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April 2, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 2, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Great to be with you, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
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The excellence in broadcasting network.
I say, well, we needed a name for a network.
I'll just name it after the kind of broadcasting that it's going to be.
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And boila, there it was.
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In all of this stuff, the education problems that I detailed in the last hour in the inner cities of this country, the problem's not the American people.
You know, still bouncing off Senator McCain's speech to the uh cadets at Annapolis today, not the midshipment in Annapolis.
Uh American people are spoiled and they're a little too cynical and they take their freedom for granted and blah, blah, blah, blah.
Overall, the problem is not the American people.
The problem is the government and how government manipulates people, how the government literally abuses people.
And now the government uses them.
The problem, folks, is liberalism.
Liberalism, which controls most of the government and how it seeks to transform our society for the worst.
And Senator McCain could easily address that and contrast himself with the Democrats also seeking the presidency, but he doesn't.
He doesn't address it in this way.
He doesn't blame the government or the or liberalism for this because he believes in a lot of it.
I'm just saying this by virtue of the legislation that I've seen him propose.
We can't run around and say the American people are great one day that left to their own devices they'll succeed, and on the other hand, condemn them, or most of them, or a lot of them.
Uh this this is an argument that the against liberalism and big government.
Uh what it what here's what liberals do.
What do they do?
Liberals say that people are too lazy.
Liberals are too stupid, and whatever, and they need to be managed.
Liberals have contempt for the average American.
Liberals do not believe the average American can overcome obstacles in life.
And so it is sort of unfortunate to hear Senator McCain parroting this message of the left with his speech at Annapolis today.
That's not our position is just the opposite.
We have the greatest faith in the world in the American people.
We want a great nation.
We as conservatives do.
We want people to be the greatest they can be.
We don't want to hold anybody down, and we don't want to give anybody any excuses, and we don't want to make them victims of anything.
We don't want to treat them like children.
I mean, there are people out there like that, but but but not overall, but the liberals are out there trying to create as many of those people as they can.
Now the uh the oil price, the gasoline price, we had a great call in the last hour.
Somebody has said, what we're not we're not cynical.
We're outraged at the government because it's the government that's leading to high gasoline prices because we won't drill for our own oil.
Here is a um story, this is from uh rigzone.com.
Massive oil deposit could increase U.S. reserves by ten times.
America's sitting on top of a supermassive 200 billion barrel oil field that could potentially make America energy independent, and until now has largely gone unnoticed.
But thanks to new technology, the Bakken Formation in North Dakota could boost America's oil reserves by an incredible ten times, giving Western economies the Trump card against OPEC's short squeeze on oil supply and making Iranian and Venezuelan threats of disrupted supply irrelevant.
In the next 30 days, the U.S. Geological Survey will release a new report giving an accurate resource assessment of the Bakken that's B-A-K-K-E-N, Bakken Oil Formation that covers North Dakota and portions of South Dakota and Montana.
With new horizontal drilling technology, it's believed that from 175 to 500 billion barrels of recoverable oil are held in this 200,000 square mile reserve that was initially discovered in 1951.
The U.S. Geological Survey did an initial study back in 1999 that estimated 400 billion recoverable barrels were present, but with prices bottoming out at $10 a barrel back then the report was dismissed because of the higher cost of horizontal drilling techniques that would be needed.
It was estimated at $20 to $40 a barrel.
It was not until last year when EDG resources of Texas started a frenzy when they drilled a single well in partial North Dakota that's expected to yield 700,000 barrels of oil.
But real excitement and money started to flow into North Dakota.
Marathon oil investing one and a half billion, drilling 300 new wells in what's expected to be one of the greatest booms in oil discovery since oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938.
U.S. imported about 14 million barrels of oils per day in 2007, which means that U.S. consumers uh sent about 340 uh billion dollars overseas building palaces in Dubai and propping up unfriendly regimes around the world.
If 200 billion barrels of oil at ninety bucks a barrel are recovered in the high plains, the added wealth of the U.S. economy would be 18 trillion dollars, which would go a long way in stabilizing the U.S. trade deficit could uh cut the cost of oil in half in the uh in the long run.
North Dakota's biggest lake holds big potential.
There's there's uh in fact, here's a here's uh even even more uh on this.
Uh and this is from Minnesota Public Radio.
There's an oil boom in western North Dakota.
Oil companies, large and small, are investing millions of dollars in new wells.
The North Dakota oil industry has boomed and busted many times in the past fifty years, but some believe new technology to horizontal drilling and high prices now will bring long-term stability to the North Dakota oil patch.
Steve Gidry from Marathon Oil said that all indications are we're going to be challenged to meet the world demand for oil and gas.
So there's a whole bunch of it up there, and people are starting to move in and get it.
Uh, which, my friends, is um great news.
North Dakota officials uh estimate they will approve permits for 500 new oil wells this year.
All that activity means more oil revenue, which means a healthy surplus for state government.
The oil tax brought in 170 million dollars last year to North Dakota.
Oil revenue expected to be at least 300 million dollars uh next year.
Uh in other news around the world, Cuban shoppers are snapping up DVD players, motorbikes, and electric rice cookers that are going on sale to the general public for the first time.
Did you know also that uh Cuban citizens are now allowed to check into Cuban hotels?
Raul Castro is but I don't look at Cuban shoppers are not snapping up DVD players and motorbikes and electric rice cookers.
They are they've been told that they can.
The problem is they can't afford them yet.
They've been told they can check in a hotel, but they can't afford it.
They've been told that they can own DVD players, they can't afford them yet.
But this is progress.
It is progress, and we need to look at it that way.
Another superdelegate has come out of the jello for Obama.
Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal, a former Clinton administration appointee, announced today that he will support Obama for the Democrat presidential nomination.
Uh, Freudenthal said he was impressed by the large enthusiastic crowds.
That is why.
That's why.
That's why he is supporting Obama because the big crowds.
Hey, Barry, you're getting great big crowds out there.
I'm I'm supporting you.
The uh the governor also said that Obama gave him an honest answer about putting the Wyoming range in western Wyoming off limits to oil and gas drilling.
Something that uh Freudenthal would like to see the U.S. Senate approve.
So they're going crazy up in North and South Dakota, but the governor of Wyoming said Obama promised him they put Wyoming range in western Wyoming off limits to oil and gas drilling.
Uh no, it's not the deposit we just found.
The deposit we just found is in North Dakota and South Dakota and a little bit of Montana.
Uh point is there's either there's oil in Wyoming too.
This is but this is liberalism.
We got a Democrat governor endorsing Obama because he's promising not to drill for oil.
I'm telling folks, the next time you start wondering about high gasoline prices, and the next time you get mad at it, please, please do not blame big oil.
Would you blame your government?
Would you blame liberalism?
That hearing yesterday was the opposite of what it should have been.
Big oil ought to be conducting hearings and bringing members of Congress up and say, why are you making it so damn hard for us to conduct our business?
Why are you making it so hard for us to provide the American economy what it needs?
The free flow of oil at market prices.
Why are you standing in our way?
That's the question that needs to be asked.
Why did they take a timeout here?
Uh much more straight ahead.
We haven't even tapped the audio soundbite roster yet, and we still got a lot of operation chaos updating to do from headquarters.
All that straight ahead after this.
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Motorists in Los Angeles County could end up paying an extra nine cents per gallon at the gas pump, or an additional ninety dollars on their vehicle registration under proposals aimed at getting them to help fight global warming.
You think gasoline is high now.
This is exactly what I have predicted is going to come of the man-made global warming hoax.
You are going to be blamed for destroying the planet by virtue of you driving your cars and using your barbecues and whatever else, and you are going to be forced to pay higher taxes to uh uh achieve salvation and uh uh forgiveness of your sins.
So you think gasoline is high now, nine cents a gallon at the pump, or an additional ninety dollars on your vehicle registration.
Voters would be able to decide whether to approve this being called the climate change mitigation and adaptation fee.
Under legislation being considered by state lawmakers and endorsed by the Board of Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
The money would fund improvements to mass transit.
Nobody's gonna do it.
So we're gonna raise taxes on gasoline or your vehicle registration are going to build up mass transit.
White rail all over the place in Southern California to relieve traffic congestion at a time when transportation dollars in Washington and Sacramento are hard to come by.
At this point, the people of the LA region just have had it when it comes to traffic and air quality assemblyman Mike Fuhrer, or for I don't know how you pronounce F-E-U-E-R, who is the author of this boondoggle legislation.
Opponents are already rallying against the measure, saying it exploits public concern about climate change to tap taxpayers for MTA's regular service.
Uh that this is it's exactly whoa, it's exactly what I said it was.
You're being punished, folks.
You've destroyed the planet.
You're living too high on a hog.
You're gonna pay even more for gasoline.
Your sins must be accounted for.
And this is not all from the Washington Post today, the headline, Beacon or Boondoggle, new lights for the Capitol.
The warm white glow of the Capitol Dome may soon go green, part of an effort by Democrat congressional leaders to save energy and modernize the district's nocturnal landscape.
But like so many issues on Capitol Hill, a plan to update the building's 18-year-old exterior lighting has ignited partisan bickering.
Republicans and other critics say the project's early phase is wasteful.
They question whether a six hundred and seventy-two thousand dollar contract to design the lighting system was steered by Republic or Representative Robert Brady, Democrat Pennsylvania, to his home district.
All of this is for global warming.
All of this is to become more energy efficient, but here you go.
Converting to a more eco-friendly system has turned out to be expensive, and the work has just begun.
One guy's office rejected two lower bids to recommend awarding the lighting design to the lighting practice of Philadelphia, which is located in a Democrat Congressman's district.
A guy's name is Robert Brady.
The contract covers no installation costs.
This is this is just classic.
It's the same thing with these compact fluorescents.
You're going to end up with mercury all over your house if you're not careful.
Same thing with biofuels.
All this is just it is a it is a boondoggle.
Even if a new configuration were to miraculously reduce electricity consumption to zero at current electricity rates, it would take more than forty-five years to recoup the money spent on the system's design.
So this is going to cost so much to change the lighting to eco-friendly that even if it were free, it would take 45 years to recover the costs in the so-called savings.
Liberalism, folks, government at work.
How many of you ladies, well, not just ladies, how many of you guys use Botox?
This is serious news, and it explains a lot.
Botox can move from its injection site to the brain, according to a study, and all it is is botulinum.
Scientists injected rats, whisker muscles with botulism toxin.
Tests of the rat's brain tissue found that botulism had been transported to the brain stems.
Researchers said this in the Journal of Neuroscience published today.
The idea that there could be some transmission of this to the central nervous system needs to be followed up, said Matthew Avram, the director of Massachusetts General Hospital's Dermatology, Laser, and Cosmetic Center in Boston.
Now, this treatment's been used on millions of people for years, and we're not seeing major central nervous systems with it yet.
Oh, really?
Anybody notice the change in John Kerry once he started taking Botox?
Any number of people.
Back to Los Angeles.
It's bad enough they want to raise taxes out there, nine cents a gallon.
I thought when I saw this, I thought this was April Fool's joke until I kept reading it.
Headline of this, this is from the Los Angeles Times is from yesterday.
Los Angeles City Council rejects ban on homicides.
The proposed symbolic gesture provokes conversation, but in the end, lawmakers vote instead for a resolution that seeks to build awareness and dialogue about the root causes of violence and killing.
The Los Angeles City Council dropped plans yesterday for a symbolic moratorium on killing, deciding instead to use the upcoming anniversary of Dr. King's assassination as an occasion for promoting peace.
Council members have been asked by a handful of activists to declare a 40-hour ban on murder.
After 40 hours, go back to it.
I thought this was an April Fool's joke, but I kept reading this.
40-hour ban on murder and other forms of violence, a concept one critic quickly derided as silliness.
After a 45 45-minute debate on this, the LA City Council reworked its resolution on the topic, saying the city's opposition to homicides should last more than a single weekend.
I forget who it was that said it.
I want to say G.K. Chesterton, but could be wrong on this.
If you don't believe in God, you'll believe anything.
And if you don't believe in God, you're going to come up with your own religion anyway.
If you don't believe in God, if you don't believe that there's a Satan, then you will never understand human nature, and everything you do to change it will only lead to an increase in the negative attributes of human behavior that you decry.
This people, they are liberals and they are serious about this.
And you know, we've got some people this country who will read about this.
Well, Myth or Limbaugh, I think that's an admiral thing for oldest countful to do.
Because the hormethide and murder should be thropped.
And if uh if you we should ban it with make people safer, these people actually react.
Have you ever heard of the law?
It's already illegal to kill people.
Have you ever heard of the Ten Commandments?
Thou shalt not kill.
Separation of turtle state Metherlimbaugh, you can't fight that.
That's not relevant and it's not legal.
Oh.
But a state or federal law says you can't kill somebody is yes, what the government does with the limbaugh is justifiable and it's necessary.
And if they think it will help to have a 40 hour ban on Hornithi, yes, but people like you that left fun of this and mock it.
That's the problem in our society.
There are people out there like that, folks.
Ban murder for a weekend, and after that you tell a Crips and Blood's okay, boys, have back at it.
I was right.
Even when I have doubts, I'm right.
It was G.K. Chesterton who said, when people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing.
They believe in anything.
And that is ever so true.
Stop believing in God doesn't mean they believe in nothing.
They will believe anything.
And I'm telling you, that's that is one of the most direct routes that the global warming hoaxers are using to get two people on all of this.
People have been really patient on the phones.
We've only taken one call today because frankly, I, your host have been on a roll.
But I want to reward these people and their patience.
This is Ed in Philadelphia.
Great that you waited, sir.
Thanks very much.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Uh it's a an honor speaking to you.
Thank you very much.
Uh I am old enough to remember when I graduated from high school, there was only one job available that was stockborn in a department store.
And yeah, and you have it, you were lucky if they call you for an interview.
Now let's go up to 204, 5, 6, 2,000.
The greatest economy that I ever remember.
It was a help wanted economy.
I drive a limo.
One man limo, I'm the boss.
And wherever I went, I saw help wanted ads.
And in the papers, the news, corporations like caterpillar, deer, the coal industry.
They can't get enough help.
They were giving signing bonuses.
Even today.
And real estate went up 81%.
And people who had 401k, Iris, they're not in the middle class anymore.
They're wealthy.
And that's and even today, they people do not appreciate how good the economy is.
Yeah, I uh I agree with you, but you know, you have to be careful.
And I'm gonna use my own uh not I I don't mean you personally, but you have to be careful in talking to people about this.
Um because most people's historical perspective does not begin when you were born.
It begins when they were born.
And they don't most people in this country don't they cannot relate to uh having only one job opportunity, and that being a stock boy in a department.
They can't relate to that.
Rush, uh there's one other uh I like to change course.
The uh pharmaceutical industry.
They just invented a vaccine for cervical cancer.
They invented the vaccine for AIDS, they invented a vaccine for bacterial meningitis, on and on and on.
I have a state that was invented by them.
And people's lives have been saved, and yet they despise the industry that saves their lives.
I know, I know.
I went through this last Friday.
Uh uh uh must have spent 20 minutes.
The theme of last Friday's monologue was how thirty years ago, we in America were proud of our country.
We were proud of the car business, the auto business.
And we wanted them to do well.
When they made mistakes, they wanted we wanted them to fix their designs.
We wanted to make cars that we want.
We were proud of them.
We were proud of the of the medical, and we were proud of the U.S. military.
We were proud of all of these institutions.
Today people have been told by government and media to hate them.
The liberal enemies list is big retail, big pharma, big drug, big oil, big anything.
If it's if it's corporate, and they have convinced people that all of these institutions are out to screw them and shaft them and do it on purpose.
And it's it's but here's here's what I was gonna say to you earlier about this.
I remember growing up when I was teenage years, And my dad was just he was hell bent on getting me to go to college.
And I wanted no part of it.
I hated school from the second grade.
I have never been a conformist, and I hated being part of a you know a giant little ant farm made up of human beings.
I hated school to me was prison.
I'd look out the window and I'd see everybody driving around and I said, why can't that be me?
And I had to take to do all these what I thought were stupid things.
Had to learn to paste in the second grade.
Two pieces of paper to paste.
I hated paste.
I hated the way it smells, I hate it all.
I had to do all this stuff.
I hated being told what I had to do all even when I was second grade.
So I'm just telling you all this because it my my dislike for school grew with every year I had to go to it.
Find my senior year.
You know, when they passed out the yearbooks on the last day, I took mine and scrammed.
I don't have a single signature.
I couldn't wait.
That was a as I think back on it, at that with a happiest day of my teenage life is when high school was over.
I hated it.
But they had parents, you've got to go to college.
I said, why?
He said, son, it's the only way you're going to stand a chance in this world is to get an education.
I said, Dad, isn't it isn't it true that what I really need is a degree to show somebody that I have supposedly been educated.
No, son, you need to get educated.
And he started telling me about the Great Depression.
And he had lived through it.
Formative experience in his life, that in World War II.
And he started telling me how bad things were in the Great Depression.
And he said the only way that anybody had a chance in the Great Depression was if they were educated.
He he that was his formative experience.
He did not want me to have to experience what a lot of Americans experienced in the Great Depression.
And that was, in fact, for for a lot of baby boomers, the whole notion of going to college is based on the Great Depression.
The whole pressure to do so is based on the on the Great Depression.
Nothing wrong with it, but I didn't want to.
I already knew what I wanted to do.
But my point to you is this, yeah, when he started telling me about that, I just said, well, internally, I didn't I didn't show disrespect to him, but I just said to myself, well, that's crazy.
We're not gonna have another Great Depression.
I know what I want to do.
I'm gonna uh you have to my point is you have to be very careful when you tell people they don't know how good they've got it.
Uh th if if they haven't lived through a calamity, a real calamity, and you try to describe one to them, that it it they may try hard to understand it, but they're not gonna be able to relate to it.
So, you know, I I could sit here and I could tell people all day, which I have, uh, that I've been fired seven or eight times.
And the first job I ever had was shining shoes in a barbershop when I was thirteen, I think I made fifty bucks in three months.
And then I when I first started radio when I was sixteen, I got 75 cents an hour.
No, no, nobody's gonna, it's not gonna affect anybody.
It it's it's it uh unless I try to put it in perspective, said look what's happened here.
After whatever number of years of devoted dedication to my desires, look look what finally happened to me.
After being fired seven times, country's gotten better all these years.
In an attempt to try to tell people, do you realize how great your country is?
Yeah, the price of food's up right now, price of gasoline's up.
Instead of demanding that you're right to demand the government do something about it because they're the ones responsible for it, but not big oil.
They don't set the price.
And I'm gonna tell you something else, these food producers, they would love to sell you as much food as possible, and that means as cheaply as possible, but they don't have control over their price either.
Once the price of energy goes up, to transport their goods from the field to wherever it goes before it gets to your grocery store, it all adds up.
And as I said yesterday, and this is something that everybody has to stop and consider.
The rest of the world is starting in in large places, is starting to modernize.
In China, President Hu Xin Tao, his pressure is creating 25 million new jobs a year.
He's got to do that or he's gonna face a revolt.
His second challenge is to keep the people that don't live in the cities from coming into the cities.
Keep them out there in their peasant farms to where their demands are not high, their expectations are not high, but he's losing that battle.
More and more of them are moving into the cities into uh Beijing, Shanghai, and when they get there, they don't want to just live on rice.
They want to add little protein to the rice.
Uh beef, chicken, what have you, then they want to drive a car.
Uh And so that puts demands on things.
And demand is going to raise prices.
And it's a global economy now.
There are all kinds of these.
And the same thing is happening in India.
But in terms of the specific economic circumstances in which we find ourselves.
Well, try this.
I read these headlines today over the New York Times and a couple other places as I was doing my exhaustive show prep.
And I said, How in the hell can this be?
Here's the headline.
Wall Street optimism that crisis is fading.
Stocks started the second quarter with a soaring rally on Tuesday.
They sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average up nearly 400 points.
It's best performance in two weeks.
As investors found reason to take heart in a fresh round of mortgage-related write-offs at UBS and Deutsche Bank and a capital infusion of Lehman Brothers, the brokerage firm.
Ryan Larson, Voyager asset management trader.
UBS was providing transparent transparency to the market.
That's something we've desperately needed in the face of this crisis.
Okay, so we're going to write off so everybody can see it rather than hiding it.
And I said, Now wait just a second.
For the last what is it, three months, maybe even longer, the drive-by's have been predicting an economic doom, heading into recession.
They say we're already in recession.
Am I right?
I'm I right.
Give me an Amen.
And then after one day, the news is maybe we've turned a corner and we're coming out of this.
And then two hours later, the Fed Reserve Chairman, Bernanke takes to the microphones at another one of these Senate committees and promptly predicts a recession in the first six months of the year or a serious slowdown.
Well, it's already, we're in the fourth month, uh, Fed chief.
So all of this optimism that was created by a headline today, we might have turned a corner.
We might have seen the worst of it.
And Bernanke goes up there and says, We couldn't face uh serious economic downturn.
Uh first six months, and bamboo, what's the stock price of well, Wall Street's doing, but it's it's not down.
Uh it's at twelve, six forty-one fifty right now, which it is.
It's down twelve dollars or twelve points.
Uh but this can I did roar up yesterday after all these firms admitted how bad shape they are.
Uh Lehman Brothers actually is the reason they came back yesterday, because they were able to double the amount of money they needed to borrow in order to stay afloat, and that say they're able to get credit, so that that fired everybody up.
But Wall Street shows optimism that crisis is fading, and Bernanke heads up.
I'm not criticizing anybody, I'm just saying, what wait a minute.
How does this happen?
In one day, the recession's been turned around, it's not a recession anymore.
There's a people get stuck with this stuff, they read these headlines, they see this stuff, they watch television, and they and they grow bad.
By the way, how many times have you heard me say, if you want to really be happy and content, turn off the television.
Try it, I've said.
Turn it off for a week.
And see how your life changes.
Cutting edge of societal evolution.
See, I told you so.
Wall Street Journal today.
Page D1.
Jonathan Clemens.
Despite the sharp rise in our standard of living in recent decades, Americans today are little or no happier than earlier generations.
Why not?
He asks.
Yeah.
Why now we have such a wonderful government, you know.
A new study suggests one possibility, the people are not happier.
Maybe we need to be smarter about how we spend our time, and no, that doesn't mean watching more TV.
Feeling unpleasant, you can think of your happiness as having three components.
There's your basic disposition, uh, whether you're by nature happy person or not.
Uh second, there's your life circumstances, your age, health, marital status, income.
Third factor, which is how you spend your time, something you have a fair amount of control over, the other things you might not.
This is the subject of a major news study by academics Daniel Kahneman and Alan Kruger, David, just a whole bunch of idiots.
For the study, the five professors studied some 4,000 Americans asking what they did the previous day and quizzing them in detail about how randomly about three randomly selected events in the day.
The bottom line is uh the less TV people watch, the happier they were.
I gotta take a break.
I'll give you details as we come back.
But I knew it.
Uh I told you to try this years ago.
Wall Street Journal just getting around to it, as are these professors, cutting edge of societal evolution.
Right here.
All right, here's the bottom line on the uh professors and their study of happiness, contentment, and so forth.
The standout cluster was what the authors label engaging leisure and spiritual activities.
Things like visiting friends, exercising, going to church, listening to music, fishing, reading a book, sitting in a cafe, going to a party.
When we spend time on our favorite of these activities, we're typically happy.
We're engrossed.
We're not especially stressed.
Time goes by, we're not bored.
We have more leisure time than ever before in our society, and yet we're not doing those things.
We're zoning out.
We're sitting in front of the television.
There's been a significant increase in the hours devoted to what the authors call neutral downtime, mostly watching TV.
Women now spend 15% of their waking hours at the television.
Uh, men devote 17%.
Uh watching TV may be low stress, moderately enjoyable.
People aren't mentally engaged the way they are when they're exercising or socializing with other people.
Uh these guys don't comment on what you see when you watch TV.
They're just you're sitting there zoning out.
If you add what you see on TV and what it does to affect you, how it affects you.
Try it, folks.
You really should.
Just listen to this program and don't watch any tele.
Don't especially news.
Don't.
Don't, and I will get and spend the time doing things with your family, your spouse, if you can handle that.
Going out with friends or what have you, just for a week.
Maybe even if you can't do that, try three days.
TV's addicting to some people.
And you just see if you're not better off.
You know, if you're not more content.
If you're not if you're less worried all the time.
Back to the phones, John in Dallas, your next sir on the EIB network.
Hello.
Howdy, sir.
How are you?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
First time caller, mega dittoes to you.
Appreciate that.
Been listening for over 20 years.
Well, that's that's uh great, thank you.
Uh listen, you you made a comment earlier in the uh in the show about uh, you know, people being up to fuel prices, uh, food prices, things like that, and turning to the government for help.
And essentially I feel the same way, except I'm turning to them for help to get out of what they're doing.
You know, and and clean up the mess that they've made the cleaning.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly right.
That that has been the message of today's sermon.
Exactly.
Because as an example, um uh basically we've always done my own uh small business, and we've been blessed in a lot of ways.
And uh we have some uh acreage here in the in the uh in the area, and uh we grow hay and and uh you know, putting animals out and stuff.
But anyway, uh over the last five years to fertilize that that uh ten acres uh with weed killers cost me just shy under three hundred dollars.
But this past year, because of ethanol and the demand for those crops and the and uh the spike in fertilizer and everything else to go to go after that, uh that price is has uh uh over doubled.
It cost me this year over six hundred dollars to do the same thing.
All right, now you're not blaming big oil, or you're not blaming the fertilizer company, you're blaming the government.
Well, exactly.
Well, good.
Yeah.
A smart guy on the phones here.
Yeah.
I mean, that's I mean, you know, i i i if we could get them, you know, which is I I mean, it's almost as if every politician ought to have a course in economics before they go to Washington.
Uh you know, or or or actually go after in hands-on uh in a tutelage.
Well, I mean, you know, that's I I agree.
I I that that would never happen, but it's a great way to illustrate the point.
I mean, here are these guys on that committee yesterday lecturing big oil.
Big oil is the you may hate oil companies, but there's no reason for you to, but you may hate them.
You've been forced to hate them, but they're the ones putting gasoline in your tank, and these little two-bit nerds on that committee lecturing these guys wouldn't know the first thing about projecting a raising and drilling and producing any oil if their lives depended on you to sit up there as experts here, screwing everything up.
Okay.
All right.
We gotta get to Operation Chaos in the next hour, and we will do that.
Audio sound bites and uh and your phone calls.
People want me to stop ripping on McCain.
You gotta understand that's gonna help him, you McCain people.
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