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April 10, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 10, 2009, Friday, Hour #2
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It's Friday, so let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And the phone number, if you want to be on the program today, remember when we go to the phones, you may discuss whatever you wish.
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A funny as hell story in the Daily Mail today.
The UK Daily Mail.
There is a picture here of a British TV star by the name of Claire Sweeney.
She's decked out on a red floor-length gown, obviously standing at some red carpet event or a uh award ceremony or some such thing.
She's quite attractive.
She's blonde, black roots, but blonde.
Uh said attractive.
And just describing the uh the fact here.
For those of you watching at home on the Ditto Cam, let me show you the picture.
A little light on it here.
We can.
There you have it.
Okay, that's that's who we're talking about here.
The name is Claire Sweeney.
She has revealed that she was chatted up by Bill Clinton at a fancy dress party.
She's the former star of a TV show over there called Brookside.
She was at a party hosted by the singer Cliff Richard when Bill Clinton, who was president at the time, approached her dressed as an admiral.
Apparently it was a costume party.
He was addressed, he was dressed as an admiral.
Claire Sweeney, who was at the party with her then boyfriend, told Channel 5 Clinton came over and started chatting me up.
I thought, you dirty dog.
His bodyguard then came over and said, Mr. President, we need to go.
But Clinton managed to shake off the bodyguard, swiftly made a beeline back to Claire Sweeney, who was dressed in a saucy, dangerous liaison style outfit.
She's 37 years old.
She said to Clinton, you don't want to go, do you?
And he said, Ha ha ha, can you tell?
And I said to him, Because your left leg is dancing.
To which Clinton then responded to her, my middle leg's gonna be dancing soon, too.
Sweeney, who played Roxy Hart in the What I know even if he if he Well, we can debate whether it's an awful line or a good line, but uh if he indeed said it.
Sweeney said, I just I shook his hand, but I decided I was going home with a clean dress that night.
Clinton married to Hillary, was impeached over his fling with Mon.
Why they're running this story?
Now the story just comes out.
This happened when Clinton was uh was president.
Yeah.
Yeah, my middle leggers will be dancing soon, baby.
You head home with me.
This is a fabulous story.
This next story.
Amazing this story appears on CNN.
Oh, by the way, folks, by the way, I I am shocked, and I'm a little angry.
I just read that the Somali Marine Organizers, the merchant marine organizers, have now placed a bounty on the head or a price on the head of the captain of the U.S. vessel they are holding hostage.
They are demanding two million dollars for the release of Captain Phillips.
And I'm looking at that and I'm saying, what is it with you people?
You extort 15 million from the Saudis, you get five or six million from the Filipinos.
Our captain's only worth two.
And by the way, two million's easy.
We got that laying around in a tarp account.
Just get hold of Geitner and say, hey, look, there's some community organizers from Somalia that are gonna need some infrastructure work.
All he wants two million dollars, and as an added bonus, we get our captain back.
So that's the latest, uh, the latest on this.
We have some sound bites coming up on this in just a second.
CNN reporting about what happened on the Hawaiian island of Kawaii.
Their livelihood was being threatened.
They were tired of waiting for government help, so business owners and residents on Hawaii's Kawaii Island pulled together and completed a four million dollar repair job for a state park for free.
The state park has been closed since severe flooding, destroyed an access road to the park and damaged facilities in December.
Hawaii's Department of Land and Natural Resources had estimated the damage would cost four million dollars to fix.
Money they say they don't have.
Which was uh part of a news release from the department chairwoman, Laura Thielen.
Bruce Please, a local surfer who helped organize the volunteers, said it would not have been open this summer.
It probably wouldn't have been open next summer.
They said it would take two years to fix it.
And with the way they're cutting funds, we felt like they'd never get the money to fix it.
If the repairs weren't made, some business owners faced the possibility of having to shut down.
Ivan Slack, co-owner of Nepali Kayak, said his company relies solely on revenue from kayak tours.
He needs that state park to be open in order to operate.
The company jumped in, donated resources because it knew that without the repairs, Nepali Kayak would be in financial trouble.
If the park isn't open, it would be extreme for us to say the least, he said.
Bankruptcy would be imminent.
How many years can you be expected to continue operating owning 15 passenger vans, two million dollars in insurance and a staff for us?
It was crucial for us, and our survival was dependent on it.
The park is the key to the sheer survival of the business.
So Ivan Slack and other business owners and residents made the decision not to sit on their hands and wait for state money that many expected would never come.
Instead, they pulled together machinery and manpower.
They hit the ground running on March 23rd after only eight days.
All of the repairs were done.
It was a shockingly quick fix to a problem that may have taken much longer if they waited for state money to funnel in.
Not just state money, state workers.
Four years to complete the project, the state said, or two years, whatever it was, and four million bucks.
And these people did it in eight days.
Ivan Slack said we can wait around for the state or the federal government to make this move, or we can go out and do our part.
Just like everybody sitting around waiting for a stimulus check.
We're waiting for this, but decided we couldn't wait anymore.
Now because of their hard work, volunteers hope they'll be ready to send the positive message right in time for the tourist season.
I love this story.
Let me recap what this is.
It shows us we do not need the government for much of anything.
The State Department of Land and Natural Resources in Hawaii, the government, said that it would cost four million to fix damages to an access road to this park on Kawaii after a flood damaged it.
They said it would take two years and four million to fix it.
And that was if in these economic times there was money in the budget to do so.
So these people who depend on this park for their business and their recreation decided not to sit around and wait for the government to do something.
They came together.
The community came together.
They did the repairs themselves.
It took only eight days to finish all the repairs compared to two years, did not cost the taxpayers a dime.
Anybody want to say yes we can?
Now, this illustrates many things.
Not just the fact that people can get off their butts and do things themselves.
It illustrates the absolute screeching halt on progress that is represented by government most four years.
Four years and two million bucks, and these people found a way to do this with no charge to the taxpayers.
It was important to them, their business derives from this.
They did it in eight days.
Eight days.
Like I say, I can't believe CNN ran this story.
Eight days they got this done.
Now that the story has gone public, I hope that the residents of Kawaii who participated in this effort are prepared for the fact that some other government agencies gonna come out and inspect this, may come out and inspect your work and find that it doesn't meet their standards.
You don't embarrass the government this way.
You just don't do it.
Eight days instead of two, four, four years, two million dollars, four years to fix a park and an access road.
And that's if they could get the money.
I just I just love stories like this where people roll up their sleeves and do it themselves rather than sitting around waiting.
This is the kind of uh spirit that built the country.
And it was it was it was in this case, people just got fed up with waiting, and they got fed up with a bureaucracy.
There was no sense of urgency anywhere to get this done by a government that is existing primarily to serve the interests of the people.
And they were not interested in that at all.
It's just it's uh great illustration of just how bloated and out of out of out of hand things have gotten at all levels of government.
Brief time out, we'll come back and continue.
Open line Friday, El Rushbo on the EIB network.
A story related to the upcoming tax increases in New York State and New York City sweeping layoffs of government employees are needed, sweeping layoffs of government employees, i.e., union employees,
are needed to prevent New York going bankrupt, said the mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday, Bloomberg, who is intense negotiations with municipal workers' unions, said an extra 7,000 jobs would have to go unless major reductions are made in employee benefits.
We can't continue.
Our pension costs, our health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.
He made the comments on New York One Television, Bloomberg running for a third mayoral term, said that proposals from unions so far were nowhere near what is adequate.
The possible job cuts first announced on Wednesday would be on top of 1,300 already proposed, and another 8,000 that could be axed through a trick.
Let me add this up.
8,0397 to 16,300 jobs lost in the city of New York.
Union jobs lost.
And of course, there'll be even more when I cease doing business.
And this, of course, pleases the governor of New York, Mayor Patterson, who has public said, publicly said that if he knew I would leave, he would have raised these taxes sooner.
7,000 jobs, six a grand total of sixteen thousand seven hundred.
Union jobs can't afford the pension cost or the health care costs.
Now, I don't know, it doesn't say how many will be left, it doesn't say what the total uh payroll is.
The budget office said on Wednesday that the 7,000 extra job cuts would allow the city to cut a further $350 million in expenditure.
So that if they cut the 7,000 extra jobs, they save $350 million they don't have to spend.
Uh or won't have to spend.
Now, look at this in a way, I I really do have mixed emotions about this.
Because these are these are people.
We're we're we're we are talking about Americans and human beings, and they're gonna get laid off and they're gonna lose, and it's and they're being told your pension and your health care costs, which again we're negotiating, the city negotiated, health care costs and pension.
Now, It it's a you hate to see this happen.
Um I know that they're liberals.
And I know I don't think all the union employees are liberal.
There's some conservative Republicans in New York, but I but when you've talked, the vast majority I'm sure are.
And of course the city is run by liberals, as is the state.
And what what they're admitting here, this is the hard cold reality of truth, that none of this was ever sustainable.
The concept of being paid far more than what you produce just isn't sustainable.
And look where the cuts are coming from.
Even with all of these preferred union employees, the city really isn't cutting any.
It's not cutting services to the people on welfare.
They claim they're going to be, but they don't dare, because that would lead to riots.
They don't dare do any of that.
So they're going to be laying people off.
And since it's just, you know, health care and pension, this these people have been have been counting on it.
This is what they thought the deal was, the promise was when they signed on.
Many of them are looking forward to retiring at age 40, which you get to do with 80% pay or whatever, and then you go out and get another job.
The point is that none of this works.
Over time, you learn that it's unsustainable.
The golden goose is only golden for so long.
You can only rape the golden goose for so long before it doesn't have any gold left.
And all of this is coming home to roost now.
And look where it's coming home to roost.
It's coming home to roost for the largest part in public and private businesses that are unionized.
Not entirely, not exclusively, but predominantly.
I remember I got into big trouble on this program, an interview.
Innocently so, early on in the days of this program, might have been 1988 or 89.
I have we were discussing unions, and I made the point that one of the big problems with unions was that every contract year they demand more pay for less work, more time off, more sick days, more vacations, more this, more that.
And I remember my father telling me about uh contract that he had to do with the bricklayers union.
So I mentioned this.
The bricklayers, uh, this is the late 80s, and the bricklayers union out of Chicago was livid.
They called, they demanded a retraction, they said it wasn't true, and I stuck to my guns, and it was.
And it's we we dug up the information.
Everything that I said about it was true.
They did negotiate contracts that required you had it bricklayers had to lay X number of bricks a day, the new contract fewer.
When more break time and so forth and so on.
This just does not this is not how productivity happens.
It's not how wealth is accrued.
It's just it's not how growth happens.
Now, Snerdley thinks I'm being too nice here with my compassion for these uh union employees.
Well, James, let me ask you a question.
You want to be in their shoes.
It may be a life lesson for them, but you want to live in New York City on what they earn.
You want it, you live out in Queens, wherever it is they leave, and live in one of the boroughs, make what they make, and their their whole reason for doing this is the pension they're gonna get when they retire in their health care.
And all of a sudden, they're gonna be told, what else are they gonna go do?
What are the they're gonna have to become entrepreneurial themselves, these kinds of jobs are vanishing.
Well, then okay, then they're gonna go, then they're gonna be unemployment for as long as they can.
I know a lot of you people are saying, okay, good riddance, the way the liberals have stuck it to us every year, the way these people have stuck it to the genuine producers and have tried to do their damage in the private sector, good, it's about time they found out what the pain's like.
And there are a lot of people saying, remember when when uh when uh uh Rick Wagner got blown out of uh out of General Motors, there were prominent liberal columnists who wrote pieces of glee and happiness.
Good.
It's about fighting time he finds out what it's like to walk out the door without a job.
It's about time he finds out what it's like to be treated the way he treated all of his employees.
All right, we, if we wanted to.
When we get the news of these 7,000 upcoming layoffs, because a pension and welfare bank pension and and and the health care costs bankrupting the city.
Imagine you're one of these 7,000 people and you hear the mayor say that your health care and pension plans bankrupting the city.
I don't think you're going to believe that.
You're not gonna but it's liberal versus liberal here.
You got a liberal government in the state and the city, liberal employees making deals with one another, now the blooms off the rose.
And so some people might say there's some sweet justice or at least a teachable moment.
I'm not into vengeance.
I I I don't I don't I don't know, I'm not looking to be made happy because of these people suffering.
I I just I actually feel for them.
I feel for them because they've been duped as liberals, they've been duped into believing things about economics that are not true.
And now here it's all coming home to roost, and it's happened before.
It keeps happening.
It happened back in 1975 with the city.
Uh it it it happens, it's union membership at its high in this country was 35-38%.
It's down to 11 or 12% now.
That's why card check is such an important thing to Democrats.
That's why that's why illegal immigration is so important.
Illegal immigration's all about finding new union members at lower wages.
It's what it's all about, that'll become Democrat voters.
But you see, it doesn't work.
Because the deals that are made, paying people after they stop producing, even if they're retired for longer than they work, does not work.
It's mathematically impossible.
A man, a legend, and a way of life.
Boy, am I being bombarded.
I just checked email.
I'm being bombarded.
You are just being too nice to these people.
These are Democrats.
They have elected Democrats, they've elected Democrats rush, like you say, on the promise that the Democrats are gonna make them prosperous.
And they get laid off and they never get anything other than barely above poverty.
They're just always remain poor and yet they keep voting Democrats.
Why do you feel sorry for them?
Oh I have a big heart.
I look at it, it's it's sad that it's happening.
I it's unit's not surprising.
I got another, I got another two or three of these that I just checked.
It's amazing the visceral reactions people have.
I said all I said was you cannot go to work at an outfit for 20 years old, be told that they're going to you're going to work for 20 years or 25, then you're going to retire, and for the rest of your life you're going to make 80% of what you earned with all health care.
If somebody told me that, I wouldn't believe it.
I know it isn't possible.
At some point it isn't gonna work.
At some point it's all gonna collapse.
Particularly when the unions are in business to do damage to the very companies that they work for who are trying to produce cars, products, services, profits that pay these people.
I mean, the structure of a union from the leadership level is antithetical to what a corporation's about.
They're at odds, there's a huge conflict of interest.
Most union leaders have a have a they're they're opposed to what a business is trying to do.
Now, so couple these emails, okay, Rush, okay.
So what are we just supposed to do?
Work our fingers to the bone until we die?
Are we never supposed to retire?
And see, that makes me sad.
If you understand my view of this country, if you understand how an awe I am of this country and how special it is, how exceptional it is, it literally, and I said this at the CPAC speech, it breaks my heart to see so many people have so little faith in themselves.
It breaks my heart to see people not fulfilling anywhere near their potential.
Remember the story a couple years ago, uh it was a layoff at a at a at an automobile plant, I think it was General Motors Afford, not sure which in Detroit, A 28-year-old kid almost committed suicide when he got laid off because he thought at 28 he had no future because his whole future was working the assembly line.
And once that was taken away, and I said, My God, who raised this kid?
What vision does he have of his life's possibilities?
Put all his money into one stock and so forth, even if he did that.
But uh when people get on my case here for the well, what are you supposed to do?
Just work our fingers of the bone and then never ever retire?
No.
No.
Unless you love it.
I intend to.
I'm not thinking about retirement.
I don't go into a job saying, how much you're going to pay me when I'm not working?
I don't ask, what are my vacation days?
How many sick days do I get?
How many days do I get to go feed the dog?
I don't ask, well, what percentage of what you're paying me now is going to be mine when I quit when I'm 45.
I don't think this way.
I don't know why.
I just have always believed that and it's some people think this is sad to hear.
I frankly don't.
I've always believed that nobody's going to take care of me because nobody has the self-interest in myself that I have because they're too busy worrying about themselves as everybody is.
But Russia, it's unrealistic to think that everybody's going to be able to pay for their own retirement.
That's an extreme statement, but it's not unrealistic to expect that in this, the most bountiful fruitful country ever in the history of the world.
More people could than are.
The idea that some compassionate bunch of Democrat liberal politicians is going to make your life easy.
That notion is blown to smithereens every day in this country.
Go to any neighborhood that votes 100% Democrat and take a look at it.
This thing goes around the internet all the time.
I keep it handy for sometimes when I need it.
Poverty in our cities.
Census Bureau.
2006 data.
Percentage of people below the poverty level.
Detroit, Michigan, number one at 32.5.
Buffalo, New York, number two at 30%, below the poverty level, percentage of people below the poverty level.
Cincinnati, 27.8%, Cleveland, 27%, Miami, 26.9, St. Louis, 26.8, El Paso, 26.4%, Milwaukee, 26.2%, Philadelphia, 25.1, Newark, 24.2.
The top 10 cities with over 250,000 population have the highest poverty rate.
What is the one thing they all have in common?
They are run by liberal Democrats.
And it is the poor who habitually elect liberal Democrats, yet they remain poor.
It's union people that habitually elect Democrats, and it's union people habitually who get laid off by Democrats and have their health care benefits taken away.
We're told it's evil corporation.
Well, who the hell do you think's running those these days?
It's not a bunch of evil country club Republicans anymore.
While all this is happening, I want you 7,000 in New York to listen to this.
It's not happening in New York, but it may be, we don't know.
From Jefferson City, Missouri, investment staff members weren't the only employees at the state government's pension system who received bonuses last year.
All 72 employees at the Missouri State Employees Retirement System, from the records equipment operator to the deputy director for operations drew bonuses, even as the system's stock market losses mounted.
This every state has one of these, a public employee retirement system or state employee retirement systems, California PERS and so forth, teachers have one too.
All this money is invested in the stock market.
Well, we know what's happened to the stock market.
And the people who run the state employee retirement system in Missouri job is to make sure the fund grows.
The fund collapsed and They gave themselves bonuses, every damn one of them.
State workers, Democrats.
While in Missouri, I'm sure they're pondering cuts in the budget and layoffs here and there and suspending work on projects they just don't have the money for.
The fifty-eight operation staffers at the Missouri State Employees Retirement System received about 160,000 in one-time incentive payments last June.
Employees got the money up to 10% of their salaries if they and the agency met certain targets like processing pension applications promptly.
If you process an application promptly, you get a not whether the fund performs.
This is in the St. Louis Post Dispatch today.
Back to the phones.
It is open line Friday, and I've only taken we've only taken one call, right?
That's just on that's that that's just it was.
It was an hour ago that we took that.
We called that guy.
So this is essentially our first call of the day.
It is in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Richard, thank you for waiting.
I appreciate your patience.
Waiting is no problem.
It's like being in the studio audience as opposed to being at home.
Thank you, sir.
One step closer.
I'd like to uh just ask about the uh Somali pirates and maybe your take.
The uh this this is you mean the merchant marine organizers.
Yes, uh, I'm sorry, I always mislabel things.
I don't know why.
Maybe I listen to you too too much.
I which is not true.
Uh right to what I wanted to say was do you think that the Clinton administration uh during their time in their foreign policy should take some of the responsibility for the failure of Somalia to not be able to uh take itself into the city?
Now that's a fascinating point.
You know what?
That's a fascinating point.
Since this administration loves to go back and blame George Bush for everything, that's an excellent point out there, Richard.
The Somali pirates are from where?
Somalia.
Does the name Mogadishu ring a bell?
Mogadishu is the capital city, if you want to call it a city, and it happens to be the site of one of the most embarrassing incidents, not because of the military, but because of the Clinton administration in modern American military history, Blackhawk Down.
We originally went into Somalia because the New York Times published a picture of a starving kid with flies buzzing all around his belly.
That picture on the front page of the New York Times convinced George Bush 41 we had to send in uh U.S. military personnel to deliver meals on wheels.
The media awaited them on the beach at Somalia when they arrived.
The media went in and we started passing out the food, and the lead warlord, Mohammed Mahib Sahib Skyhookadu, whatever his name was, he and his thugs came in, took all the food.
They shot people trying to feed themselves, raw grain.
This led to a increase in hostilities.
And the increase in hostilities resulted in the deaths of four or five U.S. Army Rangers, one of which was paraded nude through town.
Pictures of that were seen.
At that point, the Clinton administration pulled out.
It was that incident, by the way, that Osama bin Laden told John Martin or uh uh John uh a reporter on ABC.
That's when we knew the Americans become a paper tiger.
They can't take any losses.
Americans can't take any pain.
That's what that's what been the that that episode.
And the Somali pirates are born of that culture.
That is Richard's point.
And so he's asking, shouldn't we maybe blame the Clintons for pulling out of there before that situation was buttoned down.
By the way, Mrs. Clinton keeps talking about these are criminals.
Grab soundbite um, grab soundbite number four.
This is Mrs. Clinton at a press conference yesterday.
We consider it a very serious matter.
Uh these uh people are nothing more than criminals, and we are bringing to bear a number of our assets, including uh naval and uh FBI uh work uh in order to resolve the hostage situation and uh bring the pirates to justice.
Piracy may be a centuries old crime, but we are uh working to bring an appropriate twenty-first century uh response.
Uh the previous responses were much better than whatever you're concocting now.
Previous responses didn't put up with it.
They are not criminals, Mrs. Clinton.
They are terrorists.
This is one of your precious foreign contingencies.
They're not criminals.
We touched on this yesterday.
Back with much more after this.
You know, newspapers print endless phony stories every day.
Endless phony stories every day.
Yet there is a front page quote unquote story today, the Los Angeles Times, that just has Los Angeles Times journalists outraged.
I will tell you about it in mere moments.
But first I want you to listen to this soundbite.
This is from last night on CNN.
Program No Bias No Bull, hosted by the fill-in host Roland Martin.
He interviewed the commander of the USS Cole.
That was uh blown up over there in um in Yemen.
And Roland Martin says the U.S. government, they don't negotiate with terrorists.
So exactly what are the FBI, the Navy allowed to do in this situation, and what can't they do?
First, we're not negotiating with terrorists.
We're negotiating with pirates.
Piracy is a business opportunity.
They have a very effective business model.
Obviously, a terrorist is someone who tries to deter and disrupt for a political goal and to wreak havoc and tear on a society.
Pirates, on the other hand, are stopping these vessels so that they can hold them for ransom.
It's a very effective business model.
The shipping industry and the insurance companies have given in to their demands numerous times over the years, and so consequently it is a criminal activity, not a terrorist activity.
That's the commander of the USS Cole, Kirk Liphold, but he's wrong.
It is not criminal activity.
It has not traditionally been treated that way by the world.
It has been treated as acts against humanity.
These people have not been brought to court.
They have not been mirandized.
But this is funny.
They have an effective business model.
So we get somebody on CNN talking about the effective business model of these Somali merchant marine organizers.
And on the same network, we are treated to stories day after day after day about what a rotten bunch of CEOs Americans are.
Rotten business model, but these guys who are thieves.
And tell, by the way, tell the captain of this vessel he's not being terrorized.
Here's Natalie, 13 years old.
I just saw this.
Natalie in Beverly Hills, California.
Great to have you on the program, Natalie.
Hi.
Hi.
First of all, I wanted to tell you, discuss with you about the infatuation my school has with President Obama.
Look, this guy pretty much scares me because I want to be a CEO one day.
And I walk through the hallways and I see big pictures of him.
I go into the library one day, and there's a huge framed photograph of President Obama.
And I asked, where's the pres the picture that we used to have of George Bush?
Which we didn't.
I wanted to know why there wasn't a picture of George Bush up and why there was just something of President Obama.
That scared me completely.
Well, at 13, this alarmed you, scared you to see pictures of the uh the the uh great leader uh all over the hallways of your schools.
It did.
They they treat him like he's a king.
He's he's like the second coming.
I mean, why?
Do you know why they do?
Because they say they say it's such a historic moment that they want us to all relish in it.
I don't want to really.
What what what what what do they say is historic?
They say he's the first African American presidents we should all relish in it.
I said any president is an historic moment.
Uh they had an inauguration party practically for him.
They made a stopped all their classes to watch him being inaugurated.
Do you do you share these concerns with anybody at school?
Nobody, not one person.
Do you share these concerns with your parents?
Yes.
My whole family's very conservative.
What is your parents, what do your parents say when you tell them these stories?
They tell me that I am right, and the rest of the world is just completely crazy, and they will one day when our country gets down in economic dump that we will one day get out of it, and other people will realize exactly how wrong they were.
We hope.
You know, this is the thing is, Natalie, there have been so many of these kinds of teachable moments over the years that people have seemingly not learned from.
But I I you are um you're right on the button with why they think this is historical.
You know, and they're wrong about it because it the this the historical aspect is over now.
And presidents are not kings, and we don't idolize them.
And we don't bow down to them.
Apparently our presidents bow down to Saudi kings.
But this is a this is a circus.
I'll tell you what's driving this among not only the people that run your school and the students there, but elsewhere where this is the prevailing thought, and that is a supreme sense of guilt.
Slavery is considered to be our original sin.
And so it doesn't matter.
The substance of things doesn't matter.
Color of his skin is all that does matter.
You've you've uh if the you're running into this.
I hope you're able to remain steadfast.
I hope you don't give up your dream of being a CEO.
Uh I hope you're able to navigate your way through this.
And if you are, and you remain true and steadfast to what you believe, you'll find some converts along the way.
There are probably some that exist like you that are just afraid to say anything, but they're talking about it at home.
I'm glad you called.
Really nice to talk to you.
We'll be back.
You know, if Natalie called here and said that Bush scared her, she would be a media star by five o'clock this afternoon.
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