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Nov. 2, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 2, 2015, Monday, Hour #2
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Hi, how are you?
Great to have you here, folks, as we kick off another week of broadcast excellence, authored by me.
Your guiding light through good times and bad.
Rush Limboy here at 800 282-2882.
If you want to send an email, have at it.
Lrushbow at EIB net.com.
Here's something for these.
By the way, I don't, I've got a lot of emails.
How can Gates be so dumb?
How can a guy be so dumb?
Here he is, capitalism's biggest win.
I don't think he's dumb at all.
Can't be dumb.
There's there's something else going on that explains this.
He's not stupid.
This is like capitalism versus socialism is not hard to understand.
And it's very easy for somebody like Gates to realize what happened to him could not happen under socialism.
It'd all be taken from him.
So he's not there's something else going on here.
And I'm pretty sure that I've got a good handle on it.
It's all about keeping the various powers that could take his money away from him, away from him.
It's about building a moat around him and his money and creating love and respect and uh admiration for him so that he's he gets stamp of approval.
It's okay if he has a lot of money because he does good things with it, they leave him alone.
Buffett, same thing, I think.
I mean, it's obviously more complicated than that, but I mean that's the simple explanation here.
But let's just let's play a little bit here on this whole idea of his that that the private sector's inept in dealing with climate change.
Now, even if there is global warming, and I know there isn't, but I want to play the hypothetical game here.
Even if there is global warming, and if you fervently believe that, and given what I just shared with you about the filthiest places on this planet, and every damned one of them is either run by a dictatorship or communism or socialism.
We have one, two cities in China, uh one city in India, one in Peru, two in Russia, one in Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Zambia.
We're not dealing with capitalist countries here, which are the filthiest, the most polluted places on earth.
So the idea that that socialism and big government is where all the research and development is, and good big governments were all the good ideas, it's good statistics, it's caca.
Okay.
So even if there is global warming, and again I assure you there isn't.
Wouldn't the best solution be to bring back as much manufacturing as possible to the U.S.?
After all, we are the most advanced at cleaning up our messes.
And that, by the way, is another of the many gold stars that attach to capitalism.
Capitalism, capitalist countries are better at cleaning up their messes than any other type or form of government out there for a whole bunch of obvious reasons.
We are the most advanced at protecting the environment.
And some of you might Yeah, yeah, but that wouldn't be the case, Rush, if it weren't for government and all these regulations, because you know these companies, Rush, you know they they just they'd pollute everything, kill every customer they got, they'd poison every river, and they'd do everything they could to destroy.
Right.
That's exactly what capitalist companies want to do is kill their customers.
I can think of no better business plan.
I'd like to go to Harvard Business School and I go for my doctorate on the thesis that American corporations are striving to kill their customers.
I'll bet you I'd get an A from Harvard.
I mean, how nonsensical is that?
But how many people look at these drug companies, rush these drug companies?
You see how much the prices are gone up, and then they're just gouging pit.
You know why prices have gone up in drugs?
Obamacare!
Can anybody say Obamacare?
Obama cares, even the CBO.
Back in 2010, the original scoring warned everybody if you do this, pharmaceutical prices are going to skyrocket, and they have, and they are.
And you got every liberal Democrat running around out there complaining, whining, moaning about the drug companies gouging people.
They're just following the regulations and the law as written under Obamacare.
Yes, I've got backup for this.
Look at if I give you just trust some of this stuff.
I've got it right here if you want, but it's going to delay getting to other things, but I'm not making this up.
No point in making this stuff.
If this could be easily refuted, why would I make it up?
Obamacare is why health care has gone up.
Obama cares why health insurance has gone up.
The new enrollment period is started now, and it's an absolute disaster coming up later here in the SNAC.
Government doesn't solve anything.
Government government makes messes and then sets itself up as the fixer and in the process makes the mess even bigger.
Anyway, back to my original point.
If there's global warming, wouldn't it make sense to bring back as much manufacturing to the U.S. as possible?
We're the most advanced at protecting the environment.
It's capitalism that allows us to have such high pollution standards, meaning capitalism is what permits.
Actually, capitalism requires that these messes be cleaned up in order to stay in business and prosper and grow.
But there's no there's no refuting this either.
You can you can go to any communist paradise you want, measure the pollution against that here in the United States, a capital use, not even close per capita or however else you want to imagine it.
I have always maintained the problem in the world is the unequal distribution of capitalism.
I just think it's it's nonsensical to watch all of this stuff.
And it's it just gives you an idea of some of the powerful forces that we are we are all up against here.
When somebody like Gates comes around and starts bashing capitalism.
I mean, that's made to order for every college student out there to just soak up, believe, and then uh start reciting.
I mentioned to you, and Snerdley didn't believe this, that after the CNBC debate the next day, I said, there's no shame.
They're not embarrassed.
I don't care what the news stories say.
I don't care.
The CNBC people respond, and by the way, we've learned that the guy that ran the CNBC debate, worked in the Clinton White House, three different jobs for Al Gore.
They're all Clinton hacks, exactly as I told you, and it's as far as they're concerned, that debate was mission accomplished.
And I mentioned to you in the last hour that an evolving narrative now is how the Republicans are a bunch of whining losers who can't handle a little of adversity.
And that narrative is starting to bubble up out there.
This is last night and this morning, CNN, Fox News channel.
Bunch of different people.
Here goes.
Listen.
The whining over the CNBC debate is far from over.
They seem to be a little whiny.
Republicans need to stop whining about these debates.
A lot of them don't want to appear to be whining.
Stop whining about tough questions.
It's probably best not to whine too much.
Eighty percent of those voices are the Fox News channel.
And you think CNBC and the rest of the drive bys are embarrassed?
You think they're ashamed by their performance at CNBC?
Hell no, folks, they're applauding themselves.
Mission accomplished.
No less than Dan Rather on CNBC.
Well, he's actually on CNN.
He's on reliable sources yesterday.
And he was defending CNBC, but of course he would.
I mean, if you forged documents for a news story and think you're telling the truth, you wouldn't have any problem what CNBC did.
Brian Stelter says, You've been on these stages so many times, Dan.
You've been a moderator so much.
You've done this more than anybody.
You are the seasoned professional at moderating debates.
What would your review of the moderators of the CNBC debate be?
Look, they didn't do it perfectly.
It wasn't their best night.
But I think we have to see clearly what's At play here.
That candidates on the right side of the political spectrum, a large part of their constituency loves attacks on the press.
It's part of the political game.
That particularly with those on the right side of the political spectrum, they're going to attack the press because a large part of their constituency likes it.
And that's what this is about.
By and large, reporter's job is separate bullshine from brass tax.
And by and large, that's what the press does.
Such caca.
I mean, it's all just caca from top to bottom.
But uh, they didn't do it perfectly.
It wasn't the best night, but I think we've seen uh clearly what's at play here, and that is the candidates on the right side of the spectrum uh pretty much crazy.
Uh that was uh display C and BC rather uh rather good job.
Partisan political operatives uh generally do a good job in that.
Screw it, Dan.
I'm just showing you that there's no regret.
Now back to Jeb Bush weekly standard, Jeb campaign resets for fifth time.
Yep, exactly.
Last hour I asked, by the way, I looked into this.
Jeb's high point was at 19% in July.
It's been downhill since then.
19 points was the top polling number that Jeb preference in a presidential primary election poll that Jeb has achieved.
It's been downhill ever since.
And there have been a bunch of different reboots, just like they were with Hillary.
Now, the press does not catalog Hillary, they just report Hillary Clinton with a new presidential announcement.
They never tell you it's our fourth or fifth.
And they never ask why.
Hillary needs to constantly reboot.
But here's the weekly standard.
Jeb campaign resets for the fifth time.
Since the two-term Republican first began exploring a presidential bid at the beginning of the year, Bush campaign seen five shakeups, five resets or five shifts in course.
Before we get to number nine, grab sound by number twenty.
Here is Jeb this morning in Tampa on the the fifth reboot, which is called the I Can Fix It Tour.
We need a president who fixes America's standing abroad.
I can fix it.
After seven years of massive deficits, historic debt, and a president who vetoes defense spending because he wants more reckless spending.
We need a president who fixes our budgetary mess.
I can fix it.
I know I can fix it because I've done it.
There we go.
And there goes the political resume again.
I don't know.
I don't mean to sigh, folks.
That sigh was not in frustration at anything.
Um I'm just exhaling CO2 for climate change.
I mentioned during that last debate, every time Jeb started citing what he had done as governor.
I I I practiced one time I did yell.
I said, Don't you understand this is why you're not doing well.
People want outsiders, political professionals, well-oiled political people, politicians.
This is not what people in this primary want.
You are you are killing yourself by telling everybody what you did as governor.
It doesn't matter.
Politicians doing what they do very well has led to what everybody thinks is a crisis-related mess.
I can fix it.
I know I can fix it because I've done it.
Okay.
That takes us to David Brooks.
David Brooks, who uh, as you know, after having dinner with Barack Obama back in 2009, and after witnessing the sharp crease in his slacks, proclaimed that alone told him that Obama was going to be great.
David Brooks on Meet the Press, the round table yesterday.
F. Chuck Todd the host said, what evidence David Brooks is there that Jeb Bush is the most electable.
If I were him, I'd leave with his strength and just say, I'm boring.
I'm boring.
Is our problem in Washington we don't have enough warringness?
No, it's we got too much craziness.
And so I'm gonna be recedative.
I'm gonna be uh laxative, I guess.
I guess calm you down.
I like the slogan that they're adjusting to, I can fix it.
And so I think he just ought to say that and be himself.
Jeb Bush should sell himself as the laxative candidate.
Man, that's appealing, isn't it?
And David Brooks, you know, he's establishment insider.
The establishment insiders were given a heads up on the new I can fix it theme.
And you heard Brooks there endorsed the I Can Fix It theme.
But let me ask you a question.
Here's David Brooks.
I mean, this guy's considered brilliant, brilliant conservative New York Times conservative columnist.
And his suggestion is if you're boring, like Jeb is, go out and admit it.
Hey, I'm boring.
Is our problem we've got too much boring people?
No, we've got too much craziness.
I'm not crazy.
I'm boring.
Let me be your laxative.
Let me be your sedative.
I can fix it.
How would that fly out there?
Ron Fournier on Fox News Sunday again during the round table.
And let's see, the presentation is just uh Roberts.
John Roberts was filling in for Chris Wallace.
So one of the things one of the things that uh Jeb is doing, he's going hard after Marco Rubio.
That presentation he made last week into supporters in Houston included a hundred and twelve page PowerPoint presentation in which they said about Rubio, quote, those who have looked into Marco's background in the past have been concerned with what they found.
And we this is true.
They leaked that hundred and twelve page election manual.
Anyway, here's what Fournier had to say about Bushes aren't quitters, but when you when you watch him deal with uh debate process filled with loud candidates, filled with loud reporters.
A very vapid and vain political process that we're kind of in now.
He does strike me as you know the Charlie Rose candidate in a Charlie Brown world.
What is that?
A Charlie Rose candidate in a Charlie Brown world.
Do you do you have the slightest idea what that means?
You do.
Charlie Rose can.
Oh, oh, oh, wait, wait.
Oh, so so Charlie Rose is Erudite intellectual sophisticated uh establishment cream of the crop.
That's where I was missing this.
That's what I didn't get.
Okay.
So what, America's constipated, Jeb can fix it?
Or is he saying that Charlie Rose is constipated and needs a laxative.
I I I'm getting confused now over all this.
Let me let me go to the phones as I try to get myself back into some sense of equilibrium here.
We're gonna start in Kansas City.
This is uh this is Lisa.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
I just wanted to call in and thank you so much for all the comments and your coverage of the Royals, how they've been going through the end of their season and their playoffs.
We are just absolutely thrilled here to have them the world champions, and just like you, and I've listened to you forever in the quality programming you do, the Royals organization.
They're more than world champions.
They are quality from the top to the very bottom.
And we're just a thr absolutely thrilled here.
The city is on fire today.
I've been out shopping, and um every single place is everybody's a dressed in blue, and we have schools that are canceled for tomorrow.
Everybody's the whole city's gonna be at the parade tomorrow.
So I know what I've so much.
You at Lisa confirms something for me, if you will, since you are there.
You actually live in Kansas City.
Yes, I grew up here.
Okay.
I have a news story that's that quotes the police that there have been no riots, there have been no arrests, there have been no bombings, no fires set.
Uh basically there no no public uh uh unrest, uh no no no no crimes committed, no no uh destruction of property.
It's been thoroughly clean and wholesome.
Is that still true?
Oh, yes.
I think there are people who have not been to sleep very much all weekend long from the continual partying, but no, this is just great.
We're so happy for them, and the whole city is just enjoying this like we haven't joined enjoyed something since 1985.
It's fabulous.
Yeah.
I'll tell you to help people uh understand this.
The you go back to 1975, really.
1975 through let's go through 85, those 10 or 11 years.
Royals were a contender every year.
They were drawing two million people.
And for three or four of those years, they had a rivalry with the New York Yankees that sustained everybody.
76, 77, 78, or three years in a row, then uh a year off, and then finally beat the Royals in 1980 and went to their first World Series and lost to the Phillies.
But back then the uh the Royals owned Kansas City.
Uh, and I I uh I lived there for 10 years, and I it's kind of like Pittsburgh in the sense that when the sports teams are doing well, there is a unity in I mean, it's it's a it's a the way I phrased it was amazing how a community can derive so much of its self-esteem, and I mean this in a good way, uh, from the performance of the sports teams.
The teams winning made everybody feel like they were part of it.
It's small enough community that everybody really felt like they had a hand in it.
It was an amazing thing to be part of.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations all the time.
Rush Linboy here at 800-282-288-2, the email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Got some polling data in from New Hampshire.
This is in the thehill.com, and what is the poll?
Monmouth University.
They never put that in the opening paragraphs.
You gotta dig down to find it.
That's why I'm always.
Here's the headline of the story.
Rubio's polling numbers skyrocketed New Hampshire.
I said, whoa, man, what is this?
I mean, that's all it says.
Rubio's polling numbers skyrocket New Hampshire.
The top of the story does not have a list of the candidates and their percentages.
So that headline, you know, man, oh man, Ruby, okay, after the debate, Rubio skyrockets, holy cow, what's him New Hampshire?
That's big Trump was leading there.
What happened here?
So you read and you read, you read, you read, you read, and you find out that Rubio's in third place at 13%.
And do you know who's in first place in that would be the Trumpster.
He's in first place at 26%, and that's unchanged.
Now, why isn't the headline Trump continues to soar in New Hampshire?
Well, we know the answer.
But still, Rubio's polling numbers skyrocket.
Okay, so what happened?
I assume Ruby Rubio tripled his support to 13% from last September.
September to October, October, now November.
So Paul was taken in October.
So in one month, Rubio's tripled.
So 13 divided by three is four point something.
So Ruby was basically at four points.
Now's at 13.
In second place, you can't find the name in the story, Ben Carson.
16%.
And one of the one of the real kind of surprises in this, a name also not mentioned until you read deep, John Kasick, is in fourth place at 11%.
So in a story with a headline, Rubio's polling number skyrocket in New Hampshire.
Here's a poll quote from the story.
Celebrity Businessman Trump, who has been fading recently, but still leads the GOP race overall.
He hasn't been.
He faded in one poll in in where?
Iowa.
To Ben Carson.
But they want to write that story.
They want to write that Trump's fading.
They want to write that Trump's peaked.
They want to write that Trump's blown it.
They want to write that Trump is yesterday's news.
Celebrity businessman Trump, who has been fading recently, but still leads a GOP race overall, maintains his lead in New Hampshire, with 26% of likely primary voters saying they will support it.
Headline Rubio's public number skyrocket.
So it's Trump 26, Carson at 16.
And you have to hunt to find these numbers.
Rubio, 13%, Kasich 11, Ted Cruz is at 9%.
Jeb Bush, the Laxative candidate at 7%.
Carly Fiorina and Chris Christie at 5%, and Rand Paul 3%, Charlie Rose at 1%.
I just threw Charlie Rose in there.
I'm just Charlie.
I'm sorry.
I don't mean to pound on poor Charlie.
But they want to portray Charlie Rose to us as Mr. Sophisticated, Mr. Intelligent, Mr. This is the guy who didn't even know that Hillary Clinton has been lying about the video in Benghazi.
He tried to take Rubio to task for you after the debate last week.
Rubio said, you know, the media, so it's Hillary Clinton had a great, great week.
It's a debate performance in the Benghazi committee.
Yeah, the leak week she was exposed as a liar.
And Charlie Rose, that's a serious charge, don't you think?
What do you mean serious charge?
She did lie.
She lied about the video.
By the way, there's even more condemning news about that now.
And that is that who was it?
Uh was it the State Department?
Was it CS?
Somebody told some other government agency implored Hillary, do not go out there and blame this video.
And she did it anyway.
Here's uh here's Vivian in Chicago as we stick with the phones.
Hey, Vivian, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Rush.
It's such an honor to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
Uh so my comment about your uh discussion this morning on uh the Clinton uh tax organizing the CNBC debate.
Yes.
Well, it just seems to me that those gotcha questions aren't really designed for the candidates at that debate.
They're designed to trip up whoever the candidate is who debates Hillary Clinton.
Meaning what?
Well, that they're gonna keep those uh questions handy and their answers, and then whoever the candidate is who was in the CNBC debate, they'll use something from that to try to make them stumble and kind of like they did to Romney with the uh question about Oh, oh, oh, I see what you're saying.
Yes.
Um, yeah, I think that's a good point.
That whenever we get to the actual presidential debates, these questions are going to be repeated.
The questions in the CNBC debate, whoever the Republican nominee is, the same type of questions will be asked of the Republican.
You have said of Mrs. Clinton that she lied about the use of video.
Don't you think that's a rather serious charge?
Um Mrs. Clinton, your hair today looks absolutely stunning, is that a new wig would never be asked.
They referenced how good her hair looks might happen, but the fact that it's a wig never would be mentioned.
It was the CIA, it was the CIA implored her not to blame the video.
But Vivian's point is that that no way these people are embarrassed and ashamed of what they ask because they're gonna do it again.
When it comes time to have the Republican candidate versus uh versus Hillary debate.
My adopted hometown's next Sacramento, California, Sandy, your turn.
Hello.
Good morning, Mr. Limbo.
This is such an honor to talk to you.
Well, thank you.
Thank you very much.
I really appreciate that.
Yes, I called to tell you how how much I appreciate you writing those books.
I have Two nephews that if you'd ever told me they would sit down and read a book, I would have never believed it.
But they argue whoever who's gonna have the book.
Really?
How many how old are these nephews of yours?
Uh I have one that's eight and one is ten.
They won't even let their their cousins, their their nieces, they won't even let them read it.
And here to four up to now they have not shown an interest in reading very much?
Never.
I mean, they didn't even read comic books.
Whoa.
I mean, and they love your book.
I mean, they sit and oh, they talk about it.
I mean, that's the whole meal time is listening to them talk about your book.
Well, I can't thank you enough.
I uh Vivian, I'm so or Sandy, I'm I'm I'm so appreciative you got through.
Uh I tell you, uh you getting my boys to read is an honor.
And you you I tell you what, there are parents and aunts and uncles out there that love you for this.
Well, it sounds like a miracle out there.
It is a miracle.
I didn't think they would ever sit down with a book and actually sit there and not even turn the television on or play their games.
They're reading your book.
Well, how let me ask you this.
Uh Sandy, what what kind of efforts did you or or their parents make in trying to get them to read before this case.
I mean, how did you learn that they don't they're not crazy about reading?
They're still pretty young.
How did you figure that out?
Yes, I understand that.
But uh, well, when they don't read their own homework assignments and things like that.
That was that was a good inclination there.
That they listen to you with me when they're here on the radio all the time.
Wow.
And they heard you talking about your book.
So I was able to get up and up to go buy one because I didn't think they'd really read it.
But now they won't even let me borrow it.
You mean you only have one to go around everybody?
Well, I'm on disability, so I couldn't afford to get enough for all of them.
Oh, that's a shame.
So I figured I get one.
Well, we can take care of that.
If you'll hang on here when Mr. Sturdley uh when we finish here, Mr. Snerdley will pick up and we'll we'll send you some.
We'll send you the new one.
I'll tell you what, we'll send you the Rush Limbaugh on the Star Spangled Banner.
Oh, that is fantastic.
And I'm gonna send you a couple.
We've just we just got them uh because of popular demand.
Some of these young people reading the books have literally been begging us for a stuffed animal of Liberty the Horse, a cuddly stuffed animal.
So we we commissioned one.
We had I can't tell you the number prototypes.
I can't tell you the number of manufacturers we took submissions from.
And we settled on one, and it's now available at uh rushrevere.com.
And I'll sit I'll enclose a couple of those too.
Folks, if and Sandy, thanks, don't hang up here.
Mr. Snerdley will get your address in my adopted hometown.
I I'm not kidding you.
I we get a lot of these.
I'm it uh a lot of feedback from parents who say that until these books came along, their kids were not interested in reading.
And when that first started happening, I thought they were just being nice.
You know, I just thought they were just uh being complimentary and and all that.
But it's it's we get so many of them, so many comments like that, that your books are the first my kids have actually wanted to read.
There are so many of those that I actually now believe that it's true.
I mean, I I'm not I'm not trying to to to impugn the people that have said it.
I just people complimentary and they and they say nice things.
But we're getting so much of that that I think it actually is a phenomenon related to these books.
I think there's something about them that these kids get into, and this, if I if I may say so, it's the design.
I mean, this was the whole plan was to write these books in such a way that the reader is not just reading somebody recite historical facts, but the way the books are written, the reader is taken back in time to these events via time travel with a funny sarcastic talking horse, and actually meets the people who made this country.
And they get to talk to them.
Well, the the the students in the book get to talk to the reader gets to experience it, but they're taken back to these events, and it actually is putting the reader in the story.
And we have an added benefit in these books.
The stories happen to be true, and they happen to be true about the founding of the country.
And I you know we get a lot of accolades, folks, not denying that.
And we get a lot of praiseworthy reaction to these books.
But the one of the most meaningful is what Sandy here said that her nephews couldn't have the slightest interest in reading until these books hit.
And now they can't get the books out of their hands and they want the next one to come out soon and so forth.
It's such a pleasant reaction that we're getting from everybody who's read these.
I get an and Sandy, I thank you so much.
I'm I'm grateful that you um were able to get through today.
I have to take a brief time out now once again, because this is the fastest three hours in media, and it just rolls on.
I'll be right back after this.
I know, it really is moving to me.
I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm kind of speechless when I hear this stuff, but it's amazing.
We had a caller last week's his son was dyslexic, who just loves these books.
And and Sandy here did you she's got she said six and eight years old, something like that, and six and ten and eight or whatever, and they don't like eight and ten, and they don't like comic books, but they like these books.
If you've got a young kid, eight to ten doesn't like comic books, you might think you've got a problem.
But yet they like these books.
And you know why, folks, I'm gonna tell you exactly why this is the this is the strategy that we had in putting this whole series of books together.
Of course, the point is to teach the truth about the founding of this country to young people so that they have a base knowledge and understanding as they're going through school and hearing the opposite.
These books, the rush revered time travel adventures with exceptional American series, these books are immersive, which means it's not just somebody reciting facts or trying to tell interesting stories.
The the reader is taken right to the events that we cover from book to book to book.
And the reason I think these kids like it so much is when you're young is when you have your imagination's running wild.
You don't have any boundaries because you don't know yet what you can't do.
You don't know yet what you want to do or don't want to do, but everything in the world fascinates you.
So we're an adult reading a book about time travel, already come on, get serious.
To a young person, cool man.
An adult, you what do you mean talking horse?
To a young person talking horse, wow, sarcastic to boot, funny as heck.
Even though there was a TV show once with a talking horse, Mr. Ed, and it was pretty popular among adults at the time.
Because Mr. Ed was kind of a sexist, and it was okay to be back in those days.
And his owner was a dork, you know, named Wilbur the Horse again was the cool one.
Uh but no, they're they're immersive, and since young people have these wild imaginations and and uh incredible dreams about possibilities, all of this stuff to them is just really cool.
And I picked that up from from some of the feedback as well.
So anyway, thanks to everybody that's that's sharing all that feedback with us.
Uh we're immensely proud.
A lot of work goes into these, and we really like them ourselves too.
So it's it's great to get this kind of feedback.
Here's Jeff in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Great to have you, sir.
Appreciate your patience.
Hello.
Hey, Roger, how are you doing?
Good.
Good, thank you.
Uh Linda, add on to your um your point with uh Bill Gates and the wealthy being uh uh fearful of losing their money, and that's where socialism comes in.
Socialism basically um creates a situation where it impedes uh people's ability to acquire capital in order to compete with them.
If no one has to have the ability to compete with them, they're gonna be pretty well situated up at the top where they are, and they don't have to be able to do that.
Well, you know, you you know how that you know how that's true?
I'll tell you how that really works is if the rich people you're talking about, rather than wishing everybody could experience it, are the kind that say, I've got mine, now let's shut it down.
Which essentially is what you're saying.
You got people who would rather not be competed with or against, and high tax rates.
I've always maintained that the income tax is the number one obstacle to the creation of wealth in the country, because it is a tax on your work.
It is and the more you work, the harder you work, and the more you earn, the more you pay.
It's almost a punitive time to think, which is why, you know, I've always objected to punishing achievement, which is what the tax code does.
But there's no question here that Jeff is exactly right about this.
The income tax, particularly, is one of the greatest deterrents to the acquisition of wealth that there is.
You don't know any billionaires that have gotten that money by being paid that money.
They don't work for anybody.
That's the point.
Paul Ryan says he needs an ozone machine to get the cigarette smoke odor out of the speaker's office.
Boehner smokes cigarettes.
Ryan has also ruled out quick immigration reforms, as he doesn't think that they can trust the president on this.
We trust him on the budget, though.
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