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April 20, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 20, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #2
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It is so predictable.
There's MSNBC doing their one year retrospective impact of the Gulf Oil spill.
And you know what the purpose of this particular episode is being anchored by Andrew Mitchell.
The purpose here is to make sure we don't drill for oil ever again.
It's to support Obama and the regime.
Because man, look what almost happened.
Do you realize every prediction of doom and disaster from that oil spill ended up being totally wrong?
As wrong as you could be if you wanted to be as one as 100% wrong.
And yet here they are, their 100 year or one year retrospective.
With the whole focal point being, boy, it was a disastrous dangerous as much could have been a really disaster.
We better never ever drill for oil again.
It's the whole point.
Why do this?
What's the big deal about this anniversary?
And to whom is it an anniversary?
Aside from the media.
Zilch, zer nobody.
How are you?
Uh great to have you back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, Limbaugh Institute Advanced Conservative Studies, I want to show you something on the ditto cam.
I just turned it off while I zoomed tight.
Uh we did a little Google search here.
Yeah, did a little search on uh uh on Google.
Uh in the previous hour of the program, I I made reference to the fact that where are all the stories on gasoline price going up?
Five bucks a gallon.
If you heard the riff, you know, I don't need to repeat it.
Basically the point of it was that compared to 2005, the last time gasoline prices spiked big time, no coverage of it.
So, yeah, while the price is, you know, exceeding four bucks in many places, five bucks in Washington.
There's not this accompanying panic.
No, what are we getting?
A one-year look back at the oil spill.
So the media doing everything it can to suppress any negative economic impact to Obama, virtual no coverage of the rising gasoline price.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is a search, gasoline prices, Google trends, here it is.
That big spike that you see on the left is 2005, when the price was approaching four bucks a gallon, and the oil price was around 150 dollars.
That's been the way they've been covering gasoline prices since.
On the right, oops, sorry, right here is this year.
This year.
No coverage.
You see the little spike there.
Just proves the point that I was making a year or an hour ago, and that is that there's no coverage on this.
So it's all based on, I mean, people sending me notes with this gasoline price or scarlet.
People are really feeling the pain, are they?
Do they know it?
They're feeling it, but do they think anybody else is feeling?
There's no news on it.
And there's certainly no negative news about it.
Whatever news about the gas price going up tends to be, well, you know, there's really some good news about this.
Uh less dependence on foreign oil, less travel, uh, less accidents, uh, fewer lives lost.
There's all I mean, they're actually doing stories on the benefits of rising gasoline prices.
Something you would never see, of course.
Uh if a Republican win the Oval Office.
Here's Obama.
This is from yesterday in Annandale, Virginia.
This is the coup de graph, if you will, from the little town hall he had with the students yesterday.
If we keep on spending more than we take in, it's gonna cause serious damage to our economy.
If we keep on spending more than we take in, grab audio sound by 21.
We keep on spending more than we take in, it's gonna cause serious damage to our economy.
Colonel Sanders, if we keep killing chickens, we might run out of food at our stores.
Okay, so if we keep on spending more than we take in, it's gonna cause serious damage to our economy.
And here's Obama yesterday at the annual Easter prayer breakfast.
I wanted to host this breakfast for a simple reason.
Because as busy as we are, as many tasks as pile up.
During this season, uh, we are reminded that there's something about the resurrection.
Something about the resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ that puts everything else in perspective.
Yeah, when we take time out from um all the tasks that pile up during this season, we're reminded that there's something about the resurrection that puts everything else in perspective.
I'm speechless.
Really am speechless.
It is the seminal moment of Christianity.
There's something about the resurrection.
Um's everything else in perspective.
What is he talking about?
What about the resurrection?
Okay, so there's something about the resurrection that puts everything else in perspective.
And then Soundbite Five again, he says this about the way we're handling our finances.
If we keep on spending more than we take in, it's going to cause serious damage to our economy.
And yet we keep hearing from the David Brookses of the world that what an eloquent, eloquent, elegant president we have.
That's mind-boggling.
Steve Wynne was on the Fox Business Channel.
The Cavuto show last night.
And this is Wynne was on a phone from Vegas.
This is what he had to say about his employees and his business.
The living standard of my employees has been plummeting.
The early results of Obamacare have caused our insurance increase, our cost of medical we self-insure, to go from eight percent increase a year to twelve.
And for the first time since we built the business, we had to increase the amount of copay of our employees.
So some money has been taken out of their pockets, which is tough on them.
That everything is more expensive when they go to Walmart, the clothing, their shoes, everything is more expensive.
And so the living standard of the working people of the middle class of America has been materially deteriorating because of the fiscal policy of our government.
And that's a very big deal around here.
Steve Wynne in Las Vegas, Cavuto says, is it the fiscal policy of the government?
I mean, this freeze in activity prior to the pickup in the last year predates this administration.
So a lot of folks say, well, you know, it's been sort of like a devil may care times of corporate America partying and having their annual meetings and the like.
That's just cool.
Period.
You don't you don't buy that.
You guys on television use the firm disingenuous when the president or someone talks about says something that's not true.
That's a fancy word for lying, President said.
Millionaires and billionaires should pay their fair share.
That completely ignores the truth.
And the truth is that in this country, the vast majority of small and medium-sized businesses pay taxes for their business as individuals in Chapter S corporations, partnerships, and individual proprietorships.
If you want to lie, if you want to misrepresent, you'll call them millionaires and billionaires.
But it's the job engine of America, and that's one of those are our customers because they work hard and they come and they have disposable income, and they're the people that are creating all the jobs in America.
Steve Wynne on Cavuto last night is exactly right that millionaires and billionaires mentioned this yesterday.
Code word for small business people.
Millionaires and billionaires, trying to drum up hatred between the classes as a means of getting votes.
Cavuto said, You think uh the president does not like rich people?
There's a tremendous prejudice in this administration.
Everybody talks about what the government is giving them, but hardly anybody talks about what the government is taking away.
And I am telling you, and it's clear in every measurement that you can look at, that the standard of living, the quality of life of the working class of America is being deteriorated in real time because of the falling Value of the dollar.
The populist rhetoric is very carefully designed to hide the truth.
And I find it annoying and disappointing that it's happened that way.
So more and more people are starting to get the guts to speak out about this.
That's Steve Wynne from Las Vegas on Cavuto last night on the Fox Business Channel.
Brief timeout.
Now we'll get to your phone calls when we get back.
People have been patiently waiting, and we like to reward patients.
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Okay, we're back having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
This is Carolyn in West Haven, Connecticut.
Welcome.
Great to have you.
You are up first today.
Oh, thanks, Rush.
I appreciate the honor to be on your show.
Thank you.
I am a uh representative for seniors.
It's a group in Connecticut.
It started United Seniors for America, and we had a meeting Monday, and the seniors decided to take up the issue with the gas prices.
They said it is uh it's ridiculous, they can't afford it, and they want to know why nobody's speaking about the gas prices.
So yesterday I contacted Senator Lieberman, uh, Blumenthal and uh Congressman Delora's office, and I told them who I was, and I said the seniors in Connecticut are very concerned because they have not heard anything about the gas prices in the past when there was a problem, it was all over the news, and nothing is being told either in meetings or on in the media, even if it's local media.
So I was told by the offices that um the reason the gas prices are up is because there's uncertainty in the Middle East.
That's a driving fast factor.
And I said, Well, there's always been uncertainty in the Middle East, so what what am I gonna tell them?
Is there a problem with the supply?
And they're not gonna be.
Well, now wait just a second.
Because back when the gas price was rising under Bush, they said there was problem with the speculators.
And now there's all now oh, and speculators, we can do so, we can trash them.
But now the problem is uncertainty in the Middle East, and we can't trash that.
Well, and I said, Well, well, who do I contact?
And they said, What do you mean?
I said, Well, you told me you were told by administration there's uncertainty in the Middle East, and I have to go back to my seniors and give them a competent answer.
We're talking the seniors, they're very smart.
They know that the value of the dollar is being uh is affecting their price and their gas, but they're gonna have to make a choice pretty soon.
What is your breaking factor?
So the officers said, What do you mean?
I said, Well, what do you mean?
Uh uh five dollars, six dollars, they said because the seniors' break-in factor is right now.
It you've hit it at four dollars.
And they said, Um, some of the comments were, Well, don't worry about it.
We're working on new energy solutions.
They said, Wait, wait, wait.
The seniors' future is tomorrow.
It said, Don't worry about it.
Yep.
So don't worry about we're working.
We're working on energy solutions.
And also a let me read my notes.
One office said that the Senator is looking to work on a climate change legislation.
And I said, That's this is ongoing.
I have smart people.
These are seniors.
You have forgotten them throughout the entire three years.
They have been put to the side.
You can't expect them to to handle it anymore.
I said you have to give me an answer, I can go back and tell them.
And it's not that there's uh problem with the foreign oil cartoon.
What were you expecting to hear?
Exactly.
When I reported to my seniors today, they said they already knew the answer, especially in Connecticut, they knew the answer.
Which is what?
There is no answer.
It's gonna go up.
They said five or six dollars, they could see it going up.
They don't really care about the seniors.
Right.
They don't care about anybody.
It's not that look at Obama.
If people will just listen, will tell us what he really thinks.
Especially when there's a mic open that he doesn't know.
And when there was a mic open and he didn't know is when he said he didn't really mind that the price got up to four bucks.
He's a little alarmed at how fast it happened, but he's not alarmed by and this fits right into their plan.
A forcing people out of big cars, B forcing them out of cars, period on the s on the mass transit.
Uh B C, I can wrap it C now, uh, economic chaos.
They don't care about any of this.
and what was that?
Yeah, I mean, they they tell you you're calling up representing seasoned citizens.
And by the way, we understand what you mean when you say for seniors, the future's tomorrow.
And they tell you, don't worry about it, we're working on it.
We got a new energy program in the works here.
Yeah, 20 years, it might produce something commensurate with the energy needs that we have today.
That's just I'm glad you heard it.
I'm glad you heard from the horse's mouth.
I'm glad that you uh you were able to hear what they really think of you and what they think the best approach with you is.
They see treat you like an idiot.
Well, where is she gonna go?
It's I think if it's what I've been saying all along about economic policies, if you really care, like Obama says he cares about stimulating job recovery, job growth.
If you really care about that, after two years of trying it one way, seeing conclusively that it is not working, you change your you change policy, you do something.
No, they're doubling down on this.
They're doubling down on failure, doubling down on chaos.
And now stimulating this class war that that uh they they expect profit from at the at the polls.
Michael in um in Villa Grove, Illinois, welcome.
You're up next.
Great to have you here on EIB network.
Uh the honor is mine, Rosh.
I appreciate you taking my call.
Thank you, sir.
Um I keep hearing that if the U.S. doesn't raise the debt ceiling, we will default on our loans.
Now, I I definitely agree with you that there's hardly any chance that we would default.
But should that happen, what actually happens?
I know our triple A credit rating would probably go down, and we'd have a much higher interest rate if we borrowed money in the future.
But I mean, what can actually happen if we default on our home loan, then the bank can foreclose our home and take our home.
Yeah, but we can't happens in this case.
Here's the point.
Um it's a scare tactic.
It really isn't possible.
There is always money coming in.
The government can count on tax revenue from any number of sources and activities.
There will always be money coming in.
Uh they can always print money.
This this default business is a straw dog.
It's a straw man they're throwing out there to you.
You you want to know what the actual manifestations of an official default would be.
Yeah, absolutely.
Because uh, I mean, just looking in recent history, we're we're listening to the media and they were talking about how bad a government is.
It just means we won't.
It just all it means is it it we won't be able to borrow anymore.
That's that's all it means.
All it means is we've got to live within our means.
Well, I don't think that would be too bad then.
No, it's not.
I shocked a lot of people yesterday when I said not raising the debt limit is an option.
Who's to say look at we sit here, Tea Party gets mobilized, causes a huge election result in November, predicated on reducing debt, which means stop spending.
At some point we have to.
Okay, here's a chance.
We've got to raise the debt ceiling.
It why is it automatic we have to raise the debt ceiling?
Why is it automatic we have to keep spending?
All we would have to do is to reduce spending to current revenue levels.
That's what everybody else does.
It's you're you're we're being prepped here for another calamity.
Apocalypse, just like they did with TARP and the auto companies and and and everything else, and it'll probably work.
They tried it with the government shutdown, but the debt ceiling is just a uh it's it's it's a de facto balanced budget amendment, is what it is.
The debt sitting says you can't borrow any more than this.
Means the government has to live within that level of debt.
Which to a lot of people it's plenty high.
Plenty high enough for us to be able to live with.
And of course, we are at some point going to have to stop this.
Everybody talking about this has got to realize that it's not just words.
Some point there has to be some actual realistic behavior associated with the words here.
But even if, even if there was this default that you asked me about, which results in our inability to borrow any more money, that still is months away from not lifting the debt ceiling.
It's simply it's not something imminent.
There is no apocalypse here.
There was no apocalypse with TARP.
There was, there was no, my gosh, we got to act in 24 hours or the whole world financial crisis collapsed.
That's the way they get what they want.
It's the way they've been operating for, well, the Democrats for forever, but I mean, in the recent context, the last three to four years, that's how we have ended up where we are, is being told that we've got to allow, stand by and let this outrageous emergency spending take place.
Otherwise, it's all over for all of us.
When it was not going to be all over.
You know, there was no apocalypse for not bailing out GMs.
Speaking of bailing out GM, now Obama's selling GM stock at $11 billion loss to the taxpayers.
He's getting that out of the way before the reelection campaign starts.
You know, every state has to live within its it can't print money.
And if it gets so bad that people won't lend the state anymore, what happens to the state?
They keep functioning.
There's no reason to be talked into a panic over this.
The sky's gonna still be blue if we don't raise the debt ceiling.
From the politico today, President Obama dialed back his criticism of Republicans yesterday on the first leg of a three-day tour to sell his deficit cutting plan, saying a big philosophical divide separates the parties, but that a deal is possible.
Obama panned Republicans for their plan to turn Medicare into a voucher system for younger people than 55, but in a marked departure from his speech last week, announcing his deficit reduction framework, Obama spent less time attacking the Republican plan directly and more time talking up the merits of his idea.
Now, this is all related back to this ABC News Washington Post poll where it ain't working.
Where F. Chuck Todd said, you know, when Obama goes partisan, it doesn't work for him.
The independents get angry and uh his poll numbers fall.
So now Obama dialing back his partisan shots at the Republicans because they are not working.
Folks, that's uh that's major.
That is really major.
When Obama's partisan shots aren't working, it means that a number of other like uh uh millionaires and billionaires.
And that's that stuff's not working.
And the media is concerned about it.
So much so politico has a story.
USA Today, Obama regime eases pain of Medicare cuts.
Millions of seniors in popular private insurance plans offered through Medicare will be getting a reprieve from some of the more controversial cuts in Obama's health care law.
In a policy shift critics see as political, the Health and Human Services Department has decided to award quality bonuses to hundreds of Medicare Advantage plans rated merely average.
What do we have here?
Let me translate this for you.
This is another waiver from Obamacare, this one for seniors.
So they can keep the Medicare Advantage plans that they chose.
They were originally gonna have to get rid of them.
But now, as we head into a reelection effort, uh-oh.
So while he's out there in a partisan way, apparently not benefiting from it, still accusing the Republicans of the usual death threats against seniors.
Here comes Obama say, you know what?
I'm gonna give you a waiver.
Right.
Obama, his most merciful, has spared the seniors.
His presidency, Barack Hussein Obama, the Pharaoh Unlimited, peace be upon him, praise be his name, has exempted the seniors from further Medicare cuts.
They get to keep their Medicare advantage.
Another waiver.
Another waiver from the regime, another tacit admission that Obamacare hurts the very people it is intended to assist.
Dick Morris, writing in the Hill.com claims that Obama's cuts to Medicare from which seniors were just exempted, are more immediate and drastic than what Paul Ryan has called for.
Piously posturing as the savior of Medicare, President Obama lashed out at House Republicans for embracing the budget proposed by Paul Ryan.
But a comparison of the president's own plans for Medicare with those in the Ryan budget shows that the Democrat cuts are far more immediate and drastic than anything in the Ryan proposal.
While the Republican Medicare changes only take effect in 2021, Obama's cuts will begin hurting seniors right away.
That's why they had to be exempted from it yesterday.
That's why Obama had to grant a waiver to seniors on Medicare Advantage, because his Medicare cuts cause pain today.
The president's health care legislation imposed a hard spending cap on Medicare, first time that it's ever had one, which he has just proposed lowering by another one half of 1% of GDP.
That would be that's about another cut of 70 billion dollars a year.
Obama's cuts, which will take effect immediately, are to be administered by his newly created independent payment advisory board, IPAB.
Now, folks, you are going to be hearing IPAB, IPAB, Independent Payment Advisory Board.
You're going to be hearing a lot more about IPAB in the days and weeks ahead.
And I want to tell you today, April the 20th, what IPAB is.
That's all you need to know.
Don't doubt me.
IPAB is where the rationing will take place.
The Independent Payment Advisory Board, 15 members appointed by the president, Its recommendations for cuts in Medicare services or for reductions in reimbursement will not be subject to congressional approval but will take effect by administrative fiat right now.
IPAB is the death panel.
IPAB is rationing of health care.
And again, just to tell you what it is, the Independent Payment Advisory Board, 15 members appointed by the president.
This board will make recommendations for cuts in Medicare services or for reductions in reimbursements.
And they will not be subject to congressional approval.
They will take effect by administrative fiat right now.
Obama's Medicare cuts, the death panels, the rationing, starts now.
That's why the seniors in the USA Today story just previous to this were granted a waiver from it, because it's drastic.
It's rationing and it wasn't supposed to happen until 2013, but now, you know, it's happening before the election.
It's not the way it was supposed to happen.
It's been elevated, some are uh uh uh sped up.
So here comes a waiver for the senior it now.
All the while, all the while, here's Obama claiming that it's Paul Ryan who wants to kick seniors to the curb.
Paul Ryan does not cut the Republican budget plan, does not cut one dime from current recipients.
The Ryan plan is very clear.
Current recipients who are playing by the rules of the game that they lived by and lived with up until the age of qualification are not going to be affected by rules changes in the middle of the game.
We're gonna have to, because of necessity, change the rules for future retirees.
And we're going to do it far enough out that the future retirees will be given plenty of time to plan for it.
2021 is when the Ryan, and this is where Trump on this program last Friday was dead wrong when he talked about how far out the Ryan plan is.
I asked him, you say far out.
You mean distance-wise, or do you mean it's radical?
And he said, no, it's it's it's it there's no reason to cut seniors like this.
I'm not going to cut seniors.
There's no seniors in the background.
And I said that he's not, I made a point in the interview.
I said that the Ryan cuts on tenures don't occur for years.
Current retirees, current recipients do not face one change.
There's not one rules change under Paul Ryan.
But under Obama, it's immediate.
And not to be repetitive and redundant, but to be repetitive and redundant, it was just yesterday that Obama granted another waiver to senior citizens to keep them away from his IPAB board who could have denied them coverage for just because they wanted to.
You're going to be reading this acronym.
You're going to be seeing it all over the place.
It has now surfaced.
Stanley Kurtz has a long piece about it at National Review.
The Independent Payment Advisory Board.
One more time, 15 members on this board appointed by Obama.
The board makes recommendations for cuts in Medicare services or for reductions in other words, these are the death panels.
These are the people that are going to decide who gets coverage and how much coverage will be paid for.
Ergo the rationing.
Congressional approval, there will be none.
Whatever this board decides case by case happens by administrative fiat.
Ryan's approach is totally different.
First, he does nothing at all to cut benefits for those now on Medicare or for anybody who turns 65 before age or before year 2020, 2022.
Second, the Republicans would leave the elderly in charge of their own medical decisions by letting them spend their Medicare however they wished.
It's a voucher program.
The Ryan proposal is a genuine intelligent fix.
Just remember now, while Obama is out trashing Ryan and trashing his Medicare proposals, and while Trump's out doing that.
I can't say this enough.
I have learned that repetition is what it takes for something to finally be driven home to people.
Forget everything you've heard about death panels.
Yes, they're in, no, they're not.
We snuck them in, no, we got them out.
They're there.
It's one.
There is one death panel.
It is IPAB, the independent payment advisory board.
Current Medicare recipients, individual cases decided on by these 15 people.
Two things.
Will there be coverage or not?
And if so, how much will they be paid?
And there's nothing anybody.
You can appeal, but to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, nobody else.
You're sunk.
You are FINE with Obamacare.
Pure and simple.
Oh, and don't forget, as I pointed out, last thing we mentioned on the program yesterday, Obama had a meeting to kick start the whole immigration reform proposal and plan.
And one of his lieutenants will be none other than the Reverend Sharpton.
Obama has vowed again to get immigration reform going.
And this is going to be, there's going to be a major push here.
We need the voters.
He's lost the independence.
He needs the Hispanic vote.
And the polling data, this Washington Post ABC poll, folks, it is filled with stuff.
And it's also shows that Obama is losing big with minorities, primarily Hispanics, somewhat with African Americans.
And you know, I I have a pretty good idea how they're going to sell the uh immigration plan.
They're going to do everything they can to avoid this being called amnesty.
that'll kill them.
They know it's amnesty and have a chance.
So they're they're they're going to uh structure it in an entirely different way.
But there it's it's on the Democrats have a Democrats that want immigration reform.
It's about getting those voters.
I'm not talking about the illegal aliens being registered to vote.
I'm talking about there's there's trouble out there in River City in terms of registered Hispanic voters.
He's losing support throughout the spectrum, including with African Americans.
Not much there, but he's still on a downward swing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know I'm looking for something here very quickly.
Uh it's about the immigration.
Yeah, here it is.
At the White House immigration meeting that was uh yesterday.
We mentioned this at the end of the program yesterday.
Uh Mayor Bloomberg from New York City was there.
The Reverend Sharpton was there, AFL CIO President Richard Trump was there, but not on the invitation list was any active governor from any border state.
No governor, no active current governor from a border state, was at the White House immigration meeting yesterday.
Snurdley's all worked up about the coverage this near miss when Muchel Obama 737 had yesterday.
Andrews.
There have been these air traffic controller guys.
I I was who was it I was talking to this morning, last night?
When the Muchell story hit somebody, something you know, so you watch it can blame Reagan.
They did in the They blamed Reagan and for firing the air traffic control.
I kid you not.
I've got it here somewhere.
There's somebody out there blaming Reagan for firing the air traffic controllers, the PATCO union, back uh in his first year in office, leaving to a bunch of scabs who are now approaching 56, 57 years of age, and they're incompetent, and that imperiled the first lady.
Now, as I understand it, this cargo plane never got closer than three miles.
She was behind the cargo plant.
She was in the in the uh she was in an Air Force version of a 737.
But it's the first lady, Snerdly.
I mean, you gotta understand.
Uh, you know, air traffic controllers can fall asleep and imperil average people, no big deal.
Uh hire some more controllers.
Put the first lady within three miles of a potential disaster in the shouldn't surprise you.
Speaking of waivers, health care waivers, remember Mickey D's got one.
Mickey D's got a waiver, and that waiver.
Remember, everybody used to criticize McDonald's hamburger flipper jobs.
Worthless jobs.
Don't even provide health care for their employees, and all of a sudden we learn they do, and they might have to cancel all health care coverage unless they got a waiver from Obamacare.
And they got the waiver.
So yesterday was McDonald's big bomb of a day to go out and hire 50,000 workers.
Here's a montage.
ABC's World News Tonight, the correspondent Jim Avila reporting on McDonald's effort to hire 50,000 new workers yesterday.
In this one McDonald's alone, more than a thousand people applied for what's likely to be four jobs.
It's not the recovery most of us envisioned.
In fact, 840,000 more Americans are now working at minimum wage than the year before.
Still from Cleveland to Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, and Denver.
Unemployed America lined up at the fast food restaurant, famous for a billion burgers served.
It's not the American dream.
The full-time entry-level kitchen jobs at McDonald's make $17,000 a year.
The poverty level for a family of four is 22,000.
But many of today's applicants had a much simpler goal, just to feed their families.
Diane.
Those are incredible numbers of those standing in line.
And Diane Sawyer, I guess there was no recycling going on in line, no um acknowledgement of that.
So that's kind of a hard, hard report.
Here you'd think that uh Jim Adelie give the regime credit here.
Uh granting McDonald's the waiver allows them to go out and hire 50,000 people.
Instead, they run down the jobs that are available.
Let's go back.
February 10th, 2009 in Fort Myers, Florida.
Obama with an early town meeting and an exchange he had with a McDonald's employee named Julio Osqueda.
Oh, this is such a blessing to see you, Mr. President.
Thank you for taking time out of your day.
Oh, gracious God, thank you so much.
All right.
Well, what's what's the question?
Hi, Mr. President.
My name is Julio Asegueta.
I'm currently a student at Edison State College in my second semester.
And okay, I've been at the same job, which is McDonald's for four and a half years because of the fact that I can't find another job.
Now, with the fact that I've been there for as long as I've been there, do you have any plan or any idea of making one that has been there for a long time receive any better benefits than what they've already received?
Okay, now that's Jose uh no, that's uh Julio Asegueta back in February 10th of 2009.
Now here we are, April 20th of 2011.
You think if Julio had a chance to talk to Obama, his situation has changed, Amy?
Six hundred and fifty-seven new islands have been discovered worldwide.
Survey researchers from Duke University and Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina.
657 new islands discovered worthwhile.
How how can that be?
What with uh climate change, uh rising sea levels?
It's like all these new species that are being discovered.
We thought we were wiping them out.
There were new ones being discovered.
Now hundreds of new islands.
I guess things okay out there.
Back with much more.
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