Jim, I saw you on the TV, that billboard thing. And I had me a pair of insights. Insight the first: You ain't afraid to put yourself out there. And insight the second: You believe in the real America—freedom, self-sufficiency.
I do. I... I really do.
When I see a man like you driving that foreign shitbox of a car...
Well, see, actually, it's...
...it's a sign a good man can't get ahead today. It's a damned travesty. That's what it is.
Well that may be, Ricky, but, uh... I refuse to consider myself a victim.
You know, we are once again at a point in our history where the fly-swatting hand of government is crushing the spirit of entrepreneurship. Taxes, OSHA requirements, the INS poking their big, fat nose into every mother-loving hire. It's damned oppressive.
It's tragic. It's un-American.
Jim, I think you are just the lawyer I need, 'cause I got me a case—major—I say, a major case. Are you ready to clear your calendar?
Ricky, I'm all ears.
I want to secede from the United States. Now, I got 1,100 acres of property here, self-sustaining with solar power and wells, a sovereign state immune to the business-killing regulations of the country in which it geographically lies. We are going to be America's Vatican City.
Ricky... I'm your man. Yeah, let's do this. Let's show 'em all. Yee-haw!
Yee-haw!
Yee-haw! [Ricky highfives Jimmy] Yes! We are doing this! Ah. Now, it's not gonna be easy, sir. I mean, the government is gonna fight us tooth and nail. We could end up in the Supreme Court—I'm talking thousands of man-hours—I mean, years of effort.
Are you ready for that?
Me? I say bring 'em on.
Let's talk turkey. What's your rate?
$450 an hour.
The hell with hourly. I want you on retainer. How about $1 million even—$500,000 up front and $500,000 when we're done?
A million? That seems... fair.
Would you like that in cash? [takes out stacks of bills from the safe]
Uh. [flips a stack of bills and sees Ricky's face on them] Well...
Tax-free and backed by the full faith and credit of the sovereign Sandia Republic.
It's, uh...
Son... You are getting in on the ground floor.
[Cut to Jimmy driving away from the house at full speed]
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