Obama warns it's soon may be too late to save the economy.
Now that the only way that's true is if Obama gets done everything he wants to get done in it, too late to save the economy.
Why Stoke fear that?
That's absurd.
Hang it.
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Ladies and gentlemen is a powerful, influential member of the media.
I, of course, have access to things that uh other people do not.
And I recently received the first four episodes of the new season, season seven of twenty-four, which uh premieres on Sunday.
Two nights on Sunday, two nights on Monday, a total of four hours.
I watched these four episodes.
You know everybody thought last season kind of slacked off a little bit.
And then we've had the writer's strike, so we went a whole year, a whole TV season without 24.
It's back, and I have to tell you, it is stupendous.
It is it is so good.
I don't want to I'll just tell you how it opens.
It opens with a bunch of pontificating pompous buffoons of a Senate committee interrogating Jack Bauer, trying to put him in jail for torture.
And then all hell breaks loose.
And that's as far as I'm gonna go.
But it is just, it is it is just tremendous.
Uh some of you who thought that 24 kind of lost its focus and direction in the last season, you will say 24 is back.
And by the way, there is no CTU.
There is a new Chloe, even though Chloe is still in this one.
There's the two Chloe's.
But the uh the the it opens in Washington.
Most of the uh first action takes place in Washington, not in California.
It's it's well, well worth your time.
I also received as uh special bonus a Jack Bauer action figure doll in a jail breaking out or some some sort of a wire enclosure.
I'm gonna send it to one of my nieces or nephews and let them tear it up in ten minutes.
But um anyway, it's well worth your time.
Also, uh, ladies and gentlemen, in case you're just joining us, your welfare recipient just getting out of bed, one of those fortunate to receive a tax cut uh in the Obama uh Save American Economy Plan.
I have a question.
Uh and then there there really is only one answer to this, and I'm not gonna provide it right off the bat.
This is a teachable moment.
Starbucks, three or four years ago, ordered a Gulfstream G550.
They already had two jets.
They had a Gulf Stream 5, and they had a uh some jet from Bombardier.
So they took delivery in December of their G550, which wink wink, this story in the Seattle Times says cost 45 million dollars.
We'll let that pass.
At the time, ladies and gentlemen, they took delivery of the G550, they happened to be closing a lot of stores.
This is right before Christmas.
They took delivery of the G550 that they ordered four years ago.
You're it you go buy one if you if if you don't find somebody who's got a position that's willing to sell it, then you you're four years.
That's it it's that's how brisk Gulf Stream's business is.
So they bought it four years ago in the height of economic robustness.
They take delivery.
In the story, it says they tried to get out of the position.
Uh they tried to cancel delivery, they said it'd be too expensive.
Uh now I know a little bit about this.
And I happen to know that had they wanted to sell, because there are people that don't want to wait four years for an airplane, and they're out there and they are making it known they're out there.
If Starbucks really wanted to Get out of this.
They could have done so at a profit.
They could have sold that position for 55 to 60 million dollars.
They could have done that.
So I don't know.
Maybe there's people pre people who's it Melissa Allison.
She may not know anything about this.
You're just telling them what goes through what Starbucks said.
Anyway, anyway, not the point.
Just correcting the drive-by's, it's my job, man.
So they take delivery of this 45 million dollar jet.
At the same time, they're closing stores, which is firing people.
And they're also reducing contributions or considering reducing contributions, how much they match in their employee 401k plans.
Two weeks after taking delivery, they flew the G5.
Somebody did, they can't find the records.
Somebody flew it to Hawaii on a combined business pleasure trip.
The spokesman for Starbucks declined to say who took the jet to Hawaii, but said it was a combined personal and business trip.
She pointed out Starbucks' policy requires employees to reimburse the company for personal use of the jet.
That policy was instituted in fiscal 2007 when the corporate chairman Howard Schultz reimbursed the company 400,919 for personal flights that he took on the jet.
Now there is a simple question that I, El Rushbow, I'm throwing out there.
What is the correct reaction?
And I'm going to give you a little hint.
Forget public relations.
Because the public relations answer here is very simple.
They should have canceled the jet, not closed the stores.
There's...
But that's, you know, forget the tone deaf.
Forget the tone def because that's an easy answer.
It's also the incorrect answer.
What's the answer?
What is the correct response to this?
In terms of liberty, freedom, the constitution, conservatism.
What is the correct response to this?
Don't just mouth it in their dawn.
Okay, okay.
She's she's telling she was mouthing her guess, her wild guess as to the correct reaction.
What's the correct reaction to this?
Now, another thing, I just find this hilarious.
Oh, oh, speaking of coffee.
One Chicago public screws manager may have really been jonesing for a cup of coffee when officials say she spent nearly $70,000 of the district's money to buy 30 cappuccino espresso machines for a screw program.
Five months after the machines were purchased, 22 remained unopened, one disappeared, stolen, and three were being used at two schools, though not in the culinary arts program for which they were intended.
You gotta be kidding me.
We hear these stories about how these schools are bankrupt, they don't have any money, and yet they're going out there and buying espresso machines in Cappuccino for kids to learn how to make it in class.
No, how stupid do they think we are?
Remember, this is the same school system.
I don't know if these schools are involved.
This is the same school system where the students went on strike because they were getting a rotten education.
Chicago school's espresso machines, a waste of money, inspector report.
They needed an inspector to tell us this.
This is like when I was on vacation.
When I was a vacation, this just was the most, this is the funniest thing I'd seen in a long time.
It ran on the politico.
Who ran it?
I forget who ran it.
Might have been Mike Allen.
Remember on December 23rd, late in the day, might have been the 24th.
Obama released a report, his lawyer Greg Craig, on how many people in campaign had talked to Blogo and were on the wiretabs about selling the seat.
And the politico actually ran a headline.
Obama report clears Obama.
And I said, These people are serious.
They might as well rewritten the headline.
Obama clears self in probe.
And that was it.
That was good enough for them.
In a related matter.
Something that's just as hilarious.
who has hired Joe the Plumber, Fox.
Somebody has hired Joe the Plumber to go to Iraq and be a reporter.
I just saw him interviewed by Martha McCallum on Fox.
They want an average guy's perspective on reportage from a rock.
And of course, the drive-bys are having a fit.
They hate Joe the Plumber anyway, because Joe the Plumber exposed Obama's uh redistributionist plans.
But then there was the uh the info babe Kira Phillips, who works at CNN.
She just went off, she lost it yesterday, or recently talking about Joe the Plumber, no experience, has no clue what he's doing.
This is an outrage to journalism, and I just had to sit there and laugh.
These poor journalists like Janet Cook, Jason Blair, and all these other fake phony reporters that have made it up, plagiarized, but like these people have the audacity to get bed out of shape when somebody they think isn't a journalist and isn't a reporter gets hired to go do a gig.
You people in the drive-by's, I have been putting up with this crap for 20 years, and I don't complain about it.
For 20 years, I've had to watch people in my business hire callers who've never been in a radio studio to be hosts.
And then after they hire them, think they're the best thing in the world when they're literally insane.
I've had to watch doctors, lawyers, nurses, shrinks, automobile mechanics, people who have the slightest idea about broadcasting, get hired as hosts and get national syndication.
And they roll out on 50 radio stations with a combined audience of the number of people in the thimble, and they're reported to have a national show.
And have I complained about it?
Hell no.
Joe the Plumber gets if it was a conservative website, PJ TV, oh, pajamas TV.com and hired Joe the Plumber.
Well, they're getting a lot of mileage out of this.
They ought to send Sarah Palin with him if they really want to tick off the drive-bys.
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This is Dana.
Nice to have you here.
Yes, thank you, Ross.
You know, I think there's one thing that everybody's leaving out of this equation on the economic problem.
And if it wasn't for 9-11, where would we be in this problem today?
Would we have this economic problem?
And then they've demonized we would.
Well you think they've demonized the war.
Do you think giving loans to people who can't afford to pay them back has anything to do with 9-11?
You think this subprime mortgage scandal, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac.
Do you think all of these financial institutions who had no money because they're leveraged 30 to 1 on debt would have done anything differently if it hadn't been for 9-11?
Well, you're right.
But I'm just saying there's resources out there.
They've demonized the war on terror.
We can't even uh take advantage of the fruit of our victory.
I mean, there's oil out there.
We wouldn't have had four dollar a gallon oil if we were allowed to use oil from Iraq from the war.
We wouldn't be in that that mess.
But uh we they've demonized uh the whole war on terror.
We can't I mean they don't they didn't demonize uh they don't demonize uh our space program, and that came from uh carpet bombing Germany.
I mean, we got technology from Germany.
I don't look at the space shuttle and say, oh man, you know why that's up there is because we carpet bombed Germany.
But you know, we can't take the oil from Iraq.
That's wrong.
And that doesn't make sense to me, and I think economically we'd be in a lot better shape if we could uh Well, in that sense, I mean I understand what you're saying, if we hadn't had to spend so much uh on energy to conduct the war, but that you know, really um to a certain extent, but you're talking about a drop in the ocean here.
The military uses X uh amount Of jet fuel kerosene, whatever, they they get first dibs on a lot of things to be at ready to do things like Iraq every year.
Even if they don't use it, they still take it.
It's in reserve.
Uh so that where 9-11 is is not viewed in the proper perspective, is it was an economic disaster, and we came back from it.
That's the thing that everybody misses when talking about George W. Bush and the uh never-ending criticism.
We were just coming out of a out of a minor little blip of a recession, an economic downturn when Clinton left office, then 9-11 hit, and we had a robust rebound.
But this this crisis that we're talking about is due sp it's it's you can trace it to the subprime business, which gave us the housing bubble, which has now lost uh caused all kinds of loss in the in the in the value to price of homes.
It's it would have happened whether there was 9-11 uh or not.
This is Dan in Sonoma, California.
Great to have you here.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Thanks so much.
Ditto's from Beautiful Sonoma.
Thank you.
Um Obama in his speech mentioned that the trillion dollar deficits will be with us for many years.
That's right.
What he fails what he fails to mention is that he helped vote for the near billion dollar bailout.
So in essence, he is trying to correct a problem he helped uh he helped create.
Yes.
But you see, here's here's the way I look at that.
Okay, so we're gonna have a trillion dollar deficit, and that deficit, this deficit spending.
Uh by the way, when Republicans are deficit spending, it's a monster.
It's gotta be slain, it's gotta be killed.
The deficit's gonna this is gonna be the end of it.
Now deficit spending is fine, deficit spending is good.
In fact, folks, let me show you how out of whack things have become.
Just this week, just this week, ladies and gentlemen, New York was just yesterday.
New York Times had a story on it's now mainstream thought.
More and more government spending as economic stimulus, as normal day-to-day procedure is mainstream.
Oh, yeah?
When did this happen?
Oh, that happened overnight.
It happened overnight.
That's what happens when you've got Democrats in Congress, Democrats sooner be in the White House and a Democrat run media.
In fact, in fact, just go back a year or so and listen to the Bush deficits being ripped to shreds during the campaign.
Now all of a sudden, mainstream to spend this kind of money, mainstream to print it.
In fact, in fact.
Ladies and gentlemen, do you know what the big challenge now is?
Can the government spend it fast enough?
That's what the media is now asking.
The crisis depends on the government spending it fast enough.
You realize this happened inside of a month?
Fifty years of economic thought just reversed 180 degrees inside of a month.
In Philadelphia, Andrew Hilloso, you're next on the EIB network.
Rush, thank you for taking my call.
I I'm curious because uh mayor Michael Nutter just met with the rock and has a plan to use some of this 1.2 trillion dollars to spend on the Philadelphia do.
And just this week, they announced that they were going to be closing eleven libraries, saving eight million dollars.
Why are we not keeping those libraries open and also some fire stations?
Easy.
What are we what are we talking about here?
We're talking about Philadelphia, right?
That is correct.
Well, is the last time you went to the library?
I actually frequent it.
All right.
Well, how many people are in there when you go?
Not very many.
Yeah.
Ever been to the zoo lately?
I have not.
Go.
You'll be standing in line to get in as uh as people are asked to name the new Jaguar Cub.
Uh or feed the dolphins or whatever animals they have in the Philadelphia Zoo.
The animals are at great risk from global warming.
We may not see these animals anymore if things keep going, because they might become extinct.
But the Internet.
Why Google has this Massive project, they're going to digitize every book ever published.
If they get their way, you're going to be able to access every book ever written.
What if not the fire station?
On the internet.
Fire station?
Yeah, they're closing fire stations down as well.
Well, that's just a trick to get you to pay more taxes.
That's how cities and governments do it.
They close down these vital services rather than all the waste like the cappuccino machines and so forth.
That's just that's just designed to get you to agree to more spending, more taxes, so I don't have to close the fire station or the police station.
And yet it's another I'm I must apologize, but I've I forgot one thing.
Forgive me.
It's gonna take me a while to make this rote.
There aren't gonna be any arson fires because Obama's president, there's gonna be so much love.
The existing fire departments can handle the accidents.
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Richmond, Virginia, this is Sandra.
Sandra, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
And thank you and um Snurley for being individualist, much as myself.
I need your help.
Yeah.
Um I'm a family new listener.
Just started last year when the um election really got kicking good.
And I realize I need to get more involved.
How can an individual like I, who's an individualist, and believe in individuals, and you know, the American way.
How can we stop what we just heard this morning?
Um, Nasi, you you it's a great, great question because you have to have realistic goals.
It may not be possible.
I I don't know how we're gonna stop this for a couple of years.
No, no, no.
Now hear me out on this, Sandra, because this is a very important question.
Elections have consequences.
I don't know how we're going to stop this.
I haven't seen yet any evidence from our Republican Senate and House minorities that they're really interested in stopping any of it.
What I've seen so far, and it's going too far, it's out of hand.
There are too many people who are saying we need to step aside and halt our criticism.
We need to hope the new president and his administration have success and so forth.
Uh we want to work together with them and so this this is this is politics and it's the future of the country, and this is not how these guys are going to win votes in 2010.
Uh this plan that Obama has, anybody who's on our side of the aisle, who has any degree of of uh of education and experience and knowledge of history knows full well the disaster that awaits us.
This he's gonna get 95% of he want what he wants early on, folks.
Because of this attitude, the Republicans, oh, we hope he succeeds.
Oh, we can't get we can't, we can't be seen as critics.
We can't, oh no, no, no, that will not help us with the minority vote in 2010, 2012.
All it's bunk.
We stand up for what's right and what we believe in, or we are we cave.
Now, right now, our side is in cave mode and they're out of fear.
That means, Sandra, it's up to us.
As it always is.
So what can you do?
Well, I'm gonna tell you three things that you can do.
And number one, and this is true for every one of us out there.
You have got to stand firm in what you believe in, live your life that way, vote when you have the chance to vote that way, and you have to not be afraid to talk to people who disagree with you about it.
This look at the people who care about this are the ones that have the chance to make changes.
The people out there watching MTV and doing it, forget them because they're not engaged.
They show up every election and vote.
Now, don't forget them, but that's another thing we've got to do, but we've got to somehow assert ourselves into the popular culture.
Popular culture right now is just accepted as liberal.
There's not any contention, there's no disagreement.
And the people that only Know America via popular culture are seeing nothing but anti-Republican, anti-conservative, anti-Bush, pro-liberal, pro-cultural, rot pro.
They see it all over the place all the time.
They think it's normal.
Anybody who disagrees with it is the enemy.
It's unrealistic to expect those people.
Every election did all of a sudden go in and vote for a conservative.
So that's a project.
A guy named Andrew Breitbart, and his website in California is spearheading that with some help from others.
But what can you do, Sandra?
Don't live in a cocoon.
You have no idea how many people you will influence just by virtue of the way you live your life, just by virtue of the way you communicate with people.
If you believe in it, try to change people's minds.
It may lead to some arguments.
You may think it's pointless.
You may think it's fruitless.
Another thing to do is keep listening to this program, and I say this in all sincerity.
This program will keep you inspired, motivated, and happy.
This program will keep you armed.
This program, my newsletter, website, this pro will keep you up to speed.
And it will give you the inspiration to continue to go out and do this.
For those of you that have kids and grandkids, and I've got nieces and nephews, you care about the future.
This is what it's all about.
Now we're heading to a disaster here.
And depending on how deep this disaster is penetrates our country, it could take a generation to turn this stuff around.
If they get national health care, folks, that's that's that's a biggie.
They're going to get Supreme Court nomination.
This told you before the election, this stuff matters.
Elections have consequences.
Okay, yeah, we're in a hole.
But I'm not I'm not capable, and I'm I'm not going over the bus when it goes over to Cliff.
Now I mentioned yesterday, here's something else you can do.
This something I did.
You know, a lot of people have asked me, where'd you learn?
What was that?
Somebody is attempting to distract your host, but it shall not fly.
People ask me all the time, what do you do?
How do you learn what you learned?
Well, family, obviously.
But man, there's so much brilliant conservative thought out there, and a lot of people have heard about it, a lot of people haven't, a lot of people don't have access to it.
Let me, we we've got a new partner here at EIB, the Heritage Foundation.
These are people working, they're think tank specialists, scholars, scientists, economists, demographers.
And they are brilliant.
And they work, some of them in the basements of anonymity.
Churning stuff out that if you can have access to it, a world of knowledge is open to you that you didn't know existed.
You're not going to find this stuff in the mainstream media.
You're not going to find it in the library.
You're not going to find it in the places you would normally seek to go.
They've got a website called, it's AskHeritage.org.
Www.
Askheritage.org.
You can become a member of this.
There are 400,000 people who are.
All across the country.
Go to this website.
We link to it also at rushlimbaugh.com.
Ask heritage.org.
Ask them anything.
And they'll find the answer to your question in all of the digitized research on their servers.
I mean, it's all it's just waiting.
It is uh this stuff is not taught in schools.
This is crucial.
If you you're a homeschooler, ask heritage.org.
And I've talked about the Heritage Foundation over the years because they have been invaluable to me.
And I'm an instinctive conservative.
I've always been, I always knew what conservative was.
Conservatism was.
I always knew what liberalism was.
I always, I never have had any doubts.
What people like the Heritage Foundation enable me to do was to explain and understand why my instincts are what they were and my family as well, of course, but you can't just have one source.
W.asheritage.org.
This is a gold mine, my friends.
And it's just, well you see it.
What will you uh join and play around with this?
It's it's uh I mean, from any topic you want on conservatism, be it the economy, foreign policy, uh war on terror, military matters.
They've got they've got perhaps one of the greatest libraries on Ronald Reagan.
You wonder what would Reagan do in a circumstance if that intrigues you.
Ask heritage.org.
So Sandra does all kinds of things you can do, but all of the rest of you, just interact with people and don't be afraid to be who you are.
And be prepared to have people offended by how confident you are in what you believe.
That's something that offends people more than anything else.
Most people don't have the confidence to think they're sure of things.
When you come along and you're sure of things, that's going to intimidate people.
Nobody could be that sure.
Because everybody's been conditioned to think that there are two sides to everything.
There aren't.
There's right and there's wrong.
And wrong is invalid.
And we don't have to give wrong the time of day just to be fair.
Just like we don't have to give evil the time of day just to be fair.
Just like we don't have to give defeat a chance on the battlefield just to be fair.
But so many people are so wishy-washy.
Well, you know, I can understand why we should have, but on the other hand, I don't think we should have, on the other hand, you get frustrated dealing with these people, but it can be worth it.
All right, a quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue after this.
The EIB network.
Yeah, after we uh after we uh after we play Soundbite 11, I want to get grab Soundbite 17.
You gotta hear this.
Last night on CNBC Reports, John Harwood was interviewing the one, the Messiah, the most merciful.
Uh Barack Obama said that the notion that the United States tolerates torture.
Do you expect it to be difficult and complicated to effect that change?
To define exactly what is and isn't torture.
Guantanamo, I'm going to close.
How we do that is not simple because we have people who have been detained there, many of them who actually may be dangerous.
So we've got to do very careful reviews of how we do that.
This, this.
This is incredible.
That had to be heard to be believed.
Some of these guys at Club Git know may actually be bad guys.
We never thought of that.
We just thought of poor innocent Islamists being tortured.
You mean Bush wasn't making it all up, Barry.
So the word torture equals Club Gitmo.
Has this government admitted that it tortured?
Has Bush admitted there was torture?
Has Cheney admitted there was torture?
Where did this notion Abu Grab is where the torture stands stems from?
Isn't I I I've I did this notion that we engage in torture all the time.
Another one of these myths, these liberal myths has been promulated out there, promulgated, and it's it's established itself now as a reality when I don't think it is.
They had all the living presidents in the Oval Office yesterday.
They had H.W. Bush.
They and they had Obama in there.
And I thought this was funny too.
They uh asked some of these guys, what do you think's gonna go on in his private lunch?
Oh, I'm sure Obama will be asking a lot of questions.
I said, you do not understand.
Obama's not gonna ask anybody anything.
It's not any, he doesn't think he's got anything to learn.
These guys are all goofballs to him.
He's gonna be telling them what for.
At any rate.
So you had Bush in there, you had the two Bushes in there, you had Jimmy Carter, you had uh Obama and President Clinton, who maneuvered himself in the line, so he's standing next to Bush 43.
That ensured he was in the center of the picture.
Now there is camera noise, and this is a two-second soundbite.
This is Bill Clinton in the Oval Office yesterday.
I love this rug.
You didn't hear what he said?
Did you understand it, Brian?
What about you, Snerdley?
Well, let's let's play it again until you get it.
It's just two seconds.
I want you to think El Camino and AstroTurf.
Okay?
I love this rug.
Did you hear that?
He's I love this rug.
I love this rug.
He's back in the Oval Office.
The last time he's in there with you know the Lewinsky stuff, he's back in the Oval Office.
What does he notice?
He notices the rug.
He notices the rug.
Okay, we had three people that wanted to take a stab on answering my Starbucks corporate jet question, but for some reason they vominosed.
They skedaddled.
They decamped.
They got out of there.
But all three had the same answer.
Here's the here's the brief recap and then the question.
Starbucks, owner already of two corporate airplanes, three years ago orders a G-550 cost 50 or 45 million dollars, wink wink.
And they took delivery of the jet in December, just before Christmas.
The jet was flown to Huva'i over the Christmas holidays.
In December, Starbucks also announced the closure of numerous Starbucks stores and announced to their employees who were left that they were thinking of reducing the match in their 401k contributions.
I asked the question, what is the correct response to this?
Because the Seattle Times running the story takes the predictable route.
What a bunch.
I mean, they're no different than the GE and the Ford and Chrysler guys.
How dare they fly to Washington corporate jets asking for bailouts?
These guys, why they're tone deaf, they're insensitive.
How dare that they take a new corporate jet when they're laying people off and horror clothing stores.
And that, my friends, is what passes today.
For the correct response, class envy, sensitivity.
The correct response to this is it's none of anybody's business.
If Starbucks, if Howard Schultz, as a good liberal, wants to own three corporate airplanes purchased with the profits of latte cinnamon cappuccino supreme.
Or whatever the hell they sell in there.
And if he increases his profits by firing fellow liberal employees, and closing Starbucks stores in liberal neighborhoods, and increases his profitability by reducing the match in the 401ks.
It's his and a board of directors' business.
It's not ours, and they can do whatever they want to do.
That is the correct response.
But Rush, but Rush, what about laying off those in?
It's none of our business.
It's none of the U.S. government's business.
The reason I brought this up is because this is exactly the kind of thing now that people in government, Republicans and Democrats, are trying to regulate out of existence.
People are not going to be.
If they want to run their business that way, if they want to fire all these liberals, if these good-hearted liberals want to behave in this cold-hearted way at Christmas time and then fly this new jet over, it's nobody's business.
Zip zero nada.
Now, if you want to say it's stupid, if you want to say it's bad PR, fine and dandy.
But nobody has the right to go in there and make them sell the jet, rehire the people, and reopen the stores.
It's none of our business.
It's www.askheritage.org, not.com.
And ask heritage.org.
I thought I said it right.
All right, well, somebody said as it's an ind anyway, never mind.
And Joe the Plumber, I guess, is going to Israel to report on the Gaza that the gazukas there against the Israelis rather than Iraq.