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Nov. 18, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 18, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
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A lot of people want to know what happened with the meeting yesterday between Senator McCain and President elect Obama.
Our microphones were there.
I want to begin by saying that I appreciate your graciousness in coming here today.
I think that even though we disagreed on so many issues during the campaign, we sure No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Uh we agreed on immigration.
Uh okay.
Uh though we disagree on some and global warming.
I'm with you.
I hate coal.
But uh and Guantanamo and tax cuts.
I never really liked them either.
Uh so tell me, John.
Why exactly do you think you lost the election?
I really don't know.
Because you're taller?
Come on.
Let's change Washington together.
Lindsay's outside.
Let's try.
Uh oh, wait, I'm not even president yet.
Our microphones will be dogging the Messiah, tracking his every move.
We will report to you what the drive-by's do not.
It is sad and funny at the same time.
It was predictable.
A lot of people did predict it.
They were right.
What is going on on Capitol Hill today is a testament to the cluelessness of the people in charge of supposedly saving this economy?
It is absolutely absurd to watch all this go down.
Barney Frank is mad that the money is not being spent to buy out mortgages.
He's mad that the money is not being lent by the banks.
He's mad that the money is not being used as he thought it should be used.
And the one thing about this, the central planner that they hired on this, the central planner, Hank Paulson, he's just doing what he was empowered to do.
He's in charge.
He is a dictator when it comes to this bailout money.
They gave him the power.
I don't even know why.
They have the right to call him up there and have him explain what he's doing.
How many times have I read to you the preamble sections one and two, the purpose of the bailout legislation?
I don't know how many people have not noticed this, but the Secretary of the Treasury was given 100% power.
And it isn't it amazing again that these guys in Congress, the House of Representatives, and the Senate who passed this bill, wrote it, and set it up, are now acting outraged that there hasn't been any oversight.
They're the ones that have supposed to be doing the oversight.
So just like Hurricane Katrina in the aftermath, just like any other calamity when a bridge collapses or anything else, the people in charge of it get to set themselves up as spectators, surprised and shocked that this is happening, and how come nobody told him.
And they get away with it.
The architects of this disaster are now questioning the man they gave total power to run this whole show as though he's screwing up.
They didn't want the hot potato.
They wanted to get the credit for signing up and getting the 700 billion dollars out there, but they threw it off on Paulson.
And what Paulson basically did is go, now some of my close friends are not going to have to sell their houses in the Hamptons and won't have to move to Yonkers.
Basically, what you have here is Wall Street has taken over Washington.
Paulson knows it.
Everybody else knows it.
And these guys are now questioning Paulson as to what he's doing, and he's going up there taking the heat, but he knows in his back pocket he's got the legislation that granted him total power to do whatever he wanted.
Congress is just I mean, I've never seen such an exercise in self-loathing.
It's hard to watch, and I have been watching it because my friends, it is my job, men.
I've been watching it.
They spent.
Have you heard the latest uh uh policy from Obama ism?
Well, there's a whole bunch of them, uh, Mr. Snerdley, but uh Obama wants to they he talked about this with McCain in the meeting yesterday, ending corporate welfare as they sit there and debate whether or not to send 25 or 50 billion dollars to the auto industry.
But yet they're going to they're gonna end corporate welfare.
We're not ending corporate anything.
We're in the business of nationalizing as much of these businesses as possible.
Congress spent the last six years doing what?
Blasting the 2002 resolution of force agreement against Iraq that they authored.
And if you remember, they demanded a second vote on this.
The Democrats were reading the tea leaves, going into the midterm elections in November in 2002.
The Democrats said, you know, we're not on the right side of this Iraq thing.
The American people are all fired up and want to go in there.
So they demanded, even after they had granted the president authority to use force at the choose the time of his choosing.
They demanded a second vote, Tom Dasher and Kerry did, so that they could get on record, be on record, and have everybody in the country know they supported this.
And yet, for the last six years, they've been acting like they had nothing to do with it.
Like Bush lied to them.
Like this is a this is a total Bush operation.
They wrote this $700 billion bailout bill.
Most of them passed it, signed it, voted for it without having read the whole thing.
Now they tell us that they are stunned that there hasn't been any oversight.
I don't know where the oversight is when you grant the Treasury Secretary full power to do with this $700 billion whatever he wants to do with it, because he is empowered here to ensure the economic security of the American people.
They have expressed extreme disappointment that they passed the Bush tax cuts.
Now they're lashing out at the central planner they created and empowered.
Public approval ratings of Congress are at practically an all-time low.
And even Congress doesn't seem happy with the uh with the decisions that they have been making.
This is just, it's a joke to watch it.
We got some audio sound bites coming up, but it is literally a joke.
And I tell you, folks, in all candor, I mean, you can we sit here and we could do Will Rogers and we could make fun of them.
But and we do, but I mean this this is uh this is this is a quite a teachable moment because you know, so many people in this country, so many voters, so many average citizens think government is the solution to their personal problems, local problems, state problems, federal problems, the government can handle it, the government should do it.
And every time the government's empowered to take care of a crisis, they make it worse.
It doesn't get solved, and yet people continue to somehow buy into the notion that government is the solution to these problems.
It's not.
The individual, entrepreneurism, poor old Mark Cuban, he had it dead on right yesterday net post at the at the Huffington Post.
And he's all upset because not one member of Obama's economic team is an entrepreneur.
And he said, entrepreneurs are the guys that are going to be the key to the economic recovery.
So, Mark, entrepreneurs are the targets of Barack Obama.
They're the ones that are going to be paying all these new tax increases.
They're the ones that Obama does, he wants to limit their ability to access the American dream.
Quote unquote.
Of course there aren't any entrepreneurs around Obama.
He believes that government central planning is the is the focus.
So many people put their blind faith in the government to take care of things, eliminate problems, and now this is a joke.
What is happening with all of these supposed bailouts, what's happening in the states, the city of New York, the mayor there wants people to limit the amount of salt that they use.
I mean, this is just getting beyond the point of absurdity.
It really is.
And at some point, you know, you sit here and you desperately hope that enough people will realize that when the government says they've got the answers, they don't.
But I've been thinking this for 20 years, and we've had spurts where people have realized that we always seem to go back to the default position that uh that government can handle it.
This is a collection of fools.
This is this is a this is a collection of zombies.
By the way, Joe Lieberman uh ends up keeping his committee chairmanship in the Senate Homeland Security meeting.
Let me tell you the truth about this.
Dingy Harry wanted Lieberman out of there.
Dingy Harry wanted to punish Lieberman.
He wanted to take away his committee chairmanship.
He wanted to put him, if anything, on some meaningless subcommittee.
He wanted to punish him for running around campaigning for McCain and uh and and being against Obama.
Apparently, what happened.
Now, this is the story.
I don't know what to believe anymore when I see it in the drive-by media, so I offer that caveat.
But the story is that Obama leaned on Dingy Harry and said, Look, you leave Lieberman there.
If I can handle him being there and he was campaigning against me, you can handle him being there.
But I need the Democrat, I need as many Democrat votes as I can get in the Senate.
Plus, I want to show the spirit of bipartisanship and working together.
So Dingy Harry came out, had a little press conference today.
Uh, and and you you could he had to say it.
He had nobody was more angry than I. I defy anybody to find anybody that was angrier than I was.
But we have decided to um put all this behind us and move forward.
So Lieberman keeps the Homeland Security Committee chairmanship.
So at the end of the day, what do we have here?
For all of you moderate Republicans, for all of you people on our side who think that the new way is to reach out to people like this.
We just had perhaps the model of moderation uh and uh open mindedness and uh independent spiritedness in the Senate.
Joe Lieberman, and throughout the past year, Senator Lieberman has been out extolling the virtues of the Republican presidential candidate, John McCain.
And for all of the period of time that he's been campaigning for McCain, there have been occasions where he has been highly critical of Obama while prefacing the criticism with what a bright young man he is, but he's not ready.
We got perhaps some of the most passionate reasons to support Senator McCain.
We heard in this campaign from Senator Lieberman.
At the end of it all, where is Senator Lieberman?
He's back in the Senate, he's back in the Democrat caucus, he's caucusing with the Democrats, he's gonna vote with the Democrats.
He's now he owes Obama everything.
And he is going to be groveling to the Democrats for as long as it takes to get back in their good graces.
Well, I know.
He started the the grobling start.
He had his own little speech there after Dingy Harry went out.
And so a man, and everybody says they personally like Lieberman, and I've met him a couple times.
I like him personally here, but a guy who represented the target, the the kind of the kind of voter, the kind of person, the kind of uh uh issues and so forth that the Republicans need to go out to find and grow after a year of saying John McCain was the most qualified person to be president of the United States.
Where is Senator Lieberman today?
Is he a Republican?
Is he switching sides and caucus and he stay an independent?
Probably will have to stay an independent for political reasons until he can run again.
We could go back to being a Democrat.
Did he come to the Republican Party with McCain and stay?
No, he did not.
Uh is McCain staying at the Republican Party is the question, ladies and gentlemen.
Senator McCain, but will he caucus?
He's going to stay a Republican, but is he going to stay going to caucus with the Republicans or caucus uh with the Obamaites?
You brilliant, brilliant, brilliant wizards of smart on our side.
I hope you see what has happened here.
Does this not make a year of what Lieberman did sort of meaningless and uh and irrelevant?
Quick timeout, lots to do on the big program today, folks.
Sit tight.
We will be right back.
Mike grab audio sound bites uh 2425.
We've got we got some sound bites here at Dingy Harry and uh and Joe Lieberman.
I'm convinced that one of the things that Lieberman had to do in order to remain in good graces with Dingy Harry, keep his Senate chairmanship, was to promise to never tell the truth about the Democrats again when it comes to foreign policy or anything else on which they are on the wrong side of history.
Here it is this morning on Capitol Hill at a press briefing after the party caucus vote.
By the way, the vote was 42 to 13 to keep uh Senator Lieberman as chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
He he was stripped, however, of his subcommittee seat on the environment and public works.
He will stay on the armed services committees.
Minor, minor little wrist slap there.
Here is Dingy Harry.
We could not have had a Democratic majority for the last two years, but for Joe Lieberman.
We could not have passed the historic budgets that were led by Chairman Conrad but for Senator Lieberman.
So we feel that uh what happened today has put this behind us.
Don't buy this.
Harry Reid wanted him out of there so bad this was Obama that moved in there.
And this is instructive too, because I've seen so many wizards of smart, even on our side, say, you know, this young little man child Obama, he's gonna go in there, and he's gonna get rolled by these political pros, Pelosi and Reed.
It's gonna be the other way around.
Reading Pelosi just don't know it yet.
Pelosi might have, or Reed might have found out about it this week, but it's going to be the other way around.
They're the ones that are gonna get rolled.
They're the ones that are going to get told what is, what is not, and how it's gonna be.
Here's what Lieberman had to say.
My colleagues uh voted to support a resolution which I believe was fair and uh forward-leaning.
Speed it up here.
It's a resolution that not only resolves the current dilemma, but it's a resolution of reconciliation and not retribution.
Right.
And I appreciate it.
Right.
Particularly look forward to continuing my work as uh chairman of the Senate, Homeland Security and Government.
All right, that's enough.
Uh you don't need to hear any more of this.
It's pretty much obvious.
Senator Lieberman there is happy to be back.
Uh and it's not a lot like Jesse Jackson, the conciliation.
Uh no retribution.
Uh everything's fine now.
Well, I'll guarantee you he had to make some promises, and one of those promises is he will not criticize the Democrats ever again.
If he does, uh then he's he's gonna be in big trouble.
He owes everything now to Obama.
Obama's smart cookie when it comes to this political maneuvering stuff.
For example, let me give you a possible scenario to this Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State thing.
They Obama's got this huge questionnaire, 62 pages.
There's no way.
There is no way the Clintons passed this.
There's no way if they maintain strict scrutiny to the answers to these questions.
Look, Clinton, you talk about his wife being Secretary of State, and here's Slick Willie with all this money he's taken from the ChICOMs back in the 90s to the present.
All the money he's taken from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, with his wife sitting there, and they're gonna have to ask Clinton uh to give up all of this income.
You can't run around and keep making speeches and collecting money from these people if your wife is Secretary of State.
And by the way, and and during the during a debate between Obama and Clinton that was on MSNBC, Obama himself said during the debate that it was kind of uh important to know who the donors were at the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor.
You know, all these things, Obama made it plain.
He thought that that some of this would be a potential conflict for Mrs. Clinton.
So now he's got this big this big questionnaire that all the people he wants working for him have got to answer and pass.
And there's no way the Clintons can if they have to open up everything.
I mean, the Clintons have never wanted anybody to know who the donors to the library massage parlor are.
And and it doesn't have to be made public, but they've never wanted anybody to know.
So here you have the Clintons.
Hillary dying to have some meaningful job in government.
Just from what I hear really, really wants this.
Bill Clinton desperately wants his wife to have something meaningful so he'll have a connection to it.
So here comes here comes O'Berry.
It would have been a much different situation to appoint her to the Supreme Court.
Because Clinton's taking money from all these foreign people, there's not going to be so many opportunities for conflicts.
But he names her, he's thinking of naming her to the Supreme Court now.
Now what happened or to the uh Secretary of State job?
Now what happens?
And I'm I'm just fantasizing here, but what happens if at the end of this process, Obama says, I'm sorry.
We simply can't go forward with this.
The conflicts that we have found in the Clinton uh file and apparatus.
This would be one way to just ace them out, get rid of them, just say, I can't, we can't have Mrs. Clinton here.
Uh there are too many conflicts with her husband.
All right, let me clarify a couple of things here.
Some people have apparently misunderstood because of my phraseology.
I said, what happens if at the end of this process Obama says, you know what?
We can't put Hillary in there as Secretary of State.
We've we just there's there's too much in uh in her husband's background that that uh makes this problematic.
It does not fit my guidelines.
I am presenting that as a brilliant strategical move.
Look, the the if you're Barack Obama, the last thing you want to deal with is the Clintons yapping at your knees and your ankles all day long.
What a diss of Bill Clinton to deny his wife the Secretary of State job, because I we just can't we can't go through with this vetting process.
There's just two however they would say it, to blame Bill Clinton for it would effectively throw Clinton out of the party.
It'd be the end of his attempts to legacy himself and so forth.
Nothing would happen to Obama.
I'm not saying anything would.
I'm saying it's a strategical political move.
It's like a knife in the back kind of move.
That's why I would say it's a smart move if that's what is in the works.
And I don't know that it's in the works.
But if it is, I just want to be on record here as having said I've thought about this, and this could be very, very cool.
This whole thing could be a setup to take Bill Clinton out at the knees.
And you're saying to yourself, right?
Nobody can do that.
Well, Obama just took out Hillary.
Obama just took out a whole bunch of people in his uh in his campaign.
I'm not saying for a moment that anybody out there would react negatively toward Obama if he did this.
Probably quite the opposite.
Here's Kevin in St. Louis.
We start with you on the phones today.
Kevin, nice to have you here.
How are you doing today, Rosh?
Excellent to uh outstanding, sir.
Good, good.
Uh I find it uh interesting that the senators were allowed to vote in secret ballot on Lieberman, however, they are in favor of Kart check.
Yeah.
You know, this is uh a bunch of people have been uh have been mentioning this to me.
And I've I've got a I have sort of a lackadaisical mood or attitude about this, because let me let clearly uh what you say is correct, and it is it's a very hard-hitting point.
But let me ask you a serious question.
Yes.
We're all devising ways here to be effective in criticizing Democrats and Obama so that the this their their their advance toward collectivism can be somewhat stalled, right?
So in making and by the I'm not being critical, don't misunderstand the tone.
I'm just asking a question.
What who cares?
Out there in voter land, whether there was a secret ballot in the Senate, but there will not be secret ballots allowed in small business.
Well, I I I just think that it speaks to the hypo hypocrisy.
There's no question, but liberalism is hypocrisy and much worse, and we've got 50 years of liberal hypocrisy and liberal failure, and they still won the election.
Now don't misunderstand me.
I'm not dispirited and I'm not down on the dumps here.
But the idea that Congress would set up different rules for itself while requiring all kinds of different sets of rules for us happens all the time.
It happens all the time.
And even with the worst approval ratings in history, they get re-elected.
Absolutely correct, Rosh.
Rush, can I ask you one more one more question?
But of course, sir, fire away.
I didn't mean to steal your thunder here.
Well, that's the same.
And it is interesting to point it out.
Senators can do a secret ballot vote, so nobody knows how they voted on Lieberman, but the same senators are likely to pass a bill saying that if you run a small business, your workers are not allowed to debate or vote in private over whether to unionize.
Correct.
My next question, I know these are tough economic times for you.
And I access your website through another website.
And do you have to pay a per-click fee if I access your website through another website?
Do you have to pay a per click fee or do I have to you?
Do I have to pay a per-click fee if you access my website through another website?
That's correct.
I have no idea.
I was just trying to save you some money if you do.
You're trying to save me some money?
Well, I know it's tough economic times for everybody, Rosh.
Well.
Yes, they are tough economic times for everybody out there.
But I don't I don't um I don't think we manage it that precisely.
Okay.
We take the hits.
And we're marketed.
We uh we monetize the website in a in a in a totally different way.
Uh we're we're not, you know, we're we're not dependent on hits for our advertising revenue or we look at our business model is years ahead of anybody else on the internet out there.
Uh that kind of minutiae uh is that's time wasting.
We we have more efficient methods here of uh of monetizing the uh the website.
I'm glad you called out there, Kevin.
I of course snurredly everybody's out there suffering.
I mean, these are these are uncertain times.
Uh these are these are times of great uh concern.
When you when you don't have any stability out there, uh when you've got volatility here, I mean nobody is sitting out there I mean, e i I don't care how much money people have.
There are any number of ways you can lose it.
If you're in the muni bond market, what if the issuers of the bonds say sorry?
Uh they're no longer triple A. What do they get what do they get rated down to double A or single A?
What I get I mean, there's uh well they can do anything after you bought the w look at all the investments that people had in stock and look at the price of the stock, it fell.
Sure that if that these kinds of things can happen.
The the triple A muni bond market's still pretty strong and still and still pretty solid, but many any there's w when you have this kind of instability, when you have this kind of incompetence masquerading as a physician fixing what's wrong with you up on Capitol Hill, nobody's confident what's going on here.
This Treasury Secretary hasn't the slightest clue what he's doing.
Bernanke doesn't know what he's doing.
We gave him 700 billion dollars, half of it's been used.
Everything we were told was not true about it.
We were told we couldn't wait.
We were told that this bailout had to happen or it was over, and now we're hearing the same thing about the auto industry.
If we don't get this, it's over.
All this crisis stuff.
I was thinking the other day, I was watching, I'm not gonna name names, but I was watching a bunch of different business channels out there during the original debate over the 700 billion.
And I can remember some of these info, babes and anchors going on and on and on sounding just like they owned companies on Wall Street and owned banks.
We've got to do this.
We've just got to do this.
I'm talking to X, and I've talked to this person, I've talked to them.
We can't wait.
These are journalists.
On business, we can't wait.
This must be down.
The effects if we don't do this, we don't even want to think about.
And so the first vote failed.
It took a week or so to get the next vote.
Everything was chunking along just fine.
What country didn't go down the tubes?
People didn't get laid off, institutions didn't crumble, people weren't jumping out of banks.
By the way, there's some protesters outside Wall Street today with little cardboard signs that say, jump, you SOBs.
Some people want them to start jumping out of the window on uh on Wall Street.
But look, so we've got the 700 billion.
It cost $850 billion to get the $700 because they had to give some of these guys in Congress SOPs, as in pork to get them to authorize it.
So the Treasury Secretary single-handedly empowered to use the money.
He has given out 200 to 300 billion of it.
There has been no noticeable change in the circumstances that warranted the bailout.
And in fact, ladies and gentlemen, the original purpose of the bailout, which uh, among other things, was to buy up these toxic assets, i.e., worthless paper.
It was last week that Hank Paulson, the Treasury Secretary, the central planner, the single most powerful man in America, by virtue of the bailout legislation, went out and had a press conference.
And by the way, we're not we're not gonna we're not gonna buy up the toxic assets.
Wait, we're gonna we need this to bail out the credit card companies the same day that American Express asked for a bailout for their credit card default, and then other companies are getting in line.
So the original purpose, remember now, if we didn't do this, it was over.
If we didn't do this, the United States of America was finished as we know it.
We had all these information people on television, we've got to do this.
We've got when the when the first vote was taken, the Republicans were not getting on board, these infobabes and anchors on some of these business channels were excoriating these Republicans.
Remember this?
Okay, so the original purpose, buying up toxic assets and freeing up banks and lending institutions to lend, it hasn't happened.
We're not gonna buy the toxic assets, and they're not lending any money.
Instead, we're now bailing out states, credit card companies, maybe auto companies.
And the guys who wrote the legislation are having investigative hearings today to find out what the hell went wrong.
How are we still a nation?
I want to know how we are still functioning based on what they told us.
So damn right, Snerdley, there's a whole lot of people, it may be not hands-on suffering, but you don't have to suffer in an exact sense in order to be disquieted about this or a little bit concerned, because with this kind of incompetence and this kind of instability, this kind of volatility, you've got an incoming administration, and nobody knows yet just how soon further crippling policies will be enacted, such as tax increases, raises in the capital gains rate.
Nobody who runs a business, large or small, can out can plan out costs of labor or any other fixed costs for the future because they have no idea what these clowns in Washington are gonna do.
When they have the private sector of this country having to wait day by day to find out what these muddleheads are going to do with the nation's economy, uh damn tell you that there's a lot of instability out there, and a lot of people are concerned, and a lot of people are worried about losing what they've got.
When you hear the state of New York saying they're gonna I'm what's happening in that state, what's happening in that city, that the ideas they're coming up with to raise money, there are people saying, Oh, what if they just decide to say they're gonna take half of everybody's assets?
They're just gonna take half everybody's net worth, and the states and the co what's to stop them?
What's to stop them?
Well, you can shake your hands and say that's that's outrageous.
Do you know how bad this credit thing is?
These guys have been living on borrowed money and borrowed time for all of these years, a personal business government.
The dirty little secret here, we don't have nearly the capital to underwrite all the debt that has been taken on by people in this country from individuals to businesses to banks to corporations to states to what have you.
When you find when when we hear that the Federal Reserve loaned somebody two trillion dollars.
Two weeks before the 700 billion dollar bailout, they loaned two trillion.
We don't know To who, we don't know to how many, we don't know why, and we don't know what the repayment circumstances are, and they won't tell us.
Two trillion.
The annual federal budget is three trillion.
The Fed just loaned, where did they get it?
Cash reserves.
You tell me this is not going to have it's either going to have an inflationary effect or deflationary, and neither circumstance is good.
And now we have all these businesses telling us they're going to collapse if they don't get bailed out.
Uh there's I I don't blame anybody for having concerns here over the lack of stability.
And when you see what these guys in Washington are doing, and when you take a look at what the mayor of New York and the governor of New York, what their ideas are to raise money, and this idiot Schwarzenegger, what his ideas are to raise money out in California, while all at this time, all these people are still planning on moving ahead with the global warming agenda, which is going to cost people even more freedom and liberty and taxes.
This to me looks like the governments, many of them, state, and of course the federal government is just trying to take over as much, we say freedom and liberty.
I think they're trying to get their hands on as much money as they can.
Remember, their attitude is that all money in this country is theirs.
I told you last week, they look at the full the whole federal budget and they look at what programs cost them.
What does it cost them to allow us to have an IRA?
What does it cost them to have us not be taxed as income, our health benefits paid for by employers?
What does that cost them?
What do you think they're messing around with the 401k revisions?
They're looking at what all of these tax breaks, incentives, what have you, all of their policies, all their programs, what does it cost them?
They're up there plotting ways to get their hands on as much money as they can.
And so no matter how much or how little you have, when you know this, you you sit in trepidation every day and say, what are they gonna come up with next to take what I've got?
Because one thing we know about every damn one of these people up there, they've got what it takes to take what we've got.
We'll be back.
You know, look at with all the other taxes that we've heard emanating from the wizards of smart in New York City, they're adding another commuter tax.
Everybody that goes to work in New York, whether a bridge or a tunnel, everybody goes to work in New York is gonna pay a commuter tax.
And let me read you the quote from the budget director as to why he's excited about this.
As New York City's budget director, I am always eager for money that we don't have to pay for, that we can spend.
And the commute tax, if we could get it back, fits that.
That means they don't have to do anything for the money.
All they do, it's like a pet.
Your pet doesn't have to do anything.
It's fed, gets petted, gets whatever a pet wants.
All the free health care in the world doesn't have to do a thing.
So commuters in a New York City who already pay to go through the bridges, tunnels and so forth.
Uh, and pretty soon they're gonna charge you to go out.
Five cents per grocery bag, plastic bag, five nickel per grocery bag, absolutely, and now just a flat old commuter tax.
You come into the city in addition to whatever you pay for the bridge and a tunnel or whatever, you're gonna pay a commuter tax.
And that's something that you don't get for now.
There's no service you get for that.
This is free money to the New York State budget direct.
I'm telling you, these people have overspent, they have it.
It's typical of liberalism.
Liberalism has created a way too large population of unproductive people.
You talk about giving something back for money that is received, nothing.
And we always hear about rich people, yeah.
Well, I uh starting this foundation, I want to give something back.
That's not the people need to be giving back.
The people need to be giving back are the people who are on the take.
You know, we've got a large percentage of takers.
It's even larger in in in large urban centers like New York City and and other places.
And those people, they have been weaned uh in such a way they can't provide for themselves.
So all these states, all these entities are in desperate need for Jennifer Granholm wants a bailout.
Jennifer Granholm, state of Michigan.
I mean, they're folks, they're lining up.
You put a pile of money in front of people and and call it a bailout Or whatever, and you're gonna have you're gonna have these people lining up at the trough like you haven't seen before, and it's what is happening now.
And I when I when I hear stories about all the debt that these states and even some cities I mean Philadelphia wants part of the bailout.
And in Philadelphia, Donovan McNabb doesn't know that games in the NFL can end in ties and he'd been there ten years, and he's played in in overtime games, and I gotta tell you, maybe these guys don't listen to the ref.
You know, he's out there for the coin toss.
The coin toss the referee says in overtime.
We have one 15-minute period.
First team that scores wins.
If neither team scores, the game ends in a tie.
You get two timeouts and a coach's challenge.
I'm not a player, I know this.
The players are told this before the coin toss in every overtime period.
And McNabb said nobody told him.
So the coach out there, Andy Reach said, that doesn't matter.
It didn't affect the way we played the game.
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