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Feb. 23, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 23, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Yeah, yeah, I know.
I'm just trying to find my place here.
There we go.
Six.
All right.
Yeah.
Here we go.
Okay.
Greetings, folks.
Welcome back, Rushland Boy.
And the final hour of our excursion into broadcast excellence today on the EIB network.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
Email address, lrushball at eibnet.com.
By the way, Secret Service.
Just a little tip here.
You might want to check to see if this Professor Green at Hofstra owns an airplane or has a pilot's license.
Well, you know, people, history comes back.
It bites you if you don't remember particularly recent history.
So you might want to check into this guy.
Douglas Elmendorf, who runs the CBO, said that they can't score Obama's health care plan.
There aren't enough details.
This morning, the Obama administration released a prescription, I'm sorry, description of its healthcare proposal.
CBO has already received several requests to provide a cost estimate, but we hadn't previously received the proposal.
We've just begun the process of reviewing it, a process that'll take some time given the complexity of the issues involved.
Blah, blah, blah.
Therefore, CBO cannot provide a cost estimate for the proposal without additional detail from the president.
And even if such detail were provided, analyzing the proposal would be a time-consuming process that could not be completed this week.
Certainly not by Thursday.
And the summit.
So they can't score it, yet Obama's like, oh, yeah, it won't even cost a trillion.
It's not going to add to the deficit.
This CBO guy taking a big risk here by authoring this himself.
Now, the dirty little secret is, my friends, that it's not an accident that Obama's plan does not provide the CBO either the detail or the time to give a cost estimate.
See, that way, Obama can continue to pretend that his $1 trillion plan doesn't raise the deficit.
I can't believe I said that.
After all, I mean, remember, Obama promised during his address to a joint session of Congress back in September, I won't sign any legislation, healthcare legislation, if it adds one dime to the deficit now or in the future.
That's the same speech during which Congressman Joe Wilson got into so much trouble for blurting out, you lie.
And yet, the president continues to do just that.
I mean, this is not even a plan.
It's just another phony promise.
Typical Obama still out there hustling hope and change.
Now, imagine this.
Imagine, ladies and gentlemen, a new business asking a bank for a loan and submitting a plan without a budget that extends at least three years out.
A banker would throw you out of his office, especially now.
Obama has submitted talking points.
He's calling these talking points a plan.
The private sector would never stand for this, couldn't get away with it.
The president wanted to say he had a plan like all the other guys wearing big boy pants.
And he says there was one guy out there saying, Mr. President, where is your plan?
He doesn't have a plan.
So I think it's safe to say I can take the blame for Obama presenting this thing.
There's nothing to discuss.
Obama has once again embarrassed himself.
I don't know who's advising this guy, but he is a leader.
Well, no.
He's an agitator without experience or a compass.
He's not grounded in reality, and he doesn't have a plan, specific plan.
Know what the objective is, is take over the economy, healthcare particularly, for all of the reasons that we've stated time in and time out.
Now, here from CNNMoney.com is a story about how Obama wants to pay for health reform.
And basically, it's tax, tax.
I was going through this, picking out certain really offensive nuggets, but I gave up because the bottom line in this entire approach is sick.
And I mean, in a twisted, hubristic way of a special sickness.
This comes at the health insurance question from the perspective of refusing to recognize the sovereignty of the individual vis-à-vis the state.
And what's worse, none of this is going to work.
It'll never be possible to tax our way to deficit reduction.
The money will be spent faster than the BAM gang could ever hope to have it come in.
And what's even more sick is they know this and they stand there and they just lie and lie and lie about it.
If Obama gets his way, a freely born American cannot even refuse the government's help without being taxed.
Let me just, I'll share with you as far as I got excerting this.
Headline, How Obama wants to pay for health reform.
Many of the changes the proposal calls for are not free.
Obama proposes to pay for the additional burden on the federal coffers in several ways.
Among those, that would have a direct bearing on individuals and businesses.
He would tax high-cost medical plans.
He would increase Medicare tax on high-income households.
He would require insurance coverage.
He would impose a financial penalty on most Americans who don't buy any.
He would require employers to pay if they don't provide coverage.
He would impose new fees on the health industry.
He would trim various health-related tax breaks.
I mean, it's a tax bill, what he's proposed here, and it always has been.
Snurdley, do you know what a cargo cult is?
Have you ever heard of it?
I had not heard of a cargo cult until today when I was perusing the American thinker, Randall Hoeven, has a piece called Cargo Cult President.
I said, What the hell is a cargo cult?
You know, I watched clutch cargo when I was a kid, but I don't know what a cargo cult is.
Randall Hovind says, on February 22, well, over a year in office, more than three years after announcing his candidacy, Obama finally released his health care reform plan.
Yet he urged Congress to pass health care reform last August.
And with all that time to come up with his own plan, the CBO says the plan's not detailed enough to estimate its cost.
What was released on the White House website was not even a legislative proposal, but an outline of intentions.
One could say it looks an awful lot like a campaign issue statement.
If not already painfully obvious to anybody paying attention, all the Obama administration can do is campaign.
That makes total sense since Obama had never held an executive or even managerial position in his entire life prior to being sworn into orifice.
But he had tons of experience campaigning and giving speeches.
In short, that's how he thinks the world works.
Give a speech, publish a PR brochure on your website, and the world responds.
He is the cargo cult president.
At least the real cargo cult followers built real things that look like landing strips to get airplanes loaded with food and supplies to land on them.
Okay, so I was hooked.
What's a cargo cult?
Basically, it's this: a cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technology or technologically advanced culture.
So you take some primitive natives who have no idea about electricity or airplanes or whatever, and you throw that stuff in front of them.
The cults then become focused on obtaining this wealth, the cargo, through magic and religious rituals and practices, believing that the wealth was intended for them by their deities and their ancestors.
Cargo cults developed primarily in remote parts of New Guinea and Micronesian societies in the southwest Pacific, beginning with the first significant arrivals of Westerners in the 19th century.
Similar behaviors have, however, also appeared elsewhere in the world.
Cargo cult activity in the Pacific region increased significantly during and immediately after World War II, when large amounts of manpower and materials were brought in by the Japanese and the American combatants.
And this was observed by the primitive residents of these regions.
When the war ended, the military bases were closed and the flow of goods and materials ceased.
In an attempt to attract further deliveries of goods, followers of the cargo cults engaged in ritualistic practices, such as building crude imitation landing strips, aircraft, and radio equipment, and mimicking the behavior that they had observed of the military personnel operating them.
Cargo cults tend to appear among people who covet the foreigners' equipment, but are unable to obtain it easily through trade, established traditions, or work.
Members, leaders, and prophets of the cargo cults maintain that the manufactured goods of the non-native culture have been created by spiritual means, such as through their deities and ancestors, and are intended for the local indigenous people, but that the foreigners have unfairly gained control of these objects through malice or misdeeds.
Well, now it all makes sense, and Holvin's right.
Obama is a cargo cult.
He wants all this wonderful stuff.
He hasn't the slightest idea how to get it.
He just thinks if he asks for it, it'll get there.
And whoever produces it will never run out of it, no matter how much of it he takes.
So essentially, we can say that Obama is essentially a primitive indigenous guy who has the slightest idea where all this advanced technology actually comes from and how it actually is made, but he wants it all.
And he thinks because he's the deity, he goes out and makes a speech or issues a press release that somehow the gods will deliver it wherever and whenever and in whatever quantity he wants.
And as such, he also believes he has the power to limit, as the god, what the people who make this stuff can pay themselves for doing it, as in limiting compensation.
For people at Wall Street, which he's botched, by the way, because the bonuses are up 17% last year, even though he's got a pesar to ensure that that didn't happen.
All right, a brief timeout.
We'll get to your phone calls.
People still waiting since the beginning of the program.
Back after this.
Ha, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Great to have you with us.
It's always a thrill and delight to be with you on the Rush Limbaugh program here, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Now, Snerdley just asked me a question here during the break.
I did gloss over it too quickly about these cargo cult type guys.
In a nutshell, this is how to explain the cargo cult people.
Here there are these primitive indigenous people out there on these southwestern Pacific Islands, and then the Japanese and the Americans show up with all this stuff they've never seen before.
Airplanes, air traffic control towers, and then they leave.
They take all the stuff with them.
And the cargo cults are, whoa, wait a minute, we want the stuff back.
So they thought they could bring the stuff back by building landing strips.
So they would go out and build little primitive landing strips because that's what they thought it took for the stuff to arrive.
And then they pretended to have the traffic control centers and they pretended using radios.
They thought that's what would bring the stuff back.
They had no clue how it was made.
I mean, there are primitive indigenous people here back in the 40s, late 30s, and they'd never seen this stuff before.
So that's the cult.
The cargo was all this stuff they'd never seen.
They had no clue where it came, and Obama doesn't either.
See, Obama believes that all he's got to do, essentially the cargo cult people, thought that, hey, let's just go through the motions here and the gods will reward us and this stuff will come back.
So Obama believes that all he has to do is go through the motions, but he doesn't understand what's behind the motions.
He's killing the golden goose, but he doesn't realize there's a golden goose.
That's an extreme way of looking at it, but I still like it.
It just goes to show you, folks, you can learn something each and every day that remains entirely fascinating.
Now, you people are having a particularly active day in the email via the Ditto Cam.
A couple of you people, we caught you, trying to make me think that the synchronization between my voice and the movement of my cherry lips was out of sync.
It's not.
It's working fine.
I'm overwhelmed.
And I've got other people saying, it looks like Zycam doesn't work because all you're doing is blowing your nose today.
Au contraire.
I mean, really, there's some...
I think we've got some acorn people.
You know, these people have been busted up.
They're supposed...
I don't...
By the way, I don't buy this for a moment, this Acorn has shut down and that, oh, they've run out of funding.
I think they're just reorganizing under different names.
And they still be doing the same stuff.
They're not going anywhere.
But I must have a bunch of them out there just, I mean, I've got a bunch of nattering nabops today harassing me in the email.
You know, it looks like Zycam doesn't work.
Precisely opposite of that.
It is working.
And you heard me take it a couple days ago.
I've been sneezing all morning long, and I have been blowing my nose, but I do not feel like I'm getting a cold.
I don't have one negative feeling with it.
I mean, it's irritating to have to blow my nose and all that.
And I do think I sound a little bit stuffed up, but I don't feel like I got a cold.
This is exactly how Zycam works.
And I got people emailing me, fee, fee, even your product doesn't work.
Oh, contra.
I got the oral spray stuff, my favorite new kind.
It's like an oral spray.
It's a breathmint, too.
You have four places in your mouth every three hours and Mammo.
It will, you catch it soon enough, as I always say, it will reduce the symptoms and reduce the duration of your cold.
Man, am I glad I don't work for the Kansas City Royals anymore?
You know, I was director of group sales there, marketing department in charge of first ball ceremonies, pre-game and during game entertainment, anthem singers and so forth.
Get this.
They have a mascot there.
Now, when I worked at the Royals, the management didn't believe in mascots.
I mean, it was.
It was a two-year struggle to convince them to bring in Ted Giannulus, a San Diego chicken.
So now they got a mascot, Slugger the Lion.
Now, Slugger the Lion has been accused of a gruesome wiener attack.
And I knew if I were still there, this would all be dumped on me.
No, what happened here, Slugger the Lion is accused of poking a fan's eye out with a steaming hot hot dog during a game last year, and now the Royals are being sued over it.
It's all in a lawsuit filed in Jackson County, Missouri, in which John Coomer claims he was just chilling at a game September 8th last year when Slugger climbed atop the third base dugout and started shooting hot dogs into the stands from an air gun.
Coomer claims that Slugger eventually put the air gun down and just started firing off the hot dogs by hand when, according to the suit, things went horribly wrong.
In the documents, Coomer claims that Slugger lost control of his throw or was reckless and threw the hot dog directly into the plaintiff.
Coomer claims a dog hit him right in his left eye, leaving him with a detached retina and the development of cataracts.
And he's now suing the Royals for more than $25,000 for negligence and battery, claiming they failed to adequately train the mascot in the proper method and wish to throw hot dogs into the stands.
Men, oh, man.
Jeez.
Glad I'm not there anymore.
I'd be taking the heat.
Antonio, 15 years old from Walden, New York.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes.
Hi, Rush.
I'm a 15-year-old, and I have a question.
Do you think that the Republicans will ever take back the Senate and the presidency in the House again?
Well, it's tough to make a prediction of certitude right now, Anthony, but according to all the latest polling data, they will win back the House.
In fact, Charlie Cook, the estimable consultant, said yesterday that it's hard to find a scenario where the Republicans don't take back the House this year.
The Senate, the worst I see, the worst I've seen, the predictions that the Democrats could lose, nine, which would make it pretty much a much a toss-up.
But if things keep going the way they're going, and if Obama keeps leading the Democrats down this suicide kamikaze path, yeah.
And I'm looking at it, it seems to me like, and I'll tell you something else.
Antonio, when I heard Obama say he'd rather be a successful one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.
Yeah, my dad told me that.
Yeah, well, you know, the right way to analyze that is, why, let me ask you a question.
Yes.
Why is a president a one-term president?
What usually happens?
He loses, right?
Yeah.
And why does he lose?
People are fed up with him.
So Obama told us that his successful one-term presidency would so anger voters that he would not be reelected.
So his definition of a successful presidency is one that really angers a majority of voters in this country.
Now, that's kind of frightening.
And it's leading a lot of people to, maybe this guy does only want to work one term because he's on a kamikaze mission here with his healthcare plan, taking his party with him.
And behind closed doors, they're not happy about this.
They don't like this being revived.
So if the election were today, it'd be damn close, Antonio, very close.
And a couple more questions, too.
One, do you think the Americans will ever trust the Democrats again?
Yes.
You do.
Yeah, I've seen it happen too many times.
It's going to be tougher for them because they've never been this blatantly obnoxious.
But the Democrats have a marvelous way of packaging.
Just look at Obama.
I don't know if you're paying much attention during the campaign, but Obama campaigned in such a way that nobody that voted for him thought they were going to get this.
They thought they're going to get the exact opposite.
They're very good at packaging what they intend to do as compassion and growth and love for country and all that sort of stuff.
They lie.
They lie and they're very good at lying.
And in this case, the Republicans, led by our nominee, Senator McCain, simply were gutless in criticizing Obama because he was black and they were afraid they'd be called racist.
So there was no criticism of Obama.
There was no pressure on Obama.
Obama was not challenged to be specific about anything.
So he got a free ride.
My hope is that we keep focusing on Democrats, our liberals, and never forget this and make it very difficult for them to ever win majorities again.
Now, this was one strange guy, David Bowie.
And what's this?
Let's dance, the title of the tune.
We're back, Rush Lindbaugh, behind the golden EIB microphone.
Tamaui, this is Scott.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
You have often said your parents would not believe your life.
That's true.
And if my parents were alive, they would not believe that I'm talking to you.
And just to put this in perspective, let me be clear.
My brother Jim told me about you in 1991, and I've been EIB positive ever since.
My mom died from cancer in 1994, and in the last two weeks of her life, she couldn't get out of bed, and she asked us to bring the radio into her bedroom so she could still listen to you.
Long ago, we made you an honorary member of the Miles Brothers Corp, and my brother John gives me Rush 24-7 each year for Christmas, which is the ultimate gift.
My best friend and wife Brenna and I have a son named Reagan James, who is named after my dad and President Reagan.
And Reagan James has been listening to you since he was three days old.
So I'm very proud to say Reagan is a Rush baby.
Well, thank you, sir, very, very much.
Well, on behalf of all those people, I just want to say that we love you, and thank you, Rush.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate that.
Well, thanks.
And I just very quickly want to give you a heads up on a clean and articulate conservative, Drew Wrigley, who served as U.S. attorney along with Chris Christie.
And I believe Drew Wrigley will be a legendary governor of North Dakota in the future.
But getting back to all that anger on the left that you mentioned earlier, since the Libs have been so angry about man-made global warming for so long, I'm curious about the link between global warming and Iran.
It seems like a nuclear weapon is the ultimate example of man-made global warming.
So why aren't President Obama and all the other Nobel Peace Prize winners who believe in man-made global warming, why aren't they stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons to help save the environment?
Well, let me ask you if you can answer the question yourself.
I generally find that people can come up with the question that they almost, if not all the time, can get close to the answer.
What do you think is the reason why there's no concern about Iran getting a nuke, but global warming is horrible.
It's going to kill us.
Well, in my 19 years of training from you at the EIB Institute, I said I should probably be able to figure out the answer.
But the best I can come up with is, like on most issues, they're hypocritical and they're irrational.
But beyond that, I guess I don't really get it.
Okay, well, then try this.
Try this.
Whether it's man-made global warming or any other ill that the world faces, the people that you are describing blame the United States for it all.
They blame terrorism on the United States if we didn't support Israel or if we hadn't put our military people in Saudi Arabia, if we weren't stealing all of the oil from the people who really own it, and if we weren't building ourselves up into a rich superpower while keeping the rest of the world poor, then they wouldn't hate us and they wouldn't blow us up in our buildings and so forth.
So these people believe that we deserve it, that we're responsible.
And we've got to understand their rage.
By the same token, they understand, hey, we've got a nuke.
Who are we to say Iran shouldn't have a nuke?
Who are we to say?
Why, maybe Iran should have a nuke and we shouldn't because we're the bad guys.
When it comes to global warming, who are the number one perpetrators of destruction of the planet?
Guess who?
Americans.
So these people you're asking about look at life through a prism of genuine hatred for this country.
If not hatred, then suspicion.
And so when you have the mullahs in Iran nuking up, these people say, well, who can blame them, really?
I mean, they've got to protect themselves against us, people like Bush and Cheney.
I mean, if we can have one, why can't they?
If the Russians can have one, why can't the Iranians?
If the Israelis can have one, why?
So these people get caught up in all this fairness that's predicated on the fact that we are ultimately unfair as Americans, and therefore we are to blame for all this.
And there is your answer.
And it's no more complicated than that.
Well, thank you, Rush.
And just as a bonus thank you, I just can't say how much it means to me how you've defended President Reagan through the years against all those same angry libs.
And recently you've been talking about instead of all of us worrying about who's the smartest and all that stuff, we just need to advance the conservative agenda.
And when President Reagan passed on that title to you as the leading voice of conservatism, it reminded me of a famous Reagan quote that it's the way you've lived your life.
I just have to say, too, you feel like a third big brother to me.
So it's just, I can't believe I'm talking to you.
And even though we've never talked before, you've had such a huge impact.
So thanks again.
But the Reagan quote is that there's no limit to what you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
Exactly.
Exactly right.
Scott, you have made my day.
Thank you very much.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate that.
Seriously.
Who's next?
Roger in Fallbrook.
Fallbrook?
Fallbrook, California.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Listen, I heard a report here in the last day or so that there is someone in Nevada has registered a new political party called, quote, the Tea Party, unquote, and that they plan to run someone against Harry Reid.
But in fact, the person that's setting this up is a lifelong Democrat, a past supporter of Harry Reid, and has no connection with the real Tea Party people.
Is this how Reed plans to win?
Well, I had not heard the latter part.
I heard that the Tea Party had registered a candidate out there, and everybody is kind of alarmed by that.
I had not heard that it was a Reed confidant running a sabotage scam.
That's what it sounds like to me.
Well, do you know it for a fact?
Well, here's why.
I think I heard this from Roger Hedgecock.
Now, you know Roger Hedgecock.
I do know Roger Hedgecock.
And that's where I heard it from.
So I kind of trust what he says.
Well, we'll endeavor to find out.
I wouldn't put it past them, and it's typical something they would do.
Yeah, and I'm afraid they might try this elsewhere, too.
Well, if that's what they're doing, don't sweat it because it's going to blow up in their desert face.
Well, I would hope so.
It will.
Make no mistake about it.
If this guy's not a legitimate Tea Party guy, if he's somebody made off with Harry Reid in one of the land deals back in the old days, we'll find out if it's a trick.
I can't reject it.
I mean, I can't, oh, they'd never do that because it sounds like something exactly like they would come up with.
Roger, thanks very much.
I appreciate it.
I got an email.
This actually, it's about carbonite.
It's a good email.
Rush, are my passwords and banking info and financial matters going to be safe if I back up to carbonite?
I mean, I'm hesitant due to having that kind of information getting into someone's hands other than mine.
I asked them that, Carbonite.
David Friend runs the place, came down here.
And before I started my Carbonite backup, I said, do you guys have the ability to go in there and look up anybody's data?
He said, we wouldn't know where to start.
It's all encrypted.
There is so much of it.
They don't have very many people that are trained to actually get in.
Their backup system is basically RAID.
It can withstand failures without losing data.
It really is an impressive setup.
But they do not have the ability to go in and decrypt all of your information and backup information.
And they've been at this for years.
And I have not yet heard of one complaint that somebody's security was compromised because their data was backed up to Carbonite.
I have not heard that.
And believe me, we would have if that had happened.
So I don't think you need to worry about any of that.
It's no more than if somebody would steal your computer.
If somebody steals your computer, it's far more likely they're going to be able to find your data on there than they're going to be able to get it off carbonite.
I mean, it's massive.
The server farms, they are expanding like crazy.
They're going to be opening server farms over in China.
The amount of data that goes through there that's backed up is finding a needle in a haystack.
They just couldn't do it.
Like I told you yesterday, I got a note from 20th Century Fox Animated Division.
I've done some stuff with Family Guy, and so I have a social security number, contract agreements, and so forth.
All the computers were stolen.
They were password protected, but I still got a note saying we don't think anything's going to come of it, but you should know that your stuff along with everybody else's.
So I immediately called the Carbonite guys and just alerted them to the fact because I'm a member.
And you get an alert.
Well, this is lifelock, but all these things are interrelated.
And everybody's worried about privacy and keeping their security.
And people are out there looking for it at all times.
And I'm just going to tell you, if somebody was able to get into the Carbonite system and find all this kind of data, it would have happened.
And I think it's too massive.
It's not hackable.
You guys shouldn't have any worries about that.
What you ought to be worrying about is losing your data.
I mean, if you lose it and you're not backed up, you're not going to get it back.
Nobody's going to get it if your hard drive fries, and that will happen.
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If you live in Illinois, now if you live in Illinois, you probably already know this.
Or you've already heard about it.
It comes from NBC Chicago.
Doomsday predictions for Illinois.
The state watchdog group calls for historical increase in personal income tax.
In order to crawl from beneath crushing debt and to reach fiscal solvency, Illinois legislators must choose from a series of options that range from bad to worse, according to a prominent watchdog group.
The Civic Federation wants to launch an intervention that includes significant budget cuts and the largest tax increase package in Illinois history, all in an effort to save the state from a $12.8 billion budget deficit.
Lawrence Saul, the Civic Federation president, said to the Chicago Sun-Times, doomsday is here for the state of Illinois.
The group says it would support a state income tax increase from 3% to 5%.
It recommends the state tax retirees' pension and social security checks be taxed for the first time at the same rate as workers' paychecks.
They want another $1 increase in a pack of cigarettes and to eliminate $181 million in corporate tax breaks.
If implemented, the Federation's recommendations could shave off $8 billion, but there's a catch.
In order to implement those increases, the Civic Federation says unions should pay more toward their pension and health care, but the unions are not interested.
The state's red ink has already caused a backlog of unpaid bills to public universities and schools, transit systems, and social services.
The unions.
Folks, it's becoming clear.
I'm talking about public sector unions.
You are going to find them behind every debt and liquidity problem in any state, city, or town in this country.
Nine out of ten times, anyway.
So here you go, a doomsday prediction.
Unions are not interested.
No way.
Bad news.
New York, CBS2HD, Eyeball News, has confirmed the Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to let go more than 1,000 employees as it struggles to rein in ballooning deficits.
And from NBC 5 or whatever it is, Eyeball News in San Francisco, school officials are scheduled to vote on a plan to lay off almost 1,000 school employees.
The layoffs are on the agenda for the school board's meeting today.
District officials say that they're needed to help balance a projected budget shortfall of $113 million over the next two years.
They serve 55,000 students in this district, and they have experienced steep reductions in state funding.
And you know why?
Because of unemployment, and there's less tax space revenue.
And there's no spending restraint.
So here you have Illinois, a doomsday scenario, 1,000 more New Yorkers out of work, and almost 1,000 San Francisco teachers.
Pink slipped.
How's that hope and change working for you?
How about that rebounding economy out there?
We've turned the tide.
We've turned the corner.
We're coming back now.
So says Obama.
This is L. Wood in Jackson, Mississippi.
El Wood, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hello, sir.
Good to be with you.
I'm glad Scott called.
It seems like you're being inundated with negativity today, and my call is the same.
I wanted to offer something a little positive to you, if I could.
Fire away, sir.
That would be me, sir.
My daughter is 15 years old.
About six years ago, she began asking political questions.
I made a pact when she was born with myself that I'd tell her nothing but the truth and let her make her own decisions.
And I drive a lot in my work, so I'm scanning the radio dial trying to find it, and son of a gun, it wasn't there.
You and I are the same age, and like you, I had a Remco Caravelle.
My father was in broadcasting his whole life.
No kidding, you had a Remco Caravelle, too.
Oh, yeah, the little blue thing.
Yeah.
I didn't go into broadcasting, went into engineering.
You know, if you beef up the output circuitry on those, you can get a lot farther than five years.
Well, see, I would have loved to do it.
I didn't know how to do that.
But because of that, I remembered an archaic form of radio transmission called amplitude modulation and found you about six years ago.
I've been very positive and happy ever since.
And I just wanted to call and thank you for what you do and let you know that I'm raising probably what is to liberals the most dangerous life form on the planet.
That is a rush teenager.
Thank you very much.
And if you have Antonio's phone number, just pass it on.
Maybe they can get a date.
Thanks for the call out there, Elwood.
I appreciate it.
Remco Caravelle, my parents gave me.
We've got one back there in the storeroom.
I ought to bring it up short on diddle cam.
Not time enough to do it today, Brian, but this thing you could broadcast on any AM frequency.
That's what amplitude modulation is, by the way.
That voltage modulation is what amplitude is versus FM.
You modulate the signal carrier with frequency as opposed to voltage.
That's the miss AM and FM.
what he was talking about.
This thing, you could broadcast around 150 feet inside your home on any frequency you selected.
And it was crude and so forth, but I'd put my record player next to the thing, had a remote microphone, and I'd hold the microphone down to the turntable speaker when it was time to play the music.
Couldn't say anything, but played DJ, pretended to call baseball games.
And my mom and dad would sit down there and actually listen to this, even though it was horrible sound on the radio, but it was still fun to do.
Quick timeout.
We'll be right back.
Okay, we've confirmed what Hedgecock said.
The Tea Party guy in Arizona or Nevada is not a Tea Party guy.
His name is Barry Levinson.
He's a former Obama supporter, the former attorney for John Wayne Bobbitt.
It is a Harry Reid trick.
It won't work.
Don't sweat it.
Also, I just remembered Obama was a state senator in Illinois for eight years.
So somebody said, how can it possibly the state be in a doomsday scenario when the Messiah did his internship at their state senate?
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