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Dec. 3, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 3, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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You know, folks, I don't want to nitpick here, but you remember we were told Obama had to leave right after the elections, which were a shellacking for the Democrats.
He had to leave right after the elections on his trip to India because he wanted to be there in time to celebrate the festival of lights with them.
We all remember that.
So why did he have to go to Afghanistan now rather than during the actual Christmas holidays?
Well, I'd say it's because Afghanistan's not on the way to Hawaii.
Uh, and that's where he's gonna be over to Christmas holiday.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Where we have more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Great to have you with us, El Rushball on Open Line Friday.
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I'd say Obama had better watch what he says.
There he is now.
Petraeus is the opening act introducing Obama.
You know, Obama is so used to talking up the decline of American power and influence.
That teleprompter better have the right message in it.
Because Obama's inclination is to is to talk about our decline and lack of influence and so forth, and you don't want to talk that way in front of the troops that you have sent over there.
He was supposed to meet with Haimid Karzai on this meeting, but for some reason, and this is, you know, as an aviation enthusiast, my antenna go up when I hear this.
He's at Bagram Air Force Base.
That's not that far from Kabul, which is where Hamid Karzai and his palace happen to be.
But apparently the ceiling is too low, i.e., it's too overcast, the clouds are too low for the Obama helicopter to get in there.
Now, Enriam Mitchell, NBC News in Washington, all morning has been referring to some devastating report that came out last night about Hamid Karzai.
I can't find any news about Karzai.
But apparently it's news of the kind that would uh dictate the president not go through with his meeting.
But uh what a what a convenient excuse.
Yeah, the clouds are too low.
We can't we can't get into Kabul.
I was supposed to go to Bagram from Kabul when I was over there.
We couldn't make it because we had a mechanical on our C-130.
But it's not that far.
It's a 30-minute trip by uh by air.
Anyway, uh that's it.
We're here at Open Line Friday.
Remember the rules, Open Line Friday kind of get thrown out, and whatever you want to talk about, you can.
It doesn't have to be politics, it doesn't have to be Obama and any of this stuff in the news, whatever quite like we had a guy, you know, is a as a as a as a radio guy got my start in top 40.
A great question, would top 40 work today?
And you know, there's a I've always believed that all media, but particularly including radio, it's content, content content.
That will determine whether something will have an audience or not.
Not so much the format, not so much the frequency or just content content kind of like I am I'm convinced that a number of you, if you had to, would use string and tin cans to listen to this program because it's the only if if that was the only place you could get it, that's what you would do.
Now a top 40, if some, and we do have a retro society.
You know, going back and like I look at the TV show Mad Men.
To its audience, people love that show because it is an exact depiction of life in the 60s.
And it has a s it's especially um relevant to me because it's about the advertising business, and it is it's just right on the money, culturally too.
So top 40, 60s, 70s version of top 40, what would be the primary competitor to that today?
The primary competitor would be iPods or MP3 devices, which is the thing facing all music formatted radio today.
Why do you if you if you can put whatever music you want and listen to it however in what order and whenever you want to?
On your iPod or MP3, why why tune to an FM radio station to listen to some program director's choice of what you get to hear and the order in which you get to hear it, and then a bunch of dumb disc jockeys in the middle of it.
So what you would have what would you have to do if the music, if the music is available to people, they go back and they can listen to top 40 music in the 60s, 70s, that audience can get it any time they want on their iPod.
But what can't they get?
What can't they can't get great talent?
They can't get great disc jockeys.
You'd have to it would have to be more personality-oriented radio than it ever was allowed to be throughout the broadcast day.
Mornings and nights could pretty much cut loose, but uh it was tightly regimented during the day.
But you it could be done, it really could be done, but it would just it would emphasize my point that content content content, uh talent, talent, talent would be the determining factors here, because the music is now available to anybody, anywhere, anytime, and it's specifically what they want.
If if they want to listen to ten songs one day, can do it.
There's no way, if you have an obsession over one song, there's no way you're going to listen to a radio station for that one song, you might hear it once every three hours.
If that, and then you'd have to make sure you're listening all three hours to hear it the second time they play.
What, Snurley?
What's the question?
Well, personality, snerdless personalities have always been the determining factors.
So why have they always uh why a program directors de-emphasize personalities?
Well, um it you want me to you want me to tell you the truth.
All right, here's the the the reason that and I I know this because I did it.
The one thing in a format a program director can't claim credit for is the talent of a particular disc jockey.
He can he can claim credit for spotting it and hiring the guy or the girl, but can't claim credit, but he can claim credit for the music rotation.
He can claim credit for uh the format clock, he'd claim credit for all that stuff, but not for the jock, other than hiring the jock.
Plus it was budgetary.
I mean, the bigger star you make out of somebody, the more they're going to be able to demand from you.
And it was these uh, you know, what what really killed top 40, this is going to be sacrilege to a lot of people.
What really killed top 40 was the Bill Drake Chenault and these kind of guys that came along and uh and and basically de-emphasized, I mean the jocks are cookie cutters.
And they all had the same names from market to market to market.
Johnny B. Johnson and George B. Jordson, uh uh, other than the morning guy, which they allowed to cut loose, but it was it, those guys, their purpose was to establish the music and the format as the reason people listen not to talent.
And if if you were in tight with those guys as a talent, you did well, you could do okay.
But if you weren't, then you uh you had you had a tougher road to go.
But it I think it could still be done.
Uh it'd be fun to try.
Uh and you could do it, you could try it on the net.
You could try it first, test market it on the net.
Uh believe me, radio stations are going to be looking for all kinds of uh uh uh programming solutions as more and more programming is in the cloud, music's in the cloud now.
Meaning on your iPod, you download it from somewhere.
It's it's it's on the cloud.
Um in the cloud.
But it'd be it would be interesting to see if it could be uh done again.
Certain things from the past you can't replicate, you can't bring them back, they're best uh maintained as the past and as nostalgia.
Uh other news items, uh, ladies and gentlemen, right again I was get this.
This is what I don't even forget the um this is a Swedish newspaper.
Consumer groups call for end to EU light bulb ban.
Consumer protection organizations have demanded a suspension Of the ban on incandescent light bulbs, citing official tests that showed the new compact fluorescent bulbs are dangerous if broken.
The energy saving bulbs show mercury levels twenty times higher than regulations allow in the air surrounding them for up to five hours after they're broken.
If the industry can't manage to offer safe bulbs, then the incandescent bulbs have to remain on the market until the autumn of 2011.
So the people were who are first subjected to this insanity are rejecting it.
Global warming is history.
This is this is this is uh great.
Fabulous news out there, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
I d it's and it's gonna it's gonna come here uh as well.
But consumer groups calling for the end to the ban of incandescent light bulbs.
And this is a rejection of liberalism, not looked at that way, I'm sure, by the people of the EU, but that's what it is because whose idea was this?
Pure and simple.
All right, brief time out.
Open line Friday.
We'll come back.
We got audio soundbites.
We got we've got people in Atlanta who are freezing and are lining up for benefits to heat their homes.
Obamaville.
2010.
They're having the coldest winter in 100 years in Europe.
It's not even winter yet.
And from the sounds of things, it's not pleasant here in the United States.
Let's go to Atlanta.
We have some audio sound bites.
WGCL TV Marietta, Georgia, at a federal aid center.
Here is a citizen, Nico Northington.
It's kind of cold.
It's wear around Christmas.
And, you know, I was in need of help of with my energy assistance.
Right.
I was in need in help of my energy assistants.
Despite the freezing temperatures, hundreds fought for a place in line in Marietta to apply for federal aid to help pay their heat and power bills this winter.
Only 30 people were being let in at a time at the assistance center in Marietta.
It was freezing, said one applicant.
I was in line for three hours and fifteen minutes, but I needed the help.
Wonder she'd have stood in line three hours fifteen minutes for a job.
I'm just asking.
I mean, I don't know.
I'm just asking out there.
Three hours and fifteen minutes waiting in line for uh uh uh help.
Some needed even more help just to deal with a cold ambulances were called in and took at least two people to the hospital because of the freezing temperatures in Atlanta.
When's the last time you heard of this?
I mean, we don't even hear of ambulances being called in for the homeless who spend the night outside in cardboard boxes.
Here are a couple people standing in line in Atlanta for heat assistance, energy assistance taken to the hospital.
Uh since Obama has shut down our economy with tax increases, moratoriums on drilling for oil in the Gulf.
Um, you would think that these frozen people of Georgia will be taken care of by the regime's green utopian promises.
Where is all these green energy jobs?
Chilling article here, folks, and that's that's local radio here from uh the Atlanta Urinal constipation hundreds line up in the cold for help heating homes as Metro Atlanta's temperatures grow colder, the demand for heat's heating up.
A day after hundreds of people queued up outside of Marietta Community Center to apply for assistance with heat and power bills.
Hopeful applicants began lining up again around midnight, waiting in the sub-freezing temperatures for the doors to open Thursday morning.
This time, however, officials let those in line come into the Monsour Center on Roswell Street an hour early at 7.30 and get relief from temperatures that drop to 27 degrees.
Standing in line for assistance.
I just wonder if they would stand in line for job.
I don't know.
I'm just I'm just asking.
So we heard from Nico Northington.
Here is Michelle Butler, again, WGCL TV in Marietta at a federal aid center.
People that are just so much in need, and it's in the holiday season.
I mean, we have to all think about each other to tell your children one week, hey, mom got a new job, our Christmas is gonna be good this year.
And now you have to turn and say, Mom doesn't have a job.
Obamaville.
Christmas time in Obamaville.
This is not what was promised to these people, is it?
This is not at all what these people had in mind when Obama was elected.
And when Obama gave his immaculation speech.
This is not what they had in mind at Grant Park on election night when Obama went out to address the hordes and the masses.
This is not what they had in mind.
This is the United States of America we're talking about here.
A major American metropolitan area, Atlanta.
Let's go back.
I don't think this is what he had in mind.
Either it's March 22nd of this year in Raleigh in North Carolina, W R A L TV News.
This is uninsured health care patient DiCarlo Fly saying this about the passage of health care reform.
It's just going to be like Christmas.
I mean, it's going to be great, you know, worries, you know, the bills we can go ahead and pay our copay and be all right.
Right.
Well, it just doesn't seem to be working out that way.
Now, people, here's here's the here's the media tweak of the day.
Snerdly pay attention.
Media tweak of the day.
We always announce days, and it always works.
This story raises very unpolitically correct question.
If people cannot even feed and clothe themselves, should they be allowed to vote?
Should they be voting?
If people who are receiving government assistance, that is taxpayer assistance.
If they if they weren't allowed to vote, can you imagine the difference in the political makeup of this country?
Can you imagine that?
It's just a think piece.
I'm just putting it out there for you to ponder.
Let's move on.
Let's go back October 2009 in Detroit.
Our man in Detroit, WJR News Ken Rogulski, interviewing two people in line for stimulus money.
We'll never forget this.
Why are you here?
To get some money.
What kind of money?
Obama money.
Where's it coming from?
Obama.
And where did Obama get it?
I don't know.
His fashion.
I don't know.
I don't know where he got it from.
But he's giving it to us to help us.
We love him.
That's why we voted for.
Obama!
That's why we voted for him.
Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama stash.
Well, the people in Marietta, Georgia, line, Georgia, lined up for Obama's stash.
Now imagine if people like this weren't allowed to vote.
And we're just pondering this for not suggesting it.
Don't anybody go off crazy here.
Seriously.
What's the old saw?
Once people figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury, that's the end of it.
Who was it?
I don't know.
I can never remember who said this.
Here's Pelosi.
Yesterday afternoon, she's listen, try to follow this math.
This woman is out of her mind.
This is during the debate about extending the Bush tax rates for people making less than $250,000 a year.
Unemployment insurance, the economists tell us, return $2 for every dollar that is put out there for unemployment insurance.
People need the money.
They spend it immediately for necessities.
It injects demand into the economy.
It creates jobs to help reduce the deficit.
I mean, this is giving $700 billion to the wealthiest people of America does add $700 billion to the deficit.
And the record and history shows it does not create jobs.
It does not create jobs.
I don't know how to deal with this without literally screaming.
This is just so senseless and outrageous.
People need the money, they spend it immediately for necessities.
It injects demand into the economy.
It creates jobs to help reduce the deficit.
Unemployment benefits, which are unpaid For which add to the deficit.
She says create jobs.
Would somebody just that alone?
Unemployment benefits, i.e., paying people not to work creates jobs.
Somebody want to try.
One of you libs out there.
What are you members of the new Castrati?
Give me a call here and translate this for me.
Because I know you believe it.
I know you believe that paying people not to work creates jobs.
And helps reduce the deficit.
I need to have this explained to me.
I'm not smart enough to figure this out.
I don't understand how paying people to sit on their butts and not do anything creates jobs.
Nor do I understand how this reduces the deficit.
But I'm sure some of you new Castrati can explain it to me.
I got an idea.
Why don't we why don't we pay farmers not to grow food so that we will have more food?
I think I'm on to something here.
Yeah, that's a ticket.
We pay farmers not to grow food, and we'll have more food.
That's how it works.
That's how Pelosi thinks, Democrats.
Yeah.
And we'll have it will eliminate starvation.
In fact, let's stop drilling for oil and we'll have more energy.
Yeah, we already started that, so we have more.
We wouldn't, we wouldn't need to be giving people energy assistance if we would just stop producing energy, because there'd be more of it.
And it wouldn't cost as much if we would just stop making it.
I think I got this down pat now.
I think I could become a Democrat maybe for a couple minutes and pull it off.
All right, Sean in Parkville, Maryland, open line Friday, your next.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rosh.
How are you?
Very well.
Thank you.
Hey, I just I just want to start.
Uh I I am a little bit of a liberal person.
Um I I do find a lot of humor in what you do, though.
I I'm willing to, you know, see the humor in what you do sometimes.
Uh I really like your Bill Clinton impersonation a lot.
I wish you would do it more.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
But what I'm calling about today is about taxes.
And I was telling Snerdley that um the way that I look at it, um, really, in my in my opinion, there's really nothing stopping a business from hiring an individual right now.
Um I I know that we have a disagreement on the fact that if the government raises taxes, it does not give a business an incentive.
And that that may be, it may not be an incentive, but there really is nothing boring or stopping them from hiring individuals to do work right now.
I mean, they could choose to do that if they wanted to.
Well, no, no, no, wait.
I know what you're trying to say, but in in uh taking you literally, which is where I live, I I have to disagree with you.
There are things stopping them.
But what your point is is that if they wanted to, they could.
They they could they could they could throw all this concern out the window and start hiring people they wanted to.
You're trying to say that they're not hiring people for a reason that is what?
Are they selfish?
Are they greedy?
I mean, I think we have to put that question to them and let them answer that question.
I think for you and I to answer that question, since we're not the businesses, that's kind of silly.
Well, but I am answering that question.
I am a business.
Oh, okay.
Well, why don't you tell me?
I mean, I mean, you have people employed, but you I'm sure you're not doing major hiring, Rush.
I mean, you're a radio program.
But there are businesses that produce goods or services and have to cost the hire or fire or whatever, but I don't think you fall into that category there.
Now, I don't want to make one other thing.
Well, now wait, wait, wait, wait just a second now.
Wait just a second.
You have just done something very interesting, and I'm sure you do it throughout your daily discourse on politics, your whole you have just told me without knowing a shred all about my business.
You have just told me what I don't do, what I don't have, what kind of business I am because I'm just a radio show.
You have told me everything in the world about my business and formed an opinion based on it when you don't know anything about my business.
How many employees do I have?
Don't know.
Well, but it's just a radio show.
I'm not trying to trip you up here, don't misunderstand.
There's no wrong answer here.
Just I'm just take a guess.
I'm you said it's just a radio show.
So how many employees do I have?
Uh let's say 200.
200.
Well, if I had 200 employees, that's that's now that doesn't go with what you originally is just a radio show.
You know, to that's a lot of employees for a small business to have.
Well, I agree.
Or do you think it's not a thing you would expect me to say a low number, so that's why I actually no, that's what I'm trying no no no no no no there was no wrong answer.
I'm not trying to trick you.
I'm not I'm not trying to set you up for anything.
This is a fascinating conversation.
Uh and and because you literally you started out by saying everything you thought you knew about my business, but you don't know anything about it.
There's nothing wrong with that.
You couldn't.
You're not part of it.
But you think but you think you do, which means which tells me that you think you know a lot about a whole lot of other things that you don't really know about, and then you're making drawing political conclusions and opinions based on what you think you know, but don't we all do that?
I try not to.
Well, you try not to, but don't we all do it?
Do it.
I mean inadvertently.
Well now there you go again.
You're you're telling me how I behave and we all think.
This is classic of a liberal.
You you you think you know everything everybody else is doing and thinking and saying, and then you assign a motive to it.
Well, I don't think that.
You're you're saying that I think that.
So they're you're not gonna be.
No, I'm reacting to you I'm reacting to you doing it.
Well, anyway, Rosh, uh another point.
You could could I make one other point?
I'll make it quick.
This will be your first one.
Okay.
The other point that I wanted to make is that um if if taxes are raised and businesses are not gonna hire, why don't we extend that to workers?
If taxes go up, then why don't all workers stop?
As a matter of fact, why don't we challenge all workers uh with a right leaning ideology to just tell their employers they don't want to work anymore because the taxes are too high for them?
Why don't they just stop working when the taxes do go up?
Because uh uh evidently that's what they're opposed to.
No, that what is the point?
Tell me tell me what point you are trying to make with this.
Well, the point I'm trying to do.
What point of con what can what part of conservatism are you trying to refute here?
Um I'm not trying to refute any part of conservatism.
I guess it's sure you are you're you're trying you're you're trying to tell me that that uh all conservative workers should what quit?
Well, no, I mean I I would think that they would want to do that because I mean businesses don't want to hire, there's no incentive.
So what's the incentive for people that work whose taxes are going up?
There really is none, right?
I mean, it's the same thing.
They uh if you raise the taxes on the regular working person, just like me, I mean what's the incentive for me to work?
Why should I continue to work if businesses won't hire?
Well, a lot of people have opted out of work because of that.
A lot of the rest of the people work even harder to overcome that obstacle that's placed in front of them.
Well, just like a lot of people have opted out of working, a lot of people continue to work.
I mean, I do.
Right.
Why?
Why?
Because I need to live.
Okay.
Well, then why doesn't that apply to everybody else?
I never said it didn't.
Yeah, you did because you said other people could just quit if your taxes go up.
Well, it's quit.
Why that why not quit working instead of paying a higher taxes?
I'm saying put you put your money where your mouth is.
If you're really that upset about taxes, I am putting my money where my mouth is by standing up for people who get to keep more of what they earn.
Wait a second.
Why do you want people automatically to keep less of what they earn?
I'm perfectly standing for something.
I want people to keep more of what they are.
You want them to quit.
I'm not making the decision as to whether people keep more or less of what it is.
You're throwing down a challenge, you're throwing down some gauntlet or something.
What what do you have against people keeping more of what they earn?
Absolutely nothing.
Well, then why are you a liberal?
Well, I I wouldn't say that I'm a liberal.
You started out by saying you're a liberal.
You started by telling me everything about my business.
You don't know how many employees I've got.
Um you don't know whether I'm hiring or not.
Nor do I care.
You do because that's why you called.
No, I was I was trying to draw a comparison to what's going on in the country.
You're the one that brought up the whole thing about your business.
I wasn't talking about your business.
I did not bring up my business.
You did.
I was talking about business in general.
You know, you told me everything about my business, and then I stopped waiting, but how do you know this?
Look at I have a flawless memory here.
You're not you're not going to be able to slither out of this.
Well, I'm not trying to.
Yes, you are.
I'm still uh I'm still waiting for you.
You're the You are consumed here with some kind of a I don't know, I wouldn't call it bitterness, but what is it you're angry?
What are you hearing people say that's making you angry when this employment tax talk is I'm not angry.
What what I am is I'm upset, okay.
I wouldn't say angry, I'd say well, what are you upset about?
People are saying that if taxes go up, businesses are gonna stop hiring.
Well, businesses stop hiring a long time ago.
They actually leave people up.
We lost 13,000 at Mark.
No, that's not what people are saying.
People are not saying if taxes go up, business will stop hiring.
Businesses aren't hiring now.
You've been saying that.
Are you kidding me?
Do you need to go back in your house?
You know, by the time folks, by the time this ends up, I'm gonna have called him.
By the time we finish with this, he's gonna tell me I called him and why am I bothering him.
I'm not gonna tell you that.
Anyway, Russ.
Let's let's leave it on a good note.
I like your uh Bill Clinton impersonation.
Continue to do that because I think it's kind of funny.
Right, I know.
Let's understand what you mean by that.
We'll just have to agree to disagree on this fact.
But I mean I I was just trying to read some point.
It's a shame.
It's a shame we disagree, though, because you're wrong and you have a basic misunderstanding of things that's forming the foundation of your incorrectness.
Uh it's it's it's a shame.
I mean, I I I would have I would love to answer your you you you started out answering s asking some interesting questions.
The problem is you proceeded to answer them, and you don't know the answers.
Which tells me that you're forming a whole lot of conclusions based on things that you don't know, subject to your political bias, which makes you a lost cause.
But you shouldn't you you you needn't be.
I mean, you say we disagree on facts, you haven't mentioned a fact yet.
You've mentioned a bunch of opinions and you've thrown out a bunch of challenges and questions, but you haven't mentioned a fact yet.
And we're out of time.
So facts go by the wayside.
Thanks for the call.
You know that's what liberals do best.
I mean, this guy was and I like the guy.
Now don't misunderstand.
I wish I could have gotten through to the guy, but unfortunately I put the guy on the defensive.
I wasn't I wasn't trying to do that.
But he was full of business should do this, conservatives should do this, employees should do that.
And that's what liberals do best is they should people to death.
I mean, you you liberals are j you are the champs at shoulding people.
Businesses should do this, conservatives should do that.
Umt should do that or whatever.
But boy, you you you you does you just don't like it when people start shoulding you.
So that was it was classic, wasn't it?
Telling me everything about my business that he doesn't know.
He's already formed an opinion about it.
At any rate, uh Yeah, if if they're raising taxes, why don't you quit work?
No, we're trying to stop them from raising taxes.
Uh for the sake of everybody.
None of this is based in selfishness.
Those of us who hold the position I hold love the country.
We're thinking of for everybody here.
We want we want greatness for everybody.
We want how many times have we gone through this?
We're not at war with the country.
We are at war with the people who want to harm it, one way or the other.
Internal, external doesn't matter.
Charles in Milwaukee, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Hi.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
I wanted to lighten the mood a little bit because a previous call uh I'm just glad well, I'll just put it this way.
I'm glad I ate breakfast a few hours ago.
I mean, my goodness.
Well, what I wanted to say was my I live in Milwaukee, but I was born in Chicago.
Right.
And my my team is a Chicago Bear.
Chicago Bears.
Chicago Bears.
And in my opinion, they're gonna make the playoffs.
But we still have that cornerback problem.
We we haven't had a good quarterback for uh who knows how long.
Well, I know what you're talking about, Cutler, but he had a pretty good game last time out.
If you get the way.
Right game plan if uh if Marts keeps in mind what the guy can and can't do.
Uh what Marts has to do with Cutler is keeping three step drops uh and then get rid of the ball.
Otherwise, uh you're facing disaster.
But that last time I don't think you have anything to worry about the Bears making the playoffs.
If in fact if if if the playoffs started today, the Bears would be the number two seed.
Well, are you number one in NFC Central?
Yeah.
You'd be the number two seed.
I think uh the worst you go the worst you guys are gonna do uh is be the number six seed.
That's the worst you can do.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm looking I mean, obviously you could lose out and not make it, but I'm just looking at it realistically as I look at your remaining schedule uh and all the other playoff teams in the NFC looks to me like the worst you could do is end up being the number six seed.
I agree.
And can I say one more thing?
Yeah.
Maybe one who knows me from college to high school.
I just wanted to say I'm still a Bear fan, and I made it through.
I mean, I've been I've been trying to get on your show for half my life.
Right.
Thirty thirty four now, but you've been trying to get on a show for half your life to tell everybody who knows you that you're still okay.
Yeah.
And uh I'm not gonna become a bandwagon Packers fan.
I mean, where are the Packer fan now that's obviously there's so much going on?
So here's a guy in Chicago, Charles goes to Milwaukee, and his number one concern here is that his buds in Chicago don't think he's gone over and become a Packers fan.
Okay, Joe, we're happy to be of service here.
Charles into helping you make that point to your buddies very much.
John in Forest Hills, New York, your next on open line Friday.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, it's Ron from Parshals, Queens, New York, and uh the home of Geraldine Ferrero, and who I'm sure is listening to you right now.
Right, and Jen John McEnroe and a number of others.
A few.
I j I just want to go off with that one fellow who was talking to you about how he knew your business better than you did, basically.
Um he made the point that why don't we just stop working?
Well, I have a friend who's a dentist in Germany, and every year, about the beginning of November, the government tells him you've made enough money, that's it, you're done.
So he stops working.
Him and his buddies stop working.
All he does is see people for emergencies.
If they have a crown or something like that, that's it.
Some people have.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I'm sure that when the in tax rates were ninety percent back in the fifties when Kenny came into office, people stopped working when they were bumped up against the marginal tax rates.
Well, not even taxes, yet here in this country it's doctors, Medicare doctors, they're qu they're quitting, they're quitting Medicare uh work.
So that fellow is absolutely wrong.
People do stop working when tax rates do go too high and they stop being productive.
Yeah.
Uh I did call, I think I have a little uh bone to pick about the strategy that goes on.
All I ever hear about, or ninety percent of what I hear about is how the tax rate is going to go up from thirty-six to thirty-nine point six percent, a ten percent increase.
Well, why don't people talk about the low-end people?
I mean, it's gonna go up from ten percent to fifteen percent, which is a fifty percent increase.
That's right.
So my question to you is what do the Democrats have against poor people and African Americans?
Because that's basically the people that's gonna be affected the most.
That is an excellent question.
And I have been asking it for years.
If I were African American in this country, African American, I would be asking for the last twenty years, what when are you guys gonna deliver?
You you have been promising me every four years that you're gonna get me out of this bondage that the Republicans keep me in, you're gonna feel you're gonna end discrimination, you're gonna get and every four years I still have the same complaints.
The second greatest lie, I think, of the twentieth century, the second greatest lie of the twentieth century was that the Democrat Party is the party of African Americans.
And the poor.
It's just a lie.
It's uh it's just an absolute lie.
If you go back to the beginning of this country, now the Democrat Party, the party of segregation, the party of Jim Crow, the party of Jefferson Davis, the party of uh Plan Taranthood, the party uh you can just go on and now they're just the Ku Klux Klan was a bunch of Democrats, and even one of them got into the United States Senate for crying out loud.
The Democrats have finally figured out they've they've taken a new tax thing, and we're not gonna do it that way, we're gonna do it uh a different way.
We're gonna say, yes, you're equal, but you need uh extra points in your test to get hired.
Yes, you're equal, but you're not as smart as a white or something.
The way to put this is that the Democrat Party is the party of keeping you poor and keeping you downtrodden.
Without that, they are nothing.
You know who I think will not make the playoffs in the uh in the NFL.
This is gonna shock people.
Even with last night's win, I as I look at it and as I analyze things, it looks to me like the team that's on the outs in the NFC is gonna be the Philadelphia Eagles.
I I kid you not, uh, and you and you can't say this is because of McNabb bias, because he's he's not there.
But I'm just thinking if if as I look at it now, the common opponents they've got and everybody else in that uh in that conference, and who's where, I won't be surprised if the Eagles barely miss it.
Making the playoffs.
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