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May 7, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 7, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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Greetings and welcome back.
You know who I am, and you know what this is, and you know it's Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
That's how we save time.
We got a lot to do.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program today.
And open line Friday means you got to talk about whatever you want.
Eight hundred two eight two.com.
Just as I predicted.
And I was not the only one.
Remember Obama.
And the Democrats have repeatedly promised for over a year that Americans, if you like your health plan, if you like your doctor, you won't lose your current coverage.
You won't be uh forced to switch plans.
Under Obama's health care plan.
And they shoved that plan down our throats despite the fact that 80% of Americans were satisfied with their current plan.
In a stunning revelation Wednesday, several top United States corporations are seriously considering dropping employee health insurance coverage in light of what they see as the inevitable consequence of Obamacare skyrocketing costs.
Now, stick with me on this because we got a sound bright uh sound bite of Christina Roomer coming up here that's just delectable given this data.
The companies say that after their legal experts poured over the thousands of pages in the new law, it'll cost them less to pay the fines for not providing health care coverage for employees than continuing to provide employer paid health insurance benefits.
Duh.
Exactly what we forecast on this program because this is the intent.
The fines are very cheap compared to the cost of coverage.
The whole point is to get rid of private insurance, to knock it out of business.
Send everybody to Obama's government for health insurance.
That's the way that they want single payer.
This is their first route to do it.
Uh, as a side note to the announcement, the companies maintain that Obamacare will result in a dramatic increase in expenses for providing employee coverage with added costs skyrocketing to multi-billions of dollars, according to the business record.
Additionally, the penalties to businesses for not offering coverage are less expensive than the cost of providing insurance.
But for those that aren't providing coverage now, this is a huge burden to them.
And for employers that have a lot of employees working 30 hours, which is the threshold to be considered uh full-time, you may have a lot of businesses cutting them back to 29 hours.
So top companies consider dropping employee health coverage.
Costs are gonna skyrocket.
It'll be cheaper to pay the fine.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
This morning on the Fox Business Network's Varney and Company.
Stuart Varney talked to the Council of Economic Advisors Chairman or Chair, Christina Roomer.
Stuart Varney said the European model seems to be broken.
Very big entitlement programs, very high taxation.
That model seems to be broken, and yet we in America are going more like Europe all the time.
Do you have any comment on that?
In terms of of the United States, I mean I think you should draw uh some real confidence from the fact of how we have dealt with this crisis, how we're growing again, and we are doing the you know, all of our policies in a very responsible way.
Think about what we did in health care reform.
If you look at the numbers from the Congressional Budget Office, that is in fact one of the biggest fiscal improvements that we've seen in a very long time.
That it is being done in such a fiscally responsible way, it's actually going to reduce the deficit by some one trillion dollars over the next 20 years.
So devoid of reality here.
The uh the bus the people in the private sector who've looked at the law said we're gonna pay the fine.
We can't afford this.
Uh, we're gonna be dumping our coverage.
And here's Christina Rowe.
Oh, it's gonna save a trillion dollars off the deficit over uh over uh over 20 years.
Right.
So Stuart Varney said, Well, look, with respect, there are very few economists who really believe that health care reform is gonna cut the deficit because that relies on a doctor's fix, which is not gonna be in the accounts, and it relies on a half trillion dollars being cut out of Medicare, uh, which is more likely to happen.
I really disagree completely.
And uh, you're talking to one economist that did a very careful study of what the bill is going to do.
We absolutely believe it's gonna slow the growth rate of costs by one percentage point a year.
Okay, so we're not Greece.
She basically saying we're not Greece.
Greece, ladies and gentlemen going to hell, soon to be followed by Portugal and Spain.
And more, perhaps even the UK.
Our debt is out of control.
We don't have any money.
Unemployment is at about 10%.
Obama is out there today taking credit for how well things are, how swell things are going.
This is what dictators do.
This is how they try to control their images and public opinion.
Ignore the facts, ignore what you see.
Obama's reality is our reality.
Christina Roomer, we're going to reduce that deficit by a trillion dollars over 20 years.
The economists say so.
Unemployment, 9.9%.
It's because more people are entering the workforce.
It's not.
We've got record highs of people unable to find jobs.
It's all of this.
All of this is pure spin.
Let me put this in perspective for you in Greece.
The European Union is going to give Greece 139 billion dollars to bail them out.
139 billion dollars to be bail out Greece.
Now, a lot of the state controlled media saying, Rush, why do you keep harping on Greek Greece?
Tiny.
I mean, it's it's it's not even the size of New York.
What is it?
It's a domino.
It is a microcosm.
It's what happens when people like Barack Obama run a country.
It is where we are headed.
Okay, so the EU is going to give them 139 billion dollars to bail them out.
That is chump change compared to the numbers we are gonna need to bail ourselves out.
That wouldn't even come close to covering California's pension shortfall.
California's total pension shortfall.
In the public employees' retirement system, the state teachers' retirement system approaches 500 billion, half a trillion.
That's one state.
139 billion to bail out Greece, and that isn't gonna do the it isn't gonna do the job, but we can't even approach this.
So we're not Greece.
We're not Greece.
Oh no, no, no, no.
It is a devastating circumstance that uh that we're looking at here.
And Greece is a microcosm.
And yet the regime's out there telling us today what great economic news is happening and what great economic circumstances exist.
And of course, patting themselves on the back for all of this great news.
At the end of the day, 15.3 million Americans are out of work.
The unemployment rate's up nine point nine percent from nine point seven percent.
I'll go through these numbers again, counting people who have given up looking for work, and part-timers who would prefer to be working full-time.
The so-called underemployment rate rose to 17.1% last month.
That's close to the record high of 17.4% in October.
Shows just how difficult it is for job seekers to find work, and yet the regime's telling us they're so excited.
They're entering a job market.
It's so exciting, it's happening out there, and they're they're they're out there looking for work.
Uh AP, just how difficult it is for them to find work.
And then the number of people out of work six months or longer, six point seven million in April, a new high.
And that six point seven million made up forty-five point nine percent of all unemployed people, also a record high.
Yet, we got great news out there.
Taking credit for how swell things are, Obama outside the White House today.
Here is a montage, by the way, just to show you how the coordination with the regime and the state controlled media works.
Real pravduct uh type stuff here.
This is a a montage of uh of all of the state-run media repeating the mantra that unemployment went up.
It's a good sign because more people are looking for work.
Workers Flooded back into the labor market and pushed the unemployment rate up to 9.9%.
That unemployment rate hitting 9.9%, moving higher.
It reflects more Americans trying to go out and find a job right now.
We saw a huge jump in the number of people who previously were out of the workforce and wanted to get back in and start looking for work.
The unemployment rate is up in April, hitting almost double digits, 9.9%.
More than 800,000 Americans jumping back into the market.
Unemployment rate also moving higher to 9.9%.
Now, that can mean that there's actually more people entering the labor force looking for work, and that could actually be a positive sign.
There you have it.
Or it could not be.
I mean, this is this is but this is how it's being spun.
A lot of that was even the Fox News Channel.
Some of that was even the Fox Business Network.
Now you might be asking, I have empathy.
You might be Rush, who are these businesses that say they're going to cancel health insurance and pay the fine.
Who are the they're the same people who looked at the bill when it came out and said, oops, we have to take a one billion dollar charge to our bottom line because we found something in here that's going to change the way uh uh our entitlements are paid.
Our our our drug uh benefits are uh are parceled out.
And remember Henry Waxman, so you can't do that.
What do you mean?
You everybody knows that health care is going to reduce costs, and he sent out a letter which was essentially a subpoena.
You get yourselves up here, you get yourselves to my committee, me and Mr. Stupak, you get up here and you bring all your emails, and I want you to bring all of your books.
I want to see this.
And so they say, okay.
And fortunately, thereafter, Chairman Waxman canceled the hearings.
He didn't want the news to get out, the real news that the Obamacare legislation is going to drastically raise prices.
Didn't want that to get out.
So it's the same businesses who took this charge.
They have looked at the bill, and they have figured out how much it's going to cost them, and they're going to just get rid of it.
We predicted it.
They're just going to offload their health care benefits to the government to these exchanges or pay the fine.
What happens then?
What happens then is very predictable.
Greece.
See what's happening in Greece.
What happens then is everybody working for a business who drops their health care coverage, everybody who loses it has a fit.
Anti-business fit.
They will not understand that the company is dropping them because the costs are going through the roof because of Obama.
They will they will be told that the companies are greedy and selfish.
Obama has even lowered costs, and yet look what they're doing, and the regime will be out there.
This is made to order for Obama.
Obama will be out there and ripping these businesses.
How dare you?
See, I told you, I told you this is what would happen.
This is why we need bigger government to take care of this.
This is why I need more power.
The private sector's ought to screw you.
We passed a piece of legislation here that reduces costs, that reduces premiums, and look what business did.
They just dropped your coverage.
That it's it's it's all coming.
It's all part of the plan.
It's all it's it's in the recipe.
Folks, we warned you about this.
Everything is very predictable when you all you have to do is understand dictators.
All you have to do is understand lift leftists and liberals and statists.
If you understand that, and then you understand that they lie and manipulate to ultimately get what they want.
They can't get what they want telling you up front.
They can't say we want to be single payer.
We want to be where you have to go to get health coverage and insurance.
They're gonna make it impossible for you to go anywhere else to get it.
Quick timeout.
We're gonna have John Rich from Nashville on the phone when we get back about the the flood, calling it an inland tsunami.
Uh he's recorded a song and leaving some efforts to fundraise because the whole situation there has been ignored.
In fact, Newsweek magazine has a a piece on their website today why the media missed it.
And because, well, it wasn't sexy enough.
They were focused on on the oil spill and uh and and the stock market, and so it did it just didn't register.
The reason it didn't register is because it there aren't any victims down there.
Uh the there it's flyover country.
They don't care about it.
But John Rich has got some things to say about a big and rich.
We'll be back with him right after this.
Don't go away.
Country Music Super Crooner John Rich on the phone with us now from Nashville.
John, welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here with us, my friend.
Thank you, Rush.
Appreciate you having me.
I have to tell people where we met.
Uh we're having dinner in New York.
I was one night at that uh the Kobe Club and I'm sitting there minding my own business in this giant booth and the waitress comes and brings a drink and says, my hearing is very bad, it's very loud in there, and said uh uh uh some Mr. Big uh uh uh wants just give you a drink.
Mr. Big, who the hell's Mr. Big?
Uh so the waitress goes back and finds us John Rich had come in with Randy Jackson and a a a cadre of people of of of of American Idol, and I never got a chance to personally thank you for that, so I'll do it now.
You're quite welcome.
I've been a fan of yours for a long time and appreciate what you say and uh and uh you owe me one now, I guess.
I do.
Well, maybe this is it because you're I I saw you on Fox yesterday afternoon trying to drum up some uh uh attention and interest over what's happening national.
It's not being covered by the media.
They're they're distracted by other things.
What are you doing, John, to try to call attention and and what needs to be done there?
Well, uh let me tell you, it's like an inland tsunami.
That's what uh that's what I call it.
Uh you're sitting there one second and it's just raining, and then the next thing there's ten feet of water, you know, over your head.
Cars are covered, houses are covered.
Uh there's over thirty people have died now from this.
My own grandmother, Granny Rich, uh, had to be rescued on a police boat at her front door.
Um and you know, all the grandmas and grandpa out there uh in the country here in Tennessee that aren't fortunate enough to have family members, you know, to help 'em out, they're just out of luck.
And uh bunch of bitter clingers, John.
It it's right, exactly.
So but you know, I'm a songwriter, Rush.
I'm a I'm a country singer, but I'm a songwriter, and I thought, well, what's something I could do that that might be bigger than I've I've donated, but something that might get a lot of people to donate, and I wrote a song.
I actually wrote it yesterday called Lend a Hand.
And it's a really cool kind of kind of Pentecostal uh Memphis blues feeling kind of song.
Um and I made it as a free download, free song.
I'm giving it away uh at John Rich dot com.
If you're at your computer, just go to John Rich dot com.
You'll see it right there to your right.
Free download, just put your email address in so we can email it to you, and then there's the donation link right there.
You can click on that, and if you want to help the side, we're not gonna hear from AssCap or BMI on this.
Well, they can they I'm sure they will donate their part as well, man.
Good, good, good, good.
Yeah, everybody's everybody's chipping in, the players on it all played last night on it for free, and it's just something I'm trying to do to help the folks out.
John, uh you you you cited some of the uh uh damage that affected you personally, but I've said the Grand Ole Opry.
How much uh that's underwater, though the the inside of it.
How much water got inside the Grand Ole Opry.
I mean this is Well I saw a uh a a video clip of a guy taking a canoe across the stage of the Grand Ole Opry.
I mean, it's heartbreaking.
I mean, you know, that for a country singer and all the country fans, the Grand Ole Opry is that's it.
I mean that that's that's the biggest greatest thing we've got, and and uh to see it underwater like that is just unbelievable.
The Opry Land Hotel, they're saying won't be open until probably Christmas.
I mean it the economy here is gonna take just a massive, massive hit.
And then like I said, you got all the good country folks out there that just got flooded out and like you said, nobody's hardly talking about it in the media.
I find it ironic that our president will go on and and make a special speech about everything under the sun every other minute, but hasn't come on to talk about Tennessee.
He hasn't.
Well, he knows he doesn't have any constituents there to speak of.
And he he uh well no seriously.
I mean, this is uh I I I don't want to poison the well here that because you're that you're trying to be able to do that.
Yeah, I mean, you d I mean there's no you know, you don't have to we don't have to go off on a tangent on it, but but it's true though, you're noticeable to me.
You still will not find uh a donation link at a White House website for Tennessee.
You will find it for Haiti, and you will find it for people in the Gulf because of the oil slick.
Uh and uh the reason the media is ignoring this, John, it's it look it you don't have any victims.
You don't have anybody on the roofs of houses saying where is my goodies?
I mean you uh you you're banding together with your churches and your families and you're solving the problem, you're not complaining about it.
There's no there's no story here.
There's no there's no story for the media saying, look how rotten America is.
Uh Tennesseans aren't looking for a handout, I can promise you that.
But you know, a guy like me, I live here, I write songs, so what do I do?
I'll write a song about it and and give it away as an incentive for people to maybe send a couple of dollars our way if they feel like helping us out.
And that That's kind of what I'm trying to do.
Uh in addition to downloading the song.
We have it.
We're gonna play it in the next segment uh out of the next break.
But is your website also f uh uh available for people to make some sort of donation?
Yes, the link is on the website.
When you go to get to go to get the song for free, uh lend a hand.
It's a free download.
Right there you'll see the link where you can uh where you can make a donation if you feel like uh that's what you want to do, which I hope you do.
Now oh uh John, rest assured.
Uh it will happen.
I'm I'm sure it's happening now.
What's the website again?
What's the link?
John Rich dot com.
Okay.
Uh we take pride, John, in shutting down websites on this program we know the folks in Tennessee will appreciate it, Rush.
They really will.
Now, John, uh you haven't talked about yourself.
You talked about your grandmother.
Uh what about you?
Did you suffer any damage in your home?
No, I got lucky.
I was up high enough that uh it didn't get to me, but uh I just got off the phone with my little brother, and uh we're going to buy a few uh uh power sprayers to start going through neighborhoods and and with bleach and start knocking it out.
Because the next thing that happens is once the water gets out of there, then now it now you got the mold and you got everything else.
It's it's it's just an it's an absolute mess, Rush.
It's like an inland tsunami.
That's the best way I can put it.
They said this is not a hundred year flood, this is a thousand year flood.
Yeah, I saw that.
Yeah.
It's it's unbelievable.
So anyway, uh, you know, I appreciate you letting me come on and talk about it.
Great to talk to you, John.
We've got a you know the the the American people um particularly in this audience are extremely generous and uh love to reward people uh like the people of Nashville who are not asking for a thing.
They're simply rolling up the sleeves and doing it.
So you're gonna have a lot of traffic at John Rich.com and thank you for your time on the program today.
We'll play Lend a Hand right out of the bottom of the hour break when we come back, which is now, and then get to your phone calls right after that.
Sit tight, folks.
We'll be right back.
All right, Times Square, an area of Times Square large area of Times Square has been shut down.
A suspicious package has been found in a cooler outside a hotel in Times Square.
I'm looking at the pictures.
I've never seen Times Square this deserted, that large an area, other than when they were filming a movie there, Vanilla Sky.
I have never ever, I've never seen this.
And I'm I'm sure uh folks, as we speak, they are looking uh at at the video cameras for a a white guy in his forties, uh who might have uh with a tea party t-shirt, uh who might have left this package uh in a cooler in front of the hotel.
John Rich dot com.
We did we shut it down for a few seconds, came back up, it's very slow.
Stick with it.
John Rich dot com, where you can help out if you want to.
The flood devastation in Nashville.
This the free song you can download from the site.
John Rich, lend a hand, wrote it, recorded it yesterday.
Anybody uh uh uh Chicom's uh offered any assistance to Tennessee is Hugo Chavez, uh Venezuela offered any.
No.
Uh Barack Obama.
No.
Haiti, is Haiti offered any assistance to uh well they got a lot of money flowing in there.
John Rich.
Lend us a hand, recorded and written yesterday.
A free download at John Rich.com, which is slow.
We slowed it up here at a lot of traffic.
You can also make uh contribution and donation.
Since the Chinese haven't helped, the Saudis haven't helped, uh uh the Obama hasn't helped.
No word of any assistance from Hugo Chavez either.
Um what I don't know.
I I I d I d we haven't heard from Fidel.
I don't I don't think Castro has a uh a history.
But the United Nations, now there's some place we might go.
I mean, they were they beat tracks to get into Haiti.
Uh and uh Yeah, hide your kids because you know what happens when the when the UN blue helmets show up in there.
But it's uh it's it's ri is.
It's amazing.
When you see the videos of what's happened and the fact when you realize how bad it is, uh the the Opera Land Hotel will not open until December.
This happened in a period of twenty-four hours and and uh hardly any media coverage because no victims, there's no it there's no mainstream media template here that they can plug into.
So they they don't they don't understand it.
Anderson Cooper.
Let me see if I can find this sound bite real quick.
I went through the roster very quickly.
Anderson Cooper expressing shock that there were so many church people gathering together to be ah, might have might have found it here.
Um I'm looking here.
I got two pages stuck together.
There's got to be a better way to do it.
It appears, yes.
Uh Anderson Cooper last night, live from Nashville, uh on Campbell Brown's show.
She said Anderson Cooper joining us right now from Nashville.
Anderson, I know you talked to a lot of those people.
How are they holding up?
It's an incredible place.
I've never seen so many volunteers so quickly after a disaster descending and helping out neighbors.
Thousands of members of church groups and individuals who just come out.
You see people in front of homes, and you say, Is this your home?
They're like, No, I'm just here.
I just came down here to help.
It's an incredible sight to see.
It's a real testament to the spirit and strength of Nashville.
There's a lot of frustration here.
You know, a lot of people feel the national media hasn't paid uh enough attention to this soon enough, and and you know, they're they're certainly justified in in in feeling that way.
There's Anderson Cooper on CNN last night.
Um Nashville's a foreign country.
Wow, I've never seen such volunteers.
I I I've never seen this kind of quick response.
Uh wow, and and and you know, I it's it's a lot of people feel the national media hadn't paid enough attention.
I remember when Anderson Cooper and Shepard Smith and the rest of them were in New Orleans, the drum beat Where's the government?
Where is FEMA?
Where is Bush?
Look at these people on the roof.
Where is us this?
Uh no such clamoring from the assembled media, whatever media is there.
In uh Nashville.
Well, I know they're not waiting around.
He hadn't seen this kind of thing before.
He hadn't seen this kind of quick response, church groups banding together, people showing up in front of houses that are not theirs to help.
He's from New York.
He hasn't seen it before.
To the phones.
Uh look at you people on hold have been patient.
I really appreciate it.
Bob in Minneapolis.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, it's been it's a privilege to talk with you.
I've been uh trying to get through for about 15 years.
Here you are.
And here I am.
Today's a day.
The uh I'll give I got a comment on the uh unemployment rate, but uh first the uh I got introduced to you in 1992, right after Clinton was elected.
Oh, yeah.
I was uh serving on a submarine in the Pacific Ocean.
And uh part of being on a missile submarine is you have to continually uh monitor communications.
So we had the advantage of capturing radio signals as well.
And uh our commanding officer, while I was on the uh the up in control driving a submarine, he'd uh he'd buzz me and he'd uh say, Come right ten degrees.
So I'd take the submarine right ten degrees, and then he'd buzz me a little bit later and he'd be come left ten degrees, and uh we finally figured out what he was doing.
He was tuning the antenna to pick up your radio show.
Really?
Absolutely out in the Pacific.
In the Pacific.
So for three hours a day we drove uh drove to capture Rush.
That is amazing.
What a story!
What a great story.
It was great, and uh I've been listening to you ever since.
Thank you very much.
You can't you probably can't identify the ship because it's nuclear, right?
It is it was a nuclear submarine.
Yeah, ballistic missile submarine, but uh I'm sure we weren't the only ones, but uh it was a good time.
So since retired from the Navy and uh and here I am.
Well, I once got a tour uh in Pearl Harbor of the USS Indianapolis, which was a uh a nuclear sub, and I asked to see the water desalinization.
Oh no, no, sir, we we'd love to we can't show you the reactor.
Oh, okay, I'm sorry I asked.
And it was very uh obviously very secure area, but I was I was you people that serve on submarines are uh uh a unique breed.
Is one word for it, that's for sure.
No question.
Hey, here's on the uh unemployment rate.
Here's something that just uh an observation and uh maybe it's connecting some dots, but uh yes, the uh people are out looking for work.
Um right before uh recess for uh Congress.
We just extended unemployment benefits for those that previously had tapped out or maxed out of their unemployment benefits, and I'm sure some of those are running backs or more.
Thus the numbers go up.
Aha.
So right with the let me I'm sure I understand this.
You think the only reason they're lack looking is because benefits have expired.
Their benefits had expired.
And within the last six weeks.
They've been restored.
They've been restored and extended to a longer time frame.
So they'll stop looking now.
Well, they they did stop looking because they had maxed out on the number of weeks they could collect.
Right.
And now there's a longer timeline they can collect, so it's back to the line again.
Interesting point.
Very well.
You're you're a mathematics guy, aren't you?
I'm uh definitely an engineer type.
Yeah, yeah.
It takes somebody like you to figure that out.
I'm glad you called.
This has been a great call.
You have you have made my day a submarine being steered in the Pacific Ocean to capture the EIB network.
Yes.
Gosh, I love the military.
I I just I just I just do.
By the way, they keep telling us, ladies and gentlemen, the media and everybody keeps telling us the Times Square bomber failed miserably.
Did he?
Look at Times Square this very minute.
A large area of it is shut down.
Think of how much all of this has cost the city and businesses in that area that are now shut down.
So you don't even need the explosion of a bomb for terrorism to have an impact.
Brief time out.
More phone calls from you right after this.
Yeah, I kind of always like this too.
KC, the Sunshine Band and give it up.
And they're still around.
They're still around shucking and jiving, uh, Snerdly.
Welcome back, open line Friday, Rush Limboy.
If Detroit had been flooded as Nashville has, do you think we would have coverage?
Do you think the drive by media would have been on the scene practically immediately?
You do.
Yeah, I happen to think so too.
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Here's Juliana in Orange County, California.
I'm glad you called.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Rash.
I've listened to you since 1989.
I can't copy um submarine tail, because I was living in a trailer at the time with three children, which um I was listening to you in Tom Lykis at the time.
Oh I remember those days.
Well, I always thought you were full of yourself, but I don't anymore, and I really appreciate what you and we're going to be.
Well, I still am full of myself.
Well, I know that.
That's why you have snerdly, though.
I like him.
Kind of balances you out.
But my question is, why hasn't Obama been to Tennessee and you know addressed this major flooding?
What do you think?
What are you thinking?
I I because I don't think that again.
No, it's it's difficult to say.
It's hard to say it.
It's easy.
It's easy to know why.
It's hard to say it.
I think he looks at Tennessee and doesn't see a risk reward there.
He doesn't see any benefit to going.
Uh he doesn't see a whole lot of constituents.
Those are bitter clingers.
There's a that that is not a husband.
That's not a winning crisis.
Well, there's a lot of American history there.
As far as music goes, blues, country.
There's also there's also the Tennessee Valley Authority or administration, which is charged with preventing floods like this.
And the and the left loves it.
FDR set it up.
So if you go there, you gotta kind of acknowledge that one of your own prized bureaucracies kind of didn't work.
But but Obama, everything that happens, every crisis is measured for benefit to him and advancing his agenda.
And apparently, I mean, I hate saying this.
I really we're talking about the president of the United States, but experience is experience.
The truth is the truth.
Willing to say so is is a must.
I there's there's apparently no way he can he can advance an agenda by going there.
Well, all I can say is I'm going to be putting money there.
Instead of getting something for Mother's Day for my children, who I raised by myself for 14 years, I'm going to be donating to Nashville, Tennessee, Indiana.
Instead, God bless you.
God bless you.
You know, the uh the White House does have they put out a statement, they've been on the case day one.
It went up yesterday.
Um but uh they they they did they they still don't have a donation page on the on their website, but they did put out a statement saying they've been on a case.
Uh I think I would never go to any of their Well, when after twelve days goes by, that's when I get in gear.
That's what happened to the oil slick.
Well, I didn't vote for him.
I didn't but I didn't vote for him because I didn't trust him from the get-go and it had nothing to do with the color of his skin because I've been raised in multicultural areas.
Yeah.
Well, if you were in a trailer, there's no question you were.
Well, that was my ex, and uh, I got out of that situation.
I've been on both sides of the fence, and self-reliance, there's nothing like it.
Amen, sister.
You take care and thank you for everything you do for our country.
You do the same.
Uh now she didn't she said she didn't vote for him, and she answered the question why isn't Obama there?
She didn't vote for him.
That's why Obama's not there.
Tennessee was trending toward purple.
And it looks like the Democrats have given up on the state.
No reason to go there.
Back after this.
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Obama outside the White House today, singing the praises.
Nine point nine percent unemployment, up from nine point seven percent.
Great news because more people are looking for work.
They're not finding it, but they're looking for it.
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Food stamp tally near as forty million sets record.
Nearly forty million Americans received food stamps, a new record.
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