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June 1, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 1, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #2
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All right, did a little research here on Bobby Jindle and the Berms.
And why not go ahead and build them?
And I have the answers.
That's why you're here.
You have a question, this is the place to get it answered.
Greetings and welcome back.
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All right, first this.
And this is uh four days ago from the AP.
Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen has approved portions of Louisiana's $350 million plan to try to protect its coastline from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill with a wall of sand.
Allen announced Thursday that about half the proposed 86 mile network of sand berms could move forward, said the other sections would not help keep the oil out and could have interfered with the cleanup.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Gendal was at East Grand Terra Island, a barrier island west of the mouth of the Mississippi when the Coast Guard sent out a news release on the Berm proposal.
Now Jindal said that he had not yet been contacted by the Coast Guard or the Army Corps of Engineers, and he didn't know which sections of Berm were approved.
Now, this story is four days old.
It also turns out, uh, ladies and gentlemen, that the Corps of Engineers has to be involved in this, and that's Fed.
There's also an issue of who pays for this.
Uh Jindel cannot do it without the Corps of Engineers.
Louisiana doesn't have the resources.
One of the reasons he's asking for permission.
They also don't have this is, and this perhaps is as key as anything.
They don't have the money.
This should be a state expense, according to the people uh in uh in Louisiana.
And the the uh New Orleans Times Pickyune had a fascinating headline, actually a story yesterday.
And this is just uh this this goes to the fact that Louisiana doesn't have the money and may not have the money.
Offshore drilling ban could be a blow to Louisiana economy.
The president and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's announcement last week to halt all deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico at the first safe stopping point, while the Interior Department figures out what regulatory changes are necessary for offshore oil prospecting seemed designed to reassure the nation that drilling would only proceed in a safe and environmentally sensitive manner.
But to those who work in the offshore industry and in the communities at the epicenter of the spiraling disaster.
It's smacked of a lack of understanding of the role that the oil business plays in the Louisiana economy.
In the 2008 presidential election, no coastal parishes, except for Orleans supported Obama.
Last week's offshore drilling announcement only seemed to make his administration even less popular in the oil-affected parishes.
So the bottom line is not only is the spill itself doing damage, Obama may cost the state even more money.
By shutting down the oil business.
By shutting it down while regulations are discussed and debated over how to prevent something like this from happening again.
So Jen Jindle is do I think Obama cares?
Well, they oh, does Obama care?
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
They had to tell us last week how much he cares.
And the fact they had to tell us meant there was a question about it.
If somebody's on television saying, and we had a montage, all these media people, oh yeah, Obama cares.
He really cares.
I think he deeply deeply.
Why tell us this?
It must mean because we can't tell that on our own.
This guy, now people are saying it is a little too cool up there.
We need some emoting.
We need some emotion out there.
And I want to remind you, it's not cool.
Obama's cold.
And I have said this from the get-go.
Obama is cold and calculating.
So it's it's Likely that Gendal doesn't know where he can build the berms.
He doesn't have the money to build the berms.
And he needs the Corps of Engineers to be involved in this, which is a federal agency, of course, and he doesn't know where he can build.
So it's it's a mess.
And there's no permit well, there has been permission granted, but nobody is is is is is signing off on the uh on the payment, who's going to pay for what, so forth and so on.
Meanwhile, the oil industry gets shut down in a gulf.
That uh is going to have a greater impact on the entire state economy and not just Louisiana.
You have Alabama affected here, Texas too.
While they have a commission to study what kind of new regulations are necessary to make sure that this doesn't happen again.
Remember, JFK had his Bay of Pigs.
President Obama has his Bay of Rigs.
And the Bay of Riggs has been worse for Obama than the Bay of Pigs was for Kennedy.
Obama is now seen as weak, incompetent, and lazy by his own party.
Dana Milbank in the Washington Post.
Uh I mean, when when a kiss butt like Dana Milbank starts dissing you, you are in trouble.
And this piece by Milbank, which ran on Sunday, May the 30th, is a huge takedown of Obama.
Obama's oil spill response, too much culpability, too much passivity.
Potentially in charge, he closes here.
Maybe it's time to put him actually in charge.
And then Maureen Dowd, who once made fun of his ears.
President Spock's behavior is illogical, she starts her column with.
Of course, all liberal behavior is illogical.
It's the main tenet of liberalism.
So right on top of Dana Milbank, referring to Obama as passive and bloodless, we have Maureen Dowd going after him with a razor in this piece and making fun of his ears again.
Too often it feels as though Barry, she calls him.
Too often it feels as though Barry is watching from a balcony, reluctant to enter the fray until the clamor of the crowd forces him to come down.
The pattern is perverse.
The man whose presidency is rooted in his ability to inspire withholds that inspiration when it is most needed.
It's because he doesn't inspire anybody.
Maureen.
He inspires people in a faux way.
You created the notion he inspires people.
Show me where he's been.
He's he's been inspired by Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright and Frank Marshall Davis and whoever taught him at Columbia and Harvard.
But who has he inspired?
Where are the stories of people who've said, I am where I am today?
Because of Barack Obama.
I remember being inspired by Barack Obama.
I was down in my luck.
I couldn't get anywhere.
I couldn't put one fruit in front of another.
And Obama said you can walk.
And I began to walk, and look at me now.
I'm jogging.
I don't hear these stories.
Have you heard any sturdily?
Where are these personal stare stories of the lives Obama has touched?
All of this has been a myth.
It's all been media manufactured, and now it's gotten to the point where I mean when Dana Milbank and Maureen Dowd have to start bailing water from their own canoes here to make sure they don't sink in the Obama flotilla.
The wound tight travel light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random.
But if you stick too rigidly to a no-drama rule in the White House, you risk keeping reality at bay.
Presidencies are always about crisis management.
Obama doesn't know how to manage anything.
Obama invented himself against all odds and repeated parental abandonment.
And he worked hard to regiment his emotions, but now that that can come across as imperviousness and inflexibility.
He wants to run the Agenda.
He doesn't want the agenda to run him.
Once you become president, though, there's no way to predict what your crises will be.
For five weeks, it looked as though Obama considered the gushing that became the worst oil spill in U.S. history a distraction, like a fire alarm going off in the middle of a law seminar he was teaching.
That's exactly right.
Afghanistan is an inconvenience.
This is an inconvenience.
What Obama really wants to do is complete the job of remaking America.
That's what he's sent there to do.
Obama seemed to tune out a bit after the exhausting battle over health care with the air of someone who says to himself, oh man, that was a heavy lift.
I'm going to take a break.
Republican senators who had a contentious lunch with the president last week described him as whiny, thin skinned, and in over his head.
And there was extreme Democrat angst at the White House dilatory and deferential attitude on the spill.
The media may get tired of the story, but we will not.
Obama told Gulf Coast residents when he visited on Friday.
Actually, if it weren't for the media, the president would probably never have woken up from his torpor and flown down there.
She writes, instead of getting Bill Clinton to offer Joe Sestek a job, Obama should be offering Clinton one.
Bill would certainly know how to gush at a gusher gone haywire.
Let him resume a cameo role as feeler in chief.
The post is open.
Maureen Dowd.
And don't forget how she opened the piece here.
President Spock's behavior is illogical.
What's Spock known for?
Those weird oddball ears.
So we have here uh ladies and gentlemen, Obama's Bay of Riggs.
Obama's Bay of Riggs has been so disastrous, he's now seen as the disappointer in chief by Maureen Dowd and Chris Matthews.
Who?
Who?
Get this.
Last week Chris Matthews played a clip of me on this program impersonating Bill Clinton.
And when I suggested, what better guy to go out and get to handle this cestack thing than somebody who's willing to commit perjury?
And Matthew said, you know, now and then Limbaugh gets it right.
That's pretty clever.
And he played my impersonation, so they know.
They know.
So you have the Bay of Riggs, disappointer in chief, Maureen Dowd, Chris Matthews.
Obama has not only let them down, he has let down his entire party as well as millions of others who were foolish to vote for him.
But to be fair, those who fell for Obama's favorite prop, hope, should only be disappointed in themselves because they fell for a totally unaccomplished leftist who delivered platitudes and deceit with great passion.
Barack Obama had never run anything in his life, was the most inexperienced, the most liberal senator we've ever seen.
We didn't know, we still don't know what classes he took in college.
We don't know what his grades were.
The man didn't know how many states we have, thought there were 57.
You have to wonder if if Obama would visit the Gulf more often if a staff member told him it was the Gulf of Mexico and that they were building sand traps down there rather than the Gulf of Mexico.
How can anyone, folks, how can anyone be disappointed in Obama for his failures?
Where are the successes?
I mean, you have to have some relative point here.
If you're going to be disappointed in failure, you have to have experienced some success.
Where is it?
Unemployment's up.
We're broke.
Generational theft has gone on.
He passed health care, yeah, which most of the country wants to repeal.
And the Canadians, by the way, speaking of health care, the Canadians are giving up.
They got a re not giving up.
They have to revamp their system out of money.
The formula doesn't work in Canada.
They can't cover their costs.
Canada, Greece, Portugal, Spain.
It's all in front of us.
We don't need a time travel.
See where we're going to be in ten or fifteen, twenty years.
All we gotta do is look north and look east.
You can't miss it.
Right now we're occupied in the Bay of Riggs.
So how do how do you how do you end up being disappointed in Obama's failures?
If you bought into his hope and change, just look in a mirror.
Do you see hope in yourself?
I'm sure you see change in yourself.
Empty pockets.
No prospects.
Now what was what was the original prop?
The original prop, the original prop, the original shtick was hope.
A verbal distraction from Obama's radical past.
The hope for a better America was as phony as the Greek columns, which about irony, the Greek columns Obama accepted his party's nomination in front of in Denver.
As phony as the announcement that a Gulf oil spill might be capped just hours before Obama held his really embarrassingly bad news conference last week.
Disasters happen on every president's watch.
Maureen Dowd's right about that.
We measure our presidents based upon the manner in which they respond.
On a scale of one to ten, what would you give him here?
Now, if to be fair, we know there's no nothing there's nothing a president could do to fix this.
Obama didn't have any experience plugging holes, despite what his daughter asked him.
Oil leaks.
Neither did Bush.
Wouldn't have any business, you know, telling everybody how to fix up a city after a hurricane.
The point is Obama said he did.
Obama portrayed himself.
Here, let's get the speech.
Maybe the excerpt of the speech.
This is June 3rd, 2008 in St. Paul, Obama's victory speech, having won the Democrat primary.
America, this is our moment.
This is our time.
Our time to turn the page on the politics of the past.
Our time to bring new energy and new ideas of the challenges we face.
Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.
The journey will be difficult.
The road will be long.
I face this challenge with profound humility and knowledge of my own limitations.
Ha!
But I also face it with limitless face in the capacity of the American people.
Because if we are willing to work for it and fight for it and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children this was the moment that we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs for the jobless.
How's that working out?
This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.
Ha!
Ha ha ha ha!
The oceans are rising with oil.
And there ain't no healing going on out there.
And by remember when Obama said, you know, I signed the healthcare bill.
I looked around and I didn't see any sinkholes.
I didn't see the earth open up, I didn't see the Armageddon.
Tell them that's not Armageddon down there.
Did you see the sinkhole in Guatemala?
A sinkhole swallowed up a 10-story building over the weekend.
Just disappeared.
June 3rd, 2008, this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.
This was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last best hope on earth.
This was the moment.
This was the time when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves.
Practically everything, I mean, none of it has come.
In fact, not only is none of it come true, everything he's talked about has gotten worse.
Well, here it is.
The United States has condemned the Israeli raid.
Which was provoked intentionally by Islamists, Turkish Hamas, Palestinian, U.S. is called for an investigation.
Regarding the Al Gore divorce, who gets the internet?
Well, it's a legitimate question.
And uh who will get they inspired a love story, right?
Eric Siegel, uh Al Gore told us that.
So will there will there be a sequel to Love Story?
Goral cooling happening out there.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have here uh my formerly nicotine-stained fingers the official climatologist of the EIB network, Roy Spencer has sent in a chart, oil spills through the years.
And the second to smallest oil spill through the years, since 1991 to present, is the deep water horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
A deliberate spill by Iraqi forces 1991-1992 spilled 500 million gallons of oil.
Average yearly spills, rigs, and tankers.
Global, every year, 250 million gallons of oil spilled from rigs and tankers.
As I keep talking, 1979, the Ikstock 1 rig, Gulf of Mexico, about a hundred and forty million gallons.
Then the Amaco Cadiz, which is a ship, the English Channel, about 60 million.
Torrey Canyon, South England, a ship, about 30 million.
The Exxon Valdez was 11 million.
And so far we're at about 25 or 30 million gallons.
This is assuming $15,000 a day through May at the Deepwater Horizon rig.
So it's the second smallest oil spill since 1991 or 92.
Not that it isn't bad.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm just trying to put things in perspective.
That's Boat Diddley.
Those of you expecting video in the Ditto Cam, hang on.
You're going to see it here in just a second.
What I want to do here, I'm going to hold up this chart.
Dr. Spencer put together this chart, our official climatologist from various sources.
For those of you watching on the Ditto Cam, I want you to see the chart.
You will be able to see it.
One thing that I want to point out about this, uh, if you look at the deliberate oil spill by Iraqi forces from 1991 to 92, 500 million gallons.
Uh that was a deliberate spill by Iraqi forces.
If you go through this list, you will see that the there are only two oil spills from oil rigs of any consequence since 1991.
That's the Ikstock 1 rig in Mexico, and this one, the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico.
The others are purposeful or ships, like the Son Valdez.
And this chart does not even include the average or the annual leakage or spillage in Nigeria that we told you about.
So here you go.
Now, uh this where my left index finger is the is the uh deep water horizon rig.
Number of gallons spilled.
That big number, as you look at it on your left, the top left-hand column, that's the Iraqi oil spill purposeful 500 million gallons in 1991 and 92.
Ixtock 1 is the third one here.
That's the one we keep talking about.
That's in Mexico.
And that is the largest rig leakage or spill since 1991.
All the way down here is ours, the one in the Gulf of Mexico.
So I want we're gonna we're gonna send this thing up to the uh website, and Coco Jr., who is running the website today will uh uh will put it up, and you'll be able to see it there, but I wanted to show you this.
Now again, folks, this this is this is not to diminish what's happening in the Gulf of Mexico.
It is simply a means of adding or bringing some perspective to this.
500 million gallons, remember those oil fires, and Carl Sagan was out predicting nuclear winter destruction for part of the world for who knows how many decades.
It hasn't happened.
Whenever I have the chance to point out how resilient our planet is and how wonderful it is at cleaning up messes, especially when we help.
Then I take the opportunity to do that.
Uh oil spills are not uncommon.
This one is by no means anywhere near the largest.
It's It's not even the largest in the Gulf of Mexico, it's the second largest, doesn't make it okay.
I don't want anybody to misunderstand me here.
It's bad as it is.
But the planet's still here.
People are still alive.
Animals are still alive where all these things have happened.
And that will be the case here as well.
It's not going to be easy.
There's going to be a tremendous amount of pain, and there ought to be steps being taken now that aren't be taken to plug this well or to do something like Gendal wants to do with these sand berms.
There are a number of steps that could be taken.
We don't need to be sending Eric Holder down there, a lawyer, meeting with prosecutors.
We don't need to be sending commissions down there or setting commissions up.
We need to find the best and brightest engineers possible in the private sector and get them all working on this.
Back to the phones we go.
Where are we going to go?
We're going to uh Macon, Georgia.
And this is Tom.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Glad you waited.
Hey, Rush.
Uh Mega Diddos.
Um I'm a college student and I study chemistry.
And what I wanted to comment on was this not invented here method that the Saudis have perfected for purifying the water that's contaminated with oil and turning the not invented here, what what I yeah, you correct me if I'm wrong here, but I think what Pfmeister was saying, it's been rejected because it wasn't invented here.
That we're a little bit parochial.
Ah no, no, when it's not invented here, we can't do that.
Okay, well, it sounded to me like it was a uh distillation which basically can separate liquids based on their boiling point.
Uh I don't know how it works.
Well, I could I could um basically I could I could talk a little bit about it.
Um basically um different molecules can stick together in different ways, and some molecules, because of the atoms that make them up, can stick to each other with uh with the greater strength than others.
And so you take water, for example, water molecules are pretty small, they can fit together really well, and they have forces between the individual molecules that cause them to stick together very well and very strongly, and so that's why water has a uh pretty high boiling point.
Right.
But if you take a a longer uh a di a different size structure, like crude oil has structures made of long carbon chains, and they have a lot of branches in them, and they don't stick to each other as well as water can stick to itself.
And so that's one of the reasons that um it has that's one of the reasons why the oil, for example, could eventually evaporate off of the water if given enough time.
Precisely.
Okay, I'm glad you said that.
Now now I understand.
But I think in this case, the not invented here means that uh w parochialism is probably the closest term I can come to it.
But what Hoffmeister meant was there's all kinds of ideas out there, but they weren't invented here, so we're not considering them.
And he was talking about the method the Saudis have that you just described of separating the water from the oil, cleansing it, putting the water back and being able to harvest the oil.
Uh then Fran Townsend followed up by saying, Yeah, I've heard it not invented here, and basically the way it's manifesting itself is we're just re-r we're redoing the Katrina plan.
Which Katrina is a whole different set of circumstances than than this oil spill.
Now, a couple other things, again, try to keep things in perspective, and again to let you know that as best you can not to get all hyped up into a frenzy by the media here.
When you look at that chart, and if you remember I just showed it to you, those of you watching on the Ditto Cam.
It is obvious that the number of oil spills from tankers, seagoing tankers, is much greater than the spills from rigs.
Which to me, uh ladies and gentlemen, shows just how much safer and better drilling for oil is at home versus importing it via tankers from all over the world.
And you remember this is interesting.
The left, the media, Obama, they want to hang all these executives at BP.
They want them in jail.
Obama's out there today talking about criminal charges, civil charges, a liability.
Not even the New York Times wanted to hang Saddam Hussein for setting off those oil fires in the Kuwait oil fields.
Hey, I mean, they they didn't want to criticize Saddam Hussein at all.
Well, it was just part of war.
Yeah, it was uh they were more angry at Bush for going In there.
Yeah, we should well, well, you know, it's interesting you mentioned shut them off.
Guess, guess who did that?
Guess who the brain was that went in there and shred Adair, Red Adair did it.
They made a movie about Ray Adair started uh star John Wayne.
Uh the way Red Adair, and you uh experts can have to forgive you forgive me here for my rudimentary explanation.
But Adair's method was to simply go in and and and set off charges near near the rigs, near the wells that would soak up all the oxygen in the explosion and therefore snuff out the oil fire.
Now, I don't know what Adair would have come up with for this, but Red Adair is the guy who uh everybody turned to to put out the uh the Saddam Hussein set Kuwaiti oil fires 1991, 1992, back right after this.
Now, just to put things in perspective even more on this oil spill in the Gulf, Saddam Hussein setting off all the Kuwait oil wells, putting them on fire, in addition to doing that.
And I wonder how many people will remember this.
Saddam Hussein even put landmines around the wells to retard efforts to put out those fires.
Red Adair waved and and and uh braved his way through those minefields at age 75 to snuff out all of those oil well fires.
But that's not all Hussein did.
He opened all the pipelines that he could and all the hulls of oil tankers.
He flooded the whole region with oil, tried to set the whole thing on fire, and not one media organization in this country was as outraged by that as they are at British Petroleum.
Over the weekend, the environmentalist wackos were going nuts accusing BP of greed.
Remember, one of the things they first did was to send down a hose like apparatus to try to siphon some of the oil to the surface into tankers so that they would be able to use it.
And the wackos are running around all weekend saying, see, see, they only care about profit, they only care about greed.
They're not trying to put out the leak, they're not trying to do it, they just wanted profits.
They were trying to salvage some of the product, the products necessary by salvaging it, it wouldn't foil the Gulf.
It was one of the many techniques.
But there has been more animus, more anger expressed at BP and their executives than there has been at Saddam Hussein.
And what Saddam Hussein did in 1990-91, uh with those oil fires, I mean, this doesn't even compare.
We're talking about a thimble.
And what Hussein did was on purpose.
And those landmines around those oil wells to retard efforts to put out those fires.
We've never seen anything like that.
Opened all the pipelines, the hulls of oil tankers, just tried to destroy and put all that oil on fire.
Who's next?
Dave in Roseburg, Oregon.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hey, thanks, Ryan.
Real pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you.
Uh want to thank you for all you do for the uh conservative cause and especially for our military men and women.
Thank you, sir.
Uh appreciate it.
You you touched on one of my topics, and if we have time, I I I have just to comment and then a very short story.
Yeah.
Uh my comment was on the prognostications of these uh scientists and and how the American people just, you know, if it comes out of the mouth of the scientists, we believe it.
And uh the one that I was was thinking about was Kuwait.
Uh Carl Sagan back in the late 80s had developed this theory of the nuclear winter.
If we ever got into a nuclear war, there were going to be so many particles in the atmosphere that it would cool the temperature, it would be the tipping point, we would go into an ice age and and that's it for humankind.
We're done.
And then when we when uh Saddam invaded Kuwait uh and it looked like there was going to be war.
Well, he was right out there.
Boy, if if we go to war and they fire up all those uh uh oil rigs.
Same thing.
Nuclear winter, we're all dead.
So of course that happened.
And uh, you know, a lot of people were uneasy about it, but uh, like you said, Red Adair came in and he did his thing, but there a lot of them burnt for a long time.
And, you know, the news media was just covering it from the ground, and God, it looked terrible.
There was it was just you couldn't see.
But I think like two or three revolutions of the earth.
That was gone.
I mean, it wasn't a fart in a win.
Well, I I yeah, you're right.
I remember Carl Sagan on TV, billions and billions and billions and billions of molecules.
And you point this stuff out to the Wacos today, and they just get livid because all these dire predictions never happen.
They never do happen.
And it's simply because there's there's not there's simply no knowledge of or respect for the absolute complexity, the magnificence, the incomprehensible complexity and magnificence of our planet, the ecosystem, and all of this.
Uh and again, it boils down to this whole thing of vanity.
I mean, we human beings tell ourselves, especially you're right, some scientist comes down from the mountaintop saying billions and billions and billions and billions of molecules will be burning nuclear, whatever.
Well, we all buy it because everybody's oriented toward disaster.
For some reason, we human beings are hardwired.
They want to believe the absolute worst is right around the corner.
Nobody has to go to a book or a library to find a book on how to fail.
Nobody has to go to the library and get a book on how to create a crisis, because we all know how to do that ourselves with no effort.
You also will not go to the library and find a book, Great Moderates in American History, but that's another thing.
But you do have to go to the library or a bookstore to find stories of how to succeed and how to be positive.
Because that takes effort.
Being negative, pessimistic, oriented to crisis and disaster, why that's just we glom onto that.
And then somebody like me comes along and starts to poo-poo it, well, easy for you to say.
You don't have to worry about things, no, no, no, I just have a heightened resistance because of my faith and religious beliefs, pure and simple.
My awe respects, and my absolute knowledge that I haven't the slightest notion how all this works, and that nobody else does either.
And any of them that tell you they do, lying through their teeth.
I believe that there are questions that human beings are capable of asking that we will never answer while on this earth.
And I think that's part of the design.
Now, he mentioned the military.
There's an action that that uh that most of you take when you see a member of our military and has to thank them for their service.
When they call here all the time, I do that.
I hear about it all the time, I see it firsthand.
When you thank a member of our military and public, it goes a long way.
So do our efforts to support those same men and women with the absolute best gear and training for combat.
I can't I can't fathom sending a son or a daughter, neighbor anybody into combat in Afghanistan or Iraq without giving them the best gear and training so they can return home safely after accomplishing their mission, no matter how difficult it might be.
The right spending on military is uh is years in the planning.
I mean, you can see it play out right in front of us right now.
If you dig deep, if you look at the average age of our Air Force fighter plane in 1973, it was nine years.
In 2010, the average age of our fighter planes is 24 years.
Now, the Heritage Foundation keeps track of this because they attempt to influence budget questions decisions on keeping the military modernized.
They keep track of this stuff for you, if everybody else, they put up a full up-to-date report on defense spending at their website, Askheritage.org.
Memorial Day was uh was yesterday.
And while the service of our military men and women's on our minds, take time to say thanks to them by knowing what our nation has to offer them in the way of resources and be involved in it.
And you can read about it at AskHeritage.org, where you can also become a member of the Heritage Foundation.
And that that's some cool bragging rights.
Six hundred and fifty thousand of us are members.
Join today at AskHeritage.org and help keep America smart, strong, and safe, which is a tougher chore than it's ever been.
I'll never forget watching this.
It was nightline, and Carl Sagan was developing debating uh Dr. Fred Singer on the nuclear winter that would happen from the Kuwaiti oil fires.
And Sagan citing all these investigation statistics from a hurricane of a volcanic eruption, 1815.
Going on and on and on, and Fred's thinking, no, no, no, no, the wind, uh, the wind and the rain, they're just gonna get rid of the smoke in a matter of days.
Who was right?
Fred Singer.
And he's still on the scene today, arguing against man-made global warming.
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