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April 2, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 2, 2009, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, I tell you what, folks.
The markets love it when Obama leaves the country.
Have you seen the Dow Jones industrial average today?
It's up 252 points.
And Obama's out of the country.
If there's just a way to keep him over there for a while, the market might come back sufficiently to...
To start the rest of the economy coming back.
We'll just have to see.
Greetings, great to have you with us.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to be with you, folks.
Telephone number today if you want to be on the program.
800 282-2882 and the email address, L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister of the UK, says that leaders at the G20 summit have agreed to give one trillion dollars to the IMF, the International Monetary Fund, and to the World Bank to help struggling nations around the world.
Brown also says that the 20 countries at the summit will enact common policies to crack down on tax havens, regulate hedge funds, and rebuild trust in the financial system to prevent a crisis such as this from happening again.
So there you have it, folks.
Another trillion dollars to the World Bank and the IMF, ostensibly to wipe out U.S. and worldwide poverty.
I'll tell you what's happening over there, and it's it it's real simple.
Obama at the G twenty is a slow surrender of the United States and its national interests.
You know, we haven't talked about this on this program, but the the North Korea, we've joked about it.
North Koreans are going to launch this missile.
There's nothing we can do to stop it, or there's nothing we will do to stop it.
The defense defense secretary uh Bob Gates said, nothing we can do.
The Japanese are gearing up some interceptor uh uh thing.
You've got the Iranians nuking up, you got Hamas getting bolder and bolder and bolder.
You got the Russians uh helping the Iranians, and what is our policy?
Our policy is exactly what you would expect a left-wing president's policy to be.
And he's do he's doing what he said he was going to do during the campaign.
He's meeting with these people, he's telling them we're no threat.
He is telling don't worry about us, we have no threat.
He's hoping that telling them there's a new day here in the United States will make them nicer.
It's first grade conflict resolution.
So what Obama's doing is surrendering U.S. national interests over there in an effort to get the EU to spend more stimulus.
He surrendered the U.S. as responsible for the global financial crisis.
He did that yesterday.
Uh will he surrender to a global financial regulator like uh Sarkozy wants?
Hillary slowly surrendering to the Taliban, and Richard Holbrook will no doubt surrender support for new democracies in Europe and the missile defense shield that protects the EU as well as the U.S. in Israel.
We are surrendering U.S. national natural um national interests for the sake of demonstrating that Obama is not the hated George W. Bush.
We have new employment numbers out.
Uh the weekly claims have jumped to 669,000 unemployed.
Continuing unemployment claims hit a record 5.7 million.
So that's that's how many people remain unemployed that continue to ask for benefits, uh, and 669,000 new unemployed.
Meanwhile, the stock market's uh up now 267 points.
So the market's up, but jobs are down.
And after being down, how many more months?
Jobs are going to start coming back slowly, very slowly.
Not as many people are going to be hired back, and certainly not for as much money as when they left.
And the reason for that is the effect of government running the private sector.
That's the result of higher taxes.
That's the result of more regulation.
This is what a jobless recovery looks like.
Slow job growth coming out of recession thanks to Obama making himself the CEO in chief.
Now you put uh UP put fiat's managerial expertise in place at Chrysler with a mandate to make cars that consumers don't want.
You don't get a lean mean profit machine.
This is not going to lead to job growth.
Porculus won't lead to job growth.
Cap and trade won't lead to job growth, ditto nationalizing the health care industry.
But that's not what Obama wants.
He wants power, not jobs.
He wants an ever larger government at the expense of individual liberty and freedom on the part of the American citizens.
Now the AP is reporting the market surge this way.
World stock markets soared Thursday, with Hong Kong's benchmark vaulting more than seven percent as stronger than expected U.S. economic figures boosted confidence, the world's largest economy is on the mend.
The headline to this story, world market surge is U.S. data boost recovery hope.
It's false hope, ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid, like the whole Obama campaign and administration.
If you want to know what's really behind this, market surge today, it's very simple.
The board that sets United States accounting standards is giving companies more leeway when valuing assets.
This a potential lift to uh battered banks' balance sheets.
We're talking mark to market.
They have relaxed the market to market standards, which people have been suggesting since last fall be done.
One of the reasons assets that banks hold are toxic is because they're valued at zero.
In the past, banks have always been able to, on their on their PL sheets, the balance sheet, in any business, uh, has been able to guess, reasonably guess years out into the future, what the value of their assets that they hold will be.
And there's a statistical analysis that most responsible companies use to value these assets in the future.
Mark to market requires that those assets be valued at today's uh value, and of course, those toxic assets are worth zip zero nada.
This is the independent financial accounting standards board.
They voted to adopt guidelines under the so-called mark-to-market accounting rules, which require companies to value assets at prices reflecting current market conditions.
Now, the changes could reduce the losses that banks have been forced to report as the values of their mortgage backed securities have crumbled.
Now, don't need to get into the minutia and the details here, but the bottom line is that relaxing mark to market is the large part of why the market's up.
It is nothing to do with Obama, it has nothing to do with the G twenty.
If it has anything to do with Obama, it is that he's out of town.
But I'm going to tell you something, folks.
Tim Geitner is up there slicing the cheese each and every day.
Tim Geitner let it be known that it it's perfectly within his purview, and it'll probably happen that more CEOs are going to be canned.
And Geithner doesn't know what he's doing.
All he has to do is slice the cheese the wrong way, and this 265 that we're up now will be a minus two sixty-five.
Everybody's hoping that we've bottomed out, that this is coming back.
And you've always heard, wait, rush, the stock market.
It's not the same as Main Street, right?
The left has always said this.
The Libs have always said you can't look at what's going on in the stock market of Wall Street and assume that it means same thing is happening on Main Street or in the general economy.
And in this case, that's correct.
I mean, the market's up.
NASDAQ's up sixty-one, Dow Jones industrial average 268.
Uh and yet 669,000 more people lost their jobs in March, with no end in sight to this.
All the experts are saying uh 8.8 to 9% unemployment by the end of the year.
All right, Gordon Brown uh in London today spoke to the G twenty summit.
Here's a portion of his remarks.
We will act also to make our global recovery fair and more sustainable.
This time of financial crisis is no time to walk away from our commitment to the world's poorest.
The new world order is emerging, and with it the foundations of a new and progressive era of international cooperation.
We have resolved that from today we will together manage the process of globalization to secure responsibility from all and fairness to all.
So there you have it.
Gordon Brown believes there's a new world order built on fairness that the G twenty uh when you by the way, when you hear the word fairness in the concept of economics, you have to understand that this is central planners deciding what's fair.
Neil Cavuto had had uh a guy yesterday on his show, and he just ripped this guy new one.
He's a Florida congressman, a Democrat, very inarticulate guy, but he's leading the way on Barney Frank's idea for Congress to set themselves up as the final arbiters over who can make what any firm that receives bailout money from the uh from the U.S. government.
And Neil Cavuto tried for eight minutes to get this guy to give him some numbers, and the guy wouldn't give him any numbers.
Well, the treasury is gonna decide that.
Cavuto said, I don't care what the treasury is gonna do, you guys write the laws.
Will you tell me what the is a million too much?
What's excessive?
And this guy would not give him a number.
And Cavuto was just frustrated as I said, damn it.
You know, I'm I'm tired of talking.
This guy ended up by saying you're very rude to me today, Neil.
Uh Cavuto wasn't rude.
He was just he was just frustrated as he can be.
These guys are just carrying the water for higher-ups.
Uh and and uh this guy's carrying the water, writing the legislation for Barney Frank.
I think he's on the committee.
I forget his name, but he's a uh don't worry, it doesn't matter who it is.
He's uh he's a he's a Democrat from from Florida.
We have the audio, but it's eight minutes long, and you have to listen the whole eight minutes to to get the flavor for it, and we just we don't have eight minutes of time to spend audio.
But when you this is all, of course, being done under the rubric of fairness, is the and when these people, when leftists start talking about fairness, they are the slave masters.
They are going to decide what's fair.
And their definition of fairness is everybody being the same.
Equalization of outcomes, which means, as I love to constantly say, spreading misery equally.
Alan Grayson isn't that the guy's Alan Grayson, Democrat Florida, just Neil Cavuto made mincemeat out of the guy yesterday.
It was it was anybody watching this should have quickly come to the conclusion that the wrong people are in charge at the wrong time, who don't have the honesty to tell us what they're really gonna do.
They don't have the guts to tell us what we're really gonna do.
And I'm not sure watching this Grayson guy, I'm not sure that he actually understands what's going to happen.
He's just the front man writing the legislation.
I was not impressed with this guy.
He was not impressive in evading the answer.
He was he had one stock talking point for eight minutes.
And his stock talking point was that it is outrageous that people got bonuses, the same people who wrote who wrecked this economy.
That's what he said for eight minutes, essentially.
And Cavuto said, Look, I uh you look, I I agree with you, people who destroy the economy ought not get bonuses.
But you're not talking about that anymore.
You're talking about everybody who works in it.
Are you talking the secretaries?
Are you talking the janitors?
Are you guys gonna determine what's excessive in what somebody makes?
Yes, well, you're what is excessive.
He wouldn't give a figure.
He would not supply the answer.
Okay, folks, brief time out.
Uh margin in the New York 20th Congressional race getting closer, getting tighter.
So let's see, what is it?
Uh 25 votes now.
And the official recount begins on April 13th.
Sit tight, be right back.
Just got a call from the EIB PR department.
Let me give you this story.
The uh EIB PR department, the media relations department just got a call from WNBC TV in New York.
That's Channel Ford.
Uh Channel 4 has requested a response from me regarding a statement made by the governor of New York, David Patterson, in a press conference this morning, a reporter, we do not have audio of this.
I have not seen any audio of this, but a reporter from WNB or some some reporter asked the governor of the state of New York what he thought about my saying I'm gonna leave New York because of his tax increases.
And the governor of New York, David Patterson, responded that if he had known Rush Limbaugh would leave the state of New York, he would have raised taxes sooner.
Governor Patterson, if this is the case, if you don't care about the revenue that you confiscate from me, then call off your audit dogs.
Because I've been audited for, let's say, in 87, 12 straight years by New York State and New York City.
I've been audited 12 straight years.
So call off your audit dogs.
If you don't care about the money that you are confiscating from me for your wards of the state, so a governor, a governor of a state has actually told reporters that he's so happy I'm leaving, he would have raised taxes even sooner if he knew that would have forced me out of New York State.
I'm wondering, is a governor of any state ever said anything like that about a private citizen?
Are you just as happy with all the other New Yorkers who are going to leave Governor Patterson?
Because there will be.
Governor Patterson, do you know that you have a an exodus on your hands from Long Island?
And for a long time you've had an exodus on your hands from Long Island moving to southern states like North Carolina and Florida because they're sick and tired of the property taxes, the state taxes, the city taxes, and all the other taxes.
So are you going to be happy that other taxpayers decide to leave New York or just me?
Just me.
What an honor.
What an honor.
Folks, is there any other private citizen, any other who is not a criminal?
You know, who is an upstanding citizen, a man for the ages.
Is there any other governor who has ever excitedly said, well, if I would have known he was leaving the state, I would have raised taxes sooner or what have you.
I'm, you know, I haven't even cracked any David Patterson jokes, unlike others in the um in the media have.
By the way, uh, my firm belief the stock market, what is it up now?
Waiting for the number, it's there, it's hovering around 260, 265, 270, whatever it is.
And I maintain this is because President Obama is out of the country.
The market loves it.
When Obama Oh, it's up 306.
There must be news that he's extending his stay overseas.
There must be news he's not coming back as soon as they thought he might be coming back.
I mean, the market's going nuts, and the only thing here that's different is that Obama's gone.
He's out of the country.
If Obama said that he would stay out of the country for a month, the markets would hit 8,500 today.
It'd jump another 300 or 400.
In fact, all he would have to say is he's extending his stay for maybe a couple of weeks.
Have you seen the picture?
By the way, this there have been massive protocol blunders on the part of Obama and his wife in the U.K. They're being reported, but they're not being highlighted as they would be if it were a Republican president.
But one of the big gaffes, he actually bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia.
Only subjects of the king of Saudi Arabia bow.
You don't bow.
It makes you subservient.
It tells the king that you indeed agreed that you are subservient to him.
This is King.
I think it's Abdullah.
In uh in Jordan.
I think it that is regardless.
Then there's a big picture of it, and it looks like there's a Chicom guy stand.
He's the only one bowing.
In all the people, uh the group of people here meeting, the uh King of Saudi Arabia.
So as I say, it's a slow surrender on the part of President Obama at the uh world so the G 20, and he's got five other stops or four other stops on his itinerary after he wraps up today at the G 20.
So the more he's out of the country, and is by the way, as long as Geitner doesn't screw up his slice and a cheese up there, as long as Geitner doesn't mess up, uh, the longer Obama's out of the country, mark my words, the higher the market might indeed go.
Well, it's happened again, folks.
I've always said if you place a bag of manure in front of a Democrat, they will certainly step in it.
And New York Governor David Patterson certainly has.
He's now joking about raising taxes, an astronomical amount in uh in New York State.
I need to clarify something about this because as is the usual case, the real crux of my comments here about leaving New York have been missed on purpose.
I am technically not leaving New York because I'm not there now.
I moved out of New York in 1997.
Every year I sent them letters saying, sorry, I miss you, but I've moved.
I now live in Florida, and it's why I'm not filing tax return.
In 2002, I got a letter and an audit from 1997 through 2001.
And it took two years to prove to them where I was every day of the year, 14 different ways.
And the uh and I have I have been audited every year since.
And the the way the the uh first audit ended up is that uh when I do work in New York, I pay a per diem tax, like athletes do when they go in and play.
Uh they play their taxes in New York State and the city.
Uh when they uh when they go in to play the the Mets of the Yankees and uh it's it's a mess, but but that's what it is.
So we negotiated that it's all done.
Now I get audited every year on the number of days I'm there, and I have to prove it for and it's just not worth it.
And now he's raising taxes to boot on all of this, and finally I've reached the tipping point.
So I am going to cease doing business in New York.
I do not live there.
That's what makes all of this ridiculous.
I do not live there, and I've been audited by that state and the city for twelve years.
So with the tax increase and the fact that I'm rarely there and have to go through all this hassle.
It's Sayonara.
I'm not leaving.
I already did.
I'm just not going to be doing business in New York anymore.
And if the mayor, if the governor's happy about that, uh then he can go tell the wards of the state that I'm supporting that are gonna have to find somebody else to provide the tax revenue.
All right, just to clarify that, because uh everybody reporting on this, of course, is getting it from everywhere but me.
Like I told the college student yesterday who called in the last half hour of the program.
I've got a website.
Everything I say is transcribed.
No journalist ever calls me, very few ever call me to find out, did you really say what they say you said here?
What never happens.
They just run with what the um left-wing media watchdogs say.
I say, so this whole story of leaving New York has been distorted and and misreported, which is the standard, so I spend some time here to correct it.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, the um audio soundbite roster continues.
Today's show today, the co-host Meredith Vieira interviewed the smartest, the craftiest, the most brilliant White House press secretary ever, Robert Gibbs.
She said, I can't let you go Here, Bob, without asking you what was up with the iPod.
Give the Queen an iPod.
I mean, I would not know what to give the Queen of England.
I'm not sure an iPod would be the first thing to come to mind.
What was the thinking behind that choice?
I'm not sure entirely whose idea it started out as, but it's loaded with uh, as you mentioned, some show tunes.
Uh, and it's also loaded with uh some pictures of the Queen's most recent visit to the United States.
The president remarked to me this morning that uh uh her sensibility sort of uh reminded him a bit of uh his grandmother only with a much bigger house.
So the Queen's sensibility reminded uh Obama of his grandmother.
Oh, let's go back March 24th, 2008, Philadelphia.
What did Obama think of his grandmother?
She is a uh typical white person who if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that that don't go away, and that sometimes uh come out in in the wrong way.
Oh, by by golly, folks, I think he just called a queen a uh an unintentional racist with a bigger house than his grandmother had.
And this whole business of giving an iPod.
Bob Gibbs forgot to tell uh Meredith Vieira that a lot of Obama's speeches are on the iPod as well.
Did you know that you heard about that?
Okay, so yeah, reminded him a bit of his grandmother.
Well, typical white person.
Let's listen to these two again.
Back to back, Ed.
Play two and three, bam bam, thank you, ma'am, right back to back.
I'm not sure entirely uh whose idea it started out as, but it's loaded with uh, as you mentioned, some show tunes.
Uh and it's also loaded with uh some pictures of the Queen's most recent visit to the United States.
The president remarked to me this morning that uh uh her sensibility sort of uh reminded him a bit of uh his grandmother only with a much bigger house.
She is a uh typical white person who if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that that don't go away, and that sometimes uh come out in in the wrong way.
I wonder what the Queen said to Obama, because she didn't know him before he showed up.
Uh, thank you, Bobby Gibbs.
Bob Gibbs uh letting us know the the truth.
The Queen reminded Obama's grandmother Katie Curick on the CBS early show today, uh Harry Smith is talking to her.
He said, Hey, most important question to President and Michelle with the Queen yesterday.
He presented the Queen with a video iPod, something she actually requested, loaded with classic show tunes like My Fair Lady and Camelot, also a songbook autographed by Richard Rogers, the master himself.
The moment that was really noticed was when Mrs. Obama, as you mentioned earlier, placed her arm around Queen Elizabeth, touching, I guess initiating touchings a no-no.
But her Majesty seemed to welcome Mrs. Obama's overture, so people here are just eating it up.
Oh, yes, American royalty meets British royalty.
So now Katie Corric says Queen Elizabeth asked for the iPod.
She asked for now, I heard, and I don't know, but I heard that she already had an iPod.
She asked Obama to bring her an iPod.
What did he do?
Stop at the duty-free shop when he landed at Stansted and go in there and pick one up?
No, obviously because it was preloaded with uh that's another thing about an iPod.
You give somebody an iPod, they can load their own stuff on it.
Um the touchy feely, this is one of the protocol things that people were uh worried about.
Here is the audio of Obama's chat with the Queen.
Now, what this is, um let's see, this is uh Obama and Prince Philip had this quiet exchange yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
The Russians.
David Cameron.
And I'm proud to say I could not offer you to you.
I'm a successful dude.
It's all over.
This was off mic.
This was not part of the ceremony, so Obama telling the prince what he had done all day.
Yeah, it's meetings with the uh Chicons or Russians.
David Cameron, I'm proud to say I didn't nod off in any of the meetings, and Phillips said, can you tell a difference between them?
And Obama said it's all a blur.
Now you've got the Chicoms and you've got the Russians and David Cameron.
Can you tell the difference between them?
What a what a what a what a question.
You know, let a Republican ask that question.
And you'll have outrage here now last night, Larry King alive.
He's talking with the beauty editor for Harper's Bazaar magazine, Everell Graham.
And Larry King says, Do you think Michelle might be even more popular than Jackie Kennedy?
She was visiting a hospital.
And, you know, she's sitting there at the bedside of cancer patients, but she's giving them a lift.
You know, she's got the sparkle on.
She's got brights on in a similar way as I I thought back to the days of Princess Diana, who, you know, you want to cheer someone up, not to be sitting look, you know, looking mournful.
And I think that that's what she brings, that accessibility and that understanding of real life.
This is just it's it's so syrupy.
I uh I have to, you know, take some anti-diabetes pills.
Uh before listening to some of this reporting and and before reading some of it.
For example, here is Jennifer Loven, the Associated Press.
He talked nuclear threats with Russia's president.
He gave an iPod to the Queen, and that was only the beginning.
It was an eventful first day on the world stage for President Obama launching new arms control talks, placing China ties on fresh footing, and calming fears about the U.S. economy, seemingly everywhere, relaxed and smiling all the while.
While wife Michelle attracted breathless attention with every stop, fashionable outfit and sip of tea.
The new U.S. president in London for Thursday's high stakes global summit on the financial meltdown dashed through a dawn to dark schedule Wednesday, despite the effects of a head called.
There was even a chance to talk dinosaurs with Gordon Brown's young sons and to snare two hours of quality time with Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace.
I mean, this is just so over the top, and it is syrupy sweet.
You need blood sugar medicine here to listen to or read any of the reporting by the drive-by media.
The uh the Queen did have an iPod.
Steve Gilbert informs me via NGadget, which is a blog, high-tech blog from July 2005.
It's actually a story from the UK Sun.
The Sun reports that Queen Elizabeth is rocking the palace on her new iPod.
The Charles off quivering in a corner, fearing the onset of Nanobat Army.
The Queen's second son, Andrew, has become the Royal Gadget go-to guy, set her up with a silver six gigabyte uh gigabyte iPod mini.
So she did have an iPod out there.
More audio sound bites, sickening as they are.
Larry King alive, speaking now with uh a former spokesman for Buckingham Palace, Dickie Arbiter.
The question, Dickie, how about the black population in England?
Well, they look upon uh Barack Obama as a savior, you know, being the first uh American president of Nick's race.
So the black population of Great Britain looks upon Barack Obama as a savior.
By the way, the protesters continue to go nuts over there, and I think folks, um, you got to understand that these people, these protesters, the anarchists, the globalists, uh, anti-globalists, the anti-capitalists, and whatever, these are just community organizers.
These are potential future leaders of countries around the world.
The United States leader was spawned by Acorn.
Uh, he is a proud community organizer.
So the people that are wrecking the town down in uh in London at the G twenty, these are future leaders of our countries.
I don't really see what the problem is.
Uh in fact, President Obama ought to be out there with them, giving him pointers on how to agitate that's where he comes from.
And then invite him to the White House.
Hook him up with acorn and tell them how it's really done.
You could be looking at a future leader of a country in these uh protests.
This next is hilarious.
Larry King Live speaking with former Buckingham Palace spokesman Dickie Arbiter and social commentator, Nancy Giles, about the meeting between President Obama, Michelle Obama, and Queen Elizabeth.
This is a Larry King play by play of Michelle touching the Queen.
By the way, we have a new video of Michelle touching the Queen.
Dickie, is that a no-no?
Not really.
Um, as I said a moment ago, the Queen's been good.
Yeah, she just touched on you.
Oh, she touched her again.
Oh my gosh.
But the Queen touched Michelle.
She's been around.
That's right.
It was a reciprocal touch.
It's okay, Dickie, right?
Yep, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Play by play of Michelle Obama, American Royalty touching uh British royalty, Queen Elizabeth, North Wales, Pennsylvania.
Adam, we go to you first on the phones today, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Uh, thank you.
It's uh great to talk to you.
You bet.
I just wanted to uh I guess uh say I feel for you a little bit with this taxes in New York situation.
Not too long ago, I lived in Philadelphia, and I moved out of there.
I was just getting nothing uh for my taxes.
They have a four point three percent city wage tax.
I don't even work in Philadelphia.
Soon they were gonna I mean the things they're talking about now, um they're not gonna lower it.
They were planning on lowering it.
They might raise it.
They're gonna raise the uh uh sales tax, uh stopped plowing road.
My road, I live on a back road, so they would have stopped plowing that.
Um they're gonna start having cutting back on trash removal or charging for trash removal, and I'll tell you.
I got the biggest raise in my life when I moved out of Philadelphia.
Uh I very proudly, and I know yesterday you're talking about uh cars.
I drive a Mustang of V eight.
I proudly get about sixty miles a gallon.
And I mean, I was going through three and a half gallons a day, paying four point three percent of my paycheck to Philadelphia, paying much more in rent than I needed to.
I live in North Wales, I'm much closer to work.
I couldn't be happier.
If people at work noticed I'm in a better mood ever since I moved and stopped having a bigger.
Well, you know, I I look, I wanna I want to make something plain here.
This, as far as I'm concerned, I don't live in New York.
I moved out of there in 1997.
I'm gonna stop doing business there.
These coming tax increases are punitive, they're not gonna work, they're punishing uh the the achievers uh taxes on the on the wealthy uh need to actually be cut.
But what everybody's missing here is I've been audited every year by these people, not even I'm not even a resident.
I've been audited for twelve years, and it's now this is just this is the tipping point.
And I'll tell you the the um the governor telling people had he known his tax increases could drive me out any sooner.
He would have raised them sooner.
Governor Patterson, I saw what was coming in ninety-seven.
That is why I left there.
For a no income tax state.
The difference you would not believe the net difference.
I'm not gonna, of course, get into specifics of numbers, but it's just it's absurd uh the level of taxation there.
So uh yeah, it it I I think with property taxes and taxes in general.
For example, Manhattan, the streets ought to be paved with gold.
You look, most everybody lives in a high-rise building or some kind of building.
There are multiple residents per address.
The property taxes and taxes they are paying in such small the the streets ought to be paved with gold with the revenue that they are collecting and the revenue that people are paying there.
And of course, it's uh it's it's just the opposite.
So the uh if mayor or governor Patterson, if you just so ecstatic, I'm leaving.
You don't care about the uh the tax revenue my doing business there creates, and call off the audit dogs.
It's meaningless, right?
Doesn't matter.
Be back in just a second.
New York Governor David Patterson, the unelected governor, who will never be an elected governor.
His polls are in the tank.
And I guess, you know, by liberal standards in liberal terms, being an unelected governor, he's an illegitimate governor.
Remember, they said Bush was an illegitimate president because he wasn't duly elected.
So, Mayor Patterson, in the eyes of your own comrades, you are illegitimate.
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