Meet the New Press Podcast
WEMJ 1490 Saturdays 9am-11am (EDT)
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Hour One:
Opening Banter (Segment 1) – intro for Grant Bosse who explains what he is doing at NH Watchdog and the Josiah Bartlett Center. The importance of knowing what is going on and getting involved. Short discussion – Lynch’s budget is going to grow spending. Skip rants about "free money"; Doug continues it by recounting how he got taken to the woodshed on Tuesday (voting day in Gilford) about being against the free money in the Stimulus money. Grant talks about lowered spending by most if not all towns in NH. Skip & Doug talk about Gilford’s managed budgets – no surprises as is being seen in other towns. Doug points out Grant’s reporting on Towns rejecting spending.
Segment 2 – Grant addresses the question "Why the disconnect between the spending shutdown locally and the huge spending at the State & national levels. Doug’s Social Democrat friend – no hyperinflation is coming (yeah, w/all the $$$ the Feds are printing?!?!?). Skip – Obama is at war with the rich/Producers as I take him at his words in his books. Chan calls in – gas tax being abuse?
Segment 3 – Doug & Skip complement Grant’s capabilities in explaining complex policies and keeping people accountable. Long discussion on Grant’s study of Democrat Lynch’s budget and how he is radically changing revenue sharing with the towns (profit tax, meals & rooms tax, et al)
Segment 4 – Continuing with Segment 3’s discussion about Gov. Lynch’s playing with the budget is going to wreak havoc with Town budgets that have already been passed – tax rates are going to skyrocket!!! Example: Gilford – $0.25 Berlin – $3.00+!!!! Now there is lots of accounting magic going on to try to "off the books" with the evidence.
End result – The NH Democrats in the NH House and NH Senate and NH Governorship that have sent State spending up 17.5% are running to push the loading down to the local level even as State spending is going up AGAIN!
Hour Two: Snippets Coming soon!
Segment 1 – The gang goes into some of the other stuff that Grant digs into that you will not see on WMUR or on the pages of the Union Leader. Sound Bite reaction to Bill O’Reilly discussing how Obama believes that essentially people are "too weak and too stupid" vs Bill thinks your "potential is unlimited". Example: Sgambati believes 25 year olds should be treated as children – and it will take money away from the actual poor children. This is going to raise the cost of private insurance – Obama’s aim. The 47 million uninsured number – what a crock!
Segment 2 – Discussion on one of the Pam Smart accomplices, Patrick Randall, who held Greg Smart down as he was shot in cold blood – early release? The gang says no. Switch to the dust up between Charlie Arlinghaus, head of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, and the head of the DOT, George Campbell, over the budget numbers. Tom Thompson calls in about the view tax bill.
Segment 3 – Kevin Smith of Cornerstone Policy Research, about House Bill 415, the ‘Bathroom Bill’ which basically allows anyone to call themselves any sex they want at any time. The effective result is that men can blithly go into ladies rooms, women can sally forth into the mens rooms, and kids may be put at risk. Where are all of the voices of the defenders against sexual violence as this looney bill is being transplanted from Colorado (where a few billionaires pushing liberal and gay agendas are shoveling money to support THEIR idea of how society will be changed by radical legislative efforts). The gang discusses some of the ramifications of possible lawsuits (e.g., can a church prevent a man from going into their womens’ bathrooms?). Is this leading to the further break down of absolute right and wrong in society – and what is the ramifications of there never being absolutes?
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