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July 15, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 15, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
I got to develop this theme a little further, but was talking about it with a uh friend of mine this morning.
Nothing.
Practically nothing in the media is real.
The oil spill's not killing birds and fish.
It's not.
They don't know what's killing birds and fish, but it didn't the oil spill.
New York Times.
Apple's iPhone does not have a major problem.
They may have a problem with some receivers, but Apple's got this big press conference tomorrow, but if there were a major problem with the iPhone, there'd be mass returns, there'd be people flooding the stores, and that's not happening.
I mean, that seems forced.
All this talk of stimulus and economic growth, nothing's real.
Nothing that's reported in the media is real.
Uh greetings, folks.
Great to have you here.
It's L. Rushball and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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Companies pile up cash but remain hesitant to add jobs.
All right, now this is a theme that's established itself out there, and this is all over the place.
All these companies have all this money.
Some companies do, but they all do not.
A lot of companies are hurting.
A lot of companies are shutting down.
A lot of businesses, small and large, are in deep doo-doo.
Companies pile up cash but remain hesitant to add jobs.
See, it's not the economy, it's these greedy SOBs in business.
That's the theme here.
Nothing's real.
White House says business is sitting on cash waiting for consumer demand to return.
And a researcher says the only reason I'm bringing this story up is because on page two of this, uh, by the way, a story by Jia Lin Yang.
Not that that matters.
Just wanted to say the words.
Gia Lin Yang.
Uh a researcher here says on page two, there's not a whole lot you could do to entice companies to hire people out there.
Uh you could cut taxes on them, uh, but they're not gonna hire just because they have the extra cash, because they already have the extra cash.
Who is this?
Zachary Carabel, president of River Twice Research.
If you're hiring this guy, you might want to think about it.
He's quote, CEOs don't like taking risks.
They kind of move in packs.
What's wrong with this?
Now see, on the surface, this sounds, well, maybe a guy may have a point.
But he doesn't.
There's not a whole lot that you can do to entice companies to hire.
You could cut taxes on them, but they're not gonna hire just because they have extra cash because they already have extra cash.
Um why do they have the extra cash?
Mr. B carabel.
They have the extra cash because they don't know what's gonna hit them upside the head next week, next month, or next year.
They're holding the per what's the purpose of a company, Mr. Caribbean?
Is it to hire people?
No.
The purpose of a company is to produce a product or a service and provide for it, make a profit.
Now you have to hire people to work for you along the way, but you don't start a business.
You know what?
I think ten people need a job today.
I'm gonna start a company.
It doesn't happen that way.
You could give these businesses a tax cut, and you'd change the whole dynamic.
Because then you would tell them you're interested in their growth.
I mean, we we have the second highest corporate tax rate in the developed world.
If you cut that, then these people, okay, maybe we're gonna not be punished if we succeed down the road.
Maybe we're gonna be able to keep a little bit more of what we earn and reinvest it.
And maybe our businesses will then grow, and then we might hire people.
That's the progressive line on a progression line here.
This is this is just absurd.
Companies pile up cash, but remain hesitant to add jobs.
They're smart.
Why are they hesitant to add jobs?
Small business owners uneasy with Obama politico.
The small business sounding off here.
White House, in response, says that their regulations will promote economic growth.
When's the last time that ever happened?
The financial sector is not gonna know for two years the real impact of financial regulatory reform, which is gonna get signed what is it this afternoon?
It's gonna pass this afternoon.
For two years, they're not gonna know the impact.
Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, the authors can't even tell businesses what the impact's gonna be.
Uh, because their whole bunch of bureaucrats are gonna be allowed to make decisions on the fly on a whim.
Nobody knows what they're gonna be dealing with.
The White House attempts to tamp down the growing narrative of Obama as an enemy in a business community are not resonating with small business owners themselves.
A number of small business owners attending a U.S. Chamber of Commerce Jobs Summit on Wednesday said the administration is responsible for policies that have made them uneasy about hiring or investing in their businesses.
Darryl Hancock owns an information technology consulting company in Maryland.
He said Obama's sweeping changes to the health care industry and new restrictions on Wall Street have only exacerbated the uncertainty of a bad economy.
Hancock said he's very nervous about the future.
He's put off improvements, much less hiring people.
It's easier for me just to sit and wait and see what the hell I'm going to be dealing with.
Jim Wordsworth, who owns eight businesses in Northern Virginia, chairs the Chamber of Commerce's small business council, says I'm offended after all these years.
I feel like I've done an evil thing.
Earning a profit.
Like profit is a bad thing.
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, who apparently Obama wanted to get his Senate seat, It's coming out in a blogo trial.
Shot back in a letter to the chamber saying they were surprised and disappointed by the business community's rhetoric.
They pointed the administration's middle class tax cuts.
There aren't going to be any middle class tax cuts.
That promise been broken.
And the president's commitment to working on the free trade agreements, and they said any new regulations on businesses would promote economic growth.
Oh, so that's how it happens.
Uh new regulations promote growth.
Is that it?
Well, if that's the case, then why the hell is Obama bringing in Der Schlieckmeister and saying, how do you grow an economy?
Do you realize, do you realize the crow Obama's having to eat here?
I mean, during the campaign, what did Clinton get for this?
I mean, it's got to be huge.
Because Obama played the race card against Clinton, and Clinton didn't like it.
They were out, they were attacking Clinton and Hillary during the campaign, and all of a sudden the phone rings.
Yeah, hello.
Uh hold for the president, please.
I am the president.
Who's on the other?
President Obama.
Ah, oh, yeah, that guy.
Okay.
Obama gets on the phone.
Hey, uh, Bill, I I uh uh Obama, what do you need?
I need you to get in the White House here, help me with the economy.
Well, I thought you had a I thought we're growing.
I thought all kinds of employment taking place.
So they called Clinton in to help him with economic growth.
What is Clinton know about it?
All he did was raise taxes.
All he did was he didn't do anything for economic growth.
That was all Ronaldus Magnus.
And Clinton's tax increases was the beginning of the downside of the boom from the 80s of Ronaldus Magnus.
Oh, 1994.
And then the Republicans got in there and started balancing the budget, and voila, look what happened.
You know, here's what here's what Clinton needs to say to Obama.
Hey, hey, hey, Barry.
Let me tell you what you need.
It's exactly what happened to me.
In 1994, I got a Republican Congress.
Republican Congress, they went in there, they made me balance a budget.
I had to do welfare reform.
Um, and uh, and and they they force your hand.
And then when they do all these good things, you take the credit for it.
It's exactly what I did.
I didn't do diddly squat.
In fact, everything I did is like doing what you're doing.
If I'd have been left alone, I'd have killed the economy just like you are.
But the Republicans happen to win in 1994, and I got the credit for everything they did.
That's probably if Clinton were honest, and that's stretch, uh, that would be what he would say to Obama.
So regulations, regulations, regulations, the Ramay, regulations, economic growth.
Yeah.
Well, I we got regulations coming out every orifice there is in Washington, and we don't have any economic growth.
And ladies and gentlemen, try this.
Los Angeles Times, Doyle McManus, Great Recession Psychological Fallout, from lower birth rates to decreased civil participation and decreased volunteerism.
Economic downturns have many non-economic effects.
It turns out the recessions do not bring people together.
Oh, I thought, wait, what, wait, wait now.
Last year at this time, we were getting all these stories.
Families out of work loved being out of work, getting to know themselves all over again, sitting around at home and reconnecting.
Remember, it was great not to have a job.
It was great for you emotionally and spiritually, and all of a sudden, the LA Times tells us that recessions don't bring people together.
They hunker down, they don't march in protest or band together, don't volunteer.
So uh prosperity makes us more generous, it makes us more civic-minded.
This story doesn't say this.
This is my um conclusion.
Now, the journalists who printed that crap last summer about how great it is to be out of work, how spiritually revitalizing it was, sit around with a family.
Yeah, that's what people like to do.
Sit around with a family all day long and pick up the Cheerios and the Munchies off the floor.
Right.
Those people who printed all that garbage, they themselves are out of work now.
And since they're out of work, there's no more stories about how great it is to be unemployed.
See how this works.
Yeah, it's easy when you're a journalist trying to prop up a failed administration.
You go out there, create a new template.
It's great to be unemployed.
Why discovering all kinds of things about ourselves?
The people who wrote that have now lost their jobs.
That's why there aren't stories about this anymore.
And then the New York Times, folks, uh probably the most important story of the day is in the New York Times, and it dovetails with all this regulation.
Rama Manuel, regulation is gonna lead to uh growth for small businesses.
This is an innocent little story uh from Robert Pear.
Health plans must provide some tests at no cost.
Wow.
Here it comes.
Free.
Now listen to me.
I'm gonna read from the story.
The White House on Wednesday issued new rules.
The White House.
Now look at me.
The White House issued new rules.
We're talking about health care.
The White House issued new rules.
By fiat.
This is reported as though it's good, it's common, it's exactly what life should be like.
The White House on Wednesday issued new rules requiring health insurance companies to provide free coverage for dozens of screenings, laboratory tests, and other types of preventive care.
With the snap of the fingers, the waving of a supposed magic wand, Obama required insurance companies to provide free coverage for a bunch of different kinds of screenings and laboratory tests and other types of preventive care.
So that's the first sentence.
So Obama just forced private sector business, industry, to give away a hunk of their business for free.
To give it away.
Well, but they can't.
There is no free lunch.
Somebody's gonna pay for this, and guess who it is?
All you people who make less than 250,000 dollars thought you're gonna get a not getting a tax increase?
Guess what?
You're gonna join all the rest of everybody else, and you're gonna be paying for this.
So, health insurance, and this is the law now.
The law, the Obamacare allows this to happen.
There are over 243 of these kinds of bureaucracies in the financial regulatory reform bill.
243 different bureaucracies or agencies that can issue fat laws like this.
Once it is in place.
So if it's this, if it's this easy, I mean, you just you snap your fingers and you tell those evil bastards in the insurance business are going to start giving away free tests and free screenings.
Why not just tell Apple to give away the iPhone?
Why not just what?
I mean, you can make a health care case for it.
Cell phones cause cancer, right?
That's what they're trying to prove next.
Uh why not force Apple to give everybody a new iPhone?
Well, in fact, why why do you have to pay for gasoline in your car?
Why Why can't Obama just demand that gas stations and oil companies give everybody a free fill-up every time they pull into the pump?
Just because this is a health care business does not mean they don't need to make money and maintain a profit.
So what is happening here is precisely what we all warned you.
They're running the private insurance business out of business.
And they can do it because the law was signed into law by BAM.
He can just snap his fingers, okay?
You're going to start providing this stuff free.
Well, they can't last doing that.
They'll go belly up.
Hello, public option.
And he won't.
My friends, I have just read three lines of this story.
It goes on and on and on.
You want to hear more?
The new requirements, these are not suggestions.
The new requirements mandated by the White House promise significant benefits for consumers.
Maybe so, but the thing about this is the majority of us who have health insurance through employers already have most of the cost of these tests covered.
Yeah, but that's going to change too.
The new requirements promise significant benefits for consumers if they take advantage of the services that should now be more readily available and affordable.
In general, the government said Americans use preventive services at about half the rate recommended by doctors and public health experts.
The rules will eliminate co-payments, deductibles, and other charges for blood pressure, diabetes, and cholesterol tests, many cancer screenings, routine vaccinations, prenatal care, and regular wellness visits for infants and children.
Now, who are these tests in particular going to help most?
Let's go through this list here.
Blood pressure, diabetes, uh cholesterol tests, uh cancer screenings.
I mean, uh sounds like union groups to me.
The obese, the overweight, and union members.
And some minorities thrown in.
Other services that must be offered at no charge, because the White House said so yesterday, include counseling to help people stop smoking, screening and counseling for obesity and tests for infection with the virus that causes AIDS and the rules stipulate no co-payments can be charged.
For tests and screenings, back after this.
Los Angeles Times Great Recession, psychological fallout...
No more volunteerism.
No more civic participation.
People aren't getting along with each other.
Remember this?
June 4th, 2009.
Uh the for the fun employed, this is LA Times, for the fun employed in unemployment's welcomed.
These jobless people, usually singles in their 20s and 30s, find that life without work agrees with them.
They're not sending out resumes, but instead lazing at the beach and taking long trips abroad.
June 4th, Kimi Yoshino, LA Times.
Doyle McManus, July 15th, 2010, same paper, Great Recessions, psychological fallout.
From lower birth rates to decreased civic participation to volunteerism, economic downturns have many non-economic effects.
Go figure.
Nothing that's reported in the mainstream media is real.
How do you screen for obesity?
Would somebody explain what obesity screening is?
It's a mirror, isn't it?
Maybe some scales?
Maybe a scale, a pair of glasses?
Some people may have to go to a truck stop to get weighed, but what kind of screening do you need for obesity?
Now listen to this.
This this is from the Wall Street Journal's version of the story from the New York Times today.
Notice this line from the Wall Street Journal piece.
Quote, under the provision, health plans initiated after September 23rd must cover preventive health services at no additional cost to the consumer.
People who stay on their existing health plans will not benefit from the change.
May I translate that for you?
This is a way to get you to leave your insurance plan, which we were all promised that we'd be allowed to keep if we wanted to.
And how long before the free services are used to make us conform to what they want us to be?
Do you smoke?
Are you overweight?
Sorry, no longer free.
So I I kid you not, people who stay on their existing health plans on September 23rd will not benefit from the change which mandates that insurers cover preventive health services at no additional cost to the consumer.
Bye bye, private insurance.
White House starts the ball rolling yesterday.
And we're back.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
Listen to more for more this story on the White House mandates.
Snap of the fingers yesterday from the White House.
From the Wall Street Journal, by 2013.
That's just two and a half years from now.
The White House says that 88 million Americans will benefit from these changes, meaning 88 million Americans will be given free preventive screenings by their health insurance companies.
Somebody's gonna be paying for it.
It isn't gonna be the consumer, and it's gonna get rid of the private insurance business industry.
So the White House believes that in a mere couple years, 88 million people will have left their existing health care plans.
If you don't leave your existing health care plan, you don't get the free preventive screenings and services.
The only way you can get it is to leave your health care plan.
So the White House thinks 88, and what that number, by the way, there was a consulting firm.
IBD reported what they had said the Wall Street Journal, 88 million Americans would leave their health insurance plans.
White House refuted it.
That's not true.
That's never gonna happen.
Now the White House is effectively saying it.
Here's more from the Wall Street version, Wall Street Journal version of the story.
Insurers say the changes will not be free to consumers since plans will have to raise premiums overall to offset the cost of covering these services for free.
The Obama regime estimates that the changes will increase the cost of premiums by an average of one and a half percent a year.
Well, wait a minute now.
Who's paying the premiums and who's getting the freebies?
Huh?
So when the regime says that these services will be free, they mean that they will cost everyone with insurance an average increase in payments of one and a half percent a year.
How is how is this working out?
Even people who won't be getting the free benefits, so we've got the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal with big stories how excited they are, finally, preventive health services and screenings, finally, insurance companies, evil rotten SOB insurance companies now have to provide it free.
And you keep reading, well, wait a minute, the premiums are gonna go up uh one and a half percent to cover all this.
Whose premiums?
That's not even the point.
The point is somebody in the White House just decided yesterday to implement this.
They snap their fingers.
There's no legislation backing this up.
Well, other than Obamacare as an umbrella, but the White House.
The White House, the Obama regime just commanded insurance companies to provide X services free.
That is not legal.
That is not constitutional.
Where does it stop?
Why not just tell Steve Jobs give away the iPhone 4 now?
Nothing is Real.
This iPhone 4.
I can't duplicate this reception problem.
I know people are having a reception problem.
I'm not denying it.
But folks, there are not the i there they've sold three million of these phones since the end of June.
June, what?
May when they go on June 15th, 24th, whatever.
They've three million phones, and they have not, I mean, the number of returns is infinitesimal.
And yet the big news is how rotten the phone is.
And I remember saying on this program, many many in in in uh in jest being jocular.
Apple would report all this cash on hand, Apple reporting all these profits, stock price going up.
I said, Steve Jobs, you better be careful.
You are becoming an enemy of the state.
If you're gonna make a profit, don't brag about it.
But they can't help it because they have to report it.
The SEC end of the street.
They've just painted a big bullseye on their face, and lo and behold, it didn't take long, did it?
For a couple of schlubs in the media to raise a big ruckus about some problem that is not causing mass returns of the phone.
And then today, we have a story from Bloomberg last year, Ruben Caballero, not to be confused with Guy Caballero, a senior engineer and antenna expert informed jobs, Steve Jobs, that the iPhone 4's design may hurt reception, said the person who is not authorized to speak on Apple's behalf and asked not to be identified.
So somebody who's not allowed to speak and has asked to remain anonymous, has just said that Ruben Caballero, an engineer at Apple, went to Steve Jobs and said, You got an antenna problem here.
And lo and behold, we got an antenna problem.
Well, the iPhone is the worst piece of garbage that's ever been made and never been released.
And everybody's buying one is being screwed by Steve Jobs personally and by Apple.
And since Apple hasn't responded to this suitably, Apple is in big trouble.
Where's the fix?
Where's the free case?
Where's the free this?
Where's the free that?
Apple's called a press conference tomorrow.
Nobody knows what they're gonna say.
The speculation is a mass recall, free cases.
And then if you read further in this Bloombook's Bloomberg story, get this.
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer.
A Democrat from New York issued a public letter to Steve Jobs saying Apple's efforts to address the matter so far are insufficient and asking the company to quote address this flaw in a transparent manner.
Then we had consumer reports, which is a worthless bunch of trash anymore.
First saying the iPhone's the best product in its field, and then suspiciously coming out and saying, don't buy the thing, you can't hear a call on it.
Folks, nothing is real.
Now, as you know, I've got I've got no brief for Apple, but I do love this country and I love freedom and I hate, I detest the tentacles of statist big government reaching into every nook and cranny and corner of this country and trying to tell everybody when and where they have to do what and how much.
And I am sick and tired of successful private sector companies and industries being enemies, perceived as enemies and being targeted by the American left.
The irony here is that the people going after Steve Jobs are a bunch of liberals.
The people going after Apple are a bunch of liberals in the media to one degree or another.
Now, Chuck U Schumer piling on a congressman or senator from New York?
New York?
How close is New York to Cupertino, California, where the iPhone is designed.
What the hell is Chuck Hugh Schumer got to say about this?
Oh, he's a U.S. senator.
Oh, yeah, we're supposed to have immediate reverence.
A U.S. senator is demanding an Apple be transparent because they're screwing people.
That's the news.
That's the message.
Apple's the latest company is a screw people.
If we could return Obama.
How many returns do you think there would be?
I guarantee you, if we could take Obama back to the voting booth, there'd be a hell of a lot more people returning Obama than have returned iPhones.
Back after this.
Now, folks, as nauseating as it is, as nauseating as it is, try to imagine being Charles Schumer for just a minute.
Always on the brawl to attack.
Always out to smear, always out to control.
You have to wonder what kind of mind this man has.
You have to wonder what kind of life this man has, rather than seeing what is great about this country and appreciating it.
And recognizing all of these wonderful things that happen despite of and in spite of him.
He sits around and he's lurking in the corners and he's waiting for some situation to exploit, always tearing down this country or tearing down a successful institution, company, or tradition in this country.
Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer has produced nothing, not a single job, not a product, not one damn thing.
He is perpetually in a hateful state of mind.
These people are not well.
The UK Telegraph is reporting that Apple has lost $9.9 billion in stock value after that bad Consumer Reports review.
So...
They'll get it back.
This is a buy opportunity if you play the game that way.
All that aside, this all feels forced and trumped up.
The only thing missing is consumer complaints.
Everything else we've got.
The media hasn't yet found one disgruntled customer.
I know that the lawyers have tried to come up with a class action suit.
And they did that, and to prove what that's all about, they tried to get the class action suit up even before the 30-day return to phone for free period had expired.
Something's not right here.
This isn't real.
Try as they might, they can't find a whole beffy of asthma animal or Apple customers willing to go on TV and rip the company or Steve Jobs or anybody else to shreds.
They were able to come up with a couple of dunces who drove Toyotas, who tried to blame Toyota for a brake pedal that acted as an accelerator when in fact we've now learned that these people were flooring the accelerator, thinking they were hitting the brake.
Aha, supposedly thinking they were hitting the whole thing's been a setup.
Apple's too big a target.
Apple's got too much profit.
Apple's having too much fun.
Apple is too loved.
Apple is demonstrating an antidote to socialism.
In the midst of one of the greatest recessions ever, look at the success Apple is having by providing a product so loved and so appreciated and so desired that people in the midst of a recession are buying it in record drop.
We can't have that.
I guarantee them to you, if three million people who'd bought Apple phones couldn't make a phone call on them, or if they were dropping calls left and right, we would have heard about it from the people to whom it was happening.
Not a bunch of shruffs in the media.
And willing accomplices.
I wonder, is ample union?
Maybe they need to make a deal with the SEIU.
Maybe Apple needs to call the SEIU, and maybe that's job solution here.
Is to unionize.
Somebody needs to tell Chuck Yo Schumer.
The Apple store on the upper west side of New York City keeps its door open when they have their air conditioning on.
Do you know you can't do that in New York?
There is a city ordinance.
You can't keep the door open when you have the air conditioning on.
It wastes money.
It's in direct violation of New York regulations.
Nine stores on the upper west side of Manhattan were fined just last week for having their doors open.
Apple probably is like Bill Gates back in the old days, not paying enough protection racket to people like Chuck Schumer.
But what must that man's life be like?
What must it like be like to live the life of a leftist?
Where you're always looking for evil, Looking for enemies and finding it if you have to make it up.
Never being happy.
They tried to destroy Toyota.
They tried to destroy Walmart.
You take a look at the enemies list of Chuck Schumer, his party, and the American left, and it's every damned successful service or manufacturing company in this country.
Gibbs, Cocoa Beach, Florida.
You're on the phones first today.
Great to have you with us.
How are you doing, Rush?
Very well, thank you.
Good.
Well, you just made my point.
I was watching Fox News last night, and they have decided that the Toyota malfunctions had to do with operator error and nothing wrong with the car.
And I just uncanny how they're doing the same thing.
Apple and the iPhone and I don't get it, Russ.
They're trying to destroy it.
Well, it's in the case of Toyota.
There might have been a couple instances.
But but now it's all the damage is done.
The poor little CEO named Toyota came over here.
And basically committed Harry Carey before a U.S. committee, Congressional Senate committee.
And now we find out that the problem was Dunce drivers.
And I'm not even, I'm not even gonna buy the notion they're dunce.
I this it seems the route to riches in this company country these days goes through trial lawyers.
Jackpot drivers.
It's just just get in your Toyota, get in your Lexus, create a problem, manufacture when it's easier and a better better deal than getting a scratch off Powerball ticket at the local 7 Eleven.
Or wherever the hell you get those things.
Walmart, no union.
Apple, no union.
Case closed.
Chuck Schumer, Democrat attacking Apple, no union.
He lives in New York.
What the hell's he got to do with where are Feinstein and Barbara Boxer defending jobs?
It used to be that American representatives and senators worked for you.
It used to be that it was a pleasant thing to encounter a government official.
Now it's a risk.
Now it's a roll of the dice to encounter a government official, either a transportation security agency person.
Or if you happen to be a legal alien in Arizona, you got big problems.
Illegal.
I mean it's just illegal's scot-free.
Where is Al Gore defending Apple?
Al Gore's on the board of directors at Apple.
Well, Al's got his own problems.
Uh at the uh at the moment.
What you're looking at here, folks, is a shakedown of Apple.
Now, let me let me full disclosure here.
I have never, we have tried for 21 years to get advertising from Apple, and they won't do it for political reasons.
They will not do it.
I happen to think they make the best stuff available for what I want to do with that kind of stuff.
So I talk about it.
I haven't been given a penny.
I can't even get a phone call back.
I From the executive suite at Apple.
I got some people I've been able to get through.
I get some help there, but I mean my point is I don't know these people.
But I know a shakedown when I see it.
And when Chuck you Schumer pops up to get involved in this.
Schumer, what?
Senators work for us, or do they work for Wall Street?
You see the story today about in the Wall Street Journal about all the senators, not just Chris Dodd, all these senators, a bunch of them got all these cushy mortgage deals from countrywide.
Who do they work for?
The senators work for you, they work for Wall Street.
Schumer should be representing Wall Street, right?
They are his constituents.
Should he not?
So for Schumer joining this Apple business, we have a shakedown.
He raises more money than anybody else does from Wall Street.
So they pony up the Schumer in hopes that he'll go after some other company or go after some other industry.
A shakedown.
It's a protection racket.
And if you'll notice, the people who never get shaken down and the people who never get targeted are the people who are genuinely ripping us off.
Teachers' unions with poor schools, for one example.
They're propped up.
Go figure.
April, I'm sorry, March 12th, 2010, ABC News.
In a press conference held near the site of a possible runaway Toyota crash.
Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat New York today, asked that Toyota cooperate fully with local investigators.
It's time for Toyota to work in good faith with the Harrison Police Department.
Turn over the information the investigators need.
So first it was Toyota Chuck Yu Schumer back in March joining the crusade against the non-union Toyota.
And today Chuck Schumer launching into Apple.
Also, not union.
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