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Nov. 30, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 30, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hi, how are you?
Great to have you back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Where we serve humanity just by showing up.
Great to have you with us, folks.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Now we go back to John, the American Airlines pilot in Argyle, Texas, who is very, very agitated at me.
Not anymore, Rush.
I got over it.
Okay, now what needs to happen?
I know that you what happened that you guys um you you you uh you took you took steep cuts.
You help you helped them out in uh 2003 and chapter eleven.
Uh all of that.
I don't know about the uh executives getting bonuses.
Cardi quit after that became known.
I don't know that.
Well, it's happened every year since.
What's gonna happen now, Rush is the employees will come together because the employees will be here.
Management teams are what's c or what come and go.
Look at what Carl Icon did.
Frank Lorenzo, look at what happened at Eastern.
Management teams come and they go.
The employees continue to stay.
The employees will step up to the base once again.
They'll do what's necessary to make this a great company once again.
You asked me a question before the bottom of the break, Rush.
You said, what a non-union pilots make.
Yeah.
I'm gonna throw it right back at you.
I don't know.
You hire two of them every time you go in your jet.
What do you pay them?
Well, you know, I'm not a good guy to ask.
You know?
You know what?
I'll tell you why.
Because I don't I don't have a form, I don't care what anybody else pays them.
I pay them enough so that they won't leave.
Because I don't want to deal with it.
I find people that I like, that I love, that do the job, I bonus them and I pay them so that nothing else looks good to them.
So I don't have to deal with it.
Well, that's what our management should do, Rush, right?
Well, I agree, but not everybody has the good management sense that I have.
All right, now Rush, I'm gonna take a look at the.
I have been an employee most of my life, and I've had my share of excrement sandwiches, and I have made sure in my life that that people who I pay are not going to be treated that way.
Now, I I can't speak for others who who who have to deal but I'll tell you, if if if I had to deal with um with unions, it'd be a whole different thing.
I couldn't do that.
I would I would not be able to run my business that way if every employee I had was a member of a union because I wouldn't be able to compensate them.
And if I did start bonusing a couple of them here or there over what the others got, then I'd have real hell to pay.
Um so it's it's it's it's it's a dilemma.
Can I can I continue with one other item completely unrelated?
Yeah.
Okay, Rush.
To the listeners that call in, and every now and again you offer them an iPad, some two if by T, a tie.
Next time you do that, instead of offering it to them, package it up and say, I'm your behalf.
I'm gonna send this over to the Walter Reed Byrne Center.
I'm gonna send it to a soldier who's been blown half to hell.
If somebody's good enough to dial a phone, let them get their own iPad if they're a real conservative, and send that stuff to the soldiers that have risked everything.
Well, how do you know that we don't?
I don't.
Well, you don't this is You gotta be very careful here, because I'm also not one who talks about what I do charitably, other than with the Leukemia Society, which is public.
And uh also two if by tea, we sponsor the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
So uh you think you gotta be you you have to be careful in in when you assume what you uh know and don't know.
But you know, I'm not a Kardashian here.
My my public life, my private life is not public.
I don't live it in public.
I do everything I can to make sure nobody knows what I'm doing.
Not because I'm trying to hide anything.
It's just because there's one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Mad about the first hour, right?
He's mad about what I said about the unions.
Well.
Well, this is look at I uh here's here's the problem.
This the the at the end of everything, American Airlines is more than thirty billion dollars in debt.
They are facing seven point eight billion dollars in retiree obligations.
It's the same thing, General Motors.
It's the same thing all over again.
Now, you do we want Obama to bail out America and own it?
To see to it that the unions are protected, because that's what happened at General Motors and Chrysler.
But see, it's it's a it's a dual-edged sword because American owes it because they committed to pay it.
They they signed the deal.
They signed it, well, maybe it was under duress, who knows, but they signed the deal.
So if you are an American employee, you've been working all your life thinking that when you retired, you're gonna get a pension.
Uh your union got it for you, and management agreed to it.
And now they're filing chapter 11 and they're claiming they can't pay it.
See, I can understand the anger people.
If somebody reneges on a deal with me, you know, you get it happens, by the way, it happens to everybody in life, not just union people.
Everybody has deals renignum.
I don't even get me started.
Here's the difference, and this is gonna really, if I haven't irritated you yet, this will.
Here's the difference.
And I probably shouldn't say this, because it's not going to be helpful.
It's not going to be productive.
All it's gonna do is irritate further.
Well, I don't it's it's true for me, is the point.
I have never in my life expected to be paid after I quit working.
I'm sorry.
I expect to be paid when I'm working.
I have never assumed, it's never it it's never, it doesn't compute calculate with me that somebody is going to pay me when I'm no longer doing work for them.
So I have always thought it was my responsibility to take care of that.
But I realize that the reaction to that is, well, easy for you to say.
Well, it's old fashioned and not it isn't, it isn't helpful.
You're exactly right, it's not helpful.
All I'm doing is irritating people by saying this.
I know full well.
Because they're they can come back at me and say, but we made a deal, they agreed to it.
I don't care what you expect, I don't care, limbaugh, what your life dreams and and so forth were, these people said that was part of our deal.
We gave back wages in exchange for a pension.
I understand I I I understand it.
I just have let me put it this way.
I've worked, I've worked for A-holes my whole life, and I have never once trusted.
I've always trusted me.
You know, it just I don't know if the crying out.
Let me take a break here because I'm really about to step in on here.
Okay, did you notice something with the the pilot?
He wants to know what I pay my pilots.
He tells me who I should give my iPads and my money to.
Did I once tell him how to live his life?
I could have said, hey, pal, why don't you get out of your union and start making some real money?
Why don't you look around and see if there's a way you can make more money by getting out of your union?
You ever think maybe I might be right about this?
I didn't say that to him.
I listened to his complaint, and then I get to hear him tell me how to be more generous than I already am.
But there's a reality creeping in out there, folks.
Snerdley just pointed this out.
The reality is starting to creep in that Nobody's got any money.
Except people who work.
People who work have money.
What they earn is real.
Everything else is an illusion.
When people who who who are not working are being forced with their taxes to pay people who it can't sustain itself.
Now, Snerdley just told me during the break, he just heard that the Federal Reserve floated a $600 billion loan to a couple of European banks, or else it's going to be the end of the world.
And that's true.
However, that's the tip of the iceberg.
You want the real number?
You want the real number?
Freedom of Information Act request produced some information on the Fox Business Channel last night between uh seven and eight o'clock.
One of the Fox Networks.
7.2 trillion has been spent and lent by the Federal Reserve to bail out banks all over the world since 2008.
7.2 trillion United States dollars printed by the Federal Reserve to bail out banks around the world since 2008.
Yesterday, what you're talking about, Snerdley, what you're all agitated about, 600 billion was lent to the European central bank by the Fed to keep the banks open in the European Union to kick that count down the road ten more days, because if those two major banks would have failed in in in financial world parlance, it would have been the end of the world.
It would have started the end of the world.
That's how they did it in 2008.
Remember, it was gonna be the end of the world if we don't do TARP.
It's gonna be the end of this if we don't do this.
So it's certainly it's not 600 billion yesterday, it's 7.2 trillion since 2008 that the Fed.
What is this?
Nobody has any money.
Where do you think this money is going?
It's going to people who do not and have not worked.
And it had better fail at some point, otherwise it's going to implode.
Mike in Hillsborough, New Jersey.
Welcome, sir to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Rush, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for changing the way I think, making me into an optimist, making me into a critical thinker, and also I was a union worker for 40 years, and I love you.
Oh now.
Oh.
And I went to see you last night, Rush.
You were awesome.
Oh yeah.
Thank you very much.
You're quite no thanks required.
You there were two people in line behind me, one from Louisiana, one from Virginia, mother and daughter.
They asked if they're in the right line.
I said, This is the line for Obama.
He's 5,000 a plate.
You know, he's in New York today.
He got five fundraising stops in New York.
It's it's the worst gridlock situation in Manhattan, and I don't know how long.
I am I am uh you realize what he missed?
He could have been there last night.
Well, what Obama could have learned if he'd have shown up last night.
I'm glad you liked it.
I'm glad I'm glad you had a good time.
And uh I'll come see any time you're there.
You you're my hero.
You taught me how to think.
You taught me how to think for myself.
You taught me how to be an optimist, and I've been through this with Jimmy Carter before.
I remember feeling bad and deflated.
And I saw Ronaldo Smagnus come in and I saw what he did.
So I know it's not this country, and I know it's it's the leader of this country that's doing this.
And thank you every day, every day.
And I'm a taxi driver.
And I listen to you in the cab.
You could not believe the people tell me to shut off that radio.
I I kick one little old lady out of that cab.
I said, This is America.
I'm listening to this guy.
Where do you drive a cab?
Alan Park.
Allen Park.
And so ah, that and then and what do you what are the ladies do when uh you refuse to turn the radio off?
Well, well, first she said that would I please turn it down?
And I said, no.
Well, could you turn the ch uh channel?
I said, no, I don't like this guy.
He says, well, this is America.
I'm gonna listen to what I want.
And why do you and they all hate you, Rush.
They all hate you.
And when I ask them to give me one example, why they hate you, they can't give me one example.
And if they do give me anything, it's like, oh, he's a big mouth.
I didn't ask you for that.
Just give me one example.
But they just closed-minded Rush.
That's all it is.
Well, that it that's true, but you know, that's uh it's it's also the fact that uh they're just all they know they've never listened, so all they know is is what the uh uh public media image of me is.
And I don't have a PR firm out there countering this stuff, because I frankly I don't care.
Um I care about all of you in uh in the audience.
And I hear stories like this, and it warms my heart and makes my day.
Because you're probably you're passing up tips.
These women, these women this is costing you money.
I can't tell you.
Speaking of which, do you have an iPad?
Oh Rush, I'm uh I don't Well, you want one?
Oh, that'd be great.
All right.
I'm gonna we're gonna send you an iPad, and I'm gonna send you a couple cases of two if by tea.
Oh, you you're the man.
I can't I can't believe how many tips this guy has probably foregone because you have stuck to your guns and been loyal with that radio on in the in in the cab.
You mean and another thing, Rush.
I was married August 1st.
Uh and you and she comes in second to you too.
Did she know that going in?
Well, you changed what well, I married her before you.
But you know, you you just uh I like it.
Okay, well, that's that's that she's probably happy by this time.
So that's cool.
So now look, uh uh do not Mike hang up.
Do not hang up.
Okay.
So Snurley get your address so we can uh send you the goodies.
I'm also gonna throw in.
We got this new uh thing that we've introduced at the tea company, this uh this gift set with two great mugs and some like coffee mugs or tea mugs.
They're just they're fabulous with Rush Revere.
Uh so I'm gonna send you one of those.
What's what what tea do you like?
Regular or raspberry flavored?
Well, Rush, I like regular.
Okay.
Sugared or or or uh uh artificially sweetened.
No, I like that.
I like the regular because I don't like that diet stuff.
All right, then I won't send you to diet stuff, even though our diet stuff is great.
I'll send you to regular stuff, regular tea, uh, and uh an iPad and engraved EIB rush signature iPad.
This is awesome.
Yeah, it's great.
And and all you gotta do is just turn it on and it works.
This is awesome.
You're gonna have a great well, no, you made my day here, and I really uh I'm I just got to thinking, how many tips has this guy missed?
Because they've been loyal out there.
People challenge your religion and you stick to it, he did.
Thanks, Mike, and we'll be back, folks.
Don't go away.
Let me get to my show prep stack here.
Uh we haven't even touched it yet.
And I have a couple thoughts on uh this Herman Cain, the latest uh Herman Cain babe.
Just based on what's been reported.
Now uh for the record, and according to the original news report on Ginger White's accusations.
Here's what we know.
She filed a sexual harassment claim against an employer in 2001.
That case was settled, although the news reports never mentioned how or in whose favor.
Since the settlement does not seem to have helped her finances since then.
She also had a bankruptcy twenty-three years ago.
Ginger White also has had a number of eviction notices over the past six years.
The most recent happened this month.
Although she says in uh this interview that she'd never been evicted.
Ginger White was also sued by a former business partner who also sought a stalking temporary protective order against her for repeated email and texts.
And another business partner, might be the same business partner, said, I never heard her mention Herman Cain's name.
In all these years that I've known her, she's never mentioned Herman Cain's name.
Again, sued by a former business partner who sought a stalking temporary protective order against her for repeated emails and texts.
That case was dismissed.
But it was followed by a libel lawsuit from her partner, which White lost because she didn't show up to fight it.
But the news media only too happy to accept such a questionable woman as a reliable source if she can help them bring down a Republican.
Meanwhile, this interview with Stephanopoulos.
Stephanopoulos did not argue with her about whether Cain would make a good president.
It's big news that Ginger White says, I don't think he'd be a good president.
But we know that Stephanopoulos believes that Bill Clinton made a great president.
And Bill Clinton is still the grand poo-bah when it comes to all of this kind of stuff.
And he made a great president.
Ginger White says, I don't think Herman Cain would be a good president.
Stephanopoulos did not question that.
But even if all of these accusations against Herman Cain are proved to be true, Herman Cain has a long way to go to match Bill Clinton's record.
And in fact, Bill Clinton was even said to be the first black president.
She's done it all.
Also note how once again, the 60, there are somehow 60 texts between Ginger White and Herman Cain.
They're trotted out as the only proof of their close relationship.
Even though this woman has been accused of stalking via repeated emails and texts by other people.
Now I don't know about you.
I haven't been able to find how many of these texts are from White to Cain or from Cain to White.
I don't know who's texting who here.
Have they made this clear yet in any of this?
I haven't seen it.
Are they unable to count them?
Where is any documentation?
Any other proof of their relationship other than these texts?
I mean, you would think that after a 13 or 14-year affair, there'd have to be a blue dress or something tangible out there she could produce to document her claims of such a long-term sexual affair.
Also, this lady took place at the Rich Carlton Buckhead and at the Four Seasons restaurant, which Herman likes.
He lives in Atlanta.
Walk into a hotel, you go up the elevators for 13 years or five years, however many years involving the buckhead Rich Carlton.
Somebody in there is going to see this.
Even if you're going up by yourself, you know.
Oh, there's Herman Cain.
Yeah, he lives here in Atlanta.
Oh, taking the elevator up to the fourth floor or the tenth floor, whatever it is.
What's going on up there?
Restaurant association of a meeting.
I don't know.
I mean, just are just my first thoughts.
Regardless, the media believe that they have accomplished their mission to kill the cane campaign.
And I don't know, they may be right.
Because you know what they know?
They don't have to prove any actual wrongdoing anymore.
You don't have to prove that.
All they have to do is create enough doubt about the candidate in the minds of his donors and in the money stops.
And that's it.
That's all they have to do.
Campaign will die.
And when you don't even question the credibility of the sources, this is easy as pie to do.
Stop it.
You know, Herman Cain was going through colon cancer treatment during some of these 13 years.
Now this look.
This woman said she finally came out because she got fed up with the way the sexual harassment babes were being treated.
I said, what?
Three weeks after the sexual harassment babes, you come up and you say you're you're engaged in a 13-year affair with the guy.
Gotta assume you love the guy.
You have to send there's some sort of emotional connection.
Maybe not love with it.
And these sexual harassment babes come forward and you don't like the way they're demonized so that you now come out?
Herman didn't demonize them, did he?
Herman didn't demonize the sexual harassment babes.
One of the sexual harassment babes refused to show up and be in a panel with the other two sexual harassment babes.
And by the way, where are the details of the sexual harassment babes?
They came and they're gone.
Where is their evidence?
Did you realize there still isn't any evidence of this?
But what?
I know.
Where there's smoke, there are two media people rubbing sticks together.
Where there's smoke, there's fire.
I know.
I this Ginger White said she can't image.
I think she meant imagine.
She can't image waking up one morning and deciding to come out with this if it wasn't true.
Even though she'd been convicted of libel.
This woman's been convicted of what she can't imagine waking up and deciding to come out with this.
And she talks to George Stephanopoulos, who ran Clinton's war room, the bimbo eruptions.
And so forth.
Store Santa Claus's.
Folks, this is a UK Daily Mail, but it's um story about us.
It'll soon be time for every chow to draw up their list for Santa Claus.
But now they could be in for something of a surprise when Santa asks them to take a few things off the list.
The largest Santa Claus school in America has been advising its Santa Claus students on how to lower children's expectations in the economic downturn.
When confronted with a huge list of Tampa, I want this and I want that.
Santa Clauses are being told to tell the kids you can't have everything.
The Santa Claus students have also been told to take a look at the children's parents and size them up.
Profile them before promising them something their mother and father can't afford.
So if you're gonna take, here's the here's a tip for if you are gonna take your kid to a Santa Claus thing, you dress up like the biggest dregs on the face of the earth, and the Santa Claus is going to be told to tell your kid not to expect anything because you look like a pauper.
Santa Claus is under instructions to size you up.
And if you look like a loser, your kid's gonna be told to expect nothing, and you're off the hook.
By the same token, if you show up looking good, Santa's gonna think you can afford a whole bunch of toys and gonna tell a kid to expect a lot.
These measures are part of the new syllabus at the Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School in Midland, Michigan.
This is all in the New York Times.
Dating back to 1937, the Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School in Midland, Michigan is the oldest and most celebrated Santa school in America.
Well, they're now having to change with the times.
Some Santa's have been taken aback by young kids who presented them with spreadsheet printouts and cutting some catalogs instead of a simple list.
Others have become so tired of being asked for iPods that they have prepared stock answers to get around it.
nothing new about this.
I left hints all over the house.
I'd cut out pictures of cars and put them under the glass on my dad's desk.
Anyway.
Charles W. Howard, Santa Claus School runs a three-day course for Woodbee Santa's every fall.
It costs you $415 to go, as a Santa Claus, $365 for returning Santa Claus.
And um they're teaching the Santa's to size up parents and tell the kids not to expect Jack, you know what?
To the New York Times.
New York Times very happy about this.
I think the largest Santa Claus school in the country is a Democrat Party.
The hell this big guy in Michigan is chump change compared to Democrat Party in Barack Obama.
Okay, Bowie, Maryland is next.
And Linda, welcome now to the EIB network.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Thank you so much.
I have a question and then a comment.
And the question is, where's all this money going?
I mean, we know it's a big huge slush slint, but they're now flushing out Europe as well.
Well, um yes, it does appear to be that the Federal Reserve is uh bailing out Europe.
Yeah.
Uh particularly a couple of bailes.
Somebody's gotta have it someplace.
Um yes.
Um this is a tough one.
Um when I say nobody has any money, what I mean is that everybody is borrowing and debt is piling up like crazy, and repaying the debt is what's being kicked down the road.
Okay, so that my I guess my question probably should be.
Who's who are holding the debt?
Other than banks and European banks and all like that.
Um what do you mean who's holding the debt?
Well, I mean, if you have debt, then somebody you owe somebody or some organization.
In it look at it's very in Europe, um, the debt holders are the retirees.
Oh, okay.
So we're bailing out.
We're we're we're they're AWS.
What's happening is the the Europeans have had on average a 14 or 15 percent unemployment rate in all their countries.
They have not cared about it.
They have not funded their own defense, they have been paying health care, Medicare, everything for free, free, free for everybody.
And they've never they don't have the money to pay for it now.
Uh, we're just their banks and everybody else have been involved in lending the money out, and there's nobody paying it back.
So we're just playing catch-up with them, right?
Um yeah.
Uh but see that there's a series of bondholders that that that are holding the European debt, and they're gonna get hosed at the end of this, just like the bondholders, General Motors and Chrysler got hosed, uh, because the payments are being made so that the people who aren't working can continue to not work because the people not working are threatening to riot and burn down countries and so forth.
So this is it's uh look, it's it's more complicated, and I'm giving you the uh the Cliff Notes version of this.
Yeah.
But we don't have the money either.
This is the point.
We we're running, we got a national debt of uh about 17 trillions.
We got an annual budget deficit of 1.4 to 1.8 trillion.
And since 2008, we have quote unquote lent or given 7.2 trillion to European banks.
Again, under the theory that it'd be the end of the world if they went belly up.
We can't have the end of the world.
So I don't know.
It's uh I don't know where the road ends.
I don't know how many years, days, months they continue to kick this can.
I haven't I am a something tells me not long, though.
In Europe, uh, ladies and gentlemen are already talking right now about the bondholders only getting 20% of their investment banks uh investments back.
And out of the 87 banks that saw benefits from uh U.S. bailout measures, 43 were foreign, most of them based in uh in Europe.
The short answer, what's happening in Europe, uh it's the war between the takers and the makers.
And it's the same thing happening here, folks.
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