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Jan. 15, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 15, 2009, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, it just keeps getting more and more unbelievable if you're immersed in this stuff.
I, of course, don't find it unbelievable at all.
When you have Republicans with no leadership and no guts, no gonads and no courage.
Have you seen any of the holder hearings today?
It's a joke.
This guy should have been run out of town for what he did.
He's getting away with saying, you know, that Mark Rich part, that was good for me.
I've learned from him.
But look, elections have consequences.
To the victors go the spoils.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh.
I'm going to explain this.
There was a great piece yesterday at Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood website, a guy explaining all of this, why the Republicans and so many of conservative media are just totally caving to the Obama mystique.
It's fascinating.
That's coming up on the program today.
Telephone number, if you want to join us, is 800-282-2882.
And the email address is lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
I thought, I thought that it would happen around midnight or so.
But Roland Burris is going to be sworn in as a United States Senator, taking the seat of Barack Obama at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
That happened fast, folks.
It was slow going last week.
It looked like it might not happen at all.
And lo and behold, Darth Vader, Dick Cheney, will swear in Roland Burris at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Here is Reason 247 Why I Am Not a Republican.
Republican governors battling climate change in their states and fed up with the Republican Party's inability to organize in Washington are urging their congressional colleagues to start the new Congress with unprecedented dedication to addressing global warming.
Ladies and gentlemen, have you seen the headlines out there today?
Have you seen, well, I mean, it's let me, Chicago has the most consecutive days of snowfall since records began in 1884.
Chicago is the coldest it's been in a decade.
Flint, Michigan breaks its 95-year-old record for cold.
Blowing snow, frigid temperatures pound the nation, 40 below zero in places.
And the snow in the northeast is so bad that JFK and LaGuardia and all that in Newark are backed up five hours.
If you're planning on flying today, the whole air traffic control system from the Midwest to the East is going to be backed up because of the delays in New York City.
GOP governors urge action on global warming in the midst of a deep freeze.
It is just, it's a huge disconnect.
And ladies and gentlemen, in fact, what do they want to do?
They want to make it colder?
That's what the objective of global warming is, is to make it colder, is it not?
If we had a genuine ice age descend upon us, would they then tell us to increase our carbon emissions?
I've often said, ladies and gentlemen, that politics is showbiz for the ugly.
This can be demonstrated and illustrated, and you can see proof.
If you go to www.drudgereport.com, there's a picture there of Henry Waxman because Henry Waxman, the chairman of a House committee, says that he wants to pass a climate change bill before Memorial Day.
He said today the environment and U.S. economy depend on congressional action to confront the threat of climate change.
They want to make it colder.
It's absurd.
Everybody listening in the upper one-third of the United States of America, do we now all agree there is global warming?
Madison, Wisconsin, in the midst of this is enacting draconian global warming measures for people to live by in their city.
There's a story somewhere here in the stack of a 91-year-old woman in Great Britain who died after not having 16,000 pounds to winterize or whatever, get her home ready to go according to new environmental regulations there.
She just died because she didn't have the money.
Here it is.
Sorry, it was 16,000 pounds, 91 years old.
A family expressed their fury after the death of their disabled 91-year-old mother, who was forced to take out a second mortgage to foot an unnecessary 16,000-pound council bill.
The family of bedridden grandmother Dorothy Hacking blamed the Finette Council for the disgusting treatment after the pensioner became overstretched, trying to pay for work to meet government regulations to reduce CO2 emissions.
They say she was beset by stress and health problems after being left with no option but to take out a second mortgage for the stone clamping repairs to make her home compliant with the Home Energy Conservation Act in Ramsgate, Kent.
This is the kind of stuff that Carol Browner, the new EPA chief for Obama, is planning for us.
The stress, and I'm sure being 91 years old didn't help.
Reason number 248, why I am no longer a Republican.
Headline, McCain ally Lindsey Gramnesty becomes Obama foreign policy player.
To look at President-elect Obama and Senator Lindsey Gramnesty sitting side by side Wednesday and to hear them passing out praise, you wouldn't know that scarcely 10 weeks ago they were at political war.
Well, the premise of that is wrong.
They were not at political war.
Had Lindsey Gramnesty and McCain been at political war, they might have won.
As you know, Graham is the bootlicker friend of Senator McCain, crisscrossed the country with him during his losing presidential bid.
Lindsey Gramnesty said, I think this is a good way to get started.
A campaign's over.
I'm disappointed in the outcome, but like every American, I'm excited about what awaits our country in the future.
Hey, Lindsey, most of the people in your party are not.
They are scared to death about what the future holds.
And they see people like you caving on and left and right, illustrating there is zero Republican leadership in Washington, D.C.
And here's what's going to happen in 2010.
And mark my words on this.
While Lindsey Graham and all the others in the House and Senate, the Republicans that are guilty of this, of caving to the whole notion we want Obama to succeed, they are going to face more trouble from their own party voters in the next election than they will ever face from the Democrats and the American left.
Mark my words.
If this stuff keeps up, if there is no opposition, if there's no attempt to derail this headlong move into FDR2, if there is no effort whatsoever to stop the plunge we have into the government absorbing the U.S. economy in gulp after gulp after gulp, the people who did not stand up and fight this are going to pay for it.
They are not going to be thought of as wonderful.
They're not going to be thought of as bipartisan.
They're not going to be thought of as open-minded.
They're going to be thrown out.
They do not understand this and they do not believe it.
Graham told Obama that the foreign leaders they'd met are extremely enthusiastic about his inauguration on Tuesday.
Gramnesty said there's a moment in time for the country to re-engage the international community to make sure that we have international support to stabilize Afghanistan.
Obama's popularity and the respect he has earned throughout the world give America a chance to re-engage, not only in the region, but in a way that in the long run makes his job easier and takes the pressure off our troops.
And then Gramnesty turned to Obama and said, that's a compliment to you and the way you've campaigned and the goodwill that you have generated.
I stopped reading this piece at that point.
I am not, I didn't want to read any more of this.
It's sickening.
It is a repudiation of his own party.
And I'm going to tell you what's going to happen with Afghanistan, folks.
And I want you to listen to me very closely.
Mark this down, January 15, 2009.
The Bush administration, within the past, what is it, six months or so, has implemented a new strategy in Afghanistan.
There are more troops headed on the way, so forth.
And it's not going to be a surge, but the Afghan policy is now ramping up as Iraq is closing down and, well, not closing down, but slowing down and normalizing.
Do you know in Iraq, car sales are off the charts, automobile sales?
Automobile sales are off the charts in Iraq.
Well, given their baseline, I mean, I don't think their sales would compare to ours, obviously, but given their baseline, automobile sales are off the charts.
The big three ought to open dealerships and auto manufacturing plants over there, and they can do it without unions.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, what's going to happen here in Afghanistan is that shortly after Obama's inaugurated, he's going to announce a brand new Afghanistan policy.
And we're going to go in there, we're going to kick butt.
And the fact of the matter is, it's already in place.
And Gramnesty and these guys are falling right into Obama's trap here.
What is this?
Why do Republicans need to be running around talking about how the world loves us more now?
Because Obama's there.
We're going to have newfound respect.
Last I looked in a lot of places around the world.
They're burning pictures of Obama.
And how about this?
How about all of a sudden now, Obama says that capturing Obama, sorry, Obama says that capturing Osama doesn't matter now.
It has nothing to do with victory whatsoever.
Isn't that convenient?
One of the major benchmarks that the left and the drive-by media used the past six years to anoint the Bush policy failure is we didn't capture bin Laden.
And now it doesn't matter.
If I'm a worldwide terrorist and I'm watching all this, there are certain things that I have to realize here.
Then my task has just been made easier.
My task has just been made much easier.
The United States claims it's going to close Guantanamo Bay, where it has been learned that 61 detainees who were released from Club Gitmo have returned to commit terrorist acts.
Now, this is shaping up.
Folks, it's going to be fascinating to watch and be part of it.
It's going to be frustrating, too, and I understand it every bit as much as you do, but elections have consequences.
And right now, our elected officials, or very few of them, John Boehner is standing tough in the House on the second half of the TARP bailout.
By the way, Citibank, I'm driving into work today.
I'm listening to a little news, and they're talking about using the word insolvent.
And the stock price last I looked was at $3.60.
Insolvent.
And then the commentator had to define insolvent for the audience because this is a stupid network I was listening to.
Insolvency means that you owe more than you have.
You owe more money than you have.
Really?
Insolvency.
That's first, not bankruptcy, insolvency.
Keep in mind, these people were bailed out.
These people were bailed out last fall.
This should not be happening if these magic bailouts from the TARP fund actually work.
Lindsey Graham the Steve.
And now we have learned, ladies and gentlemen, that, well, we've learned a lot about Tim Geithner.
He's not going to get away with ignorance.
The International Monetary Fund informed Geithner on his taxes.
They informed every employee four times a year when the quarterly estimates are due what their taxes are.
They are paid the gross.
And, oh, you know what else I learned about this?
All IMF employees are paid the gross, and then every quarter they have to file estimated taxes based on their earnings for that quarter or a percentage of their previous year's earnings, divided by four, whichever is the most advantageous for you.
And they get statements every quarter, four times a year, explaining what their approximate tax is based on how much they've been paid.
He knew all of this.
He just chose not to pay it.
He just chose not to pay it.
But you know what else they did at the IMF?
According to Byron York at National Review Online, the IMF grossed up all of their employees that are paid the gross.
Meaning, I'll put it in terms that you can understand.
Let's say that your boss wanted to give you a $25,000 net bonus.
Your boss would gross up whatever it costs so that your net would be $25,000 after all the taxes, fees, and everything else were deducted.
So it might cost your boss $32,000 or $33,000 to get you a net bonus of $25,000.
The IMF grossed up the amount of taxes employees would owe so that their actual pay was a net, not a gross.
And he still claimed ignorance.
And they sent out memos all the time from the IMF to their employees.
They had a manual explaining all of this.
And he's the only one that understands the recovery.
He's the only one that can fix our recovery.
He's too big to fail.
It's an innocent mistake.
It's a mistake a lot of people make.
I would just, I would love for Obama to give me the same kind of tax holiday that Geithner got.
I wish the whole country could get that same kind of tax holiday that he got.
This guy intentionally evaded his taxes.
It was not an honest mistake.
The party of taxes has to start taking responsibility for it, whether Lindsey Graham likes it or not.
We put up with Charlie Wrangell as a crook now running the Ways and Means Committee.
He should be thrown out of office.
There's no reason to promote a guy who purposely didn't pay his taxes.
Look at this resonates with the public folks.
A guy who was told how to pay his taxes, who knew he had not paid his taxes, who still didn't pay his taxes, then in order to become Treasury Secretary, paid them way late.
This isn't an honest mistake.
It's a guy who is evading responsibility.
I resent it.
Given the amount of money I pay in taxes, given the amount of money you pay in taxes, you ought to resent this too.
It just never ends.
Just never ends, ladies and gentlemen, from the New York Times.
A federal intelligence court, in a rare public opinion, is expected to issue a major ruling validating the power of the president and Congress to wiretap international phone calls and interrupt email messages without a court order, even when Americans' private communications may be involved, according to a person with knowledge of the opinion.
Glory be!
Hallelujah!
It has come down from on high.
Court rules that the president of the United States has warrantless wiretap authority.
Isn't the timing of this convenient?
And I, Il Rushbo, told you back in December that these rules that the Democrats had sought to get rid of attorney generals over, who had sought to try to impeach the president over wartime crimes and so forth, I told you that Obama would not get rid of the warrantless wiretap program because as a news reporter,
a drive-by journalist said, why the program will offer the president-elect flexibility in dealing with the war on terror.
Well, I can read between the lines of drive-by media reports.
So we have yet another example of how George W. Bush was treated and portrayed for the last three or four years as a war criminal who deserved to have charges brought, perhaps even impeachment hearings, all because he was spying on Americans, all because he was violating the Constitution, trashing it, ripping it to shreds.
He was making a mockery of U.S. civil liberties.
The left kooks were so bugged by this, they often broke out in tears.
And now all of a sudden, five days to go before the immaculate inauguration, and a court, an intelligence court, in a rare, rare, rare public opinion, is expected to issue a major ruling validating the power of the president and the Congress to wiretap international phone calls.
I am reminded that we had the Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney, on this program a couple weeks ago.
And I asked him specifically about some of these tools that they implemented, such as this, the so-called warrantless wiretap program, surveillance program, to monitor international phone calls to detect terrorist activity.
I said, do you think Obama is going to get rid of this stuff?
He said, no, I think once he gets in there, he's going to find that we did a lot of good.
I think he's going to hold on to a lot of our policies.
Obviously, he's going to hold on to a lot of their policies.
He's going to need them to keep this country safe.
But it will all be forgotten who actually did that and implemented these things.
Also, ladies and gentlemen, $650 billion, million, I'm sorry, $650 million sought in addition for the transition to digital TV.
Details coming up.
Hi, welcome back.
This is Rush Limbaugh, your guiding light.
Exceeding and surpassing all audience expectations.
On a daily basis, Democrats in the House of Representatives have proposed $650 million to continue the coupon program for the transition to digital television.
This, according to a summary of the economic stimulus legislation released by Democrats in the House Appropriations Committee today, Congress mandated the February 17th switch to digital television.
I wonder if I'm going to get a coupon.
I have two cars with four analog screens in them.
My manufacturer hadn't even let me know if they're going to have digital replacements.
650 million.
And you know why?
Because a bunch of slackers in this country have failed to go out and buy converters, analog to digital converters, to go out and buy new TVs.
So apparently television now is a right.
A television set is a right, just like healthcare is.
And if the slackers in this country who don't have 40, and by the way, they've had two years to do this.
It is not as though they just woke up on Christmas morning and found out that in a couple of months they got to have new TVs or converter boxes.
This has been in the pipeline for two years.
But Rush, but Rush, they didn't know it's their problem.
I'm tired of rewarding stupidity.
I'm tired of paying for slackers.
I'm tired of the poor and the hungry being called that instead of welfare recipients and slackers.
There's no excuse for anybody in poverty in this country with as much charitable giving as there is, with the transfer of wealth that already takes place.
The Great Society alone over $7 trillion since the 60s.
Maybe higher than that.
Well, hell, we just added a trillion yesterday.
We're going to add another trillion next year with Obama.
Hell, it's up to 10 or 11 trillion now.
And what the hell have we gotten for it?
So $650 million more dollars because whoever out there hasn't gotten their $40 coupon to go out and get a converter to convert their analog set to digital.
Don't ask why we're going digital.
It's irrelevant why we're going digital.
We're going digital and it was decided two or three years ago.
It's actually to free up space on the spectrum, if you must know.
But I don't want to get into discussions on the frequency spectrum because if you can't understand 40 bucks to convert your analog to digital, you're not going to understand the frequency spectrum.
I mean, this, sorry, folks, I know you're not the slackers.
Don't misunderstand.
But for crying out loud, this whole bailout system is designed to reward failures, prop up failures, slackers and losers.
And the winners and the successful are the ones that are going to pay for it, as though they are committing the crime.
And the slackers and the unsuccessful and the losers, they're the victims of the successful.
Sorry, I don't buy it.
Now get this.
This is something only your host would notice.
This is a tiny little blurb.
Little AP blurb here in the New York Times on their websites.
Democrats try to extend tax cuts using Recovery Bill.
By the small story, small headline, nowhere near front page, would that catch your attention?
Democrats try to extend tax cuts for using tax cuts using Recovery Bill.
Here are the details.
Barack Obama's economic recovery bill has grown to $850 billion after negotiations with his Democrat allies in Congress, who have rewritten some of the president-elect's tax proposals and may drive the price tag even higher.
And I'm sure Obama doesn't care.
The higher it goes, the better.
The more he has to spend, the better.
For starters, now this is where this gets interesting.
And I'll bet you my take on this will shock and stun you.
For starters, Capitol Hill Democrats are trying to use the Economic Recovery Bill to extend a tax cut for middle to upper income taxpayers.
Can I say that again?
Because you might think I'm making this.
I have yet to see this anywhere.
I have yet to hear that the Democrats anywhere are in favor of extending tax cuts.
I guess these are the Bush tax cuts for middle to upper income.
In other words, this story says Capitol Hill Democrats want to extend tax cuts for the rich.
No, no, that's not the point here.
Let me finish the sentence.
Oh, they may be following my advice, but it's whose advice Obama is not following that makes this interesting to me.
Just let me finish this.
The reason I'm, look, this is, to me, this is profound.
I don't see this.
I've not seen where Democrats, all of a sudden, congressional Democrats, Capitol Hill Democrats are in favor of extending tax cuts for the rich.
That's about as shocking as Al Gore coming out and admitting that global warming is a hoax.
This is not in the Democrat playbook.
This is not anywhere in the Democrat liberal belief system that you extend tax cuts for the rich.
But that's what Capitol Hill Democrats are trying to use the economic recovery bill for.
Despite, this is the end of the sentence.
Despite concerns from Obama's transition team that it won't boost the economy.
What is this?
Congressional Democrats, Capitol Hill Democrats want to extend tax cuts for the rich.
Obama's transition team says, nope, that won't boost the economy.
Now, who are Capitol Hill Democrats listening to?
Snurdley asked the right question.
I mean, Capitol Hill Democrats, maybe some of the Democrat blue dogs buy into this, but you think Pelosi and Reed bind to it?
Who is this?
But my question is, if the Obama transition team says that extending tax cuts from middle to upper income taxpayers will not boost the economy, then what good was his dinner that he had the other night with these conservative pundits?
These conservative pundits had to go in there.
I mean, Obama's willing to listen, right?
Willing to listen to any idea that works, even if it's not his.
Well, I don't know what happened at that dinner, but I will guarantee you that one of the common themes that was or had to have been mentioned if these guys actually talked about conservatives was tax cuts.
So what good was the dinner if the Obama transition team doesn't believe in them?
It's like I asked yesterday, you actually think Obama goes into these dinners, I don't care whether it's with the lib columnists or the moderate colleague or the conservatives, do you actually think he's going in there asking them to change his mind?
If you believe that, you haven't turned in your $40 coupon to digitize your TV.
Audio soundbites, ladies and gentlemen.
Last night, Fox News Channel special report with Brett Baer because Britt Hume retired.
Mort Kondracki said this about Obama.
Besides having dinner with conservative columnists, he also had dinner with a bunch of liberal columnists.
I'm here to invite President-elect Obama to have dinner at my house with a gaggle of moderate columnists anytime he'd like to.
There wouldn't be anything said.
You get a bunch of moderates together afraid to tell people what they really think.
That would be one of the most boring dinners I could imagine attending Obama with a bunch of moderates last night on Hard Boiled.
Chris Matthews talking to Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune, and they had this little exchange here about Obama's dinner with the conservative columnists.
Obama saying, no, no red state, no blue state, or United States of America.
But I'll be more impressed when he brings in other really rabid, not just critics, but assault dogs who go after him every night over on Fox.
Why does he meet with the neocons?
When's he going to bring Rush Limboy?
They're all wondering.
I hijacked that dinner, not even being there.
They're all wondering, when's he going to bring in Limboy?
Well, now that's human nature.
This is a good point.
One of the things, you know, I was talking to F. Lee Levin via iChat when I got back from Washington when I'd learned about this, and all these emails are coming in asking me if I was there.
You know, Levin was a little bit ticked off because he thinks these guys are sellouts heading to dinner with Obama.
And I said, no, no, no, man.
You've got to understand they're in their element.
This is inside the Beltway.
They want to matter.
This counts.
I said, Mark, do me a favor.
Take a look at all the people who weren't invited and think about how angry they are.
You know, there are a lot of people.
I could name names here, but that's not the point.
I mean, on our side, there are a lot of conservative intelligentsia inside the Beltway media types who are sitting there saying, why not?
How come Noonan got involved?
Kudlow?
Who the hell's Kudlow?
Who the hell's Noonan?
Why not me?
I guarantee you, this has inspired all kinds of envy.
This is all kinds of jealousy.
So here we've got Kondracki.
Hey, what about me?
What about the moderates?
It's just, you know, the old saw.
You really want something?
You don't let somebody know how badly you want it.
But it is what it is.
Obama has, this Obama mania stuff is real.
It has captivated the whole country.
I mean, you travel around, you go to airport gift shops, the shops on the street, all the Obama mania t-shirts and the caps, the athletic supporters with Obama's logo.
I mean, it's everywhere.
It doesn't matter where you go and doesn't matter what the item is, by the way.
I have had two drive-by institutions ask me what I'm doing for the inauguration.
They're running these little blurbs, various people.
What are you doing for the inauguration?
You know what I'm telling them?
I said, well, I'm going to pretend that I'm there.
I'm bringing a port-a-potty into the studio.
I'm going to use it every 15 minutes.
Still think it's hilarious.
Obama, my preference, obviously, would be to capture or kill Bin Laden.
But if we have so tightened the noose that he's in a cave somewhere and can't even communicate with his operatives, then we will meet our goal of protecting America.
I just love this.
I know I'm killing everybody with it.
They're killing us.
It isn't me.
I'm just passing this stuff along to the phones.
Let's start in Mesa, Arizona.
This is Nate.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, how are you today?
Fine, sir.
Thanks very much.
Hey, I want to go back to the Geithner claimant just briefly.
It is an absolute outrage.
Where are the same people who crucified Joe the Plumber for his tax debt of less than two grand?
Yeah, in fact, that was not a common mistake, was it?
That was a crime.
And Joe the Plumber had to be raked over the coals, and they had the Illinois, Ohio government official doing background checks.
These are without a warrant, I might say.
And Biden, I think it was on Leno, was saying he was un-American.
What was that?
Say that old sloor.
Well, wasn't Biden on the Leno, the Tonight show, where he just said he was not even an American?
Yes.
In fact, something else about Joe Biden.
Joe Biden also said that if you don't pay your taxes, you're unpatriotic.
You're paying taxes, you're patriotic.
It's a patriotic thing to do.
Paying increased taxes is a patriotic thing to do.
So I guess we're to assume under Biden's terminology that Tim Geithner was unpatriotic.
Here are some of the details of this, as provided by Byron York at National Review Online.
Documents released by the Senate Finance Committee strongly suggest that Geithner knew or should have known what he was doing when he did not pay self-employment taxes in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004.
After his failure to pay was discovered first by the IRS in an audit and later during the vetting process, Geithner paid the federal government a total of $42,702 in taxes and interest.
Now, the International Monetary Fund, as you know, did not withhold state and federal income taxes or self-employment taxes, Social Security or Medicare.
When you're self-employed, you pay the whole boat, folks.
And they did withhold from employees' paychecks.
But the IMF took great care to explain to their employees in detail and frequently what their tax responsibilities were.
First, each employee was given the IMF employee tax manual.
Then employees were given quarterly wage statements for the express purpose of calculating the taxes they owed.
Then they were given year-end wage statements.
And then each IMF employee was required to file what was known as the annual tax allowance request.
Geithner received all of those documents.
Now, the tax allowance has turned out to be a key part of the Geithner situation.
This is how it worked.
IMF employees were expected to pay their taxes out of their own money.
The IMF gave them an extra allowance known as a gross-up to cover those tax payments.
This was done in the annual tax allowance request in which the employee filled out some basic information, marital status, dependent children, etc.
And then the IMF estimated the amount of taxes the employee would owe and gave the employee a corresponding allowance.
Now, at the end of the tax allowance form, were these words.
I hereby certify that all the information contained herein is true, to the best of my knowledge.
The bottom line, this was not an innocent mistake.
This was done on purpose.
The avoidance of these taxes had to have been done on purpose.
If it weren't done on purpose, it's not an innocent mistake.
It's something else.
But how many of you, how many of you have ever been grossed up?
Let's say you get a bonus.
Say you get a bonus.
Let's say your employer bonuses you.
And let's say the bonus is, he tells you, you know what?
I'm giving you a $1,200 bonus or good work this year.
Well, you get your bonus and you find out it's $600 or $700 because they take the taxes out of it.
If your employee really wanted, employer really wanted to bonus you $1,200, he'd pay you $1,800.
That's what they were doing at the IMF.
They were telling every quarter what their employees owed in taxes, and the end of the year, giving them allowance to pay those taxes.
And he still didn't do any of this.
And he's the only guy smart enough to save us.
So in our economic ruin, I would love to have the tax holiday this guy got.
He got a four, five, six-year tax holiday on a significant portion of his income.
There's only one way.
Trust me on this.
There is only one way that this was incidental, that it was a mistake.
It's because this amount of money is so tiny to him.
Remember, he's a Federal Reserve guy, the New York Federal Reserve.
Trust me on this.
It could well be he didn't worry about this because it's not even pocket change.
Don't know, but I'm just telling you that somebody who's going to not pay attention to what he owes on $36,000 a year means either he's purposely cheating or the $36,000, he didn't even see it.
He didn't even notice it.
By the way, there is a pattern here to Timothy Geithner.
There's a pattern to trying to scam the tax forms.
He used his child's name at overnight camps to calculate deductions for dependent care, taking deductions for ineligible donations to charity and failing to pay an early withdrawal penalty for a retirement plan.
So it's not just not paying his own taxes in the nanny.
This guy has been scamming the IRS for quite a while.
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