Valuetainment - May 01, 2025


＂You Are BLOWING It!＂ - Newsom Praises California's SKYROCKETING Economy As Cities COLLAPSE


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California is facing a deficit of over $6 billion. They are using Medicaid money to pay for homeless people to sleep in their cars. Meanwhile, America is funding the shortfall on this under Gavin Newsom s watch and students are sleeping in cars to get a college degree.

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00:00:00.000 So, California Medi-Cal program, facing a deficit over $6 billion on loans, has been spending on non-medical services like rent assistance and medically tailored meals under its CalAIM, California Advanced and Innovating Medi-Cal Initiative, which reimagined health care to include housing and healthy food for the state's poorest and sickest residents.
00:00:22.780 The federal government under the Trump administration and newly confirmed Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Head Dr. Mehmet Oz is cracking down on Medi-Cal and other medical programs with Oz stating that Medicaid dollars for vulnerable people are being used for non-medical services, crowding out spending on education and other services.
00:00:43.040 Tom, what do you know about the story?
00:00:44.460 This is California.
00:00:47.200 Let's just say, let me look up and check my notes.
00:00:49.980 Yep, they're broke.
00:00:50.760 And so, they are misappropriating money.
00:00:53.800 And misappropriation is when money was put in a government account for something, it needs to be used for that something.
00:01:00.060 And so, California Medicaid has been stressed because they brought in so many of these illegal aliens, undocumented immigrants, whatever political name you have for them, they brought in excess peoples. 0.99
00:01:13.460 And those peoples break their legs, get sick, go to the hospital, and Medicaid covers the cost of that.
00:01:20.480 That's what Medicaid is.
00:01:21.940 When you hear Cade, C-A-I-D, that is for people who are poor or otherwise don't have money, and they get their services covered by the state because they can't pay for it.
00:01:32.520 And if a six-year-old child walks in with a broken ankle, I want that child cared for.
00:01:37.100 So, so does everybody else.
00:01:38.920 Well, they're taking some of that money, and they were using it on homeless because what's the other side of the barbell, right?
00:01:45.740 On one side, you've got, you know, these illegal aliens, undocumented immigrants, you know, tourists, whatever name you have.
00:01:54.740 They need medical services, but they also are in tent cities.
00:01:59.280 So they're trying to use the Medicaid dollars tent cities. 0.99
00:02:02.560 It says, so, spoiler alert, America, states cannot run an annual deficit.
00:02:08.500 It's against the law.
00:02:09.660 They can't do it.
00:02:10.360 They have to balance the books at the end of the year, and they balance the books on the rest of us.
00:02:15.620 When a storm, yes, hits Florida or an earthquake hits California and they can't balance the books, FEMA federal dollars come into the state to cover the gap.
00:02:24.780 And so when the state has an absolute gap, they go to the federal government to get federal money to come in.
00:02:31.120 So when California misuses Medicare to do it for other things other than helping poor people get medical services,
00:02:38.500 you, me, and everybody else in the other 49 states end up paying for it because one way or another it comes from the federal government.
00:02:46.860 Meanwhile, they're saying they're going to allow homeless students, now put those two together, homeless and student, to sleep in their cars.
00:02:56.260 Wait a minute.
00:02:57.740 Colleges, public colleges, have dorms.
00:03:00.360 Dorms are low-cost, very cheap apartments for students.
00:03:03.740 So why the hell, if you're using the money for, you know, what type of homeless, Oz is pointing out.
00:03:12.520 Dr. Oz, it says, crowding out spending on education and other state services.
00:03:16.640 Why can't those be, if you're going to misappropriate the Medicaid budget, why don't instead of having students sleep in their cars,
00:03:23.540 figure out how to get truly, truly poor students who is a student, and a student means you're in a junior college or something in California,
00:03:32.420 and you're sleeping in your car and you're a student, why can't we cover something for that student, that poor student, in their dorm so they can get their degree, 0.68
00:03:40.780 live in a dorm, which is an incredibly low-cost, very small student apartment, and come out with that.
00:03:46.120 Meanwhile, America is funding the shortfall on this under Gavin Newsom's watch,
00:03:51.780 and students are sleeping in cars while they're trying to get something of a college degree and some education to go get a job,
00:03:58.320 and then homeless people are getting their housing paid for by the governor.
00:04:02.860 This is just so bad on so many levels.
00:04:05.860 It really hurts me to talk about it.
00:04:08.260 Reminds me of another, and by the way, you know what Californians will say?
00:04:11.600 You guys hate on California so much, we became the fourth largest economy in the world.
00:04:16.340 What do you say to those guys, Tom?
00:04:18.440 You don't know what you're talking about.
00:04:19.500 You guys just have hate in your hearts about California, Tom.
00:04:22.300 You just have hate in your heart.
00:04:24.440 You are the fourth largest economy in the world for now, and you look at the people that are leaving,
00:04:30.340 and I look at the condition of your people there, and if you want to hang your argument on,
00:04:36.460 we're the fourth largest economy in the world, really?
00:04:39.960 Then I'm going to go and say China is the second most populous country in the world.
00:04:44.260 Ha, look at that.
00:04:45.160 And then you go look at the squalor, and you look at the oppression, you look at what's happening in China.
00:04:50.420 You tell me, oh, we're fourth largest economy in the world.
00:04:53.100 Really?
00:04:53.940 And you have this homelessness, and you have these students living in their cars, and you have all this?
00:04:58.480 What are you doing with the money?
00:04:59.900 You're misappropriating it.
00:05:01.200 You're so using the opportunity as the fourth largest economy, you're blowing it.
00:05:06.280 It's like the kid that gets the big free agent contract, and he's out of the NFL and dead broke three years later
00:05:12.020 because he spent it on everything but.
00:05:14.300 You guys are a spending machine that is absolutely out of control.
00:05:20.000 You have hate in your heart.
00:05:21.280 I'm not hating on you.
00:05:22.660 I'm a Dodger fan.
00:05:23.080 I'm looking at the numbers.
00:05:24.560 No, I'm just telling you, you have hate in your heart.
00:05:26.200 That's what they would say to you.
00:05:27.480 No, not my Tom.
00:05:27.860 Tom, they would say that.
00:05:28.600 They would say, you have hate in your heart towards California.
00:05:31.180 What did California ever do to you?
00:05:33.540 Since you left California, why don't you stop rooting for the Dodgers and become a Marlins fan?
00:05:38.720 Why don't you?
00:05:39.760 I love good baseball.
00:05:42.200 You love good baseball?
00:05:43.080 I love good baseball, and I'm a Dodger fan at the heart, but I love good baseball.
00:05:47.660 Tom, I feel free, my brother.
00:05:49.860 So what they're doing in California right now is very reminiscent of what they made Chris Farley do,
00:05:53.140 is living in a van down by the river.
00:05:55.780 Exactly.
00:05:56.340 So you're making college kids sleep in their cars?
00:06:00.740 This is what's going on right now?
00:06:01.580 Or you're paying for housing for homeless people.
00:06:03.420 Living in a van down by the river.
00:06:06.260 So what's going on in California is this, and they always say this,
00:06:09.020 and I actually fell for it.
00:06:10.040 They're like, we're so rich.
00:06:11.360 We got the fourth largest economy.
00:06:12.820 We just surpassed Japan.
00:06:14.680 We are a trillion dollar economy.
00:06:16.220 It's like, yeah, but there's a big difference with your money between what you make
00:06:20.240 and what you spend.
00:06:22.620 Anytime you're trying to balance a budget, you ask two questions.
00:06:25.620 What's your income, and what are your expenses?
00:06:28.520 Because there's so many people in America right now that I see that's like,
00:06:30.960 I make $100,000 a year, but it's like, why are you $30,000 in debt?
00:06:34.840 Because I spend $130,000 a year.
00:06:36.400 I got credit cards.
00:06:37.520 I got a fancy car.
00:06:39.260 So it's like, all right, you're making all this money, California, right?
00:06:43.480 You have a trillion dollar economy, but you're over budget,
00:06:47.420 and you're spending stupid things on stupid homeless programs, on Medicaid,
00:06:52.060 and all these dumb expenses.
00:06:53.040 That's great.
00:06:54.020 Amazing.
00:06:54.840 Silicon Valley is making all the money, but it's not filtering down to the rest of us.
00:06:59.380 So income is great, but your expenses are horrible.
00:07:01.700 It's almost like in sports, you have a great offense, but a horrible defense,
00:07:06.320 and then you lose the game 110, 112, just like the Lakers.
00:07:10.360 You know how many homeless people there are currently in California?
00:07:13.180 A lot.
00:07:14.000 174?
00:07:14.920 187 now.
00:07:15.940 187,000, give or take.
00:07:17.600 And the irony is that they'll accuse you of having hate in your heart
00:07:20.340 and not being compassionate for the homeless,
00:07:22.620 and the more homeless that they have,
00:07:24.300 the more compassion that you have to give to the more homeless that you have.
00:07:27.240 But I always say, like, California is comparable to Canada in a certain way,
00:07:31.660 and if you want to know where California is heading,
00:07:33.540 you can look north to see what's going on in Canada.
00:07:35.540 Yeah.
00:07:35.840 And it's only a matter of time before they start,
00:07:38.060 I'm not even being cynical,
00:07:39.360 start expanding on their medical assistance and dying or euthanasia programs in California
00:07:42.880 to take care of that problem,
00:07:44.980 which is an uncontrollable burden on the economy.
00:07:47.640 But it's true.
00:07:48.380 Biggest economy in the world,
00:07:49.780 and you're squandering money through corrupt means on the homeless,
00:07:53.820 and you have a state where you don't have water in the fire hydrants
00:07:57.060 for when you have a crisis,
00:07:57.980 and then you come crying to the federal government for more federal emergency monies
00:08:02.700 while simultaneously failing at your basic obligations as governor.
00:08:07.080 And words, talk, numbers, scream.
00:08:08.840 This from the federal government under Biden before the inauguration of Trump,
00:08:14.060 and it's continued to be true.
00:08:15.720 California loses 600 jobs a day.
00:08:19.840 54,000 jobs a quarter.
00:08:22.000 Where do they go?
00:08:22.480 They're lost right now.
00:08:23.360 No, they're lost.
00:08:24.380 They're either layoff and not replaced,
00:08:26.040 or they've moved out of state.
00:08:27.560 And like two refineries, Valero just announced it's closing a refinery.
00:08:31.540 So guess what?
00:08:32.440 By the midterm elections,
00:08:34.980 California gas will be about 8% to 10% more expensive on transportation costs
00:08:41.540 because they're moving refineries out of California.
00:08:44.220 So you've got to pay to wheel the gas into California that goes into the tank,
00:08:49.900 that goes into the pump, that goes into your car.
00:08:51.860 During a season like this where a lot of people are going through challenging times,
00:08:55.300 they're worried.
00:08:55.840 They don't know what's going on.
00:08:56.600 Some of the people are having a hard time with their finances,
00:08:58.880 with their small businesses, with their careers, with their families, stress period, anxiety,
00:09:03.520 any of that stuff.
00:09:04.080 I said, I think we need something to make people's day.
00:09:07.020 And I think our audience wants to participate in that.
00:09:10.960 So what do we do?
00:09:11.700 We sat there and said, we want to come up, since our audience, a lot of business owners,
00:09:16.380 executives, small business owners, entrepreneurs, we want to send,
00:09:19.680 we want to give you the opportunity to send a package to anybody you know that's going through challenging time
00:09:25.280 with a heartfelt message to make their day.
00:09:29.340 So today we're launching this new initiative called When Life Gives You Lemons,
00:09:36.640 what do we do?
00:09:37.820 Make lemonade.
00:09:39.060 This program right here, Rob, if you want to play the clip.
00:09:41.140 So we're sitting, we're coming up with this idea.
00:09:42.820 Here's what it is.
00:09:43.600 The box is when you choose to order this program that we have, okay, you send this box,
00:09:51.600 we send it on behalf of you, that box right there, they open it up,
00:09:55.560 there's a video message being played by me, an encouraging message about what they're going through today.
00:10:00.820 They get a hat on top of that, they get the smell.
00:10:04.520 When you open this up, it smells like lemon, literally when you open it up.
00:10:08.760 You get to pick and choose.
00:10:10.060 My video is playing right here when they open it up.
00:10:12.740 Obviously, I'm going to press pause here, but it's an encouraging message.
00:10:15.840 You get to pick and choose what color hat they get.
00:10:18.120 It's either the white lemon hat with Valuetainment and a lemon on the back,
00:10:21.920 and it says When Life Gives You Lemon, in the middle it says Make Lemonade.
00:10:24.880 You can choose the green hat or you can choose the red and green, all of this,
00:10:29.640 but the black and green in it.
00:10:31.980 Anyways, inside of it, when you open it up, there's a Valuetainment paper that's in it.
00:10:37.720 There is this lemon squeezer that's in it.
00:10:41.080 You got these, what do you call these things?
00:10:42.560 Air fresheners.
00:10:43.200 Air fresheners in the car.
00:10:44.780 You got a bunch of stickers, a bunch of lemons, and then stress balls in it.
00:10:48.940 They're going to laugh.
00:10:50.200 They're going to have fun with it.
00:10:51.560 But if you're somebody that's watching this, you have a friend, a family member,
00:10:54.900 a co-worker that's really going through it today,
00:10:57.860 and you want to put the biggest smile on their face,
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00:11:04.100 go to vtmerch.com.
00:11:06.320 Rob, if you can help them walk through this.
00:11:08.200 And there's going to be a card in there.
00:11:09.260 You can go to vtmerch.com.
00:11:11.960 Rob, if you can go to the card so they can see what that will look like.
00:11:15.160 So they'll get that box.
00:11:16.500 You see the future looks bright on it, hashtag.
00:11:18.260 And then the notes right there with your name on the bottom left,
00:11:23.020 meaning sent to you with care from your name, being in there.
00:11:27.000 So this is more than just a box.
00:11:28.160 It's a message of optimism, encouragement,
00:11:29.660 and the power of turning life's lemons into something amazing.
00:11:33.120 We want to be able to use these opportunities to make people's days.
00:11:37.240 We did this with only a limited 500 of these.
00:11:40.580 We don't have more of these.
00:11:41.480 These are all handmade.
00:11:42.980 These took six weeks to make.
00:11:44.660 So we only have 500 supply.
00:11:47.480 The cost on this, we're making no money on this.
00:11:49.860 This is $74.99 to ship it to somebody with everything that's in there.
00:11:54.140 So go to vtmerch.com, place your order.
00:11:56.240 And when you do, be sure in the shipping address you put their shipping address.
00:12:00.560 Unless if you want one that comes to you, there are going to be limited supplies.
00:12:03.540 You can have one being shipped to you, and you go deliver it to somebody.
00:12:06.160 I'm personally sending 10 to people that I know,
00:12:08.740 and I think Pierre Poliev is on the list of one of the ones that I have.
00:12:11.560 Better put an apple in there, too.
00:12:14.660 I'm going to be going to some of the people that I have as well.
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