and it s still selfish. it is beyond selfish. it drives me insane that so many households have gotten their act and unions are asking for more. you know with a? you can t get more. the thing with big labor, which really interests me, eric, is that memberships are shrinking. it s almost like they re getting louder to make up for the fact that they re just not enough representation out there. the only people listening to these unions these days are the president. otherwise, everybody else kind of pushes them aside. hold on, julie. tracy makes a very good point, jonathan, that government is listening. the president is listening. why would that be? well, government is the only place unions are thriving because they have a monopoly and they have zero accountability, unlike the private sector. i mean, unions destroy wealth. they force higher than normal wages that basically cost the enterprise to go bankrupt. it s no surprise that all the massive riots we ve seen throughout europe are be
on? it s staggering! it s just nuts! the fact that i don t have a telephone and i could get one from the federal government, hey, i don t have an automobile! i want the federal government to provide me with an automobile. why shouldn t they do that? why shouldn t they provide me with a house? why shouldn t they provide me with all of these things? that s what s going on! it s nuts! the government is out of control! unless you got a couple of million people in the washington mall protesting it, it s going to continue! they re just going to take then break the country. they re going that way. there is no way to stop it. julie, what about it? wayne points out, what if people don t have a car, should they get a car start? wait, when did the program start? 1984. it was ronald reagan. if i m a senior and i m broke and a loft seniors are and i need a life line to get a ride to the hospital, this is a great problem. julie, please. let s talk about what happened. in 2008, it was 819 buc