The cost of Thanksgiving (11-25-2025--Hour2)

What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream I daily show prep with all the links. Become a patron, go to vpeteclendarshow dot com. Make sure you hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for your support. We talked a great deal about these these Charlot operations, Charlotte's web and Mayor Lyles consistently being opposed to any action to clean up the crime and the city unless it comes from within, and no interest in enforcing immigration laws, even though she took an oath to off oath of office to defend the laws of the United States. It's picking and choosing the laws you want to figure, Nat, I guess just Trump's bad. Therefore anything that. Comes from that administration must be opposed. I wonder if she would oppose accepting money from the federal government because Trump's the president. Methinks no me thinks she'll take the money. Would she oppose anything that Charlotte receives from the federal government because Trump is president, of course not. But what she doesn't want to do is add law enforcement or help her own law enforcement team. And it's interesting because I'll bet you a lot of folks in law enforcement want the help. They feel like they're being undermine, they feel like they're being you know, they don't like to see these stats go up. They don't like to see people suffer. They don't want to see families, you know, and criminals in you know, left out there to commit crimes. Now, the interesting thing, and I ask it I prefaced in the last hour, was that do our people satisfied again? Charlotte's a Democrats said, the Democrats are going to reign supreme There no challenges or really no significant challenges to her fifth term for her, And this is not a monologue against her. It's against wanting to support the laws. It's against city officials. It's against their perspective that Trump is bad. Therefore we don't want to enforce the laws. And the question I think charlottean should ask, is there anything that that council could do that would make would make folks turn against some other than the public corruption stuff. But can they just continue tacking? I mean, if Chicago could go back thirty years and look at where it's murder rate and violent crime and all that was, and then say do we and show people what it ultimately would look like, would they still make the same decisions. I think they would. I think they would. I think that cities reach a certain size, and for the most part, they inevitably start tacking to the political left and eventually, and in the irony is if you look at New York and where New York was when the Towers fell, and then look at where New York is now, and it elected a socialist mayor that is somewhat sympathetic to the cause of those who took down the towers, and that guy sounds terrible, doesn't It sounds like I'm really condemning him. But the perspective being how quickly perspectives change and how far left ward the city has gone since that point in time. One of the most anti Semitic mayors, probably the most anti Semitic mayor they've had, in one of the largeh that New York has more Jews than anywhere outside of Israel as a concentration, eighteen percent or so, I think of the voting public. It's just. That's the question that always gets me. And I'm not surprised by it because I think largely Americans are not dialed in on political stuff, and I think it's you know, there reaches a point where the majority of people say, hey, I get some free stuff. What can I get? I can get some stuff, and if I can get some stuff, then I'll vote for the person who's going to give me the most stuff. That's the failure, and this has been well documented Alexander Tittler did two hundred years ago when they said, hey, democracy exist until the point where the public realizes they can vote themselves stuff out of the public treasury, or in this case, they can just say, hey, those rich folks are the bad guys, and I want to vote for people that will take stuff away from them and give it to me. And that's when the downward spiral really transpires. That's where, luckily in this country, a lot of folks will become aware of that, and the people who can leave, who do have, who have income or money or net worth, will leave, and then the city really falls down quickly. At that point. If big money pulls out of any given city, whether it be New York, Chicago, even Memphis, or Charlotte, Atlanta. Then the spiral the spiral downhill because there's no there's no one to take money from. They run out of pockets to pick his market. That you would say, you eventually run out of pockets to get money out of. And so again, I wish Charlotte would have a different perspective. And it's not that I want them to become arch conservative. That's not going to happen. Realism would say. Other So, hey, you know, you guys want to have discussions about the affordable housing, You want to have discussions about mass transit. I may disagree with you on those, but when it comes to crime and protecting the public, it shouldn't matter who's in the White House. You guys should be held been on protecting citizens period and stop full stop right there. What can we do to make law enforcement better, to prosecute crime at the highest level so that someone can't go through the system thirteen times and then go kill somebody on a subway or not subway but light reel. I don't know. That's the kind of perspective that I just wish we would have more of I mean, I really do. She took an oath to protected to Fenn. And by the way, Fox News did reach out to Mayor Leles for comments. She either she refused or just didn't return the phone call. It may have been a slip, an oversight maybe, but I don't think she would have responded to a Fox News request. They did reach out to her and her office and there was no comment. So now, when we get back from the next break in a few minutes, I do want to talk talk a little bit about affordability, because it is interesting that in a time when inflation was at double digits through the Biden administration, and the gas was a dollar gallon higher, the issue of affordability did not seem to resonate with the political left. Now, it's not hatred, it is that when things were spiraling completely out of control, the political left they passed an inflation Reduction Act, which was like pouring gasoline on a fire. It just set it on firement worse. And when they talk about that there's not a problem in the cities they want to stop ice. When American cities. Burned during the summer protests and stuff like that, the Democrats weren't concerned billions of dollars lost, cities were burning, and the Democrats weren't concerned about crime. They weren't concerned. It's just this juxtaposition of Democrats. I don't know. It's hard to reconcile because they hate the inhabitant of the White House. Rather than have an assalient discussion about what we what do we do next, how do we make society better? But all they want to do is I don't get it. And what's even stranger to man, it's not that I hold the elected officials to some kind of high and lofty idealism. I don't. It's that the people that put them in office. What kind of people say it's okay to burn cities, and yet you're upset when we start enforcing laws of deporting immigrants and the cities aren't burning, or you know that inflation is double digits, and then when it's kind of getting under control, then you complain about affordability and how terrible things are. Those are the perspectives out of it. And so when we get to the other side of the I want to give a perspective on the cost of Since it's a week of Thanksgiving, so why don't we talk about that, Why don't we talk about the cost of Thanksgiving because there's some really good information out there. Now. Am I going to pretend that affordability is an issue? I think that after years of inflation under the Biden administration, sure. It's there. But you also have to look at what is happening in the economy, and there's some pretty good things. I mean, it looks like they're you know, the labor stuff came out September is better. There's some disconcerting things. About where that is and where white collar labor labor is right now, but that's that's the nature of economies in general. But there are some really good things in the economy. And when we get back from the break, we're going to talk about the cost because the far not farmuer, but the American Farm Bureau Federation has released what the cost of a classic Thanksgiving dinner for ten people is this year compared to last year. And you should feel good about that. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life, and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video started in nineteen ninety seven and Minhill, North Carolina. It was the first company to provide this valuable service, converting images, photos and videos into high quality produced slideshows, videos and albums. The trusted, talented and dedicated team at Creative Video will go over all of the details with you to create a perfect project. Satisfaction guaranteed. 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Remember this is prompted by two issues, and one is that the city of Charlotte was kind of sanctuarying itself through through through things, and they easily could have just cooperated and then deported people that they arrested it were criminals, but they didn't, and then they released criminals that should have been deported, criminals that should be in jail, child molesters and stuff. So anyway, this to me is a an easy solution. Like there's some complicated things like healthcare out there, There's some pretty complicated issues. Foreign policies is dicey at best. This Ukrainian Russia deal pretty dicey situation piece in the middle least dicey even dealing reading the tea leaves on the economy. That's why you have Wall Street and lots of firms that disagree on things. It's dicey stuff. But this this is one that you just this is a softball out into left field, past the fence. You know, an easy pitch. This is an out of the park, or, as the Carolina Panthers would love to believe is possible, it's a touchdown. It's an easy touchdown. Charlotte City leaders are providing a total of one hundred thousand dollars for people who were financially impacted by the US Customs and Border Patrol operation during last week. The funds, dispersed in partnership with Crisis Assistance Ministry, are to be used to support of rent and utility bills for households impacted by what the city calls ongoing economic disruptions across the community. The border patrols operation in Charlotte's webs was began as over the weekend, reportedly targeting criminals who were in the country. According to the Department Homeland Security, over three hundred and seventy people in the Charlotte area are being deported or in the country illegally as of Thursday afternoon, but this is last week. As a fallout, many in the city's Hispanic communities feared any interaction with the agents, leading to many businesses to close, like Manilo's Bakery and each Charlotte. So the point is a lot of the people that are here this is a tricky one. A lot of people who were here legally worked very hard to be here legally. A lot of the people who are foreign nationals that came here and I have become citizens, are in the process of becoming citizens. It's interesting that rather than Charlotte say, you know what, we really want to help and then we can deal with the fallout or whatever, rather that what they're doing is just opposing what's taking place and then trying to politicize it in this way. And that's to me just kind of said. Last week's city staff began outreach to community stakeholders to better understand the potential economic impacts. So what you've done is you've communicated people, hey, we're going to give you money. If you can show us that something bad happen to you will give you money. Give it away, give it away, give it away now. So you're encouraging people to and again the point, last week's city staff again outreach to community stakeholders to better understand the potential economic not that they had economic impacts, but there might have been and on families and understand what needs the City of Charlotte could help address this approach, which was influenced by the feedback we received from community stakeholders and is aligned with established City Council priorities related to housing stability, allows the city to provide rapid support to households and need, and is consistent with the city's track record of supporting residents during extraordinary times. Interestingly enough, the city hasn't come out and said that crime is an extraordinary thing that should be dealt with daily. The city's not coming out and saying crime and the crime committee against our citizens, the murders, the per snatching, the violent crimes that is not doesn't seem to be consistent with supporting residents during extraordinary times. Crime, criminal activity is an extraordinary time. Have you ever been robbed? I have been. It's a horrible thing. It leaves the lasting scar on you. You never forget that. So that's pretty extraordinary for all the citizens and Charlie have been robbed. I feel for you because the city doesn't seem to really care that much about you encouraging this. Is encouraging this instead of that, and it should be out there protecting citizens. And again, that sounds like I'm condemning them. I'm just shocked that they have an easy path and instead what they're doing is trying to ramp up divisiveness. They could easily bring the city together and say, you know what, we want to protect our citizens. We want to make sure there is we have enough criminals on the street right now that we need to prosecute. We need to make sure we do that, and we need to work with customs officials, immigration officials to make sure anyone that's here illegally should go back to their country or being incarcerated. But that's not what we see. That's just not what we see. So just very it's an odd prioritization. This seems to me to be an easy one now. And I drugged this one out a little bit because I do think it's important. I think we see this in all its expanding to Raleigh. There's going to be I don't know if the Democrats, and for Josh Stein, the Democrat governor of North Carolina, it's putting him in an interesting position. He's a former attorney general, does he and I think Republicans are good to kind of push him on this issue. Does Josh Stein, former Attorney general whose policies, some of whose policies have not made it easy to prosecute this stuff. Does he decide and he might, and he might. He hasn't really taken too harsh a stand against it, but he hasn't gone forward. He's kind of trying to stay away from it as people are trying to drag him into this issue. And it wouldn't be the first time that activists there or you know, partisans have drug a North Carolina governor into a Charlottean situation house built too. But josh Stein's has to ultimately decide where he is on this issue. Does he deploy the National Guard to deal with criminal elements and to deal with crime, get it under control? Because here's the truth. If he did, it would bring crime under control very quickly. Would It would drive those statistics down, and it could give someone like josh Stein the opportunity to take the very high road of saying, you know what, if any of our cities get out of line and get beyond law enforcements control, we're going to stop it. We're going to put our job number one, protect the citizens, the job of the Charlotte City Council, the mayor, work of the police department stop and there's a lot of PD folks that are find folks out there, police officers that are trying to do their jobs every day. It's a tough, tough job and the thankless nature of what they do. Man, I feel for them, all right. If you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too. And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app and it's a website and it combines news from around the world in one place so you can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, dot news slash pete. I put the link in the podcast description too. 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I talked about neighbors yesterday, how we've become a nation of neighbors that seem to want to just eviscerate and gut each other. And it doesn't need to be that way. And it's a shame that we've reached the point where it's it's more about hate than love. It's more about just not even not even wanting to learn. It's that whatever I believe, I'm only going to look at stuff that agrees with what I believe. And the facts be damned, but this is worth knowing. My opinion, Thanksgiving twenty twenty five brings something America hasn't seen much in recent years, lower prices. According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, the cost of a classic Thanksgiving dinner for ten people dropped about five percent this year, landing at fifty five eighteen after years of grocery store sticker shock. That's welcome relief, as it stands in sharp contrast to twenty twenty two, when the same meal hit a record high of more than sixty four dollars, the most expensive Thanksgiving in US history. Food prices don't rise or fall in a vacuum. Energy. Now, this is again perspective worth knowing. Food prices don't rise or fall in a vacuum. Energy is baked into every step of the supply chain, the fertilizer, the transportation, the processing, and the packaging. When energy costs drop, families feel it, and when energy costs spike, families feel that even more. That's why Thanksgiving affordability is a story about more than Turkey prices. It's a story about American energy dominance. Look at the gas pump. The national average gasoline prices in November during the Biden years has hovered around three forty seven a gallon compared to two sixty eight during Trump's time in office. That difference is real money for families traveling for the holidays, and it shapes the cost of everything on the table. More affordable energy means more affordable food. It's very simple. If you think about the cost of filling up a truck and driving it from point A to point B cheaper, The cost of running tractors in the fields cheaper. The cost of growing stuff it's cheaper. Because the tractors are constantly working. So the cost of energy and I just touched two of like a thousand different points of the supply chain is cheaper. And here's the part that the left wants you to really forget. When Thanksgiving dinner hits its record, hit its record in twenty twenty two, not a single Democrat expressed any outrage about affordability. Nothing. The same ones that are screaming about affordability today, they didn't say a word back then when gas prices shattered records and families were getting crushed at the pump. Did the eco leftists say anything? No, it was bulk silence, wasn't it. It was across the board. The same politicians who now pretend to champion kitchen table economics did not care when American families were feeling the pain. They claim to love the word affordability now, But while they were pretending to care, they might want to look in their own backyards, because state level green mandates and fuel standards still punish consumers still using Triple a's state averages. The five most expensive states for gas, they're all blue states. The five cheapest are all solid red states. When you look at where gas is most and least affordable, there's a Grand Canyon level divide in states where the eco lefts mandates and fuel standards dominate. California, Hawaii, Washington, and Oregon. Drivers are paying the highest prices in America about four nineteen per gallon, but in states like Oklahoma, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, in Arkansas, the average is two sixty three a gallon same gas. You don't have to be a political expert to see there's a premium charge for Philip of the states that embrace the green agenda. That's a dollar fifty six per gallon penalty for living with those eco policies. It's not ideology. That's math. It's not about left or right. It's just math. You're paying more. You fill up there, you pay more. You fill up in the other states you pay less. And it means a family driving a few hundred miles for Thanksgiving in California is paying dramatically more than a family traving the same distance in Oklahoma or Mississippi, even North Carolina, by the way, or South Carolina. So as we gather this year, we have a lot to be thankful for we live. And I've said this before, I'll continue to say it. We live in the greatest country in the world. Are there things that can be better? Being the greatest country doesn't mean you live in a perfect country, right Living in the greatest country doesn't mean perfect. And the beauty of our country as we are able to criticize it, we are able to improve it. We're able to make it better. And I think that history has shown that we continue to become a better country. In many ways. We get lost sometimes right now, I think all this DEI and transgender issue is has forced the country to go down a lost trail of a lacking common sense. But I think that there's a course correction and Americans are seeing it. I think getting back. To Christian roots do matter, doesn't mean everybody needs to be Christian. It just means that that was part of the makeup of the country. It's part of what makes this country great. We live in the greatest country in the world. The Thanksgiving meal this year is cheaper. Thankful for that. Travel is more affordable and the planes running, and America's energy workers continue to prove that when politicians get out of the way, the result is lower cost, stronger supply, and more green in our wallets. This Thanksgiving, the green agenda loss and American families won, and American families won one. And that's a that's a beautiful statement. If you if you let if you let yourself go down that road. A little bit is that those polities, uh solar wind, all these subsidies, they didn't make power cheaper. The transition to this is not made power cheaper, and it's not paying off. And yet the fuel. That drives a capitalist society is the cost of production, and the cost of production is driven by energy cost. And that's why you see the Germans that are that are failing, you see Europe floundering. It went all in could it have built a lot more nuclear facilities. We should have been building nuclear facilities for the past twenty five years, cheap, abundant, affordable energy. And we now know that tech there for nuclear facilities is better than it's ever been, safer than it's ever been, and we can make them smaller. We can make the scale of nuclear facilities far smaller than they used to be. So there's just so much we can do. But again, the point being, when you go to the grocery store for Thanksgiving, it doesn't it may not feel that way to you. And sure prices can come down. Prices are tough on folks, and if wages have gone up too, so that means Americans have more money in their pocket, But that doesn't mean it's for everybody. Doesn't mean everyone that's hearing this it's good for them, because we're not in all country. We're a sum. Some people are doing very well. We hope what we hope is the bulk of our citizens are doing better, and we hope that all of them can have some form of opportunity through hard work, diligence, sacrifice, the right attitude, and realizing that it takes hard work Overnight successes about fifteen years. But we hope that your kids have that. We hope that you have that. So there's just so much opportunity out there, and again I just want to bring that to your attention. This is written by Larry Barns as an energy expert in the communications director for Power of the Future. Has been on Fox News, Zero Hedge, Newsmax and he defends the energy sector. 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I can't It's hard to believe it's a real story. But it is. Just when you thought the Biden administration couldn't get a little weirder, you see a story like this the Biden administration, this is the And I don't like headlines that say bombshell. You know that's what they're bombshell. Oh my god, breaking news. That's just to me. It's a story and it's worthy of discussion. So that's why we'll talk about it. And Biden administration allegedly pressured US airports to house migrants despite warnings that it could compromise safety and put travelers at risk, according to a bombshell Senate report. The forty seven page document Flight Risk, released by the Senate Commerce Committee, alleges the White House directed the Department of Transportation, the FAA, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and the Federal Transit Administration to find airport facilities for shelters or processing centers for migrants. According to the report, the administration instructed DOT and FAA to inventory available facilities that both federally owned and local airports and to divert federal resources to support migrant arrivals. Internal email side in the report show concern among staff. On October six, twenty twenty three, one FAA official wrote to Massport, we have received this request from the White House to determine if there are available facilities. This is an immediate risk, so please prioritize this effort. Another dot staffer said, yikes, this is definitely Fox news fodder. In the making. The committee found at least eleven airports, including Boston, Logan, Chicago, Haare, New York's JFK, were asked or even pressured to put migrants inside the terminals of their airports. FA officials, according to report, recognized that such use would you usually need federal approval under grant assurance rules. Instead, they ignored them most of the time when airports used their facilities to house aliens. Despite that warning, the report says Logan hosted up to Logan Airport in Boston three hundred and fifty two migrants overnight in Terminal E, and they spent seven hundred seventy nine thousand on security, cleaning and transportation. Chicago's Ohair nine hundred migrants were sheltered between April twenty three and February twenty four. The report says they logged three hundred twenty nine service calls, twenty six arrests. Anyway, the point being, what were they thinking? Again, and I say this with disbelief, I guess the Biden administration was in full control at that point. They had everything they needed. They were running, allegedly running the government, not just an autopen presidency. But it appears that way they. Could have easily said, let's just enforce the law, let's just deport people, let's secure the border. But rather than doing that, you send Kamala Harris down to Guatemala to talk about root causes. You don't enforce the border. Millions of people flow across as like an invading force, and then you decide the way to deal with it is to put some migrants in airports across the country, in dangering US citizens. Yeah. Yeah, you can't make this stuff. I mean, you can't make it up, but it wouldn't be believable. Chapter one, how to screw up. Let's just take let's not enforce immigration, let's tear the border down, and then let's put a couple of them. Let's put them in airports. Yeah, that's it. Put them in airports. Who comes up with this? And here's the part and I get. I get with the mag of faithful. I get why they're upset when they say, you know, arrest them, they need to be in jail. Blah blah blah. I just want to know what happened. We don't even know. We're hearing bits and pieces between the auto pen between Hunter and Notice that the Hunter Biden's artwork isn't really selling for anything. If you want to, if you want like kind of some knowledge that it's not going well and that they were paying for access, I'll bet you any kind of stock in Hunter Biden's paintings has just gone away. They're worthless. You know, you were paying him an excess amount of money for access to his dad. And again that's my assertion, but I'm sure, I'm sure you can probably get a deal on Hunter Biden's paintings. Right now because it's not giving you access to anything. But again, when faced with the opportunity, and I would go back to Mayor Lewles. And I'm not saying I'm not being mean to the mayor. I'm just asserting that wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to have these discussions, that we were on the the same It's the same page. But we're not. It's just it's just uh sad, It's kind of pathetic, Maya. I didn't mean to belabor that too long, but it is to me. There are things, there are legitimate things that we can have discussions about. But it looks like the political left hates Donald Trump so bad that they'd rather just release videos telling the military to disobey orders. They'd rather, you know, make hay about giving you know, on not enforcing the border stuff or immigration stuff. They'd rather attack the guy in the White House than actually put their nose to the grindstone and help solve some problems. Say, let's get through this, Let's figure out a way to solve some of these problems. This isn't to me, it isn't overly complicated, and it certainly is. But again, we're in such a politically charge and I get the President drives you bonkers. He says stuff. I mean, even today during the Turkey partying, which was absolutely hysterical, he took the opportunity to take a shot at JB. Pritzker's size. He should he have done that? No? Should he be. Nicknaming everybody like a third grader? No? Is it part of what he is and who he is. Yes, but you know what when other people call him a fascist and a Nazi, they're doing They're not better than him, they're not elevating their cause. And so when someone asked him in the White House, Mundani, didn't you call him a fascist? And Mamdani starts to give a political answer, and Trump says, yeah, yeah, you did, just say it. It's easier than trying to explain it. And he brushes it off because what he's interested in is actually having the discussions. I mean, the Ukraine rushes stuff. I mean, they go back to the table again and again and again. They know Putin's the bad guy. They get concessions from Ukraine at some point. You know, Putin's really good at being a bad guy. He's very very good at being a bad guy. But maybe Trump is leveraging g Over in China to try to get the Russians. To be at the table. Right now, we have an agreement from the Ukrainians. This could be golden, this could be you know, the Abraham Accords, getting Saudi Arabia and other countries on board. Beautiful diplomacy. It's not pretty, but it's consistently hitting those phone lines and never giving up. He is whether you hate him or not, He's tireless and relentless. Look at the energy he brings to the table compared to the guy that has just left the White House. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.