere. So I am hoping maybe the old sixty minutes is coming back and they'll absolutely disembowel and inviscerate all the politicians and the bureaucrats who have stolen that money. That money is stolen, it should be reported as stolen. These are criminals who've been running this thing. The Musim administration is filled with credit criminals, and so is that stupid high speed rail authority. And you know, I don't you know, I don't have a whole lot of faith and the way the networks cover this stuff, because this is going to make a progressive governor look bad, and this is also going to cast dispersions on a climate friendly alternative. But if you're shooting straight, you're saying whether this was a good idea for the climate or whoever the governor was doesn't matter. It's like the governor and his administration are corrupt. The high speed rail authority is corrupt because you got seventeen billion dollars wasted and no track built and no trains are running. There is no other conclusion, There is no other side to this. So I'm going to see if I'm not holding out a whole lot of hope. But maybe maybe since they had new management. We'll see and along those lines. We talked about this the other day, but the Wall Street Journal has done a story on it. The Trump administration, the EPA administrator Lee Zelden announced in February that the stop start mechanism on your car is no longer be no longer going to be included. And this is really one of the most irritating things ever developed for cars, and it was put into effect by the Obama administration. Well, of course they were actually says, federal incentives, so they were paying car companies to install a stop start button so that when you stopped at a lighter or a stop sign, the whole car just seized up and then it took a couple of seconds to kick back in. It's incredibly annoying. It is in the top five list of annoying progressive innovations, right up there with these flimsy idiotics, stupid compost bags for the lettuce I feed my lizard. You know, in twenty twelve, less than one percent of cars had the stop start feature. By twenty twenty four, it was fifty eight percent. Now there are ways around it. My wife has this, her car goes into sport mode. You put it into sport mode for some reason that keeps the engine from shutting off. And then I wish I'd heard of this years ago. There is a product called Auto Stop Eliminator. You ever hear of this? Ninety nine dollars ninety nine cents works in some car models and it'll disable the stop start button without drivers having to lift a finger. And they have one guy hero who's interviewed. They have a number of people in the story 're interviewed and really really hate it. But one guy was interviewed. He'd gotten a new car, he had the stupid stop start button, and he went to Thanksgiving and he thought, you know, his mother, brother, sister, and brother in law would all agree with him, right, they could come, is it right? And he was disappointed because none of the relatives were as annoyed as he was. Why is that? Why aren't people annoyed by things that are really really annoying like that? I can't stand people who welcome government intrusion. Stop start button. Literally, every time I forget to turn it off and my car halts trying to well, I'm trying to accelerate from a traffic light. I curse do some to the gods, and I hope he rots in hell for the stop start button. No wait, that was Obama, right, Newsom's behind the grocery bags, the composting grocery bags, which are impossible to use. But I cursed Obama for the stop start Well, I cursed them both. Annoying little one. Nanny's all right when we come back. You know, I mentioned before you have a little luncheon talk today at the Lincoln Club, La County Lincoln Club in downtown LA And I was thinking about what I was going to talk about last night, and I came to some I don't know, some meanderings, and I thought, you know, I should talk about this on the air too, because you know, we have a little window this year where things could change a lot, depending how the elections go. We have a lot of weird, quirky, unusual things happening at the same time, and maybe if you pay attention and focus, we can pull off some major change here. We'll talk about it coming up after five o'clock, which is right after Debor's news. You ready to go. I've been ready, Debra Mark live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. You've been listening to The John Cobelt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on CAFI AM six forty from three to six pm every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime onto de Manned on the iHeartRadio
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