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March 5, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 5, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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Hey folks, how how uh how's all that Obama uh action on jobs going?
How's that working out for you?
Thirty-six thousand more people lost their jobs last month, and I don't even believe that number.
I think they're monkeying around with it, predicting something horrible because of the snow, and oh, it's not that bad.
Wait, it's a great day in America.
Whatever.
36,000 people still lost their jobs.
It is a bleak picture when you look at the entire report.
How's that focus on jobs working out for you?
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
We're pretty much everything you want to talk about goes.
Now, in order to make this work, I know I have to take calls.
Which um I haven't done yet.
But I'm going to very soon in this hour.
Here's the telephone number, 800 282-2882, and the uh email address, Lrushbow at EIB net.com.
From Washington, a Navy captain was demoted because she berated and assaulted her crew, not because she led her guided missile cruiser on a drag race with another guided missile cruiser in the Pacific, according to an investigation.
Captain Holly Graff was relieved of her command of the cruiser USS CowPens.
No, that can't.
They had a female captain in charge of a ship called Cow Pens.
This is a joke, right?
This is Scott Ott.
No, it's apparently not.
Captain Holly Graff relieved of her command of the cruiser USS CowPens after an investigation of substantiated crew allegations that she was abusive and used her position for personal gain.
Now, this is announced by naval officials on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak on the record.
But they did anyway.
Graf did not immediately answer an email.
Uh message to her phone said the number had been changed, disconnected, or was not in service.
It said all three of those things.
A Navy inspector general report said that investigators had substantiated that Graf assaulted subordinates, pushing one, grabbing another, and once throwing a wadded up paper in an Oh no, no, no, no.
You gotta be that's assault.
That is throwing up some wadded paper at another sailor.
What are we becoming?
What are we?
What is happening to us?
Wadding up a piece of paper and throwing it at a sailor.
Do you realize the permanent damage that could be done with that?
She regularly verbally abused subordinates by publicly berating them, belittling them, and using profane language.
Now, in the old days.
What?
Sailor sailor using profane language in the the uh nothing against sailors, and nothing against profane language.
Uh in the old days, the assumption would have been that the sailors were misbehaving.
I mean, sometimes you have to speak with a authoritative way if people are misbehaving.
Anyway, the allegations were called into a Navy hotline and covered uh March 2008 to July 2009.
Report also found that she used her office for personal gain.
That is, she asked junior officers to play piano at her private Christmas party and to walk her dogs.
Oh man.
This woman sounds like a real crew, Ella Deville.
Asking subordinates to play the piano and walk her dog.
Well, what is happening to us?
That kind of cruelty.
I've never seen it before.
So how is this laser-like focus on jobs going for you?
Heritage Foundation with an absolutely brilliant post today at the Morning Bell.
Last week Obama hosted a seven and a half hour televised health care summit.
This week, the president launched his final campaign for passage of his health care plan.
Next week, the president will travel to Missouri and Pennsylvania to continue this final effort to jam his unpopular plan through Congress.
With his all health care all the time White House agenda, it seems like eons ago that Obama announced, following the complete rejection of its health care plan in the Massachusetts Senate special election, that Obama's first State of the Union would mark a pivot from health care to a razor-sharp focus on jobs.
So how is that pivot to jobs going?
Well, Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Stats released its monthly job report, and you all know what it is.
36,000 net jobs lost, unemployment rate still 9.7%.
So why is our economy having such a tough time pulling out of recession?
Well, here are some facts for you.
The most recent data available show that the U.S. economy actually lost fewer jobs during this recession than were lost during the 2001 recession.
Specifically, 50.8 million jobs were lost in the first six months of the 01 recession.
48.2 million jobs were lost through the first six months of this one.
But if I know what you're asking.
Wait a minute, Rush.
You mean it was worse under Bush?
Well, if the economy's losing fewer jobs this time, then why is the unemployment rate so much higher under Obama's stewardship?
And the answer is job creation.
There isn't any.
Back to the Bureau of Labor Stats data.
Through the first six quarters of the 2001 recession, 47.6 million jobs were created.
Only 40.3 million jobs have been created to the second quarter of 2009.
That's a 7.9 million jobs gap.
The reason our unemployment rate is so high is low job creation, not high job loss.
So why aren't businesses creating jobs?
Well, here is what entrepreneurs have been trying to tell the Obama administration.
At one of his many job summits, Fred Lampropolis told the New York Times that businesses were uncertain about investment because there's such an aggressive legislative agenda.
Business people don't really know what they're going to do.
They don't know what they should do.
And that uncertainty is really what's holding back jobs.
Dan DeMico, CEO of Steelmaker Newcore Corp.
Told the Wall Street Journal, companies large and small are saying, I'm not going to do anything until these things, health care climate legislation go away or are resolved.
Porta King CEO Steve Schulte told USA Today his company is not investing because proposals in Congress to tackle climate change and overhaul health care would raise costs.
The New York Post's Charles Gasparino reported on the 600 companies stock analyst Peter Sedotti.
There hasn't been one bankruptcy, he tells me.
How'd they survive the recession?
Well, by the this is the 600 companies he covers.
By cutting costs and hoarding cash, not expanding their business and hiring more people.
Even as the economy now starting to recover, during other recoveries, Sidotti says firms like these would be hiring workers in droves as demand picks up for goods and services.
This time around they're not, because they don't know what their costs are going to be.
National Federation, independent business chief economist Bill Dunkelberg.
The horizon is filled with cost unknowns from health care to cap and trade, the yawning deficits, the need to come to grips with them from paid family and medical leave to card check, expiration of the Bush tax cuts to state decisions about the finances.
Washington just cannot expect small business owners, facing difficult economic circumstances anyway, to commit themselves to investing in new employees or equipment and vehicles without acknowledging and revealing the policy-inspired costs.
It's all about uncertainty and confidence.
This we've been telling you this months now.
Nobody is going to invest in growth when they don't know what the rules of the game are going to be in terms of government-imposed costs.
The real point here that Heritage makes is that our economy's job creators have been trying to send a message to Obama for months, saying, Stop creating so much uncertainty in the tax and regulatory environment so that we can figure out how to invest our money and start creating jobs.
Stop taking over car companies.
Stop shedding financing contracts.
Stop taking over one-sixth of our economy.
Stop raising taxes on the energy sector.
Just stop.
If they just stop, the economy will eventually recover and start producing jobs again.
But that recovery has already been delayed by an administration that saw this recession as an opportunity to fundamentally rewrite our nation's relationship with the federal government.
And unless this administration completely abandons its far-reaching transformation agenda, this recovery is going to be a very, very slow one.
That's morning bell at the uh at the Heritage Foundation.
I and folks, remember now, I know it's it's it's hard.
Difficult to hear this.
It's difficult to say it.
There is a decline.
We, for the first time in our history as a nation, are a nation in decline.
And this administration is there to manage it, not stop it, because they think we deserve to be in decline.
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All right, as promised we go to the phones.
We're going to start in Cincinnati.
This is Jerry.
It's great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Hello, sir.
How are you?
I was watching Hannity Sunday night, and they had two guys on there that were talking about how bad things are and the economy and spending money and all this and that, and how there is a tipping point to where we will not be able to recover from.
And I I'll be honest with you.
I've never felt this bad about the situation that we're in since I was in the third grade in school.
And uh what happened in the third grade in the school.
Oh, they hit us crawling under desk because of the bomb.
Oh, yeah.
And I never I have never not felt this helpless since.
Well, you know something I had to do those drills too.
I know.
We had to go with my parents look at bomb shelters.
I know, but I was never as concerned about that as uh then as I am about this now.
I I know, and I I had the same stupid feeling, like what is going to happen.
You know?
Is it too late or what's going on?
Oh, it's not too late.
I didn't think it was.
I'd be in New Zealand if it was too.
I'll tell you when it's too late.
I'll tell you when it's time to panic.
I'll tell you when we reach the tipping point.
We're nowhere near it.
We're still the United States of America.
Majority of the American people have clearly expressed they don't want a shred of what's happening here.
And we will stop it.
Well, thank God.
The American people still, in the end, get what they want.
This is not what they thought they were getting.
They have been scammed totally.
They thought they were getting something postpartisan, post-bickering, post-racial.
They they thought they were getting a smooth talking.
Everybody was going to love us.
They've gotten nothing.
Nothing.
Zilch.
Nobody, nobody, there I mean, you get some statistically 20, 30 percent.
Nobody is happy.
The left thought they were getting uh somebody who was going to stop the war in Iraq and close Gitmo the first day in office uh and put Bush and Cheney in jail and so forth, they're unhappy.
Uh you have people in the middle who thought, oh, well, okay, we're gonna get rid of the extremes and all sides.
We're gonna be a reasonable here.
We're gonna get along and uh put people back to work and so nothing whatever people's expectations were that voted for the guy have not any anything near been met.
Well, thanks for your efforts there, because uh you wanted a few lights out there that are still shining.
Well, I'm I uh let me just it's it's a real dilemma for me here.
It's a a challenge.
Because those of you who have listened to this program since its inception, that would be its beginning for those of you in Port St. Lucy and Rio Linda know that one of the defining characteristics of this program has been optimism, can do, best country on earth, best people on earth, most opportunity on earth.
Everything's gonna be okay kind of program, encouragement, good cheer, uh smile on the all this kind of stuff.
But at the same time, we have not delved into false optimism.
We I I have not I have not told you things that I think are better than they are, just for the sake of saying it.
We're at a time now where it's it's a delicate balance.
Because to define honestly the circumstances we face and be optimistic about it is a tough challenge.
Because I'm not optimistic about where we are.
I don't like where we are.
The optimism is that we can stop it because we have.
But it's never going to stop coming at us.
Liberalism's been on the march for centuries.
It's just never gotten this close to power in this country before.
But I am encouraged.
Now, after the election last year, I if if you would have pinned me down and said, you really you depressed, I would have said, Yeah, because I knew, and a number of us knew that this Obama was a 100% fraud.
And it was frightening that so many people got taken in by the guy.
Because that makes us think, oh, we've lost the country.
If you lose the people, if the people decide they want to go, Europe socialism, they decide they want rewards of the state.
Then we're finished.
And I was wondering, has that happened?
Because I knew exactly who Obama was, what he's gonna do, and it was easy for anybody to spot this look at who he's hung around with.
Just look at who raised him, who's educated him, and look at he was apologizing for the country while he was campaigning.
He was apologizing for the country all over the world in Berlin, wherever he went, he was apologizing for America and his buddies were doing the same thing.
So he was not a mystery to me, but the fact that so many people get fooled by the guy really depressed me.
So then in January, even before the guys immaculated, the Wall Street Journal says, Well, 400 words from you on um your hopes for the Obama administration.
I got four for you.
I hope he failed.
And the tide began to turn.
And even people on my side, rush dog, he's got it.
How do you can't sir that you can't do that?
You can't somebody had to say it.
I said it, because I meant it from the moment I said I meant it from the moment he won the election.
His brand of politics, his view of the world, his view of the country has got to fail.
So, as usual, my friends, I was out of front, this time by about six months.
Then a tea party sprung up, and they that was that was nobody led them, I mean, it was Tea Party people effervested right out of the grassroots.
A lot of them were people who had never ever been to a town hall, had never been to a town meeting, uh, were really casually invested in politics.
But they knew, they said this is not, this is not our country.
This is not what we voted for or what have you.
This kind of debt that's being wrung up, this spending, this uh it it's it's going to trap us all.
It's gonna it's it's gonna roll back our lifestyles and opportunities for kids and grant people instinctively knew this.
So my for the sake of time here, I'll say my depression evaporated very soon.
Once I learned, once it became apparent that a clear and sizable majority wants no part of Barack Obama's agenda.
So America's still America.
America is the people.
The people are who make this country work.
And the people are hurting.
Many millions are out of work And are forced to depend on government to get by.
And a lot of them are embarrassed by it and don't like it.
But it's their only hope, it's their only chance.
They see that nothing is being done from their government to facilitate a change in their lives for the better.
They see it continually deteriorating.
And such more and more people are joining the clear majority who want no part of this.
So are we at a tipping point?
Well, you have to define the tipping point.
But if the tipping point is an aroused populace who's simply not going to take it anymore, yeah, we're there.
And you'll see the results in November and even before.
Well, it's going to be an ongoing uh daily struggle, because these people are on the march and they have only one intention, and that's to manage America's decline and see to it that it happens.
Because they think we deserve to be a nation in decline.
I if if I could wave a magic wand one time and make everybody believe something for just two minutes, it would be this bunch of people in the White House and throughout Washington, who are with Obama, been appointed by him or whatever, do not like this country is founded.
They resent it.
They think it's unfair, immoral, unjust from our military to our capitalist system, and they are out to change it because we deserve a comeuppance.
We've been too rich, we have stolen all the goods and services from around the world, we've kept the rest of the world poor while enriching ourselves, and even the people who really made this country, they've gotten the shaft too.
The blue-collar world, these people are going to fix it.
They're gonna give this country a pitch slap.
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David in San Antonio, Texas.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're up next.
Hey, Russ, how are you?
Fine, sir.
Thank you very, very, very, very much.
How are you?
I'm doing well.
First time caller, long time listener.
Um, and I wanted to tug your ear on this on this issue about China.
You've talked a lot about how in debt we are to China.
Yeah.
And I wanted to know how much are we in debt to China?
And then I have a follow-up question.
If we uh depending on how much that is, why can't we use this unspent stimulus money to pay off that debt?
Well, it's not it's it doesn't it doesn't work that way.
Um the debt to China is that they have purchased, and not Japan, but because they started selling some of the T bills, but Japan is the largest holder of our debt, meaning they are buying treasury bills at a you know interest rate, and the uh that that's that's where the debt is.
Uh we are we're we're essentially financing our deficit with money that we don't have by selling futures, selling treasury bills that they buy that they can hopefully at some point down the road when they redeem them, they will they'll show uh a gain on them.
And they're very worried here because we keep adding to the debt and adding to the debt, which makes their percentage of it worth less at at the time.
And they can't they can't call it because they need us for their own economic growth.
So it's uh it they're they're in a little bit of a catch-22, but they are so showing signs of selling it off.
They did sell off about I forget the exact number, 75 billion dollars worth of T bills, uh, which makes Japanese the number one holders.
I I don't really know the exact number uh treasury bills that they hold.
I think it's in a seven or eight hundred billion dollar range, but that uh that just a wild guess, and I'm gonna have to look that up.
So we would not be able to really pay off our debt to China, really.
Uh no, because with unused stimulus money?
Yeah.
Or any or any kind of money, actually.
No, we if if we if we pay China off, we're just paying somebody else to assume their debt, we're not solving anything.
Oh, okay.
Then why is it such a big deal?
Why is what such a big deal?
Well, why wh why is why is it such a big deal that that um I mean I I think in the political arena, you know, we talked about, you know, China is owning us and and with this huge foreign debt to China and it's such a big deal.
It's always talked about.
And it's like we can never get out from under it, it seems.
It's a big deal because they have a hammer over us.
Right.
Right.
Holding a way to get out of it.
They have assumed the responsibility of keeping us afloat.
Yeah.
And if they decide to turn it against us and use it as a hammer, there's not a whole lot we can do other than nuke them.
Okay.
Well, that's a bit extreme, but but I know.
The bottom line here, look, David, the bottom line is you cannot the reason we're in this problem is that we've gone in debt to get further in debt.
To retire.
This stimulus money, we don't have it.
The stimulus money was printed or borrowed.
Uh we we're not paying anybody back.
We're paying interest, but we're not paying, we're not retiring our principal.
This is like a credit card, you pay the minimum for the rest of your life, and the principal keeps going up.
All you do is pay, that's what we're doing.
We don't have this money.
The stimulus is a is a great example.
We think of in fact, the whole concept of government stimulating the economy is absurd.
The only way that would work, David, is if somewhere in Washington there is some actual money that has full value that's stashed somewhere that is not borrowed and not printed, and we take that money and we inject it into the private sector, that would put more money, more capital into the private sector.
And then you would have stimulus.
But that's not what we did.
To get that $787 billion of stimulus, we had to take it out of the private sector.
It comes in the form of taxes, or we borrow it.
But there's no new money.
In fact, capital has been taken out.
It hasn't been put back in, less than 30% of the stimulus has been spent.
It's in Washington.
It's used to grow government.
Federal workers now earn more than private sector workers on average.
The federal workforce is growing.
The unemployment rate there is only 3%.
In the private sector is 10%.
The government's growing.
They're taking money, they're stimulating nothing but themselves.
The Democrat Party and their belief in expansion is government.
They're not stimulating anything in the economy.
And and they know it.
And when I hear people say, well, you know, Obama just doesn't get it.
Yes, he does.
He knows exactly and if he doesn't know what he's doing, the people advising him to do this know what they're doing.
There's not there's not one sane individual who would do what they're doing if they honestly wanted the private sector to grow.
Not one person they'll say it.
Oh Obama, he talks a Linsky very well.
Private sector, it's we're all jobs.
We're gonna create growth in the private sector.
Well then do it.
Get out of the way.
Get out of their way.
They're telling you you are in their way.
Your expansionist government plans, cap and tax, health care, amnesty for illegal, they don't know what they're dealing with here.
They're not going to invest in growth until all this shakes out.
And if it shakes out with Obama getting everything he wants, they're gonna close shop.
This is a this is a purposeful managing the decline.
Think of it that way.
If it's a little easier for you to get your arms around and have it not be so disturbing, they're managing the nation's decline.
If if they're destroying the country on purpose is just too coarse and too harsh, you don't want to believe that managing America's decline.
Because you have to agree we're in decline, don't you?
Would you would you all agree with me that we're in decline?
Well, uh, we certainly aren't ascending.
The one thing that's ascending right now is conservatism.
But you have job, your prospects look good, gonna flood the market with three million more million more college graduates.
And this bunch, they think the minute they have the diploma in their hands, that a $250,000 a year job and a $500,000 house is waiting for them the next Monday.
Baby boomers.
The baby boomers, they don't want to quit.
They don't want to retire.
They like working.
And if even if they wanted to quit, they can't.
They wanted to retire.
They can't.
So they're not going to leave their jobs unless they get canned and get uh and laid off or what have you.
And in addition to that, these baby boomers are going to start putting all kinds of new pressure on entitlement, social security and Medicare, and uh and all the rest.
I hope that helps, David.
Debt is a bad thing personally, for a family, for a country.
The only difference is a government can print more money and go into greater debt on its own.
A state can't do it, you can't do it.
Uh personally or in your family.
Here is Kevin in Slayton, Minnesota.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Diddles.
Thank you.
Is that still acceptable?
Always.
Very good.
My question, Russ, is uh I became aware that a neighboring state, South Dakota, a state attorney made a news announcement concerning uh joining 17 other states and and looking into possible legal uh ramifications with the federal government over this uh health care program.
There are a lot of states that are trying to opt out of it.
There are a lot of states that are trying to constitutionally insulate themselves uh from it.
I I think your number 17 is right.
It may even be I think it's that maybe a little higher now.
I don't know.
It's it's on a constitutional basis.
And John Boehner, by the way, uh is is leading a charge, but he's being very vocal about the fact that uh all this is unconstitutional.
The federal government cannot mandate you buy anything.
This whole health care bill, if it were to be challenged constitutionally, could be wiped out.
But somebody has to bring the challenge.
Somebody has to bring it, and I yeah, you have to wait till it actually happens before the challenge is brought.
Sort of like you can't you can't go to the police and say, hey, you know, my house is gonna get robbed Saturday and I heard people talking about, well, we can't do anything about it until it actually happens.
Same thing here.
Uh and I I'm confident there are people you and I have never heard of that are working on way ways to defeat this that you and I probably haven't considered.
You know, folks, I was thinking about something in the last break, because I'm getting not a lot, but a decent number of emails today.
Thanks for the help, Rush.
Thanks for the encouragement.
Really, Rush, why you've convinced me there's no hope.
This kind of stuff.
Let me tell you the truth of things out there, ladies and gentlemen.
Even if, even if, I want you to hear this, Snerdley.
Even if I said to you today, folks, it's over.
We can't stop it.
Uh we've gotten beyond the point of no return.
That would not affect what's going to happen.
People in this country are going to continue to stop, because it's their life.
People are not mind-numbed robots here.
The people who oppose Obama do not oppose Obama because they've been told to, because they have been uh brainwashed into supporting him, hypnotized or any of that.
They oppose him because in their hearts, in their good old American hearts, they know this is not their country.
And they're not, we are not a nation of people just gonna roll over and say, okay, have at us, have your way with it.
We're not gonna do it, no matter what I say.
So it this this is the people inside the beltway, even our smartest political minds there do not understand that aspect of the American mindset today.
There's a bubble when you're in D.C. and you don't really see the things going on outside the place.
But trust me, it's it is a severe and serious outrage that is bubbling up out of people are not going to accept this.
They'll do whatever they have to to stop it.
We'll be back with more.
Hey, folks, I was wrong.
Uh-uh, uh, uh, uh, ah, uh No, no, I was not wrong.
I I uh I didn't know something.
The ChICOMs are are still the largest holders of U.S. debt.
And they're proud of it.
They're upset that the Japanese have the title.
So I have here the the the uh the Chicom Post dot com.
The government now says that uh the Chicoms did not lose their place in December as the largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasury debt.
The Treasury Department said that under annual benchmark revisions, released on Friday, this is a this is a February twenty-eighth story, uh that the ChICOM's holdings of U.S. Treasury security stood at 894.8 billion at the end of December, keeping it in first place ahead of Japan.
I frankly am stunned.
The ChICOMs are bragging.
They don't want to lose the title.
As the number one holder of America.
Folks, that's like you, wanting to have the largest balance ever MasterCard's ever seen.
And they come along and announce that your neighbor has the largest balance.
Oh no, no, no, I still have the largest balance.
Here's uh Donald in Boca Raton, Florida.
Welcome, sir to open line Friday.
Hello, uh Rush.
Hi.
I got a little bit of a complaint.
Uh live I've been listening to you for close to thirty years.
Now and I Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Wait a minute now.
Thirty years.
Yeah.
Thirty years.
We're uh 2010, 2001.
You'd have had to been listening to me in 1980.
When I was working for the Kansas City Royals.
Well, I I said somewhere in the vicinity.
Well, it okay, it's close enough.
Okay, uh, uh I'm very upset about you may poking fun at the poor people in Rio Linda, and now it is at Stewart, uh, Florida.
No, no, Port St. Lucy.
You report St. Louis, okay.
Uh, you remind me of my rich wealthy millionaire ex-brother in law.
I was in his hot tub one day and he said, Ho, ho, ho, I wonder how the poor people are doing.
And I think that now wait a second.
I think that's pretty low.
Donald.
Yeah.
I have never said, I wonder how the poor I did ask what are we going to do about the Christians yesterday, but I have never said I wonder how the poor people are doing.
Well, you And that's not what I mean when I talk about real Linda or Port St. Louis.
Look, Donald, do you think it in Port St. Lucy they went in to get some chicken McNuggets, didn't have any, and they called 911 thinking they're gonna get Obama.
Now, uh that has nothing to do with poor.
That is to do with stupid.
Well, I don't think the people in Rio Linda are stupid either.
Well, they know.
The people of Rio Linda love me.
You know what's happened to property value since I started pointing out that Rio Linda even exists?
Do you know the real enda story?
Well, I've been there.
Quite a few times, and I've gotten lost there, and I'd be helped out, and they helped me out very well getting to where I wanted to go.
How in the world could you get lost in Rio Linda?
It's only a little place.
It's a at the end of the day.
Well, I know, but that's it's not possible to get lost there.
Well, I was looking for someplace else, and they helped me find it.
And how did you know it wasn't someplace else when you were in Rio Linda?
Well, I asked people.
It wasn't the uh cars jacked up on concrete blocks, it wasn't the washing machines on the front porches.
Not when I was there.
I must have been in a better place.
Well, there are some nice real Linda, but you have to look hard to find them, and you gotta be going there to get there.
Well, I just resent the fact that you try to make the whole town of Rio Linda st uh uh be stupid people.
And they're not really stupid.
Well, okay, maybe not all of them, but that's not the point.
I'm I'm hey, there's stupid people right here in the book of a tongue.
Oh, we know.
Uh these are people that needed psychological help after Kerry lost the election in 04.
Oh hey, what am I gonna tell you?
Well, you've already told me.
Uh what are you doing with the in a hot tub with with your uh with your ex-brother in law anyway?
Well, he was I was with my wife, of course.
And he was uh he was a millionaire, multi millionaire.
What's wrong with that?
He's nothing wrong with that.
All right.
But then poking fun at the poor people.
I resent.
Well, that's just that's just classless.
Yeah.
That is no c so he's an ex brother in law.
There's obviously a reason.
Well, yeah, I just my wife passed away two years ago.
He passed away two years ago.
Oh, I'm sorry here that he and he passed away about seven years ago.
I should say four years.
Oh, his wife, his wife two years ago.
Okay.
And the brother.
Okay, well, the story of Rio Linda, very simply, when I moved to Sacramento, I had a I had basically five days to familiarize myself with the community.
And I'm surveying, and nobody's talking about politics.
It's October of 84.
They're talking about carrot cake recipes for the comp coming holidays.
Well, this is a golden opportunity.
So I started driving around the place learning about it, and I found this place Rio Linda.
No number on the on the population side, nobody will admit living here.
And I'm going through the main drag, and literally there were cars on concrete blocks and dishwashers and so forth on the on the uh front porch.
And it's whoa, what is this place?
And I one of the first things I did was offer to move there if they would rename it Limbaugh, California, elevate property value.
They turned me down, so what are you expect?
White House advisor Ram Emanuel's older brother.
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Heavier people are bad for the economy.
And this is the warning signs.
We tell you they get health care, they regulate every aspect of your life based on the costs of the government.
Ram Emanuel's brother, heavier people, bad for the economy.
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