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June 15, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 15, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And we're back.
Great to have you, the big voice on the right, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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Let me go back to the previous caller.
I understand the point he was making.
He was saying, look, you can talk about the government being involved in the housing mess all you want, but it wouldn't have happened if people hadn't shown up and lied on their applications.
I get his point.
His point is that these people, their avarice, their desire for quick buck, their desire for wealth.
I think he's talking in a lot of cases about flippers.
There are a lot of them in the housing market going and buy and sell it real quick and try to take advantage of the uptick in the market.
And what he was saying was that the avarice of these people that were lying on their applications drove the price of housing up artificially.
And the thing that you have to keep in mind, I understand that people want to defend the government here.
And I'm sure parcel of what he was going to say to me is, look, you're always talking about personal responsibility.
And how come when it comes to the housing mess, you want to treat all these people that showed up to buy houses when they didn't have any money to pay back mortgages as victims?
It's a good question.
But the reason is the government wanted these people to lie.
Read the book.
Read the book, Reckless Endangerment.
I have read it.
I recommend it to you.
New York Times writer explaining all of this.
Folks, this whole subprime and even lending outside the subprime arena was a giant scam rooted in, on the surface, social justice, fairness.
Everybody should have a home, the American dream.
And underneath the surface, it was get rich quick for people that worked at Fannie Mae, to an extent, Freddie Mac, and people that worked on Wall Street.
But my point is that these people walking in to get a loan, subprime or otherwise, yeah, okay, some of them lied.
They wouldn't have walked in the door in the first place if the government hadn't wanted them in there.
Remember, the government was demanding that lending institutions loan money to people who were not qualified.
They wanted, the government wanted people in there borrowing money, and they didn't care if they lied.
In fact, that is more true than you can possibly understand.
They didn't care if they lied.
Brian's there for me.
Good.
They didn't care if they lied.
In fact, it helped out if they did.
There weren't any requirements in the first place.
Even Obama, I'm blessed with a great memory.
Even Obama told La Raza that he knew most poor people were tricked into getting mortgages they couldn't afford.
And that was being said, because at the time when all the excrement hit the fan here, of course, blame Wall Street, blame the bankers, blame the fat cats.
The government, largely responsible for this, just like they were largely responsible for the levee failures in New Orleans and Katrina, all of a sudden become spectators.
Why, what happened here?
Why, we had no idea this is going on.
And they get to conduct all these investigations, exempting themselves from the inquiry.
So you focus on the bankers, focus on Wall Street people, and you turn them into predatory lenders when it was the government that got the people in the door in the first place.
And then telling me, yeah, we knew you were tricked.
You were tricked into getting mortgages you couldn't afford.
Every time I heard Obama say that, I about blew a gasket because people were not tricked.
They were promised.
And it's a huge difference.
And it's why we're sitting here in this mess today.
People were encouraged to go assume loans that they couldn't pay back.
I know you think that makes no sense.
It doesn't make any sense.
But there were all kinds of ways that the lenders were able to make money.
Discussed this at great length yesterday.
All kinds of ways they were able to make money without the income stream of mortgage monthly repayments, which and then send it down the road.
And remember, for the first two or three years, people were making their payments.
They had these adjustable rate mortgages, and finally the excrement hit the fan.
And we all know what happened, and they couldn't make the payments.
And they either walked out or were allowed to stay in the house.
Now, another problem that nobody really addresses is that just like with the costs of medical treatment, the government's involvement in housing simply ratcheted up the cost of housing to the point where it's still not where it ought to be in relation to people's ability to pay.
We are witnessing in the housing market exactly what happened in the healthcare industry.
I'm sure you've heard the stories of people my age telling you that when we were kids, you went to the doctor, they sent you a bill at the end of the month.
It was totally affordable.
There was no such thing as insurance.
I mean, even if you had to go to the hospital for surgery, if you worked out a deal, you had a monthly payment structure and you paid it back.
The whole notion of insurance and massive costs didn't happen until the government got involved.
Hello, Medicare.
And then later on, Medicaid.
And now the same thing's happening in the housing market or has happened a long time ago.
So the government's getting involved.
And there's now, folks, throughout our nation's history, you've always heard of the starter home allowing for geographical anomalies.
I mean, real estate values in places like San Francisco and the 80s, California, Boston, over the top and made no sense whatsoever.
For the most part, throughout the country and throughout our history, the average cost of a house, starter house, has been solid as a rock.
I can't remember the figure, but let's say that it's always been around $200,000 in today's dollars, in real dollars.
The people who were able to plop down 20% for a down payment was a steady percentage of the workforce who were able to buy a home because the price of a home was pretty constant.
That has changed.
And now the whole notion of a starter home for most people is out of the realm of affordability.
And the housing market is not going to be normal until the price of housing normalizes.
And it still has a long way to go.
And the biggest obstacle to that happening is the government being involved.
Just like they got involved in healthcare and started distorting values in any number of ways, either with subsidizing via FHA or subsidizing via subprime or what have you.
Even if you want to claim that they had the best of intentions, I don't care.
The end result, once again, was to make a mess.
What was the story yesterday?
The housing situation in this country is as bad as it was during the Great Depression.
And this is after Obama has had how many programs to help people with their mortgages?
How many programs to keep people in their homes?
The more the government gets involved, and it's not just because of these people running the government.
It's just structurally, the government does not facilitate efficiency.
It does not lower the cost of anything.
It does not improve the efficiency of anything.
It's by definition a series and a maze of bureaucracies made up of people who have to construct reasons to stay employed.
This regulation must be followed.
That department must be visited.
This agency must approve.
It's a never-ending cycle, and it goes on, and there's value added at every level to the point that real value of whatever you're talking about is distorted.
If this ever happens to hotels, we're sunk.
It's happened to healthcare, and now it's happening in housing.
It's just a heartbreaking shame out there is what it is.
All right.
I have to take a brief obscene profit timeout.
And we'll do that.
We'll take a brief break here.
Come back with more right after this.
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Happy to have you along, folks.
San Francisco, this is Mark.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Great to have you on our program.
Thank you for taking my call, Rush.
I'm in Walnut Creek, about 30 miles east of San Francisco.
I know it well.
I know you started many, or you were many years ago, I don't think you started, been in Sacramento, and you talk about Riolinda.
And I know Sacramento well.
Lived here my whole life, born and raised in Modesto in a Central Valley conservative territory.
Despite that, I am a Northern California liberal.
Like I said, I've listened over 20 years.
I enjoy your program.
I'm not and really don't have, I don't think, much potential to be one of your many converts to your cause, but I still enjoy your program.
I appreciate that, sir.
I hope my conservative Tea Party friends in Arizona are listening.
They'll get a kick out of me actually getting on the program.
I know you have limited time, and I want to get to the issue.
Well, real quick, I'd love to discuss.
I'm a former mortgage broker in my 50s, just a little bit younger than you, I think.
And would love to discuss your last topic that you just commented on before the last break over possibly cigars and a drink sometime, but that's not why I called.
I called because I listened to the watch, rather, the Republican debate from start to finish the other night.
And I was struck by many things.
Really, I think all of the candidates portrayed their, I'll call it, say, true selves quite well.
Nobody stuck their foot in their mouth, etc.
However, what I considered to be a very important question from the audience, at least if somebody wants to actually get elected by the broad spectrum of the electorate in a general election, was stonewalled and ignored.
What was the question?
The question, and I can't give it verbatim, but I can give you the gist of it.
I imagine you watched and very likely remember it.
It was from a middle-aged, well-dressed gentleman.
What was the question?
Asking how the mostly right-wing candidates would appeal to a moderate Republican such as him, as opposed to having the whole scene dominated by.
Oh, I saw that.
I saw that.
I think the candidates are marginalizing themselves much in the way, losing way that on the left, George McGovern did in 1972, or on the right, Gary Goldwater did in 1964.
Let me tell you something.
I'm going to answer your question.
If the Republicans, and I'm like you, I don't have this guy's question in front of me verbatim, but this guy, look, he basically said, I'm a Rockefeller Republican.
I'm a Republican in name only is basically what he said.
He would never call himself that, but when he described himself, that's what he is.
He's a squishy Republican.
He's embarrassed of conservatives.
And he's feeling left out.
All these conservatives on the stage.
What are you going to do to attract me?
And if I'd have been on the stage, I would have said, if any of us goes out of our way to appeal to you, we will lose the election.
The moderate rhino Republicans are why the Republican Party loses.
This guy was not a moderate Republican.
He's a liberal Republican who doesn't like the social issues being front and center.
It's predictable.
It's utterly predictable the guy is.
And these people are all over the Republican Party.
And if I'd have been on that stage, I would have simply said, in fact, I think I've got a bite here.
Rick Perry actually had an answer similar to what I would say.
I've got to find it here.
Give me a minute here to find this thing.
But yep, yep, grab number 13.
The basic answer to the question is, sir, I'm going to get every American, I'm going to appeal to every American in this country, and I'm going to do it not with identity politics, but with conservative policy.
We have a serious problem in this country.
We've got to fix and change the direction we're going.
And I'm not going to come up with a message for you and then a message for Hispanics.
I'm going to come up with a message for women.
I'm going to come up with a message for Americans.
I have a message for Americans.
That guy and his question illustrated the danger that the Republican Party faces because that guy wants conservatism non-existent or watered down because he thinks it's why the Republicans lose.
Now, you'll note there are some in this Republican field, there are some rhinos in this field, and you just wait how conservative they'll make themselves sound in this primary seat.
You just wait.
They know the Democrats know what it takes to win elections.
So, I saw that guy, and I, you know, I thought, okay, holier than now.
You aren't the party you think you are.
You're the problem with the party.
People like you.
Now, here's Rick Perry.
This is last night.
He was on, well, yesterday afternoon on with Neil Cavuto on the Fox News channel.
And Cavuto said to Rick P. Governor, Texas, thinking about getting in the race.
Are Hispanic voters the crucial block Republicans have to win over?
They're obviously a very important part of the future of America.
You know, my brother-in-law is Hispanic, and Texas is a growing Hispanic population.
Is that a big draw in your case?
It is.
Absolutely.
It's a very important.
Mexico's our number one trading partner in Texas.
So the idea that somehow another you would write off that segment or would do things to cause harm to them from a voting bloc is just off the tape.
Hispanic population in the country is no different from the Anglo population or the Asian population.
They want to live in a state where they can be free from over taxation, over litigation.
They want to be able to have good schools for their kids and have a wide open future.
That's what the Republican Party is all about.
Damn straight.
There it is.
There's your answer.
I don't care the guy that stood up in the question of New Hampshire or any question that comes down the road.
What are you going to do to make sure you get the Hispanic?
There's your answer.
Are there Americans too?
They're tired of high taxes.
They're tired of overregulation.
They want a decent future for their kids.
You know, this I'm going to tell you something else for the guy in San Francisco.
This whole notion, and we need to bury something and we need to put it to bed now.
This whole notion that there is a right wing is a myth.
And the election in November of 2010 proved it.
We are not a wing.
We are the broad middle.
We are the mainstream of this country.
The mainstream of this country is not the media.
The mainstream of this country is not liberal Democrats.
The mainstream of this country is not what you see popularly portrayed in most of the pop culture.
We conservatives, it is the way people live their lives, even if they don't always vote that way.
We're not a wing.
We are the broad middle.
Plain and simple.
Joe in Forestburg, New York.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
What a great pleasure it is.
Sturdley said I could have two things.
First, I want to tell you, Rush, took me 57 minutes by phone to a spicy.
I got six cases.
There was a young lady by the name of Nikki on the phone.
Oh, she was just wonderful.
Oh, yeah, Nikki.
Oh, yeah.
Nikki on the phone, yes.
Nikki, yeah.
Also, I just want to tell you that you were.
You met Nikki.
Nikki on the phone.
Oh, God, you lucky guy.
You met.
Oh, geez, that's good.
I'm sure it was pleasurable.
Yes.
I just want to tell you, too, what I liked, your tea that is diet, zero calories.
And that's great, Rush.
It is great.
Wait till you taste it.
Wait till you taste it.
People, are you embarrassed talking about your?
No, I would be if it was bad.
Right.
But it's not, it is excellent.
It is superb.
I'm really proud of it.
My parents, I wish they would not believe my life.
I wish they were still alive seeing them.
But you bought six cases.
I bought six, yes.
And what she let me do is, I have a sister-in-law who's having a birthday soon.
And I said, happy birthday from Rush.
She's going to get two cases.
Oh, that's awesome.
And I got four for my wife.
Oh, that's excellent.
Now, my second one.
What flavor distribution did you order?
Okay, I got the regular diet tea and the raspberry diet tea for my sister-in-law.
And then for my wife, I got two diet teas, original, and two raspberry diets.
And it took you 57 minutes on the phone.
Yes, sir.
I can't thank you enough.
I really, plus, you got the added bonus of talking to Nikki.
Whoa.
Plus, I had you on the radio at the same time, Rush.
Well, we multitask.
Yes.
We conservatives, we multitask.
57 minutes.
I can't look.
I can't thank you enough.
And you're going to love it.
You really are.
He's talking about two if-by tea.
We introduced the product, just announced it today.
There are two flavors.
I'll tell you a little bit more about it after a break here at the bottom of the hour.
There's a website.
We have a website that explains what we're doing and why, what it is, and where you order two, ifbytea.com.
The logo and the icon is me as Rush Revere on my horse, warning the liberals are coming.
And we have a phone number.
I'll give you that phone number when we come back.
Ha, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Dow Jones Industrial Average is down near 200 right now.
And of course, the media claims it is because of global trouble.
There are global problems out there on the horizon.
The press, the drive-bys, state-controlled media play this game under Obama.
When the stock market goes up, of course, it's all because of domestic success.
It's all because of brilliant Obama policies.
Retail sales, which fell, by the way, so now stock market down 200 points.
That's down even more than it was up yesterday.
So now it's all global stuff.
Nothing to do with Obama's failed policies.
Nothing whatsoever.
Stupid global stuff out there.
I've got a transcript.
The guy that asked the question, he asked it of Michelle Bachman.
And here is his question.
My question is, I'm a New Hampshire native.
I've been an active Republican for years.
I'm a town committee chairman, Republican chairman, Merrimack County vice chairman, all the way up to 2004 delegate for President Bush.
My question is, how will you convince myself?
I'm not a Libertarian Republican.
I'm not a Tea Party Republican.
I'm just a mainstream Republican, and we need both.
Independents and mainstream Republicans to win in November.
How can you convince me and assure me that you'll bring a balance?
You won't be torn to one side or the other from any factions within the party.
You have to have a balanced approach to governing to solve our serious problems.
But that was the guy's question.
And I want you to hear, I don't have a don't have the tape here, but I'll just read you her answer, Michelle Bachman's from the transcript.
She said, what I've seen in the Tea Party, he basically was scared of the Tea Party.
This guy was just paranoid of the Tea Party.
And Michelle Bachman said, I have seen what I've seen in the Tea Party.
I'm chairman of Tea Party caucus of the House of Representatives.
What I've seen is unlike how the media has tried to wrongly and grossly portray the Tea Party.
The Tea Party is really made up of disaffected Democrats, independents, people who've never been political a day in their life, people who are libertarians, Republicans.
It's a wide swathe of America coming together.
And I think that's why the left fears it so much, because they're people who simply want to take the country back.
They want the country to work again.
That is a fabulous answer.
This guy, for all of his history as a powerful Republican in the Republican hierarchy, had a total misconception of what the Tea Party is because he got it from the media.
He's scared of the Tea Party.
He thinks the Tea Party is a bunch of peasants running around with pitchforks and stuff, and his house is next.
No clue who they are.
Folks, there is the degree to which otherwise intelligent people are uninformed in our country, even on our side, is striking.
It's mind-boggling, but it's an opportunity.
Huge opportunity for growth.
Another reason here to hang in there and be tough.
Okay, there's a lot being said today about a new product that we introduced and announced here at the EIB network.
It's Iced Tea 2 If Buy Tea.
It's my tea, and I'm right there on the shrink wrap on every bottle on the label as Rush Revere.
The liberals are coming.
Modern day Paul Revere.
Two if by tea is the name of this tea.
Two flavors with sweetened and unsweetened.
Diet and regular.
Raspberry diet and regular and the standard tea diet and regular.
So there's two flavors with different sweetening variations.
That's just to start.
These bottles you are going to collect.
You won't throw them away.
The shrink wrap, you're going to try to find a way to keep that is top drawer from the start.
The tea is fabulous.
It's the best tea I've ever tasted.
We've been working on this for nine months.
We started tasting the various recipes.
Actually, we had a food scientist company that we contracted with.
And we tried all the variations.
I can't tell you how many variations on each of these flavors over a long period of time.
You can't just test back to back to back.
You have to give the palate time to cleanse and go back a week later.
And we would do it and throw out what we had chosen the week before.
We started bottling a couple weeks ago.
I went, took a day off.
It was historic to see the first bottles actually come off the assembly line.
And it's free shipping.
We've got a website where you buy it, 2IFBYT.com.
Now, folks, we've been backlogged all day as we knew would happen.
There simply is not, there is not an internet shopping cart that exists that can handle the demand that we've put on it today.
You're going to get likely a 404 error message at some point during the order process.
Just be patient.
You'll eventually get in.
You'll be able to order the order in packs of 12.
Free shipping inside of three days to all 48 states on the continent.
There's a nominal shipping charge for Alaska and Hawaii.
If you don't want to go website, you want to use a phone.
There's a call center.
The number there is 866-662-1776.
The price of each 12-pack is $23.76.
I got that number 76 in there as often as we could.
The regular tea tastes just like the stuff my mom made, the sun tea that she made when I was growing up.
The raspberry tea is just over the top.
You've not tasted anything like it.
Now, you've been a regular listener to this program for a long time.
You know that tea has been a big part of the program.
Just decided to do my own for a host of reasons.
First, I wanted to illustrate, to follow a passion.
The second thing I wanted to illustrate, we can start a product, start a business, bring a product to market, even with the obstacles Obama has put in front of us.
I'm not guaranteed making a profit on this.
I mean, nobody is guaranteed that, but we're making first-class effort.
And we've got a great charitable partner here.
A portion of every bottle sold goes to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
They provide scholarships to the children of Marines killed in action.
And in certain instances, members of other services, the Air Force, the Army, Secret Service, depending if the major event like the Oklahoma City bombing or 9-11.
A great, great charity there that we have associated with.
But we got the finest of everything here, folks.
We got the finest ingredients.
We got the finest pickers picking the best raspberries, the best everything that goes in, finest selectors.
Everything about this is the best, from the packaging to the labeling to the tea to the content to the shipping.
Everything about it is top drawer.
We announced it today, and there's a huge.
You just heard the guy call, he was on hold for 57 minutes at our call center.
But he got to talk to Nikki.
He was ecstatic.
He got to talk to Nikki.
So, and the website, traffic ebbs and flows comes and goes.
But if you do go there, 2ifbytea.com, it explains everything too, by the way, why we're doing this, the history, the lesson of Paul Revere.
It's amazing this thing came up three weeks ago.
You know how hard it was for me to not say anything about this when this Palin Paul Revere stuff hit?
I'm sitting here chomping in the way, hell, just stand by three weeks.
I'll tell you everything you need to know about it.
Plus, show you how to drink tea at the same time.
2IFBT.com.
Back after this.
Now, we don't have a corporate partner.
We did this all ourselves.
Start up.
I am the corporate partner.
Catherine and I did this totally ourselves.
And it has been a blast.
I've been chomping at the bit for the past three, ever since I saw the bottles got the bottles being filled, the bottling process.
But I had to bite my tongue here.
And you know, keep this secret for nine months because we didn't have a corporate partner.
Somebody bigger than we are, obviously, could have come in here inside of two months and beat us if the word had gotten out.
And we couldn't have that.
So, at any rate, 2ifbytea.com, and it's still swamped, and it will be for a while.
I just really appreciate your patience.
There's not an internet shopping cart in the world that can handle this demand.
There isn't the bandwidth, there aren't the servers for what needs to be done here.
So, your patience is much appreciated.
Here, Jim, in Boiling Springs, South Carolina, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, good afternoon, dittos.
Thank you.
Even the New York Times didn't find out about this.
That's how good we kept the secret.
I love the, you're talking about early about the lending.
And I'm an appraiser here in South Carolina real estate broker and a former real estate developer.
And I appraise commercial and residential.
Right.
And I also deal with the mortgage market since my daughter works for a good friend of mine.
There's no longer anything as a mortgage broker.
The federal government made it illegal for mortgage brokers to be in business in April.
He's a direct lender.
But what I'll tell you is they are still making loans hot and heavy to unqualified people.
I know.
I did not know that until I read that in this book.
I thought the process had been buttoned down, but it hasn't.
You're right.
Paul Revere, you are.
I got to tell you, man, it's so depressing out here for those of us who are striving to be Americans.
And it's such a battle every day.
I know.
It is heartbreaking because we're watching it happen right in front of our eyes.
And people are asking, what's happening to our country?
It's sad.
I don't know.
I go to somebody's house, I appraise their house, and I pray, I pray to God they don't have a shotgun because when they find out what the value of their house is worth since what's his name got in the White House and that this worth 60% less than what they thought it was worth, man, they want to kill me.
I mean, I'm not joking either.
How many of these people that you're talking about actually bought a house because they really wanted to or because they were told or advised or they thought that that's the best place to park money, that this is a great investment.
It's always going to at least hold its value, if not appreciate and value.
How many people really are in their homes because they wanted to be?
It was an active decision.
All of them.
All of them.
I've never met anybody that didn't dream for a house.
I haven't.
I mean, contrary to what we hear that renting is the best thing since sliced cheese.
Damn, pisses me off.
I'm sorry, but it does.
No, you're the second guy who's been ticked off today with that.
That's tough.
If people knew the trillions of dollars of personal wealth which generates the economy and pushes it forward, and I'm not a big economist, but I do know that real estate is a foundation of our economy for our country.
It puts the money and the power of the economy in the hands of the little guy because he's borrowing money.
He's paying that.
The banks are able to lend it to other people.
Other people allowed to do businesses, buy cars, whatever they need to do to drive our economy.
If you kill the real estate industry, you're killing Americans.
Plain and simple.
And these people are having it stolen out of their back pocket.
You know, I'm hearing statistics of 40 to 60 percent of the appraisers are out of the business in the past three years.
And some of them were scumbags needed to go, don't get me wrong.
But that's a lot of money gone.
I know.
I'm hearing that.
It is an ongoing tragedy.
And I just cringe to see what's happening to our country every day.
See evidence of it?
So unnecessary.
I'm worn out trying to describe how I feel about it.
By the way, they're being stolen from their front pockets.
They're seeing it.
They're not being pickpocketed.
Makes it even worse, they see what's being done to them.
They know what's happening.
Some of them may not be able to understand why, but they still know that it is.
Thanks for the call, Jim.
I appreciate it.
A reminder, website that you've been paying attention to this past week, dirtyspendingsecrets.com.
It's a site continually releasing new and different spending abuses by the federal government.
Their latest releases include the additional dollars that you and I are spending to upgrade federal workers from coach to first class when they travel on government business.
$146 million every year is spent to upgrade government workers from coach to first class.
We spent some $3 billion to restore sand to beaches this past year as well.
I don't know about you.
There's a whole list of egregious spending going on that this website chronicles it.
All of it, the dirtiest of it.
It's well worth the visit.
DirtySpendingSecrets.com is the website.
Now, there's a petition there, by the way, you can sign, where you can tell your congressman enough is enough.
60,000 people signed this thing this week.
60, don't tell me that people are not aware of what's going on and are fed up with it and are demanding change.
I'll tell you, the route to success for the Republican Party is there.
It's obvious.
It's being spelled out in letters that are as large and clear as any ever written.
And this website proves these numbers add up.
DirtySpendingSecrets.com.
$146 million.
You know what?
The wealthiest county in America now is suburban Washington County in Virginia.
There is no recession in Washington, D.C.
The unemployment in the Washington, D.C. area, the Maryland, Virginia, D.C. area, like 3%.
Classic statism here, folks.
Classic examples of how tyranny operates.
You're losing the value of your house, and you are paying aggregately $146 million a year to upgrade federal employees from coach to first class.
All of this is done on your dime, and they almost exhibit an entitlement to that spending.
Folks, I misspoke in my exuberance.
Not every ingredient in two if-by-tea is made in America.
The tea is from Chile.
Some of the sweeteners are imported as well, but all of the packing is done in the United States.
The tea is filled in the United States.
Everything is packaged here, but not all the ingredients are American.
But we did our best.
It's close.
It's as close as anybody else.
Two if-by-tea.
And again, my exuberance a little overboard, but I had to make that correction.
You have a wonderful Wednesday, and we'll see you back here tomorrow.
Same time 21 hours from now.
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