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Feb. 1, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 1, 2010, Monday, Hour #3
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Probably going to be there for at least a couple years.
I mean, uh, to move it up another tenth of a point is going to require at least 18 months of perfection.
You get that close to perfection.
You're going to be perfect for a long time to move it up.
So we'll see.
We get these uh audits in every uh couple of months or so.
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Senators Lindsay Gramnesty, Saxby Chambless, Joe Lieberman, Blanche Lincoln, and John McCain will introduce a bill tomorrow that cuts funds for federal trials of 9-11 conspirators.
Hmm.
Uh so that's Blanche Lincoln's a Democrat.
Uh Lieberman is an independent.
The others, uh, Gramnesty, Chambless McCain, of course, are Republicans.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I uh we had a call earlier today from a from a woman, and she's she's got a she's got a point that she's afraid that people might not understand uh problem with the deficit, because in her case, look, milk costs the same, gathering costs the same, uh going to movie costs the same.
People tell me the deficits out of this world, and I don't know how it impacts me.
So I explained it to her.
I and and uh I I told her I think a lot of people now may not specifically understand it, but they know it's wrong.
And that's why Obama is below 50% in his approval.
That and the health care bill.
And the health care bill, large part of it is we don't have the money for it.
We don't have the money for anything he's done.
We've got a 1.6 trillion dollar deficit this year.
That means we're spending 1.6 trillion we don't have.
Americans understand being in debt because most of us are.
Americans understand that.
But here's something to help to help put this in better perspective and context.
It is a story from the American thinker.com.
And when you people travel on airplanes, they still give you little bags of peanuts, and you don't get any peanuts.
Well, wait a second, wait a second.
They sell, I mean, you've got them there.
They sell them to you, right?
You got people, and you have a little tiny plastic cups of Diet Coke.
Right?
You do.
Or well, uh whatever beverage you want for now.
Um and then but before that, you gotta strip down to your underwear and be cavity searched.
You know, while while uh Mohammed Al-Sheikh Altari gets on board with hardly any examination whatsoever.
So try this.
Doug Ross has been on this story, broke some news yesterday about the millions of dollars, millions that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has wrung up in travel using military aircraft.
Now we learn from Doug, and this is Doug Ross, that it appears Pelosi is using military jets to facilitate the personal travel of her children and grandchildren.
No member of Congress involved, just the junketing of her kids.
Since Pelosi took over as Speaker in 2006, she has wrung up millions in military travel expenses, and worse still, she also appears to have requisitioned entire flights for the personal use of her children and grandkids.
That is unaccompanied by any member of Congress.
Her kids, her in-laws, and her grandchildren are utilizing entire military passenger jets for their routine travel needs.
Ferrying her family around.
This is not to mention the one million dollars it cost to send her congressional delegation over to uh Copenhagen for that for that climate, that bogus climate meeting.
I'm also told that of that two million, 150 to 200,000 of it is food and alcohol.
Catering for her kids and grandkids.
While everybody else buys peanuts, if they're lucky, and gets you know smidging little beverage here and there.
And then if you ask for more, you are shot a dirty glance at who do you think you are?
February 22, 2007, military jet requisition for the sole travel needs of her son, Paul Jr. 13 April 2007, a military jet utilized for the unaccompanied travel of the Speaker's daughter, son-in-law, and grandson.
October 30th, 2008, a military jet requisition for the Speaker's daughter and son-in-law, Peter Kaufman, to commute between San Francisco and Washington.
Now, military flights cost between five and twenty thousand dollars per hour to operate, depending on the airplane.
Pelosi only reimburses the government between 120 and 400 dollars per flight.
Taxpayers pick up the rest of the tab with tax dollars.
It's all perfectly legal, or is it?
Even if it is, perhaps we need to start asking why a politician's children and grandchildren should have their travel subsidized at taxpayer expense.
When there's no other business being conducted by virtue of the flight.
I mean, no member of Congress is going someplace.
I talked with John Boehner back last fall.
He was down at a fundraising thing.
We went on to play golf.
And he told me that members of Congress are not allowed to fly on corporate jets, period.
They're not allowed to do it.
Especially corporate jets owned by somebody else that they would reimburse.
They cannot do it.
Even he, and here's Pelosi requisitioning these military jets for a kids and her grandkids, and $150,000 of all the, and this is two million dollars in the two years she's been speaker, and $150,000 of it is for catering.
Alcohol and food.
$5,000 to $20,000 an hour to operate, depending on the jet that she's using.
I don't know, $20,000 an hour.
You gotta be flying uh almost a $747 for that, maybe a $767, $757.
Yeah, that's but I don't certainly she can't be requisitioning a Boeing $757 for three people.
Well, I guess she could.
You know, these these people really do think of themselves as elite above all of us, royalty.
But while everybody else is engaged in a recession and everybody else is worried sick over losing their house and losing their job, and people may be concerned about deficits and so forth.
Here's somebody who's not.
Here's somebody who doesn't have to be worried about it.
And it's not because she's paying for it herself.
Oh, and I should add, she and her husband are multi-millionaires.
They could pay for it themselves.
Now it may be the law that all she has to reimburse is 200 to 400 bucks, maybe the price of a coach seat.
Doesn't make it right.
And but she's got the money to do it herself.
This is what this is what infuriates me.
Aside from the poor judgment and the entitled attitude, she's got the money to do it herself and is still making the government, the taxpayers pay for it.
She and her husband are not poor.
They are wealthy multiple times over.
That that's just that's just infuriating.
And and uh people need to find out about it.
We will we will keep people informed.
And because of that, here's Leck Voenza.
He was this is last Friday in Chicago at a at a campaign event for Republican gubernatorial candidate, Adam Angivinski uh NG and Giveski.
And uh this is what he says a portion of his remarks.
United States is only one superpower.
Jish Shavozumship.
Today they leave the world.
Nobody has the dops about it.
Militarily.
Militarily.
They also lead economically, but they're getting weak.
But they don't lead morally and politically anymore.
The word has no leadership.
The United States was always the last resort in hope for all our nation.
There's what the hope.
Whenever something was going uh wrong, one could condom the United States.
Today we lost that hope.
So like Vowenza, United States no longer leads the world morally, and we are moving toward socialism.
By the way, this Chicago, these Illinois elections, there's a bunch of primaries there tomorrow.
And it's I mean, I don't want to jinx things here.
But it could well be that the Republicans are going to score big time tomorrow.
And there's a there's a particular candidate that's being described as the Scott Brown of uh of his race, of his contest.
And there's a story here, I've got it somewhere in the stack that's from a UK paper that you would never ever see in the drive-by media here.
It's about how people in Chicago are totally disillusioned, not happy with Obama at all.
You'll never see it outside of this uh this UK paper.
Also, there is the most fascinating story from the Associated Press.
It came out yesterday.
It is a story I have never seen in my life about unemployment.
Formula shows why it's so hard to cut the jobless rate.
It is a story that gives Obama all the cover in the world.
And remember, ladies and gentlemen, when we were not in a recession in 2007, the media said we were, and we were at 5.2% unemployment up from 4.7, and they were started the uh train wreck news on how people were losing their jobs or how horrible it was.
Now here we are at 10, 10.2% unemployment, or 17%.
And we get a store from the AP, it is so hard.
It's just so hard.
It's so hard to have the jobless rate.
It's just so hard.
Wait till you hear this.
I'll have it for you.
Plus your phone calls, all coming up when we get back.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and the Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies.
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It was judicial watch that uncovered the uh documents detailing Pelosi's use of Air Force aircraft, and here are the numbers.
Uh $2,100,000 in personal travel, 101,429 of which was for in-flight expenses, including food and adult beverages.
Now you could feed a lot of hungry kids for $2,100,000.
You could really make a dent in problems in Haiti for $2,100,000.
Here's some details.
Uh Speaker Pelosi used Air Force aircraft travel back to redistrict at an average cost of $28,000 per flight.
The average cost of uh of an international co what's a uh CODEL um oh congressional delegation flight.
The average cost of an international congressional delegation flight, $228,000 of the $103 Pelosi-led congressional delegations, 31 trips included members of her family.
This is obscene.
This is obscene.
It is a violation of her oath.
It is taking advantage of the taxpayers during a period of time where we are in recession, economic downturn.
It's just these people are going to have to be held accountable.
This is just not right.
It's pure and simple as that.
It just isn't right.
Who's next?
Milton Delaware, Gerald, I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're up next on the EIB network.
How are you today, sir?
Excellent to outstanding, sir.
Thank you.
Well, that's the best way to be.
I uh I'm I want to comment on something you talked about earlier in in your show.
Uh, and it's just simply this.
Uh, with uh Obama putting all the wealthy and all the people with all the great monies uh in his crosshairs, uh, doesn't he think about the backlash and the repercussions and uh everything that's gonna come as a result of that?
I mean, these people have got uh millions of dollars to spend, and and does he expect them not to spend it against him and and the uh the folly of the people who uh uh uh advise him.
Well, you have to understand what he's doing here.
He's doing two things.
He is relying on the fact that most people don't earn a quarter of a million dollars or more, and in a time of recession, he is hoping to capitalize on an emotion of hatred that they have for the people who make that much.
Obama is hoping that he'll get kudos for getting even with these people.
He's not gonna make anybody's life any better who makes less than two fifty a year.
He just wants them to be happy that people who have more than they are getting screwed.
The second thing, and this is more important, Gerald, he is redistributing wealth.
He is destroying it for the express purpose of redistributing it to his buddies, primarily the unions, government and teacher unions, private uh uh or public sector unions, and minorities.
He's returning the wealth of the nation to its quote unquote rightful owners.
This is all that aside, I only have one statement to that.
I I don't see near that amount of money per year as my income.
But uh I I see uh that if these people of wealth don't do something about him, we are in trouble.
I know I'm gonna do whatever I can as modestly as I can uh because uh this man needs to get out of the way.
Well he's killing this country.
I totally agree.
I totally agree.
Let me tell you something about the wealthy, though.
They're not gonna complain.
They will not complain.
I once watched this week with Brinkley when Brinkley hosted it.
It was back in the early mid-90s, Andy Grove of Intel was on when Bill Clinton had just announced a limit on corporate salaries and their deductibility as a business expense of one million dollars.
And they asked Andy Grove if he thought this is right policy.
He said, I'm not gonna sit here and uh complain about the amount of money I make, and I'm I I I don't want to get into these uh social concerns over that.
I I'd love to tell you about Intel and what we're doing.
They don't want to talk about it because these people that are wealthy do not want to be seen as complaining.
They think that will only fuel the fire to raise their taxes.
Now, they might work in other ways quietly to try to defeat it and so forth, but and and I look at I I I guarantee you that the vast majority of them, other than those in Hollywood, um have the same attitude about this that you do, and they're gonna be working hard to find ways around the new tax increases.
Uh whatever they are.
Uh and that these these particular, and there are going to be more to come, but this is going to come from sunsetting the Bush tax cuts, which is a tax increase.
Pelosi says it's not, but it is a tax increase if your rate, if the top marginal rate's gonna go from thirty-six to thirty-nine, which is big because I say when you couple this with uh with state taxes and Medicare tax increases and so forth, you're gonna be over in some states over fifty percent of your income.
Over fifty percent of your gross is going to be taxed.
But I just don't see I mean the wealthy complaining about it to themselves.
But I I can't see them complaining about what's gonna happen to them.
I can see them maybe this is gonna destroy the economy.
This is this is this is gonna hurt my business.
I'm never gonna be able to hire people, we're not gonna be able to grow our business.
They might do it that way, but they're they're not going to complain about the impact on them because that nobody's gonna have any sympathy for them.
And the if the as I say, if they do complain, it's just gonna spur other people to support raising taxes on them.
And we'll get back to your phone calls here in just a second.
We want to play you something interesting from the talent portion of the Miss America pageant on Saturday night.
This is uh Miss District of Columbia, Jen Corey, and she is singing a song uh uh uh many in this audience are probably familiar with, albeit with different lyrics.
Uh it is Puccini's Oh mio Babino Caro.
Her version ran about a minute.
Here it is.
And that was Barbara Chenault Law she's from Dallas, the uh English language version of uh Puccini's Omio Babino Caro.
And that was uh Miss District of Columbia Jen Corey who sang previously.
Many of you who watched the pageant probably recognize the uh the melody, but didn't know the actual words in Italian.
We translated into the English uh Barbara Chenault Law did.
By the way, I wanna one one thing about this $250,000.
I made a bit of a mistake.
Yeah, if she didn't if if if Miss District of Columbia got in the words to that right, she might be Miss America today.
You never know.
No, no, no, no.
Just just kidding.
Just kidding.
Uh ladies and gentlemen, $250,000 is not wealthy.
And I know that the the you families, $250,000 uh you're you're not wealthy.
Wealthy, but Obama calls the Democrats have always called those kind of people wealthy.
Uh and they will.
Uh $250,000 family for they will complain about their taxes going up.
And they, you know, but I I do think, depending on how much coverage their complaints get, it will still spur people who don't make that kind of money.
Oh, really?
You're complaining?
I'm out of work and you're complaining about a tax increase.
You gotta be they they gotta be very careful about about how this does.
Um a lot of small businesses in this category of $250,000, and I think caller wanted them to organize and do something.
A lot of people want somebody else to do something.
Here's Virginia High Rolls, New Mexico.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, I am so honored to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
Um I wanted to mention first, I called uh talk about the redistribution of wealth and how I think it's going on already, but I was gonna mention to you that I'm also a meteorologist and I don't believe in global warming.
Thank you.
Uh man-made global warming.
Exactly right.
Yeah, exactly.
Um I've done a little looking into it, and I'm thinking perhaps some minor fluctuations in the magnetic field could cause a little bit of global warming in the northern hemisphere, but man-made no way.
Thank you.
And uh if anybody ever asked you, say what ended the ice age?
Global warming and there were no people there.
Something had to end it, that's right.
Exactly.
It was global warming.
Maybe it was uh man's first experiments with fire.
I'm not sure.
Anyway, um I just wanted uh just a kind of a statement.
I I found something out uh this redistribution of wealth, and I'm terribly nervous.
I apologize.
No, I understand I've been where you are.
And uh I was talking to someone who was uh filing their taxes, a young couple, and and uh he makes about fifteen thousand a year, you know, not much.
But they have uh two children, right?
And he paid, I asked him how much he paid in his income tax, and he said 143 dollars.
And I said, Well, how much are you getting back?
And he said, 7,000.
And I was like, What?
Well, there's earned income credit, they have two children, they get Medicaid, they get food stamps, they get um wick, which is I think like milk and cheese and things like that for the kids.
So I added it up and I kind of came out with a rough estimate of about thirty-two, anywhere between thirty-two and thirty-five thousand dollars this couple makes.
And I don't have that much disposable income.
I just find it I'm I'm shocked because it's already happening.
It is already happening, and that your example is the exact intention that O Obama has.
That couple is not going to object to any policy.
That couple's not going to object to any increase in taxes.
They're gonna favor increase in taxes because they know they're gonna get the money.
I'm just I'm floored.
I have lumps on my head from banging it against the wall.
I Well, you know, I got into big trouble.
I got a big trouble April 1st in 1989 when I suggested that the poor start paying their fair share of taxes.
And I've uh I got caught all kinds of hell for that.
But seriously, this is Obama's intention.
He wants more and more people to be in that category that you just described.
And I have ne I have not in the last in the last ten years ever gotten a return anything back of anything I've paid.
Well, it's actually good.
Um because they're if you had, that just means they're keeping your money for a year with no interest.
Right.
But I'm actually thinking of doing less work.
And I and I hate that thought.
Less work because I'm so worried about the tax increases that are coming.
Yeah.
Less work, and you get yourself in that couple situations, have an income of fifteen thousand dollars a year and have a disposable income of thirty-two.
Yep.
Well, I appreciate you taking my call.
By the way, have you ever tasted government cheese and milk and butter?
Well, actually, the cheese is pretty good.
Um I remember when I was a kid, when I was a kid, my my dad I don't know how this happened.
My dad brought home some government butter.
Butter that was for welfare recipients.
And it was the best butter I'd ever tasted.
I it wasn't even close.
It was astounding to me.
When we were eating margarine, they were eating butter, is that what you're trying to say?
No, it was better than real butter.
I mean, it was it was their their butter was it was just it it I it was better than what you got at the store.
Yeah.
And it was it was in big round tins, uh, not in sticks.
I said, Paul, this is my dad did a lot to educate me on what this was really all about in the welfare community, the welfare world and so forth.
I mean, that and the milk too.
I don't know where he got it because we were not on welfare.
I I think I think one of the farmers that was involved in producing it gave it to him.
Uh and he made a point.
This is better than what you can get the store, son.
Just better.
Government just is better to have whatever the standard requirements of it are.
No, no, but but he uh he made that point.
Look, Virginia, you did great.
Couldn't even tell you were nervous.
I'm uh I'm glad you called.
Thank you so much.
Here's a headline.
Woman steals co-workers' identity.
From the Middletown Press, a Chester woman arrested and charged with stealing a co-worker's identity and using the information to commit various computer related crimes.
Lisa Soleck, 37 arrested on a warrant after a police investigation into alleged identity theft.
A woman at Tritown Position Plastics told a cop that she suspected Soleck, who sits next to her at work of trying to ruin her life.
The victim became suspicious after she noticed three emails from the internet dating site Match.com saying her profile had been approved.
The alleged victim didn't sign up and didn't set up an account, and when she viewed the profile online, she discovered somebody had used her personal information, including her social number, and to create the account.
The profile contained personal details, including where she worked and her dog's name.
So Solek appeared uh in Middletown Superior Court to face a slew of charges, including third-degree identity theft, computer crimes, and all that, and then it needn't have happened.
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A U.S. uh missile test that mimicked an Iran strike has failed because of a faulty radar.
Sent a couple rockets up there.
We're going to try to intercept them, and the radar botched, and the and the test therefore failed.
It was one to mimic an Iran strike.
All right, to the phones, Corona, California.
Jackie, thank you for calling.
Great to have you with us, madam.
Hi, Red.
Well, this is really a treat.
I am so excited to talk to you.
Thank you.
I have to tell you that three years ago today, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
So now I will have a far better memory of February first than I did before.
So this is really exciting to get to talk to you today.
Well, thank you.
I'm sorry to hear that, though.
Well, you know what?
I've come through it with flying colors, and I'm still here, and I praise the Lord for that.
And, you know, you just look forward.
And I know the Lord has my days in his hand, so I'm just excited to be healthy and excited to talk to you today.
This is like such a treat.
And everybody that knows me is freaking out for me right now because I'm probably your number one fan.
Well, congratulations on the uh on the good result.
Thank you.
Well, I know I have to keep it quick, as Cerley told me to stay focused, although you've been talking about so many great things today.
It's hard to stay focused on one thing.
But I think, you know, the thing that we're seeing right now, Rush, is people just want America back.
They want to get back to the simple ideals of what America stands for.
And unfortunately, what we're seeing with so many things that you talked about today, liberals are sold out to their ideals.
They're not sold out for America.
And, you know, candidates like Scott Brown.
He's a servant.
He's an American.
He's not going to Washington, so he can fly his family on jets all over the world.
He's going there to serve America, and it's so refreshing.
And go ahead, Sol.
Oh, go you finish.
Well, I just think it's really refreshing, and I'm hoping we're going to start seeing more candidates understanding that that is what people want.
Well, that's the key.
You know, that really is the key.
Do Republicans understand what happened here.
We'll have to wait and see.
But based on what's going on in Illinois, I'd say they do.
Now, Fawata Jami has a piece.
I'll save this for tomorrow.
Uh Wall Street Journal, the Obama spell is broken.
This is all about how the people that voted for Obama, it's over.
Nothing that they thought they were going to get have they gotten.
Jackie, thanks much for the phone call.
I want to share some of this unemployment story with you.
Because this is just unbelievable.
On the Associated Press, the economy's 5.7% growth last quarter, fastest pace since 2003, was a step toward shrinking the 10% unemployment rate.
There's just one problem.
Growth would have to equal 5% for all of 2010 just to lower the average jobless rate for the year by one point.
Now, any growth we've had is a f is a is a fluke.
And if they took out all the government growth, there wouldn't be any other kind, but they never mentioned that.
But they do say the economists don't think uh 5% growth for all of 2010 is possible.
Most analysts say economic activity will slow to two and a half to three percent growth for the uh current quarter as benefits fade from government stimulus efforts and from companies drawing down less from their stockpiles.
That's why the Federal Reserve and outside economists think it'll take until the middle of the decade to lower the double di double-digit jobless rate to a more normal five or six percent.
Another way of looking at it, a net total of about three million jobs that have to be created this year to lower the average unemployment rate by one percentage point for 2010.
Yet even optimists think the creation of one million net jobs is probably out of reach this year.
This shows why it is such a hard thing for our new young president.
Joblessness also represents a danger for Obama's party.
And that sentence is the reason the article was written.
Because it does represent such a danger.
And the rest of the story talks about how hard it will be, how impossible it may be.
Don't think Obama can do it.
It may not be if this were a Republican, you don't know.
I don't have to tell you what the story would be.
Whoa.
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