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Dec. 24, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 24, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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You know, folks, I don't want a 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.
And that's where he's going to be over the Christmas holidays.
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 Rushbo, on Open Line Friday.
The Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
I'd say Obama had better watch what he says.
There he is now.
Petraeus is the opening act, introducing Obama.
And 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 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 Hamid 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, Henry Mitchell, NBC News, 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 dictate the president not go through with his meeting.
But what a convenient excuse.
Yeah, the clouds are too low.
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 air.
Anyway, that said, 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.
Like we had a guy, you know, as a radio guy, I got my start in top 40.
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.
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 that was the only place you could get it, that's what you would do.
Now, with top 40, if somebody, and we do have a retro society, you know, going back and like I look at the TV show Madmen, to its audience, people love that show because it is an exact depiction of life in the 60s.
And it's especially relevant to me because it's about the advertising business.
And it is 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 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 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 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 anytime 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.
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 it was tightly regimented during the day.
But it could be done.
It really, it could be done, but it would just, it would emphasize my point that content, content, content, talent, talent, talent would be the determining factors here because the music is now available to anybody, anywhere, anytime, and specifically what they want.
If they want to listen to 10 songs one day, they 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, Snerdly?
What's the question?
Well, personality.
Snerdly says personalities have always been the determining factors.
So why have they always program directors de-emphasized personalities?
Well, you want me to tell you the truth?
All right, here's the reason that, and 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 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 the format clock.
He claimed 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, you know, 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 basically de-emphasized, I mean, the jocks were cookie cutters.
And they all had the same names from market to market to market.
Johnny B. Johnson and George B. Jordson, other than the morning guy, which they allowed to cut loose.
But it was, those guys, their purpose was to establish the music and the format as the reason people listen, not the talent.
And 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 had you had a tougher row to go.
But I think it could still be done.
It'd be fun to try.
And you could do it.
You could try it on the net.
You could try it first, test market it on the net.
Believe me, radio stations are going to be looking for all kinds of 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 on the cloud in the cloud.
But it would be interesting to see if it could be done again.
Certain things from the past you can't replicate.
You can't bring them back.
They're best maintained as the past and as nostalgia.
Other news items, ladies and gentlemen, right again.
I was get this.
I don't even forget the 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 20 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 who are first subjected to this insanity are rejecting it.
Global warming is history.
This is great.
Fabulous news out there, ladies and gentlemen.
And it's going to come here 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 timeout.
Open line Friday.
We'll come back.
We got audio soundbites.
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 soundbites.
WGCL TV, Marietta, Georgia, at a federal aid center.
Here is a citizen, Nico Northington.
It's kind of cold.
It's weird around Christmas.
And, you know, I was in need of help with my energy assistants.
Right.
I was in need and help with 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 15 minutes, but I needed the help.
What if she'd have stood in line three hours, 15 minutes for a job?
I'm just asking.
I mean, I don't know.
I'm just asking out there.
Three hours and 15 minutes waiting in line for 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.
Since Obama has shut down our economy with tax increases, moratoriums on drilling for oil in the Gulf, 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?
We're all a chilling article here, folks.
And that's local radio here's from the Atlanta Urinal Constipation.
Hundreds lined 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 Mansoor Center on Roswell Street an hour early at 7.30 and get relief from temperatures that dropped to 27 degrees.
Standing in line for assistance.
I just wonder if they would stand in line for jobs.
I don't know.
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 going to be good this year.
And now you had 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.
DeCarlo Flythe.
I don't think this is what he had in mind either.
It's March 22nd of this year in Raleigh, North Carolina.
WRAL TV News.
This is uninsured health care patient DeCarlo Flythe 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 the media tweak of the day.
Snurdy, pay attention.
Media tweak of the day.
We always announce these, and it always works.
This story raises a 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 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 stash.
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 him.
Obama!
Obama!
That's why we voted for him, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama's stash.
Well, the people in Marietta, Georgia, Georgia, lined up for Obama's stash.
Now, imagine if people like this weren't allowed to vote.
And we're just pondering this.
We're 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 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.
Giving $700 billion to the wealthiest people in 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.
With somebody, just that alone.
Unemployment benefits, i.e. paying people not to work creates jobs.
Somebody wants to try.
One of you libs out there.
One of 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 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 need to be giving people energy assistance if we would just stop producing energy because there'd be more of it.
It wouldn't cost as much if we would just stop making it.
I think I got this down pat now.
I could become a Democrat maybe for a couple minutes and pull it off.
All right, Sean in Parkville, Maryland, Open Line Friday.
You're next.
Nice to have you with us.
This.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Very well.
Thank you.
Hey, I just want to start.
I am a little bit of a liberal person.
I do find a lot of humor in what you do, though.
I'm willing to, you know, see the humor in what you do sometimes.
I really like your Bill Clinton impersonation a lot.
I wish you would do it more.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate that.
But what I'm calling about today is about taxes.
And I was telling Snerdley that the way that I look at it, really, in my opinion, there's really nothing stopping a business from hiring an individual right now.
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 may be.
It may not be an incentive, but there really is nothing barring 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 taking you literally, which is where I live, 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 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 don't 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.
I am a business.
Oh, okay.
Well, why don't you tell me?
I mean, you have people employed, but 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 hire or fire or whatever.
But I don't think you fall into that category though.
Now, I 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 and politics.
But 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, what do you have?
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.
Take a guess.
You said it's just a radio show.
So how many employees do I have?
Let's say 200.
200.
Well, if I had 200 employees, that's now that doesn't go with what you originally is just a radio show.
That's a lot of employees for a small business to have.
Well, I agree.
Or do you think it's not a lot?
You would expect me to say a low number, so that's why I asked Agnes.
No, that's I'm trying.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
There was no wrong answer.
I'm not trying to trick you.
I'm not trying to set you up for anything.
This is a fascinating conversation.
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 you do, 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.
Don't we all do that?
I try not to.
Well, you try not to, but don't we all do it?
I mean, inadvertently.
But now there you go again.
You're telling me how I behave.
No, I'm not.
I'm not.
I didn't say that.
This is good.
This is classic of a liberal.
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 saying that I think that.
So you're talking about.
No, I'm reacting to you.
I'm reacting to you doing it.
Well, anyway, Rush, another point.
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 if taxes are raised and businesses are not going to 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 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 evidently that's what they're opposed to.
What is the goal?
Okay.
Tell me what point you are trying to make with this.
Well, the point I'm trying to make.
What part of conservatism are you trying to refute here?
I'm not trying to refute any part of conservatism.
Sure, you are.
You're trying to tell me that all conservative workers should quit?
Well, no, I mean, I would think that they would want to do that because, obviously, 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.
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 work, 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 would just quit if your taxes go up.
Why not quit working instead of paying a higher tax?
I'm saying 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 ideological spectrum?
Why do you want people automatically to keep less of what they earn?
I'm perfectly standing.
I want people to keep more of what they earn.
You want them to quit.
I'm not making the decision as to whether people keep more or less of what they earn.
You're throwing down a challenge.
You're throwing down some gauntlet or something.
What do you have against people keeping more of what they earn?
Absolutely nothing.
Well, then why are you a liberal?
Well, 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.
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 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.
You did.
You asked me.
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 going to be able to slither out of this.
Well, I'm not trying to.
Yes, you are.
I'm still waiting.
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 at?
What are you hearing people say that's making you angry when this employment tax talk is?
I'm not angry.
What I am is I'm upset, okay?
I wouldn't say angry.
Well, what are you upset about?
People are saying that if taxes go up, businesses are going to stop hiring.
Well, businesses stopped hiring a long time ago.
They actually laid people off.
We lost $13,000 in my house.
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 business?
Folks, by the time this ends up, I'm going to have called him.
By the time we finish with this, he's going to tell me I called him and why am I bothering him?
No, I'm not going to tell you that.
Anyway, Rush, let's leave it on a good note.
I like your 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 was just trying to read some of the things that I've done.
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.
It's a shame.
I mean, I would love to answer your question.
You started out 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 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 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 liberals are just, you are the champs at shooting people.
Businesses should do this, conservatives should do that.
Newt should do that or whatever.
But boy, you just don't like it when people start shooting you.
So it was classic, wasn't it?
Telling me everything about my business that he doesn't know, and he's already formed an opinion about it.
At any rate, yeah, if they're raising taxes, why don't you quit work?
No, we're trying to stop them from raising taxes 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 for everybody here.
We want greatness for everybody.
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.
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, I live in Milwaukee, but I was born in Chicago.
Right?
And my team is a Chicago Bear.
Chicago Bears.
Chicago Bears.
And, in my opinion, they're going to make the playoffs.
But we still have that cornerback problem.
We haven't had a good cornerback for who knows how long.
Well, I know what you're talking about, Cutler, but he had a pretty good game last time out.
Right game plan.
If Martz keeps in mind what the guy can and can't do, what Martz has to do with Cutler is keeping three-step drops and then get rid of the ball.
Otherwise, you're facing disaster.
But that last time, I don't think you have anything to worry about the Bears making the playoffs.
If the playoffs started today, the Bears would be the number two seed.
Where are you, number one in NFC Central?
Yeah.
You'd be the number two seed.
I think the worst you guys are going to do 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 and all the other playoff teams in the NFC.
It 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 trying to get on your show for half my life.
Right.
I'm 34 now.
I'm not saying much.
You've been trying to get on this show for half your life to tell everybody who knows you that you're still okay.
Yeah.
And I'm not going to become a bandwagon Packers fan.
I mean, we're the Packer fan now that.
Obviously, there's so much going on.
So here's the guy in Chicago, Charles, goes to Milwaukee.
His number one concern here is that his buds in Chicago don't think he's gone over and become a Packers fan.
Okay, Charlie, 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.
You're next on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, it's Ron from Farsal Queens, New York, and the home of Geraldine Ferrero, who I'm sure is listening to you right now.
Ryan and John McEnroe and a number of others.
A few.
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.
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 round or something like that, that's it.
Some people have.
Even in this country, some people have.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I'm sure that when the tax rates were 90% back in the 50s when Kenny came into office, people stopped working when they bumped up against the marginal tax rate.
Well, not even taxes yet.
Here in this country, it's doctors, Medicare doctors.
They're quitting.
They're quitting Medicare work.
So that fellow is absolutely wrong.
People do stop working when tax rates do go too high.
And they stop being productive.
Yeah.
I did call.
I think I have a little bonus pick about the strategy that goes on.
All I ever hear about, or 90% of what I hear about, is how the tax rate is going to go up from 36% to 39.6%, a 10% increase.
Well, why don't people talk about the low-end people?
I mean, it's going to go up from 10% to 15%, which is a 50% 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 going to 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 20 years, when are you guys going to deliver?
You have been promising me every four years that you're going to get me out of this bondage that the Republicans keep me in.
You're going to end discrimination.
And every four years, I still have the same complaints.
The second greatest lie, I think, of the 20th century, the second greatest lie of the 20th century was that the Democrat Party is the party of African Americans.
And the poor.
It's just a lie.
It's just an absolute lie.
If you go back to the beginning of this country, right now, the Democrat Party, the Party of Segregation, the Party of Jim Crow, the Party of Jefferson Davis, the party of Planned Parenthood, the party.
You can just go on and on.
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 taken a new tax thing, and we're not going to do it that way.
We're going to do it a different way.
We're going to say, yes, you're equal, but you need extra points on your test to get hired.
Yes, you're equal, but you're not as smart as a white person.
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 NFL?
This is going to shock people.
Even with last night's win, 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 going to be the Philadelphia Eagles.
I kid you not, and you can't say this is because of McNabb bias because he's not there.
But I'm just saying, as I look at it now, the common opponents they've got, and everybody else 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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