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July 12, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 12, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Okay, we're up to audio soundbite number four.
All right, got that?
Okay, cool.
I know you said, why didn't you tell him that during the break?
I just thought of it, that's why.
During the break, I'm trying to find out when Apple is going to release OS 10 Lion 10.7.
All of the educated guesses say tomorrow, but they're no indication of it.
And I already have it, so I don't know why I care.
I'm still interested in it.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back.
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Shortly in this half hour, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio from Florida will appear on the program.
He uh, by the way, in addition to a great floor speech in the Senate that Boehner quoted last week.
Rubio said recently that every aspect of life in America is worse since Obama took over.
And I um, you know, we don't we don't schedule a lot of guests on this program.
They ask us to appear.
Uh we schedule this.
I we need uh as many Republican voices saying this kind of thing uh and amplified as loudly as we can make it.
I think during this bruising battle.
Also, we had uh we had a call from a nice guy from the Bronx, Richie, who wanted to take issue with some of my uh reporting, quote unquote uh about General Electric.
I pointed out that the General Electric CEO ML Obama's uh private sector hiring commission telling businesses just start hiring people.
Stop complaining about government.
GE has fired or laid off between 36 and 50,000 people since 2009.
He wanted to call.
Well, you're not you're not counting on the dispensation of jobs brought about by the uh by the sale of uh various entities.
Well, I know I am because it's all underneath the GE umbrella.
So here are the details on the no tax business.
And I he also said you're you know, you're saying that they broke the law.
No, I'm not saying they broke the law.
I didn't say they're cheating anybody.
Three the number's actually 3.2 billion that they didn't pay in taxes, just like corporate jet owners aren't cheating anybody, just like corporate jet owners don't need to be hit on.
At any rate.
From no less than the New York Times, March 24th of this year, General Electric, the nation's largest corporation had a very good year in 2010.
The company reported worldwide profits of 14.2 billion, and said that 5.1 billion, that's where I got confused.
That's their U.S. profit.
Worldwide profits of 14.2 billion, 5.1 billion of it from the United States.
Zero taxes.
In fact, general no, I was right.
It is 5.1.
Here's where I got confused.
GE claimed a tax benefit of 3.2 billion.
New York Times, quite understanding here, by the way.
I mean, they want desperately forstand how this is possible, said that may be um hard to fathom for the millions of American business owners and households now prepping their own returns.
But low taxes are nothing new for GE.
The company has been cutting the percentage of its American profits paid to the IRS for years, resulting in a far lower rate than at most multinational companies.
Its extraordinary success is based on an aggressive strategy that mixes fierce lobbying for tax breaks and innovative accounting that enables it to concentrate its profits offshore.
So folks, it's even better than we thought.
It's even better.
Creative accounting, innovative accounting, aggressive lobbying.
All those things.
We're heretofore told we are supposed to despise.
We're supposed to hate lobbyists, and we're supposed to love things like Sarbanes Oxley.
We're supposed to hate Enron type accounting, right?
Here.
We're supposed gimmicks.
We're supposed to stand up and give GE a standing O and put its CEO on the private sector hiring commission.
And then get stories in the New York Times, hey, there's nothing to see here.
Move on.
Nothing to see here.
Isn't it amazing?
I don't remember.
I don't recall the last time the New York Times was uh uh unmoved by aggressive lobbying, fierce lobbying for tax breaks and innovative accounting.
By the way, uh, ladies and gentlemen, Obama has just announced, not paraphrasing this now, but he's just announced that he can't guarantee that social security checks will go out if the debt ceiling isn't raised on time.
CBS News, Obama says he cannot guarantee social security checks to go out on August 3rd.
Here's the quote I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved the issue because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it.
He did it's an interview with Scott Pelley, the new uh info guy.
According to excerpts released by CBS News.
Folks, that's just an utter lie.
Social Security checks are not affected by the debt limit.
The debt limit, we had all the details yesterday.
The debt limit does not deal with entitlements.
Entitlements are not debts, treasury bonds, T bills, those are the kinds of debt we're talking about.
Social Security isn't on the table.
If there is a default, I've had social security checks all the way out to the end of the year because it would take that long for the Social Surety bunch to change their computers.
This is all BS.
He personally can't guarantee.
That's why I'm telling you, they're the ones feeling the heat at the White House.
The pressure is on them.
They're the ones that are in the state of disarray.
It's not the Republicans.
Okay, gotta take a break.
We'll come back and uh we'll have Marco Rubio, United States Senator from Florida, as our guest right after this.
Don't go away.
By the way, folks, that uh New York Times story from March 24th of this year also points out that General Electric, hey, Richie and the Bronx are you listening to this.
Since the 1990s, General Electric has laid off one-fifth of their American workers.
Uh, since 2002.
Since 2002, General Electric has laid off one-fifth of their American workers.
And by the way, speaking of shutdowns of Minnesota government has been shut down for two weeks.
Has life ended there?
Legislators they're still being paid.
We welcome to the EIB network uh Senator Marco Rubio from Florida.
Great to have you on the program, sir, and welcome.
Well, thank you for having me.
You bet I want to play for you.
I know you heard this, but I want to play for you, uh, Speaker Boehner at his press conference uh yesterday in Washington talking about you.
You want to see an increase in government revenues, then let's grow the economy and create jobs, broaden the tax base, and lower rates.
Senator Rubio said last week.
We don't need more taxes.
What we need are more taxpayers.
And you are also on record as saying every aspect of life in America is worse since Obama took over.
Republican voters aren't used to hearing this from elected uh Republicans.
Congratulations to you.
Well, maybe I just haven't been here long enough to know better.
You know, the the the first part about it, Rush, is something you know, this this debt limit thing, uh I said to somebody earlier today in the hallway, one of these media types that waits out in the hallways to interview you.
They want to talk about the debt limit.
I said the debt limit is a symptom.
It's not our problem.
The core problem is our debt and the fact that our government borrows 40 cents out of every dollar and has no idea how it's going to pay it back.
And that's a combination of spending.
We just spend way too much at government and and loss of revenues.
Again, and not loss of revenues because our taxes aren't high enough, loss of revenue because nobody we don't have we have too many people that are out of work that are not paying taxes.
So the solution seems to me to be a combination of fiscal discipline on the spending side, which you have to enforce through spending caps and a balanced budget amendment and cuts starting right now.
And at the same time, uh some sort of pro-growth and uh measures that get people back to work that create not no new taxes, but new taxpayers, people that are working, paying their taxes, adding revenue to government so that government can use that revenue not to grow government, but to pay down the debt and put us on a sustainable path.
I know it I mean that just seems to me to be the common sense approach to this, and instead we've got this president's obsession with raising taxes, and what bothers me the most about it, not just that it'll kill jobs and is bad for our economy.
What bothers me the most is there isn't a single tax package out there that's reasonable and realistic that would even put a dent on this debt crisis.
I mean, people have no idea what you'd have to raise the taxes in this country to just to begin to make a difference.
Of course, you never can raise it to that level because you won't be able to collect them because you know people aren't dumb enough to work for free.
I mean, if you're gonna tax all their money, then they're not gonna keep working.
So the the these are the things I just don't get, and and I I wish we had done a better job earlier of outlying these choices to the American people.
Well, you're doing it now.
It's not too late, is it?
I hope it's not too late.
I mean, uh you know, part of the game that play up here is you know, wait till the last minute, wait till the final days or weeks, and and then basically tell everybody, well, guys, you know, it's either take it or leave it, either we do this or you know, the world falls apart, the government falls apart, we default on our debt.
We've known about this for months, for years.
This is an ongoing issue, and um and I think part of that is strategy, part of that is just a political process that hopes someone's gonna come in and solve it for them.
Well, we we know what the I mean is this is the this is as old as a democratic playbook, and a lot of us wonder why do Republicans continue to fall for it.
Why are we so f so afraid that something it's you just articulated it?
I'm sure if you know it, every other Republican on Capitol Hill knows it.
Why then is it uh uh such such a uh an over the cliff thing if we know what they're trying to do to us?
If if we know what their plan is, that we know they're gonna they're gonna have newspaper stories coming soon praising Republicans that disagree with Boehner and McConnell.
Uh why is it so hard to resist this if we know what their plan is?
Well, part of the fear, I'll tell you what it is.
I mean, part of the fear that members have up here is because they're afraid that at some point here soon Geitner and others are going to start sending letter to Social Security and Medicare beneficiaries and troops in the field and telling them you're not going to be getting your paychecks because you know we can't do that.
Let me interrupt you.
Obama just did that.
Obama just did that.
They've just excerted his interview with CBS News and he just said that just released last ten minutes that he cannot guarantee social security checks to go out after August 2nd if we don't raise the deadline.
Well, and again, this was by design because he knows that these checks are due to the majority of them start getting paid August third, so that's why August 2nd was picked as a date.
It's as much a political ploy as anything else, and that's the leverage they're going to use.
And again, the American people are being held hostage.
And so but we have an advantage that I don't think existed in 1995 or in other years that people are still traumatized by for whatever reason, I'm not sure.
But uh the advantage is we have multiple ways to communicate that didn't exist back then.
And also I think thanks to programs like yours and others that are out there doing this service, people are more aware of this than they've ever been.
I mean, they now I think clearly understand the choices.
There's a much greater awareness in the American population about how government works and how government doesn't work and what our problems are.
So I I think ultimately this problem is a big deal.
I mean, this is not some small dispute that you can cut in the middle and everybody gets something.
I mean, this is a major issue that if it's left unresolved is going to lead to a sovereign debt crisis and ultimately the redefinition of government's role in America and America's role in the world.
This is as big as it gets, and we need to treat it that way, both in our solutions and in our approach.
Now, a lot of Americans agree with every word that you've said, and they've fought this for a long time.
And a lot of Americans just have a tough time getting their arms around the fact that they've elected a man who is leading the nation in this direction, even after two and a half years of demonstrable failure, after we couldn't be more clear about how wrong and destructive these policies are.
He wants to continue them and increase them.
And a lot of Americans can't understand why.
What who is this man?
Well, here's the problem.
He has to be measured by an objective standard that every president has to be measured by when I look at this election next year.
What he's really going to be coming to the American people and asking for is an extension to his contract.
He wants a four year extension to his contract to be president of the United States.
So we have to measure them.
And how do we measure them?
Well, unemployment.
Oh, unemployment is higher than significantly higher than when he took over.
You know, what about the value of people's homes?
The value of people's homes are down.
How about the national debt?
The no la national debt is up significantly higher with no solution in sight and none offered by him.
By every measure that you can measure a president by, things have gotten worse and significantly worse.
And that's what he has to be measured by.
And part of it I think is a flawed ideology, because I think his view of government and the people and his administration is a flawed view that takes us away from the things that have made America exceptional.
And part of it is quite frankly incompetence.
I honestly believe, and I don't say this with any d disrespect.
I hardly I really don't know him, um, have nothing personal against him, but I honestly don't I I honestly think there's a level a lack of competence in terms of being able to do the job and and the inability to lead on some of these critical issues, and the result is being paid paid by you know millions of Americans who can't find a job or are working twice as hard to make half as much, who see their country being bankrupted and no serious solutions being offered.
Yeah, well, he sees it being bankrupted too.
This is the thing that he sees is not working.
I guess I guess this is just the result of sinking around the the faculty lounge at Harvard and talking about your theories all your life and finally getting a chance to implement them.
And I want to go back to this uh Social Security business, because it's it's it's the it's the playbook as you said, hold the seasoned citizens and the military hostage, tell them that their payments aren't coming.
That is that is economic terrorism.
Uh, tell me, can Congress prioritize the payments of the debt?
If we were to get to that circumstance, can you can guarantee who gets paid, who doesn't.
Senator Pat Toomey has a bill that does that that actually directs them to pay certain things first.
And uh I don't think Harry Reid uh with all due respect is going to be giving it a hearing anytime soon, but there is a bill out there that will direct that, and I've a co-sponsor of it, as are most of my Republican colleagues in the Senate.
So and we we will only go into default if Obama makes us default.
I mean he can stop this, right?
Sure.
Not only can he stop he can stop it right now by basically saying, you know what, we we need to do something to grow our economy.
Let's pass tax reform, let's pass regulatory reform.
He can stop this by by also starting to implement some of the spending measures we think are necessary.
He can also stop it by basically prioritizing spending on certain things if it comes to that.
But let me tell you one thing, Russia, no one's said yet, or maybe they have.
The fact that payments on Social Security and Medicare may stop is a stinging indictment and a wake-up call.
That means what Americans should realize, hold on a second.
My Social Security check and my Medicare benefits are borrowed.
The money that you that you're using to pay for my social security are borrowed.
I thought I paid into a trust fund.
I thought I worked my whole life to pay into some system, and now you're just paying me my money back.
And you're telling me that the money's being borrowed?
I mean, that's what they're basically conceding when they're saying this.
Yeah.
That you know that's exactly right.
We always thought social security was in a lockbox.
Yeah.
Well, uh maybe a Chinese lockbox because that's what we're borrowing the money from.
The point is that if that comes to pass, or he's threatening to do that, then the wake-up call and the message to Americans is hey, your Social Security benefits, your Medicare benefits, what we're paying soldiers in the field, all these things that are being cut off.
This is borrowed money.
This is not money we have or money we saved for you.
This is money we are borrowing from your children and your grandchildren, and we have no way of paying back.
Speakers And that that should alone should send the chill up the spine of millions of Americans.
We're speaking by the way, United States Senator Marco Rubio from uh from Florida's uh Speaker Baylor said today that uh he wants to see the president's plan.
The Republicans have uh uh presented political specificity, haven't seen any from the from the president.
Uh what what are your thoughts on on the Republicans saying to the president you know what?
We're not we're gonna stop this endless parade of meetings.
We're not accomplishing anything here.
You're getting you know, you get to play the adult in the room.
You created this problem, and now you sit around and talk about fiscal responsibility and putting our house in order as though it's our fault.
We've got some suggestions, you have no specificity.
You let us know when you're really willing to talk about it, and we'll come back.
Yeah, I mean that's that's right, and that's exactly right.
Um I would say the president has offered a plan already.
It's the budget he offered earlier in the year that instead of reducing the debt actually increased it dramatically and increased taxes to boot.
So it actually grew taxes and grew the debt.
And let me that that plan that the president put forward earlier in the year, his budget.
You know how many votes they got in the Senate?
Zero.
Not a single Democrat voted for his budget.
That's how outrageous and preposterous it was.
So that's the president's budget that he put forward.
So the bottom line is this president has not led on this issue.
Again, it's partial incompetence.
Part of it is just playing games with us politically.
Um I think they've always designed it to come to this last moment where he can hold the economy hostage and say, look what's going to happen if you don't give me my way on these things.
But the reality is the long-term implications of the direction he's had at taking our country are hard to exaggerate.
One minute remaining, where do you think it's going to end up or how?
I have no idea other than to tell you that here's what I think is the worst possible outcome.
The worst possible outcome is an increase in the debt limit without any corresponding fiscal discipline or cuts.
Because the message that's going to send to the world is America is still borrowing more than it can pay back, and it has no plans to reverse course.
And if you think this debt limit problem is catastrophic, these guys go around thinking that just wait till the rating houses downgrade us because they say America has no way to pay back this debt that they're taking out.
Then you're going to have a real catastrophe on our hands.
And at that point, our options are virtually nil.
So I think that's the worst possible outcome.
We can never allow that to happen.
Senator, thanks so much for your time.
Thank you, Rush.
You bet.
Senator Marco Rubio from uh from Florida, held bent for leather.
And that is why I um I I wanted him to come on the uh the program today.
We need to hear this kind of thing uh from elected Republicans in Washington, not just from America's anchor man.
Um, they say that that raising a debt limit is kicking the can down the road, but we're running out of road.
Is the point.
I mean, shovel ready jobs in the stimulus were supposed to build new roads.
We didn't build any new roads, and the road the can is on is filled with potholes and doesn't have a whole lot of road left on it.
We'll be right back.
More of your phone calls when we resume.
And thanks again to United States Senator Marco Rubio from Florida.
Blew the roof off inside of about ten minutes on this program.
It's uh really, really powerful.
We'll have that transcribed and decoded for the media so they can take it out of context in great detail at RushlinBoard.com as soon.
And by the way, Coco back from vacation today.
Coco and Cookie are back.
Um wanted to welcome back and just tell them how horribly sorely missed they were, but you've seen Pat Cadell on television.
He used to be on MSNB slot, uh, NBC Nice on Fox.
He's a former pollster for Jimmy Carter.
He uh if if you've never known that, Cadell really came to everybody's attention as uh one of the ranking members of the Jimmy Carter Entourage.
He was on Cavuto yesterday afternoon on the Fox News channel.
And they had a guest host, Chris Cutter.
They talked to uh Cadell and talking about Obama and the debt negotiations.
Cadell volunteered this.
There's an elephant in the room, and it's time to say it.
There is a whiff of this guy now.
I saw it Friday, in which the question I lived through this with President Carter, which you start asking, does this guy have any idea what he's doing?
We said from the get-go, this is the second term of Jimmy Carter.
When uh when the BAMster was immaculated, we predicted, okay, here we go.
We've got Jimmy Carter's second term.
Here's Cadell.
Does this guy know what he's doing?
Oh, we've got it here.
Audio soundbite 23 and 24.
You gotta hear these two things.
This is the it's a preview.
CBS CV news anchor Scott Pelley talking with Obama.
They're gonna air it tonight.
Scott Pelley said, can you tell the folks at home that no matter what happens, Social Security checks are gonna go out on August third.
Remember, Mr. President, Ramadan is August 1st.
There are um about twenty billion dollars worth of social security checks that have to go out the day after the government is supposed to go in a default.
Well, this is not just a matter of social security checks.
These are veterans' checks, these are folks on disability and their checks.
There are about seventy million checks that go out.
Can you guarantee as president those checks will go out on August the third?
I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue.
You know, because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it.
That's an out and out lie.
And if I didn't know better, I would say the White House gave Scott Pelley a script.
If I didn't know better, I would say Scott Pelley, new to the job, shows up and they handed him the script for this interview.
That question is such a softball setup.
Can you guarantee as president those checks will go out?
I can't guarantee those checks will go out if we have it.
They will go out.
Social security is not about or the uh is not part of this debt limit talk.
It's not default.
They don't there's not enough time, folks, to change the code in the social security computer system to have the checks not go out.
Do you hear the the the most frightening part of the answer is that if you'll read we didn't we don't have this on on the soundbite, but the whole answer is the president says the government sends out about 70 million checks.
70 million check, can you imagine having to reconcile that every month?
Guarantee you they're not using Quicken.
Which by the way is not being upgraded for Mac OS 10 Lion.
Sorry for being distracted.
This is a this is an outrage here.
Because this is not true, and this is the playbook.
Hold senior citizens and military people hostages here.
It's not just the Social Security checks, it's veterans' checks.
It's right out of the playbook.
I mean, it's just I've been hearing this 45 years.
Ever since I was 15.
So after this, it was time for Mr. Claire Shipman to hold the press briefing at the White House.
And the AP correspondent, Ben Feller, said I'd like to get your reaction to something the speaker said today, which he said the debt limit increase is the president's problem.
And that President Obama has to put forward a plan that Congress can pass.
What's your reaction to that?
The President doesn't have a vote in this.
It's Congress that has to act.
The President didn't stand up here yesterday and say, hey, show you a lot of charts and graphs about how previous Congresses under a Republican president accumulated enormous amounts of deficits and debt.
And that this is what they needed to vote to deal with.
And it wasn't his problem.
He didn't say that because he doesn't believe that.
He believes it's his responsibility as the President of the United States to lead, to work with Congress to resolve these issues together for the American people.
If he doesn't have a vote, why are we even meeting with him?
Would somebody explain what Carney means here?
I'll tell you what the president's vote is is his signature for crying out he does have a vote.
What is this?
So here we have the lie about social security and military checks not going out two days after Ramadan.
Now we've got Jay Carney saying the president doesn't have a vote.
Well, the obvious reaction is why is anybody talking to him then?
Why does what he think matters?
Why are they going up to the White House to talk about this?
He can veto any debt limit Bill he wants, or he can vote for it.
He's got to sign any new debt limit law that they pass.
He's got to sign it, and he's been threatening to veto anything without tax increases.
That's his vote.
My God, these people insulting us like never before.
One more Pat Cadell.
Going back now to audio soundbite number five.
After Cadell said, My God, the big elephant in the room here is.
We've seen this before.
Does this guy have any idea what he's doing?
I think I'm watching Jimmy Carter.
So Chris Cotta, the host said, well, both sides are firmly entrenched.
Whether they voted Republican or Democrat, didn't the American people vote for those they thought could build consensus?
What's what kind of question is that?
They think they're the only option for America.
The frustration that's going on in this country, a sense that the mainstream of this country has against both parties in Washington and their failure, they are opening the door to another answer.
And I just want to tell people if you think in 1992, conditions producer Ross Perot, who at one time was leading the race, in fact, would have won if he hadn't announced he was insane during the campaign.
The conditions they are much, much worse.
And somebody who can draw from both parties, these political parties are going to get threatened.
What?
Did Perot announce he was insane?
Yeah, I I don't think he actually announced it.
Cadell might have heard something that confused him about that.
Okay, we're back.
Great to have you along.
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You know, we were we were back in February talking about another government shutdown.
You may have forgotten it, folks, but we were.
And on Tuesday, February 15th, Obama said in a press conference, if there's a government shutdown, people don't get their social security checks, and the military doesn't get its checks.
They use this during every crisis of this kind.
Here's Obama.
I think people should be careful about being too loose in terms of talking about a government shutdown because this is not an abstraction.
People don't get their social security checks.
They don't get their veterans' payments.
And he said it again today in an interview with Scott Pelle.
That's how this uh plan unfolds every time.
There's nothing new in the way the Democrats conduct economic terrorism, holding a gun to the heads of seasoned citizens and our brave military veterans.
Pat Cadell says we've been near done now.
Jimmy Carter.
And we have.
It is.
Really stunning.
You go back and relive history and see how almost precisely it repeats itself.
Two soundbites.
This is again this Obama yesterday telling us that we've got to shape up and eat our peas.
It's not going to get easier, it's going to get harder.
So we might as well do it now.
Uh pull off the band aid.
Eat our peas.
April 18th, 1977, at the White House, Jimmy Carter addressing the nation about his proposed energy policy.
Tonight I want to have an unpleasant talk with you about a problem unprecedented in our history.
I'm sure that each of you will find something you don't like about the specifics of our proposal.
It will demand that we make sacrifices and changes in every life.
To some degree, the sacrifices will be painful.
But so is any meaningful sacrifice.
It will lead to some higher cost and to some greater inconvenience for everyone.
That's what Democrats offer.
Sacrifice?
We've heard all of this before.
It's called liberalism, ladies and gentlemen.
Socialism.
Totalitarianism.
Pat Cadell wrote that speech for Carter.
More than likely.
More than likely, Pat Cadell wrote it or at least approved it before Carter gave it.
Pat Cadell has since seen the light.
And uh this I we can't ever forget.
I still think that Beehner ought to take this soundbite, put it on his iPod, take it up there, and play it for Obama every day they meet on the debt ceiling.
This is from last December.
Obama talking about why we can't raise taxes.
The American people didn't send us here to wage symbolic battles or win symbolic victories.
They would much rather have the comfort of knowing that when they open their first paycheck on January of 2011.
It won't be smaller than it was before.
All because Washington decided they preferred to have a fight and failed to act.
Make no mistake.
Allowing taxes to go up on all Americans would have raised taxes by $3,000 for a typical American family.
And that could cost our economy well over a million jobs.
Now, and one other thing about this, these are the Bush tax rates that he's talking about, making sure that we did not raise them or actually get rid of them.
Now we were told for years and years and years the Bush tax cuts were only for the rich, right?
Look at this.
Obama says, make no mistake.
Allowing taxes to go up on all Americans would have raised taxes by $3,000 for a typical American family last December.
And it's worse now than it was then.
Obama admits the Bush tax cuts affected everybody, not just the rich.
What's changed, ladies and gentlemen?
I ask you, what has changed other than things have gotten worse?
What has changed?
Why now is raising taxes an average of $3,000 for a typical family?
Why is that a must?
Back to the phones we go.
Ralph in Buford, South Carolina.
Nice to have you on the program, Ralph.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Good.
Long time uh listener, first time caller.
Thank you, sir.
I wanted to uh uh say on point with uh Jeff M. L. CEO of GE.
I don't know why he can get up there and no one takes him to task about he shuts plants in Rochester, New York, you know, the light bulb plants.
Yeah.
He moved them to China.
Okay.
He's he's on Obama's committee on how uh to uh you know save jobs and and uh you know uh make America better.
Private sector jobs creating private sector, he's a reason on that commission.
Yeah, he's on this commission and and uh no one takes him to test there.
Sits there, yucks it up with the uh president about shovel ready, okay, which was absolutely pathetic, not only from ML, but but from the president of the United States, yucking it up about shovel ready wasn't shovel ready.
Right.
So not only does he he spend money on this thing, he uh you know doesn't create one job.
I know.
Well, we took him to task the first hour.
I've told a friend of mine in an email, Millennium's gumston, I'm surprised I'm actually still alive.
We pointed this out uh profoundly, by the way.
Uh in every which way possible, two or three different times.
So he is being held account, at least here.
Look at this headline from Reuters.
This is you realize when you read this that they're serious.
Billions of bugs wiped out on Dutch roads, Dutch motorists kill 133 billion important insects a month, splattering them on their windshields and headlights.
They are important members of the food chain.
And Dutch automakers are drivers, Dutch drivers.
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