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June 30, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 30, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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Um despite the best efforts of my brother, David, street wanderer in Cape Girarda, the transcript of the Bin Laden tape that he sent me was from January, not the one that was made.
Yeah, we still can't find it.
It's not there.
But I read this one, and I'm going to share excerpts of it with you anyway, because it's stunning how similar.
Bin Laden sounds to Democrats.
It's Friday, folks.
Let's head.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
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Yahoo!
Goody goody gumdrops and all of that.
One hour to go as we head into the Independence Day weekend.
Open line Friday.
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Get out of the way.
When we go to the phones, we go to the phones.
The program is all yours.
Meaning you can talk about something even if I don't care about it.
You can ask a question, you have a comment, whatever.
This is the day to do that.
Telephone number 800 282-2882, and the email address is Rush at EIB net.com.
By the way, folks, there's a chance you're going to get hit by an asteroid on uh on Monday.
And I just need to mention this to you because it can all end on Monday.
It's a hurtling out there, tortoise.
And it's time to party.
Time to uh party hearty.
An asteroid that's about one half mile wide is hurtling toward Earth, expected to narrowly miss us early Monday.
Expected to miss us.
Expected, but of course the same people expect horrible economic news when we get good economic news.
They're routinely surprised.
And uh this is not going to be that that that far away.
268,624 miles away at its closest approach.
That's that's pretty much uh the distance the moon is uh is is in that in that neighborhood.
Uh and it's gonna go hurtling past us.
This is very, very close in astronomical terms.
Uh the asteroid, which was discovered in December of 2004, uh at first produced concerns it could hit Earth later in the century, but subsequent studies ruled out such a collision.
But we know that these scientists often don't know what they're talking about, so uh I if if if this thing hits us Monday, and you know, can you imagine what that would do to global warming?
Accelerated even more.
Uh and if that happens, and if if if this is our last day together, folks, I just want to it has been a joy.
A uh a shared delight, something that um if I'm if we're all blown to smithereens, I will never forget it.
Particles of all of us will be scattered throughout the universe with our uh experiences forever to be told in our DNA.
Um in a study of sleep characteristics in 669 adults in Chicago who were compared by sex and race.
Investigators found that blacks got less sleep than whites, while men got less sleep than women.
Furthermore, the wealthier you are.
Well, what are you doing in there?
What in the world what are you stuffing?
Uh uh you've got oh, you found them.
You found uh the next okay, the oh okay.
Well, I thought you I I thought I thought, you know, I'm I can only I only can see your heads, and you keep leaning over there with these pieces of paper.
Look like you're stuffing them down her bra.
I'm just um I mean uh uh no, it turns out he was using their computer, but I can't see that.
And she had a big smile on her face, and this I'm just uh where was I?
Oh, yes.
Uh sleep story.
Uh uh the wealthier you are, ladies and gentlemen, the wealthier you are, the more sleep you're likely to get.
Dr. Diane Lauderdale of the University of Chicago and her colleagues found there was uh an expectation of people with very demanding jobs in terms of high status and high income will be getting less sleep, and that just isn't true, Lauderdale told Aldreuters.
So uh basically, um uh rich folks get more sleep, blacks and men get less, minorities and the poor hardest hit.
Even when it comes to sleep.
Uh well uh well, they must not have been studied because 669 adults in Chicago, they must not have compared the uh we got plenty welfare recipients that wake up at one in the afternoon and call this program.
See what else.
Um, this Northeast U.S. floods stir global warming debate.
The hell doesn't stir the global warming debate anymore.
Listen to this headline from All Reuters.
World Cup, a big yawn in soccer hating U.S. Now, all Reuters is in Europe.
You gotta understand their headquarters in Europe.
If you look west from Germany these days, you'll see America stifling a yawn at the World Cup.
Despite a doubling of TV ratings for the first round matches this month before the U.S. squad failed miserably, soccer still ranks below televised poker tournaments in a land where baseball, basketball, and American football rule.
Only 3.9 million people in America watched the 2002 World Cup final uh out of 1.1 billion uh worldwide.
Ford Motor Company is a tragic story, uh, folks.
Grab the handkerchiefs.
Ford Motor Company will fall short of its goal of producing 250,000 hybrid vehicles a year by 2010.
Oh, shucks, folks.
What a disappointment.
A build you up and then they let you down.
The company's top executive, Bill Ford announced the goal in September.
He said then that gas electric hybrid engines would be available in half the Ford Lincoln and Mercury lineup by 2010.
The goal of 250,000 hybrids a year would have been ten times the number that Ford was building at the time.
Ford sent an email message to employees Wednesday.
Said the company instead would focus on other alternative fuels, according to the Detroit News.
And the Detroit Free Press is going to be devastating to uh Lori David and other Hollywood liberal elites.
U.S. Forest Service officers were slugged, elbowed and pelted with a rock when they tried to enrest a bunch arrest a bunch of hippies at a gathering of the Rainbow family near Steamboat Springs.
The confrontation happened on Monday night was one of at least three clashes between officers and so-called campers, as thousands of the Rainbow family gather for a week-long outing, which officially begins today.
None of the injuries was serious, Forest Service spokesman Kimberly Vogel said.
About 5,000 of the 5,000 members of the free-spirited, loosely affiliated band of hippies have arrived at the campsite in a route national forest about 30 miles north of Steamboat Strings Springs in defiance of the Forest Service, which has refused to grant the group a permit, citing uh fire dangers.
So hippies attack the feds.
Peace-loving communal types, long-haired maggot-infested dope-smoking FM types.
Out there attacking the feds.
How about our buddies at USA Today?
The drive by media.
USA Today acknowledged in a note to our readers, it means it wasn't a big story.
USA Today acknowledged in a note to our readers that it could not establish that Bell South or Verizon actually contracted with the National Security Agency to provide it with customer calling records as it previously reported.
But USA Today's spokesman Steve Anderson said, quote, this is an important story that holds up well.
At the heart of our report is the fact that NSA is collecting phone call records of millions of Americans.
What we address in the editor's note deals with the fact that we originally reported that the telephone companies were working under contract with the NSA.
We've concluded that we cannot establish that Bell South or Verizon entered into a contract with the NSA to provide the bulk calling records.
Accompanying story, the newspaper reported today that lawmakers on House and Senate intelligence committees have said that while the NSA has amassed a huge database of calling records, Cooperation with the NSA by telephone companies was not as extensive as USA Today initially reported on May the 11th.
So they they admit they were wrong, but the story holds up.
This is shades of Dan Rather and Mary Mapes.
Okay, they go out there, forge documents to advance the notion that Bush lied about guard service and what have you.
Find out that the documents are forged, and Dan rather says nobody has challenged the depth of our story.
Nobody has been able to disprove the contention of the story.
Or standing by the story, if this story is not true, I want to break that story.
Remember when he said that?
Dan, uh it's been broken uh a bunch of bloggers.
So apparently the the the pattern is that you can go ahead and assert anything you want if you're the drive-by media.
As long as nobody can disprove it, then it's true.
Even when you have to retract it.
Back after this.
Stay.
Hi, welcome back, my friends and good buddies.
Rush Limbaugh, an excellent role model for the youths of America, 800-282-2882.
Don, what are you doing?
And I you know, this is starting to get distracting.
I'm gonna close the shade.
I am closing the shade.
We're gonna fly blind here, folks, because I I've I uh you guys have to live pay very close attention in there because I cannot keep watching this.
Uh it's independence day, so 4th of July, ladies and gentlemen, coming up this weekend, of course the the fourth is on Tuesday, and there's still plenty of time for you to get fully and totally prepared.
Talent on loan from God.
Rush Limbaugh on open line Friday back to the phones to the Lee's Summit, Missouri.
This is uh just outside Kansas City.
Gary, great to have you on the program with us.
Mega Ditto's Maha Rushy.
What a pleasure.
Been listening.
I've been listening since I think 1989, 90, when I got my first outside sales job and was in a car and found you, and it's been uh been a relationship ever since.
So what a pleasure.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate it very much.
Hey, a couple of weeks ago you were talking about ADD and how you think it's one of those made-up diseases, which I 100% concur with you on that.
Be careful.
See, you can say you got anonymity, you're not going to catch any grief.
Exactly.
Except for maybe for my local press if they find out who I am.
Anyway, um I I actually rename the disease, and I and I I think it is a disease, but it's called DDD, and that stands for discipline deficit disorder.
And I think it develops from children lacking in discipline from their parents, and I think basically the problem is parents today are lazy.
Um they want to man.
Here we go.
But they like Rush, and I know you don't have kids, you don't know this, but par I have four, and I have one going into college, one twenty-four.
I have I have the whole range.
And kids are a lot of work, man.
It's a job.
It's a 24-7 job, and if you want to do it right, it actually involves effort.
Yeah.
And I I think a lot of parents today want to.
Don't worry about it.
They don't want to they don't want to spend the energy to raise their kids to be responsible adults.
They'd rather blame it on a disease or it's just it's this whole generation of of advocating responsibility.
Man, you're really stepping in it now.
It's one thing to say there's no disease, it's another thing to rename it and blame it on the parents.
Well, you know, I mean, really, uh children are the products of their parents.
I mean, both both, you know, from from contest.
Okay, let me see if I understand what you're saying.
What you're saying is you're calling this discipline deficit disorder, DD.
That is correct.
And what you're essentially saying is is that a bunch of people go out there, they get married, what's the next thing in relationship?
Baby.
Maybe you have a couple babies, and but they really don't want to.
I really don't want to be parents.
They'd rather live their lives, but they've got got the kids and the kids.
I mean, they're running around their little firecracker's worth of energy and so forth, and all these parents want to do is uh, you know, entertain themselves and and and uh and is I can't deal with this.
This kid won't mind his kid.
So they drug the kid up, so the kid's basically vegetating out there.
Exactly.
Well, like for instance, I've got a 15-year-old boy right now, and he is a pain in the behind.
I mean, he is we have to be on top of him every day.
I'm not sure.
What for?
What kind of trouble is this kid getting?
You know, he's it's not bad trouble, but things like you just got to keep him focused on school, and you know, he does a lot of the you know, he's into the lipping off stage, and just you know, just not allowing stuff like that to continue and grow and and just basically disciplining.
I mean, discipline is a is it is an ongoing yeah, I'm not talking about beating the kids.
You know what I think I think you seriously, I think you do have a point.
I think it's very difficult for parents who want to be their kids' friends to discipline them.
Oh, yeah.
You can't ever cross that line and you can't mix the two.
If you start becoming your kids' friend, then you start disciplining them and not going to understand it.
That's exactly right.
I'm not saying that that you you don't discipline without love.
I mean, but but the kids have to know basically the kids need to have boundaries.
And parents that the kids need to understand, and this goes and this has far reaching effects later on in their lives, which I think where a lot of liberals come from.
Right.
Basically, they need to understand that their actions have consequences.
And a lot of parents let kids have ongoing actions that are bad for them or bad for the family, and there's really no consequences.
There there's promises of consequences, but those consequences are rarely delivered.
And and to deliver those consequences again involves actual effort, calorie burning, work, and then we're not going to be able to do that.
Let me tell you a little story.
Let me since you have reminded me of a story.
This past weekend I went to the Dominican Republic.
Yes.
We heard, we heard.
It's not, you know, this is so...
Everybody's making these these these humorous assumptions about this that couldn't be more uh incorrect.
But uh maybe someday I'll delve into it.
But what w one of the things we did, we went up to uh uh uh Santiago, which is the headquarters of the Fuente cigar family, and and let me just tell you a quick thing here.
Uh the first thing they took us out to their farm, which is about uh thirty minute drive, I guess, east of Santiago, where they actually grow the tobacco and and so it's just fascinating.
But they've set up a there there are five really poor, I mean dead poor, what they call villages, that are near their farm, and the Fuentes have been raising money from Americans and others, and they've created a school with a baseball field and uh uh a number of things, a hospital, doctors.
Um and and it's it's uh we were met, they had the the the kids are out of school now, but they met us there.
We were there for two hours last uh last Sunday afternoon, maybe even longer than that.
Uh and and these these uh the the Fuente family is is trying to to uh take the the bounty that they have uh uh experienced from their business uh combined with charitable donations to build this city to raise these people out of poverty.
And my point with this is that with some of the guys that were with me on the trip were looking at this, and they were stunned.
It was the first time they'd seen anything like this.
I mean, talking about this abject poverty.
And and they all of them said I can't believe I I just can't believe how entitled my kids feel.
This is I said, let me tell you something, gang, this is Rodeo Drive compared to uh Afghanistan.
That's why I will never ever uh listen to people in this country complain about poverty in the same way again.
And so what but the point was kids in this country have it so good, they don't know anything else, it's not their fault, it's why they need the discipline.
They they they uh they do develop an entitlement mentality, and parents want their kids to have more than they had.
So uh parents are free-flowing with uh with love and gifts and this sort of thing, and it does create a um uh all set of expectations or uh or atmosphere atmosphere of entitlement, uh, and it it so I know what you're saying about it.
Rush, here's how mean of a parent I am.
My daughter starts as a freshman at MU at the school of journalism next year, which I'm sure you're familiar with in Columbia there.
Yes.
Yes, and uh uh and guess what?
We're making her pay for her own college.
Now, is that mean or what?
Well, some some people some people will think that it is.
I know, I know.
Some people think that it is, and but but no, it's it's there's nothing wrong with teaching the value of money early on.
I I um it's it's always to travel to other parts of the world where there is real, real poverty.
And by the way, these kids from these five poor villages were some of the happiest.
They were smiling constantly, and they have nothing.
They're in the process of acquiring, they have nothing.
But they were happy as they could be.
It was uh quite a sight.
I gotta run, we're a little long here.
Okay, Don, I'm gonna raise the shade in an attempt here.
Have you heard um any news about the president's approval numbers being up over forty percent?
You heard that?
Well, okay, Fox had it at forty, but another poll has it at 41.
Are Are we hearing about this?
I have a little uh Los Angeles time story here by our old buddy Ronald Brownstein.
The headline, though Bush's numbers edge up, war discontent lifts Democrats.
Bush's numbers edge up, but discontent over Iraq, especially among women continues to bolster Democrat hopes for November.
That's the sum total of the stories.
As far as the media's concern, well, yeah, Bush is still in the basement, taking a step up, but he's still in the basement.
Numbers are coming back.
But he still doesn't have a pair because the country hates a rock, especially women.
Bolstering the chances.
So even a Bush well, not even.
Everything continues to be uh viewed through the prism of the effect on uh Barbara Walters uh uh Bush.
I'm looking, I'm I'm I'm looking the next story in the stack is Star Jones and Barbara Walters, and I'm asking myself why.
Why did I even put it here?
Star Jones was never that big a deal anyway.
And that view show is well, it's an embarrassment.
It it's an embarrassment to women.
I guess it's got some kind of an audience.
But can I say what surprised me about the Star Jones Barber Wawa uh uh breakup, if you will?
It went against everything I've always been taught about women.
It it goes against everything that I have ever uh been taught.
Not it doesn't go against my instincts.
My instincts, I trust, but I've been told my instincts are wrong.
I've been told various things.
For example, these are open-minded, and these are liberal women, folks.
That means they're open-minded and they're compassionate and they are caring.
Uh and and they support each other.
Liberals hang together, and I am just stunned that they would act towards each other this way.
And we have to Star Jones is black.
The one minority on this show just got canned.
Publicly canned and humiliated just by a bunch of sensitive, touchy, feely liberal women.
Surely can they not see each other's points of view?
Surely could yeah, why can't they get a little?
Why can't why couldn't a little conflict resolution been employed here?
Surely they could have just sat down, not on camera, just sat down and worked out their differences instead of all this public carping.
Shouldn't shouldn't they be wringing their hands and asking, what have I done to make Star angry?
What have I done to make her so mad with me?
Can't we all just get along with no?
No.
She's history.
She's gone.
She's out of there.
And now they're trashing her publicly.
And this is this is not what I'm told that liberal women are all about.
That they work out their differences, that they don't fall prey to these petty little jealousies and so forth that other people do.
I I'm I'm confused.
Andy in Sioux City, Iowa.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Wow, thank you very much for taking my call.
It's an honor to be able to speak to you finally.
Thank you, sir.
It's great to have you uh with us on the program.
I I wanted to thank you for uh what you said in December of 2003, and I don't know if you remember that I'll refresh your memory.
You were talking about uh young adults that were still living at home and the slackers.
Right.
The slackers.
And uh I wanted to thank you because uh what you said, I ended up moving my parents' house.
I'm on my own now.
I just got married last fall to uh awesome woman, and uh we just bought a house last Monday.
No kidding.
All this all this in uh three years or four years, I guess.
Right.
Two the three of you.
So so uh uh how old were you when you finally moved out of your parents' house?
Well, I was I was twenty-three.
I'd actually only been living there for about uh five, six months.
I had just got an act of duty prior to that, uh act of doing it in the army.
And so I was living with them.
I was planning on going to school for the next two years while living at home and uh uh I heard your your program when you're talking about that, and it kinda hit me.
So uh I remember we talk about this a lot.
This is a phenomenon, but I mean we were actually talking about thirty-five-year-old guys that still live with mom and dad, sponging off mom and dad.
Well, I'm gonna be able to do that.
And believe me, you know, for for every for every guy with guts and a spine like you, Andy, there's a lot of 35-year-olds out there loving it, still living with mom and dad, getting a big kick out of game in the system, bringing their girlfriends home, uh and and and parents have to get it.
The parents are whacked out too.
They think it's cool.
I asked my uh wife what she would have thought if I still have home, she said I don't know it would have been kind of weird.
I don't know if I would have married you.
Yeah, well, I'm sure now see but see you've just you you've moved out of you're you're living with your folks, they were taking care of you now.
Your wife is.
This is a slick move on your part.
Very, very slick.
And I get the credit.
You're giving me the credit for making this happen.
I don't think I would have moved out, you know.
Well, so you were sort of shamed into this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, shame is not a bad thing.
More people more people should have more of it.
And indeed, I think that I thank you for the call and uh and uh and all the best.
Congratulations on your nuptials out there.
Thank you very much.
And your new house.
Uh Andrew in Klamath Falls, Oregon.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Kickadithos.
Thank you.
Hey, um, two quick talking points.
Um the first one is it just really blows my mind that when it comes to liberals and the left and the US and Western culture, how they tell us that with Iraq we can't push on our cultures, such as you know, capitalism, democracy, help them build constitutions, but yet you turn around to have a grab and not even have a grab, but um our own down here, you know, they demand that we give them constitutional rights and their own bill of right.
It's just really two faced need to make up their minds whether the that is a brilliant point.
I mean is an outright brilliant point.
I hadn't even thought of that.
That means it has to be brilliant.
Oh, thank you.
No kidding.
Here they're we're in Iraq, we're trying to establish, quote unquote, the word is a democracy.
We're trying to establish freedom for them to determine their own way of life.
They're in the process of doing it.
And we have liberals and democrats in this country.
It can't be done.
You can't impose freedom on people.
You can't improve your way of life on They've not Arabs and they're fair they're they're they're they're they're not they don't have any experience.
They can't wait yet, capture them, bring them to Club Gitmo, and we force our own system on them at the Supreme Court.
Right.
And you know, since when is the U.S. Constitution global?
I mean, they complain we do things globally, but then want to force that globally.
Uh well, uh U.S. Constitution apparently is global with this Supreme Court ruling.
That's it really, I mean, this is uh such an abomination of a of a ruling.
That's that's an excellent point out there, uh Andrew.
You're gonna be a lone wolf being in Oregon, uh, thinking the way you do there.
Not that how I mean, how many conservative friends do you have?
Actually a lot.
And Clamath Falls is fairly conservative.
Well is it?
Yeah, we're not over with Moscow on the hut, you know, Moscow on the side over there on that side of the hill.
Well, good.
Good, good, good, good.
Hey, yeah, my other point, if I can take a second.
Yes, if I would take two.
Okay, just because I never hear this, and I apologize to keep breaking up and losing my way here.
Um global warming, I've been reading articles now for probably the last three years about how scientists say that we might be going into a new switching of the North and South Pole.
That basically our magnetic shield is controlled by the geodynamo.
And for those of you in Rio Lindo, that's the big spinning metal ball in the middle of the earth that makes your compass work.
And so they think that that's you lost them when you said compass.
It's the north-south-east-west thing on your rear view mirror in your car.
Um the cars are on concrete blocks in the front yard.
But um, that since they think it's starting to switch, North and South Pole, and part of the reason is since we've been taking care and monitoring the magnetic shield of the earth since the middle of the eighteen hundreds, it's reduced about ten percent in strength.
Now, I'm not a scientist, but I was taught in high school that this shield is what protects us from the solar rays.
It protects us from cosmic rays and everything else.
Well, with that weakening along the same timeline as what they're saying is global warming, I'm fairly sure that that would also play a major part in increasing the temperature of the earth.
No question about it.
Uh I've read the stories about the magnetic uh field and its uh its shifts and so forth, and of course nobody can claim that we're responsible for that.
Although they will.
Uh they'll they'll they'll try.
But uh th that's what I mean.
I marvel at the complexity of of everything that makes all this work.
And the idea that we uh uh without even trying mess it up is just it just does not uh does not compute.
At any rate, Andrew, I appreciate the call.
Thanks much.
I have a brief time out to take here, folks.
So we will continue shortly.
Stay with us.
Why not?
No, no, no.
Nobody hear what you did.
Why not?
They don't even know what I'm asking you.
Why not?
Okay, greetings and welcome back, my friends, El Rushbow and the uh EIB network, by the way, excuse me, uh uh will not be here on Monday or Tuesday, Fourth of July is Tuesday.
Uh Monday, of course, is the third of July, and that's the day before the Fourth of July, so I'm taking a four.
Don't worry, Don.
Four-day weekend here.
Uh uh we have Paul W. Smith uh coming in on Monday.
And by the way, we got raves for Paul W. Smith uh on his show on Monday.
We got a bunch of rave emails for Paul W. Smith uh from WJR Detroit.
So he'll be here on Monday.
We've got a best of show on uh on Tuesday.
Democrats, uh who is this?
This is our old buddy Will Lester at all AP.
Uh Democrats leading their party's midterm election effort argued yesterday that any Republican attempt to use immigration as a central campaign issue would backfire.
Well then they should be encouraging the Republicans to do it.
Isn't that right?
But no, no.
They that's not the point.
They cited Republican plans to hold hearings on the illegal immigration around the country this summer rather than passing immigration legislation in Congress as a sign of the GOP strategery to motivate conservative voters.
Senator Chuck Schumer, Chairman Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee said Republicans want to use this like Willie Horton in 1988 and gay marriage in 2004.
It's no secret.
They want to use immigration as a political cudgel.
All right.
So there's a just a giant red flag.
Democrats are running scared on this, folks.
If they are telling Republicans that using immigration rallies like this is going to backfire, then they should shut up and just let the Republicans do it and dig their own grave, correct?
So note to GOP.
Stick with the program.
Stick with the plan.
Eric and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Nice to have you with us.
Rush, it's an honor and a privilege to speak with you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Uh I wondered uh if I could get uh a little politically philosophical with you.
Um I've been listening for a few years here now, and I just wondered if you thought you were more uh libertarian or conservative.
Conservative.
So uh uh fundamentally, do you s do you believe that government's only job is to protect its citizens' freedoms?
No, I think it either is a good thing.
Or is there more to it?
Yeah, well, see, this is where the libertarians uh uh and I like them.
I like all libertarians.
I have no quarrel with them.
But the basic argument is that libertarians uh basically I think correct me if I'm wrong, got one real government that one real function, and that is to uh defend and protect the people against foreign incursion attack and that sort of thing.
Basically the constitution in the country.
You're so you're really free, in other words.
As long as you're not hurting somebody else.
Yeah, uh but but see let me give you an example about why why I uh have a uh uh this is it's it's gonna infuriate people.
This is but let's look at capitalism for for just a second.
There's no question that it is quite simply without peer, far and away the most ingenious way because capitalism is essentially freedom.
Capitalism you can't any everything else that's devised as an economic system, Marxism, socialism, communism, whatever, uh r requires uh pinching uh and reducing and destroying freedom.
Capitalism is the essence of freedom, but it needs limits.
And and and if they if the capitalists do not impose the limits on themselves, you're Just inviting uh regulation from somewhere to do so.
And and so uh i i I think, for example, uh uh not not so much this guy from Exxon, Lee Reynolds or Lee Lee Raymond, who got the four hundred million dollars, but there are a lot of examples where airlines and other are losing their stock, losing their shirts, and the CEOs are still scoring big money.
Uh and and that that is the kind of thing that does damage in a in a PR spin-wise to capitalism, and I think the problem's actually at the board of director level.
Yeah, I mean those those those airlines wouldn't be in business anymore if the government didn't keep them going.
Uh they would go out of business.
Somebody who could uh do it for the right price would would.
I don't know that they're being that much propped up by government anymore.
But I think I think libertarianism uh in in theory is it was uh be absolutely wonderful, but it's you don't think capitalism could survive without some kind of government uh control?
Uh well, not unless there was adequate self uh policing and accountability, and and we all know that society in every segment, uh white collar, blue-collar, uh wealthy, poor, middle class, criminal, and are gonna have ne'er do wells.
And they're getting people that try to game the system.
It's it's gonna be there.
It's humanity.
I mean, I uh people don't understand why there are hackers trying to destroy everybody's computers.
Why why do it?
What's the point?
Well, there's some oddballs out there to whom it's fun.
Well, I I think that government should protect its citizens from outside enemies and and people who would do harm to somebody else.
Uh but I don't think that the government should be able to tell you uh that you can't do harm to yourself.
Uh well, see, here's the problem the problem, I you're talking about victimless crimes.
And I understand the theory of that too.
But are you really not harming anybody?
Let's say you have a family and you're doing something self-destructive.
You're not harming yourself, and your actions are not directly harming anybody else, uh, but you're failing in your responsibility.
Uh it the the idea that individuals, unless there's a hermit, uh, live in a vacuum and have no impact on anybody else, uh, and don't harm anybody else is uh uh I don't think it's specious.
I think there are interconnections and uh and and hum human interlinkage, even in populations like cities or communities or so forth where these things do have effect.
People do not live in vacuums and they do not live as uh uh as hermits uh, although it's attractive to some.
Anyway, I I gotta run here, John.
We are sadly out of busy broadcast time.
I'll be back and wrap this up right after this.
Stay with us.
All right, so Superman might be gay, and now he doesn't represent the American way anymore.
No icon is safe except I am safe, ladies and gentlemen.
I am one American icon that they will not be able to change.
And I'm gonna miss you people for the next four days.
Well, at least for three of them.
See you.
No, I'll miss the whole the whole period of time.
Be back on Wednesday to gin it back up.
Paul W. Smith will be here Monday with the best of show on uh Independence Day.
Have a great one, folks.
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