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Dec. 21, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 21, 2009, Monday, Hour #3
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And greetings, welcome back.
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Documented to be almost always right 99.5% of the time.
Great to have you here, folks.
Rushlin Boy and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network on Christmas week.
Most hosts take this week off.
I don't.
Well, I'm going to be here today and tomorrow.
I have to start traveling for the various family locations and bashes starting on Wednesday.
Here's the telephone number, 800-282-2882, the email address El Rushbo at EIBNet.com from the UK Guardian.
And as usual, we have to go to the British drive-bys to get some truth.
Now, the UK Guardian is an ultra-left publication.
Their headline, America's jobless face a bleak Christmas as unemployment continues to rise.
Experts say the unemployment rate has yet to peak, and Obama's stimulus package has limited impact.
The rate of joblessness in the U.S. is significantly worse than in overseas economies, which in GDP terms have suffered a deeper recession, although definitions may vary slightly.
This is the kind of reporting that we would not get and have not gotten in the United States press.
The $787 billion Porculus package intended to kickstart job creation has had only limited impact.
Jobs will not recover thick and fast.
Signs of a return to growth are likely to encourage fringe job seekers, like part-timers and stay-at-home parents, back into the search for full-time work.
Economists say that in normal times, it takes an addition of 100,000 jobs per month just to keep the unemployment rate steady to compensate for a steady increase in the workforce as the population grows and people graduate from college.
All we're seeing in the U.S. press, I mean, I even saw on Fox just now that luxury yacht builders in Tampa having to bring on a new ship.
Oh, the rich are doing well.
And we're getting stories about how Christmas purchasing is through the roof.
Wait a minute.
Two people.
Well, I know temporary job hirings are up.
That's what this point in the UK Guardian makes.
But I'm talking about the fact that yacht manufacturing in Tampa is going way up.
German tourists are buying them, not Americans.
And the fact of the matter is, is that we're also being told that all of a sudden, retail sales at Christmas are up big time.
I don't think anybody believes this.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.
You know, one of the reasons we're in the problem we're in is because the mainstream media long ago decided to check its integrity at the door to become propagandists for Barack Obama for his agenda.
Their duty in maintaining an informed population no longer exists.
They are repeaters, not reporters.
They are doing everything they can to advance Obama's agenda, including trying to give credence to his lies.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has warned that there is a significant chance the U.S. economy will contract.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that means get smaller, in the second half of next year.
And he urged the government to prepare a second stimulus package to spur job creation.
You would figure that a Nobel Prize winner would come up with this.
Oh, yeah, let's do more of what's failed.
The likelihood of this slowdown is very, very high.
Stiglitz told reporters in Singapore there is a significant chance the number will be in the negative range, meaning economic growth second half next year.
Stiglitz is a professor at Columbia University, called on Washington to make more money available to state governments who face a drop in tax revenue.
Where are we going to get this money?
These people not understand that we have a national debt.
Forget that a minute.
We're going to have deficits that will total $12 trillion over the next 10 years.
We don't have any money.
The CHICOMs are saying the world does not have enough money to continue buying our treasury bonds to finance our debt.
The U.S. economy, the world's largest, must grow at least 3% to create enough jobs for new entrants into the labor force.
Now, I don't have a Nobel Prize or anything, my friends, but I don't need one to know this.
I don't need one to predict all this.
But to prove my most recently made point that the drive-bys have sacrificed their integrity and checked it at the door to become repeaters and propagandists, I am holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers the latest dispatch from the state-controlled Associated Press.
The headline story is about the top 10 business stories of 2009.
And you know what the leading story is?
The number one top business story is the rebound of the U.S. economy.
In 2009, the economy was near collapse before pulling back from the brink of depression.
Unemployment topped 10%, but layoffs eased.
GM and Chrysler toppled into bankruptcy and emerged smaller and leaner.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average swooned to a 12-year low and then came part of the way back.
It was a year of payback for having lived beyond our means, from Wall Street bankers who devoured risk they couldn't manage to ordinary Americans living in homes they couldn't afford with mortgages they didn't understand.
It was a year of finger-pointing over blame for the worst recession since the Great Depression.
Americans pondered how long it would take to mend shattered nest eggs, livelihoods, government balance sheets, and economic confidence.
It was a year that gave birth to buzzwords, new frugality, new normal, and green shoots that captured the fragility of America's recovery.
Are you ready to throw up yet?
The economy's wild ride was voted the top business story by U.S. newspaper editors surveyed by the Associated Press.
The collapse of the auto industry came in second, followed by skyrocketing home foreclosures.
However, when they get to the list of the top 10 business stories of this year, they label number one as economies fall and rebound.
Now, that's pure propaganda.
There is no factual report.
What rebound?
I'll tell you: if Bush were president during all this and the only thing that we're rebounding were the stock market, which is what's happening here, they would be pillaring that as nothing more than Bush making sure the rich did not suffer during the downturn at the expense of average Americans.
Right now, we have to sit here and listen to all this gunk about how Wall Street coming back means that there is an economic rebound going on.
The reason Wall Street's coming back to the extent that it is is that it's the only place to put any money right now, that and gold.
The U.S. economy is not suitable for investment right now, and there is no investment in the private sector.
All the GDP growth that's occurred in the third quarter of this year occurred on the government side.
Anyway, they go through the list.
Economies fall and rebound is number one.
The auto industry collapsed, number two, foreclosures, number three.
Wall Street claws back.
Number four, small and mid-sized banks fail.
Number five, U.S. spills red ink.
Amidst all of these disastrous headlines, they dare say there's a rebound going on here.
Madoff scandal, number seven, federal aid for the economy, number eight, a new frugality.
This is the section where they say, we have learned to live within our means.
We have learned to discover what our families are really like.
We're sharing more.
We're spending more time with family.
Even extracurricular activities at school have been shut down, which is good for kiddies to be home with their parents.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
All of this, all this crap, and they're trying to make mincemeat out of it.
Number nine, financial reform stalls.
An Obama administration plan to overhaul regulation of the financial industry slows over industry opposition and renewed signs of a stabilized financial system.
The House approves a plan in December that would grant the government new powers to split up companies that threaten the economy, create an agency to oversee consumer banking transactions, and shine a light into shadow financial markets that have escaped federal oversight.
But the legislation faces an uncertain future in the Senate.
Not for long.
This is companion legislation to the healthcare debacle that has passed, which will give them total control over practically everything.
So, top 10 business stories.
Number one is economy's fall and rebound.
And the other nine are all about the economy's fall and how horrible it has been, how tragic it has been, and how wonderful Obama has been in trying to reverse it.
Next story, more retailers embracing food stamps.
Poverty in this story is said to hit an 11-year high.
And yet the AP, this AP is, no, this is Reuters, sorry.
Yet AP dares to discuss the economic rebound.
Dateline, San Francisco, Los Angeles.
At 11 p.m. on the last day of the month, shoppers flock to the nearest Walmart.
They load their carts with food and household items and wait for the midnight hour.
That's when food stamp credits are loaded on their electronic benefits transfer cards.
Once the clock strikes midnight and EBT cards are charged, you can see our results start to tick up, said Tom Shoey, Walmart Store's chief financial officer.
As food stamps become an increasingly common currency in a struggling U.S. economy, which AP says is rebounding, they are dictating changes in how even the biggest retailers do business.
So in other words, the government's controlling this too.
When the government reloads these EDB cards, that's when the wards of the state head to Walmart and start loading up using the equivalent of food stamps.
So the government is even controlling consumer spending in this regard.
From Costco to Walmart, store chains are rethinking years of strategy as they watched prize customers lose jobs and turn to this benefit, the stigma of which is disappearing, not just in society, but in corporate America.
So now it's a badge of honor to have one of these EDB cards.
It's a badge of honor to be on food stamps.
It's a badge of honor.
It's no longer a stigma.
Besides staffing up for the spike in shoppers on the first day of every month, retailers are adjusting when and what they stock, updating point-of-sale systems to accept food stamps, and shifting expansion plans to focus on lower-income shoppers.
That's just the first four paragraphs.
It makes me sick to my stomach.
I don't want to read any more to you.
What you really need to know here is that the really sick part is that most of these benefits, the loaded up EDB cards and the food stamps are all gone in three days.
They spend them all three days, and then it's back to poverty for the remaining 27 to 28 days of the month.
From the Wall Street Journal lead editorial today, change nobody believes in.
The bill's so reckless that it has to be rammed through on a partisan vote on Christmas Eve.
And tidings of comfort and joy from Harry Reid, too.
The Senate Majority Leader has decided that the last few days before Christmas are the opportune moment for a narrow majority of Democrats to stuff Obamacare through the Senate to meet an arbitrary White House deadline.
Barring some extraordinary reversal, it now seems as if they have the 60 votes they need to jump off this cliff with one-sixth of the economy in tow.
Yeah, but the problem is not just them jumping off the cliff.
They're taking us with them.
I just got a note from a friend.
The Obama administration turning out to be more fun than you ever thought it would be.
I wish this were fun.
Fun?
I have a question.
If this, you know, Obama, all these Democrats, Dingy Harry, they're talking about this being such a wonderfully historic moment.
Why are the Democrats doing this under the cover of darkness in the middle of night like rats instead of the heroic statesmen they think they are?
I mean, this isn't how Social Security was passed under FDR or even the Civil Rights Act of 1965 or anything else thought to be heroic and noble.
They have to do this under cover of darkness.
They have to hide this all because, well, you know the reasons.
A monument to Obama, a 50-year, 60-year crush and demand on getting something like this.
But I have a question for you leftists out there who hate America.
And one of the reasons that you hate America is that we are such a small percentage of the world's population.
But we use so many of the world's resources for ourselves.
We are colonialist.
We are imperialist.
We have stolen from the poor peoples of the world all to enhance our ridiculously outrageous, rich lifestyles.
I have a question for you.
All of this borrowing by Obama, all of this spending, isn't the United States hurting the rest of the world and especially the poor third world by sucking all the capital out of the world's economy to fund our debt.
I cannot emphasize enough the CHICOMs saying the world doesn't have the money to finance the U.S. debt.
We're using so much of it to fund our own debt, and we're doing it why?
For one man.
You can talk about Bush as a cowboy, but we are sucking up the world's debt so that Obama can pretend to be dictator.
Where's the outrage?
Where's the outrage from those of you on the left who are so concerned about the poor of the world, the third world, and being denied their own rightful opportunity to produce wealth?
Where are you and your concern?
Wouldn't the best thing we could do for the world be to cut our deficit?
Wouldn't that be a tremendous benefit to the small countries who now will be able to get more credit and expand their own economies were we to cut our deficit and stop all this spending?
As it is, we're not only freezing out our own economy, we're not only depleting it of capital, we're doing so all over the world.
All because of the ego of one man, Barack Obama, who believes that he is savior of the world.
This afternoon in Washington at a press conference, Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry spoke.
An unidentified reporter said to him, Republicans say that you do not have the support of a public.
Michael Steele accused Democrats of flipping Americans the bird.
Do you worry about political fallout?
I'm more worried about an example being set by a party leader with something so obscene.
If you look at the morning polls today, there are some polls that showed the support of this bill is up about 10% just overnight.
The American people, once they have the information, will be totally supportive of this bill.
I'm disappointed that someone would be so crass and set such a terrible example for the youth of this country.
Oh, give me a break.
Michael Steele says the Democrats are flipping Americans off, and we get a morality play from Dingy Harry, who told Bush school kids that Bush was stupid, has people like Ted Kennedy saying things that they've said about Robert Bork, setting an example.
What about how they tried to destroy Clarence Thomas?
And the next question, well, could you address concerns that the and by the way, the American people, well, the more they find out about this, the more they oppose this.
So the next question is: could you address concerns that the bill is chock full of pet projects that were designed to benefit your states and perhaps to secure the votes of wavering Democrats?
This legislation is no different than the defense bill we just spent.
We just spent $600 billion on.
It's no different than other pieces of legislation.
We worked, there's 100 senators here, and I don't know if there is a senator that doesn't have something in this bill that was important to them.
And if they don't have something in it important to them, then it doesn't speak well of them.
That's what this legislation is all about.
Can I translate this for you?
What Harry Reid just said here is any senator who didn't get a payoff is a lousy senator.
Any senator who didn't get a payoff is every senator's got some.
That's how legislation works, it's paying off senators.
Well, learn it, love it, live it, America, because the Democrats, in their ego and in their arrogance here, are finally vomiting in public everything about who they really are.
And it's easy to accept and believe if you just understand that these are liberals.
Now, Dingy Harry just got through trashing Michael Steele because Michael Steele said that the Democrats are flipping the bird.
Listen to this latest ad from Rock the Vote.
It's a video PSA.
Politics is personal.
It's more than just checking a box.
We ask you to join us in this pledge.
We pledge ourselves to the health and liberty of young Americans and to government for the people.
We pledge to educate ourselves to stand against those who fight us with mind, body, and spirit.
And to never f you if you are against us.
We will vote against you.
Work against you.
And once again, just in case you forgot, never, ever, never, ever.
Never, ever.
Never, ever f you.
I'm holding out for health care.
Rock the vote anyway you can.
Now, the two people in this ad are Ava Amore, who is the daughter of Susan Sarandon.
The other one is Zach Guilford, an actor.
And I forget what program he's on, but the bleeps here are the F-bomb.
And what they are doing in this rock the vote video is claiming that they will withhold, how should I say this, favors.
They will withhold favors if you don't support Obama-run health care.
And they are urging people in their relationships.
If your spouse or a significant other doesn't support health care, then freeze them out.
That's the purpose of this rock the vote.
So, Dingy Harry, you want to talk about bad examples, crass examples?
Merry Christmas to all of you from all of us here at the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Dingy Harry says in that latest round of soundbites that once the American people find out, Even though the polls are supposedly showing that support for the bill is up 10% overnight, that's a crock.
He said, once the American people find out what's in it, it's going to be great.
Well, then let us see it, Dingy Harry.
Put it up on the internet.
Don't keep it a secret.
If Americans are going to be so supportive of this, once we know about it, put it online so we can all read it and have a great party.
Imagine what an improvement it would be to our Christmas.
He dares to call Michael Steele crude.
This is the same man who compared Republicans who oppose health care to people who supported slavery.
Remember that?
That was just last week.
I got an idea for the Republican National Committee.
We got this rock the vote ad out there with the daughter of Susan Saran and some other actor out there urging people to withhold sexual favors to their friends and probably even half acquaintances if they don't support health care.
You know, Tiger Wood's going to learn a lot from watching the Democrats in the Senate about how to deal with prostitutes.
He just didn't pay them enough.
At any rate, I have an ad for the RNC to put together to bounce off this rock the vote ad.
And it's an ad that would really tug at the heartstrings.
You'd have a bunch of seasoned citizens in this ad, in this video, elderly people asking, why would you ration our health care when we raised you, when we protected you, when we sacrificed for you, when we provided for you, when we gave you the greatest country on earth, you once called us the greatest generation.
Why would you ration our health care so that we die prematurely?
Why would you do this, President Obama?
That's what I do.
This fight's not over.
It's never going to be over.
The Wall Street Journal was right about this.
The so-called benefits don't kick in for four years.
Have plenty of time to repeal a lot of this.
The November elections are going to be crucial.
Here's Alan in Homedale, New Jersey.
Great to have you on the phone, sir.
I'm glad you waited.
Rush.
Yeah, I'm calling because people need to get involved in the 2010 congressional elections right now because this is the time when elections will be won and lost.
Because remember, a lot of these challenges are going to be going up against incumbents with multi-million dollar war chests.
So to wait until the fall may be too late.
And I know this firsthand because I'm running against one of the cap and trade Republicans here in New Jersey in six months in a primary.
I actually think that that process is underway.
I think this whole Tea Party movement is exactly what this is about.
And I know those people are fired up and they are recruiting and they're going to be, I think they're going to find their recruitment efforts made easier, especially once, you know, waiting Obama does that State of the Union speech.
Wait till he starts patting himself on the back.
Wait till he starts talking about what the great, wait till he starts lying through the teeth about how everybody's going to have increased care, increased coverage at a lower cost, praising himself, ripping the Bush administration.
He is going to, that State of the Union speech is going to be the equivalent of himself carving his own face on Mount Rushmore, and it's going to repulse people.
Yeah, but yeah, you know, for someone like myself who's, you know, has a primary in six months against the cap and trader, you know, and the Tea Party movement has been involved in my race as well, just need more ammunition to go up against these guys who are funded, you know, by special interest unions and those sorts of things.
Even Republicans.
I know, and they've, and I know, and they're going to have slush fund assistance as well.
But never before, never before in the upcoming elections will ideas matter as much as they will in November of 2010.
Never before.
I know all of you guys running for office need money, but I can give you countless examples where candidates who are so underfunded compared to their competition, their opponent, and still won, the mayor of Indianapolis, won re-election with practically no money.
It can be done.
The power of ideas and the power of articulating them and communicating them, rallying the American people, being positive, upbeat, inspirational, motivational, speaking great things about the United States and our potential.
And there's no reason for this country to change.
There's no reason for us to ever believe that the best days in this country are behind us.
It can be done.
I know money is important, but money's going to be scarce.
The economy's in a tank.
10% unemployment and maybe higher.
The power of ideas, trust me on this, the power of ideas next November will matter more than they have in a long time.
One thing I want to mention for this Wall Street Journal editorial today, their lead editorial, this is an illustration of the disparity in how tax increases are going to apply.
Eugene Stirl of the left-leaning urban institute, and they are a left-leaning bunch, think tank.
Eugene Stirl points out this system.
And the truth is, by the way, that no one really knows how much Obamacare is going to cost because its assumptions on paper are so unrealistic.
For example, to hide the cost increases created by other parts of the bill and transfer them onto the federal balance sheet, the Senate sets up government-run exchanges.
Have you heard this word being bandied about?
Who the hell knows what it is, a health exchange?
Well, the purpose of the health exchange is to hide the cost increases in other parts of the bill, transferring them onto the federal balance sheet.
And they've done this by setting up government-run exchanges that will subsidize insurance for those earning up to 400% of the poverty level or $96,000 for a family of four in 2016.
Now, supposedly, they would only be offered to those whose employers don't provide insurance or who work for small businesses.
And this is where the left-leaning urban institute comes on the scene.
Eugene Stirl says that this system would treat two workers with the same total compensation, whatever the mix of cash, wages, and benefits, very differently.
Under the Senate bill, somebody who earned $42,000 would get $5,749 from the current tax exclusion for employer-sponsored coverage, but $12,750 in the exchange.
So a worker making $60,000 would get $8,310 in the exchanges, but only $3,758 in the current system.
Now, I know these numbers run together and it's hard to keep track of it on radio, but this is the reason that Mr. Stirl from the Urban Institute concludes that the Senate bill is not just a new health system, but also a new welfare and tax system that will warp the labor market.
Given the incentives of these two-tier subsidies, employers with large numbers of low-wage workers like Walmart may convert them into contractors, independent contractors, or even do more outsourcing in order to have to pay less.
And that's the whatever it's taxes, spending, whatever numbers are that are in any piece of federal legislation that gets scored by the CBO.
They always score them as a static, never counting for the dynamic, never accounting for how real people will react to these new laws.
And that's why these guesses are just that.
Just wild guesses.
Sue in Boca Raton, great to have you with us on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, longtime listener, first-time caller, and my son, actually, who's 19, he's listening right now.
But I have to tell you, I'm from, I was born in Venezuela, so I know very well what this is happening, you know, what's happening with this, with Obama, and we are told this is becoming totally socialistic.
And for all those people in Nebraska that are calling, and I was listening today, you're going to need to get out every single year.
You're going to knock on doors.
You're going to have to go out and get these people out of there.
But I don't know what else.
What would you suggest we do?
I mean, I have called this guy here, Ben Nelson, the Benedict Arnold.
They're liars, they're cheaters.
We have lost all integrity, character, morality.
And if people don't think that one vote matters, look what's happening.
Everybody says, oh, this guy, it's just, it's so frustrating because, I mean, you sit there and you don't even know what to do.
And so I'm asking you to tell all of us what are we supposed to do?
I mean, we've called.
I mean, I'm right now, I knock on, I talk to everybody I can.
And, you know, you tell me.
You're the master.
You tell us what you're doing.
This is very true.
Very true.
But what are we supposed to do?
Except for people cannot be, we tend to be very forgetful people.
You know, we forgot 9-11.
We forget.
And I've lived all over the world.
And we do live in the greatest country on the planet.
People are not going to forget this because if it indeed is signed into law early on next year, then the tax increases commence immediately and people will feel the impact of this right off the bat.
I wouldn't be surprised if they delay the tax increases to 2011 as a result.
But don't worry.
People are not going to forget this.
Here's the first thing I would suggest that you do.
And I don't know that you are of this mindset, but there are a lot of people today who think that there's no difference in the two parties and that the only solution to this is a third party, particularly for a presidential candidate.
Now, I don't, if you haven't noticed, I'm not speaking to this or to you specifically yet, Sue, on this, in your question.
But if you haven't noticed, folks, not one Republican in the Senate voted for this.
There is a huge difference in the two parties.
Do not think that the whole system has to be tossed aside because both parties are just as bad.
I mean, both parties have elements of worthlessness in them, but still, structurally and philosophically, there are huge differences.
The next thing, really, there's not a whole lot you can do.
The next elections are where it all is.
November 2010 is where it all is.
I know you're worried people are going to forget about things by then.
They're not.
Well, we're not.
I mean, here we are.
We're down here in South Florida.
And I can tell you that it is not a person that I don't talk to, whether they were a Republican or Democrat.
Everybody is so up in arms that I think they better pay attention.
And I mean, I do email.
I do call.
As a matter of fact, I don't call Washington.
I call their offices, even though I'm not in Nebraska or Re or Nevada.
I call them and I tell them, I say, you wait till the next, I can't wait for the next election because I'll go from Florida to Nebraska to knock on doors just to do that.
And the American people need to understand what our founding fathers did so that we do the same thing.
Let me tell you something.
The founding fathers created this country.
They rose up against a tyranny that is nothing compared to the tyranny in this health care bill.
The founding fathers created this country over much less than what is happening via health care and everything else in the Obama agenda.
Now, I don't want to say this the wrong way, but I actually think you're wasting your time calling these people.
I think you're wasting your time emailing them.
You disagree with that, Mr. Snertley?
You do.
They're not paying any attention to it.
This, I mean, if it makes you feel better, go ahead and do it, but don't expect any reaction to it.
If it makes you feel better to pepper these people with emails and phone calls, by all means, do it.
But don't think that's going to change the way they vote until you can pay them $500 million.
Like Harry Reid can.
You're not going to change the way they vote.
The only answer to this is to defeat every liberal on every ballot in every state in every election.
That has to be the objective.
The lesson here is that liberalism is a lie.
It is a destructive force and it is un-American.
And it has to be defeated.
And liberals run as Democrats.
So there has to be a mobilization against the Democrat Party.
There are no moderate Democrats.
We're seeing that here.
And that's what has to happen.
The American people in our constitutional form of government make changes at the ballot box.
But you've got to get your ego out of this in terms of having these people react to you and respond to you.
Even if they do, it's going to be phony just to get you off their back.
We've gone way beyond that.
We've gone beyond that.
What we have to do now is increase voter registration, increase voter turnout, and use the emotion that's building up here as a means of pulling that off.
I'm a little long here, so I've got to take a brief break.
We'll be back right after this.
Don't go away.
You want to know what you can do?
Activism advice.
Let me tell you what to do, folks.
Stay informed.
Like I've been asking you, become the go-to person in your family who answers questions for people who are just getting involved, just getting interested, and don't know what's happening.
Become the go-to person.
Keep everybody else informed.
With the internet, with email, you can do it.
Try to enlighten as many people as possible and don't get sick.
You're no good to anybody if you're sick.
If you come down with some common cold, you're going to be worthless to people because you're going to be focused on yourself.
And the best way to avoid the full ravages of a common cold is Zycam.
So what you can do, stay informed, keep everybody else informed.
Email internet.
You can do it.
Enlighten as many people as possible and have Zycam around because the moment you think you're coming down with a cold, take it.
It works.
It will shorten the duration.
It will lighten the load.
It will impinge upon the impact of the cold.
Works great for most people, but you've got to catch it early.
Zycam, big orange box, perfect for stocking stuffers for Christmas, too.
And it's many forms, many flavors.
However you get it, it works.
Ellen in Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, Ben Nelson's home state.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Maybe you'll save my sanity.
I am so upset with this whole deal.
I was never involved in politics before.
I never paid too much attention like most people.
Just think, oh, they'll take care of things, do things right.
Well, they don't.
And I have been calling and emailing, and nobody listens.
Wait a minute.
Wait, wait.
Why are you all of a sudden upset and involved?
Well, when I started seeing what's going on with our country, we are losing it.
We are not going to have the country that I grew up with.
All right.
See, folks, this is the proof.
You think you're all alone.
You think you're the only one noticing what's going wrong.
Here's a woman from Scottsbluff, Nebraska, who admitted she paid no attention to this kind of stuff.
This is so egregious and outrageous.
She can see that a redefinition of the country is taking place right before her eyes.
So that's another thing to keep in mind.
You're not alone.
The potential for massive growth of this opinion is there.
President Obama today made a speech about cutting government costs.
That's the next shift now.
We've got to get the deficit down.
We've got to get the deficit down because he's running up.
Why not freeze or cut back federal employees' salaries?
I mean, if you can do it to CEOs, I mean, look, we know that federal employees are making much more than private sector employees on average.
Cut them, but of course, that won't happen because that would make sense.
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