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All right, welcome back to the program. Let's go to Clay up near Shelby. How you doing, Clay? How you doing, Charlie? I'm great. What's up, man? It's nice to talk to you. Thank you. I agree with everything you always talk about. love your show. Thank you, sir. What's up? I'm just going to say, you know, I hear people talk about gas and feeding the kids. I just want to run this by you. You're probably a man. close to the 60, I'm a 60 year old man. All right. And I'm going ask you the question.
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You know, people talk about prices going up and inflation's not coming down. My opinion is, is one of times, you know, when taxes go up for your county taxes, do they ever go down? No. No, they don't. And same thing as this. Have you noticed how packaging of foods and stuff are getting smaller? Yeah, shrink inflation.
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charge you the same price. Yeah. When these companies, which I can't blame them because they're making money because they can charge you and they say, Hey, they're still paying for it. It's kind of simple there. They're not going to change their prices going down. Even if the gas prices go down, it's just like the tactics. It's not going to go down. I've been living long enough. I've seen this over and over. Can you explain? mean,
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That's just kind of a simple scenario. Companies make money. Yeah. Well, that's why they go into business to make money. Somebody sent me a text talking about how, because we were talking about three gallons of gas or something is all you could get back in 73. And they were like, yeah, but, you know, gas was only 30 cent a gallon back then. But the average income, the median family income in 1973 was like $12,400.
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Dr. Bermondetti bought it the house for $68,000. Beautiful house. I'm just saying the same situation is people complain about inflation. Why ain't it coming down? Well, our inflation is coming down. I now compared to what it was under Biden, I appreciate it, Clay, compared to what it was under Biden when it was over 9%. I mean, it's holding pretty steady at 2.4. Now chances are,
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Next month is going to go over up a little bit because of what's going on in Iraq and not all and we saw it would go away. Well, remember it went down to 2.3 inflation went down to 2.3 then it bumped back up to 2.4 because of the longest government shutdown in history. Thank you, John Thune and the Democrats.
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Really, that's our biggest problem. But when you look at the cost of a gallon of gas ...
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So much of that is taxes and regulations. It's not even funny. In fact, in California, they just shut down three refineries because they just can't handle all the regulations. Well, thankfully, we got a new one being built. Now, how long it takes to build a refinery, I don't know. We got the first one in 50 years is being built. I think it's down in Brownsville, Texas. That's going to help. But again, that's that's
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Gosh, probably years away. When that happening.
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But we forget that under Joe Biden, gas peaked at $5.03 a gallon nationwide. $5.03. Right now, national average is $3.71.
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So we're still a long, uh long way from Joe Biden. And we are still better off than we ever would have been under Kamala Harris, without a doubt. But the Democrats have made headway. We know that they won in Virginia. um Abigail Spanberger won that race for governor. And ever since this woman became governor of Virginia, it has been a nightmare.
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an absolute nightmare for those people in Virginia. I you to listen to what they're doing. They've got these new gun control bills in Virginia, and some of them do not apply to lawmakers. We think this job has gotten dangerous in the last couple years. Well, how many Virginians out there believe that they're in a situation where they need to protect themselves?
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But yet we don't listen to them, well, not me, but this body's not gonna listen to them because they think they need to have this protection. We're gonna carve something out for General Assembly members. That to me is beyond the pale. General Assembly, we are a citizen legislature. We are citizens just like everybody else. We go back home.
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We interact with their constituents. We're a part of the community. We are no better than anybody else. And we should never vote for a bill that gives us a special privilege over any other citizen. And that's exactly what H-Bill HB, House Bill 110 does in Virginia.
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There are certain places you can have a firearm in your car, certain places you can't. One of those places
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is an unattended
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motor vehicle which the vehicle is parked in any parking structure reserved for members of the General Assembly. So if you park in a government parking lot in Virginia and you've got a firearm in your car, well you're in violation. However, if you are a member of the General Assembly and you've got a firearm in your car, well no harm no foul.
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That's what these people always do. want to be able to protect themselves, but they don't want you to be able to protect yourself.
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I tell you what, I hope.
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that abigail spamberg is going to be a one-term governor of virginia
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I think they have, I don't even know how they do that. It's kind of a weird thing that they do in the Commonwealth of Virginia with their governor's office. But coming up in just a few minutes, speaking of that, I'm sorry folks, I'm suffering from allergies today so bad. um In New York, Zoran Mondani continues to be an even bigger nightmare than Abigail Spanberger. And,
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I've got some shocking statistics coming up about how South Carolina has changed since 1965.
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And this is going to surprise you pretty darn good. I WRD talk line 8009050989. That's also the common sense retirement planning text line will be right back. Is the Charlie James show news talk 989 WORD the voice of the Carolinas.
