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July 5, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 5, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 podcast.
No, I don't believe it, Mr. Snerdley.
I I folks, I'm telling you, I don't believe.
I don't think the media, the drive-by media, believe that Ken Lay had a heart attack.
I just thought they're disappointed.
Yeah, it's uh sad day, but anyway, greetings, folks.
Nice to have you.
Rush Limbaugh back here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great.
Great to be with you people today.
Uh telephone numbers 800 282-2882 if you'd like to join us on the uh on the telephone.
Uh HR is back from vacation.
Went over there to uh went over to Normandy.
Did you go to Poindu, as I suggested that you uh do.
Yeah, were you suitably impressed with what happened at Poinduho?
Were you able to Yeah, it's incredible.
Um the the HR went over to France, went to Normandy, wanted to see um the beaches, the Omaha beaches and uh the well the the the beaches of D Day.
And he said, where should I go?
Because I have been there.
And I said, You gotta go see Puan De Ho.
That's where the Rangers scaled straight up the cliffs with the Germans firing down on them, and they never stopped, and they kept they had to silence those German guns, and they um they did where Reagan delivered one of his best presidential speeches ever on the 40th uh anniversary.
Well, I'm glad you got to see that, HR.
Uh uh, by the way, Grant, uh greetings to those of you watching the program on the Ditto Cam today at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Nice to have uh have you with us.
Yes, Ken Lay died uh last night, reportedly, as the media is saying, reportedly uh of a heart attack.
Uh doctor and family are saying that the heart just gave out.
Uh the media not I'm I I they since there hasn't been a leak from somebody that's unofficial, um, not willing to accept the official verdict, of course, because official verdicts are nothing but but uh but lies.
And of course, since nobody in the drive-by media has been permitted to see the body, um can't can't we really trust this report, I'm sure they're asking themselves.
I mean, it's on the verge here of going to prison for the rest of his life, now all of a sudden has a heart attack.
Media so desperately wanted to cover Ken Lay.
Purp walked into jail and uh and all that, and sadly uh disappointed by uh this turn of events.
And then we've got this little pot-bellied dog eating uh dictator over in North Korea that everybody's having a conniption fit about, uh, launching his missiles into the Sea of Japan.
There are three distinct possibilities here.
Here are the three.
One, the they're just incompetent, they don't have a missile, it'll fly anywhere yet, and they tried three times and they all ended up in a drink in the Sea of Japan.
The second, yeah, where's Lorell Space when you need him?
They get the Chinese into orbit.
Bill Clinton, big contributor.
Now, you the second possibility here is that the uh North Koreans are playing a little sandbag, and they launched these missiles and destroyed them on purpose, making it look like they can't do diddly squat.
I don't know that uh that's the strategy employed by communist dictators, but it's a possibility.
You have to consider it.
The other possibility, and the one I find the most desirous uh to be true, and the sexiest is that we shot those missiles down.
Now, what do you what you I know they may not have been up long enough for us to uh time not the times would not have we've not gonna announce it if we shut them down.
That's the thing.
We will never know.
Well, uh that's hard to say.
Is there somebody in the shadow government that participated in the shootdown?
If it was a shoot down, it'll leak it to the New York Times, the LA Times.
Oh, that's that story will not die either.
These guys all over uh TV over the weekend, Bill Keller and this guy from the LA Times, a joint editor, uh right, editors writing an op-ed, I think that ran Sunday in the New York Times of why we are immune and why we divulge secrets.
You know what these guys are saying?
Uh and Eric Lichblau, one of the uh writers of the story, they're all saying, hey, I'll kind of knew about the SWIFT program.
They knew that we're finances are being tracked, and everybody goes, Oh, yeah, okay.
Well, I want to see proof.
Come on, Mr. Keller, show us what you know that the terrorists knew about their financials being tracked.
If you say they knew it, if you say it was widely known, then how come this does such damage to the program?
And if it would the terrorists already knew about it, then give us some proof, sir.
Tell us what you know that the terrorists knew that the targets knew about the uh SWIFT programs tracking of their finances.
One of the things that about this uh folks that's very, very uh different, these are nomads.
These are in in many cases, uh, they have they have customs and traditions that literally go back hundreds of years.
And they don't have banks per se.
Not all of them.
Some of them do, some of them have modernized, but but uh many many of these transactions are done face to face uh because that's the old way.
And I mean, even in Afghanistan now, they don't have a banking system.
It's one of the things that we are attempting to set up.
They uh they I learned that February year ago when I was there.
Uh and so great great progress had been made from what I understand, and um learning and and and acquiring data and intelligence on these banking transfers.
Now they have because they're not conventional, and it's blown sky high.
The New York Times, well, they already knew about it.
Just give us some proof.
Just give us proof.
Uh, as to the North Korean situation, let's get back to that.
Uh, no accident they do this on the Fourth of July.
No accident that Hamas launches things on the Fourth of July.
There's no accident.
We're target folks, and we're gonna have to get used to it.
We're the big guys on the block.
We're the uh we're the world's superpower.
In fact, I got a great piece in the stack here today from a guy, name escapes me right now, Tech Central Station, who uh wrote uh writes a piece analogizing this uh country's plight to Supermans.
Uh in in a in a quite intelligent way.
I'll share it with you as the program unfolds today.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Uh our UN ambassador John Bolton this morning made the following announcement about the North Koreans.
This is precisely what the Security Council is uh designed to handle, and we uh hope the council will uh rise to the occasion.
We think we can proceed in a calm and deliberate fashion.
But uh we hope we have uh strong and unanimous signal from the council that this kind of behavior is uh is unacceptable.
You know, I love John Bolton, but and I hope he's setting these guys up.
This is exactly what the Security Council's designed to handle, he says, knowing full well that they're incapable of handling it, and knowing full well that whatever they come out of there with is gonna be inconsequential.
We're gonna have more words for Kim Jong-il.
We're gonna have all this guy, he's reveling in all this attention that he's getting.
Is a little third world dictatorship.
The only way he can get noticed is to launch these little firecrackers of his in the sky.
Now he may not be able to reach us yet.
That's a serious threat.
I'm not I'm not trying to be totally humorous and make fun of the guy.
It's a dangerous threat because these guys are probably collaborating with Iran and sharing nuclear technology.
And uh if he can't make his birds fly now, he'll be able to at some point if we don't do something about it.
But uh uh security council's not the answer here.
And I gotta think John Bolton uh uh knows this.
Setting them up for a guy a little uh the the the um I saw two people from the Security Council, the two two uh well, one of the Japanese ambassadors was just livid.
He was j and you could understand it.
Those missiles were ended up in the Sea of Japan.
Uh one of them got very, very close to Russia.
It is hoped by some that this might force a new alignment between ourselves or the Chinese and the uh and the Russians, but all these pipe dreams uh that people have out there.
There's one way to deal with these kind of people, and at the point that it becomes necessary, we will.
Last night on Larry King Live.
By the way, did you hear about Larry King Life?
This is I was really excited about this.
When he had Star Jones, what's your name on Star Jones Reynolds on last week?
His ratings were I what did he get?
Uh uh two million, what was it, four million viewers or two million viewers?
They d ratings that he hadn't seen in decades, years.
Uh finally beat Hannity and Colb's one night with Star Jones Reynolds, and I'm looking there all going nuts over the numbers, and I'm saying, you know, the numbers that listen to this program every 15 minutes are larger than what the ratings king got with Star Jones Reynolds that they were all happy and celebrating.
But I am not bragging, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm passing on fact.
Tell you what, Madeline Albright's up next, and I'm really not even eager to hear Madeline Albright, but uh uh we will.
Let me take brief time out here so we don't lose our place in the uh in the programming format, back with more on the EIB network with El Rushbow, America's truth detector, right after this.
Yes, yes, yes.
Look, I'm gonna talk about the Mexican elections.
I have I say more in five seconds than most hosts say their whole shows, their whole careers.
I've already covered innumerable topics already.
We're just 20 minutes into the program, actually 15, so sit tight out there, Mr. Snerdley.
I got important things to do here.
We got to listen to Madeline Albright as North Korea, but some of this is just uh Well, it's it's it's absurd.
It's it's ridiculous.
Last night on Larry King Alive, uh she hosted the former Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, who now heads up the Add Aldright group or whatever, uh, saw their website.
Uh Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico and uh Sandy Burglar, I guess, has been rehabbed because he showed up and uh he was the former National Security Advisor and Purloiner of secret documents in the National Archives, Sandy Bergler uh was there.
And King said, What's uh what's your read, Matty?
Uh what happened to North Korea?
The North Koreans have managed to get the world's attention, and although the uh the typodong failed, it certainly uh has given the North Koreans an opportunity to learn a lot more about what they have in terms of uh their missile technology.
And frankly, Larry, I think the problem here is that we are watching the failure of five years worth of uh American diplomacy.
I'm very worried about it, and I hope very much that we do have a review of our North Korean policy.
You know, I I understand why Madeline Omwright and her associates would be regularly scheduled and routine guests on the drive-by media broadcast presentations, but this is just uh uh this strains credulity here.
I mean, this is a woman who with Jimmy Carter and one of her buds that now works in her uh in her office, uh Wendy Sherman, ex-Clinton officials all, started this whole mess with North Korea by giving them the elements with which to make nuclear weapons.
Uh they thought that if it'd just be nice that he's communists and give them stuff to make nuclear power plants that uh we could buy them off and shut them down and help their economy instead of be less communist or whatever, and of course, it it just it was it was ridiculous.
And Madeline Albright, like Bill Clinton, is now out on the trail practically every day trying to do what she can to cover up her own failures and her own mistakes, and some might say her own incompetence uh by blaming all of this on the Bush administration.
George Bush, I don't even know if he was governor of Texas yet when they made the deal with North Korea.
It was 1992, wasn't it?
93.
Yeah, it had to be 93 when Jimmy Carter went over there.
Uh yeah, Bush was not even governor of Texas then.
Uh but of course it's a failure of a diplomacy, as though talking to this madman is going to accomplish anything.
In fact, I don't know if few people uh saw it the way I saw it today.
You'll walk in here, turn on the the TV monitors.
We don't have sex uh TV sets in broadcasting.
We have monitors, we have high definition displays, we have CRTs and L C D's.
We don't have TV sets.
And I couldn't, I couldn't escape a global crisis.
It's a global crisis.
A global crisis.
Global Kim Jong il came through on his promise he launched three firecrackers and they ended up in the sea of Japanese.
What are we gonna do about this?
It's a global crisis, a total global crisis.
Everything in the news is a crisis.
Wait till you wait till I get to what I I got a new stack that I'm gonna start working on every day as there is news for it.
And it's called the lifestyle stack.
And let me give you an example of some of the headlines, and I'm gonna go into it in detail here.
U.S. flag epidemic reaches peak on 4th of July.
This is the French news agency all upset that we all wear and show and fly flags on the 4th of July.
This next one, I can't wait to get to it.
Also from the French news agency, activists become first to reach North Pole in summer.
It's about global warming, but but they were they were trailed by a polar bear, and the polar bear actually came up and thanked them for working on global warming.
They said this, I'll have the details.
Um we got a rolling Hunger strike with Cindy Sheehan, Sean Penn, the novelist Alice Walker, and the actor Danny Glover.
You know what a rolling fast is?
That's where you fast for eight hours and you pass off the fast to somebody else who fasts for eight hours.
And the only fast on which you gain weight, the uh uh you it's a fast where people eat.
But you you fast for eight hours or twelve, whatever it is, and you pass it on to your cohort, then you pass it on to the next participant.
Uh this was this was invented by the uh Reverend Zach.
Uh you may have heard about this over the weekend.
Study Americans lonelier than ever.
Little Mr. Apricot flips off crowd, loses title.
The new science of siblings.
This is akin to the Time magazine cover.
Boys and girls are actually born different.
This is a story about research revealing how brothers and sisters shape who we are, as though it's news.
Push for simpler spelling persists.
Wait till you hear that.
Experts debate labeling children obese.
It might hurt their feelings, don't you know?
Uh well see, Britain C. U.S.'s vulgar empire builder, fat people, not more jolly.
Uh study says uh how English is taught in Texas, likely to change.
I mean, it's the lifestyle stack today is um it is full of one crisis after another.
Uh and the whole everything about this North Korea bit crisis, crisis, crisis, crisis, crisis.
Constantly want to keep us on edge and worried and and fretting over things.
And so this North Korea thing, of course, you know, it it's sort of it's it's I don't want to be too close to the line here, but right as they were revving up this North Korea business, here came the news that Ken Lay died, reportedly from a heart attack, and that took him off.
The drive-by media took him off the game of North Korea for a while, but uh they're back on it now.
Uh, funny too.
A little bit before noon, the president ventured out by big news on immigration.
The president's changing his tune on immigration.
Uh border security first appears to be what the president now understands he has to do if he wants to get support from his base uh and with the possibility of getting a bill done.
But he went into a a Dunkin' Donuts in Alexandria, Virginia today.
Small little Dunkin' Donuts place owned by Iranian Americans.
He went in there to to reignite the immigration debate.
Uh, and everybody was waiting for him to bring up North Korea.
He didn't bring up North Korea, didn't take questions.
He did buy somebody in the crowd a cup of coffee and actually paid for it.
The owner offered to give it to him.
Bush said, no, that's not how commerce works.
Um was really unique about this story is that most presidents don't carry any cash.
Clinton never had any until uh until he got out of the White House and started selling books and so forth.
Most of them don't carry cash.
Bush whips out a wad of cash and and pays two bucks for the uh cup of coffee or whatever.
Pleasant sight, but at the same time, Condoleezza Rice was meeting with somebody talking about uh North Korea.
And I just waiting for somebody to drive by media to say, what they got a global crisis, North Korea launches missiles, he's in a Dunkin' Donuts buying coffee for people.
And they're going to compare that to reading book about goats to the school kids in Florida on 9-11.
Mark my words, I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked body.
Uh Madeline Albright uh uh let's remember what she said, by the way, after this is uh from 2000 after she spent twelve hours uh with Kim Jong il.
He said that he would really have loved to have been a movie director.
He knew a lot about American movies and had suggestions for Oscar nominations and uh, you know, he also liked American sports, he liked Michael Jordan.
It was possible to talk with him.
He's not a nut.
Well, there you have it.
All right, so he's not a nut.
He loves American pop culture.
Madeline Albright fell for this.
And of course, this sets up what comes from all the other uh uh libs and appeasers, and that is we've got to talk to them.
We have to make them feel like they have value.
We must make them feel as though they have self-worth.
They're feeling youthless And worthless because they're such a small country, and that's what nuclear is all about.
If we just treat them with respect, then I'm sure this will go Wesley Clark was out there.
A failure negotiation.
We need treaties.
We need discussions.
We need talks.
I the Clinton administration talked to these people for ten years.
Madelite just finished with Kim John Hill last time six years ago.
Been talking to them all the while.
And while you talk to them, they smile at you, they tell you how much they love Michael Jordan, how much they love Air Jordans, about what movies ought to be nominated, so forth, while at the same time their mad scientists are working behind everybody's back, trying to gin up their weapons programs.
It's the you know liberals' desire to have dialogue with communists and have meaningful results has got to be a triumph over emotion over common sense because the test has never ever worked, folks.
We'll be back, continue in mere moments.
America's real anchor man, a doctor of democracy, El Rush Ball, half my brain, tied behind my back just to make it fair.
The telephone number is 800 282-2882, if uh you would like to be on the program.
Back to the audio sound bites.
Larry King alive last night, uh Madel Albright, Bill Richardson, and of course uh Sandy Burglar.
A question uh to s to uh Bill Richardson from Larry King.
Uh blah look, Bill, uh former ambassador, you've been there.
What'd you read and all this?
The North Koreans are like little kids.
When they don't get their way, when they don't get any attention, especially when we've been dealing with Iran and we Stop the tape.
They're like little kids.
Little kids do not launch missiles that could potentially have nuclear weapons on the tips.
What do you mean starved for attention?
They've been getting all kinds of attention.
Has anybody forgotten that George W. Bush named three nations the axis of evil when he established the premise.
Anybody remember what those three nations were?
North Korea, hmm.
Iraq, hmm.
Iran.
Hmm.
I think at the president's been born out on this.
In fact, the North Koreans are working together with the Iranians, perhaps sharing nuclear technology to whatever extent either of them have it.
Uh but you don't know what Russia's involvement is.
But to look at these people as little kids uh when they don't get their way, when they don't get any attention, uh I'll tell you who's like little spoiled brats, it's a Democratic Party today.
They're the ones that are acting like little spoiled brats, don't get what they want and start throwing little conniption fits start blaming everybody for cheating them and stealing from them and all that, just like this Democrat in Mexico's doing.
This it's a rerun of Florida 2000 down there all in the whole country.
El Gore is this guy's name down.
Actually he's not Il Gore, what is his name?
Cordoba.
No, that's rich Corinthian leather.
What uh this guy's name Obrador, right?
Obrador.
Anyway, we'll get to that.
Here's here's the rest of uh Bill Richardson.
Iraq, they're out of the headlines.
That bothers them.
So they try to get attention.
What do we do about it?
I believe you have to have face-to-face talks.
I think that's important to look at a set of possible additional sanctions.
But it's not gonna substitute for the Bush administration saying we're gonna deal with you directly.
Remember, this provocation was aimed at us, nobody else.
Fourth of July, and I think face-to-face talks.
We have some very capable people that can negotiate a deal that looks something like this.
What how many deals would these people have been negotiated?
Um, I know that I'm just a rube from Missouri.
I'm I'm just from flyover country folks.
I'm not a sophisticated Northeastern knife a league.
But this this is this is mind-boggling to me.
Direct talks.
Direct talks.
Uh I mean, let me think of an analogy to what this would be like.
Uh this would be like the uh the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers talking to the Pop Warner coach to talk about the rules of football, a pop warner coach in Florida.
That's not even a good analogy, but this is this is makes uh makes no sense whatsoever.
And I'll tell you it's not working because George W. Bush hasn't said a word about North Korea today, and this is on purpose.
He got Condoleezza Rice doing it.
Bush, the only foreign policy thing Bush spoke out about today was Cuba.
I don't even know what it was, but he said something about Cuba.
It's like remember when his father, George Bush 41, referred to Saddam Hussein as Saddam.
Saddam is uh an insult.
It's not somebody's name.
When you pronounce the name Saddam Saddam, you're essentially calling them a shiner of shoes, a bootlicker.
It was on purpose that Bush called him Saddam.
Uh many people thought that Bush didn't know how to pronounce Saddam, but he pronounced it Saddam on purpose.
There's no accident that Bush 43 is ignoring Kim Jong-il.
Uh and of course, this has got the Liberals just up in arms.
Now, folks, it's time for Sandy Burgler, uh, who was asked by Larry King.
Sandy, what do you think?
Negotiation is not capitulation.
Negotiation is face-to-face uh uh discussions to determine whether or not there is something that we can reach that is satisfactory to us.
And it's important not only because we may be able to reach an agreement, but but we will never have the support of China and South Korea for more coercive measures unless they are convinced that we have exhausted the negotiating option.
You know what this all means?
It means that everybody else in the world is a coward.
Everybody in the world but us doesn't want to deal with these things.
They want us to do it in a way that doesn't threaten them.
When I hear somebody say, We'll never have the support of China and South Korea for more coercive measures unless they're convinced we've exhausted the negotiating option.
Uh that's sort of like the family and medical leave act, or sort of like um affirmative action.
When is it end?
There's no end to these negotiations.
That's the point of diplomacy.
You always end up talking, and by talking, you prevent the problem from occurring, but you don't solve it.
The problem remains.
We're just having dialogue.
We're not talking about this.
This is the way the Libs wanted to deal with Soviets.
Constant dialogue.
That's why they were all worried that Reagan never met with any Soviet leaders until 1986.
1986.
Reagan said they kept dying on me.
What's the point?
I meet with one guy who's gonna be dead in six months, either gonna be assassinated or he's gonna die.
What's the point?
When they finally got somebody who's gonna live twenty or thirty years longer, Reagan met with him, his name was Mikhail Gorbachev.
Let's go to the phones.
Yutica, New York, this is uh Mark.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hey Rush, how are you doing?
I'm fine, sir.
Thank you.
And um, let's see.
I started listening to your show back in eighty-nine um when I was just in high school.
And maybe.
But I I noticed the hypocrisy.
I'm watching the uh the White House press secretary Tony Snow get grilled for this um action with uh North Korea as far as handling it diplomatically.
They want a timetable, they want to know when we're gonna, you know, take care of this.
And like you said, diplomatic talks could it could go on forever.
You know, and that's what they wanted with Iraq.
You know, so they they line it both ways.
They kind of want a quick uh speedy answer to the problem when it comes to diplomatic negotiations.
Um but you know, it's it's kind of hypocrisy.
You can't have it both ways.
It is a it's a it's uh this fundamental that you have to understand.
If you're watching the White House press briefing, and I've got it on here, but I'm not listening to it because of course I have more important things to do.
I do have the closed captioning on, but I'm not even spending much time with that.
Because I know what's going on in there, and I know that it's totally pointless.
And I know that the media and the White House press corps, the drive-by's have a narrow focus on this, and that is it's almost our fault that North Korea did this, and what are we gonna do to prevent them from doing it again?
It's our fault.
We didn't talk, it's Bush's fault.
Bush didn't talk to him, Bush is ignoring them.
When are you gonna have direct talks?
We're gonna have superdiploma.
It's it's the questions are predictable, the the uh examination of the whole issue is predictable.
Nobody thinks outside the box, nobody looks outside the box, nobody jumps outside the box.
It's a very confined and yet well defined procedure, and Tony knows that he's dealing with it, but this discussion of multilateral or unilateral Uh uh and these guys have have uh engaged in this provocative launching of these three missiles.
And we realize again, we don't know what happened.
We don't know if they're just incompetent and the missiles failed, and they need to call Lorale Space, uh former Clinton contributor, like uh the Chinese did when they couldn't orbit their missiles.
Uh we don't know if they did this on purpose to sandbag everybody to make it look like they're incompetent, uh, so we'll let our guard down.
And the third possibility, the most unlikely, and we'll never know it, is that we might have shot these missiles down.
We've been on alert for this for a long time.
Who knows what assets we have where?
It's entirely possible we shot these things.
That's a it's it's something, again, that uh, well, you know, I say with the New York Times around guarding our interests to know folks, it's difficult to say that we'll never know anything, uh, depending on when the New York Times hears about it.
But yeah, whether it's multinational or um or international or unilateral uh discussions is to miss the point.
The point is this the libs want to keep talking to be out of fear.
Oh my God, they did a little kid, and you know, little kids do impetuous things, and we've we've got to pay more attention.
We're ignoring our children, we're ignoring North Korea.
And we've got to talk to Kim Jong-il.
And in the process of talking, theories of Kim Jong-il won't do anything.
We're not solving the problem because we'll come up with 50,000 agreements he'll sign and never agree to.
Never follow, he'll break them all, like all the communists in the world do.
I don't know what's so hard to learn about this.
Uh, but their their process does not solve the problem.
And so all of this is you know, it's it's this predictable gobbledygook with a media template here that's oriented on, well, what are we gonna do to stop the North Koreans?
Uh, it's our fault that they launched and so forth, and that is the and it's never stated that way.
You have to be able to read the stitches on a fastball as I can do to see that.
Everybody breathlessly awaiting, breathlessly, I'm gonna hold my breath here.
Uh breathlessly awaiting word from the Security Council of the United Nations as to what we're going to do about North Korea.
By the way, for those of you in New Jersey.
I tried, I don't know how many times, to warn you people.
Uh I I did everything I could to tell you that exactly what was has happened was going to happen.
Now, I didn't envision a government shutdown, but I envisioned all kinds of tax increases, which you got.
And it's still not enough.
Elsewhere in the country, however, and I'm not trying to rub it in for those of you in New Jersey, because I love you.
You are as much a part of this audience as anybody else is.
I feel for you, but if we do our best to help you out, and you still go against the best advice you ever got.
And so you got to live in the mess that you create.
Elsewhere around the country, U.S. private sector employers created an estimated 368,000 jobs in June, compared with 122,000 jobs in the previous month.
Uh visit a monthly ADP national employment report based on payroll data and measures the change in total private sector non-farm employment every month.
So a lot of new jobs in uh in June.
But in New Jersey, casinos kicked out the last of the gamblers, some slot machines and tables uh yesterday, last night.
Janitors uh locked not uh what is this?
This is Wednesday.
Did it today, yeah, early this morning.
Uh janitors locked the doors behind them as the state government shutdown claimed its latest victims in the uh in the first mass closure in the 28-year history of Atlantic City's legalized gambling trade.
All twelve casinos were under state orders to lock up.
Atlantic City's casinos are lucrative for New Jersey.
Now, stop and that's true.
Stop and think of this.
They have a 1.1 billion dollar payroll.
The state takes an 8% cut of that payroll, an estimated 1.3 million dollars a day.
But as a stalemate over The state budget entered its fifth day today with no deal in sight.
Even they had to shut down, meaning the casinos.
With no state budget, New Jersey can't pay its state employees, meaning the casino inspectors who keep tabs on the money and whose presence is required at casinos are off the job.
State parks and beaches also closed Wednesday because of the lack of staff.
I wonder, remember the guy, the sleigh ride guy.
The government shut down in 95.
Guy was uh the the where was this?
Jelly Stone Park, the Jelly Stone Park Slay ride guy called Larry King all upset uh the government shut down, put him out of business.
He later called us to tell us how his feelings were hurt when we were talking about his circumstance.
He's still a fan.
Yeah, absolutely still a fan.
That's why his feelings were hurt instead of him being angry.
But you know, this is a this is a classic illustration for those of you in New Jersey and everywhere else.
Here you've got a state budget out of control.
You had a governor candidate, gubernatorial candidate, Corzine, who promised not to raise taxes.
The first thing he did within the first week was say, I never worked harder out anything in my life.
But uh gonna have to raise your tax.
I tried everything, everything.
Oh, wait, that was Bill Clinton that said that in '93.
I don't know what Corzin said, but it's basically the the same thing.
One thing you have to learn.
Liberals, when they come to a budget crisis, never will cut the bureaucracy.
They will never cut the size of their government.
Corzine's out there saying, Okay, Kennedy cut anymore.
I mean, we can't cut, period.
We have to raise taxes.
And then they end up shutting down things that people like and that produce real income, unlike the bureaucracy, which doesn't produce a dime.
The bureaucracy is just a pirate.
The bureaucracy is a giant thief.
The bureaucracy skims off the work of others, and this casino data is the proof.
1.3 million dollars a day, the state's going without because of this shutdown.
They shut down the things people like.
The lottery has been shut down.
The casinos, racetracks, stuffs that actually make money for the state.
Corzyn shuts it down, and I make no mistake about this, folks.
Corzine said, I'd have no choice.
That's a progression we're following here.
I have no choice in what things get shut down.
He's the governor.
Can do pretty much what he wants in a situation like this because nobody wants this situation.
He shuts it down to I think punish the very voters who are stupid enough to wish that the state would continue robbing them blind.
What what else do New Jerseyans have?
You must in New Jersey, you must want to be robbed blind.
You keep electing people that put their hands in your back pocket and make no excuses for it.
Make you feel guilty for noticing it.
And they promise they're going to stop doing it.
And I tell you, don't believe this person, this person's a liberal democrat.
They never tell the truth about taxes.
They always want to raise them.
That's the solution to every problem any liberal has ever come up with.
Raise taxes.
That'll fix any problem.
And they come along and tell you they're going to cut your taxes or not increase them.
And you go, well.
You must have this secret wish to be fleeced.
Because you keep voting for the fleecers.
I feel bad for you.
I know you think that I'm putting you down and making fun of you.
I'm not.
Well, I think I think New Jersey voters must like getting slapped around.
I mean, you know, battered voter syndrome.
We've seen enough uh evidence uh it here.
Let me just play a sound.
I want to tell you how I warned you.
December 14th, 2005.
This is what I said on this program.
After vowing during his campaign that he would not raise the gas tax.
Governor-elect John Corzine said yesterday he will now reconsider the idea.
And I sit here and this is nothing new.
This happens.
I don't care who in New Jersey, as a candidate promises what?
It's worthless.
And you wonder, will you will you Democrat voters in this state ever learn?
No.
So I say they must have a they must have a wish uh to keep being treated this way, because they keep voting for and electing people that'll do it.
We have some uh won't you?
Well, we got four four sound bites from the governor himself.
We'll have to get to those in a jiffy.
Sit tight, my friends.
I'll be right back.
Do you know that every voter in a Mexican election has to have a photo ID?
Or they can't vote.
This apparently was one of the fairest and most transparent elections that they've had down there in uh in recent history.
But the Democrat lost, or the Democrat equivalent lost, and that's just not right.
There's something.
Yeah, so um uh they're demanding a full countrywide recount.
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