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Feb. 1, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 1, 2007, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I know, I still don't get what the big deal is, but they're finally making it a big deal.
Have you seen it?
Well, it's not a big deal.
I mean, they're trying to cover it up or explain it, but they're still talking about it, which is more than I thought they would do.
Hey, greetings, my good friends, conversationalists.
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Look at this.
Some 75,000 unionists, farmers, and leftists marched to protest price increases in basic foodstuffs like tortillas, a direct challenge to the new Mexican president's market-oriented economic policies, blamed by some for widening the gulf between rich and poor.
Since taking office December 1st after a disputed election, President Felipe Calderón has drawn his greatest criticism for failing to control the largest price increase in tortillas in decades.
Tortillas.
I shouldn't be laughing.
The only reason I'm laughing is because I called it.
I called it.
And this is all because of ethanol.
This is all because of us and our obsession with alternative fuels so that we don't leave a big carbon footprint and destroy the planet.
We are now in the process.
We are doing once what the rest of the world has always accused us of doing, and that is stealing the world's resources.
And I know we grow our own corn, but we are denying our own corn at cheap market prices from the poor, the deranged, the thirsty, the hungry, and the bored world over.
I mean, the average, weekly salary in Mexico is four bucks and a tortillo costs three now.
And that's why they're rioting down.
National uproar has put the new president in an uncomfortable position between the poor and some agribusiness industries hoping to profit from the surge in international corn price.
See, it happens everywhere, folks.
Big business.
Have you seen the Exxon profit?
Whoa, this is great.
This is great news.
Makes me feel proud to be an American.
Makes me love capitalism.
ExxonMobil reported the largest annual profit in U.S. history, $39.5 billion.
Yes.
Despite a 4% decline in fourth quarter profit, Exxon posted fourth quarter net income of $10.25 billion, or $1.76 a share on revenue of $90.3 billion.
The oil and gas giant said that its latest results reflect lower natural gas realizations and refining margins, partly offset by higher crude realizations and improved chemical markets.
Well, I don't know what that means, but I love seeing it.
I love hearing it.
Record U.S. profit over in the House Congressional Hispanic Caucus, California Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez has quit, accusing the chairman, fellow Democrat Joe Baca, of calling her a whore.
Sanchez was insulted when she found out that Baca had made the disparaging remark about her to California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez and other lawmakers last year.
Núñez, a friend of mine, an angry Sanchez said.
Do you think that wouldn't tell me that he's out there calling me a whore?
Sanchez also cited concerns regarding the legality of Baca's election to the chairman post in November and about his attitude toward female legislators.
Now, Baca denied making the comment.
He told the Politico that Sanchez has decided to resign from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and has chosen to air baseless statements.
Again, I don't see what's so bad about this.
You know, I mean, these people can say what they want.
What's the big problem if this Baca guy called her a whore?
Don't most of you think most congressmen are whores anyway?
She's probably not unique in this regard whatsoever.
U.S. blacks, young U.S. blacks, believe in politics.
According to a new study, many U.S. blacks are as confident, and we're talking about the clean ones here, folks.
I must stipulate this.
Young, clean U.S. blacks believe in politics.
Many young U.S. blacks are as confident as their white and Hispanic peers that they can use politics to make things better, but a majority of young blacks feel alienated from today's government.
Why would that be?
Government's been taking care of them their whole lives.
Why would they feel alienated from maybe today's government means the Bush administration?
There's good news and bad news when it comes to politics, particularly as U.S. Senator Barack the Clean Obama, an Illinois Democrat, may try to become the first black to reach the White House, said Kathy Cohen, a political science professor who headed this project at the University of Chicago.
This research, by the way, covered a wide range of social issues from sex to entertainment.
Also found that young blacks think that rap music and videos are riddled with too much sex and mistreatment of women, even though they are the biggest consumers of that entertainment.
Nearly 80% of young blacks, whites, and Hispanics think they can make a difference by getting involved in politics.
Large numbers of them feel that they have the skills to do so.
So I get this.
The headline says young U.S. blacks, but they're blacks, whites, and Hispanics.
Everybody thinks they can get involved in politics here.
No big shake there.
And the polar bears are going to put the kibosh on Alaska oil development.
Until now, the Alaskan oil industry and polar bears have coexisted peacefully, but proposals by the U.S. government to list polar bears as endangered by global warming have cast a shadow on oil development on the North Slope of Alaska.
A threatened listing for the struggling bears, proposed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, could bring new regulatory hurdles for future exploration and drilling, industry advocates say.
Listing the bears as threatened has the potential to damage Alaska's and the nation's economy without any benefit to polar bear numbers or their habitats, said Governor Sarah Palin in a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne that argued against the listing.
So, here we go.
This would be the Bush administration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Well, this is a renegade agency.
We have to point out these people have their own little fiefdom.
But here we go.
I mean, we've got this ongoing argument over energy independence and so forth.
And now here we go with the polar bear business, and we're just clamping down on ourselves, unable to go and drill and explore, bring out of the ground our own native sources of oil.
It's, you know, and it's, it just, the hypocrisy behind this is just surprise.
That's not surprising, but it's just so glaring for these people to constantly complain and moan about our dependence on foreign oil and then stop any effort whatsoever with stupid things like this.
You can talk about the caribou, everybody worried about the caribou of the Alaska pipeline, ended up expanding the population because it produced heat and they hung around the pipeline and they felt more comfortable.
They got cohabitating out there.
There's a whole lot more caribou.
Look at the problem with the mooses up in Anchorage.
We told you about this yesterday.
Mooses, so much snow where they normally live, more snow that they can deal with, despite global warming, that the mooses have migrated into Anchorage.
But there's so much more snow in Anchorage than there usually is, that the mooses are taking up space on roads and sidewalks and plowed pathways and this kind of thing.
Just, it's just nonsensical.
At any rate, we come back, we'll get started.
Joe Biden, the audio sound bites, lots of stuff on the plate today, folks.
Looking forward to all of it, as always.
What is this?
One more thing here.
Put the glasses on.
Oh, this is a great headline.
This is a great slug line here from our old buddy Tom Rom at the Associated Press.
Bush, comma, Dems have different economic views.
Now, this is a great illustration of what's wrong with the drive-by media.
How can you have differing economic views?
The economy is what it is.
The economic statistics, look at the U.S. is going to be borrowing less for the first time in a long time because revenue is pouring in because of the Bush tax cuts and economic growth.
The two are related.
So, you're just going to report what the Dems say the economy is and what the Republicans say the economy is, and then side with the Democrats.
The economy is what it is.
The booming economy that President Bush paints is a far cry from the worrisome one increasingly portrayed by Democrat presidential candidates and party leaders and the drive-by media.
To them, there are worker insecurities, stagnant wage growth, and soaring costs for health care and college.
Yep, soup line America.
The vision of rival economies already is a main issue for the 2008 presidential and congressional races.
Economists say that both sides are right and wrong.
Well, that's helpful.
Both sides right and wrong.
Just depends on what numbers that you summon.
Okay, fine.
Can't even get to the point of proclaiming when a strong economy is robust and strong.
And this is precisely done to the drive-bys to aid and abet the contentions of the Democrat presidential nominees.
Candidates, pure and simple.
That's it.
Back in just a second, folks.
Hi, welcome back, Rushlin Boyda EIB Network.
Folks, I don't know if you have been paying attention to any of this, but it doesn't matter because I do if you don't.
And we'll bring you up to speed.
As you know, three Hollywood big shots, three Titans, three giants of the entertainment industry, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen, are going to conduct a huge fundraiser for Senator Barack the Clean Obama.
Now, this has got to be consternation for the Clinton camp.
I mean, Hollywood is big, big bucks.
And bucks are what is important in politics, and money's the mother's milk of politics.
It has often been said by political professionals.
We're all professionals here, but political professionals say that it's the mother's milk of politics is money.
And Bill Clinton owned Hollywood.
Now all of a sudden, Hillary Clinton is not just being abandoned by Bill Clinton's buddies, but her opponent, Barack Obama, is being actively sought.
Now, we all know how the Clinton war room operates.
The Clinton war room is not just going to sit here idly by and tolerate this.
That's not how they've gotten where they are.
Now, I don't have any evidence that the war room is already in action, but if it were, I think I know how they are going to approach this.
Don't know that this is going to happen, but if it does, it'll be something like this.
You'll have Carville making phone calls.
You'll have Hillary making phone calls herself to these people.
Well, I don't know about Hillary.
They want to leave any footprints, so to speak.
All right, let's get to the Biden stuff.
We go back to yesterday.
Here is an interview segment with the New York Observer with Senator Biden talking about Senator Barack Obama.
I mean, you got the first sort of mainstream freaking American who is articulate and bright and clean and nice looking guy.
All right, now, for the longest time yesterday, nobody really did much on this.
In fact, the Drive-By media talked about everything Biden said but this.
We focused on this for quite a while yesterday during the three-hour span that is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
And who knows?
We may have moved the subject off of the so-called new media and onto the unwilling and uneager tables and desks of the drive-by media.
And all of a sudden, Biden was being questioned about this.
Now, via telephone interview, the first stab he made at this in getting out of this jam was to plagiarize his mother.
My mother has an expression.
Clean as a whistle, sharp as attack.
That's the context.
He's crisp and clear.
His mother didn't say clear.
He can't even plagiarize his mother correctly.
If his mother was Neil Kinnock, he could probably pull it off.
My mother has an expression, clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack.
That's the context.
This didn't work.
So where do beleaguered liberals go when they are in trouble?
That's right.
They go to Comedy Central's The Daily Show.
Here is a portion of Biden's appearance with Jon Stewart.
I spoke to Barack today.
I bet you did.
I also spoke to Jesse and Al Sharpton and I also.
And Michael Jordan and anybody you can get your hands on.
My Jackson 5.
Who else?
Michael didn't call me.
Look, what I was attempting to be, but not very artfully, is complimentary.
This is an incredible guy.
This is a phenomenon.
This guy is.
And look, the other part of this thing is I the word that got me in trouble is using the word clean.
I should have said fresh.
What I meant is he's got new ideas.
He's a new guy in the block.
And Stewart's face was deadpinned, and Biden ended up concluding this isn't working, is it?
And it's not.
Although he didn't come in for harsh treatment.
New York Times did put this on the front page at the fold, going through the motions of reporting this.
But the drive-bys generally categorized his remarks as just indelicate.
Barack slipped on this even too.
He's so used to getting attacked by the Clinton war room that he misspoke when he first addressed this.
I mean, you'd have to ask Senator Biden what he was thinking that.
I don't spend too much time worrying about what folks are talking about.
I mean, you'd have to ask Senator Clinton.
Senator Biden.
so used to being beat up by Senator Clinton in her war room, they forgot to say that it was Biden.
Now, yesterday afternoon, Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer answered questions on Capitol Hill, listened to Schumer coach Obama as to what to say.
I'm not going to parse his words that carefully.
He just did a so Schumer says he didn't mean it.
And Obama follows with he didn't mean it.
So Biden didn't mean it.
Last night, ABC's World News tonight a montage of the report put together by ABC's correspondent Jake Tapper.
Joe Biden had hoped launching his presidential campaign today would bring headlines about his experience and gravitas.
But instead, he spent much of the day discussing these comments he made to a newspaper reporter about Senator Barack Obama.
Observers from both parties questioned what Biden meant, especially by the word clean.
They are loaded words, and that's why he should interpret what he meant by those loaded words.
And see, folks, this is the problem for the libs.
Once they get off script, they expose their idiocy.
They expose their prejudice.
Biden said he was praising Obama.
Obama today refused to tell ABC News whether he thought Biden was complimenting him.
This evening, Biden issued a statement saying he regrets his remarks.
On Capitol Hill, he's known for foreign policy expertise and for talking too much.
He's hoping the first quality will help him win the nomination, but it's the second one that got him into trouble today.
Yeah, and it was the day of his official beginning of his presidential campaign.
You know what, really, when they go off script, you see what really, what fools they are.
And I think, you know, when you heard Tapper allude to it here, he's best known on Capitol Hill for foreign policy expertise and for talking too much.
He really is the Senator Blowhard that everybody up there talks about.
He just loves the sound of his own voice.
He got circles run around him by John Roberts and Sam Alito at these judicial confirmation hearings.
He wasn't even listening to them, thought he had already had them trapped.
He just doesn't shut up.
And this is the kind of thing that people are asking.
Did he destroy his presidential bid on the day he announced it?
And has anybody else crashed and burned back soon in American politics?
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
How about that hoax, that mess up in Boston?
And who was behind it?
Essentially, the drive-by media.
It was Turner broadcasting for some stupid little cartoon show they've got.
And he put these little fake, well, not fake.
Well, they were fake, but some cartoon character flipping everybody off, flipping them the bird.
And it just, it was a, it was a hoax.
These little devices were planted around town to promote an upcoming late-night cartoon show.
The police have made a couple of arrests.
Of course, Turner broadcasts, oh, we're terribly, that's CNN, folks.
And Warner Communications or Warner Brothers.
Well, we're terribly sorry about this.
And they ended up calling all over the place around the country.
They'd been apparently depositing these devices in various cities around the country to promote.
And, you know, they're kind of, there were people yesterday kind of chuckling about this, like it was a practical joke.
I understand practical jokes because I used to be the king of them.
But when what you do heightens a terror alert and you are representative of the drive-by media, there are certain things that we can conclude.
And one of the things we can conclude is that you just aren't sensitive to the terror threat and you don't think it really exists.
Otherwise, responsible people at big media would not have engaged in this.
Somebody somewhere in the executive chain would have, in passing on this, would have to have realized, you know, we could actually cause some problems here.
So we'll see the Boston police and the mayor, they're all upset.
They're going to demand the money and expense that all these searches and lockdown and security procedures yesterday required.
Good for them.
Couple more things.
Let's see how much we have the Biden thing.
Yeah, we got a little bit more on the Biden thing.
So let's go to CNN's Paula Zahn now.
She interviewed Stephen A. Smith, an analyst from both Philadelphia and ESPN, and Debbie Schlussel, a conservative columnist.
And Paula Zahn said, Jesse Jackson came out today.
He says, I personally don't think that Biden's a racist, but it certainly raises questions by the kind of tone of the language he used.
Number eight, we're up to number eight.
Comes right after number seven, where we left off.
Yeah, that's all right.
Play number eight now.
We are waiting patiently for Kut 8.
Do you not have Kut 8?
To forgive him and say he's not bigoted.
But yet when Rush Limbaugh, for example, says something in ESPN that was not racist about Donovan McNabb, he's a racist and he's kicked off ESPN, and he is not running for president.
That's Debbie Schlessel there.
She has a website.
She's a columnist.
And she's responding to a Paula Zahn question.
Let me get the question again and play the bite since we had trouble finding the bite.
Question to Debbie Schlussel is: Jesse Jackson came out today and he says, I personally don't think that Biden's a racist, but it certainly raises questions by the kind of tone of language he used.
It's interesting how everybody's willing to forgive him and say he's not bigoted.
But yet when Rush Limbaugh, for example, says something in ESPN that was not racist about Donovan McNabb, he's a racist and he's kicked off ESPN and he is not running for president.
It's not just the ESPN stuff.
One of my problems is I sell in the drive-by media.
I mean, Jake Tapper's putting me in his soundbites.
I just, I sell, folks.
You know, if it weren't for me being in the newspaper, think of how bad the newspaper business would be.
New York Times reporting massive losses.
LA Times, Chicago Tribune up for sale.
I mean, you talk about, if the drive-bys want to talk about the poor economy, focus on themselves.
Because if there is a market segment that is dragging the economy, it would have to be the drive-by media.
At any rate, up next on Paula Zahn's show was Stephen A. Smith, noted columnist in Philadelphia and analyst on ESPN.
Stephen, Paula said, is Biden getting a free pass?
I don't think he's getting a free pass.
It's the difference between being a racist and being racially insensitive.
When you talk about somebody being a racist, as a black man, I've seen individuals, and I can point to a lot of things considerably more harsher than what we've heard or what you may have witnessed from Joseph Biden that would fall under the category of being a racist.
You can be racially insensitive because it comes from ignorance as well.
That doesn't necessarily make you a racist.
So that's where I draw the line.
Well, there you Stephen A. Smith makes Debbie Schlussel's point.
Biden is a liberal.
He's down for the struggle.
And so he's not a racist.
He was just racially insensitive.
Max Kellerman, Fox News Channel, used to work at ESPN.
He was on Hannity and Combs back on March 29th of 2004.
Do you people realize this McNabb episode was in September, October of 2003?
And we're into 2007 now.
And the Philadelphia papers are still writing about it, as though it happened yesterday.
Big piece, some columnists there yesterday about it because McNab spoken now for the first time in three months, putting to rest all the rumors that have been circulating out there.
Anyway, Max Kellerman said this about the whole incident at ESPN involving me and McNabb.
A lot of other people could have said exactly what Rush said.
What he said, I found kind of interesting, actually.
But the real reason they reacted to him that way, the liberal media, if you will, is because they know Rush ain't down for the struggle.
So he's not allowed to say that.
Rush ain't down for the struggle.
Okay, Mr. Snerdley, help me translate this.
What does that mean?
When Mr. Kellerman, who is on my side in this, when he says I ain't down, does that mean they don't think of me as a civil rights activist or I'm not a liberal?
What is it?
Right.
Okay, so I'm not a liberal and I don't sign on to the civil rights orthodoxy.
And as such, I'm not down for the struggle.
Whereas Biden is.
Biden is down for the struggle.
And so he, well, I mean, that's if you listen to Stephen A. Smith.
Biden is down for the struggle.
And that means that he can get away with being racially insensitive, not a racist.
And of course, my comments were not even about McNabb, other than I think he was being overrated at the time on the basis that the drive-by media, who is down for the struggle, drive-by media down for the struggle, was promoting him only because of their desire being that they are down for the struggle to see a black quarterback leadership position do well.
Can you doubt that I was right?
Look at the focus still now on Tony Dungy and Lovey Smith, the first two black head coaches to appear together in the Super Bowl.
Yeah, look, folks, I understand.
I talked to the Hutch about this, my buddy out in Seattle.
And he said, look, my man, you remember when I played, he played for the Cowboys, he played for Chargers, played for the Seahawks.
When I played, black guys were not allowed to play the thinking positions, like quarterback and this sort of thing.
And yeah, there's been a lot of progress in this room, and I totally understand it, relate to it.
But it's 2007 now, and there are seven blackhead coaches in the NFL.
It's not that unique.
And when you focus on these two guys' race, you're doing them an injustice.
They are great men.
They happen to be best in their conferences this year.
They beat who they had to beat to get to the Super Bowl.
They are decent people.
They're just solid citizens.
You should have heard Dungie this morning in his press conference.
Both these guys are clean and articulate.
Absolutely right.
And Dungy was asked a question about his relationship, one of his assistant coaches, and he said, I think God put us together for a reason.
And Lovie Smith says similar things.
These are devout Christian men.
And everywhere else in society, if you're a devout Christian or you're a kook, a wacko, an extremist, and depending on which Democrat's talking about you, you're no different than a militant Islamist.
That would be Rosie O'Donnell.
But the fact is that these two guys have a long history of working with each other.
Dungy goes back all the way to Chuck Knoll Steelers in 1978.
He played in that Super Bowl game against the Cowboys that the Steelers won 35-31.
You listen to both of them talk, and they are obviously confident.
They're very secure in themselves.
Now they do things.
They're great role models.
They are just great role models for the whole hard work ethic, believing in yourself, taking what you've learned from others, adapting it to your own philosophy, in their case in football, and to just focus on their achievement as being highlighted by the virtue of the color of their skin is to diminish the other aspects of these guys.
It's a shame.
Now, Biden's come along and brought all this up, but he's down for the struggle.
And I apparently am not down for the struggle.
And as such, I'm not only a racist.
I am insensitive to racial things, according to these critics.
Anyway, Chris Matthews was drooling again last night over this.
We'll have that for you when we come back.
I just got an email from Sam.
Stephen A. Smith.
You got his own show.
He's a sports columnist in Philadelphia.
He's all over television.
How can he be down for the struggle?
I said, well, he just lost his TV show at ESPN.
So he is struggling now.
So he is down for the struggle.
Let's take a break here and get some people on the phones, folks.
People have been waiting patiently.
We'll start in Troy, New York, and say hi to Mike.
Nice to have you, sir.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Good, sir.
Thanks very much.
Appreciate your asking.
Well, I'm thinking about hiring a housekeeper to clean my apartment.
And I know that the Republicans are against the minimum wage increase from $5.15 to $7.15 an hour.
Yeah.
But, you know, I don't mind paying an extra $2 an hour.
I'm not going to get away with it.
And I was wondering why the Republicans are such a bunch of cheap bastards.
They can't see fit to increase the minimum wage.
Mike, I can't believe that you're going to hire a maid and only pay her $7.15.
Well, I'm only legally required.
Well, but you know what I pay my maid, you cheap bastard?
You're the cheap bastard.
No, no.
Your party does not want to increase the minimum wage because you're a bunch of cheap bastards.
Mike, I pay my maid more than you will make it a lot of money.
Maybe you can afford to, but I can't.
But don't start making these hasty generalizations about cheap.
Let me ask you a question.
Why doesn't your party want to increase the minimum wage?
You think it's because it's bad for the economy?
Actually, when the minimum wage is highest in constant dollars, the unemployment rate is lowest.
You know, you're going to ask me a question.
And also, GDP is highest.
When your minimum wage is at its highest level, the GDP is at its highest level.
If you're trying my patience now, I'm trying to be nice to you.
I'm establishing it's not an answer out of you.
With cheap bastards like you.
You're the cheap bastard.
We've just established that I'm not.
Well, you're party are the cheap bastards because you don't want to increase the minimum.
Let me make minimum wage.
Mike, you know, if you would shut up, I'm going to answer all this for you.
I don't have that one maid.
I have six.
Well, of course you can afford it because you're making $7 million a year.
No, don't insult me.
I haven't made $7 million a year in 14 years.
Oh, okay, you're making $6 million a year.
No, no, no, no.
I haven't made that little money, and you're embarrassing me nationally.
You're $7 million.
You are so unimportant.
You're telling me you only make $1 million a year?
Now you're really insulting me.
You are really insulting.
$7 million is bad enough.
Now you've got me down to a million a year?
Is that all you make?
You know, you are amazing.
You don't even get my sense of humor.
Oh, I'm sorry.
That's not my problem.
Minimum wage.
It's good for the economy.
It puts more money in the economy.
All these people work.
You know what happens to minimum wage jobs when they're listed in the newspaper?
Nobody even responds.
Let me ask you, why do you care about this?
Do you earn the minimum wage?
I was thinking about hiring.
I was thinking about hiring somebody to clean my apartment.
I'm not going to pay them the minimum wage.
But good.
Pay them more than that.
I know.
Most people don't earn the minimum wage.
Most people earning minimum wage are teenagers in their young 20s, and they're in the entry level of the American marketplace, and they're not providing income for families of four, sometimes a second and third jobs.
The minimum wage is for unskilled, inexperienced labor.
The minimum wage is simply the government telling private sector businesses what they must pay.
Private sector businesses, particularly small businesses, do not have pools of money, stashes of money in a back room that they can just, oh, okay, want me to pay another couple bucks.
They're going to have to fire some people.
They're going to have to alter their entire payroll structure to accommodate this.
Let me ask you if $7.15 is not enough, would $10 an hour be okay with you?
Well, I guess it depends upon where you live.
Oh, wait, so there's a limit to it now.
You are willing to say that we might have too big an increase in the minimum wage.
Well, I bet you in New York City, I bet you $10 an hour wouldn't be enough.
Well, but that's not the point.
We don't do the minimum wage by city.
We do it by what Democrats want to try to pass off as compassion.
Actually, I think the minimum wage in Santa Monica is like $12 an hour.
Okay, well, then why not make it $15?
Maybe they should increase it.
What about $20?
Well, I don't know.
It depends upon what the need is.
No, no, See, you're putting a limit.
You're already agreeing with me that it's an arbitrary figure with everybody like you, you cheap bastard, that calls here and tries to tell me that the minimum wage is about compassion.
I can eventually give you a number that even you will think is too high.
And once that point is reached, you have lost the argument because you're willing to say, well, that may be too high than what's needed.
So you're into playing compassion games here to make yourself feel better, which is why you call here and call me a cheap bastard.
And then you insult me by accusing me of making only $7 million a year.
You realize how that humiliates me in front of my audience and this country?
Back in just a second.
Hey, Mike, Mike, and Troy, New York, I know you're still out there.
Let me try to help you out here.
You don't even need to pay this maid of yours that you're going to hire, if that's even a true story.
You don't even have to pay the maid minimum wage.
All you got to do is go hire an illegal alien like all of your lib buddies in Hollywood do to mow the yard and take care of the baby and all that.
And you can pay them two bucks an hour and support illegal immigration at the same time, be a really good liberal and save three bucks an hour, maybe four bucks an hour when you hire your maid.
Just go get an illegal, pay the social security on it so you don't get Zoe Bairded and look at it that way.
We don't want to increase the minimum wage because we don't want to throw young people out of jobs.
We don't want to put small businesses out of work.
And we want people to earn far more than minimum wage.
This is what you don't understand, Mike.
We conservatives have a greater vision for our fellow citizens than $7 an hour.
We want people in this country to succeed beyond their wildest dreams.
And we want to further those dreams.
We want to nurture those dreams.
We don't want to tell them you're only worth minimum wage.
We don't want to tell them you're a subset of our culture, a subset of our society, and you're only worth $7 an hour.
We want people who get in the workforce, work hard, learn what it is they are passionate about, and want to do it more than anything else in the world.
Get them educated.
We don't look at our citizens with arrogant condescension and contempt as people like you do.
You cheap bastard.
We look at America and we see unlimited great possibilities for the American people.
The only obstacle that those people have are dumb idiots like you who have no faith in them.
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