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May 15, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 15, 2009, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 podcast.
I know, I know.
I mean it's so absurd.
I'm still bouncing off the walls.
I am bouncing off the walls.
Obama has thrown himself under the bus.
What's the most incredible thing?
It was in a scathing attack on Obama's spending policies.
Obama warns that those spending policies cannot be sustained.
Did you see the story?
Well, I'll get to it.
It's Friday.
I'll get to it.
It's unbelievable.
Live from a Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
I'm not kidding.
He has thrown himself under the bus, and nobody in the drive-by media sees it.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you here.
Open line Friday, El Rushball, three hours broadcast excellence.
Straight ahead.
And you know the rules on Friday.
Yeah, I better go through this because that new tuner inter factor is huge out there.
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The callers on that show are great.
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But on Friday, haha.
Big change.
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I I I kid you not.
President Obama has thrown himself under the bus.
This is the most I'm I mean, he has explained how he has wrecked the economy.
I saw this yesterday afternoon and I said, uh really it's Twilight Zone time.
It's a Bloomberg story.
President Obama calling current deficit spending unsustainable, warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if America continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.
He said this is a town town meeting out there at Rio Rancho, New Mexico outside Albuquerque.
He said, We we can't just keep on borrowing from China.
We have to pay interest on that debt.
That means we're mortgaging our children's future with more and more debt.
Holders of U.S. debt will eventually get tired of buying it, causing interest rates on everything from auto loans to home mortgages to skyrocket.
It'll have a dampening effect on our economy.
This is the guy who has just saddled us with 11 trillion dollars in budget deficits for the next 10 years, warning that his own policies have wrecked the U.S. economy and that they cannot be continued.
He threw himself under the bus.
We can't continue Obamaism.
Oh, just barely over a hundred days into his administration, Obama has condemned his own administration.
He's condemned his and nobody in the drive-by media gets this.
They're still praising the guy as for showing fiscal restraint and understanding the dangers that are out there.
It's just it gets funnier and more ridiculous each and every day.
This is an historic event, the first time in presidential history where a president has thrown himself under the bus.
A scathing attack on Obama's spending policies by Obama, in which Obama warns that those spending policies Cannot be sustained.
It is impossible to make too big a deal of this.
So you have to ask, is Obama the new Houdini?
You know it's Barack H. Obama.
Is the H now stand for Houdini?
Is he trying to escape all responsibility that he has no responsibility for his own votes for TARP?
Don't forget, before he became president, he voted for all of these bailouts.
He voted for all of this spending.
TARP past budgets as senator, porculus, earmarkulus, the current budget deficit just this year, two point uh about two trillion dollars.
I mean, this this is as bold as Nancy Pelosi saying the CIA lied to her about about waterboarding.
And Charles Crowdhammer has a great point.
Well, why didn't they lie to anybody else?
Why did they only lie to her?
And he's not an even better point about this in a column today.
Everybody heard what the CIA said were going to do, these these extreme techniques, and nobody's stood up and said, Well, you can't do that.
That's torture.
So maybe none of this was actually torture.
And of course, by definition, by statute definition in this country, it can only be torture if you intend it to be.
In other words, torture cannot happen by uh by accident.
Anyway, we'll get to Pelosi here in just a second.
I have a unique take on that, too.
Uh, because I'll tell you with Pelosi, uh, we I mean, the the um we're gonna get a real test of the glass ceiling here.
We are going to get a real test of the glass ceiling with Pelosi, but I'm still stuck here, folks, uh, on Obama condemning his first 100 days in office.
He has just stated with more clarity than ever and brevity than ever, how he has wrecked the economy for years to come.
He just spelled it, he has told everybody.
He just condemned what he did.
He just ripped to shreds everything he's done in the first 100 days.
I think what's actually going on here, he knows that he is being followed around by a bunch of sycophants who are going to die of anal poisoning before the year's out.
And his voters are just, you know, they're a space cadets still in love with the whole image thing.
So he's probably setting up the reasons why all taxes will need to be raised.
But I'll tell you, I almost almost got on my knees last night and prayed to God that the American people understand how absurd this is that the president of the United States, after a mere 100 plus days, has just thrown his own administration, all of his policies under the bus, just condemned them, just ripped them to shreds.
I mean, he has.
He has been more forcefully critical of his own policies than he ever was a George W. Bush.
Now, Pelosi, Speaker of the House, called the CIA liars.
and And it did not, it did not make the front page.
If the CIA is lying, that's big news.
Banner headline news.
Now, where are the drive-by is going to the CIA?
Did you lie?
You know, Pelosi's finding out what it's like to be me every day.
That press conference yesterday, media finally probing, the media finally asking, the media asking for clarification, the media following up, the media asking all these tough.
You know, the Democrats get such softball treatment that when they get a true uh boring in question and answer session from the media, they don't know how to handle it.
She was flustered as all get out.
Yes, what was that?
She was shaking.
She was a little, well, that could be Botox withdrawal.
I don't want to be too hard on the shaking.
I don't want to do that.
But I uh we are we're about to learn, folks.
I know the drive by's never asked me for clarification, but still they bored in on her snertly.
I mean, they were, they were, and and as she was walking out, she was walking out sideways, you know, like a crab.
At the end, at the end of the uh at the end of the press conference, and a reporter shouted, I have one more question, one more question, you have time for one more question.
And Pelosi's, you know, crabbed back to the podium, and and that's that's that's when it all started again.
But I mean, these people they couldn't last one day with the scrutiny I get.
They couldn't, they would not be able to bear up under it.
And I date uh I dare dare say that very few of any of my media or otherwise liberal critics could bear up under what all of us on the right get each and every day.
But we are going to learn soon, folks.
If women are the equal of men, we are going to learn very soon if women can finally break the glass ceiling.
And you know what the test is?
Let me tell you what the test is.
Will Nancy Pelosi resign as Speaker of the House?
That's the test.
Come on now.
We've had two men resign as maybe even three.
We've had Fort Worthless Jim Wright resign as speaker.
We had Mr. Newt resign as speaker.
We had Bob Livingston resign as speaker elect before he became Speaker.
So if women really want equal treatment, if they really want to crash through that glass ceiling, there is no better benchmark than Nancy Pelosi taking herself and her place right alongside two men who resigned, Fort Worthless Jim Wright and Mr. Newt.
That will be the test.
We'll be back.
Stay with I tell you, folks, I'm outraged.
And I am humiliated and I am angry as an American citizen on a front page, the home page of the Drudge Report today, there is a picture.
Apparently, Australian TV has gotten hold of the uh prisoner interrogation photos that Obama does not want released.
Australian TV has gotten hold of some of them and run a couple of them, and Drudge, there's a story from the Daily Mail, UK Daily Mail, that Drudges linked to, and there's a picture of some of just it's just un American.
I can't believe.
I can't believe we had people who were engaging in this kind of treatment of people.
Uh there is one torture photo there that just it's just it's just sickening.
I it makes me worry about the foundation uh my country.
I just go look at it.
I mean, go go to the Drudge Report and look at the picture, and then you you know, if you there are days here when I feel like we're making great progress as America, gaining our country back, and then they put up and they go ahead, they find these pictures, Australian TV puts this picture up there.
Uh this kind of torture is just beneath the dignity of the uh American people and and and and our military.
I came here with such a great mood today.
This this makes like uh what looked like uh happen at Abu Grab that makes it look like just a little fraternity hazing.
Anyway, uh Bob Schiefer, who hosts Slay the Nation.
Third least in there frowning.
He doesn't.
Bob Bob Schieffer who did you look at the picture at dawn.
It's just horrible, isn't it?
Can you imagine we do this kind of thing to people?
I mean, make them do this kind of thing in a bunk bed.
I mean, I just it's just uh anyway.
Bob Schiefer is the host of Slay the Nation on CBS on Sunday morning, and of course, last Sunday, Bob Schaefer had as his guest Dick Cheney, and he asked Dick Cheney uh who more represents the Republican Party today, Colin Powell or me, L. Rushbaugh, and Cheney, of course, answered uh Rush Limbaugh.
So Bob Schiefer is interviewed by uh what is it, Market Watch, John Friedman, a CBS Market Watch.
And this is what Bob Schiefer had to say in the interview on uh in his interview of Cheney last week, in which Schiefer asked Cheney if the Republicans would be better off with Rush Limbaugh or Colin Powell.
Cheney chose Limbaugh, Bob Schiefer said, I have never done anything that had as much resonance.
It was all over cable television.
Now, Bob Schiefer is from Jurassic Park.
Bob Schiefer has been around as long as Walter Cronkite's been around.
Bob Schiefer's been around.
And he he he he has never in his career, he has never done anything that had as much resonance.
And what is it that he did that had all this resonance?
All he did was ask a question about me.
Asking a question about me created the most resonance that he has ever had in his career.
That I will wear this as a badge of honor because Bob Schiefer's done a lot of news.
He's asked a lot of questions, but this is the first time in a long time that whatever he did actually made any news outside.
Is that right?
They're asking us to really every week?
I did I'm being just now being told that uh the they call every week asking me to be on Face to Nation.
Why well I know, but but I you don't tell me about face to nation.
I don't I'm not told about all of these because uh the the person on my staff, uh HR, the trusted aide camp chief of staff, has his first job, first duty is to say no to everybody who calls, wanting anything.
An interview, a donation, an appearance.
Uh no.
This that's his job is to just say no, and then they keep coming back and he has to say no again.
And he says no so often that he doesn't tell me all the times he says no.
I didn't know Slay the Nation wanted me that frequently.
But uh anyway, let's the car dealers.
We had a phone call about the car dealers.
Let me grab the the call here.
This is Sandy from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Hi, Sandy, great to have you on the program.
You're up first on open line Friday.
Hi.
Sandy, are you there?
Is she not there?
Did she go away?
She's uh she's not there.
Uh, reason I wanted to talk to Sandy from Albuquerque, she's there now.
Hello, Sandy.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Sandy, are you there?
Yes, sir.
Okay, there we go.
You know what?
You know what happened here, Sandy?
I never I went to the phones an hour sooner than I usually do, and nobody on the engineering staff was ready.
Uh wasn't your fault.
Uh, wasn't my fault, it was theirs.
I'm sorry, sweetie.
I love you.
I love you too.
I think you're the greatest.
Hey, listen, I I um I work in the car business.
I've been in the car business for thirty years.
Are you a dealer?
No, I am not a dealer.
I'm in I have been in sales and in management.
So I know both ends of the management and the sales.
Yeah, okay.
And the dealers that are being closed here in Albuquerque, I don't understand where they get all this, because some of the dealers that they're they're closing down here in Albuquerque, they they own their own franchises.
I don't understand why you can choose to fire these people.
Let these people go.
Well, the big here's the thing that I've got to I want to correct, uh, because the news reports all say Chrysler closing 3,000 dealerships.
General Motors announced today gonna close eleven hundred dealerships.
It's not that, it's Obama closing dealerships.
And I I watched this morning, Sandy, I had the TV on today, and I watched interviews of some of these dealers, and some of these guys are are are they successful.
They're working people, they're entrepreneurs.
They're they're they're they're they own the dealership, as you said.
The guys I saw today own the dealership, and some of them are are doing okay.
And and they're they're being ruined by government, Sandy.
Exactly.
Obama's ruining these businesses that they're owned by these people.
I don't understand how you can even think about closing.
Well, he can't he can't do it.
This is the whole the whole bankruptcy deal with Chrysler is unconstitutional.
There's a there's a contracts clause in the Fifth Amendment.
You j you cannot do what Obama did forcing primary uh lenders uh uh uh uh debt holders to cave on their content.
You just can't use the force and the power of the federal government without giving them commensurate value.
And it it's it there's this too.
This is just the big hand of government directing and squatting people down.
This is uh you ask how he can do it, he can't do it, but he's doing it and getting away with it because nobody's stopping him.
Well, that is pure bull BS.
You know what?
You know what, Rush?
Some of these people are minimum wage people, and it's not my dealers that's closing down.
So I don't, you know, I shouldn't even be concerned.
I am concerned.
I mean, these are some of these people are minimum wage people.
Some of them are work, you know, the the technicians, they work on commission.
They they don't get paid unless they don't, unless they don't fix car after car after car, they don't get paid.
I I I look at I sympathize, Sandy, with you, and I sympathize with with these people.
I it is a cry and shame.
What is uh what's happening in the U.S. automobile industry.
I mean, this really makes sense, doesn't it?
Here, we're gonna save the automobile industry, we're gonna get rid of 4,000 dealerships, making the cars invisible uh and hard to find, and we're gonna cut our advertising budgets in half.
That's right, and that's really gonna help us sell cars.
It's tragedy is what it is.
I told you engineering was all screwed up today because I took a phone call an hour earlier than I usually do.
All right, I just I just got an update on this despicable picture.
This this disgusting uh display of torture uh by the United States.
Uh Steve Gilbert at Sweetness and Light.com says the picture's actually from 2006.
Uh well, uh he doesn't, but uh the Asian News International, uh AI, which is uh the Asian version of AP, graphic photos of alleged prisoner abuse in Iraq, have surfaced in spite of the Obama administration trying to level best uh to halt the release.
The images emerged from Australia yesterday where they were originally obtained by the Australian Channel SBS in 2006 in the um in wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal.
So the pictures are three years old.
Did you look at the picture, Snerdly?
Did you look did you look at that torture picture?
Uh now see, this is the kind of insensitivity expressed by people on the right that gets us in trouble with the American people.
Snerdley looked at the picture and said, it looks just like some pervert in a nude exercise video.
You don't understand that this is torture.
You don't understand that this is despicable Bush administration torture.
Well, okay, but I'm just telling you, the left is gonna look at this and they're gonna be outraged.
They're gonna be outraged.
And then they're really we're gonna have to ask Pelosi, you didn't stop this.
You knew this kind of stuff was going.
I can't I can't pull this off any longer.
If that's torture, I weigh 102 pounds.
Remember Barack Obama and Caterpillar.
If you don't remember that, let me give you the details of the story.
Back before the porculus bill, the stimulus bill was signed into law.
President Obama made a speech, and he said, and he had a big meeting with the corporate execs that uh in the uh in the East Room of the White House, and he made a speech and he said that the CEO of Caterpillar said, I'm gonna start hiring people back.
Uh, we've could we've laid off a lot of people at Caterpillar, but Mr. President with the with a responsible stimulus plan will uh we'll hire sources are hiring some people back.
Obama said that, and he then said that what the caterpillar CEO was talking about was his stimulus plan.
So everybody believed that when Obama signed his stimulus plan that the CEO of Caterpillar would start rehiring.
And they had a big town meeting out there uh in Peoria where Caterpillar is, and it turns out uh that uh the caterpillar CEO was uh well, he didn't say what Obama said.
He said Obama just put him in a position where it would be difficult for the caterpillar CEO to deny it, but eventually caterpillar CEO did deny it.
Not only have they not started rehiring, they are laying more people off At Caterpillar, even after it was signed.
So earlier this week, the news was filled with excited reports that the health care industry, after a meeting with President Obama, had agreed to trim two trillion dollars in health care costs over the next ten years.
150 basis points.
And everybody said, whoa, all right.
Yeah, look at Obama.
He can bring these people in, and he can he can horn swaggle them and he can shake his finger at them and he can make them do the right thing.
And then they go out and make it's only one problem.
This is caterpillar all over again.
Healthcare leaders say Obama overstated their promise to control costs.
Shades of the caterpillar CEO who had words put into his mouth on the porculus bill package by Obama.
These groups are voluntarily coming together.
This Obama says what he said, these groups are voluntarily coming together to make an unprecedented commitment over the next ten years from 2010 to 2019.
They are pledging to cut the rate of growth of national health care spending by one and a half percentage points each year.
That's an amount equal to over $2 trillion.
Health care leaders who attended the meeting have a different interpretation.
They say that they agreed to slow health care spending in more gradual ways, but they didn't pledge any specific year-by-year cuts.
Richard Umdenstock, the president of the American Hospital Association, said there has been a lot of misunderstanding that's caused a lot of consternation among our members.
I've spent the better part of the last three days trying to deal with it.
Nancy Ann Deparla, director of the White House Office of Healthcare Reform, said the president misspoke on Monday and again on Wednesday when he described the industry's commitment in similar terms.
After providing that account, Ms. DeParley called back about an hour later on Thursday and said, I don't think the president misspoke.
His remarks correctly and accurately described the industry's commitment.
The Washington office, the American Hospital Association sent a bulletin to its state and local affiliates to clarify several points in the bulletin.
Richard Pollock, executive VP Hospital Association said the American Hospital Association did not commit to support the Obama health plan or budget.
No such reform plan exists at this time.
Do you hear this?
Not only did they not support it, there isn't a plan.
And yet we were told after two hours of meetings that Obama had fixed it.
Moreover, Mr. Pollock wrote, the groups did not support reducing the rate of health spending by one and a half percentage points annually.
You know the next industry that Obama tries to shake down, somebody in there needs to wear a wire.
Because this is unconscionable.
This is outrageous.
This is the second time, and maybe it's happened more than this time.
This number of times, we just don't know about it.
Bring these people in, have a meeting with them, go out as president, make a speech totally lying about what they agreed to in the meeting and what you said, what they said.
And when you go out as president, make the speech, you're kind of you're kind of pressuring them to go along with you, but they're not doing it.
Some of these people are not.
So the White House then first said, well, the president misspoke, and then later they said, no, he didn't misspeak.
But he did misspeak.
President Obama, ladies and gentlemen, has a track record of lying.
He cannot be trusted.
Nancy Pelosi can't be trusted to report honestly as what happens in meetings, and neither apparently can Obama.
Is it not obvious he just using these people?
They're nothing more than props.
And what I'll tell you what's what's frustrating to me is how eagerly all these people I know it's the president calling.
I know you have to, it's a tough time in the tough invitation to refuse.
But you don't have to go in there cowering in fear, but they do because of the banks and because of the car companies.
This administration's showing No regret, no compunction whatsoever about being authoritarian, autocratic.
They're governing in fear, and everybody that they're coming in contact with is afraid of them.
And then I'm still stuck.
I'm still struck here, Obama making this these comments yesterday out in New Mexico, ripping to shreds his own 100 day policy.
All this spending we can't sustain it.
All this debt we can't sustain it.
Who gave it to us?
He did.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
Open line Friday.
More phone calls.
Get ready, engineering.
Uh for more phone calls after the break.
Sit tight.
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We are back.
Open line Friday Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by showing up.
Okay, just a second, folks.
Uh engineering, we are going to the phones now.
I mean, it's look, they get everybody gets into patterns.
I wonder if it's open line Friday.
Go to phones early to shake them up in there.
But they generally engineering, the phone engineers can take the first hour of this program off uh on average.
So are you ready?
All right.
Uh Steve in the Outer Banks in North Carolina.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Thank you for taking my call, Rush.
Um, I've been uh in the car business for over 20 years, uh, worked for major dealerships, General Motors, and uh wholesale now.
I don't think a lot of people realize what's gonna really hurt the American car companies when they get rid of these Chevrolet and Chrysler dealerships franchises.
What's gonna happen, these guys have Nissan and Toyota standing in line, just begging them to take a franchise to sell their full size trucks and what have you.
And that's gonna do it nothing but kill the Four Chevrolet Chrysler products, because uh they're gonna keep the lot full of something.
Yeah, it's you know it's an excellent point out there, Steve, because I don't see Obama announcing any Toyota or Lexus or Nissan dealerships can't uh being closed or Volkswagen or uh uh any of the others.
These are strictly uh General Motors and Chrysler.
And uh look at it, it's it's a it's a rotten business model.
We're gonna close 4,000 dealerships combined.
Obama the b between General Motors and Chrysler, 4,000 dealerships cut the advertising budgets in half, so we're gonna make the cars invisible and impossible to find.
Oh, I I I agree, because I like I say I've been wholesaling through the major uh Christ ranch Chevrolet here for almost 20 years now, and uh they're not gonna leave their lot empty.
They're gonna immediately, as soon as their car inventory gets down, they're gonna be contacted uh almost immediately from Nissan and and um Toyota and what have you to fill their lot.
They're not gonna let them sit there empty, and that's gonna do nothing but increase their sales and hurt the Americans.
So what you you're saying that uh let's look at this as a matter of of market economics.
You're saying the American people in l let and let's assume here that at some point the economy is gonna come back and and this recession is gonna slow and we're gonna start growing again.
So you're saying that that uh uh in an average American economic year, X number of cars are gonna be sold, X number of cars are gonna be bought, new cars.
Right.
So if you take a bunch of Chryslers and Chevy's and uh Cadillacs and take them off the market, and a bunch of Chryslers off the market, you see you've got a vacuum of cars that the Americans are still gonna buy because of the agreed to number earlier that they buy per annum.
So they're gonna be filled up by Toyota and so you're and you're calling these foreign cars, right?
Yeah.
Even though they're made here.
How many of them are gonna be made here?
Uh well, you know, they make some of the full-size trucks here, but uh still most of the parts and everything are are imported from over in China anyway.
They're not a lot of stuff is not a good idea.
All right, let me let me let me put the devil's advocate with you here.
Um take American out of the equation for just a second.
The American consumer in a free market with uh, you know, f you know, trade, fair trade, uh uh, and and uh free trade.
The American consumer has been voting by choice anyway over a number of years by buying the Japanese brands over the American brands.
Uh is that necessarily the fault of anybody?
I mean, it's just it's just the way things have happened.
Well, no, it's not the fault.
Um, you know, they still try to say they're made in America and all that have you, but you know, 90% of the parts are even the the frontier that's built here in the United States and the uh Toyota Tundra.
Most of the parts, 90% of them are imported anyway, and it's put together here.
Um, but yeah, they're not gonna leave these lots sitting empty, missing Chevrolet full-size trucks, because you know, full-size vehicles are gonna always have a market in the industry because of the construction when they rebit when it comes back and what have you.
Toyota's already come getting ready to come out with a uh something they've never had before.
A crew cab, one ton with a diesel, a tooley, they're gonna come and they're gonna really hurt the Ford and Chevrolet Market, and they dodge too.
And they're not gonna leave these big lots sitting empty.
These guys have been staying in line for years wanting their business, the Toyota and the Nithan or what have you to replace with.
Well, what is what is your big concern about this?
Is your big concern that the American automobile industry, the manufacturing and sales side, is going away?
It's gonna hurt.
It's gonna hurt a lot.
Not only is it going away, it's being forced out.
Oh, yeah, it it definitely is.
I mean, you well, these people ride it down the highway, and the you know, they catch a sight of a say a Chevrolet truck that really catches their eye on the market.
When that truck's not available to them in the areas where it is now, you'll see a lot more Nissan full-size trucks, Toyota full-size trucks.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Because in addition to everything else, don't you know the Obama administration is going to get rid of trucks as soon as they can.
Well, that's fine and dandy.
What are you gonna do with far as hauling around a ton of lumber to a chop site for a it's it it's what here's no, here's what's going to happen.
What they're going to do is do the same thing to the automobile business that they are doing in other areas where they're trying to bring in all these new fangled new energies.
There is a story today in the Detroit News.
And if this is what the future likes, no thanks.
They have built a state of the art house.
It was supposed to be a shining example of the green movement, a completely independent solar-powered house, no gas, no electrical hookups.
Seven months ago, officials gathered for a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate this house, which cost nine hundred thousand dollars.
It was owned by the city of Troy, Michigan.
It was to be used as an educational tool and a meeting spot to promote the concept of no electricity and no gas, new energy, new green home.
But it never opened to the public, and it's closed to this day.
You know why?
It's in Michigan.
It's in Troy, Michigan.
Frozen pipes during the winter caused sixteen thousand dollars in damage to the floors.
City officials are not sure when the house at the Troy Community Center will open.
It's not safe right now, and there's no estimated opening time because it depends on when we can get funding, said Carol Anderson, director of the city's parks and recreation department.
That's surprised the Oakland County Planning and Economic Development Department, which advertised tours of the house for its Tuesday Oakland County Green Summit.
Now I'm gonna show you a picture here on the Ditto Cam.
This is the ugly, it's a trailer for crying out loud.
It's the ugliest damn thing.
I would not well, I can't focus it.
That's that's as close as I can get on it, but I can't.
Maybe if I move it back here.
We'll link it and put it at RushLimbaugh.com.
Our cheap ditto cam will not focus on something that small, that tight.
But I look at this.
Folks, you wouldn't live in this.
This this is it it looks like, and please don't be offended here.
But remember what this is.
This is the future.
Nine hundred thousand dollar house, no electricity, no gas.
It's green.
It's going to save the planet.
And it looks like the model trailer at a trailer park.
It looks like the sales office trailer at a trailer park.
Nothing against trailer parks.
Please don't misunderstand.
But if you have 900 grand, you don't live in one.
Okay.
Now, I have to take a break, but this...
This...
This...
So anyway, what are we going to do when we get rid of trucks?
What are we going to do when this stupid new houses don't work?
We've got two hours to go.
Don't go away.
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