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April 2, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 2, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Okay, we are back.
Great to be with you, ladies and gentlemen.
Midweek Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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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, Excellence.
And voila, 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, I'm still bouncing off Senator McCain's speech to the cadets at Annapolis today, not the midshipmen at Annapolis, because 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 liberalism for this because he believes in a lot of it.
And 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.
This is an argument against liberalism and big government.
Because 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, it's 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 not overall.
But the liberals are out there trying to create as many of those people as they can.
Now, the oil price, the gasoline price, we had a great call in the last hour.
Somebody has said, 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's a story.
This is from rigzone.com.
Massive oil deposit could increase U.S. reserves by 10 times.
America is 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 10 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 that real excitement and money started to flow into North Dakota.
Marathon Oil investing $1.5 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 sent about $340 billion overseas building palaces in Dubai and propping up unfriendly regimes around the world.
If 200 billion barrels of oil at 90 bucks a barrel are recovered in the high plains, the added wealth of the U.S. economy would be $18 trillion, which would go a long way in stabilizing the U.S. trade deficit, could cut the cost of oil in half in the long run.
North Dakota's biggest lake holds big potential.
There's, in fact, here's even more on this.
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 50 years, but some believe new technology, the horizontal drilling, and high prices now will bring long-term stability to the North Dakota oil patch.
Steve Guidry 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.
Which, my friends, is great news.
North Dakota officials 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 last year to North Dakota.
Oil revenue expected to be at least $300 million next year.
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.
You know also that Cuban citizens are now allowed to check into Cuban hotels.
Raul Castro is...
But I don't...
Look, 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, and 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 jell-o for Obama.
Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal, a former Clinton administration appointee, announced today that he will support Obama for the Democrat presidential nomination.
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 supporting you.
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 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'd put Wyoming Range in western Wyoming off-limits to oil and gas drilling.
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.
Point is, there's oil in Wyoming, too.
But this is liberalism.
We got a Democrat governor endorsing Obama because he's promising not to drill for oil.
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 saying, 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.
Glad to take a timeout here, 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.
Ha, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
And that's because I assigned myself the duties.
Motorists in Los Angeles County could end up paying an extra 9 cents per gallon at the gas pump or an additional $90 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 achieve salvation and forgiveness of your sins.
So you think gasoline is high now, nine cents a gallon at the pump or an additional $90 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.
Mass transit in L.A. is just ridiculous.
Nobody's going to do it.
So we're going to raise taxes on gasoline or your vehicle registration.
They're 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 were hard to come by.
At this point, the people of the L.A. region just have had it when it comes to traffic and air qualities at Assemblyman Mike Feuer, or 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.
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 going to 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 $672,000 contract to design the lighting system was steered by 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 a lighting design to the lighting practice of Philadelphia, which is located in the Democrat congressman's district.
A guy's name is Robert Brady.
The contract covers no installation costs.
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 boondoggle.
Even if a new configuration were to miraculously reduce electricity consumption to zero at current electricity rates, it would take more than 45 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 Evram, 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 an 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 is 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-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 I could be wrong on this.
If you don't believe in God, you 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.
These people, they are liberals and they are serious about this.
And you know, we've got some people in this country who will read about this.
Well, Mithril Limbaugh, I think that's an admirable thing for a city council to do because the hormoneside and murder should be stopped.
And if we should ban it and 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 church and state, Mithril Limbaugh.
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, Mithril Limbaugh, is justifiable and it's necessary.
And if they think it will help to have a 40-hour ban on hormones, yes, but there are people like you that left fun of this and mark 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 the 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 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.
It's an honor speaking to you.
Thank you very much.
I am old enough to remember when I graduated from high school.
There was only one job available that was stuck for in the department store.
And you haven't, you were lucky if they call you for an interview.
Now, let's go up to 204, 506, 2000.
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 401ks, Irish, they're not in the middle class anymore.
They're wealthy.
And even today, people do not appreciate how good the economy is.
Yeah, I agree with you.
But, you know, you have to be careful.
I'm going to use my own.
I don't mean you personally, but you have to be careful in talking to people about this.
Because most people's historical perspective does not begin when you were born.
It begins when they were born.
And most people in this country don't, they cannot relate to having only one job opportunity and that being a stockboy in a department.
They can't relate to that.
Rush, there's one other I'd like to change course.
The pharmaceutical industry.
They just invented a vaccine for cervical cancer.
They invented a 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.
Must have spent 20 minutes.
The theme of last Friday's monologue was how 30 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, we wanted them to fix their designs.
We wanted them to make cars that we want.
We were proud of them.
We were proud of the medical.
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 corporate, and they have convinced people that all of these institutions are out to screw them and shaft them and do it on purpose.
But here's what I was going to say to you earlier about this, Ed.
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 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, I had 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 smelled.
I hated all.
I had to do all this stuff.
I hated being told what I had to do, even when I was second grade.
So I'm just telling you all this because my dislike for school grew with every year I had to go to it.
Finally, 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.
As I think back on it, the happiest day of my teenage life was 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 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 start 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, the Great Depression, was if they were educated.
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 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 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.
When he started telling me about that, I just said, well, internally, I didn't show disrespect to him, but I just said to myself, well, that's crazy.
We're not going to have a Great Depression.
I know what I want to do.
My point is you have to be very careful when you tell people they don't know how good they've got it.
If they haven't lived through a calamity, a real calamity, and you try to describe one to them, they may try hard to understand it, but they're not going to be able to relate to it.
So, you know, I could sit here and I could tell people all day, which I have, 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 13.
I think I made 50 bucks in three months.
And then when I first started radio when I was 16, I got 75 cents an hour.
Nobody's going to, it's not going to affect anybody.
Unless I try to put it in perspective, say, look what's happened here after whatever number of years of devoted dedication to my desires.
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.
The price of gasoline's up.
Instead of demanding that, but 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 going to 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, 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 large places, is starting to modernize.
In China, President Hu Zhintao, his pressure is creating 25 million new jobs a year.
He's got to do that or he's going to 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 Beijing, Shanghai.
And when they get there, they don't want to just live on rice.
They want to add a little protein to the rice, beef, chicken, what have.
Then they want to drive a car.
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 with 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.
This is the Dow Jones Industrial Average up nearly 400 points.
Its 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 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-bys have been predicting an economic doom heading into recession.
They say we're already in recession.
Am I right?
Am 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, 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, couldn't face a serious economic downturn first six months.
And bamo, what's the stock prices?
Well, Wall Street's doing, but it's not down.
It's at $1,241.50 right now, which is down $12 or 12 points.
But this did roar up yesterday after all these firms admitted how bad shape they are.
Lehman Brothers actually is a reason it came back yesterday because they were able to double the amount of money they needed to borrow in order to stay afloat and say they were able to get credit.
So 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, wait a minute.
How does this happen?
In one day, the recession's been turned around.
It's not a recession anymore.
People get stuck with this stuff.
They read these headlines.
They see this stuff.
They watch television and they grow.
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 Clements.
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 not?
We have such a wonderful government, you know.
A new study suggests one possibility.
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, whether you're by nature a happy person or not.
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 Alvin Krueger, 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, the less TV people watched, the happier they were.
I got to take a break.
I'll give you details as we come back, but I knew it.
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 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.
Men devote 17%.
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.
These guys don't comment on what you see when you watch TV.
They're just 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.
You really should.
Just listen to this program and don't watch any television.
Don't especially news.
Don't.
Don't.
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 is addicting to some people.
And you just see if you're not better off, if you're not more content, if you're not less worried all the time.
Back to the phones, John and Dallas.
You're next, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Howdy, sir.
How are you?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
First time caller, mega dittos to you.
Appreciate that.
Been listening for over 20 years.
Well, that's great.
Thank you.
Listen, you made a comment earlier in the show about people being upset with fuel prices, 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 clean up the mess that they've made.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly right.
That has been the message of today's sermon.
Exactly.
Because as an example, basically I've always owned my own small business, and we've been blessed in a lot of ways.
And we have some acreage here in the area, and we grow hay and putting animals out and stuff.
But anyway, over the last five years, to fertilize that 10 acres with weed killers cost me just shy under $300.
But this past year, because of ethanol and the demand for those crops and the spike in fertilizer and everything else to go after that, that price has over doubled.
It cost me this year over $600 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.
But good.
Yeah.
A smart guy on the phone's here.
Yeah.
I mean, that's, I mean, you know, i i i if we could get them, you know, which is I mean, it's almost as if every politician ought to have a course in economics before they go to Washington.
You know, or actually go out there and hands-on, you know, tutelage.
Well, I mean, you know, that's, I agree.
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 or raising and drilling and producing any oil if their lives depended on it.
You're going to sit up there as experts here screwing everything up.
Okay.
All right.
We got to get to Operation Chaos in the next hour, and we will do that.
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People want me to stop ripping on McCain.
You got to understand that's going to help him, you McCain people.
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