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Feb. 17, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 17, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Yes, ladies and gentlemen.
I was going to expand on it.
I must have put it at the bottom of the stack because I just find it.
Yes, here it is.
I just get a little few seconds of this in before the previous hour concluded.
Despite President Obama's promise of more open government, the Justice Department is resisting pressure to release documents the Bush administration kept secret about domestic wiretapping, data collection on travelers and U.S. citizens, and interrogation of suspected suspects, terrorists.
In half a dozen lawsuits, justice lawyers are defending Bush administration decisions to withhold records from the public.
They have opposed formal motions or spurned out-of-court offers to merely delay the cases until the new administration rewrites Freedom of Information Act guidelines.
In only one case has the Justice Department agreed to suspend FOIA lawsuits until the disputed documents can be re-evaluated under the yet-to-be-written guidelines of Obama.
Now, the documents sought in these lawsuits are in many cases the documents the public needs to see the most, said some clown from the ACLU.
It makes no sense to say that these documents are somehow exempt from Obama's directives.
Now, what's fascinating about this to me, folks, is that, and I warned you leftists about this, this should not be surprising.
This goes back to after the election, during the transition, the Obama people made it clear that they thought they would have more flexibility with the Bush laws still in force.
He's not going to get rid of this power.
I don't care what you lefties think.
He is not going to get rid of this because he thinks he can use it to his advantage.
I had this in the stack yesterday, didn't talk about it, didn't get to it.
But a widely available blood pressure pill could one day help people erase bad memories, perhaps treating some anxiety disorders and phobias.
This, according to a Dutch study that was published on Sunday, the drug was shown to significantly weaken people's fearful memories of spiders.
It's a generic beta blocker.
It significantly weakened people's fearful memories of spiders among a group of healthy volunteers who took it.
We can show that the fear response went away, which suggests the memory was weakened.
Man, wouldn't liberals love this pill?
Wouldn't you love to be able to wipe out people's memories of losing their jobs and having no food to eat?
Wouldn't you love to be able to wipe out those kind of memories?
I, frankly, would like for this pill to last for three months in the next four years.
I'd like to wipe out my memory of what we're going to go through here before it happens.
Where do I get this beta blocker?
Los Angeles Times, thousands of children have detailed their hopes for President Obama in letters and drawings as part of a project by the National Education Association and kidthing.com.
150 have been chosen for publication in a free book.
The kids sent him letters asking for their hopes to be realized.
Most had tall orders.
Anthony Pulp, 10 of Du Bois, Pennsylvania, said, I hope that we will have no war ever again.
I mean, why are we fighting?
Why can't we all be friends?
Fellow 10-year-old Sasha Townsend of Soquel, California.
I would appreciate it if you would try to make this a greener planet.
10 years old.
I would appreciate it if you would try to make this a greener planet and try to bring home the troops and end the war.
She's in the fifth grade.
I'm very lucky, L-U-C-K-E-Y, because I'm not part of a military family.
But it saddens me to hear about all the people who die in Iraq and know that somewhere in the world people are grieving over a lost family member.
Seven-year-old Aaron Van Bleescom.
Dear Mr. Obama, it's a first grader from Pasadena, California.
Dear Mr. Obama, please make it rain candy.
So who can take a sunrise and it ain't a sunrise?
Sprinkle it would do.
Socialize America and tell you what to do.
Obama's the man.
Obama sure can.
Please make it rain candy.
And of course, the cute little emails, some little tykes happen to make national news in the Los Angeles Times.
Of course, it's really not much different than the adults that showed up in Fort Myers asking him the questions they asked him last week.
Income tax refunds, state employee paychecks as well could be late.
After Republican leaders and the Democrat governor in Kansas clashed Monday over to how to solve a cash flow problem, payments to Medicaid providers in schools could also be delayed.
Dwayne Gusin, state budget director in Kansas, said we're out of cash in essence.
No, you're not.
You know, this is the dirty little, there is not a state in this country that's, well, you may be out of cash, but I don't see anybody really trying to make any serious cuts anywhere.
All we ever hear about, well, we'll have to cut fire department, we'll have to cut police department, we'll have to cut garbage pickup, we'll have to cut this and that.
There is so much rot and waste.
It was just, what, two years ago, the states, we were talking about how much money they had.
Rainy day funds, they were full.
A lot of these states were just overflowing with cash.
Now, the idea that they don't have any money is absurd, and it's something that we're being told to believe by, and we're being guilted into this.
And of course, it's easy for people to believe it.
We're an economic downturn.
And we're an economic downturn.
Nobody has any money, which makes sense.
The states don't have any money.
But this is what it comes down to.
The state, look at, is California the same way?
Income tax refunds?
Uh-uh, no.
When we're out of money, guess what?
You don't get yours.
We keep ours.
You don't get yours.
By the way, if you run a dirt bike business, say goodbye to it.
We got this new law passed last August or September on consumer product.
Too much lead.
We got a government that with the signature of a president can put businesses out of work.
The people who write these laws could no more run these businesses they're putting out of business than people who've never done it before, which is exactly what they are.
And now they're talking, targeting talk radio, a specific element of talk radio, to put that out of business.
Now, Governor Sebelius, Kathleen Sebelius in Kansas, she's one of the BAMSTRS first big backers.
She's on the shortlist now for Commerce Secretary, right?
It was Carmer Judd Gregg pulled out of there.
Yeah, who is going to be HO?
Now the Dash will pull out of there.
Who's going to put it for?
Do you believe the level of corruption?
It doesn't even get reported on in this administration.
Anyway, this is a huge failure on her resume, which means she's perfectly suited for a Democrat president cabinet position.
The notion that this state is just out of money, Kansas taxpayers are due about $12 million in income tax refunds.
The state stopped payments on the refunds on Friday.
Washburn University political science professor Bob Beatty likened the impasse to the 1995 budget battle between Clinton and Gingrich.
That dispute prompted a shutdown of the federal government.
He said Kansas legislative leaders are making a dangerous gamble.
Gingrich went too far, Beatty said.
If you go too far, you lose.
Now, this is an excellent, this is a teachable moment.
This is a time for the Republicans in Kansas to stand up and start teaching the people who live there what's going on.
And you tell your people they are not out of money, that you are not out of money.
Grab the budget, go to the local school, put the budget on an overhead projector on their computer screens, and go through it line by line.
I guarantee you'll find a billion dollars in 30 minutes you could cut.
But no, no, no, no, not the way government works.
Once it's spent, we can never cut it.
Too many people depend on it while this is going on.
Do you know what they're debating in the Kansas legislature?
This is from the Kansas City Star.
They are debating and voting on a statewide smoking ban today in Kansas while they have placed a hold on refund checks.
This is what they're working on when the state's going bankrupt, supposedly.
Tax refunds may be suspended.
State paychecks as well.
You might say, what's wrong with Kansas?
The elected officials are out of their minds.
Priorities are screwed up.
Money's being wasted.
What about a lockbox for the people's money, Governor Sebelius?
How come, whenever it comes down to something like this, it's always the people's money that gets withheld.
And of course, we praised the California Senate Republicans earlier today for holding fast.
There's one more vote needed for massive new tax increases in California.
If the Republican, and they're being held hostage, the guy that runs the show, the assembly leader, came out and told a Republican, show up with your toothbrush.
You're not getting out of here till I get that vote.
You're not getting out of here till I get that vote.
Otherwise, Schwarzenegger, the governator, will have to send layoff notices to 20,000 people.
And he's already furloughing some state workers.
Adult stem cell research reverses the effects of Parkinson's disease in human trial.
This is in Los Angeles.
Scientists have published a paper in a medical journal describing the result of the world's first clinical trial using neural stem cells for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, adult stem cells.
A leading bioethics watchdog says the results show more money should be put behind adult stem cells.
UCLA researchers published their results in February, the issue of Bentham Open Stem Cell Journal.
We have a subscription to it, which outlines the long-term results of the trial.
We have documented the first successful adult neural stem cell transplantation to reverse the effects of Parkinson's disease and demonstrated a long-term safety and therapeutic effects of this research, said the lead author, Dr. Michael Levesque.
Hope somebody tells Michael J. Fox.
Hope somebody can find Michael J. Fox and tell him about this.
Don't have to kill babies in order to make progress via adult stem cells on Parkinson's disease.
Back after this.
I mentioned, ladies and gentlemen, mere moments ago, and I gave you the audio soundbite from Obama back in 1998, how he didn't like welfare reform and he saw an opportunity to get rid of it and has finally succeeded in the stimulus package.
And about welfare reform, you know, none of the liberal programs ever work, and we have talked about this.
I've often said it's not whether or not their programs work, it's their good intentions.
We never judge their results.
There's never any accountability for the left or for Democrats on whether their programs work.
The only Democrat to ever really pay a price for goofing things up was Jimmy Carter.
But even he has been resuscitated and is now one of the grand poobahs of the Democrat Party.
People say it's just their good intentions run amok.
Well, Bill Clinton's a Democrat and he signed welfare reform into service and it worked.
It worked beyond all expectations.
So many lives were improved.
So many people taken off the welfare roles.
And now Obama has gotten rid of it along with the far-left extremists in the Congress.
So would it be fair to assume that Barack Obama has bad intentions?
I wish to repeat the question.
And then I, ladies and gentlemen, am going to answer it.
Welfare reformed worked.
I mean, do we accept the premise that getting people off welfare and having them become self-sufficient is a good thing?
We all do.
That's a wonderful thing.
Their opportunity, their confidence, security, all of that goes way, way up.
Barack Obama didn't like it.
Didn't serve the interests of the Democrat Party.
A lot of Democrats didn't like it.
Jesse Jackson didn't like it.
A bunch of people back then were pressuring Clinton to get rid of it or redo it because he was forced to get re-elected in 1996.
He's forced to sign welfare reform after vetoing it a bunch of previous times.
So if we accept the premise that getting people off welfare, becoming self-sufficient is a good thing.
And with the stimulus bill, Barack Obama has now done away with that.
Why then we can assume Obama has bad intentions?
And I think so.
I don't know how many, anybody could disagree with that.
If it's not good to force people onto welfare and to make them totally dependent on someone else or something else for virtually everything in their lives, that's not good.
Those are bad intentions couched as compassion.
If you want to find out exactly how the stimulus bill gutted welfare reform, the Heritage Foundation, one of the most brilliant scholars that they have, and I'm aware of, is Robert Rector.
And Rector has been working on this and all of these welfare socioeconomic programs, you know, categorizing the poor properly and accurately.
All the positive incentives instituted in 1996 by conservatives that motivated the states to reduce welfare roles are now gone once this thing is signed in about 15 or 20 minutes.
Now, the Heritage Foundation breaks it all down for you at askheritage.org, askheritage.org.
They've been around for 35 years.
One of their policy experts actually crafted much of the 96 welfare reform legislation that's been in place until now, and that's Robert Rector.
And basically, what it did was cap the amount of money states got.
The only way that they could show a surplus was to get people off the welfare rolls.
It worked.
People actually went back to work.
Now, the Heritage Foundation has the truth.
They have all the detail on this.
They have the truth on what's happening to welfare reform and so many other really crucial issues that are both social and political facing us as a result of the passage of the stimulus bill.
Just go to askheritage.org.
You can join them for a nominal fee of $25.
You can spend more than that if you want to.
Once you join, askheritage.org.
Whatever you want to know.
Their website is a veritable encyclopedia of answers.
Dave in Grand Rapids, Ohio.
Is there Grand Rapids in Ohio?
It's an honor, sir.
Thank you.
Is there Grand Rapids in Ohio?
There is.
I never knew that.
We're along the Maumee River.
We're a little town of 900.
We're a restoration project.
We have like a working canal boat and a great downtown.
And I'll tell you, I hope I'm calling for thousands of restaurant owners.
I have a small restaurant here in Grand Rapids.
And the other day we were flipping through the channels of the TV before we opened, and there was the Oprah show.
This was the week before the inauguration.
And she had on Susie Orman, supposedly a financial advisor.
They're asking their viewers and their audience to take a financial pledge.
And the third thing on that list on the TV screen as we're looking at it was not to eat out in a restaurant for a month.
I can't believe it.
Wait a minute.
On what basis?
I know.
She said that's the way that they're going to improve their financial being as a family.
Susie Orman telling an Oprah audience this.
I mean, if I could have reached through that TV and grabbed her by the neck, she did not think before she talked.
Oprah is not thinking before she has these kind of people on her show.
What that would do to this economy of the restaurant industry across the country.
And Oprah is powerful.
People listen to her.
We could not believe it.
I mean, we have emailed the show.
The restaurant industry has, and I just got an industry magazine.
The editor of the magazine had an article on that same story.
And like we said, I wonder if Oprah ate out in Washington when she was at the inauguration.
So I.
I mean, we are just furious.
The restaurant industry is struggling as it is, but yet the number of people we put to work and goes right, you know, the trickle-down effect to our distributors, to our producers.
Yeah, it never stops.
We could not believe that Susie Orman and Oprah would do this to the restaurant industry.
Every call is from somebody who's in a business being targeted by somebody with ties to Obama.
You have it.
But you're being too charitable.
When you say that I know who Susie Orman is, I've never seen her show.
I know she's a financial advisor, right?
Yes.
From what I understand, that's the first time I heard of her.
Well, I've heard of her.
She's, I think she's in a CNBC.
I don't know anymore.
She's been on Ala.
But Oprah is another thing.
I mean, Oprah is.
I'm hung up here because you think they inadvertently did this.
And I don't, I don't.
There's a reason.
There are no coincidence.
Like the Clintons, there's a reason for everything they do.
There aren't any coincidences.
Can you hold on to the break?
Because I have a different take for you on this.
And an interesting story I have in the stack today urging people to eat at home.
And we're back with Dave in Grand Rapids, Ohio, a restaurant owner there in a town of 900.
That's got to be a tough business anyway in a town of 900.
Are you close to a larger population center from which we are?
We're near Toledo, Ohio, and Bowling Green.
So, I mean, that's about it.
What's the name of your before they shut it down here?
What's the name of your restaurant?
LaRose Restaurant.
What is it?
LaRose Restaurant.
LaRose, L-A-R-O-S-E.
L-A-R-O-E Pastrias.
Yep.
L-A-R-O-E. Pastri.
LaRose.
Okay.
And what is your fare?
What do you serve?
Steaks, seafood.
We do a lot of sandwiches, things like that.
And we do a dinner theater at Christmastime.
But like we say, we get a lot of tourists that come and enjoy, you know, the look of a restored village along the Maumee River.
How long have you been open?
33 years.
The restaurant's been over 33 years?
The town's only 900 people?
Yes, I've had it 33 years, yes.
You've had the restaurant 33 years.
Yes, sir.
And what time is the Oprah show on your market?
4 o'clock.
Okay, so you're open for dinner.
You're not open for 10?
We're open for lunch 11 to 2, then we're back at 5 for dinner.
So when we come in, you know, we're getting things around and everything.
I'm in the office doing some bookwork.
So I flip through the TV just to see if there's anything interesting on it.
Okay, so you close the doors after lunch to set up for dinner.
What's the capacity of LaRose restaurant?
We have 100 seats in the main restaurant.
We have a patio out back that sits along the river that seats 40.
And then we have a banquet room upstairs.
So you got at least 170 seats in a town of 900.
We do.
Well, that's unheard of.
Well, we have a lot of people that enjoy that drive along the river, and they just, you know, and we're so thankful that, you know, in our area, too, I think people know they support the local independent restaurateurs.
So we're very grateful for that.
And so you're watching Oprah and Susie Orman.
And Susie Ormond says, to save money, stop going to a restaurant for a month.
Just don't go for $30.
Oh, that's right.
Oprah's up on stage with her hand up and asking her audience and her viewers to take this financial pledge.
There were some other things on there.
One was not to use a credit card for a week, not to spend any cash at all for two weeks.
But the third thing, of course, that caught our eye, don't use anything.
Not to spend any cash?
How's that defined?
I don't understand.
If you park the credit card and don't use it, and you don't spend any cash, what are you out there doing?
Selling yourself?
I have no idea.
It was enough to, you know, I'm sure restaurants across the country were just furious.
Probably so.
This may be an Oprah unintended consequence.
See, this is, I think you go through the mainstream media at any time of the year.
Let's say Halloween.
And you'll find stories, safety tips for your kids who go trick-or-treating as though you, the parent, are too big a doofus to figure it out.
Every time it snows in New York, you've got some idiot little anchorette standing out in four feet of snow telling you, stay home, it's dangerous out here.
If you drive, use chains.
Been telling us this.
I'm 58.
I've been hearing it for 58 years.
Well, I started hearing things at age three and remembering them, so 55 years.
The assumption is that people are helpless, and that's Oprah's audience.
The guise of a self-help show makes people helpless.
But you'll be happy to know this story.
I actually made a mistake when I told you the story that I had.
It's an AP story by J.M. Hirsch, the food editor.
Has he ever done a story on LaRose restaurant?
No, sir.
All right.
Eating at home can save you some cash, he says, but beware the calorie cost.
Though restaurants often take the blame for portion distortion, cookbook recipes have done some supersizing of their own, according to a study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
There's so much attention that's been given to away-from-home eating and so much attention that's been focused on restaurants and the packaged food industry, it makes me wonder whether it's actually deflecting attention from the one place where we can make the most immediate change, and that's at home.
The story basically says, if you're on a diet, go eat out because the recipes, if you actually use recipes to cook at home, they're loaded up with lard, fat, all sorts of calories and stuff.
So at least AP is suggesting that if you want to go on a diet, which I've never heard, I've always heard the restaurant's the worst place you can go on a diet because you don't know the ingredients.
That's true.
And you guys don't like sharing your favorite recipes, otherwise they wouldn't be special.
That's right.
So we don't know when the ingredients are.
Well, look, excuse me, I didn't mean to hold you this long, but I'm fascinated about economics.
You've got a restaurant for 33 years in a town of 900.
Has the town always been 900?
Oh, it goes up and down, you know, but within 100 people.
I love this.
It's actually amazing.
Have you?
Well, I doubt that you're going to hear anything from the Oprah show, but has it had any measurable effect on your restaurant?
Do you have you noticed?
No, of course, we have seen this great, you know, having the restaurant this long, I have never seen this kind of economic downturn.
And, you know, we just try, you know, we just do different things and tighten our belt and just, you know, offer the customers the best service we can.
And we hear comments that people said, Did you see that?
You know what I mean?
But they said, you know, we still.
And one lady raised her hand in that audience and said, I cannot do it.
I cannot not eat out in a restaurant.
And I thought, yay, give her a gift certificate to LaRose.
Well, that was good.
So I think a lot of people.
You've got one lady who sheepishly probably raises her hands, Oprah.
Oprah, I'm sorry.
I'm really sorry.
But I can't do it.
And breaks down in tears because she doesn't want Oprah to be disappointed.
She wants absolution forgiveness from the Oprah.
Well, this is great.
I admire people like you more than you could ever know.
I mean, your market's not that large.
33 years.
It must be a great place, LaRose Restaurant.
We have a lot of support in the local area that like the drive to us, and it is terrific to be an independent restaurateur, especially.
All right.
Well, you did the right thing in responding to Oprah by calling here.
I appreciate it.
As a result, a result of calling here, you are soon going to be asking yourself, Dave, should I expand to handle all the new traffic?
This is LaRose.
It's again, R-O-E apostrophe as LaRose Restaurant.
It's in Grand Rapids, Ohio, not far from Toledo, standing up against the powerful forces of the Oprah Show to save his business.
There, I guess I better have a rush special.
Well, you can do that on your own.
You can figure out what the item would be.
Just, you know, I don't count calories, so don't worry about that.
Well, I can't tell you how thankful I am that you let the restaurant industry and myself be a spokesman on your show to, you know, vent a little bit of how we feel about it.
Let me tell you something.
If I can be serious here, I am livid.
You know, I'm controlling my rage here.
And I was being serious, Dave.
Every call I get today is from somebody whose business is being targeted by the United States government and is being targeted by people in that government who've never met a payroll, who've never had to, who have never run a business.
All they've done is agitate and get people all worked up about things.
They are prophets of doom and gloom.
They are never effervescent.
They are never uplifting.
They're never inspirational.
And they haven't the slightest idea how to do what you do or the dirt bike business guy does or the automobile business people or the private jet industry or even the banking business.
They haven't the slightest clue.
When they run the show like Infetty Mac and Fannie Mae, we see what happens.
And I am livid over this kind of thing.
I am livid that the foundation of capitalism that created 33 years in a town of 900.
And he turns on a stupid TV show and finds his business under siege from the so-called queen of broadcasting, Oprah Winfrey.
The whole thing has me outraged.
I know I've settled down because it's been four weeks later, but still, you know, when I heard, like, the gentleman you had on about the dirt bike business, and I thought, you know, I'm going to call in.
I'm going to see if I can get through.
And I'm glad I did.
Well, it was your lucky day.
You have a computer?
Yes, sir.
You back it up?
Yes.
What with?
Well, you know what?
Mike, we listen to you on the radio every day in the kitchen.
Yeah.
And this is a short story, real quick.
My cook, Brad, he has a band.
And he, whatever that system is that you recommended, he did get it.
And you know what?
He lost one of his soundtracks to his band.
And there he got it back because of your program.
He told me that last week.
He says, Dave, you should get it.
Carbonite.
That's it.
Yep, he has it.
Carbonite.
See, that's the off, what's the online off-site backup system?
Everybody's heart.
Do you use a computer?
Yes.
You have all your restaurant records on it?
Yes, sir.
It's going to bomb on you one day.
Law of averages.
It may be Oprah may not even be in town when it happens.
There you go.
But it's going to happen.
You should take his advice.
This thing is a lifesaver, and it's easy because you don't have to go out and buy any extra equipment.
You just log on to their website, and every time you log onto the internet, it automatically backs up.
And after you do the first full backup, which can take a while, it only backs up things that have changed since you were last on the internet.
And you don't have to log out from it.
It takes care of that.
It happens in the background.
You can check to see if it's happening, but you don't need to.
Carbonite.com is the website, carbonite.com, offer code RUSH.
And don't let this.
Trust me on this.
You will be thanking me if you do this because everybody loses a hard drive or gets something damaged with it at some point in their life as a computer owner.
Back after this.
A couple soundbites here before we have to get out of here.
Morning, Joe Today, MSNBC.
Zbigniew Bzezinski, the father of the co-host on that show, Mika Bjuzhinski, Scarborough said to Zbig, we've been talking about the disappearance of the middle class, something you've been concerned about, but you also talk about the possibility of class conflict.
Yeah, I don't have worrying about it because, look, we're going to have millions and millions of unemployed.
People really facing dire straits.
And at the same time, there is this public awareness of this extraordinary wealth that was transferred to a few individuals at levels without historical precedent in America.
People who made billions of dollars, millions of dollars in a short period of time.
We have the government trying to repair, repair the banking system, to build the housing out.
What about the rich class?
Where is it?
What is it doing?
Do you hear this?
This man's on.
He was Jimmy Carter's national security advisor, Zbigniew Jasinski.
And by the way, I heard that Mika Bzinski thinks I am purposely mispronouncing her name.
And I'm not.
The conventional pronunciation, you ought to see it spelled.
It's B-R-Z-Z-I-Z-Z-I-Z-Z-I-S-K-I or something like that.
And the family, I guess, pronounces it Brzezinski, but is a B-G.
And I used to work with a guy in Kansas City who was Polish back in the Carter years.
And this guy told me, he said, if you want to be accurate, if you want to know how it really pronounced, it's Bzynski.
There's a BZ in there.
And if you lived in Poland, that's how they pronounced Bzynski.
So I've just been trying to be accurate about it.
The family calls it Brzezinski, so I guess I should defer to the family wishes on this.
But I've just been, I always want to be right in the articulation of syllables.
That's my profession.
Highly trained broadcast special.
Anyway, here's Zbig Zhazynski worrying here about class conflict.
Millions of unemployed, but the rich got all their billions overnight very quickly.
What are they doing to help out?
They're under assault, Z-Big.
They're literally under assault, and not just the billions and millions, guys.
The former Carter NSA director continued with this.
And if we don't get some sort of a voluntary National Solidarity Fund, at some point there will be such political pressure that Congress will start getting into the Act.
There's going to be growing conflict between the classes.
And if people are unemployed and really hurting health, there could be even riots.
So Jimmy Carter's former National Security Advisor predicts riots on MSNBC today if there's not a voluntary national solidarity fund.
At some point, there'll be such political pressure, Congress will start getting in the act.
Z-Big, what has Congress been doing if not been in the act?
What, pray tell, is the stimulus bill if not being in the act?
But predicting riots.
Now, there's some foreign soothsayer-type Nostradamus guys that are out there predicting food riots in four years in this country.
But, I mean, that's just to sell subscriptions to their newsletters.
Z-Big is a hear all these guys talk about what I'd like to see what Z-Big's doing for the poor.
You know, I'd like to see, has he led the way in setting up his own solidarity fund?
Is he going down the neighborhood where he lives and asking people he need me money and giving it to him?
Dave in Toledo, Ohio.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Nice to have you.
Well, hello, Rush.
It's a great honor.
Nobody where I live is going to believe that I'm speaking to Rush Limbaugh.
I know it's a big deal in life.
It is.
For me, anyways, I'm in along the same lines as the restaurant owner.
And I'm an independent owner-operator, long-haul frozen food and produce truck driver.
And if you think the government's in their pocket, they should be in the trucking industry.
Well, you guys are helping destroy the planet.
Global warming and all that carbon emissions, yeah.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
I just paid $13,000 two years ago to get all the retrofits to get into the state of California, which now are illegal.
But anyways, I was going to point out on that point.
Wait, They changed them again?
Yes, yes, and they're going to change again.
So the auxiliary power unit that I paid $13,000 for is now illegal.
So it's just a lot of people.
Well, if it's any consolation, if it's any consolation, the APU on my G550 is a lot more than $13,000.
And California hasn't made me change.
I know that.
But anyways, I just wanted to point out that about this 0.025 cents on per car for traveling.
In Massachusetts, yeah.
You know, that's minimal, that is.
I mean, we pay for it.
Yeah, but see, you've been doing it a long time.
They've been doing it to you for a long time.
Now they're going to start with public, and it's going to be, that's just the starting point.
That's what you know.
0.025 cents.
Why it's going to be a buck in a couple of years before we know it.
That's what you know.
And I had to tell it for you because at a time.
You've got to see this picture, folks.
Obama standing behind Biden in Denver of the build-up to the signing of the stimulus bill.
And Obama is frowning, grimacing, occasionally smiling.
But if you're standing behind Biden and Biden, hey, yeah, everything we do, 30% chance it won't work.
You'd be a little nervous too.
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