I mean, they barely have a pulse with consumer spending being around at, like, 10 percent of the wealthiest people driving that. I mean, just at every turn, all these well-meaning policies have just brought just terrible, you know, results.
So to Mike's point, yeah, I mean, unfortunately, it's going to take somebody in there and says the quiet part out loud, the way, you know, Trump was doing circa 2015, where, you know, people may or may not have agreed with what he said, but he was one of the few people who actually came in essentially with a bullet point plan of, hey, look, these are the areas of attack or improvement or whatever that I want to address.
And I think that's part of the reason why I'm able to survive is because whether people like him or dislike him, he at least has, you know, an outline of a plan. So thank you all for having this conversation. Appreciate that, brother.
Hey, so here we go. We're going to go ahead and start off now. We've got Steve.
Steve is on the panel. Steve, good to see you. So here's what we're going to do, guys.
We don't have Steve for very long, so we want to use as much of our time as we can with him and be very succinct. So if we call you up and you have some questions for Steve, please make sure they're as succinct as possible. No background stories, as interesting as they might be.
We're going to go ahead and leave those out for just today. And we're going to kind of get to the nitty gritty of what's going on out in California. But to go ahead and kick it off, let me throw it to the host of the space, A.J. A.J., thanks so much for putting this together and getting Steve up here and just bringing us all together to be able to talk about California.
Thanks to you. Thanks to Insurrection Barbie. Steve, it's great to see you, man.
I know you're on the road. You're always on the road. And I'm just so grateful that you pop into an X space.
