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Aug. 4, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 4, 2006, Friday, Hour #2
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I got two stories on this uh on the Senate uh rejecting the minimum wage bill.
Uh the first one is just the basic facts, which are the Democrats have told their constituents to drop dead.
Uh what happened was this a bill combining an estate tax cut with a boost in the federal minimum wage.
An election year combination engineered by Republicans may see another vote this fall.
Bill Frist told senators who voted against the bill to rethink long and hard during the four-week recess that began early today.
Congress reconvenes in September.
Frist also reiterated the Republicans will not split the minimum wage apart from the estate tax, and that future votes on the pay increase will be linked to cutting taxes on multimillion dollar estates.
The uh Democrats are just beside themselves.
Ted Kennedy said this this plan was cynical.
It was contemptible, and it was cowardly.
John Sweeney, the AFL CIO, said the vote told the Republican leadership in no uncertain terms to stop playing games with the minimum wage.
It didn't tell them that at all.
What it tells everybody is you're not serious about the minimum wage.
Would somebody explain if some Democrat explained to me what does it matter what happens to the estate tax when it comes to the human suffering among those who only earn the federal minimum wage?
Why that suffering has just been allowed to continue unabated with no end in sight.
And I guess those of you who earn the minimum wage, can't believe there'd be any of you in this audience unless you're a kid.
But uh Campbell, those of you who earn the minimum wage are today happy.
Yes, we didn't get our minimum wage, but the estate tax didn't get cut either.
So we're happy.
Do you think Democrat constituents are looking at it that way?
Another this is another one where the uh the political brains out there in the drive-by media, the pundits, uh, again, who go only on polling, uh, miss the boat about this.
This is a pretty smart maneuver.
I'm I'm actually surprised the Republicans didn't cave at the uh last minute before the uh before the vote.
Uh the uh Republicans complain the Democrats voted against the bill only to score a political point, the ability to blame Republicans for being unable to pass important bills.
Mitch McConnell says, yeah, they they want to say that this is a do-nothing Congress.
Charles Grassley from Iowa said the idea had always been a bit risky.
He said the bottom line is that we bet on the wrong horses.
Maybe we should have taken a bet that was more likely to pay off.
Stop whining, Chuck.
Use it.
Stop.
Four Democrats joined Republicans and voted for the bill.
Robert Byrd of West Virginia, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Bill Nelson of Florida.
Look at these, but they're all up for re-election, aren't they?
Why, they're all up for re-election.
Byrd, Nelson, Nelson, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, two Republicans voted against it, Link Chaffee of Rhode Island, George Voinovich of Ohio.
Look at these uh people are up for re-election in red states.
They're not voting for it.
Check this from all Reuters.
This headline, Senate Democrats block wage and tax bill.
Democratic senators block their own goal on I I don't believe this.
I do not believe that this got through the editor's desk at Reuters.
It's the truth.
Democratic senators blocked their own goal on Thursday of raising the U.S. minimum wage for the first time since 1997, after Republicans added a huge tax break for the rich to the legislation.
Actions sure to reverberate in this election year.
Um we'll see if they reverberate.
Speaking of things reverberating this election year, have you noticed, ladies and gentlemen, all of the stories starting to pop up about how this is going to be an electoral disaster for the Republicans in November?
Or gonna lose the hell.
Oh, it's over.
Let me let me give you some examples.
Courtesy of Jim Garrity at his blog, TKS at National Review Online.
Look at this from USA Today.
Economy More Than War, setting tone for elections.
A battle for control of the mostly close the most closely divided Congress in 70 years enters its final and decisive phase, but for many voters, the economy appears to have eclipsed terrorism as a top concern.
A recent Gallup poll showed 50% of registered voters more likely to vote for Democrats, 42% for Republicans.
Here's one from the uh from the AP.
Uh President Bush's vigorous campaigning to elect Republicans in November could make the elections a referendum on his presidency.
If Republicans lose ground in the House and Senate, it'll be a major embarrassment to him, said Gilbert St. Clair, political science professor, University of New Mexico.
Still, he said the president doesn't have much control over such elections.
And they go on to cite polling data, which shows the American people vastly prefer Democrats to Republicans.
In the New Republic, uh, well, Ryan Liza of the New Republic, uh, writing in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Bush's political capital may buy him nothing but trouble.
Consumer confidence is shaky.
Many uh majority of voters pessimistic about the economy's near-term prospects.
A national security poll show that voters are not inclined to cast their ballots based on the issue worse.
According to the National Journal's Charlie Cook, the recent debate over attacking Iraq may have hurt Bush's approval rating.
They cite polls showing that the country much prefers Democrats to Republicans.
Steve Neal, Chicago Sun Times.
From all indications, this fall's midterm election should confirm the Judas Texera thesis.
Democrats could win back the House, favored to win key governorships for the Democrats' happy days, may be here again.
And then Del Ali, writing in the Christian science monitor deciding the fall elections.
Polling numbers and historical patterns may prove the best clues.
He cites polling data that suggests the majority of the country wishes to elect Democrats than Republicans.
Now, one added note.
All these stories are from August of 2002.
All these stories are for I say I tricked you.
I tricked you people.
All these stories are from August 2002.
And that year, Republicans successfully held 19 seats in the Senate, picked up two additional Democrat seats to gain control of the chamber.
They expanded their House majority by an additional seven seats.
Not saying it's going to happen again this time.
I'm pointing out how news coverage cycles.
What you're hearing and what you're reading and what you're watching about the November elections is simply rewritten from 2002.
The last midterms, simply rewritten from 2002, with the dates changed, the polling numbers a little different, and the issues at stake, of course, have been updated.
But the theme, the action line is the same thing.
Finally win control of the House.
Back in just a second, folks.
Stay with us.
Gee, folks, I'm watching television here.
Uh and the uh the shooting spree and the rapes going on in Arizona have totally taken uh the wall off of the television screens and looking at death devastation, uh 36 shootings, six deaths, some rapes.
Maybe time to get out of Arizona.
Maybe time just admit that it's a failure.
We're just screwing it all up in there by by being there.
Maybe they don't want democracy there.
Um keep our affiliates there, of course, but I'm saying the country might want to just think about getting out of Arizona and might want to think about getting out of New Orleans, you know.
I mean, if we're gonna get out of every place where there's death and destruction and dying and so forth.
In fact, it Philadelphia, I mean the death rate in Philadelphia is outpacing a rock.
The death oh my gosh, they don't know what to do with Philadelphia.
It's uh it's uh I I don't know if what obviously we made Philadelphia mad.
Uh us, I mean but the country, some something is making them mad in Philadelphia, somebody's mad in Arizona.
Why do they hate us?
Why do they hate their own country?
Why do they what have we done to them to cause them to be doing all of this?
Heat wave, maybe?
Bush caused the heat wave, Bush caused the hurricane.
To the phones, Washington, D.C. John, welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us on the EIB network in Open Line Friday.
Yeah, it didn't rush.
Thank you, greatest.
Uh I've been reading uh stuff by Von Klazewitz, who was the guy that defeated Napoleon, and he was a military strategist that every everybody watches today, and uh he believes in absolute uh destruction to our war time is the only way to achieve victory and and peace.
And uh I think you are the modern twenty-first uh century version of Von Clausewitz.
But anyway, the reason I called is uh I think time is almost uh at time is right now for Israel to do something about all these challenges to its very existence coming from the president of Iran, and I think uh Israel ought to uh you know use its own method of uh warning Iran that uh they're not gonna take it anymore and uh do a preemptive strike of all the nuclear sites in Iran because obviously that's going to be a problem in the future.
And I think the United States should uh be an ally to this.
I mean, we have uh an army over there, we might as well use it as Patton would say.
We have a fleet over there in the in the Gulf of Mormuz, and uh I heard Turney Blair say that the same rockets that are being used against Israel are the same Iranian rockets that are used being used in Basra.
So maybe we got another ally there.
Well, you know, you you raise a really important point here.
Uh we've and and and by the way, thank you so much for the uh comparison to von Clauswitz.
Uh that's a first.
I've been compared to Churchill uh and uh Hayek uh and a number of other great thinkers, but not von Klauswitz.
That's a that's a first and an I'll I'll I happily accept that.
Now what to do about Iran?
I've raised this question.
Remember when this when the uh Israeli Hezbollah war broke out, I said this is a gift to the world because it identifies uh Iran as the as the real culprit here.
This is the uh Hezbollahs are the proxies uh for the Iranians and the and the Syrians.
Uh this is this is I would imagine that the president and and Condoleezza Rice and his whole team are just driving themselves nuts trying to figure out what to do here because something has to be done about Iran.
Israel can't do it alone.
They they uh they they don't they don't have uh the ability to strike at at Iran in as many places as their as are necessary.
They need help.
Uh they can do a lot, but they they can't do it, they can't do it on their own.
You do have Ahmadinizad every other day threatening to destroy Israel.
He believes that it's gonna happen in the next two to three years, and the Islamic Messiah, the twelfth Imam, uh will will uh will emerge, and that will be the end of all infidels, uh, and maybe it'll be the end of the world.
Uh with all of these all these uh militant Islamists going to their paradise and everybody else going to what they think is hell.
He really does believe this.
And you if he doesn't, if he's just a crackpot saying this trying to make everybody thinks he believes it, you have to take it seriously.
Uh you don't roll the dice and say that's a lunatic and he doesn't really mean it, and we're not gonna react to it.
You have to prepare for it.
I I would think, I would think of the White House uh they are struggling over what to do about this.
Do you do it now?
Do you wait till they become uh nuclear capable?
Uh and how do you do it?
And and what what what do you do?
I mean, I'm I'm glad it isn't my job.
But it is uh I guarantee you that it it's a it's a boiling cauldron over there.
And this has been folks, this has been coming for decades.
People have just not wanted to admit it.
They wanted to put their head in the sand and just think it's just a bunch of little skirmishes between this neighbor of Israel and Israel and that neighbor of Israel and Israel and then another neighbor of Israel.
It's it's all part of the same mix, and the uh the whole the whole objective of that part of the world to wipe out Israel to exterminate the Jews has not changed, and it has not been uh renounced.
Louisville and Alan, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Hello, sir.
Hey Rash, I know uh my question's a little off topic, but uh No, that's what open Line Friday's for.
There's no such thing as off topic on Open Line Friday.
Well, great.
Then you can help me with my dilemma.
Um probably coming up here shortly, I'm gonna be uh it looks like I may be giving a presentation to a rather large gathering of people.
Now brief background about three years ago.
I I've been in sales my whole life.
I meet with CEOs, CFOs, whatnot, and and I've never experienced any discomfort or fear or panic.
But about three years ago there was uh a large training seminar where there was an auditorium full of people and uh you stood up on stage and gave presentations in groups of four.
Well, I couldn't get anybody to do do it with me.
I decided to take on everyone on by myself.
And there was just one question I was worried about getting, and sure enough, that's the one that came up.
And uh I literally froze up on the the stage at one point with while being filmed in front of a large crowd that uh well it's it's left its mark on me still.
So now maybe revisiting that scenario and am a little worried uh panic to say the least at at maybe experiencing that again.
And I know you've been through this, I mean, from your beginnings on the air to you go up in front of large crowds constantly.
How do you personally deal with that?
Do you experience any type of panic or anxiety?
Is there anything in particular you do to overcome that?
I don't I don't experience panic.
I've never had a panic attack I or anything like that.
I'm like everybody else.
Uh they're always butterflies.
I think it's healthy.
If I didn't get butterflies, uh I don't think I would be any good.
And I think everybody who does it gets butterflies, who cares about it, uh gets if you're just gonna go out there for the sake of it, then it probably doesn't bother you.
But uh when I say butterflies, it's just sort of like a little eagerness to get going.
I hate standing backstage ten minutes waiting for the introduction and so just get me out there so I can get going.
What the best thing to overcome any of this though is to be utterly totally confident in what you're going to talk about.
And I know and I agree with you, and I I I agree on the butterflies.
I've always had those before going in and doing presentations and things of that nature.
Yeah, but you know what's happening?
I can I guarantee you what's it you walk out there and you're afraid you're gonna forget it.
You're afraid that something's gonna happen, your mind's gonna take the thought out of your head.
Um you put the thought in your head that you're gonna forget it, you might forget it.
You put the thought in your head that uh you generally comes from over preparation.
If you if you if you're so worried about it that you just cram and cram and cram and over prepare, you're gonna stymie yourself.
You're gonna you're you're gonna get a brain lock uh uh because you won't know where to go next.
You won't know you have to remember so many things.
My gosh, should I do it here, do I do it there?
Do I use my notes?
Do I not see I don't use notes uh because it just slows me down.
Right.
Um so I just you know I have a mental outline to go out and do it, and then I add lib a lot of it, that's just because that just comes from being totally prepared.
Uh and I also feed off the audience.
Uh you're what you're doing doesn't sound like a performance.
Why what I do is a performance uh in my mind.
It's a speech and all of it's a performance, and I feed back uh you know off the audience as well.
But yours sounds like a more like a business presentation.
The audience is gonna be sitting there, right?
Yeah, that's that that's the case.
And and I enjoy and I enjoy being in front of people, and I and actually I have a pretty good humor and and and like to interact and and it it's I know me as soon as the questions start flying, uh it's it's on.
I mean, I'm ready to go, I'm focused, I'm always doing it.
Well you know what I'll tell you what I've heard some people do, and I just I just learned this.
Uh I just heard about I'm s I'm I'm so naive about things.
I just learned that people have this problem sometimes take beta blockers.
Yeah, I I don't even know what one is.
I wouldn't I wouldn't know what to tell you to go get, but they t I'm I'm told they take beta blockers because it it it uh it does something to uh uh short circuit to brain circuitry that causes all this.
Uh uh so you might I sh I don't know Sha you can recommend this to you because I don't know if beta blockers are legal or not.
I have no clue.
What are they?
I have no clue what a beta blocker is, but uh I've heard of them, but I've never heard of them being used in this uh in this circumstance.
Something you might look into.
Yeah, I will and I did want to say that, you know, I I don't want to consider it a panic attack either.
I know sometimes things like that are a cop out.
It may be just uh just because a bad situation happened, a little bit of a couple of things.
Well, it's sometimes that's I still feel confident going into it.
Okay, well, see, sometimes that's all it takes.
One thing to go wrong, and you sit around, you wait for it to go wrong again.
Well, okay, plan on something going wrong and be prepared for it.
You know, there's uh uh total preparation will overcome 90% of this, and the 10% that rain remains is uh quite normal and natural.
I'm glad you called.
I got to run a quick timeout.
Back in just a second.
I know and thank you, a living legend serving humanity simply by showing up.
Here on the EIB network.
Dawn cannot even look at me.
Oh, it's so much fun.
I wish you could see this sometimes.
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If you want to be on the program, we've got to go to the audio sound bites.
Charles Wrangle, who will be, if the Democrats do take the House, the next chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee was on with Neil Cavuto yesterday afternoon on the Fox News channel, and a number of subjects were discussed, among them Fidel Castro.
Cavuto says, Let's talk about Castro.
There have been uh people dancing in the streets down there in Miami thinking he's dead or close to it.
That's obscene.
No matter what the force is.
But to be dancing in the street, hoping that he would die, so you can go to Cuba when you and your parents never even been to Cuba.
I knew this guy like Castro, but I didn't think at this point in time he would be so open about it.
It's obscene.
Is it obscene to be dancing in the streets?
Do you know that there are online betting pools?
Uh you can go online and bet on when Castro will die, or if Castro is dead, or when the death announcement will be made if he's dead.
And there are people outraged about that.
What can you believe?
How cool and heartless.
And this comes from the same people who endorse reading books, subject of which how to assassinate George W. Bush.
These are the same people that routinely gin up some of the most anti-mean-spirited, extreme, crazy statements about George W. Bush and Condoleez-Rice, and Rumsfeld, and whoever else, Dick Cheney.
Uh and now people, this is this is a tyrant, a murderous dictator who has destroyed that country.
Uh but a liberal's like him because everybody has been destroyed, so it's equal as egalitarianism down there.
Everybody's miserable, and that's ideal.
Uh great great health care down there, too.
Castro, of course, benefiting it uh from it, uh, I guess as we as we speak.
Next soundbite.
Uh Castro uh uh Cavuto says Castro killed a lot of people, though, Congressman.
Well, I wonder how many people we killed at Guantanamo.
I mean, we don't have the human rights.
Well, wait a minute.
Are you equating Fidel Castro with what's happening at Guantanamo?
You bet you a life if we're talking about human rights.
So President Bush is just like Fidel Castro?
No, but what I'm saying is if you want to talk about the inhuman human rights that Cashto has and arresting people and not presenting them with why they arrested, not giving them lawyers and having secret trial.
Hey, we're doing the same thing.
Uh uh madness has crept into these people.
This is literally insane to compare Fidel Castro taking political prisoners, making his own citizens, innocent citizens walking the streets, political prisoners, setting him in dungeons, murdering them in some cases, just to set an example for the rest of the population,
so they tow the line to compare that with this country attempting to prosecute and win a war against an enemy that blew us up on 9-11 and would try and do so again every opportunity it had insane.
And it illustrates once again the the poisonous things that happen to you if you allow yourself to be consumed with rage and hatred.
Uh it it it festers and effervesces into the beginning stages of madness, and that's where these people are, unable to draw one moral distinction.
What was I talking about in the first hour?
We are morally inverted in this country.
We've got the possible future chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, equating this nation's prosecution of a war against a j legitimate enemy with Fidel Castro and the targeting and murder and imprisonment of his own innocent citizens.
Want to hear one more from uh the wisened Congressman Wrangle.
Cavuto says, Democrats do not gain the majority in the House.
Charlie Wrangle leaves.
I've heard you say that.
I won't be finishing out two years.
If that happens, you leave.
Yeah.
This would be the first time that I would take any election personally.
And it would be very personal to me if the American people says, Wrangled, you're dead wrong.
We want more of this.
You can have more Bush, but you get more of me.
Well, I'll tell you what, when I heard him say this the other day, I said this may be one of the best get out to vote schemes for the Republicans to fall into their laps in a long time.
Charlie Wrangell says he'll leave, and specifically because he'll realize he's so out of touch with the American people.
Huh, what an opportunity.
Let's make his dream come true.
Keith in Lincoln, Illinois, I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Uh, yes.
Uh you mentioned last hour that uh we were looking for a Churchill as far as the war on terror.
And um I I think that's true as far as it goes, but also I think we're looking for a people with the character to follow a Churchill in the war on terror.
Well, see, that's up to a Churchill.
Yeah.
I mean, church, it took him five years to get anybody to listen to him, but finally they did.
That's right.
Uh uh maybe maybe four or five years.
But it it it took the UK a l well, yeah, you took him a long time.
Uh, and he was he was beating his head against the wall.
Yeah.
In Parliament and everywhere else.
Now I know what you're saying.
You you you think that uh uh the American people just don't have a stomach for it, uh don't won't even take it seriously, would rather just go to the beach uh and pretend that's happening in another part of the world doesn't affect us, right?
Well, I think what I think what we're looking at is that the challenge we have before us to become that kind of people.
I think it's up in the air whether we will be yet or not.
Um, see, you know, interesting.
I I um I was talking to Ralph Peters and I interviewed him uh the for the next issue of the Limbaugh letter, and we talked about this, and he uh he expressed the same fear that you have, but then he said, you know what, every time I start feeling this fear, I uh uh I just remember who it is that makes the country work.
And he talked about the people in the middle of the country in the in the heartland and that that when it when when the you know rubber meets the road, they show up.
When when it when it when it's no longer in doubt, they're there.
The American people have always been there, they have always risen, and it's always taken a while.
Yeah.
I I don't so much fear anything as much as I'm excited about the challenge.
I'm really excited about it.
Oh I want to make sure I'm the kind of person that will make that commitment.
How old are you?
I'm fifty-four.
Fifty-four.
Okay.
Well, I'm I'm I'm fifty-five.
And you know, the uh the World War II gang is called the greatest generation.
Uh and and there's a generation in this country now it's going to be tested, uh maybe a couple.
Uh I don't know how soon, but this this is this is going to have to be dealt with at some point.
Uh and I know that there's a school a school of thought out to say, uh, we can delay it.
We can put them, maybe we can solve it some other way.
Uh that's insanity.
You keep doing the same thing, thinking the results are going to be different.
Uh that's why Middle Eastern policy, continued as it's been, is insane.
Literally insane.
There's nobody with a half a brain who could say that Middle Eastern policy's been a success up to now.
Clinton can laud himself all day long, Madeline Albright and scratch her back, pat herself on the back, you know, whatever she wants to do.
Uh All these clowns in the Clinton administration can walk around the country and get on television and tell us how great things were when they ran the show, but uh the proof is they solved nothing.
Didn't solve it.
They cared.
They had great intentions.
They really cared.
And they were good people.
They didn't solve Diddley Squad.
Uh didn't even want to try, really, because they didn't want to go through circumstances like President Bush has put himself through.
Clinton couldn't handle a 34% approval right.
It'd drive him nuts.
That would be.
I mean, Clinton existed on one thing.
Love, adoration, and mass acceptance.
And he wasn't going to challenge that.
He wasn't going to put that to the test.
He wasn't going to give the American people a chance to think he was controversial or polarizing or anything of the sort, in a sense of tackling hard issues.
So he didn't tackle them.
Didn't deal with any of them.
Launched some missiles at aspirin factories now and then, but killed a janitor in Baghdad on a Saturday night with a missile, launched the missiles into some empty uh training camps in Afghanistan.
Yep, yep, yip, yip, yahoo.
Didn't solve anything.
It's it's it it is and it people of this country to answer your question are not going to um rise to the occasion until there's no other choice.
That's that's been the history.
Uh and that day will come.
Uh it's I don't have any idea when.
Uh it'd be nice if we could prevent that day from coming by dealing with it now, but we are representative republic.
And uh uh if you know President Bush hasn't, I don't know what he this Iran said, I don't have no idea what he's gonna do.
I uh uh I really wouldn't want to be in his shoes, because it is the 64 gazillion dollar question.
Some point Iran may give us no choice in uh in having to deal with them, but uh it it's it's coming, and when it does, like Mr. Peters said, you know me, if I'm the biggest believer in this country, you'll find it.
I'm the biggest believer in the individuals who make this country work.
I don't I don't think anything's changed on that score.
There may be a ragtag bunch of fatalists and defeatists and poopists and a bunch of anti-American leftists out there.
I know they're out there, but we've never counted on them.
We've never depended on them.
We're not going to depend on them again.
Plenty of people in this country left uh that make it work.
You see the evidence, evidence of it each and every day.
Uh I gotta run.
I'm glad you call, however, Keith.
Brief timeout, back with much more after this.
You know, folks, it's not a good time to be a white dove.
Everybody knows that the white dove is the symbol of peace.
Um, you remember the uh the Olympics in Seoul, South Korea?
They had the Olympic flame out there, and they released a bunch of doves uh when they lit the flame to start the games, and a bunch of doves ended up in the flame, and it was Una Paloma Baco.
Uh doves got scorched and killed.
Now you know what's happening in Miami.
If you think it's bad, if you think it's unseemly, that people are going online and wagering when Castro will die, or wager whether he's already dead, uh wager when they'll make the death announcement.
If you think that's bad, try this.
In Miami, people are showing up at bird shops, ped shops, and they're buying white doves.
These are people who practice the uh I guess it's a religion, Santeria or Santa Ria.
Santa Ria.
Santa Ria.
So they're really, and they're they're they're buying these white doves and a bunch of uh incense and whatever other artifacts you need, and they are killing the doves.
They are murdering the doves, hoping for Castro to die.
Uh Santera is the voodooish Afro-Cuban religion.
This is Reuters' story, by the way, that uses animal sacrifice to communicate with the gods, uh, which makes these tough times uh for chickens, goats, and in this case, uh doves.
As many as three pil three million people in Cuba, sixty thousand people in Florida believed to be involved in Santa, according To religious experts.
One bird shop owner says about twenty people a day are coming into his shop in Little Havana to buy birds and powders and jewelry for rituals in which they ask the gods to please finish off Castro so they can return home.
Now wait till Pina hears about this.
Wait till Slim Whitman hears about this.
Una Paloma Blanca, the uh you know white dove symbol of peace being sacrificed here as a message to the gods to finish off Fidel.
Allen Park, Michigan.
Joe, uh, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hey, hey, Rush Mega Gigat.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Gotcha.
Oh, anyway.
You read another call about uh three, four months ago about this guy who got made off.
And he was saying his life was over with, he didn't know what he was gonna do.
Yeah, I was a GM worker that was 30 years old, something like that.
Oh, yeah, and you went on this.
You and that.
Yeah.
Yeah, I remember it, yes.
Yeah, you went on this tyroid and you scared me, Rush.
Uh I had this buddy who was diagnosed in 97 with MS. In 2000, he lost his ability to work.
And 2001, he couldn't use his um saying in 2003's two, his eyes ago.
So this guy all he wants to do is take care of his family.
And uh you got a snapple with you.
Uh Snapple, not in fact.
Yeah, well, I've got to be a little bit more than what I'm gonna do.
I'm actually drinking some uh you ever had fruit 2O?
Uh no, but take a shot.
No, no, no.
It's it's great.
It's water.
I don't drink enough water, so I drink this this fruit flavored water.
Tropical fruit to do.
Take a shot of it.
Take a shot of it.
All right.
Because that guy's.
All right.
Okay, now what?
That's very funny.
The guy that's got an MS is me.
And I lay in bed twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
And uh I'm I'm thinking, how can I take care of my family?
Because I, you know, financially things are tight.
And I started this business, and I uh I thought to myself, who would know what I've gone through?
And that's uh you the entrepreneur.
And I thought maybe I could call you and get my phone number over your show for my business so that I can take care of my family.
I don't want to get you in trouble or anything.
No, no, no.
I you believe me, you don't want to do that though, because you'll you're gonna you're gonna end up getting you're gonna end up getting uh pranks and and it'll be more trouble than it's worth.
I don't I don't give out phone numbers to anybody anywhere, even members of Congress uh and and so forth.
Um, you know, I I I think I know what you're you're you're you're trying to take care of your family, and you've got an ongoing uh uh case of of multiple sclerosis.
Uh one of the reasons that I, you know, uh don't generally take calls like this, but it's open line Friday, is that I'm not equipped to advise somebody uh on how to access opportunity when they have a disability.
I know that we have the American Disability Act.
Uh, but I I I really don't know what to advise you to do in this in this circumstance, just off the top of my head.
Uh one thing I would say to you, though, is is that uh you've you've got a leg up on it because you're not.
Uh it doesn't sound like you're surrendering to it.
And I know that this story about the auto worker when he was thirty and got laid off thinking his life was over.
The reason for that was that uh he it viewed his life as always uh working uh in a GM.
Uh that that just was his life plan.
That was just what he grew up.
I'm sure it's what he was conditioned, and when it was taken away from him, he didn't think there was any other opportunity out there.
You obviously heard about that and and thought the guy was uh a little nuts.
You're trying to access uh whatever opportunity that's available to you.
Uh I want to applaud you for that and not giving up and not caving and surrendering to this.
Uh I've never known anybody personally with MS, so I've I don't know what it's uh what it's about uh and how it affects I know it affects people in different ways or different stages of it.
Uh I wish I knew what to tell you to do in a in a direct sense, but unfortunately I don't.
And now I'm out of time.
I thank you for the call and keep plugging away at it uh attitudally as you are.
Still lots ahead of us here, ladies and gentlemen.
Final hour of Open Line Friday coming up right around the corner.
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