RUSH: The Wall Street Journal has an interesting statistic, ladies and gentlemen. This was published when I was away, last Thursday and Friday. We learned that household net worth in the country dropped $11 trillion in 2008. It was down, I think, 18%. Household net worth. The Journal had an excellent step chart in the print edition of the Journal that revealed some pretty big stuff. During the Bush presidency, the eight years of the Bush presidency, there was a $22 trillion increase in household net worth that got virtually no coverage. This $22 trillion increase of household net worth is twice as much as the decline in household net worth in one year, in 2008. Second, and more important, the Reagan presidency started out with a household net worth of $10 trillion.

That’s the combined net worth of all American households, $10 trillion. Reaganomics — inherited by Bush 41, Clinton, and Bush 43 — increased to over $60 trillion household net worth. When George W. Bush assumed office in 2001, there was a little blip there, but the household net worth had gone (from 1981 to 2001) from ten trillion to $60 trillion. So since 2001, household net worth has gone from $60 trillion — its down to 11 — to $49 trillion, with $11 trillion lost in 2008. So the question is this. What you would rather have? Twenty-eight boom years like we had after Ronaldus Magnus, with a little correction that we had in the 2000-2001 period, or would you rather have 28 doom years, which is the target and the path that we’re on now? Household net worth nationwide was $10 trillion, 1981, and $60 trillion by the end of 2007. We lost $11 trillion in 2008.

Any way you look at that, we got richer. American households got wealthier. Their net worth expanded and increased like crazy. It started in the 1980s. President Obama’s teleprompter tells him to say that the “tired ways of the past didn’t work,” that we need “a new way.” Here we go. We got the new way. We got peasants with their pitchforks phoning in death threats at AIG. We have members of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives sounding like communist dictators. We have phony scandals being ginned up by Obama’s teleprompter, promoted by White House media, designed to distract you from the destruction that is happening to the United States economy and thus our country. So while you’re all exorcised and bent out of shape about $165 million in bonuses, your household net worth and your prospects for a job, are plummeting through the floor and headed to the sewer. But they care about you! They care about you in Washington. Obama’s teleprompter cares a great deal about you. So much so, they’re going to get that $165 million bonus money back — Just for you! Just for you! — and then all will be right with the world.

One group DOES understand how important CO2 is to human life.
So much so that they offer machines that produce additional carbon dioxide.

I don’t have a need for one for it’s intended purpose, but I think I’ll buy one just to piss Al off.
After all, they do give new meaning to the words “greenhouse gases.”

Read about it here.

 Some of the loudest voices telling the rest of us that we have to do everything in our power to reduce global warming. Yet these same people in the course of their daily lives create a bigger “carbon footprint” than I will if I live to be 500 years old.

 In just one example of how these folks can “talk the talk” but fail miserably to “walk the walk”, pop diva Madonna’s private jet usage over the course of a year created roughly a hundred times more carbon dioxide emissions than the average person.

And these environmental whack jobs have the audacity to tell the rest of us how we should live like someone in a third-world country so we can save the planet? Watch the video:

Vitter’s plan would have caused members of Congress to actually hold a vote on any pay increases.

Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada brushed off the proposal as simply a Republican tactic to try and delay a vote on the 410 billion dollar spending bill before Congress.

Or was Harry afraid of explaining to the folks back home that he’s struggling to make ends meet on a mere $174,000 a year?

The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, ‘You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.’

She rolled her eyes and said, ‘You must be a Republican.’

‘I am,’ replied the man.
‘How did you know?’

‘Well,’ answered the balloonist, ‘everything you told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I’m still lost. Frankly, you’ve not been much help to me.’

The man smiled and responded, ‘You must be a Democrat.’

‘Well,’ said the man, ‘you don’t know where you are or where you are going. You’ve risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it’s my fault.’