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April 15, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 15, 2011, Friday, Hour #2
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Hang on a minute, folks.
We are ahead of last year in our fundraising to cure the blood cancers.
I just got the first hour numbers.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
I love you people.
I just, you amaze me.
Every year into our 21st year now.
Of our leukemia lymphoma society curathon, Curing the Blood Cancers.
Third decade.
Now, overall, we're way up.
However, our telephone numbers are down.
The online donations are going through the roof.
The numbers of people calling and the aggregate amount of money donated via the telephone is down this year.
That doesn't matter.
The online's more than making up for it.
Numbers 877-379-8888.
That's the number if you want to make a donation to our effort to cure lymphemia and lymphoma today, rushlinbaugh.com, to do it online.
And again, we're here to do our best to cure the diseases here that are born of blood cancers.
And it's a remarkable thing that you all do each and every year.
And unlike other huge, I've put my own pitch in here.
We don't ask you to do things that I don't do.
So I have a financial stake in this as well.
And we hope to best last year's number as we have each and every year.
More details on this as the program unfolds.
I want to welcome back in the meantime the leading, according to the latest polling data, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to the EIB microphones.
Mr. Trump, great to have you back, sir.
Hi, Rush.
So how are you doing so far?
Can you tell a number?
Are you allowed to say the number that you've raised so far?
Well, I try to stay away from actual hard numbers till the end of the program is over.
Well, it might influence what I'm going to do because I'm trying to figure out like the scope.
You know, I don't know what the scope is, but it's an incredible cause.
So I have to sort of, can you give me like an idea?
What did you raise last year, Rush?
Last year, we do about a million and a half to two million when it's all said and done.
Wow, that's great.
In one three-hour program.
I think that's fair.
Okay, so here's the story.
You ready?
Yeah.
Okay, and you can treat me terribly after I do this.
It doesn't make any difference to me.
Wait a sec, Donald.
I was just wrong.
I was over $3 million last year.
I was two-year-old.
It's in honor of you because I love your show.
And whenever I can, I listen.
And it's not easy when you're a business guy, right?
I know.
You know, the timing isn't so great.
That's exactly right.
And I listen a lot.
In honor of you, $100,000.
Oh, my gosh.
That's an honor of you.
And now you can go and really beat me up.
Go ahead, Rush.
I've got to tell you, you may not, well, you probably do know this, but there's a polling outfit out of North Carolina that generally tends liberal public policy polling.
You are up, leading the entire Republican field on 26% of the vote.
Huckabee is in second place at 17%.
Does this surprise you?
When you started this, you think that you would be at the top of the heap this quickly?
People don't even know for sure that you're running.
I didn't think it would go this fast, Rush, but to be honest with you, and I don't even know if it's me or the message.
The fact is, I look at what's happening to this country.
I look at the way China is just ripping us off.
I look at OPEC, the way they are ripping us off with the oil prices.
I mean, people are going to be paying $6 and $7 a gallon for gasoline very, very soon.
And you're going to be up to $150 a barrel.
And they wouldn't even be there if it weren't for us.
I look at South Korea.
What they do to us is unbelievable.
Even a small, smaller country, Colombia, they're signing a trade pack.
We lost last year, let's call it loss, $4 billion with Colombia, fourth largest country in Latin America, $4 billion.
With China this year, Rush, we're going to lose $300 billion.
And that won't happen if I was there.
What does it tell you?
They're weird and they like me, I guess.
What does it tell you that the Chikons say that they're going to start divesting themselves of our T-bills?
What does that tell you?
They won't divest because we have all the power.
They don't have the power, Rush.
Rush, if we ever wanted them to stop manipulating their currency, which makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete, and I know because I build buildings, and I have to get so much stuff, whether it's curtain walls or other things from China, and I hate doing it.
But they manipulate their currency to such an extent that it's very hard, almost impossible for our companies to compete.
And if you ever said to them, folks, the game is over.
You know, we're rebuilding China, Rush.
We're rebuilding.
They're building bridges like twice the size of the George Washington, George Washington Bridge is like a small bridge.
They are building airports.
They're building cities with our money.
And it's mostly from us because we have leadership that doesn't know what they're doing.
If you ever said to them, 25% tax, a 25% tax on all of your product coming in, we would, first of all, never really probably have to impose the tax because they would come to the table, if you meant it, if you really meant it, so fast.
Now, if they didn't come to the table, we'd make a fortune.
We're taking a lot of money, and guess what?
Jobs would start going to Alabama and North Carolina and all our places.
And so when you asked me about the polls, people know, and I made a lot of money with the Chinese, believe me, both in terms of selling them very big apartments.
I sold one for $33 million recently to a Chinese gentleman, but also in terms of deals.
I made a lot of money with the Chinese, and I know the Chinese very well.
By the way, they don't love us.
I will tell you that, just in case anybody has any question.
When I see Obama having a dinner at the White House, Rush, for the president of China, who's been screwing us worse than anybody other than OPEC for years, it's not the right and appropriate location for a dinner, believe me.
So there are ways of handling it, and they need us, Rush.
That's the one thing.
They always say, oh, but they have our debt.
Think of it.
They take our money and then they loan it back to us and we have to pay them interest.
It's very, it would be something to solve very easily.
If you have the right messenger, we don't have the right messenger.
Obama is the wrong messenger.
Now, years ago, three years ago, you thought Obama had the potential to be great.
You didn't.
I was hoping.
Oh, no, he was just, you know.
What did you see in Obama three years ago that's changed?
Well, look, Rush.
Three years ago, he wins the election, all right?
And people came to me, and I say, I hope he's great.
I think he's going to be great.
We all love him.
I want him to do great, Rush.
And I'll go a step further.
I'm a Republican, but if I had my choice of running or having Obama, or somebody, but Obama, even Obama, be a great president, the greatest president ever, I'd be so happy for the country.
But he's not a great president.
He won't be a great president.
He doesn't have the capability to be a great president.
And the world is, we're like a joke.
As a country, we're becoming like a joke.
Everybody is ripping us off.
But if I honestly, I love my business.
I love like you love your business.
I love what I'm doing.
I'm doing great.
And by the way, if I run, then you'll see how great I've done because I put in a financial statement which will knock people's socks off.
Just knock their socks off.
And, you know, and I'm very proud of it.
So I'll make a decision prior to June, and we'll see what happens.
Donald, you accurately describe what's happening to the country domestically, international policy.
You describe Obama.
A question that I have and a lot of people have, Is Obama and the people helping him in his administration, are they just incompetent?
Do they not get it?
Or is this being done on purpose?
I mean, there's an assault on the private sector of this company.
There's an assault on wealth generation and creation.
Is it these people are just rose-colored theoreticians who just don't know how wrong they are, or is it worse than that?
Well, there's two theories.
There's one theory that he wants to destroy the country and create a socialistic country.
And there is that theory, and I've read it a lot.
This isn't necessarily my theory.
I personally think they're incompetent.
We don't use, you know, we know, and you know, some of the great business leaders in this country.
They're fantastic.
And I know many of them.
Almost all of them, I guess.
I mean, I know so many.
I know the politicians on both sides, Rush, but I know the great business leaders.
I know guys that are so tough and so mean.
They make you look like a nice guy, Rush, okay?
They're so smart and so good.
And I would put people to negotiate, let's say, with China.
And guess what?
We would do absolutely great.
But we use diplomats to negotiate.
And, you know, when China sends over their people to negotiate, they pick their meanest, smartest, most vicious guy.
And these guys, they don't play games.
They don't laugh.
They don't cry.
They have no emotion.
They just want to make money, and they just want to rip our country to shreds.
But I know people that are tougher and smarter than them.
We don't use them.
So I think they're incompetent.
One thing Obama is, he's a good campaigner.
He's not, he's a terrible president.
I think he's going to go down as the worst president ever, frankly.
I used to say that about Jimmy Carter, but I think he's going to be surpassed.
But I think that the one thing he is, he's a good campaigner.
He just campaigns well.
If you ask me about Obama, the only thing he does well is campaign.
Debt ceiling and the budget battle just fought.
You're running for priority.
You're toying with the idea.
You have demonstrable success in making ends meet.
You have to, one way or the other.
What's your opinion of watching this process take place, the debt ceiling fight coming up, a budget battle where we're supposed to feel good over cutting either $38 billion or $352 million, whatever it was?
Well, I heard your statement last week, and it was sort of interesting because when they called me, we were in the billions, in the $38 billion range, and they asked me a question, and I heard $38 billion.
Now, I wasn't happy with $38 billion, but I said, well, we'll have another fight, and that'll take place in a few months, and we'll be fine.
But then I heard the $38 billion long after I did the interview with Greta Van Sestrin, who's terrific, by the way.
But I did an interview with her, and the interview took place before people found out that the $380 billion was actually a lot lower.
So I would have had a lot to, because I wasn't even happy with the 380 number.
So that's one thing.
As far as the budget, I don't like raising the ceiling.
You know, you can solve the problem now.
Why should we keep waiting?
That's the problem.
We keep waiting and waiting and waiting.
But I will say, Rush, the Republicans have to be careful.
And I'm a fan of Paul Ryan, but he shouldn't get too far out with some of these plans because they're going to be liberal.
One thing with me, if I decide to run, I am going to cherish senior citizens.
And the Democrats, and I know them all, because as you know, I come from New York and it's virtually 100% virtually Democratic, right?
I've dealt with these people, the Schumer and everybody.
I want to ask you about that when we come back from the break.
Very good.
But the Republicans shouldn't get too far out because they're already making plans to say incorrectly that the Medicare is going to be terrible for the seniors, et cetera, et cetera.
This is Obama's fight, and he should be leading it as the president.
We shouldn't get too far out in front.
Donald Trump is with us as we attempt to cure leukemia and lymphoma.
And by the way, thank you again for that.
That was totally unexpected.
Mr. Trump has thrown $100,000 into our effort here today.
Telephone number, if you want to donate, it's 877-379-8888 or online at rushlimbaugh.com.
All kinds of details coming up.
And a couple more minutes with Mr. Trump when we get back.
Open line Friday.
We're back on our cure-a-thon.
21st annual Leukemia Lymphoma Society, folks, is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research.
They are all volunteers, and we welcome back Donald Trump.
I need to ask you about Paul Ryan and what you meant.
You said that he's got to be very careful not to be too far out.
Do you mean too many years out in his planning or too far out in his thinking?
Too far out with the plan itself.
He's doing a plan.
He's done a plan.
He's come out.
And what the Democrats, and I see it more and more, and I hear from them, because again, you know, living in New York, that's what I see as Democrats all over the place.
And what they're going to do is saying it's an attack on Medicare.
And Medicare, to a lot of people, means seniors, and that this is a very strong attack on Medicare.
And I honestly think you have to go down the line in a bipartisan way.
You have to go down with the Democrats.
I don't think they should be too far out of front.
Don't forget, we don't have the president yet.
Hopefully we will have.
We don't have, he's supposed to be leading this attack, not us.
And they can do rejections.
They can criticize his plan.
But you have to be, in my opinion, you know, there's an election in 2012, right?
In my opinion, he has to be very careful because when he mentions even the word touching of Medicare and Medicaid to a lesser extent, perhaps, but when he mentions even the touching of Medicare, they're going to attack him unmercifully.
I just think it's a bad position.
They're going to attack him anyway.
They're going to attack him just like they're going to attack you.
Now, his plan doesn't touch current recipients.
That's one thing he's very clear about.
But you, last time you were here, I shared with you some questions I had from members of my audience uncomfortable with donations that you have made to Democrats, Rahm Emanuel, Chuck Schumer, and so forth.
You explained that.
You have to do business in the places you live.
They're the ones that hold power.
They hold office.
You mentioned compromise just now.
Donald, what are you going to do if you're elected and all of a sudden they start accusing you of wanting to kill babies and kill old people, which they will.
That's what they do.
Your friendship's going to go out the window with these guys when it comes to their political power.
They're going to come after you the same way they go after anybody else in the Republican Party.
Yeah, you're right, Rush.
But I will say this.
You know, when I've dealt with Democrats and Republicans all my life, and somebody said, oh, do you have that much experience politically?
You know what?
I've dealt, and you understand this better than anybody.
I've dealt with politicians all of my life.
I've also dealt with foreign countries.
I'm doing jobs all over the world.
I've dealt with foreign countries for a long period of time.
The fact is, I think somebody that got along with the Democrats, and I do get along.
Now, you know, that can change instantaneously.
You understand that.
But the level of animosity, you know, in the old days, across the aisle wasn't the worst thing.
People got along.
Today, the level of hatred, the level of, and I'm the most militaristic person there is if they treat me improperly.
But I think having a little bit of a relationship on the other side of the aisle is not so bad, Rush, where deals can be made.
But good deals, not the deal like Obama gave the other day.
That wasn't a deal.
That was a campaign speech.
That was his first campaign speech.
They're not going to want you to succeed at anything.
They will stop progress for America.
Your relationship with them will change once you become elected.
If you become president, and You might have the ability to bring them in line, but they will not start that way.
They will be out to destroy you, to preserve their way of life, their political ideology.
Remember, their power derives from creating more and more people dependent on government for their daily needs.
You don't believe that.
Rush, you're probably right, and probably it won't work out in the kind of manner which makes sense and would be good.
And then they'll see the real Donald Trump, because I do much better under adversity than I do the other way.
I'd love to see it work where people could actually get together and go down the line and straighten out this country.
You're probably right, and that's fine.
And then I'll do, I think, an even better job.
Well, it would be fascinating to me because you do know them.
You have socialized with them.
I think that if they tried to attack you the way they attack every other conservative or Republican, you might have a leg up on them because you've got years and years of being able to say, well, Chuck, you never said that to me before.
You never accused me of wanting to kick old people out of their houses.
Why do you think I want to do it?
I see.
You would have that opportunity.
So you thinking you might announce this on an upcoming episode of The Apprentice.
No.
What I may do is the finale is on May 22nd.
And I may announce on the finale the date of the news conference where I'd make the determination.
I see.
By the way, the application.
And that will be in any event sometime prior to June because, you know, somebody actually said to me the other day, oh, let's do it in June.
I said, I can't do that.
They said, no, no, it would be perfect.
I said, no, I can't do that.
Because I have been saying for six months sometime prior to June.
They said, oh, no, it doesn't matter.
If you say June, I said, no, you don't understand.
When I say prior to June, that doesn't mean June.
So I will be making an announcement sometime prior to June.
And I may surprise you, Rush.
You always surprise people.
I mean, that's, that's, that's, well, you know, I look at, I appreciate your time here today and I, I, uh, everybody appreciates your, your donation to the, um, to the Curathon effort here.
That was a shock and totally, totally surprising.
Before you go, it's probably a silly question, but have you stopped to think how your life will change were you to be elected president?
I mean, it's nothing like, for example, would you move to the White House?
Well, I guess you'd sort of have to, but the truth is it would be a lot different.
And again, if I had my choice, I wish this country were running great.
I wish I could stand up and say, wow, this place is really running fantastically.
And by the way, if it were, I wouldn't be getting poll numbers like I'm getting because, you know, people look at me as somebody that can really, that knows what he's doing, whether they love me or don't love me.
They think I know what I'm doing and that people aren't going to be taking advantage of the country.
And that's why I think I'm doing very well in the polls.
And by the way, I see the other politicians, and, you know, I don't think that's going to be happening.
So if I had my choice, I'd love to keep doing what I'm doing.
The country is in serious, serious trouble, like it's never been before.
And that's why, would I rather stay in Trump Tower?
Would I rather stay and lead the life I'm leading?
And you know something about my life as well.
I do.
Yes, I do.
The answer is yes, but I love the country, Rush.
Donald Trump, appreciate your time.
Thank you very much.
And we'll talk to you again soon, I'm sure.
Thank you, Rush.
Donald Trump talking to us from Trump Tower in New York, explaining why he's doing this.
And it dovetails with what a lot of us think.
The country is in terrible shape, worse than it's ever been.
And again, he opened by kicking in $100,000 to the effort to cure the blood cancers today for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America.
Our annual curathon, 21st today, three decades we're spanning.
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We'll continue after this.
All right, now this is getting interesting, folks.
This is getting interesting.
I checked the email during the break.
I went to our subscriber line, rushlimbog.com.
Subject line in one email, what are you doing?
Subject line in another email, do you know what you are doing?
Well, now I'm intrigued by those.
Subject is what determines whether or not to open an email and read it.
Both of these guys, both these people that send me these emails, say, are you aware of what you're doing here?
I mean, you have Trump on some time ago, and he's doing okay in the polls, and he shoots up and he shoots up.
Every time you have Trump on, he goes higher and higher and higher in the poll.
Do you know what you're doing here?
As though I'm involved in some sort of a plan.
I'm not.
I want to ask him the same questions you people have for him.
The compromise, working with the Democrats, he knows them.
He knows a lot of them in New York.
What is he going to do when they start saying about him when he says what they say about all of us?
And I don't know that he's prepared for that.
He may say that he knows that they're going to say those kinds until it actually happens to you.
I mean, look at Paul Ryan.
Paul Ryan, I mean, Paul probably, as a kid, I doubt that Paul Ryan even got a magnifying glass out and tried to kill a bunch of ants like the rest of us did.
And already Obama speaks to him in a speech and accuses him of wanting to kill senior citizens.
Now, when you have the president of the United States saying that about you, and then it comes back at you, echoed by a media which is repeating it, and then all those supporters, you may be prepared for it, but you'd better, you know, it's the kind of thing that you're going to have to have an answer for.
Well, you can say it's, oh, let's be serious.
Can you be serious?
Do you think that policy is actually going to kill people?
That's what the president says.
What do you say?
But they're going to keep going until they get an answer on something like that.
And, you know, it's wonderful to want to compromise with these guys, but they don't want to compromise with us.
They want to beat us as such.
They have to be, especially now.
This is, it's long past where we can hope for collegiality and all this kind of thing.
These people are the architects of the destruction that's going to happen.
If you're just joining us, Trump said he thinks that they're just incompetent.
I asked him point blank.
They do it on purpose.
They just not know what they're doing.
He thinks, I don't know what they're doing.
That's what he believes.
And he did donate $100,000, kicking off the hour here to our effort to cure the blood cancers.
We are up, folks.
And I sometimes cringe whether I should tell you this or not.
Sometimes I think that I should say we're running behind.
But that wouldn't be honest.
And we always come down on the side of honesty.
We are running way ahead.
Our online donations are through the roof.
Telephone donations are down, but the online's up enough to more than make up for it.
It's our 21st curathon, where we attempt to do what we can to cure leukemia and lymphoma and the blood cancers.
We do this one day a year.
And by the time you add up the total time we devote to it, it's probably out of the three hours, maybe 45 minutes.
And every, I mean, look at we're up significantly too.
You just amazed me.
Every Thanksgiving at Christmas, I make it a point to tell you how much you all mean to me.
And I cannot oversell that because it's so true.
And this is another one of the days in the year when I feel really humbled and really small in the big picture, big scheme of things.
That's you may not understand that, but I do.
It's a not so much a humbling thing, but I am overawed by what you all do.
Your support is steady.
And your efforts have been matched, by the way, in dramatic ways by other donors, by the medical progress that's been made, the drug research, the cures and assistance other cancers get as the search for the cure for blood cancers happens.
And as I mentioned, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research.
They are volunteers.
Everybody involved, leukemia and lymphoma society I have dealt with has been personally affected by this, one way or another.
And they haven't changed.
The same people 21 years ago are still the people that we are dealing with here.
So it's not just something for them to do.
It's not a, I mean, they're doing it out of a sense of genuine commitment.
And it's been a pleasure to get to know them and work with them.
And for the ancillary benefit for the event to be as successful as it is, is extremely satisfying.
So thank you all very much.
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So back to the phones we go.
Here's Gene in Chico, California.
Gene, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I have been waiting a long time to talk to you.
You really are a gift from God.
We love you out here.
Anyway, the reason that I called, which you'll have to give Snerdley a little bit of a bad time about, he had forgotten about your TV program, the Half Hour News Hour.
Oh, you mean you told him that's what you wanted to talk about and he had forgotten.
Oh, yeah.
It's Open Line Friday, and you cover everything.
I could go on and on about, you know, Obama, but since it's Open Line Friday, I want to know why the Half Hour News Hour went off the air.
It went off the air, I mean, specifically for budget reasons.
It was purely amount.
It was money.
I don't want to add.
We loved it.
We couldn't wait for it.
Every week, we were one of those that were just dying to see it because it was good.
It was funny.
It was great.
Joel Cernow produced the half-hour news hour.
Is the creator of 24.
Oh, really?
That's oh, okay.
No wonder it was so good.
Yeah, it was.
But the, look, I don't want to get too technical with you, but the program was put together and budgeted as it would be for network TV series TV.
Cable does not pay for programming.
Oh.
And so they had, it was a financial challenge to have everybody involved even break even.
Ah.
Most cable programs are produced locally on site by the various.
I mean, there's not much money involved doing a cable program.
You put the host in the studio, have a couple cameras at whatever visual age and Chiron graphics or whatever you want to use.
This required a cast.
It required writers.
There are no writers in cable TV.
It required producers.
Oh, that's too bad.
I'd make a good one.
But, you know, it had potential, too.
DVD sales would have gone through the roof of the world.
Oh, God.
But I loved it.
I was the president of the United States in the world.
The other thing I wanted to tell you, too, two things.
We have a lot in common.
My husband and I, we also love to watch the full moon rise.
Oh, yeah.
And we live, you know, you know the area of Chico, right?
Well, yeah, I do.
It's the number one party town in the country when I lived out in Sacramento.
I've never seen that here.
Oh, my God.
That's a whole nother story.
I know, I know.
Anyway, we have the canyon.
We live up on a canyon, and we watch the full moon rise, and we think of you often.
We go, I wonder if Rush is watching it tonight.
Every month I watch the full moon rise over the ocean.
You talk about appreciating something.
You watch it rise over the canyon, and I know that's pretty, but see it shimmering off the ocean.
It's appointment viewing for me.
And sometimes we have overcast skies, the cloud cover rain, you can't see it.
And it only happens once a month, but it always happens within a couple hours of sundown.
So you always see it.
But it is one of the most beautiful things.
Everybody sees a full moon, and everybody sees it rise, but the number of people actually get to see it on the ocean, shimmering off a body of water.
Not very many.
It's a very fortunate thing.
I do love it.
I've even tried to perfect taking pictures of it, and I'm not good enough at photography.
The moon washes out.
It just looks like a white oblar disc out there.
But still, here she's watching the moon thinking I'm watching the moon.
That's what it's like to be me and Trump.
Snertley has a question for me about Trump based on something he's always heard me say about politics.
Don't forget that question.
I'm not going to answer it right now.
I'll wait till the next hour as I once again remind people what we are doing today, three hours once a year.
And of those three hours, maybe 45 minutes we devote to fundraising to find cures for blood cancers, leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
That might help to define what we're up against here.
You're in the doctor's office and you hear those words, leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, blood cancer.
You don't want to hear them, especially if you're taking your child into the doctor's office.
Right now, 45 people during today's program, during the three hours here, 45 people will be diagnosed with one of the blood cancers.
And that'll add up to $137,000 a year.
In this same three hours, 18 people will lose their battle with blood cancer.
That adds up to 54,000 people a year.
And you might say, you're right, Rush, but I've been touched by a different kind of cancer.
I mean, I'm sympathetic to what you're trying to do, but, you know, in my family, there's prostate cancer, there's breast cancer, there's any number of other types of cancers.
My family's have friends of mine.
Totally understandable.
You can't donate to everything, obviously.
But something you might be interested in knowing is that the advances made possible by the efforts of the Leukemia Lymphoma Society end up going way beyond treating just blood cancers.
Since 2000, the year 2000, 39 anti-cancer drugs have been approved by the FDA.
Now, half of those 39 anti-cancer drugs were blood cancer drugs, and five of those now treat non-blood cancers.
14 of the blood cancer therapies are being tested on solid tumor cancers, obviously tumors that have nothing to do with blood.
And that includes four for breast cancer.
So the point is, breast cancer research is assisted, is aided by donations to the Leukemia Lymphoma Society, as are other solid tumor cancers.
So the point is that when you donate to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, your support goes to successful applications that no one would imagine 21 years ago.
So I say there's leukemia, there's lymphoma, Hodgkin's non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
I mean, I've got all the numbers of people suffering from this: myeloma, which is cancer of the blood cells.
And while all these numbers are daunting, the progress that's been made is overwhelming too.
The survival rates are way up.
And it's all because of the research made possible by virtue of the generosity of people like you in this audience.
I'm told that our phone donations are picking up, which is quite understandable since I said they were down.
Phone donations were down.
They're picking up.
The number is 877-379-8888.
I mean, let's face it, people do more and more online these days anyway.
If you have a problem with donating online, don't be worried about it.
We don't share your information with anybody.
Nobody's going to sell your name to any other organization of any kind.
Won't happen.
You are going to be saved and protected.
Online is rushlimbaugh.com.
Just follow the easy-to-follow instructions.
It'll all be made clear.
And again, we continue to run ahead of last year.
Even the economic circumstances what they are.
It's stunning.
It really is.
Who's next?
Joe in Southwest Michigan.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I think what's happening is all this spending is a smokescreen for debauching the dollar.
I don't think any person who has studied economics could see it any other way.
I don't think anybody could be making this big a mistake.
I think they're debauching the dollar.
What do you precisely mean by debauching the dollar?
Well, you make the dollar more and more worthless until it gets to the point where nobody wants it, and then you end up with them going to the global or some other kind of dollar.
Why is it?
You mean Obama's doing this via the Fed, right?
All the printing.
Geithner and Bernanke, Geithner, he ought to know better.
He's working on Wall Street.
He should know what's going on.
Why would they want to do that?
Well, I think it undermines our sovereignty.
And the people that hurts us are the seniors.
It's taking your savings, your life savings, and cutting them in half a little less.
Now, that's an excellent point, by the way.
While everybody claims to be on a lookout for our seniors, it's the policies of the regime which threaten seniors, anybody on a fixed income, the greatest.
That's absolutely true.
No question of it.
Joe, thanks very much for the phone call.
One more note that I forgot to mention to you about the work done by the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
And I've mentioned it every year, and there are new developments, which is why we try to focus on the new.
But I think it would be worthwhile to remind you, bone marrow transplants are the direct results of research into leukemia and lymphoma.
Bone marrow.
And now you know bone marrow transplants are used for an incredible number of medical procedures.
They go beyond blood cancers, but it was research into the blood cancers, leukemia and lymphoma, who pioneered bone marrow transfers.
I mean, the work that they have done is astounding, and it continues with all of your assistance, all your donations.
Again, the telephone number, 877-379-8888, or rushlinblaw.com.
It's that simple.
By the way, there's a method to the madness of little Timmy Geithner and Obama in debauching the dollar, as our caller referred to it.
It means devaluing it.
And when you devalue the dollar, many things happen.
But one of the things that happens, it means paying off your own debt is much easier.
It takes a lot fewer dollars to pay off your own debt because you're devaluing the whole thing.
And so it's a very, that's the Chikoms don't like it.
The Chikoms don't, they think we're being very selfish, roiling world markets, trying to retire our debt by devaluing our currency, which happens to be a world benchmark.
Chikom's not happy about that.
Okay, we've got to break one hour left to cure the blood cancers.
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