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Sept. 22, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 22, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Ladies and gentlemen, in mere moments, I am going to demonstrate to you my love and devotion to this program to this country and to you.
Because I'm going to comment on a seemingly insignificant small little news item that will forever seal any opportunity I have to be involved in the National Football League.
But we are at a crossroads.
And I I've I've, as I said, there are a lot of teachable moments in the stack of stuff today.
For example, there's a Thomas Friedman column in the New York Times today called Too Many Hamburgers.
Friedman's over in China, visiting the ChICOMs at some World Economic Forum.
And Friedman has been writing how much he admires the Chaicoms, and he really is admiring the authoritarianism they have to get things done.
Now, this column is a little bit of a walk back from that.
He said, Well, I really don't think authoritarianism is good, but it's amazing what can be done.
And there's one little pull quote.
He's lamenting how the Chaicoms are able to build things, the rest of the world's able to build things, and we've somehow lost the ability to build things.
And to make things happen.
Whoa is us.
And it's just, it's it's it's it's our system.
He loves our system, something wrong with our system.
And the pull quote, the paragraph here that I want to comment on in this piece, is this.
Because we have recently begun to find ourselves so unable to get things done.
We tend to look with a certain over-idealistic yearning when it comes to the Chikoms.
We see what they've done.
We project onto them something we miss, fearfully miss in ourselves, that can do, get it done, everybody pulling together whatever it takes attitude that built our highways and dams and put a man on the moon.
We've lost them.
And Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, is just devastated about it.
He's in China, he sees the Chikoms building all these bullet trains and wonderful buildings going up in nine months and all this wonderful stuff, and he just he just um is beside himself.
He wonders why we can't get it done.
Mr. Friedman, let me I know he's in China, but let me help you, Mr. One of the reasons we've stopped making stuff, Mr. Friedman, is because people like you have been telling us that our manufacturing has been destroying the planet with global warming.
Number one, it is people like you, Mr. Friedman, who've shut down American progress.
You want to get rid of oil, which is the fuel of the engine of freedom and growth and democracy.
You've been telling us the earth is too hot, it's too flat, it's too crowded, and we're to blame for it.
And you want to cut back on Americans' freedom and ability to manufacture and do things.
Want to raise our taxes, you want to eliminate our activity.
But beyond all that, Mr. Friedman.
We tend to look with a certain over-idealistic yearning.
When it comes to China, we see what they've done and project onto them something we miss, fearfully missing ourselves that can do get it done.
Everybody pulling together whatever it takes attitude that built our highways.
Mr. Friedman has ever stopped and occurred to you that we have a president who doesn't believe in any of that.
Mr. Freed, that you voted for it.
You support Mr. Friedman.
Is it occurred to you that we have a president who went to some UN meeting recently and said the days of the United States leading the world economy are over?
Does this ring a bell with you, Mr. Friedman?
Mr. Friedman, it's people like you.
It is the American left that shut this country down.
The ChICOMs forget their authoritarianism.
They're not burdened with 15 years of regulations to build a nuclear power plant.
They're not burdened with the permit process of going through the animal rights wackos, the environmentalist wackos, and every other wacko leftist group, in order to build a freaking sidewalk somewhere.
The amount of money it takes just to grease the skids of the corrupt politicians, everybody else you gotta go through just to get something built in this country is a great disincentive to people to do it.
It's the American left liberalism is seeing to it.
But Rush but Rush, haven't you said we've successfully exported American liberals?
Yes, we have.
But not even the ChICOMs punish themselves the way the American left punishes this country.
The difference is the Chikoms don't hate their country.
The Chicoms hate us.
The Chikoms love their country.
Our leftists hate us as well and love the Chikoms.
And Mr. Friedman here proves it.
Why can't we get anything done?
If you get Obama and the Democrats out of the way, if you get their stupid taxes out of the way, then you get out of the way and take a look at all the progress.
There are people, Mr. Friedman, look at the American corporation, small and large, sitting on this unbelievable pile of cash.
They're willing to spend it.
They're willing to invest it if they are going to be allowed to keep the fruits of their labors if they're allowed to grow and expand and profit from it.
But if they're going to be punished by virtue of their investment, they're going to sit on it, Mr. Friedman.
And all these precious bullet trains, giant buildings, whatever the hell you think are great over in China, are going to continue to be built elsewhere.
We don't even we got a drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico on oil while we're paying Brazil and the and the rest of the world to drill for oil everywhere but here.
And you wonder why?
American manufacturing and can doism has been shut down.
You only have to look in the mirror, Mr. Friedman.
And while you're there, put a picture of Obama on your mirror so you see that too.
And then put a picture of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and Stenny Hoyer and Chris Van Hada and any other of liberals in the in the House of Senate you want to put up there, and you will find that they are the roadblocks.
They are the obstacles that are keeping us.
The American people are chomping it to bit, Mr. Friedman.
It was not the government that built all these roads and bridges and highways.
And by the way, Mr. Friedman, didn't we just spend a trillion dollars to build all these roads, bridges, and highways?
Where is the work?
These people I'm I'm so sick and tired of hearing how stupid Palin is.
I'm so sick and tired of hearing how unexperienced and stupid Christine O'Donnell is and people like her.
I'm just sick of it.
Are you not sick?
I am sick of the rel look at what a so-called objective media has done to Sarah Palin and her family.
Look at who they've hired and paid to join them in totally trying to destroy the woman's life and her families and her reputation.
And now they're doing it on Christine O'Donnell.
And I don't know about you, but I, for one, am sick of it.
It is irrelevant.
They're telling us who they genuinely fear.
If anybody's reputation of life needs to be destroyed by virtue of their own crimes, quote unquote, it is the American left.
Sarah Palin's done nothing to destroy this country.
She only wants to build it up.
The American left is seeking to change and alter this country forever.
They need to be stopped.
In the political sense, don't misunderstand me.
The days where the American people, and even the people of Delaware, are going to be convinced that little Christine O'Donnell represents the epitome of evil on the planet.
Come on, you people think you can sell that in this day and age.
When the genuine evil of destruction this country is founded, is happening every day on the networks and news pages of newspapers and magazines owned by American liberals.
Well, you have to sit here and read garbage about why the Chikons are running rings around us by people who support the very policies that are causing us to stagnate.
Now, this next item, this is what's going to get me in trouble.
I hope it doesn't, but it probably will because I know the knee-jerk reaction that's going to happen.
Now let me state at the outset: you all know that I am a huge fan of the National Football League.
It's got its problems.
A lot of people giving it a bad name these days.
people in it.
Well, I'm a big fan of the NFL.
I love the game.
I love the strategy.
I love the people who make the NFL what it is.
Basically the coaches and the players, they're the ones who define and sustain this game and innovate in this game.
And I love it.
I love everything about It.
I can I can go to a stadium every Sunday or I can spend 10 hours in front of the TV watching all the games every time.
I love it.
And my favorite teams, the Pittsburgh Steelers, New England Patriots are close second, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and one of the people I admire most of the Pittsburgh Steelers is Heinz Ward.
Number 86, who owns all the receiving records for the Pittsburgh Steelers, including Swan and Stalworth.
He's an exemplary human being, great member of the community, first ballot hall of famer.
And yesterday he was sworn in as a member of Obama's Asian American Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Now Tuesday is the off day in the NFL, and Heinz Ward was honored.
Obama called him, Dan Rooney, the owner of the Steelers, big Obama supporter.
Obama called Heinz Ward, asked him to be on this commission.
It's it's it's like the President's Council on Physical Fitness.
This is a uh President Obama advisory commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders because Heinz Ward is uh is half Korean and half half black, and he has a foundation to help people uh who have that kind of identity.
That's fine.
That's wonderful.
I have no comment about Heinz Ward being on the commission, Obama choosing him, Heinz Ward going to DC signing up being I have no problem with it.
But the Pittsburgh Post Gazette that it's a teachable moment.
We're talking about government, it's too big, it's too oppressive, and there's a there's a the story about Heinz Ward joining Obama's advisory commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Listen to this.
The commission advises Obama, education secretary Arnie Duncan, and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on ways to improve quality of life for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Now, I'm sorry, but this is the United States of America, and I don't think we got quality of life questions or problems.
I and why do we why does Obama need any advice on it?
Now don't misunderstand me.
This I am again focusing here on the mindset of liberalism, which is everybody's incompetent.
Everybody is incapable.
Nobody can handle their own quality of life.
We need a government commission, and even the president's not qualified.
And even the education secretary is not qualified.
We need a commission advising him.
And of course, everybody knows that Asian Americans can't live their own lives, and everybody knows Pacific Islanders can't live their own lives.
That's why we need a commission.
And Obama can't tell them how to live their lives because he needs a commission to tell him how to do it.
Now, this this vision of America is a bunch of helpless people who can't get anything done until a commission advises President Obama insults my intelligence.
Nothing here against Heinz Ward, nothing.
Don't misunderstand this.
This is a teachable moment.
I'm relating this because I think it has practical relevance to the issues that are inspiring people to get involved in their country in this election.
Thank you.
The principal, here's the next paragraph of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette today.
The principal goal of the group, said Chairwoman Daphne Kwok, is to quote, be the eyes and ears of the community, feeding information up to the government and translating it back down from the government to the community.
Now, can somebody explain to me how in real life that happens?
Okay, let's pick a couple of fictitious Pacific Islanders.
This would be Hawaiians, Samoans, I guess, and you put them put them in a community.
All right.
And we're just going to assume, because they're Pacific Islanders, that somehow they're clueless.
They're wandering around in some community here in America and they're clueless.
And so somebody has to listen to these two Pacific Islanders that we fictitiously created in their community, listen to them, and then take what they say up to Obama and Arnie Duncan and uh and Gary Locke and translate it for them.
Okay, so the Pacific Islanders are saying, where's where's jobs?
Where Where do I go to find work in this country?
Now, at the top of the government, they don't understand that.
Somebody has to translate that for them.
Okay, so somebody's gonna go tell Gary Locke and Arnie Duncan and Obama that two Pacific Islanders, somewhere in a community in America, want jobs.
And Obama's gonna get this new.
Oh, oh, okay, that's what they're talking about.
They want jobs.
Fine.
Then Obama's gonna answer it, and then whoever has to take that back down to Pacific Islanders and say this is what Obama said in response to your question, where are the jobs?
That's how I'm trans.
I know, I just don't understand.
I just don't understand.
Then the next paragraph.
Uh Daphne Quok, who is the chairwoman of the commission said the five primary areas the commission will focus on are sustainable communities, educational opportunities, economic growth, healthy communities, and civil rights.
Now, so these two Pacific Islanders that we've created here who want jobs, are then told, no, no, no, we uh your community, we first have to sustain your community and then give you educational opportunities.
And then we'll get to economic growth.
And then maybe after we got some economic growth, then we'll make your community healthy, and then we'll make sure that nobody is discriminating against you.
And the two Pacific Islands, I just want a paycheck.
So this is not about Heinz Ward.
I simply discovered this story reading about his being appointed to this commission.
This is liberalism.
This is gobbledygook.
But it's all based on the assumption that nobody involved here can take care of themselves.
That nobody involved here has the slightest idea what to do to get through the day unless somebody in government is translating or having translated for them what the complaints are, and then I mean, listen to this.
The principal goal of the group is to quote, be the eyes and ears of the community, feeding information up to the government, translating it back down from the government to the community.
Now you couple this with Tom Friedman, we can't get anything done in America.
We don't have this candid spirit.
Folk, it's just this is this is ridiculous.
This is a this is bureaucratic gobbledygook that is feel-good.
Heinz Ward does more good with his foundation for Asian American kids who don't understand their identity.
He does more this is classically what is wrong with liberalism, the whole notion that nobody is competent, especially if you're a minority, oh, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, huge minorities, and you can you you just you worthless until you dealing with us, the government.
Only we at the government can translate you for you and then back to you.
Now I thought I know what's gonna happen at Pittsburgh Post because that's tomorrow.
They're gonna write how insensitive and cruel and mean-spirited I am and uh discriminatory and just the opposite.
I have more faith in these people to take care of themselves and make something of themselves than the administration that we need a commission to advise these people.
Let me let me tell you what this really is.
If you really want to know, translate this little uh uh purpose here, the uh principal goal of group, uh eyes and ears of the community means to count the number of people here qualify for some kind of federal grant, feed that information up to the government, translate it back down from the government.
So what we're gonna do.
Remember, this is Olinsky rules.
This is community organizing.
What this commission's gonna do is tell these people what they have to do to get federal grants for their causes.
This is all about scoring benefits.
It's all about scoring federal benefits, federal money.
Yeah, we're gonna be the eyes and ears community gonna feed information up to government.
Here's what we're doing.
Here's how we're helping you.
The government's gonna say this is what you have to do, how many votes you gotta register, how many people you gotta turn out, and then this is what we're gonna pay you to do it.
That's essentially what this means.
It's just a shame.
And this is how all of this craft graft of corruption here is is paraded here as as compassion, but it's all founded on the principle that these poor people cannot take care of themselves, that they are just worthless and incompetent without Obama taking care of them.
You know, I got to thinking sometimes, you know, with liberalism we do need to have it translated for us.
I mean, I am I am performing a public service here in translating what this uh Obama advisory commission on Asian American specific islanders is.
Actually, it's just a get out the vote program.
And it's a way for these people to figure out how to get walking around money.
It's ward politics.
And it's got the it it's it's got the liberal pledge of allegiance in here.
Eyes and ears of community, um sustainable communities, educational opportunities, economic growth, healthy community, civil rights.
I mean, it's got i it's it's got the liberal leftist declaration of loyalty.
It's all there.
The Obamaites, the American let they see everything through the prism of race or gender.
I mean, they want to replace Larry Summers with a woman.
Larry Summers leave.
There's only one of the economic team left.
That's Geitner.
Summers is going ostensibly, he wants to hold on to tenure.
He's got to get back to Harvard and hold on to his tenure.
They don't even like him at Harvard.
And now they're talking about replacing him with a woman.
Uh on the not a competent person with a business background, a woman.
Not to say that there isn't a woman with competent business, that, but that's not one of their concerns.
Besides, if you read the Woodward book, the generals aren't running anything.
Obama is.
That's the whole point of the book, and he's running the economy.
You know, I I look at these Richard Cohen, these guys write all these calls.
I mean, Obama needs a staff shake up.
The staff is leaving because they don't want their names tied to this stuff in the history books.
And two of the two of the two of the top women CEOs on everybody's list to replace Larry Summers are Republicans.
Whitman, Meg Whitman, and Carly Fiorina.
And they're seriously being suggested because they might beat Boxer and Jerry Brown.
Pull them out of let's let me go to the phones.
I promised, and we're gonna get some in here because I have to leave early today to get to Philadelphia for Rush to Excess tour performance tonight.
Christy in Alamo, California, thank you for calling.
You're up first.
Hello.
Well, thanks for taking my call.
Yes, ma'am.
Um, I was wondering if you had uh watched the CBS affiliate um in Boston about the interview with uh Obama's aunt.
Yeah, I didn't say I I I read the transcript.
You know, Anza Tootie?
Yes.
Yeah.
She basically said that since she came here, she's ob we were obligated to make her a citizen, right?
Well, yes.
I mean, when uh my daughter from Boston called me late last night so that she uh we could hear it, and I felt like I was watching a Saturday night sitcom.
It was it was it was like a parody on um something of an illegal alien who who I had a prominent um family member in politics, but she was totally oblivious to the rules and regulations of our our country and that well, everything was free.
This is a free country.
Right.
She said, I um if I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen.
Right, but she didn't come as an immigrant.
She came uh she uh is illegal, and um it just amazed me that CBS affiliate put it on.
Well, why should that have I mean it's Pardon me?
Shouldn't amaze you.
Well, yeah, kinda uh the House organ.
Well For all this.
Well.
Anza Tutti said that she came to the United States in 2000 and had every intention of leaving.
Then she got deathly sick, was hospitalized.
When she recovered, she said she was broke and couldn't afford to leave.
So it was upon it was we we were obligated to make her a um a citizen.
It was our it was our system that screwed it all up.
Tom and Parrish, Florida, your next on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Thank you.
It's a privilege.
You bet, sir.
Thanks.
I listened to your comments about the president's comments at the Congressional Hispanic Awards.
And uh the president has a problem, but before I say what it is, I'd like to address something to the black Americans and Hispanic Americans in this country.
They need to get their hands on a book written by a former prime minister of the Bahamas, uh Eric Williams.
And this the book to start with is from Columbus to Castro, 1492 to 1969, and then Capitalism and Slavery.
And then there's other books he's written, a total of eight altogether.
This is a black man who looks at the at the Americas, as we did initially, because there was no North South Central America.
You know, when Columbus came, it was the Americas.
So they need to read the book.
I'm not going to go through it, but I'll remind people of this.
The Spanish obliterated Aztecs, Incas, Mayans, and their history.
The Dutch moved forward with slavery from Africa with the help of the French.
And the Vikings.
Yeah, thanks.
The British were the first to condemn slavery and do away with it in any of their areas.
So that would be William Wilberforce.
Yeah.
Very good, very good.
The uh academic elites and the poverty pimps in this country keep changing history in a revis revisionist fashion.
And I'm afraid that our black citizens and our Hispanic citizens haven't taken taken the time to research these things.
What bothers me the most is the academic elites that keep pushing this stuff because all they do is read what they write and don't bother to research what's going on in this country.
And probably the last thing that needs to be said is yes, the American Indians got a raw deal.
And yet they believe so much in this country.
They put on American uniforms.
And fought for it.
Right.
That's all I have to say.
All right.
Tom, thank you.
Thanks very much.
Uh priest Stephen Farmingdale, New York.
Welcome, sir.
Thank you very much for taking my call.
I just want to make a comment.
Long before America, when Cortez showed up on the shores, the Aztecs and Incas and Mayas were committing self-mutilation, paganism, tribal warfare, human sacrifice, and cannibalism.
They even had sports arenas where the losers were sacrificially killed.
So maybe it was a blessing we showed up on these shores.
And that's what I want to say.
I'm glad you called out there, Steve.
Apocalypto, I saw the movie too.
Mel Gibson's movie, yeah.
Yeah.
Thanks, Steve, very much.
Richard Salt Lake City, welcome to this has really upset a lot of people.
I knew it would.
What they're reacting to, grab what is the sound but I've already put it away.
Obama said 21.
Is it sound by 21 where he's uh ripping America for being a great place before we got here?
Yeah.
Here play this.
This is what people are reacting to.
We played this in the first hour of the program.
Long before America was even an idea.
This land of planning was home to many peoples.
The British and French, to Dutch and Spanish, to Mexican, to countless Indian tribes.
We all shared the same land.
We didn't always get along.
Now, again, what people are reacting to in these last two calls is that Obama is of the multicultural curriculum belief that this was almost uh utopia.
Heaven on earth before white Europeans got here.
All these wonderful people were here.
And uh pestilence, uh environmentalism, uh destruction, uh, racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia.
We're all bro syphilis, uh, all brought uh over with a white European settlement.
Obama is of the I mean, people Say things like that.
Also believe this country is unjust, almost illegal.
We're an oppressor colonialist nation.
And so people who know history are calling, well, let me tell you what this place was really like before we got here.
Which is what Obama, I guarantee it does not know.
Richard, Salt Lake City, welcome Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush Terra Ditto's.
I've been listening since uh the time of your sponsorship by uh spatula city.
Oh, yeah.
Anyway, uh what I want to say is and congratulate you for is your brilliance in being able to take a few news items as you did with the uh uh Vincent Ward's uh reward story and uh show how there is so much government overkill that uh it has and is ruining our country.
Uh the Department of Education eCates no one.
The Department of Energy creates no energy.
As a matter of fact, it stifles it.
Right.
And uh the environmental protection agency protects kangaroo rats and salt marsh birds and uh so on without protecting the humans who live in the United States of America.
And uh you're being able to point that out and uh reinforce that is a blessing uh to our nation.
Thank you very much.
I just thank you.
Richard, thank you.
I I appreciate that.
You know, he's got it, he's got a good point here.
And I know, folks, you people in Pittsburgh, you just be I am gonna get savaged in the postgazette tomorrow at probably the Tribune Review too.
I'm gonna get creamed because the knee-jerk reaction to what I said is I just set it up for him, even though they're gonna be entirely wrong when they rip me.
But he's got a good we have a department of education.
We have the most expensive education system in the country, and yet we still need an advisory commission for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to create educational opportunities.
What do is it is that not a school?
A school is an educational opportunity.
Life is an educational opportunity, is it not?
But for some reason, this group of people's incapable, incompetent, unless there's a commission reporting to Obama to help them out.
I it just insults me.
It insults me that this country dares look at people this way.
Victimize them, group them, uh, and then say that unless Obama's teaching them how to get benefits and score money from the government, that they have no future, have no hope.
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Hi, welcome back.
Should be allowed to have uh Obama's doing a health care backyard speech.
In somebody's backyard doing health care speech, and he just says that the reason for his health care bill was not to add more government to your health care.
It was to give you protection when dealing with your insurance company.
Just what I was just saying about the this commission here to help Pacific Islanders.
You need protection.
You need protection from the evil Walmarts of the world and the insurance companies of the world.
You need protection from the evil EIB networks of the world, Fox News networks.
You need protection.
What we need is protection from him.
And by the way, the insurance companies are saying we can't we can't survive unless you let us have these rate increases.
He said, Well, you can't have the rate increases.
Well, then we're gonna have to go out of business.
And he smiles and says, ah, damn it.
It's too bad.
Just uh facilitate speeds up the public option.
All right, here is James in normal Illinois.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hey, thank you.
Uh just uh wanted to take exception with your uh charge that the liberal media is simply trying to make uh Palin or O'Donnell uh portrayed as evil individuals.
I mean, any candidate who had made as many outlandish and sometimes ridiculous statements as those two is gonna be under such scrutiny, and a good deal of it's come from the right as well.
Well, give me some uh outlandish ridiculous statement that Palin's made or that uh O'Donnell's made.
Well, I mean, you can go back and there's there's a Well, give me a couple.
I mean, because I can quote all kinds of ridiculous, stupid stuff Biden said that Obama has said, Ted Kennedy said a Harry Reed said, and they don't demonize them.
They lawed them, they make them heroes.
Tell me what something out outrageous and outlandish Christine O'Donnell said.
Well, I think it's outlandish, uh, it's outlandish that she uh was involved in in witchcraft, and that's not been taken to issue uh, for example, with the Fox Network, whereas if uh that had been a Democrat who was running, um Fox would be all over it.
They would have a witchcraft special.
You know, she I think a lot of a comment.
Uh witchcraft and found out she didn't like it.
Uh she had a boyfriend dealing with it.
She did it in high school.
In the meantime, we have a president who's destroying the United States economy.
To me, that's outlandish.
We have a man who's lying through his teeth about what he's doing with health care and everything.
We've got a disconnect.
Outlandish?
We're gonna witchcraft, and Joe Biden says he's number two in line for the presidency when he's number one.
God wish he was number two, but that would make Pelosi number one.
We're screwed.
Uh Snerdley, I appreciate that you want to try to find liberal callers.
Can you find some that are not filled with cliches?
Uh, maybe it isn't possible.
Roger in uh Eudora, Arkansas.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Yes, Rush Megabiddows.
Uh thank you, sir.
Uh my question was uh what is the de uh definition of a depression since they came out with uh uh news yesterday that the recession had ended.
And I don't really remember what the definition of recession was, like two months of downturn or whatever.
Yeah, it's two or three months.
Two or three months of negative economic depression is when Wall Street executives are jumping out the windows of their offices.
Yeah.
Yeah, I I was just curious because I had no idea, and I thought maybe you had covered it or touched on it or so.
Well, the the the technical definition of a of a uh of a depression, uh the technical definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth.
Um the but but the the people that say that the recession ended last June do not use that definition.
So uh they said it ended a year ago.
I I the the definition, technical definition of um uh of a depression is the is is is more complicated than that.
Uh But if you feel it, we're in it.
I gotta take a brief time out here because I just do.
This is one of those non-floating breaks.
Be right back.
All right, we're back.
Folks, every economic downturn used to be called a depression.
And that sounded bad, so they just changed it to recession.
Uh but back everything was a depression.
Every economic downturn.
That really is, they just don't call it that anymore because it's too frightening to call it a depression.
All right, I have to go.
I'm sorry I have to go to make sure I get to Philadelphia for the uh rush to excellence tour tonight.
Mark Davis will finish up in the next hour, and we'll see you tomorrow.
I look forward to it.
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