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Feb. 9, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 9, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Yeah, it's it's amazing what you can get out of one phone call.
If you happen to be me.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
As usual, talent on loan from God.
And our telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
President Obama hijacked the daily press briefing today, took it away from Gibbs under pressure, hadn't had a press conference in what?
Seven months now.
Yeah, since July.
Had had a press conference, hadn't met with the press, he's gonna have them frequently, hasn't had one, so he went in there and to talk about his um his uh dog and pony show with the Republicans on health care and a dog and pony show on a jobs bill, which is nothing more than an unemployment uh compensation benefits uh expansion.
And we have four sound bites here just to just to illustrate.
And by the I don't know, I just got the roster, so I haven't.
See uh we don't have it, but no big not complaining, not complaining.
I just noticed that uh a reporter in there actually asked my question.
President Obama.
Small businesses say that they aren't hiring because they don't know what's coming.
They don't know how much it's gonna cost to be in business.
With your health care bill, if it passes or not, whatever tax increases you have planned, uh cap and trade legislation, they're holding back.
And Obama said, no, no, no, that's not right.
It's because they can't get loans.
So I just want you small business people that did not hear this.
A reporter actually told the truth in a question.
You aren't expanding or hiring anybody because you don't know what you face down the road, expense-wise, you don't know what the cost of doing business is gonna be.
And Obama says, no, no, no, no, that's not at all it.
They can't get loans.
I every small business in this country needs to hear that answer.
Every one of them, because Obama's basically now telling you you don't know what you're doing, and this guy has never operated a payroll, a small business, he wouldn't know the first thing to do if a small business fell into his lap.
His inclination is to tax every one of them out of business and take away every bit of profit, and then you stay in business with zero profit.
That's what his objective is.
Let's go to the sound bites.
Obama says he's open to new ideas.
Surprise visit to the White House briefing room, Major Garrett Fox News.
After meeting with you, John Boehner came out and told us the House cannot pass the health care bill it once passed.
The Senate can't pass the health care bill it once passed.
So why would we have a conversation about legislation it can't pass?
As part of that, he said that you and your White House congressional Democrats should start over entirely from scratch on health care reform.
How do you respond?
I've got these goals.
When I was in Baltimore talking to the House Republicans, they indicated we can accomplish some of these goals at no cost.
And I said, Great, let me see it.
And you know, I have no interest in doing something that's more expensive and harder to accomplish if somebody else has an easier way to do it.
So I'm gonna be starting from scratch in the sense that I will be open to any ideas to help promote these goals.
He's open, he's he is willing to start from scratch.
If somebody can tell him how his ideas can be made to work, which is not starting from scratch.
The next soundbite is the op uh the president adding to his previous answer.
What I will not do, what I don't think makes sense, and I don't think the American people want to see, would be another year of partisan wrangling around these issues.
Stop the tape.
I can't, I can't, there hasn't been any partisan wrangling.
The wrangling has all been within the Democrat Party.
The House Democrats are saying no to the Senate Democrats and verse visa.
The Republicans up until Scott Brown just a couple weeks ago had no say in this, and they were treated as such.
There hasn't been a folks, you Republicans do not fall for this.
Do not fall for this bipartisan garbage.
It's a it's a it's a trap.
Put the get the word out of your lexicon.
Bipartisan is a code word for you caving to Democrat and Obama ideas.
The American people have voted at the polls, and Scott Brown of Virginia and New Jersey.
They don't want bipartisanship.
They want to stop this.
You have to become the just say no Republicans and wear that proudly.
The hell no Republicans.
Don't be afraid of it.
Trust me.
Scott Brown said he's the 41st vote against it, and look what happened.
They lost the Kennedy seat.
Do not be timid.
Ha!
Little Howard Dean in person.
Here's the rest of this worthless soundbite.
Another six months or eight months or nine months worth of uh hearings in every single committee in the House and the Senate in which there's a lot of posturing.
Let's get the relevant parties together.
Let's put the best ideas on the table.
My hope is that we can find enough overlap that we can say this is the right way to move forward, even if I don't get every single thing that I want.
Well, that's BS because he's not going to move forward unless he gets every single thing he wants.
That's what this whole exercise is about.
He wasn't through.
But here's the point that I made to uh John Boehner and Mitch McConnell.
Bipartisanship can't be that I agree to all the things that they believe in or want, and they agree to none of the things I believe in and want it.
It's exactly what it is.
But but that's sometimes the way it gets presented.
I'm willing to move off some of the preferences of my party in order to meet them halfway.
But there's got to be some give from their side as well.
What give?
They don't.
This is solely about your plan.
Uh sorry, you don't have a plan.
This is solely about two competing Democrat plans, of which the Republicans played no role in crafting.
There's nothing for the Republicans to give up.
The only option is for them to join you in this, which is the trick, and they'd better not do it.
This is not gonna fool people.
I am not gonna let this rule people.
This is just pathological.
This is Saulinsky.
Unidentified reporter, are you saying, are you saying this from the press corpse?
Are you saying that the bill can't pass?
What I agree with is that the public has soured on the process that they saw over the last year.
Stop the tape, the nuts.
They've not soured on the process.
They have soured on the substance.
They have substance in their minds.
They know exactly what this is.
The process probably ticks them off too.
But it's not the process they've soured on, Mr. President.
It is you.
It's you, and it's Harry Reid, and it's Pelosi and Barney Frank and Chris Dodd and Ted Kennedy.
It all.
It is you, the public has soured on Mr. President.
The Gallup poll yesterday, 90% of the American people disapprove of the liberal Democrat Congress.
They have soured on you.
Here's the rest of it.
That actually contaminates how they viewed the substance of the bills.
This gives an opportunity not just for Democrats to say, here's what we think we should do, but it also gives Republicans a showcase before the entire country to say, here's our plan, here's why we think this will work.
And you know, one of the things that John Boehner and Mitch McConnell both said is they didn't think that the status quo was acceptable.
And that's right there, promising.
The status quo is your stupid two bills.
The status quo is not the process.
This is a trick.
This is an often-employed Democrat trick to get the Republicans to cave in, in this case, to non-existent pressure from the American people who just want everyone to get along.
The era of McCain is over.
Not the era of Reagan.
Back after this.
Looks like we're getting closer here to figuring out who it was that has bought at least one of these miss me yet Bush billboards.
The one up in uh Wyoming, Minnesota, which on the east side of I-35 between a twin cities and Duluth, Mary Teske, the general manager of Schubert and Hoy outdoor advertising says that the Bush Miss Me Yet billboard was paid for by a group of small business owners who feel like the Washington establishment is against them.
They wish to remain anonymous.
They thought it was a fun way of getting out their message.
Now, hundreds of people are claiming credit for this, but at least for this one billboard.
The uh the GM of the outdoor advertising agency that sold it, says it's a bunch of small business owners who feel Washington's against them.
We have two more sound bites from President Obama at the uh as he hijacked the uh White House press briefing uh this afternoon, and here is the question I mentioned to you.
It is from Jake Tapper of ABC.
According to Business Leaders, they say there's an uncertainty what they need to plan for because of the energy bill, health care.
That's what they say.
I'm not saying it's true or not, but that's what they say.
What do you say when you hear that?
The biggest uncertainty has been we just went through the worst recession since the Great Depression.
And people weren't sure whether the financial system was going to melt down and whether we were going to tip into an endless recession.
So let's be clear about the sources of uncertainty in terms of business investment over the last several years.
A huge contraction, trillions of dollars of losses in people's 401ks.
People have a lot of debt uh coming out of uh the previous decade that they still haven't worked out the housing market losing a whole bunch of value.
Blaming Bush.
Jake Tabber says, look, these business guys are not expanding because they don't know what's coming at them down the road.
What do you say to that?
Blame Bush, blame Bush, blame Bush, blame Bush.
And so Tapper says, Well, look, small business, not affected by regulatory form reform, a small business.
You proposed, you would acknowledge a bold agenda, small business might wonder.
I don't I don't know how the energy bill's going to affect me.
I don't know how the health care reform bill will affect me.
I I'm I better hold off on hiring.
The small business I talked to, and I've been talking to a lot of them as I've been traveling uh around the country.
Their biggest problem is right now they can't get credit out of their banks.
So they're uncertain about that.
And they're still uncertain about orders.
You know, do they just have enough customers to justify them doing more?
It's looking better at this point.
Uh, but that's not the rationale for people saying I'm not hiring.
Let me let me put it this way.
The most small businesses right now, they've got enough customers to make a profit, and they can get the bank loans required to boost their payroll, boost their inventory, and sell to those customers.
They will do so.
Oh man, this is you don't borrow money to make payroll.
He really does not have a clue.
He is absolutely clueless.
Of this, I am certain.
It's dangerous double.
Because he's got these people in his crosshairs, but he is clueless.
Do you small business people want to play this again?
Re-cue it, Mike.
Let me put it this way.
Most small businesses right now, they've got enough customers to make a profit.
No, they don't.
Where in the world does this come from?
And they can get the bank loans to uh required to boost their payroll.
Boost their inventory and sell to their customers.
They will do so.
You don't borrow to meet payroll except as a last resort.
You lay people off.
This is dangerously naive.
Ignorance, coupled with his overall view of business anyway.
He doesn't like profit.
This this is uh folks.
The sheer ignorance combined with a with it with a cockiness and an arrogance is just unbelievable.
Small businesses I've talked to it.
I've been talking to a lot of them.
They can't get credit out of their banks.
And then later on he says they can get credit to boost payrolls.
Here, listen to it again.
I mean, listen to it.
You you small business people, you need to hear this.
This this is this is the guy who's telling you you don't know what you're doing.
This is the President of the United States saying, No, you have you're wrong.
It's not that you're waiting to see what punitive policies of his come down the pike.
No.
You just went you can't get credit.
Here it is again.
The small businesses I talk to, and I've been talking to a lot of them as I've been traveling uh around the country.
Their biggest problem is right now they can't get credit out of their banks.
So they're uncertain about that.
And they're still uncertain about orders.
You know, do they just have enough customers to justify them doing more?
It's looking better at this point.
Uh, but that's not the rationale for people saying I'm not hiring.
Let me let me put it this way.
The most small businesses right now, if they've got enough customers to make a profit, and they can get the bank loans required to boost their payroll, boost their inventory, and sell to those customers.
They will do so.
Some do.
I mean, some have enough customers to make a profit, but most don't, and this you don't borrow money to make payroll.
You did that that's business 101.
That's that is tough to get a loan to do that.
I mean, you go into the bank and say I want to expand the payroll, and can you get me a loan?
That bank will say, no, no, no, no, that's not how it works.
Grow your business and let your profits pay for new hires.
This is I am I am aghast.
I mean, this is sheer unadulterated, undisguised idiocy.
This is this is promoting, folks, the same tactic that that put us in the mortgage crisis, the subprime mortgage crisis.
Borrow money to make payroll and then go on the road to put yourself out of business and not pay the bank back or loan money to people who have no hope of ever paying it back in the form of a mortgage, because a government regulator is telling you you must, and Janet Reno's promising you you'll be investigated if you don't.
And then Barney Frank and Chris Dodd come along and say, You better do this, this is affordable housing.
And Obama wonders why the value of houses is plummeted and so many people are underwater.
It's because so many people, God love them, who had no business getting a mortgage, got them.
Oh.
We have a 15-year-old on the phone from Hayward, Wisconsin.
James, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi, hi, Rush.
I've been listening to your show as long as I can remember.
I'm 15 years old, so I guess that would make me an official rush baby.
I'm honored.
Yeah.
Now that uh now I live in northern Wisconsin in a very low populated area, so it's hard for me to go on the public and actually do something.
But now that Liberal Democrats are on the run after Republican victories in Virginia and New Jersey and Massachusetts, I'm wondering what I can do as a 15-year-old boy in Wisconsin to help keep the pressure up and to how protect my future and also my country thing.
Yeah, now that your your question about how to protect your future is a brilliant and great question.
I have an answer for you, but first, while you were on hold here, did you just hear this last soundbite I played from President Obama?
Um I can't remember.
Well, I'm gonna well you're probably nervous out there knowing you're next.
Let me play the soundbite for you again, because this will preface what I'm going to say to you.
This is President Obama, and a reporter says, but Mr. President, small businesses say the uncertainty of their future because of your health care plan and cap and trade, meaning the cost of doing business.
They don't know what it is, and that's why they're not hiring and expanding.
And here the president tells them they're dead wrong.
They don't know what they're talking about.
The small businesses I talk to, and I've been talking to a lot of them as I've been traveling uh around the country.
Their biggest problem is right now they can't get credit out of their banks, so they're uncertain about that, and they're still uncertain about orders.
You know, do they just have enough customers to justify them doing more?
It's looking better at this point.
Uh, but that's not the rationale for people saying I'm not hiring.
Let me let me put it this way.
The most small businesses right now, if they've got enough Customers to make a profit and they can get the bank loans required to boost their payroll, boost their inventory, and sell to those customers, they will do so.
Now, James, the sheer uh ignorance of that is breathtaking.
So here's uh I'm gonna give you an answer that's simple, and you're gonna think, well, Russia's not taking me seriously.
Especially since I can't vote.
But I'm gonna tell you what, uh, your future and everybody else's future in this country is dependent on liberals and Democrats being voted out of power.
If that doesn't happen, then you face even larger obstacles.
If if you want to work towards something, and I know you can't vote yet, but you can work for people who want to uh uh reassert themselves in power positions over Democrats, win office or what have you.
Believe me, the biggest threat that you face as a 15-year-old is the debt.
Uh, the taxes that you haven't even begun to pay yet because you haven't started working, that President Obama has spent and the Democrats.
Uh you are starting so deep in the hole as is everybody your age.
You don't know it yet.
Well, maybe you do.
You're a rush baby, you probably do.
But the the the first and foremost thing, as evidenced by this last soundbite, we have got to get people who are trying to destroy the very place that your success relies or resides, and that's the American private sector.
They are trying to destroy it.
They're in the process of taking as much opportunity away from people as possible.
The thing that will secure your future is having these people being thrown out of power at the ballot box by the American people every election in the future for the foreseeable future.
Their time is done, and they have to go.
And uh we are back, Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by showing up today uh emitting vocal vibrations coast to coast.
I want to expand the 15-year-old, James from Upper Wisconsin.
What can he do to secure his future?
As a rush baby, he's way ahead of the game.
He knows a lot of stuff that people his age don't.
So, James, your job is to talk to other people your age.
You gotta become the one in your circle of friends that has all the answers.
You gotta become the go-to guy.
Whenever there's confusion or curiosity about something, and you're perfectly situated to be that guy.
People need to learn the history of this country, the Constitution, what made this country great.
Greatest country ever.
It's not that hard.
Once you learn that, you'll understand what's being done to tear it down.
But there's the there's a great piece today in The American Thinker, and it's by Carol Parecchio.
And she is a registered nurse.
And she wrote this piece for the American thinker.com.
My husband's cousin Paulette called me the morning of January 20th from Massachusetts.
Breathless with excitement, her words tumbling out so fast I could barely keep up.
She recounted the joy of Scott Brown's win in the special election in the U.S. Senate.
Paulette's 66.
She and her husband are retired.
She's an active social life, which includes lots of friends and competitive amateur tennis.
She babysits her granddaughter checks on her 92-year-old father in Florida every day.
She told me she had never ever been politically active except for voting, of course.
But all that changed.
After the election of Obama, Paulette started watching Fox News and listening to Rush Limbaugh.
Health care reform with its $500 billion Medicare cuts scared her out of her wits.
When she learned that I write articles for AT, mostly about health care, she started calling me periodically this summer.
We'd commiserate on how discouraging it was that no one in Washington's listening or even seems to care.
Paulette, like so many of us, felt frustrated and helpless.
Then Senator Kennedy passed away, and a political activist was born.
Paulette described her first meeting with Scott Brown.
A friend called one morning in late November to tell her that State Senator Brown was coming to town that day to open a campaign office.
She said I barely had time to throw on some clothes.
I didn't care how I looked.
She rushed over to the office, signed up that day to work.
I told Scott Brown that we are gonna win this.
I asked her how she could be so certain back in November when absolutely no one out here believed Brown had a chance.
She said, I knew we would win because I lived there.
I talked to a lot people.
I knew how we all felt about what Obama and the Democrats were doing.
And then she added, I just couldn't take any more.
So Paulette went to work.
She staffed the office several days per week, answering phones and handing out signs and literature.
She knocked on the doors all over her neighborhood.
She visited shut-ins.
She helped them request absentee ballots.
She helped organize volunteers to drive voters to the polls, and just before Christmas.
She called to give me another update.
She was off to follow up on some of those absentee ballots.
There's a family down the street that has four.
I need to make sure they got mailed.
Every day, when Paulette would drive to the elementary school to pick up her granddaughter, she would stand next to her car and wave her Scott Brown for Senate sign at the passing traffic.
I get a few thumbs down, but most people honk their horns and smile.
When Paulette called me the Friday before the election, she hadn't a scintilla of doubt that Brown would win.
We're gonna do it, Carol, she said.
We're gonna stop Obama.
The polls reflected her optimism, but on the political shows over the weekend, conservatives appeared afraid to be hopeful.
More than once I heard it expressed that Brown and a Brown win was a long shot.
They consoled themselves by saying that even if he lost by a narrow margin, that'd be a victory in Blue Blue Massachusetts.
A loss for Brown would not be a victory for Paulette, however.
To Paulette, victory meant Scott Brown would be the senator.
Conservative internet forums were just as pessimistic as the TV pundits.
Over and over I read comments gloomily describing how Brown would have to win by double digits to overcome the inevitable acorn and union fraud.
I asked Paulette about it.
She laughed it off.
She said, We're gonna win.
I live here.
So on Tuesday night, as Martha Coakley conceded hours, if not days earlier than the conventional wisdom predicted, I had the feeling Paulette was the only person who wasn't surprised.
The next morning I could do nothing but offer my deep gratitude to Paulette and the others in Massachusetts who just couldn't take any more.
Scott Brown, of course, deserves credit for fighting an amazing campaign, but I think it's the Paulettes in Massachusetts who have the most to teach us.
There are a lot of voters out there who agree with us.
Poll after poll shows that conservatives make up the largest voting block in America.
It's time we actually believed it.
Number two, there is no substitute, absolutely none, for personal grassroots involvement in campaigns.
And James, up there in the northern climbs of Wisconsin, this is for you.
Too many of us just want to mail in our support.
A lot of people think grassroots doesn't matter.
It's so far removed from Washington.
How can it possibly matter?
You mean I'm gonna stuff envelopes and this advice is absolutely right on the money.
No substitute for personal grassroots involvement in campaigns.
Democrat and acorn fraud cannot overcome a title wave of conservative and like-minded independent voters, even in liberal Massachusetts and New Jersey.
For far too long we have accepted the inevitability of losing because of Democrat voter fraud.
Number four, we have to get involved early.
The time for conservative involvement is yesterday.
Brown's win taught us that no seat is 100% safe.
My dream is to see that proved again in Barney Frank's district.
My own congressman's a blue dog Democrat who voted for Cap and Trade.
I wonder if he has any idea what's in store for him this election year.
He ought to because I have been telling them.
So here's to you, Paulette and all your fellow patriots in Massachusetts.
I can almost hear our founders saying you'd done good.
That's Carol Paraccio, registered nurse and a contributor to the American Thinker.com.
Anecdotal story involving one voter, but it's dead on.
And the there is nothing an acorn and the unions can stop the title wave.
And a title wave, it's what it's it is what's brewing.
The Democrats folks will always tell us what they're afraid of.
Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, whatever, they'll always tell us what scares them.
By telling us that we can't win with whatever candidate or organization.
You gotta get rid of Palin.
You gotta get rid of the tea party.
They're scared to death.
Make no mistake, especially after Tennessee or of uh Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.
They're still back on their heels.
Press is not reporting how discombobulated they are.
Now, this is uh early this morning a post New York Post.com.
It's buried in a New York Post story.
Poll shows voters abandoning prez in droves.
President Obama's overall approval rating has sunk to a new low, and independent voters who propelled him to the White House have gotten downright sick of the job he's doing, according to a devastating poll released yesterday.
This is the Marist poll, where we told you his approval rate's down to 44%.
We started the show today saying Wolfblitzer and the mainstream media will not at all report his poll plummets when they are obsessed with bushes.
But what's buried in this story?
McCain lost independence in 2008.
And that was the first time a Democrat won them since they started polling independence in 72.
McCain lost independence.
They're now coming home, having seen what they voted for.
McCain was the one who was going to get the independence, right?
McCain was the guy who was going to cross the aisle.
Remember, we were all told that if we criticized Obama, the independents would get mad at us and run to the Democrats.
If we dared criticize Obama, the independents want bipartisanship.
They want civility.
They want everybody getting along.
They don't want all of this acrimony.
McCain came along and said, I'm your guy.
I'm the guy who can move across the aisle.
I can work with the Democrats to get things done.
First, Republican to lose independence since 1972.
That's Nixon's election.
That includes the John Anderson and Perot races when we had independent candidates.
So tell me again, you uh Republicans, how we have to worry about losing independence to Democrats.
We lose independence to Democrats when the country club blue blood liberal Republicans run the show and implement their ideas.
The era of McCain is over.
The era of Reagan is alive and thrife.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
And hosting the most listened to radio talk show in America.
I am Rush Limbaugh, and this is the EIB Network.
New study from the UK released this week.
Snerdly, you will be interested in this.
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Maybe every day, but especially Valentine's Day.
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This includes wives, sweethearts, girlfriends, mothers.
Even mistresses and barmaids, if you're Elliot Spitzer.
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New York State.
We have Carol on the phone.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi.
Well, I just wanted to call in and say that I'm in agreement with the the uh sentiments that small businesses are concerned about moving forward.
I'm a small business owner, I've been in business for about the past about ten years, and now I'm finally starting to realize some growth and potential, and I'm afraid to actually make the moves that would make that enhanced because of the punitive measures that I may have to deal with down the line, and I don't know if I could survive those punitive measures.
So you you question whether or not you should go out on a limb and stick your neck out.
All right.
I I want to play that.
Yeah, have you heard that sound bite from from uh President Obama?
We played about twenty minutes ago, twenty-five minutes ago.
Yes, I heard it a couple times, and that's what caused me to call.
Okay.
Uh because he says that what you just said, you don't know your own business.
It's because you can't get loans.
He's talked to people like you.
If I were you, I would be livid.
I th this this level of uh ignorance, lack of understanding, or whatever it is is just appalling, and it's really dangerous.
Here you are on the cusp of growth, and you're afraid to do it because of what's coming down the pike.
Well, it certainly gives you pause.
Uh I probably will do it anyway because that's what it's about to live in this country, but I certainly I'm not doing it without having a squishy stump feeling in my stomach.
He no, no one has ever talked to me or asked me about you know my my opinions uh on these matters from you know any political party, but I will say that I am nervous, but I'm gonna probably have to put that aside and and do my best.
I know that I can get a loan.
The loan is not the problem.
It's the concerns that are the problem.
So are you gonna try to build in some policies to dictate how you're gonna run the business if the worst happens or if fifty percent of his agenda happens, or you're just gonna just gonna go into it and deal with it as it happens.
I don't think you can completely prepare because there no one knows yet exactly how this will all play out.
You do your best to respond and be as nimble as you can be, but still the whole the whole object here if you're an entrepreneur is to grow.
It's not to recede and and and run away.
Here I and that's what I've dedicated myself.
I've given up so much over the years.
There's so much deferred income, so much uh, you know, the st the grains of sand through my hourglass and the and the which are my life, and to think that they're being gonna be ultimately redistributed elsewhere is so horrible for for me.
Join club.
Uh you're you're you're right on the money.
Uh you said you're on the cusp of expanding.
What is expanding?
Is it hiring more people?
What is it?
It's hiring more people and buying a a a much larger facility to operate my business out of.
And that would be the smart thing to do.
Uh and I probably will have to do it nonetheless, but I certainly am not doing it without wondering, is this the noose that'll hang me in the end?
Because the uh expense of doing that will be something that I'll have to bear in addition to whatever else may come along.
And you are gonna have to take out a loan to do it.
Yes.
But that's not a problem.
No, no.
We've always been extremely careful.
Uh we don't I have no real debt uh of any kind.
I I've we've always we've always paid our own way all the way along and denied ourselves the income that you could pay yourself if you leveraged yourself more in the hopes that when we finally were where we needed to be, we would get that return back.
And then to think that after all that time of being careful, not being uh risky b methodically denying ourselves that at when the point really came that we could grow that this would occur.
Well, it seems so punitive.
I know, I know.
Uh God bless you.
Best of luck to you.
Keep us posted on how things go once this agenda settles in.
And realize there are a lot of people doing everything they can to stop it.
We'll be back after this.
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