{"id":26389,"date":"2007-07-31T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:10:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:10:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:10:22","slug":"good_news_bad_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/07\/31\/good_news_bad_news\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News, Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: General Motors has swung to a net profit of $891 million or $1.56 a share on strong automotive revenue in key markets. Now, what changed with General Motors? What did General Motors do differently that led to this profit? They\u2019ve been reporting losses for all too long. They have become an official sponsor of the EIB Network, ladies and gentlemen. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125106.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"172\" height=\"78\" class=\"alignright\"\/>We want to take a moment here to congratulate General Motors on this. This is great for America. This is great for the EIB Network, and it\u2019s great for Detroit, and it is great for General Motors. Along the same lines, consumer confidence hits a six-year high. The good news abounds here. &#8216;American consumers shrugging off a struggling housing market as jobs remained plentiful, became more confident in July and set a gauge of sentiment to a six-year high according to the conference board.\u2019 They\u2019re in New York. &#8216;Consumer confidence index rebounded to 112.6, its highest level since August 2001 when it recorded a 114.0 reading.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>There are a few stories oriented toward crisis and doom and gloom. &#8216;Nearly one-third of Baby Boomers ages 51 to 61 are at risk of not having enough money finance a comfortable retirement. That\u2019s according to a study by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. &#8230; With its analysis, the center has joined the national debate over how much savings is enough&#8230;\u2019 and never is it enough, folks, &#8216;&#8230; and has done so on the side that says there is a shortfall. &#8216;We just don\u2019t believe people are saving too much,\u2019 Alicia H. Munnell, a professor of management sciences at Boston College and director of the retirement research center.\u2019 What does this matter? What does it matter that Boomers are not saving enough money? We\u2019re all going to die any second anyway. We\u2019ve got global warming out there, skin cancer, bowel cancer, stroke, heart attack, seizures, guilt. We got tainted meat pouring in from China. We got the bird flu. We got Bush leading the country. We got chief justices who pass out and foam at the mouth. We\u2019ve got weak bones. We\u2019ve got posttraumatic stress disorder; we\u2019ve SUVs; we\u2019ve got the GOP; we\u2019ve got hurricanes, floods, heat waves; we got obesity. Who the hell needs a retirement plan? We can\u2019t survive any of this. We\u2019re all doomed. <\/p>\n<p>Well, I forgot, yes, Baby Boomers, fear not because if you survive all of these plagues that I just listed, you can rely on your Social Security. However, how many of you out there consume the adult beverage known popularly as red wine? And how many of you in the process of consuming red wine have been told, &#8216;Hey, good for your heart. Look at the French. The French don\u2019t die of heart attacks and they\u2019re very thin people.\u2019 The reason why they are is because they eat cheese with their wine, and the protein in the cheese cuts the release of insulin in half. Insulin is the biggest danger to people who don\u2019t want to gain weight. But now those of you who have been consuming your red wine as much for health reasons perhaps as because you enjoy it, I have bad news. &#8216;A large glass of wine a day increases your risk of bowel cancer by 10%.\u2019 (Laughing) Is this not amazing? &#8216;A study published yesterday suggests that a daily pint of beer or large glass of wine increases the risk of bowel cancer by 10%. Two pints or two large glasses of wine increases the risk by 25%.\u2019 You don\u2019t have to grab your ankles anymore, folks. Just drink the red wine or beer or whatever, and while you think you\u2019re saving your heart and lowering your cholesterol, you\u2019re getting bowel cancer out there. <\/p>\n<p>I get so sick of all of this. Cancer, cancer, cancer, cholesterol, bone density, all the time, every day we are bombarded with all of this. We all want to be healthy, but, frankly, folks, I don\u2019t know about you, I\u2019m getting sick of being hounded and nagged and guilted by every little thing. When I die, I die. When I die because of a cause, the cause is going to be the cause. (interruption) Well, that\u2019s right. That\u2019s the next one. That\u2019s exactly right. See, you might go out there and get bowel cancer. However, exercise and caffeine now combined can fight skin cancer, researchers say. &#8216;Mice that mix the stimulant, caffeine, with daily running, fight the cell damage caused by UV light better than animals that merely run or drink caffeine-laced water.\u2019 Where do animals go to get caffeine-laced water? Is it in the jungle someplace? Is it in the wild? Are there animal bars that we don\u2019t know about where they go on in to stoke up on caffeine? Starbucks. Anyway, if it\u2019s not one thing, it is another. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: General Motors has swung to a net profit of $891 million or $1.56 a share on strong automotive revenue in key markets. Now, what changed with General Motors? What did General Motors do differently that led to this profit? They\u2019ve been reporting losses for all too long. 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