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Feb. 23, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 23, 2009, Monday, Hour #3
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Great news for the markets today, folks.
Absolutely great news for the markets.
I'm going to expect the stock market to shoot up about a thousand points when Obama's study groups report back later today.
Because when Obama's study groups who are now working diligently in the White House on fiscal irresponsibility and pay as you go.
When they report back with their solutions, the market will go up 1,000 points.
Because we are solving death because they haven't announced the solutions yet.
But when they report back to Obama, what is the market down now?
It's 140.
No, it's down 150, 149.98.
We round off upwards.
That's 150.
Give it time.
1,000 points.
Markets up 4 o'clock this afternoon.
Well, it may take tomorrow morning because the study groups are not going to finish before the market closes today.
Thousand points.
Opening bell, first hour tomorrow.
That plus Obama's big speech tomorrow night.
Mark my words, you heard it first.
Here, ladies and gentlemen.
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Here's what's going to happen.
By the way, there was a typo, ladies and gentlemen, in the announcement of the summit that's happening right now.
It's called the fiscal irresponsibility summit, not the fiscal responsibility summit.
Most of the hacks in the study groups are certified spendaholics.
I'll guarantee I can just see what's going to happen.
These people, they know what they're doing is total hit the button.
They know what they're doing is total BS.
That's the second time in my history as a highly trained broadcast specialist that I had to bleep myself.
They know.
The people in the study group know exactly what they're doing.
They know it's total BS.
They know it's total smoke and mirrors.
But when this when they report back at 5 o'clock this afternoon, and it may even be earlier than that, you know how bureaucracies do.
When they when they report back, they're going to actually think they have done something important.
They're going to all have their name tags with the study group they were a member of, and they're going to go home to their families and their friends.
Look what I did this afternoon.
I fixed the deficit.
I participated in fiscal responsibility.
I was there with President Obama when we solved the problem.
I was one of the spendholics that reported back at 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
Let me tell you five things they're going to come up with.
The five here they are.
These are the five top five things that the spendoholic hacks in the work groups are going to come up with.
One, close all tax loopholes.
Two, make U.S. companies offshore pay more taxes.
Number three, make the so-called rich pay higher tax rates.
Number four, nationalize health care to make it more efficient.
Which is how they're selling this, just like they're selling the mortgage business by making sure that the house next to you is not foreclosed on so your property value doesn't go on or go down.
And uh invest more in infrastructure.
You want to take a bet?
Would anybody certainly you want to No, they're not gonna say reform entitlements.
The Democrats are already getting mad at Obama for talking about social security reform.
He's dropped that.
There would be nothing about reforming entitlements.
Not out of this meeting.
No, no, no, no, no.
That you're you're coming up with the wrong things.
You're talking about things that would work.
The whole purpose of this is to advance socialism.
Reforming entitlements are going to do that.
See how easy you've been roped in.
You think these people are actually working on solutions.
They're working on making it worse.
While it's being called what why did I go through the whole sausage analogy if you still don't get it?
You you take the opposite of what Obama or his people say, and then you know what the meaning is.
We're gonna have pay as you go, we're not gonna have pay as you go.
We're gonna have fiscal responsibility, we're not gonna have fiscal responsibility.
The five things.
I feel confident.
Close tax loopholes, make the U.S. companies offshore pay more taxes, make the so-called rich pay higher tax rates, nationalize health care to make it more efficient, and invest more in infrastructure.
I have never liked this pay as you go phrase anyway, the slogan.
It reminds me of fast food.
You pay as you go when you go to a fast food restaurant.
Do fast food restaurants take credit cards now.
See?
I didn't even know that.
The last time I went to one, they didn't.
They didn't.
You had to have the cash.
You had to pay as you went.
Either inside or at the uh drive-through.
The whole look at pay as you go.
It's not about pay as you go.
It's about spend as you wish.
You have to take the opposite of what the dude says to get the meaning.
Pay as you go is about spend as you wish.
Let's listen.
Let's listen to how it all went down in the East Room of the White House this afternoon.
First off, the vice president, the Chia Pet, Joe Biden.
Today, we're asking you to help us begin to tackle the challenges of our nation's uh long-term fiscal situation.
It won't be easy to state the obvious.
I think we all know that we've inherited an unprecedented budget deficits, and this has made all the more difficult the nearly unprecedented economic challenges the country is facing today.
So the problem will not be solved overnight.
No.
I've always believed that in the toughest moments uh we are presented with the greatest opportunities as a nation.
There's no question this is a very tough moment.
But it's also a real opportunity to put our economy back on track and restore fiscal responsibility.
No, it's a great opportunity to uh wreck the economy even more so as to restore socialism as a quasi means of fixing it.
Here's Obama now at the um uh we'll see.
Yeah, this is the study group uh in the White House this afternoon, members of both parties, Obama giving the pupils, the students, uh lecture.
We will reinstate the pay as you go rule that we followed during the 1990s.
The rule that helped us start this new century with a 236 billion dollar surplus.
No.
In recent years, we've strayed from this rule, and the results speak for themselves.
The pay-go approach is based on a very simple concept.
You don't spend what you don't have.
It's unbelievable.
So if we want to spend, we'll need to find somewhere else to cut.
Yeah, right.
This is the rule that families across this country follow every single day.
Not anymore.
There's no reason why their government shouldn't do the same.
Not anymore.
Now they can have a house without paying for it.
There's no pay as you go if you are selected as an Obama uh recipient of large S. So you see, you it's this is this is this is female-based rhetoric.
Totally female.
And I don't mean this isn't insult.
I'm just this is this is this is uh it's got a target audience.
And it's it's like my sausage analogy.
Analogy is Obama and Michelle standing standing next to each other before big night out and say dinner with the governors.
Black tie.
They're in the mirror up there in the White House residence.
Michelle says, Do you like that?
What do you think this looks you think make this makes me look like a sausage?
And Obama knows full well it does.
No, of course not.
In fact, this is this is uh one of the nicest things I've ever seen you in.
Okay, okay.
So they go down to the big state dinner, Michelle looking like a sausage, Obama looking like a bean pole, and they get down there, and all the governors say, God, what's she wearing?
She looks like a sausage, but nobody's got the gust to say so.
You say what you think people want to hear to get rid of them.
You say what you think people want to hear to just so you can get on and do what you want to do.
Obama's got big plans.
He doesn't want to get bogged down here.
So he's just going to tell us what he thinks we want to hear and then move on with his plan.
So...
Yeah.
Now well, oh no, that doesn't work.
Don just told me that the husband is supposed to say, no, you look like a sausage.
So you can so you can change.
I know the the theory, this is great, Dawn.
The theory, I'm glad you brought it up.
The theory is okay, you and Mr. Wright standing in front of your own mirror, and you're going to some fancy hoity torty ball.
You look like a sausage.
You ask him, how do I look in this?
He says, Look like a sausage, but yes, you could with the right dress, you could look like a sausage, just as a point.
You could make your Prince Charming think you look like a sausage.
But he not okay, he says, honey, I Don, I I think you look like a I don't think it looks good.
Well, I love it.
I like it.
What do you not like about it?
That starts then, you're never you're gonna be in an argument, you'll never get to the ball.
Because you want your guy to tell you you don't look good.
You think that's got a future?
Well, doesn't matter when it's a week earlier, a month earlier the day of.
If I tell you that you don't look good in something you think you look good at, you wouldn't put it on if you didn't think you look good.
Unless you're the kind of woman that tests Prince Charming.
See, she just said, you want to know the truth, you want to look pretty.
It is my contention that everybody.
Now we know there are exceptions to this, my but the kind of people we're talking about here.
When you look in the mirror, you don't need somebody to tell you whether you look good or whether you look like a sausage.
You just don't.
Now, if you don't have the ability to be honest with yourself, or if you're just looking for feedback, if you're looking, maybe I say I think in these circumstances that I've just you know you look like a sausage, but you like the dress, and you want Prince Charming to tell you you don't.
You want Prince Charming to actually disagree with your instincts.
You don't want the truth.
Because I'm telling the truth in a circumstance like this will cause an argument that could last a week.
And you would never get to the hoity-torty ball.
Okay, look, enough of that.
You know I'm right.
See, I'm not asking you, do you think I'm right about this?
I know I'm right.
I don't have any self-doubt.
I know when I look like a sausage.
There are just times I don't care.
And if people look think I look like a sausage, so be it.
They might leave me alone.
All right, now this is the piece that resistance soundbite from Obama.
Slick guys running some seminar where you've pilfered 250 bucks from your customers.
a positive thinking seminar.
He instructs them all to go to their sessions, Solve the problem and report report back this afternoon.
Today I hope that all of you will start talking with each other and exchanging ideas.
I want you to question each other, challenge each other, question me and my team, challenge us, and work together not just to identify problems, but to identify solutions.
That's the purpose of the breakout sessions that are starting right now.
I know that each of you bring a wealth of experience and expertise on a broad range of topics.
I appreciate your willingness to participate in these sessions.
I expect that this process will be engaging and productive, and I look forward to hearing the results uh when you report back later this afternoon.
When's the last time you heard of a government study group that wasn't given two years to solve the pro the Blue Ribbon Commission on base closings?
How many years did that one take?
And then when they reported back, all hell broke loose from the various states where bases were gonna be closed.
Report back later this afternoon.
It'll be done and the problem will be solved.
I actually kind of like this pay as you go business.
It means if I don't if I can't afford my taxes, I don't have to pay them.
You know, pay as you go, same thing here.
And it's cool, like I say, reinstate pay as you go.
After you spend two trillion dollars.
Shouldn't you start pay as you go before you do what he try this headline, ladies and gentlemen?
Supreme Court hears immigrants ID theft case.
Ignacio Carlos Flores Figueroa, an undocumented worker from Mexico, made a curious and undeniably bad decision after working under an assumed name for six years.
Ignacio Carlos Flores Figueroa decided to use his real name and exchanged one set of phony ID numbers for another.
The change made his employer suspicious, and the authorities were called in.
The old numbers were made up, but the new ones he bought happened to belong to a real person.
Federal prosecutors said that wasn't up to label Flores Figuredo and Identity Thief.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday on prosecutors' aggressive use of a new law that was intended to strengthen efforts to combat identity theft.
The government has used the charge, carries a mandatory two-year minimum prison term to persuade people to plead guilty to the lesser immigration charges and accept prompt deportation.
The uh government backed by victims' rights groups says that uh that doesn't does not matter whether somebody used a phony ID knows that it belongs to somebody else.
The uh havoc wrecked on the victim's life is the same either way, said Stephen Masterson, LA-based lawyer in his brief for the victim rights group.
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What with uh people trying to get around having to work, as people in Boston.
Uh Kathy in Marquette, Michigan.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Ditto from a 23-year-old unemployed college graduate.
Well, uh, I'm great to have you here.
Thank you.
Yeah, well, I just want to tell you, Russ, I've been listening for probably over ten years now, and I just want to thank you so much for the education that I've gotten.
I really appreciate what you do.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate that.
Well, I've been working since I was about 15 years old and recently been laid off from my job.
And we've got to be.
What kind of job?
What kind of job did you have?
I was a restaurant manager at a fine dining steakhouse.
Ooh, a restaurant manager at a fine dining steak in Marquette.
Yes.
Okay.
And um that means you're a steak expert.
Uh no, I'm not.
I um I'm more of a managing people expert than I am a stake expert, I have to admit.
Okay.
You're managing that's that's cool.
Thank you.
Um I uh have to say that hearing this article about these people who are somehow so happy um now that they've lost their jobs um is a little bit frustrating to me.
Um I can tell you that I haven't met any of those people myself.
Um now being unemployed for the first time in a long time.
I just, you know, I'm wondering where you know the money to pay my student loans is going to come from.
And I'm wondering where they're gonna be.
Kathy, can you hang on through a brief commercial break?
I want to seriously talk about this with you.
Did she say she could?
Good.
Don't hang up out there.
22, 21.
Thursday.
ABC News Medical Unit reported on Thursday.
A stunning new risk to your health, fast food.
Just living next to a fast food restaurant ups your stroke risk.
Uh-uh.
Right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
Well, if you I'll tell you if you shut up and let me just explain it.
People living in neighborhoods where fast food restaurants are plentiful, appear to have a higher risk of stroke than those living where such restaurants are scarce, according to a news study.
Fast food consumption has previously been linked to higher rates of heart disease and organ damage.
In the latest study tying fast food restaurants to cardiovascular ills, researchers studying neighborhoods in a Texas county, found that people living in regions with 33 fast food restaurants or more had uh 13% greater odds of stroke than those live.
See, it's kind of a word game they're playing.
All it means is that if you live near one, you're gonna go to it.
And if you live in a town where there's a great number of them, the odds are you're gonna go to one of them.
So it's just a new a new way to finesse the whole story that fast food will kill you.
And it's even worse if you live near one.
Just a typical trick.
Gloria Borger on Sunday, you know, Michael Steele.
I didn't ask you what you thought of this, snurdly.
Michael Steele said he wants to add some hip hop to the Republican Party image.
Michael Steele, the new Republican National Committee Chairman.
And Gloria Borger on CNN Sunday said, you know what?
I understand the plight.
I understand I agree with what Michael Steele's trying to do here.
The Republican Party looks more like the Confederacy every day, Wolf.
She did the Republic.
The Republican Party looks more like the Confederacy every day.
Uh she said they have no Republican representative in the House from the half-dozen New England states.
Uh and I'm trying, I give Michael Steele credit here, but there has to be a message beyond we voted 100% against the stimulus package, and we are against President Obama.
They have to do more than that.
Anyway, this is this is I'm repeating history so much.
The old segregationists in the South were Democrats.
Barney Frank has made it official.
He wants to cut defense.
Oh, I did forget Kathy.
Kathy, hang on.
Got the I've got so much here I'm trying to squeeze in.
Barney Frank wants to cut defense spending twenty-five percent.
He made a speech.
Uh no, he wrote a piece in the March 2 edition of The Nation Magazine wants to cut defense 25%.
Because he says defense spending, there's been no evidence.
You can't find any evidence defense spending is economic stimulus.
Has he ever heard of World War II?
So that's the next thing coming.
Twenty-five percent cut and defense.
All right, Kathy and Marquette, Michigan.
Thank you very much for waiting.
Yeah, no problem.
Okay.
So you're twenty-three, you said, and you've just been laid off.
This is your first time.
Yes, I mean, I've worked for so long now and just been laid off, and this article uh that you were talking about today.
Um, I just wonder where they found these people.
I mean, one man said, See, now that is an interesting question.
It's a fascinating question because it's the first time in my life that I have read a story about how happily the unemployed are unemployed.
Exactly.
And what they're doing with their newfound time, and that there's no stigma now attached to it.
That's interesting since Well, yes, they're starting clubs, you know, for people that are unemployed now, is what some a newly formed society of people who are making the best of being laid off, is what the article says.
And i that just to me seems ridiculous.
I'm wondering what these people are going to do when in um you know a month or two when they actually need a job and they can't find one if they're going to be quite so happy as they are right now.
Well, the article, correct me if I'm wrong, does say that many of these happily unemployed admit they're gonna have to look for a job, and some are even starting now.
Yes, it said that some are kind of looking around here or there.
Yeah, but see that's not the point.
Your your question, how did these people get found?
Yes.
Where'd the Boston Globe find these people?
See, that's the question.
And the answer is, okay, it you go to the go to the newsroom of the Boston Globe.
The you have a starting point.
The starting point is there is no bad news for Barack Obama.
True.
He can't fail.
He's too big to fail.
So somebody in the newsroom says, you know what, I was talking to somebody who told me that there's some people out there actually enjoying being laid off.
I think we need to find a couple of them with a story about it.
The reason for the story is to uh cast this uh aside, this whole notion that unemployment is horrible and crisis inducing uh and s and full of pain and suffering.
We've got to make it out to be a positive.
And since there's so many people unemployed, we can reduce remove the uh the stigma and we'll turn it into a positive on how people are learning uh more about their dogs and cats are learning more about their kids, uh they're taking pictures and posting them in coffee houses, all this wonderful stuff.
This is designed to create the opposite of what life is like in America when you lose your job.
Now, because Obama's there, because Obama cares, and because we got the stimulus, these people are gonna get their job someday, and he's gonna take care of it, he's gonna fix it.
But until such time, since everybody's confident Obama's gonna fix this.
And everybody's confident it's all gonna work.
So in the meantime, enjoy yourself and go out and take pictures and post them in a coffee shop.
Well, forgive me if I'm not trusting him to find me a job.
Yeah, but the liberals are.
I mean, I don't care whether they're elite liberals in Boston or poor liberals in Fort Myers.
True.
Did you happen to see uh or hear any of the excerpts from that town meeting in Fort Nyers?
No, I didn't.
Whoa, Henrietta Hughes, sixty-one years old, stands up and asks the president for a bathroom, a kitchen, and a car.
Oh, is that the lady who was oh yes, I think I did hear a little bit about that.
Yes.
And then another guy worked at McDonald's for four and a half years, worried about getting a stroke, and he wants a different job and more benefits.
Yeah, that was part of the article mentioned that these people were looking for jobs that they enjoyed and didn't, you know, not just jobs that paid the bills.
Right, because Obama's there, we can take time.
Unemployment uh compensation will be extended, the benefits will be extended, and uh it's magical.
It must be magical.
I haven't seen it yet.
Well, this sets up, you know, it could continues the setup of the uh the the the basically two groups of people we have, the winners and the victims.
And the uh these people uh in the Boston Globe are allowing themselves To be portrayed as victims, but if they're patient, Obama will fix it.
You, on the other hand, since you exude the traditional institutional morality and responsibility about this, you know, you are if you wanted to, you could very easily become a victim and become a beneficiary of nothing but except uh Obama's intent to help, which would get you media plause and appraise and plaudits and so forth.
But what you what I what I wanted to talk to you about was your actual um life and your career.
You're 23, that's the first time you've been laid off.
Yes.
And you're an expert in managing people, restaurant management.
Yes.
What kind of job opportunities for you are there in Marquette?
Um let me tell you, I'm still trying to find that out because you know, I've losing track of the different places that I've applied.
I've uh looked so many places, but the economy, as you know in Michigan, is hasn't been doing so well for quite a long time.
I'd heard about that.
So there I haven't been having much luck, you know, not from lack of effort, though, um, in finding work right now.
You like Michigan, you want to stay there?
Um actually I'm here uh I last spent last year working for a nonprofit organization and moved back home for a little while until I can um raise support to continue with the nonprofit organization.
Oh, so you want to go back to the nonprofit?
Yes.
But that can't happen right now.
Uh well maybe w you want to go to work for a specific nonprofit?
Yes.
Um I spent the last year working in Dallas, Texas, with this organization, and I'd like to return there.
You want to go back to Dallas?
Is this organization shut down?
No, it's not.
They just don't have enough money to pay you?
Um because the organization is committed to financial integrity, they ask their staff to raise their own salary.
Uh the organization is committed to financial integrity and thus they ask their staff to raise their own salary.
So you have to go out and fundraise your salary in order to work there.
Yes, it's not exactly uh a good economic climate for that, but I'm doing my best.
Well, maybe uh uh depends.
For some, it's the ideal economic climate to go out and ask for fundraising for you know get block grants and so forth.
Now look, Kathy, uh you must really like the work this nonprofit does.
Well, I suppose it's one way to make sure your staff is very committed.
That they pay themselves.
Yes.
But they d they seek donations from others as well.
Yes.
It's the work the nonprofit does, or is it this the the principle that it is a nonprofit that attracts you?
Um no, it's it's the work that the nonprofit does.
Um they work in in Asia, um, South Asia.
All right.
How much how much would you have to raise to get your job back?
Um I'd have I have to raise about twenty three hundred dollars a month.
Forty and that would give you uh some health care benefits and the like?
Yes.
In addition to your salary.
Mm-hmm.
Forty three hundred a month.
Oh, twenty three hundred.
Twenty-three.
Twenty was twenty three hundred a month, so wow.
So basically twenty-five thousand dollars a year?
Is that what I meant?
Yeah.
Roughly, yeah.
Twenty-five thousand dollars a year.
And where did this where did your salary come from prior?
I don't mean the actual individual, but what kind of where did you go to get it?
Um previously, the last year that I spent, um, I just was able to get money from friends and family, um, my local church, uh places like that.
Okay, it sounds to me like you're doing the Lord's work.
Yes.
Which is a good thing.
What did you think about the private sector when you work for the restaurant?
The private sector, well, did you like it?
I I did.
I mean, I've worked there um up until I went to work for this nonprofit.
I did work uh in the private sector and had the opportunity to have a career there, actually.
But I knew that in the end I wouldn't find that very fulfilling.
Um I'd kind of been there, had the experience, knew what would be ahead for the next few years, and just couldn't find myself committing to that um, you know, as a career.
Interesting.
Um would you mind leaving us a a way we can contact you?
Certainly.
Okay.
Well, because I gotta take a quick commercial break here.
Uh stay on hold and uh and uh Bo Snerdly, the official screener of calls, will be the uh will be the next voice that you hear.
All right, thank you, right?
I I'm I'm uh I'm I'm fascinated by this and you have to fundraise your own salary to prove you're committed to the cause.
That's fascinating to me.
I was prepared instinctively, what the hell are they making you do?
But then I stopped and thought about it.
And it still could be a little bit of that.
Uh sit tight, we'll be right back.
Ham!
How are you Rush Lynn Ball with half my ample brain tied behind my back?
Just to make things fair.
Sissy.
Sissy in Sun Sunset Hills, Missouri.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Um, I've been told.
You know that Sissy is one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
Actually, my name is Hilda.
Is that one of your favorites too?
Uh it's not.
Uh Sissy is.
How do you get Sissy from Hilda?
You know, don't even answer that because our time is short.
Okay.
I just want to mention three things that you said on this program and see if you can connect the dots.
The first one was Miller increased its sales by running a one-second ad on TV during the Super Bowl.
The second one was um uh articulation of the con you know, conservative message is a major problem in our country.
And the third one was ignorance is rampant about that subject in our country.
And I just keep wondering um why it wouldn't occur anybody to, you know, put like 30 second spots on TV, um, not with you, but anybody, you know.
You know, from consistently letting people who otherwise you know who watch um American Idol or whatever it is, you know, get to those people and um and deliver the message that they're not getting because they don't listen to talk radio.
Okay, so the basic question is here how do you take people who are exposed to nothing but the leftist culture in the pop culture?
How do you bring conservatism to them and you say why not run some 30-second commercials in American Idol?
Is that what you're asking?
Well, yeah.
Well, uh it is a very valid question because we have lost the entire pop culture.
Watch the Academy Awards last night.
Watch you can watch conductors of Symphony Orchestra performances on PBS, rag on George W. Bush.
Saturday Night Live.
I don't care where you go, the late night comedy shows, everything in the pop culture, movies, books, TV shows, except liberalism as normal as air and water.
Well, wouldn't this idea kind of um help solve that problem?
Well, I don't know that your idea per se, 30-second commercials within this culture uh would would do it because there's already a built-up resentment.
Uh conservatives are already a laughing stock, you know, like the the clown prints or dunce.
Uh but but something uh needs to I think with the people we're talking about, actual experience in life does more to change.
It's like I keep going back to this, but good friend of mine, smart guy, smart kids.
He could not convince his college kids that man-made global warming was hoax.
It took this winter for them to start doubting everything Al Gore and the media uh were saying.
I don't know about the specifics.
It's something that needs to have attention focused on it because the people you're talking about, it's unrealistic to expect to go into a voting booth every four years and vote conservative when they're exposed to all the uh jokes about conservatism the rest of the year.
Sit tight, we'll be right back.
Ladies and gentlemen, I want to put the test to a theory.
We learned today that Miller High Life increase their beer sales by 8.6% immediately after the Super Bowl with one second commercial.
It's Just a guy, some character they use shouting High Life, and the second, these ads ran frequently.
I have a one-second commercial.
I expect sales to skyrocket tomorrow.
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