Good morning. It is Wednesday, September 6th. It's five minutes after 10. You're listening

to Kendall and Casey on 93, WIBC. We've got Rob Kendall here. You can find him on Twitter

at Rob M. Kendall. My name is Casey Daniels. I'm there as well. Casey Daniels 317. And

of course, we're both on YouTube if you type in Kendall and Casey into the YouTube search

bar. So how much does it take to run the great state of Indiana? The answer, 22 billion

dollars a year. That's what we're led to believe. Yeah. So I want to just just touch

us until we we did last hour and then we'll get to more Biden stuff. And I figured

the longer we can spare our audience from any more Biden, the more we are apt to get

some sort of community service awards. So, but we had Nikki Kelly on and she had a very

interesting piece where she tried to walk through, hey, in a realistic world, what does

cutting eight billion dollars from the state budget look like, which is that's what

Suzanne Crouch has proposed only for governor. Okay. So I, but I wanted to make a couple of

things clear to our audience when we talk about cuts, there's always this negative connotation

with cuts, right? Like you're stealing from grandma or and I'm not saying Nikki Kelly

was doing this. But what I'm saying is anytime you go out and go, hey, the government can

do with less junior won't get his vitamins today. And it'll be all Rob Kindle's fault.

If you talk about cutting eight billion from the state budget and I just want to just

drive this home to people, I'm not, we're not talking about you must return to a 1960s

level of funding for state government. You're talking about resetting to 2017. 2017

Casey. Yeah. That is how much the Republicans have grown government. You're talking about

eight billion dollars. Yes. Over seven years. Yes. All you're saying and Suzanne won't

do this, of course, because that would put her in a real box because then she would have

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