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April 9, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 9, 2012, Monday, Hour #2
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That's the latest opinion audit from the Sullivan Group.
They do nothing but audit opinions out there.
And I'm a once you hit almost always right 99.7%.
Not much room left to improve.
I mean it move that up to 99.8.
I'm gonna have to be right for the rest of the year.
It's incredible.
It's a it's an by the way, it's an incredible amount of pressure, too.
But I'm up to it.
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This is James O'Keefe.
Video Project Veritas, he um uh demonstrates to the Attorney General Eric Holder, just why everybody should be concerned about the lack of voter ID laws.
He walked into Holder's voting precinct and demonstrated that anybody could get Eric Holder's ballot to vote.
Anyone could.
It's a video.
We have the audio to the video, and it shows a young man entering a Washington, D.C. polling place on Nebraska Avenue on primary day, which was April 3rd, just last week.
Giving Holder's name and address, the poll worker promptly offers the young man Holder's ballot to vote in a primary.
Oh yeah, yeah, you know, if you're here, if you hear your who you say you are, here you go.
And O'Keeffe said, no, no, no, I want to go uh he never did say he was Holder.
He just asked if if if they had a name in his roster there, if Eric Holder was on the on the list.
Never said he was Eric Holder.
And even with that, he was offered Holder's ballot.
He said, Well, wait a minute, I'd feel better if I went out to the car, got my idea, left it up.
Well, no, no, you don't need that.
As long as you're here and uh and and who you say you are.
The reason I love this is because this is O'Keefe doing what we have always done on this program, demonstrating illustrating absurdity by being absurd.
And he's demonstrated the absurdity of our of our voting laws.
So what's great about this is that the Attorney General Holder has maintained that this not a problem.
Voter fraud's not a major problem, and the voter ID wouldn't curb voter fraud, and and all it is is is racism.
Because it's uh it it it blacks, African Americans feel that it's uh it's the government coming after them and trying to find them.
And then after they find them to do something to them.
And because of that, it's uh it's racist.
Here's the audio of the tape released this morning at BrightMart.com.
It's last week at Eric Holder's polling place.
James O'Keefe just walks in, and you will hear he could have voted as Eric Holder had he chosen to.
Oh, do you have an Eric Holder?
Checking out air.
Northwest?
H-O-L-T-E-R.
H-O-L-D-E-R?
That's the name.
Northwest, that's the address.
Hey.
My name?
Okay.
Please sign me there.
I actually forgot my ID.
You know, I looked in the car.
You're on our list.
I would look more comfortable if I just had my IDs all right if I go get the clue.
I'll be back faster than you can say furious.
We're not going anywhere.
I'll be back faster than you can say furious.
These poor these people are clueless.
Literally clueless.
This guy could have voted as Eric Holder.
Now, if what would have happened?
We'll never know.
What would have happened if he had voted at as Eric Holder?
And then Holder walks in later.
And wants.
If they knew who he was, he might be in jail.
No, but no, what maybe not.
Maybe wouldn't they just give Holder another ballot?
Well, okay, that's that's if.
Okay, O'Keeffe goes in and votes as Holder.
And that's vote fraud.
O'Keefe wasn't gonna do that.
I'm just hype be We know it happens.
The reason I'm playing the hypothetical here is we know it happens.
So what would have happened if O'Keefe votes as Holder, and then later today, Holder comes in.
What if the guy doesn't tell him?
Oh, well, you already voted.
What did you just, oh, oh, you're Eric Holder?
Well, he goes to a different guy in the in the what if this guy says, prove you're Eric Holder, because there was a guy in here earlier said he was you.
Well, then the lid would blow.
No question.
And every FBI agent in the world would be tracking down James O'Keefe.
But it's important to note James O'Keefe did not commit vote fraud.
He didn't say he was holder, he didn't vote.
He didn't, he didn't.
It really, it's um it's excellent stuff.
And it does illustrate exactly what this point is all about.
Speaking of, you know, talk earlier about the Obama economy and the war on women and the fact that uh the American economy is in decline, and Obama wants you to believe it's in decline because of capitalism.
Uh Obama and the Democrat Party want you to think our economy is in decline because of its own structural failures and uh inabilities.
They want you to believe that $5 gasoline is what you get with an economy where everybody's out there fending for themselves.
When there's when there's nobody looking out for people, when there's nobody with compassion, when there's nobody guaranteeing fairness, this is what happens.
And of course, the U.S. economy is in decline only because it's in the shackles of socialism.
And it's going to get worse.
There's nothing wrong with this economy.
You go back to it's it's absurd to it to even make the point.
But here from the Los Angeles Times, higher gas prices cost less public anger this time.
Oh, yes.
Several factors are behind the relative complacency now compared with the price surge of 2008.
Gas prices have soared about 15% the last six months, hitting $3.94 a gallon on average nationwide, $4.29 cents in California.
The mood of motorists, eh, no biggie.
Partisan finger pointing aside, polls suggest that most people aren't as worked up over gas prices as they were four years ago.
Lara Clayton of Los Alamitos, as she spent nearly $60 recently to fill up her Lincoln Town car, said, Yeah, I think we've all adjusted.
We just don't drive as much, and we're careful to combine errands.
Yeah.
No big deal.
Relative complacency.
Until you read the rest of the article.
When you read the rest of the article, you find out people are not complacent about this.
did find people unhappy with this.
63% say gasoline prices have caused financial hardship.
It really is.
This is classic, this is unbelievable journalism.
This is worthy of NBC.
This LA Times story worthy of NBC.
No problem with gas prices.
You don't care.
You have come to accept it.
You are now driving with more efficiency in mind.
You are combining your errands.
It really isn't that big a deal to you anymore.
Except for 63% of the people in the poll who say that it is causing financial hardship.
How do you write this story?
How do you have higher gas prices cause less public anger?
Relative complacency in a story that has a poll that says 63% say gas prices because we're left to assume that there's complacency with financial hardship.
I guess that's what the story means.
Eh, no big deal.
Financial hardship, that's just the way it is now.
We're combining our hardships into fewer hardships so that our hardships are more efficient.
And we deal with our hardships as one big bundle rather than a bunch of separate ones, so the impact is less.
The God bless them, U.S. media in the tank for Barack Obama.
You know as well as I do that if there were a Republican in the White House and gasoline prices were where they are, higher than they've ever been, the last thing you would see is stories anywhere about how you are complacent and you're cool with it.
And you're just combining your errands, and it just isn't a big a deal anymore.
You know damn well you wouldn't be seeing those stories.
Seven devastating facts about the Obama economy.
Every fifth man in America is out of a job.
Twenty percent of American men are out of work.
Black male unemployment is now at the highest rate it has ever been since the government began collecting statistics in 1972.
Just 57% of black men over the age of 20 are now working.
And according to Maxine Waters, one out of every six African Americans, male or female, are now unemployed.
Every seventh person you pass on the sidewalk now relies on food stamps.
And it every seventh person you see in a car, it doesn't matter wherever you every seventh person at the movies.
Every seventh person, wherever you go, relies on food stamps.
On the last day of George W. Bush's presidency, gasoline prices were a dollar eighty-four a gallon today.
Under Obama, the average price we just had at $3.94 a gallon, up from a buck eighty three, and it's just fine.
You're okay with that.
LA Times.
Whoever wrote that LA Times story, I'm sure wants to get hired at NBC, probably with the Today Show.
And $4.29 out in California.
Easter weekend, Catalina Island, California.
Drivers saw prices topping $7 a gallon on Catalina Island.
No big deal.
You've come to expect it.
You're complacent with it.
It's just the way it is.
Not worth getting worked up over.
In 2006 and 2007, 90% of all college graduates found a job.
Under Obama, just 56% of college graduates are able to work.
But that's okay.
That's just the new norm.
It's just the way it is.
It's about time the United States found out what it's like to be one of the other countries in the world.
We've had it too good for too long, and we've had it unfairly too good for too long.
We had all these riches and all these wealth and all this advanced technological lifestyle stuff because we stole it from everybody.
It's about time now we found out what it's like.
2006-2007, 90% of all college graduates found a job.
Under Obama, just 56% do.
More than one in four U.S. homeowners are underwater or owe more than their homes are worth.
President Obama has created or increased the national debt more in three years than Bush did in eight.
And a record 87.
This is this is shocking number, and there are others that put this in even different perspective.
get this.com story.
Same thing.
Rising gas prices aren't as bad as you think.
Gasoline prices once again dominating the national debate, but despite rhetoric, high gas prices aren't hurting as much as they used to.
For the average American household, and you average Americans know who you are.
Average American household has an income of over $62,000 a year.
The increase in gas prices represents a relatively small portion of total spending.
It's the same story that claimed it was radio talk show hosts and the Republicans who are whipping people up.
Same story.
So you make sixty-two grand, your gasoline price gone from a buck eighty-seven to three eighty-nine.
It's no big deal.
It's such a relatively small portion of your spending.
CNN and now the Los Angeles Times.
And it's all in coordination with the regime.
Gas prices have gone up faster under Obama than they did under Jimmy Carter.
And Obama doesn't even have OPEC to blame.
He can only blame himself.
Keystone Pipeline, the drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico.
Who's where are we going on the phones?
Where are we uh where are we starting?
Wait patiently, so like somebody want to tell me where we're going to go.
Troy New York, this is Mike.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Russ.
Uh, you heard you lead off your show today with the uh Supreme Court fest.
And, you know, I come from the other side for me, and I just want to say that I I know you're a smart guy.
This is just conservatives that have found a Supreme Court decision in the activist Supreme Court argument anyway, that they liked uh the Supreme Court's trying to say that one-fixth of the national economy somehow isn't commerce.
I mean, that's just flat ridiculous.
And after years and years and years of conservatives saying that the Supreme Court is activist on the left, well, this shows you got no principles because this is clearly activism on the right.
They're uh at least the argument.
Wait, let's cut to the chase here.
You're telling me that you want the Supreme Court to decide that the government can tell you that you have to buy health insurance and broccoli.
You know what?
I want the chance to vote on the legislators that pass that law.
If they uh if they uh try to uh force me to put buy broccoli, I know what I'm doing with my vote.
I know what's going to happen to that Congress, and I'm fine with that.
You know what?
We've got a lot of years with uh health care problems and what's going on.
Because our system is broken.
Partisanship is blinding you into total willful ignorance.
If the Congress makes you eat broccoli, then you'll take care of that at the ballot box.
Sorry, that Congress has already spoken.
You throw them out, you still have to buy broccoli.
Until one of two things happens.
Either the court comes along and says they can't make you do it, which they can't, by the way, or another Congress wipes it out.
But until either of those two things happen, you still have to buy broccoli.
Now stop it.
This is a lot of people think this is an academic exercise.
You stop and think of it.
You have to buy broccoli.
You have to go to grocery store, you have to buy it.
And if you don't, you can get fined.
You want that world.
You want to live like that.
You want to have those requirements, and you want to say that a court can't turn that down because it's politicized or whatever.
You're going to have to get with a program and understand that it is your life that's being affected, not mine.
You guys seem to think that having us lose what we want at the court only hurts us.
What you don't understand is we love you too.
We want the best for you too.
And if we have to save you from yourself, we'll do it along with saving ourselves.
We want everybody to be free.
We want everybody to have a great opportunity for freedom and that economic advancement.
We love everybody here.
You've got this hatred dripping out of your voice here, and you don't care what happens to the country as long as the court disappoints me.
Man, what a definition of happiness you've got.
Rush Limbaugh being disappointed is how you live your life happy.
I could say you deserve what you're gonna get, but I Care too much about you.
Like I care too much about everybody else, and I don't want you to have to pay a fine when you don't buy broccoli.
And I don't want you to have to buy it in the first place.
If you don't like it, I don't want you to have to buy it if you do like it.
I don't want you to have to buy anything because a gum, a bunch of people in Washington command you to.
They don't have that authority.
It's that simple.
Nice try, Mike.
Uh Nick, Weymouth, Massachusetts.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush.
Pleasure to speak with you.
Rush, I need you to tell me.
What am I missing here?
This is all about jobs created.
Um we all know that in the last couple of years, uh, we hit about anywhere between 300 to 400,000 jobless claims per week.
But when a monthly job comes report comes out, they'll say, okay, 300 plus thousand uh new unemployment claims and a hundred thousand, hundred and twenty-two thousand, for instance, the last one jobs created.
Well, what am I missing here over a long period of time?
If you calculate the number of jobless claims versus the number of jobs created, it's something like about 30 plus to one over the last two years.
What am I missing here?
Where's the goodness?
And what they're saying is a recovering economy.
There isn't any good news.
They're trying to make you think this is the new normal.
They're trying to make you accept less.
They're trying to put you in smaller cars.
They're trying to put your house with defective light bulbs that are not going to be satisfactory.
You don't deserve to live well.
You've lived too well for too long as an American.
It's not fair to the other peoples in the world who have not lived as well as we have because we have stolen what they have.
It's not fair.
You're supposed to be miserable.
What are you going to do out there, folks, when the government tells you you have to buy a gun?
What do you do?
If they ever told you that, you libs, what are you going to do?
Hey, another question for the libs out there.
United States Congress passes a law.
Every home and every apartment building and every business must own and display an American flag from sunup to sundown.
If you don't, the IRS will be around to fine you.
How's that sit with you?
You cool with that?
You have to buy an American flag, and then you have to display it sun up to sundown.
Come on, Mether Limbaugh, you can't take this to the laundry.
How can you be so sure?
If once it's established that the commerce clause doesn't exist and they can make us buy anything or pay a fine with as much money as they need, and with the track record we have, we know who these people are.
How can you automatically say they would not force you to buy a gun?
What if some Republican president in Congress come along someday and think that you have to display the American flag and you have to own one just to get even with you, just to make you miserable.
That's the way you want to play the political game.
Once the doors open, there's no going back at all.
Who's next?
Barbara in um Minaconka, Minnesota.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you for having me, Rush.
You uh appreciate.
Thank you, Bet.
I was uh calling uh regarding the I went and had a mammogram three weeks ago, and I had to produce my license in order to have my mammogram.
Not only my insurance card, but I had to show them my license because they said Wait a second.
Wait a second.
You mean to tell me you had to show a photo ID to get a mammogram?
That's correct.
Was a photo ID of your face or another body part?
It was my face.
Okay, and why?
My driver's license because they said so many insurance cards were being stolen.
They wanted to make sure I was the person getting the mammogram.
Uh-huh.
Well, that's a good reason.
So many insurance cards are stolen.
You could have been somebody pretending to be you coming in a mammogram.
That makes perfect sense.
Did it offend you to have to produce your photo ID?
No, it did not.
Not at all.
And so you wouldn't be bothered at all if you had to show a photo ID to vote either, would you?
Not at all.
In fact, you know, polling data on this show, 70 to 80% of the American people have no problem with a photo ID to vote.
70 to 80 percent, including a majority of blacks, including a majority of Hispanics, including a majority of uh of uh minorities.
The only people opposed to this are the Democrat Party.
And Eric Holder, the attorney general.
I wonder why that might be.
Why would a why would a political party not want people to have to prove who they are to vote?
That's the way to phrase this.
Why would a political party not want people to have to prove who they are to vote?
So they can win elections because they can't win them straight up.
I mean, liberals are only 30% of the population self-identified.
Oh, not even that, 20% now.
Self-identified.
By the way, from the Hill.com, two weeks.
Thanks for the call, Barbara, really appreciate it.
Two weeks after fighting for the survival of its signature health care reform law before the Supreme Court, the Obama regime will be back in court tomorrow to defend another part of the president's agenda to make Americans healthier.
Isn't that do you love the way that's written at the Hill.com?
Let me read this to you again.
The headline, another Obama Administration Health Law faces court challenge.
But the Hill.com, total slaves to the Obama administration.
Two weeks after fighting for the survival of its signature health care reform law before the Supreme Court, the Obama administration back in court Tuesday, to defend another part of the president's agenda to make Americans healthier.
So that's what it is.
So that's what the Obamacare bill is all about, making us healthier.
You people at the Hilda, have you no shame?
Just how stupid do you think your readers are?
And the answer is pretty stupid.
That is part and parcel of being in the mainstream media is thinking most everybody other than other journalists that read your work are idiots.
The DC Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a case brought by five tobacco companies who are challenging regulations requiring graphic warning labels on cigarette packs and advertisements starting in September.
And once again, the regime is finding itself accused of overstepping its constitutional authority, this time on First Amendment grounds.
The graphic image by the way, wait, wait a second.
Before I continue with this, for you libs out there, as many of you know, well, maybe you don't know because you're libs.
Let me tell you.
Have you ever heard of the S Chip program?
The state children's health insurance program, S-chip, S chip program.
The S Chip program is a program which funds health care for America's children.
And do you know who pays for that?
Cigarette smokers.
What do you mean by that, Murta Lumbault, cigarette smokers pay for it?
The taxes on the sale of tobacco products, which include cigarettes, fund children's health programs.
And not just S-Chip.
There are many children's health programs that are ostensibly funded by tobacco taxes.
Now, since we're so broke and nearly bankrupt, it's probably safer to say that nothing is paying for it.
But the taxes levied from the sale of tobacco products are targeted to children's health care crimes.
So suppose while this is happening, we know it is, the government's also trying to convince people to stop smoking.
And they're raising the prices on cigarettes and tobacco products by raising taxes on them.
Don't smoke, it's putting too much strain on the health care system, don't smoke, don't smoke, and yet while we're telling everybody not to smoke, we are funding children's health programs with the sales tax revenue from tobacco products.
So what happens when people start not being able to afford tobacco products?
Because it's getting too expensive.
So they start buying them on the black market or they start stealing them or whatever, because they are addicted to them.
And what happens when the tax revenue to pay for children's health programs starts plummeting below necessary level?
What happens then if the government makes everybody go buy tobacco products, whether they use them or not, to make sure that our very important children's health insurance programs are funded?
Do you realize if they tell you, if they get the power to tell you you must buy health insurance?
And if they're going to go out and get 4,000 new IRS agents to track you down, if you don't, make sure they collect your fine.
If they're going to tell you they can do that, what's to stop them from demanding that you buy tobacco products?
They would never do that, Mr. Lombaugh.
Tobacco day.
Thick, sickly disgusting product.
Well, but if the revenue, Mr. New Castradi is not there to fund children's health programs and they can mandate what what if they're unhappy with the sales figures from the Chevrolet Volt?
What if they just demand that everybody within a certain income level go buy one?
Mr. Limbaugh, you are getting absurd.
This would never happen.
How do you know it would never happen?
Who would have ever thought five years ago that the government would demand everybody would require everybody to have health insurance?
I'm just telling all of you, all of you libs out there who are just preparing to be happy because people like me may not like the Supreme Court ruling.
Understand it affects you too.
And if you're going to be forced to buy health insurance whether you want it or not, and you can pay a fine or maybe go to jail if you don't buy it.
Well who is they?
Snerdley's yelling at me, but this is what they want.
All these who is they?
I maintain that there are many different levels, strata, if you will, of liberalism.
You have the leaders, and then as you go lower and lower, you've got the dupes.
Who um somewhere in these various layers, not all of these people want to be forced to go buy health insurance.
They're a lot of them are so idiotic they think they're going to be given it by virtue of everybody else buying it for them.
Anyway, I'm just trying to tell all of you libs out there who are designing things so that your happiness depends on whether people like me are disappointed.
It's gonna impact you too.
And you need to be thankful for people like me trying to safeguard and protect your freedom when you're so cavalier about it.
Anyway, the regime is in court because the tobacco companies, five of them, are challenging Obama administration regulations requiring graphic warning legals, uh labels on cigarette packs and advertisements starting in September.
Federal judge Richard O'Leon, George W. Bush appointee, ruled in February, quote, the graphic images were neither designed to protect the consumer from confusion or deception, nor to increase consumer awareness of smoking risks.
Rather, they were crafted to evoke a strong emotional response calculated to provoke the viewer to quit or never start smoking.
Now, the judge's critics argue that his litmus test for what constitutes permissible federal limitations on free speech was...
Should not apply to commercial speech, which is not as widely protected as political, religious, or artistic expression.
And they also argue that the uh the government has has a compelling interest in protecting public health through regulations.
And the Hill says here that while some conservatives are eagerly anticipating another blow against the Democrats' agenda, congressional Republicans have been largely silent on the matter after many of them voted for the law that made the regulations possible.
Of course they did.
The scardy cat go along to get along Republicans who don't want to make any waves.
But again, I'm just gonna take you back to a hard cold reality.
Tobacco sales tax revenue is funding Children's health care, numerous programs all across the country.
Doesn't that logically mean that we would want as many people buying tobacco products as possible?
If the revenue from the sales of tobacco products is protecting our children and their health care, don't we want people buying tobacco products?
No, Mr. Lomball, we don't because tobacco kills and it prolongs the people in the thieves to wipe them out and require the expensive health care with this expense.
Well, well then why are we funding children's health care programs with the sales tax revenue of product that we're trying to get people to stop using?
What sense is there in that?
I've said it before, I'll say it again.
I think cigarette smokers deserve a medal.
They're single-handedly taking all this abuse.
They're being forced outside to all of the extremes of weather to engage in their addiction, their habit.
Furthermore, they are funding children's health care programs, and yet they are targeted as the absolute most despicable people in our culture.
But without them, without them and their purchase of tobacco products, there wouldn't be the money to fund children's health care programs, and I don't care how that makes you feel, that is an irrefutable reality.
Gotta take a break.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Once again, you have asked the right person the question.
By the way, folks, um, you might be interested knowing Facebook has just agreed to purchase Instagram for one billion dollars.
Don't you just hate those Wall Street people?
They have all the money and they keep spending all the money amongst themselves.
Those evil w Oh, wait.
Facebook's not Wall Street, it's uh Harvard guy.
Okay, never never mind.
Instagram is not Wall Street.
Never mind.
It's a bunch of young liberals spending a billion dollars to buy stuff that each other has.
Snerdley just asked me a question.
These people at the General Services Administration that went on this big party binge in Las Vegas.
Why would they put videos of everything they did bragging about their vacation and all the money they spent?
Why would they post all that stuff on Facebook?
Do you really not know the answer to this?
You really No, no, no.
No, no, no.
No, no.
Not that's not your question.
You're now he's changing the question.
I don't know why people would put stuff up that incriminates.
No, no, no.
Specifically the GSA employees who made a big deal out of spending taxpayers.
This knocking us.
This was an in-your-face thing.
This was done on purpose.
These people are in in their minds untouchable.
Nothing can happen to them.
They are government employees.
This was in our face.
This was designed purposely, these party videos and the uh messages attached, all the fun and all the mocking using taxpayer money.
That's an in-your-face move.
This is not look at me, notice me.
There might have been some of that in there, but this this this the target for this was not their friends and and so look at how rich we are and look how this was this was right to us.
This is mocking us.
No question about it.
There is an arrogance here that that is unmistakable to me.
And they did this because they clearly were not afraid that anything would happen to them.
They're probably not the sharpest knives in the drawer, you know, and order a fry short of a happy meal, but still, it was a designed poke in the eye.
At the people, it was look at what we're getting away with using your money.
Look at how we are screwing the look at how we are taking advantage of you.
No question in my mind.
Here's John in Annapolis, Maryland.
He is an unemployed economist, it says here.
Great to have you on the program.
Great greetings from the People's Republic of Maryland.
Thank you, sir.
Um, I wanted to share a little stat that I used to use a couple of years ago in some of my economic analysis dealing with gas prices, because we used to follow that uh quite extensively in trying to kind of formulate which direction we thought things were going.
And for every penny that a gallon of gas goes up, we estimated that it took between one and one and a half billion dollars annually out of the economy.
How did you arrive at that number?
That's that's an interesting stat, but how did you get there?
You know, there were a couple of us that worked on it.
There was one, uh I'll call him a veteran economist that came up with the metrics for it.
Um I could probably get in get get into it with you, but it might take an hour.
Well, we don't have but okay.
So basically what you're saying is for every penny increase in the price of gasoline, there's that much corresponding decline in economic activity on the part who have to pay that penny for gasoline.
Yeah, think of it more as a shift of money.
We we used to think of it in terms of disposable income because there's so there there's certain there's certain set things.
That's exactly right.
That's a that's a great way to put it.
So yeah, so you're taking a penny of disposable income away times the number of people who have to buy the gas.
I'm surprised it's that little.
A billion, billion and a half, but it makes total sense.
I do believe that.
Back after this.
Our last caller from Annapolis, Maryland's right on the money, and that's why the country's after taxes disposable income has gone through the floor over the past few months.
Disposable income is really what grows the economy, the money people have to spend that's in their pocket after they paid bills, taxes, and all that.
That's vanishing because of the rising cost of gasoline.
Be right back.
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