Well, Ron DeSantis has done it, hasn't he? He's used political scare tactics to try to
get a few votes. Now, what we see, Trump is even moving further ahead. Trump is killing
him even in the state of Florida because he thought that this big immigration show that
these cats in Tallahassee were putting on was really gonna help him. Just the opposite, right?
Yeah. This is one of the most devastating moves to the Florida economy that Ron DeSantis could
have done. I mean, we're talking about 8% of our workforce overall, by putting this law in place,
you know, you can't hire any migrant workers. It's gonna be a $10,000 fine
per worker that you hire. And business leaders are sounding the alarm. But more importantly,
we are seeing videos emerge constantly of construction sites, entire neighborhoods
being built. Closed down.
It's a ghost town. Yeah.
Truckers threatening boycotts in the state. Well, now, you know, we're gonna get comments. Oh,
that's nonsense. You're making that up. No, I have driven by sites that are dead in the water. People
don't have, you're gonna have immigrants that, look, what is it about the immigrant worker that's
so valuable to the entire GDP of this state? Okay, first of all is mobility. Right. When we have,
when crops have to be handled in Central Florida, they're able to move to Central
Florida and help us with that. When crops have to be handled in South Florida, they're able to
move to South Florida and handle that. And all these cats are saying, well, they're taking my
job. Nonsense. If they were taking anybody's job, those sites wouldn't be closed down.
Right. If they were taking anybody's job, there'd
be everybody out there picking strawberries and picking oranges. So the mobility factor alone,
because of what Ron DeSantis has done, is going to, this is the projection. The GDP is going to
drop by $13 billion. That's what they did in Tallahassee as they were playing games,
as they were involved with scare tactics. So the mobility factor is important,
but also the demographic factor. For every, I think what it is, for every 65 year old and older,
there are only three people, three bodies that are gonna replace them in the workforce. So the idea
of demographics becomes important because we have to have somebody moving into the state to replace
and make those demographics solid to where we can have workers that are increasing our GDP. Right?
Yeah, absolutely. And I think what people don't understand, there's great numbers here, you know,
like I said, it makes, the migrants make up about 8% of our total workforce, but when you break it
down by industry, it gets a lot worse. We're talking about 37% of our agricultural workers,
23% of our construction workers, 14% of our service workers in the state. And the service
industry is one of the biggest industries here. But, so they make up a disproportionate amount
of the three industries that keep this state running. And DeSantis is telling businesses,
I'm gonna make you pay me $10,000 for every one of these people you hire.
Let's talk about what's happened here. People don't understand the ramifications of this.
Let's start with the very basics. First of all, the genius says we're gonna put $12 million over
to this special, this special group, and the special group is gonna make sure that this thing
that we just passed is going to have teeth to it. So here's what you've got. You've got 1.8 million
immigrants, undoc, excuse me, documented and undocumented working in Florida. This is designed
to put fear in their heart, to put desperation in their heart, to the desperation to the point to
where they can't even go to a hospital. Under this bill if they go to a hospital and try to get care
for their children, they have to be reported to the government. And, so it's not just fear, it's
desperation. Anytime you trap anybody with fear and desperation, they ain't gonna stick around.
And that's what's already happening here. Jobs, you know, the jobs thing we've talked about so
much. It's just so obvious. The desperation that's already been caused by this. We did,
I think what two segments on this couple of weeks ago, we had 2 million, 3 million viewers on it
that were so angry that the comments, it was palpable. I mean, it was palpable. The anger
that's coming out of it. Some of them were very sophisticated. They were obviously coming from
the business sector where you had folks that were running construction companies, saying,
I don't know. How the hell am I gonna hire anybody? And I think the thing that makes me
the angriest is when you have these people saying, oh, you know, they're taking my jobs. That's total
nonsense. It's. They're not taking anybody's jobs. These are jobs that nobody wants to do. They don't
wanna clean hotel rooms. They don't wanna pick agriculture fruit. They don't wanna build roofs.
They don't wanna be in 120 degrees out in the middle of nowhere putting a roof on a house
after a hurricane hits Florida. They don't wanna do all that stuff. So don't write in comments
to this show saying, oh gee, whizz, you're putting people outta work. That's ridiculous.
Well, it's funny that you bring that up because about 10 years ago in the state of Georgia, same
talking point, you know, the migrants are taking our jobs. So Georgia passes a similar law 10 years
ago, says, okay, we're getting rid of the migrant workers, we're doing away with this special visa
program. And what happened the year after that was that you had crops, and Georgia has far more
agriculture than we have, crops were rotting in the field. Homes were left unbuilt and untouched
for over a year because even though those jobs were available, nobody wanted to take the jobs.
What happened to the chicken industry? Remember they raid Tyson. They say we're closing you down.
The price of chicken went up 40% in some regions. We couldn't even buy chicken because somebody was
gonna come do these jobs if we get rid of the undocumented migrant. That was the argument.
Somebody's gonna come do this job. You think that's really a reality? Well, we know it's
not a reality. Historically we know it's not a reality. Nobody's gonna fill these jobs. Look,
here's part of the problem we have in Florida. South Florida looks like Jurassic Park. You got
all these folks that are, I mean, they're 65 and up, they're coming in from all over the
country because they love this guy. They love his conservatism. He's gonna save us. We gotta get out
of our state and go to Florida because we love this. So it's these old people. Hell, it looks
like The Walking Dead down in South Florida. So who's gonna take care of South Florida?
Right now you have undocumented immigrants that are taking care of South Florida. They've taken
care of hotels, building, agriculture, service industry. They're doing that. You think you're
gonna get these old timers to do all that when all the undocumented workers disappear? It looks
like frigging Jurassic Park down there, man. It basically is. And you're right. I mean,
we're not gonna get the folks down in The Villages to go out there and start building houses.
Tell what, tell the, what are The Villages? It's this massive retirement community.
Jesus Christ. Where, you know, you get old people
all around the country. They come there, they do their golf cart parades and you got about half of
'em that are pro Democrat, half pro Republican. They're gonna tip over at any
moment. I mean, they're gonna tip over at any moment. And what are they gonna, are they gonna go
fix roofs? Are they gonna pick strawberries? Well, and that's the thing. I mean, we know
one thing they're doing, they actually have one of the highest STD rates in the entire country. Um.
That's weird. But it's a true statement. It really is.
Well, anyway, look, we're gonna keep at this story. I want him to get the message.
Yeah. I want him
to understand why Donald Trump is killing him, is killing him in the numbers. And he
thought this was gonna help, all of his little pals over there, who's that guy we always talk
about the big forehead? Andrade. How, Andrade was gonna come to his aid and help him with all
this stuff. I want these folks to know what the net effect of this is. It's not good.