Jan. 4th Show
Guest: Rebecca Schneider, Sgt. Davis Kring This show will re-air on WQRZ at 6 am central and went 3 hours. You can hear it on WQRZ.org Monday Jan. 5th. Also show blog is on the comments section.
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We will return to live shows with Rebecca Schneider who ran against Jeff Flake in the last elections. She will discuss with us Jeff Flake and his positions on issues since he was recently proclaimed by the Arizona Republic as the future face of the Arizona GOP. He is referred to in the article as a Maverick and we will show he is certainly no maverick.
Davis Kring is an Iraq War Veteran from the Mississippi National Guard who is having problems with FEMA on his MEMA Cottage. They want to move his cottage to a commerical property off his private property. Kring was awarded Congressional Recognition for his work after Katrina.
Here is an article from the Sea Coast Echo newspaper:
Waveland Board of Aldermen: Iraq veteran must move
By Dwayne Bremer
Dec 19, 2008, 18:55
For the past three years, Waveland resident Cheryl Kring and her family have tried to get their lives back in order after losing everything during Hurricane Katrina. For a good portion of those three years, her husband U.S. Army Sgt. Davis Kring has spent his time serving his country in Iraq.
Today, Sgt. Kring and his family are facing more unexpected challenges which have nothing to do with insurgents and roadside bombs.
U.S. Army Sgt. Davis Kring, his wife Cheryl, and son Andrew are trying to make the most of Christmas this year. Sgt. Kring has recently returned home from Iraq, but now faces an uncertain future as city leaders have refused to let him keep his Mississippi Cottage.
The Krings are one of dozens of families still living in Mississippi Cottages, and soon, they may have to leave their property and find another home as the deadline for the cottages is just three months away.
“I love my country,” Sgt. Kring said Thursday. “But I am really starting to not like government. It seems like the more we try to follow the rules, the further we fall behind.”
Prior to Katrina, the Krings were renting a home in Shoreline Park. That home was destroyed and since they did not own the residence, they were not eligible for any grants.
Additionally, several attempts to get a church or volunteer group to assist them in building a home have fallen through, Cheryl said.
After spending more than a year at the Scenic Trails trailer park in north Hancock County, Davis was deployed to Iraq in 2007.
While he was in Iraq, the Krings were approved for a Mississippi cottage, which they put on Cheryl’s family property on Bourgeois St.
The pressure of trying to rebuild their lives and being separated took a toll on both Cheryl and Davis.
Cheryl suffered a stroke last year and Davis suffered a stress condition in Iraq.
“I just broke down,” he said. “The stress of being over there and not being with my family was almost too much. We have just been in a state of limbo ever since the storm.”
After 14 months in Iraq, Davis returned home late this summer. He now works in Gulfport at the Army’s CRTC 1108 AVCRAD division.
On Tuesday, Sgt. Kring made a passionate plea to the Waveland Board of Aldermen. He asked the board to show some compassion to the people who are still struggling and want to stay in Waveland.
The Waveland Board of Aldermen have previously voted to allow the cottages to stay in commercial parks only. Twice, the board has refused to even consider a motion to allow them to stay in residential areas.
“I’ve have never heard from the board itself what their objections to the cottages are,” he said. “There is nothing wrong with these cottages. This decision is putting a lot of people in tough situations. There is no way we could afford an apartment, the rent is outrageous.”
Kring said he does not buy several of the arguments for removing the cottages.
“They say it will bring property values down,” he said. “Look around, there are hardly any properties in this area.”
There is only one house on the same street as Kring’s cottage, and very few in the Bourgeois St. area.
“They are constantly saying they want people to come back to Waveland, but they are pushing people out,” Cheryl said.
The idea of having to leave the place where she grew up and moving to a trailer park or public housing does not make sense to Cheryl.
“It makes me angry,” she said. “It makes no sense. I have lived here all my live. I went to school and grew up with everyone and now they are telling me I have to move to the projects.”
Other Waveland residents came to the Krings’ defense at Tuesday’s meeting.
“It is all some people have,” Connie West said. “They will be on the street and in the grass if we throw them out. I am lucky to have a house, but I feel really bad for these people.”
The Krings said they are currently weighing their legal options, but they are still trying to make the most of the Christmas season.
Their cottage is decorated with lights and ornaments and their cottage is filled with Christmas spirit.
“It’s all we can do right now,” Cheryl said. “We love Waveland and like others who have lived here for decades, we just want a chance to stay.”
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The show begins.
The first hour, we will have Rebecca Schneider who ran against Jeff Flake, The Arizona Republic has declared Flake to be the new face of the state Republican party,
Rebecca said that Flake is no maverick, and his only good quality is that he is against pork spending. Flake has a history of voting for things against the people, not supporting relief for Katrina survivors nor Homes for Heroes to benefit Iraq War veterans,
It is not a new face for the part, Schneider said.
Sarge said that he is surprised that any Republican won here, and that hatred was a key factor - especially for illegal immigrants.
Rebecca said that the AGOP base was afraid of several things and this expressed itself in the vote against allowing gay people to marry, There was some campaigning against immigrants, and there was the factor that John McCain was a local person running for national office.
Rebecca said that she does not believe that Flake serves the district. People here are hurting. We have the second highest rate of foreclosure in the area here, He does not want to help veterans or help women,
Rebecca said that Flake is very photogenic and many people just vote on party lines. Every single Republican and independdent that she interacted wutg kujed wagt sge gad ti say.
Rebecca saud that Jeff Flake is really a Libertarian not a Republican, She agreed with Sarge that Flake wants to shrink government small enough so that it can be drowned in a bath tub. That is never going to happen.
Sare said that did not work in Katrina and is still not working. It has been a miserable failure. One thing I have noticed is that the city of Mesa has a lot of problems. There are many problems in Mesa, and Jeff Flake seems to be part of the problem of doing hte same thing over and over again.
The show returns after a song by Dav id Rovics. ( http://www.davidrovics.com/ )
The show is being carried on WQRZ. Next hour, we will have an Iraq War veteran getting the shaft from the Bush administration,
Rebecca said the thought of Flake running for governor in 2010 frightens here. Having Jan Brewer in for Janet Napolitano is troubling but if Flake gets in, services will be cut even further. Flake will rubber stamp cutting everything and we will have no services, no mental health, and no help for the schools.
When I got oug here, Sarge said, I was told that Mesa had serious problems and that things were in to go downhill.
Flake has voted against property taxes and does not help small businesses at all. He never will bring any money back for such things as the fire department and public transportation. They do not have enough public transit and has no bus service on Sundays.. I work an overnight shift at ASU and I cannot take a bus on Sunday nights.
You can’t depend on sales tax to fund city services when the businesses are all closing when government does not give them tax breaks. In Mesa, if you have to apply for a federal small business loan, you have to deal with the banks and get no support from the town,
Sarge said that he has found a lot of civic minded cops in Mesa, and we are likely to lose a lot of them due to budget cuts.
Rebecca said she has found the police in almost all cases to be courteous. The only thing I would suggest is that they would need more training for dealing with people with mental health issues, something that most officers need.
Rebecca said she does not understand the willingness of some to give up Constitutional freedoms for an illusion of some security. If a person is determined to get on a plane and cause some havoc, they can get some weapon or liquid on board. Every time we give up some freedom, we come closer and closer to fascism, and that is not what America is about,
We had millions fight against fascism, and we should not casually give up our rights,
The show returns after a song from John Niems, ( http://www.johnniems.com/ )
Sarge makes a shout out to Radine who helped start out Unreported News and has a new site http://www.spreadpeace,org . I am not sure if it is ready yet but check it out,
Sarge said that Brice Phillips of WQRZ asked him to give Rebecca a special shout out.
Rebecca said that she wishes Brice received more support from local and federal government, but htat has not happened. Sarge said that the mentality that we have lived with has not helped these past eight years.
Rebecca said that we have scene trickle down economics not work and have people forget that government is supposed to help people.
Rebecca said our vets come back and are not paid enough. Flake has not fought against pork spending for KBR and Blackwater,
Rebecca said that there is a big difference between pork and spending money to really help communities. The bridge to nowhere and no bid contracts for KBR and Haliburton are pork,.
We need to have money come back to our communities to create jobs, especially locally, Rebecca said. We need to ask for money. Here in the 6th Congressional district, we are sending our money down a rat hole.
Sarge said that greed is a great problem. Monique has been helping one woman move out so that her son can charge more money for rent - while her husband is in a hospice situation,
Sarge said that some people say MEMA cottages take away from property value in the area when there are only two homes in that area. The area that Davis Kring lives in is a rural area. The claim about property values is BS,
Rebecca said that our soldiers need to make more money, as we are expecting them to fight and risk being wounded. These kids are sacrificing everything, nad their families are left home alone, living off of food stamps. Despite Flake’s best efforts, Homes for Heroes passed and Kring needs to contact his state representative in order to help get a home,
Rebecca said that a lot of people in Washington are self centered, are concerned with the status quo and their own situation instead of serving the people. Half the problem is that most of the folks who get to Washington already have money. I ran as someone on a middle class income, and had to rely on the citizens of this district and others who made donations mostly around $50 to $100. I understand what it is to live a normal life and struggle, unlike Jeff Flake whose family has had money for generations.
Rebecca said that people are told to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, but many of those saying that come from money.
Rebecca said she plans to run again. She took some down time. It is not too early to start donating again. I am asking listeners that if they want to have someone who will work to the bone for you, please consider domating to her. If you donate $10 per month, I will have a lot of cash to fight. You can go to http://rebeccaschneiderforcongress.com/ to donate or contact her.
We are back after a song from Fred Starner — http://www.hobobanjofred.com/ - to learn more about this great singer,
Sarge said that the author of the article on Flake sounded like he was on the Republican pay roll,
Rebecca said that the article said he fights pork and goes against the party, but they don’t say what he goes against the party. He was only one of two votes against a program to help veterans get loans to set up small business. This may be going against the Republican party, but this is stupid,
Sarge said that he sent Jeff Farias an e-mail saying Palin/Flake 2012,
Rebecca said that the article was written by Dan Nowicki of the Arizona Republic. It is nothing but a fluff piece,
Sarge said he does not see anyone writing such thins about Tim Nelson, Dan Saban or Rebecca.
Rebecca said that Flake is really a Libertarian and needs to have more than charisma.
Sarge said we need to make changes to get our country back on track as Obama plans,
Rebecca said all that Flake wants to do is support multi-naitonal corporations and do nothing for folks back home.
Sarge said Flake is really a corporate whore.
Rebecca said that as a supposed Republican, one would think that Flake would support small business - where most Americans work, unlike multi-national corporations. Small businesses support most of America.
Sarge said we still have areas that are devastated like the Katrina area, the flooding in Iowa, and from Ike in Texas. We once had a budget surplus that could have dealt with these disasters. So, we want to put these people in charge when they hate government? This would be like putting someone who hates football to run the football program at ASU,
Rebecca said that she thinks that Obama’s picks for the cabinet are people who know what they are doing and will help make change happen,
Rebecca said she needs people to be active in her campaign,
We are back.
Sgt. Davis Kring will be our guest this hour, Sarge said that if this story does not need you mad and make you feel that something needs to be done, check your pulse you are dead, e has been in the National Guard and Iraq. He lost everything during Katrina and now they are taking his MEMA cottage away,
The first song was “Downtown Got Ran Over By Katrina” by the Ocean Springs, MS Choir,
Sarge said that we support Sgt. Kring in his efforts,
Kring said that this has been surreal, a nightmare that he has not been able to wake up from..
My unit was in training to go to Iraq and we were sent to help out after the storm hit. I had moved to Waveland, MS about six months before Katrina hit. My car ran out of gas in a K-Mart parking lot, and we set up a camp for 100 civilians in the parking lot. We coordinated with another national guard unit to deliver meals and ice, We contacted people and worked on getting some medical care. We had an experimental hospital from North Carolina which performed heart surgery on the K-Mart lot.
I moved my MEMA trailer to my wife’s family property in Waveland, and in 2007 was deployed to Iraq. The situation put me on depression meds. I came back and found out that our cottage was to be taken from us at the end of the agreement by MEMA.. We have had grants not materialize, church groups offer help but not be able to help out,
By the standards of the nation, I am below poverty and I only earn $1,000 a month.
Sarge said that he served in the Air Force and Navy during Vietnam. George Washington said that the best recruiting tool for the military is how we treat our veterans and this is not treating our veterans right,.
Kring said he loves serving, but he hates the government. It may not make much sense, but if you serve it does.
Sarge said that Kring is not the first veteran he has heard say this. This makes me want to throw everyone in Washington out. We need to have more people in like Rebecca Schneider who put the people first. We need to vote for our own best interests. We need a strong country that takes care of its veterans, take care of its troops and does not go to war under false pretenses.
Kring said that the politicians have forgotten that they are there for the people, but are in office for power and influence. I have gone before the aldermen in my town and not received help. One old lady was told that the town does not want her cottage where it is as it brings in the wrong element.
Back to the show.
Sarge said if people want to send him songs, they can send it to him at sarge@coffeewithsarge,com,
Kring said while he was in Iraq, his wife suffered a slight stroke. She is the family coordinator for the family readiness group for the unit. She was chastised by my command and myself and had surgery to replace a herniated disk three months ago. She is undergoing rehabilitation.
I have questioned the aldermen on their objections to the cottage, and I have not heard from them, Kring said. Sarge said he will call the aldermen and ask some of his colleagues to call,
Kring said that he asked the alderman to take a vote to reconsider keeping the MEMA cottages on private land in Waveland, Mississippi. They passed a rule that the cottage would have to go to commercial property, and Kring said he cannot afford the property taxes for his w\ife’s property and pay at a commercial site.
The cottage would fit in with the housing going up in the area, Kring said. There are five other houses on my street in a five block area. My neighbors say that the cottage is fine with them. I have heard that some don’t like the cottages or they attract the wrong element,
Sarge asked if he thought they were trying to benefit from a disaster,
Kring said he has been given no logical reason for their objection to the house, and if he did he would work to remedy it.
Kring said he received a Congressional citation for his work in Waveland, and helped distribute food and water in the region when the bridges in the area were out.
Kring said that the letter was read into the Congressional Record.
Kring said that rent for a two bedroom is $850 to $1200 a month, and rent in the previous house before Katrina was $450.
Sarge said that he went through Camille before Katrina, and it was better handled although many did not think it was handled well at the time. Sarge said he grew up in Columbia, MS and he has never seen anything like this in his life. There was not that much of a difference between the two storms, but it has handled worse.
Kring said that before he was in the Army full time, he was involved in construction.
Sarge said that he thinks it is utterly ridiculous that Kring is in this situation,
The last song was from Mississippi, a place that has brought such talents as Elvis Presley and Oprah Winfrey.
It is a very talented state, Sarge said, but it is a poor state. What is happening with Sgt. Kring is wrong.
Kring said that now that he is a technician for the guard, he is still in poverty. Without the job, we would have gone under for the third time. I spoke with Kathleen Johnson of Katrina relief and John Piazza, an alderman is now supporting him, but he is out voted by three hours.
Kring said he suspects that someone in the city government has ties to whoever will move the cottages to these commercial lots.
Sarge said that Jeff Farias quipped that if he says he is too big too fail, maybe he will get a bail out.
Brice Phillips said that the state of Mississippi were supposed to be able to buy the cottages after two years, and we are being forced to be renters not home owners.
Kring said that he is working with Brice who has told me that he is being ordered to leave a motel room where he has been staying of late after his home was struck by Katrina.
Sarge invited all Waveland officials to call him.
Kring said we need to get someone in office who is not part of the good old boy standards and have their relations and fingers in everything.
Sarge said his fellow Mississippians have to get away from this mindset and get away from people who are greedy — like Haley Barbour — who don’t care about you. We need to have more than just a single store called Wal-Mart as the town grocery store.
Sarge said that he is very burned up about this story. Brice was told that his time in the motel was run up and was told that he could stay for a weekend by the owners. He called FEMA and FEMA gave an extension.
Kring said that some people like Brice have never gotten their cottages. A civilian like Brice not having been given the benefits of shelter like this while doing a lot for the community with the radio station and emergency operations is ridiculous.
Sarge urged people to go to http://www.wqrz.org and help out.
Kring said that it is rumored that he may end up going back to Iraq in 2011, but hopefully that won’t take place.
Kring said that he believes that his wife will be better but it seems unlikely that she will be able to work.
Sarge said a lot of people in the area lost it all twice with Gustav. The water did not come with it.
Sarge said that Janet Napolitano - Arizona’s governor - will be head of Homeland Security and that he will send Kring’s story to her..
The show returns. Ed from Northern Michigan calls in,
The song you just heard was In Mississippi by Sarah Jo Burke.
Ed said that a few months after Katrina, he was in Waveland. Kring handed me some MREs. There was not a green thing left standing. I saw a mall totally destroyed. It was terrible. We were all down there a month before Bush figured out where it was and flew over with his jet.
Sarge said that some people said that people in Mississippi don’t want to be whiners like the folks of New Orleans.
Ed said that almost the only way that you can find out what is going on is from the area. A lot of the area from what I see online and elsewhere looks like it did two years ago.
Sarge said that Brice has pictures on how things look.
Kring said that there is a couple from New York who are here and he is showing them what happened. The beach looks like the storm hit last year.
Next, Tammy here. We are having some problems with the phone. Sarge thanked Ed for his calls.
Sarge said that Brice has mentioned how important the volunteers are, and you can still volunteer.
Kring said that the volunteers are 99 percent of what we have seen here. The volunteers from out of state and up North have been great. I just wish that the national media would continue this fight. We are still here.
Kring said that his story is only one of many. There are people like Brice and others who are suffering.
We have a caller, Crane on line 2. The call dropped.
Sarge said that Pass Christian allows the cottage to stay, according to Brice. How can we have federal dollars pay for the cottages to be moved while other communities let them stay?
Kring said that we have other communities let cottages stay.
Tammy calls in, saying it is a shame that Americans are being thrown into the street. We need investigations to see where the money has gone and what has happened here. You can’t throw people out when they are fighting for their country. All of us down here have to stand up for ourselves, not just the usual people talking.
Tammy said she is calling in from Picayune, MS.
Sarge said that Brice said we can go overtime.
Leonard Clark is here and he is an Iraq war veteran.
Leonard thanked Kring for serving our country, but that his story shows why we have to be eternally vigilant for our liberty and for our veterans. We have to make sure that we do what is right for our veterans and our families, so that they aren’t penalized for serving.
Tammy said in her town, just north of Hancock County, they still have some problems, but less than just down south on the road.
Sarge said that he went to Pearl River Community College, and the community got hard hit.
Tammy said that we were without power for 15 days. In her business, she sees things growing in her area, but a lot of things were wiped out on the coast. She said she has family who live on Coleman Avenue in downtown waveland and all you have are some homes, a bar and a farmer’s market now.
Tammy said that her father was in Vietnam for three Christmases, and we need to take care of our veterans.
The show returns, and we have a caller - Dwayne Kring from Texas, Sgt. Kring’s Dad.
The song you just heard was FEMA Rock, courtesy of Brice Phillips.
Leonard said the song lyrics tell a lot of truth when you listen to them.
Dwayne said that I have enjoyed listening to Davis who is expressing himself extremely well and I am proud of him. Davis called just after the storm to bring a trailer, bring gas and what you can. He is not exagerrating about the situation.
Dwayne said that Cheryl, Davis’ second wife, has stood by him through thick and thin,
Dwayne is in Tyler, Texas. Sarge asked how much stress this has put on him.
Dwayne said that we are connected and we can’t do anything that he could not do. They and many others lack the funds to do what they would like to do. There are only a few jobs available and they can’t build a house. The cottage is nice but they can’s build on it.
Cee-Cee from Dequil calls in. Sarge said that he has heard that some of his fellow alumni who are relatives of Brett Favre have lost their homes.
Cee-Cee said that we have sunshine laws where people are supposed to be upfront about what has happened. We need an internal auditor to see where all the money has gone, and we need to start with Haley Barbour’s office.
Sarge said that WOLX carried a story shortly after Katrina on Section 8 housing residents being kicked out as a company wanted their land and Barbour was getting a kickback. I went to HUD and lodged a complaint. I knew that it could put my life on the line, but we stopped it. This is the kind of thug we have in the governor’s mansion.
Cee-Cee said we still have people living in tents, sheds, cars and under bridges. We need people in homes, and we have codes where people can’t afford homes.
Sarge said that people are not told by the media about what is going on there.
Cee-Cee said a lot of people in the area have post traumatic stress disorder.
Sgt. Kring said all the news media focused on New Orleans. They had a flood event, not a storm. They still had structures standing, but we did not.
Sarge said the storm’s western side - the good side - hit New Orleans and the eye came ashore in Mississippi. Hurricane George hit New Orleans as money for the levees were set aside and used elsewhere.
Cee-Cee said that people here are suffering in the process of this all.
Sarge said thank God for Bill Moyers who has reported on this. We need people like Morgan Freeman and Brett Favre stepped up.
Cee-Cee said that actress Sela Ward sent supplies. Cee-Cee said she did not want to register with the chamber of commerce as a relief site, and was treated like a red-headed step child.
Kring said that he was grateful for all the help. Dwayne Kring said that not much is said about what is still going on in New Orleans, but even less is said in Mississippi.
The show returns.
We had more Katrina music, Sarge said, and it does our hearts good to listen to it and the lyrics.
We have Sgt. Davis Kring and his father Dwayne.
Sgt. Kring said that he wished he had more answers on how to fix things. We keep on running into the aldermen here and I have asked them to make decisions case-by-case.
Sarge said that Leonard was with the Louisiana National Guard in Iraq when Katrina hit.
Leonard said that many people do not understand the sacrifices that veterans make. His fiancee’s brother in law was sent to school and then to serve, I was at Camp Muleskinner as it was called. We had trained at Fort Polk, LA before we left. The people there were nice.
I had a chance to go to New Orleans, but didn’t because my father was passing on. I wish I had been able to go, as a culture has passed on from there, Leonard said. When I was in Iraq, I saw troops from Louisiana upset by the scenes of devastation and became very upset when I saw a picture on the cover of the Economist with a woman crying over dead bodies floating in the water.
Sgt. Kring said he was in Kuwait when he saw the images from the Gulf Coast.
Leonard said that even with the different branches of the armed forces there is a friendly rivalry. Sgt. Kring said that there is a lot of kidding.
Leonard said that when you are overseas, you see fellow soldiers as members of team and when they suffer, you suffer. I plan to do the best that I can if we treat our veterans better. If we pay the true costs of caring for our veterans, we will learn to only fight wars when we need them.
Rodney from Bay St. Louis is on the line. Robbie said he got four feet of water in his yard, and two feet or so in his FEMA trailer. He owns his property, but FE A wants him to move and be a renter. There is no grocery store in Bay St. Louis. How do you expect people to move there and rebuild?
Rodney said that if you want anything, you have to leave the community. If he moved off the property, he could not pay the taxes.
Sarge said that members of his family have founded towns in Mississippi.
Rodney said that here in Bay St. Louis nothing is being done to help people recover and it seems that they are being forced to move on. He is handicapped, and the federal government helped him. However, the city of Bay St. Louis said he does not have enough land to rebuild. A neighbor in his 70s is living in a trailer. Rodney is blind.
Rodney said that he has been told that he is ineligible for some grants.
Sarge said he knows someone whom Rodney should contact through the Jackson County Community Services Coalition. We can get some help.
Rodney said that there is no facilities here, and the local government is still in tents.
Rodney said that we supposedly received $5 billion in Mississippi for housing grants where did it go?
Leonard said that he hopes the Obama administration will send down auditors to find out what happened and makes sure that money goes to help people. When veterans go through what Sgt. Kring is going through, it makes veterans lose morale. He said he hopes money will come down and we will not see money going to corrupt politicians but to the people.
We are back after the song, House of Cards by David Rovics,
Sarge asked Sgt. Kring for his reaction to what Rodney said.
Kring said he knows his situation is incomprehensible and hearing about what is happening to a local resident who is disabled is worse. It is as if they are being treated like a second- or third-class person.
Kring said that when he was an overland trucker, he was listening to a gunny sergeant in the Marines who was being attacked on the air. I said that we fought to have everyone speak their mind.
Kring said that all of us in the miltary share some experiences and it helps create a bond.
Dwayne said that he thanks Sarge for bringing so much to a head about what is going on along the Gulf Coast. We don’t hear in Tyler, Texas what goes on and people just think it is all healed because it has been for a few years.
Sarge said the media does not report what is going on. He thanked Dwayne for calling. It is a sad situation when people suffer devastation three years ago, and we do not hear about this.
Kring said that he wishes the media would report this, and he would even be glad to hear about some good news.
Sarge said that the news does not need to be about ratings. It can be depressing to hear about it, but imagine living with it. He mentioned that his adoptive father stopped listening to the news late in life as it was depressing,
The show returns after a song from David Rovics, “We’re building a wall,”
Jeff Farias joins us for our last segment. He makes all of this possible,
Jeff said people ask why do you do this? Why do you get up on a Sunday morning to do this? Days like this are the reason why, as my heart breaks as we here about people struggling three years later. There are people who still care and want to see things fixed.
Kring said that he is tire, living from tent to RV to cottage. He will continue to fight, even if he is on a tent on his property. It is stunning that our country can have a tremendous fighting force and still have such devastation.
Jeff said it is stunning, and our country needs to reset its priorities. Maybe this economic crisis will do it, and we will focus on our own needs.
Jeff said that greed is old as time, but government is supposed to regulate it and limit it.
Sarge said that he has lived first hand - not to the same extent - what many have described here. As someone from the outside, what do you feel.
Jeff said he hears the fatigue in Kring’s voice, and that of Jim Yancey. He hears and respect their resolve.
Kring said that if what does not kill you makes you stronger, he is tired of winning the strong man competition.
Sarge said that Jeff and several others including Mike Malloy worked hard to get him to Arizona.
Jeff said that you can listen to Jeff weekdays, 6 PM to 9 PM Eastern on http://www.thejefffariasshow.com. Sarge said hopefully people on WQRZ will be able to listen to Jeff in the future.
Sarge said it is time to raise some hell.
Kring said that it is and he is ready for the gloves to come off.
Sarge said it has been over three years. The house he was living in has seen its price shoot up and it still has part of the roof missing.
Kring said that prices in the area have risen dramatically.
Kring said that he thought prices would drop, but now some homes are approaching $200,000,.
Sarge said that it is ridiculous that a veteran has to go through this. We are at the point where we should not take it anymore.
Jeff said that his show is on form 5 PM to 8 PM Central time.
Sarge said that it is a great show and Jeff is as genuine as a person as you can imagine.
Kring said that he thanked Sarge for bringing him on and that maybe this will bring a little attention before the dam bursts.
Sarge asked his listeners to contact the aldermen in Waveland. See you next week,