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April 30, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 30, 2009, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Right on schedule, right on schedule in a few short minutes.
The President of the United States, Barack Peron, will announce his Argentinian-like takeover of Chrysler.
Yeah, we don't hear much about Juan Peron anymore.
We hear about a Vita, but this is what's happening to Chrysler today.
The president's going to announce it here according to the schedule in uh four minutes.
Right out of Juan Peron's playbook.
Left wing fascism coming up for Chrysler.
Hey, folks, great to have you with us.
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I watched it last night.
I did not.
I did not watch it last night.
I did not watch the press conference last night.
I uh I've heard all about it.
I've uh I've seen it.
I uh I didn't watch it.
I was I watched, you know, I I had to veg last night.
I I'd got an hour and a half asleep the night before.
And I went home and I just I watched a movie, I watched Lost, and then I crashed.
I forgot the president was even on.
Uh and I, but I I heard it all about the enchanted question and the stuff.
That's what happens.
That's what happens with the feminization of our culture.
That was a New York Times question.
A New York some enchanted evening.
Yeah, we've got the soundbites from it and so forth.
But the um the Chrysler bankruptcy is going to be announced in mere moments.
Well, yeah, and then but that's really that's just this sets the stage for what's coming.
Now it's being portrayed as a uh a legal bankruptcy rather than a political one, but I'm not so sure.
This, by the way, uh quick question: how many deaths from swine flu around the world?
You know, do you know how many it is, Brian?
How many how many deaths around the world from the swine flu?
I'm stunned, Brian got it.
Brian got it right at seven.
There are only seven swine flu deaths, and they're all in Mexico.
This is according to the World Health Organization.
If you watch the drive by media, you would think, like H.R. just said, 55.
You would think everybody's dropping from this.
It's actually not as dangerous a strain of flu as some of the ordinary common flus.
In fact, if you get this flu, it might not be all that bad a thing because you'll build up some antibodies to whatever mutations happen during the forthcoming flu season.
It's kind of like getting a flu shot.
Uh average age of the person's come down with this is 16, by the way.
Again, according to the World Health Organization.
So seven people uh have died from the swine flu.
So there's the president out.
He's announcing what's gonna happen.
How many we don't we know what's gonna happen?
I'll tell you here in mere moments exactly what this is.
As President Barack Peron announces um what's gonna happen to Chrysler.
This this bankruptcy today for Chrysler that took place after how many billions of dollars in bailout money.
What do we give Chrysler?
10 billion, 15 billion?
I I get them sometimes confused with General Motors, but the point is, the point is, what does this prove?
We gave them billions, we gave them multiple fortunes to bail Chrysler out, and what's happening today?
It didn't wound up in the same place.
It didn't work.
That was your money, folks, that's down the rat hole.
That was your taxpayer dollars, whether it's today's dollars, printed dollars, taxed dollars tomorrow, or what have you.
It's money from the private sector that's down the rat hole.
Because it didn't work.
And what this means is that the law of economics, laws of economics cannot be changed.
Liberalism is a failure.
So this, if you ask me, and I know many of you do.
The way to look at this today, the president announces what's happening to Chrysler.
This is a huge Barack Obama failure.
Now, well, actually, at the end of the day, it's a dynamic success for Barack Obama.
This is precisely what he wants to happen.
The United Auto Workers ending up with majority control of this company.
But in terms of the way he sold this, only the government can do this.
Remember, only the government can save these companies, only the government can save our economy, only the government this.
Well, this is on his head now.
He set up the committee to prevent what's happening today, the bankruptcy of Chrysler.
He set up the committee to prevent it.
He supported billions of dollars to subsidize Chrysler so that this would not happen.
Last night in the press conference, he all but took credit for preventing this.
And yet today here it is happening, crashing down on his head.
So from the standpoint of what Barack Obama told the people of this country, this is a failure from the standpoint of what he secretly always wanted to accomplish.
It's a huge success.
But from the standpoint of telling us what he was going to do, and it's going to save the auto business.
We had to do this.
Only the government can do it.
It's not being saved, is it?
Standard old bankruptcy is what's taking place right now, controlled by the government.
So this is a huge President Obama failure.
We were told this was going to save Chrysler, and it hasn't.
Now you may be wondering, why are you calling him Barack Peron?
Well, I'll tell you, because this Chrysler deal is reminiscent of Peronism.
Juan Peron of Argentina.
Here's what you it's classic, undiluted Juan Peronism.
You intimidate lawful debt holders into surrendering their legitimate claims in a bankruptcy, i.e.
the bondholders.
The same thing is going to happen at General Motors.
The bondholders, private sector investors, have 27 billion dollars in bonds.
UAW has 10 billion dollars in bonds, but the UAW is going to get 39% of General Motors.
In the case of Chrysler, I don't know what the breakdown is in terms of the bondholders, what percentage they own versus the union and its percentage of bonds.
But the lawful debt holders, the private sector debt holders of being intimidated here into surrendering their legitimate claims into bankruptcy because it just can't work.
It's good money after bad.
We tried, we tried.
We sent how many?
10, 15 billion dollars.
We tried.
We failed.
It didn't work.
But we can't let this company go south.
It's the auto industry and so forth.
So after you intimidate lawful bond uh uh uh debt holders, the bondholders, into surrendering their legitimate claims in a bankruptcy.
By the way, to illustrate this again, during the beginning of this this so-called crisis in the um automobile sector, when bankruptcy was first suggested and proposed.
Do you remember what the initial rejection to it was?
There were two.
Well, no, no, no, who's going to buy a car from bankrupt company?
Nobody's gonna do that, plus the bondholders to get killed.
Company wouldn't survive, but bankruptcy and the and the bondholders, the private sector investors would get killed, remember?
That's what happens in a bankruptcy.
You're basically telling your creditors, we're out of there, we're gonna reorganize.
You may get some back, but certainly not all of it.
So that is what precisely has happened here.
In the the lawful debt holders have been intimidated into surrendering their legitimate claims in a bankruptcy.
The next thing you do, right out of the pages of Juan Peron, you force state-owned banks, and we have state-owned banks, don't we now?
Notice the bankruptcy is happening after the bank takeovers.
After nationalization of a certain percentage of some banks.
Isn't it interesting the timing here?
So you force state-owned banks, and you don't really have to force them because they're yours anyway, and these state-owned banks, they're the big lenders to Chrysler over the years.
You force them to give up most of their claims into bankruptcy.
Because you got to save the company.
I mean, that's the bottom level.
We've got to save the company for America.
And then, after you have forced the lawful debt holders to surrender their claims, and the state-owned banks, the big lenders to give up most of their claims in a bankruptcy, then what do you do?
You hand the company to your union allies.
Fifty-five percent of Chrysler today will be owned by the United Auto workers.
Now, many Americans do not recognize this pattern because we don't see this pattern in this country.
This method of bankruptcy and of saving a company by basically turning it over to people who have hardly any investment in it, the United Auto Workers, at the result of an iron fist from the state, i.e., Barack Obama.
This is so far outside the American political spectrum and business spectrum.
People they they can't get their arms around it because they've never seen it before, and they probably don't know what Juan Peronism is.
They may not even know who Juan Peron is, they know who Avita Perone is.
They think it's Madonna.
And they think she was great.
So if the Supreme Leader, Barack Peron, succeeds in a lot of this, then we are taking a page out of another dictatorship in our hemisphere, no less, and that would be Argentina.
But the thing to remember, if if if all of the bankruptcy stuff confuses you, and if the Juan Perone stuff, if you can't, it's it's by the way, it's it's it's accurate and legitimate.
But if all that confuses you, the thing to remember here.
Yeah, once you go back to the end of last year, we were told during the transition and when Obama first assumed office that these bailouts were the only way we could save these companies, these car companies.
We had to do this.
The government was the only institution that could do this.
And then after they gave them the money, Barack Obama Czars told him how to run the company.
You got to do this, you gotta do that.
You had to pass tests, you've got to give us your reorganization plan.
You've got to tell us how you're gonna run the company.
And what happened?
It didn't work.
That's what you have to realize.
After pouring in 10, 15, whatever it was, billion of your dollars with directions from Washington on how to save the company, it didn't work.
Political solutions to business problems do not work.
The UAW, yeah, take it over.
The UAW has a plan.
Here's Obama supporting Chrysler's uh effort.
They've got no choice.
Chrysler has no choice.
Whatever Obama told them to do, whatever his cars are, Steve Ratner and the rest of the boys told Chrysler to do, they did, but they failed.
In their original promise to us, in their original claim of how this was all going to work out, they failed.
A Barack Obama failure.
However, for Barack Obama, the president, this end result is a huge success.
But it is a failure in the context of what he told us would happen and how the federal government's assistance would save this company.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
My friends, if you will indulge me, I want to go through this briefly again.
Um President Obama just concluded his news conference announcing the bankruptcy procedure for Chrysler.
Some of our stations might have carried it live, and so I want to do my own national rebuttal again.
Uh for those of you who did not hear the opening of the program, because perhaps I don't know how many did your local stations carried the Obama announcement with the uh with the Carzar team standing behind him in a new location in the White House.
He said that Chrysler just didn't move fast enough.
They just weren't moving fast enough here.
Uh and somebody had to step in, and we're much better off than we were 30 days ago.
Here, folks, here's the bottom line.
And again, please indulge me if you just heard this.
I'll go through it very quickly.
Last year, when these car companies ended up in huge trouble, it was Barack Obama who told us only the government could fix them, only the government could save them.
We had to give them bailouts.
We had to bail them out, and Effsa's gonna save them, and when we bailed them out, we then told them well, not we, but the Obama administration gave them instructions.
Remember, they couldn't fly their corporate jets into town to make their case.
After they did that one time, they were humiliated.
They had to drive into town for the second round of hearings.
They had to tell Congress they had to tell Obama what they were going to do to save their country after they got the save their companies after they got all the money.
And if they did that, these bailouts would work.
What we have here is an abject failure of government saving a business.
This is totally uh not being reported this way.
This is a Barack Obama failure as promised.
Government cannot overcome the laws of economics.
This was not technically a failure from Obama's standpoint, because he got what he wanted.
He got the United Auto workers as the majority owners of Chrysler.
And pretty Soon a similar situation is going to happen with General Motors.
So he sends out all the money to them.
He gives them instructions.
Come back with a plan for your reorganization that we approve of.
They never had a chance because he wasn't going to approve any of it.
Because what he wanted was what happened today.
And it's straight out of Juan Perron.
It's straight out of Argentina.
You intimidate lawful debt holders, the bondholders, into giving up their legitimate claims in a bankruptcy.
Do the same thing to the state-owned banks.
Obama owns a lot of the banks now, or a portion of them.
He leans on them.
The banks are the big lenders to Chrysler, tells them to give up their claims in bankruptcy.
The government runs the bankruptcy for 60 days.
They're going to funnel another $8 billion into this.
So whatever it is, $10 or $15 billion that Chrysler's got now, another eight on top of it, did not save the company.
What it ended up doing was turning the company over to Barack Obama's union allies.
You hand the company to the Supreme Leaders, labor union allies.
You don't recognize this because this is not the way things have been done in America before.
It's not been done in American business.
This is outside the American political spectrum.
And so there you have it.
This is the objective.
I made this prediction back in December that the auto workers were going to be the majority owners in these companies.
In the case of Chrysler, it will now happen.
And it was announced today as some great success story by President Obama said we get we did this, it's worked us, it's great.
These companies do be better than they've ever been before.
We saved them.
This is horrendous.
And we're going to have we're going to have the best cars in the world again.
They just weren't moving fast enough for me.
It's why I had to move in today.
For those of you in the corporate jet business, Cessna has lost its battle with the Obama administration.
Cessna has announced that it is abandoning development of a mid-sized corporate jet, a mid-sized jet, not a behemoth.
It was called the Citation Columbus.
They have closed the factory in Bend, Oregon, where the plane was being created.
Cessna will return $50 million in deposits already received from customers who wanted to buy the Cessna Columbus.
Cessna's citation jets are among the smaller models on offer.
But the company was hoping to expand into a more lucrative segment until flying a corporate jet became unfashionable.
The company is sending layoff notices to 1,600 people at every level, including 700 salaried employees.
So Barack Obama has won in his battle with Cessna on corporate jets.
Here's a note from John Croft of Flight Global.
Work on the new CJ Ford jet light jet and the light sports skycatcher will continue in Kansas.
But Cessna will shutter the Corvallis single-engine piston aircraft facility in Bend, Oregon, formerly the home of Columbia aircraft, and move the line to Cessna's independence Kansas location.
Demand for the company's Mustang, very light jet remains promising, marked by the expected delivery Monday of the 200th aircraft to a new honor in uh in in Hawaii.
So Cessna the new jet down the tubes.
The Barack Obama administration has succeeded.
By the way, consumer spending, economic news after they consumer spending is down.
I thought it was up.
I thought it was up last month.
Consumer spending was down.
We now have also the uh the lowest number of claims uh in recent months, uh job uh unemployment claims, still 631,000.
631,000 people out of work last month.
March, well, I mean April, uh, and and it's uh I don't know, it just economic news remains conflicting.
The stock market's bounding back, and there are even some people, investors business daily say we're looking at the data, and we can see the seeds of a comeback.
We can see the seeds of a recovery sometime later this year, based on some of the data consumer spending was one, but they that that this month's consumer spending report says they're down.
Savings is through the roof.
The savings rate is up, which means people do have some money, they're just scared to death to spend it right now.
Uh the U.S. economy is what it is.
The American people are who they are.
We are an entrepreneurial successive, uh, successful people, enough of us are.
The economy is eventually gonna come back and triumph over these obstacles in uh in its way.
And I just want to prepare you for what's going to happen.
If that does happen, the Obama's going to get credit for it.
The Chrysler bankruptcy, the bailouts taking over the banks, the stimulus package, he's going to get credit for it.
And that it's it's it's headed your way soon.
Uh if these people that know economic economics uh better than I do are right, uh turn around toward the latter part of this year.
Port St. Lucy, we have Port St. Lucy news.
A guy there has been arrested for drinking wine as he rode his electric store cart through a uh grocery store, Publix.
He drank blackberry wine cruising through Publix on an electric cart, arrested after leaving without paying.
Fort St. Lucy, Florida.
That's right, a man, a legend, a way of life having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
So the occupation, the my President uh Barack Obama and the federal government of the private sector continues.
Well, no, I mean, we we kept telling everybody during the Iraq war, we gotta get out of there.
We're not occupiers, we gotta get a liberate them.
We gotta get out of there.
All these soldier deaths.
The Barack Obama administration continues its occupation of the private sector of the United States of America.
That's all you have to look at it.
By the way, the um Bend, Oregon situation.
Bend, Oregon's one of those cities.
There's 1,600 people Cessna has laid off.
Uh Bend, Oregon, one of those cities with massive unemployment.
Now, I wonder if Obama's going to deduct these job losses from his tally that he's keeping of creating and saving jobs.
He said he created or saved 150,000 jobs so far.
Said that last night in his uh press conference.
It's a figure that's totally made up.
But if you go to their website, they've actually got this government website where you can check how many jobs have been saved or created.
All we kept hearing about, all we keep hearing about is uh, you know, 600,000 new unemployed people every month.
1,600 of them now at Cessna, where they make private jets.
So the occupation of the private sector by Barack Obama continues, targeting private sector businesses, automobiles, corporate jets, Obama at this point succeeding.
He also lied about something in his press conference last night.
Now, this was this was especially telling, too.
President Obama in his press conference last night, all of a sudden, and for the first time, cited a world leader with respect, and that would be Winston Churchill.
After showing disrespect to Winston Churchill for most of his term so far, President Obama cited the great Winston Churchill as a beacon for a nation like ours to show that we should not torture.
Even Obama said when Britain was being bombed smithereens.
Churchill refused to compromise the moral values of Great Britain.
He didn't, he didn't, he didn't torture captured Nazi prisoners.
Obama doesn't know this.
He's getting this from a left-wing blogger, as so much of the drive-by media gets their information from left-wing bloggers.
It is pretty well known that in British occupied Germany after World War II, the Brits treated captured German soldiers pretty harshly.
They starved them.
Big psychological mistreatment.
It's just it's it's absolute myth that the Brits and Churchill never quote unquote tortured.
Let me read to you from Untold Stories of D-Day by Thomas B. Allen, National Geographic Magazine, June of 2002.
While the maps for our D-Day invasion of Normandy were evolving, a group of intelligence officers was busy crafting the greatest hoax of the war.
A spy Running operation that was not fully revealed until the 1980s.
Earlier in the war, British counterintelligence officers gave captured German spies a simple choice.
Be hanged or work for us.
Most of the captured German spies chose to live.
Directed by their handlers, the turncoat Germans used seemingly clandestine radios to transmit to German spy masters a mix of real and counterfeit information.
The operation was run by the name Double X or Double Cross Committee.
It was meant to convince the German high command the invasion would strike at either Nazi held Norway or at Kalai across the English Channel from Dover when it actually was headed in Normandy Pondeho and so forth and so on.
So I don't know, threatening to hang somebody.
I don't know if you want to call it torture or not, they may not have beat them, but they used drugs.
The Brits used drugs.
Obama just uh after claiming he wasn't calling Bush a torturer, he essentially did call Bush a torturer last night in uh in that press conference.
But after all, he likes Churchill now.
It's uh it's amazing to watch this.
The uh the country has fallen head over heels in love with Barack Obama.
Blind love, not his policies, but with him.
Now I want to I want to give you an analogy here to what's happened.
I gave you uh one analogy yesterday that you get married and you know within a month that you've made a mistake, but you don't dare start thinking divorce.
I mean, you and you wouldn't dare tell anybody that, oh my gosh, I've goofed up here, I can't do this, so you stick it out.
Well, that's where a lot of Obama voters now are.
Oh, I can't believe they're not ever gonna admit that they think I made a mistake.
Here's another analogy along the same lines, although it does not, well, it does involve marriage, but think of it, think of it this way.
Any of you guys, any of you men who have ever been seduced by a gold digger, any of you who have ever been seduced and married a gold digger, you know exactly what is going on right now.
These are the guys who fall for they're usually older.
They don't have to be, they all have money.
They fall for these beautiful young, sexy women who they think are ditzes.
You know, they think that they don't, they're not old enough to have a whole lot of brands yet.
They married them, and it wasn't long before they got the divorce papers.
They lost half of their net worth.
You who have been victimized by that scenario, you can understand what's going on, and we can sympathize.
Because we are being played as similar suckers.
We essentially are going for a gold digger.
Our sugar daddy.
Somebody we think is going to pay the mortgage, is going to fix our house, uh, is going to get our job back, is going to make the rest of the world love us.
Uh, who's going to find us a job?
We got a sugar daddy.
We have a guy out there, and we are the gold diggers.
The difference is that we're not ready for the divorce.
Just yet.
Because after all, Barack Obama loves us.
What could go wrong?
We've been seduced, and uh, and people are confusing that with love.
I mean, men who have been seduced by gold diggers have seen all this before.
She gets a divorce, she gets half the money after spending the other half on herself before she gets the other half.
Close friends, close friends of the guy knew exactly what was happening.
They knew about it before it happened.
They didn't have the guts to some of them did warn, but they didn't want to get too close because they knew that they would be rejected.
They were shut out because the guy getting victimized with a gold digger.
Why, this is the best, never been happier.
This was this was the best thing that ever happened to him.
His heart was pounding, their hearts are pounding.
I wouldn't want to hear the bad news.
Didn't want to hear that somebody was using them.
They had finally hit the jackpot.
No one was gonna spoil the moment.
The only problem is that all these guys who ended up marrying the gold diggers, they are and were the marks.
They were a mark in a con game.
They were the jackpot that paid out.
They got an expensive, phony love affair without the love.
It was fake love.
Now, President Obama's politics are anti-individual.
They are pro-collectivism.
He is occupying our private sector.
We have a federal government occupation of our private sector going on right now.
Because he has is anti-individual.
It makes it impossible for him to have any feeling for any voter beyond using voters to advance and achieve his objectives.
He will pretend to love us as long as he gets what he wants.
And he's told us what he wants.
He wants to remake America.
When I heard that he said that last night, hello, blood boiling.
Remake America into what?
America does not get remade by presidents.
The only way to remake America is to legally amend the Constitution of the United States.
He doesn't get to remake America.
That's why there are checks and balances.
That's why the oath of office promises loyalty, fealty, defense, and protection of the U.S. Constitution.
When you take the oath of office, you're not swearing to change it.
You're not swearing to mark it up.
You're not promising, nor are you given an opportunity to remake it.
You know, at the Milken Forum on Tuesday night, Willie Brown, one of my debate opponents, said Barack Obama knows we have to resurrect America.
Resurrect America from what?
Well, we have to remake America?
From what?
What's so bad?
What's so wrong about America?
No, seriously, I want people to answer this for me.
This goes beyond just bitching and moaning about the past eight weeks or eight years.
What's wrong with America?
Why do we have to remake it?
Where are the what are the flaws?
If you don't like the last eight years, fine.
We got a new president.
That's as far as it goes.
But the new president doesn't get to take those last eight years that most people didn't like and say, well, that means America is a failure.
That means America is immoral and unjust.
We're going to remake it.
What needs to be remade?
What needs to be torn down and rebuilt?
Last eight years being ab you know, horrible.
It was a myth anyway.
Media made myth, Democrat Party made myth.
Press conference last night was embarrassed.
There was not a single question asked about the shrinking GDP.
There was not a single question asked about the massive increases in debt.
There was not a single question asked about the outrageous budget that was just passed by Congress.
There was not a single question asked about the national health care plans Obama has.
And aside from the irresponsible performance of the press, which is what happens to feminization of the culture.
And what's been most enchanting about the presidency?
This little doodad last night, and a lack of questions, this underscored for me how wide open an opportunity exists.
For an articulate, attractive conservative candidate to take Obama and the liberal media apart and win the White House.
I think Obama's extremely vulnerable to conservative attack.
Fifty-five million Americans did not vote for the federal government to occupy the American private sector.
And remember, the public hates the media more than they hated Bush.
The public hates the media more than they hate Congress.
And for good reason.
Last night was a great example.
The media is not all that supported.
They are radical.
His policies will not work.
I long for the good old days of Sam Donaldson.
One thing about Obama last night, all of a sudden singling out Churchill as some moral guidepost for not torturing or being cruel or mean or whatever you have to do to get information from prisoners.
Don't forget the reason that Barack Obama gave back the Churchill statue.
His grandfather lived in Kenya during the colonial days when Britain ran it.
And the uh the the Brits, under uh I think it was during Churchill's second premiership or prime ministership, put down the Mao Mao rebellion.
And Obama's grandfather, Odingo Obama Oyengo, whatever, was was was either killed or severely wounded.
And that's why the animus toward Churchill and the Brits in the first place.
So this was all.
This all just made up last night.
Stolen, used, you know, some left-wing blogger.
All right to the phones.
People uh patiently waiting to start in Detroit.
Ken, you're up first.
Great to have you today on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah, Rush.
I'm calling as a uh former uh UAW member.
Mm-hmm.
And my comment was uh considering that the unions don't believe in profits, and considering that the unions do not believe in uh employee incentives for uh hardworking people to make more than lazy employees, um, allowing the government and the UAW to run the auto industry is like letting a fox run the chicken coop.
Well, this is uh interesting you bring this up because it the the union does believe in earning extra money with overtime, but the the you know merit pay, they're not really for that because it it it'll make others who are not seeking merit pay look bad.
But one of the questions I've had, the United Auto Workers with 55% ownership of Chrysler stock is going to have a majority of people on the board.
What is the next contract negotiation gonna look like between the UAW-owned Chrysler and the United Auto Workers line assembly workers?
Well what's that gonna look?
What's that gonna look like?
Well, Rush, what you have to keep in mind is that the way the unions work is that they encourage their employees to be as non-productive as they can, therefore the company has to hire more people to do the job.
That's like having four people to do the job of one.
Now, you it's a pretty big leap here also for you to say I know that that happens.
I w I've I've I've had my run-ins with the bricklayers on that way, way, way back long.
I know that that happens.
The bricklayers had to back off when I made that that claim that they wanted less bricks laid per hour per day in a next union contract, late 80s or 70s or something.
Anyway, for you to say the auto workers do not believe in profits.
That's correct.
Uh the reason I know this is that not only had I been involved behind the scenes with the uh UAW, but I grew up in a household where my father for 40 years actually was a high-ranking union official.
And uh, this is where I learned that uh the union philosophy is to get more people in.
And if that means that you work as slowly as you can, therefore the company has to get more people hired to do the job, this is the way they do business.
All right, but they look it you may look we need to separate things here.
Sure.
Union leadership is one thing.
Uh the the union rank and file, many of them are like everybody else, they're sheep, they're followers, and many of them don't have any choice in terms of where their donations are spent politically and so forth.
But you telling me that there's no understanding anywhere that this company, a company where a union is employed, has to some show some kind of profit just to stay in business.
Well, Rush, if someone comes in and he is self-motivated, he's motivated.
But what happens is you have a lot of people that come in uh that uh are unfortunately on the lazy side of it, and they'll come in, they'll punch in in the morning.
Uh I I understand.
So you're saying indirectly, indirectly, they're not concerned with profit.
They're gonna get paid regardless.
All right, I get it.
I still think it's gonna be comical, or has the potential to be comical, to watch United Auto Workers Board, majority-owned owners of Chrysler, negotiate with the United Auto Workers line assembly people.
Um Snerdley's shaking his head like you're missing the boat on this.
You can you not got to go.
Gotta go to the break.
We'll do that.
We'll come back after this.
Stay with us.
From the UK Times Online, December 2008, Churchill tortured Obama's grandfather.
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