Daily Rant Part 2 – January 31, 2009
January 31, 2009
More about Corporate Jets
Rush Limbaugh teaches his listeners about corporate America and why it’s nobody’s business whether a company chooses to buy a corporate jet or not when laying off people and closing stores, especially the government. However, those first in line to take government bailouts shouldn’t be too surprised when they are being told whether they can or can not buy their corporate jets. Here is the transcript for members from his January 27, 2009 show. Here is an excerpt:
…Now, I want to take you back to December, ladies and gentlemen. This is a teachable moment. I don’t want to build it up to be too big a deal, but I want to take you back to last December. Starbucks, the coffee bunch, had just announced layoffs of, oh, I don’t know, thousands of people, and they’re closing some stores. At the same time they were taking the delivery of a new G550 that month, $45 or $50 million corporate jet, and every corporate jet is described as plush, and I can assure you they are not all plush…
It continues… They had ordered this jet three or four years earlier, and they had decided to go ahead and accept delivery because they said the costs of selling it or refusing it made no sense. This caused an outcry. There was an outrage. There were protests all over the great Northwest. Why, how dare they? They’re closing stores and they’re laying people off, how dare they accept the corporate jet? That was the sentiment of about I’d say 99% of the people who heard the story…
…So I asked a question. What is the correct conservative response to Starbucks accepting delivery of their new plush corporate jet? Oh, by the way, to add insult to injury, the CEO flew it to Hawaii for a week over Christmas, between Christmas and New Year’s while having closed stores and laid off employees. And I said, what is the correct conservative response? And then what is the expected public response? Well, the correct conservative response is it’s none of our business. It’s none of anybody’s business. If they want to run that company that way and if it results in the company going to hell and if it results in the morale of the employees that are left going to hell, that’s their business…
But what Rush missed was this; why isn’t anyone asking GOVERNMENT why they are not giving up THEIR jets first? Lead by example! After all, if they can solve this mess, then they created this economic mess. Why should they get to use private jets when people are being laid off and stores closing? After they have mismanaged the public’s money, I think it is incumbent that they stop wasting our money and start walking everywhere! In fact, sell them, and give us tax rebates!
- FedUpEditor
Daily Rant – January 31, 2009
January 31, 2009
The more I heard about this stimulus, the less I like it. But the people pushing it are morons. I hate using insults to make my point, but what else would you call Pelosi’s explanation for supporting the pork for “family planning” (code name for abortions) but stupid!
In an interview she defended the program saying that by having less people, states would spend less on services… SAY WHAT? Certainly that doesn’t STIMULATE the economy, but the interviewer just accepted the answer without question. Clearly he doesn’t understand that babies are BIG BUSINESS! Everything from formula to diapers and handi-wipes get consumed (and quickly) when someone has a baby. And what we need right now is consumerism to boost the economy. So I hate to tell you Nancy, but your support of the plan is a LIE! What it is about is supporting abortion and hiding it in a “stimulus” package!
Rush’s Bipartiasn Stimulus Plan
What Rush Limbaugh missed when he blew off a caller with an amendment to his stimulus plan; a plan that is truly bipartisan, not the sham Democrats are calling it when Republicans cave and do what Democrats want. It was published in the Wall Street Journal as an Op-Ed and can be read here.
Anyway, the caller suggested the money be divided up by Red State/Blue State and spent as Rush outlined in his plan. Rush held firm, but the problem I see is this. If the money is divided up and both plans are implemented (liberal versus conservative) how will we show that it was the conservative plan that brought us out of this mess? So the caller had a point. If the conservative plan works and the economy is stimulated, then Democrats will take credit for their plan working and there will be no way to prove otherwise.
The Stock Market and Confidence in the Administration
So if Obama is the saviour that the world has been waiting for, why haven’t the markets responded yet? Every day the Dow dips another few points. Because the market reflects the private sector’s confidence in what the public sector is proposing… among other things. In other words, the people who REALLY make things work, the entrepeneurs and money people on wall street, have NO confidence that Obama and his buddies know what they are doing. And neither do we!
Arnold Kills Jobs In California
Acting like a true RINO (Republican In Name Only), Governor Arnold passed sentence on the car industry by increasing fuel efficiency standards in California in order to prevent global warming… The state is already having budget problems, and if car companies had any notions of opening plants in California, they can forget it now. It makes sense that someone like Schwarzenegger, who has never built a car in his life or even studied chemistry and physics, knows more about fuel efficiency than car manufacturers. Silly us. Perhaps that guy bagging my groceries has an idea how to do it too. What a crock. It is pandering to his liberal left buddies and will only hurt the economy. But sign away, Arnold. Your time is up!
- FedUpEditor
What Rush Limbaugh Missed
December 15, 2008
We’re starting a new feature that points out where Rush Limbaugh, as good as he is, has missed an opportunity to point something out. On today’s show, he addressed global warming, a place where we waste a lot of tax money, and cited that species are disappearing because of it…
I thought these people believed in evolution? So what happens with evolution? Species die out and new ones show up. Yet environmentalists constantly use our tax money to “save” various species. From now on, my reply to animals going extinct will be:
“That’s the way Darwin intended it to be.”
-FedUpEditor
