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Nov. 20, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 20, 2008, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Where is Obama?
Where's Obama during all this?
We're going to hell in a handbasket.
Economically, everything's falling apart.
Where is Obama, ladies and gentlemen?
I have the answer to that question.
That's why I'm host.
I am Rush Limbaugh.
This is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and we are coming to you live once again from high atop, the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
A telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800 282-2882, the email address, Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Folks, for those of you uh trying to tune in to the Ditto Cam today.
As you know, yesterday we were having some dropouts on the thing.
We were where there were some uh I didn't find out about this until uh part way into the show.
We're having some technical problems with the with the ditto cam today.
We're not going to be able to use it.
We hope to have it repaired and uh and fixed uh by uh by tomorrow.
But I just I wanted to make we've got this we have this billboarded in a large letters at the website.
And you have to go to the website in order to activate the ditto cam.
So I don't expect a whole lot of emails saying, where's the ditto cam?
Because there's a message right there at the top of the website, right where you would click on live ditto cam that says it's unavailable today.
This rarely happens.
This is the first time in many, many moons that this has happened, but things generally fall apart when I come up here for a day or two.
Uh and I've come to expect it.
I have I have an even temper about it uh and a level head, and I roll with it.
And we are we're working diligently even as I speak.
Ladies and gentlemen, to get the thing prepared.
Uh maybe I hope we can get it done for this afternoon's uh morning update that has to go on video tomorrow.
We'll check and see.
And if it happens to come up uh prior to the end of the program at any time, uh then of course we'll do that.
We'll send it up and we'll let you know.
Apparently, these Somali pirates listen to this program, and I made fun of them yesterday.
I was laughing at them because they have a hundred million dollars in in uh hijacked cargo, and they're asking for a ransom of ten million dollars.
They've up the ransom now to uh to twenty-five million dollars for the hijacked tanker, Somali Pirates, demanding twenty-five million dollars in ransom to release an oil-laden salty super tanker seized off the East African coast and called on the ship's owners to pay up soon.
Or else, I still think you pirates are lowballing this.
You've got a you got a hundred million dollars in cargo, and that's just on one ship.
They've hijacked a whole bunch of others.
The uh uh I there uh they either have been or there soon will be calls for the United States Navy to get over there and patrol these waters, but here's the problem that we face.
Let's say the U.S. Navy goes over there and we capture some of these pirates from their mothership or what have you.
What then do we do with them?
Obama's gonna shut down Club Gitmo.
We got nowhere to put them.
I mean, we take them as prisoner.
Do we read them their rights?
Are they gonna get trials in the United States for stealing cargo in uh in the Middle East?
What do we do?
Send them to Detroit, maybe.
I what I don't know, send them to Michigan.
We don't want to specify just one city, but send them to Michigan.
I don't know what we're gonna do with them if if if our Navy goes over there to uh to capture clearly these guys are pros at hijacking oil tankers.
I mean, they're doing this with dinghys.
But they're not pros when it comes to setting ransom.
And there's a story that it's hilarious.
I mean, it's hilarious in its own right.
What these guys are doing with all the money that they're getting now, they are actually hiring chefs to prepare meals for the prisoners.
They're hiring chefs and they're br they're they're catering meals, class A meals for the prisoners that they have hijacked and uh and taken prisoner.
There is a lot, ladies and gentlemen, of information to stack his stuff.
All this talk about Obama's cabinet.
Uh Eric Holder as Attorney General Penny Pritzker at uh at Commerce.
And when you read Penny Pritzker's bio, I mean not her bio, when you when you read a news account of the things that she's been involved in with her bank, do you think this woman belongs more in jail than she does.
Well, because she's she's hip deep in this subprime mortgage business with a bank that she controlled in Chicago.
And and uh I'm I'm stuck here.
I'm kind of torn because, well, this is what happens when you lose elections.
When you lose elections, the opponents get to name the people that they want to be in key positions.
And we can sit here and bellyache about it all day long.
They ain't gonna change anything.
We can, I mean, maybe maybe uh cause the Obama team to rethink some of these uh nominations, but even so.
Um, yeah, Eric Holder had his he had a he had a very detailed uh involvement in the Mark Rich pardon.
Who's surprised?
Who in the world is surprised that leftist radicals would nominate people like this to the cabinet?
I'm I uh I guess it's it's sort of flapping your gums over spilt milk.
What do we expect?
This is exactly the in fact the only thing about this that's a surprise, quote unquote, is the fact that the cabinet appointees and this whole administration is set up to be the Clinton administration third term with Obama running it.
Uh I it it's a it's a bit of a challenge to me to sit here and get all fired up about Penny Pritzker and Eric Holder and some of these other people.
What are we supposed to do about it?
I mean, I just don't want to sit here and bitch.
I just don't want to sit here and whine and moan, and that's not gonna change anything.
It's not gonna have one effect on who he nominates.
It's not gonna have one impact.
Okay, so but Rush, you have a duty to inform.
All right, I'm gonna tell you.
I can tell you everything you want to know about these nominees.
I can say it's gonna be bad.
And then what do you do?
March on Washington?
Ask Obama to govern as a conservative, and what are we gonna do?
I'll go through it all, but I just I gotta tell you that uh I I feel I'm a little it's a little childish here to sit here and whine and moan about the kind of people that the most leftist radical, inexperienced Democrat ever elected to the presidency is gonna appoint.
This is what happens when they win and we lose.
But uh the the to me the more important question here is where is Obama?
He's naming his cabinet, but he's hanging back.
Where is he?
The oil uh or uh the the auto chiefs that they're sent out of town without getting their bailout, told you yesterday they weren't gonna get it.
The Democrats don't want to be on the fence.
They they're hoping to slough this off to Bush.
Lame duck Bush.
They know people are not in favor of this bailout.
They don't want their fingerprints on it, the Democrats in Congress.
They're either gonna wait for Obama to have his fingerprints on it, or they're gonna try to get Bush to do something because we're in such a uh a state of emergency.
Now, Mitt Romney had a New York Times op-ed, and basically he says, let them go under and let them do chapter 11 and let them reorganize and all this.
That's the only way this is gonna get fixed.
And that's the argument.
Do you bail them out and let them to continue to go and and so forth?
And and it really, uh ladies and gentlemen, the stock market's plunging.
Barack Obama could solve a lot of this with one tiny little paragraph.
He could fix a lot of this just by saying that he is going to postpone any tax increase whatsoever, that he is going to arrange for, he could say this.
If Obama wanted to stop this right now, he could.
Given current economic conditions, my administration will not seek, nor will I sign legislation that raises taxes for the foreseeable future.
Further, I will ask Congress to cut corporate and capital gains taxes in the first 30 days of my taking office.
Markets would soar, recovery would begin, and hell might freeze over.
That's how unlikely it is to happen.
But if he would do something like that, but why doesn't he do it?
The question then becomes why is Obama absent here?
Well, you might be saying, Well, she's not president yet.
Don't give me that.
He's the president-elect.
Uh Bush is the definition of a lame duck.
Obama is the guy everybody's looking to.
He had the campaign that was based on unity.
He had the campaign that was based on preventing all this stuff, or uh looked at another way.
He had the campaign that promised to fix all this to make sure there would not be suffering, to be sure there would not be any misery.
He was going to run a campaign and an administration that was going to see to it that everybody felt love for everybody else, that there wasn't going to be any animosity, there wasn't going to be any anxiety.
Now you know me, I'm a free market kind of guy, and I want the market to work.
But the fact is Barack Obama won.
And he is my president.
He's your president too.
He campaigned on change and saying he could unify people.
He said he even could unify the world.
He said he would sit down with Iran with no preconditions.
By the way, the news today is that they finally now have enough ammo for one nuclear bomb.
One nuclear bomb's all it takes going off somewhere.
Now, the Israelis have an important decision to make here.
If the Israelis wait until Obama is inaugurated to do something about the Iranian nuclear program, they know that they're not going to have any support from the United States of America in the form of the Obama administration.
If they take action now against the Iranian nuclear sites, they have a much better chance of being supported by the current administration in the action that they take.
This is serious stuff.
And we have known this kind of thing was coming.
The Iranians have made no bones about where they're headed with this.
They basically told the world where to get off, and the world didn't do anything about it.
The world didn't have the guts to do anything about it, including us.
So here we are.
He said he's going to sit down with Iran, no preconditions, Why doesn't he sit down with the auto companies?
Why doesn't he sit down with their executives?
The unions, the workers, the retirees, all the suppliers.
Why doesn't he sit down?
Why doesn't he have a meeting right now?
He's Barack Obama.
He's the president elect.
He's the Messiah.
He's the guy that's going to fix everything.
Why doesn't he have a big showboat meeting right now, bring these people together and unify them and tell them how it's going to be when he takes office?
Tell them what his plan is at least.
Tell us what his plan is.
All this stuff's frittering away right before our eyes.
Oil price below 50 for a time today.
In a way, this is, of course, good for people and their gasoline prices and so forth.
And I even heard today some wizard of smart in economics.
This could actually help the Christmas season.
Why, this is going to result in more people.
We just had what?
So have some wizard of smart saying, well, yeah, the gas price, that could lead to people having more disposable income and maybe going out and buying more presents, going to more movies.
This is where we're at.
We're hoping here that because the gasoline prices plummeted that people will have a little bit more impetus to go spend money.
I don't think so.
I think they're going to be very guarded with this because they know the price can jack right back up on a moment's notice, just like it did first time around.
There's so much instability, nobody knows what's happening next.
There's no there's so much volatility, nobody can make any plans, including consumers.
The markets can't make any plans, the banks can't make any plans because nobody knows what the policy is going to be.
Where's Obama?
This auto bailout business, we're being told it's devastating, it's gonna have a ripple effect throughout the U.S. economy and have all kinds of where's Obama.
Bring them all in, sit them down, make them understand, tell them how it's gonna be, offer the fix.
He said he was for change.
This would be a great example of change, how government's gonna work under him, could bring them all together.
He could do it at another stadium.
He could do a major town hall, some sort of gathering like that.
I mean, it he said that he and his followers agree he's got all the answers.
The people that voted for Obama, I guarantee you think he's got all the answers, and I guarantee you this, they're puzzled as to why he hasn't done anything.
Where is Obama?
I mean, he could have a big meeting like the Pope does.
He can do anything here to show off the same personality and charisma that he exhibited during the campaign.
Well, let me answer all this after the break.
Of course, I ask these questions rhetorically, because Obama is going to remain out of sight on all of this stuff and not have it his problem until it's his problem.
And in the meantime, there's a part of me that thinks the worse it gets, the greater opportunity he will have to enact the kind of agenda he actually wants to enact.
We'll be back.
Okay, so where is Obama?
He's not acting like Abraham Lincoln.
Amsterdam sure he's acting like James Buchanan, who's slurking away somewhere down, nobody knows where he is, because he has no idea what to do.
But he does have a plan.
And it was articulated Tuesday night in Washington, D.C. at the Wall Street Journal's CEO Council, the chief of staff Rom Emanuel spoke, and here is a portion of Emmanuel's remarks.
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.
And what I mean by that, it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.
This is an opportunity, what used to be long-term problems, be they in the health care area, energy area, education area, fiscal area, tax area, regulatory reform area.
Things that we had postponed for too long that were long term are now immediate and must be dealt with.
And this crisis provides the opportunity for us, as I would say, the opportunity to do things that you could not do before.
You need me to translate this for you, folks.
We love this crisis.
This crisis finally is going to give us a chance to socialize as much of this economy as we can.
The effort to get health care nationalized and all these other things that he mentioned.
It's just too long term.
There are too many obstacles in the way, but now this crisis with people demanding fixes to everything.
Why it isn't going to make it easy for us to radicalize the U.S. economy and the United States government.
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.
This is the same.
What an opportunity.
The crisis is an opportunity, is what he's saying.
We have got the Obama team is telling you that this crisis is an opportunity for them.
It is an opportunity for them.
So they think your panic and your uh your crisis mentality will let you or make you uh stand aside while they and radicalize, nationalize as much of the economy as they possibly can.
So that's where Obama is.
This is the answer to the question.
Obama is standing on the sideline.
And he and Ram Emanuel are smiling as things get worse each and every day, because in their line of thinking, it enables them to radicalize and move their agenda easier and easier with each passing day.
The more of this stuff that gets fixed and dealt with, then by Rom Emanuel's own words, uh the opportunity lessens, and we've got um more long-term uh uh problems to overcome.
What is happening here, uh, ladies and gentlemen, is the complete abandonment of capitalism.
What you see and hear out of Congressional Democrats is a complete abandonment of capitalism.
Obama will say and do no differently when he is inaugurated.
There will be a frenzy of bureaucratic creations.
This first hundred days of his is gonna be a doozy.
I'm warning you now, you haven't seen anything like this.
And Ram Emanuel veritably promises it in his comment Tuesday night in Washington, D.C. Obama is gonna name Tsars to have this effort or that effort.
Legislation passed further regulating the economy, more propaganda about how terrible the free market is, more attacks on corporate executives wrapped in class warfare.
FDR did this.
And Obama's out there saying he wants to experiment with things just like FDR did.
He wants to go out there and well, we're gonna experiment.
We see this works, see if that doesn't work.
We just want to experiment.
That's what FDR did, but FDR did it the same way Obama's planning to do it.
He did it with an air of confidence.
He did it with an air of all knowing confidence, which meant everybody went along with it because it sounded like Obama knew what he was talking about.
When he has no clue.
By his own admission, he's going to experiment.
Well, by experiment, let me define experiment.
Radicalize as much as comp you you can see it all coming now.
All of this is going to be blamed on Bush.
All of this going to be blamed on capitalism, on free markets, lack they'll call it lack of regulation.
They'll call it lack of oversight of all these rich people.
The rich people, CEOs, Wall Street people, all these they were allowed to run around and screw it up and make the country their piggy bank.
Well, those times have changed, Obama's going to say, and the people will stand up and cheer.
You have to understand, you have to remember here that uh Obama's context for analyzable and economic matters is socialist.
Not once has there been a suggestion about cutting taxes or keeping the Bush tax cuts even.
This would do more to spur the stock market and consumer buying than anything anybody could do, and he will not do it for that reason.
Oh, there I went again.
I almost got written up again by the union.
Almost turned on my own microphone.
I caught myself at habits or habits.
Greetings, uh Eddie, I didn't know you're lurking in there in the corner.
Anyway, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network auto bailout.
The reason people oppose the auto industry bailout is not just because they um don't think it'll work, but a lot of people just don't want to subsidize uh workers who have bigger salaries and better benefits than many of them do.
It's just an issue of fairness and not anti-union.
Is it why should we be doing this?
Now, for Obama and the Democrats, this isn't about the working man, it's about clinging to the old Democrat coalitions.
It's about power.
Of course, they want the taxpayers to finance their constituents.
Same with the inner cities.
They consider those folks their constituents as well.
They don't do anything for the general good.
They are endlessly plotting on how to get and keep power.
The Democrats have yet to improve the lives of the people that vote for them.
They have yet to do so, and yet they continue to get the votes because they continue to succeed in blaming Republicans and everybody else for standing in the way of this so-called brilliant progress the Democrats have designed.
Somehow it just never manifests itself.
Same thing with the environmentalists.
Global warming, if fully enacted with a Gore model and I mean, you what happened today, Henry Waxman just secured control of the economic environment commun committee from John Dingle.
And Waxman is as nuts on global warming as Al Gore is.
So Waxman now is in charge of the House committee that's going to be pushing all this legislation to advance global warming technology, which basically is anti-capitalist technology on the American corporate sector.
So that's going to destroy our industries.
They have managed to somehow walk the high wire on the issue between the unions and the environmentalists.
Because as they destroy these industries, the unions are going to get hurt.
People are going to continue to lose jobs.
I mean, this is you're seeing it.
You're seeing right now what's happening in the U.S. economy is a prelude to what is on tap.
Should Obama be able to proceed unchecked with uh with allies in Congress advancing his agenda.
They're going to deliver on this job-killing cap and trade rule.
Remember, during the campaign, Obama said his cap and trade plan would put the coal business out of business.
Not by saying you can't do it anymore.
What he was going to do is just make it so cost prohibitive that nobody would open a new coal-fired plant.
It wouldn't make any sense financially because Obama's cap and trade program is going to make it impossible to earn a profit doing so.
So, yeah, we're going to put the coal industry out of business.
He thinks it's a good thing because of these magical alternatives that do not exist that somehow are going to magically materialize under his stewardship.
And then when this happens, they're going to tell their union constituents that they will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on new green jobs, and they'll get the minimum wage up to nine and a half an hour.
And they'll they'll have some moderate, not much, but some moderate success at that.
There's still going to be people losing jobs.
And as the minimum wage goes up, more jobs will be lost.
It'll be extremely damaging to our economy and nation, but the Democrats are betting that all this will secure their power for decades to come.
You know, if you go back and you actually can find some objective history of the Great Depression in FDR, there are um many indications that FDR, I mean, the New Deal did not fix the Great Depression, it made it worse.
The New Deal prolonged it.
But in the process, FDR secured massive power for himself as well as his party.
And Obama has indicated that uh his model is FDR.
So I, you know, we have Rama Manual.
Here, grab sound by 19 again.
This was Tuesday night in Wash.
I just want you to listen to this, because if you if you connect the dots, and by the way, it's not true to say nobody knows what Obama's gonna do.
We do know what he's gonna do.
His voters didn't know what he was gonna do.
His voters were clueless.
Did you happen to see the poll that Zogby did?
It was commissioned by John Ziggler after the election on the knowledge Obama voters had.
This is because it is it is amazing when you when you sit around and you hear people say, well, you don't know what Obama's gonna do.
I mean, is he has no plan?
We do know exactly what he's gonna do if we trust what he said.
And in the indication of we trust what Ram Emanuel says, we we know what he's gonna do.
He's a radical leftist.
And this and here, listen to Ram Emanuel, Tuesday night in Washington.
This crisis is an opportunity.
Now the opportunity, he casts the opportunity as an opportunity for you.
National health care, get tax cuts for the middle class tax increases on the rich, all these things.
The opportunity is for them to finally coalesce their power in a way they can't be beaten for years because everybody is gonna be dependent on the Democrat Party for what little they have on a daily basis in terms of economics.
Here's Rahman Manuel again Tuesday night.
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.
And what I mean by that, it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.
This is an opportunity what used to be long-term problems, be they in the health care area, energy area, education area, fiscal area, tax area, regulatory reform area, things that we had postponed for too long that were long-term are now immediate and must be dealt with.
And this crisis provides the opportunity for us, as I would say, the opportunity to do things that you could not do before.
Crisis is an opportunity.
They're looking at an opportunity.
Your misery is an opportunity.
Your unsettledness, this volatility, this lack of stability is an opportunity for them, not for you.
And the opportunity for them is to get all these big programs and make everybody dependent on them.
That coalesces their power.
That's what FDR did with the uh with the New Deal in the Great Depression.
And it didn't solve the Great Depression.
It was World War II that finally took us out of the Great Depression.
It was not FDR's New Deal policy.
Obama's people don't know this.
The Obama voter, apparently, one of the most ignorant sets of voters that we have ever seen or known about in a presidential race.
John Ziggler got hold of Zogby and said, I have some questions.
And he paid him to do a poll.
So Zogby did the poll.
After the election, there's nothing the way to look at this is the poll had no impact on anything because there's no vote, there's no election, no nothing.
This just went out, they found a Bunch of Obama voters, and they did the scientific poll as Zogby always does.
It was 512 Obama voters between November 13th and November 15th.
The margin of error is 4.4 points.
Listen to the results.
Oh, by the way, 97.1%, and these are Obama voters.
97.1% of the Obama voters were a high school graduate or higher.
55% were college graduates.
57.4% could not correctly say which party controls Congress.
By the way, these were multiple choice poll questions.
These people were wild guessing, and they couldn't even get.
I mean, you have a 50-50 shot just by guessing.
Multiple choice, and they still 57.4 did not know which party controls Congress.
That's the Democrats.
71.8% could not correctly say that Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism.
Now, there were four possibilities here, 25% chance to get it right.
By guessing, 71.8% couldn't figure it out.
82.6% could.
Could not correctly say that Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot.
Now this was a four-option multiple choice question.
He had a 25% chance of getting it right.
82% could not identify Obama as the guy who won his first election by kicking all of his opponents off the ballot.
88.4% could not correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket.
Again, there were four possibilities in the question.
She had a 25% chance of getting it right just by guessing.
88% had no clue.
88%.
56% could not correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground.
So, So 56% basically didn't know about Bill Ayers.
And yet, these same voters, only 13% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent 150,000 in clothes.
Meaning what would that be?
That Sarah Palin was the person.
Yeah.
94% knew that Palin was the one with a pregnant teenage daughter.
86.9% thought Palin said she could see Russia from her house, even though that was Tina Fey who said that.
As Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live.5% got all the answers correct.
These were Obama voters.
Now what it shows is that the Obama voters were total addicts to the drive-by media.
The drive-by media informed none of the uh none of their audience about Bill Ayers, about Biden and his plagiarism.
They didn't know it.
But they did know everything in the world about Sarah Palin.
They knew everything in the world about how stupid she was, how dumb she was, and all that sort of stuff.
Obama's voters have no clue, therefore they have no clue who he is.
We do.
We know what Obama's gonna do.
Now it's interesting.
Uh uh Zogby took heat for this like you can't imagine in a drive-by media.
He he had to put out a statement on his website verifying that this is a legit poll, and that he was contracted by John Ziglar to do this, and he did it according to the scientific techniques he always uses.
Uh so then it came up that somebody said, Hey, John, why don't you go do the same poll, get Zogby to do the same poll to McCain voters, and find out what they know.
You know, how smart are they, how informed are they?
Zogby has refused uh to do that, even though money was raised to pay Zogby to do it, he has refused to do that because it took too much heat.
Uh I suppose.
So this this you know, yeah, I it's a multiple choice poll.
And and Obama voters are clueless.
They don't know who he is.
We do.
I don't know what it means.
I don't know if these voters are going to be all bent out of uh shape when he starts doing what he's uh going to do, but it's clear that um uh they they were presented an image of Obama, a messianic, uh charismatic image without any specifics whatsoever, and that uh they they they're just unprepared for anything that uh that comes down the pike.
And so I don't know what their reaction's gonna be once Obama starts doing what he's doing.
The point that this this Ziggler Zogby poll on the Obama voters, they don't know who runs Congress.
But they do know that quote unquote Sarah Palin is stupid.
How can now we can track that back to where?
We can trace that one back to late-night television hosts, irresponsible faux news clowns, and Saturday Night Live and YouTube and the left wing blogs.
I mean, some of these voters probably don't even read newspapers.
But it's quite it's quite striking the degree of ignorance, the most expensive commodity we have that Obama voters exhibited.
And then you have to say, is it ignorance, or is it that that's all they knew?
Because the news sources they accessed only told them that kind of thing.
By the way, folks, about this news that Iran is uh is said not to have nuclear fuel for one weapon.
I mean, how do you say nah this is BS?
I mean, you you you have to take this seriously.
So let's go back.
What did uh what did Barack Obama say during the campaign about uh Iran and other such countries?
Well, he said this.
It was May 18th, by the way, that he said this.
I mean, think about it.
Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union.
They don't pose a serious threat to us.
That's the Lord Messiah Barack Obama, the most merciful on May 18th of 2008.
It's interesting too that Iran and Cuba and Venezuela now all working closely with Russia.
And have you heard what Putin's doing?
Putin has instructed the Russian media to not use words like crisis when reporting on the economy.
There's three or four words, crisis and uh I can't remember the others that the Russian media is not allowed to use, don't want to agitate the Russian people.
All Putin is saying is the KGB is saying is that we're gonna come out of this just fine.
We'll be stronger than ever when we come out of this.
But the low oil price cannot be helping him.
All right, to the phones we go.
We're gonna start in uh Midland, Michigan.
Mark, it's great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Greetings from Michigan Rush.
Thank you.
Yeah, the crown jewel of uh democratic rule.
Land of storing unemployment in the future penal colony of America.
Future penal colony of America.
We're just joking, and we're just joking about sending the pirates there if we uh if we nab them on the high seas.
We're just we're not gonna be able to send them a club getting all because they're gonna be shut down.
Yeah, well, we can come to Michigan.
You know, we could probably dig uh dig a moat at the lower part of our state and just use it like in Australia.
No, no, no.
We're gonna get we're gonna get Michigan fixed.
Just hang on for Obama to bail out the uh the unions uh and Jennifer Grant Home.
You're gonna be fine up there.
Oh, yes, yes.
I forgot.
It's been so long.
Russia, works for the United Auto Workers.
And uh I work at an auto park supplier for General Motors.
In fact, uh General Motors is our biggest customer.
So, you know, I guess what I'm supposed to do is give you the union line on uh you know why why we should protect our jobs and uh you know why everybody should be given uh you know top dollar and uh why union management is all at blame and all at fault for all this this mix that we're in, but uh I guess I can't do that because uh because I'm conservative first rush.
And we both know that the free market's what's gonna solve this problem and not a bailout.
Exactly.
It's sad to say.
You know, this auto worker business is kind of a tough one for me because you know I'm I'm all for everybody earning what they can.
I I'm I'm not gonna sit here uh and and and tell people they don't deserve what what they have uh bargained for and so forth.
But you know, I I uh I I'm not one of these anti-union people that says you guys are destroying the country, but there is a there's this large contingent of people who are starting to think that way now, which is not good PR for unions.
You don't want people thinking of you that way any more than they already do.
And you know, labor has to be priced like any other compet commodity when you're running a business.
It has to be priced competitively.
And if it isn't, then of course the place you work for can't compete against its competitors, and you're killing yourself.
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