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Dec. 20, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 20, 2010, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, so uh so we repeal Don't Ask, don't tell, which is a Bill Clinton devised and implemented a law.
Okay, so something that Clinton did, getting rid of something Clinton did now hailed as an historic civil rights accomplishment.
Well, who knew Clinton was such a bigot?
Obviously it was, and folks, don't ask, don't tell is gone now.
Uh openly gay uh individuals can serve in the military.
So does this mean that Mrs. Clinton can finally fulfill her lifelong dream and join the Marines?
I'm just asking.
Hi, folks.
Great to have you here.
El Rushbo, the holiday season uh speeding up at full force.
Merry Christmas to all of you.
Nina Totenberg, by the way, National Public Radio was on one of these uh Washington television shows on Friday night, these local TV shows, a la, the McLaughlin group and so forth, and I'm paraphrasing her, but she said something to the effect, excuse me, but um I was at a Christmas party the other night.
She she she asked forgiveness for using the term Christmas party as opposed to at a um holiday party.
And look at this headline here.
This is uh, what is this?
This is uh French news agency, government creating vast domestic snooping machine.
Do you realize that your garbage men, your trash collectors are now being employed by various cities to uh keep a sharp eye for any strange stuff in your trash or any odd goings on regarding your trash and your garbage?
Boy, that Bush guy remember all those assaults on privacy that he led, like the warrantless wiretap searches.
Man, oh man, what a remember how the left just went bonkers over all that?
Now not a peep here.
Not a peep.
And Janet Napolitano, since they can't find any other way to get global warming under under uh full steam ahead, they're now gonna claim it's a national security problem.
They're gonna put it in the Department of Homeland Security.
I kid you not, I've I've got it here in the stack.
Government creating a vast domestic spying network to collect information about Americans in the wake of September 11th.
Uh government use uh is using for this purpose the FBI, the local cops, state homeland security or offices, and military criminal investigators.
The system collects stores and analyzes information about thousands of U.S. citizens and residents, many of whom have not been accused of any wrongdoing.
But boy, don't you dare try to intercept a phone call from a terrorist.
Or the American left will be uh out for you.
According to the report, the network here, the government network, includes 4,058 federal, state, and local organizations, each with its own counterterrorism responsibilities and jurisdictions.
And 935 of these organizations have been created since the 2001 attacks.
And you know what else?
This is hilarious.
The uh Cubans have banned the showing of Michael Moore's movie Sicco.
Sicco was a one of his movies that in uh indicts the U.S. healthcare system.
Talks about how wonderful the Cuban healthcare system is.
So they showed it to Castro and some of the others.
Oh, my God, we can't let the people here see it because it's it's gonna create false expectations.
Their system is horrible down there.
Moore has totally lied about how great the Cuban health care system is.
Like nine, the you know, Fahrenheit 911 was a lie.
Everything Michael Moore does is disturbed.
Everything he does is is is is just I was thinking about this the other day, and this guy gets uh the the big award over at con for Fahrenheit not for what of whatever the stupid Fahrenheit 91 was that what it was?
Um what a period of time that was.
What was uh this absolute pure irrational hatred for George W. Bush led so many organizations to totally embarrass themselves.
The Nobel bunch, the uh the con people, and now now the Cubans have to make sure that nobody in that country sees Moore's movie.
Because it's gonna make them think that great health care is available to them for nothing.
For free.
I don't have the details coming up.
By the way, they're very excited in Washington about the don't ask, don't tell.
Oh, look at this.
We come out of that with a long cool woman in a black dress.
Song made famous in the 70s, Hollies.
Okay, don't ask, don't tell.
Uh now, for those of you who think now that repealing don't ask, don't tell will put these gay rights issues to rest for a while.
Just ask yourself, did electing Obama put an end to all race issues?
No, it didn't.
Now we we had to, we had to close down Club Gitmo, remember, because it was supposedly a recruiting tool for Muslim terrorists.
So what will having openly uh gay recruits in the military do?
I mean, you know how they feel about it.
They don't dig it.
The Muslims know they don't dig much of anything, but they don't dig that.
So this might overshadow gitmo.
I mean, I'm just taking what the left says and posing some obvious questions here.
So if the decree to getting open homosexualities is so vital to the defense of the nation, why has it taken 234 years to get around to it?
And if it's that, well, I mean, look, folks, I'm sorry.
I'm not trying to disturb anybody.
I'm just I'm not even trying to be provocative.
These are the questions that come to my mind as I listen to the left talk about this stuff.
And uh how about how do you leave out private first class Bradley Manning?
Well, he is the openly gay military guy who gave all the information to Julian Assange.
So an openly gay buck private saw to it that Julian Assange got all those State Department.
Well, hell, everything that Julian Assange has received about the U.S. military and uh and our diplomatic efforts has come from this guy.
So why didn't they just call the repeal of don't ask, don't tell, the PFC Bradley Manning Act?
Seems to me that that would have only been fitting in honor of his tremendous efforts toward this end.
And I've I well, maybe it's a bad choice of words.
Um regard I fully expect there to be more monuments of this brave hero in the ensuing years from the Australian.
The headline says it all, lawyers cry foul over leak of Julian Assange sex case papers.
Lawyers for Julian Assange have expressed anger about an alleged smear campaign against him.
Incriminating police files were published in the British newspapers that has used him as its source for hundreds of leaked U.S. embassy cables in a move that surprised many of Mr. Assange's closest supporters on Saturday, the Guardian newspaper published previously unseen police documents that accused Assange in graphic detail of sexually assaulting two Swedish women.
One witness said to have stated, not only had it been the world's worst um gee, I can't use that word.
It had all no, not only had it been the world's worst um sex act, it had also been violent.
Anyway, I just I I I love the fact here that the leaker gets leaked on, and everybody's been out of shape.
The leaker's getting leaked on here, and this is this is surprising Assange's supporters.
By the way, isn't it revealing, my friends, the same people Who have only shown hatred and contempt for the U.S. military are the ones celebrating Don't Ask, Don't Tell is a great historic accomplishment.
So much irony in uh in all of this.
So what if we're not going to call it the uh PFC Bradley Manning Act, the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
What are we going to call it?
Uh gays in the Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Gaze in the Show and Tell.
And when it was don't ask, don't tell, then we can say show and tell.
Well, staff on the other side of the glass is looking at me with mouths agape, eyes wide open, and I'm just, as I said here, reacting to the things that I hear the left say.
And I guess if if men aren't supposed to worry about showering with gay men, then women shouldn't worry about showering with men.
Right?
I mean, does that make total sense?
This actually, if you look at it, that this might boost recruitment.
After all.
And and Clinton, you know, I I he has been totally.
Does he realize what a diss this is?
He comes with don't ask, don't tell, and now the left is getting rid of this as though one of the most bigoted things that has ever happened in terms of U.S. foreign policy.
Anyway, I gotta take a brief time out here, folks.
We'll come back.
The tax cut.
Uh no, the tax the tax rate extension.
Obama celebrating it.
Chris Matthews getting two tingles up his leg over Obama's smile at the signing ceremony.
I saw a picture of Obama, the signing ceremony.
He did not look particularly happy, but it was a still shot.
He looked rather rather bored.
Joe Joe Bytney, the vice president, said that not extending the Bush tax rates would have caused a double dip recession, but he's morally troubled by having to do it.
I just I don't know.
It's the I I think the Christmas parties have started earlier and they're still going on.
That's what he Yeah, wait till you hear this.
He's yeah, I mean, wait till you wait till you hear this.
That was on it was on uh Meet the Depressed yesterday.
Would have been a double dip recession if we hadn't extended the tax rates.
He's morally troubled by the whole Bush tax cut thing.
Uh Larry Summers, the tax deal averted a catastrophe.
Obama celebrates the George W. Bush tax rate extension.
And I'm still stunned everybody's talking this is Obama's the come back kid.
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Here's Obama last Friday night in Washington, Eisenhower executive office building at the signing of the tax rate compromise bill.
Tax rates for every American were poised to automatically increase on January 1st.
If that had come to pass, the average middle class family would have had to pay an extra three thousand dollars in taxes next year.
That wouldn't have just been a blow to them.
It would have been a blow to our economy.
Just as we're climbing out of a devastating recession.
I refuse to let that happen.
Because we acted, it's not going to.
Good.
In fact, not only will middle class Americans avoid a tax increase, but tens of millions of Americans will start the new year off right by opening their first paycheck to see that it's actually larger than the one they get right now.
If this is all so wonderful, why don't you do this two years ago?
If it's all so wonderful if tax cuts, and let's look at, they're being called the Obama tax cuts here.
Let's stick with the lingo for a second.
There aren't any tax cuts except the payroll thing, but it's just an extension of tax rates.
Somehow this is gonna lead to larger paychecks.
Yeah, the payroll tax cut of two percent will lead to some larger payments.
I don't know where he gets this.
Well, the 3,000, if the rates would have gone up.
The rates everybody wants, the rates everybody said led to a boom in the 90s.
Tax rates for every American were poised to automatically increase on January 1st.
And we were hoping that would happen six weeks ago.
If that had come to pay.
As though the Republicans have this dastardly plan to soak you and make sure that you had less take-home pay.
But because Obama, the Democrats have ridden to the rescue here, you are saved.
Our economy is saved.
Never mind that the Democrats included wanting the middle class to pay that extra $3,000 a year for the last 10 years.
That's $30,000.
The Democrats have never liked these tax cuts.
They have blamed the Bush tax cuts for virtually every economic calamity that we've had, and now all of a sudden they're the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Here's Vice President Bite Me.
Meet the press on Sunday, David Gregory said, why wait until the 2012 election year?
You really expect in an election year?
Anybody's not going to vote to extend the tax cuts?
What's going to be different then than now?
We're not in a position, David, where we're going to have I God willing, the shaky economy where we could not afford to continue uncertainty for a month or two or three in the next year, had we not made a deal which would actually grow the economy.
The obverse was equally as true.
Had we kicked this in the next year, it would have created such uncertainty.
And there are a number of economists who thought that it would in fact induce a double dip recession.
So we not only avoided it getting worse, we made it the prospects much better for the economy.
So Democrat tax policy, according to economists, would have led to a double-dip recession.
That is increasing taxes.
Double-dip recession, had we stuck with Democrat policies.
But no, we stuck with Reagan philosophy, Bush philosophy.
We're not going to raise taxes and as such, we not only avoided it getting worse, we made the prospects for the economy much better.
How do these guys think this is a win for the world?
We're not going to forget this language in two years.
When they start talking about raising taxes on the rich again, all we got to go back and do is play these sound bites, talk about how raising taxes, what's the difference if the economy is going well or not?
Raising taxes, they've just admitted it here.
And so did Durban last week will stifle and slow down an economy.
And yet, big, big big victory for Obama.
Come back kid.
You know, even the Reverend Sharpton was invited by the White House for the tax deal signing and the buffet.
Sharpton, Al Sharpton was invited.
How come we never hear about how the million dollars or whatever it is that he owes in back taxes is costing the government money?
What is Sharpton doing there?
Here now, here's here's bite me on the same show, talking about the Bush tax cuts being morally troubling.
Gregory says the president wrote in Audacity of Hope he found the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy morally troubling.
Is that still his belief?
It still is belief.
Your belief as well.
Mine as well.
Well, you're willing to compromise on that.
We to compromise to save people who are drowning.
There's people out there drowning.
There are two million people this month that can't afford to go get a Christmas tree, let alone buy any gifts because their unemployment is run out, which means they've been unemployed for well over a year to two years.
It is unfortunate we were put in the position where the Republicans made it clear they were ready to let everything fall unless they got these tax cuts.
They're for two years, they're for two years, and we're coming back and going at it again.
All right, so in two years we're gonna come back, and we're gonna soak the rich in two years.
So people two years from now, we don't care where they buy a Christmas tree.
We're gonna come back, we're gonna soak the rich.
It's still Obama's belief that the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy are morally troubling.
Um, how do you go from we couldn't afford to continue uncertainty?
We had make a deal.
We had to grow the economy with these tax cuts.
We had to grow the economy, and yet they are morally troubling.
Well, I know he's just trying to maintain some sort of credibility with his left-wing base Saying all this.
But the campaign ads, the video are being produced even as we speak.
They tie these guys in uh in pretzels.
I mean, Biden, Biden is is lying about this anyway.
People who have run out of benefits got nothing from this deal.
He claims that this helps people whose benefits have run out, and it doesn't.
The 99ers don't get anything out of this.
The 98ers do, but the 99ers do not.
So they want credit for things that aren't even happening.
I just love hearing these Democrats sound all of the um well, say all these wonderful things about tax cuts.
They sound Reagan-esque, they sound like Art Laffer, sound like they believe in the laugher curves supply side.
We would avert a disaster here.
We have averted disaster by keeping tax rates the same, but it caused a double dip recession.
If we had raised taxes, but still they troubled by the moral aspect of tax cuts for the rich, and yet doing so saves the economy from a double dip recession.
This is I no look, I know they don't really believe it.
Don't don't misunderstand me.
I know they don't believe any of it.
They know it's true.
They don't, they don't like having to do any of this, and they're doing everything they can to claim credit for it.
But they are saying it.
And that is going to prove beneficial down the road.
This is for for 10 years, folks, these Bush tax cuts have been the number one enemy of the U.S. economy.
The Bush tax cuts have been responsible for the war in Iraq, not being able to get bin Laden, I mean, virtually everything that went wrong, the subprime mortgage crisis, the Bush tax cuts.
Getting those tax rates back up to the boom Clinton years rates.
39.6 on the rich, up to 15% from 10% for the lower middle class.
That's what we've always needed to do.
And when the time came to actually let that happen, the truth came out.
These people know for a fact that had these rates gone up, it would have it would have uh stopped any kind of economic activity flat.
So they have been forced by the circumstances involving real events to admit and act on the truth.
Now I live in Literalville, and that makes it I'm a loner there.
I have to tell you, it's it is sometimes it is a burden to be one of the few people living in a literal bill.
I don't know.
I've looked at this every which way.
I don't know how this is concocted as a win for Obama.
Now, inside the beltway, the way they calculate political wins and losses in the horse race sense.
Uh I guess anything that keeps the economy going heading into the 2012 presidential campaign is going to be judged to be a smart, crafty strategic move by the president.
But I don't know how you factor in the fact that he and Bite Me and everybody's had to renounce one of their core.
This is folks, this is like a Christian throwing away the 23rd Psalm.
This this is this is but I uh this is huge what these guys are admitting here.
It's it's this is not compromise.
These guys have totally caved.
And the problem for me is given that they were willing to cave, we could have gotten tax cuts out of this if we'd have just waited.
We could have gotten so much.
Listen to these guys.
We could have taken them to the cleaners.
If we wanted to roll up our sleeves and wait till next year to do this, would have been a little bit uh would have involved a little bit more hard work.
But you know, the only the only way this can be seen as a as a win for Obama is if it somehow hurts the economy and discredits capitalism.
And there aren't any tax cuts.
Again, we're all operating here on the baseline.
This is so much like the way the federal budget works.
This is we we we've set the table Some weeks ago, with the panic and fear that tax rates were going up.
The Bush tax cuts were going to expire.
And because we've set that bar so high that by doing nothing in terms of change, by implementing no change whatsoever, somehow the day has been saved.
So at the end of that, what the Democrats have been caught here into admitting is that raising taxes would have caused a double dip recession.
Or certainly would have slowed down or stopped whatever economic expansion or growth is taking place.
I just I don't don't see it at all.
Here's here's Larry Summers.
Uh Friday night on PBS the News Hour with Jim Millara, senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown with the question is the tax cut deal good economics or just necessary politics.
What do you think about it, Lair?
Well, I think it's very good economics.
Uh it's very good economics for the catastrophe that it averts.
If we had not been able to reach an agreement and the middle class tax cut had gone away, family income taxes have gone up by two thousand dollars.
The risk to the economy would have been very, very great.
Well, there you here it is again.
Would have been a catastrophe.
If we had not been able to reach an agreement, the middle class tax cuts had gone away.
But see, that reminds me again that for the last ten years there never were any Bush middle class tax cuts.
They were only tax cuts for the rich for millionaires and billionaires.
Now all of a sudden, yeah, the Bush tax cuts put us in the ditch.
Republicans driving a car to Bush tax cuts, they put us in a dish in a ditch.
Obama said, We're not giving you guys the keys anymore.
And now the keys haven't been taken out of the ignition.
Republicans are still driving the car.
Never was in the ditch in the first place.
Here's Mitch McConnell.
This is uh Sunday morning CNN's State of the Union host Candy Crowley.
Given what you said before the election about your political priority given this tax package that you and the administration worked out.
Are you now best friends forever with the president?
This uh tax package was 76% Republican policy, 12% Democratic policy, and you can argue about the policy, the balance of it.
Charles Groudheim is very smart, but on this he's totally wrong.
The Tea Party group, Freedom Works that put hundreds uh thousands of people on the mall, they supported the bill.
Ron Paul, the most famous uh Tea Party type member of Congress supported the bill.
The Wall Street Journal, the National Review, the Weekly Standard, a majority of the presidential candidates of our party all supported this deal.
Why do you think they did that?
Well, they did it because it was essentially Republican policy.
Well, that's another way of putting it.
It was essentially Republican policy.
I essentially Reagan policy.
And the Democrats have caved to it.
In a big win.
In a big win for the comeback kid.
And by the way, notice, too, that everything Obama does averts catastrophe.
Isn't that brilliant, Marketing?
Well, they would have had a catastrophe on our hands here, but Obama rides into the rescue.
Everything you everything he does averts catastrophe.
Let's go to the phones at Tiffin, Ohio.
We'll start with Bruce.
Thank you for calling.
Thanks for waiting, sir.
You are up first.
Hey, Megadinho's rush.
I've been listening since 88 when I was stationed at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey.
I appreciate that.
You're a lifer.
Yeah.
Yeah, I can't believe I got through to you finally.
Anyway, uh I guess I uh unless don't ask, don't tell.
I I uh I think one of the possible outcomes is that uh we're gonna have to go back to a draft eventually once this thing plays out.
I think recruit why recruiting and retention are just gonna are gonna plummet.
And and my premise is especially retention.
I think uh military families, uh people don't people don't understand the military lifestyle.
I'm I'm retired myself, and and and you know it's it's uh somewhat cloistered, and especially in a lot of places, uh, you know, you buy your food, your clothing on base.
I mean, it's it's a little community in and of itself.
And I just don't think uh parents with young children walking to go get their kids a haircut or something are are gonna want to have uh two men holding hands uh thrown in their kids' face.
I just I think it's uh, you know, most parents don't want their children to grow up gay.
I think that's just a fact of life.
Well, we'll have to see.
Only time will tell if this leads to a shortfall in uh in recruiting and retrent and retention.
And if it does, if it's serious enough, then they would have to uh bring back the draft.
Which we might add, we might have to do that to avoid a catastrophe.
I mean, everything Obama does is to avert a catastrophe.
Which which means he's a great guy.
He's always finding ways to avert catastrophe.
Interesting thought.
We'll see it play out whether or not you're right, it'll take some years.
Um in the uh in the means a quick timeout here, folks, we'll be back, and what would the left want a policy that would hurt recruitment?
Uh why because that would weaken the military.
This does not make them big supporters of the military.
They know they never have military U.S. military particularly, according to the American elephant is a focus of evil in the uh in the modern world.
Anything that weakens it right up their alley.
By the way, I think a lot of people are missing the boat here on Don't Ask Don't Tell.
Our last caller worried about uh drops in recruitment and uh and retention.
I mean, I uh are if people not factoring in all of the homosexuals who have been dying to sign up and join.
I mean, I mean we given the policy, we would expect the ranks of the military to swell here with all the to swell, exactly right, with with um obvious the reason to change this, because there obviously has been a huge desire out there on the part of gays in America to join the military.
They didn't want to join the military because they had to keep it quiet.
Don't ask them now it's you'd be openly gay.
We should expect lines outside recruitment office.
We should expect Harvard and all these other places to welcome ROTC centers back on campus.
Right.
I mean, that's what we would uh that would we would think.
I mean, won't be long.
Village people are gonna be out there.
I mean, the number one recruitment song is gonna be in the Navy.
Village people.
Oh, I mean, the well, whatever problems we have on on uh retention and recruitment will be more than made up by the mad dash of openly gay people to sign up.
Otherwise, why go through all of this to repeal the bigoted policy of Bill Clinton?
Don't ask, don't tell.
Who's next?
John in Carlsbad, California.
Has the rain reached you in Carlsbad, John, or is it north of you still?
No, no, it's it's not raining quite as hard down here, but it's still continuously spritzing.
Getting creamed uh north of you and uh just mud slides out there the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.
Oh, yeah, it's uh that whole area is just you know, everything burns and then it wipes away.
Part of the natural process, like the warming and cooling of the earth.
Yes.
Exactly right.
So um the reason for my call is that, you know, I think one of the unintended consequences of what the Democrats and the Progressives and the Liberals, the status, all these people uh are doing now is that this country at one time was a just a fertile ground for investment.
Every country wanted to dump their money here because you had a cooperative uh government, we were making money, consumerism ruled the day, and it was all about making profit.
So everybody happily put their money here, the dollar was the greatest thing.
Well now, um, with some of the shenanigans like the way they handled the bonds with the the GM takeover where they said, Oh, yeah, sorry, uh you just don't get any of your money back.
Um that has rendered a situation where people are not really wanting to invest here anymore.
We are not the you know, we're not the great place.
There's too much uncertainty here uh that the government could reach in like Greece or any other place.
No, no, no, no, no.
We We averted all that by extending the Bush tax rates.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, that's that's what they're saying.
Yeah, that doesn't make it right.
You know, they say a lot of things.
Yeah, what uh what prompted you to call about this today?
Well, you know, I've just been I I'm an independent businessman, and everybody's sitting on the sidelines.
Well, we'll see.
I've done work for German companies, I've done work for Japanese companies, and they're not just willing to pour money into the investment here because of the uncertainty.
I mean, a part of some of these people, and uh they're saying, well, you know, we really don't know how things are going to shake out here.
And quite honestly, if I put myself in their situation, I don't know that I'd want to invest here right now.
You mean uh two years of certitude on tax rates is not enough to uh provide uh confidence to investors.
No, of course not.
It's more of a it's more of an approach.
The government here is has slid from being uh a place to to get out of the way and facilitate good business and facilitate a good economy.
So this is this is really not uh inspired anybody's confidence in President Obama as a steward of the great economy of the United States.
That's what you think.
No, I that's what I think, and I quite honestly think that they're all happy because he's really, like you said, the least qualified that walks into the room, so they feel like okay, now we can have our way with him.
He'll he'll go along with anything we want.
Interesting.
Yeah.
That's my that's my opinion.
Well, he's the smartest guy in Washington, so I mean, that's what all the inside of Beltway people are telling you.
This guy, he's just he just got through running rings around everybody.
He just got through.
I mean, this was Michael Vick tearing up the Giants defense yesterday.
This the Republicans still don't know what hit them.
The Republicans have no clue how they've been snookered here.
So brilliant was the maneuvering by President Obama.
We have certainty now.
We we know for certain that Obama's gonna jack up taxes as soon as he can.
He and Vice President Bite Me and all the Democrats are reassuring us about that every day.
We had to do this to avert catastrophe, but we don't like the morality of this.
In two years, we're gonna make it all right, even though we'd saved the day here.
Yeah, I mean, these people, we can't keep up with them, they're so smart.
We'll be lucky if there even is a Republican Party in two years.
That's that's folks, that's how brilliant.
That's how far ahead everybody is Obama is on all this.
Rick in Wichita.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Uh hi, Rush, how are you?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
Hey, Merry Christmas to you.
Same to you, sir.
Hey, I'll tell you in Wichita, I think they're trying to kill the private business jet market for 35 years.
I've been working in it.
And I'll tell you, it's we're at about a nine per nine percent unemployment rate in Wichita.
That's the highest I've ever seen.
Who and who in Wichita is trying to kill a private business market?
Well, Obama is.
I mean, the we you know, the nobody wants to order jets, you know.
The they're canceling their orders.
You know how they go down the line.
You pay down the line.
And when, you know, like subcontractors like me, we we can't get our you know, work from them, so we have to cut employees.
Yeah.
I went from 60 down to 10, and I'm gonna close up and and move out because everybody knows that.
By the way, I talked to a guy uh over the weekend in the corrugated box business.
Uh corrugated box business, that's a great I mean, that you make boxes for people to ship things in, to package things in.
No activity, nothing happening.
Not not a breath of an uptick from major.
Big time producers and marketers.
Just what he told me.
Caller from Wichita must be living in a dream, folks.
He's got he got so many targets on his back, it isn't even funny.
Private jets.
Only the rich buy those, only CEOs that are capitalists.
On top of that, look at what they do to the environment.
They ain't got the government going after those guys left and right now, and uh and everybody else.
He's from Wichita, and he's he's uh terribly upset about what's happening in the private jet market.
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