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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. This is, let\u2019s see, Brad Sherman (Democrat-California) interviewing — or interrogating — the bank CEOs yesterday as part of the House Financial Services Committee hearing.<\/p>\n

SHERMAN: I\u2019d like you to raise your hand if your company currently owns or leases a private plane. Let the record show all the hands, uh, went up except, uh, for the, uh, gentleman from, uh, Goldman Sachs. Gentlemen, we know that it is extremely expensive to operate these planes, that you could sell them and generate capital for your company and that capital could be used to repay taxpayers malady. The big show of not buying one particular new plane flies in the face of how you\u2019re really flying.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, I cannot tell you how this infuriates me. This Sherman guy obviously is a dunce. For a member of Congress to be telling CEOs of anything, they have to sell their jets? Does this guy not understand, for crying out loud, this Congress is supposed to be about creating jobs, we\u2019re told. They\u2019re out there trying to destroy the automobile business. Now they\u2019re trying to destroy private aviation. Do they have no idea who it is that flies these airplanes and why? Do they have no idea who it takes to build these airplanes? The company that owns Cessna is based in Providence, Rhode Island. They just laid off 4,600 people! They just laid off 4,600 workers at the company that makes Cessna jets. Now, Cessna has one of their assembly plants is in Wichita, Kansas, of course. But the outfit that owns them is a company called Textron. Let\u2019s see, Textron… <\/p>\n

I think their headquarters is in Rhode Island or New Jersey somewhere, but they announced layoffs of 4,600 people simply on the basis of what is being said by members of Congress about private aviation. They are stigmatizing the purchase of a business tool! They have stigmatized these jets to the point that they\u2019re nothing but toys for people, and that\u2019s not the case. Now, I went through yesterday what all is involved with a private jet. It\u2019s like anything else in business. It\u2019s like any other product. Businesses use these things as tools to maximize the efficiency of executives\u2019 time. They have business interests all over the world, and you say, ‘Well, they could fly commercial! I have to fly commercial.\u2019 If they can afford a private jet, and if it makes business sense, what business is it of anybody else\u2019s that they make the decision to do that? <\/p>\n

And it\u2019s certainly not those clowns in Congress. Now, you might say, ‘Well, it is now, Rush, because these guys are taking federal bailout money.\u2019 I know. I know. I know. That infuriates me even more. But even as such, for a dolt like this guy Sherman to be standing up and demanding these guys sell their private jets? Cessna aircraft has run a full-page ad. Cessna says it\u2019s okay to have a private jet. Their ad in big block letters says: ‘Timidity didn\u2019t get you this far. Why put it in your business plan now?\u2019 and it\u2019s directed at business owners, CEOs, boards of directors. Did you get where you are by being afraid? Did you get where you are by being timid? Why be timid now? ‘A few months after lawmakers bashed hat-in-hand Detroit automakers for traveling to Washington via private plane, Cessna is making a bold case for corporate America to get back onboard.\u2019 Cessna makes sense. <\/p>\n

Hawker is a great airplane, too. They make Beechcraft. They ‘are launching marketing campaigns to convince executives not to let their wings be clipped,\u2019 so to speak. ‘Timidity didn\u2019t get you this far. True visionaries will continue to fly.\u2019 In other words: Don\u2019t let these little imbeciles in Washington guilt you out of a time-saving decision. ‘Support needs to be given to businesses that have the ‘good judgment and courage\u2019 to use corporate jets not only to survive the current economic downturn but to find ways to turn the economy around, Cessna Chief Executive Jack J. Pelton said.\u2019 This guy gets every gold star I have to offer. Jack Pelton is putting his career on the line, standing up to these people in Congress. He said, ‘The reality of business aviation is a far cry from the misconception of CEOs flying in large luxurious airplanes. Most of these aircraft are fairly Spartan, designed for business, with a cabin about the size of a minivan or SUV interior.\u2019 <\/p>\n

He\u2019s talking about his Cessnas. Now, the biggest Cessna private jet is the Citation X. [Ten] It is the fastest jet in the sky. I happen to think it looks like a pregnant cat. But it is the fastest jet in the sky. Arnold Palmer flies one, and I don\u2019t hear anybody telling Arnold Palmer to get outta his. Now, I\u2019ve been in one, and they\u2019re fine airplanes. One seat on each side of the aisle. The center aisle is lowered from the floor so that you can stand up in there, and even at that you barely can. But when he says ‘Spartan,\u2019 I know what he means. They are not gadzooks full of all this state-of-the-art electronics and so forth. If there is, you have to pay for it. Let me give you an example. DirecTV. You can have DirecTV in a jet if you want to. Do you know what it costs? <\/p>\n

Would you like to know what it costs? Would you really want to know what it costs? It costs $600,000, just to have it installed. That\u2019s for four receivers. The antenna — I\u2019ll tell you why it costs this much and why it doesn\u2019t cost you $600,000 at home. The antenna for DirecTV in an airplane has to be tiny enough to fit in the tail, at the top of the tail. Do you realize when you\u2019re flying an airplane at 500 miles an hour, the challenge of keeping that antenna locked onto that satellite when you\u2019re banking, when you\u2019re turning, when you\u2019re taxiing on the ground? This was a tremendous technological feat to get this done. You can now get wireless Internet in jets — and, by the way, it\u2019s not just corporate jets that have DirecTV. JetBlue has it and a number of other airlines are now starting to put wireless Internet up there. <\/p>\n

That costs another $500,000, and that\u2019s tricky \u2019cause that\u2019s satellite. That\u2019s in-orbit satellite. It\u2019s amazing the feat. Look at the people that invented it. Look at the people that designed it. Look at the people that market it and sell it. All of this is private sector stimulus. All the people that work at the plants that manufacture all of this are probably largely Democrat voters. They are the, quote, unquote, ‘little guy.\u2019 Now, a jet just doesn\u2019t get built. It\u2019s got people that have to make it, design it, build it, complete it, do the interior. Do you realize the hassle that you have to go through to get one of these things certified to fly after it\u2019s manufactured? It can take an additional six weeks just going through the FAA to get the damn thing certified. Do you know what that costs? Then after you take delivery, you have to put fuel in it, whatever that costs. Somebody benefits. There are things called fixed-base operators on airports. They are just jet gas stations. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what they do, and they provide facilities for pilots to do flight plans, plan the next leg of their trip or whatever. It\u2019s a little step up from a gas station but it\u2019s essentially what it is. They all have employees. They all have employees, and then what do you think services this plane? When the plane comes, it\u2019s gotta be cleaned up, and the lavatory has to be cleaned and sterilized, and then the line crew has to come out if you\u2019re standing overnight and tow it someplace. I mean the support staff for an airplane is made up of, quote, unquote, ‘little guys,\u2019 quote, unquote, ‘little people.\u2019 So as a member of Congress, you start threatening these guys, ‘Sell your plane!\u2019 you\u2019re stigmatizing the whole corporate jet industry, and you\u2019re going to make it tough for other people because they\u2019re going to be guilt-laden and they\u2019re not going to want to be conspicuous. <\/p>\n

So park their jets or they\u2019ll not buy new ones, and so the very people that exist to support them and keep them in the sky probably going to be laid off, too, from manufacturing on down to completion, all the way down to the FBO level. All the way down. A lot of airports, their number one service, number one traffic generator is private airports. Here in Palm Beach, in West Palm Beach, over half of the flights every year are private. The airport survives on it. It\u2019s just now been stigmatized. There are five or six FBOs at this airport alone. They\u2019re all over the place. This is no different than these people targeting the SUV. This is no different than the way they\u2019re playing the global warming scam. Meanwhile, it\u2019s okay for Nancy Pelosi to fly her 757 or whatever it is for her whole family to get from Washington to California. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s okay for these guys to take junkets on these very planes, by the way. It\u2019s okay for them to take junkets or campaign trips as long as they only pay first class fare. Let\u2019s say you get on… I don\u2019t know what the direct operating costs of a Citation X are, but let me take a stab at it and if I\u2019m wrong I\u2019ll apologize later. But let\u2019s say the DOCs per hour of a Citation X are let\u2019s say $2,500. It may even be higher. A Gulfstream IV, Gulfstream 550, the direct operating costs back when the gas was four bucks a gallon for cars, got up to $3,500, in some cases $4,000. If you go charter one, you\u2019re going to pay $5,000 an hour. Members of Congress can fly on these things. So let\u2019s say you go at $5,000 an hour. If you charter you get a four-hour minimum, so it\u2019s 20 grand minimum. Go to New York, come back five hours, something like that. Plus whatever time it\u2019s parked on the ground out of use. Reduced rate for that.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say the whole trip can cost you 40 grand, member of Congress pays first class equivalent to fly on the airplane he\u2019s now trying to get the corporate CEOs to sell. It\u2019s the law. It\u2019s the law. They can\u2019t take gratis trips but they do have to reimburse at first class commercial rates for the same leg. The Citation X is the fastest airplane in the sky, if they want to really throttle it to the wall. It will outrun anything out there. Not by much. Maybe 25, 30 miles an hour, but to some people that matters who want to get where they want to go quick because they gotta get things done when they get there. The airplane has to be serviced. Every year it is federal law that you have to park the airplane for at least a week for an inspection. <\/p>\n

Federal law, you gotta take it back to manufacturer, it gets inspected. Manufacturers have entire departments and divisions that just inspect aircraft. Once your airplane gets to 1,200 hours they have to tear it apart. They x-ray the wings. They do all kinds of inspections. These are safety regulations. Then they have to put it back together. This costs the owner. The owner pays the manufacturer, and whatever repairs have to be made, and engine. Depending on the airplane, depending on the engine, after you get to certain number of hours, the engine has to be overhauled down to zero hours, meaning rebuilt to brand-new. It can cost a million dollars an engine to do this. <\/p>\n

Well, now, you may think, ‘Well, we don\u2019t have a million dollars to overhaul…\u2019 Well, somebody does and the people doing the overhaul are the little guys who are getting paid to do it. Now, all of this support system is now being threatened by the very people who claim to be for the ‘little guy.\u2019 This Brad Sherman guy is a dolt! Who do these people think they are? If I would have been one of those CEOs yesterday, I woulda stood up and I woulda said, ‘Who do you think you are, telling me how to run my business?\u2019 Of course the answer would be, ‘Well, you took my money. You took taxpayer money,\u2019 and I would have had to sit down. But then I would have popped right up and said, ‘It\u2019s the worst decision I ever made to take your money because you clowns don\u2019t know…\u2019 In the first place, I\u2019d stand up and say, ‘You people put me in this position. You people forced me to make loans to people who couldn\u2019t even repay \u2019em.\u2019<\/p>\n

You know, like I said yesterday, these guys and the CEOs yesterday, they are not the target. They are the symbols. What is on tap for everybody here is the full assault on capitalism. That\u2019s what\u2019s happening in Washington, DC, today. That\u2019s what\u2019s happening with these CEOs up there. Now, these costs that I mentioned about private aircraft? You think that\u2019s something? Try owning an airline and having to buy airplanes that cost 70 and 80 and a hundred million each and having to maintain those according to federal regulations, then sell tickets with competitors and you\u2019ve got your own support staff. Aviation is not cheap. Do you understand what aviation requires? Do you understand gravity? Do you know what it takes to get something that weighs thousands of tons in the air, flying 600 miles an hour? <\/p>\n

‘Well, Rush, how come it can\u2019t fly at 300?\u2019 Well, it could, but you\u2019d burn up far more fuel. You would waste fuel at 300 miles an hour \u2019cause you\u2019d be much lower. You\u2019d have much more air to fly through. Besides all of that… (sigh) Besides all that, in order to create the air pressure deferential that people call ‘lift,\u2019 you have to have enough speed. A 747 fully loaded needs 10,000 feet of runway and it takes that much to get up to 120 miles an hour, ground speed. I think that\u2019s their rotate speed. That\u2019s when it will lift off but you\u2019ve got to add speed to it to keep it there. That takes power. That takes amazing thrust. That takes all kinds of fuel. It\u2019s amazing that it\u2019s been invented, created, and that it works. But it isn\u2019t cheap. I don\u2019t care what kind of aviation you\u2019re talking about, even if they go to little Cessna 150, that\u2019s still…<\/p>\n

That\u2019s quite costly, compared to driving in a car. It\u2019s not nearly as expensive as a jet or anything else, but the idea that things that cost a lot, that only people with a lot of money can afford to buy or use should be eliminated from our existence because not everybody can? When everybody benefits from it! You may not know a single person that flies a corporate jet, but if they are operating in a business environment, and it\u2019s a business that you happen to patronize… The Walmart people flying around in corporate jets. They have one of the most smoothly run business models in the country. I guarantee you benefit from their employees flying around, their management flying around. You just don\u2019t stop to think of it. But all of this is interconnected. None of it\u2019s a zero-sum game. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCIRPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, folks, one more thing on these private jets, two things. One group I keep leaving out are the pilots. You need pilots to fly these things and they\u2019re not raking in huge bucks. I mean, they make more than national average by a lot, but you still need people to fly these. They have to go to school to stay upgraded and updated on the latest navigation systems or what have you. They have to constantly get recertified. There are people that run those schools. They get paid for pilot recertification. This is like this yacht business. You know, they raised taxes on the yachts and people went out and bought yachts outside the country, and the people that make the yachts lost their jobs. The yachts were sold elsewhere than here in America. <\/p>\n

They repealed that tax, the luxury tax on the yachts. In addition, some of these corporate jet owners charter their jets when they\u2019re not using them. A lot of jet owners figure out, ‘I got nothing gained by this airplane sitting on the ground.\u2019 So they will charter it when they know they\u2019re not going to use it and they\u2019ll try to defray. You don\u2019t make a whole lot of money chartering. You can if that\u2019s all you do, but at least you defray your own operating expenses. The people in businesses, it\u2019s like anything else. These people are not… It\u2019s not, ‘Hey, let\u2019s go by a big corporate jet! I\u2019m a big CEO. I\u2019m going to fly around.\u2019 There are business reasons why this is done, in most cases. Look, they\u2019re bad actors throughout business and I\u2019m not trying to make a brief here for every corporate exec as being clean and pure as the wind-driven snow, but I\u2019ll tell you something. <\/p>\n

I know for a fact, folks, that I would trust and I would work for and I would promote and I would sponsor your average small businessman far more than I would want to go work for somebody in Congress running a business. You know, we Americans used to be proud that we built things. We used to be proud that we generated a national wealth and a gross domestic product that created opportunities for prosperity for anybody who wanted to access our great capitalist system. Anybody could take their shot at it. And we\u2019re stigmatizing that whole thing. We are being told that the achievers — the builders of great things, the achievers — they are somehow now to be suspected. They\u2019re suspects. We\u2019re to be ashamed of them. They are giving the world the wrong impression of America and so forth. I tell you, it frosts me. Just this whole business yesterday frosted me.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: One more thing about the private jet business from the standpoint of employees. In the case of a Gulfstream, it can take about 100 to 115 days to make an airplane, to build it. It\u2019s called a green airplane, before any interior is in it and before it\u2019s painted. It comes out of there in a hundred days, it\u2019s ‘green.\u2019 It can take another 150 to complete it; meaning complete the interior, paint it, put all of the electronics in, everything that\u2019s going to go in this thing. It\u2019s able to fly, but when it comes out of the manufacturing plant but it\u2019s not able to carry passengers. It\u2019s not certified for anything other than test pilot activity. Now, the people who complete these airplanes and the people who make them — they\u2019re two different plants at most manufacturers, Gulfstream example manufactures in Savannah, Georgia; and I think someplace else in Georgia, but they have completion centers in Appleton, Wisconsin; also in Savannah; and in Long Beach, California.<\/p>\n

So when the thing\u2019s done they fly it because it takes longer to complete, they need more completion centers than they do assembly lines. To the people that do all this work, to them it\u2019s a work of art. They take their job as seriously as anybody else, and it\u2019s crucial. They\u2019re dealing with something that people are putting their lives on the line with. They\u2019re trusting their lives to these people that manufacture these airplanes. These people that work on these airplanes, inside and out, know that firsthand. They consider what they do to build these aircraft, works of art. They are not rich people. They are manufacturing types. They\u2019re assembly-line people. They\u2019re highly talented and gifted. They\u2019re woodworking specialists. They are electrical specialists, avionics specialists, but at the same time… They\u2019re in the process now that everything they do is being stigmatized by a bunch of dolt members of Congress who are trying to destroy them. <\/p>\n

Well, they are in the process of damaging, whether they\u2019re trying to or not, all of these industries that all these ‘little people\u2019 who are supposed to benefit from all of this stimulus are working at. I just find it so strange that these people in Congress have no more respect for the people who do the real work that makes this country work, and yet they say they stand for \u2019em and they represent \u2019em when they are in the process here of targeting them. Maybe indirectly, but if you fix it so that nobody\u2019s got the guts to buy a jet, well, then nobody\u2019s going to have to build one and nobody\u2019s going to have to complete one and nobody\u2019s going to have to service one, and then the layoffs start — and that\u2019s called ‘compassion.\u2019 I want you to listen to this. After this dolt Sherman from California told these execs, ‘Well, you can sell all your jets, and you could put that capital to work for…\u2019 <\/p>\n

By the way, this notion that they have to sell the jets \u2019cause they might have bought \u2019em with TARP money — and they didn\u2019t. Nobody. Bank of America, Citibank did not buy their jet with TARP money. They ordered it four years ago. It probably cost them more money to not take it than to take it. The penalties for refusing delivery (snorts). I could go on and on and on about this. But they didn\u2019t use taxpayer dollars, but even if they did, what the hell\u2019s Barney Frank living on? What the hell\u2019s Nancy Pelosi living on? Obama? Every damn one of them\u2019s salary is taxpayer money, and they have all these perks and junkets and benefits. They dare sit there and tell private sector people what they can and can\u2019t do with private sector money? I tell you what. I damn well would love to be able to convene my own hearings and find out what all these people in Congress are doing with our taxpayer money and pass judgment on their use of it, just as they\u2019re passing judgment on everybody else\u2019s use of their own private money! All of their money that they live on and pay themselves is ours that is taken from us in taxes. Somehow ‘taxpayer funds\u2019 become holier than thou, except when they\u2019re in the government, why, there should be no questions asked! There shall be no doubt whatever. They are the modern-day royalty. Listen to the CEO of Citibank [Vikram Pandit], this is his opening statement yesterday.<\/p>\n

PANDIT: I would also like to say something about the airplane that was in the news. We did not adjust quickly enough to this new world and I take personal responsibility for that mistake. In the end, I canceled delivery. We need do a better job of acknowledging and embracing the new realities.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is… He doesn\u2019t mean a word of that! He is just saying this to satisfy these nabobs up there. ‘We need to understand the new reality,\u2019 and the new reality is that you\u2019re not going to let us buy these jets. The new reality is the government is going to tell us what we can and cannot do — and that plane was purchased with money that that company earned or had or whatever long before TARP came long. Here is a Republican, Walter Jones of North Carolina, warning the bankers to show compassion.<\/p>\n

JONES: At this time, to help the image of the banking industry, show compassion. Show compassion for that American citizen that\u2019s out there losing their jobs, having a cut in pay. You need to nationally speak to some of these things, all of you, if you issue charge cards, and say that, ‘Yes, we\u2019re going to suck it up, too, by the way, Mr. Taxpayer; and we\u2019re going to take less in interest so you can have a better quality of life and maybe meet some of your bills.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Have compassion.\u2019 That\u2019s a Republican lecturing these guys. Now, I want you to listen to this next bite. This is… I know it\u2019s torture. This is Ruben Hinojosa (Democrat-Texas). He had this exchange with the bank of New York Mellon\u2019s Robert Kelly, State Street Corporation\u2019s Ronald Logue, Morgan Stanley\u2019s John Mack, Ken Lewis of Bank of America, and John Stumpf from Wells Fargo.<\/p>\n

HINOJOSA: What type of outreach have all of you and your companies made to help home owners on the verge of losing their homes?<\/p>\n

KELLY: Congressman, we\u2019re not in the mortgage business.<\/p>\n

LOGUE: Congressman, we also are not in the mortgage business.<\/p>\n

MACK: Congressman, we\u2019re very small in the mortgage business.<\/p>\n

LEWIS: Congressman, we do have an outreach program, had it so some time.<\/p>\n

STUMPF: Congressman, we service one-in-seven mortgages in America, and we have doubled our staff to 6,000 people who spend — make thousands and thousands of calls a day contacting people who are either past due or potentially would become past due.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so the wizard of smart there, Democrat congressman Ruben Hinojosa, ‘What are you doing? What kind of outreach to help homeowners on the verge of losing their homes?\u2019 We don\u2019t sell mortgages, Congressman. We don\u2019t sell mortgages. We don\u2019t sell mortgages. Oh, we have a bill outreach program. Just idiots. They\u2019re just grandstanding idiots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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