Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildman
>> Fred Jackson: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back everybody, to the radio program, Today's Issues on American Family Radio. Thanks for listening to afr, Tim, Wesley and Ray, and now our colleague here, Fred Jackson joins us. Good morning, Fred.
>> Fred Jackson: Good morning to you guys.
A majority of Americans want President Trump to talk about the economy tonight
>> Tim Wildmon: So, tonight I was seeing that the majority of the American people want the President to talk mostly about the economy. Do you see this?
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, that's the economy comes up as the number one issue, political issue for most Americans.
>> Tim Wildmon: Why you think so?
>> Fred Jackson: Well, a lot of it has to do with that being the focus of the mainstream media who keeps telling us that this is one of the worst places in the world to live. You know, the economy is just absolutely terrible and what they're reporting doesn't reflect reality. There has been a great improvement over the last year in our economy. Gas prices, there are still some food prices that are expensive. Yes. But I tell you, Americans are a lot better off than they were a year ago in most places.
>> Tim Wildmon: Are they really? You think so?
>> Fred Jackson: In most places. Now the exceptions being in larger centers like NewSong York, like Los Angeles, those are expensive places to live. That's just the way it is. but if you're polling, if these polling agencies go heavily into people from NewSong York or Minneapolis or Los Angeles or San Francisco, you're going to get war polls.
>> Tim Wildmon: Those are liberal places anyway. They are.
>> Fred Jackson: So I mean everybody has to make their own decisions. I encourage people often don't listen to the polls, make sure you know what agency is polling because I get very suspicious of it. But a lot of it has to do, and we've talked about this a lot, there is Trump derangement syndrome out there amongst the mainstream media. You know, I look at the Associated Press every day. They cannot do a story about Donald Trump without putting a very negative spin on it. That's they are trying to.
>> Tim Wildmon: So I don't know what to believe anymore though, because I see these polls.
>> Tim Wildmon: And I'm like, you guys, I mean especially Ray as a conservative. We're skeptical, right. And there is Trump derangement syndrome is a real thing. That is anything he does, they are going to put a negative slant on or oppose. That they being the liberal news media and the and the. And so you just wonder, well, how much of this polling is intentionally meant, intentionally skewed to try to make President Trump look bad. That you do. You do wonder that. On the other hand, I go, well, if I See four or five polls that say he's doing poorly with independent voters, for example, or Hispanic voters are on the economy. Then I go, well, maybe there's something to that, you know, I don't know. But he, but the burden is, I think, tonight on the president, and he's going to spend a lot of time to show, to demonstrate to the American people through the unfiltered State of the Union address the things that he and his administration have done to improve the economy.
>> Fred Jackson: Oh, absolutely. You know, as seniors, talking to seniors with the results of the things that President Trump has done, to cut back on your taxes, I'm, you know, seniors are getting a really good deal. They're getting. Their refunds this year are much higher than they were, a year ago.
>> Tim Wildmon: We're going to get that.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes. Because, because of the.
>> Tim Wildmon: Am I a senior now?
>> Fred Jackson: Are you a senior?
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm 62.
>> Fred Jackson: 62. You. May I. I'm sorry, it's. You're not quite there yet.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm a young senior.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes. I'm in my 70s.
>> Tim Wildmon: I try to claim that thing when they give the discount. So.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, well, pay attention. You're in your 70s.
>> Fred Jackson: I'm in my 70s.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're a middle aged senior.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, I'm a senior. Thank you very much. Yeah, that, that term. Middle age.
>> Tim Wildmon: A middle aged seniority. Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: 73.
>> Tim Wildmon: 73. You guys, listen, you guys in the prime of your senior years.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, we are.
>> Fred Jackson: You know, I listened to the, US Hockey players as they were getting off the plane yesterday in Miami. So many of those guys said, we're so glad to be home.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: You know, they were happy about the results of the game, obviously, but we are so happy to get home. Listen, if you've traveled abroad at all.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: You're glad to get back. Yeah, you know, it's, it's nice to visit these places, you know, whether it's Italy or whatever the case. But you are really glad to get home.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: I remember as a kid I did a student exchange in Scotland. Okay. Where they put me on, that student exchange was a little village called Brora.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: Up in northeastern Scotland.
>> Tim Wildmon: Scotland.
>> Fred Jackson: Scotland. You couldn't find a hamburger if your life depended on it.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's a problem.
>> Fred Jackson: That's it.
Some of my quick thoughts on the economy side of things
We have an employee who lives in South Korea.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: He comes home every now and then. He told me he gets, you know, they fly from South Korea to San Francisco, Whatever. First thing he does goes to Whataburger,
>> Wesley Wildmon: get on my double cheeseburger, double cheese,
>> Fred Jackson: all of that to say this is still one of the best, if not the best place to live, which is why so many 15, 20 million people try to break into this country. And Joe Biden made it easy.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: On the economy side of things. just my. Some of my quick thoughts. He'll probably mention where. What he was given when he came into office and then where we're at.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Wesley Wildmon: however, I will. I will say though, that I think we have to tamper our. I had to about six months in. Had to have check my expectations and have more realistic expectations. One, we're not. We're never going to go back pre Covid days. What you're going to have to do is over time, just adapt, or catch up with.
>> Tim Wildmon: in other words, your prices aren't coming down.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Not to that. Not back pre Covid. Now I got you. and so I think, I think what you're going to have to see is, the cost of living increase just to catch up over years. I do think, though, I do think he has made a tremendous amount of progress in light of taking over the economy that he did. And I, on the other hand, he's also whatever, whatever small amount he has improved, he's still got three years left. but I do think it depends on, like I said, context is going to matter. Expectations are going to matter too.
Fred Rothenberg: Fred, what about tariff talk tonight
>> Tim Wildmon: you think we're going to get Tariff talk tonight, Fred?
>> Fred Jackson: Tariff Talk?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, we love doing that here on this show.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, you know, you listen to Ray. Ray can go on for hours.
>> Wesley Wildmon: It's Ed's favorite. He's gonna be disappointed that we left him out, that we.
>> Tim Wildmon: Which we chose tomorrow and we'll just turn him loose.
>> Wesley Wildmon: We told Tuesday.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Fred, what about tariff talk? We getting that tonight.
>> Fred Jackson: It may come in the context of him staring at members of the United States who usually sit right off to his right as he's standing up. they are. Six of them are definitely off his Christmas list.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, yeah, no Christmas corn.
>> Fred Jackson: There is no question about that. but, you know, he's fighting back. He says he's going to. I think, the way it works, he can impose a 15% for a number of months before you have to go to Congress to get that renewed.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: If you think Donald Trump is putting up the white flag on this, think again. He will not.
>> Tim Wildmon: The, the, the, ruling course came down last week that President Trump's use of tariffs, under the emergency. Something.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Urgency clause. Now I, I'm going to say this, no, this is what Tim believes, and it's not in the Bible, so it's subject to disagreement among friends. Okay. I think just the, the way that Trump did the tariffs just was, that was not an emergency. That's what I think. Okay. So if you're going to say, does Trump's terrorists fall under the emergency use, I would say no, they fall under whatever Trump wanted to do at that, on that day.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Probably had a strategy.
>> Tim Wildmon: Now, now, now, if you were to ask President Trump and people in his administration, they would probably say, well, the trade, imbalance with these countries constituted an emergency we needed to deal with, to rectify. That's what they're going to tell you.
>> Fred Jackson: Uh-huh.
>> Tim Wildmon: You understand what I'm saying?
>> Fred Jackson: Uh-huh.
>> Tim Wildmon: So I wasn't surprised when the Supreme Court rules like they did now. I just don't believe me personally that any president should have the kind of unilateral power that Trump was using with these tariffs without having to go through Congress. And I know Congress, a lot in Congress would disagree with him, but I think since Wayne didn't go through Congress, he would say, what's for the betterment of our American economy and to correct trade imbalances. And I understand that, but still, there's a process you gotta go through. You can't give too much power to any one individual, including the president. and that's that. Those are my thoughts there.
>> Wesley Wildmon: But there's some big wins, though, in the meantime.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, but listen, what's going to happen? We're going to have to give all this money back. I mean, FedEx is suing the Trump administration, right?
>> Fred Jackson: That is correct.
>> Tim Wildmon: Why are they suing him?
>> Fred Jackson: Well, I'm assuming, and I was a little surprised, by that. I thought the countries were paying those tariffs, but apparently when a FedEx plane leaves Japan, they have to. When they enter the country, they have to pay that tariff, and I guess they get recouped. But, yeah, apparently they're suing the federal government, to get. And other companies are, too.
>> Tim Wildmon: So you're telling me that the president then announced. Of course, he was very gentle in his criticism of the, of the Supreme Court. Very calculated, very diplomatic. Right. about.
>> Tim Wildmon: Really held back.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, he really held back. And they're going to be there tonight. They're supposed to be there on the front row. Sitting on the front row.
>> Fred Jackson: We'll see how many are missing.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, we'll see. Right. But. We'll see. But. So. So, but he is imposing a 15% across the board, Worldwide.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. But you're saying he can only do that for a few months.
>> Fred Jackson: He can only do that for several months before he has to go to Congress to get that renewed.
>> Wesley Wildmon: So you think that Trump really, growing up really like the game is better to ask for forgiveness than permission?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, that's, that's the way he operates. And I'm not saying it's wrong saying that. that's kind of the NewSong York, you know, you know, real estate in him, I think, you know, wheeler dealer. Make a deal and go get as much as you can. Right. Till they say no and then fight them when they say no. That kind of approach. So anyway, go ahead, Fred.
Vancouver consistently ranks as one of Canada's most expensive cities to live
>> Fred Jackson: Well, can I go back for just a second? I, ah, enjoyed your conversation of the so called scholar of the far right who thought life was going to be better in Vancouver.
>> Tim Wildmon: Her name is. Nope. Brigade and we're not making that up. That's what she called it.
>> Fred Jackson: That probably says a lot about her. But anyway, just for fun, while you guys were talking, I just googled Vancouver. Cost of living.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: M. Guess what comes up.
>> Tim Wildmon: And you used to live there, right?
>> Fred Jackson: Oh yeah, I lived there for 10 years. Here's what comes up when you Google that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: Vancouver consistently ranks as one of Canada's most expensive cities to live in. Other sources say one of the most expensive places in the world to live.
>> Tim Wildmon: The world, yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: All right, for instance, a one bedroom apartment in Vancouver. $2,500 a month. Good.
>> Tim Wildmon: Whoa, whoa.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's renting.
>> Fred Jackson: That's renting.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh man, 2500 in the show right now.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. So all you had to do was Google that. Apparently this, scholar of the far right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: Didn't do much Googling.
>> Wesley Wildmon: So that's not hidden. That's not like.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, and now she's wild. She's. Now she's on the Internet whining. She didn't have enough money to live up there.
>> Wesley Wildmon: She didn't have enough money to get back.
>> Tim Wildmon: She's going to have to go out. She's going to have to start walk back to the land of the Nazis.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, start walking. When we moved to Vancouver in 1987 at, at the eastern end of the Vancouver International Airport is an old kind of World War II little village there. And 800 square foot houses, that kind of thing. They were selling for 90,000 roughly at that time. Okay, 800 square feet. When we left 10 years later, they were selling for over 200,000. 800 square feet. 50, 60 years old at the end of the Runway.
>> Tim Wildmon: Why is that, Fred? Is that a lot of, Why is this a lot of competition for the housing?
>> Fred Jackson: That's what happened was in the 80s, okay. When China announced it was taking control of Hong Kong again.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, there was.
>> Fred Jackson: And Hong Kong was just an, economic hub of the world.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: What happened was the people, the very wealthy people who lived there said, we're getting out of town.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. And they all headed to Vancouver.
>> Fred Jackson: They went to Vancouver. They went to Toronto, San Francisco. So, these wealthy millionaire Asians I got you came into Vancouver and we lived in Richmond, which was one of their favorite places because Richmond is a suburb of Vancouver.
>> Tim Wildmon: I got you.
>> Fred Jackson: Very flat. A lot of Asian people have superstitions about luck running out. So they don't tend to live on hills.
>> Tim Wildmon: I do the same thing for your golf gang. Well, I don't talk about it much, but. Yeah, go ahead.
>> Fred Jackson: All right. So we rented. We rented from an Asian family who got.
>> Tim Wildmon: Are you serious about the flat? Yes. They don't build on hills.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes. And they don't like to live at the end of a street where the car lights shine into their house.
>> Tim Wildmon: that ain't anything to do with luck. That's just dumb. If you put your house there and they.
>> Fred Jackson: And they don't like. They don't like houses where the front door lines up with the back door because your luck will run out.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. All right. Well, go ahead. Are you writing these down? Writing these down. This is all. Why the, So that does make sense. Hong Kong. Hong Kong changed over. Communist China took over. The wealthy people got out of Hong Kong. They moved to Canada and the US Primarily to Vancouver, Toronto and San Francisco. I remember when this happened. Yeah.
People can't find affordable housing in Richmond, Virginia
And so that caused the housing market to boom.
>> Fred Jackson: Crazy.
>> Tim Wildmon: Christ. Prices to go crazy because of all this competition among people who had a lot of money.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: And then the average person there was left with, I guess in some cases their housing, their house goes up and they benefit from it. But then they got a people moving into town, they can't. Like this lady here. They can't find affordable housing.
>> Fred Jackson: We lived. We lived in Richmond. Split, level. We rented, and our landlords were fantastic for the whole time we were there.
>> Tim Wildmon: Richmond, I mean, just for people listening in Virginia who think suburb of
>> Fred Jackson: Vancouver, these split levels were selling for about a million dollars by the time we left. About a million bucks. They would come in. The folks. Folks moving in from Hong Kong would come in. They.
>> Tim Wildmon: They.
>> Fred Jackson: They'd buy the old split level, tear it Down.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: And put up a 4,000 square foot house on a fairly small lot.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: but they're selling for over a million dollars.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow.
>> Fred Jackson: Very basic housing. So for this lady to go there and be shocked by how much it costs to live there, that's just. It's just nonsense. If you're going to move, I would say if you want to move, to Canada, go to Saskatchewan and build a house in the wheat fields. All right. If you want a lower cost of living, go right ahead and do that and suffer the winners if that's what you want to do.
>> Tim Wildmon: Saskatchewan, that's where they breeze to death there, don't they?
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I want to know.
>> Fred Jackson: I lived in Saskatchewan for a while too, while I was in the military. And while I was there, it was December of the year. I had to get my car towed in twice because the engine froze.
>> Tim Wildmon: Froze like.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes, froze.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So before does the engine burst when that happens?
>> Fred Jackson: It just wouldn't start.
>> Wesley Wildmon: It just gives up.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. At ah, last going off, I'd leave the car running all night because it was cheaper than getting the car towed.
>> Tim Wildmon: Do what you got to do, right?
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, but that's why it's so cheap to live there.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Nope.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's your name.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Not doing it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Nope.
Some corporate sponsors are backing away from LGBT events
All right, you're listening to today's issues on afr. Anything you want to say to what Fred's talking about here, Ray? Who, me? Yeah. You know anything about, Vancouver real estate market?
>> Tim Wildmon: Look, look, I'm on. I'm on the wheat fields in Saskatchewan thinking about. I mean, the weather there is pretty.
>> Tim Wildmon: I mean, that's for the month of August.
>> Fred Jackson: Not bad.
>> Tim Wildmon: Not, not bad.
>> Tim Wildmon: In August you go for their. They have summer, two weeks in August in Saskatchewan. no, it's,
>> Tim Wildmon: M. We love Saskatchewan.
>> Tim Wildmon: Have you ever been there?
>> Tim Wildmon: Blown over it. I've been to. What's the capital of Saskatchewan?
>> Fred Jackson: Regina.
>> Tim Wildmon: Regina. I've been there once. I did a radio gig there once a thousand years ago.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Nice people. You could see forever. Pretty flat. You could see forever.
>> Fred Jackson: I was. I was based in Moose Jaw, which is about 50 miles west of Regina. No kidding. When you get out of the Trans Canada highway and start heading towards your giant, you can see it. It's that flat.
>> Tim Wildmon: Really.
>> Fred Jackson: You can see the lights of the
>> Tim Wildmon: city from Moose Jaw. You can see. Okay. Yeah, you can see the world from Moose Jaw. Oh, man. You know you're in Canada when, when you're in Moose Jaw. That's where the Canadian rednecks live, right?
>> Fred Jackson: there's one turn in the highway between Moose Jaw and Regina. 50 miles, one turn, one m. Oh, boy.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: that's your homework guy.
>> Tim Wildmon: there you go.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Go look at that story.
>> Fred Jackson: Listen, friend, good news, okay?
>> Tim Wildmon: Give me some good news.
>> Fred Jackson: When I came here in 1997, one of the big stories was Gay Days at Disney World. Remember that? Yeah, I remember that big event, AFA was warning people about. it's been canceled for this. For this year. June. It's been canceled. The announcement just came a few days ago, and apparently, and we've done stories on this, too, that the corporate sponsors are just backing away from LGBT events. We've heard stories like cities, have pride days, that sort of thing.
>> Tim Wildmon: They're also canceling their DEI programs Inside corporations.
>> Fred Jackson: Exactly, Exactly. It's all connected.
>> Tim Wildmon: I wonder if the fad of supporting that is kind of, Well, you know what? Quite frankly, the, lgbtq, they don't have much left to conquer.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, that's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: But. But I am kind of surprised that Disney would not. So Disney's not having gay days?
>> Fred Jackson: Not this year.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, interesting. Let's get, you know, what would happen was the, Disney World, I guess Disneyland. The,
>> Wesley Wildmon: I was gonna add.
>> Tim Wildmon: I would just say the thoughts on this. What would happen would be these, gay and lesbian people would come and flaunt their sexuality.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Fred Jackson: By the thousands.
>> Tim Wildmon: In front of the kids.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: I mean, flaunt it. Listen, nobody, I don't care if gay and lesbian or queer people go to wherever. Go. Go to a theme park while I'm there. I don't care. I'll be nice to them. You know, but when you want to intentionally flaunt your, you know, dress up and flaunt your lifestyle and behavior in front of families with small children. That's wrong. You shouldn't do that.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: And. But they did it intentionally, and that's what the problem was. Go ahead.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: And of course you want to say something, Wesley?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, I was just going to add, I've mentioned this before, but just a quick recap is that, when they have conquered everything.
Ray: I think you're about to get a negative reaction on LGBT issues
That's true. And I think if they would have stopped at conquering everything, they would have probably had a little bit m. More. I think you're about to get a negative reaction because of what we're seeing of the forcing of doing it this way, such as Eric reading. Being forced to read a gay book
>> Tim Wildmon: that we talked about earlier.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That we talked about earlier.
>> Tim Wildmon: The first graders.
>> Wesley Wildmon: First graders. You're seeing a distancing from them as opposed to just, okay, if you want to have.
>> Tim Wildmon: Most Americans are fine with live and let live, but when you start pushing your stuff on us, especially on our kids. Kids. On the kids, Ray. You start pushing an agenda on the children, and they're not your children.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: People get, angry.
>> Wesley Wildmon: So. So you're going to. I think you're going to see a little bit more of this moving forward. and I hope so.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, just go to Disney World. Go to Disneyland. You don't have to dress up like a. You know, like you're trying to flaunt your, what you do in your lifestyle. Go ahead.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And one last thing on this and this same recap here. About five years ago, and I'd have. I need to go have this on hand. Closer. But about five years ago, we ran it. We sent an email out an action alert out on it, or, information out on it through an email that the. At that point, the junior high and high school students, about four or five years ago, so they would be in college now, at that time, they were polling that they were on the opp. They were on the conservative side of the LGBT movement. They were opposed to it, by and large, because they were tired of having to answer for it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Having a divorce Fed.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: So.
Ellen DeGeneres fled America to go to England to escape Trump
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, well, Ellen DeGeneres, you know, she's an open lesbian, and, she's fled America to go to England, to the forest there. Yeah. To a cabin to escape Trump's America.
>> Tim Wildmon: And she's still over there.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, she don't know. She came back.
>> Tim Wildmon: She came back.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm going back to sunny California, but I'm gonna. I'm gonna be risking my life.
>> Wesley Wildmon: So, Ray's just asking questions.
>> Tim Wildmon: She didn't really say that. I said that. But that's what her actions prove. That her actions prove that leaving America in the first place was a phony. It was just for a show. All right, have a great day, everybody. Keep listening to American Family Radio. We'll see you back here tomorrow.
