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Jan. 11, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 11, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I am warning you guys in there.
Do not, do not do this.
You know every year, my preferences and my wishes and my desires.
Don't do it.
No, I didn't see the debate last night.
I I frankly forgot it was on.
The drive-by's keep telling us that debates don't make it matter.
So I was an invited guest, uh, the board of directors of some major American investment house last night.
They had their annual dinner and they invited me to go.
And I got home pretty late, and I'm getting all my emails.
Wow, Fred really kicked butt last night, Rush.
What do you think?
I didn't even see it.
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Open line Friday.
You know the rules.
Monday through Thursday, we only talk about things I care about.
I mean, I am a benevolent dictator.
Nobody has the right to be heard on this program but me.
Nobody has the right to speak on this program unless I grant it.
But on Friday, I throw all that out.
And when we go to the phones, I take one of the greatest career risks known to exist in major media today, and that is turning over the precious content of this program to rank amateurs, lovable, adorable rank amateurs.
That's you.
I, the highly trained broadcast specialist, turn it all over to you on Friday.
So we go to the phones, you can talk about whatever you want.
You can whine, moan, you can ask questions, make comments, things that you think need to be discussed, which uh which have it.
Uh telephone number is 800 282882, the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
No, I'm not going to ban the whining, Mr. Snurdley.
How can I be your whining now?
How can I ban the whining when you're whining at me?
Uh Bo Snurgley, official screener of calls, and I'm sick and tired of people whining on the phones.
Get used to it.
You won't believe some of the economic stories in the snack of stuff today.
You will not believe it.
It proves and illustrates a point that I have been making.
Our economy is not built.
We've got I've got an example.
It's the Los Angeles Times.
I got people who make a hundred thousand dollars a year whining they have to take public transportation because of the cost of gasoline.
Somebody who's got a credit card debt of $40,000, which is more than their annual income, and yet it's the economy's fault.
And of course, who's right in there to say, oh, yes, it really is.
All of our friends on the uh on the liberal Democrat side.
All right, we've got audio sound bites from the debate last night, and I'm up to speed now, folks.
I spent I was up very late last night after I got home from this dinner, and I was uh was working on this and informing myself.
We've got our audio soundbite roster from it, and I've got some comments.
I'm gonna do right off the bat.
Let me just tell you what's happening.
It is absurd, and you're gonna have to really gut it up here because the drive-by media is doing everything it can to disqualify the true conservatives on the Republican side.
They're saying Romney, he can't win.
If he loses Michigan, he's done.
They said that about Romney and Iowa.
They said about it, Romney and New Hampshire.
Uh now Fred Thompson apparently scored.
Did you watch it last night, Mr. Snurdly?
Fred Thompson was just fabulous.
And people say, where has this been?
All of this time, where's this been?
And I can't answer that.
But now the drive-by's are saying, well, yeah, he was pretty good last night, but it's too late.
We've had two states, and it's too late for Fred Thompson.
And of course, Rudy, why he's lost all of his momentum rooted out of it.
So if you listen to the drive-bys, and these people that got it all wrong in New Hampshire, uh, what we're being told is that the only two candidates left that have any chance whatsoever are McCain and Huckabee, which is exactly what the drive-bys want.
They want liberal moderate nominee and even a liberal moderate vice presidential nominee, because they know or they think that whoever the Democrat nominee is can smoke.
Uh they don't want a conservative nominee on the Republican side.
Obviously, drive-bys will always tell you folks who is a conservative and who isn't, by virtue of who they try to destroy and by virtue of who they try to pop up, or prop up.
And right now they're trying to prop up McCain, trying to prop up uh Huckabee.
Uh last night Thompson went after Huckabee big time, which is cool.
He's got to go after McCain, too.
Uh now uh I've been told that Thompson and McCain are good friends, and McCain uh Thompson's a little bit reluctant to go after McCain.
I think one of the reasons here is everybody hates Romney, apparently.
A lot of these Republicans just despise Romney, they're trying to take him out so that they can move on to others.
Uh somebody, if you go back to Iowa, somebody leaked the news it was false, that Fred was going to get out of the race if he lost Iowa and uh and endorse McCain.
It turned out to be totally untrue.
Now who would leak that?
Who who would possibly leak that?
Could it have been somebody in the McCain camp?
Uh and if it was, and if Fred knows that, then they've got to be pretty limited.
But they've got Fred, if he wants it back in this thing, serious, he's got to go back go after all these guys.
Uh I know they're thinking might be, well, we got to go after Huckabee first because of South Carolina, and that's, you know, we're looking for the same voters that Huckabee's looking for there.
Uh you the the the proclaimed front runner, even though he's not, because he doesn't have the delegate lead right now, McCain, uh, is nobody laid a glove on him last night.
They just and I think what it is with uh with McCain, uh, you know, I think it's let's be polite to the old guy.
Uh and I but I think it's a P.O.W. MIA thing.
I I think it's the war hero thing.
I think that's that sort of provides a little um little boundary uh and a little wall here that people don't uh don't want to scale.
Um I got this got an email from a subscriber of the Rush comments line.
Uh Rush, I keep hearing that Thompson was so great last night, but that he got started to just too late.
She says Thompson is great.
Late into the race, yeah.
My husband also comes in late sometimes.
And we're still married.
I love by the way, the uh the Hillary Tears uh continues to evoke commentary from women.
There is a blistering piece.
Uh who is it's it's the American Thinker by Pamela Meister.
Female voters give themselves a bad name.
And she touches on the whole the whole subject.
A lot of people, well, I can't say a lot, but there are an interesting number of people talking about what's happened to the country since women got the right to vote.
Now, no, no, no, stick with me on this.
It's not nobody's saying take it away from it.
Don't, don't it's not gonna happen.
Nobody's talking about that.
But it but it's if you the the growth in the welfare system, the growth in the nanny state, the growth in government uh in the soccer mom business, is the growth of government taking the place of a worthless, no-good husband, uh, or no husband whatsoever.
Uh and this woman is speculating what would have happened if women had never had the vote in this country.
Would we have the nanny state welfare state that we have today?
Uh so I'm just a woman writing this.
I'm just gonna pass along the uh the details.
Also, this.
I'm getting a lot of these uh emails of this type.
Dear Rush, I'm surprised at you for completely missing the point, R. E. Mrs. Clinton's tears.
Somebody came up with information about other presidents, other male presidents crying.
And here's the important main difference.
When other presidents cried, or male presidential candidates cried, it was because of things happening to other people, such as 9-11, such as the death of soldiers, such as Katrina, such as the misery and agony of fellow citizens.
When Mrs. Clinton cried, quote unquote, it was because she was being picked on.
It wasn't just fair to ask her position on the issues.
She was crying for herself.
Uh and that's what's unseemly about it, Rush.
And I can't believe that you didn't pick up on this.
I can't believe Clinton's always making about themselves, and I can't believe I got all these emails that you missed this.
See, folks, I miss so little, and I am wrong so infrequently that when I miss something or they think I've missed something, or when they think I'm wrong, it's such a big deal.
They love most people are allowed to learn from their mistake.
Keep plugging away, the advice goes.
You'll learn from you when I make a mistake, is that it for Limboy?
It is slipping.
My friends.
My reaction to this is do I have to tell you everything?
Can you not figure out one thing on your own?
Just because I didn't mention this doesn't mean I didn't know it.
By the way, I forgot to tell you, Mike, uh big time broadcast engineer up in New York.
We will start at the top of the audio sound bites.
Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, open line Friday, phone number 800 282-2882.
And the email address, if you want to go that route is Lrushbow at EIB net.com.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh one more thing here.
I uh we're in a a period of time, uh a moment in history in this country where public figures, and admittedly, I am a public figure.
Public figures, particularly politicians, and I'm not one of those.
But nevertheless, public figures are urged to show their human side.
Got to be human.
I thought I had mastered that because after all, I am human.
But how can I appear human when I'm right all the time?
When I seldom when I hardly ever make any mistakes, I have to pretend, ladies and gentlemen, to be wrong.
I have to pretend to make mistakes now and then, or pretend to miss things uh so as to convey in that way that I am human.
Just keep that in mind the next time you think I've missed something that you have picked up on.
It's just my way of relating.
Now the economy.
I noticed after the debate last night, I did go out and get home uh in time to watch all the the post-debate uh round tables, the wastes of time on the drive-by cable news networks last night.
And I detected a theme.
The Democrats are doing two things.
One, they're all of it, they're they're bringing back not the Iraq war but the surge.
Nancy Pelosi has issued a press release today proclaiming the surge to be a total failure on the same day that we're told we're about ready to be able to turn over Anbar province to the Iraqis.
Eleven out of eighteen provinces in Iraq are soon to be turned over to the Iraqis.
Uh and yet the surge didn't work.
The second thing that the Democrats, the commentators and the Democrat side are really pushing is the economy.
It's horrible.
It is rotten, it is bad.
And of course, the only, you know, the the the one guy on the Republican side that's going right along with them and echoing that sentiment is Mike Huckabee.
Uh and this whole notion of angst and uncertainty and fear about the future of the economy, and has got people on edge.
And of course, the drive-by is the Democrats are eager for that impression to take hold because even though for the last eight years the economy has not been an issue that will have an effect in uh in elections because Bush was the president.
All of a sudden, guess what's back?
It rocks off the front page, the economy's on the front page.
And guess what?
The economy's rotten.
The economy is bad.
Uh I let me share some things with you.
Uh you can turn on any financial news network or read a newspaper, and you can find what you think are disasters in the making.
The price of gold is way up.
The price of oil is way up.
Stocks are plunging, the subprime crisis.
Uh banks having to uh refinance with foreign money, and so all the oh my gosh, Rush, and look at people losing their homes foreclosures.
Ninety-four percent of all Americans are paying their mortgages.
Do you realize, and I'll just give you this in in personal terms.
You realize how cyclical all things economic are.
Just like all things are cyclical in history, all things are cyclical in uh in in all of life.
Uh you know, the the the the idea of people in a panic over normal since the beginning of time economic cycles is a little frustrating.
I want to try to do something about it.
Uh all of the panicmongers try to make it sound as if none of this has ever happened before.
And that creates panic.
Well, what are we going to do?
We've never seen this set of circumstances before.
Now I know that there are new variables thrown in at all times, like the ChICOMs and their economic growth.
Uh but these are all cycles.
And they're all cycles in all of life's activities.
Nothing is new.
The ChICOMs may be expanding, but guess what?
There are other parts of the world that are contracting.
The EU is an is a non-factor.
And I told you this a couple years ago.
They're they're soon to fall behind the Chicoms in terms of economic output and competitiveness.
So while the Chicoms are making up the balance, there's there's uh there's a you know space going to have competition from someplace, and just because it's a Chicom's growing, it's actually a probably pretty good sign the ChICOMs are growing because the more economic power that their people amass, the tougher it's going to be for the Chicoms to maintain a tight communist control on all areas of their society.
It's not going to change anytime soon.
It's going to take some time to roll out, but uh there's good, there's so much good in all of these things that happens, and nobody wants to try to find it.
Everybody wants to focus on the negative, start biting the nails, especially in an election year.
Um let me try to give you an example.
I was 16 in 1967.
When I got my driver's license, you know what the price of a gallon of gasoline was?
Take a guess, Brian.
You you you were well, you weren't even born in 67, so I want you to take a guess.
This is a very good example.
What was it?
Give me a it's a wild guess.
It was 28 cents a gallon in 1967 when I got my driver's license, my pottique le Mans.
That was with taxes, that was with everything.
And then there were gasoline wars.
Uh and sometimes the price would go to 25 cents.
Now stop and think about this.
Now, granted, you know, I was working my first job and I was making, I think a dollar and a quarter an hour.
It didn't matter.
I was living at home.
I gave my dad my paychecks.
I was sixteen.
So 28 cents in.
Then we get to the 70s, and of course, all hell broke loose.
They had Nixon wage and price controls.
We had contrived shortages of oil.
There weren't really any shortages.
And guess what happened?
The price of gasoline overnight doubled.
It didn't go from 28 to 31 to 35 to 37.
All of a sudden it was 50 cents, and that was a huge shock, a dramatic percentage increase.
And then it didn't take long for it to get to a dollar.
Then we had the gas lines.
We had gas stations open two or three days a week, alternate days you could go in based on your license plate, depending on where you lived to gas up.
Uh we had people siphoning gasoline out of their energy their their neighbors' cars.
Uh people have forgotten.
And look where we are today after all of that.
We are prospering like never before.
We are affluent like never before.
And yet people who were alive during those days uh and experiencing it for the first time in the price of energy jumping like that.
It was panic city.
But we don't learn that there was no need to panic.
Uh that was 1967.
Now, of course, the gasoline, figure what, a little over three dollars a gallon since 1967.
Uh this is 2008.
What is that, 40 years?
That's not really bad, is it?
From 28 cents a gallon to over three bucks a gallon in 40 years, and yet look at the panic the drive-bys are able to inspire and instill in people.
Uh despite this, we are booming.
All of these cycles, up and down, do not kill us.
We adapt and we prosper.
I mean, prices for everything will always increase.
Prices always go up.
Phone bills more expensive.
Now, some things are uh are immune to it.
I mean, you will have the introduction, say, of high-tech electronics uh at ridiculously high prices, but that's to recoup the RD, and because they know there's suckers like me who'll go buy the first version, and thanks to suckers like me who go out and spend 1,200 bucks in the first Betamax, the price comes down to 200 bucks in a short Period of time.
These things happen to work.
Because markets work.
People always want cheap stuff.
Every holiday season, people are waiting here to find the best deal.
When do they not try to find the best deals?
News out of China, by the way, Chinese global trade surplus.
Up 50% last year.
Numbers came out overnight last night.
So all this talk about boycotting ChICOM toys and so forth, it didn't happen.
All the lead cunt, it didn't matter because people want to pay as little as they have to for things.
That has never changed.
It does not mean that there are economic problems ahead because people, consumers, are trying to find deals.
When have you not tried to find a deal on a car?
The only exception is when you buy a house, you love to tell people how much is spent for it.
When you buy a car, you love to tell people how you screwed a dealer.
All of this stuff is just cyclical.
It happens all the time.
There's nothing new here.
And guess what?
Because people want low prices, well, we got a Walmart.
We got Walmart, and Walmart's so successful in Democrats trying to destroy it.
And why are they trying to destroy it?
Because Walmart has created a bond and loyalty to its customer base that Democrats want government to establish.
Democrats want low-income people, middle-class people, to look at government with the respect, the loyalty, and love that they look at Walmart with.
You know, I just, I watch all this and have all these economic stories of people in panic, and I just cringe because it just isn't necessary.
But I'll tell you, one of the things, see, the problem is that there are people, Matt and Albright's won $1.
There are people throughout the U.S. government who don't like the fact that we're the only world superpower, both militarily and economically.
And they want to do everything they can to bring us down.
Some people, Albright, who would love the ChICOMs to become a competing economic superpower because of their perverted view, lacking the concept of American exceptionalism, they think the world would be more stable because they think the U.S. is evil.
And that we need to be counterbalanced.
This is a serious problem, and that's who's telling you things are bad.
No need to think about it, folks.
We do that for you here.
Redefining him.
Happy birthday to you on the radio.
I warned you people.
Birthday L. Rossbo.
Warned you.
Happy birthday to you.
Thank you very much.
I every year I beg, I plead, I command, I order.
Do not do anything in my birthday, and this isn't even my birthday.
So now you people watching on the Ditto Cam studio is not on fire.
Have you actually got the right number of candles in there?
All right.
What's the deal?
You're supposed to make a wish and blow them out.
And if you blow them all out, then the wish is granted.
Something like that.
What happens if you don't blow them out?
All right.
All right.
Notice none of them have the guts to show themselves to you in the ditto cam.
All standing aside, willing to be seen.
All right, here I've made the wish.
Okay.
The wish is that this is the last year this ever happens.
You're not going to be able to do that.
No, that was not the wish last year.
Okay.
Oh, damn it!
I got screwed in a wish.
Now, see, I did that on purpose to be human.
So that I could not blow out all just way to go.
Way to spill a cake wax all over the cue sheet for the audio soundbook.
Holy.
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She's-I told you she looks sexy here.
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Cookie recipe, blah, blah, blah.
Awesome birthday here.
Hope a big celebration is on your agenda.
You know she couldn't care less about my having a happy birthday.
All right, thank you.
The EIB staff.
Once again violating orders.
And bringing by the way, oh they left.
I don't know what kind of cake it is.
Hopefully it's a Yeah, I know.
You know why that's a good point.
Go to New York next year on my birthday and leave me alone up there.
Oh, it's a yellow cake with white.
We call that a white trash cake.
Yeah, I knew, I know.
That's I was hoping that you would remember if you're gonna go ahead and do this.
Hoping.
No, no, it's not just made with tweet.
Look, I want to finish what I was saying in this economic business.
Thank you all very much.
It is.
I'm trying to get better at receiving.
You know, having attention focused on me for a birthday is embarrassing to me because there's no achievement here.
Living another year.
I'm not that old aware it's an achievement.
Oh, I'm not Don.
It's anyway.
To finish off this business on the economy, what there are a number of people in this country, folks, you have to under you well, you've seen them in action trying to secure defeat in Iraq.
There are plenty of people.
Madeline Albright has said countless times, the Clinton Secretary of State, that it's bad that we're the only superpower in the world because it promotes instability, it makes the rest of the world hate us.
And of course, to believe that, you cannot, you must not, if you're if you're Madeline Albright and other people like her, you simply cannot accept the concept of the U.S. as the good guys.
If you want there to be a competing supertower power, particularly a competing economic superpower and a competing ideological superpower.
For example, if you want a country like the Soviet Union or the Chicoms to be a competing superpower, then it's ideological.
So you want an enemy.
You must not have the concept of the U.S. is the good guys.
You must believe that we're evil.
You must believe that we are the cause of many of the so-called problems that uh that exist in the world.
And these people are getting a tollhold now on the economy.
Uh there are people who want the U.S. economy to become less important to the world and in the world, and the reason they say this, it's very seductive reason.
They say, well, you know, if if there was another competing economy under competing financial center out there that could maybe wrest control from us, then it would cushion our down cycles.
But when we're the lone economic superpower, if we go down, the world goes down with us.
That's not fair, Mithra Limbaugh.
That's being egotistical.
We must protect the world, forget the thorthcomings.
This is the new Castratti speak, by the way.
We must protect the world, Mithra Limbaugh from the thorthcomings of the U.S. capitalistum.
And so they're gonna really run and tell people, yeah, it'd be good if there were another major economy that would absorb the blows for the rest of the world when we have a down cycle.
Is that not perverted?
You you you start allowing that to happen.
We're eventually going to be eclipsed.
And if you think the economy's bad now, I mean, everything's, you know, a product of expectations.
Umly in the United States of America, where there is American exceptionalism and high expectations, could some kluts making a hundred thousand dollars a year, whine about having to take public transportation.
And he doesn't live in New York.
No, no, he doesn't 100,000 in New York, you know, is one thing, 100,000 saying Atlanta, 100,000 in Biloxi, you know, it's a different thing.
Complaining and whining about a hundred grand and how the economy is forcing hardships on him.
Only in America could that happen.
And then, of course, ready to ride right in and capitalize on this, your Democrat Party, which wants to portray all of this misery as the result of George W. Bush's tax cuts for the rich, which in fact were tax increases for the rich.
The rich tax increase went up.
The amount of dollars they pay, top 1%, top 5%, top 10%, up.
Their rates may have gone down, but they're paying more of the income tax burden than ever before.
So the Bush tax cuts were actually Bush tax increases.
I'm spending time on this because the Democrats, I noticed after the debate last night, just couldn't stop talking about how rotten and horrible the uh the economy is.
And they're trying to tick off or take off of a pew poll that showed that 84% of the American people very happy with their lives, very comfortable, comfortable with their lives, but 70% of those same people said that uh America's headed in the wrong direction.
And how in the hell can that be?
How in the hell can that be?
It's precisely because, while 84% think things are hunky-dory, they think they're not for everybody else.
They're hearing about the subprime problem.
They're hearing about mortgage foreclosures.
They hear it's stupid comment from John Edwards that every night in America, 200,000 people are sleeping under bridges.
Or on grates.
And that most of them are U.S. military veterans.
Flat out lie.
But they hear all this, they can't take the chances now.
Oh, that's terrible.
America, veterans, we must be headed in the wrong direction.
Even though their own evidence, their own life's evidence, is um is expressly counter.
So let me just let me just grab you this economic story I keep referencing here.
Uh oh, and by the way, Washington Post also on the case here, economy slumps to the top of the campaign agenda.
But then on page two, they ask, what is the economy?
Different voters have different anxieties about the economy.
For some it may be jobs.
Really?
Statistical full employment for how many months?
Years now?
For others, it's housing.
Really?
We have a housing crisis, a housing shortage.
Do you realize you try to find the good in everything?
Do you realize that as this housing bubble splits and the mortgage crisis goes on that realize what's happening?
House prices are coming down, which is gonna aid who?
First time home buyers.
Yeah, it's not gonna help existing home buyers.
Their equity may uh be awhile in in returning.
That's a cycle.
It happens.
Go back to the eighties.
Let's go back to the eighties again in oil.
Oil got down to ten dollars a barrel in the eighties.
Boy, that was great for consumers, domestic oil business.
Bottoms up.
Plant them dead and plant a flag because they had to cap all the wells.
They couldn't make money bringing oil out of the ground at 10 bucks a barrel.
Great for the consumer.
You think things have never been worse?
Those of you who were alive, do you remember the Carter years?
They were so bad we had a misery index to measure it.
Interest rates at twenty-one percent.
Inflation was what?
14%.
Uh Jimmy Carter created the modern Islamic Republic of Iran with the Ayatollah Khomeini by getting rid of the Shah of Iran.
Think things are bad now?
They've been much worse.
The point is we came out of it.
You go back to any point in time, Great Depression, all these so-called recessions, look where we are now.
Better than ever.
Every day in America is better than the day before.
Now here's this story I keep referencing.
It's at a Los Angeles Times.
Public senses and economy going south.
Date lines, Sedalia, Colorado.
The numbers stopped adding up some time ago, and every month.
Shane Cavelli gets angrier.
He sells heavy equipment on commission, and construction firms are not buying.
Cavelli has sold his Corvette.
He has stopped taking his wife out to dinner.
He's pulled his son from the ski team.
He has withdrawn nearly 50 grand from his retirement accounts, started taking extra work, laying carpet, pouring concrete evenings and weekends.
Still he owes more than he earns, and he just can't seem to fix it.
I'll take the country four or five years to dig out of this, said Cavelli, 44.
By then I will be bankrupt.
In Atlanta, Bernadette Smith, 4031, has watched her credit card debt climb to near 40,000.
Yeah, she was sitting there minding her own business, folks.
Poor woman, just sitting there getting up, doing her best to make it happen in this rotten economy known as the United States of America.
One day, one day, while she minding her own business, trying to be a great citizen, a credit card bill comes in, and no and behold, her credit card debt is 40 grand.
She just watched it climb to 40 grand.
She had nothing to do with it, according here to the LA Times.
Just watched it climb.
That's more than her annual take home pay.
What a sucky country.
How can this this is not fair, ladies and gentlemen?
Woman's credit card debt magically enlarges to the point it's larger than her take home pay.
She works 13 hours a day at two jobs, once obsessed with the latest style of designer genes.
Bernadette Smith, 31, now shops for clothes only at Walmart or maybe Target.
At The embarrassment.
Why the indignity?
What a rotten country.
She has come to consider dinner at Ruby Tuesday a splurge.
This is embarrassing.
This is and these people apparently proud to have their names in the Los Angeles Times with these details attached.
Just watched her credit card debt, clandularly 40 grand.
Is that ever happened to you, Mr. Snurtley?
You've been watching your credit card debt every month that comes as it gets bigger, and you just watch it happen.
You say, How does this happen?
This is not fair.
This is not right.
Now I got to go to Walmart.
Yes, but if the credit card debt goes up, you usually have something to do with causing it, do you not?
you weren't just standing idly by.
The faltering economy costs Leslie Garza 18, nearly an hour of sleep every morning.
Her mom won't spend the gas money to drive her to downtown Los Angeles for jobs scooping ice cream.
So she sets the alarm early and takes the bus.
Garza recently cancelled her cell phone service to stretch her $450 a week paycheck.
What are we doing to our children, folks?
What are we doing to our children?
She's 18 and she has to get up an hour early to go scoop ice cream.
Losing an hour of sleep in the United States of America.
Enoch Brown, 49, a data entry worker in Atlanta, said his annual household income is about a hundred grand.
Yet he's riding public transportation to work so he can save on gasoline and parking.
So he's making an economic decision.
Does it mean the country's horrible?
Does it mean the economy's in the dregs?
This is the drive-by media, and this is what they want you to think.
And of course, they're trying to evoke sympathy for this.
Now, a lot of people, you know, some of you people waste money.
We all waste money.
Do you know what one of the largest areas of wasting money is?
It's right in your own home.
If you own a home and you have one of these age-old conventional water heaters, the big tank, you are wasting your money.
It's heating hot water you're never going to use.
It does.
And then half the time the hot water's not there if you got guests in the house or the kids are irresponsible.
You talk about wasting money.
Well, I tell you what you can do about that.
You can get a Renee tankless water heater.
That's what you can do.
There's a little it's a little upfront cost, but you will stop wasting money because the hot water will only be there when you need it.
It'll always be there when you need it, but it won't be there when you don't.
Would you still drive a Model A?
No.
We haven't changed technology on water heaters in homes in a hundred years or eighty years.
You have to admit this is a brilliant transition.
Not too many broadcast specialists could do this.
They've got a savings calculator on their website, ForeverHotwater.com.
Folks, this really is this revolutionary.
You'll have all the hot water you need whenever you want it, and you won't have it when you don't need it.
And so you'll gonna save money like you cannot believe.
Just go to ForeverHotwater.com and see what I'm talking about.
No, no, sit tight forward and get to the Republican debate.
Uh audio sound bites in the next hour.
Rushlin bought talent on lawn from God.
By the way, if you go out and get a Renee Tankless Water Heater, you won't have to have your kid get up an hour early in LA to take the bus to her ice cream scoop job.
All right, Dan in Crescent City, California.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Yes.
Okay.
Uh you are wrong about the Clinton Obama routine.
Here's the situation.
Uh where's Hillary from?
Chicago.
Where's Obama from?
Chicago.
This is all Clinton S. Uh he's designed as her uh Mount Everest, if you forgive the pun to conquer.
And then after she wins the whole enchilada, she will magnanimously take him as her running mate.
It'll be the black Obama vice president, Hillary president.
She'll have a woman's vote, she'll have a black vote, and he will be repeatable.
Yes, it will be.
No, it's not guaranteed.
It's not gonna happen.
And if I'm wrong about it, I'm just interjecting a human moment.
It will happen.
It's not gonna happen because there are two reasons why it ain't gonna happen.
Number one, I've explored the theory that Obama was placed there as the mountain for her to climb to show she can overcome an obstacle.
We uh espoused that theory back in uh in summertime.
Uh Bill Richardson has gotten out of the race, but he hadn't gotten out of it.
He's gonna stay in it, but he's not gonna campaign.
And that is to shift his votes to Mrs. Clinton.
Clinton called uh Bill Clinton, Don Clinton Leone, called Bill Richardson a bunch of times last week, and after those phone calls, Richardson has pulled out.
He hadn't pulled out, but he's pulled out.
He hasn't announced he's over, but he's pulling out.
He wants the VEP badly.
He's Hispanic.
Mrs. Clinton, Democrat Party, as I've told you all week, the Democrat Party is scared to death that the Republicans are gonna come up with a way to beat either of these nominees because they think we're racist or sexist.
They're not gonna give the Republicans the way they look at us.
Not say they're right there's how they look at us.
They're not gonna give us two targets.
They're not gonna allow us conservatives to defeat him with both racism and sexism.
That's what they that's what they fear, folks.
I've told you this all week.
I know some of you still can't get your arms around that, but believe me, that's one of the things they fear on the Democrat side.
Plus, she's not gonna put somebody more popular, more charismatic, that's gonna make people wish that he was the president.
It ain't gonna happen.
It's the fastest three hours in media, the first of three today in the can.
On the way by armored courier to the nearest warehouse, secretly housing and protecting artifacts that will make up the future limb broadcast museum and massage parlor.
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