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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 uh breaking global warming news, uh, 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 gotta reduce the number.
It's the law of averages.
Another month without a hurricane, gotta reduce the number.
So we get through two months here without a hurricane.
And that doesn't matter because the hurricanes now are irrelevant.
The global warming is going to cause more volcanoes.
Global warming is gonna cause more earthquakes, which, by the way, we just had at a seven and a half magnitude over in uh in Jakarta in uh Indonesia.
Uh 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 Limbaugh, final hour of our excursion into broadcast excellence today, now officially underway.
Look, what one more thing, and if you talk about the Democrat debate and uh questions that uh that I answered as every candidate should, by the way, uh feel free.
I just want to say one more thing about if you were on a hold and you want to talk about it on the phone, we get to you, feel free.
But there are companies out there, folks, uh made promises that they that they couldn't keep.
It happens all the time.
And these companies go under.
I'm not even gonna get into why, but there are economic reasons why, but they 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 plants, 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.
We're all gonna go broke before this all said and done if the Democrats have their way, and that is exactly what they want.
I have a headline here.
I can't believe this.
I'm stunned 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.
Uh 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 Granma.
Uh why would anybody want to leave this island paradise?
I uh free health care.
Uh you know, free rice cookers for a lot of people.
Uh 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.
Uh 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.
Ten years ago, the figure was just 300 a week.
Most people relocating within the Commonwealth, uh 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.
Uh the 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 at 4,000 a week trying to get out of the UK.
All right, now to the bridge collab.
This collapse, this this is uh you you're gonna you're gonna hear me read this or excerpts of it, and you're you're gonna be dumbstruck.
Again, uh Ken Shepard at Newsbusters.com uh is where I found this.
Chicago Tribune's E.A. Torero 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've 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, a Somali who directs the Somali Justice Advocacy Center that fights for Somali rights.
I I kid you not.
A grim irony for many of the 20,000 plus Somali refugees who came to Minneapolis seeking peace and the 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 is 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 uh 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 this is just nothing but lies.
Um 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, goes on to talk about how this is this is going to tip the scales in favor of billions of dollars in higher gasoline taxes for repairs coast to coast.
This 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 what's a 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.
Well, 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 the receipts from these taxes and federal funding for highways.
But there was.
There is now because the High 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 two and a half cents per gallon of the tax on gasoline and some other alcohol fuels, plus an additional six-tenths of a cent per gallon for fuels that are at least ten percent ethanol.
The highway account receives the remaining portion of the fuel tax proceeds.
Then it 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 dollars uh uh uh in in federal funding.
Ten million of it is uh is is going to a uh uh a r uh uh light rail system, right?
They're building a light rail system.
It's gonna be late rail.
Uh 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 these these imbeciles in the drive-by media are doing more damage with their own closed-minded ignorance than they could possibly imagine.
We're on I know two yeah, two two million dollars of that uh for that light rail system is being spent to avoid walking paths, by the way.
Well, yeah, Minnesota's like the 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 get two million dollars 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 uh waiting out there on the phones.
So without any further ado on the Rush Limbaugh program, we go to Delta Daytona, Florida.
This is Sean.
Welcome to the uh program.
Actually, you had it right the first time.
It's Delta.
Delta, I never heard of it.
I thought Snerdley had a typo in there.
No, no, everybody gets out confused with Daytona.
It's just north of Orlando.
Oh.
Well, Mega Rush Baby Ditto.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I wanted to uh get your view on something I haven't heard anything from uh the church and then global global warming from.
Uh did you did you realize last night that each of those libs up there on the stage, including Keith Oberman had a personal air conditioner, I guess hidden in their podium or something?
Uh no, I have not heard what an air conditioner or a fan.
They see he said personal air conditioner, and he even threatened to turn it off or turn it on heat if they ignored the uh the signal lights.
I thought he was joking at first, but then later in the uh the debate review or whatever they uh called it.
Um he confirmed it again.
He said that they each had their person a personal air conditioner up there on stage because it was 90 degrees.
Well, so what?
Did the union thought uh members and the in the audience did they have air conditioners?
No, the sobbing.
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.
And that not only suffering in the 90 degree heat, they don't have any health care, their pensions are gone, then I mean jobs are being laid off, union membership is plummeting, and then they have to listen to these guys and the when they wax eloquent with all of these cliched answers with personal aircraft, not to mention the impact on global warming, as you mentioned.
Yeah, I mean, I know don't get me wrong, I don't blame them.
If I could afford it, I'd carry around with my one myself, you know, living here in Florida.
Yeah.
But uh, you know, if it was if it was the Republicans up there, you'd hear nothing but that on TV.
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.
I I was uh that's that's one thing.
I didn't watch it last night.
I I um I intended to.
I actually felt a little guilty uh late in the night when I realized I'd missed it.
Well, because I I felt guilty because I think uh members of my audience uh don't want to watch it either, frankly, and depend on me to do that.
Uh part of show prep.
Well, yeah, if if you've seen one, you've seen it all, but we I 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.
Um proving it can be done.
Uh but nevertheless uh at any rate, I hadn't heard that, and the people who uh 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.
Uh real pleasure to talk to you, and thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Uh we've 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 nine trillion dollars, and several years ago you told us to stop worrying about it.
I think nine trillion dollars is big enough that we should start worrying about it again.
It should be a big issue in the presidential campaign.
Uh by the way, one of the reasons it's so big is that uh about two trillion dollars 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 uh build highways and fix bridges.
That was declared surplus.
Bill Clinton declared it surplus.
He borrowed his budget surplus out of the trust funds.
Most people don't realize that.
You need to tell people to be concerned about our nine trillion dollar national debt.
Well, were you were you uh by any chance listening to yesterday's program?
I'm sorry I missed that.
Uh but no, I didn't uh didn't hear the program itself.
Well, it's fascinating because this subject came up yesterday uh uh in a in an unrelated way.
Uh I forget specifically how, but what here's I'll t I'll tell you what I said uh yesterday is it oh, it came with a the guy wanted to know um uh what I thought the future of the country was with the uh housing market in a slump right now and these uh these mortgages that are unfunded going south and so forth, and I said, Well, you know.
I've been alive fifty-six years, and of those fifty-six years, I've probably been paying attention to things for forty.
Uh when I turned sixteen, 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 gonna destroy us.
For forty years of my life, I've heard about the national debt, and we got to fix it.
It's a big problem, and we're gonna go under.
Uh I've heard about deficits, uh budget, you know, annual budget deficits, how they're gonna wipe us out and kill us, it's horrible, it's rotten, it's terrible.
Uh I've I've we've we've been through uh 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 uh skyrocketing gasoline prices in the six seventies.
We've been through uh period of time we're told to keep a thermostat at sixty eight in the winter time and turn it off in the summertime.
We have uh we 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 uh about the national debt, and I've heard all these horror stories about the deficit and so forth, and it just I mean, uh the national debt if it's bad, it's bad.
If it I don't remember what it was thirty years ago, but uh uh as a percentage, I bet you it was pretty high then, too.
Well, when you said it wasn't a problem ten years ago, it was about five and a half trillion.
Now it's up to nine trillion dollars.
Well, the point is, if if it wasn't a problem at five, we're we're here.
You know, we're we're here.
Uh do the arithmetic ma uh please rush.
The baby boomers are pouring money into the government when they retire in a few years, they will want, they will need to suck all this money back out.
It's not like I gotta take a break here, but they're not gonna retire because they're not gonna be able to afford to, and they're not gonna want to because they're 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, and it was uh it was you why why do you think liberals are so obsessed with mass public transit?
No, it's it's not because they hate cars, it's not because they hate.
That's just that's that's I mean, they may hate cars for the 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 complain about suburban development, because it can't get mass transit out there, they can't believe it.
They 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 mass transit.
It doesn't work.
If you 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 we are hardwired to avoid mass transit at all costs.
If the American people love mass transit, we'd each 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, go, but that's not who we are.
And it's not gonna change.
Uh you know, it's it's wait till you've I've got a story of what they're trying to do in Los Angeles here with with uh urban renewal.
Uh it's it's stunning what they're trying to do, what they're what they're gonna force people to build out there uh uh it it it just and mass transit is is is no different.
Now, here's the Minnesota light rail situation in the 90s, the state of Minnesota diverted over one billion dollars of state and federal infrastructure dollars into a uh uh 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 uh light rail and so on.
It's just 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 the citizens.
I mean, you've you're gonna have your uh Birkenstock crowd that's gonna get on there and go because they think they're doing you know good things and want to feel like they're good people and so forth.
You have some bright well, we got a light rail system down here, I swear.
It pull up to the train tracks, ding-ding-ding ding-ding.
Here comes a little red and red and white little thing to prevent you from going forward, and a three-car light rail goes the 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 you think, my God, what a piece of trash.
Who would get on this?
And you look and nobody's on it.
Nobody's ever on it.
When I've said maybe two people now and it's never ever full.
Uh Anyway, using the currently stated cost for rebuilding the 35 West Bridge, 250 million dollars.
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 nineties 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 some new boondogger project, you know, open a new sewage treatment center, 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 s the the public swoons, oh look!
Look at our Congress really cares about us.
You get these new projects, bamboo.
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.
They're doing it the wrong way, and we liberals are the only ones who know how to get them to the airport.
By the way, uh the Hiawatha Light Rail Project was largely the brainchild of the Metropolitan Council.
Uh 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. Mondo, Ted Mondo.
Dingo.
Uh Luke in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Nice to have you with us on the EIB network.
Hi.
Uh Diddle's Rush uh, yeah, I'm down here with swelting 102 degrees.
It must be a global warming.
But the reason I called was to apologize to the case.
No, no, no, it's called summer time.
Yeah, I know.
And you're in South Carolina.
That's right.
That's what the 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 cu pretty pretty good down here.
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 uh you know, even though I've a Reagan conservative, I've always been a union member, so I kind of supported my union.
And I worked for the Airlines for uh thirty-eight years, retired as a captain about three years ago, and uh basically my union and the company conspired to steal my pension together.
And uh all those years of devotion, they just threw us out the door.
Was this Eastern?
United.
United.
Yeah.
And when did when did this happen to you?
Uh well, I retired in 2004, and they uh you know terminated the pensions, actually made them retroactive to 2003, so we'd 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 uh it was an eighty percent reduction.
It was like you have about the same thing against Social Security.
So you can't really live on it.
Uh it's about two thousand dollars a month.
Okay, so you were mad at me during all this time for bashing.
Yeah, I was throwing things up the radio, and we said, how can you support that rush guy?
He's always bashing unions.
And then, Chris, I was a 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 this whole thing when I 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 a later alligator.
So how do you feel now when you see United posting a profit first time in a long time?
Well, it irritates me because I know they're you know, I knew they were gonna be making a profit.
Yeah, see, how did they do it?
They had to get rid of these obligations.
No, no, it's it's it's it's not quite that easy, but uh yeah, I I understand what you're saying.
The obligations they've had, you know, the 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.
They're not gonna be able to do that.
The question I was gonna bring up was uh that the basically what you've been saying is uh right all along, you can't depend on the union to take care of you in the long run because they won't.
Uh they're basically greedy people, they're the same people that sit in boardrooms, you know, they just wear a different tie.
That's all.
And I think uh want to apologize to you because I've been bad mouthing it at all my friends, just the part about unions.
Everything else I love about you, so now I love you about everything, so I you're right all along.
I appreciate it.
So what what kind of aircraft did you captain?
Uh I finished up on the triple seven flying to Europe and China.
Wow.
And uh I loved it.
Uh never never been on a triple seven.
Yeah, you ought to do it.
It's really cool.
In fact, I I tried to I sent you an email trying to get a job for you uh to be your pilot, but I think your your screener probably burned it before you got it.
No, no, no.
Well 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 remember that.
Well, what are you doing now?
Well, right now I'm just, you know, uh basically sucking my 401k down, trying to stay alive.
What do you mean?
You don't want to harm me, you know.
What do you want to do?
What do you want to 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 uh you had a copilot job.
I'd be I would degrade myself to be your co-pilot.
I don't care.
That'd be the your dream job, wouldn't it?
I said, Yeah, I smoke lots of cigars.
And I like to fly airplanes, and I'm not sure.
We smoke cigars on the airplane in the air.
No, they wouldn't let him.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Uh what have you been doing the last three years?
You have you toward toward getting a other than sending me the email, I hear that.
Well, I've been uh trying to apply for jobs overseas, but they don't you know uh up until the age sixty five thing, they wouldn't take anybody over sixty now.
They're saying, well, since you haven't flown in two years, we don't want you unless you're current, you know.
So basically I'm gonna catch twenty two.
Well, you're saying you're sixty?
I'm sixty-two right now.
Sixty-two.
But but I look like well, hopefully everybody tells me I look like I'm fifty.
Okay, but you love aviation, right?
Oh, I love it just like you do.
I love the sound.
I turned 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.
Do you still I still do?
Absolutely.
Trying to figure out where they're all coming from.
Yeah.
I think I 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 gonna happen anytime soon either.
I don't think either one's gonna happen, actually.
Uh well now you gotta no no no.
You have you have you you can't you can't give up uh uh uh faith or confidence in the former, but if if it's not there as a pilot, what else in aviation would you like to do?
Oh well, I guess I could manage, you know, an aviation department like the pilots.
You know, I could do that like as a you know as a you know chief pilot manager type thing.
Or uh you know, I had thirty years in law enforcement experience as a deputy sheriff, and I could go and start a private detective agency, but that's kind of a flea crummy job, really.
And dangerous too.
Well I don't know.
There's all kinds of jobs in aviation.
You run an airport, you could uh Yeah.
Yeah.
Well I told I sent you the email, I said, Well, I said I'd be your your pilot slash bodyguard since I had thirty years of law enforcement experience and I knew karate.
You never got the letters.
Well, you well I no, I d I I didn't.
Uh well I I don't know that I didn't, but uh ten thousand letters a day anyway.
I do.
I got ten thousand in a in a twenty-four hour period about ten to eleven thousand.
Yeah.
Not counting the spam which I try to fill it out.
It's just not possible to read them all.
Well, I'm I'm gonna try and scrape up some money to go to Schenklin's uh cigar aficionado thing one of these days, and I'm gonna meet you in face face to face.
Oh, well, that's that's uh uh that's a great time.
You would uh you would you wouldn't.
The Monte Cristo Cup is a is a golf tournament for charity that uh is played uh uh usually in Puerto Rico, but it's gonna be somewhere else.
I mean Freeport uh this December.
On the Bahamas?
Yep.
Oh, that'll be nice.
Yep.
It's windy there, though.
You gotta you know, play the ball with the wind.
Well windy and Puerto Rico.
It's windy here.
You wouldn't want to play golf me, Rush.
I I half grass, basically, is what I do.
You uh chop grass, yeah.
I have oh, you're you you hit the aw you hit the ball Oprah.
Yes.
I fly a lot better than I play golf, that's for sure.
Well, a pleasure talking to you guys.
Thank you.
Don't don't don't don't give up the uh the dream of staying in aviation.
Uh whatever you do.
It it's it's 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.
Uh thanks.
Thanks much for the No no no don't ask me.
What do you mean?
Hit the ball opera.
Fat.
Behind the ball, you chunk it is what he's talking about, he was doing.
So whoever we hit the ball fat was, ah.
Damn it, I hit it Oprah.
And if you if you slice it right, say, damn it, I got the pet Buchannons today.
You know, our uh United Airlines pilot, the guy that flew the seven seventy-seven, uh uh Luke.
He actually made a good point that kind of slithered through there unnoticed.
When he said that uh you know that Rush, you're finally right.
There's no difference between the guys 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 uh worked with him a long time and then retired and he lost uh 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 s 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 bye, see you.
We got uh we got from you what we wanted.
We got your donations, we funded Democrats to be re-elected, we sit at their table of power.
Uh good luck getting your health care.
Where's the union?
By the way, another way of looking at all this.
Uh we had another guy in that montage, uh, Maytag.
Shut down.
Move down to Mexico.
Well, I mean, that's that in one sense, isn't it?
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 isn't this what the perfect environmentalist wacko world would look like?
No corporations, isn't it what?
You listen to some of these cook 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?
It's a public service, right?
When a big corporation goes down, goes bankrupt.
Remember, businesses are bad, so 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 blackes were consistent, that's how they would view every corporation going down.
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
No, no, no, no.
Yes, yes, yes.
Almost a catastrophe there, folks, but we stopped it.
As is Paul Shanklin's Algore 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 McGuire, I guess that's their stupid idiot reporter, says that we can also expect more earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and tsunamis because of global warming.
Uh 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.
Uh 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.
After conduct a newsletter interview shortly after the program today, have a uh have a wonderful Wednesday evening and night.
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