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June 11, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 11, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #2
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I had a plant today in a Howard Dean breakfast with reporters.
And I just got the report from the plant who attended to Howard Dean breakfast.
And this is what he said.
He said, Democrats are nervous about Obama's chances in November.
But Howard Dean called such unease healthy.
I know they're nervous.
They have been nervous when the guy started losing primary after primary after primary in major states to the witch.
They were bugged by this.
They were troubled by it.
He did not get votes from traditional Democrat constituencies.
You know they're worried.
So my plant at the Howard Dean breakfast confirms this.
Dean says, I'm actually thrilled that they're nervous.
I think it's about time.
Last spring, there was this feeling of confidence that we're just going to roll through everything, and that's how you lose elections.
So I'm delighted that Democrats are really worried about whether they can win or not.
I'm just delighted about this.
It's absolutely going to be close.
There is no way that Howard Dean is excited that they are worried.
They know, folks, they know they have big troubles here because this election is not John McCain is not going to be that big a factor in this election.
This election is going to be a referendum on Obama.
People are either going to vote for Obama or they are going to vote against Obama.
Sad to say for you Republicans, that's just the way it is.
They're going to vote for Obama or against him, pure and simple.
And that's why it's going to be important for Obama to be properly defined by people who have courage and the willingness to treat this presidential campaign as it is, not some of these gutless wonders on our side that are out there saying, reportedly saying, that it is to demonize Obama, to refer to him as a liberal senator.
Anyway, from the Washington Post today, Senate Republicans yesterday blocked a proposal to tax the windfall profits of the nation's biggest oil companies and eliminate some of their tax breaks, rejecting Democrat claims that the measure would help assuage consumer anger over $4 a gallon gasoline.
You see, this is classic.
They weren't going to do anything that would lower the price.
They weren't going to increase drilling right here, right now.
They weren't going to do one thing to produce a drop more energy.
All they were going to do was punish big oil while leaving big beer alone.
They've got to punish big oil.
And they want, and here it is.
It's right here in the Washington Post.
The Democrats claimed that taxing big oil would assuage consumer anger.
That's not going to assuage consumer anger.
Consumers are a little bit more sophisticated than that.
Okay, so big oil gets taxed.
Find a nanny and the price of gasoline doesn't drop.
And in fact, keeps going up.
And Democrats think people are going to be happy about that?
The vote was largely partisan, each party sticking to long-held positions.
But the interesting thing about this story in the Washington Post is that Chuck Schumer Was going to address high gas prices by putting oil profits into a trust fund.
Here's what Schumer says: that today we had a chance to deal with the issue of high gasoline prices.
Republican senators said a resounding no.
Of everything they have done so far in terms of obstruction, this is the politically most damaging.
The bill would have used the revenue to create an energy independence and security trust fund tasked with reducing U.S. dependence on foreign and unsustainable energy sources, reducing the risks of global warming.
A trust fund, sort of like the Social Security Trust Fund that doesn't exist.
Sort of like the Social Security lockbox that Al Gore created that sits right next to Hillary's testicle lockbox, which, by the way, is not quite ready for the Smithsonian because she's still using it.
A trust fund.
And here Schumer says it again.
We had a chance to deal with the issue of high gasoline prices by taxing the oil companies.
Supposed to share their profits with the government.
Supposed to give their profits to the government in a trust fund.
Okay, let's see.
Senator McCain on the Today Show Today, Soundbite 23, Mr. Broadcast Engineer, Mawauer.
If it's not working, Senator, do you now have a better estimate of when American forces can come home from Iraq?
No, but that's not too important.
What's important is the casualties in Iraq.
Americans are in South Korea.
Americans are in Japan.
American troops are in Germany.
That's all fine.
American casualties and the ability to withdraw.
We will be able to withdraw.
General Petraeus is going to tell us in July when he thinks we are.
But the key to it is we don't want any more Americans in harm's way.
Wait a minute.
Tell me he didn't say that.
This is turning into a mush.
This is just, this is a bunch of mush.
Anyway, the Democrats are zeroing in a ladies and gentlemen on his comment that troops coming home from Iraq, that's not too important, he said.
John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, is beside himself over this.
Said it's unbelievably out of touch and inconsistent with the needs of Americans and particularly the families of troops who are over there.
To them, it's the most important thing in the world when they come home.
It's a policy for staying in Iraq.
Kerry and Obama aid Susan Rice also both said that McCain is confused, which McCain's camp says, you are attacking our clients' age.
And they're saying, yeah, not only is your candidate confused, McCain's out of touch.
He's unbelievably out of touch, is what John Kerry said.
Who served in Vietnam, by the way?
I understand the point McCain's making.
Yeah, we got troops all over the place, but getting them out of harm's way.
Well, the key to it is we don't want any more Americans in harm's way.
Well, yeah, but that's Democrat lingo.
Sure, we don't want them in harm's way after this is over and we leave a force there to manage and do whatever, but I know he was confused.
That's what he meant.
By the way, McCain said that New York Mayor Mike Blumy Bloomberg is still in the running to be vice president.
Yes, sir.
Senator McCain praised Mayor Blumy Bloomberg yesterday, talking up the mayor as a strong candidate for governor and refusing to rule him out as a VEP.
Asked during an interview with the New York Post whether the term limited billionaire mayor should be able to seek re-election to a third term, he said there's been some speculation about Bloomberg trying to move to Albany.
Do I think he could serve the state of New York in a country?
Well, of course I do.
This happened at the New York Hilton to sit down with the Post.
And he said he was also asked about having the mayor as his running mate.
He said, well, we don't talk about our vice presidential possibilities, but I appreciate Mayor Bloomberg enormously and the great job he's done as mayor.
So Michael Bloomberg, I knew this, certainly.
You shouldn't be acting shocked and surprised that Bloomberg is on the VP list.
Yeah, audio soundbite number two, Matt Lauer.
Senator McCain, can we make advances in the gas price coming down in that short a time?
I don't think that it's going to be dramatically changed, but I can't predict you except to say to you, I don't think it's going much lower.
And it could go higher.
These are the good old days.
Well, they were.
No, I don't think these are the good old days.
It's not going to get anything.
It's not going to get any better than this.
I don't think so.
Not when you've got a finite supply, basically, and a cartel controlling it.
Stand by to go to break.
Stand by to go to break.
A cartel doesn't control this.
I know.
I was just a little dead air.
Never hurt anybody.
I'm just reading some emails here.
I've got a lot of emails from subscribers commenting and complimenting me on my shirt.
Jose Bank, Joseph A. Banks, stays cool.
She really is.
It does look good.
I don't even feel like I've got it on.
Grab soundbite number 24, will you, Mike?
This is just a very quick little hit.
Five seconds.
You've got to listen fast to this, and we're going to go to the phone calls.
This is yesterday, and McCain is making a promise.
I will veto every single bill with earmarks.
He's going to veto every single beer, a bill.
What do you think was on his mind when he said, I'm going to veto every single beer?
Could it be his wife's fortune?
Okay, Jim in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
I'm glad you waited your first up today.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
I'm calling about the people standing up and cheering in York, South Carolina.
And you make it sound like the Gestapo is going to swoop in and arrest them.
Have you been to a high school graduation in the last 30 or 40 years?
30 or 40 years?
Yeah, I've spoken at a couple.
Aha.
Well, I hadn't been to one since my own in 64.
And I went to one not too long ago.
And it's a whole different ball game now.
And the people in the stands stand up and cheer and dance and raise hell.
I can't, you know, it's just ridiculous.
What Jim is reacting to here was a story we had in the first hour that wherever it was, I forget now, in South Carolina, there's a rule that you, as graduates are getting granted their diplomas and so forth, you're not supposed to cheer as each name is announced.
Yeah.
You're supposed to wait until everybody's finished, then you go nuts.
But seven people were arrested and taken away in handcuffs because they cheered individuals at the time they got their diplomas.
Yeah, and it's probably not just cheering.
It's probably dancing and waving their arms and singing.
I know that's really destructive stuff.
Which I guess worth getting handcuffed for.
I know the rule is the rule, but for Christ's, for crying out loud, handcuffs and cops coming in here and something on your record?
Yeah.
Look, I went to a graduation.
You asked me the question.
I went to a graduation mid-90s, and there was cheering.
Some of the kids got cheered.
Others didn't when they graduated, but it was nobody got carted away, and there was no rule said, you know, suspend until everybody gets your diploma.
And I didn't find anything wrong with it.
If everybody wants to make their own rules and abide by them, fine, but they have the cops come in there and handcuff people and take them away.
Maybe you're right.
Maybe they're doing more than just standing up and cheering.
Yeah, I think so.
And I'd like to see a little bit of dignity and respect for the feelings of the people that aren't cheering.
Well, I understand that, but I've been to too many of these things where the kids cheer each other.
It's a once-in-a-lifetime.
You only graduate from high school once, unless, of course, you have to go back, but later, vocational school or something.
The fact of the matter is, it was fun to watch these people do this.
It's their graduation.
There's too much fun being taken out of all this.
I mean, if you want to handcuff people, I'm telling you, there are plenty of things going on, I'll bet you, while this graduation is taking place, of people engaging in activity who genuinely deserve to be handcuffed.
This is, you know, this is not isolated.
It starts out by saying you can't pray.
You can't have any religious reference at your graduation.
And then you can't cheer at your graduation.
And then, who knows what it's going to be next?
As everybody sits around and lets all these little bitty encroachments take place, pretty soon, the cumulative effect pops up, and you realize that a lot of things you used to be able to do, you can't do.
Chris, Germantown, Tennessee, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
I was going to just ask you, why can't we attack these oil prices and the oil shortage like we have when we've set up for war during World War II or even when you had to rebuild the West Coast after earthquakes or Katrina?
You know, just go out and set your mind to it that you're going to drill in this country.
They could take the mothballed military plants, convert them to refineries, and get this thing solved.
Exactly right.
Why can't we do it?
I mean, you know, they've got to.
No, no, no, no, I'm asking.
You know why we can't do it?
You tell me.
Well, because other than all the libs in the Congress.
Well, it's not just the libs in Congress.
It's the leftists who populate the environmental movement.
It is leftists who populate any number of movements who have as their aim the destruction of American capitalism, the cutting of America down to size.
This is a serious thing.
People don't want to believe this.
They think, nah, Russia, you're getting a little too overboard here.
This is about making sure this country is no longer a superpower.
There are people inside this country and outside this country who want to cut this country down to size, who want to harm us.
They hate us.
That's why this is going to be a war.
It's got to be a war, but somebody's got to declare it.
Now, the Republicans in the House and the Senate yesterday finally stepped up.
Boehner did some great things.
McConnell did some great things.
They rejected this windfall profits tax.
They're doing some really, they're finally stepping up.
And there are people like Newt Gingrich has got his website, Drill Here, Drill Now.
Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less.
They got 500,000 signatures on their petition.
So these things are in the works.
I think it's great.
People are starting to get fed up with this.
And then when they learn that the party that claims to care most about them has all this compassion, that their only effort, not even effort, their only plan to deal with this was to raise taxes on the oil companies to punish them so that people paying $4 or more for a gallon of gasoline would not be as mad.
But the Democrat plan did not include one drop of new energy produced or discovered or refined.
So they admit that their plan is not about anything other than making sure that while you're mad, the oil companies get soaked.
They have no desire to cheapen oil and gasoline.
The Democratic Party right now does not.
This is a ticket to their re-election, they think.
Folks, this is serious stuff, this slow incremental loss of liberty and freedom.
What do you think a high gas price does to your liberty and freedom?
What do you think about a party that's not interested in taking action within the laws of supply and demand that would lower your gasoline price and other related petroleum products?
It's something that people need to consider long and hard.
There are actively people standing in the way of prices coming down by trying to thwart the laws of supply and demand.
The same people demanding energy independence are the same people standing in the way of it happening.
Mac in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Good afternoon.
How are you?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
I'm calling about the recent graduation situation out in the suburb of Cleveland.
I read in the paper where the students that were wearing military uniforms were denied the right to be on the platform in uniform.
And that's the way I read it in the paper.
So I got a little annoyed, and I tracked down the principal of the school, and the story as it appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer was completely incorrect.
The true story is the school board had passed an edict that they could not graduate in uniform.
So the principal compromised, and what he did was have the recent military, the military guys that had recently graduated basic and so forth wear their uniforms, carry the colors, and stand up for a standing ovation by the public that was attending the ceremonies.
And when I asked the principal why the story in the paper was completely different than what he had told me, he said that's the way he told the truth to the, he accurately reported it to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and they changed the story.
So there's a perfect example of the hit-and-run media.
Roger that.
Drive-by media.
That's correct.
Drive-by media, hit-and-run media, same thing.
They run over everybody's street and they keep driving on.
Roger that.
And it really got me annoyed.
Well, you know, it's a good thing you called the principal.
A lot of people wouldn't have done that.
They just read the paper and said, well, it got steamed and so forth.
Well, he took my call, and he was an outstanding gentleman, and I promised him I'd call you and report the story as it really happened.
Well, I'm sure that made his day.
And he said the Marine was wearing his dress blues, and they just wouldn't stop applauding.
And I said, you know, to take a uniform off a Marine is like trying to skin him alive.
Thanks for the call out there, Mac.
Great story.
Back in a sec.
Yeah, turn it up, folks, at least 800 decibels so that you miss not a single syllable.
Get this from Salina, Kansas.
By the way, you people in Salina, Kansas, don't have long to live.
You have along your town to Navalong as a book coming out this September by my friend Ted Bell called Czar.
And in this book, Salina gets bombed off the map.
The people are evacuated in time, but the town is gone.
It's a fascinating story.
It's a great, great book.
Police in Salina, Kansas, say a 66-year-old man whose car crashed into a house blames brain freeze from a cold drink for the mishap.
Robert Schultz told a cops that the sudden sharp pain in his head while driving Tuesday afternoon was followed by a chest freeze.
Robert Schultz said he had just purchased the flavored frozen drink from a sonic restaurant and was drinking it while driving at 3:45 in the afternoon.
But he was hit by the painful sensation often comes after a big swallow of cold liquid.
Schultz said his car then went out of control, left the street, and slammed into the front steps of a house.
An ambulance took him to Salina Regional Health Center, where he was treated for driving while slurping and then released.
Do you believe?
I made up the driving while slurping.
It's not actually in the story, but that's what this is.
Driver blames brain freeze after crashing car into Salina House.
You know, they're going to go to Sonic and they're going to ban these things.
He's going to end up suing Sonic for this.
Some lawyer is going to get hold of him and suggest it because the drinks that they serve are just too cold.
Be sure warnings on the cups.
Warning slurping while driving could lead to brain freeze, chest freeze, and you could drive into a house before you get home.
McCain has done it again, ladies and gentlemen.
This is the second time that I know of.
McCain is at a town hall meeting in Philadelphia.
He was asked for his position on drilling in Anwar and elsewhere.
He wasn't happy that the subject came up.
I knew, I knew I should have ended this before that question.
He said that he opposed drilling in Anwar for the same reason that he would not drill in the Grand Canyon.
I believe this should be kept pristine.
Now, the proposed oil and gas exploration and Anwar would only affect 2,000 of the 19 million acres or 0.01%.
On offshore drilling, McCain said, I respect the rights of the states to control the waters off their coasts.
Well, I think we should tell states like California and Florida that we will drastically increase the revenues they would receive if they open up those waters for exploration.
We can't drill in Anwar because that's like drilling in the Grand Canyon.
Now, this is the second time that I, because I'm on the cutting edge, that I have heard McCain make this analogy.
What is the analogy?
He is comparing a tundra, which is Anwar, and the Grand Canyon.
It's like saying, I can't dig a hole in my lawn because the next thing you know, Yankee Stadium will be at risk.
If somebody lives in New York here, I mean, there's no comparison.
Nobody goes up to Anwar to take tours.
It's barren.
This energy problem.
You know, you people can call here and we need a war.
We need a battle.
We need drill here, drill now, right now.
I agree with.
But look at these two presidential candidates.
Neither of these candidates can explain to us what his plan is to increase energy.
All they can do is attack producers.
Both of them are.
McCain wants to attack CEO pay and share the profits from the big oil companies, and the Democrats want to tax big oil and establish a trust fund.
Both parties are running candidates that don't have the slightest understanding of capitalism.
Not one of these candidates is telling us what they're going to do to grow our supply of energy and our access to it.
It seems like both of these candidates have no problem sending billions of dollars to other countries for the oil.
Many of these countries are our enemies.
And maybe they could both explain how doing all that increases our national security, too.
Who's next on this show?
John in Coral Springs, Florida.
Nice to have you on the EIB Network.
Hello, sir.
Hello, sir.
How are you?
Good.
I just had a comment for you.
I think you're a little bit mistaken about the high school commencement exercises and the cheering.
Yeah.
Being a teacher, I taught in high school, public school for about 10 years and been teaching in a private school for about five years.
And the whole idea of chanting and cheering, it comes from a place of a class kind of thing.
It's undignified.
Now, teaching in a religious high school, it's actually a religious ceremony and a commencement exercise, and it's just inappropriate.
It's just undignified.
And I don't quite see that it's analogous to the other things that you mentioned with the turtles and the endangered endangered red-cockaded woodpecker.
Right.
It's to me, and what you try to get students to understand is it's unclassy, it's undignified.
And it's not just that they're cheering and they're being loud and obnoxious.
It's kind of what I've experienced.
You know, you want it to be a dignified setting.
What are we talking?
We're talking high schools, too.
High school students and dignified?
Well, we try to get it.
They're getting out of prison.
They're getting out of prison here, John.
They can't wait to get out of there.
They're proud that they've graduated against the odds that they had rotten teachers and a rotten school, and they're still getting out of there with a diploma.
But you're trying to prepare them to be more than that.
You want them to see what is possible and not just stay within.
You don't see the loss of freedom in this.
You don't see the slow encroaching on freedom.
This is a celebration.
This is not a funeral.
Well, yeah, you can clap and you can applaud.
Well, that's what they did.
I think what the problem was is that it was more than that.
It was beach balls, hooping and hollering, and just unclear.
Well, I didn't see that in the story.
Beach balls and so forth.
I didn't see that.
At least they weren't burning the American flag.
I love you, Rush.
I just think that, you know, I see that you want it to be a dignified experience to remember with class.
Not just like.
Okay, let's go to a baseball or football game.
Okay.
Are we going to ban cheering for the good guys, booing for the bad guys?
No, it's a completely different setting.
Why?
We want dignity.
We want manners and we want dignity.
I mean, this is applauding achievement.
This is acknowledging achievement.
Right, but we're going to call that classless.
Well, If you're doing the commencement in a football stadium, okay, I can see where it would be much more rambunctious.
But if it's in a church or if it's in somewhere that's a more intimate setting, something that is used not just for sporting events, then it needs to be something that you're talking about.
You mean like the high school auditorium where everybody gets to play Snow White in the school play?
Well, then I guess that's why you tend to have it being like a sporting event.
the question you have to ask yourself is do you want it to be like a sporting event or do you want it to be something more something different i guess uh i don't have this is just it I don't feel, sitting from afar here, that I should impose what I think the proper behavior here for a graduation ceremony should be.
Now, if I ran a school district or a school, if I was the principal and so forth, yeah, that would be my responsibility to do that.
And if I did set up rules that said there won't be any cheering, I would realize I've got trouble.
I'm trying to control some 18 and 17 year olds who only want to get out of there because they've been in prison all of their lives.
And here they have finally done it.
And the more restrictions I put on them, the more I'm going to inspire them to break them.
These are high school kids.
These are kids that tried to solder the doors locked every day so they didn't have to get in there.
These are kids that wrote 89 sucks on roof that paint wouldn't cover.
I mean, these are kids that just get together.
Uncontrolled energy.
You and I don't have that kind of energy anymore.
But I certainly would not handcuff them and have the cops come out unless, and this story doesn't say this, unless they were really causing problems for other people and harassing them.
And if there was some physicality here, if there were threats, if the actions they were taking threatened the safety or the security of other people, then of course that's a different thing.
If they're just cheering the achievement of their friends or themselves, then I got, I have to be a little bit more lenient here.
Oh, well, but there again, okay.
I mean, you remember back during the condom craze of the late 80s, early 90s, people said these kids are going to have sex anyway.
We can't stop it.
That's why we had to give them condoms.
And that's when I said, okay, fine, why don't we give them the school nurse and her office to have sex in?
Have the school nurse do the sex with the kids.
We know it's clean and safe.
Have her put a pack of cigarettes Obama smokes.
Pack of cigarettes and some matches on the bedside.
Because kids are going to do it anyway.
Well, no, that's exactly what I'm saying.
As a high school teacher, I hope to leave an impression upon the kids that there is more to life.
Yes, we live in a society of your rules.
And if you want to succeed and be successful and achieve something more than just the ordinary.
Discipline.
That's right.
I'm sorry.
The discipline.
You're talking about maintaining discipline and teaching kids respect.
Yeah, morals and discipline.
Right, And you don't, you know, say you're before me in line at the commencement graduation exercise, and all your friends are hooping and hollering, and then, you know, they call my name, and my name's not even heard because of the noise.
Well, they should wait.
No, the better analogy would be this.
Your friend in front of you gets his diploma, and he's got a cheering section, and they go bonkers.
They go whack them.
Right, my self-esteem is according to Pierre.
No, it shouldn't be.
But then you get up the line and you get your diploma and nobody showed up for you and there's hardly any noise.
That's when you're humiliated.
Exactly.
But in that case, you wouldn't want them to hear your name since nobody's there to cheer for you.
So you would think the residual cheers are for you.
Because you've got your diploma.
You've got to have a picture design.
Let me ask you a quick question here before you go.
Yes, sir.
John, I saw the most amazing video today.
You speak about discipline and so forth.
I think this was a high school or college baseball game.
I'm not sure which.
And apparently, the home plate umpire has just called a rotten game.
And a catcher goes out, has a meeting with the pitcher, comes back behind the plate, squats down.
The pitcher throws a high, hard, fastball straight down the middle of the plate.
The catcher ducks and it hits the ump right in the face, right in the face mask.
I mean, no question what this catcher did.
There was no way he thought the pitch was going to be a drop-off-the-table curveball and was going down to get it in the dirt.
He just got out of the way.
Well, that's unsportsman-like.
Of course, but the ump showed no ill effects.
He's wearing a mask.
Now, the ump, a couple days later, is going to sue.
Okay.
But now, I bet you that catcher, I'll bet that catcher was denied the chance to cheer at his graduation and was just getting that for lost time.
I can't believe this happens.
This happens every now and again.
An innocent little story that I tell at the open of the program that is designed to illustrate the encroaching and gradual loss of freedom is causing the biggest hubbub.
Well, it's not the biggest, but it's a hubbub, much bigger hubbub than I thought it would be.
Snirdly is livid in there.
Dawn just told me during the break that at her daughter's high school, she's not ready to graduate yet, but they've got a new rule.
Not only you can't cheer, you can't, the graduates cannot throw their caps in the air like they do at the Air Force Academy and the Military Academy and the Naval Academy.
They can't do it because that's right, Mr. Lubbock, because those caps have pointed edges that could knock the eye out when they fall back from the sky.
So you can't throw your caps in the air.
And North Carolina mistress is berating me.
Email after email.
You are wrong.
It's an issue of manners.
I'm getting it from both ends.
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Matt, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
You're next.
Hello, sir.
Rush, how are you doing?
Good.
Very good, sir.
Rush, I'm a non-traditional age college student, and I've been trying to get in touch with it for a few weeks.
You're not going to believe this.
I have to take an environmental class to graduate, and so I'm taking one now.
And last week, we discussed alternative energy sources and fuels and all this type of thing.
And after the teacher went on for about 10 minutes claiming that oil companies need to seek alternative sources, I raised my hand and I politely said, Well, why should the burden fall on oil companies to seek alternative energy sources?
If environmentalists want to pursue it, wouldn't they seek capital on their own?
And wouldn't they invest in their own pursuit?
And he said, Well, yeah, you have a point.
But what I'm finding is this whole philosophy that I see on college campuses is that the big oil companies have the burden of finding new sources when, quite frankly, I think they're quite comfortable in providing the service that they do.
Why should they look at it?
You're exactly right.
And the next time you go to this class, here's the next thing to tell them: why should big oil be ordered in the free market by anybody, environmentalists, nutcases, or Democrats?
Why should they be ordered to go out and find competing energy sources?
Because we are not out of oil.
The environmentalists are trying to shut down the oil industry while we have no alternatives.
It is all about an attack on capitalism.
You got to be careful how you say that in class because these people won't understand it, especially your professor, and they'll go nuts.
But just ask them, you know, should McDonald's have to invest in pizzas?
That's a great summertime song here.
Like to get to know you, Spanky and our gang.
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