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Oct. 17, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 17, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
It's already Wednesday.
Here we are, the middle of the week on the EIB network, and we are up to $65,100 on the Harry Reed smear letter auction at eBay.
We had basically two days and one hour to go.
It'll end at one o'clock on Friday, and it's gonna start getting hot and heavy here from now on in.
As I'm sure, you know, the wise big money in terms of auction participants, they wait till the last minute to get in so as not to bid the price up.
Uh and so we'll just we'll we'll keep a sharp eye on this.
Don't forget free copies, copies of the Harry Reed letter are available at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Uh just it's a it's a four-page PDF file, just have to download it and and uh and make it available to whoever you want.
It's full color if you can find a color printer.
Also, um, the eBay link, if you don't know this, is at Rush Limbaugh.com.
We have a little widget there uh on the homepage.
It shows you the uh the this the status of the uh of the auction.
Anyway, great to be back.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, email address rush at eIBNet.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, question.
Can anyone who is smeared by Harry Reed on one issue and smeared by Nancy Pelosi on another issue, be all that bad.
Listen to this.
But those who have chosen to make an attack on a family which has benefited from SCHI by impugning their good intentions and their integrity is beneath the dignity of this debate.
Hate radio has made a vicious attack on the Frost family, a family which is involved in a very serious automobile accident, injuring two of its children who are S chip recipients.
Yeah, that's the point.
They're already S chip recipients.
You got them out there claiming they wouldn't get covered unless Bush gave you what you want.
The current program covered this family.
By the way, I need to apologize here to Michelle Malkin.
Michelle Malkin is actually the one who first dug up, I think Michelle was the first to dig up the financial truth about the Frost family.
But Pelosi smearing me.
I'm sorry, sorry, Michelle, for hogging the credit from you.
I had nothing to do with this.
I did not call uh Pelosi's office say, please, please, please hit me.
But if you go back and if you listen to the bite here, um impugning their good intentions and their integrity.
What has Ms. Pelosi and her party been doing to the military personnel serving in Iraq for the past four years?
Impuging their integrity and their good intentions.
And of course, what did that do to the dignity of the debate?
The debate over the uh the war in Iraq.
At hate radio, nobody made a vicious attack on the frost family.
Ms. Pelosi, there was no attack.
This is what I mean by these people, liberals cannot flourish unless they have a monopoly.
They they would love to be able to make you believe that the Bush administration doesn't want kids like the Frost kids to get help when they already got it from the very program.
The president dealt with this at a press conference today.
He's looking 500,000 poor kids are not presently covered.
I want to increase the bill so that those 500,000 are covered.
Big deal.
That's what it is.
It's a poor children's health care bill.
Ms. Pelosi wants everybody to believe that hate radio is destroying these well hate radio.
She means me.
Let's be honest here.
You know it and I know it.
And the and and but the we didn't attack the family.
We just informed people who the family is.
And that's what they can't deal with.
They can't deal with truth.
They can't deal with facts.
They present these little shows, parading kids, a seasoned citizens around, or whoever.
Uh and in the old days they used to get away with that.
Now when they when they bold face lie and misrepresent things, people are here to call them on it, and they launch out and they branch out, and they lash out at people like me.
You, you hateful guy.
Why?
We're not attacking anybody, Ms. Pelosi.
We are simply demonstrating that you don't tell the truth about things.
And boy, there's nothing when you expose liberal lies, which is something we could do all day, because that's what liberal liberalism is a lie, folks.
It is a lie.
So let her go ahead and get mad.
Now I got both of them mad at me, Pelosi and Dingy Harry.
By the way, uh John Gibson, who has done great work on this whole dingy hairy thing with uh with Media Matters and the Smear Letter, he talked to J.D. Hayworth on the big story with John Gibson on the Fox News channel yesterday.
And Gibson said that Rush Rush says this has not happened before with the the Senate, where 41 senators have called out a private citizen for saying something.
Is he right about that?
As far as I know, he's absolutely correct.
And who am I to dispute El Rushbow?
Because I will tell you, Russia's proving again that just what Babe Ruth meant to baseball back in the 20s and 30s, Rush Limbaugh means to broadcasting in the here and now, specifically talk radio, and I will tell you, in the pantheon of political slash public relations jujitsu, this is the single greatest counter move in political and public relations history.
It is a master stroke.
Thank you, J.D. He's talking about the posting of Dingy Harry's letter on the uh on the eBay side and auctioning it off with the proceeds going to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, of which I'm a board member and uh contributor and I've raised money for them and so forth.
So thank you very thanks very much, uh J. D. I I've been told by some friends that I probably need to address something semantically, uh, because I it's not a big deal, but it's worth clarifying for those who are confused about it, because I have gotten some emails.
What do you mean you're a private citizen?
What do you mean when the when the when the Senate attacks you a private citizen?
You're a public figure.
You are one of the most well-known, recognized names in the country, in the history of the world.
Why in the world, how do you call yourself a private citizen?
Folks, and I can understand how some might think this.
But within the context of the relationship between government, the public sector, and me, a private citizen working in a private business, uh, and the private sector is regulated by government, which is a frightening thing, uh, but and it attests to my courage in taking this on even further.
And it really does.
But I'm not going to say anything more about that.
Let you figure that out.
Just because I'm a public figure does not mean that I am not a private citizen in terms of the United States Congress singling out somebody who's not in politics.
I am not running for office, I don't take any federal money for what I do here.
I've never sought any federal money grants, state, or what have you.
So, in the sense of citizenship, in the sense of uh civics and the relationship between citizens and government, I'm a private citizen.
And they have targeted a private citizen.
Well, you know what this is all about.
I mean, it's they've done they've targeted the ability to do business, uh, to harm and impugn my integrity and reputation, uh, as Ms. Pelosi states.
So that's the uh that's the distinction.
Uh you know, they they they it I'm really not the uh maybe a lone case in terms of individuals, but look at their enemies list.
They target private businesses all the time.
Big oil, they target Walmart, they target big food, big fat, they target all these things in the private sector.
They are statists.
They are socialists.
Here's some amazing numbers for you, folks.
I have this story here.
Come January, Social Security benefits for nearly 54 million Americans are going up 2.3%.
That's the smallest increase in four years.
It will mean an extra $24 a month in the average Social Security recipient's check.
Government made this announcement today.
Now, this is a cost of living adjustment.
It means that the monthly benefit for the typical retired worker here in America in 2008 will now go to 1,079 monthly benefit, 1,07 or close to $13,000 a year.
Now, how much does this cost?
Well, I ran the numbers here.
We've got $54 million taker uh uh uh uh uh Social Security recipients.
We have uh $13,000 a year for each one.
D it is the the figure is $702 billion.
Next year we will sp the federal budget is just over one trillion.
Almost one third of the federal budget is Social Security.
We haven't even talked about Medicaid and Medicare yet.
But just to give you an idea of how powerless the federal government is to provide prosperity.
We're talking $13,000 a year, folks.
That's below the poverty level.
That's the average Social Security recipients total annually.
And thanks to Bill Clinton in 1993, some of those earnings are taxed, even though they are money that has been taxed prior.
So $13,000 a year for $54 million, $702 billion a year.
And a baby boomer's the first one just announced her retirement the other day, and that's going to add a lot to this.
Frightening.
And here's the clincher for me.
$24 a month, increased cost of living.
That's nothing.
$24 a month is not a month.
Six bucks a week, and it's going to cost us $702 billion.
And you think that the federal government can come around and provide everybody with $50,000 a year, or come around if it costs almost one-third of the entire federal budget to give $54 million people $13,000 a year.
What does that tell you?
It tells you stop depending on these people for one thing.
Stop depending on it, make some plans outside of Social Security.
The second thing is we're not going to be able to afford it at this rate much longer.
The third thing is the amount of money in the budget and the number of people who are now dependent on the federal government, seasoned citizens alone, is an increasing, fast increasing, rapidly increasing number of people.
And at some point, it's going to break the bank.
I am just struck by the fact that giving 54 million people an additional $24 a year...
A month, a month, is going to cost $702 billion a year.
Mrs. Clinton continues on her um quest to win the presidency by buying as many votes as she can.
Here is a portion of statements she made yesterday, the young women's Christian Association in Manchester, New Hampshire.
I'll increase funding for the child care development block grant.
I also want to expand the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Right, right.
It currently only covers those firms with 50 or more workers.
I want to lower the threshold to 25 workers.
That will include an additional 13 million Americans.
Right.
Where are we going to get the money to pay for this?
She's already taxed the rich into poverty to pay for previous programs, but I warned you people about this.
Let's go back.
My television show, April 19th of 1994.
Family Leave Act, if you're in a company of 50 employees or more, gives everybody 12 weeks' unpaid leave a year to handle emergencies or births of children.
Folks, this is not the end of a problem.
This is only the beginning of a new one.
It isn't going to take long for people to figure out that you can't live for 12 weeks without being paid.
Right.
Can't live for 12 weeks without being paid.
But what Mrs. Clinton said, and I predicted this is all going to happen, but Mrs. Clinton said a whole lot more than just she wants to expand this to um or lower the threshold of businesses to 25 employees.
You can call this the destroy the small business act of uh of 2008 if she actually proposes this.
Not only does she say she wants to expand the program to include companies that employ at least 25 workers rather than a current 50.
Uh what that means is that millions more workers are eligible for 12 weeks of unpaid leave.
But remember, there are a lot of people now in the state level already starting to suggest, wait a minute, uh, people can't live for uh 12 weeks without pay check.
We're gonna have to start maybe it's paid leave for a portion of it.
This is how liberalism incrementally wraps its tentacles around you.
She also wants to encourage to develop paid leave programs by offering them one billion dollars a year in grants, meaning these businesses.
Paid leave, it's right in what she said.
We don't have the audio, but it's in the whole proposal.
And a lot of 25 worker companies are gonna fire one employee in order to get below the ceiling.
So if you work for a place that's got 25 employees and Mrs. Clinton gets elected, realize that you could soon be cut loose.
But the whole thing doesn't stop there.
Mrs. Clinton wants to require all workers to be given seven six days sick days a year.
This is in addition to the uh to the uh 12 weeks of uh of leave.
She wants to be able to give uh everybody be given seven sick days a year that can help to care for the children.
And she also wants to require, require this is the federal government.
She's never run a business, she doesn't know what she's talking about here.
Yet we're going to entrust somebody like this who has no clue how to run a business and what is involved in doing so, to require businesses.
That all workers or all employers to at least consider flexible work schedules.
And she also wants to give child care subsidies to stay-at-home parents rather than just families who send their kids to daycare.
That is a ploy to make this appealing to conservatives.
Uh and of course, the question, how does she pay for this?
I just gave you the numbers on how much is going to cost this country to give $54 million a $24 a month.
Wait.
No.
Yeah, $24 a month raise, Social Security receipts.
$702 billion to give $54 million people, $24 a month.
24 bucks a month raise or increase in bed.
Where's she going to get the money to pay for all this?
Well, Russia understand big business is going to pay for it.
No, big business is not going to pay for it.
They're going to find a way to pay for it where they don't go and hawk.
Never run a business.
She hasn't the slightest idea what she is is doing here, and and well, she does, but she has no idea what she's doing to run a business.
She's just buying votes.
Pure and simple.
And that is the uh technique.
You know, we've we've been hearing a plethora, ladies and gentlemen, uh, recently of stories about the fat, the uh the obese, uh, the slobs out there, and why they're slobs, why they're fat, why they're obese, all these different theories abound.
Get this.
Researchers have just they've thrown in a towel out there.
Headline.
This is from Reuters, obesity, a result of modern life.
It's just life's fault, folks.
The fact that you are alive explains why you tend to be fat and obese.
Obesity does not result simply from overeating and a lack of exercise, but it is a consequence of modern life, according to a British government think tank.
Yeah, the experts on everything, be it the Brits, be it us, it's the government.
Always the experts.
Weight gain does not result from people's actions, such as overindulgence or laziness alone, and is a far more passive phenomenon than is often assumed, according to foresight.
Uh it found that uh the technological revolution of the 20th century has led to weight gain becoming unavoidable for the majority of the population because our bodies and biological makeup are out of step with our surroundings.
Oh, we're cooked.
We're fried, we're broiled, we're finished.
We have no choice.
It is life, ladies and gentlemen, making us fat, and there's nothing we can do about it.
Unavoidable.
Unavoidable for the majority of the population.
Don't even try.
Don't even try to be disciplined or to get rid of the weight that you really don't wish you were carrying around.
It's the government of Britain has just offered you a built-in excuse for remaining a slob.
Hey, we've got a new virus out there, a new bacteria that's uh killing more people in AIDS.
More than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly infections every year from a drug-resistant staff superbug.
Uh government reported in its first overall estimate of invasive disease caused by this germ.
Uh deaths tied to these infections may exceed those caused by AIDS, said one public health expert.
Another expert from the government uh commenting on the new study.
Tuesday's report shows just how far uh one form of the staph germ is spread beyond its traditional hospital setting.
The overall uh incidence rate was about 32 invasive infections per 100,000 people.
That's an astounding figure, said an editorial in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.
Well, what we need a ribbon.
We need we need a ribbon for this germ.
I mean, we've got the age ribbon, we got the brace cat breast cancer, what do we got ribbons for everything?
And you put those ribbons on, you don't wear those ribbons.
I care more than you do if you're not wearing one.
That's what these things all mean.
Uh, this if this staff j well, we all know Obama cares.
He doesn't have to wear anything to care.
By the way, you hear what Bigala said about Obama?
He's too smart.
He's just too ethereal and too small.
Obama is, yeah.
So most Democrats are like Badala.
They don't like smart people.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Great to have you with us here on the Excellence in Broadcasting that were you ever wondered why men die before women?
You ever wondered by why males die before females?
Well, the quick answer is because they want to.
But there is scientific evidence here to suggest that it's it it why they want to.
Uh new research uh suggests that males die before females because of intense competition over sex.
Scientists went back there and they looked at animals and so forth, looking at animals that are monogamous, like swans and mongeese or mongooses, whatever.
And they find that the the uh the the male uh in these in these uh monogamous species, uh males and monogamous species naturally compete less over females, uh, and the the polygamous, they compete a lot more.
And so the researchers explain that as competition among males for sex grows more intense, each male on average has less time to breed.
As such, there's no strong incentive to evolve longevity among males in such species.
Now, get the last line of this, though.
This is this is from live science.
Since men age faster and die earlier than women because they want to, these findings suggest that at the time when current human physiology evolved, perhaps around the late Stone Age, polygonous breeding was the norm.
Of course, this doesn't provide any justification for polygamy or promiscuity now for men.
Our Stone Age guys did it, but that's not good.
We can't do it now.
So many affairs.
Honey, a doctor said I should have many affairs, otherwise I'm going to die before you.
The dirty little secret is she wants him to die first, too.
Chuck, Riverside, California.
Great to have you with us, sir, today.
Hello.
Hello, good morning, and me make a deadles to you.
Thank you, sir.
The reason that I'm calling this morning is I was listening to your explanation of the Soul Security cost of living increase.
Yeah.
And I think people need to understand that that's a gross figure.
Uh the net figure will be something less than that, because you have to pay for your uh premium for Medicare.
And every year that we get that cost of living increase, the Medicare premium goes up.
So it's not going to be uh $24.
It'll be something less than.
Right, but the government payouts going to be $20.
I mean, the taxpayers of this country have got to come up with $702 billion next year to give every Social Security recipient $13 grand.
I don't care if it's gross or net.
Well, let's deal with the gross.
The net is your problem, because Clinton raised taxes on a portion of your social security, and of course your Medicare premiums go up and so forth.
So, yeah, but we're talking gross dollars.
If you got the gross, you'd get 13 grand.
You don't get the obviously th that that's a that's an excellent point, uh, because your $13,000 uh benefit every year is not $13,000 because they tax it, and other co-pays for your Medicare go up.
Yeah, it's a good point.
The point is, we can't afford we we can't afford to keep going like this.
And the idea that some people think that the government can make all of us prosperous and happy and so forth, raising the minimum wage or this sort of thing, it's just it's it's ridiculous.
When you stop to think, maybe this only interests somebody like me.
I don't know, but you know, as a huge conservative, big believer in reducing the size of small government, promoting self reliance, rugged individualism, and independence.
It is just damn shine.
I know that this is a this is the retired community, and that many of you think that the money is uh coming back to you as is your own and you put it in there a long time ago.
We long since passed those days, gang.
It takes four taxes, four workers' taxes, FICA taxes to provide the social security benefits for for for one recipient these days, and that burden is soon going to be three.
So other people are paying this for you.
I know you paid in, but you're getting back far more than you put in, the bottom line.
Uh and baby boomers, really that's going to be the case.
So when you when you're when you learn to give fifty-four million people an additional twenty-four dollars gross, costs one third the federal budget.
Uh seems to me there are huge, huge lessons to be learned there.
This is John in Milwaukee.
Thank you for calling, sir.
You're on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, give me sixty seconds, and I think I can raise at least a million dollars for the Marine Corps law enforcement fund.
Really?
That's pretty uh that's pretty ambitious.
Start the clock.
Oh, hang on, hang on a minute, just a second.
Let me get the clock here with the glasses on.
I got a little timer here.
We've taken the TikTok out of it because I use this when I record commercials and stuff, so it doesn't make any noise, but uh uh.
Uh stupid thing, batteries going.
Well, I can't do any commercials this afternoon because the battery of this thing isn't working.
Well, I'll go off the clock then.
Right.
But I turned the iPhone off.
Okay.
I turned on it.
Go ahead.
I'll watch the sweep hand on the broadcast format clock.
Go.
Okay.
I am a federal employee, specifically a letter carrier and a proud member of the National Association of Letter Carriers.
They love me.
As a federal employee, I am involved right now in something called the combined federal campaign.
It's the federal government's um shall we say united fund campaign.
It's uh to use federal employee uh payroll deduction contributions to charitable organizations.
Guess what organization is in the combined federal campaign pamphlet?
MCLEF.
MCLF.
The Marine Corps, Law Enforcement Foundation, is an eligible charity for you federal workers.
That's correct.
And federal workers include Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and every military active duty and inactive duty member of a services, as well as all postal workers.
And we know from your program you have a lot of letter carriers listening.
I'm shouting out to you guys that are running bumps, running splits, doing pivots out there.
Get your CFC pamphlet, turn to page 41, donate the 10507.
I'm putting $20 a paycheck in.
That's $500 a year.
If we can get $20,000 people to do that, you got a million bucks.
That's amazing.
10507 is the code number for the uh M Clef in your pamphlet.
Right.
Now, look at this is I have to ask you a question.
Are are you redirecting $20 that you already have deducted going somewhere else, or is this a new $20 that you're deducting?
This would be uh a charitable contribution.
In the past I've contributed to other groups, but I've kind of taken a scatter shot, look at the book, pick things that I liked.
Um, you know, I try to look at uh another thing about MCLEF.
The administrative costs are zero point eight percent.
99.2% of the uh pennies of your dollar go to MCLEF.
They don't go to administrative uh cost to run the program.
So it's a good solid charity.
And listen, letter carriers, this guy I'm talking to on the phone is the biggest proponent of our military service.
I'm a veteran, I appreciate them, and I know everyone out there appreciates them.
Get behind your servicemen, get behind this guy on the radio and show your support.
Put twenty bucks a week, I challenge you.
Wow, you're gonna you're you you're gonna make me tear up here, uh, John.
I this is I but look at I have to I I'm just curious.
I need to ask you a question here because I'm trying to figure out the mechanics of this.
Of course.
You you uh you are gonna you are gonna tell whoever to deduct twenty dollars per paycheck, which will add up to five hundred bucks a year uh to go to M. Clef.
And you've asked others to do it, which is wonderful.
Uh but is that is that twenty dollars that you're gonna direct to MCLF is uh is it twenty dollars you're already directing to another charity or are you taking a new brand new five hundred dollars out of your pocket this year to do this.
Well personally I'm redirecting it.
Okay.
Because in the past I've given ten dollars a paycheck to a variety of organizations.
I usually pick four or five out of the book.
You can split your charitable donation to however many charities you want.
In fact you can just give it all to CSC and they'll spread it equally amongst the thousands of charities that they have.
Or you can pick five or you can pick one.
I've chosen one because I'm a hundred percent behind what you're doing and I want to show solidarity with our troops.
It's a it's a terrific way to do it.
It is it's a win win and when I do it doesn't hurt to do it.
A twenty bucks out of a paycheck is nothing man.
Well for some people it is something.
You know that's that's that's it it it's like social security are not federal employees but uh twenty bucks is their is their monthly raise they give a dollar that's twenty five dollars a year.
That's exactly no I know.
You're you're I I'm not trying to talk you out of it.
I just I'm I'm I'm sitting here in stunned appreciation and amazement and it is a brilliant idea, especially when you point out that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have the same opportunity as federal employees.
Exactly.
And there are millions of federal employees you know above and beyond the letter carriers that you're repeating almost a million postal workers alone so um just if we just got a buck from every one of them.
Exactly.
Just a two bucks that it's it would grow exponentially.
Well look John that's great.
I I I I really appreciate it and you're um did I meet my goal of making it you you went over sixty seconds but that's okay.
I kinda I kind of steered you there by asking questions and interrupting.
I think if we would edit me out of the conversation you probably only bumped it by thirty seconds or so.
Russ, you're great.
I love you.
I love you too John thanks very much I gotta I ought to take a quick break here.
Be right back after this.
Bad news more bad news on it's all bad news uh if you access the drive by media more bad news here for kids.
Get this number folks more than 10,000 children and teenagers go to the hospital every year in the United States and they when they're there they run the risk of getting this new germ out there that's wiping us all out.
We need a ribbon for that I'm telling you so they because twenty five percent of people get it get it in the hospital.
Hospitals got more germs running around in there because everybody in there's sick kids, 10,000 children and teens go to the hospital every year for falling off or crashing their bicycles and in the process they rack up two hundred million dollars in hospital fees.
This according to research experts yesterday they estimated that ten thousand seven hundred children are hospitalized annually for a bicycle related injury with an average day of three days and too few appear to have been wearing helmets.
Uh estimated five hundred thousand bike related injuries are treated in emergency departments each year in this country with uh ten thousand of them needing to go to the hospital.
We need bike chip.
These kids do we know that they can afford these three day stays in the hospital missing from this story by the way I think the whole so what?
Is this new?
I rode a bike remember when I learned to ride a bike my dad took me over to local high school and uh ended up scraping the knuckles on my right hand on the brick wall of the high school as I was learning to balance myself.
And just stop crying.
If you don't want to hit the side of the wall ball this is part of teaching me how to ride the bicycle never once thought of going to hospital.
Nor do we think of calling a reporter and say guess what?
My son was just in a little accident riding a bike you want to put it in your new figures you're gonna put out next week to scare everybody about bicycles.
Realize what a bunch of wusses were but just an absolute bunch of wusses so selfish, so focused on ourselves feeling sorry for ourselves thinking we're the biggest victims 10 thousand kids go to hospitals oh maybe so but at least we have hospitals.
What if there were no hospitals?
We handle these things, folks we're adults they're kids, we take care of them.
One thing missing from this story was um there was rare and it's rare when this happens no reference to minority kids and girls hardest hit by bike accidents.
Great to have you with us.
Hi Russ, can't believe I'm talking to you.
I'm gonna try not to fall out of my driver's seat.
Um, I was driving into work this morning and I heard a blurb on the radio, and I didn't catch the whole thing.
But the gist of it was um just the horrible effects that the reduced number of deaths in Iraq is having on the American funeral mortuary uh industry.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I don't know if you're busy and only heard with half of your attention.
The story is that the recent improvement in the that is the vast reduction in the number of deaths has put a pinch on the Iraqi funeral business.
Ah, I get it.
Yes, it's okay.
No matter what the news, it has to be bad.
So the folk the focal point of the news was are we sure we really want fewer people to die because the Iraqi Gravediggers Association, a funeral parlor so forth, are in a pinch.
That's right.
How awful for them.
Yeah, I just thought it was um really something.
Stop and think of that, folks.
Literally stop and think of that.
The focus of the the the narrative thank thanks out there, Joanna.
I appreciate it.
And you didn't fall off your uh your chair there either.
It was good.
Uh the narrative and the template in Iraq is such that the news has got to be bad no matter what.
So we've been clamoring and talking about all the increased deaths and the citizen deaths and the soldier deaths, and all this is horrible.
Now they're they're going down, and nobody can deny it.
So but the narrative still is we shouldn't have been in Iraq in the first place.
We shouldn't have gone to Iraq.
We've botched it, we're making a whole mess.
The world hates us.
And so the narrative of negativity has to survive, and it did by claiming that these fewer deaths are putting a real strain on the funeral business in Iraq.
And of course, so what are we supposed to do?
Start killing more people so that the funeral business comes back in Iraq.
It's it just it's just this is why I don't think these people have a clue anymore how they are now interpreted and understood.
Bob and Shreepport, Louisiana.
You're next.
Hello, sir.
Rush?
Yeah.
You hear me okay?
Yeah, I hear you fine.
Right, great, but I'm telling myself one of my shop.
Uh um, little from uh I wish I wish you would talk more about the uh I think a lot of people have forgotten that George Bush tried to implement a plan to privatize a small vertebrae, a small part of our Social Security that we pay in every month to go into private uh uh investments.
And the Democrats all talked it down.
In fact, I think Hillary Clinton talked it down at that time too.
Your uh your call screener said that y'all had talked about it, and I've caught listening to you every day.
Three hours a day, and I don't remember you talking about it.
Does that mean the call screener line to you?
No, no, no, I could have missed it.
Well, we did talk about it, and I'll t we did we did talk about it out there, Bob, and I'll tell you exactly what I said.
The five thousand dollar per baby born.
She pr she she pushed that by saying, Boy, if you invest that, why you could buy your first home when you become an adult, or it could get you a college edge cake in.
And that lasted one day, and I suggested that it wouldn't last very long because wait a second.
The president wanted to privatize just a portion of social security.
Put it somewhere where people would control its growth in their own investment portfolio.
And a Democrat said, You can't do that.
They might lose it.
The stock market fluctuates too bad.
What if there's a stock market crash?
And you can't do that because this is just a scheme to enrich Wall Street brokers and and asset managers, and they totally, totally killed it.
President could have sold a little bit better, but more on that in a moment.
But they killed it uh because they don't want people having control over their retirement.
So Mrs. Clinton comes along, five thousand bucks.
Where's the same argument?
Five thousand bucks, and she says, Well, it's it's gotta be invested, and it has to grow if it's gonna buy somebody a house someday, or if it's gonna get somebody a college degree.
And I'm I am convinced out there, Bob, that she pulled it.
Among many reasons, the fact that she somebody told her, if you if if you if you keep that up there, you are making the argument for privatizing social security.
And we as Democrats can't do that.
And uh that it spent a whole lot of time on it, Bob, because it doesn't take long to explain it.
Uh and I understand you've listened three hours, but the phone rings and so forth, and it's uh it's difficult.
I mean, I can't do the same thing every day over and over, but I'm glad you called because it did give me a chance to explain it again.
We'll be back.
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Cussing and swearing at work boosts team morale and spirit.
Flip yeah, man.
We've known this around the EIB network for who knows how long.
You would not believe the lingo that gets uh bandied about here behind closed doors.
Gotta take a break.
Much more straight ahead.
Hang tough.
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