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Jan. 15, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 15, 2009, Thursday, Hour #2
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It takes it takes a constitution of steel to watch what's going on in the drive-by media today and not blow up and not explode.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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Let me make a minor semantic correction.
I said, I would like the tax holiday that Tim Geithner got.
He didn't get one.
He took one.
It is a small semantic change, but it has huge impact.
Timothy Geithner took a tax holiday.
Now, we know about not paying his own income taxes at the IMF and not paying his NAMI taxes and having illegals working on this stuff.
Oh, that's common mistakes, Rush.
Experts all agree.
He said when Joe the Plumber had a $2,000 tax lien, well, he was a hardened criminal who deserved to be destroyed and investigated.
But it's not just those taxes that Geithner played games with.
He is under scrutiny for a variety of errors on his tax returns that surfaced during the vetting, during the transition team vetting.
They include the fact that Mr. Geithner used his child's time at overnight camps in 2001, 2004, 2005 to calculate dependent care tax deductions, but sleep away camps do not qualify.
He also failed to pay an early withdrawal penalty from a retirement plan.
Now, he makes $400,000 a year as the head of the New York Fed.
So maybe my theory that the 36 grand just didn't register because it was so insignificant, I doubt that's the case at 400 grand where they are deducting taxes and that a little over 236 would matter.
So I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt.
I think there's a conscientious effort here to take a tax holiday.
Now, I checked my email during the break, and a lot of you people, I appreciate your concern.
A lot of people, Rush, why don't you go easy on this Geithner guy?
If he gets confirmed, you're just going to get audited all the time.
You're going to get harassed with auditors.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
That was going to happen anyway.
It was.
That increased audits is going to happen anyway.
That's not going to shut me up.
Now, if you're Eric Holder, here's Eric Holder.
Anybody else, any Republican candidate for Attorney General, nominee, who had participated in something like the Mark Rich Pardons, wouldn't have even been picked because the Republicans would know that the Democrats wouldn't put up with it.
But what is Eric Holder learning based on the hearing so far this morning?
Eric Holder has learned while looking at the Republicans, I can do anything I want.
And after I do whatever I want, I can excuse it any way I want because I know that you Republicans will do absolutely nothing except kiss my butt, which is exactly what's happening.
The Republicans are kissing Holder's butt.
And they're cracking jokes about whether or not he could beat Obama in a basketball game.
Really, this is part of his confirmation hearings as AG.
But folks, why would you expect any different from people who have bought into the premise that we all want Obama to succeed?
And then I happen to glance up at my TV here, my digital TV, that I purchased at full expense without waiting for a voucher from the government for 40 bucks.
I'm watching MSNBC, and Andrea Mitchell has her show on, and she's interviewing Sandy Burglar about Obama foreign policy.
And by the way, about that, I made this prediction last hour that before long, the Obama people are going to say, we're going to have a whole new strategy in Afghanistan.
We're going to rework the whole thing.
More troops, this and that.
And it's going to be what's already in place.
The Bush administration policy already in place and Burglar said it.
He had me said it.
My prediction has already come true.
But who is Sandy Burglar?
Here he is as an expert on the Obama foreign policy on PMS NBC with Andrea Mitchell.
Here is a man who stole documents from the National Archives.
That, too, was just an innocent mistake.
Hey, I know Sandy.
You know, that guy was so disorganized.
Hell, he was walking out of the White House every night with stuff, stuffed down his pants, his socks.
I mean, the guy, you couldn't find anything on his desk.
It's the only way he could find what he was working on, to hide it on his socks and his pants.
Everybody knew that about old Sandy.
So you or I caught stealing something out of the National Archives.
You try it.
Next time you go to Washington, say go to the National Archives.
Say you want to go in and try stealing something out of there.
Get caught and see what happens to you.
Now, I know he was $10,000 fine and all that.
You or I, we would be on some remote island somewhere, unashamed to show ourselves.
And I'm watching this, and a reality suddenly hit me.
Here's Holder.
Here is Sandy Bergler.
Here are Blagojevich.
Everybody tainted by this.
Rahm Emanuel.
We are never, ever, as Republicans, going to be able to behave this way because these guys are shameless.
They have no conscience.
When you're shameless and you have no conscience, you lie about anything.
And we on our side just aren't made that way.
So this leads to something I mentioned in the first hour that I wanted to share with you off of Andrew Breitbart's bighollywood.breitbart.com website.
It's a piece posted, let's see, yesterday by Andrew Clavin.
And this is by way of a friendly response, he says, to the estimable Jay Nordlinger at the National Review.
Jay wrote a strong column yesterday openly saying what I've been hearing many conservatives express tacitly ever since the election.
Reflecting on the media's disgraceful distortion of the characters of Bush, Cheney, Sarah Palin, Jay Nordlinger wrote, it seems to me that the left has won utterly and decisively.
And what I mean is the Saturday Night Live Jon Stewart Bill Maher mentality has prevailed.
They decide what a person's image is, and those images stick.
They're the ones who say that Cheney's a monster, that W is stupid, that Palin's a bimbo, and the country apparently follows along.
Now, this goes to something else, a point I made a couple weeks ago, and that is the pop culture.
And this is what Breitbart's concerned about.
One of the reasons he started his website is that we don't have any dominance in the pop culture.
And the pop culture is made up of brain-dead people in large parts.
They read People magazine and they run around and they worry about what's in Us Weekly and a number of other, you know, entertainment tonight, all these meaningless little gossip sites and pages and TV shows and so forth.
And it's all liberal.
I mean, it is unapologetic.
It's just culturally liberal with no alternative whatsoever.
And it's unrealistic to expect people.
And by the way, I'm not singling out people who read People or Us Weekly or Don't Miss.
I'm just trying to say that there are people who are devoted to watching MTV, to all the music they listen to, all the pap that suffices as entertainment from Hollywood these days.
It's just, it's pervasive.
And it's just not realistic to expect people who are immersed in that aspect of our culture to every four years or every two years go to a voting booth and vote conservative.
It just isn't.
And Nordlinger was writing about that, too.
That's one of his points here.
So Jon Stewart, Saturday Night Live, Bill Maher, they all say that Bush is stupid, a criminal.
Cheney's a monster.
Palin's a bimbo, and the country apparently follows.
Now, Mr. Clavin says, I've been hearing and reading prominent conservatives and Republicans say nearly as much on television, in print, and in private conversation ever since the election.
They say that Palin can never make a comeback.
Now, and by the way, this is a key point here because Mr. Clavin's exactly right, and that's the point.
The point of this piece, which we're getting to here in a minute, why are so many Republicans falling in line with the templates set by the left on our people?
That Bush is an idiot, that Cheney is a monster, that Palin is a bimbo, that conservative commentators are racist, sexist, homophobes, and bigots, whatever.
Why are so many on our side falling in line with that way of thinking?
And that's what Mr. Clavin writes about here.
I've been hearing and reading prominent conservatives and Republicans say nearly as much on TV, in print, in private conversation ever since the election.
They say that Palin can never make a comeback.
They say the fight for small government's over.
It's been lost.
The era of Reagan is over.
They say we can't have immigration reform that protects our borders.
They say we have to distance ourselves from embarrassing commentators like Rush Limbaugh and Coulter.
No, no, no, no.
What the right is experiencing at the moment is a phenomenon called cultural parastimuli.
Cultural parastimuli.
You can read about it in Tom Wolf's novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons.
It's sort of like peer pressure on steroids.
It was discovered by Nobel laureate Victor Ransom Starling, who found that when he surrounded normal cats with cats whose behavior had been bizarrely altered by brain surgery, the normal cats began acting like the crazy cats all around them.
The crazy cats did not normalize with the normal cats.
The normal cats descended to the behavioral habits of the wacko cats.
And Andrew Clavin says, that's us.
We're the normal cats surrounded by the mainstream media.
So steeped are we now in their lies about our representatives, the ridicule of our commentators, their demonizing dismissal of the causes we know are just, that we have begun to adopt their attitudes toward ourselves.
And perhaps chief among the lies they've sold us is the lie that they've won, that the media are theirs for good and all, and that Americans are going to be hoodwinked and brainwashed by their constant barrage of misinformation forever.
Well, only if we let them, and only if we in the conservative media surrender first.
Look, the American media are in a bad way, a disastrous way.
Movies, TV, literature, instead of illuminating vehicles of art and entertainment, they become like the Matrix, replacing reality with a plausible leftist imitation.
Journalists especially have so shamed themselves in the coverage of Obama, the election hounding of Sarah Palin's daughter, Joel the Plumber, while all but ignoring Obama's ties to Illinois corruption, his long and deep association with the racist anti-American Jeremiah Wright.
It's going to take them years to recover respectability from this.
When people shame themselves that badly, they don't admit it in a hurry.
They savage their critics instead.
And they continue their own shameful practices as a kind of defiant denial.
Anything rather than look in the mirror and confront what they've turned themselves into.
So, yeah, we're on our own for now.
Exactly as I have warned you.
But we're not unarmed, and we're in no way defeated.
We have great politicians like Palin.
She could well be president in not eight years, but four.
We have honest newsmen like Brett Baer.
We have genius commentators like Rush.
And we have Ann Coulter, who's only about 10 times smarter, funnier, and more talented as a satirist than Jon Stewart or Bill Maher ever will be.
The left cannot out-argue these mind warriors, so they try to ridicule, disdain, and isolate them to make us feel shamed that we admire and respect them.
And they tell us they're finished, that they're washed up.
Why, just look, it must be true.
It's right there in the newspapers and on TV.
Well, they're lying.
The left has to lie for the simple reason that they're wrong, and we're right.
Their policies don't work.
Ours do.
Look at the cities that liberal politicians and programs have devoured like locusts.
Look at the liberal states that can't rein in their spending even as they go broke.
Look at how environmentalists have made us energy slaves to monsters overseas.
And look at how leftist, anti-patriotic, and anti-religious policies in Europe have turned a once great culture into a corpse that's being consumed by Islamo-fascist bacteria as we watch.
Hey, listen, our soldiers have to get shot at in the cause of liberty.
All we in the media have to do is keep telling people the truth.
Lies and insults are all the left has got to sling against us.
They only win if we start to believe them.
Now, I think this piece was profound because a lot of my friends on the right, frankly folks, are dismayed and have been for the longest time at the chattering classes on our side who began to proclaim about a year ago that the era of Reagan is over.
This was senseless.
The left doesn't talk about the era of FDR being over.
Hell, we've got Obama trying to replicate it now while being Lincoln at the same time.
And we have people on our side who, many of whom are in charge, entrusted with carrying forth the banner and the reputation of great conservative founders and their publications as conservative stalwarts who've caved and are starting to adopt lingo of the left.
We've got to look at people as groups.
We have to go out and get the middle class.
We as conservatives and Republicans need to modify.
And we have to go out and find a way to reach the middle class.
And we have to find a way to reach minorities and immigrants and Hispanics.
We have to come up with policies that use the government to give people what they want.
A total flame out, a total 100% conservative flameout from people who portray themselves as the intellectual wizards of SMART in our movement.
And those of us who are not on the same page with them are considered to be what the left says of us.
Bigots, racists, small-minded, you name it.
Embarrassments.
It's how you get Colin Powell saying the Republican Party needs to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.
By the way, what the hell is Colin Powell doing in the White House at a Medal of Freedom ceremony after endorsing Obama against McConnell?
I guess he's there because of his dealings with Howard and Tony Blair and so forth as his days as Secretary of State.
But man, so you have all of these so-called brilliant conservatives who are basically echoing with what they consider to be more intelligent tweaks, liberalism, calling it the new conservatism.
Yeah, we need a powerful, engaged government, executive, reaching out and understanding what people need and what they want and finding ways to show them we can be the ones that give it to them.
That is a total bastardization of conservatism.
It is a total capitulation.
And these are the people out there trying to define it as they now think it.
And these are the people, by the way, some of them who were invited to dinner with Obama.
Because he's already got them.
As I say, Obama didn't have dinner with anybody hoping they will change his mind.
So this piece, Why We Fight, Andrew Clavin, BigHollywood.com, Breitbart's website, Cultural Paris Stimuli, Peer Pressure on Steroids.
Inside the Beltway, peer pressure.
A bunch of outsiders wanting to be on the insiders.
A bunch of people not in the big click wanting to be on the big click, even if the people in the big click are liars, wrong, character assassins, and in part insane.
Yes, we go.
Back to the phones, Rush Limbaugh.
Talent on lawn from God, Ponte Vedra, Florida.
Jim, thank you for waiting.
Yes, sir.
When are you going to come up and play Sawgraphs?
Well, you know, I've had so many invitations to do that, and I've never done it.
And I'll get up there sometime.
I don't know when.
Probably before the TPC this year.
Yeah, you need to come up.
It's beautiful.
The reason why I was calling is that I had a discussion with a couple of my friends last night about this whole tax evasion thing with Geisen.
And I own my own little business here, and I think I do pretty well.
But I am living in fear of the IRS agents because I would be the first one that would get to knock on my door investigating me doing any shady stuff.
And my concern is that is this paradigm?
Wait a second.
You've got to explain to people why you, as a private business, small business owner would be the first target of the IRS.
Most people are saying, why?
Why you?
What are you doing?
What's your business?
And I know it's not about that.
Why are you a target?
I just have a great concern about...
Hang on, hang on.
I wasn't watching the clock.
Okay, we're back to Jim in Pontevedra, Florida.
Jim, sorry, I wasn't paying attention to clock, so engrossed in the program.
No problem.
You've always said that everybody's view of history starts from the day they were born.
Right.
So perhaps I'm a little bit naive, but you travel in circles, obviously, you know, the big shots.
And I think of the folks like this Madoff guy and Blogo, Blago, whatever his name is.
These guys are just, they seem to be just coming out of the woodwork.
All these crooked folks that seem that they're above the law and they don't care.
Are they pathological or am I just naive?
I don't know.
Well, before we get to that, I want to go back.
You started out with something.
I'll get to that in a second.
You said that the IRS is far more interested in targeting people like you as a small business than other people.
And I want you to explain to people why that is.
Well, why it is, is that we're responsible for our own taxes.
We have to pay out quarterly or yearly, whatever you choose to do.
And I've seen it in real life where a business that I was affiliated with down in Tampa has these guys crawling all over the woodwork, and they only generated like, you know, a couple million dollars a year.
And it really boggled my mind.
And I think if this guy up at the IMF is getting a state or choosing whatever he wants to pay his taxes and also getting reimbursed for his taxes, it just seems like there is, like I said, a paradigm shift.
Maybe I'm just getting older and seeing things a little bit differently, but I would really like your take on it.
Okay.
Like you, I continue to mature as I grow older.
And like you, I continue to acquire and amass more knowledge.
And in my case, I'm fortunate because I have a fine memory.
I'm able to retain a lot of what I've learned.
And I learned long ago that nothing that I learned should surprise me.
Because if it does, then you're dangerously close to thinking you know everything.
The Madoff or the Madoff scandal confirmed suspicions I've always had.
See, I've always thought, as somebody who came from a middle class, we didn't have vacation homes.
I didn't even understand the concept of a vacation where we lived.
Everybody lived there year-round.
And you took your vacation in the summer.
I learned later on in life that people had a summer home up north.
When we took our vacation in the summer, we went to places hotter than where we were because those were the vacation resorts.
And I didn't learn until in my 30s, you know, that people had different homes for different seasons and this sort of thing, and that they grew up that way.
So you just, your eyes open throughout your walk.
In my case, it's a walk, not a jog, through life.
One of the things I've always been suspicious of, and as I started earning money, some significant money, I mean, the first thing that happens to you when you begin to earn large amounts of money, it's not happiness.
It's not, well, well, some people it is.
If they're too young, not understand it.
That's why so many young athletes get in so much trouble because they're just not old enough.
They haven't lived long enough to learn that their primary responsibility is keeping it, particularly in their careers because they're generally very short as athletes.
So the thing that hit me first was, okay, how do I not lose this?
Because I never had a whole lot of money growing up.
Our family was middle class and comfortable, but we, it was paycheck to paycheck.
And we never had a whole lot of money.
And when you have when I got my first sizable stake as a result of doing this program, my first reaction was, okay, how do I not lose this?
How do I protect it from the government?
How do I make sure they don't put in a new tax called a wealth tax to take what I just got?
And who damn straight I did.
Damn straight I did.
The first the Well, look, I had the happiness, the sense of achievement, and so forth, but that lasts.
You might go out and buy a watch or do something with it, but after you've tapped into it, all of a sudden, you realize, okay, how do I keep this?
How do I keep it from being stolen from me?
Which is why I have, to this day, I pay my bills.
I have nobody see what I earn, what I pay out, and to whom.
Nobody sees it but me in the bank.
I don't have an accountant that pays the bills.
I hate that more than anything.
It's the one thing I, you know, we all have things in life we don't like.
I hate paying the bills because it's time consuming and the value of my time is such, but it's worth it for the privacy aspect of it.
It's also worth it.
I don't have to worry about somebody stealing from me.
But I do have always worried about, oh my gosh, what kind of plans the government is going to come up with now that I got this to take it away from everybody who has it.
And then when it came to investing it, okay, you're eager to do that.
I was eager to do that because I'd heard all of these stories of people that put X numbers of millions of dollars here, and two years later, it was worth three times that.
And so you hear all this stuff.
You hear about all these people that start out with small little nest eggs and it grows just by sitting there and doing nothing to it, by letting standard old pass book interest, compound interest grow it and so forth.
And I heard all that.
And I said, okay, I'm cool.
This is fun.
I'm going to become an investor.
I'm going to put my money in the markets.
But in the back of my mind, I always thought, and I don't know why, that Wall Street was a rigged game.
Like every game is rigged.
That's why the premise of fairness to me is, you know, that's childish.
There's no such thing as fairness in life.
There's no arbiter of it.
And there's no way to guarantee it.
I mean, I was in Pittsburgh last week watching the Steelers, the San Diego Chargers.
Do you know that the Pittsburgh Steelers defensive line has not had an offensive line holding call in seven games?
Offensive lines playing the Steelers are getting away with not holding.
They're getting away with muggings.
James Harrison, number 92, right side outside linebacker, 16 sacks dishes, a beast.
Got tackled three or four times, nearly got clotheslined.
It was so obvious the fans stood up and booed.
No flag, no holding penalties.
Now, I know in the playoffs, I let them play.
But I mean, it wasn't fair, but you got to go on.
The reps call a game, and that's it.
You start whining and moaning about it during the game.
You're off, you're distracted, you lose your focus.
My point is, nothing's fair.
And I've always thought that insiders in any business ran it.
And this is why I didn't think I got anywhere in my early radio career because I made no effort to find out who the insiders were.
I just focused on my own achievement.
And eventually, after 20 years, my own achievement finally overshadowed not knowing the insiders.
That's why when I arrived in the scene in 1988, nobody outside of people who had worked with me had ever heard of me because I was not a networker.
I didn't go to the conventions.
I didn't gladhand.
I didn't try to get where I was going to go get with contacts.
Because largely in this business, you don't know who to trust anyway, which is the case in any business.
So I've got this first big earned stake.
And in the back of my mind, it's an insider's game.
So I've got to find somebody who plays the insider game with my money.
So I went to a big name house in New York, recommended by somebody I trusted.
And I said, they interviewed me and they said, what do you want to do?
You want to really grow this really fast?
I said, no, because my income is fine.
I can live off the income.
I want very little risk in this, but I want growth.
But I don't want you changing, selling stock day in and day out and so forth.
And I don't want it all in equities.
I want some in municipal bonds and other cash instruments and so forth.
So we came up with an allocation of, I think it was 40% equity and 60%.
No, it started out 50-50.
And after three years, it hadn't grown.
I had paid fees out the wazoo, but the original amount was the original.
It had not grown.
I said, this is not how this is supposed to work.
All I ever hear about, and I've heard about people who lost money in down markets, but I was in an upmarket at the time.
And all I've ever heard about is people, and this was not an insignificant amount of money.
And it didn't grow at all.
Didn't grow.
The equity side did not grow.
Market was up.
I mean, it grew, but then the fees came in and wiped most of the growth out.
And I said, something about this isn't right.
And that's when I decided, started learning the equities, I'm going to get out of them because it's, you know, I don't know what's going on here.
I don't have time to learn what's going on.
I watch CNBC.
I watch all these business channels and they're speaking gibberish.
I frankly don't understand it.
And frankly, these people that were managing my money didn't have as much as I did.
And that finally hit me.
So why am I, if these people are so smart, they ought to have five times what I have.
But they didn't.
So that's when I decided, and that's when I learned that most of Ross Perot's $6 billion was in municipal bonds, the vast majority of it.
So I looked into what are municipal bonds.
Didn't even quite know what they are.
And so that's where I put, that's where I shifted and it ended up 60-40 munis versus equities and so forth.
Anyway, this is a long way of explaining that I don't think corruption, Madoff corruption, Blagojevich corruption.
I don't think it's anything new.
I think it exists at every level of business.
We find crooks everywhere, but I don't think they dominate.
I don't think the American financial system is based on crooks and so forth, but it is largely, I mean, it's like any other business.
There are people who are brilliant at it.
And those people who are brilliant have made a living using other people's money to become their money, and then they know what to do to grow it because that's their business.
They get up every day and they go manage their investments and they run their hedge funds and so forth.
And I don't.
I'm a broadcaster.
So I just got tired of my money making them wealthy when it wasn't really impacting me.
So the Madoff thing doesn't surprise me.
What surprises me about Madoff is not that he exists, is that so many people who thought this guy was a guru existed.
So many people were so easily fooled.
The psychology of all that was what amazed me.
But to say that I'm surprised that there's corruption in Illinois politics and we wouldn't have known a thing about this if Blagojevich hadn't been stupid and gotten caught on tape on this.
You think Blogojevich is the first governor in Illinois or anywhere else to sell a Senate seat appointment?
This is why a lot of people who are not devoted to politics don't want any part of it because they think it's a rigged game.
And it is.
It's rigged in the sense that the arbiters of fairness and those who are supposed to probe and find corruption and powerful people have sided up with the Democrats.
I'm talking about the media.
That's why we're on our own.
That's why it's such a tragedy to find so many of our side caving in and joining that bunch.
Just, it means we're the last people standing, folks, but that's an opportunity too.
I frankly relish being one of the last guys standing here.
It's cool.
In fact, part of it is even fun because I know that everything happening on the Obama side is going to blow up.
Now, it's not good, and people are scared and frightened justifiably over what's going to happen to our country.
But at some point, it's going to blow up.
Elections have consequences, and the people that voted for this, in a way, deserve to get stung by it.
I'm not going to gloat or have Shadden Freuda when that happens, other than to say perhaps it might be an awakening that would cause a long-desired increased awareness and intelligence on the part of voters to not fall for the same kind of demagoguery the next time it's offered.
That's a long shot hope because Camelot's still a big belief in people's eyes, and FDR still is a god in people's eyes, but that's largely because of the media in charge of the PR crafting of these images.
So, bottom line here, Jim, you're just getting older, wiser, and smarter, and you're spotting it more.
It's always been there.
It's a minority, but it's a minority.
Most of the people in the country play by the rules, and most of the institutions, I think, in the private sector are basically fair and not corrupt, but the corruption is clearly there.
There are people who always want to take the shortcut.
They don't think they'll ever get caught.
Most of them do.
But if you're a Democrat and get caught, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
Charlie Wrangel ought to have been thrown out of Congress.
He's in charge of tax writing committee, House Ways and Means.
Holder ought to be so embarrassed over what he wouldn't even accept the nomination.
If a Democrat Party had any class, if it had any decency, if it had any ability to be, you know, have shame.
Sandy Bergler giving advice now in Afghanistan.
Look, I got to take a break.
I'm way long here, and the next segment is going to be very, very short.
Sit tight.
We'll be right back.
Now, let me make a couple clarifications here.
Has Snerdley asked me during the break, do you really think that the majority of Americans still play by the rules?
Because he gave me the statistics, the supposed statistics, that in the Great Depression, which was 10 times worse than what we're going through now, the crime rate was astronomically low.
Very, very low.
It can't be astronomically low.
It was infinitesimally low.
So we have been told.
But we'll believe it for the sake of it.
You know, play by the rules.
I'm talking about people in power when I went through that little riff a moment ago.
But there is no question that more and more Americans are slacking off thinking that they are owed things, be it their digital TV coupon, be it unemployment compensation benefits, whatever.
It drives us all nuts because we all know that it's the people who make the country work.
And the more of them check out and start depending on government, that's why we hate liberals so much because they promote that.
They come along and destroy people's lives and destroy the country eventually.
If a majority of people are not willing to be industrious and entrepreneurial, if they're just willing to work for government, well, where's the growth?
Where's the ingenuity?
Where's the creativity?
It ain't going to be there if a majority of jobs down the road become government jobs.
So, yeah, I mean, but that's, again, in a country this large, you have to acknowledge there are going to be a certain number of sheep, and the liberals prey on them.
And the liberals tell them, you know, first off, they group them, and then they victimize them.
And then they tell them as members of groups, everybody's discriminated against you.
You don't have a chance.
So all the people who are working and who are successful, they become the enemy.
And one day they're going to become the minority, both in the people that pay income taxes and the people who are engaged in.
Look at Steve Jobs.
Now, I should develop this more in the monologue in the next hour.
We can put Barack Obama and his ideas side by side with Steve Jobs' work performance.
And we can demonstrate who has done more for the U.S. economy, the U.S. consumer.
We'll do that in the next hour.
Also, I forgot my primary investment vehicle.
I did this a 2000 after the dot-com bubble.
That's when I said, God, this is real estate.
Owning real estate where there will not be any more dirt.
You cannot go wrong.
Back in a second.
Well, looky here, ladies and gentlemen.
If you thought Washington's hotels were booked up, think again from the Washington Post, the district's, let's see, tourism office, 15,000 rooms available in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, and the district, a total of 800.
We heard 600 the other day.
800 rooms remain available within the city limits of the district.
What happened to the 6 million to 5 million?
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