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Feb. 12, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 12, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying.
And there's always somebody out there.
There's always something going on out there.
It's Friday, folks.
Let us go.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open live and the token.
Hundred.
That means we pay for it.
800-282-2882.
People ask me, Rush, after all these years, why don't you get a call-in number, like $1800 high rush?
I don't have that kind of ego.
I don't need a phone number named after me.
Our phone number works fine.
We never had any problem getting calls.
800-282-2882.
By the way, Snerdley just asked me.
We're back there in his office.
He said, okay, Patrick Kennedy's not going to run.
Is this it?
Is this it?
Is this the last of the candidates in Congress?
And I said, yeah.
And if I could somehow get the word to my dad, it might bring him back to life.
I could, folks, it really could.
By the way, Chris Christie, New Jersey governor has frozen spending.
The state's budget is in shambles.
He has sliced into the school surpluses, the New Jersey transit subsidies.
The Democrats are furious.
They're furious.
Because he's doing exactly what he promised he would do.
This is the common sense we've been waiting for.
We weren't waiting for somebody to lower the C's.
We were waiting for an elected official in an executive branch to lower the sea of red ink and to get some sensibility back to budgeting.
We were waiting for a leader with guts to heal the spending sickness that grips bureaucrats and big spenders in legislature after legislature after legislature.
This is the kind of thing the Tea Party people are demanding.
And this, my friends, I hope it's just the beginning.
Every state, every state is going to have to face tough decisions, and they're going to be state workers, many of them union workers.
They're going to get laid off.
They can't keep bailing them out from the federal government.
It isn't gonna fly.
Budgets are gonna have to be balanced to avoid bankruptcy.
And every time a state's governor takes the lead in returning fiscal sanity to his or her state, Barack Obama's gonna be made to look that much weaker and that much more ineffective.
Governor Chris Christie, there is time to save the country.
This this is what a rescue looks like.
This is exactly what a rescue looks like.
And by the way, one thing I have to I have to point this out, ladies and gentlemen, because I'm a uh a sharp observer of things.
Christie's moves of all these budget freezes.
During these recent snow emergencies, they've told all essential, or non-essential rather, the old non-essential federal and local government employees to stay home.
Now in Washington, that totaled 240,000 people.
A vast majority of them turned out to be non-essential.
This is inescapable logic.
So why do we have any inessential government workers at any level?
240,000 for three straight days stayed home during the blizzards in Washington.
And they made the mistake of telling us all non-essential federal local government employees stay home.
And look how many of them there are.
I got an idea to balance our budget.
That's just taking right after the model here of Chris Christie.
Do you realize, folks, how ridiculous and unsustainable and obscene it is that we have been presented a budget with a $1.6 trillion deficit spending $3.4 trillion, $3.6 trillion?
$3.6 trillion with a $1.6 trillion deficit?
$1.6 trillion?
When Ronald Reagan left office in 1989, the federal budget was not even $1 trillion.
It was close, but it wasn't even $1 trillion.
What was our um what was the federal budget in 2007?
Which was a pretty good year, was it not?
2007 was a pretty good year.
Unemployment was down, uh, Social Security was working out just fine.
Uh, it was two point five trillion.
You know, we could balance the budget right now if we would just reduce spending to what it was in 2007.
Are you trying to tell me that we cannot forget what we have spent the following three years, just the past three years, the country will not function if we do that?
This is so absurd.
It is ridiculous that we are facing this.
But at least Governor Christie is showing the way.
The state's budget is in shambles.
The Liberals are squealing like stuck pigs, but he's doing exactly what people elected him to do.
The governor also cut state subsidies to New Jersey transit, saying it needs to become fiscally efficient, revisit its rich union contracts, Christie said, and they may also have to consider service reductions or fare increases.
Ladies and gentlemen, is it wrong to love another man?
Because I love Chris Christie.
Taking on rich union contracts, this is what is going to have to be done at the state and city level to balance balance these budgets in the states and cities and counties.
That's where all of this waste is.
That's where all the stimulus money went that was spent last year.
It went to bail out states to make sure that public employee union people were not laid off, but the day is coming.
So the Obama budget, the Obama budget has two and a half trillion dollars of taxes.
That's what they estimate.
With three point what, six, three point eight trillion dollars of spending.
Thomas G. Donlin of Barons, February eighth issue, page 47.
Tax revenue is expected to reach two and a half trillion dollars next year, pretty much what the government spent in 2007.
So, 2007 was a good year, pretty good year.
Three years ago, just three years ago.
Before the Liberals took Congress, this is the key.
2007 is when Pelosi and the Democrats took over the House to join the Democrats in the Senate.
And you look at the explosion since 2007.
They turned a manageable deficit into a 1.6 trillion dollar nightmare.
So we have a really solid idea here.
A rallying cry that could unite the Republicans and the conservatives and the Tea Party and the independents and even some liberals, those who pay taxes.
Just roll back spending to 2007 levels before Pelosi took over.
Roll back spending to 2007 before Pelosi and the Democrats wrecked the U.S. budget.
In other words, roll back Pelosi.
Just roll back.
Say it together, folks.
Say it.
Roll back Pelosi.
Say it with me.
Roll back Pelosi.
Because that's where the damage began and it has been truncated, not truncated.
It has been expanded by Obama and Democrat control of the Senate.
It is obscene.
Roll back Pelosi.
By the way, we just learned that the vegetarian lifestyle is causing global warming in Europe.
Snerdly a place you might consider moving.
This is from Fox News.com.
Congestion pricing to reduce car travel.
Elimination of curbside parking.
A carbon tax of some kind, not to mention taxes on plastic and paper bags.
Advocating vegetarianism and veganism, complete with meatless or vegan Mondays.
Those are just some of the proposals put forth by the Cambridge Climate Congress.
This is the hometown of Harvard.
The Cambridge Climate Congress, an entity created in May of last year to respond to the climate emergency, plaguing Cambridge.
Going green will not be optional in Cambridge.
If the Cambridge Climate Congress has its way, it will be mandatory.
Mandatory.
How does mandatory dovetail with individual liberty?
How does mandatory dovetail with freedom?
How does mandatory, how does that require everybody to go meatless on Monday?
Or to go vegan?
Here's the green police from that Audi ad.
It ran in the Super Bowl.
Dr. Ken Green, a resident scholar on environment and energy at AEI.
Conservative, Washington think tank said he found an overall redundancy in the proposals, specifically regarding a carbon-based tax coupled with congestion pricing, increased parking.
Who cares about the the the highfalutin intellectual look at this?
Can't we just look at the First Amendment aspect of this?
What if what of the concept of freedom?
What about what the hell gives the city of Cambridge the right to mandate that people not eat meat on a Monday?
What gives them the right to do that?
Speaking, I'm you know, I'm gonna get off this global warming stuff, folks, if they just keep bombarding me with this.
From the UK Guardian, get this now, a member of an independent panel to investigate claims that client uh climate scientists basically ran a hoax at the University of East Anglia, has been forced to resign.
Philip Campbell, editor in chief of nature, stepped down from the panel yesterday.
Did you know that they had set up this independent panel to investigate what the hell happened at the Hadley Climate Research Unit at East Angley?
How did this hoax happen?
How did this scam happen?
What in the world went wrong?
Why were they hiding the decline?
All this was to be investigated.
And this guy from Nature was on the panel.
And he was forced off after an interview emerged in which he said that there was nothing to suggest a cover up by climate scientists at the University of East Anglia.
There was nothing.
Nothing.
Not one thing to suggest a cover up.
He said, I made the remarks in good faith on the basis of media reports.
Nature.
The guy that Nature magazine, media reports.
What media reports?
U.S. media reports.
Anyway, he's um he's gone.
And we've got to take a break.
We'll do that.
Your phone calls are coming.
Lots of other stuff too of the EIB networks open line Friday, right after this.
We just about missed this story.
We almost missed this.
February 7th in the Cincinnati Inquirer.
North Side Stimulus bogs down.
Last July, Vice President Biden stood in front of a hulking five-story abandoned factory in the north side.
With good news, the federal government had approved a 1.6 million dollars in stimulus money to help transform the American can building into new stores and apartments.
The project would create 100 construction jobs proof Biden said that the stimulus was putting people to work.
Seven months later, the project remains stalled and has yet to make good on that promise.
problem?
Are you sitting down?
While $1.6 million in federal money will help the developer clean up the site, the project still needs more than $4 million in private capital to get going.
And so far, the banks have been unwilling to lend it.
The vice president's office conceded the project has not moved as quickly as it hoped.
But we didn't get into this mess overnight.
We aren't going to get out of it overnight.
What an abject fool.
Joe Biden.
Let's take a look.
Roll Roll back Pelosi.
Federal spending 2007, 2.5 trillion dollars.
Great year.
Look at what it is now.
Let's compare things.
In the 2006 midterm elections, the Democrats took back control of Congress.
In January of 2007, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 12,398.
Current, let me see what it is.
Current is uh 10,000.
Down 2,000 points.
2,400.
In uh January 2007, the unemployment rate 4.6%.
Today 10%.
The federal deficit, January 07, 162 billion.
Today, one and a half trillion.
Federal debt, January 07, 8.7 trillion, current 12.3 trillion.
Three years of damage, unlike we have never seen, the Democrats and total control of the U.S. Congress.
All right, to the phones we go.
This is Rhett in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush and Diddos from the Toro State.
And I just want to uh tell you I appreciate you taking my call.
Uh I also want to uh thank the men and women of the U.S. military for their service for our country.
And here's my question, and I got a comment afterwards if I can make it.
Sure.
The midterm elections, the blue dog Democrats.
I want to know if you think we'll see a major defection in their ranks to change party affiliation now that they see the true Trotskyist agenda of Obama, and because of his expansionists win at all cost ideology, can we trust him?
It's going to be real interesting to see.
I have been warning the Blue Dogs that they're not going to be able to vote for any of these Obama agenda items and go home and pretend that they are fiscal conservatives.
A number of Democrats have already switched parties or announced that they're going to.
I think it was to get closer to November, and the unraveling of the Obama agenda continues.
I don't know if they're going to change parties or not, um, or if they just quit.
I I really don't.
But there's gonna be a major upheaval, and they're gonna know it, and it will dictate what they're gonna do.
What is your comment?
Well, I just wanted to tell you that uh, you know, right now we've got the birthers of the Tea Party and the tenthers of the Tenth Amendment, but I don't know if they've uh coined you as one of the truth tellers of our uh time for the conservative movement, but I consider you right up there with uh Joe Wilson of South Carolina and also Justice Salito, because y'all are exposing Barry for what he is.
He's not telling the American people the truth.
That's somewhat of a political equivalent of the the emperor isn't wearing any clothes.
And that's the first step for America to take back this country is to realize that we have a problem.
And I just want to tell you thanks for everything that you're doing, sir.
Thanks very much.
You know, I we finally got hold of the Bloomberg story.
This I printed it out today, the interview that Obama gave, uh in which he said, Oh, yeah, I like uh Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan getting big bonuses.
Those are savvy guys.
I know both those guys.
And of course the left had a cow.
That whole thing prints out the 13 pages.
Uh it is striking.
When you read this, and it would take me too long, I mean to go through all the excerpts of this thing.
When you read this Bloomberg piece that came out today, you are struck by two things.
This guy has an arrogance and a superiority complex like I have never seen, coupled with an acute, abject, total ignorance of how business operates, how it runs, what the principles.
The guy is an absolute disaster.
He's got he's got this personality trait of utter elitism, superiority, smarter, better than everybody else.
We are so lucky to have him.
He inherited all these problems, and as he makes these problems worse, he's saving us.
And he doesn't have the slightest bit of understanding.
It's not it's not really hard to understand that he doesn't understand it because he's never been in business, and nobody in his administration ever has.
There are a bunch of theoreticians who hate it.
Professors, a bunch of professors who deal in theory all the time.
Did you ever see the Rodney Dangerfield movie Back to School?
One of my favorite portions of that movie.
He got this stuffy pipe smoking professor, pipe smoking professor, arrogant, condescending, yeah, has the the the letter patches on a tweed jacket on the elbows.
Uh has this accent of the airs, pity all about him, and he's putting down theory on the chalkboard of how businesses work, and Rodney Dangefield is a successful waste management guy who is going back to school to try to get closer to his son who's at the same school.
You gotta watch this.
Sam Kinison has a pretty small rule, but it's hilarious.
And so this guy, the professor also hates Rodney Dangerfield because Rodney Dangerfield's made a move on the professor's girlfriend, Sally Kellerman, and she kind of likes Rodney Danger.
He's, you know, he's a standard ordinary businessman, but a little rough around the edges.
He's got a sleevey, sleazy, slick looking chauffeur.
Runner, he brings in Kurt Vonnegut to write his finals papers because he didn't want to do the studying.
And Vonnegut gets a gets a D, uh, by the way.
Rodney Dangerfield chews him out and fires him.
But during this business class, this stuffy, arrogant, condescending professor is describing on the chalkboard how business works and how you go get money to start it and the capital here and capital there.
And after he finishes uh any questions clause, and Rodney Dangerfield puts his hands up.
Um you left a whole lot of stuff out here.
Uh you want to enlighten us.
Well, yeah, I mean, before you can do any of that, you gotta go talk to the people who are going to take your trash away, and if you think that's easy, you gotta be prepared to do some stuff under the line, and you gotta be so be able to go behind closed doors and do something, because if you don't get those people on your side, your business is never gonna open.
And he's well, I'm not we don't run businesses in our classroom like yours, Mr. Whatever's name was.
He just kept making mincemeat out of this professor, because the professor, and it was it's great, it's it's funny as hell, uh because it was it was a clear illustration.
Somebody in the business, even though it's a movie, somebody in the business world telling a professor who drives his cheap little tiny MG around smoking his pipe, who doesn't have the foggiest idea how business works, he's teaching it, versus a guy who's in the business world is a multi-multi-millionaire success at it.
And of course, the professor tells the business he doesn't know what he's talking about.
And it's just it this is what we face now.
Obama is that professor.
When you read this interview at Bloomberg, it's just it's it's it's dangerous.
It is really dangerous.
The people that elected this guy owe us big turns.
We want to send out our best wishes to President Clinton who's back home resting comfortably after a couple of stints placed in a blocked coronary artery yesterday at the hospital in New York, and I we just all of us need to be thankful we don't yet have Obamacare.
Uh otherwise somebody on the death panel might have assumed that um he's old and retired and uh might not have been worth the expense.
You never know.
You uh you just never know.
Back to the phones we go.
Francis, Nashville, Tennessee.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
I'm j I'm trying to stop laughing after that one.
Uh you may be able to help me, Rush.
Most people I know are absolutely convinced that I'm a full-fledged conservative because I've been listening to you for about ten years, and I agree with you about 98 and a half percent of the time.
Yeah, that might pretty much seals the deal.
Well, I see I only disagree with you in the ri on the rare occasions that you're wrong.
But you know, I grew up in a very liberal democratic background, and what I've learned especially in the last ten years or so, is that everything I was taught to believe about liberals and conservatives turns out to be exactly the opposite.
When you grow up being a liberal, you think that liberals are in favor of individual liberty and freedom and are opposed to oppression and tyranny and all that.
And what I've learned more and more is that it's really just the opposite.
And if somebody had said to me in 1992, you know, Rush Limbaugh, I would have said, Oh, well, he's just some right-wing nutcase, isn't he?
Of course, I had never actually listened to you in 1992.
And I think that one of the things about liberals is they kind of parrot stuff that they've been taught uh almost robotically without ever really questioning it or analyzing it.
Oh, yeah, there's no question about that.
So I here's where I need your help, because there's this is the question.
Can I be a conservative and yet be opposed to amending the Federal Constitution to prohibit abortion and to prohibit homosexual marriage?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
There's conservatism is not something that excludes you know there's no there's no litmus test here.
Uh when you when I tell you, this if abortion, the only choice that the Democrats and the left are going to allow before it's all over is is abortion.
It's the only choice they're gonna allow.
But you know, gay marriage, both of those things uh are not gonna be solved by amending the Constitution, and nobody's trying to.
Those things are gonna be solved uh uh or dealt with at the state level, and they're not gonna be pleasing to people.
I mean, it's it's uh you it's it's but it it's these are things that uh as a you know, those are cultural issues, the so called social issues which a lot of republicans have uh they want nothing to do with.
But but still those are things the people of the country ought to vote on.
It's Via the elected uh leaders that they send to various state legislatures uh around the country.
Uh we've never voted on abortion.
You know, abortion does not nearly royal the British society like it does ours because they voted on it there.
It was not imposed by a Supreme Court, nine people wearing black robes.
Um gay marriage, this is there's a there's a political issue uh behind gay marriage.
Uh the the militant homosexual community has been pushing the envelope on a lot of things.
But the the way to deal with all of these is to have the people of the country or various states vote on them.
And that's yeah, I agree with you, at the state level, not at the federal level.
Right.
Yeah, that's the the the this course now, you're gonna get people arguing, well, if if one state allows gay marriage and 48 don't, are you saying every gay that wants to get married has to go to that state?
Um, yeah, at some point, but that's that's what the practical end result of it would be, and it's still it's still gonna be a controversial issue because where the states that have voted to make it illegal, uh the gays are going to continue to press uh and force the issues so that they can change the vote there, which is what the country's all about.
Okay.
Well, you you've you've relieved me.
Now there's tell me one other thing.
Yeah.
Why is it called conservatism and not conservativism?
We don't have liberalism, we have liberalism.
Well, because uh it's that's just word structure.
That has that has nothing to do with uh changing the meaning or deflecting it or hiding it.
It's like it's like why do we call the Democrat Party the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, not the Republicanic Party.
Uh see, I call the I call the Democratic Party the Democrat Party, and they get ticked off because they like the illusion of Democratic Democratic Party, Democratic National Convention.
So I I call them Democrat Party, Democrat National Convention, and they get livid about it uh about it all the time.
By the way, I need to correct myself one a rare error, but it will not subtract from my accuracy rating.
Thanks, by the way, Francis, for the call.
Um I made an error of fact.
Rodney Dangerfield is not in the waste removal business in the movie Back to School.
He runs a big and fat clothing store, a men's big big and tall shop, a series of them uh all over the uh all over the country.
Now we have tracked down that segment of the movie.
We gotta edit, I mean it's a riebald movie, and it's a movie.
Rodney Dangerfield is a riebald comedian, and we're gonna we have to bleep out just a few expressions that he uses in it, but uh we're preparing it right now, and you'll be able to hear it uh very soon here on the EIB network.
Now, this next story.
This is shocking, even for unions and even for Michigan.
This story, when you hear this, this makes card check look like child's play.
This is from Fox Business Blogs.
This is a John Stasel story, and it's called Forced Unionization.
Get this.
Michelle Barry runs a daycare business out of her home in Flint, Michigan.
She thought that she owned her own business.
But she's been told that she is now a government employee and a union member.
And it's not voluntary.
And Obama wonders why people don't want to hire anybody.
Obama wonders why people don't want to start businesses.
Now a union can take over your home-based business thanks to government.
And there's nothing you can do about it.
Here are the rest of the story details.
Suddenly, Michelle Barry and 40,000 other Michigan private daycare providers have learned that union dues are being taken out of the child care subsidies that the state sends them.
The union is a creation of AFSCME, the government workers' union, and the United Auto Workers.
This this racket means big money to AFSCME, which runs the union, writes the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free market think tank.
Today the Department of Human Services siphons about $3.7 million in annual dues to the union.
Now the money should be going to home-based daycare providers themselves, not on the high end of the income stale.
Ms. Barry now sees money once paid to her go to a union that does nothing for her.
Patrick Wright, who is a lawyer for the Mackinac Center, says that the union was forced on the women, 40,000 of them, after a certification election conducted by mail, in which only 6,000 daycare providers out of the 40,000 voted.
Wright told Stasel, his clients, like Michelle Berry say they were shocked to learn they were suddenly in a union, and they want nothing to do with it.
One of the clients has said, Look, look, this is my home.
I'm both labor and management here.
They wanted nothing to do with this union, and they don't think it has any purpose beside uh siphoning money away from them.
And Michigan isn't the only state funding unions this way.
Fourteen states have now enabled home-based daycare providers to be organized into public employee unions, affecting about 233,000 people.
This is how unions now recruit by force.
Because nobody wants them.
And this woman didn't even know.
Didn't even know.
She's got a federal subsidy, I guess, to run the daycare center along with 40,000 other women, people.
And part of the subsidy is going to pay union dues for her.
And she had no idea.
Mackinac sued Michigan on behalf of the daycare owners, but the case was dismissed.
They have appealed.
Neither Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, the Department of Human Services, nor the Union would talk to Stasel about this.
But last month, Michigan Representative Justin Emish proposed a law that would end stealth unionization of private entrepreneurs.
Card check.
Anyone?
Anybody need car check?
We don't need it.
They're already doing it this way.
Yeah, we're back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
By the way, a new 24-hour snowfall record in Dallas.
Twelve and a half inches for DFW Airport.
180,000 people without power.
And this is all because of global warming, you see.
All this moisture in the air, global warming.
Now remember, folks, we get the summertime, it usually gets hot.
Uh, as Al Gore reminded us, it's gonna get hotter this summer than at any other time in the year.
And and we're gonna hear when it we'd have these uh wild uh gyration.
Oh, global warming.
I want you just to remember back how cool, abnormally so last summer was.
We're on a roll here of below normal temperatures.
Okay, we've got now it's two hours, sorry, two minutes, fifteen seconds.
This is the scene where real life meets the economics professor, Rodney Dangerfield's first economics class with the elite professor in the movie back to school.
Let's start by looking at construction costs of our new factory.
Uh, what's the product?
That is immaterial for the purposes of our discussion here.
But if it makes you happy, let's say we're making tape recorders.
Tape recorders, are you kidding?
The ch will kill us on a labor course.
Okay, fine.
Then let's just say they're widgets.
What's a widget?
It's a fictional product.
It doesn't matter.
That doesn't matter.
Tell that to the bank.
Easy, take it easy.
It's the first thing.
On the board, you will see a cost analysis for construction of a 30,000 square foot facility, which will encompass both factory and office space, and is fully serviced by all utilities, a railroad spur line, and a four-bay shipping dock.
Oh, the hold of why, Bill, you're better off leasing it a buck and a quarter, a book and a half a square foot.
Take your down payment and put it into CDs.
Or something else you can roll over every couple of months.
Thank you, Mr. Mellon.
But we'll be concentrating on finance a little later in the term.
For the time being, let's just concentrate on the construction figures, shall we?
You will see the final bottom line requires the factoring in of not just the material and construction costs, but also the architects' fees and the costs of land servicing.
Oh, you left out a bunch of stuff.
Oh, really?
Like what, for instance?
Well, first of all, you're gonna have to grease the local politicians for the sudden zoning problems that always come up.
That is the kickbacks to the carpenters.
And if you plan on using any cement in this building, I'm sure the team should like to have a little chat with you.
And that'll cost you.
Oh, and I'll forget something for the building inspectors.
Then there's a long-term course, such as waste disposal.
I don't know if you're familiar with who runs that business, but I assure you it's not the Boy Scouts.
That'll be quite enough, Mr. Mellon.
Maybe bribes and kickbacks and mafia payoffs how you do business.
But they are not part of the legitimate business world.
And they're certainly not part of anything I'm teaching in this class.
Do I make myself clear?
Sorry, just trying to help.
That's all.
Now notwithstanding Mr. Mellon's input.
The next question for us is where to build our factory.
How about fantasy land?
Rodney Dangerfield.
That's that professor, that's Obama.
When you read this Bloomberg piece, Obama doesn't even know that much.
He doesn't he doesn't even know that much.
By the way, there's a new start.
I've got this deep in the stack here.
Chocolate may lower the risk of stroke.
Especially when it's on strawberries.
Especially when it's on like Sherry's Berries.
It chocolate may lower the risk of stroke.
How many times have we heard chocolate's gonna kill us?
By the way.
All right.
Um this is just not fair.
This is just not fair.
The Wall Street Journal.
For those wondering why luxury spending is back, even as unemployment hovers close to 10%.
Consider this.
Unemployment among the affluent is only three percent.
Unemployment among the affluent only unemployment among the affluent is only three percent.
That's just not fair.
According to a study from uh Northeastern University's Center for Labor Studies, unemployment for those in the top income uh uh group, the decile, uh individuals earning more than 150,000 a year was three percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, which compares with unemployment of 31% for the bottom 10% of income and unemployment of 9% for the middle decile.
It's that the ten categories are instead of five, quintiles are deso.
Uh what's fair about that?
What the hell is fair about that?
Joseph in Vancouver, great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Oh my God, Rush, it's the greatest honor of my life.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
I understand it too.
56.
I travel all over the world, and I'm an educator, and I've also been in business, so um I've been on both sides of this thing, and I teach theater, and I'm calling about the uh Camelot allegory.
Oh, yes.
Well, you know, it's a perfect myth to uh address this whole uh thing with Obama because if you follow the whole playthrough to the end, at the end, Camelot is destroyed by the illegitimate son of King Arthur and a trist with uh Queen uh Queen of the Fairies.
Yes, yes, and that's more than it is.
And he comes back in and he attacks uh Kemelot and destroys it.
And he sings this song called The Seven Deadly Virtues, and it would be like a perfect thing for Obama's voice to be singing that.
I mean, it's incredible.
Now, and you have you have King Arthur would have been uh I guess uh Kennedy and uh Lancelot would be Clinton, and uh uh Carter is the crazy King Telinor, who's the guest of uh King Arthur.
So I mean the allegory perfect.
Well, who would who would Obama be?
Queen Obama's Mordred.
Who?
Mordred.
Mordred illegitimate son who's destroyed Camelot.
For the sake of peace for me over the weekend, would you spell fairies as in Queen of Fairies?
Uh I think her name is Morgaz.
Uh, but but you said all you have to do is get the script for uh Camelot.
No, no, no, DNA.
No, no, no.
I I totally understand.
But you said Queen of Fairies.
Yeah.
King Arthur went into the forest and was uh subdued by trickery, witchcraft, and then the queen uh had a relation with him, and the child of that illegitimate relationship was Mordred.
Right.
But she was queen of what?
The fairies.
I just need you to spell fairy fairies.
Like the mystical the tinkerbells that are in the forest.
Oh, F-A-I-R-I-E-S.
Okay, I just I just uh because he said it.
I just I just want a peaceful weekend.
Okay, well, thank you so much.
It's a great honor to be on your show.
Thank no, Joseph, that's great.
Uh it's it's a It's a great idea, and we've got just the guy to put this together.
We just the guy, uh Paul Shanklin, white comedian, uh, to put this together.
You know, we're calling it Camel Knot now, uh, because the last Kennedy is leaving Congress.
The last Kennedy is leaving Washington.
A Camelot ends with a horrible ending.
So why would they choose that for the allegory of their you know?
Well, you know, they didn't choose that until after JFK was assassinated.
Uh, and I think it was Jackie.
Jackie O who came up with that.
Well, at Frontier.
Yeah, Ted White.
Theodore White came up with it.
The ending's not good.
Yeah, yeah.
It was manufacture and a public image.
Great marketing at the time.
And the press, the press is still longing for the next one.
They thought they had it with the Clinton administration, but that kind of went down the tubes with a semen-stained blue dress.
And uh it happened again, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm misinformed by a well-meaning uh member of the staff.
It was Ted Sorensen and Jackie O who created, they just made it up Camelot to describe uh JFK's years in the White House.
It was not Theodore White, Theodore Sorensen, who uh wrote most of uh what JFK uttered uh in speeches and in his books.
Okay.
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