Recently, Citigroup announced they were going to drop 11,000 people -- 4% of their workforce. ... Word is, senior employees will bear the brunt of the upcoming layoffs. Wall Street firms are keen to hold on to the "junior" employees these days for a very simple reason: They cost less.

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RUSH: Well, folks, my New Year's resolution to adopt a lower profile is now totally blown... The biggest mistake I make is assuming that people elsewhere in the media are relatively intelligent, relatively aware, relatively informed. 

RUSH: The Tea Party brought partisanship, a great divide to the peoples of this country. And the Tea Party divide has now even wormed its way into baseball. 

RUSH: There he is at the Consumer Electronics Show going on and on and on about gun clips, and then he's named Father of the Year. Speaking of the War on Women, Bill Clinton named Father of the Year by the National Father's Day Council.

RUSH: The mayor of Washington, DC, picked up on Courtland Milloy's piece in the Washington Post yesterday. The Redskins are gonna have to get rid of that nickname 'cause it's racist.

RUSH: This is the greatest fuel that the people who want to change this game could get.

RUSH:  It's a tantamount admission.... It was people who were given loans that could never pay 'em back, and they were not picked on. It was not predatory lenders that went out and found them. This was social engineering by Democrats.

RUSH: Guns and the NRA, they're gonna be tossed in with the stack of other things that embarrass Republican moderates.

RUSH: The first shot of war was fired by people to keep their guns... Revere and other midnight riders alerted the townspeople and the weapons were hidden before they could be confiscated.

RUSH: You turn journalism on a journalist and that's one of the most fun pranks that you could pull. They can't deal with it.

RUSH: This was like a Fidel Castro speech. I mean, it just went on and on and on...

RUSH: The very idea that that quest for individuality, individualism and a desire to be left alone by government shortens your life? 

RUSH: You know, in the long-time past, Hollywood would be making movies about guys like Larry. Guys like Larry would be the kind of hero that kids would be reading about in school, the kind of heroes kids would learn about in movies.