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Feb. 17, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 17, 2011, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Here it is Thursday, folks.
This week is going by faster than some of those uh Middle Eastern regimes.
Now they're tearing up Bahrain.
Oh there.
I'm sure Obama sued this uh saw this one coming too.
There's big news out there.
Obama's had a had a study group looking into the Middle East since last August, knew everything was coming in Egypt, except when it was gonna happen.
Anyway, how are you, folks?
It is Thursday, the fastest week in media.
I am L Rushbow, 800 282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, this is the second anniversary of Obama's porculus bill.
This is it today, folks.
Anniversary number two.
And in the two years of Obama's stimulus, we have lost 2.6 million jobs.
Unemployment is higher than when the stimulus was implemented.
Uh unemployment 8.2% in February of 2009.
It's uh supposedly 9%.
Now, of course, the uh the AP is just they're they're flummoxed here.
They can't figure it out because unemployment benefits jumped to 410,000 more people applied for unemployment benefits last week, one week after claims had fallen to the lowest level in nearly three years.
Now, the truth is that last week's new unemployment claims number was revised up by 2000 as usual.
So we're not even sure if the last part of this is true.
But the labor department says that 410,000 people sought unemployment assistance last week.
That's up 25,000 from the previous week.
The rise was much larger than economists had expected.
Well, whoa, it wanted it to snow.
Um, they expected it to go up.
Why is that?
After it was plummeting, they expected it to go up, but just not this much.
Hmm.
Second anniversary of the stimulus.
Obviously, Obama has uh BDD, budget deficit disorder.
It's akin to uh attention deficit disorder.
Uh it's a condition where a person is easily distracted, has difficulty staying focused on an individual activity for any period of time.
Uh and I've looked here.
I think the symptoms of BDD, budget deficit disorder, may include being easily distracted, you miss details, you forget things, you frequently switch from one activity to another, have difficulty maintaining focus on one task, you become bored with a task after only a few minutes, unless doing something enjoyable, and you have no ability to listen.
Uh I think that pretty much sums up where we are here.
No, I'm not I'm not gonna get into whether there's a drug therapy for this.
I uh uh no, no, no.
That's not I'm uh I'm just telling you, I think we've got a disease here, budget deficit disorder, and it's clear now.
Uh two years ago to this day, Obama promised us his stimulus would keep unemployment under 8%.
Has anybody noticed it's not been under 8% since Obama implemented the stimulus?
It was 7.8% in January of 2009 when the immaculation occurred.
It was 8.2% in February of 2009.
It has not been below 9% since April of 2009, and it really, if you if you go back and look, unemployment really ratcheted up after the 08 election when businesses said, uh oh.
And were expressing fear of what was coming.
Folks, I don't think the people in Wisconsin, the unions of teachers and some of the protesters, I don't think they got the movement, uh, the memo on uncivility.
Have you seen what's going on?
I mean, this is Greece.
It's Greece.
All of these people who live off the large S of taxpayers are just marching in the streets calling in six.
Schools have been closed in parts of Wisconsin today for fog.
There isn't any.
Or there's certainly not enough in these areas where it's been canceled.
We have some photos I want to show you from the protests in Wisconsin.
let me turn the ditto cam off while I zoom in here and get this, and I don't want to see the zoom in happen.
All right, now this first one, self-explanatory for those of you watching on the ditto cam.
Hosney plus Hitler equals dictator Scott Walker.
Scott Walker, the dictator, governor of Wisconsin.
Okay, that's one of them.
Here's another one.
Down with dictators, one to go.
That's a picture of Hosni Mubarak on top there.
Let me just zoom in even tighter on this one, if we can.
Down with dictators.
One down and one to go.
Mubarak in the upper right, Scott Walker, the mayor of Wisconsin and the lower left.
I don't know if Biden has weighed in on whether he's a dictator or not.
And here is a uh now this next picture for those of you watching on the ditto cam.
This is people carrying the sign, Hosney plus Hitler equals dictator Scott Walker.
Got a picture here.
These are the uh the union thugs, as you can see right there.
These are the union thugs that are carrying the picture.
And this is just a sample of three uh pictures that we have seen out there of the of the protesters.
It's being called hundreds.
We know people are being busted in, by the way.
It's not just people from Wisconsin.
Uh it's it's like during the Hawkeye Cockeye in uh in early 2008.
Obama had a bunch of people bust in from outside Iowa to go to the Hawkeye Cockeye.
Uh and we have some sound bites on this.
Uh Obama last night in Milwaukee, correspondent Charles Benson interviewed Obama, and he said thousands are marching on Madison as we speak.
Unions and state employees are angry at Governor Walker.
Walker's talking about potentially bringing out the National Guard.
They're worried that they're going to lose their right to bargain, forced to pay more for their benefits.
I haven't followed exactly what's happening with the Wisconsin budget.
I've got some budget problems here in Washington.
I've had to focus on the I would say as a general proposition that everybody's got to make some adjustments to new fiscal realities.
I think those kinds of adjustments are the right thing to do.
I haven't followed exactly what's happening with the Wisconsin BS.
His buddies at the SEIU and the teachers' unions are right in on it.
But there's an interesting story somewhere here.
Did I did I uh look at the top here?
I don't know.
It's it's all about how the the Democrats uh a lot of them now understand here that what's going on with the unions cannot be sustained.
Even Democrats do.
Some with the teachers' unions, particularly, because there's no performance here.
Everybody knows the schools are not performing, the students are not performing.
There's no it's it's uh it it was kind of an interesting story, uh, frankly.
I'll see if I can find it somewhere in the stack.
So that's Obama, you sound somewhat say, sympathetic to uh mayor or governor Walker.
Well, I would say is a general proposition that everybody's got to make some adjustments to new fiscal realities.
He could be talking to the teachers.
Union guys.
But but realizing what he had done.
Obama then continued with this.
Some of what I've heard coming out of Wisconsin, where you're just making it harder for public employees to collectively bargain generally.
Seems like more of an assault on unions.
Public employees, they're our neighbors.
They're our friends.
These are folks who are teachers and they're firefighters and they're social workers and they're police officers.
Yeah, they make a lot of sacrifices and make a big contribution.
And I think it's important not to vilify them or to suggest that somehow all these budget problems are due to public employees.
Who's vilifying them?
We just don't have the money to pay them.
It's just nobody's vilifying them.
It's just the money isn't there to pay them.
Now, Walker uh threatening to call out the National Guard to do the jobs of the people who are calling in sick.
Uh the media makes it sound like he's calling out the guard to crack down on the protesters.
Mr. Vilify himself, what does he call it?
Teabaggers?
Teabaggers, big oil, big bank.
This guy vilivised everybody he considers to be one of his enemies.
Uh, But we need uh we're important not to vilify these uh his friends.
They are neighbors, and so we don't have the money.
The money simply isn't there.
And and this is guy he he he Scott Walker ran on this premise, and he is implementing this premise.
And they're despite the protests, you don't see the average citizens in Wisconsin joining them and saying throw the guy out.
Um Lena or Lena Taylor is uh a state senator, Democrat in Wisconsin.
She spoke to a reporter in Madison yesterday, said this.
The history of in 1933, he abolished unions, and that's where hey they okay.
So here comes the official comparison to Adolf Hitler.
Apparently, Lena Taylor did not get the memo on civility.
The history of Hitler in 1933, he abolished unions, and that's what our governor is doing today.
We'll skip number six, and we'll skip number seven.
Uh let's go back to Paul.
Paul Ryan here.
This is this morning on Morning Joe on MSNBC.
Uh Mika Bzinsky, the co-host said, Governor Scott Walker, what he's asking of state workers there, what do you make of the stand he's taking, and have you been in contact with him at all?
It's not asking a lot.
It's still about half of what private sector pensions do and and and health care packages do.
So he's basically saying, I want you public workers to pay half of what our private sector counterparts are, and he's getting, you know, riots.
It's like Cairo has moved to Madison these days.
People should be able to express their way, but we've got to get this deficit in debt under control in Madison.
Right.
Walker is listening to the people, the people who elected him.
He's doing what the people of Wisconsin want.
He can't print money like Obama can.
This is the thing, these union people don't seem to understand.
The people of Wisconsin, look at this guy's a Republican in Wisconsin in Mazda, he got elected on this agenda.
He's doing what the people want.
The opposite of what Mubarak did.
They try to compare him to Hosni Mubarak.
By the way, VI Lenin, Vladimir Linin did away with unions too.
Well-known communists did away with unions when he was ascending to power.
Uh the teachers got together too.
Government union rally in opposition to Scott Walker.
Here's a little bit of an exchange between an unidentified reporter and several unidentified students from Madison East Haskell.
No class today?
No.
Our teachers brought us here today.
You guys protesting?
Are you testifying?
I don't really know.
I guess they're protesting today.
Um trying to stop whatever this dude is doing.
They don't even know.
The Wisconsin teachers bringing the kids to the union protest, and the kids are clueless.
They don't even know what they're doing.
I guess the dudes uh stop whatever the dudes doing.
Can't even teach them how to protest properly, can't even inform them what they're going to protest.
When they take them last night on television, we had Russ Feingold, and he was asked the following question.
A governor's line, this is all about Wisconsin.
Governor's line here is that this is about balancing the budget.
What explains the distance between what he wants to do and what he's actually proposing?
Well, the argument that this is really about the budget process is phonier than a three dollar bill.
What he did last week was say, basically, on Thursday or Friday, I want to take away all these rights of collective bargaining from people, and I want it done within the next five or six days.
This is just a direct attack driven by corporate interests in the state in this country that they have been fantasizing about forever, which is to bust the unions.
And that's what the agenda is.
It is really not about the state budget.
That's just simply phony.
Russ Feingold, who was recently um well uh well, he wasn't re-elected, was he?
He wasn't re-elected by the people of Wisconsin to return to Washington as their senator.
Is uh they elected a corporate guy.
Wisconsin people elected a corporate guy.
Uh maybe try to bust the union, I don't know.
But it is about the budget.
It is most definitely about the budget.
I wonder if I wonder if the parents of these students gave permission for their children to attend these protests.
These are ugly.
You see some video, the protests are pretty ugly.
I wonder if most parents want their children exposed to this.
One more here from Feingold question.
Republican politics have become very homogenous on this issue in the way they weren't a generation ago.
They're all very anti-employee, very pro-business.
Very, very anti-union.
Are Democrats taking the other side of that fight?
In our state, we are.
The Democratic Party here and the unions, both public and private, are unified.
They're trying to somehow divide and conquer, not only between private and public employees, they're trying to divide people within the public employees.
We're not going to let Governor Walker acting as a show, basically, for these corporations, destroy the rights of working people.
So it's the same old traditional argument.
The rights of working people are being trampled on.
It's working people that are losing their jobs.
Real working non-unionized people who are losing their jobs.
Their unemployment benefits and tax dollars are being paid, being used to provide never-ending pensions, health care benefits, and so forth and so on.
It is socialism on the march, it can't be sustained.
We've reached the point.
It simply can't be sustained.
This is the breaking point.
And just like in Greece, you know, you tell the freeloaders, the free ride is over and they just raise hell.
They just can't handle it.
What do you mean free loaders and a free ride?
Look at when somebody else is paying for most of what you get in life, uh, your freeloader.
It just there's no other way to uh describe it.
Maybe maybe sound a little harsh.
But that's why passions here are what they are.
The people paying for this are losing their jobs.
The people paying for all of this don't make nearly the money the people they're paying make.
It cannot be sustained.
Anybody responsible for running a state has got to step in and reverse the trend.
It's that simple, and we will be back.
It's kind of comical to watch here.
The media and a protesters really trying to make it sound like uh Governor Walker is gonna sick the National Guard on the protesters and beat the protesters upside ahead.
But that's not why the National Guard is there.
The media and the protesters are engaged in a lie, even too big for the so-called fact-check site polyfact to swallow.
The claim was rated a pants on fire untruth by this bunch, which clarified that the governor referenced calling up the National Guard if workers didn't show up to work, not to quash the protesters that beat them upside the head.
The uh the point, uh, ladies and gentlemen, is they're there to do work necessary if people do not do their jobs.
It's to keep the state operating.
Now you'll notice in these fine gold sound bites that we played, you'll notice he didn't say a single word about the children or the taxpayers.
We have schools for what purpose?
What's the purpose, really?
To educate children, right?
No other reason.
That's not why we have schools.
We don't we don't have schools to exist for the unions.
The taxpayers are the boss.
The taxpayers decide how their employees are to be organized and paid.
The schools do not exist for the union to have jobs, just like corporations don't exist for members of a community to have health care benefits.
That's not the purpose.
Same thing with schools.
They are in existence to teach kids, not to provide unions jobs.
So when people speak out and vote, the likes of Russ Feingold talk about the little people.
Well, it's the little people paying the price.
The kids and the taxpayers, they're the ones paying for all of this failure.
They're the ones who are unemployed.
They're the ones when they are working are paying people salaries larger than they make.
The liberals are defending their power base.
That's why they speak as they do and act as they do, the power base being the unions.
Feingold wants the taxpayers to continue to support his campaign supporters at the NEA.
That's what he's worried about.
Why should everyone else give up some of what they have, but not those who work for the government at whatever level?
They kept telling us all through Iraq War and all through this recession.
We need to sacrifice.
The American people need to sacrifice.
Damn right.
Okay.
Why are public employees exempted from all of this sacrifice?
It's times like this, folks, when the disconnect between liberals and the people become very, very clear.
The issue, Mr. Feingold, is what people can afford, not what the unions want.
It's really simple.
Folks, one of the things that you're not hearing about what's going on in Wisconsin is that Governor Walker is trying to make a deal.
If the unions will accept the concessions, which in the big scheme of things are pretty minor, he's promising not to lay any of them off.
He ought to be looked at as a hero.
We've got an economic recession.
We've got unemployment rising, and he's offering them a deal where they won't be laid off.
The AP has a 24-paragraph story.
And in paragraph 23, we find this.
In exchange for bearing more costs and losing bargaining leverage, public employees were promised no furloughs and no layoffs.
He's trying to save their jobs.
He ought to be treated like a hero instead of a dictator.
But this is this is a microcosm, folks, of what's going on all over this country and communities large and small.
It is times like this, where the disconnect between the liberals and the people who make this country work becomes very clear.
Senator Feingold, the issue in Wisconsin is very simple.
It's about what people can afford, not what the unions want.
It is about what the kids need as students.
It's not what the unions want.
What's going on here, folks, is a realignment back to constitutional representative government where the people have a say in their future.
The people are sick and tired of playing second fiddle.
They're sick and tired of paying.
The salaries and benefits of people who end up undermining their own values and ideals.
Oftentimes undermining those of their kids as students.
This cabal of politicians and public sector unions and bureaucrats is being challenged.
For once, we've got some people with some guts who are not acting like a bunch of little sissies running around afraid to offend people by standing up for what they believe.
This is not just going on in New Jersey and Wisconsin either.
This is happening in many towns and states, and it has been going on for quite a while.
This is getting news in Wisconsin because it's a large state.
There's a very long New York Times story on Wisconsin today.
And remember now, we're operating under a presidential directive.
We need to have more civility in our society.
And by the way, has anybody claimed that talk radio is responsible for what's going on in Wisconsin?
Nope.
Not yet, but let's wait and see what happens there before they do.
But the New York Times, very long story, and this is the last paragraph.
The last paragraph of a long story of the New York Times.
Scott Fitzgerald, the Republican leader in the Wisconsin State Senate, slipped out of the Capitol Wednesday morning with his sunglasses on and his head down.
Protesters had gone to his home earlier in the week, forcing his family, including his wife, a school guidance counselor, to go elsewhere for a bit.
So, the Republican leader in the Senate was forced.
forced from his home by this mob.
I don't know if they've called him a Nazi yet.
They may not know that he's gotten people out of his home, but they're out there protesting at his home.
Uh in this new era of civility.
So you this is you clearly now see that all that after the uh so-called memorial for the people who died in Arizona, just a just a crock.
All this civility stuff.
Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, is fighting for every American now.
We thought, by the way, are we not being told that it is it is um Obama trying to be like Reagan?
Well, if Obama wants to be like Reagan, why didn't he call up Walker and encourage him to fire all these union thugs like Reagan fired uh the air traffic controllers, the FAA.
From the political today, the politics of education upended.
It's a story by Jennifer Epstein.
Even Democrats sound a little like Republicans when it comes to the teachers' unions.
The gig is up, obviously, and teachers know it.
You want to hear a little bit of this?
In Wisconsin, about a thousand teachers called in sick yesterday to protest Governor Walker's attempt to strip their union bargaining rights in Washington, New Jersey.
Governor Chris Christie recounted his battle with his state's teachers' unions on Wednesday, calling their leaders greedy and selfish.
And in Nevada, Indiana, and Florida, Republican governors are targeting teacher contracts and work rules to fix a system they say is broken.
The status quo has put us at the bottom of the heap, said the governor of Nevada, Brian Sandoval.
Now the events point to a convergence that is remaking the politics of education.
Teachers' unions, historically one of the most powerful interest groups in American politics, are being besieged like never before, under attack from conservative Republican governors with a zeal for budget cutting, even while taking fire from some Democrats, including Obama, who has suggested he agrees that unions can be an impediment to better schools.
I wonder if the politico gang will be invited back to the White House after that paragraph.
Obama's education secretary Arnie Duncan sounded surprisingly like the Republican governors.
When he told teachers unions and administrators at a conference on Tuesday in Denver, clearly the status quo isn't working for children.
The backlash threatens to undercut one of the Democrat Party's most stalwart backers and upset a mutually beneficial relationship where the unions provided financial support and foot soldiers for Democrat campaigns in return for political cover to protect their prerogatives in the U.S. Congress.
The NEA, largest teachers union, spent 40 million dollars on the 2010 elections alone, but things are changing on both sides of the aisle.
Politicians are unhappy with how teachers are compensated, hired, and fired, and are eager to introduce reforms.
Obama and Duncan have made clear that their vision for the country's teachers includes getting tougher on them.
It's time to start rewarding good teachers, stop making excuses for bad ones, the president said shortly after taking office.
I don't know if he even remembers that.
This is Chris Christie says, I think that's the thing that I'm attacking them.
I'm attacking the leadership of the unions because they're greedy, they are selfish.
It's time to honestly say that we can separate the teachers from the union.
Which has long been a point on this program.
By the way, Scott Walker's home and his car have been attacked as well in this new era of civility ushered in by Obama after the shooting spree in Arizona.
So as I say, the disconnect between liberals and the people who make this country work is becoming stark.
This disconnect is patently obvious now.
Very, very clear.
And this is in Wisconsin, it's about what people can afford, and it's about what kids need.
It's not about what unions want.
The money isn't there.
They simply don't have the money.
Of course, that doesn't matter.
That's not a concern of the union leadership in any way, shape.
Now, while all this is going on, what do you think happened in the Senate recently?
The pressure on baseball to outlaw tobacco has increased.
Two Senate Democrats writing Commissioner Bud Sealy with a request to outlaw tobacco.
We now know conclusively smokeless tobacco endangers the health of baseball players who use it.
But it also affects millions of young people who watch baseball in the letter to Sealig.
The use of smokeless tobacco by baseball players undermines the positive image of the sport and sends a dangerous message to young fans who may be influenced by the players they look up to as role models.
Dick Turbin, Illinois, and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey wrote the letter.
You guys have nothing else better to do in the Senate.
Good.
Thank you.
Maybe we get a budget at works, maybe we'll talk to you about something like this, but right now this is inconsequential.
Baseball players and chewing tobacco.
I tell you what, you guys in Washington, keep your hands off of our football and keep your hands off our baseball.
And when you get serious and responsible about a budget, then we'll talk about some of this other stuff.
There are a lot of important things that need to be dealt with.
Coming soon to U.S. shores.
I went through a whole list of headlines yesterday at the end of the program.
Higher prices.
This is what happens when you print money.
Not just because we're printing money, the Chicoms are playing a part, but it's Jimmy Carter too.
Melees headed down the tracks.
That's exactly right.
Clothing prices are going up, commodity prices, oil, steel, cotton rising across the globe.
Retail prices in China rose nearly 5% over the past 12 months.
So all of this uh inflation that people worried about starting to show up, starting to manifest itself.
By the way, quick time out here, folks.
Let's take it.
I was just thinking that the more and more people have the story that we had yesterday that all of a sudden the environmentalists are opposed to natural gas.
Why would that be?
I read something today that I didn't know.
That Tom Hayden, 50 years ago, was all for nuclear power until he met Jane Fonda.
Yeah, I did not, I didn't know that.
Not that it matters, it's just an interesting little factoid to me.
All these environmentalist wackos for years have been saying coal, dirty, get rid of it, natural gas clean, let's have more of it.
Okay, we've got more of it.
Now they're upset with that.
And we got Obama, we have the president of the United States.
I want to try to put this in perspective.
The president of the United States says he's going to win the future with what?
Windmills and high-speed trains.
Now, all the money in the stimulus for high-speed trains, more governors, Republican governors are rejecting federal money.
Our governor in Florida said, can you have a high-speed train between Orlando and Tampa?
That's like a high-speed train between Manhattan and Trenton.
I mean, what's the point?
Oh.
All right, well, point is these governors don't want it.
It's a losing proposition.
But look at what Obama is.
It is 2011.
The president of the United States talks about winning the future with trains and windmills.
Now, if this were 1835, that'd be a sure winner.
It's 2011, and we're talking about trains and windmills.
From the highest office in the land.
Now stop and think about this.
We're going back almost 175 years.
Go back under 75 years, and these proposals would look like total revolutionary progress, advancement the world had never seen.
Windmills and trains.
But it's happening in 2011.
A 175 year step backwards.
Gotta play this sound bike before I grab a phone call or two this afternoon, Capitol Hill dingy Harry.
Harry Reid Nevada held a press conference.
We're terribly disappointed.
The Speaker Bayner can't control the votes in his caucus to prevent a shutdown of government.
And now he's resorting to threats to do just that without any negotiations.
That is not permissible.
We will not stand for that.
He's wrong.
Folks, I listened very carefully to this stuff, and I don't hear any Republicans talking about a government shutdown.
The only people I hear talking about a government shutdown are Democrats.
There aren't any Republicans talking about it.
Zilt Zero Nada.
They're setting us up.
They can't wait.
They are going to force a government shutdown.
They are going to make it happen.
They think that it's going to vault them back into control in 2012.
We'll see.
Kristen in Madison, Wisconsin.
I'm glad you waved.
You're up first today on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I'm glad to talk to you.
Thank you.
Um, it's getting ridiculous out here.
There's high schoolers parading down the streets.
Madison can't schools are being closed, and UW classes are being canceled.
Right.
And I just the entitlement here is making me sick.
Are they having any impact?
Is that what what what's the impact of these protests on the average citizen in Madison, the people of Wisconsin?
You're there, I'm not.
What's the impact?
Well, personally, I'm just infuriated, but it's hard to drive around here.
There's just people yelling and good.
Because they're not they're not currying any favor with people they need to be supported, yeah.
This is uh this is good.
This is all good.
So the schools have emptied the students are being used as pawns.
Yep.
Yeah, and um yeah, I have uh Scott Walker sign on my porch and I got stuff thrown at it yesterday.
What kind of stuff are they throwing?
I think it was just ice and whatever else they had.
Let me ask you a question out there, Kristen.
We know the media is getting beat up everywhere around the world it goes.
Some ABC guy just got roughed up in Bahrain.
Are the students beating up the media yet in uh in Wisconsin covering this protest?
Um, yeah, well, most I mean, that's I'm getting emails from teachers and professors and TAs all the time about going to this and um just everything is being covered.
This is the only thing being covered, all the newspapers and they live for this stuff.
I mean, this is this is how they consider uh earning a living, joining the protest march.
Well, we'll keep it sharp.
I know reports yet of um of any media being beat up.
Uh do I feel responsible for any of this?
Why what no?
Why would I feel responsible for any of this?
Well, I know.
I led the discussion.
We had our morning update on Monday or Tuesday about this.
Exactly right.
So you could say, as you journey on a cutting edge, talking about this.
No, I um this according to Obama, folks, this is our real democracy.
This is our real democracy works.
That's what he said about what went on in Egypt.
It's happening over what real democracy looks like.
And as I say, no media had been beaten up yet, but that's pr the media probably on their side.
Valencia, California.
Hi, Jill.
I'm glad you called.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you so much.
I have a little cold, so I apologize, but I love you.
Um, I just wanted to call.
I am so angry.
Um, this is the second year in a row that my husband and I are not contributing to our personal retirement account.
And I am so resentful of the fact that we are not contributing to our own, but we are forced to pay for the retirement and benefits of these federal and state employees.
Not only do we have to pay for that, but my husband and I have chosen to just have major medical insurance.
Yep, this is because we are typically a wealth family.
That's our choice.
But we are forced to pay for their all in common.
I understand totally.
You have to fund your own retirement.
And here are people trying to shut down a state on a st on a strike because um they don't they don't expect to have to pay anything toward their own retirement.
But you should.
This is why, folks, I say that this this this huge disconnect between the left and the people of this country is becoming very, very clear.
And the sympathy is not with the people on the protest march.
I've said for decades, somebody just stand up, some elected officials stand up, have some guts, and that'd be a sissy against the left that people would love them and follow them.
People have been craving leadership on our side.
They perceive leadership in Christie.
They're seeing it here in this guy, and that's why there is overwhelming support for them right now.
And I gotta take a quick time out.
We'll be right back.
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