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Feb. 24, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 24, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I kid you not.
I'm just telling the staff here a little story.
On Friday, ladies and gentlemen, the public comment period ends.
And by the way, I'm going to tell you that I don't expect anybody to have any sympathy for this, so don't misunderstand me here.
I don't expect any sympathy except I would hope that people would understand the true encroachment on privacy and freedom that the Obama administration has in mind.
Great to have you with us here, Rush Limbaugh, loaded day-to-day.
We'll try to get as much in here as we can, as well as your phone calls, a telephone number 800-282-2882.
The uh there are new rules that are proposed for the uh by the Transportation Safety Administration, part of Homeland Security, that would treat private business aviation identically to commercial aviation.
And uh one of the one of the one of the results of this could be that if the rules are adopted, treating private aviation the same as commercial aviation, Tiger Woods nor any other professional golfer nor any other golfer could carry their golf clubs on their airplane.
Because the baggage compartment in the private jet is accessible from the passenger cabin, and the clubs could theoretically be used as weapons, even though they never have been.
So Tiger Woods, he's got to deal with net jets.
He flies around on G4s and G550s to wherever he goes.
If this rule's adopted down the road, he won't be able to take his golf clubs.
Certain destinations he'll be required to take an air marshal.
Every one of his passengers will have to go through a background check.
Their privacy will be lost.
Air marshals will be required on certain routes based on destinations.
Once you have uh submitted your passenger manifest, there will be no changes allowed 90 minutes before departure.
This is just this is it even though in commercial aviation, you know, it's it's uh uh it's very simple to understand.
Hundreds of people got on airplanes, nobody knows who they are.
Private aviation, pretty much everybody getting on an airplane is known.
They've been the the crew knows them, the owner knows them, everybody they don't get on unless they're known by somebody.
Uh unless it's a charter, and then of course you can understand restrictions perhaps on charters, but if if their owner operated, or in case of Tiger Woods, I mean he's a he's got to deal with net jets, and he's a quasi-owner operator.
But I mean that's that's uh and Friday is the last day for public comment on this.
And I've talked to a lot of people who have called their senators in Georgia and in Florida, other places, and they say, sorry, uh, this is uh the national security, national security.
National security.
There is uh there's obviously no sympathy for this.
Nobody's got any sympathy for anybody who flies around in a business jet these days.
Uh but it's just it's just one more example of the encroaching loss of freedom and government control over everything.
The Wall Street now uh is totally, totally dependent on central planners and what they say.
Bernanke came out today and said the recession might end this year.
2010, we might get some recovery.
At the time the market was up too.
It jumped up to 81.
Now it's up five.
The market's not responding to the market.
Meaning the free market is waiting to see what is said every day by some political official in Washington, D.C. before they decide to make a move.
Entrepreneurs in this country are Jed they're they're scared to death because of all the lawyers waiting to sue them if something goes wrong when they take a risk.
So entrepreneurism is sort of in check here.
The um I'm I'm I have a lot of friends in the hospitality business.
Northern Trust is a Chicago bank which holds the mortgage on Barack Obama's mansion.
That was arranged for him by Tony Rezco.
Northern Trust had a big blowout party last week at the LA Open.
And they invited a bunch of people and guests and customers of the bank to come out and have a good time.
They threw parties with Cheryl Crow headlining one night.
Chicago, the group headlining another night.
They got 1.6 billion dollars in bailout money.
They didn't request it.
They didn't want it.
They are being ripped over the coals.
Even Fox News ripped them over the coals today for throwing a big party and having a good time while all this is going on when what Northern Trust is doing is simply doing business with its customer base.
I told you the story about a friend of mine at a huge resort.
Uh, Merrill Lynch is the name of the firm.
Merrill Lynch was due in there to have an annual seminar on hedge fund in the markets.
They make money because they charge the people who show up X amount of dollars.
There was a one million dollar cancellation fee that the resort negotiated, and Merrill Lynch canceled.
And they happily paid the one million dollar cancellation fee.
They thought it was worth the money to oppose the bad PR of having a financial seminar at a resort at this point in time since they got so much heat for 1.2 million dollars one year ago redecorating an executive suite.
So to protect us, they're gonna let terrorists out of Club Gitmo.
They're gonna turn as many terrorists away from Club Gitmo as Obama can.
He wants to give them constitutional rights in the U.S. court system.
But he's gonna stop Tiger Woods from taking his golf clubs aboard his airplane, and that's Tiger's job.
Those golf clubs are Tigers' business tools.
Now, in 1989, uh the uh uh airlines banned golf clubs in the overhead.
Obviously, they were damaging the overhead.
You can take golf clubs on a commercial flight, because you can't get to the baggage compartment from the passenger compartment.
But since you can in a private jet or a business jet, can't take the golf clubs.
In some cases, knives and forks are going to be banned so that you will not be able to dine while aloft.
You'll have to this is it's difficult to say snurdly that there is one idiot that came up with this.
This is the result of bureaucratic think.
Uh but this it started last November.
Uh but this is the kind of thing that happens with the leadership that you've got in the Obama administration.
Authoritarian central planning, limit freedom, class envy, punish the achievers, all this, it's all it's all rolled into one.
And and they well, the they it's the old unintended consequences.
You know, it was was were Chris Dodd and Barney Frank trying to kill a mortgage business.
No.
They were too stupid to know what they were doing, and now they're in charge of running the banks.
We're putting people in charge of markets that have never run any business in their lives.
I don't think they intend to destroy the mortgage business and the home business.
They really thought I got it, I got a New York Times story.
Where did I put this?
I have a New York Times story here from 1990.
Nine or ten years ago.
Maybe I put it at the bottom of the stack here.
But it explains thoroughly and fully uh what what was uh what was going on at the time.
You know, I've got so many stacks here.
I have so much to do.
I obviously didn't put it in the main stack.
So let me see if it's here and there.
Maybe this.
No, I'll find it.
But it it predicts.
The 1990 New York Times story predicts what's happening today.
It credits, it tells us the Clinton administration pressuring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and lenders to make loans to people that can't afford them.
The whole story, it's right there.
Wait a minute, 2001.
It's in 2001.
So there's uh lots going on, Obama's big speech tonight, and he's going to sound it what is the CNN say he's uh No, the politico.
He is going to um he's going to sound Reagan-esque.
Bob Gibbs, the most brilliant and competent ever White House spokesman, is hinted at a Reagan-esque speech.
Now that how can that be?
Because he's not Reagan.
I don't care what anybody says.
He's not Reagan.
I thought the era of Reagan was over.
I'll tell you, folks, this makes my blood boil.
The dumb idiots on our side of the aisle in our media got this whole business started.
The Reagan era is over, that conservatism is over, that you can go ahead and be a conservative, but you better not say it as you're a conservative.
You better sound moderate while you're being a conservative.
The era of Reagan is over.
Meanwhile, every damn Democrat that wants to get something done in this country tries to act like Ronald Reagan.
Our side has forced us to give up Ronald Reagan, or they have tried to make us give up Reagan, which we aren't going to do.
There is no way Barack Obama, who has never voted for anything conservative in his life, can ever be called Reagan-esque.
He can try to imitate Reagan.
It's like he's not Lincoln-esque.
And he is not uh who else has he tried to?
He's not FDR.
He's closer to that than anything else.
Gonna sound like Reagan.
If he tries to do Reagan and be all optimistic and sunny, it's to get his approval numbers up and nothing else, cause there's nothing he and by the way, polling data.
The right the drive-by's both in the uh in the UK, the Washington Post, New York Times carrying the water on how his his his numbers, approval numbers are way up.
It's not true.
His approval numbers are down.
His his uh disapproval numbers are higher than ever.
24%.
I got all this.
I got it all here in this deck.
I'm just waiting an inching to get to it.
But I have to go to an EIB.
Obscene profit break timeout while we're still allowed to do that here.
Hi, it's Rush Limbaugh.
This is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program today.
800-282-2882 from CNN, a new national poll.
We got polling data coming out every bodily orifice here and wherever Monica Lewinsky is.
A new national poll indicates that most Americans think President Obama will give a good speech tonight, but expectations are not as high as they were for his inaugural.
Who gives a rat's rear end?
What the public's expectations of his stupid propaganda speech are.
I have never seen this stuff.
It's getting more outrageous every day.
And now, this Reagan-esque speech, President Obama will not speak until prime time.
His aides fanned out to the morning shows today to talk up his first speech before a joint session of Congress and the word they used to preview it, Reagan-esque.
The president believes very clearly we have to be honest with the American people about where Whoa, Reagan was honest?
First time I've heard this.
I thought Reagan lied.
It frusts me.
The left co-ops our guy while Doomkoff idiot brain-dead pseudo-intellectuals on our side tell us the era of Reagan is over.
Obama is not Reagan-esque, he's big brother-esque.
He's Orwellian.
You need to put a sign on your TV tonight watching the speech.
He means the opposite of what he says.
He's saying what he thinks you want to hear.
Confidence in the this is Rasmussen.
Confidence in the porculus plan has fallen four points in the week since Obama signed it into law.
More voters are prepared to punish their representatives for supporting it.
Here we have the purpose of the speech tonight, then.
As people learn what's in this, they do not like it.
U.S. consumer confidence collapses to a record low.
Confidence among U.S. consumers plunged to a record low in February, signaling uh spending will slump further as unemployment soars.
The conference board's index declined more than forecast at 25 this month.
The lowest level since data began in 1967.
Consumer confidence at an all-time low.
This is, frankly, folks, exactly what the Democrats want.
This is exactly where they want chaos.
They want defeatism.
They want you in despair at Washington, at Obama's administration.
They want you in despair and giving up.
They want you hopeless.
They want you thinking there's no way out.
They want all opposition to give up.
Now let's get to the approval polls.
This is just one example for the New York Times, the Washington Post, are carrying similar water, the communist publication in the U.K., the Guardian.
Barack Obama delivers his first presidential address to Congress tonight, still basking in a political honeymoon with the voters, according to the latest polls.
A month in more than 75% of people in a New York Times CBS propaganda poll say they were optimistic about the next four years with Obama as president.
I don't believe that.
I don't know anybody who's optimistic.
Do you?
I know people who love Obama, but you know anybody who's optimistic?
What the hell's the purpose of speech tonight?
Is that Obama's not even optimistic.
Obama's been talking people out of their optimism.
75% are optimistic.
That's an absolute crock.
Of all places the Los Angeles Times today.
And uh Andrew Malcolm, who's a blogger, puts into perspective these polls.
Barack Obama's poll numbers have slid almost 10% already.
According to the latest Gallup poll, the new president's approval rating of 68% in January has slipped to 63%, which is about average for recent new presidents one month in.
Nothing special here.
What isn't average, however, is Obama's new disapproval rating.
Twenty-four percent.
Obama has a disapproval rating of 24%.
That is 50% higher than the 16% average for a month-old new presidency.
And it's twice the 12% disapproval rate that Obama had last month.
And so the truth is that while he's got a whatever it is, a 63% approval number, it's down from in the 80s.
His is approval number.
His disappro it's 24%.
Eight points higher than the average 16%.
And it's twice what he had last month, which was 12%.
White liberal and independent support is held fairly steady.
Rookie chief executive's approval among Republicans has plunged from 41 to 30%, presumably tied at least somewhat to growing awareness of the porculus program.
The drop has been essentially steep among conservatives from 36% at inauguration to 22% now.
Additionally, Obama's support has weakened among middle class Americans.
You will not see this written anywhere else.
But Andrew Malcolm at the Los Angeles Times, and this is a blog.
It's not in their paper.
And that's why.
And Mr. Malcolm, I must confess, I mean, he's he's taking his humorous shots at me, but I think he's overall when I've seen his pieces pretty square shooter.
Andrew, I hope I'm not ruining your reputation here with your colleagues.
Obama's support has weakened among middle class Americans, those touted during the campaign is benefiting from his promised tax cuts.
Among that working crowd, Obama's approval fell from 69% to 58%.
And so tonight he gets to go out there and be Reagan-esque.
He gets to go out there and make his case.
He gets to go out there and be upbeat and positive.
We're running a little office pool here.
How long will the speech be?
Will it be in Obama one hour?
Hilgo Chavez two hours, or a Fidel Castro, three hours.
Now they had Berncke up there, uh, what's his name?
Rolf Ben.
Doesn't matter, Bernanke.
Bernanke's up there, chairman of Fed Reserve, and he's testifying before the Wizards of Smart, presumably, or primarily uh Chris Dodd.
Did you hear the cheap shot that Dodd aimed at Bernanke?
He asked Bernanke right off the bat, what would have happened had we socializ or had we uh privatized Social Security.
These guys are constantly on the attack.
By the way, by the way, there's enough polling data here now that the Republicans in Washington need to start tying all of these policies that are sending up red flags in despair to people right to Barack Obama.
Because I'm gonna tell you what, Obama's gonna go out there tonight, and in the midst of being Reagan-esque or trying to be, he's gonna blame all this on Bush.
He is gonna say, well, I mean, I'm I'm I'm presenting my first budget tonight.
Why, why the Bush budget was just submitted in September, it'll be well, whenever it was submitted, it'll be adopted September.
Uh we got nine more months to go on the Bush budget.
I mean, this is my when I look at what I've inherited, look what I've inherited.
Oh, look what I've inherited.
Oh, woe is me.
When he has added two trillion dollars to whatever the budget was, and now the Democrats are talking about another four billion, four hundred billion dollars in a new spending bill.
So he's gonna go out there, he's gonna bash Bush as much as he can.
Here you have Chris Dodd asking Bernanke, what if we had privatized social security?
First of all, it would not have affected current retirees.
Current retirees' money was not going to go into any of the investment markets.
Second of all, bonds went up.
They didn't go down.
What a punk this guy is.
And here's a beauty in his opening statement.
I'm paraphrasing.
We were warned to deregulate or all the business would have gone to London.
What he was talking about was not mortgage regulation or banking regulation.
He was talking about Sarbanes Oxley, which had nothing to do with this problem or solution other than mark to market, which might, you know, some people uh are pushing it.
What a punk this guy Chris Dodd is.
Meanwhile, Urbankey Bernanke says the economy is suffering a severe contraction could get worse, but he expects it to get better.
Hopes to get hopes, he hopes.
He doesn't expect he hopes that the recession will end late this year or early next year, which caused a minor little blip on Wall Street.
And I frankly am not excited about Wall Street hinging on every syllable that comes out of Washington, but that's where we are.
Central planning has taken over, and the markets are responding to what is said by idiots.
People who are not in the market have not been in the market, don't know what the market is, couldn't run a business in the market if they had to, all they can do is screw the market up.
They've done it, they've done it well, they've done it better than anybody could they been trying to, and yet that's who the markets now are being forced to listen to.
I got to do a brief time out here.
Uh coming up next, this summit at the White House yesterday, this uh maybe the funniest waste of time I've ever seen.
I want to take one phone call and uh then complete discussion on this subject, because I know there's I know that nobody, including most of you in this audience, are gonna care about this, and you're not gonna have any sympathy, and I can totally understand it.
You're wrong, you need to be worried about everybody's loss of freedom, but I expect the prevailing mood in the country, not among most of you, but the prevailing mood in the country to when they hear things like this, fine, fine, fine.
You you find out what it's like for the rest of us to fly, then tiger.
You find out.
You find how tough it is waiting in a line to being probe.
You find out, yeah, let's spread it.
And that's exactly what Obama wants.
He wants an angry middle class, lower class.
He wants them feeling like they're getting even with everybody else.
This is right what he's ordered.
Here's Scott in Chicago, works for the FAA.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush, how are you?
Good.
You missed the best part of that large aircraft security program, though.
Um not only do you have to present your passenger manifest and go through TSA security and all that, but you also have to have your name bounced off the national no-fly list.
I know.
Oh, I know.
I didn't want to go too deep into this, Scott, because I know people really don't care about this.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you have to be yeah, I it's just it's such an ungodly invasion of freedom to have to be able to go through and see if you're allowed by the government to operate your aircraft.
Exactly.
I know, I know.
It's it's see, it's it's understandable when you've got an airplane with a hundred or two hundred, maybe more people getting on board, you have no idea who they are, and you got to check.
Uh those of the airplanes have been hijacked and flown into buildings and so forth.
But I mean, it's it's not just guys of business aviation like you.
I mean, people like the commemorative Air Force, the EAA, people that operate ex-military aircraft, anything that weighs over twelve thousand five hundred pounds.
Give us an example.
Now, give us an example.
12,500 pounds.
Uh what you're not talking much of an airplane there.
Ford Trimotor.
Ford Trimotor, 12,000.
It's 13,000 pounds.
Absolutely.
Um, B-17s over that.
Um, all of your golf streams.
I mean, it it's a good thing.
Well, a Gulf streams are 90,000 pounds, and you know, depending on fuel load and so forth, but the it's it's eventually gonna spread to all aircraft.
Oh, uh yeah, and I think that's the the key because they they've done it on the low end with white sport with new regulations.
Now they're doing it on the high end with you know business or business aviation or anything that weighs over twelve five.
Now it's the guys in the middle.
They are they're gonna start feeling the squeeze.
Well, it's a privacy invasion.
It is um by the way, there are costs associated with this that are gonna affect the uh the business aviation market.
You know, there are companies that Of contract pilots uh sit out there, not everybody that owns an airplane pilot, sometimes they take vacation, sometimes they get sick.
You got to contract a pilot out when you need to go someplace.
Uh those it's gonna you we don't know what it's gonna cost to vet each of the pilots through the background check themselves.
They're gonna have to make sure that they don't have anything in their background that uh get them disqualified to fly.
Uh it's a total, total invasion, and like you said, the owner operator is gonna, the owner operator who is known by everybody is gonna have to see that he's not on he's on a no-fly list.
Uh it is gonna be a suspect as meanwhile, we're letting guys out of Club Gitmo.
Exactly.
But you know what's the next step here?
Do we have to vet you before you drive your truck?
You know, I it it's ridiculous.
But the problem is here, Rush, this is an Obama.
This all started under Bush.
You know, as much as, you know, we hate to say that as a Republican that's behind us.
This is a administration.
Doesn't matter.
There's no hope of it getting in turn back with this administration, and what it indicates is so I don't care.
We so did a lot of the spending start with Bush.
Problem is we've got too much government growing too fast by people who want these kinds of regulations on people.
It's a direct assault on freedom, and I don't care who started, I don't care where it came from.
Uh the fact is these kinds of things have to be opposed and stopped.
You're right.
And so your audience, you need to call the your senator, call your congressman, tell them what's going on.
The audience doesn't know why.
Todd, the reason I err Scott, I took the audience doesn't care about this.
Uh that's I feel I feel very, very nervous even bringing the subject up, because I don't expect anybody in America to call a senator and start whining and moaning for Tiger Woods.
I just, I just don't think it's gonna happen, or even me.
But I can tell you you know there are groups that have been convening all over the country to oppose this, and you know, Scott, that there are people who have called their senators.
Bill Nelson in Florida will not return a phone call.
He'll not take a phone call, he will not return an email.
Mel Martinez in Florida says that's a national security.
I mean, they're just they're everybody's cowed by the whole national security thing.
So uh I uh I just look at Snerdley, no more calls than this, because I can tell you, and no sympathy for this out there, this is how freedom's lost when a or how taxes are raised.
You know, um I'm I I am going no, I'm not I am I'm what is my job, Snerdly?
My job is to attract the largest audience I can, hold it for as long as I can to charge confiscatory advertiser race, and I'm telling you, uh, in order to do that, you have to have empathy.
And I have it, and I understand that people do not want to hear about a bunch of rich guys having to cancel their golf tournament, having to cancel their financial seminar, or not been able to take their golf clubs on a jet.
We are so out of whack, we are so distorted now that people, you know, in it what while all this is going on, we're giving 900 million dollars to Hamas in the Gaza.
We're supposedly going to the people of God, but we're giving 900 million to a terrorist organization.
Thank you, Obama.
We've got to run, nuking up.
We're worried about executive pay, we're worried about golf clubs on jets, we're worried about all these extraneous, worthless things.
Wall Iran's nuking up, and we're hoping, just like we hoped that Bush would veto McCain Feingold, we're hoping that Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israelis will take out the nuke plants in Iran.
Well, we're concerned about silly social class divisions in the United States that we have become too many in this people to become a nation of wusses, of punks with no morality whatsoever to define right and wrong, and we are catering to those people.
We're making sure those because they're the victims, they're the minority, they're the ones that their feelings hurt all the damn time.
Gotta make sure their feelings aren't hurt, especially now during down economic times.
So we're gonna raise taxes on 250,000 or greater.
We're gonna give the money to people of 40,000 or less, and Obama openly says, yeah, it's about fairness.
It's not about economic growth, it's about fairness.
Here is this New York Times story.
This is from uh thanks, Scott, for the phone call.
February 30th, 1999, September 30th, 1999.
Headline Fannie Mae eases credit to aid mortgage lending.
In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers.
The Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.
The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets, including the New York metropolitan area, will encourage banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans.
Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.
Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stockholders to maintain its phenomenal growth profile.
Fannie Mae has expanded homeownership for millions of families in the 90s by reducing down payment requirements, said Franklin Rains, the chairman of Fannie Mae.
Yet there remain too many borrowers whose credit is just a notch below what our underwriting has required, who have been relegated to paying significantly higher mortgage rates in the so-called subprime market.
Demographic information on those borrows is sketchy, but at least one study indicates that 18% of the loans in the subprime market went to black borrowers compared to 5% of loans in the conventional loan market.
In moving even tentatively into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times, but the government subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the SNL industry in the 1980s.
Right here it is.
The New York Times, a story by Stephen Holmes, September 30th, 1999.
Clinton administration pressuring Fannie Mae.
Make loans to people who couldn't pay them back.
It's a great thing we're doing.
Affordable housing.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Okay, we just learned, we just went back in time to the news archives of the New York Times, September 30th, 1999, and learned everything we know about the mortgage industry.
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mack make loans to people you can't afford, uh who can't afford them expanding home ownership for millions of families, reducing down payment requirements, all the things that led to all this.
It's right there in five or six paragraphs, New York Times 1999.
Let's jump forward to yesterday, the Houston Chronicle.
Houston taxpayers could start footing the bill to help first-time home buyers pay off debts and improve their credit scores under a proposal before the Houston City Council.
This is makes me speechless almost.
This is an exact repeat of what we just read happened nationally.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
In other words, people who cannot afford to buy homes are going to be given $3,000 by the taxpayers of Houston so that their qualification scores are raised and they can get a loan.
The credit score enhancement program will give up to $3,000 in grants to Houston individuals trying to qualify for mortgages through the city's home buyers assistance program.
City officials say that some applicants fall short of eligibility by only 10 to 20 points on their credit scores.
Paying off some debt balances can quickly improve their numbers.
Now the uh get this next paragraph.
The proposal has aroused critics who say the city should not use public funds to help people pay down car loans, credit card balances, or other debts, even if the slight credit bump would help them realize the dream of home ownership.
You know what?
We've got to stop calling this homeownership.
That's not what we're talking about here.
We're talking about occupancy.
We're talking about home occupancy.
We're talking about squatters.
We're talking squatters paid for by the citizens playing by the rules.
We're not even talking renters.
We're talking home occupiers.
I mean, why are...
Why are why are why are we doing this?
Why Why why are they doing this?
Well, because the question is, why are the people of Houston doing this?
I will guarantee, I don't know this, so I can't guarantee it.
But my wild guess is that whoever is behind this idea has huge political aspirations in Texas.
Like maybe might want to run for mayor of Houston's.
They might want to run for governor, might want to run for senator.
So the guy has come up with a unique way, playing off what Obama's doing to give people three grand.
They can wipe out some of their credit balance and buy house.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
It's the old Texas way.
This is why, snerdily.
Why do you think it's to buy votes?
Somebody wants votes.
That's what this is all about.
Somebody wants to create dependence.
Somebody wants to give somebody something for nothing.
Or make them think it's for nothing.
Councilman Mike Sullivan said Monday, we just can't give away government money to help people with their credit scores.
I mean, you're giving them other taxpayers money to pay off the bills.
Ho hum, we just can't give away money.
We just can't.
It carries a lot of weight, doesn't it?
Well, we just can't give away other people's money.
You're sure we can.
What the hell have we been doing, Mr. Sullivan, for how many years?
Of course we can.
And we still haven't got it all.
There's still a lot of people out there who haven't given enough.
And so Obama's gonna go out there and raise their taxes in a couple years.
What do you mean we just can't give away government money?
Hell's bells.
We gave away houses.
Why the hell can't we give away three grand?
Chump change compared to giving away houses.
Anything to avoid the foreclosure sign, right?
Keep the property values up.
Anything to a anything to avoid weeds and unmowed yards in the unforeclosed home next to you to keep your property values up, right?
No, you don't ask some neighborhood kid to come over and mow the grass anymore.
It's too hard.
Neighborhood kids are too worried about playing video games.
You can't make them sweat in the summertime like, no, no, no, you gotta get the professional landscaping service to come in from across the border to do all that kind of work.
Kids can't be expected to do that.
What do you mean kids go people are just the expectations today have just gone way too high?
Oh, it's maybe it's time for a little despair, but it's not time to panic.
Not time to panic, but full-on despair is called for and then you know what I intended to lead with today?
I was gonna lead with these polls.
I wasn't gonna mention the golf clubs on the Jets.
I wasn't gonna mention it, but I just couldn't help it because it just infuriates me.
See, I don't talk about things that bother me personally here, folks, because I figure nobody'll care.
You know, nobody's gonna be in it.
I never complained about anything because nobody will care.
Nobody will listen.
Understandably so.
I don't complain anyway.
I'm not complaining now except for loss of freedom.
I wasn't even gonna mention I was gonna start out with a polling data, and it was going straight into sound bites from the silly stupid from the breakout sessions yesterday.
What we learned yesterday, Barack Obama can lecture a class.
He cannot govern a country, but he can certainly lecture a class.
In absolutely worthless drivel.
There was nothing that happened yesterday in this uh what uh what was seminar?
Sum.
Yes, that's right, it was a summit.
No, fiscal irresponsibility summit is exactly what it was.
Do you know that the chief economic advisor fell asleep during the thing?
He did.
Lawrence Summers a picture of it, he's barely sitting on the chair.
He's one of those arched, you know, they had a bunch of chairs uh behind Obama with his aides on there, sitting in those chairs, and Larry Summers fell asleep.
While the Messiah was instructing the breakout groups what to do.
He said, Yeah, report, I'll look forward to your report back to me.
Report back afternoon.
Two and a half hour breakout sessions, report back.
Then they televised the report back.
I'm at home, I'm flipping around, I'm just gonna take it easy for a couple hours before I roll up the sleeves, get back into it.
Lo and behold, all the networks, cable networks, are televising the breakout session members returning.
And I'm thinking, you know what?
Why don't we just why don't we just designate one of these networks to be the all-Obama all-the-time channel?
Because that's what's going to be this guy's going to be scheduling so many events, gonna be on television all the time.
May as well just make it MSNBC.
So I've got a I've got a lot of sound bites from the from the breakout.
The breakout groups.
Obama, there was the Social Security Group, there was the uh fiscal responsibility group, uh, there was um, I forget what the other groups were.
They all came back and they reported.
Came back and reported.
I gotta run, folks, a brief time out.
That's what I meant when I started the program.
There's a lot to do.
Hang on, the ride's gonna be fast.
The state of Washington sent out one dollar checks to the 250,000 food stamp recipients in the state.
The reason they did this was to trigger an additional 43 million dollars in federal food benefits.
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