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Aug. 8, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 8, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #3
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We got breaking global warming news, ladies and gentlemen, breaking global warming news.
Still no hurricanes out there.
By the way, you know why they revised these hurricane forecasts down?
It's real simple.
Anybody could do it.
Hurricane season starts June 1, goes through November 30th.
They make the forecast for that six-month period.
You go through a month without a hurricane, you got to reduce the number.
Just the law of averages.
Another month without a hurricane, got to reduce the number.
So we get through two months here without a hurricane.
And that doesn't matter because the hurricanes now are irrelevant.
Global warming is going to cause more volcanoes.
Global warming is going to cause more earthquakes, which, by the way, we just had at a seven and a half magnitude over in Jakarta in Indonesia.
All that coming up.
We will need ball of fire out there, Mike, for the global warming update today.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
It's Rush Lindbaugh, final hour of our excursion into broadcast excellence today now officially underway.
Look, one more thing.
If you talk about the Democrat debate and questions that I answered, as every candidate should, by the way, feel free.
I just want to say one more thing about if you are on hold and you want to talk about it on the phone, we get to you, feel free.
But there are companies out there, folks, made promises that they couldn't keep.
It happens all the time.
And these companies go under.
I'm not even going to get into why, there are economic reasons why, but it happens.
They make promises they couldn't keep.
They go under.
It was a private bargain between the company and the union.
LTV Steel, doesn't matter what it is, a private bargain between the company and the union.
I wasn't at the table when these negotiations took place, and neither were most taxpayers.
And yet, when the company goes under, the idea that the rest of us have to meet all the deals they made by having the federal government assume the pension plans, that's nuts.
We weren't at the negotiating table.
We didn't have a position on this.
We weren't allowed to say, well, no, no, if you go under, we don't want any.
We're not going to assume your liabilities.
Where does this stuff end?
Where does it end?
Mrs. Clinton wants us to protect people who get mortgages they can't later pay off.
We're supposed to pay for that, too.
We're talking hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars here.
We're all going to go broke before this all said and done.
Let the Democrats have their way.
And that is exactly what they want.
I have a headline here.
I can't believe this.
I'm astonished.
Cuba may skip boxing tournament due to defections.
Castro.
Cuba considering pulling out of the amateur world boxing championships in Chicago in October to avoid new defections by its boxers.
Cuban leader Fidel Castro said today, imagine all the sharks of the mafia wanting fresh meat, Castro wrote in a column in the Communist Party newspaper Grandma.
Why would anybody want to leave this island paradise?
Free health care, you know, free rice cookers for a lot of people.
Not only is it free health care, it's the best medical care in the world.
We have liberal activists telling us, why would anybody want to leave Cuba?
What a companion story.
4,000 people a week are trying to leave the UK.
Britain is facing a mass exodus of people looking to escape the crime and grime of modern living.
The country's biggest foreign visa consultancy firm has revealed applications have soared in the last seven months by 80% to almost 4,000 a week.
10 years ago, the figure was just 300 a week.
Most people relocating within the Commonwealth, Australia, Canada, South Africa.
They're almost all young professionals and skilled workers ages 20 to 40.
Many cite their reason for wanting to quit as immigration To their shores and the burden it is placing on their communities and local authorities, the dearth of good schools, spiraling house prices, rising crime and tax increases, driving people away.
Yeah, doesn't surprise me, ladies and gentlemen.
People flee modern liberalism wherever it ends up becoming dominant.
They're fleeing Cuba.
They have been for a long time trying to.
Now it's $4,000 a week trying to get out of the UK.
All right, now to the bridge collapse.
This collapse, this is, you're going to hear me read this or excerpts of it, and you're going to be dumbstruck.
Again, Ken Shepard at newsbusters.com is where I found this.
Chicago Tribune's E.A. Torrero breathed new life into the Bush caused the collapse of the bridge by adding a new twist.
The bridge collapse suggests the columnist is insult added to injury for mostly Muslim Somali immigrants already angered by America's foreign policy.
He portrayed the collapse as insult added to injury for Somali immigrants, weaving in suggestions that America under President Bush is becoming akin to a third world country, unable or unwilling to build and maintain safe infrastructure.
He suggested the Minnesota bridge collapse just another way which America under President Bush has victimized Muslims.
The collapse, too, adds to uneasy feelings among Somalis who say they felt a federal backlash since 9/11, not only because of their Muslim faith, but also because Somalia has been accused of harboring terrorists associated with bin Laden.
The bridge collapse has added jitters for Somalis who in recent years regrouped and rallied around one another.
This all adds up to be very painful, said Omar Jamal, the Somali who directs the Somali Justice Advocacy Center that fights for Somali rights.
Kid you not a grim irony for many of the 20,000-plus Somali refugees who came to Minneapolis seeking peace and safety.
At least two of their own are lost in the collapse of the 35 West Bridge.
They are among about eight Minnesotans officially listed as missing almost a week after the disaster that killed at least five and injured scores.
To the Somalis who live near the bridge, the picture remains unfathomable.
After all, they said bridges collapse in underdeveloped African nations, not in metropolitan Minneapolis.
The collapse was something Somalis never expected to witness in America.
And it has some wondering if the American government has misplaced its priorities by ignoring a decaying national infrastructure in favor of its costly foreign policy.
Chicago Tribune, worried about the Reverend Dax in the Chicago Sun-Times.
Headline: A lot more than one bridge could crumble under the GOP.
What happened at both ends of the Mississippi, he writes, and is happening in cities across the country are tragedies, but they aren't random accidents.
They are the direct price of the right wing in power.
Scornful of government, intent on cutting taxes and slashing spending, they systematically have shorted public investment in our base infrastructure in bridges and roads, rail lines, air systems.
All this is just nothing but lies.
All these other disasters.
As citizens from New Orleans to Manhattan and Minneapolis have discovered, we are all more vulnerable as a result of the right wing being in power.
Companion story from the Associated Press: Bridge collapse could tip scales in favor of higher gas taxes.
The Minneapolis Bridge disaster that suddenly is the symbol of the nation's crumbling infrastructure.
We do not have a crumbling infrastructure.
It's not a symbol of anything.
You idiots in the media are making it, trying to make it a symbol of crumbling infrastructure.
We don't even know why it happened yet.
Anyway, it goes on to talk about how this is going to tip the scales in favor of billions of dollars in higher gasoline taxes for repairs coast to coast.
This is written by a drive-by reporter by the name of Jim Abrams.
Mr. Abrams, we have been paying gas taxes for decades.
There was supposed to be a transportation trust fund, tens of billions of dollars for infrastructure.
What happened to it?
Where is that money?
They probably just wasted a bunch of it on pork barrel projects, if you'll remember.
In fact, I went and looked up here.
What's the Highway Trust Fund?
Well, I got it right here.
There's a little website you can go to explains what the Highway Trust Fund is.
Created by the Highway Revenue Act of 1956, primarily to ensure a dependable source of financing for the national system of interstate and defense highways.
It also was the source of funding for the remainder of the federal aid highway program prior to the creation of the HTF Highway Trust Fund.
Federal financial assistance to support highway programs came from the general fund of the Treasury.
While federal motor fuel and motor vehicle taxes did exist before the creation of Highway Trust Fund, the receipts were directed to the general fund, and there was no relationship between receipts from these taxes and federal funding for highways.
But there was.
There is now because of the Highway Trust Fund.
The Highway Revenue Act authorized that revenues from certain highway user taxes could be credited to the HTF to finance a greatly expanded highway program enacted in 1956.
How is the HTF funded?
Well, tax revenues are derived from excise taxes on highway motor fuel, truck-related taxes, truck tires, sales of trucks and trailers, and heavy vehicle use.
The mass transit account receives a portion of the motor fuel taxes, usually 2.86 cents per gallon, as does the leaking underground storage tank trust fund.
The leaking underground storage tank trust fund.
The general fund receives 2.5 cents per gallon of the tax on gasohol and some other alcohol fuels, plus an additional six-tenths of a cent per gallon for fuels that are at least 10% ethanol.
The highway account receives the remaining portion of fuel tax proceeds.
Then he goes on to talk about how the taxes are collected.
They got more trust funds to fix infrastructure and so forth than anybody knew existed.
And yet, where's the money?
Is it like the Social Security Trust Fund?
It isn't there.
That's why we remember the previous campaigns, we needed a lockbox.
We needed a lockbox.
The Social Security Trust Fund is an accounting gimmick.
But despite all that, I think Minnesota got $12 million in federal funding.
$10 million of it is going to a light rail system, right?
They're building a light rail system.
It's going to be late rail.
Do not ever fall for this silly notion that we don't have enough money, that we're not paying enough taxes, that we need to raise folks.
These imbeciles in the drive-by media are doing more damage with their own closed-minded ignorance than they could possibly imagine.
I know.
Yep, $2 million for that light rail system is being spent to avoid walking pads, by the way.
Minnesotans like to walk out there in this excruciating heat that caused the bridge to collapse, and of course in the freezing cold that will be blamed for causing the bridge to collapse, all because of global warming.
So we've got $2 million to reroute the light rail system around walking paths.
We don't have enough money.
Be back in just a second.
Stay with us.
I appreciate your patience in waiting out there on the phones.
So without any further ado, the Rush Lindbaugh program, we go to Daytona, Florida.
This is Sean.
Welcome to the program.
Actually, you had it right the first time.
It was Delton.
Delta, I never heard of it.
I thought Snarly had a typo in there.
No, no, everybody gets confused with Daytona.
It's just north of Orlando.
Oh.
Mega Rush Baby Ditto.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I wanted to get your view on something I haven't heard anything from the Church on Global Warming from.
Did you realize last night that each of those lives up there on the stage, including Keith Oberman, had a personal air conditioner, I guess, hidden in their podium or something?
No, I have not heard.
An air conditioner or a fan.
He said personal air conditioner, and he even threatened to turn it off or turn it on heat if they ignored the signal lights.
I thought he was joking at first, but then later in the debate review or whatever they called it, he confirmed it again.
He said that they each had a personal air conditioner up there on stage because it was 90 degrees.
Well, so what?
Did the union members in the audience, did they have air conditioners?
No, the sobbing union members.
Isn't that typical?
Isn't that typical?
Here are these elite candidates going to go out.
Oh, yeah, let's schedule a debate outside in Chicago in August.
We'll show them how tough we are, and they get personal air conditioners up there.
Yeah, the sobbing union members had to suffer out there in the 90-degree heat, but they had their own air conditioners.
Yeah, not only suffering in the 90-degree heat, they don't have any health care.
Their pensions are gone.
I mean, jobs are being laid off.
Union membership is plummeting.
And then they have to listen to these guys when they wax eloquent with all of these clichéd answers with personal air conditioners.
Not to mention the impact on global warming, as you mentioned.
Yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong.
I don't blame them.
If I could afford it, I'd carry around with myself, you know, living here in Florida.
Yeah.
But, you know, if it was the Republicans up there, you'd hear nothing but that.
Absolutely.
That's all we'd be hearing about today.
Along with the fact that they're wimps, couldn't handle the heat and this sort of thing.
Well, I appreciate knowing that.
That's one thing.
I didn't watch it last night.
I intended to.
I actually felt a little guilty late in the night when I realized I'd missed it.
Well, because I felt guilty because I think members of my audience don't want to watch it either, frankly, and depend on me to do that.
Part of show prep.
Well, yeah, if you've seen one, you've seen it all, but we didn't know about the personal air conditioners.
You know how rare it is for a caller to tell me something I don't know?
Proving it can be done.
But nevertheless, at any rate, I hadn't heard that, and the people who told me a little bit about it did not mention that to me.
So that was news.
Fort Collins, Colorado.
This is Dave.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Real pleasure to talk to you, and thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
We talked about several of these issues during the course of the program today.
The big issue I have is our national debt is about to hit $9 trillion.
And several years ago, you told us to stop worrying about it.
I think $9 trillion is big enough that we should start worrying about it again.
It should be a big issue in the presidential campaign.
By the way, one of the reasons it's so big is that about $2 trillion of that total is money that is owed to the Highway Construction Trust Fund, the Medicare Trust Fund, and the Social Security Trust Fund.
That's where that money went.
The money to build highways and fix bridges, that was declared surplus.
Bill Clinton declared it surplus.
He borrowed his budget surplus out of the trust fund.
Most people don't realize that.
You need to tell people to be concerned about our $9 trillion national debt.
Well, were you by any chance listening to yesterday's program?
I'm sorry I missed that, but no, I didn't hear the program itself.
Well, it's fascinating because this subject came up yesterday in an unrelated way.
I forget specifically how, but I'll tell you what I said yesterday.
Oh, it came with a guy wanted to know what I thought the future of the country was with the housing market in a slump right now and these mortgages that are unfunded going south and so forth.
And I said, well, you know, I've been alive 56 years, and of those 56 years, I've probably been paying attention to things for 40.
When I turned 16, it was when I really started all this stuff started clicking, and I paid real close attention to it.
And I've heard all my life of these calamities that are going to destroy us.
For 40 years of my life, I've heard about the national debt, and we've got to fix it.
It's a big problem that we're going to go under.
I've heard about deficits, budget, you know, annual budget deficits, how they're going to wipe us out and kill us.
It's horrible.
It's rotten.
It's terrible.
We've been through Jimmy Carter's presidency, which was a disaster with inflation at double digits and unemployment at double digits.
We've been through gas lines.
We've been through skyrocketing gasoline prices in the 70s.
We've been through a period of time we're told to keep a thermostat at 68 in the wintertime and turn it off in the summertime.
We've been through layoffs, downsizes.
We've had all kinds of economic calamities, and yet the country today is in better shape than it's been ever.
Every day in America is better than the day before.
So I've heard all these horror stories about the national debt, and I've heard all these horror stories about the deficit and so forth.
And it just, I mean, the national debt, if it's bad, it's bad.
I don't remember what it was 30 years ago, but as a percentage, I bet you was pretty high then, too.
Well, when you said it wasn't a problem 10 years ago, it was about $5.5 trillion.
Now it's up to $9 trillion.
The point is, if it wasn't a problem, we're here.
You know, we're here.
Do the arithmetic please, Rush.
The baby boomers are pouring money into the government.
When they retire in a few years, they will need to suck all this money back out.
It's not right.
They've got to take a break here, but they're not going to retire because they're not going to be able to afford to, and they're not going to want to, because there's still 25 in their heads.
I know.
You know it, and I know it.
Everybody knows it.
We are here executing assigned host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
This light rail situation in Minneapolis.
I've been through this.
When I lived in Sacramento, they built a light rail program.
Why do you think liberals are so obsessed with mass public transit?
No, it's not because they hate cars.
It's not because they hate that.
I mean, they may hate cars, but that's not it.
They want to take us out of our cars so they can control where we go and when and where we live.
They complained about suburban development because it can't get mass transit out there.
They can't believe it.
Want you to have to take this rat trap mass transit that you don't want to take.
It's just more liberal control.
You don't know how to live.
You don't know where to live.
You don't know how to drive.
You don't know how not to pollute.
You don't know anything.
And that's all.
It's mass transit.
It doesn't work.
A few large cities like Manhattan, there's no alternative.
But in most large cities, it doesn't work.
Most cities, period.
It's a waste of money.
But besides all that, we are Americans.
We are pioneers.
We conquer frontiers.
We are hardwired to avoid mass transit at all costs.
If the American people love mass transit, we need to have a train in the backyard.
We couldn't wait to go out and have our own light rail car.
So put the family in and go, but that's not who we are.
And it's not going to change.
You know, it's waiting.
I've got a story of what they're trying to do in Los Angeles here with urban renewal.
It's stunning what they're trying to do, what they're going to force people to build out there.
And mass transit is no different.
Now, the Minnesota light rail situation in the 90s, the state of Minnesota diverted over $1 billion of state and federal infrastructure dollars into a boondoggle light rail project between downtown Minneapolis and the airport.
And this was brought about by the eco-freaks.
Too much pollution, too many cars, and it'll be efficient.
We'll take everybody out there in light rail and so on.
It was called the Hiawatha Light Rail Corridor.
They named it after a Native American, a Hiawatha, yeah, in a Viking state.
They named it after a Native American, a Hiawatha Light Rail Corridor.
Do you realize the, now get this, maybe Minnesota politicians should have been tending to their existing infrastructure instead of wasting money on this stupid project that nobody wanted.
I mean, when I say nobody, the citizens.
I mean, you're going to have your Birkenstock crowd that's going to get on there and go because they think they're doing good things.
They want to feel like they're good people and so forth.
You have some right.
Well, we got a light rail system down here.
I swear pull up to the train tracks, ding, here comes a little red and white little thing to prevent you from going forward.
And the three-car light rail goes ugliest painted things.
They look like they got about a junk heap.
They're trying to paint them like blue sky and clouds.
And I swear you look at this thing and what a piece of trash.
Who would get on this?
And you look and nobody's on it.
Nobody's ever on it.
Maybe two people now.
This never ever falls.
Anyway, using the currently stated cost for rebuilding the 35 West Bridge, $250 million for the cost of the light rail project, the Hiawatha Light Rail Project, this bridge could have been completely rebuilt from scratch five or six times during the 90s with the money they spent on the light rail project.
Now, politicians get no credit for repairing things because you don't cut a blue ribbon.
And there's nothing new.
And there's no votes.
But come up with a new boondoggle project, you know, open a new sewage treatment center, a new old folks home, get grandma out of the basement, or some other project where you cut a blue ribbon and so forth, and the public swoons.
Oh, look, look at our Congress.
Hawaii really cares about us.
Get these new projects.
Bam-o-you got an infrastructure problem on a bridge.
Knew it was there, didn't fix it because there's no glory in that.
And there aren't any votes in that.
We have to do this light rail project because people don't know how to get to the airport.
They're doing it the wrong way, and we liberals.
The only ones who know how to get into the airport.
By the way, the Hiawatha Light Rail Project was largely the brainchild of the Metropolitan Council.
Either as the head of the council or one of its most politically connected members at the time was the son of former Vice President Walter F. Mondal, Ted Mondo.
Da-da-da-da-da-da.
Dingo.
Luke in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Nice to have you with us on the EIB network.
Hi.
Ditto's Rush.
Yeah, I'm down here sweltering 102 degrees.
That must be a global warming.
But the reason I called was to apologize.
It's called summertime.
Yeah, I know.
And you're in South Carolina.
That's right.
People up north don't understand that.
They move down here and they complain.
By the way, the paper mill's going today because I imagine the smell's pretty pungent.
No, I didn't smell anything.
The air is pretty good down here.
They're good.
That's good.
The reason I called was to apologize to you.
I've been a union member for like 40 years, and I've been listening to you since 1990.
And I always would throw things at the radio when you start bashing the unions because, you know, even though I'm a Reagan conservative, I've always been a union member, so I kind of supported my union.
And I worked for the airlines for 38 years, retired as a captain about three years ago.
And basically, my union and the company conspired to steal my pension together.
And all those years of devotion, they just threw us out the door.
Was this Eastern?
United.
United.
Yeah.
When did this happen to you?
Well, I retired in 2004, and they terminated the pensions.
Actually, made them retroactive to 2003, so we get even less money.
I thought, wait a second, I thought United offed those pensions to the feds, i.e., us.
Well, yeah, but you get an 80% reduction.
It was like you get about the same thing you get in Social Security.
So you can't really live on it.
It's about $2,000 a month.
Okay, so you were mad at me during all this time for bashing.
Yeah, I was throwing things at the radio, and everybody says, How can you support that rush guy?
He's always bashing the unions.
I mean, Chris, I was a conservative, but I supported my union.
But now I look back, and you were right, Rush.
What caused the light to go on?
Well, this whole thing, when they conspired with the company, they didn't even try and negotiate to save the pensions.
They just rolled over and took $550 million in bonds for the guys who were flying and told the retirees, see you later, Alligator.
So how do you feel now when you see United posting a profit for the first time in a long time?
Well, it irritates me because I know I knew they were going to be making a profit.
Yeah, see, how did they do it?
They had to get rid of these obligations.
No, no, it's not quite that easy.
But yeah, I understand what you're saying.
The obligations they've had, they were deferred income.
We took less pay raises.
Some years we took no raises so we could have a pen.
Well, I know what you guys did.
I know you're giving up everything.
Yeah.
But the question I was going to bring up was that basically what you've been saying is right all along.
You can't depend on the union to take care of you in the long run because they won't.
They're basically greedy people.
They're the same people that sit in boardrooms.
They just wear a different tie.
That's all.
And I think I want to apologize to you because I've been badmouthing you to all my friends just the part about unions.
Everything else I love about you.
But now I love you about everything.
You're right all along.
I appreciate it.
So what kind of aircraft did you, Captain?
I finished up on the Triple Seven flying to Europe and China.
Wow.
And I loved it.
Never been on a Triple Seven.
Yeah, you ought to do it.
It's really cool.
In fact, I tried to.
I sent you an email tried to get a job to be your pilot, but I think your screener probably burned it before you got it.
After a lot of time.
No, no, no.
I was the guy that put you in the rush room in the air.
Remember that story?
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Oh, all right.
Yeah, I do.
I do remember that.
Well, what are you doing now?
Well, right now I'm just, you know, basically sucking my 401k down, trying to stay alive.
You don't want to hire me.
What do you want to do?
Do you want to keep flying?
I want to keep flying.
That's why I sent you an email saying I need a job, Rush, back about three years ago.
Well, even a co-pilot job, I'd be degrading myself to be your co-pilot.
I don't care.
But he said, my wife says, that'd be your dream job, wouldn't it?
I said, yeah, I smoke lots of cigars, and I like to fly airplanes, and I'm like, we smoke cigars on the airplane in the air.
I know.
They wouldn't let us do that.
Absolutely, absolutely.
In the airlines.
What have you been doing the last three years?
Toward getting, other than sending me the email, I hear that.
Well, I've been trying to apply for jobs overseas, but they don't, you know, up until the age 65 thing, they wouldn't take anybody over 60.
Now they're saying, well, since you haven't flown in two years, we don't want you unless you're current.
So basically, I'm going to catch 22.
Well, you're saying you're 60?
I'm 62 right now.
62.
But I look like, well, hopefully, everybody tells me I look like I'm 50.
Okay, but you love aviation, right?
Oh, I love it just like you do.
I love the sound.
When I was a kid, they won't let me play ball because I would stop what I was doing and the ball would go over my head while I watched an airplane fly over.
Yeah, I still do.
I still do that.
Absolutely.
Trying to figure out where they're all coming from.
Yeah, I just want two things in life.
I want to get a job as a pilot, and I want them to open up trade with Cuba so I can have some Cuban cigars.
Well, I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon.
I don't think either one's going to happen, actually.
Well, you've got to.
No, no, no.
You can't give up faith or confidence in the former, but if it's not there as a pilot, what else in aviation would you like to do?
Well, I guess I could manage an aviation department, like the pilots.
I could do that as a chief pilot manager type thing.
Or I had 30 years in law enforcement experience as a deputy sheriff.
I could go and start a private detective agency, but that's kind of a fleazy, crummy job, really.
And dangerous, too.
Well, I don't know.
There's all kinds of jobs in aviation.
You can run an airport.
You could.
Yeah, yeah.
When I sent you the email, I said, well, I said I'd be your pilot/slash bodyguard since I had 30 years of law enforcement experience.
And I knew karate.
But you never got the letters.
No, I didn't.
Well, I don't know that I didn't, but I think I get 10,000 letters a day.
I do.
I got 10,000 in a 24-hour period of 10,000 to 11,000.
Yeah.
Not counting the spam, which I try to fill out.
It's just not possible to read them all.
I'm going to try and scrape up some money to go to Shanklin's cigar aficionado thing one of these days, and I'm going to meet you face-to-face.
Oh, that's a great time.
I keep praying the market goes up, so my 401k keeps growing so I can afford to do that.
The Monte Crystal Cup is a golf tournament for charity that is played usually in Puerto Rico, but it's going to be somewhere else in Freeport this December.
On the Bahamas?
Yep.
Oh, that'll be nice.
Yep.
It's windy there, though.
You've got to play the ball with the wind.
Windy in Puerto Rico.
It's windy here.
You wouldn't want to play golf, me, Rush.
I half grass, basically, is what I do.
You chop grass, you know.
I have.
Oh, you hit the ball.
Oprah.
Yes.
I fly a lot better and I play golf, that's for sure.
Well, a pleasure talking to you.
Thank you.
Don't give up the dream of staying in aviation.
Whatever you do.
If you love it that much, it's worth pursuing.
Stay close to it.
You never know what will result once you get back into it.
Thanks much for the.
No, no, no, asking me, what do you mean?
Hit the ball Oprah.
Fat.
Behind the ball, you chunk it is what he's talking about.
He was doing.
Whoever we hit the ball fat was, ah, damn it, I hit it Oprah.
And if you slice it right, say, damn it, I got the pet Buchanans today.
You know, our United Airlines pilot, the guy that flew the 777, Luke.
He actually made a good point that kind of slithered through there unnoticed.
When he said that, you know, that Rush, you were finally right.
There's no difference between a guy's in the boardroom and the union guys.
They just wear different ties.
And what he meant was: okay, let's go back to the guy from the montage we started a program with at LTV Steel, who worked with him a long time and then retired and he lost most of his pension and his health care.
Where's his union?
Where's his union helping him out?
How come it's the evil corporation?
And then how come it's us that have to move in and save the day?
Where is this all-knowing, all-caring, loving union?
Where are they?
When this kind of thing happens to people, hi-by.
See ya.
We got from you what we wanted.
We got your donations.
We funded Democrats to be reelected.
We sit at their table of power.
Good luck getting your health care.
Where's the union?
By the way, another way of looking at all this.
We had another guy in that montage, Maytag, shut down, move down to Mexico.
Well, I mean, that's that, in one sense, isn't that good?
Maytag's a big, big generator, producer greenhouse gases.
Isn't it good that they shut down here and start polluting Mexico?
Same thing with the auto industry.
Isn't this what the perfect environmentalist wacko world would look like?
No corporations.
Isn't it what?
You listen to some of these kook fringe liberals out there talk about no corporations.
Why don't they?
Why is it a good thing when they all shut down?
Shouldn't we be praising these companies that go out of business and thereby eliminate greenhouse gases and stop polluting the planet and save it?
This is a public service, right?
When a big corporation goes down, goes bankrupt.
Remember, businesses are bad.
So when they go under, that's good, right?
We want them to suffer.
We want those corporate execs to suffer.
No more pollution, no more profiteering, no more abusing employees, no more outsourcing.
They're gone.
Good, right?
But if liberals were consistent, if the environmentalist wackos were consistent, that's how they would view every corporation going down.
No, no, no, no.
Yes, yes, yes.
Almost a catastrophe there, folks, but we stopped it.
This is Paul Shanklin as Al Gore on the EIB network.
It is a global warming update.
Haven't got time to play the whole song.
This is just to tease you.
Unbelievable in the UK Guardian today, a story entitled The Earth Fights Back.
Never mind higher temperatures.
Climate change has a few nastier surprises in store.
Bill Maguire, I guess that's their stupid idiot reporter, says that we can also expect more earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and tsunamis because of global warming.
Ladies and gentlemen, there is literally no scientific basis for such claims.
Zilch Zero Nada.
We've had tornadoes.
We've had earthquakes.
We have had tsunamis.
We have had volcanoes.
We have had volcanoes formed the country.
Earthquakes formed the world.
The continental shelf, it's been going on since God created the place.
The idea that global warming is going to increase them or have any effect on them at all is spurious.
It is obscenely incompetent.
It's journalistic malpractice to talk about these kinds of things.
And I wish I had more time to analyze this in greater detail, but I don't.
Okay, folks, got caught up doing show prep for tomorrow's program, but we are back in time to say goodbye.
I have to conduct a newsletter interview shortly after the program today.
Have a wonderful Wednesday evening and night.
We'll talk to you again tomorrow.
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