Americans Are Hurting From High Costs and a Divided Washington

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning, Well, what’s going on in the world, our country, our state, our city. Goman to David Pattison, one common sense guy, give us your feelings on a Sunday morning.

0:13 Speaker 2 Well, John, on Friday, the Fed of praise gas prices that they’re going back to four dollars where they were, and they think it’ll even be more than that. And then we’ve got, you know, situations where people were thinking about traveling during the summer and they’re gonna have to, you know, decide and they can afford to do that.

0:34 The riding the trains is gonna cost more money. Riding and airplanes is gonna cost more money. They used to say, people put money in their pockets and went to the supermarket and brought home food in bags. Now people are gonna have to put bags of money to the supermarket and bring home money in their pockets. It’s that kind

0:54 of situation. But at the same time, it’s it’s really unfortunate that when we look back just in the past couple of months when President Trump first attacked Iran, no one said a word. No one. I mean, there are always people who say something, but basically the country totally understood why he wanted to do it, and everybody was

1:19 good about that. But now when you run into a couple of issues when you’re trying to finish the job, they’re lining up what they like they did this past Thursday in Congress and lashing out at everybody in the administration, and you’ve got these situations that they said that Pete hegsays that one of his plans was actually a war

1:45 violation and there was something that should not be allowed. I don’t know what they’re talking about. Iran is the country that said they were going to attack the United States. We never said we were going to attack them. But when someone says they’re going to attack you, what did you do to stand there and take it? And I

2:00 think that’s where the common sense that you talk about is really missing in these days, just you know, in the past few weeks, because people don’t seem to understand that things just don’t materialize because you want them to.

2:17 It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of negotiating, and that’s what I think the country’s doing right now. And I think most reasonable people would not be as critical as what I saw among the House members on Thursday.

2:33 Speaker 1 You’re right, So how do we get all the Democrats and Republicans to work together like they used to.

2:43 Speaker 2 Well, you know, I think that, you know, it’s it’s hard to actually explain it because a lot of the Democrats are not even acting like Democrats. They’re acting like socialists, and some them are socialists. So I think that what you know, I’ve been talking to a few people. We want to get some people who still believe in the

3:07 Democratic Party, who don’t hate the Republican Party, and see if you know, we can’t start to in the public discussion. Get people to understand that you don’t have to be opposed to everything because the other party introduced it. And for some reason right now, the group that is in power, or the minority party in the House does not seem

3:32 to know how to be heard and be taken seriously. Now, I spent I spent fifteen years in Albany in the Senate minority. We never won John ever, we were worth than.

3:46 Speaker 1 Those are days of Joe Bruno, and but you could always sit down with Joe Bruno and work kind of deal.

3:53 Speaker 2 What I did was I went to see the majority leader, Joe Bruno, and I said, I’m not going to participate in this fighting that’s been going on all these years. When there’s a problem, we’re going to sit down and work it out, and we did so. I’m just hoping that, you know, in some quarters of the country the parties

4:09 can work together even if they don’t vote the same way, but certainly not in New York.

4:15 Speaker 1 I agree with you one hundred percent. What else is on your mind this Sunday morning? We got time for one more day?

4:21 Speaker 2 Well, you know, just speaking is exactly the same point. I think back to what’s written about Ronald Reagan when he was president and Tip O’Neil was the speaker, and they would have these big disagreements in public, and then sometimes they’d socialize together and then they’d get back to arguing about the budget or something, and Tip O’Neil will

4:44 go by the White House and after two or three scotches everything was worked out. It’s almost like romantic to hear how well people respected each other in those days, where they don’t today.

4:56 Speaker 1 I agree again, and we got to go back to those days. The governor and what you know, I think the common sense Democrats and there’s a lot of them around, have to get together and sit down and say enough is enough. We don’t need this craziness because if that craziness exists, you know what’s gonna happen to the Democratic Party.

5:18 And I don’t want to see it happen in a Democratic Party. I want, you know, equal you’re gonna lose forty nine states like yeah, you did before under who was the presidential candidate, McCarthy.

5:32 Speaker 2 Well, we lost the government date when mc governor lost and I believe that that was in nineteen eighty four, that was.

5:41 Speaker 1 Yes, and you lost almost forty nine and a half states. It was the fiftieth state you won by eighteen thousand bucks. Well, Governor Pattison, thank you for coming on this Sunday morning, and thank you for your common sense.

5:52 Speaker 2 Thank you, John and Jerry West every weekend