Joel Pollak
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2,500 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Joel Pollak’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So a lot of the money that the federal government is spending on California is actually being wasted.
And I say this as a California resident.
I mean look at the budget.
When Newsom came into office, the California state budget was something like two hundred and ten billion dollars a year.
Very, very high, but
210, okay.
It's now almost 360.
And that's a seventy percent increase if you take inflation into account, and yes, inflation's been pretty high for a few of those years, thank you, Joe Biden.
It's about a 40% increase.
But if you told me we had a forty percent increase in the budget eight years ago, if you had said that, this is coming.
you would have thought of a million things to do with the money, fixing the roads and
Fixing the forests, making sure that there's brush clearance, hiring more police, fixing our education system.
What could you have done with essentially $150 billion?
Well, we basically wasted it.
It was stolen, it was wasted on expanding social programs for people who are not here legally.
It was just thrown away.
And so what I told the president when he was in Palisades after the fire was, Mr.
President, don't send another
penny to California until you've appointed a special master who can oversee the funds because they're wasting it.
So I'm actually in favor of the federal government withholding funds from California as long as California continues to behave this way.
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