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Oct. 17, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 17, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Hiya, folks, and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, highly trained broadcast specialist executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
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That's an amazing feat.
Nevertheless, uh, take it for what it is.
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We're still at 65,100 on the eBay auction of the Harry Reed Letter.
Uh we call it the Harry Reed smear letter, signed by Harry Reid and 40 other Democrats.
A letter filled with factual errors that they know are factual errors.
They knew they were factual errors when they wrote and signed the letter.
Several members of this audience are sending letters to various signatories of the Harry Reed letter, and they continue the smear in their response form letters to their constituents.
Barack Obama's letter says, Well, I will listen to the transcript, and there can be no other conclusion other than Limbaugh smeared active duty soldiers who disagree with the war.
It's just it is surreal.
So we've turned it around on them.
$65,100.
The uh proceeds of the auction will go to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, which provides scholarship uh bonds for the children of Marines and federal law enforcement agents who happen to be killed in action.
And uh they're up to, I think 27 million dollars since being founded in uh in 1995.
On our website, we've got the link to the eBay page where you can go and look at it if you want to.
It's gotten to the you know, sixty-five thousand one hundred dollars now is unaffordable for a whole lot of people.
So what we have done is put a PDF file of all four pages of the letter in blazing brilliant full color, suitable for free download.
Many people have said, hey, I can't afford that 65,000, but I'd love to donate something to the Mcliff uh for a copy.
Well, you can do that, but you can you you don't have to donate in order to get it.
We want as many people to have a copy of this letter as possible.
Uh United States Senate official smear of a private citizen.
I know I'm a public figure, but I'm a private citizen.
I'm not a politician, I'm not running for office.
Uh I have no influence over what government does in terms of having votes there.
Uh I'm not a candidate for anything, so that that's the distinction.
I'm working in the private sector.
The Constitution is supposed to protect people like me, all of you, from this type of action from the federal government.
That's what's so historic about this.
And whoever does end up being the high bidder for the Harry Reed letter is going to have a genuine historic document with all those signatures.
You got Ted Kennedy on there, Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Uh some people have said, you know, Rush, that that Robert Byrd signature, I it looks too I just don't think I've seen him on TV.
I don't think he could sign his signature that plainly anymore.
Maybe not.
Who knows?
If he didn't do it himself, it doesn't matter.
It's genuine in terms of it representing Senator Byrd.
Um, so you can download the PDF El Freebo, and if there's a link right at Rush Limbaugh.com for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation website where you can then go there if you want to donate a little bit amount of money.
That's up to you.
Uh we'll treat you as uh adults here, not kids.
You've already paid for this letter because they wrote it and signed it uh during the course of normal business hours.
The auction goes for about two more days till one o'clock Eastern time on Friday.
Uh and then we'll be announcing uh next week uh what what uh future plans you get that you get the briefcase, the hell was the attache case, the Haliburton Etache case, and uh a thank you letter from me and a picture of me on stage in Philadelphia last Thursday night, presenting the briefcase, uh the Attache case and the uh the letter for the first time in public.
Now on to the uh on to the news.
Voters unhappy with Bush and Congress.
We're all depressed, but personally we're fine.
Deepening unhappiness with President Bush and the U.S. Congress soured the mood of Americans, sent Bush's approval rating to another record low this month.
This is Zogby poll.
The uh Zogby Index, which measures the mood of the country, also fell from 98.8, happens to be my accuracy rating, to 96.
This is the second consecutive month that the the uh mood of the country index has dropped.
The number of Americans who believe the country's on the wrong track jumped four points to 66%.
Bush's job approval rating fell to 24% from last month's record low of 29%.
But Congress's number is a paltry 11%.
You know, my numbers.
My numbers are higher than this.
I've got approval numbers in Nevada.
And I'm a 32.
I'm higher than the president.
I'm higher than Congress.
I'm higher than Harry Reid out there in Nevada.
And he's been an elected official from Nevada for 30 years.
The bleak mood, it says here, could present problems for both parties heading into the November 08 election campaign, said Zogby.
Voter turnout could still be high next year, but the mood has turned against incumbents and into a throw the bums out mindset.
This is 991 likely voters that were surveyed.
October 10 to 14.
It found barely one quarter of America, like 26% believe the country's headed in the right direction.
Now keep that figure in mind.
26%, only 26 think the country's headed in the right direction.
The poll found declining confidence in U.S. economic and foreign policy.
About 18% gave positive marks to foreign policy down from 24%.
26% rated economic policy positively down from 30%.
But a majority of Americans still rate their personal financial situation as excellent or good.
Although the number did dip slightly this month to 54% from 56%.
Americans still feeling good about a number of things in their lives, but not about government's leadership.
They are giving up on this government.
Well, look, this this sort of illustrates point that I have been trying to make over the many, many countless years of service from behind the golden EIB microphone.
I wrote about it in one of my books.
My success, my happiness is not determined by who wins elections.
Now I can understand being all bummed out about government now and then, thank God.
We all ought to be bummed out about government.
That's a good sign.
The answer to it is not we need more.
If there's any evidence that we don't need more of this, this is it.
People are unhappy with government, fine, do something about it.
Put some new people in there, shrink it, make it more efficient or what have you.
But the idea that people can have their national mood determined by the government is a frightening thing.
You don't have to wake up every day and face your state or national capital and pay homage and salute.
If you're happy in your personal life, that should be enough.
That should be fabulous.
What's going on in government is something that you can all participate in changing.
But sh the the idea that it's going to affect people's mood this way, frankly, I don't think it's government, although I wish it were.
I think it's a combination of government and what people see that drive my media day in and day out.
Like this story out of Iraq.
The deaths all over the country of citizens and U.S. military personnel plummeting.
And so the drive-bys have a story today that this is really putting a pinch on the Iraqi funeral business.
Just have to find the negatives.
Have to find the wait, 10,000 kids go to the hospital every year because of bicycle accidents.
Oh no, it's so sad.
We got this killer germ out there wiping us all out.
We don't even have a ribbon for it, killing more people than anything.
We're all going to get fat and we can't do anything about it because it's simply life itself that's causing it.
There is a drumbeat of news every day, radio and television, newspaper, magazines, whatever, that some people might say, why should I even bother trying?
Why should I even get out of bed?
The odds are I'm going to fall down the steps based on the latest statistical evidence.
I haven't even gotten to the scare tactics being bombarded by the global warming hoax and crowds.
So if if you're happy in your personal life, well, that's that's that's 80% of it.
Well, I know, Mr. Limbaugh, but I see the news.
I see how unhappy many people are.
Economic news or people's not as good as don't believe it.
Most people are like you.
They're feeling good about themselves or being made to feel guilty about it.
And so they say, well, I'm a little fine with myself, but I think I'm uh tempered that because it's not fair for me to be feeling good when there's so much misery out there.
There's not that much misery out there, and the misery that's out there has been manufactured.
Misery's, by the way, something comes natural.
A lot of people think that there's virtue in it.
There's misery leads to suffering, and suffering is considered virtuous.
Um suffering you can't avoid, but the suffering you bring on yourself, worrying about things you can't possibly know, telling yourself stories about what's going to happen tomorrow, the day after, and you start worrying about that's a what a waste of energy and time because you can't possibly know.
Self-induced suffering, nothing virtuous about it.
Uh fact just the opposite's a waste of time.
Be right back, folks.
Stick with it.
You know, this is the kind of story that um it can really destroy your faith in your fellow citizens.
It can challenge your upbeat version of mankind, a story out of Mesa, Arizona.
The sight of an old man being hit by a truck in Arizona touched off a feeding frenzy among witnesses who allegedly stole the dying victim's groceries.
Not only were the man's groceries taken, but the only person who tried to help him also had his own bags taken.
Police told KPHO TV and nearby Phoenix that the scavengers could face theft charges if they are eventually tracked down.
The elderly victim waiting for a bus last night when a pickup truck swerved off the road and plowed into the bus stop.
Man was sent flying, as were his bags of groceries.
As a truck sped off with a white plastic bag flapping on its grill, witnesses began grabbing whatever scattered food they could get their hands on.
Boro Mitrovich, who was himself nearly struck, said he ran to help the man and his bags disappeared too.
One minute I was on the ground, the next minute it was gone.
Mitrovic was stealing an old man's groceries in the middle right after he gets hit.
There is one positive thing, and that is that an old man was able to afford groceries in America.
This is something that the Democrats tell us is not possible.
Dave in uh in Gurney, Illinois, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey Rush.
Um I wanted to tell you how I use uh your um Harry Reed Schmir letter.
I use it as the official Rush Limbaugh Senate scorecard.
And what I do is I have it next to the TV, so when I have C SPAN on watching the Senate, I can put the face to the name to how they actually find out information about legislation before they sign it.
Because they signed a letter that they did not have full information on, and and knowing the full story myself, if they're so flippant that they can put their signature on something where they did not have the full story, how can we trust anything that they're gonna present?
Well, you know, we've heard these stories a lot that some of these bills are so massive that's not possible for everybody well possible, they just don't read it all.
They assign some uh occasionally some staff to read it, but it really isn't true.
The real question that I would have for you, Dave, is do you really think that Dingy Harry and his gang didn't know the truth when they wrote and signed that letter?
Oh no, I believe that they knew the truth, but they knew that this was a way to bring to attention um and and get you mentioned on the Senate floor in a bad light, and where it's gonna get national attention.
And it it is such a smear that I I mean, knowing the full truth.
I remember when I was listening to you that day, and and I'm going, wow, you know, I mean, just listening to the conversation, and then to hear Chris Matthews come on hardball, and one of the first things he said is how you called the troops phony.
That was his l first line on hardball.
I actually called I actually called MSNBC and left a message saying, How can I trust even Chris Matthews on a reporting a story if he doesn't get the full facts?
Or, you know, present them the right way.
And uh, you know, basically to kind of take away the credibility that that he professes to have.
Well, that's that's look at it.
It's an excellent question to ask.
How can you trust anything these guys say in the Senate anymore when you now know they're willing to lie?
When they're willing to put their signature to a lie.
And the same thing with about another you you could go beyond Chris Matthews and a bunch of other drive-by journalists and uh ask the same thing.
And what and the answer to it is you you shouldn't, because they're advocates.
They're activists hiding behind either the title of journalist or even commentator and so forth, but they have agendas.
And of course, everybody does.
It's not that they uh committing some sort of professional malpractice by having an ad an agenda.
I mean, thinking engaged human beings can't help but having a preference for certain outcomes, issue by issue.
It's always been absurd to me.
It's always been ridiculous to expect functioning thinking, engaged human beings within journalism or whatever, to not care about the outcome of the things they're reporting on.
Of course they do.
The big lie has always been that they don't care.
That they are objective, and that they are non-biased, unbiased, and nonpartisan.
And the lid's been blown off that.
Everybody knows they've got agendas, everybody knows they care about the outcome of events that they cover and others.
They maintain that they don't.
They maintain that they're just doing it, they're just reporters, they're just uh they're just doing their jobs.
Uh they're not, not as reporters.
Everybody is an activist and an agenda-oriented person uh today that's in media, news media particularly.
Some admit it and some don't.
And the ones that don't admit it are the ones that uh that get the most heat.
Like, for example, Matthews.
If Matthews would just say, Look, and as Limbaugh guy has been a thorn in our side, limb this, limbaugh that, he came out here and he said this about phony soldiers, he may be right, maybe wrong, but he shouldn't have said it in this context and created a confusion, blah blah blah.
And he gone about it and said, I I, you know, but they don't do it that way.
They they have to lie because circular route goes back to the theme, liberals, liberalism cannot flourish without a monopoly.
They don't allow debate, they don't allow f competing facts, the facts that the only they they'll establish their own set of facts that aren't in an alternative universe.
And they don't care if they advance their cause on the basis of lies.
We do.
We don't want false success.
We don't want an agenda or a a mandate that's based on the fact that we've lied to people.
They couldn't care less because it's not the people they're interested in.
The people's relevance and worth to liberals is only goes so far as getting their votes.
And after that, couldn't care less.
Ask any minority group that votes in mass for Democrats.
Have they not been complaining about the same misery that the Democrats have been promising to fix for fifty years?
Dirty little secret is Democrats don't want to fix it.
They want them kept miserable, so they keep blaming Republicans and racism and all these things for it that are not relevant.
Uh Mark in Palm Beach, Florida, nice to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Megadetters Rest from just up the road from the in Palm Beach Gardens.
How are you doing?
Fine, sir.
Thanks very much.
Point I want to make is Hillary is out there pushing her health care, which is something that's that she's been doing since the uh the early nineties, and she really doesn't care about the health of America.
I mean, you're speaking about it yourself.
We've got an obesity rate up around sixty-five percent, and we know that you know the reasons behind that, it's you know, exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle, that sort of thing.
Well, we've learned something today.
The British researchers think tanking the British government says no, it's not what you eat and not lack exercise, it's just life.
Right, I understand.
Well, I just I just received my doctorate and as a naturopathic uh uh doctor, so I'm I'm fully aware and been doing this for about 25 years now of of the health uh and and how you have have options health.
But the b the bottom line here is that if Hillary really cared about about these people that she would uh be working on prevention, and and I believe that she's she's uh you know, sort of buying votes.
She's uh instead of helping these people, she's she's gonna say, Well, I'll give you more money, we'll give you more drugs, we'll give you more things that obviously have not worked, because statistically, when she started this whole health care crusade in the nineties, statistically, obesity and everything else disease has increased.
So they've done nothing to help it.
So how is her program and her more money, you know, throwing it at the people and at the drugs and nothing else and gotta help?
Uh yeah, but you you know, you excellent point.
But it see, I think we make a mistake when we even start debating health care policy with her.
Because that's taking debate and accepting the premise.
The real question is, what does she know about it in the first place that people would afford her or accord her expert status and vote for her as president to fix it?
She's got zilch experience in any business.
The second thing is, you're absolutely right.
She doesn't really care about the end product of health.
This is simply a mechanism to expand government and gain more control over your life.
Learn it, love it, but don't live it.
Thank you, and I know.
It's great to be back.
Halfway through the EIB network's three-hour excursion into broadcast excellence coming to you today from High Atop, the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
Uh, Rudy Giuliani is the uh one candidate so far has taken the gloves off regarding Mrs. Clinton.
He was uh with Hannity and Combs last while he was interviewed by Sean uh hand and they played it on Hannity and Combs, and uh uh Hannity asked him, uh you know, Hillary says, I I really think my unique my experience uniquely equips me to be president at this time, and Rudy said I don't know Hillary's experience.
She's never run a city, she's never run a state, she's never run a business, she's never met a payroll, she's never been responsible for the safety and security of millions of people, must let even hundreds of people.
So I'm I'm trying to figure out where the experience is here.
It would seem to me that in a time of difficult problems and war, we don't want on-the-job training, you know, for an for an executive.
The reality is that these areas in which maybe there are some areas in which he has experience, but the areas of having the responsibility, the safety and security of millions of people on your shoulder is not something Hillary has ever any experience with.
She really doesn't.
It's just, you know, I I want to expand a little bit on this last call we had.
It is, I guess it's an okay exercise, and it it'll it'll be persuasive and matter to some people to start debating the specifics of Hillary's health care proposal, but to do that sort of accepts the premise that whatever she has to say is worth anything.
And in my opinion, it is not.
I wish more people in this country would wake up.
The health care system that we have is the best in the world, but it is a mess.
And you're upset because insurance companies are making medical decisions, and you're upset at the cost, and you're upset at the lines and so forth.
Uh, folks, who brought this about?
You know, it used to be that medicine was a pay as you go thing.
You go to the doctor, you pay when you leave, or he'd send you a bill.
Hospitals, yeah, they were a little problem, but you had insurance for that.
Now we have insurance for it.
You know what it is.
It's just totally out of control.
And it's people like Hillary Clinton who have made it this way.
They are not experts in anything.
They don't even forget experts, they don't have experience in these kinds of things.
None whatsoever.
And so why we, and I know why we do it, it's just very frustrating.
Why we turn to the government to solve all these problems when self-reliance would handle it.
But somehow we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna have a presidential election and we're gonna say, well, I like Hillary's healthcare been better, plan better, and I like Rudy's or Fred Thompson's or whoever it is, and I really wish we had John Ever.
Like these people have never done diddly squat in the health care business.
They've never done diddly squat in the oil business.
They've never done diddly squat in anything.
And the business they're in of government is so bloated and big and inefficient that it's a joke.
You wouldn't hire them to run your business.
You might hire them to lobby for you in your business.
And you might hire them to go out and raise or steal money for you, but you would not hire them to run it.
So accepting the premise that Hillary Clinton has a valid health care proposal to me is ridiculous.
The whole point of her health care proposal is to entrap more and more people in government-run health care with no other choice.
It's all about control.
These are pure and simple socialists, folks, who are first and foremost focused on the acquisition of power.
And then the wielding and using of that power.
And they come along and they talk about health care and the poor and the children to make you think they care and that they're caring about it, and that their good intentions are gonna get things done.
Well, look at every program they've they've put forth.
Start with the Great Society, start with the war on poverty, start with food stamps, start AFDC, all the welfare programs, Medicare Medicaid, they are all out of control.
They are all inefficient.
Nobody is happy with them in terms of functional operation.
And yet, these people who have had these programs skyrocket 25 times the original projected cost, have not gotten anybody out of poverty, have destroyed the black family, have made more people less self-reliant and dependent on government who are incapable of working for themselves and providing for themselves as well as if they'd been trained in a little self-reliance,
self-esteem, you know, feeling good about raising and meeting high expectations.
I could, I could I could keep going on down the list.
Everything that they have done has been an abject failure, and yet you're not allowed to characterize or criticize the results.
No, we're supposed to examine their good intentions.
Well, at least they cared.
Well, whoopee-doo, caring and intentions do not equal results.
Results are what everybody needs to be oriented around, and this bunch, I it's the government at large taking on these kinds of things.
And I'm telling you, I know a lot of people believe that some of these things are so massive that only government can do it.
It's not the case with health care.
There's no reason health care should be national.
There's no reason it should be run by a state.
It should be a private enterprise like everything else is.
But for some reason we're in this mode of thinking here that when it comes to our health, why the government and our neighbors, the American people, need to be paying for it, ought to be free.
Why?
I know how this got started.
It started with Democrat presidential campaign, and it started because they precisely so gummed up the healthcare system, it got so unaffordable that the first Democrat that came along and said, Well, I'm going to help you deal with the expense of this.
I'm going to make sure that the insurance rates are low and you get this and this and that and that and then so forth and so on.
Oh, good, okay, because it's a mess.
So people that created a mess come along and say, let me fix it.
Now we've got Mrs. Clinton who is demonstrated as eight years of co-president, that she is not experienced or accomplished at getting anything done.
And yet we accept the premise that her health care plan is viable, and she's one day it's $5,000 for every baby.
Can't have that pull it off table.
Then it's $1,000 to seed a 401k for everybody.
And then it's this, and then it's now it's it's uh uh family and medical leave for businesses of 25 or more, not 50 or more, and it's taking exon's profits to start alternative fuel research, and it's as no expertise whatsoever.
And then we get idiot lame brains like these two Jurassic Park rockers who were on Chris Matthews a couple nights ago.
This is a Graham Nash and David Crosby.
And these guys are out there talking about how the U.S. military are good kids, but they find out that the job is to go over there and kill mothers and sisters.
Average citizens, no letter from Harry Reed.
They say the stupidest things, they start just complaining about the oil and the oil companies, and the only reason for the war is profits.
It's obscene profits.
And we've got to get people to deal with the oil companies.
And I'm sitting here thinking, as I listen to these bites, what a couple of just idiots.
The government never got them from one concert to the next where they could make their obscene profits.
Why is what they earned not obscene?
What social relevance and value did they produce?
They're entertainers.
Now, granted, they got a percentage of what they sold, that's the way it works, and no argument.
Why is that not obscene?
How could it be said that they were not ripping off the customers?
I mean, how many songs on an album are really worth listening to?
Put 12 songs on an album, you like two of them, you've been ripped off.
You tell yourself you like the other ten because you think you like the artist.
But let's face it, over half the songs in every album suck.
And they're put there just to, and yet these guys' profits are not obscene.
No, no, no, no.
In the meantime, it was big oil that enabled Crosby and Nash and Stills and Young and all these other people to get from concert to concert to concert, where they may have showed up stoned and not done the best they could in front of the paying customers.
Why is that not obscene?
So when they're stoned, they have to bash the guitar at the end of the concert to create the excitement.
Of course, it didn't matter half the audience probably stoned too back in those days, but Woodstock we know.
But my point is, they're undoubtedly going to vote for Hillary Clinton.
What has Hillary Clinton ever done?
And how has she ever been involved that enabled them to get rich?
Big oil did.
Big oil allowed them to travel around, fly around, who knows.
That these are the kinds of idiots that exist throughout our society.
Some of them get microphones to uh publicly display their idiocy, and some don't.
Thankfully for them, living in blessed for them anonymity, so nobody really knows how stupid they are.
They just suspect it.
But these guys go on TV and remove all doubt.
So we accept these silly premises.
And we start debating the merits of it.
We're missing the point.
We are totally.
When it comes to Hillary Healthcare, the only thing to say is, who made her the expert?
Why in the world are we listening to anything she has to say about?
This is no different than if your Aunt Josephine showed up from the room in the basement and said she had a national health care plan.
In fact, your Aunt Josephine may have been a nurse.
She may have more.
The only experience Hillary Clinton has with health care is giving birth to Chelsea.
She's even admitted it.
She spent a day with a nurse to find out what a nurse does.
Big photo op.
I'm sitting here saying, wait a minute, this is the expert of all people in this country going to fix health care and she doesn't know what a nurse does.
I know she was just photo oping so that she can show she cares.
So she showed that she wants to really do it right and cares and cares about people.
Caring about people's a wonderful thing, folks.
But if you cared more about yourself, you wouldn't need all these other people caring about you.
If you cared about yourself, if you liked yourself, you were self-reliant and independent and able to provide for yourself, you wouldn't need all of this.
I realize most of you in this audience are.
I'm not lecturing you.
I'm speaking to the country at large here on my presidential campaign.
This is why I wouldn't last one poll after this speech.
Seriously.
So what if she cares?
You know, I care about a lot of things.
It never got anything done.
But it makes you a wonderful person.
Whoopee, makes me a wonderful person.
Being a wonderful person gets what done.
I'm no more qualified to fix a health care system than Hillary Clinton is.
In fact, I'm probably more qualified because I understand and appreciate the private sector where the fix is.
Okay.
I know much more how to fix health care than she does.
So do you.
Get her out of it.
Keep her out of it, keep the federal government out of it.
Start reducing this cycle.
You ever wondered why you can go to a hotel of your choice, pick a room or a hotel with various prices you can afford this one you can't afford that one?
Competition.
Because the people in a hotel business decide there's a niche they want to appeal to or they want to appeal to everybody, or as broad broad a base as they can in health care, there is there isn't going to be any competition.
There's precious little of it now.
There's no incentive for the customer who pays the freight, even though you might think it's free.
There's no incentive for you to go get the best deal you can when you get care.
Of course, you might try to shop for the best insurance, but in doing that, that depends on the job you get in most cases.
So the competition's got to be brought back into the system, and a hotel room or hospital room's got to be pretty much the same as a hotel room.
It gets priced based on people's ability to pay it.
You're talking catastrophic things, that's where you need the insurance.
Long term, you know, when you get old and this sort of stuff, but the day-to-day health care needs of the average American prior to age 50 should be hardly anything at all.
There are exceptions, of course.
I'm talking about the average here.
But where you need the insurance is when you do have these catastrophic injuries and accidents or genetic defects that prop up or whatever.
But but overall, you could save so much money by just telling people, you know, wait till you're sick, wait till you're really sick to go to the doctor.
So this wouldn't last halfway through the first speech if I were actually running for president.
Anyway, I got a little long here, folks.
I'm not through.
I'm not through, but the only reason I have to stop here is because of the programming format.
Because it's time for me to make some obscene profits?
Here's another great example.
Your wacko government at work.
This is Oakland, California, where officials there have passed new rules putting restrictions on where smokers can light up.
The Oakland City Council unanimously approved an ordinance Tuesday that makes it illegal to smoke in outdoor dining areas, ATM lines, parks, and bus stops.
Smoking will also be banned in child care centers and on municipal golf courses.
Besides prohibiting smoking in some areas, the new rules will require landlords, landlords and condo owners to notify prospective tenants and buyers of the smoking status of the units they intend to move into.
The new law will go into effect in one week.
Now I know this is not new.
It's as restrictive as this, other than the condo thing, although that's starting to creep in here.
I saw that in a local paper the other day.
Certain parts of the Bronx and the Queens area is starting to...
It's a matter of time before they move into this whole, you can't smoke in your house, your heart, your apartment, your condo, or whatever.
The point here is...
Again I say, your federal government, your state government, your city government is taxing cigarettes, and they are using those taxes, and they are astronomical, to pay for all kinds of things, including child health care.
And if they continue to restrict the use of this product, nobody's gonna buy it.
Why buy it if you can't smoke it?
And why smoke cigarettes or cigars if you run the risk of having the authorities come down?
Do you realize the ACLU and others will defend to the end of their existence a terrorist's right to be a terrorist?
You end up getting caught smoking in a building in New York City or in Oakland or wherever, and the Board of Health finds out about it, and you get Gestapo-like warnings and fines, and they keep an eye on you, and this is how they control your behavior.
You get to the point where you can I light up here?
Can I the smoke is scene?
Outside, this is happening.
Pretty soon are going to ban these clusters of smokers outside buildings.
Because this looks bad.
The point is these brainiacs are raising all this money off of this product, and they're in the process of severely limiting its use.
And at some point, the revenue from all these taxes on tobacco products is not going to meet what they've all projected because there aren't going to be enough people spy buying the stuff since they can't smoke cigarettes and cigars and Bammo that it the rest of you will be targeted for your taxes to go up because the programs can't get canceled.
Savannah, Georgia, Tom, welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hey, Rush.
It's great to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Second time.
Very quickly, the first time was when my late great fraternity brother, Lee Atwater, got me tickets to see you in Columbia when you were there in about 89 or 90 with uh in Strong was there and forgot his punchline.
But the point is that one of the first times I heard you talking about Hillary and all of these other ones being such experts.
For some reason I thought about an episode of Leave It to Beaver, when Wally is outside and he's got the hood of the car up, and Beaver walks out and said, Wally, what are you what are you doing?
He said, Well, I'm working on the car.
He said, How do you know how to work on cars?
He said, Beav, I just turned 14.
As soon as you turn 14, you automatically know how to work on cars.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So your point is.
When you go to Congress, you're automatically an expert on everything to say, be it the military, health care, uh, anything.
You know, name it.
You're you're an expert if you're if you're in Congress.
Right.
Well, they may be experts.
A lot of them have come from other areas of government before.
Now they may be an expert in managing a government.
It has its own requirements.
You got to know legislation, parliamentary procedure, and legislative bodies, how to move legislation through.
It's when these clowns start taking on the private sector to protect us, of course, from the abuses of the private sector.
We never get protected from the abuses of the government.
We have to turn the tables on them ourselves, as in the dingy hairy smear winner.
But who was protecting me on that?
Well, the Dalai Lama's getting his congressional medal of honor, and the ChICOMs are livid about this.
That means you can look for more lead in products exported from China to us, the good guys.
Quick timeout, be right back.
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