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Aug. 31, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 31, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Well, I continue to get good potty training reports on a new puppy, folks.
Just got one during the uh top of the hour break at Brand New Puppy Cambridge.
Let's see, got the dog on Tuesday.
This is no, got the dog on Monday.
Second day we've had a dog and already knows to go pee on the grass.
That's pretty major.
Pretty major.
We're feeling good about that.
Happy to have you.
Seriously, we are.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882 in the email address L Rushmo at EIB net.com.
Let me start this story from the top because this is not from last week, and it's not from the week before.
This is a new story from the San Francisco Bay Area, a solar company, Sylndra, to declare bankruptcy.
President Obama touted the facility only a year ago.
Solyndra, a major manufacturer of solar technology in Fremont, has shut its doors.
According to employees at the campus, shortly after it opened a massive $700 million facility.
It canceled plans for a public stock offering earlier this year and warned that it would be in significant trouble if federal loan guarantees didn't go through.
The company has said that it'll make a statement at 9 a.m.
California time, though it's not clear what the statement will be, of course that's coming gone.
Report from the NBC San Francisco affiliate.
Employees have been given yellow envelopes with instructions on how to get their last checks.
There never was a business here.
You understand this.
This is the sad thing.
There never was a business here.
We can only survive with $700 million in loan guarantees.
You know, Catherine and I started a new business, twoifyt.com.
Would you think of loan guarantees from the government?
To either start the business or go public with it.
There never was a business there.
Solindra, standby audio sum by 29.
Cylindra was touted by the regime as a prime example of how green technology could deliver jobs.
Yeah, well, pink slips today.
The president visited the facility in May of last year.
26, in fact, May 26, 2010, at Cylindra Inc.
Here's a portion of what Obama said.
It's here that companies like Cylindra are leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future.
And they're out of business today.
I mean, it's a kiss of death.
This guy comes to visit your business.
If you're a green business, a solar business, a wind business, and this guy touts you, you are finished.
You're practically finished anyway.
There is no business there.
And the only way these people could start up was with these loan guarantees.
In other words, federal funding.
Thank you.
So here you have the poor people at work at this country who bought into this.
I'm sure.
Oh my I'm sure they thought they were cutting edge.
I'm sure they thought they were going to save the planet.
I'm sure they bought into all of this.
If you work at Cylindra, you got candidate believe me, my heart goes out to you.
I I really feel sorry for it because you just you're part of a scam.
Every bit as big as anything this country has seen with the federal government involved in it.
Cylindra touted by the regime as a prime example of how green technology could deliver jobs.
As you just heard, the president visited the facility in May of last year, said just a testament to American ingenuity and dynamism.
The fact that we continue to have the best universities in the world, the best technology in the world, and most importantly, the best workers in the world.
And you guys all represent that, Obama said.
Now they're all fired because there was never a business there.
And here we are.
My friends, we are just 176 hours away From Obama telling us that going green is going to create untold numbers of new American jobs.
And now the story is on AP Solar Company that got federal loan shuts down a California solar panel manufacturer that received a $535 million loan from the federal government and needed $700 million more.
Has announced layoffs of 1,000 100 people.
1,000 100 people for a non-existent business.
And now they've been laid off at I'm sure these people really thought they were going to matter.
I thought they really, I bet you they bought into this.
They were going to change the world.
They plan to file for bankruptcy now.
Cylindra LLC, based in Fremont, California, announced that global economic conditions have forced the company to suspend its manufacturing operations.
Now global economic conditions.
However, the prime ingredient for a solar company is still there.
What is that?
That's right, Snerdley, way to go.
The sun.
The sun's still there.
Maybe behind clouds, but it's still there.
Now wait a minute now.
Don't just let that go.
This is crucial.
Solar power comes from the sun.
The sun is still there.
And yet this company shuts down because of global economic conditions.
The sun is still putting out much as it ever did.
Just like uh in Las Vegas.
And yet they can't harness it.
It's there every day.
Doesn't cost anything.
It's just there.
1,100 people, I'm sure, thought that they were part of something that was going to revolutionize and clean the planet.
I bet you they bought into this.
So the federal government's investment in this solar company has turned out to be a $600 million mistake.
That's a lot of green.
That is a lot of green.
And I'm not kidding.
Our hearts go out to all the people at Cylindra, $1,100 people.
Play it here.
Audio soundbite number 29 again, Obama, May 26th of last year in Fremont, California.
It's here that companies like Cylindra are leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future.
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
He hasn't the slightest clue about solar energy or wind energy or green energy.
They had to shut down global economic conditions that force the company shut down.
That probably means that the Chicoms are selling solar panels for less than they can sell them in San Francisco.
That's what that means.
Well, I just, that's not, if not, that's the thing, certainly.
I think you're still going to have a bunch of these doofus CEOs are going to welcome Obama.
Even though Obama walks into your company, it's a kiss of death.
It's like Gore showing up.
You can guarantee, you'd be guaranteed a freaking snowstorm when Gore shows up to talk about global warming.
Obama shows up to tout your business, you don't have along for the world.
But people want to be close to the president.
Because somebody got this money.
Somebody got that money.
Well, they got some of it.
I mean, the employees have been paid for a year.
And they're going to get their last paycheck.
Somebody got some of the money, but it didn't matter.
There was no business there.
And if, as again, if if if it was indeed global economic conditions, it simply means that ChICOMs are selling cheap solar panels out there at prices that this outfit in San Francisco can't match.
Pure and simple.
That has to be what it means.
The End Where have all the millionaires gone?
This is um let's see.
What is the source here?
IRS figures.
2009 IRS figures.
And a little story here at the Wall Street Journal, recession in the rich, a number of taxpayers reporting annual incomes over one million dollars fell.
39% between 2007 and 2009.
Coincides when uh Pelosi took over the House and Obama took over the White House.
The number of super wealthy individuals making over $10 million annually plunged 55%.
And the carnage wasn't confined to millionaires.
The number of taxpayers earning over $200,000 per year also declined by 612,000 or 13%.
Everybody's getting poorer.
Four in ten millionaires disappeared in two years.
In 2007, those making above 200,000, but less than one million paid $610 billion in federal income tax.
In 2009, it was only $434 billion they paid.
So there is a war on the rich, and it is occurring.
Class envy.
It is working.
There are fewer millionaires and supermillionaires.
Down by a significant number.
And yet Pelosi is still out ranting and raving and moaning about all the rich people, of which she is one.
So under Obama and Pelosi, the rich are getting poorer.
And so are the poor.
As the rich get poorer, notice that nobody's out celebrating the poor getting rich, are they?
I haven't seen that story, have you?
According to Democrats, the only reason the rich people exist because they steal money from the poor.
I've never understood the math on that, but that's what they say.
So you'd figure if all these millionaires are being taken down a peg and there are significantly fewer millionaires, it'll be a lot more rich poor people, right?
It's not happening.
Wonder why that is.
Well, who's getting all the money then?
Government.
That's exactly right, Mr. Snertley.
So they're defining deviancy down, they're defining wealth down, they're defining rich down, and the poor are still poor.
Here's Bill in Houston.
Bill, thank you for calling your next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I want to respond to something that you responded to to the last caller.
Yeah.
The last caller may mention the fact that equality was actually not promoted by Christianity in regards to blacks and slaves, and it seemed like you disagree with that statement, do you?
That Christians did not promote equality.
Correct.
In regards to blacks and Well, I just I just know that it was it was Christians in in England who ended slavery, William Wilberforce.
It was the uh act of the Christian church that that ended slavery and and tackled it in uh in Great Britain.
So I would I would have to say uh that yeah, uh there's been a lot of good works from Christian people in the area of equality, fairness, or whatever you terminology you want to use.
Okay, well, let me respond to that and let me add some more to your knowledge base.
In regards to Southern Baptists here in the state uh in the United States of America, you may or may not be familiar with Pastor Basil Manley, who was a key contributor to the uh separation between the Northern Baptist and the Southern Baptist, and a formulation of the Southern Baptist Convention.
He actually wrote a sermon in nine in 1844.
It was entitled National Stability, which she used the Bible and his religion to be able to support that it was biblically sanctioned to be able to have slavery and to actually enforce it.
Also in 1845, not even a year later, that's when the Southern Back.
Look, look, they're extremists everywhere that call themselves Margaret Sanger wanted to rid the world of black people.
This wasn't an extremist.
This was a It's called Planned Parenthood Today.
The largest and they're still trying to do it.
The largest partisan denomination hitting nine states of America is a Southern Baptist Convention.
That wasn't an extremist, that was a norm.
And in 1995, the Southern Baptist Convention finally apologized.
So when you talk about the Christianity wanted to support what is your problem with Christianity?
What do you you you sit here, you want to cite all these these extremists?
And you're reading from an Obama.
I don't have a problem.
I want to know what your problem is.
You're sitting there reading from a teleprompter.
Like Obama does.
You do it better than he does, by the way.
I have to.
It's got nothing to do with what you think I believe as far as Christianity because I believe the truth.
And obviously, Southern so do the Southern Baptists, because I picked them 150 years old.
Southern Baptists.
You keep talking Southern Baptists.
In 1993, they apologize.
Look at this is why I don't talk religion on this show.
This is this is they're all Democrats.
Every damn one of you people you're citing, all these Southern Baptists, every damn one of them's a Democrat.
This is why.
This is why, folks, I don't bring it up.
Because this is not a church, and I don't do sermons, and this isn't a pulpit.
Uh it but you can see the fuse that it lights.
Jeremiah Wright's a Christian.
Jeremiah Wright's a Christian, and so's our president.
And he spent twenty years listening to Jeremiah Wright.
Gee damn America.
America's chickens are coming.
I bet you didn't have any problem with Obama sitting in that pew.
Anyway, uh Bill, you do a better job reading the prompter in Obama, I do have to say.
Here's uh here's Kevin in Green Valley, Arizona.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Well, thanks for taking my call.
Hey, I don't mean to beat up the uh the Andre Carson uh subject uh too.
Bill Clinton was a Southern Baptist for crying out loud.
But you know, I I've been Bill Clinton said he saw black churches burn that were never on fire.
Everybody anyway, I'm sorry.
What what was your point here?
No, no, no, go ahead.
Go ahead, Russ.
No, I'm finished, I'm finished, I'm finished.
The church show.
Um, you know, I I I would consider myself a casual Tea Party member.
Yeah.
I've never really uh as much as made a sign, but you know, really after listening to Maxine Waters and Andre Carson, I'm I'm there.
Uh I'm gonna get as involved as a Tea Party as I can for now.
I would encourage all the listeners out there that have been sitting on the fence yet to get off their schnight and get involved too.
Um, you know, this this whole this whole thing kind of reminds me of the Kenny Rogers song of the coward of the county.
You know, I've been called a hobbit by John McCain, the terrorist by Joe Biden, uh, and a racist, but you know, I'm told to be civil.
Don't be don't be here, man.
But but you know where sometimes there's in that song, you know, Tommy stops, he locks the door.
Fine time to leave me, Lucille, too, works, but uh you know you you you right when you got Andre Carson out there saying the Tea Party wants to lynch black people, and you've got people like uh uh Reverend Wright saying what what what he's saying, and Maxine Waters Tea Party can go to hell.
Uh you know, people better realize that the Maxine Waters and Andre Carson are not trying to be funny.
Well, can you explain to me how Maxine Waters can ask permission from the black voters one week to to go after Obama than the next week tell me to go to hell?
I I don't I don't get the correlation there at all.
Well, the two go hand in hand.
Uh and besides that, she's more afraid of Obama than her constituents.
That's she was just she she she wanted to be able to if Obama called, what are you doing to me, Max?
My constituents, Mr. President, I got my constituents.
She wants people to hide behind them.
That's true.
Uh but I just like to know whether blacks aren't just insane.
Abraham Lincoln was a Southern Baptist too, by the way.
Well, why why was the the Martin Lake uh uh Martin Luther King statute made in China and no one's saying anything about that?
Uh I know Maya Angel is coming out talking about how uh you've really done it.
Now you've really done it.
Now, well, Georgia has some pretty deep.
Wait till Andre Carson hears that a guy who was lukewarm in a Tea Party, but had now full boar wants to join the Tea Party, called here it and talked about the Martin Luther King Memorial being made by the Chicoms.
Well, I'm there.
I mean, I've got to be a very good thing.
Well, I know it was.
I know the truth is what sets these people off.
Hey, well, I'm glad.
Yes, I know.
Yes, there's a controversy with a statue because it looks Asian and that it's white.
I'm fully aware of it, Snerdley.
Folks.
You know, I'm happy to bring historical perspective to the program.
You you Who do you all who want to call me and start dumping on the Christians?
Who do you think the abolitionists in this country were?
The abolitionists were Northern Christians.
Let's look at the Adamses.
John Adams.
Abolitionist.
Now I have to say, in all candor, in all fairness, our last caller was right about Southern Baptist races like Jimmy Carter.
He had a point.
But the abolitionists, meaning the Northern Christians that wanted to abolish slavery in this country, even during the time of the founding and during the uh the writing of the Constitution declaration, they were called extremists back then.
The abolitionists, the Adamses were called extremists.
Crazy lunatic Christians.
And it was Democrats in the South that were calling them that.
Nothing has changed.
Other than reputations have been sullied inaccurately.
Okay, so Cylindra, solar firm, San Francisco.
Down the tubes.
Just to remind you, August 15th, Massachusetts-based Evergreen Solar.
Today filed for bankruptcy protection following a month-long sales decline of its solar panel business.
Okay, so that's two.
Cylindra and Evergreen Solar.
Oh, look at this.
From uh August 26th, Spectrawat files for bankruptcy.
Second U.S. solar company this month.
Now it's the third.
New York based solar company, SpectraWatt Inc.
filed for bankruptcy protection this week.
The second U.S. solar company to do so this month.
Now it's the third, like Evergreen Solar, which filed last week, Spectrawat blames increasing competition from low-cost manufacturers by the Chicoms.
And then from March 13th of 2010, Robinsville Solar Company in bankruptcy.
From the New Jersey Times, a cloud has passed over to local renewable energy industry as a township-based solar manufacturing concern, once trumpeted as a leader in green technology, has been forced to file for Chapter 11.
So in the last 16 months, four solar companies have filed for bankruptcy.
Three of them touted by Obama.
Not sure how many of them got one got federal funds.
I don't know about the other three.
Yeah, that's right.
Okay, it's two.
So the one in Massachusetts did.
Evergreen, they did.
Okay, so it's the ChICOMs.
They can manufacture and sell the things cheaper than we can.
No matter how much the government subsidizes.
Now, right before the break, Snerdley asked me, and it kind of frosts me when Snurdley asked me if I know something.
I mean, who am I?
You know, I'm not a potted plant here.
So he snurdly asked me if I knew that people were complaining that the Martin Luther King memorial had uh, well, some people looked at it and thought they saw Asian facial characteristics in the carving.
I knew that, and others were complaining that it was white.
And not, you know, dark granted or something.
That it was white.
Now the Martin Luther King statue was made by the Chikons because it was eight million dollars to make in China.
Did you know that?
Okay, see?
All right, let's see.
Well, I did.
One of the reasons, it was eight million dollars.
Yeah, it's a big reason it was eight million dollars.
Now you people judging this thing on the color of it, you know, I I had the laugh.
There were people seriously upset that the Martin Luther King statue was white.
I think that we should judge the statue by the content of its carving, not the color of its surface.
But that's just me.
Now they.
Well, that's just some people's opinion, the Asian thing.
What do you mean?
How am I going to get around it?
I'm not asserting it.
I'm this some people look at it and see Asian influences.
I'm not saying so.
The stone actually has a pink tone, but you take a picture in the right light, uh, usually shot in shadow, that will make it look darker.
Then everybody be happy.
And I can't.
I I can't b yeah oh, you haven't none of the questions predating this.
Okay, that's a serious question.
Okay, what can we do in this country cheaper than any well?
Yes, the ChICOMs cannot build warships yet.
The ChICOMs cannot build aircraft.
Uh they still buy their uh aircraft from Airbus or Boeing.
Although the Chicoms are very proud, though.
They they do have like a 30-year-old aircraft carrier they're refurbishing, and they're very proud of that.
Uh when it comes to it it's a strictly matter of labor.
It's pure and simple.
You know what?
Do you know what the iPhone would cost?
I I read this, I can't remember where nor how long ago.
Um the um iPhone would cost something close to $2,000 if it were manufactured here at union wages.
By the time you take the parts and assemble them, same amount of time it takes in Shenzhen, where most of the iPhone's iPads are made, cost close to $2,000.
Now the Wall Street Journal, you ask me what do we make better?
I'm not kidding you.
You're you're you're gonna think I'm making this up.
I'm almost afraid to mention this.
The Wall Street Journal.
The Wall Street Journal says that the United States still makes the best paper clips.
Kidd.
I'm not.
I am not making it up.
All right, who's next?
Dwayne in uh in Huntington, Indiana.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
It's a pleasure to speak to you again, Rice.
Thanks very much.
Uh you know, these political propagandists in the White House are insidious, not only in trying to preempt the Republican debate, but they're real deep planners.
There's another facet to this that we may think of too.
Uh if Maynard goes along with this, he will have succeeded in assembling all the Republicans before the anointed one to hear this preposterous presentation, and once he's given it, whatever the taxes and the spending schemes are, his media minions will be poised to pounce on the Republicans on the ground to get fodder for their setting up their template of the of the Republicans being obstructionist.
Oh, I know.
I know that there's no quite well, well, that's gonna happen whether there's a joint address to Congress or not.
Yeah.
Um because Obama is purposely gonna propose what no Republican to go along with.
Yep by design.
But you know, you raise an interesting point.
Thank you.
And the interesting point is this.
Why should the Republicans grant the president a joint session of Congress to make a political campaign speech on any date.
On any date.
Why should the Republicans handcuff themselves that way?
Yep.
You're right.
The president ought not be allowed to make a campaign speech, which is all this is.
There's no national security, there's nothing in, but there's no constitutional requirement like State of the Union, nothing.
This is a pure campaign Speech.
Right.
And to give it the imprimon of a speech before the joint session, a joint session of Congress, there's no way.
He doesn't deserve that.
He's not warranted.
That's not warranted.
They ought not grant that on any date.
It does not have the muscle to justify it.
No, and if they do, if they do, the picture is going to be of the President of the United States giving a campaign speech with Republican members of Congress sitting in that chamber, acting with respect and so forth and so on.
I think it Boehner's gotta say no.
Whether he will, I have no clue.
All right, here's another one just in.
North Carolina Clean Burn Fuels LLC, an ethanol plant in Rayford, North Carolina, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and temporarily shut down.
The company hopes to restart and emerge from bankruptcy before the year is over.
The plant, which has been producing ethanol since August of last year, has been hit hard by high corn prices.
Now, what has made corn prices go up?
Ethanol.
An ethanol plant has shut down because of the price of ethanol.
Clean burn fuels file for Chapter 11 bankruptcies.
They've been hard hit by high corn prices.
Well, the only reason corn prices are going up is because of ethanol.
Now, Snerdley, you asked a very good question a moment ago.
Why can't we compete with the ChICOMs on anything?
Let me let me tell you something.
Let me get a little what for here.
In every one of these solar or wind or ethanol, any one of these plants, they all got federal and state money, and they got tax breaks, and they still couldn't make it.
They were given the tools to compete with the Chicoms, and somehow it still didn't work.
Federal government's going to give you $700 million, $526 million, either in loan guarantees, which basically they're going to forgive the loan, if they're going to give you that, what they're helping you do is compete against lower costs in China, and you still don't make it.
It's not as though.
It's not as though they were not given assistance.
They got tax breaks in addition to the money they were given.
And it still didn't work out.
Now you ask why can't we compete?
We can.
My question is, and I think this is the important one, How much are we taxpayers losing from all these so-called investments, as the Libs call it?
Because every one of these cockamamy ideas is one of theirs.
They're all bombing out.
They're all leading and contributing to deficits and debt.
And it's all political.
There's not one business reason to do any of this.
There is no solar energy business out there.
There is no wind energy business.
This is all being done to simply prop up an incompetent man child president.
That's the only reason any of this is being done.
To make him look like he's smarter than everybody else.
Make it look like only Obama is capable of jump starting this new clean energy field.
There is no business there.
You know, I'm not a solar wind expert, but when your primary source is still up there, And there's not a damn thing anybody can do to it, and you still we're not there yet, is what tells me.
We haven't figured out how to harness it yet.
The market will tell us this is not the market.
This is the government subsidizing something that doesn't yet really exist and has no reason to exist.
Purely for the political advancement of a doofus.
Jackass.
Folks, a paper clip manufacturing industry, while it sounds laughable, isn't it?
The Wall Street Journal did a fascinating story on how the world cannot compete against us in the manufacture of paper clips, and we make 11 billion of them a year to companies.
And I will have a details tomorrow and deal with whatever else this regime cooks up between now and then, because they never sleep, folks.
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