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July 28, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 28, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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Ha, how are you folks?
Nice to have you back.
Great to have you with us.
Great to be with you.
It's a beautiful thing.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program, and it is a Friday, which means live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
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Folks, all roads lead to New York.
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That's what Open Line Friday is.
No restrictions.
Well, I mean, we have restrictions on decency and that sort of thing, but no topic restrictions pretty much.
Other than we don't talk about the phone bill, we don't complain, whine about the price of gas.
Well, you know, I will even allow that if you're not getting too many, but haven't had any in weeks.
But if you want to whine about the price of jet fuel, feel free.
Bring it on.
You got to hear these audio soundbites that I have up next.
Dennis Kucinich, one of the Democratic presidential candidates in the 2004 cycle.
He was on the early show today with the Infobabe Hannah Storm and talking about the obscene profits of the ExxonMobil Corporation.
And the Infobabe Hannah Storm said, how do windfall taxes that you want, how do these taxes bring down the price of gas?
No, no, no.
It doesn't tax the price of gas.
No, I don't.
How do the tax 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, $10 billion and a quarter.
Their CEO had a $400 million golden parachute.
Their stock's 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, actually, a 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.
The guy's a littering jewel of colossal ignorance.
He's just, 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.
It doesn't help anybody else in terms of getting any more money in their pocket.
Cutting taxes on the rich is what benefits people.
Cutting taxes on everybody benefits people.
But raising taxes on the rich is 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 the windfall profits tax.
Big oil is made up of people that are exponentially smarter than Dennis Kucinich.
And so what happens here, ladies and gentlemen, let's say they do this.
Let's 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 because they know that the windfall profits tax will have an end.
And they'll just wait for when the tax is removed and then they'll resume normal operations.
Check your histoi.
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 going to be making $1,300 a second like ExxonMobil is $10 billion a quarter.
All right.
I asked this question yesterday, and I will rephrase it today.
Let's take a look at big oil and ExxonMobil.
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 ExxonMobil or would you rather have a General Motors which is trying to buy employees out with exit packages, eliminating the pension plan for retired employees, posting windfall losses every quarter?
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 or an ExxonMobil in your economy and a Ford motor company, which sadly and unfortunately posted $123, what was it, million-dollar loss in the first quarter, second quarter, whenever it was?
Would you rather have an ExxonMobil and other successful businesses?
Why would you want to destroy the successful 100% excess profit?
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.
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 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 do you mean?
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 oil 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 heard of OPEC?
Have you heard of Cesar Chavez?
Yeah, I'm sure you love Cesar Chavez.
He lowered the price of oil for poor Boston and New England people.
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.
When he doesn't realize the Defense Department is the Department of Peace, he has a good campaign.
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 Secretary of Peace 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 Nora in Icelip in New York.
Welcome to the Open Line Friday edition of the program.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Rush.
It's really an honor to talk to you.
Thank you.
I'm so nervous.
Well, don't be.
It's just going to be like having, are you married?
Yes, I am.
It's going to be like having your husband rub your back with a mint glove.
You'll want to do it over and over again.
That sounds nice.
Well, anyhow, actually, this isn't, you were talking earlier about the woman on the Today Show, I think it was.
Yeah, how to train men.
Yes.
Well, I thought that I had trained my husband.
I thought I had trained him.
It was exactly the same scenario.
He would crowd me in the kitchen.
Why?
Do you tell me?
Why would he do that?
Okay, well, he bought me one of those sharp aquas televisions so I could watch my, you know, a little bit of television while I'm preparing his dinner.
Very smart.
Very smart, very smart move.
Nice man, right?
And so he, but then what would happen was he would stand right there in the corner in front of the TV and watch his, see, Britt Hume comes on at like six o'clock.
So he's like kind of right between the dishwasher and the stove.
So I figured, well, let me just, let me put a bar stool on the other side of the counter and I'll get him his cocktail.
You gotta be kidding.
This is exactly what this babe on the Today Show said to do.
And you knew to do it instinctively, which has been my point all day long.
No, I think 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 just can't figure that out either.
She should really take a step back and get away from it.
Let me ask you something, Nora.
Do you really think men and your husband are that smart?
I think my husband is the smartest man next to you, Rush.
Yeah, of course.
In the world, you know what?
He's just brilliant.
I'm just listening to this.
I can't if, see, if I'm just a different breed, I guess.
If I were your husband and 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.
But, huh?
He sits there and I wait on him.
You know, he needs some more slightly.
Well, did you wait on him when he was in the other room with his TV?
No.
Well, probably not.
No.
Unless he really, you know, hollered and threatened to beat me.
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 I think he just, you know, he wants to have the convenience of being able to sit, and then I make his drinks.
And then he can also supervise 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 understand.
I'm telling you, there's something neither you nor I understand about this.
You think you've got it figured out.
You think he wants to be waited on.
But if you're that smart, he'd want 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 the TV.
The TV would be the bait that'd get you to do that.
Well, you know what, Rush?
Maybe he feels bad for me because I'm like six months pregnant now.
And we also have a two-year-old.
Well, why didn't you say so?
That's not exactly irrelevant here.
I've 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.
That's hard to believe, I know.
That could be it.
But then he also likes to discuss, you know, he gives me, he's trained me in other ways too, Rush.
Well, but let me, wait, another question, though.
This crowding in the kitchen.
Apparently, this is far more common than I am aware of.
Well, I'm my nickname.
I'm the kitchen Nazi.
I can't have anybody in the kitchen with me.
All right, yet he's in there crowding it.
Does it lead to other things?
Get my drift.
Well, I am six months pregnant, Rush.
Well, you can take that one of two ways, Nora.
No, it usually honestly leads to get out of the kitchen.
Could you move?
Could you stand over there, please?
Yeah, you know.
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 may even love each other, which could be the simple explanation for this.
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, you know, makes you feel like you're doing it.
He makes a rush today.
Makes you?
Yes, I'm afraid.
He's manipulating you, but he's not making you.
No, no.
I love your show, Rush.
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 when I'm in the car, you know, and then I just have to say no.
Take a look at the bottle.
Stick it in your mouth.
I'm listening to the rush.
I understand that.
And a couple other things after that.
Well, Nora, thanks for the call.
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.
Apparently, it's very common out there in America.
And I'm on this, I will admit to being out of touch.
No, I don't crowd in the kitchen.
When somebody's doing that, I don't crowd them, period, whenever they're doing anything.
I don't crowd in the kitchen.
No, not consistently every day and so forth.
Not to get in the way.
Not to get in the way.
There's one thing.
Because 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.
Chris in Cleveland, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, Megan Dickles from the Rock and Roll Capital.
It's an absolute honor.
Yes, sir.
Thanks very much.
My question is: 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.
Why is there no pro-Israeli, you know, rallying cry, you know, from the, I mean, Barbara Streisand made Yentil, and she's supposedly still hardcore Jewish.
And yet, other than possibly Ben Stein, I can't think of a single Jewish celebrity 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, and there are theories, but I don't think there are any hardcore definitive answers other than the theories.
However, I'm going to have to 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.
He's a Harvard law professor.
He's a big media guy and Jewish, has come out full-fledged in support of Israel.
He's not unique.
He's long been making a 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?
There are many theories out there, but the simplest explanation, folks, and I have, it's going to sound simplistic and oftentimes trust the simplistic because the simplistic is rather than 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.
Israel is allied with the United States.
This is just not right.
And you cannot exclude from this the element of guilt which pervades liberalism and perpetuates it.
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 worldview.
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 Congo.
Find a liberal in Kuala Lumpur.
Find a liberal in Tibet.
Find anybody in Tibet.
You're talking 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 need to examine what it is we're doing to cause these people to become terrorists.
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 blockheads, the conservatives and others.
They're the ones causing the problem.
Conservatives 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 Committee, Conference, whatever they call themselves up there.
And don't forget, 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 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 conventional wisdom now, just like the Voting Rights Act.
President Bush signed a Voting Rights Act extension, and liberals out there, oh, whoa, this is a wonderful.
Oh, this is one of the Voting Rights Act meetings.
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 the 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 in popular culture and conventional wisdom today.
There are exceptions to this, however.
As I said, Alan Dershowitz writing today in the Washington Times, the Washington Times, for those of you in 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 to 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 American 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 is better in his public role as advocate than his 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, 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 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 and I don't want to poison it or sadden it, but I do have just one small complaint.
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 add.
Because if it's not Israel, then the usual liberalism in Mr. Dershowitz surfaces, and he is part of that chorus.
I hope this helps answer the question, ladies and gentlemen.
It's really no more complicated than that.
Back to the audio soundbites now.
We're up to number nine: Byron Helmet Head Dorgan.
And this is the Democrats keeping up their assault on that great threat to America at Walmart.
Last night he was on the Charlie Rose show on PBS and was asked bluntly by Charlie Rose, what's your beef against Walmart?
Has enormous market power 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 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 and the Senate are all for that bill, the Kennedy-McCain, whoever else bill.
Aside from that, he clearly provided buyers lower prices.
Oh, there's no question.
I thought that was good.
No.
No, see, that is bad because these lower prices end up driving jobs to China.
This is, I'll tell you 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 is fealty to the unions.
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'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 Dorgans 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 corporation in the country is Walmart.
Average salary, $18,000 to $19,000.
First year turnover, 70%.
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, Helmet Head.
Well, they're being laid off.
They're being buy out, bought out.
The retirees' pension plan being dumped.
All of this lifetime employment, lifetime goodies.
Hey, didn't happen, did it?
You 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 Charlie said, well, you also want to see the minimum wage in America increase.
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 make it $23 an hour.
Just do it.
Even the score, Senator Dorgan.
I mean, don't sit there and say, if and if and if, if is for children.
Just make it $23 an hour.
Of course, corporate CEOs 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 are not afraid of the government.
I don't want to hear the rest of it.
It's pointless.
Go to the commercials.
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Open line Friday to Evanston, Illinois.
And Dan, glad you waited, sir.
I appreciate your patience.
Thank you, Rush.
I'm palpably frustrated because I make $10 an hour working in Chicago, and it is not a living wage.
And now it's up against a minimum wage, and I'm not supposed to be making more than that.
Well, but this is for Walmart people, see?
$10, but that's not for three years or actually four, three and a half, not till 2010.
Well, I'm already making $10 an hour, and I already can't live on that.
Yeah, what do you do?
I'm a singing cupcake decorator.
That's actually what I do.
I work in a bakery.
You work in a what shop?
I work in a bakery.
You work in a bakery 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.
I would assume you sing well then.
I guess.
I am a trained actor and singer, so that's really what I do, but that's my job is to make these cakes and stuff.
All right.
Now, obviously, then the cake, the singing cake decorator gig, you're just between acting gigs, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You have not made decorating cakes your career.
Right.
And you don't want to own a bakery.
Right.
And 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 other gigs and $10 an hour and you can't live on it.
Right.
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.
Well, 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.
Or ambition or imagination is what I meant to say.
But you obviously do.
So you're just in a temporary circumstance.
I understand that.
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 to mouth.
I'm not saving anything.
I have debts to pay that bills get pushed off.
Yeah.
And I do odd jobs here and there to try to make ends meet.
And I'm also a half-twixter.
I don't live with my parents, but they do help me out occasionally.
Right.
All right.
Well, Mr. Snerdley's in there about to blow his top, thinking you have nothing to complain about, that this is life in America and this is how you get ahead.
I'm not going to take that route with you because I don't hear you asking for help.
I don't hear you asking for an increase in your wage from the government.
I don't hear you asking for any welfare assistance or anything.
You called here just to say that this is all a bogus thing with a city council saying we're going to give Walmart employees a living wage of $10 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 going to make their stuff more affordable.
It's going to make things less affordable at Walmart now.
They have to pay more.
They have to pay more.
They have to pay more for their own.
They might have to raise prices, 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.
So don't spend too much time lamenting your circumstances.
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 be ready because he'll be Rev's back.
I'm only kidding, Snerdly.
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