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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Elementary Trivia

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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Daily News, Society & Culture, News

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Hour 3 of A&G features Ian Bremmer, and the 10 critical issues that face the world this year. Let's see if he keeps his language in line this time. Jack poses a simple brain game to Joe, and more.

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0:00.0

From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center,

0:15.0

Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatti, Armstrong and Gatti Show.

0:21.0

Public schools have taken $130 billion in all from the government, money intended to keep

0:25.8

them open and serving students during the pandemic. But a whole lot of those schools are shutting

0:30.8

down once again. Chicago School District accepted $1.8 billion, Milwaukee 504 million, Atlanta

0:38.2

over 200 million, and Detroit nearly 800 million. All are now close to students.

0:44.9

The nation's largest teachers union defends the move. Randy Winegarten tweeting, until

0:49.4

this surge virtually all public schools were open for in-person learning. We got it right

0:54.1

for most of this current school year. The voice of Satan there, not the reporter, but

0:59.4

Randy Winegarten. So I don't want it to all on that. It's sickening. We got this text.

1:04.7

This is really good to wear the money because we were talking about this one of the earlier

1:08.4

hours. Billions and billions and billions of dollars got shoved out the door very quickly

1:14.1

to schools to deal with COVID. And yet, and where to how did that money get spent? Hardly

1:18.6

anybody's paying attention. These people are got this text, my local school district, which

1:23.2

is a very small district in the mountains east of San Diego received over $7 million in

1:28.5

federal COVID funding. We go to all the board meetings. They so far have spend it on new

1:33.3

fleet service vehicles to least at $60,000 each for five years. Upgraded air conditioning

1:39.6

units at over $1.5 million on the gym, mind you, our mountains average temperature is rarely

1:45.2

above 75 degrees. They bought new air conditioning units and it never gets above 75. $350,000

1:53.1

to upgrade the Wi-Fi service. That good COVID federal money there. $300,000 are $80,000 to install

2:00.6

one wheelchair ramp for COVID. And they still have the balls to ask parents to donate soap,

2:05.9

masks, and disinfectants, and weekly flyers and home with the kids. Yeah, I gotta step

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