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Oct. 12, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 12, 2006, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, have you seen the news that former Virginia Governor Mark Warner has dropped out of the 2008 presidential race?
What caused this?
The Russ Feingold juggernaut?
The Joe Biden juggernaut?
What does Hillary have on this guy?
What do the Clintons have on Mark Warner?
No, maybe it's not that.
It's the unstoppable Chris Dodd machine that forced Warner out of the race.
And where the hell are the Harry Reid stories out there?
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
El Rushball, the E.I., don't tell me they're out there, snurdly.
Yes, there's some out there, but where are they?
You just wait.
You just wait.
Greetings, folks.
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Let's first listen to a couple of audio soundbites.
I'm really curious.
I'm still watching stories on Denny Hastert and how he needs to resign.
And PMSNBC is running a story now about some wacko evangelical who got into Hastert's house yesterday pretending to be, well, Haster thought he was just a supporter.
And this minister shows up, this evangelist, and prays with Haster for six minutes and counsels him to resign.
Well, all well and good, but where are the calls for Dingy Harry's resignation?
He made a greater profit in his land deal than ExxonMobil did on oil prices.
I mean, this is absurd.
They're still trying to get Haster to quit.
And everybody's, well, Dingy Harry, he has amended his filings.
And he submitted it.
It was transparent as it could be.
Yada who organized crime.
He submitted his whatever, his amended filings to the Ethics Committee, and he's now awaiting word from them.
Ha ha ha.
What's going to happen?
You got to hear a couple audio soundbites.
Jerry Bodlander of AP interviewing Dingy Harry about the story that came out yesterday from Associated Press.
And Dingy Harry hung up on Bodlander.
We have a little clip of that.
Back in 1998, you were in a land deal with your friend Jay Brown involving a pair of properties in Clark County.
Now, in 2001, you transferred that land to a limited liability company formed by Mr. Brown.
That's Dingy Harry hanging up.
Just hung up the phone on an ally, an AP reporter.
Late yesterday at a press conference, Dingy Harry was asked about his land deal and said this.
If there's a technical change needs to be made on reporting, I'll be happy to do that.
But this is a very, very simple land deal.
Look, folks, we can laugh at this, and we've all done that, and we can poke fun at Dingy Harry and all this.
But I want to put some of this in context.
Where is Brian Ross?
ABC's embedded reporter on the Mark Foley case.
Where is Brian Ross?
Where is all the investigative detailed follow-up?
AP has shown the way.
The Associated Press has uncovered the web, the tangled web of deceit.
Where's the follow-up from a curious drive-by media who is so concerned about corruption in high places?
I mean, if we're going to tell Haster he has to quit, and if we're going to say to anybody that had any knowledge of anything going on about what Foley did, has to quit, then it seems to me that Dingy Harry has to resign.
They want Hastert to resign over something he didn't even know about, let alone participate in.
Yet here, Dingy Harry himself is being questioned about shady land deals which he purposely concealed for years and from which he made a 275% profit.
That is much better than any profit ExxonMobil has made in a percentage basis during these fluctuations in the price of oil.
I'm not kidding about this.
Resign or step aside.
It's not enough that they throw this to the Senate Ethics Committee and try to kill it there.
If that doesn't work, get a special prosecutor.
Look at his instant messages in his emails.
Talk to the pages that he dealt with.
Talk to the interns.
Where's Brian Ross on this?
Where is the same eagerness on the part of the drive-by media that Hastert didn't do diddly squat, ladies and gentlemen?
Harry Reid had personal knowledge and directed all of this.
And this is not the first time a shady land deal has been part of the daily ongoings of Dingy Harry Reid.
I mean, no stone is left unturned when trying to embarrass and force Republicans from office.
But maybe this is a Democrat leadership cover-up, and maybe that's what sending this to the Ethics Committee is all about.
Who else in the Democrat leadership knew about Dingy Harry's land deals and didn't say anything about it?
How much legislation was influenced because of these shady land deals?
You know, one of these guys, Jay Brown, a big long follow-up story from AP today.
One of these guys that Dingy Harry was involved with has caused to organized crime.
He has been subject to federal investigations.
Well, folks, I mean, there's bells ringing here and there's red flags going up.
What kind of legislation might have resulted favorable to these guys that ended up being favorable to Dingy Harry?
I mean, he can disclose all he wants.
It doesn't mean anything.
Disclosures are pointless.
Revising his financial disclosure forms don't mean diddly squat.
Parking it at the ethics committee doesn't accomplish anything.
It is time for a full-fledged investigation here to find out just what this wielding of influence has led to.
I mean, you and I cannot get the kind of treatment that he got.
We can't get these kind of insider deals.
And we certainly can't have agreements with friends that are not on paper that result in no tax consequences.
You and I cannot do that.
Here is a proud Democrat doing what he can to avoid taxes, all the while out there supporting legislation that would raise your taxes.
And he's doing his best to avoid his own.
Now, you compare this to the feeding frenzy over Denny Hastert, who didn't do anything in the Foley situation and didn't know about what was going on in the Foley situation.
And we've got a virtual feeding frenzy to force Hastert to resign.
And I think it's only fitting and equal and fair to have the same attitude and energy when looking into what has happened with and to and by and for Dingy Harry Reid.
This is not the first land deal he's been involved in, which has been shady.
I would be interested to see all of his communications with every level of government, including the Interior Department, that got regulations waived, zoning changed, so that worthless land could be turned into.
How did they get past the there was some stupid animal out there that prevented them from developing this land for the longest time?
How'd they get past that?
How'd they get past?
They're able to destroy a species out there.
Dingy Harry and his Democrat pals are.
How in the world did that happen?
I, ladies and gentlemen, want to know the federal government owns nearly 90% of the land in Nevada, which means the federal government has enormous influence on land issues, which is why Dingy Harry is in such a critical position, apparently uses it to benefit himself and his friends.
And we ought to know the extent of it.
He wants to lead the Senate.
He wants to be the Senate majority leader.
After the Democrats take back the Senate, of course, in November.
Well, we need to know these things that I have raised before the election.
These are crucially important.
I mean, if we're going to talk about corruption in high places, and if we're going to talk about betraying the public trust, and if we're going to talk about all these things that the American people supposedly don't like and demand fixes to, how does Dingy Harry escape it?
I know there's a follow-up AP story today, and some other people have taken it on, but it's really not a matter of concern.
There's a cover-up going on, and the cover-up is in the ethics committee.
And after that, the cover-up is in the drive-by media to not give this thing very much attention.
Now, the fix, as I say, the fix that Dingy Harry has proposed, amending his disclosure filings and forms, that doesn't mean anything.
It's worthless now.
Full investigation is required to find out how this profit happened, what kind of legislation resulted from his association with these.
I mean, they're calling it a shady land deal for a reason.
There must be shady people involved in it.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
El Rushbow, the EIB network, moving right on after this.
Brothers Johnson, title of tune is Stump.
You know what they'll say?
I'm going to predict to you that we'll get a drive-by media story in not too long a period of time is being looked at, researched, even as we speak.
And the headline of the story will be: sweetheart land deals common among lawmakers.
Just as after Slick Willie lies his way through office, we get stories about how lying is actually good for our society and culture.
It spares feelings, blah, blah, blah.
What was the other thing that happened just recently along these lines of the story?
If something was going on, we got stories about that idiot from Yale.
What did he say was good?
It was, oh, outrage, public outrage like Clinton displayed on Fox News after the path to 9.
Those things are good.
So we'll get a story, sweetheart land deals common among lawmakers.
Drive-by media was panting earlier this morning, ladies and gentlemen, because the National Hurricane Center, in their tropical outlook, said that, ooh, tropical depression brewing down there in the Caribbean may form later today.
And they were getting all excited.
Reuters ran a story.
Low pressure system, northeastern Caribbean Sea, could develop into a tropical depression over the next day or so.
System moving northwestward, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Models are split on what the system will do over the next several days.
Well, the National Hurricane Center issued an update shortly before the program began.
And damn it, it's just not right.
It's just not fair this season.
The conditions for strengthening of this depression just aren't there.
It is weakening, and there's hardly any chance, very little chance, that it will develop into anything other than a low-pressure area of clouds, thunderstorms, and some rain.
Damn it!
We've lost a chance for total destruction before the election somewhere in an area that is either dominated by or controlled by or patrolled by the United States of America.
Damn it, Dari By Media is terribly upset.
You just know that they are.
Now, I want to give you some of these details.
Well, do I need to give any details of Dingy Harry?
All right, I think I because we're not getting them anywhere other than the AP is doing it, but it's amazing how the details of the story are being ignored.
Dingy Harry, as we speak, is awaiting word from the Senate Ethics Committee on whether he failed to properly account for a business deal that allowed him to collect a $1.1 million windfall on land that he hadn't personally owned for three years.
And when he bought it, it was the price for $400,000, a 275% profit, again, outdoing anything ExxonMobil or any big oil or big pharmaceutical company has produced.
That regularly draws the ire of Democrats.
We need a windfall profits tax on Dingy Harry.
A windfall profits tax on Dingy Harry's land deals.
Reed reported the 2004 transaction on a personal sale or as a personal sale, never disclosing his earlier sale or his stake in the company.
His deal was engineered by Jay Brown, longtime friend, former casino lawyer, whose name surfaced in a major political bribery trial this summer and in other prior organized crime investigations.
So Dingy Harry is associated with somebody who's been investigated for being involved in organized crime.
And Denny Hastert is the one that has to resign here.
Ethics experts told the Associated Press that Dingy Harry's inaccurate accounting of the deal to Congress appeared to violate Senate ethics rules and raised other issues concerning taxes and potential gifts.
Meanwhile, Dingy Harry said everything I did was transparent in a Las Vegas news conference yesterday after the AP story was published.
After getting local officials to rezone the property, you and I have a really good chance of making that happen, don't we?
Like, where I live, you need a lawyer to buy a house.
If you want to rezone it, if you want, you have to go to a board to get all kinds of approval to paint house the color you want to paint it.
This is just classic influence peddling.
After getting local officials to rezone the property for a shopping center, Brown's company sold the land in 2004 to other developers.
Dingy Harry took $1.1 million of the proceeds, nearly tripling his investment.
He reported it to Congress as a personal land sale, even though he hadn't owned the land in three years.
The complex dealings allowed Dingy Harry to transfer ownership, legal liability, and some tax consequences to Brown's company without public knowledge, but still collect the payoff nearly three years later.
Yeah, I want to know what's transparent about that.
Even when you read this, even when it's explained, it's not immediately clear how this happens.
I mean, I can read the sentence.
The complex dealings allowed Dingy Harry to transfer ownership, legal liability, and some tax consequences to Brown.
That's transparent?
That's something that any American would normally understand as possible, would know how to do this.
I know there's no paper records on this.
If I were the IRS, I'd say, hey, Mr. Senator, no paper records on this, and you paid all your taxes?
How can that possibly be?
We want to see some paper to know that you did pay all of your taxes.
And what is this transferring some tax consequences to Brown's company?
I mean, that's here's this guy that's reputedly been investigated by the feds in organized crime, agreeing to pay some of Dingy Harry's taxes is essentially what this is.
Well, you know, this guy's not going to do it just for the goodness of his heart.
There has to be some benefit to this, and that's why I think there needs to be an investigation into what kind of legislation might have resulted from this.
They also said they have no documents proving Dingy Harry's stake in the company because it was an informal understanding between friends.
No documentation whatsoever.
No documents proving that he had a stake in the company, yet they gave him $1.1 million when it was sold.
Who does that?
Well, call it a sweetheart under-the-table deal or what have you.
Clearly an out-of-sight deal.
Reed and his wife Landra personally signed the deed, selling their full interest in the property to Brown's company, Patrick Lane LLC, for the same $400,000 they paid in 1998.
Despite the sale, Reed continued to say on his public ethics reports that he personally owned the land until it was sold again in 2004, even though there are deeds showing that he sold the thing back to the LLC for $400,000.
His disclosure forms to Congress don't mention an interest in Patrick Lane or the company's role in the 2004 sale.
Now, the AP says they first learned of the transaction from a former Reed aide who expressed concern the deal hadn't.
Well, here's a whistleblower.
We got a whistleblower, and what do you think is going to happen to this guy?
If I were this guy, I'd get an iron collar to wear around my throat.
Now, this is one whistleblower who will not be celebrated.
At any rate, Reed isn't listed anywhere on Patrick Lane's corporate filings with Nevada, even though the land he sold accounted for three-quarters of the company's assets.
Brown is listed as the company's manager.
Reed's office said Nevada law didn't require Reed to be mentioned in the filings.
We've been friends for over 35 years.
We didn't need a written agreement between us, Brown said.
Ultimately, Reed paid about 74% of the property taxes, slightly less than his actual 75% ownership stake, according to canceled checks kept at the local assessor's office.
One year, the property tax payments were delinquent and resulted in a small penalty.
Now, Nevada land deals show that Dingy Harry and his wife first bought the property in January 98 in a proposed subdivision created partly with federal lands transferred by the Interior Department to private developers.
Yeah, you and I can go get that done.
Just call up the Interior Department and say, hey, we want to buy that land over there that you own, and we want to turn it into a shopping center, and I want to own a bunch of it without actually owning it so that I can get a profit with very little taxes being paid when we sell it.
For years, Reed also has been encouraging the Interior Department to make land swaps on behalf of Del Webb, where one of his former aides worked.
Now, this guy, Brown, has been a behind-the-scenes power broker in Nevada for years, donating to Democrats, Republicans, and charities, represented a major casino deal, And his name has surfaced in federal investigations involving organized crime, casinos, and political bribery since the 1980s.
That's Dingy Harry's partner, with whom no written documentation is needed.
They can just be buds on a handshake.
Yeah.
And welcome back.
Great to have you, El Rushball, the EIB Network.
I still haven't, since this show started, I still haven't seen.
I'm watching two networks here, Fox and PMS NBC.
I've given up on CNN.
I just, at any rate, I haven't seen one story on Dingy Harry.
But I just saw an update on the Mark Foley story.
You know what it is?
The local paper here, the Palm Beach Post, has released transcripts of emails between Mark Foley and Governor Jeb Bush.
And it's all about this.
The White House, apparently, the president had some appearance in Fort Pierce, Florida, which is where Foley's home is.
And Foley wasn't invited to attend.
I forget the date of this.
It flashed by so quickly.
And Foley sends a governor to, or an email to Governor Bush asking for a meeting.
And Governor Bush says, well, I'm going to tell a Hassie I don't have time.
Can we do this in email?
Foley says, yeah, the White House is stiffing me.
I can't get.
I mean, they came to Fort Pierce.
What have I done to make them mad?
And Jeb says, nothing.
I promise you've done nothing to make them mad.
This is news.
And you know what they're trying to do?
They're trying to establish that.
Everybody knew.
Everybody knew what was going on.
Foley is gone.
Now they're trying to say the White House knew, and the White House was part of the cover-up.
When the White House didn't do diddly squat, Denny Hastert didn't do diddly squat.
We know that Democrats and Democrat operatives, at least two of them, were shopping these emails around for months, almost a year.
Local media and other publications wouldn't touch it.
Brian Ross of ABC didn't think it was any big deal.
He was trying to destroy Bush on the anniversary of Katrina and the fifth anniversary of 9-11.
And so now, but they still zero in.
What did Hastert know?
And when did he know it?
Now, what did the White House know?
And when did they know it?
Meanwhile, here is Dingy Harry Reed, who is getting an investigatory pass, if you will, from the drive-by media.
Here's something I know that you people in New York will be interested in.
The W Hotel, it's in Union Square.
I've actually had a meeting at the W Hotel.
It has been bought.
It's been bought by an investment firm.
The investment firm is owned by the ruling family of Dubai.
Price $285 million.
You just have now, you know, the ports are still whatever they are, but now we've got another hotel.
This is not the first hotel owned by a Dubai company.
So now we have another hotel.
This is a pretty fashionable place.
It's one of these Art Deco places.
I mean, you look and there's nowhere you want to sit down when you go in there.
The chairs are sticks and they're small and they're made for, you know, characters the size that you might have seen in the movie Team America World Police, Little Marionettes.
I watched that last night.
You know, I've snurdily been recommending this movie.
And I, so I got the DVD and I watched it last night.
This is the South Park creation.
It's a bunch of puppets.
And it just totally make fun of and destroy Hollywood and all these peace-loving actors.
I would not recommend this for your kids.
Some of you, I wouldn't even recommend it to you.
There are a couple of really just unnecessary, grotesque, offensive, despicable things in this flick.
But once you get past those, Kim Jong-il is the focus of evil in the modern world, organizing and structuring all these terrorist explosions.
And we've got this team of nimrods that run around saving the planet by destroying the pyramids when they miss firing bottled rockets at terrorists.
You've probably seen it.
Maybe the furniture at the W Hotel, I mean, I've been in there.
It's a typical elitist place, but now Dubai owns it.
We've got another place for terrorists, once they illegally get into the country via the ports or the southern border, to hole up in relative comfort.
I don't know how Hillary could let this happen.
This firm, and by the way, this investment firm is owned by the ruling family of Dubai, the Al Maktoum family.
And this bunch has been on a New York City buying spree in just under a year.
They spent more than $3 billion on five acquisitions, including this latest deal for the W Hotel.
But don't sweat it, folks, because we didn't let them have the ports.
We are secure and we are safe.
I saw something yesterday before, actually, I think it was after the program.
It had to be.
It was after the program was over.
And we were all watching television to see what had happened when that little single-engine plane hit the condo on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
And before anybody knew the identity of the pilot, Corey Lytle, pitcher for the New York Yankees, I had somebody email me a link from the Democrat Underground.
And there was a post on the Democrat.
Hey, by the way, so we're going to charge this wacko American who joined Al-Qaeda with treason.
I'm stunned he's the first.
I am of all the people to charge with treason.
Don't worry, Mr. Snurdly, I'm not going to name names.
But I can't, but we're going to charge this guy with treason of the New York Times.
How was the New York Times robbed?
Oh, they wanted to be charged with treason.
Is that what you're saying?
New York Times was in the running to be charged with treason.
They lost out to this loco weed.
At any rate, this link to Democrat Underground, honest to Pete, ladies and gentlemen, this one post, the Democrat Underground thought that this airplane striking the condo on the Upper East Side of Manhattan was a Karl Rove plot to remind New Yorkers and the country of terrorism and 9-11.
I kid you not.
Now, despite the fact that it's a loony-tune idea that Rove was behind this, it is inescapable.
If you've read the New York papers today, which I do religiously and regularly, you will not find a quote from one New Yorker who didn't have the thought in his mind that it was a terrorist attack.
They routinely in the New York papers today are referring to those horrible memories of five years ago, barely 61 months ago now.
And the reality of this is, and you can say that it's all a little insensitive here, but this tragedy, this tragedy in the closed doors of the Democrat cloakrooms today has to be their worst nightmare.
All of the references to 9-11, look at the scene yesterday, four alarm fire, hundreds of firemen, big trucks, sirens all over the place, an overcast day punctuated by dark smoke.
There is no way this didn't remind everybody watching it, and especially before we knew the identity of the owner of the airplane and the pilot, people were wondering, and we scramble the jets.
We scramble the NORAD jets over a number of American cities when a little single-engine plane plows into the side of a condo building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
They don't want us thinking about 9-11, folks.
The drive-by media, the Liberal Democrats, don't want us thinking about it, don't want us seeing signs of it, don't want us seeing pictures that remind us of it, and yet it happened, even though it was an accident.
And the impact of this is incalculable.
I'm sure, you know what?
I wouldn't be surprised if they're already polling this internally, the Democratic National Committee and various candidates to find out if they've got a problem with this, and if so, how they have to deal with it.
One of the things that, you know, when I, after this program, I learned after the program, a good friend of mine lives in this building, Marvin Shankin, who is the publisher of Cigar Aficionado and Wine Spectator.
He has ESM units in this building two floors above the impact.
So I, late yesterday afternoon, I fired off an email.
I said, are you and the family okay?
I didn't know if I was going to get a response.
I know Marvin wouldn't have been home that time of day, but he's got some kids.
I know his wife works.
So I had my fingers crossed.
And I got a note back from about a half now.
We're fine.
We're okay.
Thanks for asking.
I think the apartment's okay, too.
We're going to try it again later tonight, get in later tonight and inspect it.
Ironically, the third base coach for the New York Mets lives in the building, as does, it's either the Giants, New York Giants team doctor or the Mets team ducked down.
I think it's the Mets team doctor that lives in this building as well.
As well as an author, Mary Higgins Clark lives in the building and so forth.
So it's a fashionable address, ladies and gentlemen, on the Upper East.
So it'll be a year before they know what happened here.
At least that's what they're saying, the National Transportation and Safety Board.
Got to take a quick break.
We'll be back.
We'll continue in mere moments.
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I'm reminded about something, ladies and gentlemen.
Nancy Pelosi, Miss America, the speaker-to-be, in the minds of the Democrats, has announced her agenda for the first 100 hours after the Democrats get control of the House and the new Congress is seated next January.
And among the things that she's going to do in the first 100 hours is get rid of lobbyists and get rid of all these special interests, right?
Well, I guess Dingy Harry was making sure he got all of his action from special interests and lobbyists in before the Democrats take over the House and they get rid of lobbyists and they get rid of the special interests.
I mean, in this case, Dingy Harry's special interest, apparently lobbying government agencies for his own personal gain.
Now, something, I have to get this off my chest.
This may sound callous to some of you people, but there's something else I've about had it with today.
I am still watching the Corey Lytle story.
And I'm still watching it with the same intensity, practically, that it was on last night after the initial impact of the story was over.
I have seen videotape a thousand times of the 3D animation showing his trip from takeoff at Teterboro around the Statue of Liberty, up the East River, and sadly into the building.
I have seen interviews with aviation experts.
I'm watching another one now.
I am not listening to it, nor am I reading it.
But the one thing that's driving me baddie here is the graphic that seems to always show up.
Corey Lytle had his pilot's license for less than seven months.
So what?
Until we know the cause of the crash, what is that?
He had his license.
He did what it took to get his license.
He passed the tests.
He went to ground school, did all these things that you have to do.
He had an instructor with him.
He was doing the right thing if on this kind of flight.
We don't know who was behind the control.
What does it matter that he only got his pilot's license seven months ago?
What are you trying to do?
He was an incompetent pilot, had no clue what he was.
He got the license.
How many of you people in journalism could get a license?
And should we not let you work seven months after you get out of journalism school?
Is this what we're going to do now?
You're going to have to put in some time somewhere doing what?
You got to go out with a trainee every time you cover a story for how long before you can do it on your own.
Well, yes, Rush, but Corey Lytle's accident killed people.
Don't tell me journalism doesn't kill people.
Don't tell me journalism doesn't try to destroy people.
Don't tell me that there aren't accidents in journalism.
And we don't see nearly the kind of coverage in journalism accidents that we're seeing on this.
And we certainly don't hear anybody talking about so-and-so who got some story 180 degrees wrong and incorrectly ruined somebody's reputation has only been a practicing journalist for seven months.
We don't see that anywhere, but we're being bombarded with poor Corey Lytle, only had his pilot's license for seven months.
Until we know that it was pilot error, that is not relevant.
And with an instructor in the airplane, what does it matter anyway?
To the phones, Fritz in Springfield, Illinois.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Well, Megan Dittos from the land of Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois, home of the famous Dick Turbin.
Yeah, and Rod Blagojevich.
Let's not forget your governor there has some shady deals that have just been exposed as well.
And I was reading about him in the Los Angeles Times today.
Don't even mention he's a Democrat.
Oh, no, he doesn't know his best friend of 35 years tried to scam an investment company for $2 million to step up to the table or to make a contribution of $1.5 million to an unnamed high public official.
Exactly right.
But in the L.A. Times version of the story, you don't even find that Blagojevich is a Democrat.
And the only thing you read in the L.A. Times story of interest is there is worry that this could aid his Republican opponent in the election.
I certainly hope so.
But the reason why I'm going is about our friend Dingy Harry.
I'm a real estate broker here in Springfield.
I also have an S Corporation.
And it seems to me in Illinois that if you have a partnership, an LLC, an S Corp, C corpor, you have to file annual statements with the Secretary of State.
You have to be registered.
You have to say who is a member of your organization annually and pay your dues to the government.
Got to file paperwork with the dog catcher's office.
That's right.
No, you're exactly right.
I've been amazed when I've entered into certain things, and my advisors say, well, you've got to sign a stack of things I got to sign.
Incredible.
And thank you so much, Rush, for liberating this previous liberal, raised in a liberal family.
And you have opened my eyes, and I can't thank you enough.
I appreciate that, Fritz.
Happy to have you amongst the proud and happy, productive members of this audience.
How many of you people have either started a sub-S an LLC or even said you want to open a business?
Or maybe even for a trust that you've set up, the number of documents that you have to file with all of these financial-related agencies is mind-numbing.
And yet, here, dingy hair, apt, handshake, deal, known each other for 35 years.
No, no need for any of this.
We're friends.
Wait, we're not talking about contracts here.
We're talking about financial arrangements where there are tax consequences, SEC, this sort of stuff, governance over these kinds of activities.
And, of course, it was all transparent.
That's why I say there's no curiosity about this at all from people who think Denny Haster ought to be sent to hell back in a second.
Okay, I have a new rule to propose: nobody can fly anywhere near a tall building until they've had their pilot's license for 10 years.
Back in just a second.
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