090424 Steve Laffey

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are good to have you here. Second hour of the
show is underway, an hour where I remind you of
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the show, Jimmy Lakey is my name. A pleasure to
be here. It's a hump day halfway till Friday, the

(00:21):
fourth day of September. You're of our Lord twenty twenty four.
When we say Wednesday at the seventy eight hour, we
oftentimes think immediately of mister Steve Laffey, who's been with
us for many, many years on Wednesday, with just a
little conversation every Wednesday morning at about this time, Steve
Laffey l A F F E Y Steve Laffy dot com. Steve,
good morning to you, sir. You're back in Boston still.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm still in Boston with my daughter Sarah Grace, and
you know, it's tough to see you recover looking for
other treatment options so forth at the Shuldre's Hospital here.
But anyway, yeah, I'm still here in Boston and just
doing the best we can. And she's just a brave
and pray fighter for people, many people now know who
this city is still gets seen and she's tough as

(01:05):
nails and we're going to keep fighting.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, stage four cancer for fighting for a long time
and she's still still fighting. And I pray for Sarah
Grace laughy and no longer laughably, but it's a Sarah Grace.
God will know who you're talking about. The Big Guy knows,
and to pray for her. So all right, Steve, let's
get into topics of a couple of topics to get
to this morning. Number one, I would like to talk

(01:30):
about this story that Bob Schaeffer and I got to
talk about at the bottom of the hour. The state
of Colorado's thinking of lowering the standards of minimum math
score so that you can graduate high school because the
Board of Education for the state is saying, we got
a problem. If we don't lower this score, of this
minimum score, we're going to have a lot of kids
that can't graduate this coming next spring twenty twenty five.

(01:51):
Give me your thoughts.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well, we talked of this the last couple of times.
We talked about it over ten years. You know about
what's happening within education nationally in Colorado, even within Northern
Colorado and it's a disaster. And the disservice being done
to children at a young age, which sped up during
the Chinese virus situation where they closed everything because they

(02:16):
hate kids and they wanted to protect the elite, has continued.
So what's happened is that the teachers are in public
schools are beholden to the unions and they're not teaching,
and the parents are having a difficult time. But let's
just go over what this really means. I know this.
I have six children, so people who are just doing

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here for the first time. I have a twelve twelve
year old who's scored a thirteen sixty on an SAT
test at the age of twelve, maybe the highest coordination
for a twelve year old. They give it to a
couple of thousand. But a five point thirty in MAC
means that you might be ready to go to college.
On the SAT, a four to eighty means you're clearly
not ready to go to college. And the kind of

(02:58):
problems I actually looked up what kind of problems can't
you solve? You know if you get a four to eighty,
so you really don't know that A divided by B
divided by C divided by D equals A times D
divided by B time C. Because I'm looking at some
of the problems that you couldn't solve it, so you
wouldn't know that simple thing. You wouldn't know really anything
in algebra two. So you're a tenth grade student and

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you're graduating from high school now in Colorado. So that's
basically what it means. It means you're unprepared to go
to college. Not that everybody has to go to college,
but you're unprepared to do real math that is necessary
to be successful in many jobs, including being a plumber,
including being an electrician. You have to understand some of
these concepts, and these kids won't. Now, it's really not

(03:44):
the kid's fault. They've been passed along and passed along,
especially in inner cities, especially now in Denver and probably
in other places around Colorado. And this means that the
kids won't be successful. That means the middle class won't
recover it structurally means they make as much money. But
the people who run the education process in Colorado, they

(04:05):
simply don't care. They have no care for the students.
If they did, they would make Bob Schaffer, who follows
me in the show, the head of the state education
just do what he says, because they would say to themselves,
like I do in business, who's the best at educating kids, well,
educating their own kids. That would be me educating kids
at a school. That would be Bob Schaeffer. So the

(04:26):
people you have on for the whole hour, it looks
like the two people are the best at educating young
people in the state of Colorado. And yet he has
one school and I have six kids. So it's a disaster, Jimmy.
In the long term implications for the United States of
America is that we continue to fall behind and we
have to either import people who flee China who know

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math right, or other countries to do engineering, to make chips,
to do the things they're necessary for our country to
be the world leader in national defense. And we don't
have it coming given what's going on in our public
schools nationwide and especially in Colorado.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
You know what's amazing is you mentioned the Chinese virus
at COVID. We've seen this coming. This has been marching
down the path. We've watched test scores, and nobody seems
to have wanted to fix the problem. So now this week,
Like this week, the chickens come home to rooster like, well,
we hadn't fixed it yet, we better lower their standards
of graduation. They've seen this coming before the Chinese virus.
They saw it coming, especially during the shutdown that Jared

(05:29):
Poulos and the Union's put on Colorado. They've known this
was coming. No one's dealt with it. This isn't surprising
at all. It's just this is the week. It comes
to culmination of the years and years of years of
not recognizing and solving a problem.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, how about I mean some of the ways to
solve the problem would simply be, we want to enlarge
the check because it close its twenty five thousand dollars
a kid in Colorado. We want Bob Schaeffer at Liberty
to run fifteen schools in four years. Right. We want
that process, whatever it is, to be replicated across the
state of Colorado, and will pay to get it done

(06:05):
so that more kids, especially inner city kids, can get ahead.
We want Steve Laffey to be in charge of homeschooling
for the rest of the kids, right, and set up
curriculum that it is free, that is free, that kids
could learn all year round. And it's another thing. By
the way, one of the reasons my kids have done
so well is that we nevi take the attack that

(06:25):
you leave school in June and do nothing till September.
My kids were educated all year round. Am I talking
about like, you know, hard work every single day. I
just mean like reminding them about concept. Before they took
CALC at college, they sat around with me on Saturday
night and before we watched any movie or whatever it
would be, we watched a half hour guy at Florida

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State out of the math department doing CALC. And they
didn't take any notes. They just watched it. So a
concave curve, a second derivative attend they took CALF they
heard it the second time, and they got good grades,
even though they had a terrible teacher. But these are
the kind of constants that need to be introduced for
all the kids across the nation, and including at the
national level. If you're going to still have a national level,

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it's putting all these courses up for free. Put all
these courses up for free. There's something called the internet.
Jimmy put them up for free so kids could learn
for free free. What's better than free.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
There's a teachers you get involved here. They can't do that.
Steve Laffey, Steve Laffey dot COM's his website. All right, Steve,
let's switch gears. I appreciate your coming on that. We'll
come back with Bob Schaeffer on that very topic in
just a moment. Let's talk about this. The Wall Street
Journal has a piece out that says, hey, Donald Trump
and Kamala Harris are seeking after some pretty stupid things here.

(07:44):
It's not all it's not all good for either candidate
and some of their proposals. I'll let you unpack the
Wall Street Journal.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Well, what the topic is. We have two presidential candidates
and the vice presidents who seem to agree that we're
just going to blow out spending and or, in the
case of Nippon Steel attempting to buy us steel. They're
both against it because they're placating a small group of
people called unions. And even though the unions are protecting

(08:12):
this deal. It's amazing what's going on that both candidates
Nippon Steel's trying to buy us steal Now, Nippon Steele
is a Japanese company. They are our biggest allies along
with the UK and Australia in the world. Just so
people know, the argument that they have about them not
buying Nippon steel not buying US steel runs the lines

(08:35):
of national defense purposes. So at the very basic people
must be absolute idiots to believe that there is some
kind of national defense problem with the japan Japanese company
buying the US steel. Just so you know, go look
at a steel plant and see how hard it would
be to pick it up and move it to Japan.
It can't be done. That. They're not buying super duper secrets.

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They're guaranteeing two point seven than billion dollars of improvements
that will actually lower energy costs, make US steel competitive
with say New Course Deal and other steel companies in America.
And this is all like incredibly good stuff. They've guaranteed
that US people will run the company, et cetera, et cetera.
And today the guy who runs US deal is like, listen,

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if you don't go through this deal, we're going to
close down our headquarters in Pennsylvania. We're not going to
be able to keep up. The stock will plummet if
this deal doesn't go through. And yet both presidential candidates
to placate a small group of used people in Pennsylvania.
I mean the improvements that Gary, Indiana plant will be

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environmentally better for the country, if Kamille Harris would care
about that three hundred million dollars there. But without it,
US Steel doesn't have the money. It's not the best
run steel company. It used to be the biggest company
in the world right back in the early nineteen hundreds.
It's now just a small mid level US steel company

(09:59):
called US Deal, and it's going to go bankrupt one day.
If they don't do this deal, in my prediction, will
they will absolutely not be able to compete. So this
is crazy stuff, and it continues with all their topics.
How about no taxing tipping, like as if tipping is
better than some guy working in a factory, Like where

(10:19):
does that come in. What both parties are doing now
has left any kind of economic principle is behind and
are now going to keep going around and placating little
groups of people. And the hopes that the general public
is so stupid they don't realize what's happening. And that
may be a good strategy, maybe that's true, but these
are the kind of things that are actually happening in America,

(10:40):
and you bring it to even like what's happened recently
with the Intel. Intel is supposed to get like twenty
billion dollars or whatever of government guarantees to bill chips
here in that and they can't even they can't even
meet the requirements to do so. They stink so bad.
But that's why fascism doesn't work. Relying on the federal
government to fund these kinds of things. Jimmy, it never works.
You could easily have a law, as I said on

(11:01):
your Showman several times a year ago. The law would
just be like in twenty twenty seven, all government, federal
government chips will be bought by chips made in North America.
And then they would do it, not without government guarantees.
They would just have to do it. We can't have
this stuff made in China. We get it, But they
just continue down the path. Both Harris and Trump of like,

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how do one how do I placate little groups of
people so I can win this election? And it seems
to be a disaster for the US dollar. As I've
said a couple months ago, it's going to be a
disaster for our budget and a disaster for the future
of our country. What we really need to couse is
a new tax system, not all this stuff. Kamila Harris
has a new program. By the way I sent over

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to you, this is unbelievable. This is like it sounds
like the new PPP program, the paycheck Protection program that
was all fraud. Jimmy, next year, we just all stot
LLC's and spend fifty thousand dollars on anything and deduct
it off our ordinary income. And we stop maybe five
companies like that who are wealthy, who make a lot
of money, and just I'll start laughy tractor company. She

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wants fifty thousand deductions for new customers for new companies.
I buy a fifty thousand dollars tractor. Effectively it cost
me thirty thousand dollars, and the next day I sell
it for forty and I still make money that I
start another tractor company. But she has another program now
that's for new stot up companies to get fifty thousand
dollars of deductions their first year in business for what

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they spend money on. What about the guy who started
the company last year. See, the issue of fairness is
being thrown out the window. As government controls come in day,
every single day from these candidates. It's a disaster. And
we are at the conservative buddies of buying who are
like still talking about the twenty twenty election rather than
we can't take this anymore. Right, we can't take this anymore.

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We need some normalcy and economic development our country so
we can we can go about our business, and we
need to be fair to everybody with our tax code,
and that's not happening.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
You get the feeling of these presidential campaigns that both
sides do and let's just throw a bunch a little
bit of pieces of junk up against the wall and
eventually something's going to stick. And even the ideas make
no sense, somebody's going to go, wow, they got a
lot of good ideas. None of them are any good,
but they if you overwhelm the system, people go wow,
they've got ideas, but we got to put them in.

(13:20):
They got a lot of ideas, and all you really
in up is a wall full of crap.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yes, and that's exactly what's going on with not taxing tips.
I mean, listen, if we went to a fair tax
of flat tax or Herman Kane's nine nine nine program
like I suggested for nearly twenty years, or the nine
nine nine program since I met Hermy Kane in twenty eleven.
We would then focus then on the one thing that
we really need to do with the tax code, and

(13:47):
that's that's the do away with high marginal tax rates
as people try to climb out of poverty. Have you
ever heard this before? Except for me, you've never heard
it before. We have high marginal tax rates over one
hundred percent for people who are poor trying to out,
Like if they make an extra dollar, they lose their
entire housing allowlence. Right, so they lose twenty grand if

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they make an extra dollar. So guess what, they don't
make the extra dollar. We need to fix that problem,
that's a giant problem, so that people who are climbing
out of poverty into the middle class have marginal rates
that are fifteen to twenty percent, not ninety percent. And
if we did that along with a simplified tax code,
we didn't really need the irs because now we're capturing

(14:28):
with the fair tax a lot of people spending money
and really rich people buying giant boats. Right, it's really
more of a wealth tax, even though people don't seem
to understand this. We would be far along to get
in the economy, to grow and getting our middle class restored.
Kamilla Harris's idea, she actually speaks about the middle class.
Her idea for the middle class is that she's going
to send you more checks. That's it. She has seven

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programs to send you a check in the mail. Donald
Trump agrees because guess what we know in twenty twenty
he wanted the checks to be larger, thereby costing two
Republican US Senate candidates and Georgia to lose, therefore, thereby
coursing the Senate going to Democrats. You know that he's
for that too heavy? Is all this stuff is destroying America?

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah? That's that's going to really help our inflation problem.
Isn't it a government spending more money? It's going to
really help us? And really is Steve Laffie travel safe,
our prayers again with Sarah Grace there in Boston. We'll
look forward to talking to you next week. Steve Laffey
dot com, l A F F E y Steve Laffey,
God bless my friend. Steve laffe dot com l A
F F E y Steve Laffey dot com. All right,

(15:32):
good to have you here on the radio show. Next
segment of the show, don't forget Bob Schaeffer with Liberty
Commons school is going to be with us, and we'll
pick up on this story that it's just bizarre that
it's not sneaking up on it. This has been marching
down the path for a long long time. But color
lot of math scores have gone down so much in
high school that this week they're going to have to
probably meet and lower the standards of what it takes

(15:55):
to graduate high school or else. The class of twenty
twenty five, which graduates in May of twenty twenty five,
just this school year just started, they won't be able
to graduate because their standards are too high. And for
years we've seen this coming and it hasn't been fixed.
And we'll talk with Bob Schaeffer from Liberty Commons Schools
in just a moment about the weakening of our school system.

(16:16):
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