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Aug. 16, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 16, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on the show make more sense than anything anybody else out there is saying.
And it's been that way for a long, long time, and it's not going to change.
Telephone number on the Rush Limbaugh program, 800-282-2882, and the email address is Rush at EIBNet.com.
All right.
In case you missed this, this is a very short segment in the end of last hour.
A quote from Warren Buffett.
We had a call earlier today, about an hour ago from a broker, financial broker out in San Francisco names Leslie.
And she said, hey, this is a great buying opportunity here.
The correction happened.
It's down 10%.
This is a great buying opportunity.
So Warren Buffett quote.
I get nervous when others get greedy.
And I get greedy when others get nervous.
Meaning there's a lot of nervous people out there right now.
He gets greedy means it's buying opportunity, if you are into that.
All right.
Battered liberal syndrome.
I'm sure you thought that I forgot this.
But those of you liberals out there, I know you're out there, and I know you're battered.
You are constantly upset, you're angry, the people you've been voting for, uh, when they win, problems go away, don't go away.
And you don't have health insurance, you don't have this, you don't have that, you know, destroying the planet, it's miserable out there.
And yet you keep voting for the same people.
And you end up being miserable.
The cycle repeats.
It's like battered wife syndrome.
This is battered liberal syndrome.
You get sweet talked, and then you get clobbered again.
And then they sweet talk you again and they and they come on to you and they assure you it's gonna be okay, and then you get clobbered again.
How much verbal abuse are you liberals going to continue to take?
Not from me, but from your own elected officials.
How much psychological abuse do you think you've suffered?
And why do you continue to take it?
When will you finally say, enough?
I'm through being a battered liberal.
How long will you accept the unacceptable?
How long will you tolerate the intolerable?
Well, I know it's not that easy.
Change is always hard because change is new.
I know it's not that easy.
A lot of people develop a personality trait where they just like being battered.
If for no other reason that they'll they get some attention.
But battered liberal disorder is a serious problem, and it has been for three-quarters of a century.
It's a deep, dark secret.
Battered liberal syndrome where shame trumps the necessary cry for help.
Battered liberal disorder, accepting the promises on election day and then neglect until the next election cycle, where the promises come again and the promises are unmet.
Promises on election day, broken promises, sadness and neglect until the next election.
But there's hope, ladies and gentlemen.
I intend to try to help those of you who are battered liberals.
Battered liberal disorder can be cured.
You can break the cycle.
And don't worry, the batterers are not listening.
What do we know about battered liberal syndrome or disorder?
First, we know that it's hereditary.
It's passed on from generation to generation.
Uh if your parents were battered liberals, it's good enough for you.
And your parents were battered liberals, it's what you grew up understanding, it's what you grew up being, and it's good enough for your parents, why it's good enough for you.
Second, it's regional.
Battered liberal disorder doesn't start in blue states.
It starts in blue neighborhoods.
It starts in blue apartment houses, it starts at blue cocktail parties, it starts at blue elementary schools.
Battered liberal disorder is not only tolerated, what's even more hideous about it is that it's enabled.
But there is hope.
There is a virtual sanctuary, a safe house, if you will, where battered liberals can begin to make The commitment to change and get out of this abusive cycle that they've been in all of their lives, that you have been in all of your life.
And this safe house, this refuge, this virtual sanctuary is the Rush Limbaugh program.
A virtual sanctuary, Rush 24-7.
And then there is my website, which is Rush 24-7.
And this is a time-tested and proven solution that works.
Many battered liberals have seen the light and have escaped the bondage of being battered by liberals.
And so it is with great pride I put a lot of work into this, folks, is great pride that I introduce the four-step cure for battered liberals.
And these four steps, they are challenging.
They are worth it.
If you have the courage to change.
Number one is awareness.
Number two is sanctuary.
Number three is healing, and number four is empowerment.
It starts with awareness.
If you don't accept that you are battered, how can you escape the battery?
You have to admit you are a battered liberal.
Why?
Do you ask yourself why you're so angry all the time?
Do you ask yourself why you are so enraged all the time?
Do you ask yourself why you are not happy?
Do you ask yourself why you don't want to be happy?
Do you ask yourself why you want others around you to also be as miserable as you are?
Do you ever ask yourself why is it you despise the greatest country in the history of human civilization?
Until you begin to ask these questions of yourself and answer them honestly, you will not complete step one, which is awareness.
Number two, sanctuary.
You need a place to go, a refuge where you can be assured that you will not be battered by liberals.
You need to get out of the cycle.
You need to take yourself out of the circumstances that lead to your being battered.
Not just a three-hour session each day.
This is a commitment Monday through Friday, if you are to fully complete this program.
Five days a week.
Noon to three Eastern time.
The Rush Limbaugh Show is your sanctuary.
But we offer a 24-hour, seven-day a week helpline.
We call it Rush 24-7.
When you can't listen to this program because either you are unable to tune in or it's over and you want more.
Simply go to www.rushlimbaugh.com and your sanctuary is 24-7.
Healing.
After you have made yourself aware and been honest with yourself about how battered you are as a liberal.
And after you have made the gutsy choice to seek sanctuary, it then begins the healing process.
Imagine the feeling you will have, the pride when you self-heal.
When you fix yourself.
When you take your life by your hands and say, I'm not going to be battered anymore.
I'm not going to be lied to.
I'm not going to be made miserable.
I'm not going to be unhappy.
I don't have to live this way.
Life is not meant to be suffered as a battered liberal.
Imagine the feeling you will have when you break out.
The lights that will go on inside your head.
The freedom that you will feel.
You will actually be on the road to enjoying the one life God gave you.
It can happen to you.
It has happened to many battered liberals who have escaped the bondage.
There's no couch, by the way, we don't do any Rorsock tests, no inkblots, no Scientology, no acupuncture.
You just have to listen.
And then there is empowerment.
You have to say in this fourth step that you will not be battered any longer.
You have to commit that you are going to think more of yourself than to allow yourself to be battered, lied to, and made to feel miserable all day, every day.
You can say to yourself finally, I don't need those broken promises to get through the day.
I don't need those broken promises to get through the week or a lifetime.
I control my future.
I'm going to stop depending on people who lie to me and don't care really about anything I do except my vote.
And best of all, my friends, to cure battered liberal disorder, you don't need health insurance.
You don't need to go to the doctor.
You don't need Medicare.
You don't need Medicaid, which, by the way, are two great examples of broken promises.
You don't need health insurance.
You don't need anybody or anything from the government, which is full of broken promises from the batterers.
All you need is the lifeline.
The battered liberal hotline, three hours a day, noon to three Eastern, 1-800-282-288-2, or www.rushlinbaugh.com.
It's time that you stop being beat up.
It's time that you stop depending on others who you know are going to let you down and disappoint you and not come through with the utopia that they've promised you for 75 years and you've been expecting.
I can't do it for you.
You have to do it yourself.
But I am here to help.
And it can happen fast.
I got an email.
Listen to this email.
You can't fool me.
Limbo, I listen to your show.
You want me to listen to your show, sign up for 24-7.
You're profiting from the misery of others.
You're no better than Big Pharma, those televangelists.
Next thing you know, you get us all buying real estate during a mortgage meltdown.
We're on to you.
Yeah, you're a caring guy.
So is the last Democrat I voted for.
Look where that got me.
And oh, we don't have to pay anything for this, eh?
But this will add to your audience, and you charge even more in advertising rates.
I see through this whole thing.
I'm actually more miserable now than when you started to help me.
Mort in Keokuk.
*laughs*
Matt in Redlands, California, you're next.
It's great to have you here with us.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
Rush, do you think that one of the main reasons why the liberal media is trying to undermine consumer confidence in the U.S. economy is that uh maybe the liberal media has finally realized that that all of their efforts to force the United States to declare defeat in Iraq, cut and run, they've just completely failed, and that now you have even leading Democrat candidates for president saying that the U.S. will probably have to stay in Iraq for many years to come.
I think there's no question about that.
There's absolutely no question about it.
The Democrats haven't given up on Iraq yet, though.
Um they are prepared to say that let me let me find this stuff in the stack here.
Because one of the things that uh that they're getting ready to say uh is is that the uh the whole Petraeus report's gonna be a lie, that it can't be counted on.
Uh, let me find this.
Let me find this.
I had an early clash over Iraq report.
This is in the uh to the Washington Post.
And let me grab it here.
Senior congressional aide said yesterday the White House has proposed limiting the uh much anticipated appearance on Capitol Hill of General Petraeus to a private congressional briefing, suggesting instead the Bush administration's progress report in the Iraq War should be delivered by Secretaries of State and uh and defense.
Uh Ram Emanuel says these these guys need to come up and testify.
Testify?
Thought they were issuing a report.
Anyway, there's other stories here in the stack.
Um I uh there's still there's still a little internal battle going on in the Democratic Party over how to deal with this.
But whoever is is behind the effort here to reposition the Democrats on this is having some success.
Uh they they're they're gonna have to try to do something because uh they've gone over the cliff on this.
And I know what Petraeus is going to report.
It's already on.
He's gonna say he doesn't need as many troops.
He's we can start pulling some troops out of where we've been, we can start, and the Democrats are gonna say, well, that's crazy.
If the surge is working, why not leave them there?
And they're gonna do anything they can to say that this was a uh uh a pre-written report, not based on action.
So some Democrats up on Capitol Hill, the ones running for election, um, they're they're gonna have to pander to the kook base on this, but there's an overall effort.
I think it's being led by the drive-bys, actually to reposition the Democrats on this all through the end of the year.
Uh because there's there's no electoral future in defeat.
There's no electoral future in in the United States military being humiliated and proclaiming it and standing for it and being happy about it.
As to the economy, uh they would have done that anyway.
You have to understand that they don't pick and choose issues.
Whatever they can make the big issue of the day, they will in order to drive as much angst and anger at Republicans to uh to help the Democrats get elected.
And the media is more activist than they've ever been.
They've always been activists, but now they're up front and out front about it.
Not doing it uh uh under the guise of objectivity, and that's because they don't have their monopoly anymore, and there's actually competition.
Uh so you know news business is actually becoming uh uh more advocacy than it's ever been.
It's just they still don't admit that they're doing it, but it's clear to everybody watching that they are.
So it and they're desperate.
They're desperate to get one of their people back in the White House for a host of reasons.
And so they're gonna be actively doing whatever they can, and that includes uh trying to trash the economy, but that's a risky thing too, because by the time the election comes around, it could pop right back up, the stock market I'm talking about.
Uh and it will.
So this is how desperate they are.
This is not this is not the actions of a people who are confident about things.
They treat any little thing like this ten percent market correction, seize on it, or like another hurricane sees on it, do anything they can to disrupt normalcy, to disrupt harmony, to disrupt contentment, and uh and and and just cause tension and static throughout the uh the population.
And they do this to keep everything destabilized, because they think it's gonna lead to successful election results for uh for Democrats.
See, the th the dirty little thing secret that you have to understand, folks, about the drive-by media and the Democrats, they don't trust the electorate.
They already look at the electorate with contempt anyway, derision, condescension.
They don't trust them.
That's why they want judges running the country.
If if if they could put judges in charge of every decision in this country to do they would do it.
That's why they're trying to co-opt the judiciary.
Because that's immune from election results uh in in uh in many ways.
Who's next?
This is Donna.
This is Donna in uh in Merritt, North Carolina.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
My um conservative smokers' heart is going pitter patter.
I thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
Um, I am from North Carolina, and I wanted to let you know that there is a remnant of conservative folks here.
Um I also want to say that uh John Edwards is a disgrace, and uh appreciate you.
Yeah, but he was actually involved in the he's a carpet beggar.
He was actually born in South Carolina.
Oh, really?
Well, he has has given us a bad name, and I just want to dispute that, and I miss just missed the tail end of the show yesterday where there was a comment about North Carolina, and I I just want to let you know we're not all Hilligans and uh liberals.
I know that.
I you know, I didn't get a chance because of the timing of all this to explain what happened on this.
Uh-huh.
I have a friend who lives in my mistress, uh the North Carolina, she sends this email.
It snurdly had taken three calls from North Carolina yesterday.
She sends me this email.
Well, you're getting a lot of calls from North Carolina today.
Uh I said, No, it's not that we're getting a lot of calls.
We get calls from all over the country.
It's the ones we choose.
Some of the best people calling, they just happen to have been from North Carolina.
Uh-huh.
I wrote her, I wrote her back, and uh and right after I fired that email off, we got the guy you're talking about who thought that Congress had passed Roe v.
Wade and all this, and I I it was too inside baseball, and I made some remarks about North Carolina.
I was just sending a private little note to the mistress there via the microphone.
But that's why I apologize for it, because you know that's not I don't I I do not lampoon states.
Only time that this has happened was in the first six months of this program, and I had to ban all calls from Reno, Nevada.
Oh.
I did it for a week because it was it was it was well, it was it was pretty bad.
Well, you know, ignorance knows no boundaries, and there are a lot of ignorant people here, and uh we also have tobacco farmers, and um, you know, we own two businesses, and I believe in personal responsibility, and I don't believe that the government should be doing everything for it.
I think the folks that do are lazy and they have no work ethic.
Well, no, you don't you're getting down defensive.
There's nothing.
Nobody thinks that North Carolina is full of a bunch of bumpkins and ignorant people, ignorant people all over the place.
Our job here is to keep them off the radio.
Uh I just stepped in it here again.
Well, look at that out there.
The Dow was down three, what, 385, 350 early today?
Now it's only down 192 at fit coming back.
People sense an opportunity out there.
I would love for this to come storming back and totally screw the drive-by media's efforts to get people all disappointed and riled up.
It's a New York Times story on Carl Rove's appearance on this program yesterday.
Rove steps up his attacks on Clinton's candidacy.
Carl Rove intensified his attack on Senator Clinton yesterday, saying that she lacked division to be president while she was saying she was so weak on national security and uh support for the armed forces.
Uh Mrs. Clinton of New York and her advisors have denounced the attacks publicly while privately welcoming them.
Hopeful that Mr. Rove will spur liberal skeptics of Mrs. Clinton to rally her.
Now, when you stop and think, is that not hilarious?
Here you have one of the most liberal women people running for the presidency.
She's a quasi-socialist.
The only reason she doesn't have the full-fledged support is that is this the stupid Iraq business.
Well, she's got some other there's some people that don't think she can win and so forth, but the uh the fact that would be well that she needs to take bashing from conservatives, she needs to get conservative bashing to get her liberal skeptics to support her.
What what what kind of denial are these people in?
They don't think liberals like Hillary Clinton.
But when Rove attacks her, liberals, oh, maybe she's better, maybe she's uh more socialist than we thought.
It's a this is ridiculous.
This is the drive-by's in the Clinton campaign telling themselves stories.
And it's also, again, not the kind of reaction that comes from a position of confidence.
Anyway, Eric in uh what is this?
Huntingburg, Indiana.
You're next.
Yeah, rush uh fellow smoker dittoes.
Thank you, sir.
Um, I'm just actually calling about.
I worked at a bar there while I was in college, and the town I was in was crazy liberal town.
They passed a smoking ban.
Uh the owner of the bar, he was furious.
He wasn't a smoker, though.
And I'm just wondering how the government can come in and say a private business can not allow smoking when they'll still sell them at the gas station.
And you know, they'll allow the useful tax them, but you can't use it.
You can sell whatever else there.
Well, it's it's uh the New York has done it across the board, and they do it on the basis of public health.
Yeah, the government's not coming in giving the startup money for the businesses.
They don't seem to have any right in that, and the public doesn't have any purpose.
This this came up to a bunch of bars in New York thought, my dad, we're gonna be put out of business.
I mean, half our patrons come in here and smoke.
So the patrons still go, they just leave every ten minutes to go outside, stand outside in the weather and smoke and head back in.
No one's entitled to go into those restaurants anyways.
That's their personal choice to go in.
They can deal with it or they don't have to deal with it.
Well, it used to be that way.
You know, it was a smoking section and a non-smoking section.
Some places were all non-smoking and some places were smoking.
And the government's nope, we're not smoking anywhere.
This is a your it's a great point.
The full force of whatever governmental body can do whatever they want.
And it wouldn't have been made possible without bogus research on the death statistics associated with second hand smoke.
Uh it wouldn't have been possible without pulling that off.
Uh and so that that you couldn't be anywhere near it because it was harmful.
You could die.
Well, you got a UN body putting that information out.
Uh that that's that's all it took.
Then you you have the the anti-smoking, some of the anti-smoking people became activist zealots.
And remember, remember about liberals out there, Eric.
They are not content.
If you want to smoke and kill yourself, they're not content to let you choose that.
They are going to force their way of life on you because they're elitists.
They know better than you, Eric, and they know better, and it's not that they care about you.
They want to exercise their power and control over you because they've got themselves convinced that even if you do smoke while you're nowhere near them, that somehow it's gonna harm them.
Their country just isn't right.
Whatever.
Uh and it also, none of this would be possible without an electorate that was dense and uninformed about the consequences way down the road of allowing the government in anywhere to regulate private behavior.
That was not, of course, against any existing law.
Uh and and uh this again where the liberals come in because they they they're just content as they can be to have people's lives controlled.
The whole concept of personal liberty, private property, all these things went down the tubes with all these smoking bans and so forth.
And so it only takes one when people cave and give away their personal liberty and property rights in one instance.
Well, the people that are gonna come take it away from you are not gonna be satisfied with a little small bite like cigarettes.
So then you can't use your backyard, or you can't use portions of your farm the way you want it because there might be some endangered species in this stuff.
It just keeps cycling until someday somebody's ox gets gored, who was one of the original enablers.
Then they get mad and they start to see the light.
And you get some victories and you win back some uh some rights or some freedoms that you lost previously, but uh you can't give up on this kind of stuff.
You can you've got to, in a philosophical sense.
Uh Charlene in Surfside, South Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Good.
Good.
Yeah, I heard you talking, it was yesterday or the day before about Hillary, and she had spent the day with the nurse or shadowing nurses.
Yeah.
A hospitaling a nurse.
She was shadowing a nurse.
Okay.
I remember uh a while ago, it was when you your um your person that I talked to said it was when her father died.
And I remember a comment that she made at that time.
It was very derogatory against nurses.
She said something to the effect of they were overpaid, underworked, lazy, something like that.
Wait, who said this?
Hillary.
Hillary did.
Yes.
And I remember I remember specifically being very upset about that.
I am a nurse.
And I remember being very upset about you're the second nurse that's called us and told us that you're upset about uh comments you made about nurses.
Yeah, and I I actually was so upset at the time that I called the White House to speak to her, and um I I did of course Did you get through no sir?
No, sir.
Well, that's strange.
Clinton's had a very open administration.
I thought they'd talk, especially Bill, any female calling, I thought you had a chance.
Well, you know, here's the real here's the real thing about this.
The the the jaw dropper to me was she said she's doing this to see what nurses do, to learn what the nurses' day is all about.
And by the way, you remember how shocked in this report, Andrea Mitchell, who was the NBC infobabe covering this.
Anthony uh Andrew Mitchell just made a big deal on the fact that the end of the day Hillary washed the dishes.
So that tells me that Andrea doesn't and hasn't in a long time.
And wow, that's woo!
And most of these drive-by babes in DC don't do the dishes.
I'm no big deal, I don't either.
But I mean, the Hillary doing the dish was a big surprise.
But here's the jaw drop.
The jaw dropper, here's the woman, the architect of health care, the expert.
The woman that was gonna give us socialized universal medicine back in 1993.
You're gonna tell people where they could work, where they couldn't work, what kind of doctor specialty they had to go into, they're gonna take it over the whole thing.
And she essentially said yesterday she didn't know what nurses do.
Or a couple days.
Had to go follow a nurse around to find out what if you gotta follow a nurse around to find out what a nurse does, who the hell are you to be changing national health care policy?
That's the curious thing to me.
Charles in Battle Creek, Michigan, you're next on the EIB network.
Yeah.
Rush.
Yeah.
What a fantastic fantastic primer course you gave on this so uh this liberal sociopathological condition.
They battered liberal syndrome.
You you you understand.
You discuss the onset, the course, the treatment.
Uh but the nature of the beast is this, just a few words, Rush.
All right.
It exists in mild, moderate, and severe degree.
If it's severe, it's terminal.
It's kind of like it affects the brain.
You might call it a psychosclerosis.
Uh and w what you have to do, including in your steps, is one vital thing in your message, and that is that the truth will set them free in in in treatment.
Truth will set 'em free.
You know, I didn't mention that because I always I assume, you know, what happens here is the truth.
Well, yeah, but but but if you're a liberal, how do they know how do they know it?
Now, uh finally, uh they have to give up the toxic liberal atmosphere that they're living in.
It's a bubble.
It's just like a drug addict has to give up his buddies who use drugs.
That's that's right.
The awareness fact.
You've got to admit this and you've got to get out.
You betcha.
And it's not easy.
Once you're hooked, and they listen to the same old fatal line day after day after day, and they never catch in.
Well, that's what leads to being battered because it leads to being miserable.
The promises, all of the uh all the uh uh assurances that things are gonna get better and they never do, their lives never change, they're always miserable and unhappy.
But you see, their hatred i is what gives their life direction, and without that anger without that anger, w where would they go?
Well that's the challenge.
That's the challenge is to get them to swage the anger and get rid of.
But one of the one of the greatest ways to get rid of anger is to simply turn to doing something productive.
You got it.
Just just concentrate your efforts on those that suffer from this in mild to moderate degree.
You'll get a larger percentage of successes.
But the severe uh they're they're hopeless.
You know, uh you should get a an honorary doctorate in treatment of people who are disturbed.
Are are you are you an expert?
Oh yes, yes.
I'm retired after about thirty or thirty-five years of treating people.
Well, in psychology, psychiatry?
Uh psychology.
Psychology.
Well.
Well, you've made my day here.
Well, listen, I'd like I periodically I have a few gems I'd like to share with you, but it's awfully hard to get to you.
Well, I know, but you gotta keep trying.
The odds are that you'll get through more often than not.
All right, you're a good man.
Thank you very much, Doctor.
I appreciate it.
You take care now.
We'll be back after this, folks.
Don't go away.
All right, we are back.
Uh Rush Limbaugh, behind the golden EIB microphone.
Deborah in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Welcome, nice to have you with us.
Thank you, sir.
I um have a question for you.
If I'm listening to you correctly for the past three years, I understand that most problems that we're having in any states or our economy is mainly based on either the Democrats or the Republicans.
Am I understanding that correctly?
Um well uh in the last three years, you're asking me if that I say that most problems we're having in the States or our economy is mainly based on either the Democrats or the Republicans.
Right, isn't that the government that's always pushing things on the people?
Uh government, depending on who's running it, uh yes, uh can be the engine that uh that you need to get out of the way of or oppose.
Okay, so I have a question for you.
Okay.
I was born and raised in Michigan, and you know, Michigan was mainly all Democrats because of the auto industry.
Um and that's what kept the auto industry going.
I'm really curious what your opinion is about what's happening over there and the hundreds of thousands of people that are losing work.
The majority of my family still lives there and they're just uh having to leave the state because of what's happening.
Um I really want your perspective and what your thoughts are.
Uh well, in the first place, you have you're talking specifically about the auto industry, just the state economy in general.
Well, aren't they connected?
Pardon?
Aren't they connected?
Not entirely.
I mean, they I mean they there's there's a lot of the stuff that goes on in Michigan besides the auto industry.
It's a huge huge part of the economy.
Right.
Uh but you you can there there've there have been trends in Michigan to show the economic direction the statesman headed for a long time.
But you've had like Governor Jennifer Granholm, who's a Democrat who's responded by raising taxes.
The last thing you do in an economic slowdown is take even more money out of people's pockets.
Because there's no way they can refuel an economic engine with less uh uh disposable income.
So do you see it continuing to go down?
Uh no, because someday somebody's gonna realize uh uh what's happening and fix it.
Uh but your your point about people leaving the state, it's happening to a lot of blue states.
A lot of people are leaving New York, uh particularly Long Island, they just can't afford the property taxes in the real estate anymore.
A lot you know how many people moving to Florida a day?
Eight hundred.
Uh despite the hurricanes, eight hundred are moving to Florida, largely uh from Orlando North, uh and over on the on the West Coast.
Uh and if this keeps up in a very short number of years, California or or Florida's gonna have more electoral votes than New York does.
Uh and and and it's it's you know, it's it's where you have these these local and state governments that know no discipline whatsoever, that continue to tax, continue to spend, and it gets to the point where people don't have a choice.
Something they have to move in order to be able to afford a house that's cheaper on uh uh maybe even a smaller salary after they move.
Now the auto industry problem, that's we've discussed that on this program a bunch of times.
This is just a it's it's a it's a classic case of the golden goose being exposed.
Uh y there's a very simple economic rule, and that is if any business is going to accept the obligation to pay people in perpetuity until they die, after they've retired and are not productive, they are not going to survive.
Productivity of workers is tied directly to company performance, and when you've got a a large payroll that's not working anymore, uh and you've got competition from uh from other auto manufacturers who don't have the built-in health care costs in their cars that uh the General Motors does, for example, in Ford and Chrysler, then then at some point you got a break.
Now, people say, but Rush, they made the deal.
They made the deal with the union.
Yes, they did.
But uh they might have made the deal, but if there's no money, who's gonna get paid regardless whether the contract's been signed here.
So they're trying to lay off some of the pensions on the federal government or reduce them and so forth, uh while at the same time trying to revitalize the industry, and some of them are having some success doing.
Of course it's gonna get fixed.
The United States of America.
But in the in the meantime, there are going to be some some bad policies are going to affect a lot of people, it's gonna be painful.
And so they lose.
So they leave the government.
Pardon?
Sorry.
If the government wants to stick their nose and everything like they are right now, why haven't they stuck their nose in here to help these?
Well, uh that's see, that's that's a different you remember Chrysler.
They bailed Chrysler out, but I coca paid the money back.
Right.
Uh it depends on the if if we had if we had a Democrat administration, you never know, they might do something like that.
Uh the Bush administration may accept, and there's a government agency that assumes failed pension responsibilities, corporate pension responsibilities.
The recipients don't get it all, but they get a portion of it.
Uh but there are government insurance programs or things like this, but a total 100% bailout would would not that that's that's beyond the realm of uh a possibility right now.
Too many other problems government has to go bailing out a full industry.
Well, another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence is completed and in the can.
But there's always tomorrow.
And it'll be open line Friday.
Can't wait.
See you then.
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