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July 28, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 28, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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Hi, how are you, folks?
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Well, I will you know, I will even allow that.
Uh if you're not getting too many, but uh haven't had any in weeks.
But uh you want to whine about the price of jet fuel, feel free.
Bring it on.
You gotta hear these audio sound bites uh that I have up next.
Uh Dennis Kucinich, uh one of the Democratic presidential candidates in the uh 2004 cycle.
Uh he was on the early show today with the Info Babe Hanna Storm and uh talking about the obscene profits of the uh ExxonMobil uh corporation.
Uh the infobabe Hannah Storm said, How how do windfall taxes that you want?
Uh how do these taxes bring down the price of gas?
No, no, no.
It doesn't tax the price of gas.
No, I know how to the taxes taxes only excess profits.
When you start imposing some discipline and the oil company 100% tax on excess profits, then the oil companies aren't going to be making $1,300 a second like ExxonMobil is, uh $10 billion in a quarter.
Uh their CEO had a $400 million golden parachute, their stocks at an uh at an all-time high.
I mean, what's going on here?
The American people are getting ripped off at the pump, and somebody has to stand up for them.
By doing what?
That was you know, he he um uh actually good question there from Hannah Storm.
Well, how are these windfall taxes going to bring down the price of gas?
There aren't.
In fact, it might make the price of gas go even higher.
The last time we had a windfall profits tax.
You know what the oil companies do, don't you?
We've been through this countless.
This guy's a littering jewel of colossal ignorance.
He's just he's a he's a liberal, he's a socialist.
And all he wants to do is punish the oil company.
Big oil is an enemy.
That's all he wants to do.
It's like raising taxes on the rich.
Doesn't help anybody else in terms of getting any more money in their pocket.
Uh cutting taxes on the rich is what benefits people.
Cutting taxes on everybody benefits people, but raising taxes on the rich supposed to make you feel better.
Yeah, get even with those people.
They got more than I do.
Screw them.
Tax them, tax them.
Yeah, taint enough, taint enough.
And you're sitting there any better off than before it happened?
No, you're just angrier.
In fact, you think you wouldn't be as angry, but you realize that it's meaningless to you after a while.
Same thing here with a windfall profits tax.
Big oil is made up of people that are exponentially smarter than Dennis Kucinich.
And so what happens here, uh, ladies and gentlemen, let's say they do this.
Let's uh put the windfall profits tax on.
Big oil will simply delay production.
They'll simply delay bringing product to market.
It'll result in shortages till they because they know that the windfall profits tax will have an end.
And they'll just wait for when the tax uh is uh removed, and then they'll resume normal operations.
Check your histoire.
This is exactly what happens.
A 100% windfall profits tax.
Not only excess profits, when you start imposing some discipline and 100% tax on excess profits, then the oil companies aren't gonna be making $1,300 a second like ExxonMobil is $10 billion a quarter.
All right.
Ask this question yesterday, and I will rephrase it today.
Let's take a look at big oil and Exxon Mobil.
They are not laying off their employees.
Their pension plans are not in trouble.
Their stockholders are doing very well.
And by the way, some socialists don't like that either.
I've seen the phrase stockholders are unfairly enriched.
Profits are out of proportion, whatever that means.
Would you rather have in your economy an Exxon Mobil?
Or would you rather have a General Motors?
Uh which is trying to buy employees out with exit packages?
Eliminating the pension plan for retired employees, posting windfall losses every quarter?
Uh no prospects for turning this around?
Would you rather have a GM in your economy and be it the way it is or an ExxonMobil?
Or would you rather have a GM uh or an ExxonMobil in your economy and a Ford Motor Company, which sadly and unfortunately posted 123, what was it, million dollar loss uh in the first quarter?
Second quarter, whatever it was?
Would you rather have an ExxonMobil and other successful businesses?
Why would you want to destroy the successful b a 100% excess profit?
What if if you if what who's going to define the excess profit?
What is the okay profit?
Congressman Kucinich.
Perhaps you could tell us what kind of profit's okay in your little pointy headed socialist mind.
Hmm.
I guess there's a number you have in mind, a fair profit.
Note that a member of government wants to sit here and determine what's fair and unfair, wants to run a business, a he what has Dennis Kucinich ever done to deliver a drop of gasoline to your gas station?
What has Dennis Kucinich ever done to develop tools necessary to drill for oil, bring it up out of the ground wherever it is, transport it to the refinery?
What has he ever done anywhere in this chain to make sure that you or anybody else in this country have what you demand and expect gasoline free-flowing at market prices?
What has he ever done that has contributed to that process?
Versus, what is he suggesting here that would kill it?
We're not through with Mr. Kucinich.
Hannah Storm says, Congressman, is there a way to ensure that these oil companies do pay money for alternative fuel research that uh that supply has increased?
Is there a way to make that happen?
Of course there is.
And when you start challenging them, I mean you have to break up the monopolies.
Look, they're running the country right now, and everyone knows it.
And it's about time the American people had someone and people in Congress standing up for them.
That's what my bill does.
Your bill doesn't do anything for anybody except cause pain.
What what do you mean?
Of course there is a way to make them pay money for alternative fuel research.
Why should they do it?
Their business is oil.
And there's plenty of all out there.
They're doing it anyway because they are smart people, smarter than little old Dennis Kucinich, and they want to stay in business, and they want to lead their industry.
No doubt they're looking for these things, but they're not going to end up competing with themselves.
And the only way they can be forced to do that is with a dictatorial type government made up of pinheads like Dennis Kucinich.
Well, I'm serious.
You realize how absurd this is?
The oil companies are running the country?
Have you heard of Iran?
Have you heard of Saudi Arabia?
Have you heard of the speculators in the oil futures market, Congressman Kucinich?
Have you uh have have you heard of OPEC?
Have you heard of Caesar Shavi?
Yeah, I'm sure you love Caesar Chavez.
He lowered the price of oil for poor Boston uh and New England people.
Uh well I don't think he wanted to get rid of the Defense Department.
He wants a Department of Peace, but he doesn't want to get rid of the Defense Department.
Uh to when he doesn't realize the Defense Department is the Department of Peace.
We need a Department of Peace.
A cabinet level post.
Secretary of Peace.
I got a guy, Warren Christopher.
There's a guy, Warren Christopher as the as the Secretary of Peace, uh with Bill Clinton in there and Madeline Albright.
Boy, they've brought us a lot of peace, haven't they?
Yeah.
The American soldier.
The American military person.
Men and women in uniform, Congressman Kucinich.
They are your Department of Peace.
Pinhead.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you on the EIB network to uh Nora in I Slip in New York.
Welcome to the open line Freddy edition of the program.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Rush.
It's uh it's really an honor to talk to you.
Um I'm so nervous.
Well don't be.
It's just gonna be like having are you married?
Yes, I am.
Well, it's gonna be like having your husband rub your back with a mink glove.
Uh you'll want to do it over and over again.
Sounds nice.
Well, anyhow, actually, this isn't uh you were talking earlier about uh the woman on the Today Show, I think it was.
Yeah, how to train men.
Yes.
Well, um I thought that I had trained my husband.
I I thought I had trained him.
It was exactly the same scenario.
He would crowd me in the kitchen.
Why?
What do you tell me why would he do that?
Okay, well, he bought me um one of those sharp aquas televisions so I could watch my you know, a little bit of television while I'm preparing his dinner.
And very smart.
Very smart, very smart move.
Nice man, right?
And uh so he but then what would happen was he would stand right there in the corner in front of the TV and watch uh his Brit Hume comes on at like six o'clock.
So he's like kind of right between my the dishwasher and the stove.
So um I figured, well, let me just let me put a barstool on the other side of the counter and I'll get him his his cocktail.
You gotta be kidding.
This is this is exactly what this babe on the Today Show said should said to do.
And you knew to do it instinctively, which has been my point all day long.
No, well what it w I think it's what really what it is is that my husband used to sit in the other room and watch Britt.
And then he would have to get up, come into the kitchen, make his own drink, and go back, and then sit down and finish watching Britt while I was cooking.
So I think he's the one that actually trained me.
He deliberately put the TV there, he deliberately crowded me.
So as to make you think that it was all my idea to have him sit on the other side of the counter when that was his plan the entire time.
Oh, so you're dealing with a Machiavellian type here.
Yes, yes.
So while you thought you were a step ahead, he was two steps ahead of you.
Exactly.
And I think that's probably this author is just can't figure that out either.
She should really take a step back upon the city.
Do you let me let me ask you something, Nora.
Do you really think men and and your husband are that smart?
I think my husband is the smartest man next to you, Rush.
Yeah, of course.
In in in the world.
He's just brilliant.
Uh I'm I'm uh uh I'm just listening to this.
I can't I can't if see if well, I'm just a different breed, I guess.
If if if I were your husband and and and uh uh I was trying to be nice and get you a new aquas TV so that you could watch TV while you're fixing dinner, the whole point would be so I wouldn't have to go into the kitchen.
And so that you wouldn't come in while you're fixing dinner and crowd me while I'm watching Britt Hume.
No, you don't Rush, no no.
He's no but but huh?
He sits there and I wait on him.
You know, he needs some more uh slight Well, did you wait on him when he was in the other room with his TV?
Uh no.
Well probably not, as no.
Unless he really, you know, hollered and threatened to beat me.
I think uh so there's nothing to it that he just wants to be with you.
Well, I think he wants to be well, maybe a little bit of that, I mean, but uh I think he just you know he wants to have the uh the convenience of uh being able to sit and then I make his drinks, and then he can also supervise the the meal I'm cooking for him as well.
Yeah, but he never used to do this before he got you the TV, right?
He Never used to supervise the meal.
Because then he would miss the TV show he was watching.
Yeah, that's true.
I don't know, you know, Rush, I don't know.
Maybe I'm something I'm telling you, there's something neither you or I understand about this.
Uh you think you've got it figured out.
You think he wants to be waited on.
But if you were that smart, he wanted to be waited on in his room while you're cooking.
He'd want you to cook and wait on him, even though he got you to TV.
The TV would be the bait that to get you to do that.
Well, you know what, Rush, maybe he feels bad for me because um I'm like six months pregnant now, and we have a uh we also have a two year old.
Well, why didn't you say so?
That's not exactly irrelevant here.
I kind of forgot about it.
I just got kicked.
You forgot you're six months pregnant?
Well, I just got kicked, so it kind of reminded me, but maybe so maybe he's just being nice, like not making it.
It's hard to believe, I know.
That could be it.
Uh but then he also likes to discuss, you know, he gives me he's trained me in other ways too, Rush.
Well, but but what let me wait another question though.
This this this crowding in the kitchen.
Apparently this is far more common than I am aware of.
Well, I'm my nickname, I'm I'm the kitchen Nazi.
I can't have anybody in the kitchen with me.
All right.
Yeah, he's in there crowding it.
Does it lead to other things?
Well, I am six months pregnant, Rush, so well, you can take that one of two ways, uh uh Nora.
Well, so it usually honestly it leads to uh get out of the kitchen.
Could you could you move?
Could you stand over there, please?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, so but you've done that with a stool and the adult beverage.
Right.
Okay.
So it's working.
Whatever.
Sounds like you both have each other trained.
Sounds to me like you just like each other and and uh that's true.
May even love each other, which could be the simple explanation for this.
There you there you have it.
And he makes me listen to your show, so we have something to talk about when he comes home from work.
Makes you?
Well, yes, he's you know to that.
Makes you?
Yes, I'm he's manipulating you, but he's not making you.
No, no.
I love your shell, Ross.
That's why you should be doing it.
That's why you shouldn't require any impetus or manipulation or what have you.
Well, no, sometimes what happens is the kid's in the back seat screaming for her song that she likes to hear over and over again.
Yeah.
And then I when I'm in the car, you know, and then I I I just have to say no.
Take a bottle.
Understand that.
And a couple other things after that.
Well, uh Nora, thanks.
Thanks for the call.
Most uh most enlightening.
Now, of all of that, of that whole conversation, there is one thing that I simply cannot relate to.
And it's not crowding in the kitchen, although I can't relate to that.
I apparently it's very common out there in America, and I'm uh on this, I will admit to being out of touch.
No.
I I'm I don't crowd in the kitchen.
When somebody's doing that, don't crowd them, period, whatever they're doing anything.
I I don't crowd in the kit.
No.
Never not not consistently every day and so forth.
Not not to get in the way, not to get in the way.
There's one thing.
Uh I haven't had a wife that cooked.
What am I even talking about here?
I haven't had a wife fix me a drink.
I don't know what this is.
I don't know what that's like.
Uh Chris in Cleveland, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Megads from uh the Rock and Roll Capitol.
It's an it's an absolute honor.
Yes, sir.
Thanks.
Thanks very much.
Uh my question is, uh, you know, the standard thinking is that, you know, the Hollywood population and the left coast, so to speak, is supposedly so heavily Jewish.
And there are examples of this, you know, Barbara Streisand and like that.
Uh why is there no pro-Israeli, you know, rallying cry, you know, from the I mean Barbara Streisand made Yental, and she's supposedly so hardcore Jewish, and yet I other than possibly Ben Stein, I can't think of a single Jewish celebrity that that's been had taken any kind of a pro Israeli stance.
This is an interesting question, and it is a mystery.
It's a question that has Been asked by many people, uh, and there are theories, uh, but I don't think there are any hardcore definitive answers other than the theories.
However, uh, I'm gonna have to uh delve into more of this after the break, which is coming up in mere broadcast seconds, Alan Dershowitz, who we would have to say is a celebrity, a Harvard law professor, is big big media guy, uh, and Jewish, uh, has come out full-fledged in support of Israel.
Uh he is not unique.
He is uh he's long been making the case for Israel, but he is standing alone here, and that's what's interesting.
You don't have to think, folks, I do that for you.
Monday, Friday, three hours a day.
It adds up to show prep for the rest of the media which follows.
All right, the question is on the table.
Why is it that liberal Jews, Hollywood Jews, Jewish people who are liberal all over the country, don't seem to join the fight for Israel.
Uh there are many theories out there, but the the simplest explanation, folks, and I I have I have it it it's gonna sound simplistic and oftentimes trust the simplistic because the simplistic is red in the money.
Most liberals, whatever their faith, put their liberalism first.
Liberalism is a more powerful religion than any other to the committed liberal.
In the world of liberalism, Israel is too powerful.
Israel is using jets against these defenseless little backwards terrorists.
That's not fair.
Israel is richer.
Uh it's uh Israel is allied with the United States.
Um this is just not right.
And you cannot exclude from this the element of guilt which pervades liberalism and perpetuates it.
Um a liberal in the United States is really no different than a liberal in Europe or a liberal working at the United Nations.
They have the same world view.
A liberal here was no different than a liberal in the Soviet Union.
They all, I don't care where you go.
Find a liberal in uh Congo.
Find a liberal in Kuala Lumpur.
Find a liberal in Tibet.
Find anybody in Tibet.
You talk about a bunch of people getting their butts kicked.
Nobody cares about that, because nobody's got the guts to go up against the Chinese.
But I get sidetracked.
Find a liberal anywhere.
They all think we need to negotiate with terrorists, that we should have a Manhattan project for terrorists and so forth, that we uh need to examine what it is we're doing to cause these people to become terrorists.
Uh why do they hate us so?
It's our fault, well, not theirs, the liberals, of course, are the understanding and compassionate.
It's the it's the it's the uh the blockheads, the uh uh the conservatives uh and others.
They're the ones causing the problem.
Conservatives uh and conservatism pose a much greater threat to liberals than terrorists do.
Check their language against the terrorists versus their language against George W. Bush or me or any other prominent conservative public figure, and ask yourself about whom do they have the most criticism?
For whom do they have the most criticism, and about whom do they speak in the most harshest of terms?
It's not the terrorists.
Liberals in this country want terrorists to have essentially constitutional rights, the Al-Qaeda Bill of Rights.
Another story today in the stack.
United Nations, amid all this going on with the Hezbos and the Israelis, the United Nations demanding that we close our secret prisons around the world.
Well, if they're secret, how do those boneheads know that we have any?
But number two, who the hell are they?
A bunch of liberals at the United Nations.
The human rights uh committee, conference, whatever they call themselves up there.
And don't forget, this this human rights club at the United Nations can have as one of its leaders, somebody like Saddam Hussein, or a country like Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
It rotates.
So it doesn't matter.
Catholic, Jewish, Protestant.
The only competition liberals really have other religions is the religion of Gaia, which is the earth, a tree, whatever.
They're a little conflicted there.
But they don't see Israel as anything with which they have in common in any way, religious or otherwise.
They have no understanding of this enemy, as they had no understanding of communism, and for the longest time they had no understanding of Nazism.
And actually they still don't have a real understanding of Nazism.
They associate Nazism with conservatism, when Nazism is one of those horrible things that you get on the left.
Communism, socialism, Nazism, fascism, those are all on the left side of center.
But liberals have found a way to put it on the right.
And of course, that's become popular uh uh conventional wisdom now, just like uh the voting rights act.
President Bush signed a voting rights act uh extension, and uh liberals out there, oh, whoa, this is a wonderful, oh, this is one of the voting rights act making.
It's a wonderful, wonderful.
What they don't tell you is it was a bunch of Democrats that made the damn thing necessary.
It was a bunch of Democrats came up with a poll tax, it was a bunch of Democrats came up with literacy tests, it's a bunch of Democrats and liberals that came up with the restrictions, but somehow that's been reversed uh in uh in popular culture and conventional wisdom today.
There are exceptions to this, however, as I said, Alan Dershowitz writing today in the Washington Times, that'd be the Washington Times for those of you in uh Rio Linda.
He writes, as a liberal Democrat, I listened carefully to the opposition voiced by many Democratic senators to the nomination of John Bolton as our chief representative of the UN.
Mr. Bolton has been representing us at a UN since August.
During the current Middle East crisis, I've been able to listen for myself to what Mr. Bolton's been saying at the United Nations.
On the basis of his performance, I have become a Bolton supporter.
He speaks with moral clarity, he is extremely well prepared, he's extraordinarily articulate.
He places the best face on America policy, particularly in the Middle East during this crucial time.
But Mr. Bolton is right to be skeptical, and all the great U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations, from Stevenson to Goldberg to Moynihan to Kirkpatrick, have shared that skepticism of the body.
Bolton's absolutely justified in pushing for reform of the notoriously corrupt and inefficient bureaucratic structure at Turtle Bay.
As he once said, if member countries want the UN to be respected, they should begin by making sure it's worthy of respect.
I've observed Mr. Bolton's performance with regard to Israel and its conflicts with Hezbollah and Hamas.
On many other fronts, he's proved himself a staunch advocate of freedom and human rights, specifically in Sudan, North Korea, and Cuba.
Some critics have argued that Mr. Bolton's better in his public role as advocate than his beside behind the scenes role as conciliator.
But at this point in history, the United States needs a public advocate who can further its case in the court of public opinion.
No one does that better than John Bolton.
So Dershowitz, uh you you will you'll not hear this from any liberal in Hollywood, regardless of their religion.
But Dershowitz does have an alliance and a deep love and uh a relationship with Israel, and has written books about it.
And this is fabulous, by the way.
I was happy to see this, happy to read it.
But I don't want to poison it or sadden it, but I do have just one small complaint.
It would it would just it would just be wonderful if Mr. Dershowitz would join his country in other efforts, as he has joined us in our effort in Israel.
That's the one thing that I would uh I would add.
Because if it's not Israel, then the usual liberalism in Mr. Dershowitz surfaces, and he uh is part of that chorus.
I hope this helps answer the uh question, ladies and gentlemen.
Really no more complicated than that.
Uh back to the audio sound bites now.
We're up to number nine.
Byron helmethead Dorgan, and this is uh the Democrats keeping up their assault on that great threat to America.
Walmart.
Last night he was on the Charlie Rose show on PBS.
And was asked bluntly by Charlie Rose, what uh what's your beef against Walmart?
He has enormous market power and and it is pushing producers to produce in China where it's least cost production, and then sell back on the Walmart store shelf, and the clearly the buyer gets an advantage because you have lower prices.
The problem is the loss of jobs as a result of the migration of those jobs elsewhere.
What is he talking about?
What is he talking about?
This is the guy who's saying we need the illegal alien labor force.
What do you mean we're losing jobs?
I thought it was jobs Americans won't do.
So we need this endless parade of illegal immigrants to do these jobs, and the Democrats in the Senate are all for that bill, the Kennedy McCain, whoever else bill.
Aside from that.
He uh he could clearly provide buyers lower prices.
Oh, there's no question.
And that I thought that was good.
No.
No, see, that is bad because these lower prices ends up uh end up driving jobs to China.
This is uh it tells what this is.
This is a guy trying to sound like he knows what he's talking about, saying something he doesn't really believe.
That's what this is.
These guys, this this is fealty to the unions.
This is this is a campaign year, and this is simply making sure that their big voters and big contributors hear the message.
Because he can't possibly.
We we're at full employment.
We're at what 4.9%.
That is everybody knows statistically full employment, and we're losing jobs.
This is almost as idiotic.
I'm almost got as frustrated as when I read to you that stupid pinheaded whatever Warren Christopher piece.
And I still got two more Dorgons to go here.
What's the next one?
Oh, yes.
Not even a question.
Dorgan didn't shut up for another question.
He continued.
35 years ago or so, General Motors was the largest corporation.
When you went to work there, in most cases, you worked there for a lifetime.
You had a good salary, you had good retirement, good health care benefits.
Now, the largest uh corporation in the country is Walmart.
Uh average salary 18 to 19,000.
Um first year turnover 70 percent.
A third of them have health care, and two-thirds don't.
The third that have health care pay twice as much as they do in most other corporations for their health care benefits.
I don't think that's progress in 35 years.
I don't think the workers at General Motors do either.
Take a look at what's happening to them, uh Helmet Head.
Well, they're being laid off, they're being buyed out, uh bought out, the uh the retiree's pension plan being dumped.
All of this lifetime employment, lifetime goodies.
Hey, didn't happen, did it?
He can still act like it happened, but the golden goose got killed at some point, didn't it?
Because it was chewing too much every year.
It was making promises it couldn't keep.
Hello, unions.
So I guess Mr. Dorgan is all for dead-end union jobs that end up with you being laid off and your pension not being there when you retire.
And then um Charlie said, Well, you also want to see the minimum wage in America increase.
Oh, of course.
Look, if the minimum wage had kept pace with corporate executives' income, it'd be $23 an hour right now.
Minimum wage.
Stop the tape.
Make it that didn't make it $23 an hour.
Just do it.
Even the score, Senator Dorgan.
I mean, don't sit there and say if an if and if if it's for children.
Just make it $23 an hour.
Of course, corporate CEOs uh compensation comes from a board of directors, a compensation committee.
It derives from market forces.
The minimum wage has nothing to do with market forces.
The minimum wage is just a tax on business, pure and simple and nothing more.
It has not been increased for nine years, and it's unfair to those Americans who don't know.
What I hear the rest of it.
It's pointless.
Go to the commercials.
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And uh Dan, glad you waited, sir.
I appreciate your patience.
Thank you, Rush.
I'm palpably frustrated because I make ten dollars an hour working in Chicago, and it is not a living wage.
And now it's uh up against uh a minimum wage, and I'm not supposed to be making more than that.
Well, but y the wall this is for Walmart people, see.
And that but that's not for three years, or for actually four, three and a half, not till two thousand ten.
Well, I'm already making ten dollars an hour, and it it's I already can't live on that.
Yeah, uh, what do you do?
I I'm a singing cupcake decorator.
That's actually what I do.
I work in a bakery.
I work in a bakery and work in a bakery, and you and you decorate cakes and you sing while you do it.
Yes.
Do you get paid for singing or do you get paid for decorating the cakes?
A little bit of both.
I get paid more than anybody else because I sing.
Really?
Yeah.
Do you d I would assume you sing well then?
Uh I guess.
I I am a trained actor and singer, so that's really what I do, but that's my job is to uh to bake these cakes and stuff.
All right.
Now, obviously then the cake the singing cake decorator gig is j you're just you're just between acting gigs, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So you have not made decorating cakes your career.
Right.
And you don't want to own a bakery.
Right.
I guarantee if you want to be in that business, own the bakery, don't decorate the cakes.
Hire somebody like you to sing and decorate the cakes.
My thoughts exactly.
Okay, so your point is that you're doing this in between acting and and uh other gigs and ten bucks an hour and you can't live on it.
Right.
And and and I've seen the people that I work with, and none of them are really motivated to do anything else because they're already making, you know, just they're not qualified to make more, but they don't want to put forth the effort to make more because they're making just enough to kind of scrape by and there are all kinds.
There are all kinds of people.
That's the American economy handles everybody.
If they don't have any ambition or emotion, there are plenty of things for you to do in this country.
Uh or ambition or or uh uh you know imagination is what I meant to say.
Uh but you obviously do, so you're just in a temporary circumstance.
I understand that.
Um if if you can't live on it, though.
I mean, I must ask this question.
I don't mean to be cruel.
I'm trying to learn and relate.
If you can't live on it, I mean you are alive.
We are talking to you.
Right, right.
So how are you living on it when you can't live on it?
I'm living hand of mouth.
I'm not saving anything.
I have debts to pay that get bills get pushed off.
Yeah.
And I I do odd jobs here and there to try to to try to make ends meet.
And I'm also a uh half twister.
I don't live with my parents, but I do they do help me out occasionally.
Right.
All right.
Well, I I I uh Mr. Snerdley's in there about to blow his top, uh, thinking you have nothing to complain about.
Uh that this is life in America and it's how you get ahead.
I'm not gonna take that route with you because I don't hear you asking for help.
I don't hear you asking for uh uh an increase in your wage from the government.
I don't hear you asking for any welfare assistance or anything.
I just you called here just to say that this is all a bogus thing with a city council saying we're gonna give Walmart employees a living wage of ten dollars an hour, and yet your point is it's bogus because it's not a livable wage now, at least the way you want to live your life.
Right, and it's not gonna it's not gonna make their stuff more affordable, it's gonna make things less affordable at Walmart now.
Uh if they have to pay more.
They have to pay more.
I mean if they have to pay more for their employment.
They might have to raise prices uh uh which would yeah, okay.
All right, well, would love to spend some time here lighting a fire under you.
But we have come to the end of our busy broadcast with precious few broadcast moments remaining.
But you sound pretty bright.
Uh so don't spend too much time lamenting your circumstances.
Uh take control of them and change them.
Oh, gee, folks, I wish it weren't the case.
But the show's over, and it's Friday, and Snerdley can't wait to bolt because the weekend is what counts to him.
So we'll see you on Monday.
Hope you have a great weekend, and uh be ready because it'll be revved back.
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