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March 1, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 1, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #2
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And greetings once again to your music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
Rush Limbaugh back, talent on loan from God.
And our phone number when we get back to the phones is 800 282-2882, the email address L Rushwo at EIBNet.com.
And by popular demand, ladies and gentlemen, we present to you Donald Trump live here on the EIB Network.
Donald, great to have you here, sir.
And how are you today?
I am well, Rush, and I know you're well, and I love your show.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Now let me tell you what happened here.
Last week, uh after your CPAC speech a couple weeks ago, I got a bunch of people phoning here wanting to know.
They're taking you seriously.
I think you're running for president, you're seriously considering it.
You go to CPAC, they're gonna take you seriously.
Right.
And a couple people wanted to know.
They had learned that you had given some money to Rahm Emanuel's mayoral campaign Chicago.
They asked me, how can a guy wants the Republican nomination do that?
I said, Well, he's got business in Chicago.
Right.
Chicago is Chicago.
And that didn't sit well with them.
So I thought I'm gonna have Mr. Trump on and ask him myself.
So I'm asking you so that they can hear your answer.
Good Rush.
I I like actually giving the answer.
Number one, I do business all over the country, and like as an example, I'm from New York, which is a almost exclusively democratic state.
So over the years, I've Republicans in many cases don't even run a candidate, sadly, and that I say very sadly.
Now, Ari Emanuel, who's you know, if you look, they did entourage on Ari Emanuel.
That's my agent.
Rahm is his brother.
Ari's a great friend of mine.
I saw you at the I saw you at the uh the Oscars.
That was yours today, right?
Right.
Well, you know, the apprentice, which is going on on Sunday night is this big successful show, but Ari Emanuel is the biggest agent, I guess, in this country, and he represents me, his brother's running.
And frankly, they don't even have a Republican candidate running.
You know, over there in Chicago, they have like Democrats and they're all running as Democrats essentially, but there's no Republican or a Republican that's going to get more than you know anything more than zero percent of the vote.
So I like Rom.
I've always liked him as a person, and more importantly, Ari, his brother, is my agent.
So uh I did make a contribution to him, and frankly, uh I I don't think they had any Republicans running.
So you um you value friendships.
I va I'm very loyal to people, Rush.
I mean, I see a lot of disloyalty around.
I'm very loyal to people, and that supersedes frankly, party lines, but I'm very, very loyal to people, and I'm also very loyal to people that I think are good for the country.
Why are you thinking about running for president?
You sound um I mean I've I've I've talked to you over the years, I've listened to you on on uh various places in the media for years.
You sound different this time.
You sound really ticked off.
China, uh, the economic direction of the country, you sound like it's it it's really bothering you now, more than just something to say.
Well, you're right about that, Rush.
I've seen what's happened to this country.
We're no longer respected.
You have places like China, and I know the Chinese, I do business with the Chinese.
I've made a lot of money off the Chinese, believe me.
I've did a I had a partnership with Chinese people.
It wasn't fun, and I made a lot of money.
I came out very, very strong.
So why are you ripping them now?
Because I I watch them and I see what they're doing to the country, and I understand China, and I understand the Chinese mind.
I understand where they're coming from.
They are not our friend.
And when I sit down, I sold an apartment recently for $33 million from a very nice couple from China.
I'm very happy about it.
But I sit down with people and I talk to them from China, and uh really much more so prior to when I thought I may be running for president because they don't they're not stupid people, they're very smart people.
They told me very, very distinctly that they cannot believe how stupid our representatives are in the United States.
They cannot believe that they can continue to take all our jobs, you know, through the manipulation of the currency of their currency, they make it almost impossible for our great companies to compete.
Would you explain how the explain the uh uh the actual manifestation of that?
How does first off, what what are they doing in the manipulating their currency?
And for the average guy that doesn't understand all this, how is that affect jobs and uh imports exports here?
Very good.
China should have a currency which is a much higher Value relative to the dollar and other things.
What they're doing is keeping it low, artificially low.
And I mean seriously artificial.
I don't just mean a little bit low.
I mean r major low.
Now, when a guy comes to Donald Trump who wants to put up a glass curtain wall or an aluminum something, or even brick, or sheetrock, and you saw what happened with the sheet rock, people are dying over Chinese sheet rock.
Because I will say this, and I have to interject.
Our products are better than the Chinese private.
We do a better job, so we make better products.
But because the currency is so low versus the dollar versus other things, and so much lower than it should be, it's very hard to compete for our companies.
As an example, recently I built a building and I put a curtain wall on it, an exterior wall.
Very expensive building, very beautiful wall.
And the American companies that competed, the pricing was much higher because they couldn't compete against the low valued Yuan.
And they just couldn't compete with it, Rush.
And I hated to give out the contract, but the contract is is almost it's almost impossible for somebody like me that obviously wants to build the building for the best price possible, it's almost impossible to compete.
I wanted to go American, and I often do.
I mean, even if it's close, I go American.
But it's very hard for our companies to compete because they keep it artificially low.
We have the Olympics.
They have gymnasts.
Oh no, these gymnasts are all fourteen or fifteen or whatever the minimum age.
Well, they didn't look it to anybody.
They were phenomenal, but don't forget they're not under pressure because all they want to do is they're playing to their mommy, not to 20 billion people.
Okay.
So they had the gymnast.
Well, it turned out that the gymnasts were a fraud and their medals were taken away, and China knew all about it.
The same thing with the singer at the Olympics.
You had this unbelievably beautiful young woman who had the greatest voice anyone's ever heard.
Yes, this is her voice.
This is she what she sang their national anthem.
It turned out that she wasn't singing, it was a fraud.
They said it was her.
You gotta say that I know.
Well, now wait a second, but we're not only talking about this one country.
You look at South Korea, what they did.
We signed a trade pact that nobody in their right mind would have signed.
And it was so bad, and yet they didn't want to sign it.
Now two months ago, when bombs started getting lobbed over by North Korea, and we send this incredible aircraft carrier, the George Washington, and 17 destroyers heading right to North Korea, all of a sudden they sign and they announce that they are friends of our country, and but it's a lot of crap.
They make billions of dollars of let's call it profit off the United States rush, billions of dollars.
Why aren't they paying for protection?
Well, we protect South Korea, and I know the Koreans very well.
I had a partnership with the Koreans that was a fantastic partnership.
I built Trump World Tower with Daewoo, which was a Korean company, and I did very well and they did very well.
But so I understand the people.
And by the way, I don't dislike the Chinese people.
I don't dislike the Korean.
But what I do what I because if I were them, I'd be doing the same thing.
If our leaders are so stupid that they allow what's happening, we can't have jobs created, Rush, in this country, if China is making all of our product.
Because the way the Chinese are presented uh to the average American here, and and in listening to you, it's it's somewhat similar.
They're they're relatively omnipotent.
On the one hand, they can lower their the they can devalue their currency.
They uh uh apparently without doing much harm to themselves, they can do this as a strategy to destroy our economy.
At the same time, they own an ever increasing amount of our debt.
Um this does it i you you said we have stupid leaders here.
It's almost as though this stuff can't happen in a vacuum.
There has to be some reason this has been permitted to happen.
It is actually happening in a vac vacuum.
Now look, the debt is not a problem because hey, look, nobody rush.
Over the years I've done tremendous business with banks.
I work things out with banks, and it's not difficult if you know what you're doing.
If you don't know what you're doing, it's devastating because I have friends that are laying in the gutter right now that we're rich people and they're no longer rich people because of what the banks did to them.
The fact is that the Chinese are taking advantage of our country.
The Chinese and the by the way, and the Chinese can't even believe that they're getting away with it.
Well, it's more than taking advantage.
You said earlier they do look at us as an enemy.
Oh, they view us as an enemy.
Yeah, they view they they really view us as an enemy.
Well, what would they be very militant toward the United States?
What would you and I don't even think the United States knows it.
What would constitute victory to them then?
What what is their objective via us?
Well you know without military and and if you look at what they're doing they're building military now they just opened up plants to start building jet liners so that you know that little trivial order that they gave to Boeing just to be nice because guys like me are talking about what a ripoff here's here's when you think about President Obama he gives the president of China a five star dinner at the White House.
When somebody rips me off I don't give them five star dinners and neither do you rush because I know you well and you don't give five star dinners if you look at what's happening they give a 40 billion dollar order which is not a big deal to Boeing.
In other words they want to walk off the plane and give us something after taking out trillions of dollars in this country so they give this order but look at what they're really doing to Boeing.
They're now taking technology and everything else and they're opening up their own airline manufacturing plant they're gonna they're gonna make big airlines to compete with Boeing and Eurobus.
They're going to be opening up their own watch what happens within a few years with respect to Boeing that order will not be so important.
And by the way they'll never buy planes from us they will only buy those planes from their Chinese company that they're forming and that they're starting that's going to be a very devastating blow to Boeing.
You watch what happens but when I look at what's going on with China when I look at what's going on with OPEC when I look at oil prices hitting a hundred dollars a barrel and if you remember three years ago Rush oil prices were a little bit higher than they are right now.
148.
Yeah once you and we'll be up there pretty soon because there's nobody to call OPEC.
You know, if it weren't for us why do we have troops in Saudi Arabia?
We have troops in Saudi Arabia can you imagine they're not paying us with the money they're making they're making more money than any countries have ever made in the history of the world legitimately making that kind of money they form OPEC.
They have twelve men in this case all men they sit around a table anytime there's a minor incident in the world they raise the price of oil because you know they figure well nobody's gonna call when oil goes over forty dollars a barrel it's almost impossible for our country to do well.
That's what it is.
I mean you look at oil now we're up to a hundred now we're heading up they keep raising it when oil goes over forty dollars watch what happens and the stock market is going to end up being a big Ponzi scheme because the only thing that's doing well in this country is the stock market Well that's that's because of the Federal Reserve.
Have you got have you got a couple minutes more I gotta take a quick time out.
Sure.
Because I want to find out what you would do about all this okay all right we'll be back.
Donald Trump when we get back don't go away and we are back with Donald Trump.
Donald, the things you've articulated on China, I think most people are going rah-rah, agreeing with.
And I think they totally understand it.
Why do you think it's not clear to more people in our government?
Do you think Obama understands it's the way you do?
And what would you do if you were president to deal with all this?
Well, you know, Rush, I talk about China and other countries, by the way.
But I talk about China because they're the worst abuser.
And we have this independent group of people that form shouldtrumprun.com.
And we have over 400,000 people already signed up.
And what I don't understand, but I think maybe there is an understanding down deep, I believe it could be the lobbyists because so many...
many people love what I say on China they know it's true.
When Ben Bernanke gets up and says jobs won't be good for another five years now that sounds like a long time but I disagree I don't think jobs will ever be good if we keep going on this policy because we're not making anything anymore.
China and other countries are making our products we are rebuilding China.
So I say it over and over again I do your show I do today's show I do it and I say it and everybody loves it and yet no politician ever says what I'm saying.
And then they give as I said five star dinners at the White House.
So 4000 people in should Trump run dot com and yet nobody is a so what I think it is is the politicians are all taken over by the lobbyists.
I really believe that the lobbyists keep them shut up because China and Chinese companies have all got tremendous lobbyists.
OPEC has got a monopoly.
If you try and get a lobbyist in Washington to go against OPEC, they'll say, oh, this is great.
Donald Trump wants me to be the lobbyist.
And then they'll go and check and say, Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Trump, we can't represent you.
We represent OPEC or one of the twelve nations.
So it's really uh, in my opinion, it has to be the lobbyists, because I'll say this, everybody will agree with me, and I'm I know you agree with me, but everybody will agree with me, and then the politicians don't speak up.
And I think they don't speak up because their local lobbyists has them shut up.
Well, could there be an element of fear?
Uh I mean, I I this people aren't afraid of the United States anymore, Donald.
No, they're not.
And one of the reasons I'm seriously thinking about running, and I mean seriously thinking, is that this is not a respected country anymore.
I love this country.
It's it's got potential to be great again.
But really, Rush, it's not great right now.
It's not great.
China in twelve years or less will take over as the number one nation in the world from an economic standpoint.
You know, it's it's and we're doing it.
We're doing it.
Now, you asked me before, what would I do?
I would tell China that if you don't straighten out your manipulation of the currency, and I mean fast.
I mean really fast, we are going to tax your products twenty-five percent.
Now, what that will do is two things.
Number one, immediately we'll start doing our own manufacturing.
We don't have to make toys that are coated with lead-colored paint on in China.
We can make uh good toys in Alabama and how about Chinese screws?
I mean, Chinese screws, you better not assemble anything with a screw made in China.
They call it the counterfeiters.
I mean, and even by the way, even those laws, those laws are so bad for us in China.
We make a product here and they copy it in China, and they couldn't care less about infringement or anything else.
We talk about the environmentalists, you know, they all want us to make our plan so that nothing can go into the air.
Do you think China is doing that?
They laugh at us.
They talk green, but they're not green.
They talk green, but then and this is all this isn't just me saying it on the basis of common sense.
These are the biggest people in China who sit down with me and talk to me, and they can't believe what they're getting away with.
I'll give you a little interesting thing, and and this is nothing much, and I shouldn't even waste your your program's time by saying it.
But I notice at the White House they give you know a lot of balls for people, and some should have balls.
I mean, if you look at at Britain, if you look at certain places, they've come through and you know they've been good allies.
We should have balls and all this.
So I have, as you know, because you're in Palm Beach, I have the greatest ballroom, probably in the world.
I built it five years ago, and it's one of the great ballrooms of the world.
It's at the Mar-a-Lago Club.
And I see that at the White House, the White House, Washington, D.C., when a dignitary comes in from India, from anywhere, they open up a tent.
They have a tent.
A tent.
Yeah, not a lousy looking tent, an old rotten tent, that frankly they probably rent and pay a guy millions of dollars for it, even though it's worth about two dollars, okay?
So they have a tent for a dignitary that comes in.
So recently, a couple of months ago, I called up the White House.
I said, listen, I'm really good at this stuff.
I will build you a magnificent ballroom.
We'll go through committees.
You know, you have all sorts of things with committees.
We'll go through committees, we'll pick the one they like, we'll pick the architect everybody likes, we'll pick something that we'll do ten designs, you'll pick the one that's the greatest with the greatest architecture.
I will build it free.
So that's anywhere from fifty to a hundred million dollar gift.
I will give that, and and I mean I'm talking rush.
It's the first time I've said this.
I'm talking to the biggest person, one of the biggest people at the White House.
I'm not talking to a low-level person.
Right.
One of the most important people.
I will build the White House a borough.
So when the head of India comes to town, we can give him a five-star dinner in a magnificent borough befitting of this country and the White House, right?
They never got back to me.
It's a hundred million dollar gift.
They never got back to me.
Of course not.
You're you're you're they you're they think you're a Republican.
Well, but they never got back to me, Rush.
Whether I'm a Republican or or an independent or a Democrat, they never got back to me.
If I was a Republican, they should do it anyway.
They should say Trump's going to give us a hundred million dollars, he's going to build the ballroom, he's going to be magnificent, and why wouldn't they get back to me?
That's the problem with this country.
It's like no common sense.
They have no Let me give you another example.
We talk about not only China, Korea.
So when we send the George Washington, the most magnificent aircraft carrier I've ever seen.
Well, we send the George Washington and 17 destroyers, and we head them to North Korea to protect South Korea.
Why doesn't South Korea pay us for that?
You know how much that costs just to turn on the engines of the George Washington?
Okay, you know what I'm talking about.
You turn those engines on, and that sucker costs you a hundred thousand bucks, okay?
I mean, just to turn the key is a hundred thousand.
Now they're steaming toward North Korea.
And by the way, the only reason that North Korea backed down was because they saw these ships, you know, steaming in their direction.
And that's all fine.
Why aren't why isn't South Korea sending us a check for a hundred million dollars for saving them and the protection?
Why are we sending all these ships with all of these sailors and all of these soldiers over there?
Why aren't they protecting us?
And they make hundreds LG.
I buy hundreds of them.
LG, they make all of these television sets and all of these products that we take into this country.
By the way, we sign an agreement, Rush, which allows them to sell, but if we go to them, it's very hard for us to sell in South Korea.
It's very hard for us.
Not that I have Rush, we actually have something where, but over a five-year period, they treat us a little bit better.
It's an absolute job.
I have to stop because I've only got 30 seconds left here, and and I I know you're busy.
Uh and I I I wish I I wanted to talk about Wisconsin with you and get your thoughts on what's going on with the public sector union thing.
I will have to do that at another time.
Absolutely.
But uh I want to thank you for your time here and uh uh your your willingness to make yourself available.
Well, absolutely, Rush, and and I really enjoy your show, and I really enjoy you.
And a lot of people enjoy you very much, Rush.
They just don't like saying it.
They don't like giving you the credit that you deserve.
Thank you very much.
Donald Trump from New York, and we will be right back after this.
Say whatever you will about Donald Trump.
There's one thing nobody can deny, and that is he has a can-do spirit.
Good old American can do spirit.
And uh Trump's can-do spirit is backed up with Trump's can-do action.
It uh really is.
You know, I would I would love to see a debate on economics between Trump and Obama.
Uh Mr. Scholar, Mr. Faculty Lounge Extraordinaire versus Mr. Real World Builder.
And I mean, I would love to Obama wouldn't even get out his first sentence by the time Trump had given ten answers.
Anyway, uh we still have lots of stuff here to do in the stacks of stuff, the health care bill uh talking about that of this this um Obama supports easing health law mandate for the let me just summarize very quickly what that New York Times story yesterday was all about.
It's very, very simple, folks.
This this compromise with the states, Obama supports easing health law mandates for states in a nutshell.
What Obama is offering with this great compromise is that the states, he's offering them waivers.
He the states will have three years longer before they have to start taxing the uninsured.
But the fines.
But in order to get that waiver, they'll have to meet Obama's quota for the number of people they coerce into buying health insurance.
It's up to them how they do it.
But that's that's what this little Obamacare compromise is uh is is really all about.
It's it's not a it's not a compromises, it's a it's a quasi waiver.
Uh and it's all for show.
It's it's all to make it look like Obama moving from the center, willing to compromise this mandate, mandate unconstitutional.
Okay, let's remove the mandate as the centerpiece here that we're talking about.
And let's bring it back to insuring the uninsured.
It's all a trick.
The one thing leftists will never do is let sight of the lose sight of their goal.
In this case, it's single payer, government-run health care.
This is just okay, they got to change the route to get there now.
But uh, that's what's up.
So anyway, we're gonna go to the phones.
People have been waiting since the show started, and we haven't yet taken a call.
So we'll start in Napa, California.
Eric, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Rush, thank you for taking my call.
Yes, Sir.
Hey, uh what a pleasure, boy.
Really enjoyed hearing uh you you your speech with or talking with Donald Trump there.
Thank you for sharing that.
You bet, sir.
Hey, uh the reason I was calling, uh in talking yesterday um uh with the president speaking to the governors, um I really felt like that entire uh speech that he gave was just a socialist manifesto, and uh we should just keep replaying clips of that until the next uh election.
But um even in the president trying to give a very backhanded compliment to to um uh the the private sector and to private industry and to entrepreneurialism as a whole.
Um he made the comment he said that well, he understood that it was going to be the businesses and the private sector that led to the the the resurgence of the economy.
He said that it was the research and development that was really the the roots and the foundation to that growth, and that it was the government that led the way in research.
And it was just a total of well, is it's the benevolence of the government that even gives the business the ability to to make the economy grow.
Well, that's what people like him think.
They they believe, they believe that government picks and chooses winners.
They believe that government somehow funds uh research and development.
Somebody like Obama really does believe that everything great has its has it has a link uh to government somehow.
Yeah, it i to people like myself, i it just it almost makes you sick to your stomach when you hear that.
And it and more so when you hear it and it's not challenged anymore.
And that's what was so frustrating in in listening to that.
Well who who did you expect to challenge it?
Well, I saw Chris Christie setting in the audience, so you you hope he would have stood up and said something.
No, I that wasn't uh the point of the thing.
Some of those Chris Christie down the line might that look, these guys are not gonna openly you know, they Obama shows up let him speak and get out of there.
They're not gonna prolong the guy's visit.
They don't want to get into a debate with him.
They understand it's a pro-forma thing.
The national governor's meeting of the president has to show up.
I mean, this is this is have you ever have you ever gotten an invitation to something, you agreed to go to it in the day of the event?
Why did I don't want to do this?
Why did I agree?
Well, that's what this is.
It's pro-forma, it's perfunctory, and so okay, you go, your president shows up, get him in, get him out as quick as possible, and whatever he says, deal with it later on your terms in your forum.
They know they're not going to be able to debate the guy.
So if if you're waiting for Chris Christie to respond, at some point he will, or or somebody else in that audience will, or as you have now.
You didn't even need a governor to respond.
All you needed was the EIB network.
And luck.
And Snerdley being in a good mood putting your call up.
So it all worked out for you.
Happy as you can be.
I think that's that's uh the way it's all worked out.
But I I guarantee you're not you're not gonna have these guys stand up and take issue with the president that uh thing like this.
It sometimes happens.
I remember the president showed up at a Republican retreat, congressional retreat in Baltimore the first year, uh, or at the health care summit.
Remember Paul Ryan and a couple guys, the White House tried to say Obama just stared daggers at him and moved on.
Uh you you learn that that uh that event is not the forum for rebuttal and uh and getting it done.
Anyway, I mean you you you can you can see even when Obama speaks to the governors, you can see what his priorities are when all the jobs from the stimulus go to union workers.
He's out there still praising the stimulus today.
He says I got a bunch of bunk uh analysis of the stimulus, how wonderful it was, and what what you know the jobs that it created, all those shovel ready jobs had to go to union shovelers.
We we know where the the money wandering just just continues.
As I say, the time to speak up about it is gonna be one of their choosing.
This is Polly, one of my all-time favorite top ten female names, Polly from Buffalo.
Polly, welcome to the EIB network.
Rash, you are uh brought a free speech.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
A speaker of truth and a story case closed.
I want to ask you what hope we have here in New York fighting union entitlements when approximately twenty-five percent of our workforce is unionized.
But also, just seventy short years ago, our fathers fought and died for liberty and to stop the spread of communism.
And today we have a dictator in practice who wants to send his communist friends to fight with the unions.
So I just how how did we forget that high school?
We haven't forgotten it.
We haven't forgotten it.
It's that there's two things.
Some people don't want to admit that that's what the battle is.
And I have never been so afraid for my country since November 2nd, 2008.
I understand that.
Um, it's it's like, yes, some people, some people still, uh, they might they might agree with you that Obama's not what he seemed to be during the campaign.
Obama's not, but they're not yet ready to admit the guy's doing purposeful destruction of the economy.
They just don't think that's possible of an American president.
The President Z, so revered that they just can't believe that American people would elect somebody who's got a design on this economy of total change that would end up wrecking capitalism and replacing it was the second aspect that you have to deal with is that those people never go away.
I mean, the the Obamas of the world, the leftists never go away.
They never give you a sense that they've ever been beaten, because they never go away.
So it's an ongoing, never-ending battle.
It's very rare you get to claim victory, and I think that's very frustrating to people.
At some point, you want to be able to say you've won.
If not the war, you want to be able to say you've won a battle.
But the moment you win a battle and you know you've won it, the war continues because these people don't get like cockroaches.
They just keep coming back.
And so there's there's you look at November.
Take a look at what's happening right now.
November, the biggest shellacking a Democrat Party has faced in decades.
All the way down to the state legislative level.
They got creamed.
They lost the House of Representatives, a huge margin.
I mean, it's it's just they they barely have control of the Senate in a functioning way.
The president has a higher disapproval than he does approval, and yet the news today is how the Republicans are losing in the state of Wisconsin, and they're losing on the budget battle, and they're losing on the unions, and they're losing all because of a bunch of phony fraudulent polling data.
I mean, these people just never go away.
So you and others like you, even when you win, don't get to celebrate it because it doesn't last long enough because you never you you you never get to get get off the battlefield.
And that I think is an important point because they're, you know, not everybody wants to even get on the battlefield because they know once you get on it, you're never getting on.
Once you take up this battle, once you take up this challenge, you're in it till you die.
Because these people aren't ever going away.
And and the the the referees or whoever that's going to proclaim victory are never, they're not fair.
So it's it can be very dispiriting.
It's why I was saying earlier, you really do need to be confident of what you know, confident that what you believe is right, confident, confident enough to know when you're looking at total BS in the media.
You gotta be so confident that they cannot shake you.
Because that's their whole modus operandi is to separate you from your confidence, to separate from you from what you get you questioning what you know to be true.
Break your spirit.
They can't beat you in the arena of ideas.
Well, they try to beat you psychologically, um public relations-wise, any number of ways.
So when that's going on, it's not it's not like football season, it ends.
The Super Bowl, you have the champion.
Super Bowl is every day in this game, and it never ends.
So you really never get to celebrate victory.
You have to do this every day.
And that's why you get, I think, experience the frustration levels, and you are not alone, uh other people too.
Even even when there's a big victory, you're told that you're losing.
And we'll be back.
Don't go away.
Now look, folks, at the end of the day, we have the most important characteristic on our side, and that's reality.
Reality and truth.
For instance, the case of Wisconsin.
No matter what the Democrats say, no matter what the fraudulent polling data says, no matter how the media spends it, no matter how many fake polls they publish, Wisconsin is still in debt to the tune of $3.6 billion.
Wisconsin still cannot afford to pay public sector union people twice what the taxpayers of the state are earning.
The taxpayers of that state simply cannot afford to pay public sector unions what they are paying.
It cannot sustain itself.
That's the reality.
Now they can spin it.
They can spin it all they want.
But eventually, reality is going to catch up with them.
It has caught up with them.
That's what we're dealing with.
Now we got Greece.
Everybody said Greece is coming to America.
Greece has arrived.
It's in Wisconsin.
It's happening there.
They are going to get a huge reality slap.
And if you want to know another little truth here, they would love for you to believe that this is all over this precious, somehow God created, God-granted right to collective bargaining.
But that's not what this is really all about.
What do you think it's really all about, El Snerdbow?
It's about the state of Wisconsin deducting the you as the does automatically.
It's Walker wants to get away from Walker wants the union to start the members to start paying that.
He wants to get rid of the automatic deduction.
That's that's they don't want that to happen.
They don't want for their rank and file to actually see what the hell is happening here.
And that's every bit as big a part of this.
The unions want to keep their revenue stream, and that auto-deduction, the state automatic deduction is the revenue stream.
They have to keep that.
They don't care about the kids.
They don't care about students.
They don't really care about their own union members.
They care about that revenue stream, that auto-deduction.
That's why they got thugs flying in from every state in the country in there to raise hell.
Pure and simple.
All right.
Tescadero, California.
We have uh we have Matt.
Matt, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Great to be here, Mr. Limbaugh.
You bet, sir.
Um, I wanted to talk to you about the uh furlough days in a lot of schools across the country, specifically mine.
It's the reason why I'm not in school today.
And uh there are five days this year where the teachers are forced to not work.
And it's it's just disgusting.
They they have to do this.
They say save jobs and save the money.
But when you look at it, there's so much money that's going to other places that's unnecessary, so much within the school that's just wasted.
Yeah.
Yep.
There's a story in my stack here that uh some independent bunch of guys, for example, found things we've been talking about as program for years, all of the redundant duplicated programs of the federal budget, some $300 billion worth that the General Accounting Office is supposed to find, but didn't.
And I just to illustrate what you're talking about.
In Hawaii, I was in Hawaii uh uh over Christmas, two Christmases ago, and at the time I'd never heard of it, Matt, but they were in the middle of furlough Fridays.
Every Friday, the teachers were not teaching.
The school was closed.
But it's a furlough program because they didn't have any money.
That was how they were saving money was to get this.
So it's a four-day school week for the uh for the students, the pupils, and the teachers as well, furlough Fridays.
And it was longer than just for a month or so.
I don't think I think it was for the rest of the school year.
Wow.
Now, here's a difference.
I would have celebrated it as a student.
You know, I don't care.
We're close the place.
I don't care what.
Snow, sleet, ice, nuclear, nuclear attack.
I'm looking at close it.
Uh, you are to be applauded for being concerned here that your school's being shut down this way.
It's uh, you know, you you're you're right to be suspicious of this.
There are any number of other places they can cut back to keep school open.
This is just the most dramatic way to illustrate they're not going to cut any money.
Then they're not going to cut any spending.
Uh they they'll they're gonna try to make it as hurtful and as harmful as they can to get everybody's attention, like yours.
Because the objective is to have nothing cut.
And then they talk about the cut.
So we're not spending enough money.
We we spend way more money in private schools to give a better education, but let's spend more money on it.
Amen, more money, poor money.
Amen, bro.
Go out.
I tell you what, it's a v go go out and get Waiting for Superman, the documentary.
Go get it.
It's available on DVD.
Uh or download it from iTunes, whatever.
Watch it, Matt.
It'll it'll stoke you and give you a lot of ammo for what you're talking about.
Missing Wisconsin Senators rely heavily on union campaign dollars in order to stay away.
It's exactly what I was talking about when I uh when I said these public sector unions are just money launderers.
Simply kick back money from the taxpayers to these Democrat politicians, in this case to replace their salaries that they're not getting so that they can stay away.
Okay, we got another exciting hour to go here, folks, as we move right along.
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