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Dec. 21, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 21, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, and lots to do on our final day here before the final live show.
Well, not the final live show.
I mean, Mark Stein will be here tomorrow.
I mean, the final live show hosted by me, El Rushbo, before the new year.
It's open line Friday on Wednesday.
We will get to your phone calls at 800-282-2882, the email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
House Democrats tried today to force a vote on the Senate's two-month extension of payroll tax cut, but Republicans gaveled the House closed to prevent them from having a chance as top Republican leaders huddled down the hall to try to figure a way out of the mess.
The House was set to hold a pro forma session, but two top Democrats, Representatives Stenny Hoyer and Chris Van Holland, demanded to be recognized to try to force a vote on the two-month extension that Republicans had blocked, which is strongly backed by Obama, and they're holding out for an extension that covers all of 2012.
Remember, folks, how Obama and the news media fought a temporary deal during the debt ceiling debate.
He said the markets needed confidence.
We can't do this temporary stuff.
He said, we can't keep doing these continuing resolutions and these temporary debt ceiling increases.
We've got to do the whole thing here.
Now, all of a sudden, we get temporary, temporary, temporary, and we do a two-month fix that cannot even be implemented.
The House Republicans, the freshmen, the Tea Party conservatives, the other conservatives in the House are holding firm on this on principle.
Even some in the media are saying the House Republicans are acting on principle, not politics.
Everybody else is looking at this through the optics.
And as I mentioned in the first hour, the Wall Street Journal has an editorial that just excoriates the Republicans in the House and essentially accuses them of losing the tax issue to Obama and guaranteeing that Obama is going to end up being the king tax cutter in an election year.
I'm telling you, and with all due respect, the people at the journal who wrote the editorial, the House Democrats, the Senate Democrats, Republicans are all dead wrong on this at every policy and political level that I can think of.
If the Republicans want this tax cut extended, then they ought to fight to actually extend it for a year.
Two months doesn't do anything.
Well, there's some conventional wisdom in the establishment circles.
Oh, yeah, two months, Rush, that'd be good, because then you come back and get to debate Obama on it all over again.
Well, how's the debate going to change?
You still say Obama's going to be leading the charge for more tax cuts, and what are we going to do?
Then agree with him after.
This is the time to plant the flag.
Now, if they want to stop it, Wall Street Journal, Republicans, if they want to stop this, explain what's really going on here.
Explain that this isn't a tax cut.
Since when did Social Security taxes, when were they actually called tax increases or taxes?
These are contributions.
These are actual deductions from your pay that end up coming back to you.
This is how it's always been sold.
In your retirement years, in your golden years.
Theoretically, it's your money.
All we're doing is defunding the only mechanism that funds Social Security.
They want to stop this.
Then just explain that this is draining money from Social Security without any of the necessary reforms.
Throw it right back on Obama and what he's doing here.
The worst possible position is the one supported by the Senate, Obama, and the Wall Street Journal.
And what's really going on here, folks, and don't doubt me, including on behalf of the Wall Street Journal, just angry at conservatives.
They're angry at the Tea Party conservatives, a Tea Party freshmen.
They're angry at conservative freshmen and conservative members of the House.
And they're simply trying to reject it.
Now, if you believe, and I mentioned this in the opening hour, if you believe that our beloved country is collapsing due to government, why continue with these games?
Why continue with such things as two-month expansions of the debt limit?
Continuing resolution after continuing resolution instead of a budget, a two-month extension of a so-called payroll tax cut.
These are games.
This is style over substance.
If we are to stop this, if we are to reverse this, if we are to get anywhere, we need to start now, make our case.
We need to begin to reverse course.
We can't be so timid and scared and gutless that we jump every time Obama says jump.
Now, here's the problem.
These people on the establishment side of the Republican Party are going to have to resolve for themselves their position that the nation is in dire straits with their policies of timidity and fear.
Now, I'm guessing they don't think the nation's in dire straits.
If they agreed with us that the nation's in dire straits, then they wouldn't be playing these political games unless they do agree with us, but they think we have to play the political game in order to win the election and beat Obama.
You can do both.
But this isn't even a big issue.
This is what gets me.
It really isn't a big issue.
We're talking about whether to extend a payroll cut one year or two months.
Nobody believes that two months makes sense in any substantive way.
Meanwhile, while all of this is going on, the pipeline issue is huge.
How about a standalone pipeline bill, Republicans?
How about delinking the pipeline from this?
Well, they tried that rush.
They actually think more political pressure can be applied to Obama.
Well, no, because the Republican establishment is undermining the coupling of the pipeline with the two-month payroll tax cut.
But the pipeline issue is huge.
The Iranians are threatening to cut off access to Middle East oil, a straight of Hormuz.
And that wouldn't take much.
Leon Panetta, the Secretary of Defense, says that Iran getting nukes is a red line for us, meaning possible war.
He's saying that.
I know Obama is not saying it, but his Secretary of Defense is.
And yet, Obama and the Democrats are blocking a source of oil from an ally and are blocking the exploration and the use of natural gas.
And on and on, Obama and his party are doing everything they can to keep this nation imprisoned in the dependence on foreign oil while claiming that they want to do just the opposite.
The Prime Minister of Canada is telling us, if you won't buy our oil, we are going to sell it to the Chikoms and we'll sell it to the Chikoms happily.
I have a story in the stack somewhere in this stack that a senior American official or two confided to Stephen Harper, the Canadian head honcho, don't worry, don't worry, we're going to buy your oil.
They're not named, and the conditions under which we would buy the oil are not specified.
But clearly, the message, if a reporting is true, the message is that we're whispering, winking, hey, Mr. Harper, look, we've got to play our political game here, but when it's all said and done, we're going to be buying your oil.
We just can't do that now.
We can't, we can't.
Obama needs to hold out here.
He's got to placate his environmental base, but we're going to buy your oil.
Just stick with it.
That's the message that we are under the table giving.
But once again, we are subordinating what's best for this nation to Obama's political whims, desires, and needs.
And we've got a Republican Party that's apparently willing to help him.
This payroll tax cut, it's chump change compared to the things that we face.
All of these people claim that they're conservatives when they run out and push their subscriptions and ask for donations and promote all of their social activities and so forth, but they don't act like it much.
The key in this editorial, the key line in the Wall Street Journal editorial is this.
We wonder if the House Republicans might end up re-electing the president before the 2012 campaign event begins in earnest.
And there are some, that's the key line in the Wall Street Journal editorial.
And a lot of blogs are picking that up and they're agreeing with the Wall Street Journal.
Oh, no, if these Republicans keep this, oh my God, we're going to go ahead.
We're going to, for all intents and purposes, we're going to elect Obama before we even get to November.
So, no, I'm not.
That's the one.
That's the key line in their editorial.
We wonder if the House Republicans might end up re-electing the president before the 2012 campaign even begins in earnest because of not giving him his two-month extension on the payroll tax cuts.
So what we have here, the Republican establishment scared to death of Obama's class warfare campaign.
Is that right?
Is the Republican establishment now lost faith in the free enterprise system?
Is that it?
That we can't win that argument with Obama over the next year in the middle of what he has done to this economy.
We are willing to say that we will cede the election to Obama if we don't give him his two-month tax cut extension.
So am I wrong here?
The Wall Street Journal believes that 11 months from now, the election's going to turn on Obama draining tens of billions of dollars from Social Security?
Because that's what's happening.
I can't emphasize enough my whole life as a Republican, and you too, you've been hearing about all these horrible things we want to do to old people.
We want to cut their Social Security.
I heard Alan Cranston say in 1987 that we wanted to kick old people out of their houses by cutting Social Security.
I've heard other Democrats say that we want old people eating dog food and not having enough medicine.
Republicans are going to end Medicare when it's the Democrats who are doing all of this.
And Obama, right before our very eyes, is underfunding, cutting funding for Social Security up to half a billion dollars.
$500 billion, put it that way.
That's the correct way to express it.
And so in the process of, we're just going to sit around and let that happen.
Obama's going to cut Social Security funding by $500 billion, an amount that equals less than $20 a week for most people in the form of this middle-class tax cut.
You know, if Americans can be bought for $20 a week, then we may be in a hopeless situation anyway.
But let me just close this out by saying that the Democrats have insisted for 75 years that Social Security is an insurance program, that you are contributing a percentage of your paycheck into your own account, which is part of a trust fund, to pay for your retirement benefit.
It is not.
They insist.
It is not welfare.
It is not an entitlement program.
It is insurance.
They've told us this for 75 years, like an annuity program.
Meanwhile, every argument they are making now strips bare the big lie that they've been telling for 75 years.
If this payroll tax cut is a tax cut, then Social Security is not an insurance program.
And yet we're going to run around and let them have it both ways because we're afraid of the optics or we're afraid because Obama's African American.
Is it a welfare or entitlement program?
And the money people are having withheld from their paychecks is not an insurance contribution, then it's a tax.
Pure and simple.
But that's not, they've sold this as an insurance program.
And all of a sudden, now we're cutting taxes on this program.
It's a welfare or entitlement program.
The money people are having withheld from their paychecks is not an insurance contribution, a tax.
That's what they're telling us now.
Okay, then you are being taxed to pay for somebody else's retirement.
Now, the fact that the Republican establishment cannot make that case and other arguments tells me that they may have already surrendered.
And this is a big difference between us and the establishment.
They're in this defensive posture.
I've told you, I said on Greta how many times, a lot of people inside the Republican establishment secretly don't even believe Obama can be beaten.
And that's why they want Romney, because they think at least Romney will help him take the Senate.
He'll lose less down the ballot than Gingrich or some conservative will.
But we conservatives, you Tea Party activists, you don't want to give up and you haven't given up.
You don't want to accept this propaganda from the left.
We insist on challenging it.
We insist on fighting it because there's no other way to save the country.
And continually playing these games, letting the Democrats rewrite the language, change the definition of things, get away with false accusations against us, never do anything about it, constantly stay on defense.
Lookie, all of a sudden, Social Security at this point in time is not the third rail of American politics.
Now, I'm going to tell you something.
You put a Republican in the White House, you let a Republican talk about cutting the funding of Social Security by the amount Obama's talking about, and you watch Utter Hell Unleashed by the Democrat Party.
They wouldn't get caught up in the two-month or one-year tax cut, middle-class tax cut, payroll tax cut.
What they'd be focusing on is, C, the Republicans want to cut Social Security, and they'd be talking about how can they dare this is the only funding mechanism of Social Security, and they want us to give a tax cut to the rich for that's what they that's what they'd be saying.
That's how they'd be playing it.
We're accepting their terms.
Once again, we're accepting their premise and we're acting frightened.
We say, Okay, we got to go along.
Look at we, we got to let Obama have this so the issue goes away because otherwise he's going to be seen as king tax cutter.
Well, but he's not now.
I mentioned earlier how this is actually going to be paid for, whether it's two months or one year.
I'll tell you that when we come back, and we are back.
Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Okay, who is paying for the two-month extension of the payroll tax cut working its way through Congress?
The cost.
This is a random act of journalism here from the AP.
The cost is being dropped in the laps of most people who buy homes or refinance starting next year.
What an amazing admission from the AP.
Now, this is from last Saturday, Saturday, December 17th.
That's how old the story is.
And I'm sure they thought they could get away with publishing it last Saturday when everybody else was at Christmas shopping and not noticing big news on Saturday.
But the AP actually admits that Obama's wonderful 2% payroll tax cut will not be free.
Only rich people who can afford to buy a house or refinance their mortgage will have to pay for it.
The typical person who buys a $200,000 house or refinances that amount starting January 1st would have to pay roughly $17 a month more for their mortgage thanks to a fee included in the payroll tax cut bill the Senate passed Saturday.
So your mortgage would be up by $17.
You buy a house, you're trying to help the economy rebound.
You are the one paying for this tax cut.
Now, this so-called tax cut, which is not, it's a defunding of the Social Security Insurance Program.
Now, while this is temporary, I guarantee you, this is temporary.
It's an electioneer razmataz thing.
I guarantee you, whether it's two months or whether it ends up being one year, this is a temporary payroll tax cut cut.
But I am here to tell you that this new fee on your mortgage is no doubt going to be permanent.
You will be doing, if you buy a house or refinance, you're going to be doing more than paying for this so-called middle-class tax cut.
Ha!
Welcome back.
Okay, your phone calls are coming up here.
Just a couple of more observations and then we'll move on.
As you know, 47% of the American people pay no income taxes.
But the Democrats, when you hit them with that, say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, those 47%, they're still paying payroll taxes.
Everybody pays payroll taxes, so that 47% is still paying taxes.
Okay, fine.
So now look.
Obama wants to cut the payroll tax for two months.
Big whoop for two months and pay for it by people from people who buy a house or refinance with a mortgage of $200,000 or more.
What does that mean?
In a nutshell, this is all about the Democrats trying to get us to pay the Social Security tax for their constituents who already don't pay any income tax.
So not only are these people not paying any income tax, they're now going to get a payroll tax cut and working people are going to pay for it.
And the Wall Street Journal says, let Obama have it.
If you don't let him have it, oh, God, he can win reelection.
Just, oh, God, you're going to let him be there.
You've got to let him have it.
Now, the self-destruction, maybe, continues.
From the politico, Snerdley, are you sitting down from the politico?
Gingrich sides with Obama on payroll tax.
That's their headline.
Now, let's read a little further.
It says, here, President Obama has an unexpected ally in Newt Gingrich, who called on House Republicans to give up and make the payroll tax cut extension happen somehow.
And here's their quote from Newt.
Incumbent presidents have enormous advantages, and I think what Republicans ought to do is what's right for America.
They ought to do it calmly and pleasantly and happily.
That's what Gingrich said when he was asked about the clash between Obama and House Republicans over the payroll tax cut extension.
Now, maybe it's just me, but I'm not seeing where Newt says they should give in, but the politico says that's what he's saying.
So since we're talking optics and not substance, since the politico says that Newt has caved and sides with Obama, whether he said it or not, that's what's being reported.
And Hawkeye, cauckey caucusers are now going to hear that Newt's siding with Obama on the payroll tax cut and urging the Republicans, just come on, do it calmly and pleasantly.
Come, but we can't beat an incumbent president.
Come on.
They have too many advantages.
Wall Street Journal is reporting it too.
Gingrich to House Republicans give in on payroll tax.
So you see, folks, we're like on the TV show Lost.
It's just us on the island.
And the smoke monster is the Republican establishment.
One soundbite, and then we go to your phone calls.
Gingrich says resistance to this is doomed in the Wall Street Journal.
Resistance is doomed.
It's very hard for the legislative branch to outperform the president in communications.
He has all the advantages of being one person.
He has all the advantages of the White House as a backdrop.
My experience is presidents routinely win.
In other words, bend over and grab the ankles.
You cannot win this.
So just get out of it as soon as you can.
This little is too complicated.
Newt ought to know about losing to presidents, I guess.
Okay, last night, CNN's Anderson Cooper 69, the fill-in host Sanjay Gupta, spoke with the forehead, Paul Bagulla, about the Republicans not bringing the two-month payroll tax cut extension to a vote.
Sanjay Gupta said, do you agree, forehead, that this is an intentional Republican strategy to try and hurt the president?
If we look at what they do, I think the answer has to be yes.
If you look at what they have said, it's been their stated policy for quite some time.
Their pope and prophet and Buddha, Rush Limbaugh, began this presidency saying he hopes President Obama fails.
So forgive me if I look at this economic sabotage that the Republicans have been committing now for quite some time and think that maybe they have a strategy here.
Economic sabotage.
See how this is getting turned now?
Obama has sabotaged the economy major, big time to the point of pushing us to the brink as a country.
And so Axelrod comes out a couple days ago and says, you know, it's the Republicans sabotaging the economy.
And so the forehead picks it up.
So now Sanjay Gupta is a doctor.
Yeah.
Sanjay Gupta is a I don't know why he's doing politics.
He's the CNN likes him.
So I thought Newt beat Clinton on welfare reform.
Didn't he?
Didn't he?
He didn't Newt did not beat Clinton on welfare reform.
Oh, Sterns, no, you beat Clinton and Wilfrid.
But anyway, so now I'm a Pope prophet.
Now a Buddha.
A Buddha.
It's Christmas time.
Is the forehead calling me fat?
Did he read the BBC story?
Says this is a time to call people fat.
Show them how much you care.
To the phones we start in Philadelphia.
Bill, great to have you here.
Bill, I have to ask you a question.
Shoot.
Did you have trouble getting out of bed today when you learned that Bill Conlon, the ancient Jurassic Park sports writer, been accused of fondling young kids back in the 70s?
Well, you know, I heard that last night, and I was really disappointed, and I was kind of shocked because he's been a staple here for years, and everybody respects him.
And I was shocked, too.
Who would have ever believed a sports writer could be accused of such a thing?
Normally, it's sports writers who accuse people of doing that.
But now, sports writers have been accused.
It was with his family.
I mean, that's the shocking part.
Yeah, yeah.
And one of his family members pretty much admitted it.
Yeah.
And then they're not looking for money.
He used to work for ESPN.
He was on the sports reporters like 300 different times.
He used to work at ESPN.
I can't, I was stunned that a sports reporter could engage in this kind of depravity.
Because I thought sports reporters were the, you know, the essence of propriety, clean and pure as the wind driver, but they sit in moral judge and everything else.
I was shocked.
I must tell you, I was shocked.
Yeah, so was the city shocked, actually.
He was loved here.
Well, I know.
That's what's puzzling, too.
Because of that, everybody was genuinely surprised by this.
Yeah, the key word is was.
He was loved here.
No more.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It happens.
Yeah.
At least he's not a racist.
At least he's not a racist.
Rush.
When this Social Security, what they're fighting about now is just so ridiculous.
It's not going to create one stupid job anywhere.
It's not going to do anything for the economy.
You know, I'm a small business guy.
I'm a subcontractor.
I look up for my business.
I look to Wall Street.
I look to Fortune 500 companies, and they got their boot on the necks of these people, and they're not unleashing them.
I had a guy tell me yesterday, I was sitting in his office, he says, Phil, you gate at a racetrack, and they won't release the gate.
Since he became president, I lost 20 employees.
I had to lay 20 people off.
And every day it's a struggle.
I get up at 6 in the morning.
I'm home at 9 o'clock at night trying to keep the business going, trying to get my people back to work.
And all of our hears and fighting over this stupid two-month extension, which means nothing.
Right.
And here you are, a business owner, making it clear this is not going to matter to you whatsoever.
It won't matter.
Let me ask you, Bill, before you go, will your accountant or whoever handles your business's finances be able to figure out how to do all of this, the deductions and make it legal, be in compliance for two months?
You know what?
You don't even worry about it because it doesn't matter.
You worry about it at the end.
You do what you got to do, but it's not the point.
The point is, we need to get business back going.
You know, with business, small subconscious like me are doing business.
We're buying things.
We're buying cars.
You know, we're, you know, uploading all our equipment.
I have to tell you.
What we're doing is repairing our cars.
Let me tell you, this guy, folks, listen to him.
He runs a business.
He's had to lay off 20 people.
He's telling you this is inconsequential.
And it is because it's not a tax cut.
It's inconsequential money.
It is not cutting a marginal income tax rate.
There's no incentive here.
There's no permanence to it.
Two months.
All it is is an optic.
It's an effort to make Obama looks like he's cutting taxes in an election year.
He's doing the exact opposite of who he really is.
And we're being told today by the powers that be in our party, let him do it.
Let him get away with it.
Otherwise, oh, it's going to be a disaster.
Two months.
Now we've got, if all these reporters have got it, right on Newt, who's maybe not running business himself, I don't run around saying, oh, yeah, we can't beat the president.
I don't know that anybody knows what's really being.
Does anybody on our side know what really is happening with this?
Does anybody not understand that or understand that this is nothing more than a depletion of the Social Security funding mechanism?
A program they've told us for 75 years is an insurance program.
You deduct for your earnings.
It's put into a trust fund and it comes back to you when you retire.
It's never been a tax.
It's never been an entitlement.
It's never been welfare.
It's always been an insurance program.
Now all of a sudden, it's the this is what I mean when I say we just continue to let these people establish the premise of everything.
It's another illustration of get up, we mind our own business, we're going about our lives.
Also, we got to defend it.
Got to defend what we believe in, defend what we stand for, defend this, and we're never advancing it.
Back in just a second.
Speaking of optics, Obama has just been photographed shopping at Best Buy.
Took time out from the two-month payroll tax cut debate to go to Best Buy, shopping in Northern Virginia.
Actually, before he got to Best Buy, he stopped at a Pet Smart in Northern Virginia with his dog Bo, bought some stuff, and then moved on to Best Buy.
You know, there are stores that you can take your dog into and let them pick out the toys.
I did not, Catherine told me, she takes Abby in there and Wellesley.
I said, really?
You take the dogs in the stores?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Well, what a hoot that is.
And then Obama did that.
He took Bo to the store today.
Talk about optics.
Okay, Josephine in Vernon, New Jersey.
Hi, great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush, for taking my call.
It's such a pleasure.
I've listened to you for 20 years, plus our whole family and our grandchildren.
And because of you, we homeschool our children.
But that's not what I'm calling about.
But anyway, I called you last month on my anniversary, our 43rd anniversary, and you just made my day.
So I'm the lady that we have no cable and we have no internet, but we read a lot, and you're our school.
You're our schoolroom.
But anyway, I heard the other day you and Snerdley talking about you going back and forth.
And he said, what, what?
You said, what, what?
And you said, what the country would be like without Rush on the radio.
Well, you know, I got up 2:30 last night in the morning in a cold sweat thinking about Rush not being on the radio.
I almost had a heart attack.
I came downstairs and I wrote a note and I said, I got to call Rush today.
I can't let the year go without speaking with Rush on this.
But anyway, I was thinking it would be boring.
It would be, we'll be uninformed.
It would be like a third world country.
We lose the best member of our family.
And I got to tell you, you're like a Paul Revere.
You're a voice crying in the wilderness.
You're thorough, articulate.
You have the brass to say what everybody else is thinking, but they're afraid to say it.
You have a great, easy speaking voice.
You challenge us to think about current events.
We therefore go out and we challenge others.
I'm always telling everybody about you and your thoughts.
You love our country, Rush, and you keep us informed.
And you're just a harmless and lovable little fuzzball.
And we want you to stay on the radio.
That other guy called the other day and said he wants you on TV.
Think about it.
Don't think about it.
Stay on radio.
So you can reach so many more people that way.
Yeah, I really, you know, I can't thank you enough.
You put some thought into this before making your call.
And I don't know what there is to argue with here, folks.
I really don't.
You know what I'm thinking as you go through this?
My not being on the radio, picture the morning in North Korea and multiply that times 20.
Oh, I can't imagine.
You got people crying in the street, pounding the pavement in North Korea because Kim Jong-dead's dead.
Imagine what it would be like if I were no longer on the radio here.
I can't.
I just can't.
So we just want to thank you.
You are very sweet.
I thank you for the bottom of my heart.
Seriously, I really do.
And we're so happy that you're married to Catherine because we worried about you for a while.
We said, well, she's a nice helpmate.
So we're so happy about that.
So am I.
Yes.
By the way, so am I.
And some days.
You're a harmless and a lovable little fuzzball.
I love it when you say it.
Harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you, Josephine, very much.
And Merry Christmas.
Happy New Year to you guys.
Yes.
Thank you.
All right.
Okay.
Josephine.
Yes.
You still there?
Yes.
Is the TV still off?
Yeah, we have a physical old TV.
We never, you know, convert it over to it.
But because we're listening to you so much, we're saving up to get a, because we're retired now, we're saving up to get an internet connection and to get an internet.
We just don't know which one to get, so we're a little confused.
So we want to do a homework.
We have a little envelope.
We're putting money in it to save for a well.
I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
I'm going to send you a computer so that when you are ready to connect to the internet, you have a computer to use for it.
Oh, my goodness.
What good is being connected to the internet if you don't have a computer?
That's true.
And of course, the computer could cost you a little bit more than your internet connection, depending on what outfit you decide to go with.
So look, you stay on hold.
I'm going to send you a 17-inch MacBook Pro.
Oh, no.
And it's got Wi-Fi, so whatever, if you've got a wireless.
Bless you.
Oh, I know.
You get such a wonderful chair.
Yeah, I know, I know.
But I just, you know, I love sharing my passions with people.
I just do.
And I love this stuff.
It keeps me invigorated and active and learning things.
And I just love sharing the things I love with people.
So I'm happy to do this, Josephine.
You sit tight.
Don't go anywhere so we can find out where to send this to you.
And we use FedEx, so you have to be there when it's going to show up.
And I appreciate your call.
And we've got a brief timeout.
Back with much more after this.
Okay, there was something yesterday, folks, that we ended the program that I want to spend some time on.
And that is if Congress fails to pass the extension, it would put a serious dent into economic growth this year.
2012, this is absurd.
And also a story that the rich, the 1%, the achievers, the wealthy, hate you.
They have no compassion.
It's right here.
Time magazine.
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