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Dec. 8, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 8, 2008, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
What is this?
It's gonna get worse business.
It's gonna get worse.
That's what Obama said yesterday was on Meet the Press.
He said it's gonna get worse.
Folks, as I said Friday, we are living in a sitcom.
God is writing the sitcom.
We elected a guy on the basis that it's gonna get better.
Everything is going to get better simply because we elect the guy.
I am so confused.
The reason for electing Obama was so it would get better, and now Obama tells us it's going to get worse.
It's gonna get much worse.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh here, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network telephone number.
If you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882, email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Well, we're expecting to get the automobile bailout today.
That's what they tell us.
Chris Dodd, who ought to be facing his own investigation, is saying the GM CEO, Rick Wagoner, should be fired.
These guys are starting to run businesses.
Let me let me have a story here for you in the New York Times.
Oh, and speaking of these guys running businesses, I don't know if you know this or not, but John Thane, and I I'm not telling you this to have any sympathy with John John Thane.
John Thane is CEO of Merrill Lynch, and he had a successful run with uh with Merrill Lynch.
He negotiated a uh the sale price of the company at a fabulous $29 a share.
His contract calls for a $10 million bonus.
He wants his $10 million bonus.
Andrew Cuomo, the New York Attorney General has denied John Thane his $10 million bonus, the CEO of Merrill Lynch.
Now I think the board at Merrill Lynch was also opposed to this as well, but that's not the point.
The New York Attorney General has turned down, has nixed the bonus for the boss of Merrill Lynch.
Now the New York Attorney General is Andrew Kumo, the son of Mario the pious Kumo, one of the three frontrunners for Hillary Rodham's Senate seat.
And one thing we know that seat's got to be filled by a carpet bagger.
It's been filled by a carpet bagger all the way back to Bobby Kennedy.
Hillary's a carpet bagger.
That seat's gonna be filled by a Kennedy by a Cuomo or by a Clinton.
And I'm wondering, have they have the Clintons?
Maybe they falsified uh Chelsea's birth certificate, so maybe even she could qualify to be appointed to sit in her in her mother's seat.
That's a big seat, uh, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, to fill.
Anyway, Governor Kumo here, uh, I'm sorry, AG Kumo has made a pronouncement that the head of Merrill Lynch does not deserve his $10 million bonus despite the fact that he engineered the sale of the company.
And a fabulous $29 a share.
Okay, fine and dandy.
So when do we get to make a pronouncement about Andrew Kumo as Attorney General?
Andrew Kumo, as I said, is the son of Mario the Pious.
Uh Kumo, the former well, that's how Jesse Jackson once pronounced the name.
You I get in trouble, you know, if if I if uh just trying to avoid being called a racist.
If the uh Reverend Zach uh thinks it's pronounced Kumo, then on this show it's pronounced Kumo.
Anyway, when when this is the same Andrew Kumo, who was Clinton's housing czar, housing and urban development, the uh the HUD guy.
It was Andrew Kumo who demanded that banks make more home loans to people who couldn't afford them.
His hands are as dirty as Chris Dodds and Barney Frank's on this whole subprime mortgage business.
But before you get angry, uh ladies and gentlemen, remember Andrew Kumo is a liberal.
Failure is a resume enhancement in the world of liberals.
Plus, it's impossible for liberals to engage in any violations of ethics.
Because of course their intentions are always so honorable, and since they make no pretense at being ethically honest, they can never be accused of hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy is always the crime that brings down conservative Republicans.
Okay, so Andrew Kumo, the son of Mario the Pious Kumo, has told the CEO of Merrill Lynch, no, you're not going to get your bonus.
So the government tells the private sector company, nope, nope, nope, can't get your bonus.
New York Times today.
Seems to be an odd pattern, folks.
As I read this story to you, I I want I want to ask you if you note anything familiar here happening in America with uh our current liberals who are in power, right?
Just listen to the story here.
Headline in hard times, Russia moves in to reclaim private industry.
In late October, one of Vladimir Putin's top lieutenants abruptly summoned a billionaire mining oligarch to a private meeting.
The official Igor Sechin had taken a sudden interest in a two-year-old accident of the oligarch's highly lucrative mining operations in Russia's industrial heartland.
Mr. Sechin, who is a leader of a shadowy Kremlin faction tied to the state security service, just call it the KGB, New York Times.
States they don't call it that now, they call it something else, but it's it's the old KGB.
Mr. Sechin, this is Putin's top lieutenant, said he was ordering a new inquiry into the mishap at the mining camp, according to minutes of the meeting with a deputy interior minister who investigates financial crime at his side.
Putin's lieutenant threatened crippling fines against the oligarch and his company called Ural Kali.
Startled the oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev repointed out that the government had already examined this incident thoroughly and had cleared the company of responsibility.
He further sought to fend off the inquiry by saying that he would pay for some of the damage to the infrastructure from the accident at his mine, which was a collapse that injured nobody but left a gaping sinkhole.
I have a picture of this here.
It is a huge sinkhole, but nobody got hurt.
But Putin's deputy said yet.
The Kremlin was maneuvering to seize the mining company outright.
Mr. Putin, the former president and current prime minister, has long maintained that Russia made a colossal error in the 1990s by allowing its enormous reserves of oil, gas, and other natural resources to fall into private hands.
He has acted uncompromisingly, most notably in the case of the Yukos Oil Company in 2003 to get all these resources back under Soviet Russian control.
Now the Kremlin seems to be capitalizing on the economic crisis, exploiting the opportunity to establish more.
You can't make this stuff up.
This is right out of the Rahm Emanuel school.
This is a chicken and egg question.
Did Rahm Emanuel come up with this or did communists come up with this?
And who's copying who?
The Kremlin seems to be capitalizing on the economic crisis.
Rahm Emanuel says this crisis is too good to waste.
The Kremlin seems to be capitalizing on the economic crisis, exploiting the opportunity to establish more control over financially weakened industries that it has long coveted, particularly those in natural resources.
Any of this sound familiar?
Some of this sound familiar to you folks out there.
Andrew Kumo saying no to your bonus, Mr. Thain.
Chris Dodd telling Rick Wagoner, you gotta go.
Barney Frank, the banking queen, telling everybody how they must spend their money.
Russia is retaking their.
I know there's a big difference here.
Russia, the communists are retaking theirs uh we're just doing this for the first time here.
So, but still means we're copying them.
Still means that what it means.
It means American liberals and Russian communists have quite a lot in common.
Uh American liberals is a little late on the uh on the draw.
Oh, and this have you seen, folks?
This horrible situation at the window company in Chicago.
You heard about this?
Well, there's a window company Chicago that has a line of credit with Bank America.
Now, this this is the news media version.
I have not yet heard anybody from the company say anything.
So the story that's out there is that this company, uh unionized, by the way, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, has a line of credit with Bank of America.
And the Bank of America said we're not going to extend your line of credit anymore.
Business isn't working well.
We don't, we don't uh we don't want to extend your line of credit.
Companies, okay, we've got to shut down.
And they shut down, unable to pay employees.
The employees have failed to leave the premises.
They're staging sit-ins and protests, which have been attended by the Reverend Dax, who has quite appropriately shown up with a bunch of turkeys for meals and other things.
Obama has weighed in, told those people to hang in there until their wages and their benefits of their owed are paid.
The governor of Illinois, Blagoevich, just showed up and announced that the state of Illinois is null, is terminating all business with the Bank of America until the Bank of America gets in there and spends some of the bailout money extending the line of credit to the window company so these employees can get paid.
The mayor, the governor, the governor Bolgoevich shows up and basically tells the Bank of America, you're out.
The Bank of America says it's not our responsibility.
We hold a line of credit and they can't pay it.
It's not our responsibility.
So from the President Select on down to the governor on down to the Reverend Jackson, who now has a new business, and that's passing out turkeys to out-of-work union people.
This is when you go to this New York Times story, in hard times Russia moves in to reclaim private industries.
It is eerily, eerily, eerily the same in Russia as it is here, ladies and gentlemen.
We're in the middle of a sitcom.
By the way, I have a new policy.
I think we all want to sign on to this today.
And I have uh spent a lot of time over the weekend putting this together.
Ladies and gentlemen, we've had some very uh conflicting agonizing moments on this program with the auto bailout discussions and the circumstances of the United Auto Workers' Unions and members that we have heard about, and of course, you know me.
I'm all for everybody making earning as much as they can.
But within the laws of free markets, uh competition and so forth and uh and so on.
As such, ladies and gentlemen, I have decided from right here, the Office of America's Anchorman.
My official position on this, is I know people have been waiting for this.
General Motors is sponsor on this program.
People think I've been having to balance something here in order to hold on the sponsorship.
No, no, no, no.
I'm honest as the day is long about what I really think about things without these kinds of considerations.
So I want you to know the official position of EIB Network and me, L. Rushbow, is I support the workers.
At the window factory in Chicago, I support the workers at the United Auto Workers Assembly lines, the big three in Detroit and elsewhere, but I do not support the big unions.
I support the workers, but I do not support the big unions.
I support the workers, but I do not support union bosses.
I admire and respect our men and women on the front lines of manufacturing.
The great job that they are doing and trying to do.
I support their skills, their dedication, their talents.
It is their union bosses and their union in general that I oppose.
I learned this during the Iraq War, by the way.
Ha ha, how are you Rush Limbaugh?
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Get this.
Folks, I'm telling you every story, just like it was Friday.
Every story is unbelievably hilarious.
If you look at it from the right perspective, it's a sitcom.
It's unbelievable we haven't even gotten to Obama's radio address Saturday or his appearance on Meet the Press yesterday, where he's going to do his impersonation of FDR.
All the stupid public work stuff.
Yeah, for example, the highway program.
Well, yeah, we gotta upgrade our highway.
When Eisenhower did the interstate highway system, it was done for the first time.
Well, this is this is well, we'll get to that in due course.
This is from AP Obama.
It's a tough economy out there.
You parents, listen to this now.
This this story is an attempt at offering you guidance over the holiday system here.
It's a tough economy out there, even for a kid.
Many parents are wondering how to broach the subject of the tough economy.
Should they shield their children from the hard times?
And spend like there's no tomorrow, as they have been, or is it better to share the reality that more families, often their own, simply can't have it all, even at Christmas.
It can be a real dilemma.
I've explained the situation.
I've also avoided it, says Mimi Chasen, a mom and business owner in Miami whose husband lost his job in advertising.
Families doing okay, and in fact the children's cooking classes Chasen teaches have remained full so far.
As science she says so many parents are still willing to remain spending on the on their kids.
I find myself not wanting to put them under the stress of a tough economy, but also sitting down and explaining that things aren't easy for anybody right now, says Chasen, of her sons ages nine and four.
Rita Cortiz, who owns a Plato's closet store, part of a chain of teen-oriented secondhand clothing shops, has been hearing more of these conversations among parents and their children in recent months, especially over uh.
And then there's this Emily Collings, 18 year old college freshman, Washington Township, New Jersey, who works at the store.
What store?
Uh oh, this Plato's Closet store.
Says she's what is a Plato's closet.
You ever heard of a Plato's closet on that even?
Okay.
Um works at the store, says she's noticed friends spending less money on themselves and others and even making gifts for the holidays.
She lives at home.
She also has had more frank conversations about money with her parents.
Yeah, we always talk about it, Emily Collings says.
She's 18 now.
Uh, and they've told me it's it's not going to be easy for me to say, Mom, I'm going out tonight.
Can I have 20 bucks?
Okay.
Okay, Plato's Closet.
Well, yeah, brand named uh General General Used Clothing Store, right?
So it's like a Salvation Army type stuff.
Okay.
Maybe, maybe I just, because, you know, I have foregone the joys and the ecstasies of having my own children.
Maybe I am this out of touch.
But I can tell you folks that when I was growing, I've always vowed when I got older I would never be a fuddy duddy.
I would never say, well, the way things were, you know, like your parents always told you they walked ten miles to school with no shoes in the snow, that kind of stuff.
Always doubt I would never do that, but this whole the concept of this starting to make clear now how it is we elected Obama.
There's a tough economy, and parents are asking, should they shield their children from the hard times and spend like there's no tomorrow, or should they share with them the grief?
Uh I can't relate to it.
This this kind of question would have never been asked growing up.
Now we were not poor, we weren't upper class affluent, but oh I I Oh, here's another plan.
Baby Earth, a Texas based baby products retailer, focuses on higher end eco-friendly products.
Officials say they've seen a slowdown in sales growth in recent months, but sales are still increasing.
Even in this economy, parents are still shelling out $900 on orbit strollers, $12 for spiffy BPA-free glass bottles, $395 on organic crib bedding, and even $300 for organic crib mattresses, says Kathy Hale, a spokeswoman for the company.
Eventually, these kids are going to grow up and they're going to face the same stress and challenges we all face.
What's wrong with spoiling them now?
These sweet-spirited, innocent years are so fleeting.
Oh, I guess, so we've done a turnaround.
It's important to spoil kids because their futures are bleak.
It's important to spoil them, especially when they don't know they're being spoiled.
These are babies in the crib.
Now, the point of all this, ladies and gentlemen, is at least my point is that this is tantamount evidence that if we're in a recession and people are thinking like this, then most of the people who are being interviewed for these stories, and I don't know what what cross section of the American population this represents.
But if we are in a recession and people are still thinking this way, then most people have no idea what a real economic downturn is, and they still don't, because this cannot be that bad if people still have this attitude about how to deal with their circumstances while in it.
Back in a second.
Yeah, I checked the email during the break.
Come on, Rush.
Do you have to nitpick everything parents do?
Can't you're not a parent, it's none of your business.
You don't know what it is.
We have to nitpick everything.
Okay, so some parents are worried about what to do with their kids during tough economic times.
You can't relate, so shut up about it.
Ladies and gentlemen, this see, this is the whole point.
The whole point is if parents can go out and spoil their kids during a recession in bad economic times, it ain't bad economic times.
This is the point.
Peggy Noonan wrote a piece a couple weeks ago.
It's amazing.
We got all these horrible stories about how rotten it is out there, and every time you go outside, it looks the same.
There are cars on the streets, there are people in the stores, the lights are on.
People's homes are heated or air conditioned, as may be the case.
Christmas lights are everywhere.
It looks the same.
Now, here's why this is important.
Here's why I'm going to tolerate those of you sending me these caustic, mean-spirited emails of disrespect.
After 20 years, I still can't believe that some of you regular listeners have the audacity to question me.
Ahem.
A little Obama impersonation there.
Seriously, if things are so bad that parents can choose to go out and spoil their kids to shield them from how bad it is, it ain't bad.
But if you think it's bad, you're gonna sit around and you're gonna let Obama take over as much of this nation's private sector to fix it when it ain't bad as he wants.
We're talking here about attitude versus reality.
Perception versus reality.
The perception is is that everybody we're soup lines.
Perception is it's a Great Depression, 25% unemployment.
Nobody has any hope.
Nobody has any future.
Yet every time you go outside, everything's the same.
But Rush, but Rush, look at all the unemployment from last month.
I know, I know a lot of it's in the media.
And a lot of it is from businesses downsizing getting ready for what they think is a big wallop coming from Obama.
And if they heard him on television this weekend, they're right.
There's a huge wallop coming from Obama.
Here.
Give you an illustration.
It's an innocent little story here from A.P. Obama.
Entitled Excuse me, almost over this crud.
Obama hopes to avoid Clinton health care missteps.
President elect Barack Obama and his aides are determining not to repeat the mistakes the Clinton administration made 15 years ago in trying to revamp the nation's health care system.
That means applying some of the lessons learned, moving fast, seizing momentum, and not letting it go.
The strategy begins with giving people a chance to highlight their concerns and experiences.
Dashell invited people from around the country to hold what amounts to house parties.
December 15th to 31st, Obama's transition team will gather the info from those meetings and post the material on its website, change.gov.
Anyway, let me get to the meat and potatoes here of this.
The meat and potatoes is that Obama wants national health care.
He wants socialized medicine.
In order to get it, two things have to happen.
One, you have to think it's over in the private sector.
You have to think that things are so bad that the only way we can preserve our nation is with government taking things over.
Because we can't count on GM to give us our health care.
And we can't count on a window company in Chicago to give us our health care.
And we can't count on our own bosses to give us health care because they're rotten SOBs.
Nope, the only people that can do this are government.
Because they care about us.
Tom Dashell, whose Obama's housing or health and human services, whatever he is.
Details kill, says the puffster.
If we get too far into the weeds, if we produce a 1,500 or 1600 page bill, we're gonna get hung up on all the details, and we're never going to get to the principles.
Let's not put it down, let it lie there for months and months and figure out a time when we can get back to it later, said Dashell.
Let's just do it.
He provided no details about how the incoming administration would pay for expanding health coverage to everybody.
Instead, he made the case that not dealing with health care would worsen the economic problems because companies like GM spend more on health care than steel, and Starbucks spent more on health care than coffee.
Doesn't make either circumstance right.
It kind of gives us a heads up on what's wrong, doesn't it?
You got a coffee company spending more on health care than coffee, and you got a car company spending more on health care than they build on the spend on steel, i.e.
to make cars.
Okay, so you see it's not working.
We can't count on GM.
Why now we can't even count on Starbucks.
And we can't count on a window company in Chicago.
The laid off workers have had to take over there.
I don't know how they're gonna pay themselves, but they still have taken over.
So you see, it's so dire.
And while it's dire, you have the opportunity of not telling your kids.
You have the opportunity you go out there and buy a we at Walmart on their website today.
You could go out and buy a Nintendo.
You can take them for a happy meal 15 times a day because McDonald's is showing a profit is cheap.
You can shield your kids from every bit of misery, but it's drastic, and we need health care, and we need it now.
We need it so bad.
Screw the details.
Let's just do it.
You wonder what the reaction of the Obama voter is going to be.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tongues on the floor, licking it all up.
Yes, yes, give me my health care, and give me my we and give me my window company job and give me the give me that and make it better.
Obama's no, no, no, it's not gonna get better.
It's gonna get much worse.
Go to the phone, Scott in Las Vegas.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
You are up first, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, it's great to talk to you.
Um, I just had a comment about um Obama's whole reconstruction plan.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, Obama's reconstruction plan is basically based on a 1930s economy Where people were laborers, were manual laborers.
That's not the case today.
People are not manual laborers for the most part.
We're in an information technology age now.
And the types of jobs that Obama's talking about have absolutely no relevance to our economy today.
he's living in the past, and his fix is not a fix because we just do not have...
Depends on what we say is broken and what we're trying to fix.
Okay.
Uh, what if Obama is trying to do what FDR did?
See, oh, FDR stuff didn't fix anything either, did it?
No, actually it didn't.
It prolonged the Great Depression, did it not?
That's what it did.
Well, guess what this is going to do?
Oh, it's gonna not only prolong what we're in now, but it's gonna actually make it worse.
Who benefits?
Who benefits the government, Obama?
Obama the Democrat Party benefit.
Right.
So what's being broken is not being fixed.
What's being fixed is the power interruption Republicans created against the Democrats.
Uh after the Great Society and all that imploded, the Congress was taken over by the Republicans in 1993.
In the election there they started serving in 1994.
Uh Reagan's two terms kind of spelled out the lie of New Dealism.
So the the whole the whole uh notion that the FDR set up with the great the New Deal was perpetual power for Democrats as it erupted, so now they got to put it back together.
New New Deal to guarantee fifty more years of perpetual Democrat power.
That's what and so that's what's being broken or what is broken, and that's what Obama's fixing.
He's not fixing the country.
He's fixing the Democrat Party.
Now, do you think that uh the American people are gonna realize this and wake up to it, or are we just gonna kind of continue in our mindless worship of Obama?
I haven't the slightest idea.
Uh I see hopeful signs that the American people, when Obama's not present and not spellbinding everybody with worthless words and meaningless rhetoric.
I see the American people show up and do the right thing, Saxby Chamblis.
And how about Bill Jefferson being thrown out of office over the weekend in New Orleans?
Here's a did you hear about that?
Yes, that is I I was I cheered when I heard that.
Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, who, by the way, who, by the way, in putting his $90,000 of cash in the freezer was actually giving us all a good tip.
He must know.
Welcome back.
I am Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man.
I, you know, I I I really do uh, ladies and gentlemen, hate watching people get sucked into discussions about radical liberals throwing away our money and running our companies.
How much is okay?
Well, maybe they do know best.
The whole premise here is wrong.
The premise is upside down, it's 180 degrees out of phase.
And it appears here that the country's basically signed a power of attorney agreement with the public servants in Washington.
Sort of like the servants moving into the main house.
And the owners moving into the servants' quarters and thanking them.
It's about what's going on here.
I mean, for Barack Obama or any politician to be discussing what a private sector company should or must do to survive, much less operate.
My friends, this is outside the scope of how and why this country was founded.
This isn't their place.
It isn't their job.
They are elected.
This country was founded on the rejection of government interference.
These automakers.
Yeah, they're not doing the country any favors.
I mean, frankly, it's it's their duty to do what's best for their company and their shareholders, and to tell Congress and Obama to shove it up where the sun doesn't shine.
It's I, you know, it sets The wrong precedent here for any CEO to run to Washington and to grovel and agree to let public servants run their companies.
It's the exact opposite of how they should be reacting.
The worst PR move they could possibly make.
If they went into bankruptcy kicking and screaming about government interference, people would buy their cars out of pride, if nothing else.
Who wouldn't want to buy cars or invest in companies with guts who stood up for their freedom to succeed or fail on their own decisions?
Who wouldn't invest in a company that publicly picked a fight with these jokes?
Nothing but politicians.
Pick and fight with the government.
Watch people get in line to buy American.
What this is is a missed opportunity to reinforce what is great about this country and what cars represent.
This is an assault on freedom.
It's happening right before us, right under our noses, right before our very eyes.
It's an assault on freedom.
It's just amazing.
By the way, speaking of freedom, it was one of the central themes of my uh speech at the Hillsdale College gathering on Thursday night in in uh in Washington, and we've got the video of that speech up now.
It's for members only at rush 24-7.
The audio and the transcript of the speech has always been on the free side.
The video is for the um uh members only at rush twenty-four-seven.
Here's Judy in Detroit.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, it's Jody, but that's okay.
Snurdly, he also spelled uh Las Vegas wrong a moment ago.
He cannot, he still hasn't gotten over the cowboys losing the Steelers yesterday.
It's so distraught that the it's distracting him.
Well, not as distraught as my husband is being a lions fan, but um I am the our our elected officials are not our servants, hence my call, and not my child servant either.
And I think a lot of the problem is these children feel that they're entitled, and child uh the parents buy into it.
They think that they're entitled to college, which I don't believe.
I have a 23 and 25 year old, um, two girls, they both paid for their own college.
Now wait a second now, wait a second, wait a second.
Wait, is it kids or kids?
Are they did they were they born feeling entitled?
Uh they might have been, but that was changed early on.
No, not yours.
I'm no, no, no.
I'm t you said kids feel entitled.
They feel entitled to college, they feel entitled to a big house when they're 25.
Well, who made them that way?
Their parents.
All right.
And their and their grandparents, maybe they're all feel that way.
But why?
Why did their parents and grandparents do it?
Why?
Why did they all of a sudden take a 180 and spoil their kids to the point that the kids have no understanding of the reality of the life they face?
Well, I think the older generation wanted better for their kids, so they worked very hard to give their kids what they couldn't have, and somehow that got sh got skewed along the way and turned into entitlement.
I have a you're you you and I are very close in thinking on this, but I think it's I think it's pretty common.
I think every generation of parents has hoped that their own kids have a better life than they had.
What has what what has happened here, and I don't know how many generations, maybe two, last uh no, no, no, no.
It has to last you, it cannot be fifty years because I'm fifty-seven and it was not this way when I was a kid.
Um there has been an effort to, and it's not it's not, by the way, it's not just in uh in in the homes, it's been this has been practiced in the schools too, wherever you find kids.
There has been an effort to eliminate all suffering and discomfort.
Whenever there is suffering or discomfort or hurt feelings, the parents, everybody run, oh no, no, no, we can't allow this to happen.
There can be no suffering.
There can be nobody with hurt feelings, nobody can be upset.
It started innocently enough with education where there were differences in in the in kids' uh scores and so forth, that led to we can't have that.
That's humiliating others.
And I think This whole idea, it's it's it's embodied here in the lead of this story.
Parents are confused now, okay.
We're in bad economic times.
Do I shield my kids from this?
Absolutely.
They're not gonna learn.
You're everybody has to suffer to learn to some extent.
I don't want to see my kids on the street, you know, homeless by any stretch.
I'd be happy to help them, but you have to teach them to work.
You have to teach their them to have self-respect.
Yeah.
To be good citizens.
See, I'm sitting eat themselves.
I I'm sitting here as host of the program, and one of my responsibilities as host of the program is to make sure that whatever happens on this program is not boring.
Now, wait, no, wait, no, I got a point here.
Twenty-five years ago, for you to call and say this would have been so understood by everybody to be the way it is, the way it should be, that it would be considered boring.
Today, I wonder how many people have heard what you just said and are thinking, wow, you know, that makes a lot of sense.
I never thought of it that way.
Well, look at it.
It's it's all starting to make sense here.
There has been a slow encroachment of our culture.
Um obviously it's it's it's it's not uh it's not that slow.
It's gotten to the point where things are well.
A lot of us do not recognize things the way they are.
And this election seems to have opened our eyes even more there.
Okay, we gotta take a big time out here at the top.
Another obscene profit break for those of us not participating in the recession.
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