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Jan. 28, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 28, 2008, Monday, Hour #3
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Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone serving humanity simply by showing up while executing the assigned programming and host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
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What?
Am I going to do you what?
No, I'm not going to tell you who to vote for in the Florida.
No, I'm not.
I just I just had a caller.
I'm not going to.
I don't want any callers to say who to vote for.
I'm not going to tell you.
I'm voting in the primary tomorrow, but I'm not going to tell anybody who to vote for.
I'm not I'm not going to sit here and endorse anybody right now.
I don't even say, well, are you even going to vote tomorrow?
And I thought about maybe I shouldn't vote because, you know, the but I'm going to vote.
Because if I didn't vote, it'd be in the paper six hours later.
No, I'm going to vote, and I'm not going to tell you who I'm voting for.
A vote is sacred.
The vote is private.
I won't even, if I get exit polled, I'm going to lie.
That's about the only bit of advice I'd give you.
Just to have fun screwing up the network's reporting the uh returns at the end.
We've got a bunch of sound bites from the Senator Kennedy endorsement of Barack Obama coming up in mere moments.
There are other items in the news out there, however.
Retirees living off of Social Security are frustrated they won't get tax rebate checks through this stimulus package.
And so Senate Democrats Friday began efforts to include them.
The Senate is also considering an extension of jobless benefits.
See, they got they got hosed on that in the House.
And the Democrats want to add some things to this now, like extension of unemployment benefits and adding the seasoned citizens to it.
And what they're what they're gonna do, uh they're just they're they're gonna they're gonna add every group who whines and cries and moans the loudest to the stimulus package, uh, and the seasoned citizens happen to be yelling first, and then the unemployed are right behind.
Now, the the did you see this figure over the weekend?
The uh the pundits and the drive-bys are telling us that this election is gonna cost more than a billion dollars.
And I I would say to you, it's gonna cost more than 150 billion dollars.
The election's gonna cost more than a billion bucks, they say, but it's gonna actually cost us 150 billion.
When an economy does not need a rescue plan and gets a rescue plan, that is not government spending.
Uh by the way, this is gonna add to the deficit, folks, because this is not new money.
It's just, you know, what we have here, when an economy does not need a rescue plan and gets one, this is campaign spending.
This is not this hundred and fifty billion dollar stimulus package is nothing more than campaign spending on the part of both parties.
I'm not singling anybody out here.
I mean, if they really wanted to give the economy a boost, they would make these tax cuts permanent or at least extend them for five years.
Everybody knows that would do a lot more to accelerate the economy.
It would also increase tax revenues at the same time, which it has done up to now.
But I don't think the issue is the economy at all.
The issue is the election.
Uh, and of course, we have Madame Pelosi, who is the most ethical speaker in the history of the House.
Remember her promise of paygo.
Uh, we're not gonna pay for anything until we uh we're not gonna go with anything until we pay for it.
Uh spending 150 billion dollars here in campaign funds uh during an election year means that she should be cutting spending 150 billion dollars.
You you uh you want to make me a bet that there's gonna be 150 billion dollars worth of uh spending cuts.
There will not be.
Uh U.S. blacks see financial apartheid in the subprime crisis.
They had small means and big hopes of owning a House.
But African Americans snared in the U.S. mortgage crisis have seen the American dream turn into a nightmare, many call financial apartheid.
The storm triggered by risky subprime loans has left many in ruins, forced out of their modest homes, and furious at uh falling victim to financial dealings that have taken a particular toll on minority families.
People of color are more than three times more likely to have subprime loans, concluded the organization United for a Fair Economy.
Who the hell is this bunch?
No doubt a liberal group, this is a recent report of theirs, estimates that minorities have seen between 163 billion and 278 billion dollars of their equity go up in smoke since 2000, with its weakened economy and a large black population more used to renting.
Cleveland has become a poster child of the subprime crisis in a country where some 2.1 million borrowers are behind on their mortgage payments.
Financial apartheid now.
Financial apartheid in the some subprime crisis.
What a term.
Financial So they'd be they're being singled out.
2.1 million Americans, but you know, 90 95, 96% of all Americans are paying their mortgages, ladies and gentlemen.
They also all have they have jobs.
They have jobs.
I mean, we're not we're not running high unemployment.
They have jobs, they just foreclosed on Democrats are trying to preempt the State of the Union tonight.
At the National Press Club today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid launched into a tightly coordinated pair of speeches in which Pelosi focused on domestic policy, especially job creation, and Dingy Harry demanded that Bush restore the nation's standing in the international community.
Uh Pelosi ad lib, let's hope this is our last Democrat pre-buttal that next year we'll have a Democrat president.
But who's she endorsing?
She endorse anybody out there.
Uh you know funny to watch these people.
Uh in case you missed this, this is absolutely pathetic today.
Mrs. Clinton, in an AP story, has ripped the Bush administration and President Bush personally for being out of touch with the American people.
And this story came out just as Senator Kennedy was about to move to the podium to endorse Barack Obama.
Pathetic.
I mean, here she is getting her rear end kicked.
She's getting her clock cleaned by Barack Obama, and she has to go back.
She has to attack Bush, who's not on the ballot.
And she's now been frozen out of the media coverage.
She's going to be frozen out of the media coverage till tomorrow night.
Ah, the cameras will find her tonight at the State of the Union, I'm sure, if she's there.
But to uh, you know, Obama owns the the uh the press coverage of the day than the State of the Union is tonight.
The Democrats trying to preempt the State of the Union, but they can't.
They can't even beat George W. Bush.
Congressional approval ratings are lower than at any time in history, and that's because of George W. Bush.
He hadn't shrunk, he hasn't cowered, he's not acting like a lame duck.
He does continue to talk about freedom the world over, something we do not hear in a Democrat presidential campaign.
Uh the you get right down to we all have problems policy-wise, time to time with the president, but the dirty little secret is he has kicked the Democrats in Congress all over the sandbox.
They have nothing to show for their time in office and in power since November of 2006.
Be right back.
All right, we'll get back to your uh your phone calls here in due course.
Ladies and gentlemen, time now for you to hear uh segments, uh excerpts of Senator Kennedy's endorsement of Barack Obama today.
You know what strikes me?
One thing that strikes me is you know, go back to almost a year ago.
When when did this guy Aaron Stein write the piece in the LA Times, Barack the Magic Negro?
Was that not March or April?
You know, you get into February or March, it's almost a year ago that we had all these people sharped and upset.
We had Biden talking about what a clean cut articulate guy Obama was, and made Sharpton mad.
We're almost a year in.
So what was the point of all that?
Back then, the Barack the Magic Negro column in the LA Times, he wasn't black enough, right?
We had people, he wasn't down for the struggle.
Is he authentic enough?
Now all of a sudden, he is the black candidate.
He is the black candidate.
There's no question that he's black enough now.
In fact, just to reiterate a prediction.
Well, not a prediction, but uh suggestion I won't be surprised if it happens.
Future Clinton TV commercials on Obama.
If they use still shots of Obama, don't be surprised, they're photoshopped to show I'm a little darker than he is.
Like Time magazine did on a cover picture of O.J. Simpson.
All right, here's the first of what do we get here?
We get five of them.
We got five Kennedy sound bites from the endorsement, and we've got Chris Matthews analyzing it when it's over, which is all just too rich.
But here's the first of five from Senator Kennedy.
And I I have to tell you, I watched a little bit of this in the uh break between the first and second hours.
It wasn't bad.
Let me say how much I respect the strength, the work, and the dedication of two other Democrats still in the race, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards.
They are my friends.
They are my friends.
They have been my colleagues in the Senate.
John Edwards has been a powerful advocate for economic and social justice.
And Hillary Clinton has been in the forefront on issues ranging from health care to the rights of women around the world.
Whoever, whoever, whoever is our nominee, will have my enthusiastic support and will have yours too.
Let there be, no doubt.
We are all committed to seeing a Democratic president in 2008.
Okay, now we've cut some of the applause up.
In fairness, you have to trust me in this.
The references when he made uh made those references to Mrs. Clinton.
There was some applause.
It wasn't nearly as thunderous and loud as it was during for other people, even for Edwards, the Bret girl, or certainly when Senator Kennedy got going.
But of course, this is Senator Kennedy being gracious, and this is also his insurance policy.
Uh, in case Obama doesn't get it, he's now positioning himself to go back to the Clintons and say, hey, we're cool, right?
I like my kneecaps, uh, and everything's cool, right?
I mean, so the insurance policy is bought, it's paid for, it's put down.
Now we get to the meat of the matter.
But I believe there is one candidate who has extraordinary gifts of leadership and character, matched to the extraordinary demands of this moment in history.
He understands what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the fierce urgency of now.
He will be a president who refuses to be trapped in the patterns of the past.
He is a leader who sees the world clearly without being cynical.
He is a fighter who cares passionately about the causes he believes in, without demonizing those who hold a different view.
I told you this was going to happen.
I had this letter from Senator Kennedy, this email that went out endorsing Obama, and I the two or three really hot phrases in it.
This was one of them.
Uh demonizing their opponents.
I mean, he's talking about the Democrats here, for this is not.
He didn't mention Republicans at all to this point.
So he's he's this is you know he's bought the insurance policy, but the Clinton's now he's had the first wreck in the card.
He's hoping the policy pays up.
But here come more wrecks.
The Clintons cannot be pleased with this.
Here's the next bite.
I remember another such time in the 1960s, when I came to the Senate at the age of 30, we had a new president who inspired the nation, especially the young, to seek a new frontier.
Those inspired young people marched, sat in at lunch counters, protested the war in Vietnam, and served honorably in that war, even when they were opposed to it.
They realized that when they asked what they could do for their country, they could change the world.
This is another such time, my friends.
I sense the same kind of yearning today, the same kind of hunger to move on and move America forward.
I see it not just in the young people, but in all of our people and in Barack Obama, I see it as well.
Applause was thunderous and sustained at this point.
About those people who were inspired.
They marched, they sent it at lunk lunch counters, they protested the war in Vietnam.
Yeah, and some of them were spied on, including Dr. King by Senator Kennedy's brother.
Robert F. Kab, we're not gonna talk about that now.
I just wanted to mention it.
Here's the next excerpt from Senator Kennedy's endorsement of Senator Obama.
I believe that a wave of change is moving across America.
If we know not turn aside, if we dare to set our course for the shores of hope.
See what I'm talking about here.
There's this is just it's platitudinous.
It's it's empty.
It's chamelot.
It's return.
In fact, I'm not folks, I'm gonna tell you something.
I'm uh it is clear here that what the Democrats desperately want to do is return to the past.
And they want to go way back beyond the 90s.
They're not looking to the future despite Obama.
This is a replay of the Kennedy campaign in 1960.
Once they want to go back.
Now, some some of you might be shouting at your radio, what about you?
You keep talking about Reagan, you want to go to the past.
Uh, it's a big difference.
This is the cult of personality on parade again, trying to make Obama into JFK.
Camelot, relive an era which was imaginary to begin with.
They want to go back and try to make it real.
Uh we are looking forward on the Republic Conservative side anyway.
I think you could you could say that uh the McCain how do you I mean, with all the Jurassic Park residents that McCain has endorsing him, all these old establishment blue blood country club types.
Uh how how can how can that's clearly a a uh uh shout out to the past uh as uh as well.
One more Senator Kennedy, and then Chris Matthews puts all that you have heard into perfect liberal perspective.
He is tough-minded, but he also has an uncommon capacity to appeal to the better angels of our nature.
I'm proud to stand with them here today and offer my help, offer my voice, offer my energy, my commitment to make Barack Obama the next president of the United States.
And it went on and on and on the thunderous applause.
It was a minute at least, if not longer, and then Kennedy, I think continued, and Barack finally came up and uh took the podium and the microphone away and began his speech.
But before Senator Kennedy finished, he uh appropriated a phrase made famous by Ronaldus Magnus in talking about Obama said, we too will have our rendezvous with destiny.
Uh and that's Ronald Reagan from 1964, the 1964 Goldwater speech.
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.
Uh you know, it's it's kind of embarrassing to me that the Democrats are talking more about Reagan than our guys are.
All right, PMSNBC, otherwise known as DNC TV.
Senator Kennedy's endorsement of Obama, Chris Matthews said, and you're gonna hear another voice, and it's Mike Barnacle trying to interrupt and copy what Matthews is saying before Matthews finishes it, but Matthews is not giving up authorship of this one.
And the young people there.
You want to know what the early 60s were like?
You just saw it.
It was magic.
And I think it's real, and I think that it's not partisan, it's not political, it's just a fact that the cat that Teddy was able to bring back that today.
This is magic.
I don't know if you heard him because of the the crosstalk.
To you young people out there, you want to know what the early 60s were like.
This is magic, is what Matthew said.
It's not partisan or political.
Of course not.
How could it possibly be partisan with Ted Kennedy?
How could it who would ever, ever think that the Senator Kennedy is partisan?
Uh it's not partisan, it's not political, not political.
It's all political.
All of this is politics.
It's just a fact that Teddy was able to bring back that today.
So this is um uh snarely.
Okay, you cynic rush, what's wrong with hope?
Um tell me what it ever accomplished.
Hey, happily, uh, ladies and gentlemen, making the complex understandable.
That's very much what we do here on the EIB network.
I appreciate those of you offering assistance in the uh email rush.
Come on, you're making too much of this Ted Kennedy endorsement of Obama.
There aren't anybody around that remembers Camelot and JFK, what they're trying to do.
Oh, my friends, my friends, be careful if you think that.
Be careful if you think that.
If you have young churrin today and they're attending the public scrubles, and if they are, you know, high school on down, you ask them.
What have you been taught about FDR?
A lot, mommy, a lot.
He was great.
He was great.
Yeah, what have you been taught about JFK?
Oh, yeah, Camelot, mommy.
Dave K was my greatest president ever.
Uh what about LBJ?
Who?
LBJ no.
Nixon.
They hate Nixon.
Nixon was horrible.
He started the Vietnam War and got two million people killed.
Okay, what what about Gerald Ford?
Who?
Uh, what about okay, little Johnny, what about what about uh Jimmy Carter?
Uh uh.
No.
But come on, Dad.
Camilla, that's Kennedy's JFK.
Yes, peace corps.
Uh what about Reagan?
He was an actor.
Dad, he was he was just an actor.
He's an actor became president.
Look, Dad, Republicans are warmongers.
Look at Nixon.
Don't think your kids, don't think these young people don't know about JFK and don't think they don't know about FDR.
That's what they're taught in the schools, folks.
That's what's in the school books.
Republicans are warmongers.
Reagan was an actor.
That's right.
B actor.
Big time for Bonzo.
Can we rent that, Dad?
I want to see what an idiot make it wise, like my teachers say.
Sure, kid, head on to Blockbuster.
I'm paying for it anyway.
We'll see you when you get back.
We'll watch it after dinner or after you finish your video game on how great JFK was and what a great place.
Camelow.
Look for the video game on Camelot, by the way.
Uh soon to be forthcoming by a number of game producers on the Obama SUD.
Here is Nancy, Rescue California.
Hi, Nancy.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Russ.
You cracked me up.
Hey, I'm a second-time caller from just outside your adopted hometown of Sacramento.
Yes, I know where rescue is.
Oh, you do?
Good.
Hey, um, you know, I'm a converted Republican conservative.
Uh once upon a time I was a Democrat, but thanks to you, I've learned a lot about politics, and I became a convert largely from listening to you.
Well, thank you very much.
It's honor, and I pre appreciate that.
Say, I wanted to say that I think the reason that Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are becoming such front runners is because they're positive.
I think they're pleasantly genuinely positive.
Even when they are saying things that might be um considered an attack on one of the other candidates, uh, they stick to the truth and they do it in a positive way.
I think positive sells, I think positive wins.
Well, you know, you're right in in a lot of cases, uh, the power of positive thinking books make millions for the author.
Quick, who was the author?
Um Dr. Norman Vincent Peel.
Norman.
Vincent Peel.
Norman Vincent Peel, right.
Um, but you know, in politics, it's somewhat odd.
Uh in a lot of cases, if you you can see where politicians have really scored big by trying to make things sound horrible and trying to relate to it.
Uh and of course, that that that is the Clinton campaign and the Edwards campaign.
Uh Obama, yeah, I guess you would say that that his speeches of soaring vapidness are are tinged with the positive based on what we can all do working together if we get rid of red states and blue states as have the United States.
Uh yeah, yeah, I I you know you're right.
I Look at I believe it personally and in in uh firmly in personal relationships.
I think I think optimism always is is is uh uh infectious, it is inspiring, but there are a lot of people who don't want to deal with optimism because they'll have to work hard to achieve it.
Pessimism's easy to sit around and mope.
And uh pessimists love to feel have people feel pity for them.
And the Clintons are excellent at that.
Uh feel your pay.
I'm gonna cause your pain, but I'll feel it after I cause it.
Uh a lot of people love blaming other people for their own misery.
And in politics, it's one of the things that's frustrated me is that uh being pessimistic and doom and gloom uh seems to uh were I hope you're right.
I hope you're right in that sense.
We'll see.
Do course at Reagan, of course, the epitome of good cheer and optimism, and of course so am I. And uh you can look at my audience compared to the doom and gloom crowd anywhere else in the drive-by media and see which is preferred by the public at large.
Phil in Brooklyn Park in Minnesota.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Uh Mega Summary Ditto's from uh the People's Republic of Minnesota.
Thank you, sir.
El Mucho.
Um what I was going to call about is when you said that uh the senior uh I'm sorry, seasoned citizens, or more in advance in years than myself, uh, were complaining about not getting um a rebate, I said, heck, give them all rebates.
We got people that are not paying taxes because they make too little that are gonna get rebates.
At least uh the older individuals uh paid into it, so I mean, we're talking a $13 trillion economy here.
150 billion is nothing.
Uh yeah, I know.
I know.
It's it's it's well it's it's not gonna do anything.
It's just of course not.
I mean, 13 trillion But no, but you start giving out money when the government starts giving out money, that's when people start paying attention, especially if they're not on the list.
Right.
But then if we get them to give it out, or the Congressman people to give it out, then after the election we can start hammering them about how look at what you're spending this money on.
I mean, come on.
Just pound them mercilessly for uh throwing the money away.
Not at uh at the rebates, but on the other stuff, because then they're gonna say, well, what if you're not gonna spend it on us?
What are you spending on?
And then all this other stuff will come up.
I think it could be a good knife in the back on those idiots.
Uh uh be a good knife.
I've lost you.
I'm not I'm not sure what your point is.
You think that here's what I thought I heard you say.
They're gonna give the money away, and then after they give the money away, the people are gonna start spending it, and Congress is gonna complain about how they spend it.
No, no.
No, the people are gonna look at the because this is going on to the onto the deficit, and then the taxes, they're gonna say we're gonna have to raise taxes because we gave you that money, and the people are gonna say, well, wait a minute, what else you spend it on?
Because we only got, you know, four percent or whatever the heck it was.
And they're gonna start looking at that.
Well, but wait, wait, well, it's that that's not that's not gonna be the case because the people getting the money are not gonna get a tax increase.
Theor they at least in their minds they won't be given.
The tax increase that will be talked about is is raising taxes on the rich.
Uh so you know, I I know what your theory is that they're gonna use this giveaway as a way to say, look at the deficit, Skyrim, we have to raise taxes.
Sir, they're going to do that anyway if the Democrats win.
They're gonna susp they're gonna end the tax cuts.
And that is a tax increase.
It is that's already on the books as far as the Democrats are concerned.
That's you you can you can whatever it'll cost you to put that in the bank.
Don in Chicago, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Twenty-eight day dinos, Rush.
Hey.
Um I as you're aware, I'm sure uh Tony Resco was picked up by the feds coming out of his house this morning, and I'm wondering uh he got caught uh trying to redistribute some funds that he was previously told not to touch.
I was wondering who do you think this is gonna more negatively affect Hillary or Obama?
Uh I don't know yet.
Um I think uh to the extent that it's it's used by anybody, it's gonna be tough to hurt Obama with it because he's given this guy's money away to charity, the contributions from uh from Resco.
I don't know if the Clintons are gonna want to bring it up again.
They may not want to.
You you the you the question to me is out of the blue, the Bush Justice Department picks up Tony Resco coming out of his house near Chicago today.
What is this?
I mean, this is uh because the initial reaction is oh no, this is gonna hurt Obama.
The guy that he bought his house through or house through or take contributions for with a slum lord got picked up by the feds.
And then I started to think could the Clintons have been behind this.
You might say, how could a Clintons be behind this rush?
It's the Bush Justice Department.
I know, but you know how many holdovers there are in the um Clinton holdovers there are in the Bush Justice Department.
So this um this remains to be seen, and particularly if Rezco this moves fast enough to him to testify uh about anything.
But I admit the timing of Rezco being nabbed, walking out his house in Illinois is curious.
Earlier in the program, ladies and gentlemen, I mentioned to you, and quite accurately so you can take this to the bank that the Clintons, Mrs. Clinton, in order to blunt the uh two to one shellacking she took in South Carolina, majority of black voters uh voting for Obama.
This is what they want.
I mean, they I mean they've sure they didn't want this kind of racial rift, but they got it, they caused it.
Uh but they gotta have a firewall now.
They've got to make if they can't take the chance that there will be lingering black um shall we say animus and dislike for they've got to find somebody to replace those votes, uh, and that's the Hispanic vote.
Mrs. Clinton is going to make a beeline to the Hispanic vote.
Uh and she's gonna play the race card there.
Uh she's gonna pit these two minority groups against each other.
She's gonna point out uh in in her own way.
Sir gets to it, look how powerful of black voters are with South Carolina.
Look how powerful if they ever look at how powerful, and it's supposed to scare the Hispanics into blocking up with the Clintons so as to blunt the loss of blacks voting for Obama.
Now Obama's got a plan to deal with this.
Would you like to hear what it is?
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Senator Barack Obama easily won the African American vote in South Carolina, but to woo California Latinos, where he's running three to one behind Senator Hillary Clinton.
Obama taking a giant risk, spotlighting his support for granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
Obama's intention is to draw distinctions between himself and Clinton on what are otherwise indistinguishable positions on uh immigration.
So he's gonna come out full force in favor of driver's licenses for illegals in California to pull off some of the support, got peel off some of the support of the uh Hispanics for Hillary.
Now, where is Hillary?
Well, thanks to this program, Hillary had to come out against this.
She could go back now.
She could change her mind.
She could say I've tucked a Governor Schwarzenegger, understand what he's trying to do here.
Who knows?
But this now the Democrat Party is divided purely along racial lines.
Look at the outcome.
You had you have white women vote for Hillary, yet all blacks vote for uh Barack, and you had uh white guys vote for Edwards, the Breck girl.
Uh I mean, the the bloom is off the rose.
The truth about what this party actually is plain as day for all to see.
This is Paula in Bryan, Texas.
Uh, thank you for calling Paula.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, thanks for taking my call, Rod.
I've been a long time listener.
I've listened to you back when I I've just had to flip in a small part.
I l the very first day I heard you, you were talking about Mike Tyson and what a nobody and a nothing he was as a human being, and I was so furious with you, and I've been listening to you every day, and you were right.
It took a few years for him to prove himself.
But you were right.
I don't think he was a nobody.
I think it was nothing from nothing gives nothing, is what your words were.
Well, he was a it was a troubled child and was just uh reaching.
Just in his desperate cries for help, defer deferate desperate punches for help.
Yeah, yes.
Right.
Well, everybody does remember their first day and what they were doing when they heard this program.
Yeah.
Well, what's up out there, Paula?
Okay.
Well, I'm calling from Bryan, Texas, and I just have uh I j I just have a thought.
I've had this for a long time, and now we have this uh this money that is supposedly going to be coming to all of us taxpayers, uh, you know, six hundred, twelve hundred, whatever your case may be, I guess.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Um and you know, and yeah, I think it, you know, yeah, this will maybe stimulate the economy a little bit.
But I have something that I've thought about for a long time, and I wish that the gut that the government would look into something a little more meaningful and something that would have a little better outcome, in my opinion, that would also help with our fuel pricing.
And that is that I think that any homeowner should be given the money, or not that not actually even give them the money, but allow homeowners to install uh the solar panels that you know that they're creating their own electricity.
When you're not br using your electricity, you know that electricity is all sold back to the electric company.
Okay.
What do you do when it's cloudy?
Uh well, then you're then don't work when it's cloudy, and they don't work very well when it's sunny, not very efficient.
It's a myth, these solar panels, it's a great idea in the future.
We're not there yet.
I had them on my house in Sacramento.
Electric bills were supposed to go down.
I didn't notice diddly squat.
I don't even know if the things worked.
Contractor could just put them up there for looks, everybody can see them.
The inspectors, okay, they're up there, good.
Whoopee do.
I didn't know to diddly squat with them.
Uh I but Now, see, I've heard other people who say that they can actually go outside and see their electric meter running backwards.
Which means they're like they've they've oh they're a one bow narrow.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You you can't possibly.
You cannot.
Please, Paula.
You don't believe those stories.
Well, now that you've told me it's not true, I'm gonna believe you over that.
That doesn't happen at the at most that there is no way that any device that you put on your house is going to roll back the amount of electricity you've used.
Uh it might slow the meter down if there's any truth to this to where it moved very slowly forward or didn't move at all, but uh I don't think those meters are allowed to go backwards.
Uh just d wouldn't I wouldn't uh look it.
I understand you want to be energy efficient and uh and all that.
Uh and you if you know what you're really talking about here is saving money, right?
Right.
Right.
I think if we I think you know where you're wasting a lot of money?
Where?
Your water, your water heater.
Yeah, I agree.
You are.
Then there's a you can get water heaters, tankless water heaters, Renai makes one.
You get one, you won't waste any money.
A little bit expensive to put in, but you only have hot water when you need hot water on demand.
Does not heat it all up in advance, keep reheating it when you don't use it and so forth.
Uh if you want if you want real energy savings, haven't cut your gasoline tax for a month or a year uh or what have you.
But don't think there's a device that saves so much electricity that you um have your electric meter run backwards.
This is that would be kind of like this, Paula.
Remember back in the 70s, and I'm sure you do, when gasoline shortages contrived uh led to high prices, and we were just in we were inundated every night in a local news with ways to save gasoline.
Avoid jackrabbit starts, speed smoothly.
Uh, you know, uh don't idle when unnecessary and so forth.
And I there was a list of like twenty of them.
And I said, you know, I bet you if I do all twenty of these things to save gasoline, I'll have to get out every ten miles and siphon extra gasoline out of the tank.
Uh it just doesn't work that way.
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