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July 30, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 30, 2009, Thursday, Hour #3
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Oh, I take that back.
Before we start with number nine, I want to grab number 27 out there, Ed.
Okay, here we go.
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Before we move on to other things, here is Obama in his own words describing his tactic at getting along with white people.
It was usually an effective tactic.
Another one of those tricks I had learned.
People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.
They were more than satisfied.
They were relieved.
Such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time.
Yeah.
But according to Magic Honky, Joan Walsh, why he's always loved white people.
So there he is, in his own words.
From his book, Dreams from My Father, a story of race and inheritance.
Well, clearly it's how he fooled Biden.
By, oh, it's great we got this clean, articulate black guy finally running for president.
That teed off Al Sharpton to no end.
So this is how he fooled Biden.
No question.
Here is, don't tempt me, HR.
Do not tempt me.
No, no, no, no.
You're not suggesting I say that in reverse, are you?
That's right.
That's why you don't have a microphone.
You know, I'm just going to say that that's how HR approaches me.
Just make it look like I have nothing to fear from him.
Look at this little news story here.
Apple, Apple Incorporated, Apple Computer on track to sell 6.8 million iPhones in the fourth quarter.
And the expensive ones, the most expensive iPhone, the 3GS, $299, are doing better than expected in a tough macroeconomic climate.
Now, one of the things that I want to point out about this is that no one so far is telling Apple what they can make and what they can sell, unlike insurance companies.
Apple is making something people want.
And they're pricing it apparently so that the people who want it can afford it.
But how long will this last?
Well, I mean, people are having to choose between food and phones out there.
Some people are.
And obviously, people are choosing iPhones over food.
And it may even be if the tax on food is as high as we expect it to go, iPhones may outsell food in some sectors.
And that'll cause the government to start trying to control Apple and what they design, what they can't design, what they can sell, what they can't sell.
Here's a headline that liberals just have to love today.
Exxon profit down 66% as the oil price drop leaves the mark.
ExxonMobil reported a 66% drop in quarterly profit today as natural gas and crude oil prices slid from a year ago and a global recession hurt demand for fuel.
But before you liberals start cheering here, I mean, it's an evil oil company, I know, but here's an alternative headline to help you understand the relationship between profits and other things you find so important.
Exxon tax bill down 66% as oil price dropped leaves mark.
So their profits are down and so are their taxes.
Exxon quarterly profit down 66%.
Newsweek magazine, the recession is over.
Next story, 1,200 Rhode Island businesses face foreclosure over sales tax.
This is from the state-controlled Providence Journal.
State tax officials have put more than 1,200 businesses across the state of Rhode Island on notice this week that they are out of business unless they pay their overdue sales taxes immediately.
And most of them can't, because if they could, they would have paid them by now.
So the recession's over.
Yet what's happening in Rhode Island is happening all over the country.
More jobs are going to be lost unexpectedly.
But Newsweek says the recession's over, and Obama even quoted Newsweek.
Do you know what the Politico found?
This is hilarious.
Have you ever gone into a federal building of any kind?
Whenever you go in there, you always see a picture of the president and vice president.
There are no pictures of Biden yet in federal buildings.
Regular visitors to federal buildings may have noticed recently that the familiar photographs of Bush and Cheney have been replaced with a photograph of President Obama.
But it's not about him.
It's not about him.
So where's Biden?
When the old photographs are removed and respectfully disposed of from 8,600 federal facilities on January 20th, the new ones were expected to be in place by March, according to the Federal Times.
But while Obama's official portrait was readied during inauguration and promptly distributed and posted, a spokeswoman for the General Services Administration says they're still waiting on the picture from Biden.
They keep sending him to Bosnia.
They keep sending him all over.
They hadn't had time to pose for the official photo.
But it's just about Obama.
Now, Snerdley, do you understand this cash for clunkers deal?
Could you explain what was the cash for clunkers deal?
Very quickly, what is it?
Okay, but now, you have an old beat-up jalopy that's a gas guzzler or it's just supposedly, but it's just old.
And because it's old, the theory is it's polluting things and it's costly, not fuel-efficient.
Okay.
All right.
And so you do what?
You turn that, take it to the dealer, and okay.
So you take your clunker to any dealer or an Obama company dealer.
Is it General Motors and Chrysler only?
Can you do this at Ford 2?
It's all of them.
It's all of them.
Okay, it's all.
So you take your clunker designed as some old piece of garbage, muddle, muffler dragon on the road and so forth, catalytic converter stinking to high hell, fuel efficient, take it in there, exchange it for a new fuel-efficient bubble car or whatever.
And by the way, Roy Spencer, our official climatologist, I haven't a chance to look at the video, but I can assume what it is.
He sent me a note saying this is a sport that he would love to play.
Apparently, a bunch of people got some of these little smart car bubble cars and they're just turning them over.
They're sitting there and these people pushing them over.
And apparently it's not video.
Yeah, I mean, they're finding them in the river in Europe.
People, vandals just running around pushing the damn things over on their sides.
The official Obama mobile.
So that you turn in your clunker for that new fuel-efficient thing, $4,500.
Okay, up to, up to $4,500.
Okay, well, that helps because I have a story from CNNMoney.com.
Some car shoppers are finding that their trade-in vehicles, which qualified for a cash-for-clunkers rebate last week, don't qualify this week, thanks to changes in the EPA's fuel economy ratings.
In some cases, car buyers say that dealers are backing out of sales that they've already made because the EPA changed the fuel economy figures on their trade-in.
My wife just got a call from the sales manager saying that our clunker doesn't qualify anymore.
And we could either pay the extra $4,500 or return the new car and get our old clunker back.
A car buyer wrote this Tuesday on a message board at Edmunds.com.
It's an automotive website.
The buyer said he had signed a document agreeing to provide additional documentation needed to process his trade-in, but he hadn't done it yet.
Another car shopper emailed CNNMoney.com saying he went to the EPA's fueleconomy.gov website on Saturday to double check the fuel economy rating for his 1987 Mercury Grand Marquee.
When he had visited previously, the car's combined city and highway fuel economy was rated at 18 miles per gallon, which made it eligible for the program.
But on Saturday, he found something different.
The fuel economy of his car had been raised to 19 miles per gallon, one mile per gallon over the maximum fuel efficiency allowed under the car allowance rebate system, the cash for clunkers.
As a result, he became ineligible for the $4,500.
Consumers who believe their eligibility may have been hurt by EPA's changes should contact them.
Oh, that's going to help them.
Call another agency, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which administers cash for clunkers.
They should call our attention to it, said Ray Tyson, spokesman for the NHTSA.
He didn't promise, however, the agency would bend the rules.
Well, you know what's happened here?
They announced the program.
They get all the great publicity from announcing, oh, wow, Obama's going to help people get rid of their clunkers.
And here's the deal.
And then, shortly thereafter, they change the deal on people to where their clunker no longer qualifies.
I don't, you know, if... I don't know.
I just, if I had a clunker, then with my mindset, I'd stay away from the program just on principle.
Russia to drill for oil off Cuba.
Russia beginning oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico after signing a deal with Cuba, says Cuban state-controlled media.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Seechin signed four contracts securing exploration rights in Cuba's economic zone in the Gulf.
Havana says there may be some 20 billion barrels of oil off its coast.
The U.S. puts that estimate at $5 billion.
Gosh, it'd say everybody in the world can drill for oil but us.
The Chikoms are going to be drilling in the Gulf.
Mexico's drilling in the Gulf.
Cuba can't afford to drill, so they signed a deal with the Russians to drill for oil in the Gulf.
And meanwhile, you're sitting around waiting for all those green jobs, of which not one has been created.
And they're even taking away the cash for clunker program away from you.
Oh, my God.
How can this be happening?
You know, I have an orientation toward entrepreneurism.
I'm an entrepreneur.
I love entrepreneurism.
So I'm already thinking ahead.
Okay, so we're going to get some kind of fat tax, right?
Some kind of fat tax.
There's going to be a fat tax, an obesity tax, right?
One of the greatest incentives I have, I'm going to come up with this.
Gore did it.
One of the greatest incentives I have to stay skinny is to propose something along the way, like the fat tax offset program, just like the carbon tax, just like the carbon tax offset.
So for every pound I lose and stay skinny, I get a tax credit.
And fat people can buy tax credits from me so they can stay fat.
When do we get cash for geezers?
That's when I got cash for clunkers, cash for geezers.
Part of the healthcare plan.
I love this next story.
It's from the UK Times Online.
What?
What?
Well, yeah, you can store up the tax credits, too.
So if you gain weight, then you can use them then.
Oh, yeah.
If any gain the weight back, or if you just, in later life, put on the pounds because this happens to you when you get old.
Yeah.
I mean, the market's wide open for this.
Fat tax credits.
Be glad to lead the movement.
All right, for the UK Times.
I love this story.
I just love it.
Organic food has no health benefits.
Study finds.
Zip Zero, Nada.
But it costs a whole lot more.
Organic food gives no health benefits to consumers, according to research for the Food Standards Agency that's in Great Britain, published today.
Shoppers pay more for organic fruit, vegetables, chicken, beef, and milk, but the food gives no nutritional enhancement to people's diet.
I've been studying it for years.
And by the way, organic is just a, it's a, it's another word, you know, a dressed up word for excrement.
Back to the phones we go.
Rich in Philadelphia.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Rush.
Hi.
How are you?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
Good.
This is an honor to speak with you as an up-and-coming broadcaster.
I'd just like to say that.
Two things about the healthcare.
Okay.
One, I do not think as a 20-year-old, I do not think that we need it.
I think that it is un-American because the needs of the majority outweigh the needs of the minority.
And the Democrats who run campaigns as the party of the people are looking at the needs of the minority and just pushing the majority aside.
And I don't think that's right.
Well, that's an interesting way you're looking at it, but that's not what the Democrats are about.
Democrat, the first thing you've got to understand, or the first thing to try to understand, is that nothing they do is oriented toward care or compassion for people.
It's about getting their votes.
It's about, I mean, how compassionate can it be to take people and make them dependent on government for anything?
Where is the compassion in that?
You know, we conservatives, we count, we measure compassion by counting the number of people who no longer need that kind of assistance.
The second thing that they're doing, Rich, is whether it's the majority, right now a majority do not want.
John Baylor just put a press release.
Five polls in 24 hours show a majority of people wanting nothing to do with Obamacare.
It's not stopping him.
He's going to do it anyway.
They don't care what people want.
They are going to force on people what they want people to have, whether they're in a majority or not.
Well, I mean, I understand that.
My second comment would be, and what scares me about this healthcare, it was on Fox News yesterday.
There was a senator, I forget his name, so I won't quote, somebody from the House, I believe.
And they said, what do you think about the health care?
Are you for it?
And he said, yes.
And they said, well, did you read the bill?
And the House member said, well, who can read a thousand-page bill in two days?
So, I mean, if you're not going to read the bill, I mean, that's red flags.
It's like, there's a thousand-page bill.
You're for it.
You don't read it.
You don't know what's in it, but you're for it and why.
And then why are we electing these people?
Well, you have to ask.
You talk about John Conyers and John Conyers.
Your instincts are right on the money out there, Rich.
For 20 years old, you are light years ahead of the game.
John Conyers is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
That means they handle the issues of the law and judiciary.
And what Conyers said was: oh, we're going to read the bill.
1,000 pages, it takes two days, and you've got to have a couple lawyers to interpret it for you.
And he's the judiciary chairman.
It's like Newt Gingrich said: if a bill is too complicated to understand, it is too complicated to work.
Just that simple.
Jerry in Atlantic City, great to have you with us, sir, on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Megan Dittos, Rush.
How are you doing?
Thank you very much, sir.
Very well.
Thanks for taking my call.
I wanted to make a comment.
You played this soundbite before, and by the way, I'm a big supporter of the voice change.
You played the comment before from Obama, how it burns him up that people are trying to scare old people.
And how many times have you heard a liberal rip George Bush and Republicans for the same thing?
You know, that's an excellent point.
I mean, since the 70s, a campaign tactic of the Democrats has been to say to senior citizens that Republicans are going to take away their Social Security.
You are exactly right.
The people scaring old people are the Democrats, the lefts, radical Democrats.
They've been doing it for many, many years.
Obama is scaring them.
They're showing up to town halls.
Ask, am I going to have to go to this end-to-life counseling?
Obama's plan is scaring them.
Obama's plan should be scaring every American.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And, well, the way it's going, it's going to, or at least a significant majority of them.
Rick in Alexandria, Virginia.
Hello, sir.
You're next.
Hey, Rush, how are you today?
Very well.
Thank you.
That's good.
Hey, listen, I just want to call and let you know that I heard your thing on the clunker deal.
I just traded in an old clunker myself.
What was the clunker?
You know, I told the young man and answered the phone it was an 89, but it wasn't.
It's a 1998 Ford F-250 pickup truck.
And we got $3,800 back on it.
You traded in a 1998 Ford F-250 for $3,800 on a basis, a clunker.
What did you replace it with?
An F-350 Chevy Silverado, I think it was.
We got about 19 vehicles in our fleet, so I started taking advantage of it.
I have four more that I want to turn in, and it looks like I'm going to get the same price.
Well, is the truck you're buying significantly better on the fuel economy than the clunker you're getting right now?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I was only getting like 11 to 15 miles a gallon on that thing.
You get that much?
Wow, that's cool.
So I just wanted to let you know, in some cases, it works.
And my feeling is as much money as I've paid into income tax over my lifetime, I'm 65 years old, it's about time I get a break.
Well, looked at in that light, I can understand it.
But the point of the CNN Money.com story was that the EPA is changing the rules on what defines a clunker.
And a lot of people have just been aced out of the program in one day.
Well, you know what?
I haven't signed the papers yet.
I sent the check down.
The deal is being done down in Texas.
And I sent the paperwork and the check down to my employees in Texas to take care of it.
We haven't really got the truck yet.
I just hope to hell that's not going to happen to us where they come back and say, hey, look, I'm sorry.
We don't have a deal here.
Well, I hope and pray for you, too.
Well, thank you.
That's very nice.
How's that hope and change working for you otherwise?
What hope and change?
Yeah, right.
All right.
You get 11 to 15 miles to the gallon on the thing you got rid of?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good grief.
That's incredible.
That's just incredible.
Like the last time I was getting an eight, maybe nine on the highway with my car.
Man, you just gotta look.
You don't need to do any thinking at all, by the way.
We do that for you here.
The Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Oh, and speaking, speaking of advanced conservative studies, this conversation about health care insurance is going to occupy Washington the whole month of August.
What is so funny?
Oh, you got so.
Oh, Snerdley's having fun on the phone.
All right.
Because I knew I hadn't said anything funny yet.
Oh, he's upset in my car.
Step up.
I did.
That's why I have a car that gets eight miles a gallon.
We'll get to that in a minute.
This healthcare business, seriously, is going to occupy Washington and the country throughout the month of August.
You know, Pelosi and Ram Emanuel want to vote before the August recess because they know how tough it's going to be for these House and Senate members on their vacations.
Everybody at home has an option.
And as more and more people find out the truth, it's going to be tougher.
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Now, this next story you just have to love.
This is from state-controlled media, thehill.com.
Senate, get this.
Now, I'm not making this up.
Senate Democrat leaders today blamed Capitol Hill media for setting an August deadline for health reform and Republicans for blocking the progress.
Dingy Harry, Dick Turbin, Chuck Yu Schumer, and Patty Murray also acknowledged that critics are going to pour it on during the recess and they plan to respond in kind.
Reed said reporters created a fictitious deadline of a successful vote by the August recess and downplayed the fact that the Senate won't meet the mark.
Dingy Harry told 75 reporters, this is a deadline that you created.
Now, if I'm a drive-by state-controlled media reporter and I'm one of the 75 listening to Dingy Harry, I'm saying, do you not listen to your own president?
The president set the deadline and the president has been answering questions.
Why?
Throughout these town hall meetings.
And he got it at the press conference last Wednesday night.
He got it in Raleigh.
He got it wherever else he's going.
Why does it have to be done so fast?
He said, because I'm getting all these letters.
To which the retort is, big deal.
The thing doesn't get implemented until 2013.
Or, yeah, four years from now.
What's the damn hurry?
But Harry Reid blaming Beltway state-controlled reporters for setting an August deadline.
Yeah, W. Surprised they didn't blame me.
And now this is curious.
I have another story here that is from AP slash Huffington Post.
Are they one and the same?
Oh, no.
You know what?
I know what this is about.
I know what this is about.
I remember what this is about.
The Huffing and Puffington Post was stealing content and putting it on their website as though somebody there had written it.
And the state-controlled wire services complained about this.
So now the Huffing and Puffington Post is having to credit the people they used to be stealing stuff from.
Anyway, here's the story.
Now progressives are outraged.
Progressive House Democrats balk at health care compromise.
That is from today.
It's from 8.30 this morning.
Congressional Democrats are determined to show progress on health care overhaul by pushing Obama's top priority through two important committees before they head home for the August break.
As word of the agreement spread between the Democrats and the Blue Dogs, liberals fired back.
We don't support this, said Lynn Woolsey, Democrat California chair of the Progressive Caucus.
I think they have no idea how many people are against this.
They can't possibly be taking us seriously if they're going to bring this forward, meaning the deal with the blue dogs.
Not the whole health care bill.
They're upset at the compromise with the blue dogs.
So the radicals in the House are all a bit out of shape at Rahm Emanuel bending over, apparently, and making a deal with the blue dogs.
That's why Maxine Waters is still out there chomping it a bit over this because the bill's not liberal enough for him.
And believe me, this is a bill that would make Karl Marx smile.
And if he were alive, it would add 10 years to his life.
Who's next on the phone?
Margaret in Whittier, California.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Nice to speak with you.
Thank you.
I'm curious, do you believe that there will be a form that needs to be filled out with our party affiliation to deny us health care as we become older if we are Republican?
No.
Really?
Oh, wait a minute.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
The reason I said no instinctively is because I think something larger than even that is at work.
But I do know that there are, I've had calls from other people who are just as afraid of this, regardless of age.
Will they get, you know, will they be, when the government's in charge of this and you get nowhere else you can go, if you haven't donated to Obama, do you get moved down the list?
If you're registered Republican, do you get moved down the list?
And if you registered Democrat, does it move you up the list?
I think what's really going on with seasoned citizens, Margaret, as I look at this, and I'm just listening to what I've heard and reading what I've read.
And remember Obama's answer to the woman with the 100-year-old mother who wanted a pacemaker?
No, let's just give her pain pills.
Then you look at the bill with the end-of-care counseling and so forth.
I think, you know, Obama, even though they're all being very wide open about this, I think there's still a lot of stealth.
And they're using the fact that they want to, you know, ration treatment to elderly people on the basis that we've got to do something to save money.
But they save money two ways when elderly people die.
One, you don't get health care anymore, but also you are no longer on the social security rolls.
So I think if you want to look at yourself as perhaps being discriminated against, it's that you're elderly first and then maybe Republican second, so forth third and what have you.
Well, they will make sure one way or another the health care will be denied, correct?
Yeah, you can't get health care if you have passed away.
And you ignore, and now Social Security, when you pass away, if you have a survivor, there may be, you know, some residuals.
But You can't get it if you pass away, and you can't, you won't be able to get it.
If you get close to passing away, it's going to cost a lot of money to keep you alive.
If you are a Democrat, though, you will still have the right to vote after you die.
Well, this is true.
Well, that we know.
I mean, I found in Chicago just the other day, they found a grave with bodies and bodies stacked upon each other.
And anytime you go to a cemetery in Chicago, you count them as voters.
Didn't Johnson do that?
Didn't he have the cemetery vote in Texas?
Oh, yeah, this is the Democrat tactic from long ago, but it has really been perfected by the dailies in Chicago.
So that's one caveat to seniors who will pass away at some point.
You will still be voting.
You may not know how, but, well, you won't know how.
And where you're going, you won't care anymore, but you will still be voting.
There's a lot to look forward to in this.
The Democrats are looking out for you.
They care about you and your future demise, wherever it is.
Back after this.
I've got a story here from a blog, BoingBoing.com.
U.S. border station scraps sign that says United States because they're afraid terrorists might attack.
That's not, I can think of a lot of reasons to take down signs at the border to say welcome to the United States, but I mean, if you take down the sign, welcome to the United States, illegal immigrants will never be able to find us.
That makes more sense to be worried about terrorists.
Oh, here's the United States.
Let's launch an attack.
They really, they took down a sign.
Now, you may have heard about this in Chicago.
At least 15 people were shot and wounded in Chicago overnight, seven of them in a single incident on the city's west side.
Seven people were shot, according to Fire Media Affairs director Larry Langford, who said six people were initially hospitalized in critical condition.
One person, an adult man, was taken in stable condition after suffering a graze wound.
So totally, it's 15 people were shot.
None of them.
This is, by the way, the results of community organizing in Chicago.
This is what happens.
But none of them died.
All 15 shot.
None of them died.
Can you imagine the strain on our health care system in Chicago?
Because none of them died.
And this is what Obama intends to fix.
No question about it out there.
All right.
Here is Jeff in Pompano Beach, Florida.
Hello, sir.
Rush, it is an honor to speak with you, sir.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate that.
I was also dealing with this cash for cluckers deal.
Yeah.
I have a 2003 Ford Explorer.
Yes, the Evil SUV.
And I have 115,000 miles on it.
100.
I wanted.
115 or 150?
115.
Okay.
And I called a dealership and I told him, I said, do I meet, you know, I wanted to make sure I met all the regulations to turn my vehicle in.
Gave them the mileage, gave me the year, was it, you know, gave them everything.
And they said, yes, you do.
I said, well, I'll be in tomorrow.
I'll have it towed in.
The dealer said, well, wait a minute.
What do you mean, towed in?
I said, well, it's not running.
He says, no, it has to be running.
And I said, well, wait a minute.
Part of the plan that I read said that you have to scrap the vehicle.
He said, yes.
Well, if you're going to scrap the vehicle, what does it matter if it's running?
Because if it was running, I wouldn't consider it a clunker.
And what does he say?
That's a great question.
Yeah, and the guy said, well, that's just how it has to be because we may be able to use some parts from it, but if the parts we want to use are the ones that happen to be broken, then it serves us no purpose.
It's completely different.
You have the definition of a clunker.
You're right.
It's something that doesn't run.
Yeah, and I mean, it got 15 miles to the gallon brand new.
I wonder what the hell they're really going to do with these clunkers.
You know, someone made a suggestion to me that some of these, since they, for whatever, I guess because of the EPA mileage, that they won't fix them and resell them.
But I had a friend who used to be in the automotive industry as far as sales and said that a lot of these vehicles they could refurbish and sell overseas.
Yeah, either that or give them to unions.
There you go.
Or give them to Acorn or give them, you know, whatever.
It could become the next vehicle for maybe a senator.
Well, no.
Don't.
I don't even want to start thinking about that.
It's too late in the show to blow it now.
We got a good one in a can.
We'll leave senators and cars and stuff alone.
Thanks.
Seth and in Wichita, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you very much, sir.
Hey, I had to call in because I'm getting a little frustrated with you on this.
You keep bragging about your eight or nine miles to the gallon.
And it really upsets me because there's some of us out here that have $100,000 Mercedes that only get 4.5 to 5 miles per gallon.
Really?
Have you had it tuned up lately?
Yeah, all the time.
And I carry a tire gauge in my back pocket, too.
So this is funny.
I'm getting eight to nine.
This guy's getting four, and he's tired of me bragging about.
Yeah, it really upsets us, Rush, because earlier this morning in Kansas, we had temperatures of 60 degrees outside, and I think it's because of your car.
I think I need to see a picture of a new prototype for EIB1 up on the website, a brand new Peterbilt or something up there.
I don't drive a Peterbilt.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Nothing against Peterbilts.
Nothing against Peterbilts.
You could help Obama and the Caterpillar guys out and go buy a brand new cat.
Speaking of the Peterbilts, though, what are we going to do about those?
I mean, gas guzzlers?
You know, the taxes that we incur on these things is insane.
What?
On your Mercedes?
Yeah.
Well, I never noticed.
What is it?
Well, it's a...
You mean the sales tax?
Are they...
Or the Guzzler tax?
The Guzzler tax and the heavy usage tax and the excise tax.
No, no, no, no.
You're buying the wrong Mercedes.
You need to go out and buy a Maybach 57 or a Maybach 62 because they weigh so much they qualify for the SUV discount or some such thing.
They exceed a weight limit.
You get a little bit of a break on the tax.
I don't know if you do anymore, but that's one of the things they used to sales pitch me with.
Oh, yeah, it weighs more than an SUV.
You get some sort of tax break with it.
Can you pull a high loader?
Farm vehicles or something.
I said, this is never going to be on a phone.
Well, it doesn't matter if it exceeds the weight thing.
It's considered a farm vehicle and you get some such break from it.
Can you pull a high loader with it, Rush?
Can I pull a high loader with it?
Yeah.
Like a backhoe.
Can you pull a backhoe with those?
Absolutely.
You would never do it.
I mean, you would disgrace yourself, but of course you could do it.
Okay, well, that's what we do.
We're in the excavation and carbon footprinting business, and that's what we do here.
Excavation, the carbon footprint.
Well, yeah, our best fuel mileage is like 10 miles per gallon, so we're definitely on Obama's.
You're towing high loaders with your Mercedes?
With our Mercedes engines, yeah.
Oh, oh, your Mercedes engines?
Yeah.
Oh, four miles.
Oh, all right.
I'm thinking you're driving an S-Class Mercedes getting four miles to the gallon here.
No, no, no.
All right.
Well, my mistake when I hear Mercedes.
Yeah, yeah, he's talking about a dump truck.
Boy, did I misunderstand what we were talking about here?
I just checked the email.
People think I'm being very insensitive here with my car, eight miles to the gallon.
You people, you know, I don't share every detail of my life, but a year ago, gas price, jet fuel price, I was ordering the pilots to throttle back to 500 miles an hour to save jet fuel, and we buy that stuff by the pound.
This stuff, this affects all of us, folks.
Open line Friday tomorrow.
See you.
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