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Feb. 18, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 18, 2010, Thursday, Hour #2
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Fox News says the name of the pilot that may have flown the plane into the Austin building housing the IRS at a first war on purpose.
Name is Joseph Andrew Stack.
I remember the uh early news reports on Fort Hood.
Oh, it's not terrorism down here.
What would make you think an out-of-control Muslim malcontent gunningtown military people would be terrorism?
Um this might be just an accident, not a crime, not nor terrorism, so I uh but government officials say did it on purpose.
So I we don't know.
We're just waiting patiently here for more anonymous, unidentified because they're not allowed to say diddly squat about this.
Say some more.
Greetings and welcome back, Rushland 800 28282, the email address L Rushbaugh at EIBNet.com.
A five billion dollar federal weatherization program intended to save energy and create jobs, has done little of either.
According to a new report obtained by ABC News on the one-year anniversary of Obama's slush fund.
Only 9,0100 homes had been weatherized nationwise as of uh December 31st, according to the government accountability office.
The Department of Energy, which runs the program, it's Obama's program, said it actually weatherized more than 22,000 homes last year with um slush funds.
Either way, uh it's a far cry from the 593,000 homes the government plans to complete during the course of the Recovery Act, which runs through March of 2012.
Well, what's what's a holdup?
Oh!
Oh, the problem is red tape, according to the GAO.
Well, we've never heard that happening in a government program, have we?
Local governments and contractors have to jump through several hoops before getting full funding.
And they're probably using red tape to weatherize these homes.
Here's another way, by the way, Obama could cut spending.
Only 10% of the five billion for weatherization has been spent so far.
Uh 91,000 houses out of 593,000 who would have been or which would have been weatherized.
If you if you divide the number of houses that have been weatherized, and we really have to suspect that they haven't been weatherized properly.
They've got a bunch of caulking on them.
Cash for cawkers, uh, comes out to $57,000 per house.
That's some pretty damned expensive red tape caulking.
$53,000 per house.
And keep in mind, folks, all of this staved off a depression.
Obama and Biden said so yesterday.
Staved off a depression.
The only problem was that it was the TARP money that was supposed to do that.
Uh the slush fund was supposed to create jobs, not stave off a depression.
There's only two choices here.
We either have the most inept, bumbling bunch of fools who have ever run this country in charge of it, or it's all being done on purpose.
There is no third option here.
There's no third possibility.
There's no good intentions gone awry.
Either have the biggest bunch of idiot saboteurs doing this, or the biggest bunch of idiots, period.
I think it's the biggest bunch of idiot saboteurs.
Nothing in this country could go this wrong for this long unless somebody intended it to.
You can quote me.
And now back to Chris Christie, responding to the stuck pigs and weasels in the New Jersey Philadelphia media and the New Jersey Democrat Party, all bit out of shape about his attempt to save their little state from utter bankruptcy.
No, I think they can be better.
I think that the contracts they've given out have been too rich.
They've been at times of patronage pit for political hiring.
That's what are called hard choices, Christine.
If there were easy choices left, we'd make them.
I got hired for this job to come in and clean up this mess.
That's what I'm gonna do.
That's Chris Christie.
He was on uh WCBS TV's news at five, eyeball news at five in New York City last night with the correspondent Christine Sloan asking the uh the question since last night on uh WNYW TV's eyeball news at six.
The correspondent Giovanna Durpik interviewed Christie, said, What will be affected here?
This will not affect classroom instruction, teachers, kids, they pay nothing.
Zero, most teachers, for their health benefits.
Is there anybody out there in New Jersey, New York, who's watching this who pays nothing for their health benefits?
I mean, it's just not sustainable.
Pow.
Pow just said these people are not paying a damn thing for their health benefits.
Are any of you not paying anything for yours?
We can't sustain this.
I love this guy.
They're gonna try to take him out.
They are going to try to destroy this guy.
He is going to need, if you're in New Jersey, he's gonna need your uh support.
Then yesterday in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, Columbia Middle Screw, Governor Christie held a budget round table.
Here's a portion of what he said.
You will hear that this means that property taxes are gonna go up, what we're doing.
When you hear this means instruction is gonna have to be cut, that teachers are gonna have to be laid off.
Take a deep breath.
Um that's the folks down in Trenton who are trying desperately to hold on to their feeding spot at the trough.
We are in an awful circumstance right now of people ten point one percent unemployment, declining property tax revenues, uh declining sales tax, income tax, uh, business tax revenues.
Um that's all because of the awful national recession we're in, and because of the awful job we've done in New Jersey, um terms of overspending, over taxing, and over borrowing.
Every word is the truth.
And these stuck pigs in the New Jersey Democrat Party, the stuck pigs in the Philadelphia and New York media cannot stand hearing the truth because it's an indictment of everything they believe.
And it properly focuses the blame for this destruction on them, their beliefs, their policies, and their mandates.
This morning on Squawk Box on CNBC, the co-host Melissa Lee says to Governor Chris Christie, manage the expectations of New Jersey.
How difficult will things be getting?
I mean, there are reports in terms of the municipal bond downgrades.
Uh New Jersey has the fastest downgrade out there, debt obligations below investment grade.
How do you keep up basic services when you're trying to stopgap that budget and keep the state going?
We know that we've taxed too much, we've spent too much, and we borrowed too much.
The only way to fix that is to stop spending so much.
It's the only way to do it.
Other people would say raise taxes too.
Bring in higher revenue and cut spending.
Are you gonna have to do both?
No.
We're not raising taxes, and that's it.
Our income tax went when it was established in 1977 at a two and a half percent top rate to under Governor Corsa an eleven percent top rate on income tax.
What about property taxes?
Where are we going?
No, we can't.
You know, we have had in the last four years under Governor Corps, and study just came out that seventy billion dollars in wealth left the state of New Jersey.
And it left it because we are the most overtaxed people in America.
We've done enough of that already.
It is time to get tough and to say no.
And you hear now the questions from the media people.
I don't care where they are, CNBC, eyeball News 5, Eyeball News Six, they're all right out of the playbook.
Uh well, you're gonna raise taxes, right?
He just got through explaining that high taxes have caused 70 billion dollars worth of of wealth to flee the state.
High taxes have led to declining revenues in the state of New Jersey.
So, uh back to CNBC's squawk box.
Uh guest panelist Darden restaurant CEO Clarence Otis.
So, well, what are the big things that went wrong to get you to this point?
An absolute addiction to spending, you know, at the state, county, and municipal level.
We spend more on school aid than any state in America per student.
We spend more on providing services.
We have more government per square mile.
We have 566 municipalities, all of them are taxing.
You just have had an abundance of taxation, and everybody always having that same attitude.
Well, just raise taxes this time.
Well, people are now fed up, and what's happening is you're seeing an enormous flight from our state.
So even if you raise tax rates, revenue continues to go down.
Governor Corzine raised tax rates last year.
Revenue is down by two billion dollars.
Uh microcosm of what's happening in the United States, microcosm of what's happened in California.
Well, not in microcosm exact thing.
So Otis, the Clarence Otis, the CEO of Darden Restaurants says, so are people ready to see shared services?
The worst thing that we have that we really need to tackle is pension and benefit reform.
I gave an example in my speech last week, which you all understand.
Forty-nine-year-old man who retires, a state worker.
124,000 he contributed to his pension and his health benefits over the course of his career.
What does he get?
3.3 million dollars in pension payments and $500,000 in health care costs.
$3.8 million on $124,000 investment.
Those numbers don't add up.
Now, I should tell you on CNBC, they were gunning for him.
They came after this guy with both barrels, and he stuck to his guns and gave them what for.
Finally, back to CNBC's squawk bucks, a co-host Becky Quick finally says, you know, when you look back at what's been happening in the state, happening around the country, though, this big swing where voters have registered the displeasure with how things are going.
They've done it in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Virginia, across the board on these things.
Do you think that continues into the 2010 national elections for Congress?
You think this is something that swings one direction and comes back towards another?
I mean, politics tends to bounce back and forth.
This is a philosophical swing and not a uh partisan swing.
I think that's what we saw in my election in New Jersey.
Let's face it, we have 700,000 more Democrats than Republicans in New Jersey.
A Republican hadn't been elected in twelve years statewide.
They were listening to the message.
People are saying, I've lost my job, my home's being foreclosed on, and you want more taxes from me?
Are you kidding?
That's what people are saying.
And everybody better learn that.
Everybody that's elected wants to hold on to their seat wherever it is, had better learn that.
There is a genuine contempt for these politicians out there.
These people love their country.
They are very, very proud of the hard work they've put in to have the home and the uh and the life that they have, and they're watching a bunch of elitist politicians destroy it right in front of their eyes.
They don't want any part of this.
There is a real, real contempt for these elected officials.
And if they don't understand it now, they will understand it in November.
United Flight 741 has been diverted to Utah because of a bomb threat.
Uh it's on the ground in Utah.
It has landed safely, and I don't know if they found anything on board to get everybody off of it.
Uh updates as they become available.
A little surprise just happened at CPAC.
Here's Liz Cheney.
For my whole life, he has taught me to stand up for what I believe in and to fight for what's right.
And often before big speeches like this one, I ask his opinion, I seek his advice.
Well, today, instead, I brought him with me.
Yeah!
Price went nuts.
you you CPAC convention in Washington, place went nuts.
And here's what Cheney said in part.
A welcome like that's almost enough to want to make me run for office again.
But I'm not gonna do it.
I think the uh developments that we've seen over the last several months are enormously encouraging.
I think when we can achieve the kind of results that we've achieved in places like Virginia and New Jersey and Massachusetts, the sky's the limit here.
I think 2010 is going to be a phenomenal year.
For the conservative cause, and I think Barack Obama is a one-term president.
Place erupted.
We cut the applause short in the essence of brevity, but the place just went nuts.
Now, earlier this morning, Marco Rubio, the Florida Senate candidate, spoke.
How many buys do we have here?
One, two, three, four.
He uh he pretty much brought down the House too.
There's never been a nation like the United States, ever.
It begins with the principles of our founding documents.
Principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.
Principles that recognize that because all of us are equal in the eyes of our Creator, all life is sacred at every stage of life.
These principles embody a commitment to individual liberty, Which has made us the freest people in history.
There's nothing like America in all the world.
And even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be?
Which country would you trade places with?
Just remember and ask yourself.
When was the last time that you heard news accounts about a boatload of American refugees arriving on the shores of another country?
Marco Rubio, Florida Senate candidate, then described how the political class in this country doesn't get what's going on here.
Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy, and our country.
Now, people, as I said, all across America figured this out over a year ago.
They didn't wait for their senator or for their congressman to do something about it.
They did it themselves.
They have taken matters into their own hands.
From Tea Parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.
Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.
Two thousand ten is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats.
It's not just a choice between liberals and conservatives.
Two thousand ten is a referendum on the very identity of our nation.
Now the app we edited again the applause.
The applause here was profound for Marco Rubio, uh Florida Senate candidate.
He says here we don't need two Democrat parties.
People want our leaders that will come here to Washington, D.C. and stand up to this big government agenda, not be co-opted by it.
After all, the U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.
And after all, America already has a Democrat Party.
It doesn't need two Democrat parties.
I don't like this guy using the word Democrat instead of Democratic.
That really ticks them off out there, folks.
That just ticks them off like you can't believe.
Well, a last soundbite here.
Let's reform the tax code and reduce tax rates across the board.
Let's eliminate double taxation by abolishing the taxes on capital gains, on dividends, on interests.
And while we're at it, let's eliminate the one on death, too.
Let's significantly lower the corporate tax rate so it once again is competitive with the rest of the world.
Let's stop big government energy mandates like Cap and Trade and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.
Let's make a series of simple changes that puts the consumer in charge of health care spending in America.
And while we're at it, let's pass some lawsuit abuse reform as well.
That's this morning at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, and that is Marco Rubio, the Florida Senate candidate.
Now back to the phones.
Uh where are we going?
Fayetteville, North Carolina, Jack.
Uh great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Howdy.
Megadiddos from the home of the 80 second Airborne sir.
Thank you, sir very much.
I a place I have toured, by the way.
Right on, right on.
Well, I am, as my boss says, a uh conservative in a liberal world.
And I gotta say, it kind of ticks me off.
Um I am in the entertainment industry, have been for about sixteen years.
And uh last the last election year, my company got a portion of the was it six hundred and thirty million that Obama spent on media and everything else.
And now, all of a sudden, I've seen my taxes skyrocket.
My paychecks are going down the drain, trying to pay for everything that I can just to live.
And what I mean, what can we do?
What what is there that can be done other than getting this guy out of office?
That's it.
Getting this guy and his party out of office.
Um I mean, uh this coming from somebody that I saw his wife refuse to come out on stage in front of uh probably two hundred people because the American flags that were on stage were not presidential enough.
The flags were from the Color Guard at the 82nd Airborne.
And I I I mean, this is who we have making decisions for us.
Is there something?
Frankly, let me let me tell you something out there, Jack.
If all they were concerned about was the size of the flag, I could live with that.
You know, but these people are this is I'm telling you, there's one of two choices going on here.
We have a willing, purposeful sabotage of a United States of America or the biggest bunch of bumbling naive idiots we've ever seen.
And I don't think it's the latter.
Nobody's this dumb.
Nobody is this bumbling, and nobody is this naive.
If they really wanted to fix this, they could see the destruction their policies have done.
They do a 180 for the sole purpose of getting re-elected.
They're more intent on destroying what it has what what has led to you being able to earn money to even complain about the tax rate.
They want to be able to redistribute as much of what everybody earns as possible to create as many serfs and dependence on them as they can and destroy the U.S. private sector.
I may have uh I may have a new favorite mayor out there, Oscar Goodman of Las Vegas.
Mayor Oscar Goodman was invited by Barry Sotero to meet with President Obama when he uh arrives in town today to campaign for dingy Harry.
You might remember that Mayor Oscar Goodman, who may be my favorite mayor, called President Obama slow learner after he told Americans for like the third time not to blow money on a weekend to Las Vegas.
I've got other things to do, quite frankly, for my constituents here in Las Vegas who rely on me to do the right thing as a mayor.
And uh this is strike two for uh Mayor Goodman.
He said, We're hurting.
We have people in foreclosures.
We have people having a hard time feeding their families, so we can't stand to have flippant statements made.
I haven't heard an apology from Obama.
I haven't heard a response.
All I do get is invitations.
Invitations that Mayor Oscar Goodman respectfully declines.
The mayor says his presence isn't necessary.
It's more protocol than anything else.
However, he says it'll all it'll take is a simple phone call, and he'll be there ready to move on if there's an apology forthcoming.
Also, from Bloomberg News.
Now this very, very interesting.
U.S. House Democrats said that their party may not be able to offer a single health care proposal at the February 25th meeting.
The president has called with a challenge to Republicans to present their alternative.
Obama has promised to post online the text of a proposed health insurance package in advance of the televised meeting.
Representative Chris Van Holland, a Democrat from Maryland, said, I don't know whether the president's gonna put one particular piece of legislation on the table or not.
Van Holland, who is a member of Pelosi's leadership team, said that Obama would use next week's forum to get a sense of what our Republican colleagues' objectives are and work to try to include those ideas if they're not already included in the lesson.
They are trying my patience.
You know what this is?
This is as good a guess as anybody's.
This is the House Democrats saying, Hey, Obama, you know, we bit the bullet for you.
We're the ones that have been taking the arrows for you.
You have never had a plan.
You don't have a plan.
You've made us come up with plans.
Our members are dropping like flies in New Jersey, in Massachusetts, and in Virginia, and they're going to be dropping like flies.
Our people are dropping like flies in Indiana.
You go out there with your own plan for once.
We don't want any part of it.
It sounds to me like they may be backing out of the process.
That's just a wild guess.
I don't know if that's the case.
The Republicans, by the way, have um have said they have challenged Obama to a debate on jobs.
They're doing a turn the tables.
They're taking the initiative.
They are advancing a premise, which I like, which is good.
Hey, President Obama, let's have a debate about jobs as soon as we finish your little showboat here on uh on health care.
And what do you bet the White House response to that's gonna be?
Uh, ain't no way.
From what is this from?
Some news agents, what does it matter?
Death in taxes may be life's only certain news, but many taxpayers won't be able to count on a timely income tax refund this year as struggling States impose delays on refund checks to help solve their budget crises.
New York is weighing a potential delay.
Two other cash-strapped states, North Carolina and Hawaii, have already announced that they will put a hold on refunds until June and July respectively, allowing them to retain funds longer, cover their budget shortfalls with hundreds of millions of dollars owed to individuals and businesses.
And you think they're working for you.
You think they're out there doing your business.
It's your money.
Every dime of indebtedness is your money, it's your kids' money, it's your grandkids' money, and it is being spent by these irresponsible destroyers of the United States of America and its private sector.
And now they're going to hold on to your money to balance their budgets because they have zilch zero responsibility or restraint or discipline at all.
And yet we are told while all of this is going on that we're in recovery mode.
We are told that the Great Depression number two has been staved off with the stimulus.
Well, don't forget, the stimulus was not about staving off the Great Depression.
That was TARP.
TARP was supposed to stop an imminent financial collapse.
The stimulus was supposed to create all kinds of jobs and keep unemployment at 8% or lower.
They can't even get their story straight.
The stimulus has nothing to do with saving off the Great Depression.
So we are in a recovery mode in the economy, they tell us.
If that's the case, how is it that taxpayers may have a hard time recovering tax refunds due them?
This is money that they did not owe.
That they have paid, that they are now going to be delayed getting back.
But Obama says that the country's headed in the right current direction, thanks to his stupid stimulus bill.
You know, we don't have.
We don't have a lost decade.
You know what we have?
We have a lost presidency.
We have an absolute disastrous lost presidency.
The last movie I saw that had the word lost in it was Journey to the Center of the Earth, Lost This or whatever, and a bunch of prehistoric monsters were devouring James Mason and everybody.
The only way they got out of there was to write a volcano eruption.
Remember that?
Way back in the 60s when I was a kid, it would what counted for a scary movie back then.
This that we're going through is worse than any horror movie I've ever seen because at least those are imaginary.
This is too damn real.
We are looking, we are engaged with, we are battling a lost presidency.
Saving public sector jobs means guaranteeing fiscal disasters going forward.
To save a public sector job which produces nothing at the state, county, and city level is to save a union vote for Democrats and to lose more taxpayer money.
We are in the midst of a lost presidency.
If you live in New York, North Carolina or Hawaii.
By the way, this has already been done in California.
Last year they issued IOUs.
Your money.
It's all your money, not just this refund that you're due.
It's all your money that has been spent before you ever earned it.
Spent before your children will ever earn their first dollar, spent before your grandkids will ever earn their first dollar.
It's all spent.
And we get a blue ribbon commission study how this happened.
No different, like I told a caller earlier, who said, Why are you against the commission?
Very simple.
I burned down your house.
There are witnesses.
I say, no, no, no, no, no.
We need to appoint a commission to find out how this happened.
Now there I am on videotape, setting your house on fire.
But I, although I set your house on fire, I have big time power to pretend I didn't do it, and appoint a blue ribbon commission headed up by a bunch of establishment hasbins and retreads to an effect say that your house burned down, not because I burned it down, but because you weren't paying enough property tax, income tax, and showing enough respect to your government.
Your house deserved a burn down.
I just made it happen sooner than it otherwise would.
I was doing you a service.
And a blue ribbon commission just said so.
Now I'm getting the point.
I don't even want to go to the next story in the stack.
It was enough to prep this show today.
What the hell's next?
Let me lift the page.
Oh.
Oh, God, it gets even worse.
I can't go on.
And we are back.
Rush Limboss serving humanity simply really serving humanity today simply by showing up.
All right, here's the next story.
It forced me to go into commercial break early.
Uh, it's from the state controlled associated press headlines study.
States must fill one trillion dollar pension gap.
States may be forced to reduce benefits, raise taxes, or slash government services to address a one trillion dollar funding shortfall in public sector retirement benefits, like in New Jersey, where some schlub invests 124 grand, retires at age 49, gets 3.8 million dollars in pension and health care benefits.
All this according to a new study that warns of even more debilitating costs if immediate action isn't taken.
This is the Pew Center on states.
They uh release a survey Thursday of state administered pension plans, retiree health care, and other postemployment benefits in all 50%.
We don't have any of this money.
We don't have it.
We do not have any of this money.
And we also didn't know that we promised all this garbage.
We didn't know we promised some guy that contributed 124 grand, a 3.8 million dollar retirement in New Jersey.
We didn't know we promised any of this.
The Pew Center.
Uh says that retiree health care plans, pension plans, and other postemployment benefits in all 50 states, blamed a decade's worth of policy decisions for leaving them shortchanged.
A decade's worth a decade, uh decade, ten years, right?
A decade.
Is this what Obama means by the lost decade?
This must be what he means by the lost decade.
Not the Bush administration.
The result for some states will be high annual costs that come with significant unfunded liabilities, lower bond ratings, less money available for services, higher taxes, and the specter of worsening problems in the future.
The cost of the trillion dollar shortfall, uh, which will be paid over the coming decades is about $8,800 for each American household.
The study did not include many city, county, and municipal pension plans, which are thought to have similar underfunding.
Well, this is hunky-dory.
Remember, the study did not include many city county municipal pension plans.
Lost presidency.
Said that the pilot who flew the plane into the IRS floor at the Austin, Texas building left a suicide note in which he railed on the IRS, the Catholic Church, George W. Bush, his CPA, and his wife.
Holy smokes, folks, that'd be enough to drive anybody crazy.
You've been bugged by all of that.
The IRS, the Catholic Church, George W. Bush, his accountant, and his wife.
Apparently, a suicide note just rips all those people a new one.
They burned down his house.
Wife and kids supposedly got out of there.
Let's let's try to change the tone here just a little bit.
No, no, no, we don't know what radio show he listens to.
That's yet to come.
We don't know what radio show he listens to.
But we'll find out soon enough from the drive-by media.
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Tom in San Antonio, Texas.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Great to have you here.
Rush, Rush, honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
Calling in response to uh your first caller, Sam, you talked about it a little while ago where you gave him the analogy of the plane flying into his house when he was talking about this debt panel.
Well, I think I might have a uh better analogy for him.
Wait a minute now.
Was Sam the guy who didn't understand why I was opposing the blue ribbon panel on I said burn down his house.
I I wouldn't fly an airplane because that means I would die.
That's true.
We wouldn't want that.
No.
Um but uh something simpler for Sam.
Imagine if Sam were to walk into his boss tomorrow morning and say, boss, you know, I really like my job.
I like how much you pay me.
I like the perks, I like the benefits.
But you know, parts of this job are really, really hard.
And I think you need to hire someone else to do the hard parts for me.
I'd like you to keep paying me.
I'd like to give me a I'd like to give myself a raise while we're at it.
But um I don't really want to do the hard parts of my job anymore.
His boss would rightfully so look at him like he was insane and throw them out of the room.
And that's in effect what this debt panel is.
It's it's an admin an admission by the legislative branch of government and the executive that they're not going to do their job.
That is actually doing their job.
Uh that is actually frosts me.
That is actually uh a pretty good analogy as it relates to me personally.
I can't tell you how many times that happens to me.
I'm not kidding you.
You go out and hire some people to do something and they want two other people to help them do it.
Um that happens.
I can't tell you how often that happens.
But the analogy for the sake of Obama's not not quite there, and I'll tell you why, is because there is an ulterior motive.
The ulterior motive is to have somebody besides himself recommend these tax cuts that nobody can afford in order to fix this.
He wants to, at the end of this blue ribbon commission, say the respectable irksome bowls, and the longtime Washington uh Senator, immensely respected Alan Simpson, have looked at all of this, and they conclude only one thing.
We must raise taxes.
So to complete your analogy, what I would have to do is come to you and say, boss, you know, I appreciate what you're paying me, and uh I think I need a raise.
But I got some really hard stuff in this job that I don't want to do.
I think you need to go hire some other people to do the hard part so that I can come back to you and say that they're the ones who say this is what needs to be done because I don't want to be held responsible for what it is they're gonna say.
I don't want it, but I do want to raise.
And that is why you are the great Maha Rushi.
Well, no, no, I just I pr it's a great analogy.
I'm I'm sure that your analogy resonates with all kinds of people own businesses.
I'm sure, yeah.
And it uh and frankly, at the base of it, that's why I just when that panel was recommended, it just frosted me.
I was like, why do we elect you?
Why do we elect these guys that do this exact exact thing?
Look at it's no different Congress is a bunch of cowards, yellow bellied sapsucker cowards.
This is no different than the base closure commissions.
When it came time to close military bases, guess what?
Our lily livered linguini spine chicken coward members of Congress and the Senate wouldn't have the audacity to do the job themselves.
Say came up with a bunch of blue ribbon ex-senators and congressmen, brought them back for who knows how much money and perks to make the recommendations of which bases get closed, thereby insulating them from any local criticism in their own state of their own district.
In this case, there's not going to be a recommendation to cut spending.
There's going to be a recommendation to raise taxes, except it ain't going to be Obama's.
But nobody, no, I'm telling you, nobody is going to get fooled by us.
Because I'm not going to allow it.
It ain't going to happen.
I got an idea on how to fix this uh unfunded pension liability problem.
The pension shortfall.
Here's we just turned liberalism around on him.
Use the liberal argument.
Ladies and gentlemen, do we really want to overpay our retirees or do we want to educate our children?
What do we want to do?
Do we want to overpay retirees who haven't earned any of this, or do we want to educate our children?
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