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RUSH: To Folsom, Louisiana. This is Dennis. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hi. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Right-thinking, earned-my-own-way, Louisiana musician dittos. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey! I am a musician, and I work (in a sense) in the school and in the public sector, but we\u2019re given grants to work in these sectors. And those people who give money from private grants and have had their — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. Wait, I don\u2019t understand this. You\u2019re a musician. You work ‘in a sense in the school\u2019? <\/p>\n

CALLER: As a private contractor doing programs for kids and stuff like that, and also library and things. And those people who give money for private grants that fund this kind of stuff have had their finances so badly assailed that they\u2019re not giving money now to these grants, and those people who do the kind of work that I do aren\u2019t working like we used to. I\u2019m working. I have always worked a day job. By the way, thank you, Ms. Pelosi. I don\u2019t need your help. But (cell garbled). <\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t understand what this is. (interruption) Private money\u2019s drying up, the private grants to keep people doing what he\u2019s doing, but he\u2019s got a day job. (interruption) Okay. Okay. So…what? (interruption) Private money\u2019s drying up. (interruption) Oh, oh, oh! So he\u2019s tying this back to Pelosi. Oh, okay. He\u2019s tying it back to Pelosi. ‘Go ahead and quit your job because we\u2019ll give you healthcare.\u2019 But then, okay, what else are these people going to live on? You can\u2019t eat your healthcare and you can\u2019t drink it. <\/p>\n

Anyway, Nick in Pittsburgh, welcome to the EIB Network. Sir, it\u2019s great to have you here. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush, how are you? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Great. <\/p>\n

CALLER: You actually were a mentor of mine in Pittsburgh back in the \u201970s. You helped me, actually, get into radio. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Really? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Was this in McKeesport? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you were at KQV. <\/p>\n

RUSH: KQV?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So this was after McKeesport.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckling)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where did I meet you, Nick? Did we meet in person? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. We actually had a meeting. I won the WQED auction and you and I actually had a portrait made down at at a professional photography studio. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t know if you remember that or not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (static)<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019ve got a phone problem. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (static)<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is that? <\/p>\n

CALLER: How about now? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Nick, sounds like — <\/p>\n

CALLER: (static)<\/p>\n

RUSH: — you\u2019re throwing up out there. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) I\u2019m on my cell. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (static) The reason for the call is not only just to say hello and thank you for the mentoring that you gave me back in the \u201970s to get into radio. Actually, I was in radio for about five years. I was a broadcast major in college. But as you know the Pittsburgh market\u2019s pretty tough to get a job in radio. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but your big mistake — <\/p>\n

CALLER: (static)<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Gee, whiz. — <\/p>\n

CALLER: (static) What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: It sounds like you\u2019re being eaten out there. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (static)<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) It sounds like you\u2019re in a jungle or something. <\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I\u2019m in Monroeville, but the reason —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re in Monroeville. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (static) Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you\u2019re up on Route 30. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (static) But the reason for the call, too, not only to say hello, is currently I\u2019m a small business owner here in Pittsburgh. I actually run a private-licensed technical school where we put people in the auto detailing business. What we\u2019ve done is (static) we\u2019ve lowered our tuition this year to help increase our tuition, because there\u2019s many people that are obviously unemployed, and we\u2019ve seen an increase in students. But the problem is once they graduate from our course, they can\u2019t get any money to start their business, and these are people with good credit. They\u2019ve been laid off. They\u2019ve had great jobs. College students that are coming out of college. The problem is there\u2019s no money out there. The banks aren\u2019t loaning any money. Sally Mae funding dried up. I wanted to make that comment to see whether you had any insight on what we could do to possibly help our students once they\u2019ve graduated to open up their own business. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Uhhh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (static) <\/p>\n

RUSH: Geez. It sounds to me like the best option is to call Pelosi. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) I\u2019m embarrassed (static).<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I know the banks are tight with money right now. But I also know existing small businesses are saying, ‘It\u2019s not that we can\u2019t get loans. We don\u2019t want them. We\u2019re not growing. We\u2019re not hiring anybody. We have no desire to. We don\u2019t know what the terms of the deal are going to be going forward, based on Obama\u2019s legislative agenda.\u2019 Now, if these people… When you say they\u2019ve got a good credit rating, how old are these people you\u2019re talking about? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, it varies. We have students that are just out of college (static) and we have people that are in their 40s and 50s that have gotten laid off from their jobs —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and they\u2019re looking to do something else. <\/p>\n

RUSH: And how much money are they trying to borrow? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000. <\/p>\n

RUSH: They can\u2019t get a $5,000 to $10,000 loan? <\/p>\n

CALLER: The banks are not doing it. The local banks are not doing it. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Do these people have any collateral to put up? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Some of them do. Most of them don\u2019t. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, that\u2019s the reality. If you\u2019ve got nothing to secure it, that\u2019s going to be problematic no matter what economy you\u2019re in. You are in Obama\u2019s America. We are all living in Obama\u2019s America, and I guess you could tell these people to wait for Obama to come into town for a town hall, because that\u2019s how he\u2019s dealing with jobs. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, he\u2019s not doing a great job overall, as obviously we\u2019re in agreement. But for the small business owner or for the entrepreneur, there is no support anymore. There truly isn\u2019t, and it\u2019s the small business owner that made this country strong. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know. Look, there\u2019s no economic growth going on out there and if the (sigh). It\u2019s just too bad. It\u2019s too bad that your graduates aren\u2019t trying to get a house, because that would be easy. It\u2019s… I don\u2019t know. The economy is in such a mess, and I think to the extent these banks are not loaning any money it\u2019s because they don\u2019t have confidence that these people are going to have any chance at getting their business started given the current economic climate. But I\u2019m just wild guessing here, Nick, because I don\u2019t know the specific circumstances of each of your graduates, of each of your students. So without knowing that, it\u2019s tough to give anything beyond anything just general here. But there are banks lending money to people. The problem is a lot of people don\u2019t want to borrow it. People don\u2019t want to go into debt. I\u2019ll tell you something, Nick. (interruption)<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a good point. Snerdley has reminded me of something. All of that TARP money and a lot of the stimulus money was to go to stuff just like this. It was to be able to bankroll people like you, and it\u2019s not going there. It\u2019s going to state governments and Obama\u2019s union buddies. It\u2019s not going to shovel-ready projects. It\u2019s not going to schools. Look at Detroit! Boy, if there was ever a place that could use stimulus money, it\u2019s them. What are they going to do? They\u2019re going to be bulldozing things. Now, I remember Nick when we met at the WQED auction. That\u2019s the PBS affiliate. Back then they always had these auctions that ran a week or two, fundraising drives. Fred Rogers was there. He did a show out of Pittsburgh. Mr. Roger\u2019s Neighborhood was done out of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh PBS affiliate. I got thrown off of every PBS auction I ever did, in Pittsburgh and in Kansas City. (laughing) I\u2019m surprised I lasted long enough there to have a portrait made there with Nick. But I got thrown off, because I was too controversial. I\u2019m way long on this segment. I have to take a break. (interruption) Oh, yeah, I got thrown off. I think I got thrown off of three of them. I mean, within an hour, within an hour of going on the air. (laughing) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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