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Feb. 17, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 17, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Hi and welcome back, folks.
Nice to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the excellence.
Just a second.
Screw it.
Excellence and Broadcasting Network, great to have you with us.
Telephone number 800 282-2882, the email address, Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
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Yes, uh ladies and gentlemen I was gonna 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 uh 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 uh in half a dozen lawsuits, justice lawyers are defending Bush administration decisions to withhold records from the public.
They have uh 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 reevaluated under the yet to be written uh guidelines of Obama.
Now the documents sought in these lawsuits are in many cases the documents the public needs to know, needs to see the most, uh said uh 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 the and I I warned you leftists about this, this should not be surprising.
This goes back to uh 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 gonna get rid of this power.
This this I don't 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 uh to his advantage.
I had this in the stack yesterday, didn't talk about it, didn't get to it.
But the uh 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 uh 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 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 gonna 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 Kid Thing.com.
One hundred and fifty 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 Pope, ten 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 ten-year-old Sasha Townsend of Soquel, California.
I would appreciate it if you would try to make this a greener planet.
Ten 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 uh who can take a sunrise and it ain't right, it's sprinkle it with socialize America and tell you what to do.
Obama's the man.
Obama sure can.
Please make it rain candy.
And of course, of course, the uh the cute little emails from the little types happen to make national news and 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 and schools could also be delayed.
Dwayne Goosen, state budget director in Kansas said we're out of cash in essence.
No, you're not.
You know, this 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 the 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 gilted 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 uh this is this is what it comes down to.
The state, look at 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 uh targeting talk radio, a specific element of talk radio to put that out of business.
Now, Governor Sibelius, Kathleen Sabilius in Kansas, she's one of the Bamster's first big backers.
She's on the shortlist now for uh Commerce Secretary, right?
It was Comrade Judd Gregg pulled out of there.
Yeah, who is gonna be HO?
Now the Dash will pulled out of there.
Who's gonna put for?
You believe the level of corruption it doesn't even get reported on in this in this administration.
Anyway, uh this is a huge failure on her resume, which means she's perfectly suited for a Democrat president cabinet position.
The um the notion that this state is just out of money.
Kansas taxpayers are due about twelve million dollars 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, Batey 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 can 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 in 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 Sibelius?
How come whenever it comes down to something like this, it's always the people's money that gets withheld.
And of course, we praise the California Senate Republicans earlier today for holding fast that is one more vote needed for massive new tax increases in California.
If the Republican, and they're being held hostage, the uh the 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 governor 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 uh 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 Lovesque.
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 uh from Cl Obama back in uh 1998, uh, 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 uh 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 he even he has been resuscitated.
And is now one of the grand poopas 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 uh service, and it worked.
It worked beyond all expectations.
So many lives were improved, so many people taken off the welfare rolls, 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 interest of the Democrat Party.
A lot of Democrats didn't like it.
Jesse Jackson didn't like it.
Bunch of people were back then were pressuring Clinton to get rid of it or redo it because he was forced to get reelected in 1996.
He was 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 uh one of the most brilliant scholars that they have and I'm aware of is uh Robert Rector.
And Rector has been working on this and and all of these welfare socioeconomic programs, uh 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 fifteen or twenty minutes.
Now the Heritage Foundation breaks it all down for you at AskHeritage.org.
Ask heritage.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 uh 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 and join them for a nominal fee of twenty-five bucks.
You can spend more than that if you want to.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 a 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 a way that they're gonna improve their financial being as a family.
Susie Orman telling an Oprah audience this.
I mean, I 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 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.
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 produce.
Yeah, it never stops.
We could not believe that the 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 uh I I'm 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 uh I think she's on CNBC.
I don't know anymore.
She's been on Alcohol.
But Oprah is another thing.
I mean, I uh Oprah is you you see, I'm I'm hung up here because you you think they inadvertently did this.
And I um I I don't I don't there's there's a reason.
There are no coincidence.
There's a like the Clintons, there's a reason for everything they do.
There aren't any coincidences.
I want to I want can you hold on to the break because I have I have a different take uh 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 um Toledo, Ohio, and Bowling Green.
So I mean that's about it.
So what's the name of your be but before before they shut it down here?
What 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 Pastri S. Yep.
L A R O Epost La Rose, okay.
And what is your fare?
What do you what do you serve?
Steaks, seafood.
We do a lot of sandwiches, things like that, and we do a dinner theater at Christmas time, but like we say, we get a lot of tourists that come and enjoy, you know, the the look of a restored village along the Maumee River.
How long you've been open?
33 years.
The restaurant's been over 33 years and it towns only 900 people?
Yes, I've had it 33 years, yes.
You've had the restaurant 33 years.
Yes, sir.
And what time's the Oprah show in your market?
Four o'clock.
Okay, so you're open for dinner.
You're not opening up.
We're open for lunch, 11 to 2, then we're back at five 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 are you but but you close the doors after lunch?
Yes.
To set up for for dinner.
How many what's the capacity of LaRose restaurant?
We have a hundred seats in the main restaurant.
We have a patio out back that sits along the river that seats forty, and then we have a banquet room upstairs.
So you got at least a hundred and seventy seats in a town of nine hundred.
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 restaurant tours, so we're very grateful for that.
And so you're watching Oprah and Susie Orman and Susie Orman says to save money, stop going to a restaurant for a month.
Just don't go for thirty.
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 are 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 interest not to spend any cash.
How's that defined?
I I don't understand if you get rid of if you if you 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 I have no idea.
It was enough to, you know, I'm sure restaurants across the country were just furious.
Probably so.
I um I I this may be an Oprah unintended consequence.
I think that but see, this is this is I think you you go through the mainstream media at any time of the year.
Let's say uh 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.
You've 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 in 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, you know, what the when the ingredients are.
Well, look, excuse me, I didn't mean to hold you this long, but I'm I'm fascinated about economics.
You've got a restaurant for 33 years in a town of 900.
Has a town always been 900?
Oh, it goes up and down, you know, but within a hundred people.
Just that's just I love this.
Is actually amazing.
Have you well, I doubt that you can hear anything from the uh 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.
So that was good.
So I think a lot of people you've got one lady who sheepishly probably raises her hands, uh, Oprah, Oprah, I'm sorry.
I'm really sorry, but I can't 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 uh I admire people like you more than you can ever know.
I mean, your market's not that large, thirty-three 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 restaurant tour, especially.
All right.
Well, you you did the right thing in responding to Oprah by calling here.
I appreciate it.
As a result of the result of calling here, you are soon going to be asking yourself.
Uh, Dave, should I expand to handle all the new traffic?
This is LaRose, it's again R. O. E. Apostrophe, yes, 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, yeah, I guess I better have a rush special.
Well, you can do that on your own.
You can figure, figure out what the item would be, what the uh 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 if I can be serious here, uh I am livid.
You know, I'm I'm I'm controlling my rage here.
And I was being serious, Dave.
Every call I get today is some somebody whose business is being targeted by the United States government, and it's 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're 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 in Fetty Mac and Fannie Mae, we see what happens.
And I am livid over this kind of thing.
I am livid that the the foundation of capitalism that crears in a town of 900.
And he turns on a stupid TV show and finds his business under 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 dirt bike business, and I thought, you know, I'm gonna call in.
I'm gonna 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?
The 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 um system is that you recommended, he did get it.
And you know what?
He lost one of his sound tracks 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 gonna bomb on you one day.
Law of averages.
Yeah.
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 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 on to 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 it it uh 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 uh 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.
Couple sound bites here before we have to get out of here.
Morning Joe Today, MSNBC, uh Zabigny Bzinsky, the father of the co-host on that show, Mika Businski, Scarborough said to Z Big Uh, 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.
Because look, we're gonna 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 bail the 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 advisors, the big nepzinski.
And uh by the way, I heard that Mika Bjazinski thinks I am purposely mispronouncing her name.
And I'm not uh the the conventional pronunciation, if 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 the family, I guess pronounces it Brzezinski.
But it's a BG, and I used to work with a guy in Kansas City who was Polish back in the Carter years.
And this guy told me that wasn't it, He said, if you want to be accurate, if you want to know how it really pronounced, it's Bzzynski.
There's a B Z in there.
And if you lived in Poland, that's how they pronounce Bzzynski.
So I've I've just been trying to be in 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 Zebig Zizinski.
Worrying here about class conflict.
Millions of unemployment, but the rich got all their billions overnight very quickly.
What are they doing to help out?
What a they're under assault, Z Big.
They're literally under assault, and not just the billions and millions guys.
The uh 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 would be such political pressure that Congress will start getting in the act.
There's going to be growing conflict between the classes, and if people are unemployed and really hurting, 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 then 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 of their newsletters.
Z Big is a I hear all these guys talking about what I'd like to see what Z Big's doing for the poor.
You know, I'd like to see what has he led the way in setting up his own solidarity from 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, Russ.
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 it's a big deal in life.
It is.
For me, it is anyways.
I'm in along the same lines uh as the restaurant owner and the I'm an independent owner-operator, uh long-haul frozen food and produce truck driver.
And uh if you think the government's in their pocket, you should they they should be in the trucking industry.
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 gonna point out uh on that uh point.
Hey, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute they changed them again.
Yes, yes, and they're gonna change again.
So the uh the auxiliary power unit that I paid $13,000 for is now illegal.
So I guess there's 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 grand.
And California hasn't made me change it.
But anyways, I just wanted to point out that uh about this .025 cents on per car for traveling.
In Massachusetts, yeah.
You know, that's that's that's minimal, that is.
I mean, we pay uh Yeah, but see, this you've been doing it a long time.
They've been doing it to you for a long time.
Now they're gonna start with the with public, and it's gonna be it's that's just a starting point.
That's what you know.025 cents.
Why it's gonna 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 out of time.
Well, this you gotta 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, you know, and Biden, hey, yeah, everything we do, 30% chance it won't work.
You'd be a little nervous too.
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