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July 21, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 21, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Let's see now.
Uh President Barack Obama can't figure out to do.
Can't figure out what to do with Club Gitmo, which means the EIB thriving licensed merchandise business there will survive.
He doesn't know what to do.
He's announced a delay in closing Guantanamo Bay.
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Okay, so we are going to delay key budget numbers, the July midterm budget, and we're going to delay those because they don't look good.
We are going to delay the decision on closing Guantanamo Bay.
Senior administration officials said yesterday that the report on detention will be delayed six months.
Now six months, we're getting we're talking January when the place is supposed to be closed.
The report on interrogation and transfer policy will be delayed two months.
Now President Obama cannot figure out what to do with Guantanamo Bay.
And how many people are there?
How many detainees are down there?
Three 200, 300, whatever it is.
He can't figure out what to do.
you announce something's at a close and you close it and you move whoever's there to that's the rub where do you move them?
No other country wants them or home countries don't want them I I don't think people in Rio Linda would mind, but there's no prison nearby to put them in.
So my point is this.
If Obama can't figure out what to do with 300 people in Guantanamo Bay, how in hell can we figure out what's the best health care plan for every American?
So when cancer patients need treatment, will their care be delayed six months while Obama figures out what the hell to do?
Obama can't figure out what to do with a detention facility that's working fine.
I mean, it's fine.
Antanoma's working exactly as planned.
He is totally screwed up, something that works well.
He said he could be trusted with how to fix Gitmo, how to get us out of Iraq.
He had all the answers.
He said he would remake Gitmo in one year.
It'd be perfect.
Just like he's remaking America, just like he's remaking the economy.
And now he wants us to turn health care over to him so he can mismanage our medical treatment the way he mismanaged Gitmo and the budget.
This is how he works.
Delay, no transparency, setbacks, wasted money, more delay.
We are the ones who suffer.
Oh, and by the way, ladies and gentlemen, we have found something else in the health care bill.
Page 425 to page 430.
The House version of the health care bill is going to require mandatory counseling for all seniors at a minimum of every five years, more often if the senior is sick or in a nursing home.
Just how many government-trained counselors let put into the workforce with an over 65 population of 38 million, according to the U.S. Census 2007.
If you have an over 65 population of 38 million people, you're gonna need four counseling sessions daily.
That's 37,000 at a minimum.
Counselors, plus their supervisors, then the people who read their reports in the oversight agency.
Now what we should, you know what?
We you know what we ought to do?
We ought to take, we want to put together a single page cut and paste fact sheet at Rush Limbaugh.com that people could cut and paste it and fax it to the White House so that Obama will know what is in the bill.
And I'll bet he doesn't know that there is end-of-life counseling for senior citizens for page 425 to 430.
Uh What is this counseling going to be?
Why would you need counseling for mandatory, mandatory counseling for all seniors?
And who's going to pay for this?
Mandatory counseling for all seniors at a minimum of every five years, more often if the seasoned citizen is sick or in a nursing home.
And as Don Parker writes here at The American Thinker, don't even think that anyone should receive mandatory counseling regarding the end of life issues surrounding abortion.
That's an invasion of the right to privacy.
We can't have counseling for mothers who are thinking of terminating a pregnancy when go in there and counsel people about to die.
Sure, you get some counselors from the hemlock society go in and do this.
I mean Cavorkian might want to come back to life.
Handle this.
End of life counselors.
End of life treatment for senior citizens.
Mandatory.
Yes, Mr. Sturdlee.
A question.
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I walked out there and Don said, Did you see the story about the new judge?
Didn't you think?
No, I didn't see any story about the new judge.
Yeah, it's in the Palm Beach Post.
It's great.
No, all I saw was that the Palm Beach County Commissioners are voting today on a 14.1% property tax increase.
14.8% property tax increase.
Palm Beach Cup voting on it today.
There are a bunch of pigs.
14.8% property tax here in Palm Beach County.
Yes, that's I didn't see the story about the the miracle judge.
Property I know that's why they're gonna raise taxes.
Property values are down.
That's why they're gonna raise taxes.
Fewer people are smoking cigarettes.
That's why they raise taxes on cigarettes.
Fewer people are driving gas guzzlers, so they raise the tax on gasoline.
It's it's it's it's the formula.
They tell us to do what we're supposed to do, and when they suffer for it, bam bam.
They start raising taxes.
14.8%.
It's in the Palm Beach Post today.
When I saw that, I didn't care to find anything else in the Palm Beach Post about a miracle judge or whatever.
Audio sound by time.
The drive-by's state-run media, very, very alarmed at Obama's plummeting poll numbers, and very, very alarmed at um any insinuation that Obama's not who he is.
This is a clip from Angria Mitchell.
In me see me on her MSNBC show.
She's talking with Ron Insana, or insana, Ron and Sana CNBC.
She said when Meredith Vieira asked President about uh pay and perks and whether the banks have forgotten or ignored the lessons of the past.
The president agreed with her and said they need a little humility.
White House wants to see a much tougher line toward the banks towards compensation, and certainly in light of some of these profit reports, don't you think, Ron, that we ought to limit the compensation of people at the banks?
I would say that, you know, the president who earned 2.7 million dollars selling books last year.
I'm not sure how worried about compensation he is in the long run when he too is a millionaire.
Well, he certainly earned that in writing those books.
Now some of the back is too.
No one can deny the best sellers.
Okay.
See that she got real touchy when it's oh, Obama's a millionaire.
Nobody's limiting his compensation.
Well, he earned it, he earned it.
We've got a montage here of the state-run media struggling with Obama's falling poll numbers.
His approval rating is trended down over the past few months.
No surprise there.
His approval rating, which is still high.
There's still a lot of favorability that the American people have toward him.
Even though some of his approval has slipped on various issues, leadership attributes still remain really high.
While he remains personally popular, he cannot defy the political law of gravity.
The president's job approval rating has fallen.
His overall approval rating remains high.
The president's overall approval is dropping, though it does remain a healthy upper 50 percent.
Well, President's job approval stands at 59 percent.
Not bad.
It's slipping somewhat.
You have a president who still has very high approval ratings relatively.
But it's still okay.
It's a little bit damp.
They're worried.
They're worried.
They've helped here by not reporting any of the details of the economic destruction that Obama has uh has wrought.
Uh and they're doing their best to keep the numbers up.
Now they have to Well, he's he's brave.
He's a brave guy.
He's tackling tough issues.
Of course, those uh those numbers are gonna come down.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's still doing really well.
I mean, still really loved out there, still pretty high.
They are coming down, but uh we're gonna get them back up there.
So it won't won't take long.
Well, uh jump forward to let's see.
Uh number 9, 10, and 11 here.
Uh uh, as I speak uh inside baseball to the broadcast engineer.
Uh last night, President Obama was on the news hour with Jim Lara, and Jim Lara interviewed President Obama since it's the news hour with Jim Lara.
And Jim Lara said, Mr. President, it must have been a little unpleasant for you to wake up this morning and see this headline, Washington Post polls show Obama slipping on key issues, approval rating on health care falls below 50 percent.
What does that mean, uh, Mr. President?
It means that what we're doing is hard.
And yeah, the truth is I feel pretty good about the fact that our polls have held up under extraordinarily difficult circumstances.
Uh, you know, I think we may have said a very high bar for ourselves.
Normally 59% folks would say, uh, well, take it.
On health care in particular, look, there's a reason why this hasn't been done in fifty years.
And that is because this is a big complex situation.
A lot of special interests here in Washington, who are very protective of the status quo.
Special interest, my wise.
It's fifty years of screwing it up.
So Jim O'Lara of the News Hour with Jim Lara then says, but do I read you correctly that you're um you're backing off the August deadline kind of thing that you wanted this by?
You you wanted it passed for the August recess.
Here I think is a fair assessment, Jim.
I want this done now.
Now, if there are no deadlines, nothing gets done in this town.
I uh you've been around here long enough to know.
And you have to say, get this done.
If somebody comes to me and says it's basically done, it's gonna spill over by a few days or a week.
You know, that's different.
And he kept going after Senator Jim Dement.
There is a a certain portion of the Republican Party that views this like they saw 93 94.
The last time there was a major health reform effort, they explicitly went after uh the Clintons said we're not gonna get this done.
That went down.
Uh and at least the history, uh the way it's viewed here in Washington, is that that's what helped defeat Democrats.
So it was a pure political play.
A show of strength by the Republicans that helped them regain the House.
I think there are folks who think that you know we should try that dust off that old playbook.
What they don't recognize is that this isn't about me.
It's about the American people.
It's all about you, and it is the same playbook.
The only thing that hadn't happened is the Michelle bus tour starting in Seattle, and when can we expect that?
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush Limbaugh, redefining hip on.
No, no, no.
They they started the work on the uh on the spoiler attachment fitting mod.
Uh they did start to work on the on the beef up mod to prevent future cracks, and we got a little lightning strike in the radome, which affected the BBML, but uh minor, minor, just a basically a paint job fix.
Okay.
Uh let's see.
Oh, look, we got we war Obama sound bites.
We've got to go to the today show here, uh, folks.
Uh uh take it I take it back.
Take it the Republicans.
The Republicans have um finally discovered the word fail.
As you know, it was I, Il Rushbow, who was the pioneer on this, taking the arrows, publicly proudly, happily proclaiming, I hope he fails.
He has failed.
In one sense, he's not failed the way I wanted.
I wanted him to fail to implement all this stuff.
He has implemented it, and it isn't working as he says he wants it to work.
Therefore, it's a failure, although I believe it is working exactly as he wants it to work.
More chaos, the more destruction, the better for more government action to fix whatever is wrong.
But anyway, here's the montage.
Republicans, six months into this, finally discovered the word failed.
By any standard upon which it was sold to us.
Now, by that standard, it's been a failure.
The Obama experiments are not working.
So far, his experiments in that economic laboratory called Congress have simply failed.
I think he'll fail because he's trying to convince America to be something other than America.
I don't think he's going to be successful.
This is a m do you people remember the heat I took over this from people in my own party.
Remember how the the state-run media was running out there trying to get all these people to distance themselves?
He wants the president to fail.
And now, look, now it's become standard operating procedure to the Republican Party to call a guy a failure.
Sure.
This is what I mean when I say, ladies and gentlemen, we are on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Now the soundbites 1213 or whatever.
This is Obama on the Today Show on Dementishing the Rich.
Meredith Vieira, let me read you a quote from Jim Dement.
He said over the weekend, if we're able to stop Obama on this, it would be his waterloo.
It will break him.
Funny.
Well, it's typical.
That describes exactly an attitude that we've got to overcome.
Because what the what folks have in their minds is that somehow this is about me.
It's about politics and the ability to win back the House of Representatives.
And people are thinking back to 1993 when when the uh uh President Clinton wasn't able to get health care, and right after that the House Republicans won't.
Yeah, tell you something, it is about you.
You're using your, you, they use your personality to pass this debacle.
Of course, this guy's ego is is immeasurably large, and it is about him.
So they then continued uh with this exchange on the president's political future, which is all the state-run media cares about.
This is about politics, Mr. President.
This is a key issue for you.
Of course, if this falls apart, that is not good for you.
You know, uh all I can say is is that uh this is absolutely important to me.
But this is not as important to me as it is to the people who don't have health care.
It is most certainly more important because it's not about health care.
And finally, Meredith Vieira says, Do you think because health care reform will eventually uh help everybody that everybody should have to sacrifice?
In other words, if you uh if you attach a surtax on people making two hundred and eighty thousand or more, isn't that in effect punishing the rich?
No, it's not punishing the rich.
I think the way I look at it is that if I can afford to do a little bit more so that a whole bunch of families out there have a little more security when I already have security, uh that's part of being a community.
It's called a redistribution of wealth.
And that that the softball setup for uh for President Obama on that question.
All right, to the phones to uh Los Gatos, California.
Carrie, I'm glad you waited.
You are up next.
Hello.
Hi, Brush.
Oh, I'm so excited to talk to you.
Thank you.
Um, I'm calling.
Well, uh I'm calling because I talked to Diane Feinstein's office.
And um, you know, everybody's been saying, call and ask if you if they are going to be part of the health plan.
So I thought, okay, I'm gonna do that, and and ask her if she's actually read the the health plan.
And her um the person who answered the phone said, Oh, yes, they are they're writing it in there that the Congress and Senators will be part of this health plan.
No, it's uh I uh I I carry um in the Senate plan, the Senate is expressly exempted from the public option.
Yes, I totally understand that.
And and I said that to her, and I said, I I don't think that's true.
And she goes, Oh yeah, they're they're putting you know, they're writing it right today.
They're working on things and putting new information in there so it's not completely together.
And that was on Friday.
So today I called because I thought, well, okay, if it's in there, I want to know what page so I can read it.
And I called and I spoke to another person, and that person said, Oh no, they're not part of it.
And the plan isn't fully written.
And I said, What do you mean?
And he goes, Well, you know, there is no real health plan.
I said, but that's not what I'm asking about.
What I'm asking is whatever bill is passed, is the senator and the Congress people, are they gonna partake in it?
Like all of The rest of us.
And I just thought, you know, we the people.
If we're having to live with your bill, why aren't you living with it too?
And he said, well, it's just it's not completely written yet.
Well, then how can you pass it?
I'm baffled.
Well, you are you're learning how politics in Congress works when the Democrats run the place.
You see, it really when they haven't written it yet is simply what they tell you as an excuse to not admit anything that's in it.
But there are drafts in the Senate and the House Bill, and people may have not read them in the Senate or the House, but others have gotten hold of the legislation and have read what's there.
That's why there is so much opposition to it now.
Because there is a steady and reliable new media which is taking the time to learn what's in it and inform people.
The New York Times is not doing this.
The Washington Post is not doing this.
None of the network or cable news networks, other than elements of Fox are doing this.
And that's that's why all these people are calling, and that's why you're getting the answer.
You're well, exactly it's not completely written yet.
We really can't tell you whether that's in there, but it's another thing.
It's an excuse to not have to admit that anything's in the bill.
Because you're blowing it.
You're not supposed to be asking this question, and you're not supposed to be calling her.
And you're not supposed to be calling her office.
You're being impudent here.
You're supposed to sit back, bend forward, grab the ankles, and love it.
Ha.
How are you?
Now, of course, of course, none of this isn't about uh about Obama.
This is this isn't about Obama, ladies and gentlemen.
It isn't isn't Obama the guy that told the Republicans I won, meaning I won, I'm in charge.
It's about me, I'm not willing to talk.
I don't want to be bipartisan with you schlubs.
Let me tell you why Obama he is unhinged.
This this was not supposed to be happening, this was supposed to be smooth sailing, this is supposed to go exactly like the porculus bill did.
And the same thing with Cap and Trade.
And the reason why Obama is unhinged and why there is I I think I think that we're starting to see major instability in and at the White House.
And Obama is coming unglued here because his ego is massive.
And he's, I'm telling you, I know people like this.
I have been fired by them.
When there is a rejection like this.
Now we played for you earlier in the program sound bites of administration officials and member of Congress out there doing town hall meetings.
In fact, tell you what, Ed, let me find those real quick.
Because it's been a couple hours since we played these.
Let's uh do number one and number two.
And yeah, number one and number two.
This is in Maryland, Senator Ben Cardin, town meeting.
Robert Broadis, citizen, Clinton, Maryland, lost his job and replaced it with one that paid him far less money, and he did not buy health insurance.
He had this exchange with Senator Cardin.
That's working out fine for me because I'm able to save that extra money and give it to my family members and use it on myself.
Senator Carter.
I want to know, are you going to tell me, an individual, that I have to buy health care, or else you're going to fine me $2,500 every year that I don't think.
What happens if you get sick?
What happens if you are in a car accident?
Or what happens if you happen to slip and you have a broken bone and you end up in the emergency rooms.
You don't pay.
You are part of the population that shifts its cost over to a person who does it.
And they're paying.
Two things wrong here.
First thing, well, two things.
Cardin didn't deny the guy's question.
You will be fined by the IRS if you don't have health insurance.
Number one.
Number two, we had the doctor from Philadelphia yesterday.
You go to the hospital and you can't pay, you get treated.
Folks, people do not get kicked out of hospitals here.
People do not leave this country for health care.
They come to this country For it.
We don't have anything structurally wrong with actual health care in this country.
It's the best.
What happens is you go to the hospital, you have a catastrophe, you go to the hospital, they treat you and they send you a bill.
And then a work out of payment plan.
If you don't pay, they'll come repossess your car or they'll do something.
But you get treated.
Cardin misrepresented to this guy the facts.
Now, this happened, Kathleen Sibelius, the Health and Human Service Secretary.
She also, all these people that work for Obama, they got huge egos too because they think that they are loved like junior gods.
So she's out there in this Democrat country, right?
Reserve Louisiana with Kathleen Sibelius.
And here is an unidentified audience member having an exchange with her.
That'll be a cold hill before he socializes mock country.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
The federal employee house system would stay in place, as would other employer-based coverage.
Yeah, so this isn't this isn't going the way it's supposed to be going.
And Obama's getting unhinged because his ego is massive and and and there's objection, there is rejection.
He doesn't, this man has gone through his life charmed.
He's never been criticized.
He doesn't even like being teased.
He can't deal with that.
You know, it's too bad that the old FDR Kennedy LBJ taping system doesn't exist in the White House anymore, because I would love to be able to hear the kind of panicked conversations going on in there in Rom's office and in the Oval Office and Gibbs office, uh, and anywhere else where they're talking about what to do here.
Let's see.
Oh, and speaking of um, speaking of it's not about him, Obama saying that I'm we got a soundbite here from back in February.
Uh just sent it up to Cookie.
We hope to be able to turn it around prior to the conclusion of the program.
But it's Obama in February, I think he's on MBC.
Don't have it right in front of me, but he admits that his reelection.
Now he's been in office a month.
He admits his re-election is all about whether or not the porculus bill works.
And it's not about him, though.
Now here's Barney Frank.
We reported earlier that the inspector general, making sure that everything's on the up and up with all the TARP money, has found so many excesses, instances of fraud, and he can't find them all because there's no transparency.
There is no in the in the TARP law, there is no mechanism to track what the banks do with the money.
So they have to rely on what the banks are telling them.
Nobody knows really where this money has gone.
So the House Financial Services Committee had a hearing on all this yesterday, and Barney Frank, who only has to look in the mirror to find a villain in all this, said this.
Here is my problem.
I cannot find a villain.
Now, many of my colleagues have found various villains.
They tend to be private sector or public sector, depending on the ideology of the finder.
But as I look at what happened, what I see is a very difficult situation that threatened further severe damage to an economy already damaged.
Right.
It just needs to look in the mirror out there.
Find a villain.
And then he says, look, this is the same mantra for the Democrats.
Don't examine our results, so you examine our good intentions.
That's that's how we want to be judged.
No one has ever gotten re-elected with a bumper sticker said it would have been worse without me.
You probably can get tenure with that, but you can't win office.
I understand that reality, but we should not let it distort us.
And it would not, I think, hurt us every so often to admit that not every action by every public official was a bad thing, and sometimes we should give people credit for trying to cope with uh an unpleasant reality the best they can.
Well, that's amazing.
He's admitting here that the the normal thing to assume is that everything a federal official does is rotten.
Well, we shouldn't assume that all the time.
And by the way, isn't Obama and his administration saying that it would be worse without their stimulus?
Aren't they actually trying to prop themselves up with that kind of a bumper sticker slogan that Barney Frank says would not work?
And then If you've ever had any doubts that the women on the View are literally kooks.
If if we're going to confirm it for you here.
This happened yesterday morning.
It's Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters and co-host Sherry Shepard about Apollo 11 landing on the moon.
Well, then you don't really doubt that the men landed on the moon.
There are wonderful.
You know, I love great conspiracy theories.
And these are better than a lot of them.
Because they say, why is the flag rippling?
There's no attached to it.
Yes, but if it was, is it always in a ripple?
Was it starched in a ripple?
Whoopi Goldberg admitting that she doubts the moon landing 40 years ago actually took place because the flag has a ripple in it, and there's no wind.
There's no air up there, so how can that be?
Did they starch the ripple in it?
In fact, yes.
Rather than have it, you know, just poor woman is right.
I you know, it's just it's just the problem is these women weigh in and influence other women on serious stuff.
More and more of the mainstream media has just become kook city.
All right.
Uh brief time out here, folks.
We'll be back.
More phone calls from you coming up.
Stay with us.
It's not about me, quote unquote President Obama.
Well, let's go back to February the 2th, 2009.
The second, February the second.
No, the lightning st it was just a tiny little strike on the radome and a BBL BBML was was was impactful, but it's not going to be a major problem, but the NDT crack was the big thing, but they didn't find it.
So it's uh I don't know how much time stop asking me about the inspection.
Now, Meredith Vieira is interviewing Matt a wower.
No.
Obama and Vieira are interviewing.
Wait a minute.
Matt Wauer and Vieira are see, it got me all screwed up here with a stupid question on inspection.
Meredith Vieira and Matt Oauer are interviewing Obama February 2009.
Not even two weeks after he has immaculation.
And here's the question from Matt Wauer.
At some point, will you say, wait a minute, we've spent this amount of money, we're not seeing the results.
Uh we got to change course dramatically.
Look, I'm at the start of my administration.
One nice thing about uh uh the situation I find myself in is that I will be held accountable.
Uh you know, I've got four years.
I'm gonna know quickly how people feel about what's happening.
That's exactly right.
And and you know, a year from now, I think people uh are gonna see that uh we're starting to make some progress, but there's still gonna be some pain out there.
If I don't have this done in three years, then there's gonna be a one-term proposition.
Wow, they're thinking about his real action.
It's not about him, though.
It's not about it's not about him.
All right, uh listen to this is uh Donny in uh in Sunset, South Carolina.
Hi, Donnie.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, madam.
Um I have a question regarding the effective date of the Obama health care plan, should it actually get passed?
Yes.
Um I think most people are under the impression that um, especially if they're hoping that this is gonna happen, that it's going to affect their health care immediately and going to give them relief or help.
However, on Sunday on Fox News, my husband and I were listening to Bill Kristol um speak about the Obama plan, and he says that those benefits are not gonna kick in till 2013.
First place, they're not benefits.
Did Crystal did Crystal use the word beneficial?
No, no.
He may he no, he probably didn't.
Just like the people who've been expecting Obama to make their car payments since the pork of this bill was passed, are still waiting.
There's like people are waiting for him to save their mortgage, are still waiting.
Uh but it will take time.
This is a massive new Bureaucracy that's gonna have to be built and established.
It's uh it will take time to happen.
They'll accelerate the tax increases on it and so forth.
I mean, there will be effects prior to it going into uh full-fledged operation.
But nobody's talking about it.
Nobody's talking about the 2013 date or well, what does it matter in the big scheme of things?
If if you're if you have a six-year-old, that doesn't matter.
If you have grandchildren, doesn't matter.
If you're thinking about the future of the country, when does it matter when it's going to goes into effect?
No, I just think a lot of people who are who really want this health care plan because they feel it's going to help them, are gonna be very disillusioned when they figure out it's not gonna answer their problems.
Yeah, well, that that's true, but they're gonna be more disillusioned when it does implement and makes it worse.
That's true.
That's true.
But I'll add that to the litany.
Hey, you idiots that think it's gonna solve your health problems immediately.
Guess what?
Doesn't start till 2013, and even then it's not gonna help you.
We'll throw that in the mix.
I'll be happy to.
Whatever works, whatever what you know, if if that's if that will persuade some people that this is not the rosy scenario, that's that's cool.
Fordham University.
Brett, great to have you with us on the EIB network.
Hi, uh Rush Megadetto's from New York City.
I was um calling because you were talking about uh smoking earlier, and um I just moved to New York and I quit smoking because it's way too expensive here.
And um You realize the pain and suffering you are inflicting on children with health care problems.
Well, probably, but the pain and suffering I inflicted on myself while trying to quit smoking was uh was a little bit different too.
Congratulations on quitting a lot of people have have trouble doing that.
How did you do it?
Uh cold turkey and uh the occasional patch and my wife's help.
She actually turned me on to you.
Um but anyway, my main point, Rush, is that um I don't think that vice taxes work, and I don't think that um using taxes to motivate people to do something, whether that be buy a refrigerator uh that's energy efficient or stop smoking is good for the government to do uh Wait a minute.
You admitted you quit smoking because it got too expensive.
Right.
And it got too expensive because of vice taxes.
Right.
And I don't think that the government should do that.
I want to smoke.
Well, but I don't I can't afford to smoke.
Well, move.
They're only fifty bucks a carton here.
Uh look, the thing is, you're you're 22 years old, right?
Yeah.
The thing is that taxes do affect behavior, be they vice, be they income, whatever.
Now, vice taxes are a little bit trickier because a lot of vices are addictions.
And the addiction overpowers reason, obviously.
But look at California.
California's so strapped, they are seriously thinking of legalizing marijuana.
They they they see a two billion dollar a year crop they can tax.
Uh and if you legalize pot, you're gonna have a lot more people smoking.
If you lower income tax rates, you promote job creation.
Uh so taxing, you know, the if you if you if you uh have the mortgage interest deduction, it does promote people buying houses.
If there weren't the mortgage interest deduction, not as many people would want to buy house.
It wouldn't be as cheap.
So taxes do uh uh have an impact, but the left doesn't understand or well they don't care.
They do understand it, they simply don't care.
I gotta run.
Thanks for the call, Brett, and I'm glad you waited, but we will be back.
Uh for Whoopi Goldberg, you know, there's no air on the moon.
The moon flag is hung from a horizontal rod, not vertical.
It's the same reason your drapes have ripples in them.
There's no air.
No airflow and so forth.
So they had to spread the flag out, Whoopi.
Otherwise it you wouldn't be able to tell what it was.
Are are those Well, never I was gonna ask if they're really women on that show, but I see you tomorrow, folks.
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