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Aug. 4, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 4, 2008, Monday, Hour #2
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Look at that.
Look at that.
Are those people stupid or what?
They should be running for their lives.
Well, now I got a picture of the beach.
In Galveston, Texas, which is uh in a track forecast for uh tropical storm Eduardo.
Those people should be running for their lives.
They're out there having fun while a tropical storm's on the way.
Don't they understand they should be scared to death?
Greetings, friends, great to have you.
Yes, I know, and I'm I don't know whether to admit it or not.
And I don't know.
I don't know if I'm gonna post it.
You think I should tell them?
Folks, I was up in Connecticut this weekend.
A couple weeks ago, three weeks ago, I was supposed to go up there for a member guest golf tournament.
I had to cancel it.
So uh took the trip this past weekend to make up for it, and my hosts, good friends of mine who live here in Palm Beach uh during the winter, uh, bought a smart car.
They they bought they bought a most bubble things, uh a lawnmower with seats on it.
And there's a picture of me in it in the driver's or the passenger side with my golf clubs and golf bags standing up in the little area because there's no place to put the golf clubs if there are two people in the car.
And so there are pictures there.
There's there's there's a picture of this, and I happen to mention it to the staff, and they say, You gotta post this on the website.
We actually went to the golf course in this thing, and I was embarrassed.
I was hiding, I was hiding my head in my hands as we hit stop signs because I don't want people at the uh intersections and other cars, and it this thing gets stared at.
It gets stared at because nobody can believe it.
So I was embarrassed.
I'm sitting there, I don't know, I don't want to be spotted in this thing.
Imagine when that gets out.
So um any rate, well, I yeah, I I'll send Coco the picture.
I got I've got the com I got the picture on my computer at home, but I will I'll send in the picture.
It is funny.
It's a who is a little golf club sticking up.
And you know, here I'm thinking, I'm thinking, now my friends got this thing to go to the grocery store in.
That's what they they said never take it on the highway, and I don't blame them.
It has the suspension of a golf cart.
But here I'm thinking, you know, look at look at what the Chicoms are doing.
The Chiccoms is going crazy buying SUVs, pickup trucks and so forth.
What are we doing?
We are going backwards.
Now we're riding around in lawnmowers.
I used to joke about putting two seats on a lawnmower.
Now it's it's for sale.
And depending on where you go to buy one, there is a 16-month waiting list to get one of these things.
I don't know how my friend got himself in front of the line, but he did.
Now, look at Pelosi and and uh uh and Obama and this this this whole energy business.
As you know, that one of the one of the constant refrains, and Obama made mention of it today in his uh energy plan speech, which is not an there was not one plan to develop new energy.
There wasn't one solid thing that would lower prices, increase supply, not one.
This was a speech designed to blame America for the problems that we have.
They came up with a new platitude.
We need to end the age of oil in our time.
Oil is now officially a villain, it is a demon, it is causing world destruction.
We are the number one users, therefore we need to be the number one most punished.
That's the Democrat Party platform.
And they keep using this phrase, well, if we even if we started drilling, why it would be seven years.
And I get I get so sick and tired of hearing this, because it's so easily refutable, and people have been refuting it ever since they started using it.
Well, if Clinton hadn't vetoed Anne War back in 1995 or 94, we'd have that flowing now.
You have to start somewhere.
Nothing happens instantaneously, and of course, all these grandiose schemes for alternative energy and renewable energy, that's not gonna happen inside of 27 years to the point that it replaces oil or 57 years.
It just isn't gonna happen.
But yet we ought to start on that immediately.
And while we're starting on it, we need to get rid of oil at the same time.
Now, how is it?
Try to get this straight, and if you try to follow logically what these people say, you can tie your brain into a knot.
How is it that people like the Messiah, Barack Obama, who tell us that the whole problem with oil prices is the speculators?
They go back and forth speculators, now we're back to big oil being the evil ones.
They say, though, that it would make no sense to drill because supplies would not increase until some speculative time in the future.
Whether it's seven years or ten years or a thousand, it doesn't matter.
The fact is they are speculating when they tell us if we start drilling today, there won't be any oil for X number of years.
They themselves are speculating.
I mean, why is speculation only a problem when it involves capitalists making money on predictions about supplies in the market?
When speculation, though, involves liberals actually reducing supplies and increasing prices, then speculation is suddenly okay.
I mean, should should it look at it this way.
Shouldn't the people who are truly worried about speculators be the first people to say drill drill drill?
Because all they're doing is speculating, seven years, ten years, whatever.
No, but they don't know that.
In fact, some oil companies will tell you they can get it out uh much sooner than that.
We uh also, ladies and gentlemen, uh demand for equal time from Nancy Pelosi.
We have granted it.
About sums it up.
Here's how this all happened, by the way.
Last Friday on the House floor, here is an exchange between uh Anthony Wiener, a Democrat from New York, and Congressman Stanny Hoyer, Democrat Marilyn is Pelosi's number two, also and John Boehner, Republican Ohio, about adjourning for the summer recess.
The rules suspended.
The resolution is agreed to.
Without objection, the motion reconsider is laid upon the table.
The majority of the what purpose pursue it to House concurrent resolution 398, 110th, Congress.
I move that the House do now agree on the motion.
All those in favor say aye.
Those opposed, no.
The eyes have it.
I asked for a recorded vote.
The recorded vote is requested.
Those favor recorded vote will rise, a sufficient number having arisen.
The recorded vote is ordered.
Members who record their votes by electronic device...
This shall be a 15-minute vote.
Utter chaos broke down when the Democrats tried to shut the place down.
Here is John Shadig after the House was adjourned for the summer recess.
He's a Republican Arizona.
How many of you remember the Boston Tea Party?
This is the Boston Tea Party.
Outside afterwards, Mike Pence, Republican from Indiana, said this.
So we are here.
We will stay later.
We will be here through the break until either the speaker calls this Congress back, or the President of the United States uses his authority to call a special session of Congress to bring them back and make them work and bring the American people relief at the point.
Had a press conference outside the chamber on Friday.
Mike Pence again.
Republicans are dedicated to continuing to fight on the House floor because it's not a Democratic House, it's not a Republican House, it's the people's House, and the people deserve to know Republicans are fighting for energy independence.
Yes, uh, it and they've continuing the fight today, despite there will be no cameras.
Uh Comrade Pelosi is uh effectively shut the door, had the janitor do it.
Nobody will be seen, but they did sneak a YouTube video out.
Uh one of the members, John Carter from Texas, is uh is is talking uh on the floor after the lights went out, and somebody was using a video phone to videotape what was going on after the lights went out, and it's been posted on YouTube.
Here's the audio.
Members of the Republican minority have taken the floor and have continued the debate after the House has adjourned.
The Democratic leadership has adjourned the house, turned out the light, turned off the mic, and yet the Republicans are still talking about the need for an energy plan so that we can drive down the price of gas.
As far as we can tell, this has never been done before.
You know, these guerrilla tactics, these let guerrilla legislative tactics are just what the doctor ordered.
Regardless the issue.
This is of course a great issue for this to happen.
Uh but they need they need your support.
They need to find out that you approve of this, that you know what they're doing.
Uh everybody else, uh everybody needs a boost of confidence uh now and then, but they're very serious about this, because this is a no-lose for them.
How how can you possibly lose on this issue?
The only people that can lose bigger Pelosi and the Democrats for once again promising something after the 2006 election of the House is gonna be more open.
It's nothing of the sort.
They have returned to running this place in a dictatorial fashion like they did during the 40 years prior to 1994.
Back after this.
Views expressed by the host on this show dominated uh documented to be almost always right, 98.8.
Percent of the time, latest opinion audit from the Sullivan Group, opinion auditing firm, Sacramento, California.
It really was comical yesterday to watch Tom Brokaw and Bob uh Schiefer, uh Schiefer, of course, on Slay the Nation, Brookhaw on Meet the Press, and they were just they were just beside themselves with these McCain ads.
The McCain ad that has Brittany Spears in Paris Hilton.
Uh the insinuation, the implication being that Obama's just a B-rated celebrity himself, and that all of his voters are just a bunch of celebards, and then the other ad, which makes fun of Obama's self-impression that he is indeed the light and the messiah.
And these two guys to watch these two guys just wring their hands.
They were so sad.
They were so disappointed.
We had such a chance, such a once in a lifetime opportunity to finally have a really wonderful great campaign, above board, and no negative ads and no criticism.
Really, we just we and it's just gone.
The opportunity's gone now because of McCain's ads.
And they were distressed, they were saddened by it.
And I look at this and I say, I'm 57 years old.
These guys are older than I am.
They cannot be this naive.
But they are.
They live in a con they live in a bubble with a constant hope that there will be perfection.
They, who cover political campaigns for a living, and have done so for decades, ought to know by now.
There's no such thing as the campaign they dream of.
There is no such campaign.
There will never be a campaign like they hope and dream of, where everything is sweetness and light, and all we do is stick to the issues, and nobody runs negative ads.
They were just hoping and hoping.
It was comical to watch these guys express their sadness about all this.
Speaking of these ads on Good Morning America Sunday, Diane Sawyer interviewed McCain and said, Are you gonna you gonna keep up these TV ads, Senator?
I kind of enjoy them.
You gotta have uh a sense of humor uh in this.
You know, I a few days ago, uh Senator Obama said he challenged me to a duel, you know.
I'm for the lightsabers as weapons of choice.
But in general, the ads, the Paris Hilton George Clooney ads are over.
Well, I don't know.
We'll continue to have humor in our campaign.
So is Diane Sawyer begging, pleading.
So these campaigns, these ads, and of course the drive-by is one finished, because they work.
They are profoundly effective.
So these ads are going to are going to end and be over.
I don't know.
We'll continue to have humor in our campaign.
I tell you what, well, uh here's there's a there's a sign of progress here in all this, ladies and gentlemen.
Very simple.
McCain runs a couple ads.
What happens?
The drive-by media attacked the ads as unfair, unkind, below the belt, all that, and McCain did not throw his ads under the bus.
The normal McCain procedure is if somebody says something and the drive-by's criticize, McCain throws that person overboard.
But he did not throw his his ads overboard.
He stood by his ads.
This is progress in the McCain campaign.
Finally, uh the McCain said this about uh about Obama.
I am not surprised that he's hedging on this issue.
Um, but the fact is he still opposes offshore drilling.
We need to drill now.
There you have it.
I wouldn't say hammering home the point, but nevertheless making the point.
This is Jerry in Atlanta.
Nice to have you on the uh program, sir.
Welcome.
Hey, hey, Rush.
Glad it's the first time I ever talked to you, but I've been listening to you for a long time.
Thank you very much.
Well, hey, uh one of my concerns is and what I want to share, is that not all Democrats are like what you're saying.
And my concern is I'm very concerned about energy policy, and I think it should be a uh a strategic element in our security for our country.
And the example I used is, and if I can use the example of what JFK did when he said his speech in the early 60s to send a man to the moon and back.
We did that nine years, and that wasn't even a viable concept.
I mean, what we did to overcome this was remarkable.
And what I'm saying today is we need to work not only as Democrats and Republicans, but as citizens, American citizens.
We need to get the energy policy back where it belongs in our neighborhoods and our country and have control of it, not to be shipped.
So the answer is it's not just drilling.
Sir, we have to do everything possible to attack this issue.
And we and and the concern I have is it's not just blaming a Democrat, a Republican.
I'm blaming all our government right now because we're not working as a team.
If this is a football team, we'd never score a touchdown.
Would we rush?
Uh no, but we'd have a lot of safeties.
Yes, I guess we would.
Well, you know, we don't work as a team.
See, we're we're back.
Where do you compromise?
Where do the Republicans compromise with a guy like Obama who said in his speech on energy today, we need to end the age of oil in our time.
Where do you compromise with that?
Well, well, here's my point is we have to have oil.
I mean, I'm in the airline industry out here.
We have to have oil, uh the transportation industry, the trucking, so there's no way we're gonna get out of oil.
But the the what I'm concerned about is the dependency of our oil.
We can't depend on foreign dictators and so forth for our oil needs.
We have to do that here in our country.
We need to become self-sufficient on country.
We have to attack it all ways.
Well, I look at I I I hate to remind you here, but this has been the Republican Party's identity since the early 90s.
Uh drilling in and war, offshore, all this.
It's the Democrats, Bill Clinton first vetoing and war.
The Democrats are standing in the way of this.
And look at how do you feel as a Democrat?
You're in the airline business.
The airline business is in dire straits.
The airlines combined just parked 450 jets.
It's the only way they can save on fuel.
Your gut, your guy is not proposing one plan to increase the supply of fuel to your aircraft.
Well, I agree.
And here's what I'm saying is that I I've been very much involved in a fuel savings program with with the airline I'm working for.
It's up to over two million dollars uh uh a month just in fuel savings.
And if you're familiar with the APU, the auxiliary power unit is something I was very much involved with with the airline in a major reduction for I've been doing this for over two years now with the company.
And uh it works, and it works by working with only Republicans and Democrats and independents and so forth.
It was a team effort.
Now wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
This is a huge point.
The government Republicans and Democrats had diddly squat to do with your APU project.
You and your company came up with a private sector solution.
If you'd have brought Washington in, yeah, you'd have had partisan divisions over this.
The Democrats would have stood in your way.
Ha, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
And the excellence in broadcasting network kicking off the first day of the next twenty years of the EIB network.
Okay, so what's what's the big push here?
We need To do everything possible to find alternatives.
That's what Obama said in his stupid speech today.
Well, really?
Really?
We need to do everything possible to find alternatives.
Well, who's responsible for doing that?
The oil companies are in the business of finding, refining, and transporting oil.
They are not in the business of solar or wind energy.
That's not their business.
If Boone Pickens wants to go into wind, let him go into wind.
That's the way this works.
You know, when moving from uh one generation of inventions to another, uh, if the demand and prices make alternatives more likely, then it spawns and motivates people to work and think in ways they might not think otherwise.
The government demanding alternatives or picking winners and losers won't do it and can't do it.
This is the genius of the market.
It works itself out.
If alternative fuels, ladies and gentlemen, are out there for the taking, then why isn't the rest of the world already on it?
And how about all these so-called alternatives, the biofuels that we already have, like ethanol.
We already have the unintended consequences of that, and even some of the proponents of this way down the road, way back when are starting to think it was a mistake.
This is, you know, this this whole business of energy creation and usage, growth, freedom, opportunity, far more complicated and complex matter than the Obama's and his ilk comprehend or even care to comprehend.
And the reason is that he's into political power, not energy production.
He's into political manipulation.
He's into getting votes, not energy production.
It's why the government ought to have nothing to do with this.
And yet look at the only people among us who produce a drop of energy, spend the money to go get it, refine it, market it, distribute it, sell it.
They're the ones under attack.
And yet the government couldn't do it, wouldn't do it, would botch it if it tried, somehow is looked at as the uh as the white knight here.
Here's uh here's Anne in Angelica, New York.
Nice to have you on the uh EIB network.
Hello.
Hi.
First time caller, long time listener.
Thank you very much.
Um I've come to the conclusion that uh in order to save energy, seeing as I'm low income.
I can put some aluminum pipe plates on top of my car, get a giant pinwheel and stick it on the back of my car.
Slow down to 55 miles an hour so everybody flies by me, keeps my pinwheel going.
And hook it up to a battery somehow and then line up at McDonald's to get to used oil.
How's that work?
It won't.
Why?
It won't.
Well, in the first place, what are you gonna do?
You're gonna put a little pinwheel propeller on the back of your car.
And you can expect what's gonna propel you to 55 miles an hour to get to McDonald's.
Well, the people flying by me.
Well, people flying by you would provide a headwind.
They would leave you in your little propeller.
Your little pinwheel on the back of your car.
Well, I'll put one on my teeny, too.
Uh well, don't forget to inflate your tires.
Oh, I forgot that.
Overinflate them.
Yeah, you need to inflate your tires properly.
Exactly.
Avoid jackrabbit starts and all these other things.
Speaking of, and thanks, thanks much for the call.
Speaking of it, I have a little blurb here from the carpetbagger report.com, a blog.
Uh this is great.
This is apparently in Michigan today.
This is Mark Halperin reporting this.
McCain supporters in Lansing, Michigan were distorted tire gauges at Obama's speech.
A Republican National Committee will also deliver gauges reading Obama's energy plan to Washington newsrooms.
Now this is about time.
I can we need, you know, remember the Democrats had uh had uh butt men showing up a guy dressed as a pack of cigarettes at a Republican convention.
I said we need somebody dressing up as an oil derrick or a gas pump at the Democrat convention.
And now this is everybody's picking up on this.
I don't know who's doing it, but somebody's infusing humor in this campaign, laughing at Obama's ideas, tire gauges so as to make sure their tires are properly inflated.
This is uh this is all positive news, ladies and gentlemen.
And McCain's not throwing any of these things under the bus.
Whoever came up with the tire gauge idea, and we gotta find out if it actually happened.
Because this news uh is is before the uh the event.
Here's Lindsay, 17 years old in Rockford, Illinois.
Thank you for calling the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
I just wanted to let you know before I started talking that Rush is one of my top male names for males anywhere.
Well, thank you.
I I I appreciate that.
I'm not told that very much, Lindsay.
Yeah, well, I think it's I think it's a great name.
And I just wanted to let you know, I had been my mother is really jealous that I'm talking to you right now.
I'm the first time caller.
I've been listening to you since I was in about fifth grade.
That's when nine eleven happened.
Um I'm going to be a senior actually this year.
And I was listening to your anniversary show all week, and I love listening to you.
I listened to you at work, I listen to you at home and everything.
And I came home from work on Friday, right after your show, and I was watching TV, I think it was USA or something, and I was watching TV and the screen went red and because it was commercial, and it said, Stop global warming now.
And then it came on with these Reese's peanut butter cups, and it said, or all the Reese's will melt.
And I was thinking, wow, even now candy companies are going to start p buying in to Al Gore's lies about global warming and everything else that you're talking about.
Wait a minute.
Lindsay, Lindsay, hang on here just as I want to make what I want to make sure I heard you correctly.
You're watching the USA network.
Yes.
Channel 242 on Direct TV.
Okay.
Well, you're obviously watching on cable.
I don't know what the channel is on cable.
And there's a commercial that comes up for Reese's Butterfingers.
Reese's peanut butter cup.
Reese's peanut butter cups.
Yes.
And it shows them melting because of global warming?
Yes.
And the message is what?
Daddy, if you don't stop global warming, your Reese's peanut butter cups will melt on you.
Yes.
Well, they'll melt on you now.
They'll melt they'll melt on you now if you take them outside, put them on your car.
Yeah.
That's what I was thinking.
I was thinking, I can't even believe this.
And I was really upset that I hadn't seen it beforehand, so I couldn't call you on Friday and let you know about it.
But and that's why I hate the weekends because you're not on on the weekends.
And I was just, I was stunned.
And um the funny thing is actually I took a science class this past school year, and our science teacher forced us to watch Al Gore's video, um, Inconvenient Truth.
I've heard of it.
This is happening all over the country.
Mm-hmm.
And he had us um answering questions on it, so you couldn't just like doodle or anything, and you actually had to pay attention.
And I just I couldn't even believe it because the girl that was sitting next to me actually started asking our teacher questions, and she's like asking him about all this global warming and everything, and I wanted to raise my hand.
I I wasn't going to because class is almost over, and I wanted to raise my hand and say, Mr. Urim, this is not happening.
Global warming is not happening.
Yes, the earth is heating up.
It's summer.
Get over it.
But it was very interesting, and I just thought that I should call you and let you know about it.
Well, I'm I'm uh I appreciate your making the effort to call.
It's a thrill to talk to you.
I know you're you're enjoying your time away from school, by the way, in the summer.
Are you are you doesn't tell me you're out of school yet?
Are you out of school?
I'm not out of school.
I'm going to be a senior in high school, and um no, I mean for the summer.
Are you on your summer?
We're out of school.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Don't start until late August.
But um Yeah.
Well, you sound like you enjoy school.
I I'm I envy you.
Oh.
Yeah, I do for the most part.
I like um most of my most Well, where did you get where'd you get this courage, Lindsay, to stand up to the onslaught of public relations in the Al Gore movie and from your teachers, and I'm sure a lot of your your fellow students buy into all these hoaxes.
Where are you where did you get the courage to stand up for yourself?
Um, I would honestly have to say it's probably from you and from my mother.
She started listening to you right after 9-11, and so I've been listening to you right along with her.
And even as like when I was in fifth grade and she first started listening to you.
I just there was something about the way you spoke and how confident you were and how you knew everything that you were talking about and how you just have this confidence that it just I you spotted those things in the fifth grade.
Yes.
Hmm.
That's impressive.
So you responded to confidence.
You responded to certitude.
You responded obviously to you know I I do this program every day in a good mood and that and that made an impact.
I was per that that added to the persuasion uh factor of listening to this program.
Well it's now I want to comment before I have to go here on your on your Reese's peanut butter commercial and your fear that companies are now going to join the green agenda.
Let me tell you why.
And by the way it is starting to fizzle in a lot of places.
They're finding a lot of corporations that have gone green in their marketing and advertising is not helping.
Now the reason they're doing it is not because they fear global warming and it's not because they're great citizens of the world.
They figure that people like you believe this garbage and they think it's probably going to be and this is very crucial to understand Lindsay they think Reese's peanut butter cups doesn't matter what the company they think it'll be easier to convince you to buy their product at a profit for them if you think the product or the company is oriented towards saving the planet rather than if you think buying the product will just enlarge their bottom line.
So this is this is this is strictly the result of a number of uh companies in in many sectors thinking the public's buying into this here's a way to market to them and uh and almost make the purchase of the product a mandatory thing to do to save the planet or in your case save the Reese's peanut butter cups.
Yes.
Because we cannot have our Reese's peanut butter cups melting on us.
We and so the only way to stop this is of course not to put them in the refrigerator and maybe not to put them in the freezer and don't leave them inside.
No you are so stupid your peanut butter cups will melt on you as you leave them outside.
No what we need to do is stop global warming.
That's the only way to stop your peanut butter cups from melting.
Now you have the smarts and the brains to understand no I'll just leave in the kitchen here room temp.
Your house is air conditioned it is.
Absolutely and if that doesn't do the trick then put them in the fridge.
Yes warm up real f or better yet Lindsay eat them.
Instead of sitting around looking at them waiting for them to melt eat them exactly you called I I love hearing from the youth of America.
I love hearing from uh young people like you 17 years old you have your head on so straight and so solid it's a tribute to you and your mother and a little bit to me.
You bet.
You do the same Lindsay and all the best.
We'll be back we'll we'll continue here just a second folks do not go away.
Hey for those of you out there in the Republican Party in the McCain campaign, whoever you are that are planning on attending Obama's speeches and passing out tire gauges that's cool.
That's all well and good but I think you need to add something to the tire gauges pass out.
You need to pass out rectal thermometers to every person you give a tire gauge to because that's what they are doing to us.
Rectal thermometers plan my words Al in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the home of Jennifer of Colorado Springs.
Welcome Al, nice to have you here.
Hello Rush I'd like to say uh hello to my Staff Sergeant Ryan Bland, a uh Calf Scout out of Fort Riley he's gonna do his third tour pretty soon I'm calling about Dubai I saw a special on either day line or sixty minutes they interviewed the gentleman that runs Dubai and that would be Sheikh Al Maktoum yeah uh great guy and the spirit spent the weekend at Camp David with President Bush
he did.
He should have been Bush might have look might have uh got a few hot tips from this guy.
Um the as you know they're tax free um the interviewer Was kind of incredulous.
Next thing they talked about how they were dredging the ocean floor to build these false um islands.
Yes.
And uh the interviewer said, I understand that you uh were told by the environmentalists that you couldn't do this and that you threw them out.
And he said, and he looked at the guy and he said, Yeah, we did.
And we're now building more islands.
And the man was uh once again taken back.
And uh the gentleman that runs the place said, Well, let's go take a drive.
So he goes down, he drives his own car, has the interviewer in the seat next to him, and of course the guy can't believe this either.
And you see nothing but success.
They're building these towers, and even before they're built, they're 90% occupied.
Major corporations from around the world are there, and you get the feeling that there's this big sucking sound of all the uh successful corporations are tending to move towards um Dubai and possibly Ireland.
Well, let me tell you the couple things here.
I've I've been to Dubai, I have seen what you're describing, and they are building these islands out on the uh in the water that defy explanation.
And it's true, they do not have any environmentalists, and if they if environmentalist pops up, he will not be seen shortly thereafter.
They don't, but the it's only in a dictatorship that you can do that.
Now we could deal with our environmentalists a lot more successfully than we do in this country by just ignoring them.
You know, they would protest and do all this, but we're we're so bound by political correctness.
But you know, you we we don't want to turn ourselves into a dictatorship, but there was the one interesting thing about you said this giant sucking sound.
There's no qu Trump is building a hotel in Dubai.
There are maybe it's the uh maybe it's the Emirates somewhere.
He's he's he's building talk to him about it.
He's and he's it's the same thing as you.
He said it doesn't have to put up with anybody standing in his way and increasing the price of the thing two or threefold.
Right.
And of course, money is going to find just like water.
It's gonna find the easiest path, the path of the least resistance is where it's gonna go.
And the more raising capital is made difficult, the higher the taxes on corporate profits, the more those profits are going to be made elsewhere.
Now there's a fascinating Wall Street Journal, it's not an editorial, I guess James Taranto, Invest of the Web Today.
He said, You know, in the old days, instead of NBEV buying Anheuser Busch, St. Louis, it would have been the other way around.
Anheuser Busch would be buying inBEV.
Because Anheuser Busch did buy a whole bunch of smaller breweries as they were growing.
He said, Things are out of whack now.
And he pointed out that one of the reasons that uh the Anheuser-Bush board of directors, the CEO might have changed their mind about this is the corporate tax rate being promised by Obama.
I mean, if you're on the board at Anheuser-Bush, if you're the CEO, if you're the Bush family and you want the company to stay viable, it may well be that in a essentially when you merge.
This is a little bit lax, but you'll get to point.
When you allow yourself to be bought out by NBEV, you are in effect moving your headquarters.
You're moving to Germany, or in this case, uh uh Brussels, where the corporate tax is much smaller, and your business can remain much more viable.
And there are a lot of people already starting to make plans of this nature based on the promises that Obama has made regarding capital gains taxes, corporate profit taxes, and general income taxes if he becomes president.
Whoa.
Hold on here just a second.
The New York Times over the weekend said don't get rid of your gas guzzler just yet.
Including your SUV.
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