America's Anchor Man is away and this is your undocumented anchor man with you for the rest of the show.
And also I'll be here with you tomorrow and then Mark Belling will round out the week.
It's a new affirmative action program for Marks.
There's nothing for Marks, by the way, in the stimulus package.
There's earmarks, but no non-eard marks.
So we've decided to have an affirmative action program for Marx here.
And Mark Belling will be in to take care of the rest of the week.
And then I believe Mark Foley with a full supporting chorus on Monday.
He'll be here for Monday show.
It's an exciting lineup.
We were talking the last hour about Tom Daschell.
Poor old Tom Daschell.
He's limousine.
It's like Thelma and Louise.
His limousine and his driver got over the cliff now.
And he's withdrawn his nomination to be Health and Human Services Secretary.
And we were talking in the previous hour about how, you know, what ought to be the Republican endgame in this.
And the thing is, is that this is the, you know, we got into this very technical thing about whether he should have paid whatever it is, the 2.9% Medicare taxes that apparently are not part of his tax settlement.
And boy, this guy has been suckered now.
Look at him.
He's paid the back taxes and he's not even getting the cabinet posts.
So this isn't even pay to play.
It's pay not to play.
I mean, this is pathetic.
Is this what American politics is reduced to?
You settle your taxes, you still don't get the cabinet position.
But let's, you know, let's look at it from Tom's point of view.
Let's take him at face value and let's take Geithner at face value and say, you know, when they say, oh, well, you know, of course I didn't realize I was breaking the law.
It's just all so complicated.
They're right.
It is complicated.
It is complicated.
And that's why when you've got a 600,000-page tax code or whatever the hell it is by now, that is an abomination to a free society.
You should not, it used to be that you'd go into broken down towns, small towns across America, in places, in states where they'd been Democrat for years and they'd done all the Democrat policies.
So naturally the mill had closed down and all the business had moved overseas and the place is a dump.
And so the mill closes down, the general store closes down, the church still closes down, but it still has like seven lawyers in town because it was like lawyers you needed in America.
You also notice these broken down towns, the other thing they have, they've all got an office of HR block.
How small does a small town have to be not to have an office of HR block?
There's no such thing.
It's undetectable.
You can have a town of seven people.
It'll still have professional accountants there.
Because whatever you do in America, you know, you can be doing just very three minimum wage jobs.
My mother-in-law came to stay with me in New Hampshire.
She had to go to the doctor.
She goes to the doctor.
The receptionist, very nice to her, says, oh, you've come to see us.
Where are you from?
And all the rest of it.
And later that day, after chit-chatting with Tanya in the receptionist room at the doctor, she runs into her up the road doing the evening shift at the diner as a waitress.
You know, people are having to do two and three jobs, two, three very relatively minor, low-paid jobs.
They need professional help to do their taxes.
That's what's wrong with the American tax code.
It is too complicated.
The end game here for Republicans ought to be calling Geithner and Dashel and the rest of them on their inconsistency, which is that these guys admit, these guys admit in public testimony and public statements now that they got caught, that this ridiculous tax code is way too complicated, even for a great big financial big shot like Geithner, who can afford all the best advice in the world, and yet they still don't want to change it.
These guys are the best poster boys for whatever it is, I think it's the 14% flat tax they've got in Lithuania or Slovakia or wherever it is now.
These guys are the best poster boys for a Steve Forbes type flat tax that there ever is.
This idea, I mean, I'm with Tom.
Why the hell, if some guy wants to give you a car to drive around in and a driver, what the hell business is that of government?
And it wouldn't be the business of government if we didn't have this stupid, overcomplicated tax code where even if you receive something that isn't money, the state regards it as income that you're obliged to declare to them.
You know, Alan Keyes, now I'm not saying I'm endorsing Alan Keyes for president.
I'm not saying, although actually Alan Keyes is to blame for if he'd run a better campaign when he ran against Obama for the Illinois Senate, we wouldn't be in this mess.
So it's all Alan Keyes' fault.
But Alan Keyes has a great line.
I saw Alan Keyes gave a speech and he goes, if the tax rate is 20%, what proportion of your income does the government control?
And, you know, people stick their hands up in the audience and they go, duh, you know, 20%.
And he goes, no.
The answer is that if the tax rate is 20%, the government controls 100% of your income because you have to justify the part you keep.
And that's exactly the process that Geithner and Daschell have been through.
They're having to justify the part they kept.
And of course, they kept more than they were supposed to keep.
But the answer to that is a simplified tax code, a simplified tax code that does away with all this rubbish about whether you paid, you know, your 2.9% Medicare taxes on your limousine or your limousine driver.
I mean, it's not even clear to me what he did here, whether the limousine, as I said earlier, the limousine itself should be paying the Medicare taxes.
What we need here is none of these deductions and none of these tax credits.
You know, one of the great things the Democrats have done now, they keep talking about the proportion of this lousy stimulus package, is so-called tax cuts.
Most of it isn't tax cuts.
What they mean by tax cuts now is tax credits, which are rewards that the big nanny, big nanny, I'm talking about, you know, the government nanny, not these two nannies this other Obama nominee had for her teenage kids.
The government nanny.
That's what it is.
The government naddy says, you know, we will reward you.
We will give you some little tax credits like candy for agreeing to do what we, for agreeing to live the way we want you to live.
We will give you little tax credits.
And that's why they're not going to stimulate the economy anymore.
You know what a stimulus is?
A stimulus is if you want to grow the economy, it's not difficult.
Let's do it with easy numbers.
You earn $1,000 a week and the tax rate is 10%.
So you keep $900.
That's $900 you can pour into the dynamic part of the economy.
You can start businesses.
You can spend it on your neighbours' businesses.
You can put that new $900 out into the world to work.
Now, next week, the government puts the tax rate up from 10% to 20%.
So now you only have $800.
You only have $800 to put out there in the world to work.
You can't grow an economy like that.
You cannot grow an economy by raising taxes.
You can only shrivel an economy.
That's all you can do to it.
So the reality is that if you want to get money out into the world, it's not good enough to give tax credits for approved behavior.
It's not good enough to do what the Bush administration did, which was send out a check to everybody, because that's a one-off check.
That's what is it they say on the financial services ads that you see on the cable channels?
Present performance is no indicator of future performance or whatever it is.
Getting a one-off check is no indicator of future economic performance.
You need to know, you need a nice hard reduction in specific taxes.
If you get a 20% reduction in tax, and that's not just this month, but next month and every month afterwards, you can adjust your behavior to conform to that extra 20% that you've got to spread around into the economy.
That's the only kind of stimulus that actually does any immediate stimulating.
That, as I said, jump-starts the economy the way Tom Daschell's driver hops to it when he comes out of giving one of his $100,000 speeches and getting in the vehicle.
And as we just heard, tragically, tragically, Tom Daschell has withdrawn his nomination as Health and Human Services.
And in a sense, I, you know, as Tom would say, tilting his head and putting on those sort of dancing eyebrows more in sorrow than in anger look, I feel for Tom.
I feel for Tom.
It would be interesting to see, it would be interesting to know what it is that was going through his mind when he decided he wasn't going to pay those taxes.
But what at core, whether he expressed it this way or not, was the simple, rational understanding that he could do, that money was more use to him than it was to the United States government.
And I'm with him on that.
I agree with him on that.
I think even, I don't know what Tom Daschell spends his money on, but whatever it is that he does with it, keeping it for himself and spreading it around, well, he was a senator from South Dakota.
I don't think he lives there.
He spends all this time in Washington, maybe as a beach house in Malibu or whatever.
I don't know what he does.
But whatever he does with his money is more use than anything the federal government is going to be doing with his money.
And that's not hard to understand.
And so the endgame here in taxes ought to be using these people as poster boys for a simplified tax code.
Now they're humbugs because that's the kind of person the Democratic Party attracts.
So like a guy like Tom Daschell floats to increase taxes all the time because he knows that he's simply going to skip those boxes when he fills in his tax returns.
That's the point.
It's like Teresa Hines-Kerry, when John Kerry was saying, well, we need to increase this and we need to increase that.
That year, Teresa Hines-Kerry, her total percentage of income that she paid in taxes to the government was 9 point-something percent.
This is one of the wealthiest women in the world, the great ketch-up heiress, Teresa Hines-Kerry.
And she only paid 9 point-something percent in taxes because she's got all these fantastic advisors who can help her negotiate her way through the code.
It shouldn't be like that.
It's an abomination.
It's an offense to the principle of equality before the law.
That somebody who has to pay taxes to the government, that's something every citizen has to do.
And it shouldn't be something that you can only do with high-priced advice.
So this is the best argument yet for a simplified tax code.
And we should have Tom.
It's a shame Tom Daschle didn't get in there to be a poster boy like this guy Geithner.
But I agree with this congressman who wants a Wrangell rule that you can just check on the tax form so that if the IRS decide to come after you, decide to audit you, decide to freeze your bank accounts, you can just check the Wrangell rule box or the Geithner box or the Daschell box and say you want the same deal as them.
Our legislators should be subject to the same rules as every other citizen in this republic.
This is Mark Stein on the EIB Network, 1-800-282-2882.
More straight ahead.
Hey, Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Let's go to Reggie in Post Falls, Idaho.
Reggie, good to have you on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi, Mark.
I just have a, well, I have a suggestion.
To restore the public confidence in our government, I think that what we should do is demand that all elected officials, Republican, Democrat, whatever, be audited at this point, immediately.
And let them see what it's like to have to go through that process.
I doubt if any of them have probably ever been audited.
And I think that Daschell is just the tip of the iceberg.
And you know what?
Let the chips fall where they may.
Why should we have to pay our taxes?
And then if we mess up, we pay a penalty.
And these people don't even pay a penalty for what they're doing.
You're right, you know, and you're right.
It should be done instantly.
Like, suddenly say, well, this is a crisis.
We're going to have an instant audit.
It's like those instant drug tests they spring on athletes or whatever.
You're not going to have time to go to the men's room and flush all the papers down the toilet.
We're going to have the audit right here, right now.
I think that the Republican Party, if they demanded this, that would restore confidence in the American people in them.
Oh, it would be unbelievable.
Well, you know, Reggie, there may be a reason why even the Republican.
You know what?
need to get rid of our get rid of the bad guys in our um party too yeah no no i'm i'm with i'm with you on that that that The thing about at heart, you know, what you're saying here is right.
There are enormous perks and privileges that go to being a relatively undistinguished man in public service.
You know, I don't like this talk when people venerate so-called public service above all else, because it's all else.
It's all the other stuff that pays for the public service.
The only reason that fellows like Tom Daschell and Pat Leahy and, you know, our guys too, like Judd Gregg and all the rest, can swank around with these huge, great monarchy nookal retinues is because there are still people in America generating enough real business to pay to support all that.
And the reality is, when you look at Tom Daschell, a completely undistinguished man, rejected by the voters in his own state, and yet manages to, without batting an eye, his wife becomes a huge big-time lobbyist, funneling millions of dollars into their joint bank accounts while he's the head of the Senate.
Nobody bats an eye.
Nobody bats an eye when he suddenly turns out to be making $5 million.
For what?
For what?
Tom Daschell, there's no reason to pay $5 million to Tom Daschell for anything other than the fact that he happens to have a Rolodex with a lot of big shot names in.
So if you're running some particular industry and you'd like a tax break, he can pick up the phone and get to Washington.
Tom Daschell is the face, is the real face of public service as it has become inside Washington.
I'm not talking about, you know, I'm not talking about the state or the county or the municipal level, but certainly at the federal level, the idea that a guy like Tom Daschell suddenly can cash in his Rolodex for $5 million is a lot of what's wrong with the political class in this country.
Thanks for your call, Reggie.
Always like the name Reggie for ladies.
I don't know why I'm not so keen on it for guys, but I love it for gals.
It's terrific.
So nice to talk to Reggie in Post Falls, Idaho.
No offense, by the way, before I'm forced into making the shameful public more in sorrow than in anger, Tom Daschell dancing eyebrows apology.
I want to hastily withdraw my slur on men called Reggie.
I like girls and guys called Reggie.
I'm very, you know, what is it?
Not metrosexual.
Well, whatever it is.
I'm Reggie friendly.
Yes, I'm not regimented in my Reggie views.
But this gets right to the heart of it.
You know, the expansion of the state.
What happens when the state gets so big, which is the situation we're facing in the United States, is that then people who have service in the state or who know people in the state or who were once part of the state can move back and forth between the private sector and the state and the private sector,
like in all these stupid health lobbying groups and law firms and all the rest of it, who are paying Tom Daschell millions of dollars, the purpose of the private sector then becomes just to sort of serve and facilitate and smooth the pathway to the state.
Tom Daschell is more typical of the trend in the United States than just his tax returns.
But I agree, you know, I agree.
I would like to see a kind of instant audit thing of everybody in Congress.
I think that's reasonable.
That it would, exactly.
We need even more auditors.
What's interesting, by the way, about this is that, you know, the auditors, the IRS auditors, they audited Tom Daschell in 2006 and they didn't notice any of this stuff.
You know, what kind of IRS audit is that?
The rest of us panic.
The rest of us, you know, go out there and terrified you hear you're going to have an IRS.
They didn't pick up any of this stuff.
It was the Obama transition team auditors.
So I think we need actually to nominate the Obama transition team auditors to be running the United States Treasury.
They're clearly doing a much better job than the IRS is.
This gets to the farce of this business.
But, you know, at heart, it is a problem about the size of the state.
And that Alan Keyes point: that if the minute you have systems like this, effectively, the government controls 100% of your income.
And you have to justify the part you keep.
And that's what's wrong with the system.
That's why Steve Forbes is right, that we need to learn the same lessons that the Baltic states and Slovakia have learned and move towards a simplified flat tax.
That's it.
You earn $50,000, you pay so much, you earn $100,000, you pay so much.
There's none of these deductions, none of these tax credits.
That's what's free and fair for all.
Everything else just empowers the likes of Tom Daschell.
More straight ahead.
Good to be with you in an era of hope and change.
Hope and change.
It's in the air.
I'm just looking at this Gallup poll.
Obama has been president for just two weeks, and the number of Americans who are unhappy about the way things are going is now only 80%, 80%.
That's terrific.
That's terrific.
Good news.
I'm sure we can just improve that statistic and get us up to bleak and near-suicidal rating in the very near future.
Let's go to Elliot in Yorba Linda, California, the famous Yorba Linda.
Elliot, you're on the air.
Mark, pleasure to speak with you.
Love your stuff.
One of the things that really frosts me about all this stuff, and I'd like to start a movement that any liberal that votes for the stimulus package or for higher taxes must reveal every tax shelter and every offshore account that they have that they are using to avoid paying their fair share.
And I'd love to see it extended to all our friends in Hollywood, who I'm sure have only the best tax advice to move money to the places where it would be least exposed to taxes.
And by the way, if anybody's doing some research about where our taxes are going, in Germany, if you make over 52,000 euros, which is about 70 grand, your tax rate goes from 15% to 42%.
So I'll leave you with those thoughts, but I think we need to start a movement to get these people to tell us how they're protecting their money from taxes.
Well, Elliot, let me just say on that business of tax shelters.
What is a tax shelter?
What is a tax shelter?
It means that if you're, say, some rinky-dink island in the Caribbean, and you don't have much going for you, you can set yourself up in a way to offer significant tax advantages to bring people into your territory.
A lot of them, most of them, are actually ramshackle, the fairly more obscure British colonies.
The Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bermuda, Bahamas.
In other words, they're countries in the British tradition.
So in other words, you know that if you take a post office box in Bermuda, that there isn't going to be a coup and some banana republic guy is going to get in and they're going to clean out your post office box and you're going to be screwed.
That's basically why that's basically the advantage they have.
They're basically these British territories in the Caribbean and other places.
So you know you've got the rule of law.
You know you've got a civilized, relatively civilized regime.
You've got the head of state is Her Majesty the Queen.
So you know your money is safe if you decide to have some sheltering arrangement.
Nobody shelters stuff in Chad or Sudan or Rwanda.
Should we allow tax shelters?
Well, look, that is competition.
That is choice.
John Kerry campaigned in 2004.
He was very anti-tax shelters.
He was always going on about them.
How big, you complain, you were talking about the German tax rates, and you're quite right about that.
You're quite right about that.
German tax rates are high.
A lot of European tax rates are high.
In Britain in the 70s at one point, the marginal tax rate was up, I think, around, what was it, 89%, maybe even higher, actually.
At one point, I think for a while on some types of income, it was 97%.
Well, all that does, if you remember the famous Britons of the era, Roger Moore, Michael Caine, Towering Colossi, they all wound up living in Switzerland or Los Angeles because they didn't want to do that.
So if you have tax rates that are high, you chase out a lot of talent.
The other thing, the other way of looking at it is what is a tax haven?
A tax haven is a choice.
People like choices.
You know, if you think of America, America is a federation of 50 states.
When the taxes got too high in Massachusetts, everyone decamped and moved to southern New Hampshire.
In the broader sense, the population has been moving from the northeast, which has a very high tax, generally a very high-tax states like Massachusetts and New York, to the southwest, where they've been lower tax regimes.
California is exporting people because its taxes are too high, because Schwarzenegger, unfortunately, has decided to go along with the long-term remorseless decline of California instead of reversing it.
And so an offshore tax shelter is a choice.
It's an option.
It's like if you're in a school, if your kids are in a school in a crummy school district and you don't like being in that school, you move 10 miles up to the road and they've got another school that's a better school.
That's effectively what Bermuda and the Cayman Islands and the Turks and Caicos and all these other ramshackle British colonies offer, that when taxes get too high, you move your funds.
Markstein Enterprises New Hampshire Inc. suddenly becomes Markstein Enterprises Belize Limited.
Now, if you happen to be from the IRS, that's an entirely hypothetical example, and there's no need for you to suddenly get any subpoenas and start going through any of the paperwork in my basement.
It's an entirely hypothetical example.
So when I say that Markstein Enterprises New Hampshire Inc. has suddenly become Markstein Enterprises Belize Limited, it's just for the purposes of illustration.
No IRS officer listening to this should pay any further attention to that.
That's the point, that it gives you a choice.
It's a safety valve.
It gives you somewhere to go.
And when John Kerry was campaigning against that, the way to look at it is this.
Imagine if there were no tax shelters.
Imagine if, for example, as the United Nations wanted, there is a global tax.
Where do you go then?
What's your choice?
Borders, borders, whether they're town borders, state borders, national borders, give you choices.
And in this respect, I am pro-choice.
If John Kerry and Co. so are determined so much to destroy the United States that it is no longer worth headquartering a corporation in this country, then good luck to anyone who wants to rent a post office box in Bermuda and move it out there.
That is the point.
The difference, though, the difference between me and Tom Daschell and Theresa Heinz Kerry and Tim Geithner and all the rest of it is that I'm quite upfront about it.
I think we should have lower taxes and I think if the taxes get too high, you should have the right to move them to the Turks and Caicos Islands.
What these guys want is to raise taxes on you and yet avail themselves of all these loopholes themselves.
And that is what is wrong with the present system.
This is a great system if you can afford to open up an offshore account in the Turks and Caicos.
It's not a great system if you're just a guy doing a job, getting hammered and getting more and more of your income transferred from the dynamic productive part of the economy to the sclerotic, stagnated Tom Daschell supporting part of the economy.
That is what is wrong with the present system.
But generally speaking, I'm in favor of these little islands in the Caribbean, you know, essentially taking advantage of the overly onerous burden that the United States and other Western nations that they place on their citizens when it comes to funding largely unnecessary levels of government.
Now, if you look, I mentioned earlier that Slovakia and Lithuania and a couple of these other places had gone for the flat tax, the 12, 14, 20% flat tax.
The minute you have a system like that, then there are not a lot of Slovakians opening offshore accounts in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.
The minute you have that, that problem goes away.
Essentially, they're a dynamic response to the problem of a huge inflated tax code that benefits only those like Tom Daschell and Teresa Heinz-Kerry who are big and powerful enough to be able to afford the advice that will get them around that thing, get them to avoid it, get them to figure out a way through it and get them to keep most of the money.
So they vote to raise taxes on you, but they fully understand that in fact that their money is doing more use if it's kept with them to spend than if it's given to the United States Treasury.
I'm consistent.
I want that principle to be applied.
I want the Tom Daschell principle.
I know better how to spend my own money.
I want that principle to apply to all 300 million Americans and not just Tom Daschell, Tim Geithner, Theresa Heinz-Kerry and the rest of them.
So we'll talk about taxes.
We'll also talk about the size of government, I think.
I'd like to say something about that before we're done today here on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush and more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in on the Rush Limbaugh show today.
Mark Belling's going to be here at the end of the week.
It's an all-mark week while Rush is away.
You know, what this whole Dashell and the stimulus pack is really about the same thing, which is really, I think, about the size of the state, the size of the state.
When we were talking earlier with Elliot about tax shelters, and I said to him, you can imagine what the tax rate in the United States would be if people couldn't open accounts in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands and the Turks and Caicos.
In other words, the minute you can, the constraint on government is that you can always vote with your feet.
You can take your money and if necessary, yourself somewhere else.
That's what's happening in California.
California, people who are, which is a tragedy because this was one of the states that was one of the great iconic states of America of what you could accomplish.
You could come from nowhere and enjoy great success in California.
Well, you can't anymore because Californians work for the state.
Californians work for the state.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has made it clear that he is not seriously interested in attempting to shrink not just the size of government, but the ludicrous benefits that go along with government.
So if you're living in California now, if you're like the Arnold Schwarzenegger of today, when Arnie came there 40 years ago, you imagine you get there, you're a penniless immigrant from Austria, and you work hard and you make a lot of money and you set up your own business and things work out for you.
No point doing that now.
If there's any penniless immigrants from Austria who are turning up in California, waste of time.
That's a waste of time.
The trick is to get yourself a nice, undemanding job with some branch of government.
It'll have the best benefits.
You'll be able to take early retirement, you know, 55, and they'll pay you a huge percentage of what your final salary was until the day you die.
What we have in California is a system in which those citizens not foolish enough to work for the government are essentially fleeced in order to pay for a bloated public sector essentially using its muscle to vote itself more and more privileges.
And so people vote with their feet in California and they get out.
How bad can that problem get?
How bad can that problem get?
I don't think Americans realize what they're in for, that essentially Europe is a suicide pact, that it's essentially got unaffordable entitlements, the entitlements that the Obama administration wants to introduce here, and it's got no way of paying for them.
They had a survey that came out in London last week, which revealed that over the United Kingdom as a whole, government spending accounts for 49% of the economy.
That is at least twice as much as it ought to be for Britain to be regarded as a healthy, functioning state.
When you look at the constituent parts of the United Kingdom, it's even worse.
Wales, the state accounts for over 71% of government spending.
If you go to Northern Ireland, the state accounts for 77% of government spending.
Now, obviously, there's still a private sector there.
What does the private sector do?
It works for the state.
Everybody knows that.
Once the government gets so big, there's no point being in the private sector unless you've got a government contract.
That's essentially what Tom Daschell is doing.
He gets kicked out by the voters of South Dakota, but the voters of South Dakota have no real say in impacting the relationship between Tom Daschell and government because immediately he moves out of the Senate and he gets a job.
The job depends, he's working for legal firms and lobby groups and all the rest of it, who essentially are interested in contact with the government as a way of facilitating their advance.
And every society has that to one degree or another.
You may wonder, you know, if you fly around the United States, you notice that little commuter planes, for example, tend to be by Bombardier.
Bombardier is a Canadian company based in the province of Quebec.
Bombardier actually can't make a plane at a price that any company is prepared to pay for it.
So it has to be massively subsidized by the Canadian and Quebec governments to continue to make these planes, which they then sell to U.S. carriers and generate some income.
But in fact, essentially, those planes are being paid for by Canadian taxpayers.
That once the state gets so big, private companies, you wind up with a few marquee private companies like these airlines and car manufacturers in France whose power and muscle depends on them getting a big-time government contract.
The minute you get the state up to that level, freedom is under threat.
We have a situation in the United States where if this stimulus package passes, it represents such a massive expansion of the state.
And when the state expands, liberty contracts.
Liberty contracts.
When you listen to Barney Frank, he's perfectly upfront about it.
He's perfectly upfront.
He said on TV yes on, I think it was Sunday on Meet the Press or whatever, one of these shows, Barney Frank said that the difference in Europe is that when you're kicked out of your job, you still have your health care.
When you lose your job in the United States, you lose your health care.
That's why Barney Frank wants to introduce government health care.
Because they don't see you as a citizen.
They see you as a dependent of the state.
They see you like Nancy Killifer, who had to withdraw from the Obama administration this morning.
They see you like her teenage kids.
These are teenage kids.
I don't know what they are, 15, 17, 16, 18, whatever they are.
They would be regarded as adults in most societies in human history, but she's got two nannies for them, apparently.
I don't know why.
But that's what Barney Frank wants for you.
You may be 47.
You may be 53.
You may be 28, but you're not a freeborn citizen.
Barney Frank has a nanny.
He wants to sick on you because you're not responsible to make your decisions on health care and how you spend your money all by yourself.
That's what happens when the state expands to the size foreseen in this stimulus package.
This is Mark Stein on the EIB network, Infra Rush.
We'll talk about this and a lot more straight ahead.
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Don't forget rushlimbo.com.
That is the place to go for your new Obama-era Club Gitmo t-shirts.
Don't forget that President Obama has signed an executive order announcing that he's thinking about setting up, forming a commission that at some point down the road will look into the possibility of looking into the possibility of closing Club Gitmo.
So this has instantly at a stroke rendered Russia's merchandise obsolete.
But does he whine?
Does he complain?
Does he go to the United States Senate begging for a bailout?
No, what he does is he puts up a new t-shirt, Club Gitmo, when America was safe, complete with the exclusive new waterboard logo.
Don't worry, don't worry.
It's not a scene of torture that you'll be embarrassed about strolling to the mall in.
It's water and a board.
It's water, there's water, there's the board.
You don't be embarrassed with your liberal friends because there's some jihadist having the electrodes clamped to his private parts or anything on that t-shirt.
It's a nice, gentle, relaxing view of water and a board.
It's the new waterboard t-shirt.
It's available exclusively at the EIB store at rushlimbore.com.
Club Git Mo, the merchandise continues on the EIB network.