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June 24, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 24, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
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And I would say one more thing to the church lady who called us in the last hour.
What are you doing to help people?
I'm going to the beach to pick up tarbots.
What are you doing to help people?
Well, I'm doing everything I can to expose and stop President Obama from destroying jobs and livelihoods in the Gulf of Mexico where you're going to go pick up tarballs and everywhere else.
Do you understand, church lady?
Your president is shutting down commerce.
He is going to cause the loss of 100,000 jobs or more in the Gulf with his stupid drilling moratorium.
And I'm doing everything I can to expose it.
What's the president doing to help anybody?
That's who you need to be calling, church lady.
What are you doing to help people, Mr. Obama?
Who's Obama obstructing today?
Who's he undermining today?
Which governor, which law is Obama ignoring today, church lady?
I see he's having a hamburger today with Putin's puppet.
There it is right there.
Look at how short that guy is.
Medvedev looks like.
Well, never.
He's very short out there.
I've never seen a Russian guy so short.
I've seen a fatter one, Khrushchev, but I've never seen.
This guy's tiny.
And this Medvedev, whatever Obama's out there having a hamburger with him.
Focused like a laser on the Gulf.
Greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh.
This is the Excellence in Broadcasting.
Yeah, they had lunch at a burger joint.
You know what?
Steve Jobs gave Medvedev a new iPhone today as well.
Steve Jobs is in Washington?
Or did he ship one in there?
Do they have it?
Well, no, they don't have ATT in Russia, but you don't have to use ATT if you're not in the United States.
There's a number of cellular companies you can use if you are in Europe somewhere.
800-282-2882.
Yeah, I guess he was in D.C., Jobs in Washington today.
800-282-2882, the email address lrushball at EIBnet.com.
Here's more.
Joe Biden, now Vice President Bite Me.
February 10th of this year on CNN's Larry King Live.
Biden was talking about, well, Iraq.
I am very optimistic about Iraq.
I think it's going to be one of the great achievements of this administration.
I played this because somebody called last hour.
Do you think Obama is going to take credit for Afghanistan?
Yeah, yeah.
They might deserve some of the credit for not giving up and getting out of there, but certainly not in Iraq.
They deserve no credit.
And yet there's Senator Bite Me.
Well, I'm sorry, Vice President Bite Me.
I'm very optimistic, Larry, about Iraq.
I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration.
They didn't lift a finger.
This administration has done zilch zero nada.
No, I was wrong.
Jobs was not in Washington.
He met Medvedev in California.
It was reported in Pravda.
President Dmitry Medvedev became the first Russian owner of an iPhone 4, a gift from Steve Jobs, who met the visiting Russian president in California.
So Medvedev went to meet with Jobs before he met with Obama because he's meeting with Obama now.
People keep reminding me to tell a church lady what I've done.
I forgot to tell her the Leukemia Curathon, The Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation charitable work that we've done here.
The Dingy Harry letter.
What was that, H.R.?
Oh.
Medvedev and Putin are working on a new Commie app for the App Store at iTunes.
The only problem is that they've got a White House app for the iTunes store, the app store.
Obama beat the Russians to the Cami app.
I mean, that's the dirty little secret.
Now, the day after Biden, the day after Biden said, this Iraq thing is going to be one of the great achievements of this administration.
That was February 10th of this year, February 11th, White House Daily Press briefing.
A reporter said to Gibbs, the vice president last night said the Iraq war could end up being one of the president's greatest achievements.
Now, given the vice president was in favor of a partial partition of the country, and the president Obama opposed the surge that helped stabilize it, how is it one of the president's great achievements?
Well, putting what was broken back together and getting our troops home, which we intend to do in August of this year.
But the status of the forced agreement to bring troops home was signed before the president took office.
Something I think that the political pressure that the president, as a then candidate, helped to bring about.
Look, I think that we will long debate Iraq.
We will long debate whether at a very important moment in our efforts to root out terrorism, particularly in Afghanistan and on that border region with Pakistan, whether we took our eye off the ball.
I think historians will debate that long after we're gone.
I think they will come likely to the conclusion that no single event took our eye off of what needed to be done in order to occupy a country that until we got there didn't have a single member of al-Qaeda.
Obviously, the vice president's been deeply involved in fixing the political process there so that elections can be held and so that our troops can come home as scheduled this summer.
This is the absolute, that takes the cake.
Not a single word of that was true.
This is reminiscent of Baghdad Bob.
You know, the PR guy that spokesman for Hussein, well, we got thousands of troops about to take over Baghdad.
They're not here.
I'm looking out the window right now.
The troops are not here.
See, look, no Americans here.
And here's, it's just Gibbs.
Oh, yeah, we stabilized it.
We put it back together.
We made sure the elections take it was your party, Gibbs.
It was Senator Kerry who wanted to cancel the elections.
Because they might be too dangerous.
Actually, Senator Kerry wanted to cancel the elections because he did not want them to work.
The Democrats wanted nothing about Iraq to work.
They were invested in total failure, and they were invested in total defeat.
By the way, church lady, when have you done to help?
I'm now collecting tire bombs and the banks.
What have you done to help?
I have also largely killed the newspaper business, saving untold number of trees.
Let's go to the phones quickly.
Give me line two.
We've got a guy on from Staten Island.
His name is Joe.
Thank you for calling, sir, and welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you, Rush, for taking my call.
You gave one of the greatest answers I've ever heard.
I happen to work for the same kind of people like you.
We work hard.
We spend our money on the weekends.
We do everything we can do to make our boss happy and make him more money.
The more he makes, the more we make.
The money keeps going around in circles.
It's called economy gets moving.
It's called economic stimulus.
And when I heard you answer, I was shocked.
I ought to pull over and try calling you.
I never tried calling anybody in my life.
I called, I went through.
It must be a godsend.
God bless you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
That's great.
I had a friend call me.
Well, nobody calls me except on this show.
He emailed me.
He said, you know that?
I've never heard that before.
You keep the air conditioning at 68 degrees so that your employees are comfortable and productive.
That's brilliant.
And it's going to tick them off even more.
But I do.
Year-round, by the way.
I air condition.
Yes, in fact, ladies and gentlemen, here's another thing.
That's very true, Dawn.
I happen to live on the ocean.
Those of us who live on the ocean face special circumstances in keeping all of our equipment running well because of the salt air.
So I have an air conditioning system at home that does not use outdoor compressors because those things have to be on the beach replaced every five years.
That would be pointless.
It'd be useless.
It'd be wasting resources.
So I have a water-based tower air conditioning system, much like you would find a commercial building.
And it's really great.
Every room, if you want heat in this room, turn it on.
Air conditioning, turn it on.
It's just set the thermostat to whatever you want and it gets there.
And it uses well water, not water from the town, depriving some people of quenching their thirst.
I also air condition my garages so the cars are protected from the salt here.
And also, so that when I go out at night, all dressed up, I don't destroy myself in a 150-degree garage getting in the car, waiting for the air conditioning to cool down.
Wow, aren't you wasting money?
No, I'm living my life, and I'm paying for every cent of it.
And for every cent I pay, somebody's on the other end of it benefiting.
And the piece de resistance is that Earth is not being harmed.
Not by me.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network.
So the church lady calls.
The last hour.
I'm going to pick up tarballs on the beach.
What are you doing to help people?
I'll tell you something else, church lady.
I did.
I traded in my G4 for a Gulfstream 550 because it costs $400 an hour less to operate, saving the planet carbon emissions.
I support nuclear energy.
I also offer people free rides on my airplane, those that don't beg for them.
I'm pretty much share my good fortune.
In fact, Church Lady, the greatest fun I have in life, the most fun I have is sharing the great fortune I've had as American.
If somebody wants to go pick up tarballs on the beach, have at it.
But for every tarball you pick up today, there's going to be another one on the beach tomorrow, and it's not going to be from this oil leak.
And if you think you're helping people, go have at it.
Who's next on this program?
Plattsburgh, New York.
This is Howard.
And great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I just want to thank you for the Limbaugh Institute and its beautiful campus in the shape of America.
Thank you, sir, very much.
You bet.
I just want to back up briefly here to the attacks on census workers.
I would love to see a demographic breakdown of that, of those incidents, because I kind of suspect that they're mostly happening in the bluest of the blue cities and the bluest of the blue neighborhoods.
And that's my comment.
So hang on just a second.
I'm telling the guy who's got eight iPhones to buy them.
Go ahead.
I'll take them.
We multitask here.
I know exactly what you're talking about because, you know, he was talking about Jim Moran accusing me of inspiring violence against census workers.
And where it's happening is in the blue states and in the blue neighborhoods, where, well, this is where the blue voters are.
And if there's violence being committed against census where it's not happening in the red states, Howard here is exactly right.
But whatever, this program doesn't inspire violence in any way, any shape, manner, form on anybody.
Here's Mike in Cincinnati.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Thanks, Rush.
Hey, Rush, I'd like to make a comment, a prediction, really, about the Petraeus-McChrystal, or the McChrystal-Petraeus transition.
Oh, yeah.
Before I do that, that was a great counterpunch.
You knocked that church lady out, bad.
You're a super counter-puncher.
I'll get you're a puncher, but a great counterpuncher, too.
That was phenomenal.
Thank you, sir.
Wow.
Here's what's going on.
I think it's as clear with Petraeus.
Obama hates all of us.
He wants to sink the entire country.
We all know that.
He got rid of McChrystal, got Petraeus in there, who will now be spread way too thin.
Eventually, and I bet you any amount of money within a year, he'll fire Petraeus.
The entire thing over in Iraq and Afghanistan will unravel, and we'll spend another trillion dollars for no good reason whatsoever.
Gosh, I hope not.
Oh, I hope not.
But I don't know.
I would be hard pressed to disagree with you.
Yeah, I mean, think about it.
That's what he's doing.
This poor Petraeus cannot, nobody can do that job now.
And they hated Petraeus.
Now they love him.
They don't love him.
They hate him.
They hate everything about the military.
I'm not even a military guy.
Well, see, that's the thing.
I don't know that they really ever hated Petraeus.
They hated him because they thought he was an enemy of Bush.
But regardless, whoever they hated or didn't hate, the fact is now they can't get around the fact that in order for Obama to save his bacon, he's had to go get Bush's general.
And I know what you mean when you say Obama doesn't want to win.
He himself has said so.
And we have not replaced McChrystal.
You're right about that.
Petraeus runs CENTCOM.
That's a big job in and of itself.
Who's going to run CENTCOM?
Oh, he's in Afghanistan.
I guess he's going to do both things.
Well, both things involve Iraq and Afghanistan.
And Iraq, I mean, I don't know.
I don't think there's as much attention to holding the place together now as there certainly was under the Bush administration.
But look, even here, if Mike is wrong, listen to this Phil.
He's not a dumb guy.
And listen to what he's probably an average citizen.
Look what he thinks this president is capable of.
You know, in my lifetime, I've not heard people talk about a president in these terms, wants America to lose, wants to sack America.
Never heard this before.
A lot of people think it because of the actions the president is taking, not just because of what he says.
Chicago, Brian, you're next with Rush Limbaugh.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hello, Mr. Limbaugh.
I have a question for you, please.
Yeah.
When is this government going to stop punishing us with these low interest rates and let people who've earned and saved their money make some money on it?
Well, what they're really trying to hold off on the big killer, inflation.
That's got them scared more than anything, and that's why they're keeping money cheap.
They think that they have to do this to prolong the so-called recovery.
Now, when you say stop punishing us, you know, basically free money, low interest rates means that people who live off savings accounts and what have you are falling behind, correct?
Is that what you mean?
Well, I see them borrowing like from China and Japan.
You know, why couldn't they issue like war bonds and at least give us addition, a nice interest rate on that, you know?
Well, why do you need a war bond?
Go on, get a T-bill.
Yeah, T-bills, anything.
I mean, there's, you know, you just got money sitting there that, you know, the banks.
Well, they're auctioning T-bills off all the time.
In fact, the auctions are not.
The auctions are not nearly as productive as they have been.
There's some people concerned that not as much debt is being bought.
Yeah.
You know, it's just sickening to know that, you know, you work hard, you save your money, and then it just sits there.
And, you know, you see people getting money back for stimulus packages, cash for clunkers, and you don't see any of this coming back.
Well, I hear you.
I hear you, but you ain't seen anything yet.
Wait till next year when all these massive new tax increases hit.
Thank you very much, sir.
You bet.
It's going to be a bloodbath out there.
Politico today.
Obama accused of defying court on drilling ban.
Drilling companies and others who won an order from a federal judge Tuesday lifting the Obama moratorium on deepwater oil drilling are accusing the administration of defying the court's order by announcing plans to reimpose the moratorium.
The opponents filed papers in a New Orleans federal court Wednesday afternoon requesting an emergency hearing before the judge who entered the order blocking the moratorium since that time.
Ken Salazar, Interior Secretary, indicated both in a statement and congressional testimony he plans to reimpose the moratorium soon based on information that wasn't fully developed when the six-month drilling ban was imposed in May.
Now, the politico, it's hard to tell here when you read the story.
Are they surprised?
Obama accused of defying court on drilling ban.
Why?
Who wrote this?
This is Josh Gerstein at his blog at Politico.
And they're acting a little bit surprised.
I guess maybe they're surprised somebody would accuse Obama of defying it, but why?
That's what dictators do.
Look at this administration and the rule of law are in direct conflict with one another.
You want to call it a slush fund or a shakedown, escrow money or whatever.
The Obama administration cannot constitutionally do what they did demanding $20 billion in BP.
You can't go in.
The federal government cannot just seize somebody's property for nothing.
And that's what happened.
However, it happened.
Shakedown, escrow, deal under the table, it's unconstitutional.
So the fact that Obama would defy a court, that shouldn't surprise anybody.
It's who the man is.
In fact, the real question is, how long is it going to take for Obama to either get rid of the judge or summon him to the Oval Office?
And welcome.
It's Rush Limboy, and we're back.
As we have more fun than a human being should be allowed to have at the, let's see, at a White House, after meeting with the President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, they held a joint press conference.
Here's a portion of what Medvedev had to say to kick it off.
Today, I have managed to dine with President Barack Obama.
It's an interesting place, which is typically American.
Probably it's not quite healthy, but it's very tasty, and you can feel the spirit of America.
But this is not the main thing we were engaged in.
Holy criminally's sake, here is a communist Russian complaining about a burger joint.
They dined with President Obama.
Interesting place.
Typically American, probably not quite healthy, but very tasty.
What are you drinking, vodka?
What do you eat with it?
You know, when Bush had Putin over here, he treated him to a barbecue down at Crawford, and Putin had a head of criticize that.
What the hell do those people eat?
Are they hoarding all of beluga?
You can't get that anymore.
Following that with their stoley chasers.
What is this?
You know, I'll bet you something.
I'll bet you Obama, when he goes back home to the residents, is going to be in big trouble because Medvedev let it out of the bag.
They went to a burger joint.
I'll bet the Secret Service tattles on Obama when he goes to a burger joint, tells Michelle about it.
Governor Chris Christie, this guy needs a lot more attention.
He needs a lot more attention.
People need to listen to this man, the governor of New Jersey, what he's doing, how he's going about it.
He was on Cavuto yesterday on the Fox Business Network.
We got some soundbites.
Cavuto said, Folks are saying that you side with the rich.
When you vetoed a millionaire's tax, it actually would have affected those earning as little as 40 grand.
You were on the side of FatCast.
New Jersey Education Association president said the choice could not be more stark.
Tax cuts for millionaires or full school funding for New Jersey kids.
Raising taxes on businesses in New Jersey, which that would have done, and individuals in New Jersey, is not what's going to make our private sector grow.
We already have the worst tax burden of any citizens in America when you combine all of our taxes.
So raising taxes on anybody, because believe me, today they're going to raise taxes on those people.
Next year, they'll come back and raise taxes on somebody else, and then it's going to get into your pocket.
Someone has to stand the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government.
That's what I was committed to doing.
So these other things are just politics and false choices.
And I think they thought they had a governor like John Corsaid, who, when they pushed, I would fall over.
They misevaluated this governor.
Governor Chris Christie in New Jersey defending his choice to cut taxes, to cut spending.
Cavuto said, You know, Governor, in growing more famous in this job in the few months you've been at it, you strike a lot of people as like a bull in a china shop.
And I can tell you, you and I are neighbors in New Jersey, so disclosing that for the record here, just down the street, everybody in town people say, what a nice guy, what an affable guy.
And then they see you chewing out some union dude, or they see you jumping ugly on a reporter to say, hey, is it the same guy?
I'm passionate about what I believe in.
And I also think that the public needs to start being treated like adults.
You know, politicians too much, in my view, they cow.
They try to figure out, you know, try to figure out what everybody wants to hear.
They try to figure out what everybody wants to hear.
I want to treat New Jerseyans, and I am treating New Jerseyans like adults.
And that's not just my constituents.
It's reporters.
It's union leaders.
If I feel something I want to say, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Cavuto said, well, many union leaders have targeted you in attack ads that have gone viral nationally.
One of the things that typical union members will say or the ones that they talk to for these ads is, I paid into these benefits.
These are benefits I was promised years ago.
And now along comes Chris Christie to say, well, I'm not going to get them.
He's broken a covenant.
He's broken a promise.
Never mind.
It was never your covenant or your promise.
You've inherited a lot of this.
What do you think of that argument, Governor?
The public workers feel that you have a bullseye on them.
The public sector has been shielded from this recession in New Jersey.
We've continued to give public sector workers 4.5% increases despite the fact that there's zero inflation.
We've continued to say that the teachers' union is right, that teachers in the Maine should have to pay nothing, nothing, for family health coverage, medical, dental, and vision.
I mean, there's no one in the world who has this deal.
And the property taxpayers, the ones who have lost their jobs, the ones who've had their hours reduced, the ones who are paying more for their own health benefits if they have them, they're the ones picking up the tab.
Now, listen, shared sacrifice is shared sacrifice.
And the public sector unions have been shielded from that.
It's got to stop.
Right on.
Right on, right on, right on.
Here comes the, you see, the truth works.
You stand up to these people.
He's winning every fight in New Jersey.
He's winning every one.
Just stand up to them and tell the truth.
They haven't shared in this recession.
They haven't been in pain.
They talk about shared sacrifice.
Well, here it is.
Cavuto said, people compare you to Reagan.
What do you think of that?
I have great admiration for President Reagan.
And I think he was the first person I voted for for president.
My first vote in 1980 when I turned 18 years old was to vote for Ronald Reagan.
And it's still one of the proudest votes I ever made because he understood leadership.
He understood how to lead a country, how to lead a people, and how to inspire and how to be tough and how to fight for the things he believed in.
And so in many ways, he's one of my role models.
And so anytime my name gets put in the same sentence with Ronald Reagan, it's a bad day for Ronald Reagan, but a good day for me.
I don't think Reagan would say that.
I don't think Reagan would say that at all.
And let's see, we have one more of these series.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Final one.
This is Cavuto says, look, there's talk of a Governor Christie maybe a president.
Christie, what do you say to that?
Don't let the applause prevent an answer.
Yeah, no, listen, not going to happen.
What do you mean not going to happen?
You know, I want to be governor of New Jersey.
I ran for governor of New Jersey.
You have to be really in your gut and in your heart ready to be president of the United States if you decide to run for that.
And I simply do not have the desire to do it, nor do I think I'm ready.
But you want to be governor.
And we now, Governor, have more experience than Barack Obama when he announced he was right.
Well, that doesn't mean that I'm ready.
What an answer.
Just because I got more experience than the big ears doesn't mean that I'm ready.
There you have it, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey.
And look what Cookie gave me as the last sound bite of the day.
We go from that to Maude Behar talking to Melissa Etheridge on the Behar Show.
I wanted to ask you about Elton John performed for Rush Limbaugh at his wedding.
Did you know he was saying?
I did not know.
Yes.
Did you just ask him?
Yeah, he paid him a million dollars.
Oh, well, fine.
Hello.
Rush, call me.
They can't get over this.
Rush, call me.
She wants to.
By the way, I don't know how I'm going to go after this, but I'm going to let it, I'm just going to let it lie.
I'll let it look.
Who, Melissa Etheridge?
No, because I frankly don't plan on having another wedding.
Snerdly.
No, I'm not going to.
No, Rush called me.
I don't know.
No, Snerdley, I'm not going to call.
Not going to call him.
You know, people are increasingly every day.
Are you going to put any pictures on your website?
We originally were not going to do it.
What, Dawn?
Yeah, I know.
You know, we didn't do this for the publicity of it.
We didn't do this to make a circus out of it.
Everybody's asking.
And I got the first batch.
We got the first batch of pictures last week.
There are about 6,000 of them.
And I'm telling you, they are art.
And I'm stunned.
I have Donna Newman was the photographer.
And I'm looking at these, and I say, Catherine, we got to put some of these out.
I mean, these are just too good.
So we're going to.
We just haven't decided where, but we're going to do it.
We're going to put some pictures out.
Plus with Elton.
Some really cool ones with us with Elton.
And of Elton on stage performing and of the crowd going nuts over Elton and pictures of Elton while he's just having a time of his life.
Good times.
Yeah, we're going to do that.
But it's imminent, but I don't know when.
It'll be as soon as we've got to get all of them in here and pick the ones that we want to do and go from there.
I kept, you know, people magazines asking, which that's weird.
What?
No, no, they're not offering anything.
USA Today, they're not offering it.
I don't think they're offering anything.
They may have.
I don't know.
I was just told this morning that they've expressed some interest.
Maybe they have.
I don't know.
I don't deal with the minutia.
The big decision is whether to release them and where.
And of course, my website's the first place to do so.
So anyway, keep you posted on that.
In the meantime, be right back.
Don't go away.
Rush Limbaugh in Florida on the EIB network.
Why do you listen to this show?
I'll give you another example why you listened to this show.
Just mere moments ago, mere moments ago, in discussing the replacement of McChrystal with Petraeus, I said, there goes the July 11th withdrawal deadline.
It ain't going to happen.
We're not going to come home by July 11th.
This is Petraeus' war now, not Obama's.
Petraeus is there to save Obama's bacon.
They can't win this thing by July 11th or 2011.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
Press conference today, reporter, President Obama, does the change in command change your timetable for withdrawal?
What we saw yesterday was a change in personnel, but not a change in policy.
We did not say that starting July 2011, suddenly there would be no troops from the United States or allied countries in Afghanistan.
We didn't say we'd be switching off the lights and closing the door behind us.
General Petraeus understands that strategy because he helped shape it.
And my expectation is that he will be outstanding in implementing it, and we will not miss a beat.
Oh, and I'm telling you, the base is not going to like this.
I told you we're not going to get out of there in July of 2011, and the president just said so.
Just like I told you, they're not going to close GitLow.
We're not getting out of there in July of 2011.
Told you.
In fact, when he said it the first time, I didn't think he really meant it.
He was just trying to appease this fringe lunatic bunch, the moveon.orgs, the Americans for Progress or Think Progress, whatever the hell they are out there.
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Welcome to the EIB Network.
Oh, thank you, Rush.
I've been diddling since 1988.
Thank you very much, sir.
I have a comment on the McChrystal hiring or whatever you want to call it.
If George Bush had taken a day and a half to fire a general, he wouldn't be accused of being a cowboy and shooting from the hip and all kinds of things.
And here the mainstream press is just calling him decisive.
I don't get it.
Yes, you do.
The mainstream press, a bunch of lapdogs.
The very way they're covering Obama is indicative that even they know he's beneath the job.
And even they know he's not up to it.
No question about it.
Gary in North Georgia, great to have you on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Rush, Rush, back to the subject of productivity.
Would you like to know what I'm doing for the environment today?
Tell me.
I am delivering the iPhones today.
I'm out here, and listen, I just want to thank you for helping me get it done.
You're a FedEx driver?
Yes, sir.
FedEx, boy, people are never going to be happier to see you show up in a neighborhood than today.
Oh, I've had people say this is not the first one you delivered, is it?
And I said, no, I got a ton of them.
But anyway, Rush, I've been trying to get through to you ever since I've heard you claim credit for helping to increase worker productivity.
And I can attest that it's very true.
I turned you on.
Hey, would you like to know the hours in which my stops per hour are at its highest?
Are at its highest.
Yeah, when are they?
12 to 1,500.
12 to 1,500.
That's when you get more deliveries done.
That's when my stops per hour skyrocket.
I appreciate that.
And I'll thank you.
Thank you, Gary.
Appreciate it.
So there's a guy, FedEx driver, more productive from noon to three than at any time of the day, delivering iPhones today.
And I guarantee you, he's the best, most liked guy in the neighborhood today, too.
All right, folks, here's our president this afternoon.
Listen.
The U.S. economy for a long period of time was the engine of world economic growth.
We were sucking in imports from all across the world, financed by huge amounts of consumer debt.
Because of the financial crisis, but also because that debt was fundamentally unsustainable, the United States is not going to be able to serve in that same capacity to that same extent.
So there you have it, President Obama.
The United States no longer will be the engine of world economic growth.
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