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April 27, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 27, 2009, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
Imagine a flu outbreak.
Swine flu, bird flu, Democrat flu, whatever.
Imagine a flu outbreak and George W. Bush going to play golf.
And getting hourly reports on the golf course.
This flu, folks, let me tell you something.
Nothing to worry about.
Nothing to sweat here.
I'm not going to worry about this outbreak of flu until Fox News puts Geraldo Rivera on 24 hours a day.
Geraldo Rivera is the grim reaper.
And when enough people start dying from this, then we'll get Geraldo all day and night.
And he'll be in 15 different cities at one time to uh to report on it.
Great to be back with you, folks.
How are you?
Rush Limbaugh here behind the golden EIB microphone at the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882, and the uh email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Well, everybody's getting all caught up in the hundred days.
The press is running in numerous uh numerous stories about the about the hundred days, and there's the this giant disconnect.
There's absolutely not one thing that has been fixed.
Not one thing that this administration has taken on has even been improved.
And yet President Obama's approval numbers are higher than ever.
And this means, ladies and gentlemen, that there is a perception of President Obama that is nowhere near the reality of President Obama, and this phenomenon is going to continue until at somehow,
some way, President Obama can uh can be tied to all of the failures that his administration is racking up till he can be tied to them in terms that he will be held responsible.
And that's going to be very, very, very, very difficult.
Because of the cult-like belief and status that President Obama benefits from.
The uh uh situation is that he's trying, and he uh he cares.
And he's got a magic word.
Barack Obama has a magic word.
Bush.
He's actually got another magic word, torture.
Any time the administration wants to distract anybody from economic news, failures here, failures there, just bring up torture.
In fact, there's there's a story.
This is this unreal.
Where is let me find this?
What did I do with this?
I hit it on the top of the stack.
I cannot believe it.
I uh let's see.
Well, it doesn't matter.
I can do it off the top of my head.
Eric Holder, who's our attorney.
Oh, by the way, by the way, I need to point out here on this flu stuff.
We got some Obama soundbites coming up.
He said, not to worry.
Where's this cause for alarm, but not panic?
But Obama has not yet chosen a Sturgeon General or even put in a director of the centers for disease control and prevention.
Now, let me how does that affect you, Mr. Snerdling?
I'm just running a little test here.
Uh, uh, well, well, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
We don't have a surgeon general, we don't have uh centers for disease control, director.
I asked sturdily, what does this mean?
He says it means we don't need one, we can handle it without them.
I understand what you're saying.
But to me, the concern over not having a surgeon, what's a surgeon general do anyway, but teach kids how to masturbate so as to prevent AIDS?
Hello, Jocelyn Elders.
What's an attorney what's an attorney general do except run around and attack Joe Camill to get kids not to sword.
What's the attorney just says surgeon general?
What's the surgeon general do?
The surgeon general doesn't even perform surgeon surgery.
I have yet to see the Surgeon General of this country in my lifetime actually operate on anybody.
And the the Centers for Disease Control, hell, that's such a big bureaucracy.
I doubt that anybody running that place knows everything going on there at any one time anyway.
So sturdily's for well, they don't you don't, you don't, you don't it proves they're not needed.
Yes, because we will deal with this.
Why is Mexico got 108 cases and we have 40.
Probably differences in health care, for one thing, probably di sanitation, plus NAFTA.
We know we exported NAFTA down there, including a lot of diseases.
But uh, folks, the dirty little secret here is there's no cause for panic that we don't have a surgeon general.
I mean, it's it's it's an easy way to criticize Obama, but the way to criticize him on that is to say he doesn't even care.
I mean, it's he he's that these are inconsequential things to even him.
He's gonna handle the surgeon general job.
He's he's gonna handle the swine flu.
He's gonna pre-ever that comes along like this, President Bamster is is going to exploit it for his own benefit.
Look, here's here's here's the lesson here, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
And you can find it in uh in Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals.
By the way, we had a big weekend, you know, the first of two of my annual spring flings, a bunch of friends in over the weekend.
As you can imagine, a lot of discussion about uh politics, current events, and so forth.
One of the big discussion topics of who is it that's really running Obama?
A lot of people think that he's just he's he's never president.
He's either out making speeches, playing golf, or going to dinner.
He gets to the orbital office at nine o'clock in the morning.
Who's actually president?
So people started throwing names around.
Well, who's who's really the man behind the curtain, who's really running Obama?
We got all kinds of names.
Axelrod, George Soros, somebody even thought that it was King um King what's it, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
And that that's why uh that theory was interesting, too.
It's King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, that's why Obama bowed to him.
And the theory is that if here's and this this is why the theory, oh, this is very crucial to you understanding it.
One day last week Obama says we're not going to investigate officially the lawyers in the Bush administration who came up with these methods of torture.
We want to move forward.
The next day, had a meeting there with King Abdullah of Jordan and said just the opposite.
Well, we're not going to investigate the interrogators, but we are going to look into the and a friend at the uh at the at the Springfleet said, Now, what the hell happened overnight?
Did he go upstairs to the residence and Michelle Obama after a phone call would move on.org and said, hey, you are forgetting who put you in here, pal.
You go out there tomorrow and you say we are going to investigate Bush.
Then the theory was evolved that he bowed down to the King of Saudi Arabia because the king is actually running Obama running the show, and the theory there is that if our enemies, i.e., terrorist, militant Islamo-fascists, can paralyze us to the point we won't defend ourselves, which is what this interrogation stuff is all about.
I mean, how why in the world release pictures of it?
Why why threaten to do it?
I mean, you're trying to paralyze the entire defense mechanism here that we use against Islamo-fascist terrorism or any other kind of terrorism.
And so the enemies of America, which are many, if they can persuade us or convince some sycophant doing their dirty work in this example Obama, to paralyze our ability to defend ourselves, then we are right where they want us.
Uh I in trying to determine if anybody or who is uh behind Obama and running the show, I actually think if you if you wanted to have to name a person, if he had to name a person, uh you'd probably have to say it was Saul Alinsky.
Uh rules for radicals.
What you do, and as you see this here, this this flu is being exploited precisely as a Saul Alinsky would advise it.
You convince the people that you are defending them against things that threatens them.
Banks, the rich, uh, whoever, but not your real enemies.
You don't ever mention your real enemies, at least international enemies.
But you convince the people that you are defending them against things that threaten them, like the banks and the uh uh automobile companies and uh all big business, you know, all these people that have put the screws to You for years.
Now the flu, you are protecting the people from the scourge of the swine flu.
And what you do is you you enlist them without their knowledge.
You enlist them into your revolution.
And I think that's a pretty good analysis and explanation of uh of what's happening and the way Obama is is setting and using all of the setting all this up and using all these various news events that uh that come down the pike.
Uh for you know, Republican presidents can never go play golf in a recession.
They couldn't play golf uh when we're at war, and they certainly couldn't go play golf when the country thought we were under the attack of the swine flu.
And this, you know, they they were said to be uncaring and uh and disconnected, but none of those traits ever attach to President Obama.
And I think I look at Obama, he strikes me as uh as a good time, fairly lazy individual, not a deep thinker, but a true ideologue.
And he's soaked up all the stuff that he's been exposed to.
Most of this stuff that he's doing was predicted.
We predicted what was going to happen in the auto industry, the banking business.
We predicted because it was easily predictable.
Media tried to tell us Obama's a centrist.
He was not.
He never has been a centrist.
Some conservatives told us Obama was a centrist, particularly in forest foreign policy.
Uh he's not and was not.
So it's just it's it's fascinating to uh watch this.
I mean, so Obama's figured out, folks, something very easy to figure out.
He can say anything without challenge.
He can do anything without challenge.
He can do almost anything he wishes without effective obstruction.
Because he's got the numbers in Congress.
Harry Reed out there saying, Well, this guy gives a better speech than anybody in the world ever gave a speech, and Obama thanking Reed for the compliments, yes, I have a gift.
Most people just say thank you.
Or use some self-deprecating humor as I do when such compliments are uh are given.
But we're in the middle here of one-party rule, and I mean one-party rule.
When the Republicans hold Congress and the Presidency, we have our McCain's again, Lindsey Graham's and all these people that are trying to sabotage us.
But there's no such sabotage or obstruction of Obama from within his own party.
He goes out there and promises all of these things, promises this and that.
But he's not saved the auto industry.
He hasn't saved the stock market, he hadn't saved any jobs, he hadn't saved business closures, he hasn't saved consumer spending, he saved nothing.
He has not increased the uh the uh supply of energy, he's not made the air and the water cleaner, he's not strengthened the dollar.
But he's trying.
And he cares.
The reality of Obama, as I say, is far different than the perception that he and his handlers have created.
And despite, despite all of these puff piece 100-day stories, and how Obama is just universally loved and popular.
Like hear the political, a story from uh from this morning, Obama scores high marks in polls.
Just so damn popular, and yet I have four stories here of abject failure of the Obama administration from the perspective of people who voted for him, who don't yet blame him.
It's still he was inherited all this stuff from Bush.
Anyway, we'll get to that.
Oh, and grab audio soundbite number four.
This is hilarious.
The teleprompter screwed with our president today.
You know, he's up there, he's announcing three percent of GDP will be spent on science.
From where?
Private sector or government?
No need we ask.
It'll be from the uh from the government.
And he was at the National Academy of Sciences, where he was going to announce uh this big plan to spend all this money on science, and he's going through the speech, he notices that he's introducing people he's already introduced.
So he tells the teleprompter to speed up.
Our co-chairs have already been introduced, uh, Dr. Varmas and Dr. Lander, uh, along With uh John, and uh this council represents leaders from many scientific disciplines who will bring a diversity of experiences and views.
And I will charge PCAS with advising me about national strategies to nurture and sustain a culture of scientific innovation.
In addition to John Sorry, the the uh I just noticed that uh I I jumped the gun here.
Go ahead and move it up.
I'd already admit I had already introduced all you guys.
He's forgotten who they are.
He forgotten who they are already, just had to mention their names again while they sped the peleprompter because forgotten who they were for.
You didn't even know.
General Motors, 21,000 more jobs down the drain, and they're gonna they're gonna eliminate the Pontiac brand, Barack Obama saving the auto industry.
Unbelievable.
Great to have you back here, folks, Rush Limbaugh and a brand new week of broadcast excellence here.
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Here's a couple sound bites here.
Soundbites two and three, Mike.
This uh Obama have been getting regular updates on the swine flu crisis.
Of course, on Sunday, he had to handle a crisis from the golf course.
Our sound bites are from this morning at the National Academy of Sciences and meeting.
We are closely monitoring the emerging cases of swine flu in the United States.
And this is obviously a cause for concern and requires a heightened state of alert.
But it's not a cause for alarm.
I'm getting regular updates on the situation from the responsible agencies and the Department of Health and Human Services, as well as the Centers for Disease Control will be offering regular updates to the American people.
All right, so he's sitting on it, folks.
He's on top of the crisis, making sure that none of you will get sick.
One thing is clear.
Our capacity to deal with a public health challenge of this sort rests heavily on the work of our scientific and medical community.
Exploitation.
And this is one more example of why we can't allow our nation to fall behind.
Well.
Unfortunately, that's exactly what's happened.
Bush did it.
Federal funding in the physical sciences, as a portion of our gross domestic product, has fallen by nearly half over the past quarter century.
Those damn Republicans are just ruining the country.
But I, the messiah, President Barack Obama, I'm going to restore all the spending these evil Republicans cut from your science budget and from your health care, and that's why their swine flew, because Bush was in the White House.
We're gonna fix this.
That is true.
Canada found out about this before we did.
Do you know that Canada found out about what was happening down in Mexico before we did?
Yeah, and you know what they'll say is the reason?
Well, Canada's got national health care.
Of course they would find out that they'll I'm telling you, they will exploit everything in order to expand government and to limit personal liberty and uh and and freedom.
And how about this?
You know, one of the early victims of the swine flu was the guy who shook Obama's hand at the museum in Mexico City when he went down there in a little stop here before he went to the summit of the uh of the Americas.
Anyway, uh President Obama's on top of this, no need to worry about it.
Uh he's gonna is he's gonna make sure that uh country doesn't fall behind.
There are probably gonna be more out more cases of swine flu in other countries than here in the United States, and we still are gonna listen to President Obama talk about how we need to stop falling behind.
Now, I mentioned the the hundred days and the obsession that the drive-bys have.
Obama scores high marks, and he does for how he's handled his job the first three months in office, according to new polls released as the 100-day anniversary of his presidency approaches.
I mean, all these approval numbers are sky high through the roof.
After the failure to fix the automobile business, after the banks continue to fail after there's no more credit in the financial system, uh after everything that they have taken on and they say get it fixed after the stimulus bill, nothing of substance has improved, and yet the approval ratings are through the roof.
Which has produced, in addition to the fawning stories, I've I've got four here, two of them from the Washington Post that are frankly surprising to me.
Frankly, that they ran these stories.
In the Washington Post by Eli Saslow, title of the or the call headline is A hundred Anxious Days.
In the South Carolina town where the downturn has deepened since the inauguration, two Obama supporters have struggled, going from fired up to tired out.
Listen, I got read the whole thing to you.
I wish I could, but it's six pages.
Listen to this.
Greenwood, South Carolina, her cordless phone stores 17 voice messages.
Tonight the inbox is full.
Edith Childs, 60, grabs a bottle of water, tosses her hat in the living room floor, scowl at the blinking red light.
A county councilwoman, she spent the past 12 hours driving rural roads in her 2001 Toyota Camry, trying to solve Greenwood's problems, but only now begins the part of each day that exhausts her.
She slumps into an armless chair and turns on her voicemail.
Hi, Miss Edith, this is Rose.
I'm calling about my light bill at $420.
No way I can pay it.
Edith, it's fancing.
They stopped by my house again today talking about foreclosure.
I don't know what to do.
Can you call me?
Childs leans back, closes her eyes, her hair is matted with sweat.
Thin rimmed glasses slink low on her nose.
Every few minutes she stirs to jot notes on a to-do list that fills most of the notebook.
This story goes on about economic misery in South Carolina.
All these people voted for Obama.
None of it's getting fixed.
As usual, my friends, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
I want to return to this Washington Post story.
It's actually from yesterday upon the failures.
I mean, the abject misery that's out there in people's lives who thought Obama was going to fix all of this.
So we're picking up here with uh with Edith Childs, who is 60.
She is a county councilwoman in Greenwood, South Carolina.
She just listening to her cell phone or voicemail with 13 minutes of complaint calls from people who can't pay the light bill, uh, house going to be foreclosed on.
She has to remind herself, it says here.
She ran for county council in 1998 because she coveted this role, the unofficial protector, activist, and psychologist for her hometown.
Back then, the hardships of Greenwood, 22,000 people separated from the nearest interstate by 40 miles, struck Childs as contained.
Now she sometimes wonders aloud to her husband Charles, when does all this stop?
Hey, Edith.
Have you noticed it's spreading and getting worse, Edith?
In the last hundred days, I just add that as an editorial comment.
Across the dark living room, one of Edith Child's favorite pictures is displayed on a worn coffee table.
It shows Edith Childs with her arms wrapped around Barack Obama, his hand on her back, her eyes glowing.
They met at a rally, attended by 37 supporters on a rainy day in 2007, when Edith Childs responded to Obama's sluggishness on stage with an impromptu chant.
Fired up, ready to go.
She repeated it, shouting it louder each time until Obama laughed and dipped his shoulders to the rhythm.
The chant caught on.
Fired up, people began saying at rallies, ready to go, Obama chanted back.
He told audiences about Edith Childs, a spirited little lady, invited her on stage at campaign appearances.
By the day of his inauguration, when Childs led a busload of strangers bound for the mall in her new iconic chant, her transformation was complete.
She was Edith Childs fired up and ready to go.
Remember now the headline of the story is going from fired up to tired out.
But now, as Obama nears the 100-day milestone of his presidency, Edith Childs suffers from constant exhaustion.
In a conservative Southern state that bolstered Obama's candidacy by supporting him early in the Democrat primaries, she awakens at 2 30 a.m. with stress headaches, remains awake, mulling all that's befallen Greenwood, South Carolina since Obama's swearing in.
On day four of his presidency, a textile plant there lead off 101 workers.
On day 23, the food bank set a record for meals served.
On day 50, the hospital fired 200 employees and warned of more.
On day 71, the school superintendent called a staff meeting and told his principals we're losing 10% of our budget.
That means some of us won't have jobs next year.
The rest should expect job changes and pay cuts.
On day 78.
The town's newly elected Democrat mayor, whose campaign was inspired by his admiration for Obama.
Summarized Greenwood, South Carolina is accelerating fragility.
This is crippling us, and there's no sign of it turning around, said wellborn Adams.
On day 88, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that South Carolina had set a record for its highest unemployment rate in state history at 11.4%.
Greenwood's unemployment is 13%, more than twice what it was when Childs first started chanting for Obama in 2007.
And in this little town, his approval rating is in the 90s.
There's another story here.
Another woman at 38 lost her job on day 20 of the Obama presidency.
She was nearing the end of her Friday afternoon shift on the assembly line at Tycho Healthcare, stuffing three packets of diapers into each passing cardboard box for nine bucks an hour when a manager asked to see her hackett cleaned out her locker on the way to her office or his office.
What?
Was he going to give me a raise?
Uh-uh.
Not happening.
Not in Greenwood, South Carolina.
And I mean, you you go through the whole story and here.
One more paragraph, and I'll give you the P.A.'s.
On day 85 of the Obama presidency, Yvonne Hackett wakes up, swaps her usual blue sweatpants or a pair of ironed capriz and a denim jacket.
Eight silver bracelets are divided between two wrists.
Her hair is pulled into tight dreadlocks, which a friend twisted until 11 the night before.
As Yvonne Hackett stands up to leave her parents' house, she completes her outfit with a pair of pink high heels, purchased at the bargain basement price of 1599 because she managed to squeeze into the children's size.
I want people to look at me and think classy.
I don't want anybody thinking I'm a know-nothing loser.
If you read the story, you find out what they ask, well, what why all these problems?
It's just getting worse and worse and worse.
And they just say, well, I guess we're just not that high on his priority list yet.
I guess we're just not that high on his priority list.
In other words, he's trying.
He's working in other parts of the country right now to pay people's electric bills.
And he's stopping home foreclosures in other parts of the country.
But these people know that their little towns 40 miles away from an interstate.
That is Edith, what's your name?
Knows Obama personally, but still, I guess we're not that high on his priority list.
Meaning he's going to get to us.
He's going to get to us.
It just he must think that there's something else out there he has to do first.
So you guys the perception versus the reality.
By the way, folks, if the pig flu is not enough to scare you, birds might kill you.
If you're worried about dying from, if you're not worried about dying from a pig flu, they're going to want you to die from from birds.
The number of collisions between airplanes and birds is surging.
This, according to data released Friday, that highlight how little is known about the threat of bird strikes aviation.
So it's either bird flu, pig flu, or bird strikes on airplanes.
We are targeted, folks.
And what this means is all living organisms other than humans have had it with us.
And they're targeting us.
Reports of wildlife strikes, similar To the to the one that forced the U.S. Airways jet to make an emergency landing on the Hudson River.
More than quadrupled to 7,666 in 2007 from just 1700 in 1990.
The report said the increase has been spurred by a combination of rising bird populations, a growing number of flights at U.S. airports, and a greater focus on reporting among what now wait a minute.
I thought we were killing species.
I thought we were destroying.
I thought we cut back on the number of flights, too.
Jet fuel got way up there.
And a greater focus on reporting among airlines, plane wildlife collisions, have killed 219 people and destroyed 200 airplanes worldwide since 1988.
Such incidents cost the U.S. aviation industry about 628 million dollars a year.
Well, that's no big deal because Obama's announcing this new program.
Yeah.
Um where is it?
We're announcing uh new program here at ah, here it is, food stamps.
We're announcing a brand new food stamp program and and the 20 billion dollars in federal stimulus money to the food stamp program, and Obama administration says there's gonna be up 400 million dollars will be lost to fraud.
They just announce it.
400 million dollars will be lost to fraud.
They just budgeted in there.
Now I thought Obama was going to go through the budget line by line and stop all of this.
So $628 million a year in um damage the aviation industry, $400 million a year in fraud in the food stamp program.
Jump change.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
Grand Poobah, the United Nations, now warning of a worldwide swine flu pandemic worldwide.
And uh people in some states are being told to go not to go outside.
As though that's gonna don't go outside.
And anyway, uh, ladies and gentlemen, I'm your panicked.
You're your daughter's going to New York City this week.
Uh was it some school trip?
Yeah.
Well, that alone is reason not to let her go.
Who knows what the school's gonna do with your kid once they get him to New York City.
Uh you're worried about the flu up there, they got eight cases of it up there.
Yeah.
I know I have to go to Los Angeles tomorrow.
Uh well, no.
I uh no, no, I I would not stop me from trying.
I I just we've got 40 cases.
We have 40 cases.
We're getting the U.N. chief.
I I tell you, there's the way our culture and society works, I mean, this is being re Oh, there's a crisis.
It's a pandemic.
All of this is by design, is designed to get people to respond to government orders not to do things or to do things.
It is designed to expand the role and power of governments and uh and schools.
I'm and then and the media, of course, just falls right in line here with uh with amplifying the nature of the uh of the crisis.
I mean, at any one time, how many people in this country have the flu?
I mean, the flu is a common thing.
People take flu shots for it, some do, some don't.
But at any one time, we have 40 cases of flu in this country anyway.
That's right, that through Mether Limbo, but this is the thwine flu.
So it's a worth rain.
Worse strain.
Okay.
Um it's sad to see so many people want to fall along and fall in line with all this.
I'm gonna grab a couple phone calls here before the hour ends, but uh uh been deluged with requests to replay President Obama being screwed here by his teleprompter.
Our co-chairs have already been introduced, uh, Dr. Varmas and Dr. Lander, uh, along with uh John and uh this council represents leaders from many scientific disciplines who will bring a diversity of experiences and views.
And I will charge PCAST with advising me about national strategies to nurture and sustain a culture of scientific innovation.
In addition to John Sorry that the uh I just noticed that uh I I jumped the gun here.
Go ahead and move it up.
I'd already admitted I had already introduced all you guys.
You already introduced them.
They're sitting there.
I mean, he could have covered, he could have vamped, he could have introduced them again as a joke, but he forgot who they are.
They're sitting right there, doesn't know their names.
So he has to tell a teleprompter to speed it up that he jumped the gun.
He went off prompter.
And this is very strange.
The prompter knew that he I mean the prompter had to know that he'd gone off prompter, but the prompter didn't know what to do then, because it doesn't usually happen.
So the prompter just the prompter got paralyzed.
It just stopped.
Normally, the prompter, when you go off the prompt, your prompter tries to follow along and pick up where you left off and you're gonna resume, but there was a total breakdown here in.
I love this prompter.
I you know, this every now and then this prompter just shows Obama who the boss is.
I just I just love it.
All right, we're gonna start in uh Salt Lake City.
This is Christopher, great to have you for you up first today on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush, how are you?
Fine, thank you, sir.
Good.
Hey, I was just calling to uh because I'd heard about the uh website that Obama uh or the prompter put up uh recently to help uh us uh homeowners in trouble.
So I went ahead and filled up the form and I got just inundated with law firms all throughout the nation.
I mean, I want to keep up with this.
This was the website to help you pay your mortgage.
Well, the website that you talked about, uh homeowner dash I can't remember the URL right now or the address right now.
Uh but homeowner.gov.
Yeah, homeowner.gov or some such thing, and this was just warning you not to be taken in by charlatans trying to sell you something that only rely on the government for whatever.
Okay.
So you went online and you filled out the form online, and then what happened?
And I got inundated with uh law firms from throughout the nation.
I kid you not.
What did they want they wanted $2,700 to renegotiate my mortgages?
You mean you filled out President Obama's form on the website that was set up to help you deal with uh uh uh a housing problem that you had.
Yes, sir.
And then the next thing you knew you were being solicited by law firms throughout the country who wanted 2700 to renegotiate your mortgage?
Yes, sir.
I told them if I had the 2700 dollars, I wouldn't be behind.
But uh I mean that's true.
I mean, give me 2700 bucks, I could I could get current.
Well, they think they said they would take uh three installments.
One uh one firm that I talked to.
But uh nine hundred dollars, which is more than my mortgage.
But the the but even this surprise.
I mean, I'm not surprised that that that some vulture law firms would would be associated with Obama to try to nick you for 2700 bucks.
But what surprises me here is that Obama led me to believe, and I'm sure you too, that when you watched him that you're gonna be interacting with the government here.
The government, Obama's gonna make sure that somehow your mortgage lender or holder is not going to be able to take advantage of you.
Correct.
Right.
Well, fine.
Maybe they didn't, but law firm wants to.
You know it.
I couldn't believe it.
All of a sudden everybody's calling me up uh wanting me to uh sign up right away with them.
They would renegotiate my uh mortgages and uh that I'd have to pay for it.
And uh, I was like, well, wait a minute, I thought this was a government uh thing, and uh no, no, no, no, no, we just get the leads from them.
Yeah.
And that's so what Obama's doing is delivering qualified leads to law firms.
That's so I just I didn't know if you'd covered it.
I thought you should know about it.
Uh, and and everybody else to know about it that's uh that it's uh pretty much a dead end.
I mean, unless you got 2700 bucks laying around.
Interesting.
Uh I hope maybe we'll hear some more uh more examples from people like you who have interacted with homeowner save my rear end.gov, whatever it is, uh, who may have been besieged with solicitations from law firms from all over the country.
Uh it's that's it's just not Enough time to be fair with another caller.
Not enough time, and there's nobody up there that I see that I would like to be unfair with.
So we'll just take a brief Profit Center timeout.
We'll come back after this.
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The mayor of New York bans trans fats.
Then calories were posted on menus.
Now the mayor of New York and the Department of Health is taking on salt.
And we warned you about this three weeks ago.
City officials are making a meeting with food makers and restaurants to discuss reducing the amount of salt in common foods such as soup, pasta sauce, salad dressing, and bread.
Dr. Lynn Silver, an assistant commissioner in the health department, says it's very hard for an individual to reduce salt intake on his own.
It's very hard for the individual to do this.
And see, unlike sugar, there's no substitute for salt.
Now, with all due apologies to Paris Hilton, the Bible does say that we are to be the salt of the earth.
You know what that means?
What's with salt of the earth?
It means we are to give the earth flavor and zest.
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