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Feb. 12, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 12, 2009, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hi, how are you?
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, highly trained broadcast specialist.
True, conservative American patriot fighting against the odds for what is just and what is right for the American people from behind this, a golden EIB microphone.
Only two of them exist in the world.
I have both.
I just saw, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, Air Force One with Barack Obama.
Let me tell you a little bit.
We're talking aviation today.
Let me tell you a little bit about Air Force One and Andrews Air Force Base.
If you are landing, if you ever have the right approach at Baltimore, Washington International, and you're on the right side of the airplane, look out the window and you will see the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base, and you will see a bunch of corporate jets that are made available for members of your government using taxpayer dollars.
You will see Boeing 757s.
You'll see Boeing 737s.
You'll see Boeing 767s.
You will see Gulfstream 5s, Gulfstream 4s.
You will see a wide variety.
You'll see gazillions of corporate aircraft flown by your government officials, including members of Congress, all on taxpayer dollars.
So Obama takes off in Air Force One.
Whatever airplane he's on, it's called Air Force One.
Until then, it's just known by its tail number.
I think tail number, he's on 28,000.
It doesn't matter.
Do you know that every trip the president takes, there are two Boeing 747s.
They both go.
One's a decoy, one carries the president.
Security.
Before the president leaves, a cargo plane leaves with his limousine.
So the limousine is on the ground when he gets there.
The press is riding in the real Air Force One.
The other one is a decoy.
I don't care where it goes.
If he takes a trip to Russia, both of them are going.
You want to talk about expense?
You want to talk about taxpayer dollars?
But Rush, but Rush, it's the president.
I know, but that's the point.
It's okay for him.
People flying corporate jets are using their own money for crying out loud to fly them around.
Obama's using ours.
George Bush used ours.
And we don't complain about that.
And just because it's the government, we don't complain about it.
We're out of whack.
We ought to not be complaining about any of it is the point.
One other thing, all of the related industries associated with private or even general or private aviation, commercial aviation.
Have you ever heard of, Mr. Stern, have you ever heard of landing fees?
You have?
You've heard of landing fees?
Well, I don't know.
I don't know how many of you people have heard of landing fees.
But depending on the airport you go to, it can cost you $800 to land, $800 to take off.
You know where the money goes?
To the governmental authority that operates the airport.
In New York, that would be the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
And I think, I don't know if it's still this way.
It probably is because they don't want private aircraft in there.
But at LaGuardia, the last I looked years ago, the landing fees are $800.
Well, they have the gate fees for the commercials, yeah.
But yeah, it costs you to park.
You have to rent parking space overnight if you're there at an FBO.
My point is that this business of private aviation supports, there are probably 2 million people that work in it around the country in all aspects.
And that may be a relatively small number.
And yet it's just, it's another aspect of American capitalism that is under attack and under assault today by the very people who claim to care about the little guy.
All right, moving on.
By the way, phone number 800-282-2882 if you want to call the program.
Let me ask you a question.
Except when I'm here doing the program, I don't watch any news.
I don't learn anything from it anymore, and it makes me mad when I watch it.
But I watch it when I'm here.
News, financial, cable, whatever it is.
And as I have watched the reporting, and I've mentioned this a couple times previous to today, but as I have watched the reporting on the Porculus bill, I get a sense of giddiness and happiness from all the talking heads reporting it.
They don't care what's in it.
They have not deigned to even investigate what is actually in this.
They're just giddy.
They are just happy to report it.
It's just, because it's so novel to these reporters, it makes not a whit of difference whether it's good or bad for the country, just that it's good or bad for Obama, just that it's good or bad for Democrats, and that it is happening.
We've never spent this much money at one time, so it's novel.
Ooh, it's exciting.
And they're literally high on the story with no knowledge of what they're even talking about.
No knowledge whatsoever, no curiosity about it.
And this being high on the story and being giddy and excited about having something to report gets in the way of them finding any objectivity or expressing any interest in the details.
And I use that to set up the next series of sound bites.
We start late yesterday on CNN Live with the anchor Rick Sanchez.
He has this exchange with the editor of Citizen Jane Politics, Patricia Murphy.
Tell us how Republicans go back now to the Rush Limbaughs of the world and explain to them why they did something that he didn't want them to do, since some of these talking heads in the GOP or very right-wing media have been hard on these guys of late.
I think the three Republicans who we're seeing come out of the woodwork to support this are not Rush Limbaugh Republicans.
They will classify this as just an effort by Democrats to pick off three weak non-conservative Republicans.
And I think that's how they're going to paint it.
And I think that Rush Limbaugh will declare victory, quite honestly.
Sanchez could not understand this for the life of himself, which I totally understand because her answer doesn't fit the giddy template here of Democrat victory.
How could he declare victory?
I mean, it sounds like they've got a stimulus deal.
It's exactly what he didn't want Republicans to go along with.
What we've seen with this whole process, Republicans have actually gained strength from this.
They feel like they found their voice, and opposing Obama is where they want to be.
Exactly right.
Rick, let me help you out.
I know it's going to be in vain.
If you show too much intelligence, CNN will move you over to headline news and nobody will ever see you.
But this was a clear victory for the Republican Party.
Snow, Collins, Specter.
Rick, if you would listen to this program, I predicted back in November, December, the Democrats didn't need 60 votes because they've got at least two of these three on every piece of legislation.
So they don't have to worry about what happens in Minnesota.
They're going to have 60 votes because you're going to have a number of rhino Republicans.
I said earlier today, it's great to flush them out.
Get them out of there.
Let it be known that they are not Republicans.
The Republicans lost seats in the House precisely because we're cleaning up.
We're getting rid of the Republicans in name only.
This is a clear victory for Republicans in the sense that they are establishing an identity, an identity based on opposition.
When this bombs out, Rick, when it doesn't work, there aren't any Republicans that can be forced to take the blame for this.
Barack Obama owns this one, baby.
He owns it first, last, and always.
This is a 100% Barack Obama bill.
It's a 100% Democrat Party bill.
Let me ask you people something.
If this bill, if this porculus bill is so magnanimous, and if it is so worthy of all the giddiness and happiness from these brain-dead media people, why do they even care that they have Republican support in this?
I would think that if this is so magical, and if this bill is going to do what everybody says and create or save four, and by the way, save four million jobs.
That's like me saying, I may or may not eat tonight.
I can't lose.
If I eat, I win.
If I don't eat, I win.
I may or may not eat tonight.
I'm going to create or save four million.
Will somebody tell me how we're going to calculate a saved job?
You people in the media don't care about any of these details.
It's just so exciting.
We got rid of Bush and we're going to get something done now.
The Democrats are ready to Obama, the Messiah, finally getting what he wants.
Well, yeah, he owns it.
I would think he wouldn't want any Republicans, Rick.
Because if this thing works as promised, this would be the end of the Republican Party if they don't go along with it, right?
If this doesn't work, then it's the Democrats on the hook.
But if it does, and if it's so magical, why, when it works, all the Democrats have to say at reelection time is point out that every Republican voted against it and they're dead.
But see, Rick, it never has worked.
There's no evidence that these things have ever worked in the past.
This one will not.
And as a means of further education, the Ken and Barbie dolls that suffice as news anchors these days, we go to a page here in the Politico, Politico.com.
Polarization plagues new administration.
Now, Rick, you ought to read this.
It's by Charles Matheson, Matthias Matesian, I think it is.
It's very small print here in Paul O'Connor.
And when you read this piece published today, well, you would think Obama lost.
Not a single House Republican across the aisle to vote for the stimulus package.
Only three Republican senators made the leap.
Last week, Speaker Pelosi brushed off calls for a bipartisan consensus as mere process, hardly relevant to the passage of the plan.
So despite Obama's campaign call for an end to the smallness of our politics and his criticism of the preference for scoring cheap political points, that's exactly what happened during the first big legislative test of his administration.
The tooth and nail scrapping among legislators makes clear that Obama era or not, almost everybody in office is still considered fair game.
Why, read this piece.
It's like Obama lost.
He didn't get his bipartisanship.
Well, he didn't get any Republicans to go along.
It's almost like Obama.
This story is sad.
He wasn't able to deliver on getting rid of the smallness.
He wasn't able to bring along bipartisan.
They're all upset there weren't any Republicans.
Real conservatives that voted for this.
Now, Rick, I suggest you do something else.
Go to Real Clear Politics today, and you will find a column by the estimable Morton Kondracki.
Headline: Believe it or not, Rush Limbaugh was right on stimulus.
Mort says, You know, I can't believe I'm writing this, but Rush Limbaugh actually has or had a good idea on the stimulus, at least the germ of one, on his radio show, January 26th, and in the Wall Street Journal on January 29th, America's arch-polarizer.
Mort loves me so much.
I saw him at the White House Christmas party.
It was shortly after he'd written a piece saying the Republicans need to stop listening to me.
He said, Hey, I didn't say they should stop listening.
I didn't say it was about immigration.
I said, Mort, write what you want.
Write what you want.
It's good to see you.
I hadn't seen him in a long time.
He looks great.
He's been around Washington for a long time, and it doesn't look like he's aged at all.
I think Mort secretly likes me here, but the arch polarizer, amazingly enough, proposed the outlines of a reasonable bipartisan stimulus package of both spending and tax cuts.
It may be moot now, but Limbaugh's contribution illustrates how decision-making on the stimulus might have proceeded usefully and how to think about fighting recessions.
And he quotes my plan, which basically used the election returns and give Obama 53, 54% of a trillion dollars, the stimulus package, whatever it is.
He gets 54% to do his way, and 46% voted for McCain, so we get 46% of it to do our way with tax cuts, and we compare them side by side.
Let the Keynesians go ahead and just flood the market with government spending.
Let us do some tax cuts to the tune of our 46%, and then side by side compare.
And Mort writes favorably of this, and he said the reasons for adopting a Limbaugh-like idea go beyond post-partisan atmospherics.
The fact is that in spite of the certitude expressed by politicians and op-ed writers, no one can be certain if the best way out of this great recession is Keynesian government spending or supply-side tax cutting.
So why not, as Limbaugh suggested, try both?
The Keynesian case, as expressed by Obama and other liberal economists, Robert Rice, and Paul Krugman, he goes on to explain big government spending.
And then he says, both Republicans and Democrats are citing work by Obama's chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisors, Christina Romer.
She wrote in a 2000 paper, tax cuts have very large and persistent output effects.
Republicans assert her model shows that $1 of tax cuts produces $3 of growth.
She's revised that now on Obama's website.
$1 of spending produces a buck and a half in output, whereas tax cuts only produce a dollar.
It's a net net loss or no gain.
She's changed her opinion.
He says, who knows who's right?
Mort, why do you think she altered her conclusions?
She makes the point about the success of tax cuts using empirical data from the Reagan years, the Kennedy years, then signs up with Obama has to change.
But he goes and he basically praises the plan.
And then he quotes me as I ended the piece.
He said, the American people are made up of Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and moderates, but our economy doesn't know the difference.
This is about jobs now.
That's what I wrote in the journal.
Mort Kondracki's last line, Obama could not have said it better.
And we're back.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have back to the phones to Lorain, Ohio, or Lorraine, Ohio.
This is Brian.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
How are you doing, Rush?
Just fine.
Don't you think that you're going just a little bit far when you try to compare the security of the president of the United States and the corporate perks with the corporate jets as far as Air Force One is concerned?
No, I think Air Force One is just as much a perk for the president as a corporate client or a corporation buying age, if you want to call it perks.
I don't look at them either as perks.
Both are necessary.
What I reject is the notion that the president of the United States is his necessity is acknowledged, but the necessity of others as determined by their own business demands and desires is now being destroyed.
It's none of Obama's business or yours or anybody else's if a corporation wants to buy a private jet for whatever reason and flying around.
It's none of your business.
And I did not say Obama should have to get rid of his airplane.
I didn't complain about Obama flying two Air Force Ones precisely because of the security.
What I said was that neither case is any of our business.
It's absolutely our business.
When these corporations are losing billions of dollars left and right, and these CEOs who really don't deserve to fly around on a corporate jet, they're bleeding money hand and foot, but yet they have the comfort of walking onto a corporate jet and being whisked off to wherever they want to go.
Thank you.
You, sir, are a great.
I cannot thank you enough for calling.
I mean that from the bottom of my heart.
I wanted America to hear the petty, small-minded, ignorant class envy that you have been made to believe by devotion to the Democrat Party for however many years you've been alive.
Because what you just said is the most scary, nonsensical, ignorant thing that has been said on this radio program in a month.
It has nothing to do with class envy.
It has everything to do with it.
Everything you say.
It's none of your business if they're losing money.
It's none of you.
Unless you work there, it's none of your business they're losing money and how they fly are none of your business at all, Brian.
And the fact that you think it is your business that you think you can elect a bunch of totalitarian Stalinists to impose penalties on people, you probably think tax cuts for the rich are bad, too.
Taking away their aircraft is a penalty.
Let me tell you something.
Brian, let me ask you a quick question.
Let me ask you a quick question, sir.
Sure.
I have one minute.
Every CEO of every major corporation in America losing money is forced to get rid of his jet.
I put that out there.
Let's just say that happens.
Tell me how your life has changed.
My life will not change at all, but my perception of their greed and their feelings of their entitlements will change.
We're all in this mess together, Rush.
No, we're not.
You lead the front.
No, we're not.
Brian.
Do you understand me?
No, I don't understand you.
If I understood you, I would have checked myself into a mental asylum.
You ask how much of a bad person?
I do not understand you.
We are not.
We are not all in this together.
Most of us are in this because of blind obedience to a failed belief system from people like you.
You are causing more harm to the advancement of this country by the idiots you're voting for and by the people that you support and elect than any corporate CEO in this country can ever hope to damage this country.
We are not all in it together.
I am not participating in the recession.
I'm not allowing the ignorance of people like you to make me miserable or unhappy.
I actually feel sorry for people like Brian.
I really do.
I mean, for a guy like Brian, it's obviously easier to tear down people above him, people he doesn't even know, people who has no clue about their lives, how they got where they are.
It's easier to tear them down than to try to lift himself up.
Which was the point of my question.
Okay, take away these guys' jets.
How's your life any better?
Well, he told us it didn't any better, but he actually admitted he feels better because he's got even with them.
Now, the argument seems to be, and Brian, I hope you're still out there.
The argument seems to be that if you receive government money, then you can be told how to live.
Then you can be told what to do with it.
So, I would like to talk to all of you who have received student loans.
You see, if we ever get to claim this government back, those of you who get student loans, you're going to find out what it's been like.
We're going to told you.
We're going to tell you how you have to spend that money, and we're going to tell you when you have to pay it back, and we're going to tell you where you have to live, and we're going to tell you what you can and can't spend that money on.
We're going to tell you, in fact, we're not even going to loan you the money.
The loan's going to go to whatever college you want that money.
You're never going to see the money.
And any of the rest of you out there who are accepting federal money, Social Security?
Fine.
You think it's your money, but it's not anymore.
It's the taxpayers that you don't know who are paying your Social Security now.
Something else.
So any of you getting any kind of government money?
Welfare?
We're going to tell you how to live and what you have to do to get it and what you can't spend it on.
And if we catch you in the grocery store buying People magazine with it, you lose it.
How about that?
If we catch you in the grocery store buying a bunch of MMs and Budweiser and whatever else with the welfare payments that you're getting from the American taxpayer, guess what?
You go cold turkey.
I'm just, if you take any kind of federal money, any kind whatsoever, we're going to tell you how to live.
If that's the rule now.
Now, I'm going to tell you, I'm infuriated at anybody who takes federal money.
I'm infuriated at these guys on Wall Street for doing this because this is exactly what they knew had to be heading down the pike.
That's why I've always said, the more you can go through life without taking anything from anybody, the freer you're going to be because the less obligations you're going to have.
People always say, Rush, why don't you run for office?
Because that's the epitome of the problem.
Running for office is just, all it is is putting your hand out, both hands out, as many hours as you can stay awake a day, and you're asking people to put money in your hands.
And if you think they're giving you that money, if all of them are giving you that money just because they like your ideas, you've got another thing coming.
They want a return.
So you spend your elected career paying off and paying back, and you have no freedom.
Screw it.
I don't want any part of it.
The last time I was in debt, the last time I was broke, I vowed I am not going to owe anybody anything ever again.
That became my life's objective because I hated the prison that it put me in.
I've been fortunate.
I've been able to, for the most part, accomplish that.
And I know that a lot of people never will, but there are still things that this whole notion of being beholden to people here.
Look at the poison that this is causing and roiling our society now.
All of this bailout money.
Look at how I thought the election of Obama was going to unify people.
I thought it was going to make us all love one another.
A new era of responsibility.
Hell, this country is more at odds with itself than it was during the Bush administration.
The left is just as mad today as they were then.
There's nothing you can do to make them happy, no matter what you give them that they demand or ask for.
It is never enough.
By the way, Snerdley, take a guess here.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down how many points since Election Day.
Just take a wild guess.
Brian, I know you follow stock market with your 401k.
What's 750?
Dawn, you want to take a stab at how much the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down since Election Day.
2,000 points.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Snerdley guessed 1,000.
Dawn, 1,100.
Brian, 750.
It's down 2,000.
You're queen for a day.
You get the dishwasher.
And we'll throw in a bonus vacuum cleaner since it's Valentine's Day.
Down 2,000 points.
There's a story today.
David Axelrod, who is the closest advisor to Obama in the White House, says, we don't care.
We're not going to be governed by what the market does.
Our policies will have no...
Okay, the market's only the representative of the private sector.
Look at this story from the AP today.
Investors' concerns about the U.S. economy are not letting up even as Congress reached a deal on their porculus plan.
Surprise jump in January.
Retail sales couldn't lift the market's downcast mood.
Bank stocks are down.
Why?
After yesterday, I thought everybody was going to love the bankers.
They went up and grabbed the ankles and ate crow.
World stock markets are plunging.
They have no confidence in the American economy right now.
None of this was supposed to happen.
But believe me, this is where the Obamaites want us.
This kind of fear and panic and crisis will let them come back in six months, say we need another trillion.
Mark my words.
This is just the beginning.
Do you want to hear how bad it's going to get?
Barney Frank last night on MSNBC questioned, should these banks be constrained by doing those things by rules rather than shamed when they don't do them?
We will very soon be adopting a set of regulations.
We're going to be doing essentially now what Frank and Roosevelt had to do in the New Deal, what Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson had to do around the turn of the last century.
I think by the summer, we're going to have a set of rules in place.
It's going to be comparable, I think, to what FDR did with the New Deal, with the Securities Exchange Commission and other rules.
We will not depend on their goodwill.
We will put some tough rules in place.
He's talking about the private sector banking industry.
Whether they pay back these loans or not, they're going to have brand new rules.
We're going to roll FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson into one now by this summer with new rules from Barney Frank's committee.
And Jack Reed this afternoon on MSNBC and Rand Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, said to Jack Reed as a Democrat Senator Rhode Island, two-thirds of those polled by USA Today saying that there should be investigations into torture under the Bush administration.
Senator Leahy and others are suggesting there should be a truth commission.
There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of support for that in the White House.
Where do you stand?
I think we have to seriously investigate allegations of torture.
I don't know if we require a formal new commission to do that.
We have the Department of Justice, we have federal attorneys, but we cannot simply ignore credible allegations.
They have to be investigated.
I think our political system as well as our judicial system is strong enough to conduct these investigations fairly and then to bring those people who might have violated the law of justice.
I don't think we should be afraid of that.
Jack Reed gearing up to investigate the George Bush administration.
And so I say, they're going to build up this big, powerful government, and they're going to lose control of it at some point, and we are going to get it back.
And we're going to start investigating Jack Reed, and we're going to investigate Barney Frank, and we're going to investigate Chris Dodd because they committed a lot more heinous acts that destroyed our economy than Bush ever did winning the war in Iraq.
Now, before I go to the break, I'll tell you a funny story.
The top of the hour, I walk out of studio here, I walk in a glass room or the booth there with a glass window, and Dawn stops me and said, this is just outrageous, what Snerdley just did.
I said, what?
He just called Rush Pro Flowers, and he ordered six different arrangements for six different women.
That's just horrible.
It's just horrible.
I said, I said, no, Don, it's an insurance policy.
That's all it is.
It's smart thinking.
We found an Australian bunch, a bank in Australia, did a survey, and they found that February is the biggest breakup month of all months in the year.
It's obviously because men do not give flowers on Valentine's Day.
There's no question about it.
I bet you've got two days left to order.
Not let this happen to you.
You don't want February to bust up your wonderful relationship out there.
You've got two months, two days, two days to order flowers from proflowers.com.
They can be delivered by Saturday.
They will be delivered Saturday.
We've been telling you about two deals.
One dozen red roses, free ruby red vase, two dozen sorted roses in a free clear glass vase.
Both those are $39.99.
And you get some truffles thrown in there.
But you should know that Valentine's Day bouquets start at only $19.99.
You don't have to go the $39.99 route.
After all, we're in a Baroque recession.
So you can go to their website.
That's what Snerdley did, rushproflowers.com, or you can call 1-800-PROFLOWERS and mention me and get the same thing done.
And you will be amazed at how great they smell, how fresh they are, and they'll last seven days.
We have them here all the time in the studio, rushproflowers.com or 800-PRO flowers.
Send as many bouquets as you need to buy your insurance this Valentine's Day.
Ladies and gentlemen, a couple days ago, yeah, Tuesday afternoon after the program, I interviewed Bernard Goldberg, his latest book, Slobber.
It's about the media totally in a tank, for Obama.
And he told a story of a phone call he had heard, a woman calling somebody that wanted to repossess her car.
And we found it.
This dovetails with Henrietta and Julio at Fort Myers at the Obama Oprah Show at Fort Myers.
And I'm sure Brian, who called us from wherever he called moments ago, will be able to relate to this too.
Yes.
Y'all come to get the card.
The car is not here.
The car is in the shop and one part is at another shop.
If y'all wanted that bag, y'all can go pay that man to get it out and then pay the person to get the other part out.
I mean, because y'all act like y'all couldn't be patient.
You knew that we were going to get it taken care of.
So if y'all wanted that bag, y'all can go get it.
You pay the man and pay the other man, and we can leave it as that.
Because we're not owning that much on the car.
Y'all want to trip on it now that we only got on $1,000 or $2,000 on it.
So you know what?
God bless y'all.
Y'all can go pick up the car.
So you know what?
Give me a call back and I will give you the direction to where the man is.
And I will let him know that y'all going to be paying him to get it out because y'all don't be patient.
We're not rich like y'all.
That's one thing y'all going to have to understand.
But one day this year, we will be because we have Barack Obama.
So this woman, obviously, her car was in the process of being repoed and it was in a repair shop, one part in one shop, one part in the other shop.
And the repo company was apparently hassling her.
Come get it.
We're not rich like y'all are.
We're not rich.
We are going to be one day this year because we got Barack Obama.
I want to be around when this woman's not rich.
And five years from now or four years old, I want to be around and just, I'd love to talk to her.
Tony in Kennebunkport, Maine.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush, and congratulations on a marvelous job on the aviation.
I'm a former corporate jet pilot, and you did a great job with it.
Well, thank you.
You mean detailing the business that's involved?
You know, I didn't even get to the parts.
You know, just like their auto parts, there are parts for airplanes.
I remember, I'll just say about mine, going into Teterboro one day.
It was a G4, got a crack in the windshield.
Do you know what the windshield replacement was?
Just the right side, the main, not the whole thing, just one, the right side window.
I'd love to have that money in my checking account.
$75,000.
You wouldn't believe how thick the glass is in a wind.
People don't stop to think about this.
The thickness of the glass in a windshield in an airplane that flies 600 miles an hour has to be.
The parts industry that supports aviation, private in general, is and commercial.
It's like any other business.
And all these people see is these reprobate CEOs, and then they see a picture of a corporate jet in the newspaper on TV.
Then they remember watching Dynasty with John Forsyth flying around.
There's no jet, private jet, that has the interior the size his was.
That was all Hollywood.
But they have just a total misconception.
That's why I think economics is so improperly, inaccurately taught throughout our education system.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
But Russia did a great job of that.
And you finished it up just now with the parts business.
Even I couldn't think of it all at one time.
It's so massive.
It's just like any other moving parts business.
I don't think people stop long enough to think about what it takes to make an airplane fly and to keep it in there.
You have a mechanic on hand.
Things go wrong with these things.
Do you realize, folks, you got redundancy in the copy.
You got two fuel gauges on new airplanes.
You've got two fuel gauges for each tank.
If one of them goes, a federal regulation says you can't fly.
Certain airplanes, depending on if you're Part 91 or Part 135, it's astounding the way these things are regulated to boot and the cost of money that that entails.
But it's a genuine business, and it exists because of demand.
There are people who need their own airplanes and to see segments of our society get demonized here and demonized there.
There's an all-out assault on capitalism and it's using the shallow thinking of poor guys like that Brian that called us a half hour ago to succeed.
What are you pointing at me for?
You think I don't know that it's time to begin talking because the segment is over?
It is 20 years and people still think I don't know what I'm doing.
And I'm not married to any of them.
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