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Aug. 12, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 12, 2010, Thursday, Hour #2
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Greetings to you, music lovers and thrill seekers.
I am Rush Limbaugh, mined over chatter.
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Our last caller, Bob, talking about uh Ed Whitaker, gone from General Motors, Obama Motors.
He was very and he didn't tell us how, but the guys connected in the auto business.
Very clear he was connecting.
Insiders are saying that Whitaker, and this is on the eve of GM going IPO.
Uh going back publicly, Whitaker was uh probably forced out.
This is what the industry thinks anyway.
That Whitaker was forced out because of this.
Around August 7th, Whitaker said, and this is uh uh where do you say this?
Forget where he said it.
He said Thursday, whatever that around August 7th, uh, we don't like this label of government ownership.
Oh, as the Center for Automotive Research Annual Industry Conference.
He said, We don't like this label of government ownership.
People in General Motors are embarrassed by that.
You lose your reputation, it's hard to get back.
But Whitaker's also on record as uh saying that GM needed to have several very positive quarters of growth before they would offer an IPO, which they've not had, yet they're talking about offering the uh IPOs.
So that might uh one of the reasons.
But we we've been told here from somebody high up in the industry the scuttlebutt is that Whitaker's gone because you know, and this it still is government motors.
I mean, even in the story that announces his uh his resignation or his leaving or whatever it is being called this the AP, whoever makes a point, and this had nothing to do.
This is a board decision on the government had nothing to say about this.
Really?
Oh, people must have been thinking it.
Why do you have to point that out?
Well, government had nothing to do with it.
I mean, nobody had even made the charge yet, and here they are denying it.
What?
You think the governor will call me un-American again?
She Governor Granholm called me unAmerican for calling the vault a lemon, which I didn't do.
The New York Times did.
And I was simply quoting them.
Uh now, the big news is that General Motors has what is it, 1.3 uh 1.5 uh 1.3 billion dollar profit.
Is that what it is or million?
Which is it?
Billion dollar profit.
Well, Jeff Bennett, Wall Street Journal, today.
The consolidation of new car dealerships in the U.S. continued in the first half of the year, although there are signs the trend is easing.
The dealership count fell to 18,223 after 258 showrooms shut their doors in the first half of the year.
The decrease comes after a record 1,603 dealerships closed last year in the aftermath of the GM and Chrysler LLC bankruptcies.
General Motors has 5,114 dealers, down from 6,049 dealers at the start of its bankruptcy.
The reduction includes steps GM took to shrink its network during bankruptcy and closings caused by other factors like the economy.
So it might well be that uh the contributing part to the profit is the closing of dealerships.
And we have heard recently that that was a political move.
Taken not by General Motors, but rather by the um the government.
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Unlike the way I and all of you in this audience are characterized by the media.
Continuing on with economic news from Reuters Americans are grim over the economy before the elections.
This is a poll.
It's a Reuters report on the NBC News Wall Street Journal poll released yesterday.
Pessimism over the economy is rising, and the grim mood could hurt both parties.
In November 2, congressional elections, 66% of Americans believe the economy will worsen before it gets better.
That's up from 53% who felt that way in January.
Nearly 60% of those surveyed said the country is headed in the wrong direction.
More than half of the respondents said they disapprove of the way Obama is handling the economy.
72% of respondents disapprove of the job Congress is doing.
And Reuters hopefully pointing out here a finding that could bode ill for incumbents of both major parties seeking re-election.
They wish.
Everybody's conceding the Republicans are going to win the House.
Now the focus is on the Senate.
Will they win there?
If the Republicans are going to be hurt, Reuters, why is anybody talking about all these Republican gains?
Even if, and I don't like this talk, by the way, of taking back the House, taking back the Senate too early, too premature.
But even if that doesn't happen, we know that the Republicans are going to score huge gains, and not for any reason other than they are not Democrats.
Because they're not really putting forth any agenda.
So how can Reuters sit here and say that the NBC Wall Street Journal poll bodes ill for both parties when everybody concedes the Republicans are going to have sincere massive gains?
Only 24% of those polled expressed positive feelings about the Republican Party.
It's a new law in the 21-year history of the survey.
Democrats were only slightly more popular, but also near an all-time low.
Now that's interesting.
If you want to take this now, granted, this is partisan political operative media and therefore a partisan political operative poll.
But let's just assume this is true for a second.
Twenty-four percent, only 24%, expressed positive feelings about the Republican Party.
How could they change that?
What is the Republican Party doing that has people down on it in this day and age?
In fact, they're benefiting tremendously from not being Democrats.
So what are they not doing or doing that's causing this problem?
And what's the fix?
And you and I both know the fix.
The fix is start standing for something and make it what you're standing for, conservatism.
You want to raise that 24% to over 50?
then get in line with the majority of people in the country.
Republicans need to forget about being part of the ruling class.
Thank you.
And remember what the purpose of their existence in government is.
And the uh, let's see, what is this?
This is uh what story this is Wall Street Journal.
This word grim is in their own story of their own poll.
Grim voter mood turns grimmer.
Is the Wall Street Journal report on their own poll?
Pessimism rises on economy and war.
Bad reviews for both Democrats and the GOP.
There's nothing the Democrats can do.
They're in charge.
The Democrats can't do diddly Squat to help themselves.
By their very existence, with total unchecked power, they are doing themselves damage that can't be stopped and can't be reversed.
The only option they have, the only option, Carl Roth points this on his column today, the Wall Street Journal.
The only option they have is bashing Bush, and that's not a good one, but it's the best one they've got.
They cannot point to anything they've done with pride.
In fact, they're being told not to brag.
They're being told not to run on their accomplishments.
Why is that?
Because they know that nobody wants them.
Nobody wanted health care as we have it.
Nobody wanted the porculus.
Nobody wants the financial regulatory reform, but nobody wants the way Democrats are doing things.
So there remains a huge opportunity for Republicans to contrast who they are, and all they'd have to do is start espousing the values and principles of our founding.
And keep in mind, as is in the case with every poll, every poll, they over sampled Democrats.
So there are far more Democrats in this poll than there are Democrats in the country.
And that happens practically with every pollster.
Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, told the Democrats, run on health care.
Vote for health care.
Vote for it.
Remember Clinton running around telling these guys at meetings.
Hey, you know, I lost Congress in 1994.
You know why?
We lost it because we did not pass health care.
If I had stuck with that, if we had passed that, that new Gingrich Revolution wouldn't have happened.
You sit out there and you don't fall for this notion of voting for this is going to hurt you.
Voting for health care is the only thing, the best thing you can do to help yourself.
And now what?
Now they voted for it.
And is Clinton out there saying, now stand up for yourselves.
Go out there, run for re-elects, just like I told you.
I told you this is the only way to save yourself.
You vote for health care, you run out there and you tell everybody you did.
No.
They're getting a letters from Clinton and Hillary and Begal and everybody else.
By the way, when you're on our campaign, don't start bragging about your support for health care.
Don't even mention you voted for it.
That's not something we want to talk about right now.
And don't talk about financial regulatory form.
Don't, in fact, just don't say one thing about anything you've done.
Just bash Bush.
That's all they got.
Golden opportunity here for the Republicans.
But they sit there and they're just gonna try to take what comes their way by not doing anything.
Nile Gardner, uh once again the UK telegraph, the UK media.
The stunning decline of Barack Obama, the ten key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown.
Number one, the Obama presidency is out of touch with the American people.
Growing disillusionment with the Obama administration's handling of the economy, as well as health care and immigration has gone hand in hand with mounting unhappiness with the president's aloof and imperial style of leadership, and a growing perception that he's out of touch with ordinary Americans, especially at a time of significant economic pain.
This is a Brit.
Nile Gardner writing this.
UK, the British Telegraph.
Number 10.
Number 10 reason why the Obama presidency is in meltdown.
I think this ought to be number one, but Mr. Gardiner puts it at number 10.
Obama does not believe in American greatness.
Barack Obama has made it clear that he does not believe in American exceptionalism.
He has made apologizing for his country and art form.
He doesn't believe in American greatness.
He doesn't talk about it.
He doesn't believe in it.
He doesn't think that the American greatness we've had has deserved.
Don't doubt me on this, folks.
He thinks we've cheated, stolen, acted immorally and unjust, been imperialistic, used our military.
We're not, it hasn't been.
We haven't done it fair.
We've done it on the backs of the poor minorities.
We've stolen their resources around the world.
There's nothing great about America.
America has to be cut down to size.
He is happily presiding over America's decline.
When Jeremiah Wright says after 9-11, Americans' chickens are coming home to roost, what is he saying?
We deserved it.
Why do we deserve it?
Because we have discriminated against people of color.
We're Arabs or Persians, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, whatever.
We have been the most rotten country collection of people on the earth.
And so, yeah, our chickens are coming home to roost.
This rotten economy, people losing their jobs.
America's chickens coming home to roost.
This is how these people think.
They've said it, just a matter of accepting it and believing it.
Obama decline.
It's the socialism stupid.
But we're going to get a new cover.
We're going to get, as I said yesterday.
Democrats are trying to change our tune now as we head into the campaign.
The November elections.
We're going to get a little Trotskyite communism rather than Stalinist communism.
But we're still going to get a version of it.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Little dead air never hurt anybody, folks.
Don't worry about it.
In fact, it grabs your attention.
People have been patiently waiting.
We go back to the phones.
This is Joe in Warren, Ohio.
Nice to have you here, Joe.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Nice to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
You know, one of the problems I've had, and uh, I can probably speak for a lot of people in this country, is the different standards that our president has administration uses in solving problems.
Let's take the BP oil spill.
He didn't even respond to it for the first 50 days.
There was no rush to Congress to pass a $30 billion bill to get that oil spill cleaned up.
It was all thrown on the hands of BP.
They're going to fix it.
It's their problem.
They solve it.
They pay for it.
Even got $20 billion in escrow.
And he's going to hold them accountable for every drop of oil, he's going to clean up the ocean, make sure all the fishermen and every bills that was affected get reimbursed.
Right, we're going to keep our boot on their necks.
Now, if we apply that same principle to General Motors, General Motors wouldn't have got a dime, nor would AIG, any of the banks, Chrysler, any of that stuff.
It's your problem, you fix it.
But he didn't apply that principle that way.
And this is what keeps us all off bounce.
That's what's keeping the trillions of dollars locked up, not wanting to invest, because we cannot trust this man to do the right thing.
Yeah, I totally get that.
Totally get that now, but I'll get into motivation with you.
You're a smart guy.
Why do you think Obama was content to let BP just linger, flail away, perhaps go bankrupt, fade away.
But he had to move in.
He had to go in and take over General Motors.
He had to have oil production in this country.
And the worse it got, the more easier it would be for him to say, let's stop all oil drilling.
And the connection with uh Brazil and their oil company and the two uh the billions of dollars that we loan them to drill.
Uh it's all tied in there.
Right.
One thing I can count on with Obama, if there's something positive politically for him in it, he will respond to that.
If it's for the attorneys, or if it's for the unions, you can make sure he's gonna respond positively to it.
But if not, he'll let it fade away and go by the way.
The union workers only represent not even 15% of the workforce in this country.
This economy is not gonna turn around unless the other 85% are involved.
And the sooner he gets better off.
In Obama's mind, the other 85% are the reason we're in trouble.
The other 85% are the perpetrators of Americans' crimes.
The unions and the minorities, people of color, what they are the victims of those 85%.
You've nailed it.
The 85% have to pay the price for all of their theft for all of these years and all of the unfair advantages that they have had.
Obama was dreaming about running automobile companies when he wrote his book, Audacity to Hope, whatever it was in 2000, 2006.
Read the book.
He was envisioning, making a deal where the government would save their pensions and Benefits in exchange for making green cars, and voila.
GM is making the vault.
They didn't want to make it, they didn't want to go forward with it, but there they are.
So you listen to what Obama has said previous interviews, what he wrote in his book.
Because he was envisioning a deal, a government would save union pensions.
Benefits, all of that, jobs in exchange for the automobile companies making green cars.
If he became president.
Voila, there it is.
The Attorney General of Texas has filed suit against the government on this drilling moratorium.
State of Texas is in this for keeps.
State of Arizona's in this for keeps.
This guy is exactly right.
Obama shuts down drilling in the Gulf of Mexico because he's got an animus against U.S. domestic oil production.
But we have given $10 billion to the uh to a Brazilian company drilling for oil that's owned by a lot of it is owned by George George Soros, or at least in a significant investment at one time was made by George Soros.
The rest of the world continues to drill for oil.
We've got a moratorium.
Now, it's not fair to say that Obama didn't do anything the outset.
He did send big cis down there and some SWAT teams.
But for 50 days, he didn't do a thing.
But he did want to take over General Motors, wrote about it in 2006.
He wants to take over and run these industries that he holds guilty.
And oil, if they're having trouble, BP fine.
Let them die.
That's who he is.
Twenty months of Barack Hussein.
Hoover Obama.
And look at this hope and change.
New York Times.
How did we miss this yesterday?
Market drop signals fears about global recovery.
I told you at the top of the show, at the top of the stack was economic news that it wasn't good, was trying to parcel it out so as not to hit you all at once with it.
The stack continues.
As economic recovery wavers in the U.S., evidence is mounting that growth abroad is also slowing and may be unable to sustain the fragile rebound here.
A couple of quotes from this New York Times story.
The optimism that had pervaded Wall Street only weeks ago has faded quickly.
In its place is a growing realization of what many Americans have been feeling in their bones.
This is not the economic recovery the nation had hoped for.
This is the Obama Times, folks.
While the economy is growing again, it's growing too slowly to create many jobs or to increase household incomes.
Everybody now acknowledging this.
Everybody.
Another quote.
Without that lift from abroad and with domestic spending moribund, the American economy is gradually losing steam.
Another quote, there is certainly a lot of angst about when this recovery is going to take shape.
Said Mr. D. Joloma, head of the United States rates trading at Guggenheim Capital Markets.
It's going to be a slog.
David Ressler, the chief U.S. economist at Nomura Securities International.
Californians' incomes sees first decline since World War II.
The personal income of California residents declined last year for the first time since World War II, according to state officials.
An analysis by the Federal Bureau of Economic Analysis found that statewide income fell by 40 billion in 2009 to 1.56 trillion.
That's down about 2.5%.
In the Los Angeles area, personal income fell 3%.
In San Francisco, 3.3% decline.
Overall, the income drop in California was more dramatic than it was nationwide.
The U.S. saw an average decline of 1.8% in income in 2009.
H. D. Palmer, a spokesman for the California Department of Finance, said you got an unholy trinity of three things going on here.
Yeah, Trinity would be three things, but I wonder If you California state officials can get an idea now why your state revenues are in the tank.
You keep raising people's taxes.
Their income keeps going down.
You're wiping them out.
Now remember the story we had a couple days ago.
The controller, the city of Los Angeles.
All of the multi-hundreds of thousands of dollars salaries.
Two hundred and sixty-seven thousand here, two hundred and eighty thousand there, two hundred and twenty-seven thousand there.
So some people's incomes are going up in California.
State workers, city workers.
And as far as Obama's concerned, those are the people who deserve it.
Those are the those are the backbone of America.
It's the eighty-five percent who are not unionized, private sector unionized.
They needed to be chopped down a bit.
They need to be gotten even with.
They need to find out what suffering is like.
And that's um that's where we are.
Here's uh Janet, Shiloh, Illinois.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Hello, last man standing, and congratulations on your marriage.
Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
I'm c I wanted to point out the real Marie Antoinette moment of this regime so far.
And it came a few weeks ago with Governor Bobby Gindle.
He met with Obama to discuss the effects of the moratorium that the Obama administration placed on drilling.
And it that and we must point out that the Obama administration lied about the words people who went along with it.
Industry experts who went along with it.
They came out later and said they did not go along with this moratorium.
It was too overreaching.
Exactly right.
I remember.
Okay.
Bobby was explaining the economic effect this is going to have on the state of Louisiana.
And Obama's the the moratorium.
And Obama said, Well, that's okay.
They can file a claim with BP.
And Bobby said, Well, wait a minute, what happens if uh BP doesn't honor the claim?
He said, Well, then they can file a claim with unemployment.
And what's not been noticed in that is that unemployment traditionally is less than half of what someone normally makes.
Obama did not care that people were something that he put into effect, a moratorium overreaching by all the analysts, is going to hurt people.
He did not care that they would make half of what they normally do.
Wait a minute.
You're you're calling it a Marie Antoinette moment where he doesn't care.
It's not that I don't think.
Okay.
Uh, because Marie Antoinette was popular when she first arrived on the scene.
Obama's not the thing is I I think that they were oil workers is why he had that attitude toward Oh, you're right.
Oh, you're uh you're right.
But let's just talk to the liberal media who's not very bright, okay.
They can grasp Marie Antoinette and they think this man cares about people.
No, he cares about the people he needs to keep him in office, his friends.
And also, Rush, I have to point out something about you and Rick Wagoner.
I I have the memory that you interviewed him on your show.
And in that interview, you exposed the reason as to why he was fired by Obama.
And it has to do with green technology and r and Rick Wagner was discussing buses.
If you go back and look, you'll find it, and you've got the sound bites.
Uh, okay.
I I uh He I have that memory.
I I don't recall interviewing Rick Wagner.
Maybe one of your guest hosts did.
I I didn't know That's what it was.
It was Paul W. Smith.
Well, oh, Detroit, where I used to live.
Paul W. Smith who's uh does mornings of WJR in Detroit.
I'm sure it was Paul W. Smith.
And they're friends, and he got it.
It's in your archives.
So and and Wagner tell me again what Wagner said.
He was discussing Paul was discussing the efficacy of green cars for the future.
Right.
And Rick Wagoner was a businessman, is a businessman, and he was a good one.
And he was saying it's not practical.
I want to say money-wise, economically.
But we could see it maybe with buses, transport, uh, buses.
Right.
And Rick has gone, and now we're going full forward, full steam ahead with green technology in cars.
And I think there's another car in the pipeline that's coming from China that's going to be built here by GM at a loss.
It cannot be built at a profit.
Another one.
I think there's one.
I I'm uh that's what I recall.
Well, that's right.
I I I don't know about the the the the uh Chinese car that's being made, but when you say Obama doesn't care about people, that's pretty true liberals.
They have they have floated along so far and for so long on this notion that they are the ones with compassion, that only they care about the downtrodden and the little guy when it is their policies that do great harm to the little guy.
The little guy.
I mean, when you take money out of the private sector, as Obama has done, you limit the number of jobs in the private sector.
Who holds jobs to little guys?
When businesses have to downsize, lay people off or fire them.
It's the little guy that gets canned.
And yet this is as a result of policies put in place by liberals to help the little guy by punishing the big guy.
Well, when you punish the big guy, there's a ripple effect, trickle down, whatever you want to call it.
The dirty little secret is they know it.
They're not wrong.
They're not well intentioned and wrong.
They get exactly what they're doing.
Some of the rank and file doesn't.
I mean, you got some brain-dead uh liberals out there across the country who really believe in this utopia panacea stuff.
And they're really depressed because now they see with both eyes, it doesn't work.
Doesn't come close to working.
Their worldview, their long-held passionate desires, their dreams crumbling right before their very eyes.
They start the day mad anyway, then you throw that at them, and you have genuine outrage.
Now, speaking of all this, we talked about the riots yesterday in Atlanta.
Here's a soundbite, NBC Nightly News last night, the correspondent Ron Mott uh reporting on thousands of people lining up for public housing vouchers in Atlanta.
Audio soundbite number seven.
The first thought that I had when we pulled up on the scene here was whether we were in America, and I have to be very careful as a reporter not to overstep my bounds, but this was a very disgusting scene that we saw here in Metro Atlanta today.
Dozens upon dozens of people passing out from the heat, standing in the heat just to get an application to apply for public housing here in Metro Atlanta.
This does not guarantee them a place to live.
In fact, they had so many applications go out today, 13,000 applications.
There are exactly zero public housing units, zero subsidized housing units available in East Point, Georgia.
A lot of these folks will never get off that wait list.
Never get off that wait.
This reporter couldn't believe he was seeing this happening in the United States of America.
He's seeing it happen in Obamaville.
It is happening in Obamaville.
Barack Hoover Obama.
13,000 people trying to just get an application to then apply.
And Obama tells us the summer of recovery, the worst is behind us.
Or worse, that Bush is to blame.
And did you know it the reporter says, I um I have to be very careful as a reporter not to overstep my bounds.
What the hell does that mean?
What he means is he's got to be very careful he doesn't tell the real big truth here.
Overstepping his bounds means telling the deep dark truth about this circumstance and why it exists.
Remember, NBC is the network of Obama.
By the way, back to Atlanta here.
I don't know if you saw this, but the guy shooting the video from the helicopter up there, looking down on this scene and called it Uganda.
Probably accidentally.
I mean it'd be called it Uganda.
Therefore, this reporter, Ron Mott.
I I will guarantee you this this reporter had to be careful because the Atlanta story is a pretty good example of how the who, what, where, and why is too politically incorrect to be told.
That's why he had to be careful.
The who, what, when, where, and why, that's too unpolitically incorrect.
Can't do that.
Try answering those questions.
If you if you doubt me, this Atlanta story, try answering those questions, who, what, when, where, why, at NBC and see if you still have a job.
When the guys up in the helicopter looking down and call it Uganda.
And I'm not saying they did it on purpose is accidental.
USA Today, feds rethink policies that encourage homeownership.
Yeah, right, I'm sure after this riot in Atlanta yesterday.
But the thing is, they told us it was a right.
All of these years they've been telling us homeownership is a right.
So much of a right that we get we we got the subprime mortgage crisis, which is the foundation of this whole disaster, by the way.
Just how much should Uncle Sam do to help Americans buy their own homes for 70 years and for the last 15 in particular, and that's subprime, folks.
The last 15 is subprime.
The answer's been whatever it takes to help Americans buy their homes.
Now policymakers are pausing to reconsider.
In the next few months, they'll weigh whether there can be too much of a good thing when it comes to helping families finance the American dream.
Too much of a good thing.
Conservatives have been telling them exactly this for 70 years.
The process of figuring out the government's role is going to involve some hard choices, said Elisa Katz, author of Our Lot, How Real Estate Came to Own Us, using guarantees and tax breaks, and letting anybody borrow money who couldn't pay it back.
The government pushed homeownership past 69% in 2004, and then it all came crashing down.
Even Barney Frank in 2009, April, said the push for home ownership was probably a mistake.
Well, thanks.
Thanks.
After telling everybody, particularly the last 15 years, Community Redevelopment Act.
The last 15 years, it's a right.
Homeownership is a right.
And now they're rethinking policies that encourage it.
So the people who have destroyed the market, the people who have caused the whole concept of home values being underwater.
Now say, you know what?
Maybe we need to reexamine this.
No, we need to get rid of you.
Which the first step of that's going to happen.
Starting in November.
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You don't have to back up a stereo.
You don't have to back up the dishwasher.
But you do have to back up your computer.
There's information on it, and you're going to lose it.
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Matthew in Miami, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Very good.
Um, I saw the wedding picks on Facebook.
They look great.
Thank you, sir.
I'm a huge fan of the show.
Congratulations on the wedding.
Thank you very much.
Listen, Rush.
I agree with you on 99% of the things your show always brings me back to conservatism.
But this one Thing that I just don't agree about the ground zero mosque.
Mm-hmm.
Because I think that uh the people that are trying to shut it down, they're trying to infringe on the religious rights, the First Amendment rights of the Muslims that are trying to.
And I know that it's offensive, and I know that a lot of people.
Well, now wait a minute.
You're gonna bring the First Amendment.
This is very key here.
Uh if you're gonna bring the First Amendment into it, that's where your argument's gonna fall apart.
There are 23 mosques in New York.
The government, the Constitution does not guarantee you can put your church anywhere you want it.
It just says you cannot be denied the practice of worship.
There are twenty third, there are all kinds of mosques in New York, twenty-three already.
They could put another one anywhere they want.
This this site is purposely provocative.
There's there's nothing good that can come of this.
Nothing good.
It's a it's it's a it's a bad idea all around.
Nobody's against mosques.
And the First Amendment does not guarantee you to put one up wherever you want it to go.
Ladies and gentlemen, zoning laws.
You've I'm sure have encountered them.
Zoning laws tell churches where and where they can't go all the time.
There's a group out there called the Alliance Defense Fund.
The last few years have been running all over the country suing cities and counties and states over churches being turned down by zoning boards, and they have not yet won a case, I don't think.
So zoning laws already dictate where you the First Amendment's got nothing whatsoever to do with building a church wherever you want to put one.
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