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Dec. 15, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 15, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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Any question, any comment, any complaint, any whine, any moan, feel free.
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One more comment.
It's been suggested to me, by the way, that the young man who called about the Ninth Amendment and the courts and judges making rights and so forth might have been a libertarian because the libertarians, rather as opposed to a liberal, because libertarians do focus a lot on the Ninth Amendment as the freedom to go out and do anything just because they think it's blank check.
And so that's entirely possible.
But let's just take the what do you think of all the rights now, by the way, the rights enumerated in our founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, without me reciting them to you, what do you think is the most valuable right?
The most, and I don't even, there's not, there's not a, there's not a contest here, folks.
There's, there's, I mean, there's only one answer.
What is the most relevant and important right that without it, nothing else matters?
Come on now, come on.
I mean, you're stumped in there?
No.
Snurdle is saying the private property.
That's key right, right to own property.
No, the right to life.
Right to life.
And of course, that right has been denounced by judges in a decision called Roe versus Wade.
There is no right to life.
But it is.
It is a right granted by God.
It's codified in the Constitution.
We are all in the Declaration.
We are all endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, among them the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
In those few words, the people that wrote the Declaration of Independence defined creation.
Life and the natural yearning to be free, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Nobody wants to be miserable.
Not anybody's normal.
And the human experience, you know, so many people do not, I mean, the majority, I'd say almost all.
The exceptions here are so rare, and it's unfortunate.
How many people do you think, putting it to you in a simpler context, how many people get the most out of their lives?
We get one life.
And when you stop and think about how much of it is filled with angst and worry and concern, when you're occupying, and look at, this is not a criticism, this is quite natural.
What are you missing?
What are we all missing when we engage in those behaviors or what have you?
Our tendency to focus on ourselves in a selfish way, not self-interested way, but a selfish way, also limits the ability to get the most out of life.
You may have run into a person now and then who you've, wow, that person is living.
Getting the most, and I'm not talking about recreational, I'm not talking about any specific activity.
It's more a mindset, more a constant contentment with occasional joy at just being alive and having the opportunity to maximize.
Most people do not get nearly all there is to get out of life.
And that's sad, but it's also quite normal.
As I say, this is not a criticism.
But those three enumerations in the Declaration of Independence, in my estimation, perfectly define the author's understanding of our own creation.
We are all endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights among them, the right to life.
There can be no other purpose for creation but life.
Liberty.
Who wants to live slaved?
Who wants to live in prison?
Who wants to live hemmed in?
It's not the natural yearning of the human being and the pursuit of happiness.
And anything that gets in the way of that, from the standpoint of the authors of the Declaration, is something that is to be feared and opposed.
So the Bill of Rights comes along when it's finally time to write the Constitution, comes along, and because of the thinking that went into the drafting of the Declaration, carried over to the Constitution in terms of, you know, we've got to create this government because we have to manage our affairs, but be very careful of it.
And we're going to spell out the ways that government cannot infringe on the right to life, on the right to liberty, and the right to pursue happiness.
And of course, human beings are fallible.
And as they amass power and congregate, they all tend to think that they know better than the masses.
So, you know, we've been very lucky to survive this long as a functioning representative republic.
And we'll go on for a long time.
And we're truly unique, but it's because of our founding documents.
It's because of that declaration.
It's because there is a route to the understanding and the proclamations in the Declaration and in the writing of the Constitution.
It's not an accident.
It was a miracle that took place in Philadelphia.
And I just, I ponder this a lot.
And when I get calls like we got in the last hour from this guy who was just obsessed with the Ninth Amendment, and I know exactly why.
The Ninth Amendment to get out of jail-free card.
The Ninth Amendment is Katie, go to town.
The government can't stop here or whatever.
And that, as we discussed last hour, wasn't the purpose.
One quick thing here before we go to the break.
Some of the North Carolina media erred yesterday in reporting that the accuser.
I keep wanting to use the word I first used to describe this one, but I'm not going to.
I was right, but I'm not going to go there again.
She's not pregnant.
North Carolina media said she gave birth.
I mean, she's pregnant, but she hasn't given birth.
The DA, good old Mike Nyphong, said, no, no, no, no.
She's going to give birth in February.
She got pregnant two weeks after the alleged rapes.
Now, to me, this is, yeah, the media got something wrong here, but the bigger uh-oh is Nyphong said, yeah, she got pregnant two weeks after she was raped by these lacrosse players.
This goes against everything I, as a sensitive American male, have been taught about women who are gang raped.
What I have been taught, ever since Susan Brownmiller's book on rape, which I once bought for a feminist trying to get to first base, I never got out of the batter's box, her loss.
What I have been taught is that gang rape, any rape, is not a sexual event at all.
It is utter predatory violence.
And it leaves emotional scars that last years.
A gang rape that took place with these college kids, these lacrosse players, inside of, what, 12 minutes, should have left this woman, according to what I've been told by the feminists and everybody else, so, so emotionally scarred and out of sorts that the idea of having sex two weeks later would just not be possible.
Unless, of course, the self-loathing angle is presented.
But yet, after this gang rape, the accuser, the alleged gang rape, the accuser is out there pro-creating and adding to the human race.
As I say, it just, it doesn't jibe with everything I've been taught since the 70s about what happens to women.
And I, by the way, I'm not saying I don't believe what I've been taught.
I think it probably makes trauma being raped has got to be among the biggest traumas there is.
So where was it in this woman's case?
That, my friends, is what I am provocatively asking.
Back in just a second.
Okay, you got to hear these sound bites, folks.
And then we'll go back to the phones.
David Duke, this on Wednesday night on CNN, Wolf Blitzer, the Situation Room.
We have three bites.
Wolf says to Mr. Duke, Mr. Duke, thanks very much for coming in.
What do you say to those who say, who charge, and there are many, that you're there in Tehran at this Holocaust conference simply because you hate Jews?
I resent the introduction you made of me.
You mentioned the Ku Klux Klan 11 times.
That was over 30 years ago in my life.
And since that time, I got elected to the House of Representatives.
I became, and I received a full doctorate.
I've been a teacher.
I have one of the best-selling books in the world.
And you interview many former communists and governments all over the world, and you don't introduce them by saying former communist.
And certainly not 11 times.
I think you're biased because you're a former lobbyist for APAC.
You're a Jewish extremist, supporter of Israel, so you want to bias anyone who criticizes Zionism.
Next bite.
Wolf says, do you believe in a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a new state of Palestine living side by side with the state of Israel?
I think that's probably the best solution.
I think you have to ask the people who live there, both Israel and the Arab countries.
But I know one thing.
You can't impose a solution from the Zionist domination of American foreign policy.
Pearl and people like Wolfowitz, Fife, Wormser, Crystal, Abrams.
We can go on and on.
It sounds like a Jewish wedding.
Well, let me interrupt for a moment, Mr. Duke.
As far as I know, the President of the United States is the Commander-in-Chief, is not Jewish.
The Vice President of the United States is not Jewish.
The Secretary of Defense is not Jewish.
The National Security Advisor to the President, not Jewish.
The director of the CIA, not Jewish.
Are these people simply tools of the Zionist conspiracy?
Not tools of a conspiracy, but they are definitely tools of the Zionist media and political power.
And Wolf says, now, if we invited you on, why is there a Zionist conspiracy if we're letting you on television right now?
How do you explain that?
Well, how do I explain that?
I think that you can't affect the news.
I think you have to put some spin on what's happening.
Well, we didn't have to invite you on CNN.
It's an attack mode, always an attack mode when people like myself come on there.
But you thought you could handle me with your 11 connotations of the Ku Klux Klan.
You can't handle it.
You can't handle the truth.
And the fact is, you are an agent.
You work for APAC.
Listen.
The lobby in this country that controls is that you're not.
I'm going to read to you what Ahmed Ahmadinejad Television said.
He's an Israeli agent.
Israeli agent.
He tells Wolf, Blitzer, he's an Israeli agent.
Okay.
Mr. Mr. Duke, listen.
Wolf cannot get a word in.
Gary in Bergheim, Texas.
It's your turn, sir, on Openline Friday.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Boy, it's hard to top that one listening to you.
Don't even try.
Don't even try.
We're off to a new segment here.
Okay.
Greetings from one newsletter publisher to another.
I'm calling you for some business advice.
Yes.
I've heard for many years you talk about the Limbaugh letter.
I've never heard you really talk about the business aspects of it.
Since I'm a newsletter publisher, you're a newsletter publisher.
I thought I could just bounce a big idea off you and get your input and advice.
I'd be happy to share with anybody the secrets of my success, knowing full well they will fail to emulate them.
Okay.
Go for it.
Many of our subscribers to our newsletter are asking for online access.
I know.
Doesn't that just make you mad?
I got the same whining, complaining bunch bugging me about that.
Exactly.
So we go through the same problems, I can imagine, with our subscribers.
And we offer our newsletter online, and we offer it through the mail.
Yes.
And so our big question has been: should we just get rid of the hard copy print issues of our newsletter and just put it all online and just go away from the old-fashioned print issue?
No.
Well, I'm answering that for myself.
We are inching ever so close to the online version of the Limbaugh letter.
We hope to get it done early part of next year.
And I was just joking a moment ago.
I hope people watching on DittoCam can see me smiling, but you might not be able to see the smile on my face when I can talk about the whining, complaining bunch of people.
I love complaining customers because they're always wrong here.
But nevertheless, it depends on the demographics.
Like, there are some people, despite the census story that's out here about how many people spend 10 hours a day on the computer getting their media and playing games, there's still a decent size of the population that is intimidated by technology and hasn't moved there.
So without knowing the subject and the theme of your newsletter and in the demographics of your audience, I don't know if it would, because it's obvious it's a cost decision for you, I'm sure.
Well, exactly.
And we have thousands of retirees who subscribe to our newsletter, and I know they don't use computers.
But if we put it all online, we'd lose all of them.
Yeah, so you don't want to do that.
Exactly.
That's why for you, we're in our 25th year of publishing, and I don't want to lose half of our audience, but I'm getting so many who want to get it online, and obviously the choice of going online would save us a lot of money.
Well, yeah, you could do both.
One of the things you have to guard against going online is theft.
So you've got to be careful how you do that.
This is one of the things we're working at.
We've already had to take down a number of other websites.
We actually do have it both ways, and some of our subscribers have taken our newsletter information and put it on their own websites.
Oh, of course.
Well, I mean, that doesn't so much happen to me.
What you get more concerned about is people copying it and giving it away so that others don't subscribe to it.
Yes.
Losing a subscription.
But that happens anyway.
I mean, they'll pass the newsletter around to their family.
So that's going to happen.
There's nothing you can do about it, and it's one of the costs of doing business.
But we're looking at ways to do it online that keeps it on the server, and this is not downloadable.
And that is going to argue for people still getting a hard copy.
So are you going to have your subscribers give them the choice of reading it online and getting it in the mail?
Oh, we got all kinds of schemes.
We're going to give them the choice to have one or the other or the choice to have both.
Are you going to choose more to have both?
Of course, sir.
Absolutely.
We might bonus them on the.
It depends on the numbers.
It depends on how it works out.
But we're always looking for ways to increase the price.
Right.
And particularly with printing and postage rates are going up again early next year.
Oh, it's a great excuse.
We use it all the time.
So your advice to me would be just stick with both.
Have our news that are online.
Have it available in print.
This way try to keep everybody happy.
Yeah, you don't want to lose subscribers.
And there are some people that simply aren't going to go to computers that intimidate them, don't want to, and they obviously like what you're putting out.
There's no reason to take it away from them.
But if you go both ways, then you will reduce your printing costs because you'll have a lot of people that won't want to get a mailed copy.
You'll get it instantly on the net.
By the way, folks, I'm going to have another sparkling movie review for you on Monday.
I have an exclusive copy of the Nativity scene.
And I'm going to be watching this over the Nativity Story.
Nativity Story.
It's a scene.
Nativity story, yes.
And they had trouble getting that movie made, as you can well imagine.
But I'll have my thoughts on that on Monday.
Jeff and Salon, I hope I'm pronouncing that right, Ohio.
Welcome, sir.
It's Solon Rush.
I knew that that'd be my mistake today.
Mega Ditto's from a Rush Baby, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Talk to a great father figure.
Wow.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
Appreciate that.
I had a question for you about Allen Brothers.
Yes.
Because I want to get an Allen Brothers hot dog, but my mother is threatening to disown me to spend that much money on something she doesn't think I might not even like.
You like hot dogs in general?
I do.
I've never been a big fan of the beef hot dogs that they serve at ballpark, but I've always loved to support your sponsors.
You know, I got my Select Comfort Bed and, you know, many of your sponsors, and I've never been disappointed.
Well, you won't be in Allen Brothers either.
But the more interesting thing here is your mother.
What is your mother's basic complaint about this?
Well, she thinks it's a lot of money to spend for hot dogs because she doesn't know if I'm going to like them.
You know, I've never been disappointed with one of your sponsors.
So I think it's ridiculous.
But, you know, not being one to have my mother mad at me, you know.
Yes, of course.
Nobody wants that.
Well, you mentioned big hot dogs.
You can get these in two sizes.
You get the Jumbo Mama Pajamas and you can get the normal standard hot dog size.
Right.
You know that.
You've been on the website.
You've checked it out.
Oh, yeah.
I'm looking at it right now.
Okay.
Well, if you're not really crazy about hot dogs, I mean, if they sell all kinds of, you like steak?
Oh, yeah.
Go that route.
And your mother would still object because you don't know what its quality is going to be or something before you buy it.
Yeah, it's also a money issue.
You know, because I can look at the hot dogs and I can say, you know, I can get a lot of meals out of it.
It's worth the money.
You know, as opposed to, you know, steaks.
Well, all I can tell you, all I can say, I'll just repeat the story.
We're coming up on a year ago.
It was at the Super Bowl.
I had a little party over at my house, and I had a bunch of people over to watch the Super Bowl, and I decided to set up sports bar menu type of food, finger food, chicken fingers and wings and popcorn and egg rolls and a little other things.
And I recalled that I'd gotten this sample pack of stuff from Allen Brothers because they were trying to convince me to become a supporter and they wanted to buy advertising.
Of course, I have to like the product.
So just to flash memory, I said, we got some of those hot dogs.
Why don't you go out and grill some of those?
And we went out and got a hot dog roller like they have at the concession stands.
And I just put them on there as an afterthought.
A hot dog's a hot dog.
I mean, I've had hot dogs all my life.
I've never noticed anywhere where I thought one was better than the other.
I've always thought it was how they're prepared.
So I said, take them out there and grill them and get close to charring them.
I want those things bursting.
I was carve a few slits diagonally so those things can expand.
Brought them in, put them on, and they were the hit.
And the other food was not slouch stuff.
Oh, yeah.
And I mean, I was serving some pretty fine wine, and people were eating these hot dogs, drinking that real fine wine, and they were just going gaga over.
It's now become a staple.
A lot of hot dog is how you prepare it.
There's no question, but there is this.
These are different.
These are better than any I've ever had.
I'll tell you what I'm going to do, Brad.
I'm going to arrange for you to get a rush pack, which is the introductory pack.
It's got a sample of a bunch of things from Allen Brothers, including the hot dogs.
Oh, great.
And I will see to it that the stuff is sent to you, and it won't cost you anything except a confrontation with your mother after you eat it because you're going to want more and more and more of it.
But then you'll be able to say, Mom, we know the quality.
Great.
It's wonderful.
I knew you'd be thrilled.
Now, I want you to keep you on hold here because we'll get your name and address, social security number, anything else you can give us to help us know.
I'm only kidding about this.
We're not into identity theft here.
Just stay on hold.
Somebody get your necessary info and we'll get this stuff out.
It comes FedEx or UPS, one of the two.
It's ship frozen, so it stays fresh.
It's all vacuum-packed.
You'll be amazed at how well it's packed.
They'll probably throw in 14 or 15 catalogs of some of the nicest-looking catalogs I've ever seen.
And just warn you, you're going to be hooked after this.
Nothing at the local save mart is going to suffice.
Of course not.
You ready?
Yep.
All right.
You've been warned.
You stay on hold and we'll get a nice person will come and get the necessary information we need to get this to you.
Wayne in Strongsville, Ohio, you're next.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Good, never better.
Very nice to talk to you.
Hey, I'm a conservationist, become conservationist, so I'm also a conservative.
And the irony here is that I need your assistance in goading my fellow conservationists, they have the cojonas, to be against what they should be against, which is illegal immigration.
The reason being the more land use, the more suburban sprawl, the more tens of millions of people who flood in, the less habitat they have.
Wait, wait a minute.
Are you telling me your conservationalist buddies are not anti-illegal immigration?
That's correct.
Why?
Well, because they're, and I'm sure you already know the answer.
It's because they're so in bed with the liberal Democrats because they're beholden to them for other reasons.
You know, they think that they're conservative.
Wait, Is every conservationist a liberal Democrat?
No, I'm not saying that.
But enough of them in charge of the organizations are.
You're not talking about your friends.
I thought you were talking about your friends.
You're talking about conservationists in general.
Yes.
Oh.
I got to tell you, we've been dealing with that bunch since about 1988 in a number of different ways.
And there's no stopping.
In some regards, I'm a member of that bunch.
But go ahead.
Yeah, okay.
Well, there's.
There's no wiping them out.
They're always going to be there.
That's not the point.
No, the point is that people...
They should be against illegal immigration, and they're not because they're being hypocritical because they're so beholden to the liberal Democrats.
They're not against illegal immigration.
I can tell you right now why, and it has nothing to do with conservation.
They're not, yeah, but they're not far thinkers.
You're dealing with liberals.
You're dealing with people who feel, and they look at an illegal immigrant.
I've told this story countless times.
I wish I had the time to tell it again.
I had a conversation with a guy at dinner playing golf out in Palm Springs, well-known TV personality.
And despite every fact and every figure on the damage and the harm and the illegality of illegal immigrants, he wouldn't hear any of it.
And he finally got frustrated.
He said, I don't care if somebody of color who is dirt poor wants to come to my country to try to make something of their life, I am not going to stand in their way.
It's all about sympathy and passivity.
And they don't want you to think that they have no compassion.
They don't want you to think that they're mean.
I understand that part.
Okay, so there's nothing about conservation in that.
There's nothing about conservation in that.
It's very hypocritical.
I mean, the key component of conservation is to conserve.
And to the extent that you have tens of millions more people coming in, you have the demands on the land and so forth.
And so they should be against that.
I mean, that is core to their movement.
Right, right, right.
I understand all that.
But the conservation that they will engage in will encroach upon people already here who in their minds have too much, are too wealthy, are using too much property, own too.
How can this bunch of conservative liberal conservationists blame a bunch of poor people living in squalor, working for two bucks an hour and whatever else they can steal?
How can they blame any environmental problem on them?
Why, that would be cold-hearted and cruel.
That would be mean.
Everything has to be blamed from liberals' point of view in this country on the achievers, on the wealthy, on anybody who has more than you do.
And so Of people are guilty of hypocrisy.
They should.
I mean, if they weren't being hypocritical, if they weren't being so soft, if they would see the vision that they're supposed to have for conservation, they would see how important it is.
Here's the way to approach it then when you talk to these people.
Because you're not, don't discount what I'm saying here.
You're not going to change anybody's mind by pointing out how they are a hypocrite.
Their defenses will go up, and especially if this occurs in a conversation with them, the last thing they're going to want to know is for you to know that you've changed their mind.
They may change their mind after you leave and so forth, but you're never going to get credit for it.
In fact, you may never know.
What you need to do is don't challenge them on the hypocrisy per se.
Challenge them on the authenticity of their conservationism.
Challenge that.
Oh, really?
You guys are a bunch of conservationists, eh?
Yes, you're really not conserving much.
What do you mean?
Well, I mean, look at the urban sprawl that's going on basically because one reason, don't tie it specifically or only, because that'll just send red flags up.
But just give them a number of different examples without calling them hypocrites.
Just challenge their authenticity.
Well, I would never call them hypocrites.
I would say something nicer than that.
But I really think it's just that they're just so in bed with the liberals that they can't pull themselves ideologically to sell.
Half of these people are not conservationists in the first place, Wayne.
I mean, the dirty little secret is liberals are liberals first.
Whatever else they are, be they women, be they, well, any, any, any group, whatever they are, they are liberals first.
And all these isms, feminism, unionism, polyanishism, all these isms are simply vehicles for liberalism to spread its tentacles deep into the throes of our society.
Environmentalism, it's just a mask.
It's just a cover for liberalism.
And it's well done.
It's designed to make people think we're trying to save the planet.
We want clean air and clean water.
And anybody who disagrees with us must want dirty water and dirty air.
It's very systematic the way they've got it set up.
But they're not even, I'll bet you most of these guys, people you're talking about, not genuine conservationists.
They'll pretend to be.
They'll fundraise on that basis.
But they're liberals.
And what they really want is as much government and state control over life that they have a link to as possible.
No more complicated than that.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, I have to express to you, I've not mentioned this before, but I really have to share with you my admiration for George Clooney and Don Cheadle.
I think these are insightful people.
These are people that they care and they're doing everything they can.
Solve a terrible problem over there in Darfur.
They're on television right now talking about it.
I don't know how you can be more productive than to go on television and talk about it.
Don Cheadle just said, well, you know, I was in the region a year ago, and things haven't gotten any better.
So I'm here on television telling you things haven't gotten any better, and we want things to get better over there.
Then George Clooney's on TV.
I met with Kofi Annan today.
This is really, I think it's just poignant.
I mean, you want to change things in the world, you go on television.
I mean, and that shows a commitment, ladies and gentlemen.
It shows a commitment that most people do not have.
These are special, special people.
They want it so much they are willing to go on TV and tell you how you're not doing enough.
And that's bravery, folks.
We need to appreciate the efforts of people like George Clooney.
By the way, get this.
This is out of the Bloomberg News Service.
An expert commission sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has concluded that U.S. public schools should be run by private contractors who would graduate most students by 10th grade.
Their report calls for state funding to replace local property taxes, free pre-kindergarten, and higher teacher pay on a merit-based system.
The Gates Foundation and other sponsoring groups may pay states to help implement the plan.
The commission, which included business executives, former education secretaries Rod Page and Richard Riley, and scrubble officials from New York, Massachusetts, and California, wants to end an inane U.S. school system that is producing students who cannot handle either college or the workplace.
Whoa.
Whoa.
That is interesting.
State instead of local control, more rigor, merit-based teacher pay, move up graduation, make them get out of there by the 10th grade, and privatize this.
Now, there have been efforts to do this in the past.
What was this guy's name, Christopher.
Oh, I'm having a middle block, and it didn't work out because it obviously is.
I don't think it was Chris Edison.
It might have been.
Chris Whittle, that's who it was.
Chris Whittle tried this.
It was a very costly thing, and it had high hopes.
Now, a lot of people are going to look at this and snicker at it, but it does address some of the things that are terribly wrong when they say it's just unacceptable that your average high school graduate's not prepared for college or work.
And if you doubt that, folks, why do we have job training centers?
Why do we have people have to go at age 22 or 25 to some remedial place to learn to read?
We already have schools set up for this.
Now, this business of getting rid of property tax to pay for it and having states pay for it, states still got to collect the tax money for it somehow, some way.
But, you know, I always thought property tax was a chintzy way to pay for schools.
I don't ever have any kids.
I've been paying property tax out of the wise.
We all have.
I'm not being selfish.
I'm just teasing.
I do it for the good and the sake of the children and our country at large and so forth.
And I do it because I'm forced to.
But still, let's see how far this gets.
Let's see how.
Wait till the teachers used.
Bill Gates used to be a hero.
Quickly, Brad in Traverse City, Michigan.
We've got about a minute here, but I wanted to squeeze you in.
All right, Rush.
Thanks a lot.
Megadalos from the chair.
You bet.
Thank you.
We bet.
A longtail listener, hey, I wanted your thoughts because I respect your opinion a lot.
The Michigan economy is really, really horrible.
And we keep on putting these liberal morons in office like Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow.
And once again, we've re-elected an incompetent governor, Jennifer Grandholm.
We've got record unemployment, record foreclosures, and it doesn't seem like anybody's doing anything to help our major industries, which has a trickle-down effect and hurts everybody.
So I'll sign off and let you address what we need to do to help the Michigan economy with regard to our autos.
Yeah, I wish I'd have gotten you earlier because this requires an in-depth answer.
The big three automakers and representatives met with the president not long ago and with members of Congress, and they would love for somebody to take their health care responsibilities off their hands.
And they're going to get rid of their pension programs, probably, pass them off to the government aspect that runs them.
But that's an interesting answer, and I would love to talk about it.
Sadly, precious broadcast time is gone.
Well, remind me about this next week, and we'll tackle it then.
And I would like to thank myself for showing up and doing the program today, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you, Rush.
We will be back on Monday.
Have a wonderful weekend.
I look forward to it.
Get the most out of it, folks.
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