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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 but they're trying to cover it up or explain it, and they're still talking about it, which is more than I thought they would do.
Hey, greetings, uh, my good friends, uh conversationalists, music lovers all across the fruited plane.
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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 Calderon has drawn his greatest criticism for failing to control the largest price increase in tortillas in decades.
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 uh at cheap market prices from the poor, uh, the deranged, the thirsty, the hungry, and the bored uh world over.
I mean, the average what uh weekly salary in Mexico's four bucks and a tortillo cost 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.
Exxon Mobil reported the largest annual profit in U.S. history.
39 and a half billion dollars.
Yes.
Despite a 4% decline in fourth quarter profit.
Exxon posted uh 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 market.
Well, I don't know what that means, but I love seeing it.
I love hearing it.
Record U.S. profit over in the uh in the House.
Uh Congressional Hispanic Caucus, California Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez has quit, accusing the chairman, uh fellow Democrat Joe Baca, of calling her a whore.
Uh 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.
Nunz, a friend of mine, an angry Sanchez said.
He think that uh 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.
Uh he told the politico that Sanchez has decided to resign from the uh congressional Hispanic caucus and has chosen to air baseless statements.
Uh I don't again, I don't see what's so bad about this.
You know, I mean, uh 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 uh in this regard whatsoever.
U.S. blacks, young U.S. blacks uh believe in politics, according to a new study.
Many U.S. blacks are as confident, and we're talking about the clean ones here.
Uh, folks, I must stipulate this.
Young, clean U.S. blacks believe in uh 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?
A government's been taking care of them their whole lives.
Why would they feel alienated from uh maybe today's government means the Bush administration?
Uh 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 uh 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.
Um I guess this is the headline says young U.S. blacks, but here's blacks, whites, and Hispanics.
Everybody thinks they can get involved in politics here.
No big uh, no big shake there.
And the polar bears are gonna put the kabosh 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 habitat, said Governor Sarah Palin in a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kemp Thorn 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.
Uh 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.
Uh 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 uh of oil.
It's you know, and it's it just it the the hypocrisy behind this is just surprising that's not surprising, but it's it's just so glaring.
Uh for these people to constantly complain and moan about our dependence on foreign oil, and then stop any effort whatsoever with s with stupid things like this.
But the caribou, everybody worried about the caribou or 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 as 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 uh global warming, uh, that the mooses have migrated into Anchorage, but there's so much more snow in Anchorage than there usually is that the mooses uh are are taking up space on roads and sidewalks and plowed pathways and uh and this kind of thing.
Just it's just nonsense.
At any rate, we come back, we'll get started.
Joe Biden, the audio sound bites, lots of stuff on the uh on the plate today, folks.
Looking forward to all of it as always.
Uh, what is this?
One more thing here.
Put the glasses on.
Oh, this is a great headline.
This this is a great slug line here from from our old buddy Tom Rom at the Associated Press.
Bush, comma, Dems have different economic views.
Now, this is a this is 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 whether 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.
Oh.
Both sides right and wrong.
Just depends on what uh numbers that you summon.
Okay, fine.
Uh can't even get to the point of proclaiming when a strong economy is robust and strong.
And this is precisely done by 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, Rush Limbaugh 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 uh the mother's milk of politics.
It has uh often been said by political professionals.
We're all professionals here, but political professionals say that it's uh mother's milk of politics is money.
And Bill Clinton owned Hollywood.
Uh 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 gonna sit here idly by tolerate this.
That's not how they've gotten where they are.
Now, I don't have any evidence that uh 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 gonna 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 um footprints, so to speak.
All right, let's get to the Biden stuff.
Uh 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 African America, who is articulate and bright and clean, nice looking guy.
All right, now for the longest time yesterday, nobody really did much on this.
In fact, the drive-by media uh talked about everything Biden said but this.
Uh 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 on to the uh unwilling and uneager tables and desks of the drive-by Media, and all of a sudden Biden uh 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 Christian and clear.
What his mother didn't say clear.
He can't even plagiarize his mother correctly.
His mother would kneel Kinneck, he could probably pull it off.
My mother has an expression, clean as a whistle, sharp as attack, 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 John Stewart.
I spoke to Barack today.
I bet you did.
I also spoke to Jesse and Al Sharpton and uh and I also get your hands on.
But Jackson Five.
Michael didn't call me.
Look.
What I was attempting to be, but not very artfully, is uh complimentary.
This is an incredible guy.
This is a phenomenon.
This guy is and look, the other part of this thing is I uh the 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 new guy in the block.
And uh Stewart's face was dead penned, and uh uh uh Biden ended up concluding this isn't working, is it?
Uh and and it's not.
Although he didn't, he didn't come in for harsh treatment.
New York Times did put this on the front page at the fold uh uh going through the um motions of reporting this.
Uh but the drive-by's generally categorized his remarks as just indelicate.
Uh Barack slipped on this even too.
He's 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 uh Senator Clinton.
Uh Senator Biden what uh what he was uh he was thinking that I don't spend too much time worrying about what uh folks are talking about.
I mean, you'd have to ask Senator Clinton.
Oh, Senator Biden, he's so used to being beat up by uh by 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 gonna parse his words that carefully.
I mean, it was he he he just said he didn't mean it.
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 Tepper.
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 all load it 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 happened really when they go off script, uh uh you you see what really what fools they are.
And I I think, you know, when you heard Tapper allude to it here, uh uh 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 talked about.
He just loves the sound of his own voice.
He got circles run around him by John Roberts and Sam Alito at these uh judicial confirmation hearings.
He wasn't even listening to them, thought he had already had them trapped.
He just he just doesn't shut up.
And uh, 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 That 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 uh well, not fake.
Well, they were fake, but some cartoon character flipping everybody off, flipping them the bird.
Uh, and and it just it was a it was a hoax.
Uh, these little devices were planted around town to promote an upcoming late-night cartoon show.
The police have made a couple of arrests.
Uh, of course, Turner Broadcast, oh, we're terribly that's CNN, folks.
And Horner Communications, or Warner Brothers.
Well, we're terribly sorry about this.
They ended up calling all over the place uh around the country, and they'd been apparently depositing these devices in various cities around the country to promote.
And there, you know, they're kind of there were people yesterday kind of chuckling about this like it was a uh a practical joke.
I understand practical jokes because I used to be the king of them.
But when you are when what you do heightens a terror alert, uh and and uh and 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 uh have to realize, you know, we could we could actually cause some uh some problems here.
So we'll see the Boston police and the mayor they're all upset.
They're gonna they're gonna demand the money and expense that all these searches and lockdown and security procedures yesterday required.
Uh good for them.
Couple more things.
Let's see, how much more than the Biden thing?
Yeah, we got a little bit more on the Biden thing.
So let's let's go to CNN's Paula's on now.
She interviewed Stephen A. Smith, an analyst from both Philadelphia and ESPN, and Debbie Schlossel, a conservative columnist.
And Paula Zan 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 uh number eight, comes right after number seven where we uh left off.
Yeah, that's all right.
Play number eight now.
We are waiting patiently for cut eight.
Do you not have cut eight?
To forgive him and say he's not big idiot.
But yet when uh Rush Limbaugh, for example, says something NESPN that that was not racist about Donovan McDamp, he's a racist and he's kicked off ESPN and he is not running for president.
That's uh Debbie Schlossel there from her she has a website, she's a columnist.
Uh and she is responding to a Paul Azan question.
Let me get the question again, play the bite since we had trouble finding the bite.
Uh 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 big idiot, but yet when uh Rush Limbaugh, for example, says something NESPN that that was not racist about Donovan McDamp, he's a racist and he's kicked off ESPN, and he is not running for president.
It's not just the ESPN stuff.
There's uh, you know, one of my problems is I sell in the drive-by media.
That's I mean, Jake Tapper's putting me in his sound bites.
I just I sell, folks.
Uh, 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 if 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 Paul's on show was Stephen A. Smith.
Uh noted uh columnist in Philadelphia and uh analyst on ESPN.
Uh 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 harsh 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 Schlossel'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.
It was on uh Hannity and Colb's back on March 29th of 2004.
Uh you people realize this McNabb episode was uh 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 of some columnists there yesterday about it, because McNabb spoken now for the first time in uh 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 helped 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 he doesn't they don't think of me as a civil rights activist or um uh or I'm not a liberal?
Uh well, 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, uh Stephen A. Drive by media down for the struggle, uh, was promoting him only because of their desire being that they are down for the struggle uh to see uh black quarterback leadership position do well.
Can you doubt that I was right?
Look at the focus still now on Tony Dungey and Lovey Smith, the first two black uh head coaches to appear together in the Super Bowl.
Uh yeah, look, folks, I understand.
I've I I talked to the Hutch about this, my buddy out in Seattle.
And uh he said, Look, my man, you remember when I played, he played for the uh the Cowboys, he played for the Chargers, played for the Seahawks, and when I played, uh the black guys were not allowed to uh to uh uh play the thinking positions like quarterback and this sort of thing.
And yeah, there's been a lot of progress in this written.
I totally understand it relate to it.
But it's 2007 now, and there's 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.
Um you should have heard Dungey this morning in his press conference.
Uh, both these guys are clean and articulate.
Absolutely right.
Uh and and uh the the Dunsey was asked a question about his um relationship, one of his assistant coaches, and he said, I think God put us together for a reason.
And Lovey Smith says similar things.
These are devout Christian men.
Uh and uh and everywhere else uh in society, if you're a devout Christian or you're a kook, a wacko, an extremist, and depending on which Democrats talking about you, you're no different than a mis uh a militant Islamist.
Uh that would be Rosie O'Donnell.
Uh but the but the fact is that these these two guys have a long history of working with each other.
Dungey goes back all the way to Chuck Knoll Steelers uh 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 and how they do things.
Uh They're great role models.
They are just great role models for the whole hard work ethic, uh, believing in yourself, taking what you've learned from others, adapting it to your own philosophy, in their case in football, uh, and it to just focus on on their achievement as being highlighted by by the virtue of the color of their skin is to diminish the other aspects of these guys.
It's just uh it's it's a shame.
Now Biden's come along and you know, brought all this uh up, but he's down for the struggle.
And uh 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 uh 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 some Stephen A. Smith.
You got his own show.
He's a uh 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.
Uh, so he uh he is struggling now.
So um he uh he is down for the struggle.
Uh let's take a break here and uh and get some people uh uh 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, um, I'm thinking about hiring a housekeeper to clean my apartment.
And um, I know that the Republicans are against uh the minimum wage increase from 515 to 715 an hour.
Yeah.
But you know, I don't mind paying an extra two bucks an hour.
You're only gonna be a good house, and I was wondering why the Republicans are such a bunch of cheap bastards, they can't see fit to increase the minimum wage.
Uh Mike, I can't believe that you're gonna hire a maid and only pay her seven dollars and fifteen cents.
Well, I'm only legally required.
Well, but you know what I pay my maid, you cheap bastard?
You're the cheap bastard.
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 in a, but I can't, and I don't even but don't start making these hasty generalizations about cheaper.
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 in constant dollars, uh the unemployment rate is lowest.
You know, uh you're gonna answer me a question.
And also GDP is highest.
When the minimum wage is at its highest level, the GDP is at its highest rate.
If you're trying my patience, now I'm trying to be nice to you, I'm establishing the city.
I'm just trying to answer out of you with cheap bastards like you.
You're the cheap bastards.
We've just established that I'm not.
Well, you're you're Republican Party are the cheap bastards because you don't want to increase minimum wage.
Mike, you know, if you would shut up, I'm gonna answer all this for you.
I don't have but one made, I have six.
Well, of course you can afford it because you're making seven million dollars a year.
No, don't insult me.
I haven't made seven million dollars a year in fourteen years.
Oh, okay, you're making six million dollars a year.
No, no, no, no.
I haven't made that little money, and you're you're embarrassing me nationally here.
Seven million.
You you you are so uninformed.
You're telling me you only make a million dollars a year.
Now you're really insulting me.
You are really insulting.
Seven million is bad enough.
Now you've got me down to a million a year.
Is that all you make?
You know, you just you are amazing.
Uh you don't even get my sense of humor.
Oh, I'm sorry.
That's not my problem.
Uh minimum wage.
It's good for it's good for the economy.
Um, it puts more money in the economy.
You get all these people working.
You know what happens the 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 on 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 twenties 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 gonna have to fire some people.
They're gonna have to alter their their entire payroll structure to accommodate this.
Let me let me ask you uh if if if if seven dollars and fifteen cents is not enough, would ten dollars 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 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 ten bucks an hour wouldn't be enough.
Well, but but no, and 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 twelve bucks an hour.
Well, okay, well then why not make it fifteen?
Maybe they should increase it.
Uh, what about twenty?
Well, I don't know.
It depends upon what the need is.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 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, we that 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 seven million dollars 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, uh, New York.
I know you're still out there.
Let me try to help you out here.
Uh you don't even need to pay this this maid of yours that uh that you're gonna hire, uh, if that's even a true story.
You don't even have to pay the maid minimum wage.
All you gotta 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 uh 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 uh maid.
Just go get an illegal, pay the social security on it, uh, so you don't get Zoe bearded, uh, and and 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 seven dollars 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 seven dollars 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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