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July 9, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 9, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 Podcast.
I cannot believe I am out of paper in the printer, and I got something I need to print.
So I'm going to turn a ditto cam off because the staff does not want to be seen on a ditto cam.
A bunch of wusses.
So I'm going to turn a ditto cam off.
So Brian can put some paper in the printer.
Which should have been done last time.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Open line Friday, a favorite day of the busy broadcast week.
And we like all.
We like all the days.
But this one.
You never know what's going to happen on the phone call side of the show.
Monday through Thursday, you have to talk about things I care about.
Or you don't get past Mr. Snerdley.
But Monday and Friday, you can talk about whatever you want.
If I don't care, Brian, you're through.
Paper.
Okay, Ditto Cam's back on.
Paper.
Back in the printer.
So you see, uh, whatever you want to talk about today's fine uh on Friday.
If I don't care about it, I'll act like I do.
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Man, oh man, are we loaded today?
Chris Christie.
This is so.
This guy is just doing everything right.
He wants to privatize the DMV.
He wants to privatize auto inspections in New Jersey.
He wants to take all these union jobs out of the state and put them in the private sector.
He says that New Jersey could save at least 210 million dollars a year by delivering an array of services through uh private hands.
If he gets his way, New Jersey will close its centralized car inspection lanes.
Motorists would pay for their own emissions tests under a sweeping set of recommendations set to be released today.
State parks.
Psychiatric hospitals, even Turnpike toll booths, could be run by private operators.
And I guarantee you, if all this happens, they're all going to be more efficient.
Everything's gonna happen, and it's gonna happen on time as scheduled, and uh by friendly people.
I hope he succeeds with this.
So LeBron James, uh, ladies and gentlemen, has followed me in moving to Florida, as did Tiger Woods.
Uh talking about the move to the Miami Heat.
I, of course, am the trend setter.
Uh I am the one who's on the cutting edge of 1997 that I decamped uh New York City.
I love New York City.
Don't misunderstand, I just don't like it's silly to pay their tax rate, which is 12 point some odd percent on top of what the federal buy.
You're gonna be over LeBron James.
I w would be paying over 50, well uh 52, 53% off the top, just state and federal.
I think it's partly one of the reasons why LeBron James came down here.
It's one of the reasons Tiger Woods uh lives in Florida, no state income, of course.
Don't now he'll never say it.
Unlike I will say it, he'll never say he doesn't want people to think he's a mercenary guy.
He's in this for championships, you see.
But uh make no mistake about it.
I mean, you if you're if you're gonna be paid 96 million dollars a year in both places, and that's a deal for five years, and it's gonna cost you an additional 12 million to do it in New York, and then if you think to yourself, you know, I'm not big enough to carry a team by myself.
I am not Michael Jordan.
I'm not Kobe.
I need a support staff.
I need uh Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosch, then Miami's the deal.
These guys have been cooking this up.
What I understand, Bosch, Dwayne Reed, not uh Dwayne Wade, Dwayne Reed's the chain drugstore New York.
Dwayne Wade and and and uh LeBron have been have been planning this for a couple years.
Uh I have no doubt, no question whatsoever that the uh the tax bite is um is part of this.
You remember uh New York, Phil Nature, if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.
It's true, too, by the way.
And for people in the performing arts, such as uh me, uh making it in New York's a big deal.
You do that, I mean it's a it's a huge career objective and goal.
Now, LeBron James is a little bit he's gonna be in New York a number of and he will pay the per diem taxes in New York.
They will make sure that he does on every Miami trip, uh Miami uh heat trip into New York.
But Florida is now where the achievers come to keep winning, led by me.
I was first, now LeBron James has followed me here.
What was it Governor Patterson said about me?
Something like New York's better off without me.
Or something like, if I'd have known that Limbaugh would leave New York, I would have raised taxes sooner.
Well, okay, Governor Patterson, will you say that about LeBron James?
If I had known that I could keep LeBron James off the Knicks, I would have raised taxes sooner.
Spike Lee is two things.
He's a hemorrhoid and a fanatical Nick fan.
And he combines the two when he's at Knicks games.
Ask Reggie Miller.
So confiscatory taxes in New York was it a factor for LeBron James?
No question.
Every time Miami plays the Knicks, every time LeBron runs up the court past Spike Lee or down the court past Spike Lee.
The uh liberal director of the telecast has to wonder was it a high taxes or was it the high taxes?
Because I know Spike Lee tried to get him to come, and Spike Lee was what happened.
Uh so anyway, interesting.
LeBron James going to Miami.
And the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, a man by the name of Dan Gilbert.
Now, I uh I I can't say that Dan Gilbert is a friend of mine, but he is a business associate.
Dan Gilbert, among many other properties, owns Quicken Loans.
And they have been a client and sponsor of this program.
They're headquartered in Detroit.
I've been up there and I've met them and his staff a number of times, and they run the Cavalier operation out of that office when I was there the last time.
Uh it was I think summertime or something that was up there for an appearance, and they had their draft board.
They had um uh something on the wall, and they were very proud of it.
Dan Dan Gilbert, I've never heard an owner speak of any player like this, and clearly there have been players in professional sports about whom owners could have spoken this way.
But Dan Gilbert, owner of the Cavaliers, basically said that LeBron James quit during all but one of the playoff games in this recent NBA playoff.
Just quit.
Just did not want to win.
He said, look at the curse that is Cleveland leaves town with LeBron James, the Cleveland curse goes to Miami now.
We've got a better chance of winning, said Dan Gilbert, without LeBron James than we did with him.
I mean, this is an open letter to the majority from the majority owner Dan Gilbert to the fans on a website of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
I personally guarantee the Cleveland Cavaliers will win an NBA championship before the self-titled former King wins one.
Meaning LeBron James.
Now, Sturley says, how is he going to pull that off?
You watch, I'll bet you I'll throw my dice with Gilbert on this.
You talk about supreme motivation now.
At any rate, uh this was a really strange thing last night.
Here's LeBron James who's done, I found a couple things he said very strange after all he's given to Cleveland.
All my talents poured out my soul to Cleveland.
And he talked about the fans being good to him too, of course.
But basically, the thing I that the reason that I that I held out some thought that it was not gonna be Miami, that it was gonna stay in Cleveland is that if it were me, let's say that's an analogy.
I am going to leave the EIB network.
Let's just say that.
And I'm gonna go and and and take my talents and services and form another network somewhere else.
I've been with the EIB network 21 years.
And everybody's all excited about where I'm going to go and what it might mean for what station I'll be on in whatever town in which they live.
And let's say I schedule a three-hour radio show to announce my decision.
I would, if I were going to leave the EIB network, I would not schedule a three-hour radio show to announce it.
That's just not cool.
That's one of the reasons I thought he wasn't going to leave Cleveland was that this is not the way you do it if you're going to leave someplace.
This is a this is just not classy.
So obviously I was uh I was wrong about that.
Very rarely do I say that.
Very rarely indeed.
Here's uh, you know, even in basketball folks, and I know the stick to the issues crowds shouting obscenities at the radio and sending me emails, but it is what it is, and this is issue oriented.
This is cultural, this is economic.
Here's what I said July 1st.
This is the ninth.
This is what I said July 1st.
I'm gonna make a prediction.
What, Snerdley?
What?
What?
Yeah, okay.
Snurdley says, you're making my prediction come true even before I make it.
Snerdley said, Well, there's more to New York and just that tax is New York versus Miami?
Come on.
Yeah, I've made that call, and where am I?
In fact, for a guy like LeBron, Miami's more to I mean, you got South Beach down there, you got Dwayne Wade down there playing for the Heat.
And by the way, American Airlines Arena is not in South Beach.
You don't play basketball.
South Beach is party central.
So when he said, I'm going to take my talents to South Beach, well, what party talents is he taking to South Beach?
Because where he's going to play basketball is in the American Airlines Arena, which is in Miami.
It's not in South Beach.
I mean, it's right across right across the uh body of water from you.
Still got to take a bridge to uh take it over there.
Here's LeBron James last night announcing that this is after a three-hour 20-minute sports center.
This is his announcement.
This fall I'm gonna take my talents to South Beach and uh join the Miami League.
Whoa.
And here is on the Scarborough show this morning on Mess NBC's talking to Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson.
He went to the Miami market and fantastic.
It's a lot of fun down there on South Beach, so Willy Guy sells me.
But it's not the same as winning in New York, Boston, or LA or Chicago.
It just seems like a very strange choice if he's interested in the history.
You're right.
I I understand, I hear is there something about uh lower taxes in Florida?
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, the limbaug echo syndrome.
I hear there's something about lower taxes in Florida.
So here you have in the midst of the we do you believe this?
Obama administration has to go out and make a statement they are pro-business.
If you have to go out and make a statement you're pro-business, there must be some question about it.
And uh, we've documented for you all these private sector titans from Morton Zuckerman to the uh the Ferguson uh professor at at Harvard.
Now John Malone of Liberty Media has chimed in, thinking of moving his company out of Colorado.
Giant communications company because of corporate taxes.
I mean, it it it is pervasive, it's spreading ever.
And here's the now the regime's oh no, no, we're pro-business.
We're pro can you imagine?
First time in American history, an American president has had to call a press conference and do a public appearance to assure people that he is pro-business.
Stop and think of that.
And by the way, I want to shout out big time today to McDonald's.
McDonald's, I love you.
I remember back in the days of the global warming craze when the wackos were suggesting don't eat McDonald's, don't eat beef because it leads to cow methane causing global warming.
Remember, I sent I sent one of the snerdleys over to McDonald's in Times Square and picked up 240 quarter pounders with cheese and Big Macs and brought them back to the studio and had the whole transaction take place on the phone on the air.
Just to stand up and support McDonald's and listen to this.
You know, the Center for Science and the Public Interest, this wacko bunch of leftist kooks, statists, nannies.
These are the people that have banned coconut oil from your popcorn and movie theaters, have gotten rid of MSG, uh, the the flavoring Chinese food.
They wanted to ban Chinese food.
These people want to get in your life and tell you what if you look at these people as a wonder they're barely alive.
They're skeletal.
They're miserable, they are unhappy, uh, and they want to spread that misery to everybody else by having you eat basically nothing but tofu and cardboard, run around and eat miniature rocks and berries as you traverse the deserts of the world.
And their latest target was McDonald's Happy Meal.
They wanted to sue McDonald's to remove the toys from the Happy Meal package because the toys were incentive to kids to go out and parents to go out and buy happy meals, which the Center for Science of Public Interest determined was unhealthy and unwise, and in fact it's none of their business.
From the Chicago Sun Times, those Hot Wheels and polypocket dolls aren't going anywhere.
The Happy Meals toys are staying.
According to a letter, McDonald's brass delivered Wednesday to a health watchdog group.
This group ought not get any attention.
They got a logo on a fax machine because they're a bunch of liberals, the media gives them instant credibility.
They're just a bunch of kooks.
They're no different than your crazy aunt in the basement who gives herself a logo and a fax machine and sends it out to the media and says she's against whatever.
That's essentially who they are.
The Center for Science and the Public Interest last month threatened a lawsuit against uh McDonald's to dump the toys that accompany Happy Meals.
Forget it, the McDonald's CEO Jim Skinner said, defending Happy Meals in the written response to the group based in Washington.
Internet sites, blogs, and network surveys suggest that public opinion is running overwhelmingly against your premise, Skenner wrote them.
Our customer websites and phone lines at McDonald's are also busy with more than nine out of ten customers disagreeing with your agenda.
Finally, some corporate CEO standing up to a bunch of left leftist status in the minority.
The people that run Center for the Science Public Interest are in a minority.
I got I wish I'd have to stop, but I have to because of an obscene profit time now.
We got to be right back.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh, continuing the shout-out to the CEO, Mr. Skinner.
And McDonald's responding to Center for Science and the Public Interest.
Internet sites, blogs, network surveys suggest that public opinion is running overwhelmingly against your premise.
Our customer websites and phone lines at McDonald's are also busy with more than nine out of ten customers disagreeing with your agenda.
I love this.
Somebody finally in the CEO ranks not letting a very small minority run their business or run things in general.
Mr. Skinner said the strong public response is, well, no, the story says that the strong public response is uncommon for the company, whose dominance in a fast food industry makes it a target of a range of activist groups.
Skinner said that the Center for Science of Public Interest is wrong in its assertions and frivolous in its legal threats.
He called a group's claims over-the-top rhetoric, seeking to turn the tables on the group, he called for an apology.
Center for Science and the Public Interest's twisted characterization of McDonald's as the stranger in the playground handing out candy to children is an insult to every one of our franchisees and employees around the world, Skinner wrote.
When Center for Science and the Public Interest refers to America's children as an unpaid drone army, you similarly Denigrate parents and families because they are fully capable of making their own decisions.
You should apologize.
Parents in particular strongly believe they have the right and the responsibility to decide what's best for their children, not the Center for Science and the Public Interest.
It's really that simple.
I love this.
It is that simple.
This guy has guts and courage.
It's a shame that something like what he has done here has to be characterized as guts and courage not too long ago in this country.
It would not have been unique for a CEO to tell some little pesky little bunch of maggots to leave them alone.
White Castle, a hamburger chain, says insurance reform ill bite into their profits big time.
It'll read up, uh eat up roughly 55% of its yearly net income after 2014.
So again, another private sector industry shouting the warning about Obamacare.
And we're back.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
This is Open Line Friday at the Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, the largest free educational institution known to exist in the free or oppressed worlds.
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Because the learning never stops.
I am sitting, of course, the prestigious Attila the Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute, a federal appeals court.
Rare good news here, folks.
Federal Appeals Court has rejected the regime's effort to keep a six-month deep water drilling moratorium in place.
A three-judge panel of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled soon after a Thursday afternoon hearing in a lawsuit filed by companies that opposed the drilling ban.
The Interior Department of the regime said the moratorium was necessary while it studied deep water drilling risks in the wake of the BP oil spill, putting who knows how many hundreds, maybe thousands of people out of work.
And a regime out there saying they're pro-business.
So the regime's been hand had it had its head handed to them twice now.
A federal judge and an appellate court has rejected Obama's bid to keep his drilling moratorium.
Will this stop Obama?
That's the question.
And I'm being quite serious.
This is uh this is a regime and an administration that has demonstrated countless times its uh cavalier attitude toward law and the Constitution.
And we'll just see what the regime tries to do in response to this.
Wall Street Journal has a uh a piece today on this entitled The White House Gets Drilled.
How ideologically stacked is Obama's Offshore Drilling Commission?
So much that even many of his fellow Democrats cannot support it.
Five Democrats on the Senate Energy Committee last week delivered an embarrassing rebuke to the regime, voting with Republicans to have Congress set up an independent commission to investigate the BP disaster, bypassing the president's appointees offered by Wyoming Republican John Barrasso.
To broader oil spill legislation, the amendment that passed the committee on a 50 to 8 vote charges the Democratic and Republican leaderships with naming a 10-person commission.
It emphasizes appointees should have technical expertise in offshore oil exploration, health and safety, and environmental protection.
Mr. Obama gets to name only the chairman.
Now listen to this.
By contrast, Obama's seven-member commission contains not a single expert on drilling or petroleum engineering, and is instead loaded with such anti-oil and anti-drilling activists as the Natural Resources Defense Council President, Francis Beinicke, and former Florida Senator Bob Grip.
Putting something like putting somebody from the Sierra Club with nothing more than a liberal activist group.
The same thing with a natural resources defense council.
It's no different than a left-wing version.
They're just they're just the global warming hoaxers.
I don't know how to describe them.
They're just these are the people who wanted to ban your C your SUVs.
They're like the Sierra Club.
And these are the people Obama put on his commission.
They don't have one thing good to say about oil or drilling, and they don't know anything about it.
Mary Landrew, Senator from Louisiana said, I would suggest to my Democrat friends that if the shoe were on the other foot, and President Bush was the president, and he had submitted a list of names like this to us, and everyone was related to the defense of oil companies.
We'd say this isn't fair.
And I'm saying to my colleagues, this isn't fair.
She was joined by Democrats Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Jean Shaheen of New Hampshire, and Mark Udall of Colorado.
All who said, There's no way we're going to have people like this from the Natural Resources Defense Council on a commission to investigate drilling in the Gulf.
It would be like putting Colonel Sanders on a commission to save the lives of chickens.
And the Democrats are even opposing Obama on this.
Obama's out there right now talking about the economy.
The economy's growing.
Oh, yeah.
We care about big business.
We we we want big business.
We we want private sector business to work.
You have to go out and say this.
There might be some question about it.
Here's a quote from the Wall Street Journal piece.
Having had this drilling moratorium declared illegal by a federal judge, and now his drilling commission rebuked by Democrats, Mr. Obama might want to liberate himself from Carol Browner and other anti-drilling White House advisors before they cause him even greater political damage.
Carol Browner, uh EPA, also in the Gore or Clinton Gore administration.
And she's a full-fledged, total wacko, leftist, environmentalist nutcase.
And here's here's where this breaks down.
I love the Wall Street Journal.
And Paul Jugo and the people over there at the editorial board.
Well, once again, here, Obama might want to liberate himself from Carol Browner.
Carol Browner is Obama.
Obama's not sitting there minding his own business, shooting hoops, trading spies, and letting underlings decide who's going to be on his commission.
Barack Obama is as anti-oil company as Carol Browner is.
Barack Obama is as anti-drilling as Carol Browner is.
People are going to have to understand Carol Browner and people like her did not sneak by anybody into this administration.
They were sought out.
They were summoned because they are rubber stamps for Obama.
So once again, Obama's portrayed as an innocent bystander.
He's trying to do what's right, but he's got some bad advice out there.
Some wacko leftists ended up on his commission.
Now that may be the way they they want to position it.
Poor old Bam getting sabotaged by his own team, but it's Obama who's sabotaging himself.
He is who he is.
That's the whole point of all this.
Obama does not like private sector businesses.
It's obvious.
Obama has a problem with helping people find work in the private sector.
It's obvious.
I reject the notion that he's sitting around minding his own business, and these wacko leftists are somehow sneaking by and getting uh positions of influence in his administration.
And here we have it uh from the uh from the politico is the is one of the stories.
White House, we're not anti-business.
The White House has launched a coordinated campaign to push back against a perception taking hold in corporate America and on Wall Street that Obama is promoting an anti-business agenda.
Well, remember what's being said at the Aspen Institute this week.
John Malone, who's at the Aspen Institute, has now joined all of this.
He's a cable television, liberty media, direct TV, cable TV is a mogul, and he's a great guy, by the way.
I have met Malone on a number of Different occasions.
He said the U.S. has the highest corporate tax rate in the world.
Given the global nature of his business, Malone said we could move out of Colorado.
It wasn't clear whether he was suggesting a move might still be under consideration, whether he was thinking of moving out of the U.S. or simply ranting against high taxes.
A lot of people are talking about, they've come to the conclusion.
Mort Vuckerman, we quoted, uh, people are realizing it's not an accident.
They're realizing this is not good intentions gone awry.
They're starting to realize nobody would do this unless they meant to be doing this.
This is not accidental.
This is not naivete.
This is not utopia panacea meeting reality.
This is anti-capitalism meeting reality.
And the capitalists are starting to figure out that they are in the crosshairs, even if they have donated considerable sums to Obama's effort.
So, White House, coordinated campaign.
We're not anti-business.
Now, folks, you cannot make this stuff up.
We have a pro-business or pro-growth.
That's the term he's using now, by the way.
Which, you know, don't tell me they don't listen here.
Progrowth, pro-growth president with a campaign to counter the notion that they are anti-business.
So you have a guy, he's making a speech now, or he finished it.
Pro growth, pro-growth president, pro-business president, adamant about shutting down oil production in the Gulf, eagerly awaiting the largest tax increase in history.
But he's pro-growth.
And he's pro-business.
You can't make this stuff up.
Now, obviously, what's happened here is that the White House did a focus group, they figured out that the private sector wants to hear about growth.
Obama figures are all a bunch of suckers, so he'll try to appease them with talk about growth.
But the pro-growth claim is so absurd given Obama's policies.
Talking about trade now, he's talking to all these I mean, it's too little and too late, and it's phony.
So, given his policies versus his rhetoric, uh, this is going to end up like a fever blister on his lip because it's the only place there's going to be results from all this rhetoric.
To claim to be pro-growth while simultaneously working to overturn a court order that reverses your moratorium on drilling in the Gulf, to claim to be pro-growth while simultaneously refusing to extend the Bush tax cuts.
Uh that is carefully calculated anti-growth behavior.
What we have here is carefully structured, calculated anti-growth policies.
Not the accidental mistakes of some poor, overmatched, befuddled young man who for the first time is encountering reality to go along with his flawed theory.
Anybody with a brain knows there can't be real growth if you shut down oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, and if you start raising taxes on everything that speaks, walks, or moods, and then add new regulations to punish people on top of that.
So all this talk, all this talk about growth, nothing but lies, nothing but false hope, trying to get a boost in the approval numbers here.
Let me tell you something.
If liars could fly, if liars could fly, the White House would be an airport back after this.
Yesterday, Kansas City, uh, Obama in a very listless and unenergetic address on the economy, introduced a seemed to be introducing a new slogan, uh, yes, we did, uh, instead of yes we can't.
By the way, folks, do you understand the irony here?
This is a this is a guy, Obama, the Democrat Party, the American left.
If you look at their enemies list.
Who is it?
Big retail, big drug, big food, big oil, uh big defense contractor.
I mean, big b uh big radio, but every private sector business that is big and successful is on the top of the enemies list.
And now all of a sudden, here's Obama out saying he's pro-business.
They accuse Republicans of being pro-business.
When they say of Republicans are pro-business, they're attacking them.
They're attempting to impugn them, and all of a sudden Obama wants to wrap himself in the pro-business robe.
Ha.
So he wants to introduce his new slogan, yes, we did.
Yeah, okay, fine.
Yes, we did destroy the economy.
Yes, we did take over the automobile industry.
Yes, we did squander a trillion dollars, and we're gonna squander a trillion more.
Yes, we did triple the U.S. deficit.
And yes, we did it all on purpose.
What are you gonna do about it now?
Yes, we do want to stop drilling in the in the in the Gulf of Mexico and in Mexico and in in Alaska.
Yes.
Yes, we did do that.
Here's Mort Zuckerman.
We quoted him earlier from the Aspen Institute.
He was on um MSNBC yesterday, the uh the hostette, Chris Jansing, talked to Mort Zuckerman.
He is the editor-in-chief and publisher of U.S. News and World Report and the New York Daily News.
She said, Do you think these are policies that he misled the voters about, or is he following a plan that might have been expected, maybe it's not working as quickly or as well as he might have hoped.
I don't think anybody anticipated that uh there were the kind of details in uh a national election campaign that indicated what whether it was going to be X or Y. But when you get into the program and you find out what you need to get this economy rolling again, and you get a program that is two-thirds basically driven by politics and not by policy, there's going to be disappointment.
And I think there really is disappointment and dismay.
Neil Ferguson and I were the two speakers at the opening session talking about this.
And I would say that a year ago, 90% of them would have been throwing tomatoes at us.
They were not.
They agreed.
That's exactly right.
And this is what I was telling you about yesterday.
I meant led the show with this.
Maybe it was a couple days ago.
Aspen Institute.
This is where Barbara Streisand agreed.
You know, Barbara Streisand is making more sense than Republicans, it's noteworthy.
So Chris Jansen said, Well, are you even surprised by some of the people who are in that group with your critics of the president?
There is a level of dismay with the leadership of this country now, and it's the failure of its policies to address the problems that we're having.
Those employment numbers really are in the worst shape that we've had.
There is a real disappointment in what these programs have been.
And I'm not just saying this now, because frankly, as I say, we endorse the president, but I'm saying there is real legitimate grounds for disappointment.
And I'm I'm not quite sure how to explain it all.
Well, he's he's not at a loss on how to explain it all.
He just doesn't want to say yet that it's purposeful.
Destruction.
He doesn't want to say it, but he knows it.
Don't doubt me.
Caroline, somewhere in Florida, you're up first on open line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you.
Um, yeah, it's you know, I'm I'm just very frustrated.
I'm a very small business owner, and um we are shut out from things left and right.
We teach kids science.
Um parents love our programs, kids want to do the programs, and yet we're shut out left and right from being able to provide them because we're a for-profit, and that's pretty much the only reason.
I had a big company that was gonna give us a minute.
I have the solution for you.
Yes, sir.
Well, morning update today or yesterday was on this very subject.
They have the Democrats passed a new law denying earmarks to uh pro or for-profit companies.
So the companies that were denied earmarks opened a subsidiary that was a nonprofit, same address, same CEO, and they got the earmarks.
So what you need to do is simply change your well, don't change your for-profit, but open a nonprofit with the same name, and then you will get your earmark.
Unfortunately, I can't because it is um a franchise, and our corporate office, we we can't do that, unfortunately.
Um, but it's frustrating because I had a company that was gonna give us a large sum, uh, twenty-five thousand dollar um fund to teach kids science, go around and do things, and as soon as they found out we were a for-profit, they said, Oh, sorry, we can't do that.
It wasn't that, it's that you're wanting to teach kids science, and that's competition of public schools.
That's why they froze you out.
Center for Science and Public Interest is a non-profit, a 501c3.
They pulled in 17 million dollars last year.
Donations.
They have admit to having eighty million dollars in the bank.
The Center for Science and Public Interest, 17 million dollars last year.
That's the way to go.
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