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Trumponomics - December 13th, Hour 2
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More bad economic news today.
Now, one thing that's not really being reported widely is the housing market is now in a full-on recession.
Except geographically, there are some exceptions.
Florida is an exception because the migration to Florida has been so tremendous.
The same is happening in the Carolinas and Tennessee and in Texas.
Those states are faring much better than every other state in the country, but for the rest of the country, it is a full-on housing recession that has taken place.
Once again, the idea that liberal Democrats are celebrating, you know, as a seven and eight percent inflation rate or gross domestic product r rate is just kind of amazing to me.
These or the CPI rather, a broad measure of prices, et cetera, et cetera.
It went up 0.1% in November.
Uh prices climbed 7.1% on an annual basis.
Um these are not good numbers.
Inflation's still about three times higher than pre-pandem the pre-pandemic average.
Joe Biden became president and it was 1.4%.
Um anyway, you know, but Biden, of course, was inflation is zero when it's nine percent.
He says inflation is zero.
No, not true.
Now he's saying inflation is coming down, but prices are still too high.
I mean, uh does he even know what he's saying?
Listen, there's a provides a reason for some optimism for the holiday season.
And I would argue for the year ahead.
We learned last month's inflation rate came down, down more than experts expected.
In a world where inflation is rising at double digits in many major economies around the world, inflation is coming down in America.
In fact, this new report is the fifth month in a row where annual inflation has fallen in the United States.
Inflation outside of food and this is straight on spin.
And then he goes on to talk about wages have gone up more than prices.
What he's not telling you is 70% of Americans are now living paycheck to paycheck.
What he's not telling you is 15% of the elderly are skipping meals because they can't afford it.
What he's not telling you is the stuff that people can no longer buy because they can't afford the on average 72 7200 dollars it's costing the average household per year because of the inflation that he's caused.
He's acting as oh, these this is the greatest news in the world.
There's nothing great about these numbers, not a single thing.
Listen.
And all this means that for the last several months, wages have gone up more than prices have gone up.
Wages have gone up more than prices have been.
I want to be clear.
It's going to take time to get inflation back to normal levels as we make the transition to a more stable and steady growth.
But we could see setbacks along the way as well.
We shouldn't take anything for granted.
What is clear is the my economic plan is working, and we're just getting started.
American households lost about six point eight trillion dollars in wealth in only the first nine months of the year since he's been president over thirteen trillion dollars in wealth.
Uh when you add it all up together, U.S. household wealth fell a whopping 400 billion dollars in the third quarter of 2022.
Um that's that's that's everybody's safety net.
That's their retirement plan.
Now you add to that the the decline in home value because of the housing recession, which I told you would happen with rising interest rates.
So the Fed we expect tomorrow will raise interest rates another uh 50 basis points, another half percent increase, and that's gonna mean we're we're pretty close to an eight percent 30 year fixed rate mortgage at the beginning of this year, a thirty uh year fixed rate mortgage was only three percent.
You know, no look, pre sale well, first of all, new home construction has come to a screeching halt.
Uh sale of pre-existing homes, nobody's gonna sell their home and give up their 2.7, 3.7% 30-year fixed rate mortgage and you know, and get an eight percent 30-year fixed rate mortgage.
So that's that's come to a screeching halt.
Uh, and now you have home values naturally declining as a result of the decreased demand that exists out there.
Uh anyway, joining us heritage expert Joel Griffin is with us.
Steve Moore is back, economist, author of Trumponomics inside the America First Plan to revive our economy.
Um Steve, did you ever think you'd get numbers this bad and people will be saying how great it is?
Yeah, talk about irrational exuberance.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Uh, you know, I'm on the board of four charitable foundations, and we give our money at the end of the year, and we give our money to everything from soup kitchens to orphanages to homeless shelters, you know, real charitable groups.
We had to cut 25% on on average of our giving because the stock market has been so bad under uh Biden over the last 18 months, and because of the of the inflation.
Uh and so that's just one little example of how this Biden f inflation has just crushed, crushed the economy.
Uh, you are so right about the uh mortgage rate.
That is something that is I'm very, very worried about the housing market.
It feels uh like uh if you look at almost every statistic, housing starts, new home sales, um, you know, all of these things.
Uh new construction permits for for home homes, down, down, down, down, down.
And that's because when you have these higher mortgage rates, it's bad for the buyer and the seller.
If you're buying uh home, you know, you have to pay a couple hundred thousand dollars more in 30-year uh mortgage rates.
And if you're selling a home, it depresses the value of the house because the people have to pay more.
So uh that is something that is uh quite problematic as well.
When you have a situation where the average family over the last twelve months has lost somewhere between four and five thousand dollars of purchasing power, and and Joe Biden's celebrating how well he's handled the economy on top of the one thing you left out,
Sean, that I want to add to your litany of policy failures, is that the national debt in the last two in less than two years has increased by over four and a half trillion dollars.
No thirty-one trillion.
Yeah.
No president in your and my lifetime ever comes even comes close to that level of financial incompetence.
Well, there's one other thing I left out of the equation, only because I've discussed it so often is the price of energy and its impact uh on inflation, its impact on everyday life.
Uh people are gonna be feeling it more than they ever have this winter, uh, with anywhere between thirty and forty-five percent increases in in heating your home this winter, which is gonna be awful for people.
Um and but I'm still listening to the same oh, this is this is great news.
It's not that there's nothing here that's great news.
Uh Joel Griffith, uh, if you hear great news here, share it with us because I don't see it.
Well, what I heard was an outright lie from the president.
The president claimed that wages were rising relative to inflation.
In actuality, the government's own numbers show that American families have seen their real wages decline each and every month for the past 20 months in a row.
Um so it's ludicrous for him to make such a claim to the contrary.
And in terms of overall inflation, we are on track to see the year-over-year inflation at the highest level since 1981.
I I I would say think millions of your listeners weren't even working in 1981 because they were too young to be doing so.
And uh, you mentioned too the energy situation.
If you look at uh the price of fuel oil for this winter in the Northeast, fuel oil for those homes is gonna be sixty-five percent higher than it was just one year ago, and you and Steve nailed it on housing.
If you look at what it costs a typical family each year to make a mortgage payment on just a middle class home, that payment is ten thousand dollars more a year this year than it was just one year ago.
So I've said this on the air before, and I'm not patting myself on the back at all, Steve.
I'm just describing a scenario, a situation.
This is, you know, I I live in an area where you have middle very middle income communities, uh maybe a little more upper middle class, then you have more expensive areas of town.
It's a mixed neighborhood financially.
You have people of all economic backgrounds here.
And what's amazing to me is uh a very close friend of mine, well, actually a whole family, uh, they participate.
We have a food bank in town, and you know, I I tell them all the time, I said, if you if you need something, if you run into trouble, just give me a heads up, I'll be glad to help.
And they they they've called me a couple of times because they really they really are in need like never before.
And it's interesting, you would think uh, you know, why are all these people waiting on lines?
But they have a lot of nice cars.
Like sometimes you'll see a BMW, sometimes you'll see even people like a Mercedes um or a nice SUV or a pickup truck or whatever it happens to be, and you sit there and you scratch your head and say, Well, wait a minute, why do these people need to be online to get food?
The problem is is they got locked into these cars and homes at a point when when they thought they'd be able to afford it before the economy went south in literally less than twenty-four months, and and they didn't factor in the seven thousand two hundred dollar average according to the Heritage Foundation that Biden inflation would be costing them, and it's impacting them.
It they're not gaming the system, they're desperate.
And that's what I learned, you know, just by I seeing the lines, you know, once, twice a week when they open up.
I can't believe it how many people are really really struggling out there.
So at the same time you have people needing the charitable help, you know, in shelters and and food kitchens and things.
You know, that's why I brought up at the start of uh your show that you know the foundations don't have the money to give as much as they used to.
So, you know, that's really pinching the charities, too.
That's m that's why they may come and come calling to you, Sean, because the the you know, you just don't have as much money to give when the economy is lousy, when the stock market is lousy, when inflation is so high.
I'll I I wouldn't.
And by the way, it's not like they can sell their car either, because they still got to use that car to get to work so they can still make some money.
So the other thing that I I mentioned on your TV show, I think of about a week ago, that I want to repeat because it's so important and so frightening to me.
Sean, have you looked at what is happening to consumer debt?
Look at what's happening to credit card debt.
People are trying to maintain their level of you know, their living standard and their normal purchases, but everything is more expensive.
And as Joel just said, guess what?
Your paycheck isn't keeping up with your you know normal buying habits.
So what are people doing?
They're go going further, further into debt, and you can't, you know, it's come January and February people.
I think you're gonna start to see people having to, you know, be in big, big financial trouble.
And by the way, that's the worst at the take on, because in some cases you're paying 20, 21 and a half percent interest rates.
Yep.
Uh one of the major financial firms found uh that that uh consumer credit card debt is up almost 20% this year.
Wow, that's dramatic.
Quick break more on the economy, not looking good for most Americans heading into 2023.
Uh we'll continue with Joel Griffith with the Heritage Foundation, Steve Moore, uh, and your calls coming up.
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All right, we continue.
The bad news on the economy just goes on and on in spite of what Joe Biden might tell you about it.
We continue with financial experts, Joel Griffith and Steve Moore.
The loss of wealth, Joel, is really profound.
I mean, in the first nine months of this year, six point eight trillion.
Over the course of Biden's presidency, over $13 trillion.
On top of that, now people are beginning to see as the housing recession fully kicks in, and sale of pre uh sale of new homes has stopped because home building has come to a screeching halt.
The sale of pre-existing homes is non-existent.
Nobody wants to give up their lower rate mortgage, fixed rate mortgage.
Uh so they're not selling.
That means home prices are going down and going down significantly.
And that is for most people the biggest investment, retirement investment that they have.
And if you live in certain states, it's going to be way worse than living in Florida or Tennessee or the Carolinas or Texas.
So let me ask you both this exit question.
So every economist that I'm reading is predicting 2023 economically to be a horrific year.
Steve Moore, what do you see?
I still think there's time to skate around a recession.
I think Republicans in Congress are gonna have to take this bowl by the horn.
We're gonna have to dramatically increase our oil and gas drilling.
We could put a hundred billion dollars.
They don't have the power to make that happen on their own.
Well, you're right.
You're right.
I mean, you got a president who's uh against these policies.
They've got to cut spending, government spending, because that's what caused the inflation in the cut government spending.
I hate to be the naysayer here, but I don't see it.
Well, if you are right, then we're headed for some very tough times.
And just one last point to what Joel was saying.
You know, savings rates are at an all-time low.
And if you notice every time Joe Biden gives a speech, he talks about how high the savings rate is.
Well, does he just outright have no respect for the truth?
Unbelievable.
Last word, we'll give it to you, Joel.
Look, even if inflation rates were to come down, and I don't think they will, there's no way that American families next year are gonna make up for the fact that they've lost six thousand dollars per year in real income because of these sky high prices.
Government caused the problem, and yet sadly you don't hear Congress, you do not hear a central bankers admitting responsibility for the damage they've caused over the past years by putting these printing presses on full speed.
Unbelievable.
And you know what?
It's sadly that it's this is gonna be paid for.
Uh this the pain is going to exist and in Middle America, they're gonna they're gonna bear the brunt of all of this.
And the people impacted the most by inflation happen to be the poor, the middle class, people on fixed incomes, and they're the ones suffering the most because of these policies.
Um and I don't see any end in sight because I don't see them changing their ways in any way, any significant way anyway.
Uh, thank you.
Anyway, Joel Griffith, thank you, and Stephen Moore, thank you.
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If you want to be a part of the program, Linda, this will be of great importance to you.
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Did you think that we'd ever talk about these topics when we started on this radio journey whenever you whenever you joined me, however many decades ago.
Too many decades ago, actually.
You know, thanks a lot.
You just Christmas bonus is explaining and complaining.
You should be happy.
Hey boss, thank you for a great Christmas bonus.
I really appreciate it.
Thanks for recognizing my own.
If it makes you if it makes you feel any better, I didn't see my Christmas bonus until this morning.
And I was going to write you a very nice private message about it.
But unfortunately, you jumped the gun yet again, which is your way.
So having said that, I wasn't done what I was going to say, which is that you didn't have a chance to do it.
This is long.
I actually wasn't done.
It's just that the Hannity, you know, uh interrupter didn't let me finish my sentence.
So I have James who hangs up on me when I'm in med sent mid-sentence, and I have you who interrupts me when I'm talking mid-sentence.
So either way, can you?
Stop whining and get to the point.
I'm actually not whining.
It's kind of an aggressive tone.
It's less whiny, more oppressive.
No, I honestly I tell you, man, I'm over it.
Uh I I had a conversation with someone the other day about this, and um it was interesting because I had said that I didn't feel that certain things should be taught in schools, and the person assumed that because I said I didn't believe that it should be taught, that that meant that I was anti-gay or anti-trans or whatever, and I said, You misunderstand me.
Just like I don't want my son to be at a drag queen library reading, I don't want my son to be the strip bar reading.
I don't want my son to be seeing any of this at the age of seven.
I don't think that it's a good thing.
Absolutely not.
You know, people in Hellwant Icewater, tough nooggies, buddy.
You know, I mean, it's this is the way it is.
Nothing good is ever gonna come out of big going on a strip bar.
Nothing ever.
No.
And and and I will but I mean, Sean, do you know what I'm saying?
Like if somebody said to you, Oh, yeah, we're gonna take a bunch of uh second grade boys over to the strip bar, you'd be outraged.
You know, there would be toxic masculinity.
But you know, now it's by the way.
That would be toxic masculinity.
A hundred percent.
Let me give you this one.
So an author and professor, Sophie Lewis, spoke at UMass Boston to discuss her book, Abolish the Family, a manifesto for care and liberation.
Faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.
She teaches courses on feminist uh trans.
Um I'm not I never thought you're allowed to use the Q word, but it's used by everybody.
Uh polit cue, politics, philosophy, um, abolish the family suggests that the nuclear family is racist and sexist, and her scholarship argues that children should have more say in their health care choices, as,
for example, on issues like gender transitions, uh, but abolish the family, you know, is stems from this utopian socialist and sex radical, a guy by the name of Char Charles Fourier, a communist family uh abolitionist, feminist, um, Marxist bringing family.
what is this abolish the family thing?
You know, I really do believe that there are people on the left that think that they know better how to raise our kids.
And they think that maybe we should, you know, the moment a child is born, you can say hello to it and then hand it over to a government official for full complete indoctrination.
Because there is all these people from kindergarten on up that actually think that they know better than these other creatures known as parents and and have the right duty and moral responsibility to instill their values, even if they conflict with the values of the parents, uh, who should be the ones instilling the values in their own children, the ones that they the the ones that they believe that are most important.
Now, if schools want to reinforce the golden rule, treat others the way you want to be treated, or God forbid you mention God, love God and your your neighbor as yourself, uh, and go from there and teach reading, math, science, writing, history, computers, then I'd be fine with that.
But they don't want to teach just the golden rule.
They want to indoctrinate these kids and they feel like it's their responsibility to do it as if parents have no role in the raising of their kids anymore.
Well, you know, it's funny, I was saying this to somebody the other day, and and and it is so it is so true, but you don't know it until you become a parent.
You know, when you when you have a child and you have a family, and whether you adopt or you become a stepparent or you know, you you give birth or whatever it is, but you're a parent, you know, you're responsible for another living thing.
The love you feel for that thing, it is your Achilles heel.
You say this all the time, right?
Your kids are your Achilles heel, because it's the one way that people can get you, right?
And then you have all these people making decisions and rules, and I would say I would I would hazard the guess that a lot of them don't have kids.
Because the way that they discuss children as it it's as if they're not human.
It's as if they have you know, when you no heart, no, no humanity.
It's i I I truly think that when you are speaking from where you do not know you are not from, you have no experience.
Like I wouldn't say, you know, I'm gonna go fly that plane because uh I think I can.
No, you can't.
You have no experience, you have no training, you don't know what you're doing.
It's the one job, it's our most important job that we can just jump into both feet, no experience, and we do the best we can for the next 18 years until we put them out into the real world, and even then it's not over, as you well know.
You're a parent forever.
But these people are not.
I'm somewhat of shame to actually admit this.
But I kind of thought, and maybe it's because of the way I was raised, uh, by the time I came along, I'm the I was the youngest.
My parents were done raising kids.
They were tired, they were working 16 hours a day, they weren't around raising me.
It ended up being the best thing to happen to me in my life, because I just I I lived my life the way I wanted, and I always made my own money, so I always, you know, I'd go to the local deli, I'd get a huge hero of roast beef and lettuce, tomato, and mayo, uh, or I'd get eggs and bacon and hash brown potatoes on a big roll, or I'd get pizza, or I'd, you know, go by the local, you know, diner and I'd have a breakfast or whatever, whatever, or hamburger, whatever I felt like eating.
And I always had money to to pay for this because I work for it.
And it ended up being the best thing of my life, but I don't think I I could never raise my kids that way, but I foolishly thought that once my kids were done with college that it was over.
I'm like uh nope, that's not how it works.
But I will tell you, Sean, if you met today.
I don't know that you were a helicopter parent so much as you were involved.
I think there's a lot of parents that are not involved.
For example, you know, if I take Liam to the park, I'll be the only parent, not on my phone.
Like the only time my phone is out is to take a picture of him or a video of him.
No, it's a good thing.
And there's parents or when you're texting me 300 times when I have my super loud Sean Hannity sound on my phone, and even Liam knows up the boss is texting.
Everybody knows the sound, so it's very helpful.
But you know, I'm with him.
I'm at the park, right?
Wait a minute, I gotta text you.
We gotta play the we gotta play the Hannity.
Hold on, hold on.
I gotta turn my ringers off.
Hold on a second, you can't text me right now.
They ringers off.
I want to know what the Hannity sound is.
Go ahead.
Are you ready?
Mm-hmm.
I'm ready.
That's it.
Are you kidding me?
Only for me, I have my own.
I thought it would sound something like this.
That's I think you might want to switch it to that.
That's a great idea.
Listen, can't go wrong with Carmina Virana, but you know, the Star Wars sound works fine.
You know, and the only one on the staff that gets away with not answering me is Uncle James.
Yes, I'm not sure.
I think baby James, you know, he just doesn't do phones like the rest of us.
No, I know, but he does hang up better than anybody.
I don't know anybody who hangs up better than Uncle James.
He doesn't do regularly.
One.
Okay, got it.
Click.
I know.
All right, James.
I need I said I needed three things.
All right, that get the first thing.
Now the second thing is this.
All right, got it.
Click.
Well, we love him.
I'm like, I said three.
I need three things.
I don't have time to make three calls.
He is he is the best.
There's nobody like Sweet Baby.
No, and he's gonna sit here.
You'll you're gonna lie.
I could I know you're gonna lie and act like I own Oh, I answer my phone all the time.
He never answers his phone.
I have to text him.
Hello, hello.
No, that's not true.
I mean, he I don't know that I don't know that anyone answers in the nanosecond that you expect us to.
We're all doing our best.
But I think he's pretty good.
Most people do because I I just I have special ringtons they don't want to hear.
I mean, news happens twenty-four hours a day.
Yes.
And I don't care if it's three o'clock in the morning.
If I'm up, my staff has to be up.
That is very true.
And typically we all are, which is which is a lot of fun, you know.
I enjoy those three o'clock in the morning wake ups.
They're very they're helpful.
They keep me on my toast, you know.
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Bill California, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Thank you.
Yeah, I I called about uh the Republican Party, but listening to your uh the last segment on economy.
I'm I'm uh uh disabled combat veteran from Vietnam.
Um it was a delayed kick in 2008, all of a sudden my whole life crashed, and now I'm on disability.
So are you Did you have PTSD?
Well, I have PTSD, but aged an orange.
Oh no.
My heart, my lungs, and all that stuff.
Are you getting the treatment you deserve?
Absolutely.
The VA has been absolutely wonderful.
I'm so glad to hear by the way, Donald Trump cleaned up the VA.
And he did more than any other president in our lifetime.
I'm glad.
I'm sorry you have it, but I'm glad you're getting the help that you deserve.
God is good.
You know, he when he when this happens, you really look at your blessings.
You can sit there and gripe about your life and what's going on, or you just say, God, you gave me so much.
I can handle this too.
So that's where you gotta work at it, or you'll go crazy.
No, it's listen, you know what?
I get caught up.
We all get caught up in that.
We we get caught up in the things that we wish we Had or the things that aren't perfect in life, and we forget about all the great things we have in life.
I think that's just being human, but recognizing that I think is is critical for one's personal happiness.
If I'm gonna spend all day focused on the things that are that I don't like in my life and forget about all the things that I'm blessed with, then I'm making a big mistake in my opinion.
And I'm happiest when I recognize and am appreciative of and grateful for the gifts that I have.
Yep.
Now what I called about was, you know, in in uh the the Republican Party and like right now, Donald Trump has announced out.
He would I would my my greatest gift, I mean, wish for him is he counts his successes and then the problems we have and how he's going to solve those instead of attacking other people.
Because that's anybody I know that's what they criticize.
But the big thing is we need to have one candidate after after the primaries.
I think the primaries will be great, but after the primaries, and then and then and then single messaging.
And the Republican Party hasn't learned to do that.
The Democrats are great at it.
I I tend to agree with you.
Up until yesterday, the battle over the House Speaker, and I'm I'm giving you inside information because I've been in contact with my sources, uh, had not been going well.
And yesterday was kind of a breakthrough day.
And you know, the good news is with the majority that they do have in the House, I think they've come up with an agenda that's really balanced very well, positive agenda, the things that they said that they were gonna do, they're gonna vote on.
They they don't have the luxury of having the usual circular firing squad that Republicans are known for.
And you're right, there's but there's enough things that we all agree on that we should we should go after those things first, and then we can, you know, they can have internal arguments and debates, they should keep it private and then come out with their agenda and fight hard for it.
And they're gonna have to, you know, they got two weapons at their disposal, the power of the purse and the power of subpoena, and they need to use it.
But we're not going to do anything with these hearings unless we can get our procan president and the new justice department because they're the ones to prosecute, but the Congress finds out.
But you know what?
In two years we may have all that.
I listen, I can't tell you I don't know who's uh we know Donald Trump is running.
I don't know who else might get in this race.
I can't tell you the outcome.
I can't, you know, all I can say is Republicans better change their outlook and how they manage elections because Democrats have been running circles around them in terms of they're playing a very different election game than Republicans are.
Republicans are doing it the old-fashioned way.
They're they're kissing babies, they're taking selfies, they're holding rallies, they're they're giving media avails, they're they're out there on social media, they're trying to, you know, shake hands with every single person they can, and Democrats, they're not kissing babies, they're they're hiding in their basement.
They're getting hundreds of millions of dollars, uh, they're running negative ads, and then they're playing the ballot game.
And the ballot game in most states is making sure that every Democrat that they can identify gets a ballot and making sure that that ballot is handed in.
In some states, you can have a family member do it, some states you can have a stranger do it.
And they're playing that game way better than the Republicans are, and that's why Republicans, you know, they've got rid they've got to get rid of the reluctance and the resistance to mail-in balloting and early voting.
Because you can't start these you can't start election day out by hundreds of thousands of votes down.
You can't.
It's mathematically too heavy a lift, and and hopefully they're gonna learn that lesson and they'll get their act together.
If it happens one more election, it's on them.
I blame them next time.
So we'll see, we'll see what they do.
We'll see what happens.
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