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May 15, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 15, 2009, Friday, Hour #2
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Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the uh the bountiful fruited plane.
I am Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man, America's truth detector, and the Doctor of Democracy, all combined in one harmless, lovable little fuzzball on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And looking forward to chatting with you in this hour.
And remember, on Friday when we go to the phones, the program content is all yours.
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And I'll...
Can't do that Monday through Thursday.
If I don't care about it, I don't talk about it.
But on Friday I will.
I'll fake it.
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A question has been raised, ladies and gentlemen.
Question has been raised.
What are we going to do with all of the cars that are on all the lots at all these dealerships that are going to be shut down?
Now this is a it's a legitimate question, and it's an interesting one too, because Chrysler 3300 dealerships, General Motors uh 1100, so that's 4,400 dealerships.
Now I don't know about you.
When I'm tooling around and driving to go buy an auto dealership, I happen to see a lot of cars on the lot.
We're in a recession.
There's a lot of cars, a lot of inventory.
We had a caller in the last hour say, well, when they move that inventory, then here uh Nissan and Toyota, all these others are going to move in and take over the dealerships.
Fine and dandy.
But how are we going to move that inventory?
Where is it going to go?
I mean, let me ask you.
Would you buy a car from a dealership that is going to be closed?
A lot of people take their cars back to the dealership for warranty work service and just to hassle a salesman.
But if they're going to close the dealership where you bought the car and the nearest dealership to you that say is a Chevy or a Chrysler dealership, say it's 30 or 40 miles.
What are you going to do?
So the question then becomes, are they going to have fire sales to get rid of the inventory?
I mean, you just don't sh you still close the dealership, lock the doors to the building and walk away and leave the cars there.
But as always, we here at the EIB network, ladies and gentlemen, thinking about this.
And I think we ought to put these cars that are on all these dealership lots that are going to be closed, put them under the umbrella of what are the community redevelopment act or reinvestment act?
What is it?
Reinvestment Act.
For everybody in America who has a house that can't afford it.
Everybody who has a house, whose mortgage is being paid by everybody who can afford it.
In other words, all these people, the subprime crowd.
Why don't we just give them a car, too?
Because after all, folks, we are here to uh return the nation's wealth to its rightful owners.
And after we give away, I'm sure there aren't enough cars to go around to all the people who well, there may be.
I mean, you go nationwide 4,400 dealerships, you're all the cars out there.
You might be able to give away everybody who can't afford their house a car.
And go ahead and make them alone.
I mean, they can't don't they want to pay it back because they can't pay it back just like the house.
So loan them the money to buy the car and then never make them pay it.
If you have any cars left over, um, there's Africa.
Any number of places around the world that uh that that could use them.
Seriously, what are we gonna do with the inventory?
Now, this guy also asked a question.
He said, uh I asked him, what are we gonna do when we get with Obama's gonna get rid of as many SUVs and trucks as possible, at least those manufactured by American makers, and the cafe standards are gonna be such that it's it's gonna be down the road pretty difficult to manufacture a large truck or SUV and Americans like them.
What are you gonna do?
Here's That's why I brought the story of this stupid all-green house in Troy, Michigan.
900 grand.
It hasn't opened yet because there's no electricity, there's no gas, it uses the wind and the sun, ladies and gentlemen, to heat it.
And over the winter, $16,000 in floor damage because the pipes burst.
Nothing to keep them warm.
So it's just like we're gonna make we're gonna put everybody in these cracker box houses.
And when it doesn't work, we're gonna go back to right where we are now.
The same thing when everybody driving around in little smart cars doesn't work, we're gonna go back to SUVs.
Because everything liberalism tries bombs out at some point.
And we're just gonna have to go through this.
It's it's a worthless exercise that we're gonna have to go through.
Speaking of um all of this, uh, yesterday on CNBC on the uh Maria Barceromo show, uh, which is called closing bell, she had an interview with the executive director of the labor research association.
That is a union group.
And the head, the executive director of the labor research association is Jonathan Tosini.
First question.
When you look at the number of industries dominated by unions, and I made this point yesterday, by the way.
When you look at the number of industries dominated by unions, the performance is not that great, right?
Airlines, autos, teachers.
Why is that?
Is there a connection to a business or an industry being heavily unionized and the industry being in the toilet?
You cannot blame United's workers for the state of the auto industry.
That was pure mismanagement, not the least of which is continuing to refuse to have a single-payer Medicare for all health care system, which would have relieved tens of billions of dollars of health care costs from the auto industry and the steel industry.
The problem of much of the industry in America, the industries you're talking about has nothing to do with wages, nothing to do with union workers.
What are you talking about?
The auto's had all those legacy costs in place.
They're paying people who are putting their feet up and just relaxing at home on the sofa.
And they're not on the assembly line.
The way you solve the problem of the auto industry and the steel industry, many other industries, is you have a national health care system.
Oh that's she boy, she hit it right between the eyes.
Well, you're paying people to sit at home with their feet up on the sofa, their feet up on the table.
They're not working, they're not on the assembly line.
And the union guy comes back and says the way you solve the problem of the auto and the steel industry and any other, if you nationalize the health care system, which is right out of the Obama plan.
That's where all the waste and fraud in our government is.
Do you know that?
If we just get health care costs under control, everything miraculously gets fixed.
And so uh Barterromo then says health care is 17% of GDP.
You're telling me that it's that it's gonna go lower?
I don't think so.
It's gonna be a higher percentage of GDP.
There are two reasons states are in trouble in terms of their budget.
One is the overall collapse of the economy, thanks to Bernie Madoff, Wall Street, AIG, and all your other friends.
If we went back to a more progressive taxation system and taxed just the top one percent, we would have about eight or nine billion dollars more, which would solve the crisis.
I can't allow you to fan the flames of class warfare on this program.
Okay.
You said you said Wall Street and all your other friends.
Class war.
Are you telling me you don't think there's class warfare in this country?
We have the biggest gap between rich and poor that we've ever had probably in a hundred years.
Productivity in the last 30 years has skyrocketed, and workers have gotten no benefit of that.
That that is the definition of class warfare.
Workers haven't benefited.
Do you hear this?
This is Obamaism, folks.
These are his buddies.
These are his buddies.
If the collapse of the economy is due to Bernie made off, that's 50 billion, and Bernie ripped off the rich.
Bernie made up Wall Street, AIG, all your other friends.
This is the kind of class warriorship that burn uh that that uh that Obama is stoking.
You get this union thug out there saying to fix this, go national health care, raise taxes on the top one percent, and raise eight or nine billion.
Eight or nine billion would solve the crisis.
So Maria Barterromo says we are paying for benefits.
We're paying salaries for people who are no longer on the assembly line.
I mean, look, it's not just having a job for life is not a concept.
I understand because at some point you're not getting paid for life.
Maybe you do in Europe.
That's a socialist concept.
I actually think we could learn a lot from the way Europe treats itself.
Oh, so you want us to go the European way.
The economies of Europe have been in the dumps for years, even before this economic slowdown even started.
You think the uh socialist measures have anything to do with that?
What is redistribution of wealth going to do for productivity?
What is the idea, the American dream of working hard and achieving something and knowing that all you know half your wealth is going to someone who didn't do that?
What's that gonna do for productivity is my question.
Well, when I talked about my proposal for a different taxation system here, I talked about affecting the top one percent.
We're talking about redistributing wealth.
A little bit, five percent in this state to from the top one percent.
They're bold.
This is exactly this this is Obamaism.
That is precisely what's headed your way.
We should get paid for life, and we should make the rich pay for uh union workers to get paid for life even when they're not working.
I know it's astounding.
It's as it's astounding.
It's as astounding as when you hear Obama say the bus when he rips his own policies as being destructive and ruinous for the country, as he did in in New Mexico.
You know what I listen to all of this.
I listen to Obama talking about budgets, and I listen to him talking about his budget cuts.
He's gonna a 1.8 trillion dollar, almost $2 trillion budget this year, and Obama's gonna say, oh, well, I got 17 billion, maybe a hundred billion dollars in budget cuts.
And and then he talks about his jobs created and his jobs saved.
And you let me give you an analogy.
It's it would be like me saying, folks, I've been on a diet and I've lost fifty-one pounds.
But then I get on the scales and you look at me and say, I haven't lost fifty-one pounds.
I've only lost one pound.
But I'm telling you I've lost fifty-one pounds.
And when you challenge me on the fact that I'm saying I've lost fifty-one when I've only lost one pound, I say, yeah, but that fifty pounds is fifty pounds I wouldn't have gained if I hadn't gone on the diet.
So I've lost fifty-one pounds, even though I've only lost one.
Well, I've created and saved all these jobs.
We're gonna pay all these people to not work, we're gonna raise taxes on the rich, we're gonna redistribute a little bit and so forth.
I mean, that's how ridiculous this is given.
That's how phony and unreal it is.
And the thing is, you know, I've done enough diets.
I know if you tell yourself enough this, this this kind of thing, you can believe it.
If I if I wanted to, if I've if I'm going to diet, I've lost one pound, and I come here and tell you I've actually lost fifty-one.
It's either because I think it's gonna happen at some point, so I'm just getting a head start on telling you the truth, or I have saved 51 pounds I haven't gained because I went on the diet, which has made me lose one pound.
That I you I know you're scratching your heads.
You should be.
That's every bit as convoluted as any explanation Obama is providing us for how what he's doing is going to work.
All right, folks, time to hit him right between the eyes here.
Maria Barcheromo talking to Jonathan uh, what was it, Tini, who is the union guy that uh was complaining and whining about all the productivity, all the productivity, but the wage gap, the wage gap is smarter than it ever, no productivity is way up.
Productivity has skyrocketed America for one reason.
Do you know why, Snartley?
Tell me.
What's no, no, no, wrong.
That's not the answer I'm looking for.
You may be right about if it's an esoteric answer, some economics professor might give you an A, but it's not the real world.
Don, why has productivity skyrocketed in the private sector?
Why has it gone up?
What?
No, it's not on it's because only eight percent of the workforce is unionized.
Because only eight percent of the workforce in the private sector is unionized.
We all know that union contracts negotiate less productivity.
You get paid with your feet up on the chair after you quit working.
This is Maria Barterromo's old point.
That's why productivity skyro.
If union membership was 15%, that would be fewer people productive.
And only 8%.
Now government, to prove my point, if you're offended, government, the uh percentage of government employees unionize is 37%.
And you want to tell me the government's productive.
You can't.
You cannot when you have to interact, or as they say, interface.
When you have to interface or dialogue with government, don't you want to pull your hair out after the first 20 minutes?
They send you to this room, that room.
You've got to get in that line, go to that line.
Going through an airport TSA security check, even though I don't know what it's like.
I know what a lot of people complain about it.
You got the government, the productivity, I'm telling you, skyrockets because only 8% of the private sector is unionized.
This guy talks about the wage gap.
Well, you know what?
I looking the other day.
There is another wage gap.
Well, yeah, well, yeah.
It is a huge wage gap.
The gap between the earnings of the average Hollywood movie star and the average movie goer is the widest it has ever been.
Hollywood actors and actresses, their average pay is so far above the average income of a movie goer.
Why, according to the union thugs, this should mean massive tax increases on Hollywood actors.
Right?
I mean, if the theory works, the theory works.
About this school.
Now, this house that looks like a trailer cost 900 grand.
The floors blew up because the pipes froze.
No electricity, no gas.
The future, the future of environmentally clean and green living.
We're gonna spend, we've spend whatever.
I don't have a budget number 6.4 billion dollars.
And that's just tip of the iceberg.
It's gonna end up being more than that.
We're gonna spend billions and billions and billions to green up schools, right?
We're gonna do to the schools what they try to do in Troy, Michigan with this house.
We're gonna find out that the pipes are gonna freeze.
We're gonna find out the roof is gonna collapse when your average thunderstorm goes through there.
We're gonna find out that they're gonna end up full of mold because of lousy air circulation.
The kids are gonna get sick from raw wood rot and mold and insects.
But here's the thing about it.
We know all of this.
You know why?
Because we've lived it.
And because it was it was intolerable, we decided to improve it.
So we came up with air conditioning and we came up with proper fabrics and tools and equipment to manufacture a roof that'll stay on and pipes that won't freeze.
Advancing our lifestyles got rid of all the kids getting sick in school from wood rot, maggots, insects, collapsing roofs, and pipes at burst.
And we're headed back in that direction because that supposedly is going to save the planet.
Next thing you know, we're gonna go back to the horse and buggy, and our streets are gonna be dirt and mud with horse manure in the middle of them.
That's natural.
That's what's idiotic and insane about Obama nomics.
We've been there.
And we didn't like it.
And we improved our quality of life, and we made things cleaner.
You can't tell me that a bunch of mold and bursting pipes and rotted wood and collapsed robes is progress.
Because my friends, it isn't.
All right, to the phones to Bayonne, New Jersey.
Margaret, I'm glad you called.
Nice to have you on Open Line Friday.
Thanks for taking my call, Rosh.
Yes, ma'am.
I like to take this opportunity to tell you we have the best health care in the world.
And if we go down the road of socialized medicine, we are going to lose the most brightest and talented doctors.
We're gonna see pay caps on doctors.
Right.
We're gonna have the government dictating patient care.
That's exactly right.
Not the doctor.
That's exactly you're exactly right about everything.
And it's gonna end up costing more.
And people are not gonna be as hell.
If I want you to listen to a soundbite I have here, uh, Margaret.
Last night on PBS, Charlie Rose talking to Andy Stern, union leader, service employees, international union.
They had this exchange.
I think this president wants to do this A because on the merits he believes it's essential and necessary.
But he also wants to do this as a tribute to Senator Kennedy and get it done.
Senator Kennedy's waited his whole life, fought his whole life to see this moment, and not just the president.
I think Democrats and Republicans in the Senate, many people who know him like me just think what a better tribute could there be to the greatest settlers we've had in decades, which is a universal health care plan.
Every time I predict this, I catch hell from the drug.
But they're gonna name health care after Kennedy, and and that's gonna guarantee its passage because nobody's gonna have the guts.
Rush, you're gonna see drug companies and medical device companies stop with pipeline drugs and devices.
This is gonna be the mess that the government's gonna create.
Look at Medicare and Medicaid.
It's horrible.
I know.
Medicaid's already going bankrupt seven years, and that's what we're gonna model uh national health care, Kennedy care.
That's what we need to start calling it that.
No, it's socialized care.
And I socialized Kennedy care, whatever.
I go, I go to symposiums all over, and I speak to doctors from Canada and England.
They keep addresses in the United States so their family can get better health care.
I know, I know, and people, you know, politicians, politics tell don't do it from Europe, Great Britain are telling us not to do it.
All right, thank you, Margaret.
I appreciate it.
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Do you remember, folks?
Speaking of uh environmentally advanced buildings.
In 1994, some of you who are new to the program, of course, will not Remember this because you weren't here to hear me say it originally.
In 1994, I purchased a condominium in Manhattan.
Fashionable penthouse on the Upper East side.
And after the typical year and a half to two years of renovations, lawsuits, lies and stuff in page six about the whole process.
Moved in.
One week after moving in, I am in my fashionable new bathroom.
Preparing for bed.
Thunderstorm goes nuts outside.
I mean, it was just kabooming all over the place.
The rain was pouring down.
Within five minutes, water was pouring through the light sockets in the master bedroom.
I mean, as fast as your bathtub faucet will produce water.
In the dining room, every opening possible, water was flowing, being flooded.
One week after moving in.
In the kitchen.
Same thing.
Through this, we had the the uh the spots, the lights in the ceiling.
Bam!
Water was just one week after moving in.
I'm watching this running around grabbing pots and pans from the kitchen, which were meaningless, but I was trying to do something to get the water out of this, keep it from damaging things.
Bed was I mean, I I and I said, How the hell did this happen and why did nobody tell us this when we were looking to buy it?
You know what I learned later?
There was a smaller penthouse above mine, and the people up there had a lot of terraces, and they had turned it into a garden.
They essentially had a roof garden up there.
And they had uh well, well, I mean, charitable.
They had failed to follow various codes and so forth and putting it together.
And the membranes in the ceiling and the floor that were supposed to be there were there, but they were not done properly.
And that amount of rain, flash thunderstorm, just I mean, that's what got into my apartment below.
Now, I I mentioned this, not because I want sympathy, because I don't want this not that at all.
I mention this because roof gardens are the latest craze.
On school roofs.
Yes, we don't have enough trees out in the front yard.
We don't have enough grass.
We have to put a roof garden up there to help save the planet from global warming.
Well, I've lived under one.
And by the way, this went on for four years, even after they supposedly fixed it.
It kept leaking only, not not the full force faucet type uh flow of water.
It was drip, drip, drip, but I mean it eventually had to rip out a lot of ceilings, put it back into curtains and so forth.
The damage was incredible.
All because the people up there wanted to be able to go outside and have their roof garden.
Eh, the insurance of the insurance company, but yes, of course they didn't.
Well, that was a hassle too.
It's always a hassle.
Uh yeah, but but they tried not to.
I mean, they tried to blame the building, the building said, no, it's not us, it's the tenant.
The tenant said, no, it's the building.
Other people said, No, it's your fault for not checking before you bought the place.
That would have typical the way these disputes go.
That's not my point.
The point is I've lived under one of these damn things, and I've had my property destroyed.
We're going backwards with all this environmental rot gut.
Okay.
That what?
What's the moral of the story?
What is the No, I didn't know because it was much smaller.
The roof garden, the building was tapered.
They had more outside square footage than they had inside.
Their apartment, the actual condo they had was smaller than mine was the whole floor.
And theirs was the whole floor, but theirs about half the size.
And then outside that, this is where the roof garden was.
And uh.
Well, easy to say now, yeah.
Should have bought both, right.
Easy to say now.
Actually, if you're gonna think that way, I should have bought the top three.
Because then when the middle one got damaged, I would have had some place to go while fixing the middle floor, but that wouldn't have been damaged because I wouldn't have built a roof garden up there.
I'd have built standard patios, put a barbecue pit or whatever up there, and lived a normal life out of wandering around a bunch of weeds.
Alexandria, Virginia.
Ron, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Bus.
I'm a longtime listener and first time caller.
Great to have you here.
Yeah, I wanted to talk to you about a comment that you made a few weeks ago when you were talking about the defining down of the definition of torture, and then you compared it to the now gang and how they define down the definition of domestic violence.
Oh, yeah, that was fun.
Uh, the because the leftist groups went nuts out there over this.
I wish I knew that.
See, I know how to tweak them out there, right.
For what for those who didn't hear this, I said, I started by saying that Daniel Patrick Moynihan, we've defined deviancy down.
We finally say that uh any kind of debauchery or just criminal whatever behavior that we just we can't control on anymore, we can't stop it.
We just proclaim it normal.
So we define deviancy down.
Uh and and we're defining torture down, I said, by expanding the definition of torture.
And I said, based on what I've heard that happened at Club Gitmo, uh, men are guilty of torture by slapping their wives or even threatening to, or raising their voices.
Well, the now gangs of feminazis and their allies at all of the insane liberal blogs had the predictable conniption fit and wrote about how I'm Fred Flintstone and all that.
What was your reaction to it, Ron?
Well, because I know something about this issue.
I said you're exactly right.
And it's not only that, they they do a lot of damage with the definition being defined down.
It it's it's bad enough that messed up family law because you can win your divorce date by a false climate domestic violence now.
It's not only not only the fact that the definition is so low, the standards of proof are so low, but now with the violence against women act, which was Joe Biden's signature piece of legislation, they get a billion dollars a year for that, and they got 325 million in the sinless package.
And what they're doing now is they set up 18 committees for more money next year so that to figure out how to send all this money, and it's going into things like employment law, where it's economic justice and violence against women.
And there's actually a bill out there now.
It's H.R. 739, which is this Roy Bull Alard Congressman from woman from California, and this guy Ted Poe is supposed to be a Republican.
What they want to do there is say employment definition, you you you can't discriminate against people on the basis of employment if they've been a victim of domestic violence, and you can solve a burden.
I am familiar.
I am familiar with that, and I the roots of this, the roots of this go back to the early 70s, to the founding moments of the modern era of feminism, which led us to a period of time where men were predators, fathers were predators by virtue of their natural existence.
Uh, and so it's th that was a for forerunner, that was an indication of the kind of things liberalism was going to inculcate into our culture and to uh into our society.
Look, I'm I have to run because of the constraints of time.
Quick time out here.
Thank you, Ron, very much.
We'll be back.
We will continue more phone calls from you on open line Friday after this.
I see a headline like this on an AP story, and I you know, I scratch my head and I say, why?
Why don't people recognize this before it happens when it's so clear to reasonable informed people it's going to happen?
The headline is this.
Obama's barbed words worry corporate world.
Relations between President Obama, U.S. corporate leaders have grown tense in recent weeks, with business groups bristling over his sharp rebukes of lenders and multinational companies in particular.
Executives and trade groups that praised Obama's outreach during his transition period say they have felt less welcome since he took office in January.
More troubling, they say, are his populist tinged, sometimes acid Critiques of certain sectors, including large companies that keep some profits overseas to reduce their U.S. tax burden on Thursday.
Obama chastised the credit card industry for sharply raising interest rates or fees with hard defined notice.
He said consumers should be protected from all kinds of this this this just infuriates me.
There's no bigger credit card flawed than the U.S. government.
If Obama was forced, the federal government was forced to behave like the credit card companies are being forced to behave.
I'm not defending the credit card, but don't misunderstand now, folks.
But for a guy who's spending us into eternal oblivion debt and expanded poverty, for a guy to go out and start complaining and whining about private sector industries like the credit card companies, the automobile business, just infuriates me.
But even worse, all of these business leaders, what what did they ignore?
Don't tell me they got caught up in the cult like stuff.
Don't tell me they hated Bush, they just were eager for change.
I go back to the question, why do people not realize, why do they not understand what liberalism is?
Why do they not understand what liberals do?
And further, why did they not pay attention to who Obama's friends are and the way they talk and the actions they've taken?
Why didn't that matter to them?
The third thing is, and Jim Garrety pointed this out yesterday on his blog at National Review.
It's not entirely proper to judge Obama as a liberal.
Liberalism does not explain everything that he's doing, but what I discussed yesterday does, his quest for all consuming power.
He will get rid of anybody or anything that stands in his way of getting power, and he will embrace anybody or anything that helps him gain the power.
Now he's a liberal at heart, socialist, whatever, statist, redistributionist.
Well, I, you know, I starting to see, not often, but you're starting to see now, conservative, formerly conservative columnists, who six months ago were writing pieces describing Obama as eloquent, elegant, eloquent, uh, very articulate, smart, confident, cool, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Oh, it's wonderful.
We're not going to have any partisanship anymore.
We're going to be unified.
We're not going to be fighting with each other.
It's going to be wonderful.
And now these people are writing things like the Obama administration is obscuring our language.
The Obama administration is not what they thought it was going to be.
When it was right in front of their eyes.
Maybe they didn't want to.
Everybody has hope.
Everybody wants the country to be great.
And nobody really is going to.
Nobody wants to think somebody wants to make the country worse.
In his mind making it better, but in practical result, making it worse.
But it's very, very frustrating.
It's because you see, ladies and gentlemen, none of what's happening is a surprise to me.
That he hates business people, that he's holding them up to ridicule, that he's practicing class warfare, practicing class warfare.
That he's encouraging.
I mean, what is Acorn for crying out loud?
If it's not a bunch of rabble rousing frauds and cheats in the electoral process, what is code pink?
What are all these left-wing groups?
They're in business every day.
What they do is not a secret.
They represent his roots.
They're where he got his training.
They're the people he idolizes.
I mean, if you look at the last eight years alone, just last eight years, Look at the Democrat Party's enemies list.
Big oil, big pharmaceutical, Walmart, big food, big automobile, virtually every major American industry is on the Democrat Party enemies list.
Big radio.
You didn't even need Obama to come along to know where the Democratic Party is on this stuff.
So I'm sorry.
I have no sympathy for people who are now shocked and surprised at what they're getting.
I'm not I have no sympathy for these corporate people who uh are now worried about Obama's barbed words aimed at them.
What did you expect?
You have been marked men and women for eight years or longer, but eight years is enough period of you can remember the eight years.
You may not remember what Democrats are saying 50 years ago, but you know what they're saying eight years ago and last year and two years ago.
I'm sorry, I got no sympathy for anybody who's shocked and surprised here.
And there are going to be more and more people every day that this is not what I thought we were getting.
But it may be too late, but a time enough.
Figure it out.
Try this headline, the Washington Post, trade wars brewing in economic malaise.
Outrage in Canada as U.S. firms sever ties to obey stimulus rules.
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