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Aug. 24, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 24, 2006, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
Bad news, America.
It's not just offshore call centers and tech support.
They've outsourced the hosting duties.
Uh, under a new UNESCO agreement to promote cultural awareness.
At least two out of five Rush Limbaugh programs will now be hosted by certified foreigners.
Uh, the uh Deputy Fisheries Minister of Belgium will be here tomorrow.
But for today, this is Mark Stein.
Uh when the President said we need immigrants to do the jobs Americans won't do, I thought he meant a little light seasonal fruit picking or a couple of holes as Mayor Bloomberg's golf caddy.
But uh here I am sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
America's anchor man is away today, so I am your undocumented anchor man for the next three hours.
What a great country.
What a great country.
Assimilation wise, you can't get more American than being on the uh Rush Limbaugh program.
I'm glad to be here.
Uh I live in the uh great state of New Hampshire.
Uh you don't have to be that great when you're surrounded by Olympia Snow's Maine and John Kerry's Massachusetts and Howard Dean's Vermont and the Socialist Basket Case Province of Quebec, but we do our best.
And you can read me in every issue of uh National Review and every Sunday in the Chicago Sun Times and Mondays in the New York Sun and Washington Times and a bunch of other places around the world.
Uh if you're ever down in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, I'm in the local paper down there, and that's a great paper too.
Uh, or on the internet at Steinonline uh dot com.
Uh also oh, I should mention, by the way, my publisher will be pleased.
I've got a new book coming out in a few weeks on the end of the world as we know it.
Uh so if we've got a spare couple of minutes in the third hour, we may do the uh end of the world.
But a lot to get to before that, uh, too.
A busy busy day today.
Do you see this thing?
Pluto has been stripped of its status as a planet and uh recategorized.
I didn't even know you could use terms like this in in uh the scientific establishment today, recategorized as a dwarf planet.
Uh men are from Mars, no, it's not men are from Mars, women are from Venus.
Prince Charming is from Mars.
Snow White is from Venus and the Seven Dwarves are from Pluto.
So Pluto's been recategorized as a dwarf planet, uh, which I think is the category that comes below failed state.
Uh Joe Biden.
Speaking of failed states, Joe Biden has now laid out his gloomy five-point plan for Iraq on the grounds that the country's now falling apart, lurching into civil war, etc.
Uh, he now says uh Iraq is hopelessly split from uh top to toe, as uh as hopelessly divided as uh Democratic primary voters in Connecticut.
So he's laid out his exciting five-point plan, and you'd be amazed at how familiar some of those five points are.
We'll we'll get to those a little later, too.
And I just saw uh just before we came on here, uh a fantastic flash from Fox News.
Uh feds arrest Hezbollah media provider for New York area.
And I got all excited because I thought they'd rounded up Bill Keller and Pinch Salzberger at the New York Times, but it turns out to be some imam with a satellite dish.
You can't you can't get everything.
And we'll talk about uh Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Katrina, it's the one year anniversary.
And uh do you get the feeling, do you get the feeling that the media are gonna go bigger on this than the uh September 11th, fifth year anniversary?
The fallout from Katrina, the fallout from Katrina.
Uh uh George W. Bush, according to Reuters, is still grappling with the political fallout from a federal response widely viewed as inept.
Uh I d uh I don't think there is any political fallout from Katrina.
Uh this Reuters piece suggests that his approval ratings are something to do with Katrina.
Nobody, nobody who cares about Katrina or knows about Katrina thinks it's anything other than a uh municipal and state-wide responsibility primarily.
You know, it's called the Federal Emergency Management.
They're there as the provider of federal backup support.
They're not still meant to be managing the jurisdiction a year later.
It's not uh it's not one of these UN things like Kosovo or Bosnia, where the international do-gooders move in and never move out again.
Uh if this isn't back in state and local hands now, it certainly isn't George W. Bush's faulty year on.
So we'll talk about we'll talk about that too.
Uh I'm I mentioned New Zealand uh a minute ago.
I just uh just basically came here from New Zealand.
I was uh in Auckland, New Zealand a couple of uh days ago, and I was at the airport there with half an hour to kill and mooching around the duty free shop, and I picked out a souvenir snow globe for my little girl.
Uh uh no snow uh technically in it, but when you shook it little like little stars sparkled around all these cutesy New Zealand sheep.
And the sales clerk swiped my credit card, wrapped up the gift, and then she looked more closely at my credit card and said, Oh wait, are you flying to America?
And I should have known, because she consulted her list of prohibited items and informed me that the twinkly fluid inside the snow globe has now been deemed to count as a liquid.
Uh so snow globes are a national security threat.
You can't you can't take snow globes on planes anymore.
It's the uh it's been banned.
It's along with lipstick and all the other stuff, bottles of water.
It's the front line of the snow global war on terror.
You can't take snow globes on planes.
Uh and I see over in England, Birmingham Airport has banned passengers from boarding with gel-filled bras.
This is a fantastic development.
You know, we've been demanding for years that we need to start profiling.
And finally they're profiling.
At Birmingham Airport, they're profiling women with padded bras.
And that is uh one great profile.
Uh and uh the security uh staff have been trained, trained to spot women who really stand out.
So gel-filled bras are out, and presumably in another year or two after the next crazy thing that these guys pull will be preventing gel-filled breasts from boarding.
And this is why, this is why, unless you're playing a fence in this war, you're losing bit by bit.
No snow globes here, no padded bras there, and everything you ban only drives these guys on to some new innovation.
Uh if you look at the way in these recently uncovered plots in uh Toronto and London and Sydney, uh they've been using converts to Islam, Muslims who don't look like Middle Eastern males.
So the question is whether we can regulate as fast as they can adapt.
So the way to judge whether someone's serious about the war is whether they've got a strategy for playing offense or whether they just want to react to whatever ingenious scheme the jihad uh cooks up next.
Uh you know, I'm as uh fed up with uh the Republican Congress as uh a lot of conservatives.
I'm particularly uh sick of the Senate and uh Arlen Spector and Ted Stevens and all these other presidents for life of incumbestan.
But the reality is that one party wants to confront this threat, and the other party is only interested in confronting George W. Bush.
I I listened to this Democrat yesterday called Michael Brown huffing about why the government wasn't doing anything about homegrown terrorists like Timothy McVeigh.
Well, they did do something about Timothy McVeigh.
They fried him five years ago.
And there don't seem to be a lot of people anxious to follow in his footsteps.
It wasn't uh Tim McVeigh who blew up Bali or Madrid or the London Tube.
But the Democrats would much rather fight the terrorism we don't have than the terr terrorism we do have.
Uh they basically chosen to sit out the great question of uh of our age.
Uh have you have you seen this book?
Peter Beenart wrote it uh a couple of months ago called Why Liberals and Only Liberals Can Win the War on Terror.
If a book falls in the forest and nobody hears it, was it ever published?
Uh no none of his party are interested in this book.
None of his party are interested in winning this war on terror.
And if if if that title was true, why liberals and only liberals can win the war on terror, then we're all done for, because liberals aren't even interested in getting in the game.
Uh it's like uh it's like publishing a book in 1943, uh, why Swedes and Only Swedes can win World War II, even if it's true they don't want to play.
So I think uh whatever the faults we have with uh differences we have with the administration with the Republican Party, at least they're thinking about these issues, at least they've got a strategy for it.
At least they're not just pretending there is no war and uh and there is nothing and there's nothing to worry about.
So that's uh that's some of the things uh we're gonna be uh talking about in the next uh in the next three hours.
I was in Australia for a couple of weeks, and I must say I love the way they conduct politics in Australia.
I was having a conversation with the Australian foreign minister, and I'm sure he won't mind me saying this.
He wa he will mind for a couple of minutes, uh telling uh millions of people about it, but then he'll have a good laugh about it, because that's the kind of guy he is.
He's the least like a foreign minister uh that you can find anywhere on the planet.
He's a man called uh Alexander Downer, and uh he was talking about what they call in Australia, or what he calls in his department, busted ass countries, uh, which is I think in America that's busted ass country, which is what the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs uh calls uh calls failed States.
And you'd be surprised how how many uh busted ass countries the Australian foreign minister managed to get through in uh in uh in his meeting with uh with me.
But I love the way they've got a fantastic strategy uh when it comes to dealing with the politics of the Iraq war, because the Iraq war is unpopular in Australia, uh as it is in America.
Uh but they're very happy when the opposition bring it up and want to talk about Iraq and want to talk about the Quagmire, because they understand that cutting and running and surrendering is even more unpopular.
Uh and just in that magnificent way that those plain spoken aussies have, they've managed uh to turn Iraq into a political plus for them.
Uh because unlike George W. Bush and uh Condy Rice and Tony Blair, they've succeeded in making the issue not whether the nation should have gone to war three years ago, but whether the nation should now agree to lose the war.
And nobody wants to lose the war.
You can have an argument about whether you should have got into the war before you get into it.
But generally speaking, it's a good rule that once you're in the war, you should win it.
Uh and uh those of us who love America nevertheless uh have to admit that it's an awful long time before uh since this country has unambiguously won a war with a clear lasting victory.
And to uh let this thing be turned into some uh catastrophic uh event that would be portrayed as a failure would I think uh have serious consequences.
I think it would uh end the American moment and uh there would be no there wouldn't in effect be no hyperpower anymore.
Why would anyone need to take America seriously if you cut and run from Iraq?
So we'll be talking about that, talking about the first anniversary of Katrina.
Lots more to come, straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Welcome back.
This is the Rush Limbaugh program.
Mark Stein's sitting in.
Walter Williams will be here tomorrow.
Lots to talk about.
Uh Joe Lieberman's lead over Ned Lamont.
Ned Lamont, the candidate of the Democratic Party has narrowed to a razor-thin margin in uh in Connecticut.
I think this would be uh fantastic if Ned Lamont got uh got elected.
Uh he he is almost uh uh a parodic uh empty suit.
Nothing he says makes any sense.
He wrote this uh blemange marshmallow piece in the Wall Street Journal about his view on the Iraq War.
It was like it was written in invisible ink, even as he uh unrolled the sentences, they faded to nothingness.
And yet uh he's now closed the gap with uh Joe Lieberman, apparently, uh just uh overnight.
And uh I don't know if you've ever seen Joe Lieberman campaign.
In the in uh the two thousand and four election, he moved to my state.
You know, primary cam candidates uh spend a lot of time in New Hampshire uh in the run-up uh to the primary day.
But he's the only one who actually moved to the state.
He bought an apartment in Manchester, New Hampshire, moved in there, and uh and I think uh what did he say?
He he got, I think in the end he got seven percent.
Seven percent in the uh New Hampshire primary.
Uh he he announced he was in uh on primary night that he was in an exciting uh third-way tie for third place, uh which was actually very insulting to Wes Clark and John Edwards, because I think they got nine and ten percent, and Joe was way down on seven percent.
So I'm not persuaded he's the most effective political closer in the land.
Uh but you never know, he might yet pull it out the hat.
But I think this Ned Lamont guy would be great.
I can't I hope I wish he could inherit Joe Lieberman's seniority on these uh on these uh Senate committees, because it'd be terrific to have to listen to him expound on uh on these uh these complicated issues.
Uh let's uh let's go to John in Louisiana.
I was uh I was dissing the uh the the uh the local and state response to Louisiana uh uh and to Hurricane Katrina a couple of minutes ago.
So let's see what John has to s has to say.
Hi, John.
You're on the air.
Before I talk about that, I want to uh thank uh anybody who puts you uh on the show.
You're very articulate, got very quick wit, and I hope uh uh Rush uses you again when he has to uh take uh other matters into hands of uh vacation or whatever.
I really enjoy you.
That's uh that's that's nice of you to say.
But you can't be you can't be entirely happy with me, John.
Well, uh what I'm worried about is uh where you're speaking from, uh you uh the bully microphone, which is all powerful.
I'm worried that a Lot of people in America are gonna think, well, New Orleans is an old case and everything else, but until somebody drives down here, drives around and sees the neighborhoods and everything else, it no city has suffered the damage this has except for London, Nagasaki, and Hiroshima, you know, back in the Second World War.
If you drive around and you shake your head, so you the politicians, sure, our politicians are very inept.
The ones we have is the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of uh the state of Louisiana.
But neither one of them have ever faced what's going on down here right now in uh uh it's the first time for them, just like it was the first time when uh London was bombed, you know, trying to handle all that.
So it but it was the first time when uh September eleventh uh had happened.
It was the first time that a mayor of New York City had ever been faced uh by anything like that.
And uh Rudy Giuliani rose and Rudy Giuliani rose to the occasion in the way that local officials uh didn't.
Now look, I I accept what what you say uh I think it's uh clear that something extraordinary happened.
Something extraordinary happened in in uh New York, too.
They put a big hole in the ground in lower Manhattan, and the federal government gave gazillions gazillions of dollars uh to fill that hole and put something there, and and again, state and local politics have meant that uh nothing has been done there, flawed plans have been produced, uh uh disgusting, uh in many ways disgusting uh uh persons managed to hijack the approval process for what was going to be put in that space.
In the end, all the federal government can do in these situations is send money.
The people responsible for building these uh rebuilding these communities are the people who have to live there.
The su the sums quoted initially in the days after uh Katrina are extraordinary.
Um two hundred billion dollars uh for half a million displaced families on the Gulf Coast.
That's four hundred thousand dollars per family.
You could you could give those those families four hundred thousand bucks and they could uh build uh uh their own beachfront home virtually anywhere in America, apart from next door to Barbara Streisand's uh place at Malibu.
And so uh it's not about it's not about uh the allocation of the funds, it's about how responsibly and effectively and efficiently uh things can be done uh on the ground.
It's uh it's an appalling thing what has been done.
It's an unprecedented thing what has been done on the Gulf Coast.
But how efficiently and how effectively it's rebuilt uh will be determined by the people uh who live there in the end.
In the end, that is what that is the great thing about America.
I uh I I've uh lived in highly centralized societies.
In Europe, one guy in Brussels makes the decision on truck weights for the entire continent and the place is a disaster.
Uh in the end, it's American federalism, American federalism, decentralized government that will determine which uh which jurisdictions work and which uh and which don't.
Uh uh, let's go to uh Jack in uh Keelago, Florida.
Jack, you're on the air.
Hi Jack.
How are you doing?
I think uh America should follow the lead of Spain when they got out of the affairs of Iraq and Afghanistan, uh they had no more terrorist attacks.
Uh proving that, you know, if you don't invade them and make war against them, they won't make war against you.
Uh that that's not actually true, uh, Jack.
They've uncovered plots in Spain uh since.
It's true that they haven't pulled any of those plots off.
You've got to have an awfully benign view of the jihad uh to figure out that uh that they just want you uh out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
They want Spain back in the House of Islam.
They want it to be a Muslim state again.
That's that's one of their core territories.
They're hung up about the fall of Andaluthia, as they call it in fourteen ninety-two.
So and they uh they they basically got their hang ups about uh about the first world war, about the nineteen twenty-two peace settlement.
They w they they basically want to uh to get back into uh into Europe and take it over.
They're not gonna be content with just uh uh taking out uh taking out a few people in that Madrid bombing.
They're already back in Europe and uh they're in America, they're everywhere, and we leave our back door up and we're running around the world aiding countries securing their borders and we leave our borders wide open.
Well, that's a different issue.
I'm all for in all for security.
I'm sorry, it's the same issue.
Now, I'm yeah, but I'm I'm all for securing borders.
But you know, uh because if you don't have borders, you don't have a country.
But the reality of the situation is uh that on that issue, uh Americans do not get excited enough and angry enough about secured borders.
You know, those people on uh September eleventh, four of them used the illegal immigrant network.
Uh they got there the ID with which they boarded the plane, they got from the illegal immigrant network outside that seven eleven in Falls Church, Virginia.
And and if that doesn't get people annoyed and sufficiently angry about the subversion of American sovereignty that's uh that's being uh done through illegal immigration, nothing will.
If if if people can kill three thousand Americans by acquiring fake ID through the illegal immigrant network and people don't get serious about it, well uh we'll more fool them.
Thanks for your much uh for your call, Jack.
We'll be back with more in just a moment.
This is Mark Stein sitting in for Rush Limbaugh on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Back soon.
The Rush Limbaugh Show on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
This is Mark Stein sitting in for us.
Jack was complaining about how insecure America's borders are.
They certainly are.
That's why I'm here.
Very grateful, uh very grateful to be here.
I came across the uh hopelessly insecure uh northern border.
If you uh if you're ever up on the uh Vermont, New Hampshire, they've got a the in New Hampshire, the one border crossing we have is unmanned uh for I think it's seventeen hours a day.
You you kind of uh check.
I think there's a video phone they have there and uh and it says uh d uh check in g drive thirty miles south and check in at Beecher Falls, Vermont or something.
It's uh it's basically done on the honor system.
Fantastic.
Uh gr the the the world's greatest superpower, but you can check in on the honor system, uh marvelous border.
Anyway, that's how I got in.
Uh the guy I gave a hundred bucks to.
We uh we drove about an hour south, and he said, Well, you can get out the trunk of the car now.
So here I am, until until uh they uh they kick me out again.
Walter Williams will be with you tomorrow.
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And uh we'll uh we're talking about some of the uh issues in the news.
The first anniversary of Katrina and uh and uh uh some approaches to the war on terror.
And uh let's go to uh Leonard in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Leonard, you're on the air.
Hey Mark, it's a pleasure to talk to you.
I've never heard you before, but uh you're doing a good job.
Thanks very much, Leonard.
Yeah.
I live in Gulfport, Mississippi, just seventy miles away from New Orleans, and and the difference between our recovery here on the Gulf Coast, which is totally deaf devastated, is just a hundred percent different than New Orleans.
And I'd like to attribute to that to the great leaders we have here on the coast who are mostly Republicans.
And um the corruption they have in New Orleans in uh in the local politics, and Ray Nagan especially, is just indicative of how things are doing so badly in New Orleans.
And it doesn't seem like the national media really recognizes that.
No, I I think you're absolutely r uh right there, Leonard.
Uh Haley Barber, I thought did um uh if you c if you compare him with uh with the hapless governor of your neighboring state, I thought he did a really good job.
Uh I'm I'm surprised he didn't get uh more well, I'm not surprised really, because that's the drive-by media for you, but I I'm surprised uh I he certainly should have got a much higher national profile for that.
Yes, he should have.
And uh the problem we're having right now, and they're doing a three-day expose in a local newspaper, the Sun Herald, on um how Louisiana is detracting from our problems over here.
And well, when the hurricane first hit, they asked for billions and billions of dollars, and Haley Barber says, Well, you know, that you know the the Congress is gonna get sticker shock, and we're gonna have a shockwave effect from it.
And that's what happened.
Exactly.
I think I think that's uh exactly uh right, uh, Leonard.
You know, the th th the the fact is New Orleans uh was a dysfunctional city.
Yes, and and and most uh most Americans understood that.
The more that was revealed about it, the more that was revealed about Mayor Nagan, the more that was revealed about his uh uh incompetent uh police force, uh large numbers of whom deserted.
There were no equivalent stories coming out of Mississippi.
No, none at all.
And um the people down here are really kicking butt and they're they're they're holding their chins up and and um there's places popping back up on the beach, people are saying, Well, if the insurance company won't take care of it, I'll build it myself.
And uh we see a lot of that going on and and uh just people move forward here.
It's unlike New Orleans where people sit on a porch and complain that the government wouldn't have picked the garbage up out of the front yard.
That's uh that's the American way, uh Leonard.
You know, when when people uh built their first uh homes when they settled this continent uh and they uh they got uh wiped out by those tough winters they didn't complain uh when the roof fell in that they were waiting for the insurance company.
When it's extreme circumstances you can't rely on uh on government and officialdom you just got to get on with it.
Yeah it is municipal responsibility for first responders.
Uh the day two days after the storm we had all of food, ice and water we needed.
I mean albeit there were there were uh MREs, but it was food.
And I slept on my porch for two weeks.
Um but uh I didn't blame the government.
Yeah we had we had plenty here.
I it was totally mismanaged in in New Orleans and that's why there's a difference, the disparity between how we recovered and and what they're still going through over there.
Absolutely.
You know the issue in almost all these things is never uh how much is given but how uh effectively it's dealt with on the ground.
The the problem in uh in with Hurricane Contri Katrina is not uh that the people were stingy uh but how effectively the people responsible for using the funds behave on the ground.
I mean there are all kinds of horror stories.
It's actually very hard to be generous these days.
Uh a lady from the State Department was telling me that uh in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the British government had managed to give uh all this beef uh and uh and hamburgers for people to eat and they were about to distribute it to people in uh in in in the uh in the Gulf Coast area when they realized that it's illegal to import British beef because of mad cow disease so you're sitting there as the waters are rising and you're starving.
But uh but because of the one in one in a ten billion chance you might get mad cow disease.
They couldn't give you that food.
And to the best of my knowledge it's still rot they had to find somewhere to warehouse it.
The government had to to pay to fight because they didn't want to give it back because that looks like dissing your allies and they were worried you know Tony Blair would pull out of Iraq or something.
So they had to find and then they thought well we maybe we could give it to a third world country and then they thought no no that's really going to insult them because it looks like hey this stuff isn't good enough for Americans to eat, but we can uh we can give it to some starving people in Rwanda and uh and it's actually very hard these days uh to just be uncomplicatedly uh charitable just giving large amounts of money uh is never is never the answer.
The question is how efficiently it's uh it's spent on the uh it's spent on the ground.
Um I I when uh do you remember the nineteen ninety eight ice storm that afflicted the Northeast uh I was in the province of Quebec and er when you listen to the radio up there everyone there was whining about how oh the government should do this and the government should do that and power was out and all the rest of it.
I drove over the border.
You never heard that on the radio in New Hampshire.
People were just talking uh offering their own advice on how to deal uh with all these fallen trees and power outages and all the rest of it.
And it's sad to say that uh there's some equivalent uh of uh uh of of that down on the Gulf Coast where people in Louisiana seem to be taking that uh I'm waiting for the government to help me and people in Mississippi are just getting on with it.
But uh maybe I'm being unfair let's go to Lawrence from Lake Charles uh who may well feel differently.
Lawrence you're on the air.
Yeah hi Mark it's wonderful to talk to you.
It's great to be able to put a voice to the articles in National Review and a little bit more of a personality.
Oh right.
Thank you.
I I hope the personality comes through on the page but uh the the voice is a bonus today.
It does but I you know you can't hear a laugh.
But um I'm from uh my native town is uh Cameron, Louisiana, which was um about eighty-five percent destroyed in nineteen fifty seven with uh unfortunately five hundred souls lost some of whom would have been my classmates my uh my schoolmates um uh my late father's best friend who was able to compare recovery from Audrey to recovery from Rita Rita was even worse destruction with thankfully no loss of life um about ninety five percent destruction it's uh it's
terrible um but the problem one of the big problems is the town's not coming back and it's not for lack of anyone's desire to rebuild it from the the government getting in the way um we have after hurricane audrey you might have to knock down a damaged house in order to build something else you'd probably have two maybe three guys and a tractor front and loader and a dump truck and the the job would have been done you know in a day and they'd have moved on something else.
People are a lot of money, ten, twelve dollars an hour, which is high hourly wage for our area, to um stand around in a day glow of yellow vest and direct non-existent traffic.
Yeah.
Um dozen, a dozen people to do in in two thousand six what would have taken two or three people to do in nineteen fifty-seven.
Um that's an that's an excellent point, Lawrence, that uh if you just compare the uh the ease with which you can uh clear out, rebuild, move on, it's all much more complicated now.
Well, also they're making uh r real difficult stipulations as to rebuilding.
Um people have lived on that low ridge uh where the Calcashu River empties into the Gulf of Mexico since prehistory.
But now it's seems evident that uh the government doesn't want people to live there.
Um because poor folks who won't be able to rebuild uh according to the the new codes.
Oh, and another thing that really must be said, and you never hear about it is after Hurricane Rita, the the good people of Cameron Parish, the whole lower part of the parish was wiped out.
And um and people there are casualties from the storm, the elderly die.
They just die.
Right.
Um from I talked to a young man who's a son of uh a fellow that I graduated with from uh a high school there.
He lost both of both of his grandfathers to heart attacks just from the stress.
Yeah, yeah.
It's really dreadful.
Um but and one of the problems is they can't move on.
You can't you you there are roadblocks that keep them from simply re-establishing a home where their home should be.
Thank thanks, uh thanks for your call, uh Lawrence, because this is absolutely the critical core element of a community.
It's resilience.
People live in tough parts of the world, they get battered, they're able to move on.
The minute you got a ton of government corruption, government paperwork, and just government lethargy getting in the way, all you're doing is suppressing your ability to move on, which will not uh not do you good in the long run.
Uh this is Mark Stein sitting in for Rush uh limbo, one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
Back with more in just a moment.
Mark Stein for Rush Limbo on the EIB network.
Uh sitting in for Rush, Walter Williams will be here tomorrow, having a great time.
Let us go to I was uh dissing Pittsburgh, New Hampshire.
The good Pittsburgh, the good Pittsburgh, uh a couple of minutes ago.
Mark from Pittsburgh has called in.
Uh welcome to the show, Mark.
I'm I'm shocked to see the call screeners have put an H on the end of your Pittsburgh, because you're Pittsburgh without the H on the end, aren't you?
Yes, that's true.
You'll have to uh uh correct them.
Anyway, uh mega dittoes and uh nice to talk to another Mark from New Hampshire.
And uh oh, a year or so after uh nine eleven, uh our uh representatives and senators uh from New Hampshire here did get the border manned twenty-four hours a day.
So uh uh it is manned uh all the time.
Oh okay.
Well wait a minute, wait a minute.
The the jihadist cell en route from Montreal to cross over that unmanned border crossing.
Uh they're they're about twenty minutes away now, so fortunately uh they'll be able to turn back and uh and uh go back to Montreal without being stopped at that uh at that border crossing.
Uh that's great.
So you've got uh you've got a guard there uh twenty-four hours a day now.
Oh yes, in fact they are uh bringing in uh uh extra um uh border uh guards and so forth from other areas to make sure that it is manned twenty-four hours because it is rather sparsely traveled.
Uh it gets rather boring up there, especially at the end.
It's it's not it's the most fantastic if you're ever up on that uh border crossing, uh folks, that is a great one.
You've got the uh upper Connecticut Lakes, you got moose everywhere, and then you got that little border post on the hill that just uh swoops down the hill into uh into Canada.
It's uh it's a pretty spectacular it's spectacular scenery, isn't it?
Oh, it's beautiful.
And uh I retired up here from New Jersey and just love it.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, thank you very much for letting me on to get that uh No, no, that's uh that's great.
You live in a great part of the world.
You know, there was a house up there on I think it in fact it was in Pittsburgh, uh what they used to call the Indian Stream Republic, where the border was rather messily drawn.
There was a house uh that was straddled the US Canadian border, and in fact the double bed uh straddled the US Canadian border, and I think it was the man slept in America and his wife slept in Canada.
Uh so that could be really complicated if you uh get out of bed the wrong side the morning.
But uh fantastic part of the fantastic part of the world.
You know, the extraordinary thing when we talk about the borders, is uh back then, if you'd say crossed at one Vermont crossing and you were turned away because you were an uh you were a jihadist terrorist, and you went uh ten miles east and tried to cross at another one, they had no way of knowing in their computer that you'd been turned down uh just ten minutes down the road at the other border crossing.
Amazon.com.
Uh you know, if if you're an uh Algerian terrorist and you go to order a book online at Amazon uh dot com, they'll say in there, we have suggestions for you.
They'll know that uh you bought the A to Z of Infidel Slaying two years ago.
Uh so in their we have suggestions for you, they'll they'll say, Well, why don't you try buying suicide bombing for dummies?
Uh Amazon.com is a more efficient miner of data uh than United States Customs and Immigration was on September the uh eleventh.
Uh let's go to Shane, uh another uh another dissatisfied caller from Louisiana.
Entire state seem to be dropping dropping off the map from my uh my casual slurs uh earlier in the uh earlier in the hour.
Shane you're on the air.
How are you doing today?
Good, uh good thanks.
I'm a Republican and I'm from uh from the New Orleans area.
I'm actually a drug rep, so I'm sure I'm hated by a lot of people for that as well.
All right, no problem.
Big farmer.
Yeah, well, I uh I kind of take offense at some of the statements from Gulf Court and also from you regarding the recovery in the New Orleans area.
Um you know, what people failed to fail to remember is that in the Gulf Coast, the water came in and then it left within eight hours, and people were able to walk on their property that afternoon.
The problems in New Orleans lasted for four to five weeks where no one had access to their homes to start a recovery.
And that's time where people had to pay rent in other areas.
Uh they had they were relying on FEMA to uh to live out of the state in a hotel room and whatever else.
And then on top of that, they they decide the water received, they decide they do want to come back to New Orleans and do the American try and start putting their shoulders behind the work.
Well, the problem with that is the FEMA foot maps were delayed until May.
Yeah, I no one could even start rebuilding their houses and their properties.
What you're saying is that all of these small businesses that really drove the economy in the New Orleans market, they were away from their homes, unable to have housing of their own.
They're paying a mortgage on it, and uh they can't even touch it until May because of the irresponsibility of the FEMA federal government response, not the local government response.
Shane, Shane, uh this this is uh this is a problem though, with the expectation uh that um that uh that in a sense the federal government is there to save you.
And this is the same issue really as on September eleventh.
September eleventh we had all this government regulation, and unfortunately the passengers on those first three planes uh realized in the end that the government wasn't up there with them.
The passengers on that fourth plane understood and were able to act uh in their own defense.
And at a certain level, that is a lesson not just for terrorism, but for life.
That in effect, uh when terrible things happen, the government is unlikely to be there for you, and if it is gonna be there for you, it's uh it's all but in uh it's all but impossible that it will be there for you swiftly and efficiently.
That's just the reality of it.
It's the most efficient, inefficient spender of money, no matter how many billions of dollars are involved, it still will not spend it efficiently or get it to you efficiently.
And so the difference is I agree there are geographical differences, but it would have made an enormous amount of difference if uh the state of Louisiana had had a functioning state and municipal uh government in those areas.
And sadly, unfortunately, uh voters don't seem to be learning the lessons, and they seemed all too anxious to re-elect uh some of those uh some of those people.
This is Mark Stein sitting in for Rush, uh 1800-282-2882.
Walter Williams will be here tomorrow.
Back with more after this.
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Addison in Mobile, you're on the air.
Well, good morning.
I want to take strong exception to the previous caller concerning about how New Orleans fared poorer than everybody else and and all their problems.
I was emergency worker down there, I've been in Florida all over the place on emergency work.
New Orleans actually feared better than anywhere else.
It was hit by Katrina or any of the other hurricanes that are hitting the Gulf Coast.
If you go to Mississippi, there's not even uh uh hardly a foundation left.
People have nothing to come back to.
Him saying five weeks or eight weeks or whatever he said is absolutely incorrect.
They were able most people, not all, but Most people were able to get back to their homes right after the area was pumped out.
So, you know, the the guy's just typical of all the people in New Orleans, a bunch of whiners, bunch of losers.
And and you if you come down here, I dare anybody to come down here and really look.
Mississippi is absolutely devastated, and yet you hear that you don't hear these people whining.
You only hear the people in New Orleans whining.
Oh okay, uh, okay, thanks, uh Addison.
I'm sure we'll be hearing from the whiners uh and losers down in the uh New Orleans uh area.
Even even rush listeners in in uh that part of the world have a have a tendency to uh to whine, according uh according to Addison.
Uh this is Mark Snyder, sitting in for rush.
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