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May 17, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 17, 2007, Thursday, Hour #2
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Well, here it is.
The AP just has the flash news alert.
A bipartisan group of senators and the White House have reached agreement on an immigration bill to provide quick legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.
That's the only detail I have now, but that's pretty much all we need now.
It has to go over to the House.
So remember it was the House that killed this in August.
But we don't control the House anymore, folks.
Elections have consequences.
The Democrats run the House of Representatives, and who knows uh what'll happen there.
They might rubber stamp this bill, or they might have their own version, go to conference or what have you.
Uh but they uh Senate wanted to get this done before their Memorial Day recess.
I don't know when the House is going to take it up.
President wants it on his table on his desk to sign by August uh or some such thing.
So everybody's hoping that we'll forget about this in uh in November of 08.
I just have to if if anybody that ends up supporting this is gonna be very, very difficult for me to support.
This this is bad deal.
It's unfortunate.
Um we'll just have to see what the next stage of this is now develops.
Greeping uh greetings and welcome back.
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Tony Blair and the president had a joint presser today in a Rose Garden, and Blair was just superb on uh on Iraq and on terrorism.
We have three bites.
Here's the first.
Thank you also for the strength of of your leadership over the past few years.
You've been a strong leader at a time when the world needed strong leadership.
You've been unyielding and unflinching and determined in the fight that we face together, and I thank you for that.
And I also would take this opportunity of saying that I believe that the relationship between the United States of America and and Britain is a relationship that is in the interest of our two countries, in the interests of the peace and stability of the wider world.
And sometimes it's uh it's a controversial relationship, um, at least over my country, but I've never doubted its importance.
I've never doubted that it's based on principle, on shared values, and on a shared purpose, which is to make our world a better, more free, more just place in which people of all nations and all faiths can live.
A reporter said, Mr. Prime Minister, will Britain in the coming months and years be as staunch an ally in Iraq for the United States as it has been under your leadership.
This is a montage of Blair's response.
Yes.
Um the forces that we are fighting in Iraq, Al Qaeda on the one hand, Iranian-backed elements on the other, are the same forces we're fighting everywhere.
And over these past few weeks, you can see in different parts of the world, Morocco, Algeria, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia recently, where this extremism is rearing its head, is trying to dislodge the prospects of stability and progress in so many different countries.
There is no alternative for us but to fight it wherever it it exists.
And that is true, whether it's in our own countries, which have both suffered from terrorism, or in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Uh Sky News reported then said, Mr. Prime Minister, President Bush once said he hoped you would be in office through the duration of his presidency.
Do you think he is partly to blame for that?
I've admired him uh as a president and I regard him as a friend.
Uh I have taken the view that Britain should stand shoulder to shoulder with America after September the eleventh.
I have never deviated from that view.
I do not regret that view.
I am proud of the relationship we have had.
I'm proud of the relationship between our two countries.
And I think that sometimes in politics there are all sorts of issues uh where you've got to negotiate and compromise.
But when it comes to the fundamental questions that affect our security in the future of the world, you should do what is right.
I have tried to do that.
Um and I believe that is what he has done as well.
And I would take the same position of alliance with America again.
Yes, I would.
And the Prime Minister spelled out uh in strong terms just uh what a dangerous enemy Al Qaeda is, how serious it is, how important Iraq is uh and uh and Afghanistan.
And it was uh you know he's leaving.
He's leaving office.
He's he's got he's got uh in a way, I mean he's totally free to say whatever he wants, because he hasn't uh not gonna suffer political consequences for it.
Um in terms of uh future election that he might uh might have.
Wants to go into private practice uh and speech making uh beyond boards or so.
But it was really uh powerful and parts of it uh uh uh almost wish he'd be hired as our spokesman uh on this stuff, because it was really uh really, really well done.
And then uh well, if we get some more bites of this, uh we'll pass them on to you as soon as uh as soon as we get them.
Uh just add a news story sent to me.
This is from San Antonio, WOAI uh radio is uh reporting now.
This just and this is one example, and and this is gonna be happening all over the place.
Hundreds of illegal immigrants have registered to vote in uh in Bear County, Bexar is how it's spelled.
It's Bear County in recent years, dozens of them have actually cast ballots canceling out the votes of U.S. citizens.
Figures obtained uh by the radio station in in uh San Antonio show that 303 illegals successfully registered to vote, at least 41 cast ballots in various elections.
This is just one county.
Uh this is more than enough to impact an election or throw it.
And see that the thing is the Democrats know, and this is something you need to remain confident in.
The Democrats cannot win in the arena of ideas.
That's why they want the fairness doctrine to silence people like me.
That is why there's political correctness.
That's why there's censorship all over the place.
They can't win.
They don't even want to debate in the arena of ideas.
They have they don't know how, they've not been forced to defend their positions.
They suffer from a terminal rage.
Tom Sowell has a great piece about this.
I read it on Town Hall.com.
He says it's inexplicable, as I myself have said at previous occasions.
All you got to do is it mention tax cuts for the rich, and these people go ballistic.
They literally lose their minds.
Uh mention George W. Bush, they literally lose their minds.
And Bush is one of the nicest guys you could ever meet.
He's never done or said anything to them.
Uh they hated Ronald Reagan.
They just they have it, they have this this never-ending rage.
And so since they can't win in the arena of ideas, that's why they need as many new quote unquote citizens as they can get.
Because they know they're going to end up registering as Democrats.
The unions are going to make beelines for these people.
And I've I've we've joked here, but I've I've often thought that uh already illegals are out there registering to vote.
We know there's all kind of vote fraud going on.
And by the way, do you speaking of that U.S. attorney imbrolio, that whole controversy, you know what that was really all about?
You know what the White House was getting complaints from senators and others out across the fruited plain?
Because those many, not all, but many of those eight U.S. attorneys that were targeted for dismissal were not pursuing voter fraud cases.
They didn't want I don't know why.
They weren't interested in them.
They had big enough high profile.
Who knows why?
Uh but they weren't.
And you know, the the voter fraud is another one of these media templates that is an exclusive Republican problem.
The Democrats think every election is stolen from them when they lose it.
They can't the the Democrats lose elections?
Well, it doesn't compute.
They lost the House, doesn't compute.
Uh lost lost the uh Florida aftermath, they lost 15 recounts in four.
They lost it doesn't compute.
It has to be the election stole.
John Kerry, if they just had a 55,000 vote swing in Ohio, Kerry would be the president, he thinks, and he said.
There had to be voter machine fraud.
Uh so they they they the voter fraud that's actually occurring is more on that side.
It's everywhere, but they're probably more involved in it, fake uh registrations and that sort of thing, and this is only going to blow up and expand uh if if this immigration bill that the Senate has agreed to now, uh remains in its present form, signed by the President.
This is what I it's it inexplicable to me.
This is I do not understand the Republicans on this at all uh politically.
And and even in when you look at it beyond politically.
Okay, we look at this, okay, well, this is bad move.
Republicans are gonna take it in the shorts.
This is really, really a dumb.
But beyond the political aspect, and we try to look at things here not always through the political prism.
The worthlessness of the law, the empty promises that we've had on on uh securing the border.
Uh part of this bill is to relax some of those things too.
The fence, no, not gonna be nearly as big now.
Senator Kennedy, not crazy about it.
Uh so you you you look at just the real world aspects of this rather than just factoring the uh political ramifications.
And that's also a mystery.
That that that's that's there's none of none nothing about this makes any sense.
There's nothing and the people that try to s that try to sell it engage in some of the most unbelievable spin.
It makes you wonder why they do.
Do they not know how they sound?
Do they not know how this is not selling?
Do they do they know how up in arms people are when they people's they don't like to have their intelligence insulted?
Uh and some of the spin on this uh from the Republican side is exactly that.
And plus the final straw is when you throw in with the Democrats.
You gotta compromise, well, but Rush, they're the majority of the minority.
They they have to throw it.
Yeah, well, uh there are procedural steps you can take.
You have to give in like this.
Anyway, uh quick timeout here.
We'll be back and continue on the EIB network right after this.
And we're back, yellow rush ball from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
This is Lynn in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
It's great to have you with us.
Rush, it's an honor to speak to you, and I am apoplectic about this immigration bill.
I agree with you a thousand percent.
But do you realize, Rush, that former Ace prosecutor Rudy Giuliani couldn't even properly vet out Bernie Carrick for Homeland Security Advisor?
But we are expected to believe that twelve million illegal aliens from countries replete with corruption, which keep no verifiable legitimate remote.
I don't know about I think it was the president that couldn't couldn't vet Bernie Kerrick.
I mean, Rudy knew.
Well, that's true.
That's true.
With all with all the still actual overall point, I'm I I I agree with you.
What where is the belief that a br brand new bureaucracy and inefficient bureaucracy is going to be able to do something that it can't do anywhere else?
We have the Fort Dick Six.
We have the Fort Dick Six, they're here, they're plotting terrorism.
If it weren't for an informant, we wouldn't have the slightest idea.
Well, you can't put it that way.
But where are we going for these background checks?
I mean, presumably to the consulates of these countries and the uh you know officials in these countries who are corrupt from the word go.
We're gonna relax that.
We're gonna relax that.
You watch that they're gonna slough that off on the employer.
The employer's gonna do it, but it's gonna prove too onerous.
Yeah, it's gonna prove too much.
It's going to cost businesses money and look at it It's an amnesty program.
There's not one thing in this bill it's redeeming.
I agree.
It's it's an absurdity.
It's absolutely treasonous in so far as I'm concerned.
And um, I also thought that I heard, although I don't want to misquote them.
I thought I heard Tony Snow yesterday allude to the fact that they've committed felonies by virtue of obtaining fraudulent documents to the extent that they have here.
And I thought that that in itself was a bar to citizenship.
So I don't know how that hurdle is going to be overcome.
Uh well, that's uh don't get me going on any of this because I've you know we'll be talking here till the program ends and I won't have time for commercials.
Well, we're counting on you, Rush.
That's all I think.
But this this this the like the obtaining fraudulent documents is going to still happen.
It does now.
And there what what what enforcement measure is gonna stop it?
Uh the the there's gonna be no incentive to stop it is the point.
Once you're once your objective is to make it as easy as possible for these people to get legal, what's the incentive to stop it?
What what's the incentive to uh to man the border?
What's the incentive to uh uh shore up all of the holes in it?
I mean, you've taken the incentive away.
That's not the objective of this.
That's just in there to try to placate people.
Uh but people like you are too wise and smart, you're not gonna be bought.
You're not gonna be fooled by it.
It's the this the the objective here is to get these people as legal as soon as they can possibly get it done.
You're exactly right.
You're exactly right.
I don't know what there is for the rest of us to do, but that that's exactly the right conclusion.
Well, yeah, I I that's the that's the real troubling thing.
What to do?
Um if this were the Dubai Port deal, they listened to you on the do by port deal.
By the way, Halliburton's CEO moving to Dubai soon to set up operations, have that story in the stack.
I love those two words, Halliburton and Dubai.
Uh Remember the Dubai Ports deal?
You people were livid.
And on Capitol Hill, the Republicans and Democrats were in a race to see who could first get to the finish line to take credit for stopping it.
And there's been just as much outrage over this, uh, this whole immigration philosophy, but it's not being listened.
In this case, you don't know enough to really be uh ha have an informed opinion about this.
Uh, we we here in Washington know best what's going on in this deal, and you're just going to have to live with it.
And, you know, the this is the you wait till the Republicans.
I mean, it's going to show up in the primaries, and McCain is big on this.
He was involved in the first effort to get this done.
You what you what just watched the the primary see if this doesn't put up a huge roadblock uh for him.
The the the desire to go out and please this constituency of twelve, whatever it is, million illegals, and ignore the people who have voted for you and supported you.
Well, I can't explain this, folks.
I'm I don't ask me anywhere.
I I I cannot give you other than arrogance, the usual answers.
It doesn't make sense, which is why I can't explain it.
I'm not good talking about things that don't make sense.
Other than liberalism, because I got that down pet.
Reading, California, this is Kelly.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
I can't believe I'm talking to you.
My heart's beating through my cat.
You're one of my heroes along with my husband and my two children.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate your saying that.
Okay, I just want to get right to the point and tell you that you are such an icon that even the man on the left, the icon on the left wants to meet you.
And um I I who can blame him for wanting to meet you.
You're a man of integrity with great wisdom, courage, and strength, and he did what any one of us who are in awe of you would have done.
He uh he could have walked by the table.
I would have never seen him because I was not looking around at the restaurant.
I was because of my hearing, you know, my position my head a certain way to be able to hear who I'm talking to.
I would have never known he was there.
Absolutely.
Had he not a press table.
Yeah, it I'm sorry.
You act like a true patriot, a gentleman, and I just want to say thank you for making the rest of us in your party look good.
Well, that's very nice of you.
I appreciate that's a very mature take that you have on this.
Very mature position, I appreciate it.
By the way, folks, uh uh a lot of people are curious not about Clinton, but they want to know the woman I was with.
You know, who is she?
No, folks, not your business.
There's a way you might be able to find you can call Clinton's office and ask if he got her phone number last night while I was talking to Mayor of Los Angeles.
Just kidding.
Lighten up.
You know, I I got a note from a friend of mine.
He said, I don't understand these people in your audience that are mad at you.
It's Clinton's audience that ought to be mad at him for being nice to you.
They're the ones that go nuts when a Democrat is nice to a Republican and so forth.
Uh uh, I thought that was a pretty good point.
But there's also this, folks, there is he's the there's the office of the presidency, and he held it.
Uh and there is uh there is a there is a respect for that.
I remember when uh when they had the unveiling of the portraits of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and uh George Bush, President Bush, was the uh uh MC, if you will, he handled the unveiling, and he just beautiful speech about those two people.
I remember getting phone calls.
Did he say that?
He knows the truth.
How can he say because he's the president, he understands what a small, unique club of people have been in that office, and there's a reverence and a respect for it.
I think, in truth, I I think the primary reason that Bush doesn't go partisan.
I think the reason he doesn't very often uh descend into partisan politics.
He's done it a little lately, but for most of his two terms he hasn't gone there because I think he thinks it's beneath the office.
I think he's the presidency is something that's above all of that.
Let underlings and let other people handle that.
He's going to have a certain uh manner and exhibit a certain decorum as president because it is respect for it.
And I think that that uh portrait unveiling uh was classic illustration of it.
Uh the problem is that when in such a partisan circumstance we're in now is the the the all out political war that we're in, the president happens to be the leader of the movement, and if he doesn't go partisan, it makes very difficult for others in the party, like senators and congressmen uh to to go off that reservation, because then it it could raise questions about party unity being lost and so forth.
Like it was very much easier for for Newt Gingrich to unload on Bill Clinton as a speaker of the House because Clinton was not his leader.
It was uh it was uh a political leader of the party.
Clinton was a Democrat.
Uh and so it was easy to have elected conservative leadership in that circumstance, much more difficult when the president's in your party, and you also run the House uh to uh go off the reservation.
So it's been sort of stifled high rebel partisanship.
No need uh for you people to think about it.
Uh uh, we do that for you here, uh ladies and gentlemen.
Rush Limbaugh.
Uh Maha Rushi, all knowing, all seeing, all feeling, all a concern back to the phones.
We go to Jenna in Apple Valley, California.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
My name is actually Janice.
And um, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Did you say Janice?
Yes.
Okay, sorry, it says Jenna up there.
That's okay.
Mr. Snurley is one of the nicest people I've ever talked to, so that's okay.
We'll cut in some slack on that one.
You might.
Um my question to you is well, since most of the Mexican people that I know are hardworking people and they're mostly Catholic, so that would take the abortion issue right off the table.
Why are we to automatically assume that if they all become citizens, they're just automatically going to be Democrat registrations?
Why wouldn't some of them be siphoned off to Republicans?
I just don't see why it's an automatic thing.
Uh what is it in their culture, maybe you can explain to me that would make them automatically.
No, no, that's I'm not I'm not I'm not basing this on any cultural examination of Mexicans.
I look at the best answer in the world that's staring right in front of our faces is who is it that really wants this to happen?
It's the Democrats.
Well, why?
What is their possible interest in it?
The Republican interest is based on the desire for them to have cheap labor.
That that's where the re the the support and the pressure on Republican senators is coming from from uh uh a lot of the agriculture business people uh and and other uh big business people via the Chamber of Commerce.
The the second thing is experience, Simpson Mazzoli.
Uh with uh that was two point seven to three million illegals, and there's no evidence that being nice and granting them legal status and granting them amnesty made them appreciate Republicans who were in charge of that legislation.
Uh Republicans are counting on the appreciation of these people.
That has nothing to do with cultural, uh, and they're not all going to be Democrats.
Of course, every group of people is gonna have a a uh uh you know percentage, it's not gonna be universal Democrat, but the Democrats are more are gonna more actively pursue them with the via the unions and getting them registered vote and this sort of Republicans will be in that game too, because they both want this.
I mean, they're both looking at this as a new pool of voters.
Don't but I think I just think experience says the Democrats are gonna win this.
Oh, that's not good.
See, most of the people when we when you watch the news out here in California and they interview Hispanic people that are citizens, they aren't they aren't happy about all this either.
They are those are the I know, but those are the ones that have gone the legal route, and they resent all this.
And we've got people trying to get in the door legally who are watching this who aren't gonna like it either.
Uh not just from around the world, but from Mexico as well.
Um here's the dirty little secret.
When it comes to the southern border, you get in.
The they and they know it.
Get in and you're in.
And then and you're not gonna be deported, the odds are, and when you get in now, especially now with this uh this new immigration bill lurking out there, you talk about a new magnet.
Uh but you look at the rallies.
All these rallies for amnesty for making the illegals legal.
Who do you think put those together?
The unions, La Raza, Democrats put those, and they got bigger numbers on those rallies than they got for any of their anti-war rallies.
Well, I know from being an ex-union worker, because I'm retired now, that that they really push that.
They push that in the workplace, they push it on you everywhere.
Absolutely.
So I I know that they're looking to swell their ranks because they are becoming ineffective.
Um I was uh the unions.
Yeah, they are.
They're becoming ineffective.
Well, they're they're they're this is another reason the unions have turned around.
Some of them have and want this is because they're losing membership.
The percentage of the workforce that is unionized is I think down to nine percent.
In the eighties it was twelve to fifteen, and it's the highest it was was thirty-five percent back in the glory days.
Uh and and most of the union work now, believe it or not, is in Gubman.
Most of it is it's the government unions and this sort of thing.
So there's a there's a pool of new union workers out there, and by the way, the uh if the union get hold of these people and get them into union jobs, get them organized, you're not gonna get any of this cheap labor stuff anymore, because the union's not going to settle for that because they're gonna use just like they they use the minimum wage.
The reason they want an increase in the minimum wage because that raises the ceiling on which uh other workers get paid.
So union boss will go in to negotiate with the business that he's working with.
Well, you uh we just we just raised unskilled labor to whatever it is seven, eight bucks an hour loss seven or for unskilled, and you're telling me my professional skilled workers only worth fifteen bucks an hour.
Not in this next contract, Mr. Businessman.
Well, you bring in the illegals who are working now for whatever it is, two to three, four or five bucks an hour.
You all get them up to eight or ten or whatever and guess what?
The unions get to get their floor raised again.
So uh there's all kinds of things in this that that point to Democrat activism, not the least of which is the engine behind this uh in the United States Senate.
Austin, Texas, this is Al.
You're next on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, mega Hispanic Ditto.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, listen, uh, you know, I I was listening to the lady just now, and and she was basically commenting, you know, well, what makes you think that Hispanics are gonna vote for all Democrats and everything?
And uh Rush, I grew up in South Texas where it's predominantly Hispanic.
The the the Democratic Party has such a stronghold uh in South Texas, it's unbelievable.
They've they've created so many welfare programs, they've kept people on the where f welfare rolls to to you know just keep them voting for Democrats.
And so, I mean, I know these people, I mean, because I grew up with them, and there's yes, there's a lot of very good people, hardworking people.
I know a lot of them.
And I grew up with a lot of people knowing that they were not fully legal here in the U.S. And yes, there's a lot of very good people, but what my what I don't understand is why can't they just come here legally?
I don't understand.
Because it's easier to get here illegally.
Yeah, they can get in here illegally, and they can earn more even at what they get paid here than they can in Mexico.
Uh but that's that's a look at I'm looking at a picture on the Fox News channel right now.
It's Senator Kennedy, and they're all excited up there in the Senate.
They're celebrating this deal that they've made.
Now the Senate's come to an agreement on granting uh legal status as quickly as possible to 12 million tens.
Standing right over his right shoulder, right behind his right shoulder, is Senator McCain.
Uh this picture gets out.
Republican primary voters see this.
And Senator McCain is going to have what I predicted mere moments ago on this very program, a problem.
Because this is this is not something.
Here's Ted Kennedy out now.
He taking the credit.
This is great.
He's the guy that's happy on this.
Uh and any Republican that's in that same picture, going to have problems.
Uh uh who doesn't look good?
Joe, he doesn't.
He's not happy.
He's uh but he's there.
He doesn't have to be there.
He he could be in he could be he could be in the group, but not in the camera range.
I know where the camera is and where it isn't.
Uh but uh Ken Salazar standing behind Senator Kennedy's left shoulder.
McCain looks like he's frowning now, looking off to the look he had a question in his mind.
Like, what did I just hear?
I don't know.
Or somebody could have said something to him.
It's tough to judge this.
I say can't hear, I'm not listening to what's being said.
Here's Dave in Leesburg, Ohio.
It's nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Megadiddos from Buckeye Country Rush.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I got uh just uh a couple of quick observations to make.
I I personally am very happy uh and pleased that you were uh respectful and courteous to the pr uh President Clinton.
I don't think very much of him, but uh you can be sure it would not have played out very well had you handled the situation in a differently, especially in light of uh how you know the mainstream media likes to go after you.
That's number one.
Number two, on the right, we've been asking for a very long time to a return of some kind of civil discourse and for respect for the office.
And you served uh uh you served both of those purposes very well.
Absolutely right.
I exhibited the leadership this country needed last night.
Well, people are that the Democrats are out there saying the Republicans are destroying respect for the office.
Really?
Uh uh uh uh the Democrats said that about us in Clinton.
His is the first term.
The well Limbaugh and a republic's critics are destroying respect for the office.
What's happening now?
But there I was last night with a former president, admittedly a political adversary, uh, and admittedly a political opponent, but in those circumstances, it was not about it then, it was about what it was.
And uh I'm glad that you that's a great point that you're making.
Civility was on parade last night on both sides, proving that it can happen.
And thank you again.
You bet.
I'm I'm glad to that you call.
Ruth Ann in Bloomington, Indiana, you're next on the EIB network.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Rice.
Hey.
Yes.
It's nice to talk with you.
And I thought it was absolutely hilarious that this uh restaurant uh meeting with the president, ex-president, was just fine.
And uh you did predict what the media would say, or whoever encountered you.
I think that was that was funny, and that was very uh intuitive of you to know that.
I mean, you've been in the public eye for a while, you know what's going on.
And uh I have one other comment.
Uh our young people, you know, we're we live in a liberal town.
And of course, IU, Indiana University is here.
And uh we have a lot of students that uh I don't know how active they are on the campus with uh the Republican Party, but it would be well for all of our young people to take a better interest in our political process and know exactly what the bill of rights are, as you have explained.
I think too many people are just ignorant of what we have.
Well how fortunate you're gonna be able to do that.
That that you you uh are absolutely right about that.
That's that's largely not a problem of the people, these uh the students.
It's uh it's a problem of the the curricula uh in modern public education.
And even when you get to the uh the academy, academia and the institution of higher learning, the agendas that are that are part of the curriculum uh are are uh uh not oriented toward the history of this country, not oriented toward our greatness.
Uh uh yeah, parents are on the hook for this too.
Uh parents need to make sure what their kids are learning.
I I actually think that the the conservative kids, the uh young conservative students out there are learning these things independently if they're uh because they're showing up.
Look at how many rush babies there are that are now getting into college.
You have a foundation, and they are able to tell when they're facing an agenda uh oriented professor.
We hear from them all the time.
Uh I I think the kids on the left, they're happy to be indoctrinated.
They're happy to have what they've uh been taught at home uh confirmed, uh and and so forth.
It makes them you know less uncomfortable.
Uh but I'm I'm optimistic that the the there's a a renaissance that's gonna happen uh in education.
The places that I'm pessimistic are in the the current population seems to me so gullible, so ignorant, so susceptible to uh propaganda and the drive-by media, the propaganda of Al Gore's movie uh uh and so forth.
And that's a whole nother ball game, and it's it's uh partly it's education, partly it's emotions and feelings and a number of other things.
But we keep plugging away, and I still say that things are different and better in this country than they were in 1988 when we started.
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800 282-2882, if you want to be on the program, emailers, you are still skating on the question you were asked yesterday from the woman in Flint about why Exxon can't lower its profits a little bit to be fair.
I'm not skating it.
I thought I explained it.
And I thought frankly that most everybody wouldn't need that stupid question explained.
But I will be glad to endeavor into it.
Uh or to answer it.
But first thing you've got to do, you've got to throw out this concept of fairness.
There is no word fair in market economics, at least as a guiding principle.
Businesses don't go into business to be fair.
Everybody knows businesses go into business to screw other people.
Is that what you think?
Burger King wants to kill its customers, folks.
It's serving trans fat.
They're being sued.
They want their customers to die.
Big tobacco wants their customers to die.
Every corporate Walmart, they they they hope that something happens to you that you die too.
That's what we're being told.
It's absolutely absurd.
Now, as this concept, why can't they lower their profits?
For the first place, if they gave away, if they have if you take Exxon's profit, 39.5 billion dollars, most reported profit, divide it up equally among every man, woman, child, and illegal immigrant in this country.
It would be enough for maybe every man, woman, and child, an illegal immigrant, to go out and buy three or four gallons of gasoline.
That's and you could do it one time because after you take their whole profit, X sounds gonna say, why should I stay in business in this country?
Uh ain't gonna happen.
It's it's not it's not that much money.
The big profit is being made by taxing agencies, the states and the feds.
But here is another way to look at this.
If the if the managers of, say, Exxon Mobil, uh, and they work for the owners, and do you know who owns Exxon Mobil?
Shareholders.
It's a publicly traded company.
So if the managers, the CEO and all of that, if they start charging too little for their product, they would lower profits, and guess what?
The company's owners would toss them out.
The shareholders would not be happy, nor would the board of directors.
It's the same answer if the company charges too much.
They'd have unsold inventories, and the firm would underperform profits would be lower than than would be possible.
And the the the short answer to this is that big oil, which is a citizen of the world, big oil, 30% of its profits uh uh derive from operations in the United States, 70% around the world, they're constrained by market forces.
They have to charge the market rate.
If they don't, uh uh one way or another, it's not gonna work out.
A lot a lot of people uh see that competition exists in the in the uh retail market, and they see that Exxon would have trouble charging ten cents a gallon more than mobile.
But what what people fail to see is that competition in the capital markets also constrains managers to maximize profits.
Uh the capital markets, the commodities markets, any numbers.
There's so many factors that go into the costs of doing business, and then the setting the price based on what the market will pay and hopefully making a profit here.
But you people have been led to believe by a a drive-by media to Democrats that big oil alone, maybe big drug too, is able to magically set its price for every product to guarantee itself not only a huge profit, but that you get screwed.
And that they are not part of the market, that they somehow are independent of market forces.
They've got so many market forces preying on these.
If I were big oil CEO, I would call members of the government up, and I would conduct hearings and I would ask them why is it you are making it so hard for us to do business?
You won't let us drill, you will not let us build any new refineries, you will not let us do one thing to expand our operations in your country, and you turn around you're blaming us for gouging customers.
Uh market forces totally constrain big oil just like any other business.
But you're gonna have to shelve this belief that there's you know, some wizard behind a curtain that can do whatever he wants price wise, independent of the market.
It does not exist.
Well, this show is zipping by, they all do, but this one just we're already in the end of the second hour, the third hour, right around the corner.
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