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The Future of Housing Under a Harris Administration…
Join experts Eric Smith and Donnie Blanchard as they steer us through the latest in truck-making technology. They explore a potential shift from electric batteries to hydrogen fuel cells for long-haul freight, weighing in on the pros and cons. With insights from Rick Cucci, COO of Fundkite, Eric and Donnie provide a critical look at the feasibility of battery-powered vehicles hitting carbon neutrality targets. The conversation doesn’t stop at technology; we also speculate on the potential economic impacts of a Kamala Harris presidency on housing and construction, giving listeners a well-rounded perspective on future industry trends.
We wrap up the episode by examining how changes in interest rates could ripple through the economy, especially under different presidential outcomes. Affordable housing, tax incentives, and tenants' rights, particularly in the wake of COVID-19, are discussed with a sharp focus on political influence. We critique Kamala Harris's stance on energy, from fracking to renewable sources, and forecast what her administration might mean for energy independence. Listen in to catch our predictions for a Harris presidency and don’t forget to check out last week’s episode for our take on a Trump victory. Your feedback is invaluable, so hit the "ask the contractor" button on our website to share your thoughts or suggest topics for future shows.
Welcome to the Carolina Contractor Show with your host, General Contractor Donnie Blanchard. All right, it's Olympic time. Donnie, Did you used to watch the Olympics when you were a kid? I did, especially the basketball part Summer or winter?
Speaker 2:what was your favorite? To be honest, just to have sports on TV this time of year, I'd take just about anything, so probably the summer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I never thought about it Fills up that doldrum period of July. You know you just got baseball and talking about football and hockey and stuff coming in the fall. I like the summer games for sports but they never showed them on TV. I'd love to watch like a full competition of the hammer throw and javelin and high jump, but they'd always show just the running and the gymnastics and the swimming and I want to see like spears thrown across the field or a discus and they really just showed the highlights of those.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think they kind of blew it this year and, to be honest, I haven't watched much of it because we've just been so busy. But you know, there was a lot of controversy over the opening ceremony and, um, you know, I saw folks go back and forth on social media whether or not they were making a mockery of the last supper or it was a tribute to Dionysus, and that. You know, people were uneducated and didn't realize what they were seeing. And you know, um, all that's fine and good. I don't I don't get upset either way, but but I did wonder why they incorporated the storyline with all drag queens. I didn't understand the need for that and definitely, to say the least, it did not make me want to watch the Olympics more than I did before I saw that. So, if anything, I thought what's this world coming to? And I know that's an old guy statement, but it seems to be more and more every time you turn on the TV.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then did you see that? Boxing match with the girl whose name was Angela Carini is the pronunciation, but she had to fight a biological male. I'm so horrible at the pronoun thing so I'm just going to call it what it is. It's a guy boxing in the women's boxing division of the Olympics and he clearly has a strength, a height and a reach advantage and he fought this girl, angela Carini, and she took two punches and then ended it. She waved it off and burst into tears. She said the first punch hurt really bad. The second one was the hardest she'd ever been hurt and she thought it had broken her nose and she knew it was useless. What type of competition is that? That's not real competition to me.
Speaker 2:No, and I think it's a cry in shame that they spent their whole life training to be the best of the best. They get an opportunity in the Olympics and whoever the powers that be are allow a man to fight a woman. That's it's. It's just crazy, and I really hope somebody could put an end to this at some point. But this is worldwide now. This isn't just here in the United States where you hear about it. I mean, they're in Paris, for heaven's sake, and if they don't have the guts to stand up to them, hopefully somebody at some point will eliminate that from being a thing. But I just I don't know. I'm discouraged because things are trending in that direction and to allow that to happen. Imagine how much time she, her parents, her family has sacrificed to get her to that moment and only to have to fight a man. It's just nuts.
Speaker 1:This is cheering a man beating a woman and there's no way around this. You can put it in a sport venue, you can make it look like, oh, it's the Olympics, but this is cheering a man beating on a woman. And if this weren't a sport or he didn't define himself as something that he wasn't, then he would have been arrested. But now we have part of the world going. Isn't this beautiful? Isn't competition fantastic? No, it's a guy punching a woman in the face, plain and simple. And I don't care what you want to identify or say you are. It boils down to height, reach, strength against a weaker opponent, intentionally.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we were made different. So didn't you say when we threw that around earlier there was a GoFundMe or something like that for the woman?
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I'm not going to mention the Congresswoman because, even though I might agree with her some of her principles, I think she's bombastic. But I'm going to give kudos to a Congresswoman in the United States who started a GoFundMe and I'm going to be off on the numbers. But she had a target goal of like 129,000 or $179,000. And as I read the article, uh, it said because that's the amount of money a gold medal winner would get. So she's like this woman had to fight a man. She had no chance. Let's at least get her the money for it. So I'm pretty sure if you go online and search like GoFundMe, angela Carini, you can find it if you want to see what the amount is up to or contribute or whatever. But I thought that was pretty classy, cool thing for that representative to do.
Speaker 2:Hey, to put a humorous spin on this thing, I think that it would be hilarious if that dude I don't know the name of the man in the boxing part of the Olympics, but if he gets beat by a biological woman, that's going to be hilarious.
Speaker 1:I agree with you. I think it would be hilarious If he wins the whole thing. Let's be honest, he should win the whole thing. Probably he should win it. But if he doesn't, you're right, that'll be even more hilarious. So hopefully she'll get the money, he'll finish out of the metal round and we can go on to being adults again after the Olympics.
Speaker 1:All right, this is the Carolina contractor show. We just kind of start what's top of mind or in the news and that was it, and we don't want to be too long on one subject that's not directly related to the show, but that's water cooler talk Website thecarolinacontractorcom. Go to the site and find more information on the show. You can go to our YouTube page. Follow us there. You can start downloading videos or watch them at your own convenience. The ask the contractor button is something you click on If you have a question for us should introduce ourselves.
Speaker 1:My name's Eric Smith. I do inside sales for Home Builders, supply Donnie's, on the other side of the construction world. He owns Blanchard Building Company, also SureTop Roofing. He's also a general contractor. So we'd like to pretend we have some inside information and knowledge about building and construction and houses and things like that, and that's what we usually talk about on the show and things like that, and that's what we usually talk about on the show. Before we get into today's show, I do want to talk about something I found interesting.
Speaker 1:Donnie, the global truck making industry is trying to reach these zero emissions goals and we did a show on that not long ago. Electric batteries are way too heavy for long haul freight companies and they take too long to charge, so the trucking companies don't want anything to do with them. But hydrogen fuel cells now they generate electricity and they generate the power they need, but they do it at a lower weight and they can go farther. But to switch the truck technology to this hydrogen fuel cell is very expensive and time consuming. Technology to this hydrogen fuel cell is very expensive and time consuming. So they're kind of remachining the shops that build trucks so they can have the ability to use hydrogen fuel.
Speaker 1:Now this all sounds great, but the problem is green hydrogen, which is what they call it that's produced as fuel. It's not wildly wildly, it's not widely available right now. It's not wildly available right now and because of that they're thinking well, if we build the trucks, then the fuel will come along and we'll have a better option than battery. My whole take on all of this was not that they're making these hydrogen fuel vehicles. It's they're saying straight up battery powered trucks are not going to work. They're too heavy, too long to charge and they don't go far enough. We're already going in a different direction. What does that say about maybe hydrogen fuel cars and other things? Is battery-powered vehicles we've kind of hinted at it, donnie not the best way to go towards this carbon neutral or net neutral environment?
Speaker 2:Yeah, agreed, and we're not secretive about how we feel about electric cars and how realistic those might be. So you know, I think the hydrogen sounds good. It sounds like they're at least exploring another option, but we're a long way off man. We're not going to be able to abandon fossil fuels, like everybody wants to be warm and fuzzy about. So I think we got a long way to go.
Speaker 1:And we have politics involved in all of that, and that's today's topic. On the Carolina Contractor Show. Last week we did a show where we made predictions on what if Trump won the election and the effects on housing and construction, and so we want to take a look at what if Kamala Harris wins. What effects would she have on the economy and how would it affect building and construction and other things. Now I want to say first of all, I got to give credit where it's due. Some of the categories that we're talking about were from an article I read by the COO of Fundkite. His name I hope I get this right is Rick Cucci. He had a few takes on the Harris administration and what it would do to lending and housing and things like that.
Speaker 1:And the first topic if Harris won the election we talked about this if Trump won is interest rates. Of course she wants them to go down. As we said last week, donnie, dropping interest rates mean inflation is dropping, because that's why they've raised them. It helps borrowers, saves money for people who are in debt, like credit cards, because if your interest rate goes down, you're paying less interest on it, so you're saving a little bit of money. That in turn increases purchasing power. But presidents don't really have any control over the Fed interest rate, but they get the blame or the credit. So when they go up and it affects your buying power, your purchasing power, your investments, people hate you. When it goes down, people benefit more in most cases. So you're going to get the credit. So of course, trump and Harris would want the rates to go down, especially as they get closer to the election, and they just said we're not dropping it in August, but we probably will in September. And you said they would do that before the election.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, oh yeah. That's always a political ploy. They always have something up their sleeve there and either way that shakes out, I don't care. I just want them to drop, because I'm seeing consumer confidence a lot lower than it's been in years, in the past years, and we're blessed to be busy. But at the same time, you know, we also live in a really flourishing area, and I always comment on the between Greensboro and Hillsboro, the merged corridor 40 and 85 brings a lot of business, so a lot of jobs, a lot of growth, and those people have to have somewhere to live. Unfortunately, a lot of those places to live are in apartments, so you're seeing apartments go going up left and right and they're at full capacity before the construction's even finished.
Speaker 2:But anyway, I think that our subject matter is what everybody wants to hear. I wanted to mention this earlier but I kind of forgot. Our downloads were almost times nine last week and so probably one of the most downloaded shows we've had in terms of the podcast, and it seems like this is what everybody wants to know about, because it's an interesting time in our life. I want to say that there may not be, unless it gets crazier, and I can't imagine that this may be one of the most interesting times to be alive, and I don't want to sound like a preacher, but you know that there's a lot going on that we've never seen in our lifetime, so I think that everybody's interested in knowing what's going to happen either way, Dude.
Speaker 1:Our kids and grandkids will be talking about the 2020s and when a president decided not to run and everything that's going on. We're living in something our kids will be talking about. Historically, I've recognized that. I agree a hundred percent. It's weird. Who would have thought that the leader of Hamas would have been taken out in his individual hotel room by a missile in Tehran like he was? And the world is still spinning. That's crazy to think about. It really is yes.
Speaker 2:So this is why we're talking about it Take them out on enemy territory.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, dude, that is crazy to think about. They have no fear, ain't scared. Is on the back of the IDF's car, on their bumper.
Speaker 2:I hadn't seen a no fear sticker or ain't scared in a decade or so. That's funny, but no, to get back on the construction thing, I want to chime in on one thing that I see, kamala Harris, if she wins the presidency, one of her pitches whether she executes or not is going to be affordable housing, and that sounds really good to everybody. And affordable housing is a real thing, I mean right now. We commented last week that it really stinks for a young person to try to start a family right now, because who can afford a $2,000 a month mortgage? And I think that she would need Congress to approve all the funding to build these new affordable units. And so there's a lot of red tape there, especially where housing is super pricey. So you get in the bigger areas like Raleigh and Charlotte. That's gonna cost a lot more than areas like where we live, but in theory that could mean more options for renters and buyers. If she could make this happen, and hopefully that translates to lower costs for everybody, it could lead to a lot of new construction jobs in my world and that's one of those things where I don't do a lot of multifamily. So, like I mentioned before, if that's apartments, then that's not going to trickle down to me. I have a license to do the multifamily. It's just not my niche.
Speaker 2:But if we do see these benefits from any kind of affordable housing push, it's going to take a while. And anything government mandated, you know, I don't know if you've ever seen the requirements, but they basically make you sign your firstborn child over to do a government job. And the way that everybody has to be documented background checks just to qualify every worker in a company to be legitimately on the job site and have all the documentation that they require. It's just nuts and they're most always over budget. They're late on the delivery date, the results usually aren't what you expect in the beginning, and you know. Secondly, you're not going to see or I've mentioned this before, but you're not going to see the results for years. These big jobs for affordable housing are going to take easily, especially if it's a multifamily project. You know two or three years. And lastly, even with the money supply, you know we're still having issues with labor and where are they going to find the people to do these things? So I don't think it's realistic.
Speaker 2:I think that tackling the affordable housing problem rather is more about the tariffs. We mentioned, you know, the building materials that are coming in, making those more affordable. It's not just how much the house costs after it's built, it really translates to making the materials more affordable. So the initial cost of the construction is lower and that translates to a lower payment and really young family $1,000, $1,500 payment may be doable with two incomes. But I really think that the focus for affordable housing needs to be aimed at what's taxed. What building materials have what tax, and that would lower the cost for some of the things or all the things we have to put in the house. And then the tariffs on the things that we have to import. You made a good point last week that you got lumber coming from all over the world. So you know, get lower in that tariff on that lumber, you know, incentivize people to send us more wood to tackle this, the housing demand and I don't know. I think they're barking up the wrong tree with just a campaign promise.
Speaker 1:Lumber and trees and bark. I got it. That was well played, I agree. She's going to push for it. Everybody does. Affordable housing, I think, is a catchphrase that makes it sound like you really care, but what that means in reality is we're going to build 98 units that only people with a lot of money can afford and we're going to throw two little ones that will probably go to a friend of the assistant to the congressman anyway. So that's just going to be. It's just it doesn't work. Government housing projects, things like that, have a horrible track record. It just doesn't work.
Speaker 1:Now she did talk about Kamala Harris Again. What we're talking about if she won the presidency she before is tax incentives for first-time home buyers. Biden pitched $15,000 of a tax credit for down payments and closing costs. That could make a huge impact for people who are struggling to save enough to buy a first home. I think that's better than tax breaks on EVs and green things like that, but I'm not against that idea. I don't know how well it would work considering the pricing of housing, but I'm hard pressed to be against a tax break in most cases.
Speaker 2:That, I think, is a good one like it's a write-off and you only get a percentage of what you spend. But that straight tax credit could translate to savings and I mean, I think that $15,000, that's a chunk on a regular house, but gosh, a regular house costs 300 plus now. So I don't know. I think folks like me and you we already had our homes bought and paid down when all this mess happened and anybody who buys after this, just I just don't see them being in a great situation.
Speaker 1:One of the things I think that does hurt people who try to borrow is the predatory lending, and I don't want to confuse that with a bank that gives a legit loan. That might have a high interest rate because of the person's credit history. But some people are desperate, and Harris said she would like to put in some rules, if she were elected, that protect buyers from unfair lending practices, which there already are. A bunch of laws. This might make getting a loan tougher for some people, though she says we're going to tighten the ability of people to get it because predatory lending or high interest rate loans I don't want to confuse with a payday loans or something. Unfortunately, sometimes your loan is going to be 10, 12, 13%. That's just life More government regulation. The intentions may be good, road to hell, what's it paved with? I don't know how they would implement anything effective on predatory lending.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, really Well, I don't think it's as bad as it used to be. And we talked about last week that the crash of 2008,. That was all because of or not all because but a lot to do with predatory lending between 04 and 07. And you know, I was kind of in that category, to be honest, because here I came back as an insurance adjuster, made a ton of money when I worked Hurricane Katrina and a few hurricanes after that, a ton of money when I worked, hurricane Katrina and a few hurricanes after that.
Speaker 2:And really, you know, I had enough money for a down payment but I had never really bought anything substantial before. And it put me in a position where I bought a $300,000 house and you know, I'm 20, mid-20s and it just wasn't the right time to do it and they made it so easy that I just walked right through it. But you know, fast forward another year or so, that it was really hard to pay for that house and it put my family in a compromise when I tried to start one. So, yeah, I felt that personally and I think the predatory lending thing or I hope the predatory lending thing doesn't come back or anybody make that more accessible than it is right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and the other thing, donnie, is how much are they going to really target banks? Banks are big movers and shakers in Congress and lobbyists, so I think a lot of this, even on a conservative side, is lip service, because they want that pack money and that donation money. One other thing she mentioned and we'll get into some other predictions this is the Carolina Congress show. We should be. This is the Carolina Congress. The Carolina Congress show we should be. This is the Carolina contractor show, and what we're talking about is a follow-up from last week's episode. Today we're saying what are some things that could happen if Kamala Harris became president last week. You can go upload or listen to the show on the website and the podcast or on the YouTube site was what if Donald Trump won the presidency?
Speaker 1:One last thing she's talked about was from that article I mentioned is tenants' rights and rent stabilization. I think this is a hangover of COVID, because I do believe tenants have certain rights they should have. But when COVID hit, they said okay, we're going to put a moratorium on evictions. Covid was weird and odd and there's a lot going on. We didn't know for sure. I understood it, but now that's kind of morphed into hey, you're not going to pay your rent. They shouldn't make it easy to kick you out. It's not easy to evict somebody. We've had many people on the show that have landlords that rent and you have to give notices. You've got to do legal steps to get it done. It can take 90 days If you're lucky. Most of the time it can take 180 to six or more months. I don't think we need to expand the ability for people to say I'm not going to pay and I shouldn't be kicked out of my house. There's a difference between having a hard time and a crunch and just going I ain't going to pay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's insane. I understand when COVID nobody expected that to happen. They made exceptions and I believe that was okay for a time, but to make that some kind of a policy that is longstanding is crazy. And we have people that's been on the show and been really successful in real estate but they chose to rent their house out rather than just buy and invest and sit on the property While it appreciates they have to fight tenants and they're in court several days. I call them, can't get them on the phone. What happened? And I had to be. You've got these people who are sacrificing their life for work and here they are in court all day long. They basically miss days of their life because they're fighting with these people who are taking advantage of these crazy rent bypass things. I'm not in favor of this. It doesn't sound like hard work like we preach to our children at all. It doesn't. It doesn't. It doesn't sound like hard work Like we preach to our children at all. It's just an easy way out.
Speaker 1:All right, uh, as we wrap up the show, donnie, I want to hit on some easy topics of our predictions if Kamala Harris wins. So I'll give you a uh, a category and you tell me what you you think she's going to do taxes.
Speaker 2:I think that she's going to preach you rich and she's going to promote the middle class, but what they say and what they do, I think, is different. I'm not rich, I'm definitely in the middle class category, and so I think that that's just going to be lip service. I don't believe that they're going to really do anything because the last administration that she's going to echo and I think she's even way further left than the last administration it really hurt my business and I've seen it firsthand. So I don't want more of the same. I need to change and I think with the taxes she's definitely not going to take less taxes if I had to guess.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think you can sum it up with two words bend over. Any tax increase is going to affect builders, supply cost buyers, sellers, and that's why we did the show today. And people might say you're just talking politics to bad mouth somebody and nothing about construction or building. No, tax increases are not paid by businesses. They're paid by the people who buy the products and services. Corporations don't pay taxes. They run that down to you. But here's the interesting part the top 50% of taxpayers pay 97.7% of all income tax. So you can tax top 1%. You can tax them 100%. You'll run the country for like a couple of weeks. It's the middle class. They have to tax to do this. All right, Another category tax and spend. Do you think spending would go down on a national or federal level under a Harris administration, or would it go up?
Speaker 2:I know mystery here Everything costs more every year and it seems like our deficit just keeps getting bigger and bigger, so it almost always goes up, regardless of who the president is. And you know, I just think that it affects inflation and you know, I think that spending is going to go up, no matter what we want or hope for.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that's a no brainer. It doesn't go down really under any administration, no matter how far left or how far right they're going to spend, and it's a shell game. They move numbers from one category to another to make it look like they can say, oh, the debt's down or I spent less than I planned to, which is please everybody. If you haven't figured this out, if I tell you I'm going to spend $10,000 on a Les Paul guitar and I come home and say to my wife great news, I only spent $8,500. She's not going to say you saved $1,500. She's going to go you idiot, you spent $8,500 on a guitar. Government's the same way. If they tell you we spent less than we planned, they didn't save any money, they still spent money, so the spending's gonna go up. I get riled up on this stuff I'm sorry, I can see that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right. Last thing, uh, energy, um consumption, especially fracking. Harris's on record video quotes, interviews, and she's denying it and the press is telling you she never said these things. But she is on record being against fracking, she's against coal, gas, oil. She's all green. She's one of the signees of the green new deal. So this is a no-brainer too, donnie. What would a Harris administration do when it comes to gas and oil?
Speaker 2:Well, currently they don't have a debate set up, but I do feel like they will debate and I want to see her face when he says drill, baby drill, and I'm all about it. We were energy independent four years ago and right now we're buying oil from countries that hate us and and we're we're basically padding their pockets instead of being energy independent, with low gas prices and people say, well, it's only a hundred dollars a week, you know. But when you multiply that times eight work trucks that I have, you know that that's a lot more for me and that that money's got to come from somewhere. It affects my bottom line because I have. When you pass that onto your customers, you know your price goes up and up and you know if, if anybody's smart, they'll go ahead and pass that onto the customer. But it just makes that. It makes everything harder to sell and it's just one little piece of the pie that that uh contributes to where we are right now.
Speaker 2:So I'm not about the green energy push. I mean there's some things coming in the energy code right now that will have to be implemented in housing. That's going to push the cost of a house up another 10 grand, 30 grand on a really big house and so it's like they just won't stop and they're killing the American dream in the name of saving the planet. And I just think that all the way around, energy Star made a big push back in the day. That was almost like their intro, that was their test market and of course Energy Star kind of went away because the energy codes got so strict that the minimum energy code was basically what Energy Star was 25 years ago.
Speaker 2:So LEED certification you don't hear about that as much because they're doing you know so many things with code requirement minimums that LEED is just kind of a few extra things at this point in time. But all about making a house energy efficient. You know we're big proponents of insulation and really efficient heating and air units because that makes your utilities go down. But when we preach about that and how to accomplish that, we're doing that in the name of hey, this is how you lower your utilities. So that's more in the camp of affordable housing than some of the things they're doing. But some of these climate folks are just making things really ridiculous and I think it's a political ploy, all in the name of getting elected.
Speaker 1:Donnie has a soapbox too, and I like it. Donnie has a soapbox too, and I like it. I agree with everything you said of important phrase killing the American dream to save the planet. I got a big secret. I'm going to move in close and whisper it. It won't do anything for the planet, it won't save it, it won't do jack. It's just a scheme. Go ahead and realize that. All right, Tell it. Last question, and I want to direct this at you, Donnie, because you work in an industry that's affected by this, and it's not a touchy subject, it's a legit question. She is very Harris. This is open borders. Was going to clamp down on it. Denies she was ever given that title. It's in writing and audio. Biden himself called her not the czar but said she is going to head up the border and she's going to close it. She's not visited the border. With immigration coming over. We know one of the common fields they work in is construction. Do you have some feelings about immigration and open borders and how it affects your world?
Speaker 2:You just wound me up and turned me loose. I see what you did there. Yes, I do, and the open border situation is just out of hand. And it's no secret. We have Hispanic workers that work for us. They've been with us for 20 years and they're like family. I preach to my children that, hey, I have the utmost respect for these people because they put food on my table, they put food on your table and you know that we are equal and they have done things the right way. They went through a process and basically they showed up or they got here legally and they, you know, adapted to society, learned to speak English. My crew leader, for instance you know this is 15 years ago he could read engineered blueprints better than I could and I had a degree to do it and I thought, if I'm self-employed, you know we're going to ride together Like I. Really, this guy's amazing and he's a wonderful family man. A lot of respect for him.
Speaker 2:But what's happening now is when they let these folks cross the border and they're letting them come in droves, you know. Side note that I want to comment on is that, you know, not everybody's coming over here for a better life. They're letting a lot of military age men just pass through the border and God knows what's happening behind the scenes that we don't know about. But a lot of these folks are coming over here in the name of a better life and it's not necessarily going to be so because they find themselves in entry level construction jobs, you know, with a language barrier. It's not like they're sending a mixture of engineers, architects, you know, skilled trades, people who know how to do this, and that these people are coming in and they're they're all basically in the same labor category, so they all can all basically in the same labor category. So, uh, they they all can do just about the same amount of things.
Speaker 2:And, um, you know, when you incorporate women and children into that, I think it's just a sad situation. And you know I'm not I'm not knocking the people who are coming over here, uh, and just just trying for a better life, but at the same time, you know, there's a mixed bag and I think that the folks who come over here without any kind of a game plan and just seeing what happens, I don't see that being a great turnout and it's just, it's a sad situation. To be honest. They've let it get out of control and I think that and we always say not trying to be political here but I really think that they're loading down some of these bigger cities to try to get more electoral votes because of the population.
Speaker 2:But when you see where these people have to live somewhere, they got to go to school. And I'm hearing this firsthand. I've got a great friend who's an athletic director at a big high school in Charlotte and he says calls me, he says dude, I just got 16 kids dropped on me. They don't speak any English and you know, we don't know what to do. They just sit here, take them. And he said that happens about once every two months and it's hitting home right now and North Carolina is a long way from Texas, so if it's happening here, imagine what it looks like around the rest of the country.
Speaker 1:Well said and I think the big thing you pointed out there is communication is important when you're doing something. That can be very dangerous If you have bad communication. Mishearing, not communicating clearly about something can equate a fall, can equate to an injury or, worse, a death, and that's why it's so important. Yeah, agreed All the way around.
Speaker 2:That was a good point.
Speaker 1:Well, we thank you for tuning in to the Carolina Contractor Show Again, this episode just focusing on what we predict will happen if Kamala Harris wins presidency. If you want to catch last week's show, that's what our predictions were If Trump wins the presidency, you can find details at the website, thecarolinacontractorcom. Also at the YouTube site, follow us there and you can watch the videos or just download the podcast. And if there's a subject you want us to talk about or you got a comment, please hit us up at the website and click on that ask the contractor button and thank you for tuning in and we will see you and talk to you next week. Have a great day everybody. Thanks for listening to the Carolina contractor show. Visit the carolinacontractorcom.