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Dec. 15, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 15, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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One more comment.
It's been suggested to me, by the way, that the young man who called about uh the Ninth Amendment in the courts and uh judges making rights and so forth might have been a libertarian because uh the libertarians rather as opposed to a liberal, because libertarians do focus a lot on the Ninth Amendment uh as the freedom to go out and do anything just because uh they think it's blank check.
Uh and so that's that's entirely possible.
But I let's just take the uh uh what do you think of all the rights?
Now, and by the way, the rights enumerated in our founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, uh, 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 hit 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.
Snurdl sturdily is saying the private property.
That's key right, uh 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 v.
Wade, there is no right to life.
How uh but it is.
It is a right granted by God.
It's codified in the Constitution.
We are all in uh 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 I'd say almost all.
There are the exceptions here are so rare, and it's unfortunate.
Um 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, uh when you're occupying, and it's look at uh this is not a criticism, this is quite natural.
What are you missing?
What are we all missing when we engage in in in those behaviors or what have you?
Uh uh our our tendency to focus on ourselves in a in a selfish way, not self-interested way, but a selfish way, also limits the ability to get the most out of life.
You you may have run into a person now and then who you've, wow, that that person is living.
Getting a mo, 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.
I say this is not a criticism.
But those three enumerations in the Declaration of Independence, in my estimation, perfectly define the f 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 in the drafting of the Declaration, carried over to the Constitution in terms of, you know, we 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 as a as a functioning representative republic, and we'll 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 in 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 I just I 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 I know exactly why.
Uh the Ninth Amendment to get out of jail free card.
The Ninth Amendment is uh Katie go to town.
Uh the government can't stop you or whatever.
And that's that as we discussed last hour wasn't the purpose.
One quick thing here before we go to the break.
Uh the uh some of the North Carolina media erred yesterday in reporting that the uh the uh 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 she's gonna 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 nifongs, yeah, she got pregnant two weeks after uh 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 Brown Miller'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 twelve minutes, should have left this woman, according to what I've been told by the feminist and everybody else, so emotionally scarred and and and uh out of sorts that the idea of having sex two weeks later would just not be possible.
Unless, of course, the self-loathing uh 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 in the and I by the way, I'm not saying I don't believe what I've been taught.
I think it probably makes uh the 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 gotta hear these sound bites, folks, and then we'll go back to the phones.
David Duke.
This is 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 uh 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 eleven times.
That was over thirty 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 I don't you interview many former communists in governments all over the world, and you don't introduce them by saying former communist, and not certainly not eleven 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, uh both Israel and the Arab countries.
But I know one thing.
Uh you can't impose a solution from the from the Zionist domination of American foreign policy.
Uh 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, uh 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 uh advisor to the President, not Jewish, the director of the CIA, not Jewish.
Are these people uh simply tools of the Zionist uh conspiracy?
They're 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, well, how do I explain that?
I I think that you can't affect the news.
You've got I think you have to put some spin on what's happening.
But we didn't have to invite you on CNN.
And you want to you you it's an attack mode, always in attack mode when you when people like myself come on there.
But you thought you could handle me with your eleven connotations of the Ku Klaz claims.
I'd love to do something you can't handle.
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 Israel.
I'm going to read to you what Mahmoud Ahmadinous is an Israeli agent.
Israeli agent.
He tells Wolf Blitzer he's an Israeli agent.
Okay.
Mr. Mr. Mr. Duke, listen.
Wolf cannot get a word in.
Uh Gary in Bergheim, Texas.
Uh it's your turn, sir, on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Uh hi, Rush.
Uh boy, it's hard to uh top uh that one uh listening to the Don't even try.
Don't even try.
We're gonna we're off to a new segment here.
Okay, okay.
Uh greetings uh from one newsletter publisher to another.
Um 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 be fa they will fail to emulate them.
So go.
Okay.
Go for it.
Many of our subscribers to our newsletter are uh 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 a our newsletter online and we offer it uh 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 uh just uh go away from uh the old fashioned uh print issue.
No.
Well, I I uh you know I'm answering that for myself.
We we are uh inching ever so close to the online version of the uh limball letter.
We hope to get it done uh early part of next year.
Uh and I was just joking a moment ago.
I hope people people watching on Ditto Cam 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.
Uh but nevertheless, uh depends on the demographics.
Like uh there are some people, despite you know, the census story that's out here about how many people spend ten hours a day on the computer getting their media and playing games, there's still a uh decent size of the population that is intimidated by technology and hasn't moved there.
So I don't without knowing the subject uh in the theme of your newsletter and in the demographics of your audience, I don't know if it would uh because it's obvious it's it's a 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.
Well, 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 we're in our twenty-fifth year of publishing, and I don't want to lose half of our audience, uh, but uh I'm getting so many who want to get it online, and obviously the choice of g going online would save us a lot of money.
Well, yeah, I uh you could do both.
Uh one of the things you have to guard against going online is theft.
Uh 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 a takedown a number of on uh of other websites.
We actually do have it both ways, and some of our subscribers have taken our uh newsletter information and put it on their own websites.
Oh, of course.
Well, I mean that that that doesn't so much happen to me.
What what what what what you get more concerned about is people copying it and giving it away so that others don't subscribe to it.
Yes, it's losing it, losing a subscription.
Yep.
Uh and but course but that happens anyway.
I mean they'll they'll pass the newsletter around to their family.
So that's gonna happen.
Yep.
Um there's uh that's uh there's nothing you can do about it, and it's it's one of the costs of uh doing business.
But the uh uh the the the the the we're looking at ways to do it online uh that that keeps it on the server and this is not downloadable.
And that is gonna argue for people still getting a hard copy.
So are you gonna have your subscribers um give them the choice of have reading it online and getting it in the mail?
Oh, we got all kinds of schemes.
We're gonna give them the choice to have one or the other or the choice to have both.
Are you gonna much more to have both?
Well, of course, sir.
Absolutely.
Mm-hmm.
Um we might bonus them on the uh depends on the numbers, depends on how it works out.
But we're always looking for ways to increase the price.
Right.
Aren't we all and particularly with printing and postage rates are going up again uh early next year.
Oh, it's a great excuse.
So we use it all the time.
So your advice to me would be just stick with both, have have our newsletter online, have it available in print.
This way keep try to keep everybody happy.
Yeah, you don't want to lose subscribers, and you and and and there are some people that simply aren't gonna go to computers.
Uh uh that intimidate them, don't want to.
Uh and they obviously like what you're putt putting out.
Uh there's no reason to uh to take it away from them.
But if you go both ways, then you're gonna you will reduce your printing costs because you'll have a lot of people that won't want to get a mailed copy, they'll get it instantly on the net.
By the way, folks, I'm gonna have another sparkling movie review for you on Monday.
I have a an exclusive copy of the Nativity scene.
And I'm going to be watching this over the uh the Timothy story, the Timothy story.
What the yeah, what yeah.
It's a scene.
Well Nativity story, yes.
Uh and they had trouble getting that movie made, uh, as uh you can well imagine.
Uh but I'll have my uh thoughts on that on on Monday.
Jeff and Salon, I hope I'm pronouncing that right, Ohio.
Welcome, sir.
It's stolen rush.
I knew that uh that'd be my mistake today.
Uh Megadiddo's from a rush baby, sir.
Thank you.
Wow.
Thank you.
Uh thanks very much.
Appreciate that.
Uh I had a question for you about Allen Brothers.
Yes.
Because I've uh I want to get uh Allen Brothers hot dogs, but uh 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 I've never been a big fan of the beef hot dogs that they serve at ballpark, but uh I've always loved support your uh sponsor.
You know, I uh got my select comfort bed and you know, many of your sponsors, and I've never been disappointed.
Well, you won't be an Allen Brothers either, but um the more interesting thing here is your mother what what is your mother's basic complaint about this?
Well, she she thinks it's a lot of money to spend for hot dogs.
She doesn't know if I'm gonna like them.
You know, I I've never been disappointed with some one of your sponsors, so I'm I think it's ridiculous, but uh you know, not being one uh have my mother mad at me, you know.
Yes, of course, nobody wants that.
Um you you you mentioned big hot dogs, you know, you can get these in two sizes.
You get the jumbo mama jamas and you can get them in a normal standard hot dog size.
Right.
You know that.
You've been on the website, you've checked it out, you look at it.
I'm looking at it right now.
Okay.
Well, if you're not really crazy about hot dogs, I mean they're so all kinds of you like steak?
Oh, yeah.
Uh go that route.
And your mother still object because you don't know what its quality is gonna be or something before you buy it.
Yeah, it's also a money issue, you know, because I 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.
It's uh Well, all I can tell you, all I can tell I 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 uh uh egg rolls and some little other things.
And I I recalled that I'd gotten this sample pack of stuff from Allen Brothers because they were trying to uh convince me to become uh uh supporter and they wanted to they wanted to buy advertising.
Of course, I have to like the product.
So I I just to flash memory, I said, uh we got some of those hot dogs.
Why don't you go out and grill some of those and and uh and we went out and got a hot dog roller like they have at the at the concession stands.
And I just put them on there as an afterthought.
Hot dog's a hot dog.
I mean, I've had hot dogs all my life.
Uh I've never noticed anywhere where I thought one was better than the other.
Uh 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 bursted uh 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 fo 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 it was they were just going gaga over.
It's now become a staple.
I've a lot of hot dog is Is how you prepare it.
There's no question.
But there is this these are these are different.
These are better than any I've ever had.
I'll tell you I'll tell you what I'm gonna do, uh, Brad.
I'm going to arrange for you to get a rush pack.
Uh which 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 uh 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 why don't you keep you on hold here because we'll get your name and address, social security number, anything else uh you can give us uh to help us know who we're only kidding about this.
We're not into identity theft here.
Just stay on hold.
Somebody get your uh necessary uh uh info and we'll get this stuff out.
It comes FedEx or UPS, one of the two.
It's ship frozen.
Uh so it stays fresh, it's all vacuum packed.
You'll be amazed at at how uh well it's packed.
They'll probably throw in fourteen or fifteen catalogs of some of the nicest looking catalogs they've ever seen, and uh just warn you.
You're gonna 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 uh 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, um I'm a conservationist, because I'm conservationists.
I'm also a conservative, and the irony here is that I need your assistance in goading my fellow conservationists to have the cojones to be against what they should be against, which is illegal immigration.
The reason being the more land use, the more suburban sprawl, uh, the more tens of millions of people who flood in, the more the less habitat that you 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 a and I'm sure you already know the answer.
It's because they're so in bed with the liberal democrats uh because they're beholden to them for other reasons.
You know, they think that they're wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
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 I you're you're talking about conservationists in general.
Yes.
Oh.
I gotta tell you, we've been dealing with that bunch uh since about 1988 in a number number of different ways, and and there's no there's no stopping.
In some regards, I'm a member of that bunch.
But go ahead.
Uh yeah, okay, but you're doing unmercifully if you wish.
Well, there's there's there's no there's there's no wiping them out.
They're always gonna be there.
It's it's the point.
No, though the the point is that 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 liberal government.
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 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 c conversation with it with a guy at dinner when 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 in their life, I am not gonna 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.
And I understand that part.
Okay, so uh there's nothing about conservation in that.
There's nothing about conservation in that.
It's very hypocritical.
I mean, the 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 in engage in will encroach upon people already here who in their minds have too much, uh are too wealthy, uh, are using too much property, owned too.
How can how can these this bunch of conservative liberal uh conservationists blame a bunch of poor people living in squalor, working for two bucks an hour and whatever else they can steal.
Uh how can they blame any environmental problem on them?
Why that that 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, uh, on anybody who has more than you do.
Uh and and so you're the the the weekend.
A lot of people are guilty of hypocrisy.
Therefore, they should.
I mean, i if they weren't being hypocritical, if they weren't being so soft, if they would see their 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 you're you're you don't discount what I'm saying here.
You you're not you're not going to change anybody's mind by pointing out how they are a hypocrite.
Their defenses will go up, and they're especially if you're if you're if this occurs in a conversation with them, because the last thing they're going to want to know is for you to know that uh you've changed their mind.
Uh they may change their mind after you leave and so forth, but you're never going to get credit for it.
And 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 much conversation a con conservationist, eh?
Yes, or you 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 they I I really think it's just that they're just so in bed with the liberals that they can't pull themselves ideologically to separate.
Half of these people are not conservationalists in the first place, Wayne.
I mean, the dirty little secret is liberals are liberals first.
Uh whatever else they are, be they women, uh, be they well, you any any any group, whatever they are, they are liberals first.
And all these isms feminism, unionism, uh 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.
Uh and it's it's well done.
It's it's 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.
Uh it's very systematic the the way they've got it set up, but they're 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 I have to express to you, I've not I've not mentioned this before.
But I I really have to share with you my admiration for George Clooney and uh Don Cheadle.
I think these are uh insightful people.
These are these are these are people that are that they care and they're doing everything they can.
Uh solve a terrible problem over there in uh in Darfur.
Uh they're on television right now talking about it.
I mean 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 uh 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.
They met with Kofi Annan today.
Um this is really I think it's it's it's just poignant.
I mean, it you you want to change things in the world, you go on television.
I mean, and that shows a commitment, ladies and gentlemen.
It shows 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 tenth 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.
Bear it in a merit-based teacher pay.
Move up graduation, make them get out of there by the tenth 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's uh it it obviously.
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 was it had it had high hopes.
Now, a lot of people are going to look at this and snicker at it.
Uh, but it does address some of the things that are terribly wrong when they say it's just unacceptable that your average high school graduates 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 school 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 get to collect the tax money for it, somehow, some way.
But uh, you know, I always thought property tax was a chintzy way to pay for schools.
And I don't ever have any kids.
I've never been paying property tax out of the wise that we all have.
I'm not being selfish.
I'm just I'm just teasing.
I do it for the good and the sake of the children.
And our country at large and so forth.
But it's um 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 use.
Bill Gates used to be a hero.
Uh 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.
Megalodos from the chair.
You better.
Thank you.
Hey, we bet.
A long time listener.
Hey, I wanted your thoughts.
Um, 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 Stabenell.
And once again, we've re-elected an incompetent governor, Jennifer Grantholm.
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, uh I I wish I'd have gotten you earlier, because that's this requires an in-depth answer.
Uh uh, the big three automakers and representatives met with the president uh not long ago and uh with members of Congress, and they would love for somebody to take their health care responsibilities off their hands, and they're gonna get rid of their pension programs probably.
Uh pass them off to the government aspect that runs them.
But that's an interesting, uh, 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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