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June 16, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 16, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Uh yesterday, I posted on the website three pictures of our new little puppy.
An old English sheep dog by the name of Abby.
Twelve weeks old.
And uh cute little pictures.
The cute little dog.
It's just uh everybody led has dogs and understand this an exuberant little puppy, curious about everything, already loyal, already devoted.
But I got a lot of questions from people.
What about punkin?
Have you just thrown pumpkin away?
Have you thrown pumpkin overboard?
What about punkin?
No, pumpkin is fine and dandy, include I even mentioned this a little bit.
Punkin is fine with the new dog.
It was actually kind of funny, because punkin, punkin will be eleven, I think, in August, and she'd never seen a dog until this one.
She had never seen a dog except on TV.
And she didn't know that she was watching TV when she was watching TV, contrary to what she doesn't know how to hate.
My cat uh is not a hater.
My cat's like every other cat, a superior being, indifferent to most everything, very loyal to me, but couldn't care less about it.
So the first thing I did, this is what I did.
We brought the new puppy in the house.
We got it close to where pumpkin's two rooms are, but we didn't take the dog in there.
We just wanted pumpkin to be able to whiff the scent.
This is what I've been told by all the experts to do.
Just let the let the cat if it's another cat and their dog, let it get the whip of the scent, but don't let the cat see the intruder.
The curiosity up.
Do the couple three days, get get them used to the scent, which is what happened.
And then, quite by accident, we're in the library with the new puppy, and in strolls pumpkin.
And the puppy, I I had I I said to Katie, here's what's gonna happen.
I know exactly what's gonna happen here.
When these two meet, cat's gonna walk in a room, and your dog, little puppy, is gonna go absolutely bonkers that there's an animal in the room.
He's gonna go running around like an absolute teenager with all this boundless energy, running around a little moaning, a little barking and so forth.
Go up and try to sniff the cat, and the cat, pumpkin, is gonna look at this this new creature just as you would look at a rambunctious four-year-old, like, uh, what am I gonna be bothered with this for?
And that's exactly what happened.
Punkin looked at this new dog like, ah, gee, what the hell is this?
Just just sat there and stared at it like, you little idiot.
When are you gonna calm down and stop making all this racket here in my house?
So then finally the dog got up the courage to get close to punkin and start doing the sniff routine.
And I wish I had the camera to show you this.
I wish I'd had the camera, but I was too busy standing guard.
I had to make sure that uh that nothing happened here.
So I was the guard.
So I did not have my camera with me, and I was afraid if I left the scene to go get the camera, the puppy would follow me away.
So we haven't got any pictures of this yet.
But the puppy kind of tiptoes up and starts sniffing around, and punkin just sits there and takes it and so forth.
And pumpkin gets up and the puppy starts sniffing the rear end.
And I said, Oh no.
This could be problematic.
But it wasn't.
It was I was I was stunned.
I was literally stunned.
But then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, pumpkin turned around and hissed.
Bam, that dog made a beeline of 180 in the opposite direction.
Uh, and then tiptoed back in Punkin finally got tired of it and left and went back up to her two rooms.
So we later we followed.
We took the dog up to her punkins' two rooms, the pumpkin was in her hammock.
I have a little cat toy that's a hammock, and she's sitting in it with one paw out.
Dog sniffs and pumpkin does not leave the hammock, just looks at the dog like it's the biggest idiot on the face of the earth.
The dog goes in, starts eating some of pumpkin's food.
Punk walks out on the hammock, sees this.
After the dog finishes, goes in and sniffs some of the food and says, Oh no, now the food's corrupted.
Punk's not going to eat this.
But she did.
So the bottom line is they get along fine.
They get along famously well.
Which was surprising to me.
And it was fun to watch, but I still don't have any pictures of it.
But I promise that I will try to get some uh pick.
Now what do you you don't believe me, Brian?
Look on your you don't believe me, but uh pumpkin has not been altered, but there were no swipes.
There no, nope, nope, there were no swipes.
Just a little.
Uh scratch boards and so forth.
She's a good cat.
What can I tell you?
She starts doing say no, she looks at me like screw you and leaves anyway.
They're so indifferent.
You know, they're just no matter how much cats have been domesticated, they're still they still have this air of superiority over over everybody.
But no, it was uh it was it was funny to watch.
Yeah, we're just doing it, you know, little tiptoe type steps.
Yeah, they're already, uh I'd have to say, uh peaceful in their coexistence.
I'm hoping it down the line there'll be buds, so forth.
Thing is, this dog is gonna get up to 70 pounds, and pumpkin weighs about eight.
But uh that won't that won't phase pumpkin.
She has to.
By the way, this is the first time I've ever heard her hiss.
The first time in in 11 years, she's never hissed.
Yeah, first time I've ever seen her doing it, do it.
So, but it was um it was it was fun to watch.
All right, I want to go back to a soundbite here, folks.
Something just occurred to me.
Well, it occurred to me during the uh the top of the hour break.
This is Obama this morning in the White House in the middle of a joint press conference, he's talking about Iran here.
You've seen in Iran some initial reaction from the Supreme Leader that uh indicates uh he understands the Iranian people have deep concerns about the election.
Uh, it's not productive, given the history of U.S. Iranian relations, to be seen as meddling, the U.S. president meddling in Iranian elections.
What I will repeat and what I said yesterday.
That's that that that's enough.
Now, I'm gonna be honest as he says he's we're we're we're not gonna be seen as meddling.
Comma.
U.S. president meddling in Iranian elections.
Now, if you know, mostly, you can go back and look at some bloggers have found this.
Reagan talking about what happened in Poland supporting Lechwenza when the unions there riotted against the communist government.
Whenever Reagan, Bush, whatever, whenever there was an outbreak against freedom in the world, they went out and made a statement, as we played, a soundbite from Bush yesterday from his second inaugural, telling anybody in the world, you stand for freedom, you stand with us, and we stand with you.
It's a tradition for the United States president to signal people all over the world that we stand for liberty, your liberty and ours.
We stand with you.
This man cannot bring himself to do it.
He says we're not gonna meddle.
We're not gonna meddle in their elections.
Does that mean we're not gonna meddle in what they're trying to do with nuclear power and nuclear weapons?
Does that mean if they get nukes, we're not gonna meddle, given our history with this insane regime?
You know, it's very interesting who Obama chooses to impose his values on.
He had no problem telling Israel to stop settlements in the West Bank.
And I loved it when Netanyahu basically said, screw you, buddy.
Now, given our history with Iran, does that mean that they have a permanent get out of jail card?
What does it mean?
Not productive given the history of U.S. Iranian relations to be seen as meddling.
The consequences of this statement, even if he did later specify elections, the consequences of this statement are breathtaking to me.
Stunning statement.
Because if he says we're not gonna meddle in the elections, it means we are going to excuse brutal authoritarian behavior because the regime is firing on protesters.
He goes, I don't like that.
I don't like what I say, people find it, but we're not going to meddle.
An amazing thing to say.
A rationalization, in other words, for not speaking up for liberty, which is something traditional that United States presidents do.
I mean, this is as revealing as anything about Obama.
And I will guarantee you, guarantee, my friends, I know these people like I know every square inch of my rapidly shrinking but yet glorious naked body.
Sixty-five pounds, by the way, now, 225.
Shirt I'm wearing today is a fit Omar the tent maker.
At any rate.
This guy's because what we did a parody here on his address to the world.
I will guarantee you that Cairo speech.
He fully expected the world to snap to.
He expected free elections in Iran.
So much so that last Friday, when there were exit poll reports.
He goes out and starts talking about all the new democracy and how it's great that there may be change coming.
All because he made a speech.
This man's ego's not containable.
There is no container in the world that will contain his ego.
Because it's constantly expanding anyway.
If you could find a container large enough to put his ego in, it would eventually be blown up with the expanding ego.
This guy's ego is expanding faster than the Soviet Union was expanding back during the 60s and 70s.
But there's no telltale birthmark on Obama to indicate it like there was on Mikhail Gorbachev.
So that election was about him.
It was supposed to be a new day just because of his words.
And it didn't happen.
And now he's, you know, fumbling around trying to excuse what he said last Friday, and B, we're not going to meddle.
We don't like it when they fire on people.
We don't like it when they repress vote.
And now, folks, now, now the mullahs, these are smart people, because they know what Doomkoffs they're dealing with with worldwide journalists.
The mullahs are now saying they're going to have a partial recount.
So the the idiot community of journals.
Oh, this is a wonderful.
Look what Obama's forced.
He's forced a recount.
A recount?
A partial recount.
These people know exactly who all of the useful idiots in the world are, and they play them like Strativarius.
Do you think there's going to be any change?
The UK telegraph has a story today about how there were leaked reports that Ahmadinezad actually came in third in this election.
I am looking for it even as we speak.
Sit tight, uh, and I'll find it as I go through this.
See, I jump around here.
I had this Iranian stuff at the bottom of the stack today, but the way things unfold.
By the way, Democrats are very upset that uh Robert Byrd's health is uh improving.
They are.
They're upset that his health is improving because he opposes the Czars.
He opposes Obama's Tsars, thinks they're unconstitutional, he opposes this health care stuff that Obama's trying to do.
Well, maybe I maybe I just ah, here it is.
UK telegraph, Iran protest canceled as leaked election results show Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came in third.
Iran's reformist presidential candidate, Mir Hussein Mousavi, has called off a major rally to protest last Friday's results amid claims that cops had been cleared to open fire on protesters.
It's by Colin Freeman.
It goes on to say that he got a uh statement on Musavi's campaign website announcing a demonstration had been postponed.
Uh ministry, uh Savi's cancellation.
Well, I can't remember I'm looking up time here fast because I'm up against the break.
Um leaked figures, authenticity cannot be confirmed.
Leaked figures say Ahmadinejad came in third.
No surprise, it didn't matter what place he came in.
Didn't matter what place anybody came in.
It doesn't matter what the recount's gonna say.
The recount is for the benefit of adults.
Like our state run media.
They go, oh, it's over.
I was not worried at all about mixing the dog and a cat.
Uh not at all.
I understand these animals.
If you understand one simple truth, then you'll have no problem mixing cats and dogs in your house in your house.
Dogs have masters and cats have staff.
And once you understand that, and once you you can't make a cat be a dog or vice versa.
Then everything's cool.
Everything's fine.
Here's Alex, Flushing, Michigan.
You're up next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
How are you doing today?
Great, sir.
Thank you.
Good.
I'm glad you're there.
I I enjoy listening to you.
Thanks so much.
Listen, I wanted to comment a little bit on that thing about Flint that you've been bringing up.
And uh I'm a Republican, so don't doubt that one bit.
But I wanted to say that definitely there's there's areas of Flint that really need to be torn down, and that city really needs to be cleaned up, and they need to do something in that city that's gonna help them generate tax dollars as far as uh get new businesses in there and just so they can even pay the the public service people as far as the police department and and the other services that uh they need to take care of, you know.
But uh other than that, you know, I mean how far, how how far is flushing at Michigan from Flint?
Uh flushing is probably about twelve, five miles, eight miles outside of the city.
So I've lived in that area all my life.
So you are in Flint frequently.
Oh, yes.
Well, I'm an over the road truck driver, so not as much as I I once was.
I mean, I'm gone for a month at a time, but uh even when I come, I don't like going into the city.
Look at what just happened.
I said, Oh, you're in Flint frequently.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You didn't want to be identified as being in Flint very often, even though you only live eight miles away.
Okay.
Give me the excuse you're an over the road truck driver.
So you live in a suburb of Flint.
Right.
Yeah.
And you you agree that now that the story is that forty percent of the place needs to be bulldozed.
Well, for the areas that I'm thinking, Rush, uh, that could be 40 percent.
There's there's a part of the city, and not to be disrespectful to the people that live in that part of the city, but uh there's areas that just you know make the make the city look in in pretty bad disarray.
Who's a mayor?
What what political party is the mayor in Flint?
Well, it's a Democratic, and he there was a guy named Don Williams, and the uh city council got out.
City council dominated by which political party.
Uh Democrat.
Democrat and uh state government in Michigan dominant dominated by which political party?
A Democrat.
Yeah, and for a long, long, long, long, long, long time, right?
Uh, yes, except for the good years of Engler.
Yeah, there was an interlude in there that you're absolutely right.
Um, I just well, you live there, forty percent of it needs to be bulldozed so that people will move back.
Well, I'm I don't think they're gonna move back.
I think there's nice suburbs of Flint where people are much happier and they can they can be there with their families, probably some of the schools are better than what's in the city of Flint.
Look, if you're gonna if you're gonna bulldoze 40% of Flint and bulldozing 40% of Flint will not cause people to return and have it grow, why not bulldoze it all?
If everybody prefers to live in cities close to it.
Well, there's people that probably enjoy living in the city.
They've been there for years, and I'm sure they would want to see see the city improve.
They probably wouldn't be against this plan.
I mean, no one wants to see a bunch of people uh be forced out of their homes because of this, you know.
But if it can eventually improve things to where people want to move there, then by all means, you know.
Now wait, this is a new twist, because the story I read said that forty percent of the town needs to be bulldozed because forty percent of the homes and other structures are unoccupied.
Now you're talking about bulldozing homes that are occupied as well.
Well, then the areas that you're speaking of.
Okay, now I mentioned the northern part of the city, okay.
There's areas where I grew up in when I was a child that now are much worse.
Like I took my children into an area where I grew up when I was a baby just a couple months ago, and I want to tell you what, Rush, I was I was scared.
I drove down that.
Okay, fine.
Now why did the you know we can sit, okay, it needs to be bulldozed, but then nobody's gonna go back there, precisely because no changes will be na made that led to the fact that forty percent of the town is a ghost town or what have you.
What what bothers me about this is the is this is a nation, this is a country that has always prided itself on growth, economic growth and economic opportunity.
Now I understand you we just we hear of hurricanes wiping out towns.
There was a Kansas town wiped out by a hurricane, and they rebuilt it.
It's amazing to listen to Democrats say we don't have any interest in rebuilding Flint.
We just want to bulldoze it.
And in the guy who come up with the idea, Obama says, Hey, apply your theory to fifty other cities.
Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being, should be allowed to have back to the phones now.
This is uh Rick in Chicago.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
Um, you're the Silicon Laude inspiring ambassador of conservative thought.
Thank you.
This actually means political thought altogether, uh I'm sure you're aware.
But uh I have a statement in light of uh Letterman's latest so-called apology and his inability to express any contrition about celebrating the defilement of a young women.
All right.
I'd like to go back to the early nineties when he made the following statement to you.
Uh he said on his show to you, do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and ask yourself, Am I just full of hot gas?
And uh I think it's time the prime time to turn around that statement to him.
Um are you full of hot gas, David, considering that you're now the Hindenburg of late-night talk shows.
Now, my memory of that is a little different from yours.
He said that.
There's there's no question he said it, but I was there.
Okay.
And I know that that that that uh that that statement he made, the left wing blogs have loved it and lived on it for years.
But what he said, I think I could be wrong, but I think that before he said that, he said, Are you like me?
You ever go home late at night just think, damn, I'm talking all these people.
Yeah, I'm just full of hot gas.
You think you're ever full of hot and the audience just erupted.
They just loved it.
They thought they they thought it was uh fabulous.
And when that happened, Letterman started going, no, no, no, no, no, as though that's not what he meant.
And after that happened, he invited me back two times, I think, maybe three, not to be a guest, but to appear in fake phony commercials.
Uh and he was very kind.
Every time uh that I uh uh on those two or three returns, I've I've I've never been invited back on the show since, and I don't think I ever will be.
I that that I'm too famous to go on that show.
Those kind of shows, they're just uh they're they're not, you know, they're that that's it's th they're f those are the kind of shows Obama goes on.
I'm there too much substance and and uh uh all that I have uh to waste time on shows like that.
But my memory of that instance is a little bit different than uh he did say it, but I I think he prefaced it by by by saying, Are you like me?
And you don't think that was a setup because it was such I remember you seem to be really caught by it was kind of an insulting thing to say to a guest.
I I really thought that and then that's kind of the way I remember.
Well, no, I r I remember what I said to him.
I said, Dave, isn't it a wonderful thing?
People like you and I growing up in this country can have shows like this and just be uh uh you know be this successful, this kind of stuff.
Of course, that you know that was j that was yeah, we were just hitting light speed at that time then the program was just taking off.
Now, here's another at that time.
Uh I'll I'll give you some details that people don't know.
At that time I lived in a building in New York that Paul Schaefer lived in.
And I saw Paul Schaefer all the time, Letterman's music director.
I'd I'd see him coming in.
They they tape at five o'clock in the afternoon, I'd see Paul Schaefer at six or seven if we happened to be coming in the building at the same time.
I'd talk to him, and you know, I at that time Letterman was on um uh uh he had well NBC, but he had just gone to CBS when when this this had happened.
But I remember I gave uh I gave Paul Schaefer a box of cigars at the time Letterman was big-time public cigar smoker, gave him a box of cigars and a note, said please guy really I think Dave's one of the most funny creative people there is.
Schaefer gave him the box, and I got a nice thank you note from Letterman from this.
Uh I remember when I got there for the for the uh appearance on that show, Schaefer came up to me and said, Boy, the streets really wired about this.
I said, Well, what are you talking about?
Your appearance, the streets hot, meaning everybody's buzzing about this, as though it was gonna be some kind of uh confrontation.
The reason I don't go on these shows, if you've noticed, I mean, even when they drag out uh a politician, it's not all political discussion.
It's uh uh when they have some actor something, it's always it these are comedy shows.
But when people like me are invited on these shows, it's bare knuckles, clenched fists, and who the hell do you think you are, kind of stuff.
And uh there's no interest in in showing the humanity of of a guest such as me, and I have lots of humanity.
It's all about other things.
So it's a waste of time to go on.
But you know, I had uh uh no indication prior that there was going to be any kind of uh of a cutting comment because of all the uh polite nice things I had said.
Even during the interview, I tried to say to him on the show, I said, you know, I think you're the best at what you do and he ah, no, no, we don't need as though he were embarrassed to be complimented, and so forth and came out with the uh with the thing.
So it is what it is.
You live and learn.
And what I what I learned is that shows like that are beneath me.
I think we're being more contentious, and that's how because I remember you being a gentleman, and I don't re recall the reciprocation.
But uh I can't correct it on that, but at least from clear the record.
I understand I felt it was contentious too.
Don't misunderstand, and I can understand why you think so, because of the hot gas bag comment.
I mean that everybody else thought that too.
And Letterman, you know, he got a bunch of gold stars from the left even back then, before there were blogs.
Uh uh they they were they were all hot to trot about it, and it's still one of the most favored quotes trotted out.
It's it's shown up if you looked at the right blogs in this palin s business as people have sought to defend Letterman.
Uh they have brought that appearance out and talked about see he's he's a good guy.
He's got these people down pet.
Uh meaning me.
But that's what I mean.
He he's not what he once was.
Uh he's he's uh he's turned cynical.
He's not creatively funny anymore.
He just seems angry at all, and and he's turned really 100% political, which he stayed away from.
Uh you know, so uh I uh you know, I it is what it is.
These things happen.
You always take a risk when you go on these shows.
But I appreciate I appreciate your comments, so don't misunderstand.
I'm not arguing with you.
I just it's always a pleasure to listen to you.
I'm a I'm a great fan of yours and um listen regularly.
And I've called numerous times.
I appreciate it, Rick.
Grazie, thank you very much.
Okay, God speak to you, Russia.
You bet.
Thanks so much.
You know, sometimes I say graziate to uh to people.
I'll tell you where I picked that up.
Back in the late 80s, still in Sacramento, I hosted one of these listener tours to Italy.
And we stayed in some college dormitory.
It was a horrible place to stay.
It was this uh uh trip on the cheap.
But my brother and a couple friends of ours decided, you know, the hell with this cheap stuff.
We're gonna we went to the Hassler Hotel, which we had seen on uh Robin Leach, what was that show?
Um it's it like yeah, it's a lifestyles of the rich and famous, uh Hassler Hotel.
So we went there and they had a restaurant up on the top of it.
And we're having lunch, and the waiters were very nice.
And my brother David, every time the Raiders had come up and fill the water or take an order, my brother would say, Grazia.
It's Grazie in Italy, Italian.
He said, Grazie.
And every time he said it, these waiters would just start chuckling with each other, kind of bow their heads, you and walk away.
And after about ten times of this, I finally told one of the waiters, what what what's so funny about Graziate?
Now I just tell you what the waiters told me.
The waiter said, Well, that is a form of grazi that is really, really familiar male to mail.
So I've never heard that since, but that's what one of the waiters said.
So my brother and I still say graziate to each other sometimes in public or even uh even in emails.
Uh West uh Palm Coast, Florida, Palm Coast Florida.
Emmett, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
How are you doing, Rush?
Never better, sir.
Thank you.
Yeah, I recently wrote you guys a letter called Middle American, and one of the things I didn't get quite to get to there on that was uh everyone's so concerned about this bailout and all, and these companies made bad decisions and poor decisions that that we bailed them out on.
What would have happened if we just let it go?
I mean, there's a doomsday theory that all America would have just crumbled beneath everything if we hadn't jumped in and just paid our taxes to get these guys out of trouble.
That is an excellent question.
Now, which bailout are you to there?
There have been what, four of note.
Which one's specific you talking about GM?
You're talking about GM and Chrysler.
Are you talking about banks?
You're talking about TARP?
Which which are you specifically referring to here?
Well, well, to get specific, we'll just we'll do the GM bailout.
I mean, they've made poor choices on financing the wrong people and people who aren't ready to finance.
So in my way of paying.
Okay, what here's here's the thing on that.
Here's the if if in a normal capitalist economic system, if they can't make it, they file chapter eleven, which they should have done in the first place.
How much how many billions did we throw at both companies to save them?
It didn't work, and they both end up going, modified Chapter 11, written and dominated by Obama.
And now Obama controls them, which is what he was after from the start.
And I know that oh but that that Bush was uh uh the the guy that actually started the first bailout of GM, but Obama during the transition called Bush and urged him to do it.
You know, Obama was trying to play hide and seek during the transition, but he was in on this.
He wanted Bush to do it, and Bush, uh, he was he was, I think, just trying to be cooperative.
He's a class guy with the incoming chief of state.
Uh the TARP bailout, that was a ruse from the get-go.
We have since learned, we were look at what we were told about that.
We were told if we didn't do the TARP bailout, that the country would cease to exist and the country would default, and we would all be essentially penniless in twenty-four hours.
That's how they sold that.
Remember Hank Paulson was running around with Ben Bernanke.
We've bailed out all these banks, and and all it's done is led to government control of the banks.
Remember the purpose of the original purpose of the TARP bailout was to get credit going again so people could borrow?
It still hasn't happened.
It still hasn't happened.
The whole thing, the whole thing was a ruse, folks.
I don't know what the purpose.
I mean, you could speculate and say that this was about Wall Street being made whole with your taxpayer dollars.
It was about Paulson trying to take care of his buddies so they don't lose their homes in the Hamptons.
Uh but we know it wasn't about saving the economy.
It wasn't about saving the country.
We've done far more than TARP now.
We have we have Obama has spent over ten years, if he doesn't spend another dime, twelve trillion dollars.
Money we don't have.
What we've done in response to whatever financial crisis there was was compound the crisis by a multiple of ten, if we've had just left it alone.
If things are that bad, and if things are running irresponsibly, people running business irresponsibly, it happens to small business people all the time.
Doesn't work, they have to shut down.
But somehow, when it's large and so forth, and look at the we we wanted to save it, right?
The theory was we wanted to save the bank, save Wall Street, get credit going again.
What's happened?
What's happened is is that Obama's now setting payment compensation schedules for people on Wall Street, and he's talking about doing it in businesses that have nothing to do or even not have taken any bailout money.
This whole thing was a ruse and a scam from day one.
People one of our great problems in the United States, people will trade their liberty for security.
Even though the natural yearning of the human spirit as created is to be free.
Security is a big competitor to liberty.
That's why they are going to sell this health care crap.
That's why they're able to sell the bailouts, because it was about security and about people not getting hurt.
And about people not losing their jobs or people not losing this or that.
We just can't stand after all of this self-esteem education that we've been pummeling our kids with for 35 or 40 years and all this stupid rotten conflict resolution stuff.
We can't have any pain.
And we've got more pain Ahead of us than you can possibly imagine because of the steps taken to eliminate pain at the moment.
And we still have a lot of pain.
It's 9.4% unemployed.
We've got a lot of pain.
Look at the latest numbers here.
The value of loans held by the 21 largest institutions, getting support from the government's $700 billion bailout fund fell.
The value of the loans fell in April.
The fifth decline in six months.
The bottom line is that more than 9% of all mortgages are at least 30 days late now.
People in 9% are 30 days late behind payment.
None of this was supposed to happen.
We're supposed to fix this.
And remember the people who were in trouble.
They were supposed to be able to go to an Obama website and stay in their house without being foreclosed.
None of it's happened.
Every bit of it was a lie.
The stimulus is a lie.
The stimulus package.
Tom Coburn of Oklahoma has found repairs for rural bridges and under highway safe crossing for turtles.
Efforts to protect the sage grouse population.
Among 100 projects, he pointed to yesterday as projects being funded with stimulus money.
Stimulus money was supposed to get you a job.
It was supposed to put people back to work.
Instead, past stimulus, 9.4% unemployment.
The list by Senator Coburn includes projects others would identify as ideal for creating jobs and benefiting generations of Americans.
I mean, it would not be ideal.
State skateboard parks, streetscapes, upgrades of park facilities, bike trails, parking garages.
That's what's being built with stimulus money.
stimulus money was to stimulate the economy.
I've got to take a break.
I'm way long.
But we'll be back.
Stay with us.
All right, folks, I have uh thought about it.
I've given this considerable thought.
Um I've I've given this more thought in the last 10 minutes than most people think about anything in their life.
And I am ready to change my mind on bulldozing Flint.
I say, go for it.
Let's just bulldoze it.
Well, it's the same, because I what made me think of this was my answer to the guy's question on bankruptcy.
What should we have done with the bailout?
By the way, the the first purpose of the TARP bailout was to buy up all the toxic assets, and then it was to get credit going.
We haven't done either with the money.
But now I'm sort of looking at bulldozing these cities as bankruptcy.
They should have been let go long ago.
They were down to tubes long ago.
We tried propping them up with urban renewal, and it didn't work.
We were hoodwinked into being called names if we just let these cities go.
So we kept pumping money in there, we kept pumping welfare, we have food stamps, all of these things, because we loved them and we cared for them, but the proof, the proof that a government can't revive anything is Flint, Michigan.
What really sent Flint south was when GM shut down there and moved.
Or left.
There's not much.
Well, I better check.
I better check if there's still GM operations in Flint.
If there are, they've really been downsized.
But look at all whatever, whatever.
If GM's not involved in it, whatever is the problem in Flint, Michigan, what have we done to try to save it?
Every government program under the sun.
And what's happened?
We got boarded up houses that now the leaders of the town say need to be bulldozed.
40% of the town.
Now, this is probably what needs to happen to a lot of California folks.
And other places where we're going in debt, propping up failure.
It is what it is.
We keep we can't keep pumping all this federal and state money is because we have proven that pumping federal and state money doesn't spur growth in cities.
Or anything else.
Selecting GM.
I mean, if $50 billion in bailout or $20 can't save them, let it go.
And then if Flint rises out of its own ashes...
Fine and dandy.
And there's another added benefit.
You start bull, Because every damn one of these cities is a blue city, I'll guarantee them to you.
Meaning mostly Democrats.
So you bulldoze it and you disperse a bunch of Obama voters, it has great political future ramifications for the Republicans.
Well, we'd hit the brink, right?
We'd turn the corner on the economy.
Whatever Obama said out there to California.
But I got more bad news for you out here after all of this bailout stuff.
And after all of the stimulus, industrial production tumbled a larger than expected 1.1% last month, as the recession crimped demand for a wide range of manufactured goods, including cars, machinery, and household appliances.
Duh.
How's that hope and change working for you, folks?
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