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Nov. 19, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 19, 2009, Thursday, Hour #3
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All right, folks, you want to hear something funny?
This is what?
From the Hill, Capitol Hill newspaper.
Headline of the story, Conyers, I'm tired.
I'm getting tired of saving Obama's can.
Greetings, my friends, and how are you?
How's that hope and change working for you?
Have you been reduced to eating vending machine cheese and crackers?
Welcome to Obama's America, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
Email address, LRushbow at EIBNet.com.
President Barack Obama is bowing down to Republicans and corporate interests on health reforms, as John Conyers said it today.
I'm getting tired of saving Obama's can in the White House.
He won, only won by five votes in the House.
This bill wasn't even anything to write home about.
The only way he could have got it through was that progressives held their nose.
He castigated Obama for trying to reach out to conservatives and other adversaries on health reform, accusing the president of doing a disservice to what he'd once stood for, holding hands out, beer on Friday nights in the White House, bowing down to every nutty right-wing proposal about health care, saying on occasion the public option isn't all that important, is doing a disservice to the Barack Obama I first met who has an ardent single-payer enthusiast himself.
Obama bowing down to us, what have I missed?
Pelosi, he's probably talked about the Stupak Amendment on abortion.
And Obama is out there.
He doesn't understand Obama.
Obama's out there lying, Mr. Conyers.
He's simply saying, single-payer, government-run health option, not that important to me.
He's just saying that because he knows nobody's in favor of this.
He's a little smarter than you are, Congressman Conyers.
He knows that if he's dead set honest about what he wants to do, it doesn't have a prayer.
Anyway, I detect trouble in paradise with Congressman Conyers there.
All right, last night on the CBS Evening News, the perky, Katie Couric, interviewed the Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius.
And Couric said Republicans are already out there saying, let the rationing begin.
This is what happens when bureaucrats make your health care decisions.
It's about the mammogram decision.
What is your response to that?
Well, it's unfortunate that once again, the attempt is to, first of all, skew the data, and secondly, to make this a very partisan political debate.
This is a panel actually appointed by President George Bush, folks who have been on this group for a long time, who were given the job of looking at a variety of services and making recommendations based on the science.
That's just what they've done.
They don't make policy.
They won't make policy.
So did you hear that last?
They don't make policy.
They won't make policy.
So she will not explain here why the government would not embrace recommendations made by the government.
She's basically saying that the government will not embrace the recommendations made by this task force, which, yeah, which she's laying off on the Bush administration.
Now, she says these recommendations are based on science, but the government's not going to accept them.
Don't worry about it.
This mammogram 50.
That's that's partisan reporting.
Do you know that there's not one radiologist or oncologist on this task force?
I don't care who impaneled it.
It's still a government bureaucracy, and there's not one cancer doctor or radiologist on the commission that recommends delaying breast cancer screenings to age 50.
We live in the United States of America for crying out loud, if you are a woman and you want to get screened, you want to get a mammography at age 30, you go get one.
Get an insurance policy that pays for it or pay for it out of your pocket.
If you want one, you should get it.
Why is it anybody's business in government to tell you you can't?
So then the perky Katie Couric followed up.
Well, how do you stop insurance companies from using the panel's recommendation that there's no blanket recommendation for women starting at age 40 to get a baseline mammogram?
I mean, why would you think that private insurers won't take advantage of that and stop covering them?
Well, at least the statement issued today by the health plans indicated that if there was a doctor recommendation that a woman have a mammogram, they were likely to follow it.
So I'm taking them at their word.
I hope that's the case.
All of a sudden, she's going to take a statement of health plans.
Well, she's going to take insurance companies at their word.
That's not like this administration.
They're out there demonizing these insurance plans.
Let's not forget, ladies and gentlemen, President Obama had his joint speech to Congress September 9th of this year.
And insurance companies will be required to cover with no extra charge routine checkups and preventive care like mammograms and colonoscopies because there's no reason we shouldn't be catching diseases like breast cancer and colon cancer before they get worse.
This makes sense.
It saves money.
It saves lives.
And his own government recommends delaying, a few short months later, mammograms, screenings, breast cancer screenings to age 50.
And now she's out there denying it.
Kathleen Sebille.
Well, we're not going to do it.
Now, this mammogram issue, if I may pontificate, and I may because it's my microphone.
I paid for it and it's my show.
And Katie's not on the phone to stop me.
The mammogram issue, in my estimation, highlights the conflict between the human spirit and organized efforts to suppress that human spirit, which is what this administration's objective is.
To deny mammograms by force of law is like passing a law to prevent home security systems and door locks for homes.
They may be expensive.
They may be more than what some might think necessary given the burglary rates in an area.
But home security systems and fancy door locks bring peace of mind to those living in good neighborhoods and not-so-good neighborhoods.
It's universal, proactive, self-defense, an attempt to protect ourselves and our property.
Some people may not want any locks.
Some may spend a fortune on their security system.
It should be an individual decision which yields peace of mind.
Now, medical tests were meant to be individual in nature because we all have unique health issues.
Some of us have genetic familial tendencies for certain cancers.
Some people, heart disease, some people, diabetes.
Sometimes there's no explanation.
Sometimes there's no clues.
People get lung cancer who've never smoked before.
Every human being is unique, and doctors will be the first to verify that fact.
They don't treat people in groups 20.
If one patient hits one patient at a time for a reason, and as a result, folks, there are no good collective answers for individual problems.
That is a profundity, and I shall repeat it.
There are no good collective answers for individual problems.
To limit our options regarding medical care is an assault.
It is an attack, and people are going to defend themselves against this.
Anybody who wants to interfere with the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness can screw off as far as I'm concerned.
They have a fight on their hands.
This is a matter of self-defense.
We're all playing defense now against our own government, against our own president.
That's why we had a constitution, by the way, to protect those of us who will not accept budget restrictions as reasons to give up even just a little bit our pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Especially when we're all paying for it.
For the good of the country, that's not in the contract.
We're supposed to give up life, liberty, pursuit of happiness for the good of the country, for the good of Obama.
That's not in the deal.
It's our God-given individual right guaranteed by our Constitution.
It isn't repealable because Congress wants to treat us as budget items when operating with limited resources.
And that's what we're all going to be under any health care reform currently being considered.
Budget items.
We all are genetically programmed.
We are created with a will to live.
Ted Kennedy comes to mind.
As far as I'm concerned, that was the meaning of the end of his life.
Ted Kennedy wasn't told what tests or what treatment he could have.
Kennedy fought to live until his last breath because he's human.
And everybody applauded his struggle.
They were hoping that his struggle would prove worthwhile.
And it probably did give him a few extra months that he otherwise would not have had.
At the age of what?
76.
What was he?
76, 77?
No one should have the right to come between anyone, their doctor, and treatments.
No sane person is going to go down on this with mammograms or whatever without a fight.
Self-defense and the will to live came with the package of being born in this country.
They weren't optional.
God made them standard equipment.
The will to live and the yearning spirit to be free.
Ever since we won the Revolutionary War, Americans have always felt like we were born in the right place at the right time.
And the reason is because we were given the opportunity and the right to be personally in charge of our lives and our destiny.
No king, no tyrant, no despot, no central planning bureaucrat can take that for any reason.
The will to live is God-given.
It is constitutionally guaranteed.
Anybody who wants to limit that gift is asking for a fight.
If our government is going to tell some of us our time is up simply because they've decided to, they have no idea the fight they're going to have on their hands.
That's why there is outrage over an attempt by the government to control mammograms.
The outrage that you see is a manifestation of the part of the human spirit called self-defense, a subset of the will to live.
It's just sad that we now are in self-defense mode as we protect ourselves from our public servants.
That's where we are.
Okay, we're back, El Rushmo, serving humanity here on the one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Have you heard, ladies and gentlemen, about this Kellogg company says that there's a nationwide shortage of eggos.
You don't know what an eggo is, Snerdley?
Yeah, nationwide shortage of its popular eggo frozen waffles until next summer because of interruptions in production at two of the four plants that make them.
The company's Atlanta plant was shut down for an undisclosed period by a September storm that dumped historic amounts of rain in Atlanta.
Already customers are noticing near-empty ego shelves on the freezer aisle at many grocery stores.
Now, folks, this may be the tipping point.
This could be it.
I mean, at some point, people are going to throw up their hands and say, I've had enough of this.
First, we lose our homes and then our jobs.
Soon, we're going to lose our health care.
And now they're after our big screen TVs.
But eggos, that's not the America I know.
No eggos in the stores.
The food stamp crowd is not going to put up with this.
No, eggos.
Don't tell me people could make their own waffles.
I don't want to hear about that.
Now, don't tell me about that.
Eggos, don't people make their own waffles?
Have you not heard of the latest in the school breakfast program, Snerdly?
Educators in Washington, D.C. have a problem.
Many of the pupils who eat free or reduced-price screw-a-lunches don't show up to the school for the free breakfast.
And two reasons are cited for this shocking discovery.
The first reason is that kids would have to get up earlier and make their way to the school cafeteria rather than milling around outside smoking cigarettes and sneaking a little booze from the flask.
Second, taking part in the breakfast program carries with it the stigma of a government program, which I don't buy that.
I mean, you telling me that a bunch of young skulls full of mush are not going to show up for free breakfast because they don't want to be stigmatized as welfare people?
When is any government program?
It used to be a stigma to be on a government program.
Oh, you could stigmatize me.
Now, no, there's no such stigma attached.
So, get this.
Our brilliant educators in the nation's capital have come up with a plan.
A pilot program allowing students and pupils to be served breakfast in the classroom.
You think people are going to make their own waffles in an ego shortage?
These little innocent babes, the future of America, are going to be served breakfast at their desks in the classroom.
At least nine schools have implemented the program.
State-controlled Associated Press News Report doesn't specify what's on the menu or mention if the students are allowed to tip their waiters or if credit cards are accepted.
But schools give out condoms.
Why not serve breakfast to the kids who are too tired to get up early for a free meal because they don't want to be stigmatized, nor do they want to have to leave the parking lot for the school cafeteria?
Look, I understand, and you should too, ladies and gentlemen, that today's parents don't have time or even the inclination to pop open a cereal box, pour some milk on it to feed their own kids.
Do you realize parents are so busy?
They're under so much pressure and stress.
They can't even go out and buy a box of Cheerios, some skim milk, pour it on their little sugar, say, here, eat this kid and leave for school.
Nope.
And it's going to get even worse now with no eggos.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the new American.
Old rules no longer apply.
The words individual responsibility have no meaning.
You can't pass the eggos.
There aren't any.
So you got to pass the Pop-Tarts or vending machine cheese and crackers if you have sunk to that depth.
All right, who's next on the phones?
Jan in the Bay Area.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
General Lindbaugh, you are a true patriot, and I run to you for cover three hours a day in my fight against the battle of liberalism.
Please lead on.
Thank you very much.
Boy, you are in the bowels of it, too.
Hey, well, you know, I'm just sitting here thinking, I think a revolutionary war was fought for less tyranny than what this government's imposing on us right now.
Well, you may have a point once it's fully implemented.
Yeah.
So I have two points I called about, and I'm hoping you can indulge me as much as Katie and we can get through them here.
I think I won't disappoint you.
I was one of those people that got a loan modification in the great state of California out here.
Would this be a mortgage modification?
Yes, on my second.
On your second mortgage, this is to avoid foreclosure and sending you out in the street in front of City Hall with the homeless and the seagulls.
Hey, well, I want you to know, even though this is a slush fund, it's our slush fund.
That's taxpayer money in that fund.
I know.
That's one way of looking at it.
It's your money.
Okay, all right.
And this is tied to health care, and it's tied to the economy.
It is the economy, stupid Nancy Pelosi.
It's not health care.
Nancy and Harry are fiddling while America burns, and it's really frying me.
Okay, I got a loan modification on my second.
As you know, in California, the price of houses are so high.
Most people get a conforming rate on the first part of their loan, and then they get whatever better rate they can get on a second, but then you're not paying this high rate on the whole loan.
Oh, yeah, I knew that.
Yeah, okay.
So my first is with my credit union.
They don't have any bailout money, so they can't help me permanently.
But my second was with Citi Mortgage, and they got lots of bailout money.
But, you know, they want you to miss a payment before they even do anything for you.
I tried for six months because I could see.
Wait a minute.
You're serious.
I'm serious.
They want you to miss a payment.
They do.
They do.
And I tried for six months to do this without missing a payment.
I have pristine credit.
And my husband and I, and we tracked our credit record after this.
The only thing we have on our credit is one late payment on our first and our second.
And it was only because we plane ran out of money.
It wasn't because we wanted to.
Right.
Let me ask you a question.
Yeah.
Not that I'm bored, because I'm fascinated by the story.
How much more is there?
Because I've only got 10 seconds.
Can you hold me through the bottom of the hour?
Gladly.
Oh, thank you.
Well, I'll put you on hold.
I'm a word literalist.
If I could hold you, I would.
But you're cotton away.
And we are back.
And we now rejoin Jan in the Bay Area.
You were talking about your credit rating.
You had to miss a payment before they'd let you in the program.
Right.
And not because I wanted to.
But I worked with him.
We tried to work with him for six months.
And, you know, I was telling Bo, I had borrowed from my 401k to try and stay afloat because I believe in making my own way in life.
But, you know, the help that's out there that they say, it's very difficult to get.
And I was very naive to think that if I was going to, you know, go into foreclosure, I could borrow from my 401k.
And I do read all paperwork before I sign it, Rush.
But you have to, like, be in, you know, the depths, like, six months into foreclosure before you can borrow from your 401k.
And I didn't want to be there.
So the big key word for anybody looking for help is loss of income.
My husband is an insurance agent.
He sells homeowners and he sells auto insurance.
Nobody's buying new homes in California.
And except for the little blip on the radar screen of cash for clunkers, nobody's buying new cars.
Our income is off 40% from when we bought our house five years ago.
And you can't weather that kind of storm.
And we put $500 a month away in our 401k because there was a match from his company.
So it's not like I'm an idiot out here not saving money, but I was deceived as to the access to that money in my 401k.
I knew it would have penalties.
What is your conclusion then?
What is my conclusion?
I'm mad at these politicians because I beat myself up for months, Rush, laying in bed every night trying to figure out how he's going to pay my bills.
You know, I called you before.
I have four girls that I homeschool, and we did that Rush worship live.
Do you remember that?
I do.
On Jay Leno.
They have something they want to say to you right now.
We salute you, General Limbaugh.
They love you.
They're running around the house trying to figure out how they can talk to you again.
So, anyways.
I told them I heard them.
Yeah, okay, good.
They said we salute you, General Limbaugh.
But, you know, I'm not a slouch.
That's what I'm trying to tell you.
I am trying to weather the storm.
I mean, I borrowed from the 401k.
We're trying to do anything to make it out, but I see double-dip recession.
I see inflation kicking in.
I see the cost of my food, my power.
PG ⁇ E raised my power.
Now my water company, there's a water shortage.
We all can serve so well.
Guess what?
We're raising your rates because no one's using any water.
I know.
I can't do it.
I can't do it.
And health care is going to raise my taxes.
Can't you people see it?
Okay.
It's going to put me under.
I'm not going to be able to pay my property taxes.
And they want to take away my Prop 13 out here in California.
I can't do any more taxes.
I'm just hanging on by a thread, hoping things will turn around.
My husband's a hard worker, but I'm a stay-at-home mom.
We value the homeschooling more than we value me getting a job.
But don't worry.
I've been looking for a job, but I've been out of the market 15 years.
Skills aren't current.
On top of all this, there's an ego shortage.
Hey, I make my own waffles.
Well, then you're not going to be impacted by that, at least.
I want you to know that.
And you know what else I want you to know?
You did a story a while back on women that take the birth control pill.
I don't because of the high risk of breast cancer in my family.
Now, they want to take away my mammogram, but I want you to know what kind of woman I am.
I like a manly man.
I've never taken the pill in my life.
Do you remember that story?
The last time you called?
No, no, no.
The birth control.
Oh, you mean the news story?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But birth control, not only birth control, but there are studies that say abortions increase the chances of breast cancer as well.
Right.
And I have such a high incidence.
My mom, both of her sisters died of breast cancer.
Four out of six of my great aunts had breast cancer, and a couple of my cousins have had it.
Fortunately, my mom and my sister and I have been spared.
But I just can't believe the overreaching this government is doing.
See, that's what I was saying.
After you laid out the specifics, you've been very honest in doing so of your situation.
You look at the purposeful destruction of the private sector where the recovery for you and your family lurks, it's got to make you even angrier because every policy they have implemented is further doing you in.
Hey, and it's not just me.
I can name countless people.
And, you know, people are saying, be happy you have a job.
I have so many friends and family out here that have taken big, drastic pay cuts.
And we are happy we have a job.
Don't get us wrong, but it doesn't pay the bills.
My brother, he works two jobs.
He works for a, hey, you know what?
I want to tell you this too.
Those cheese and crackers in the vending machines, they're pretty steep.
My brother stocks those things.
And you know who can still buy them?
The people in Oakland.
His business is good there because they get their paycheck no matter what from the government.
I know that sounds racist.
I'm sorry.
What's racist about it?
Well, because they get a paycheck.
Well, they're not the only ones.
We're at the point now where 50% of the American people get some kind of a check from the government, 50%, and it's increasing.
And that also is by design.
Well, Jan, God bless you.
She held on here for an hour and a half, which is why I gave her a little time here.
I really understand the plight that you're in.
So many people are in it too.
And I think people like you are not being reported on.
You're not being represented in any polling data.
But there are far more people in your circumstance and have the same emotion you have about it than anybody in the news media is reporting about it and that anybody in Washington cares about.
That's what's just infuriating to me because none of this is necessary.
None of this.
We could have been on our way out of this months ago.
We need not even have been in it this deep.
It has been made worse by this administration and its policies.
Well, best of luck, Jan.
I'm glad you called.
Nice to talk to you.
This is Craig in Tex Arcana, Arkansas.
You're next.
It's great to have you here.
Hello.
Yeah, Ross.
Good to talk to you.
The reason I called is I was just wanting to let everybody know out there that I've been hearing a lot on the radio and on the news about the unions all supporting the health care bill and things.
And there's a lot of us union members out here that are conservative.
We work in plants that are eating plants.
And we are definitely, and in this area, a majority of our union people are definitely against this health care bill.
And I just would like to, all of you, there's other union plants across the state.
You know, we need to call in to the senators and our congressmen.
Pryor is planning on voting to let this thing go on further.
And if they would call in and let them know, yeah, I'm union members, you know, and we don't approve of this, and we are going to affect your vote next time you run this.
So here's the thing, and I know you're right.
I am sure there are a lot of rank and file union people who are appalled at what's going on, but you're powerless.
I mean, the members of the service employees international union headed up by Andy Stern.
Andy Stern, the most frequent visitor to the White House.
He and Obama are practically blood brothers.
They are both of the same political ideology and mindset.
And that is the destruction of the private sector, the expansion of the public sector.
We're all union employment, they hope to be someday.
And even if there are members of the SEIU, the working people of that union who oppose what Andy Stern's doing, they can't stop it.
Andy Stern raised $60 million for Obama.
One guy and his union put together $60 million for Obama during the campaign.
$60 million.
And money talks.
And that came from union dues and who knows where else.
But it's the union leadership that's in bed with the Democrat Party.
And you guys, of your mindset in a union, you're just having your dues stolen from you or taken from you and used in ways that you wouldn't otherwise use the money.
I have some minor, minor decorating work going on in the house, getting ready.
Family got 30 people coming in next week.
The first wave arrived on Monday for Thanksgiving.
And so, actually, it's not so minor.
A couple of rooms, some pretty major changes, not involving any construction.
There's a lot of people in the house doing work.
And I got home yesterday afternoon.
I had to speed home.
We were talking to Jan, and they said she had to miss a bunch of payments before she would qualify for a program.
I have never in my life been late on an American Express payment until this week.
Sturdley, you answered the phone yesterday.
It was American Express on the phone.
And they called.
They never call.
So I picked up the phone.
Hi, this is Miriam or whoever it was from American Express.
We're showing a balance here on paid.
When can we expect it?
And I said, hold on a second.
Let me call up my checkbook.
So I called up the checkbook on the computer.
I said, did you get my payment back in October?
Yes, we did.
Well, I'm not even sure.
I've seen the statement.
I've never missed a payment.
When can we expect payment?
So I said, look, it's not a cliche.
I'm going to go home.
I'm going to find it.
If it's there, I'll put it in a mail today.
What is the amount?
Again, if it's not, if I didn't get the bill, what's the amount?
She gave me the amount.
So I had to race home.
I needed to get that done.
I was embarrassed.
This has never happened.
I've had an American Express card since 1973.
I've never missed a payment.
So anyway, I'm racing through the house and I'm walking through one of the rooms where the work's being done.
And one of these guys has got this orange box that looked like a Zycam box.
And it was, he was taking some Zycam.
He said, coming down with a cold.
And I said, are you taking Zycam?
And he said, yes, Mr. Limbaugh.
I've heard you talk about it.
This is the second time, and it works.
Now, that, for me, is a thrill because it works for me.
I tell people, first sign of a cold, go get Zycam.
There's two ways you can take it.
It's a liquidalized form or a cold remedy form, but it's got the same ingredients.
One, the cold remedy form has some sore throat medicine in it as well, but they are orange boxes.
The first sign of a cold, take it, and it will reduce the severity.
It won't knock it out, but it'll reduce the severity and the length of time that you have it.
But you have to catch it early and be walking through my own house to see this guy using it because I had recommended it.
I went in there.
I was able to happily sit down and write that check to American Express.
And then I got here this morning.
I found out that there is an express post office box delivery system that I didn't know existed.
So I've used that to get them the check.
And I called him back this morning.
I said, I just want you to know this embarrassed me.
And that check, when did you put the check in the mail?
Last night.
It went out last night.
We are going to make a note.
It should be here in two days.
It should be because I sent it to the express way of doing it.
Thank you.
Any other time I've called American Express, it's been like calling my mother.
But this was the accounts receivable bunch.
You know, and I guess that's a hard job to do.
You know, I to call people up and because you can't have any emotion.
You can't be swayed by sob stories or any of that.
You just got to get in there, get it, and get out.
And then mark up the record and move on to the next call, deadbeat you got to make.
All right.
Dave in Sutton, West Virginia.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
How are you doing?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
I was calling earlier about the obnoxious woman that was talking about nobody wanting to stay on unemployment.
And every time I've been on it, I tried to stretch it out as far as I could.
You do.
Why?
Well, I mean, when I work ever, I work a whole year.
They take so much taxes out of me that I figure it's just that's a way to get it back.
Do you know, by the way, I'm hearing a common thread here.
The woman from the Bay Area said, Oh, yeah, I'm going to go access some of this mortgage money.
It's mine.
Actually, it's not.
It's her kids because we're printing the money that she's but so you figure that it's your money anyway, so you're going to stretch it out and use as much of it as you can while you're not working.
Yes, sir.
And so he's calling because he wants Katie to know that he is exactly the kind of person she denied exists.
And you're doing that in support of me.
Yes, sir.
And you're 70% of the people I work with are the same way.
But you don't work.
Yeah, I work, but I mean, I tried to get my boss to lay me off this year during hunting season, but he wouldn't do it.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
You tried to get the boss to lay you off for hunting season, but he wouldn't.
The salt of the earth, people of West Virginia.
How do you feel being represented by Robert Bird, by the way?
I don't really care that much for him.
Well, you know, he set a record.
He's the longest-serving U.S. senator in history.
He's been there way too long.
Yeah.
You know, it probably would take less time to count the roads, bridges, and streets not named for him in that state than it would to count the ones who are naming them.
There's a Robert Bird Highway.
There's the Robert Byrd Expressway.
There's a Robert Byrd on-ramp and off-ramp.
There is the Robert J. Byrd Library in about 14 different cities.
There's the Robert J. Bird Radio Tower.
Everything.
His name's on.
Have you ever driven to that state?
His name's on everything except the cities.
And there might even be a Bird, West Virginia, by now.
I don't know.
Who's next?
We have time for one more to squeeze in, and it's in Fairfield, Maine.
This is Jeff.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
One minute.
Sorry to do that to you.
Hey, no problem, Rush.
Megadittos, pal.
I just couldn't not call once I heard Katie's call.
And I wanted to kind of give a little glimmer of hope out there.
Unemployment can be a blessing in disguise.
And I'll explain that.
If you've got an entrepreneurial attitude instead of a victim attitude, it can help a person try something new that they like a heck of a lot better and have more potential to achieve that than that comfortable job that they're already operating on.
I understand what you're saying.
So the unemployment gives you a little cushion to go out there and entrepreneurially maybe start your own business.
Well, not so much the unemployment benefit, but the fact that you're unemployed and you actually have to do something can spur you into doing something better.
Yeah, but see, that's the old motivation thing.
That's what I was talking about.
A lot of people lose that after so many years or months of being unemployed.
That's a great point, though.
I'm glad that we were able to squeeze you in before we had to go to this timeout.
This is an interesting little blog at a website called AmericanBankingNews.com.
And if this is true, this does not say much about our recovery.
Goldman Sachs is shorting stock in Wells Fargo, MasterCard, and AIG.
Meaning, they are betting the stock price of Wells Fargo, MasterCard, PNC, and AIG is going to go down.
Now, if that's true, these guys, they're betting to make money on stock prices falling.
That's not a healthy recovery sign, I don't think.
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