Feb. 3, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in and uh and proud to be here. | |
| It's uh the EIB network is relaunching as the All Mark Network. | |
| Uh I'm here today and tomorrow, and Mark Belling will be in Thursday and Friday, and uh then uh Mark Foley will be here during the show on uh Monday. | |
| I'm I I make a j I make a joke about Mark Foley, but you know, and in fact I've I I feel sorry for the guy, because he is uh he is the illustration of the double standard, you know. | |
| This is uh th this is uh bewildering to me. | |
| He's he's the guy who got clobbered in a sex scandal where he didn't have any sex. | |
| I mean that is Yeah, th this mayor, there's this mayor in Portland, Oregon, who's just been uh he's been uh conducting this torrid affair with this uh uh fetching young teenage lad. | |
| And uh you can't find any uh mention of his mysterious party affiliation when you read. | |
| If you if you read about it in the New York Times, the D for Democrat, it comes, you know, you t you read all the way down the front page, you turn to page 17, and like uh 93 uh 93 paragraphs into the story, you'll discover that this mayor in Portland is Democrat. | |
| They they had he's not resigning, and they had a h hilarious they had uh a hilarious uh uh correction. | |
| The New York Times uh corrections is actually the only part of the paper worth reading these days. | |
| They had a uh one today, but Sam Adams, that's the name of this mayor of Portland. | |
| It's in the the Times uh today. | |
| Uh uh he had this uh sexual relationship, 18-year-old uh intern uh, and uh there was a quotation from Christopher Stowell, the artistic director for the Oregon Ballet Theatre, who attended a rally in support of the mayor. | |
| Mr. Stowell said uh that while he was upset with the mayor, he believed that instead of allowing him to resign, quote, I think we should force him to do the job, unquote. | |
| And the Times piously reported, after the article was published, several report report readers reported that Mr. Stowell and the mayor had had a romantic relationship. | |
| Mr. Stoll confirmed that they did. | |
| Uh if the Times had turned up the information earlier, it would have been included in the article. | |
| This is this is democratic politics. | |
| This is uh this isn't pay-to-play. | |
| This is either what is this? | |
| Gay to play? | |
| I don't know. | |
| In Portland, Oregon. | |
| In Portland, Oregon, uh is there anyone speaking up for this guy who hasn't had an affair with the mayor? | |
| But like poor poor Mark Foley, this is what happens if you're a Republican. | |
| You get clobbered in a sex scandal, you get forced out, you didn't even get any sex uh any sex out of it. | |
| This is like uh this is like this is the Clinton rules. | |
| The Clinton uh the Clinton era established the rules. | |
| You know, what was it? | |
| Bill Glinden said that he didn't believe whatever it was he was doing with Monica counted as sex. | |
| Under the Bill Clinton definition, it doesn't count as sex unless it's with Hillary Rodham Clinton. | |
| And so no Democrat ever gets So unless uh there's a really surprising twist to this mayor in Portland story, uh he's perfectly safe. | |
| He can do what he likes. | |
| I th so I I apologize for mocking Mark Foley, because I felt very sorry for him. | |
| In um in uh Britain in the tail end of the Conservative era before Tony Blair, you know, so you like. | |
| Uh I was uh spending a lot of time there then, and there were great sex uh stories. | |
| You know, there was the uh the guy who uh auto-erotically f asphyxiated, he was found uh uh what was it? | |
| He was found uh naked wearing uh fish net stockings uh with a satsuma in his mouth or something. | |
| And I love the uh I love the response from the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police who said something like, There's oh it's perfectly routine, there's like a hundred and twenty thousand of these a year. | |
| Who knew? | |
| Who knew? | |
| But if you're Mark if you're a Republican, you don't even get any like say same what with the guy in the men's room, the guy in the men's room. | |
| What was he called? | |
| Uh uh Larry Craig. | |
| Larry Craig in the uh Minia I shouldn't know that, because apparently it's a tourist attraction at the Minneapolis Airport now. | |
| I flew into Minneapolis. | |
| Apparently there's like people who just go into that men's room, not uh to use the uh men's room or even to have sex there. | |
| They just go there to like uh visit the you know the senatorial heritage site that it's been designated as. | |
| It's probably in the stimulus package. | |
| It's probably like four million dollars to put up a plaque in uh in Larry Craig's men's room store. | |
| So uh he didn't get any. | |
| He's like there, you know, uh doing all this uh uh foot language with the uh with the with the uh undercover cop, and he doesn't get any sex, but he's still clobbered. | |
| Uh and uh I tell you one thing, though. | |
| I tell you one thing, which I do love about this country, because um, as some of you may know, I got into this uh ran into a lot of trouble up in Canada uh because I offended Muslims and so I was accused of being uh an Islamophobe, and I had all these hate crimes uh suits against me. | |
| And I came to realize that free speech is very restricted in Canada. | |
| And around about the time that the Canadian Islamic Congress filed its suit against me, I saw Larry Craig's lawyer uh enter the argument uh that Larry Craig's uh foot tapping uh uh uh uh under the stall divider in the Minneapolis men's room qualified as free speech under the First Amendment. | |
| Now this is this is a fantastic this is a fantastic country. | |
| Uh up north north of the border, my books and articles don't qualify uh uh for free speech protection. | |
| But south of the border, Larry Craig's men's room semaphore qualifies as free speech under the First Amendment. | |
| What this is a fantastic uh fantastic country. | |
| Anyway, I got uh got detoured down uh Mark Foley, Larry Craig, the Primrose Path leading to the mayor's office in Portland, Oregon. | |
| I uh got completely off track there. | |
| But there is a these double standards, these double standards are real. | |
| Uh and they do apply, of course, to this uh uh tax business. | |
| You can imagine uh what would happen uh if it uh if it had been a Republican who had uh some of these tax issues, it wouldn't it wouldn't there'd be no question of it. | |
| There'd be no question of can uh of confirming them. | |
| Uh so th so that double standard uh is real. | |
| But uh I'll be interested to see th how things p uh uh uh uh work out in Portland, because this mayor, Sam Adams, uh is uh is not a uh is hanging on in there and sees no reason why he should be uh uh uh why he should be resigning. | |
| And the interesting thing about all these a lot of mayors in difficulty at the moment. | |
| And it's very hard to find out what party they represent when you read the reports in the New York Times. | |
| That little D letter seems to seem to, you know, they the when they're they can't quite fit the story in the space, so they have to make a couple of cuts. | |
| It's the line telling you he's a democratic mayor that always seems to get mysteriously uh taken out. | |
| Now, of course, the rest of the world, the rest of the world. | |
| We'll deal with uh I believe that's the way it's marked on State Department maps. | |
| So let's let's turn to the rest of the world. | |
| And uh what I love about this is the Obama honeymoon. | |
| It was great while it lasted, but it's over. | |
| This is a headline from the London Daily Telegraph. | |
| US EU trade war looms as Barack Obama bill urges buy American. | |
| This is the stimulus package. | |
| It's uh this is the provision in the uh in the Senate bill uh that prohibits any foreign-made goods from being used uh in the stimulus projects. | |
| Uh so for example, uh I see that um uh Nancy Pelosi uh has got uh some big uh STT prevention thing in there. | |
| STD, that sexually transmitted disease. | |
| Nancy Velosi thinks that what we need to restart uh the American economy is to federalize the condom business. | |
| And so she's got like this big porked-up condom thing uh in the stimulus package where she wants all these hundreds of millions of dollars to go towards condoms. | |
| And that's like great for the condom industry. | |
| But if you happen to own a rubber plantation in Malaysia, don't think you're gonna be getting any of that Nancy Pelosi condom action. | |
| No way. | |
| There's nothing in there for you. | |
| There's a provision in the bill that says uh it's only gonna be American used rubber that is gonna be going into those Nancy Pelosi condoms. | |
| So forget it. | |
| There's nothing in there for you. | |
| And like the Europeans are like mad about this. | |
| This is in breach of all these uh, you know, world trade things that uh they they've uh uh that uh the United States has signed. | |
| It's suddenly saying, no, we're putting up the big protectionist things. | |
| I was uh up in uh Montreal on Sunday night, and the top story I was driving back to New Hampshire, the top story on the radio news is about the thousands of jobs there that are gonna go in the steel industry uh once this uh buy American provision uh in the stimulus package goes through. | |
| So this is f you know, all are uh Barack Obama said he wanted to change uh America's relationship with the world. | |
| And he has. | |
| All these leaders who got on quite well with George W. Bush, uh Stephen Harper in Canada, Gordon Brown in Britain, uh Monsieur Sarkozy in France, uh uh Frau Merkel in Germany, uh all these people who found George W. Bush generally genial uh are now furious with Obama. | |
| And uh, you know, they're thinking to themselves, well, look, why can't this guy just be like the last fella? | |
| He just invade some third world basket case none of us cares about, uh do the big swaggering cowboy thing uh and uh go and invade some country, who cares about that? | |
| But he knows he has to introduce this by American first. | |
| Uh the Obama honeymoon with the rest of the world uh is already over. | |
| And uh in Washington, the uh Canadian and European ambassadors are already complaining uh that this guy is uh this guy Obama is uh just uh just a big swaggering unilateralist cowboy and they they miss the old days of uh of George W. Bush. | |
| Uh and I think that's interesting. | |
| You know, the point the point about Obama uh is uh is in the end he he had an uh when he was running, he had an incoherent political philosophy. | |
| Uh essentially he was running on this sort of we are the world, come by uh, you know, when he uh uh gave his big speech in Berlin where he began uh what was it he did when he stood up in Berlin and he began, people of the world, like he's just arrived from Planet Zongo. | |
| Uh and he hasn't arrived from Planet Zongo. | |
| Uh but uh essentially his view of the world has. | |
| You know, in the end you have to make hard decisions. | |
| Uh and the reason Bush uh was uh unpopular with certain world leaders is because he took those hard decisions. | |
| To govern is to choose. | |
| Uh and it's clear that uh the more Obama time Obama spends in office, uh that he is uh you know, some people he's just doing what he did in his legislative career. | |
| He's voting present on. | |
| He's voting present. | |
| That's what he's basically doing when he says he's going to continue the renditions policy. | |
| Uh he's uh this this thing where instead of being kept at gidmo, you're now taken off to Sudan uh where they got the red hot pokers in the dungeon and uh it's uh you know it's uh it's n out of sight, out of mind. | |
| Uh and that's uh that's uh on so on some things he's voting present, on some things he's appeasing uh left-wing interest groups, uh and if and on uh other issues he's basically flipping the finger at uh uh uh America's allies. | |
| Um but basically uh this the Obama honeymoon is over. | |
| This has been a very quick learning curve for him, uh and we are reducing him uh the w in a sense, reality is reducing him from this messianic figure to, you know, just another guy. | |
| He uh, you know, okay, he's up there with uh Lincoln and Washington at the moment, but the way things are carrying on, uh in a couple of weeks' time he's gonna be down there with uh Warren Harding and Chester Arthur. | |
| That's the way it's going. | |
| Uh this is Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the EIB network, and we'll discuss uh Obama and the economy and the world and a lot of that straight ahead on the EIB network. | |
| Mark Stein in for Rush uh behind the golden EIB microphone today. | |
| Let's go to uh art in Chicago, uh hometown. | |
| Uh I think uh passing home, it's the way he made his name anyway, President Obama. | |
| Uh art in Chicago, you're on the EIB network. | |
| Mark, Yah, how are you? | |
| Great job. | |
| Thanks. | |
| Thanks, Art, and glad to have you with us. | |
| Okay, I got a question is and uh I want to know what your expectancy of the escalated violence in this country is going to be by the Habnats against the Haves when the have nots realize that after four years of unemployment that their situation hasn't gotten any better. | |
| Well, you know, you know, there's there's two points to make about that. | |
| The um the unemployment rate in America has ticked up uh significantly in the in the last few months. | |
| That's true. | |
| It's still lower than it is in most uh developed countries. | |
| If you look at France and Germany, they live with like permanent double-digit unemployment. | |
| Uh also the time people are unemployed. | |
| Uh uh in America, the average uh length of uh time people are unemployed uh in recent years has been four weeks as opposed to, for example, six months in Britain. | |
| I mean, that's a big difference. | |
| If you're unemployed for six months, that is a uh that is a huge waste of opportunity for you. | |
| Uh whereas if you're uh out of work for uh for four weeks, that's a different scale of things. | |
| So if we were to have like European levels of unemployment, and uh the length of time people are unemployed, so there's like a permanent unemployed class, uh are we gonna have civil unrest? | |
| That's uh that's that's your question. | |
| And I you know, y to be honest, I don't think so, because I think the the cunning thing about socialism, which is what this bill is, this is socialism. | |
| I live uh believe me, I've lived under socialism, I recognize it when I see it. | |
| The cunning thing about it uh is that if you introduce it incrementally, incrementally, uh people take an awful lot of it before uh they eventually get mad enough to do anything. | |
| You know, I live a bun among a bunch of lot of cranky guys, uh, you know, the the kind of fellows who want to be off the grid because they think that uh the government, if you have electricity, the government can sort of see into your house and figure out what you're doing, uh that if you if so they want to be off the grid in the woods, uh th these are the kind of fellows who, you know, when the uh ATF or the DEA or the FBI arrive to take them out, the house is always described as a compound. | |
| Uh if you're a realtor uh and uh if you go to see your real estate agent and she wants to advertise your place as a compound, that's not a good sign because it means that uh that you know, as I said, the feds will be showing up to to surround it and shoot you. | |
| Uh the only good compound is the Kennedy compound uh at uh where where wherever it uh wherever it is on the Massachusetts coast. | |
| Uh that that's the only uh uh uh desirable compound in American real estate. | |
| Um but the but the the and I always wish that's what I love about America. | |
| I love the crazy guys who say, Well, we're not gonna take it anymore, we're not gonna take it anymore. | |
| And I would love it. | |
| I would love it if more people felt like that. | |
| But the cunning thing about socialism, creeping socialism, is if you introduce it incrementally, eventually people just uh eventually their expectations of everything are lowered. | |
| If you listen to people's pitiful explanations of the terrific service they received in uh, you know, socialized hospitals in uh Canada or in Britain because uh they only had to wait uh, you know, uh uh uh uh uh eighteen hours to be seen in emergency as opposed to the forty-eight they'd been expecting. | |
| Eventually your d your expectations become so diminished uh uh and you become, and this is why uh socialized health care is the is a big part of the problem, uh you eventually become transformed uh from a citizen of a freeborn society uh in in into a junkie with the government as pusher. | |
| And once a citizen is a junkie with the government as pusher, it's very hard actually to rouse them to take uh to the streets uh and riot over it. | |
| You know, if you look at the successful demonization that uh uh that uh Obama has done about Wall Street greed, it isn't Wall Street greed that's brought us to this power uh pretty pass. | |
| It's actually political annexation of the market. | |
| But he's not he's figured out a way to blame the fat cats on Wall Street. | |
| Hey Art. | |
| Was that the answer to your question? | |
| Uh yeah, that's pretty much it. | |
| Uh I love the way they uh managed to uh say all this blame to tell the faint that's blame the Bush in spite of the fact that uh this community reinvestment act uh started the ball rolling and uh was a problem from the Democrat part. | |
| Yeah, and and actually that community reinvestment act, which is what gave us this subprime mortgages, again, that's an interference in the market. | |
| You know, when when when a guy goes to buy a house, ask the bank to lend him money to buy a house, uh, and they go uh, you know, they say, Well, you want to buy this $500,000 house, how much money do you earn? | |
| And you say, well, I earn uh, you know, I p I earn 30,000 a year, but I spend most of that on Coke and Hookers. | |
| So the bank man manager says, well, you know, uh, okay, uh does it happen to be a $500,000 house, why don't we start with a $200,000 house? | |
| That's what a bank manager does. | |
| He's essentially uh making an evaluation of risk. | |
| Well, the Community Reinvestment Act did 30 years ago is said, no, no, no, no, no. | |
| You're not allowed to make a rational evaluation of risk. | |
| Uh you've got to get you've got to give this guy the money anyway. | |
| Uh you have in a a ludicrous world now where welfare payments can be uh entered as income for the purposes of uh of of buying a house. | |
| Uh Tom Daschell gave us that. | |
| Tom Dashell gave us that because that's the uh that's the world he lives in. | |
| He doesn't have to declare his car and driver uh uh uh and welfare payments qualify uh as uh uh as part of your uh uh the the uh your income for the purposes of buying a house. | |
| I mean, this is insane. | |
| It's the interference in the market uh that has brought us to this situation. | |
| Uh but uh Obama has done, and the Democrats have done a terrific job uh of uh of just demonizing it as part of some Wall Street greeding. | |
| What happens is you have nothing this little nothing act that's passed in the late 70s, and then a few years go by, it's not a big deal, uh and then a few years go by and they all uh they amend The act slightly. | |
| So now it's even bigger and it's distorting the market even more. | |
| And then a few few more years go by and it's distorting the market even more beyond that until effectively, in the end, it destroys the American housing market. | |
| And that is nothing to do with the free market. | |
| That is a conscious act of government. | |
| Government interference in the self-correcting mechanisms of the market. | |
| And that is the truth. | |
| We'll have more straight ahead. | |
| Mark Stein InfoRush on the EIB network. | |
| Also be uh in tomorrow, and then Thursday and Friday, it's Mark Barron. | |
| Hey, good to be with you. | |
| And uh Mark sitting in for Rush. | |
| Let's go to Gail uh in Central Valley from the from the great uh state, the golden state of the once golden state of uh California. | |
| Gail, good to have you on the air. | |
| Thank you, Mark, for taking my call. | |
| Uh I wanted to say I agree with you, there are so many problems here in California, and I feel it's quite the nanny state. | |
| Uh but I want people to understand I'm a public employee for California, and I think all this talk is trying to start a class war between public employees and private enterprise employees. | |
| So I want to explain something. | |
| It isn't our pay and our benefit package that's a problem. | |
| It's the number of employees, the state of employs because of all these nanny programs. | |
| It's not the fact that they're paying me my salary and my benefit, it's that they just have so darn many employees. | |
| When I started in 1984, I was making nine dollars an hour. | |
| I have a four-year degree from a university. | |
| So did my brother. | |
| He chose to go into public or private industry. | |
| People used to laugh at how little I was making compared to them with the bonuses they get at the end of the year. | |
| I've never seen a bonus for heaven's sake. | |
| Uh, but I knew that if I stuck with my job for twenty-five years that I would have this benefit package that was a security. | |
| So I didn't have to risk what private industry people risk, but they make more d during the years they work. | |
| But at the end I had a better uh benefits package. | |
| No, no, no, you go go ahead, finish your thought. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well it's what were you saying? | |
| What uh well uh I'm a I'm a peace officer. | |
| So they're the perfect example. | |
| You you try and hire uh peace officers anywhere in this state, and I venture to say in the the United States, you could have five hundred people be interested in being an officer and show up in some way to apply for that job, but you would be down to about fifty candidates by the time you lose the ones that can't pass the written, can't pass the physical, can't pass the mental background or the background on your criminal behaviors. | |
| It is weaned down to a fine group of people who can do these jobs. | |
| And uh I don't know how many of you that will go in the dark alley at three in the morning with a guy that certainly could be armed, but beyond that, may have hepatitis, tuberculosis, meningitis, and you're expected to fight him, win that fight, take him to jail, and not get yourself sued in your family and lose your house to some lawyers. | |
| Now, no that not to mention, not to mention the lawyers with their education are making two hundred and fifty dollars an hour. | |
| Well, my top step pay right now is thirty nine dollars an hour. | |
| Now now, Gail, that's that's a fair point. | |
| When you say peace officer, that's that's what some of us in other parts of the country call police officers, right? | |
| Yes. | |
| You're so that is a legitimate function of government. | |
| Uh it's legitimate to have a police department, it's legitimate to have a uh a fire department. | |
| Uh it is when you get into some of these other things. | |
| There was a story in uh the uh paper the other day uh from Berkeley, California. | |
| They have a peace and justice commission. | |
| Uh and Berkeley has passed this nuclear free zone. | |
| It's like all these poser municipalities. | |
| You go in nuclear free zone. | |
| Uh now uh what happened was the library uh wanted an exception to the fact that Berkeley is a nuclear-free zone, uh, because the only people who do their library who service their library checkout book checkout machines is a company called 3M. | |
| And this company is operations in 60 countries. | |
| So when uh they were asked to sign the thing on the uh on the Berkeley form, are you a nuclear-free company, they refused to check that box. | |
| So now all the checkout, uh all the library book checkout machines in Berkeley have gone unserviced because they can't find a nuclear-free company to service library book checkout machines, and they went to the so-called Peace and Justice Commission to get a waiver, and the Peace and Justice Commission turned them down because they think it's very important to have nuclear-free library checkout in the town of Berkeley. | |
| Now the the I I agree with you. | |
| The the waste and the amount of programs it's it's just insanity. | |
| Uh and the other part that I am so crazy about is you can't fire anybody in government. | |
| You end up losing good workers uh because you're you're stuck with uh just a seniority base, and that is pathetic compared to private industry that has, I think, a little more leeway to weed out workers that aren't working. | |
| Nobody get mixed up. | |
| My point that I wanted to make was don't think that my benefit package is so damn wonderful because you weren't making my pay rate for all the years it took to get to that benefit package. | |
| Okay. | |
| Okay, thank thank you, Gail. | |
| And uh you're right, the numbers involved in in uh in the California public sector are uh uh are you know huge, staggeringly huge. | |
| You know, one one of the things I like is if you want to do anything in California now, the first thing they got to do is have an impact study report. | |
| That's a whole level of bureaucracy that didn't used to exist. | |
| You know, you have an impact study report for everything now. | |
| Uh but uh, you know, I'm certainly uh supportive of uh police departments. | |
| I think that's a legitimate function of government. | |
| I I must say I quite like uh the way it is in uh small towns in New Hampshire, where generally it's the guy who would be uh attracting the attention of the police department who gets elected uh police chief. | |
| So it's a kind of way of it's a kind of way of killing two birds with one stone. | |
| Because most of the need for a police department comes from this guy. | |
| So if you like make him the it's a bit like the, you know, it's a bit like the way it works at the Treasury Department. | |
| You know, most of the need for tax enforcement comes from Obama uh cabinet appointees. | |
| If you put them in the cabinet, uh you can y you know, it cuts down on the cost of your uh your your IRS enforcement. | |
| Similarly, in New Hampshire, it's the guy who would be attracting the attention of the police department who gets uh who gets elected uh uh elected police chief, and and God uh bless him. | |
| But it is you know, the problem is once w uh you you said you got a four-year degree, you you went to work uh for government. | |
| I can understand a police department is a real career. | |
| When you when you're uh going on the Peace and Justice Commission in Berkeley, California, these are non-jobs. | |
| And at a sudden point, there's so many government non-jobs and bureaucracies to jump through the hoops of uh that it's killing every other activity. | |
| Uh California is sane uh by uh some parts of the world. | |
| Uh California has a population of thirty million. | |
| I think the province of Quebec has a population of about seven million. | |
| Yet their public service uh is uh pretty much about the same size. | |
| And so it's um it's a uh it took me a while to figure this out. | |
| If you go on vacation in Quebec and you'll go to these remote uh Pac National, these little wildlife parks they have in the middle of nowhere, up round Hudson's Bay, up round James Bay, middle of nowhere, there's nothing but inuit. | |
| And all these parks, you go there, you drive in in the wilderness, and the park will be staffed by like four really hot-looking girls of twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four. | |
| In any functioning society, these these girls would be movie stars uh or uh supermodels. | |
| But there's no point to that uh if you're in a socialist basket case state. | |
| You just uh the trick is just to get a job uh and do a government job and uh get the benefits from doing a uh uh a government job. | |
| So all the that's that's if you go to Europe uh and you go to renew a driver's license in Scandinavia, really hot looking women at the uh at the driver's license renewal thing in Sweden. | |
| Again, you know uh uh uh thirty years ago the hot looking women were in ABBA. | |
| But like if you are if you want to be in ABBA now, there's no point. | |
| You might as well go along and be the uh clerk at the uh uh uh at the Department of Motor Vehicles. | |
| And that's that's the point. | |
| Once the state gets that size, uh there really is no point uh to being in the private sector anymore. | |
| Uh one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two, Mark Stein sitting in for Rush. | |
| Let's go to Wayne in Morristown, Tennessee. | |
| Good to talk with you, Wayne. | |
| Good afternoon, Mark. | |
| Hey, good good to have you on the show. | |
| Uh Mark, I just wanted to call and and tell you that that I appreciate your your brilliant use of humor to illustrate uh the ridiculous nature of some of the things that are going on uh in America today. | |
| And I wanted to ask you a question. | |
| How Uh do you think these individuals that have been uh nominated here and then found to be uh tax evaders are they atypical, or do the elites operate on a different level from what the great unwashed in his country do? | |
| I think they do operate on a different level. | |
| And uh I as I said I'm sympathetic to the uh to the argument that's uh that that uh the the Tom Daschell makes. | |
| You know, it's very w w what Tom Daschell is an example of is the way uh it's uh H.R. was sent to me, you know, that if he was Tom Daschell, he'd have said, well, you know, I'm the big picture guy. | |
| I don't want to get hung up on details. | |
| And that's what and that's what uh that's what j generally speaking, uh a permanent political class is. | |
| It's in favor of it living well uh while uh everybody else pays the taxes to support it. | |
| But there's a more general problem, I think, with liberals, which is that if you look at, say um if you look at, say, uh wealthy uh celebrity liberals. | |
| You take uh uh Paul and Linda McCartney. | |
| Paul and Linda McCartney in uh made a campaign ad in the 1997 British election, uh saying that they were perfectly happy to pay more taxes, so they couldn't understand why the rest of you uh weren't willing to pay more taxes uh and by voting uh for the Labour government and Tony Blair. | |
| And their argument won the day. | |
| People said, Oh, we should be prepared to pay more taxes, like Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney says. | |
| Linda McCartney had been living in the United Kingdom for thirty years at that point. | |
| It then turned out when she died, she'd gone to an awful lot of trouble to have her estate probated uh in New York, where she hadn't lived since the nineteen sixties, uh because uh uh if she was uh if she had her uh estate probated uh in New York, she wouldn't have to pay any death duties, and she her family would get to keep all these hundreds of millions of dollars for for herself. | |
| And that's it. | |
| When it's your money, you figure you know how best to spend it. | |
| Uh but when liberals talk about money in general, the government knows how best to spend it. | |
| Uh and I agree with Tom Dashell and Linda McCartney. | |
| I know better how to spend my own money. | |
| Uh Linda McCartney was this big-time left-wing vegetarian, uh, and uh and you would have thought that uh she'd be perfectly happy to s to to throw her hundred and fifty million dollars uh down the great sucking moor of the uh British treasury and death duties, but in the end she wasn't. | |
| So she figured out a way to avoid it. | |
| Uh and that's and that's why uh when it comes to liberals, uh whether they're political liberals like Tom Dashell or rock and roll liberals, uh you should not do as they say, but you should do as they do. | |
| Uh more straight ahead with Mark Inforush on the EIB network. | |
| Mark Stein, in for rush behind the golden EIB microphone. | |
| Um President Obama, one of the first things he did, he signed this executive order uh to close Club Gitmo uh uh eventually. | |
| He's not being too specific about it. | |
| In fact, uh d I'll take a bet with anyone on uh when you think the last uh jihadist will be out of Gitmo. | |
| Well what what what's it gonna be? | |
| Uh 2012, 2015, 2018, 2037? | |
| Uh he's being very uh uh unclear about all that. | |
| But in the meantime, what it has done is it's put an enormous question mark over Russia's Club Gitmo merchandise. | |
| Uh so he's adapted, he's got a brand new Club Gitmo t-shirt uh available. | |
| Terrific looking one, uh live waterboarding on it. | |
| You'll love it when you see it. | |
| Uh and the way to see it is to go to the EIB store at Rushlimbore.com. | |
| That's the one-stop shop uh for all your club gitmo merchandise. | |
| And don't forget Rush Limbaugh.com also got the stack of stuff and all the rest of it. | |
| I loved, I went down to Gitma a couple of years ago. | |
| I had a terrific time. | |
| Um uh Admiral uh Harris, uh who was uh no, I wasn't I wasn't gonna doing a speech big time speech, wasn't one of these Tom Dashell thing. | |
| Uh the uh Jihad, generally speaking, invests its funds more soundly than Tom Daschell's clients. | |
| So the jihadists hadn't had a whip round and got a hundred thousand dollars to have me come down speak to them. | |
| But uh Admiral Harris, when I arrived, I loved it. | |
| Admiral Harris introduces you to the guys who run the base. | |
| And he's going, uh and this is our uh head army guy, this is our head Air Force guy, this is our head navy guy, this is our CIA uh guy, this is our FBI guy at the end of the line, and this is the pastry chef who's flown in to create these special Rabadad pastries. | |
| Uh the back lava, you know, the back lava I had at Gitmo is the best tasting back lava. | |
| And I don't care, you know, I really I mean these were like the most corputant if you go to Afghanistan, Afghans are tall, thin men. | |
| These were the most corpulent Afghans I ever had that all been porking up on this exquisite backlava that United States taxpayers are paying for them. | |
| Uh And what I want to know is when uh Obama closes Gitmo, what is happening to the pastry chef? | |
| Where's he gonna go? | |
| Because, you know, I d I want to go where he's going. | |
| Is he gonna go to the Ritz Carlton in Chicago? | |
| Uh is he gonna go to the intercontinental? | |
| I want to know where he's I want I want to know where the Club Gitmo pastry chef uh is gonna be, because I would like uh I would like to uh have a piece of uh I'd like to taste that back clava again. | |
| Mmm mmm. | |
| That is really what you need to start the day. | |
| If you're gonna go up and uh self-detonate in a shopping mall, mmm mmm, having some of that great gitmo back clover is the the way to do it. | |
| Anyway, new club Gitmo merchandise over at uh uh rush Limbaugh.com. | |
| Let's uh quickly go to Evan in Pittsburgh, North Carolina. | |
| Evan, you're on the uh Rush Limbaugh show. | |
| Awesome. | |
| How are you doing today, Mark? | |
| I'm doing great. | |
| Glad to have you with us. | |
| Good to hear. | |
| Um I'd just like to comment on the the religion that that is socialism. | |
| I mean, it it seems that you know every everything you hear is well, we believe that this you know that this uh welfare state is gonna make you know everybody's lives better and this, that, and the other thing. | |
| When, you know, the real science of the matter is capitalism. | |
| That's what you know, the Wealth of Nations was written about as a you know a scientific description of the natural events uh of the pre-market. | |
| And you know, we're getting uh, you know, these uh these attacks on capitalism like it's some evil conspiracy. | |
| It's not. | |
| It's just an observation of the fact. | |
| No, you're you're right. | |
| Capitalism uh as as uh as Mrs. Thatcher always used to say, the facts of life are conservatives. | |
| Conservative, and I think that's true. | |
| Socialism is a uh is a religion. | |
| Big government is a religion. | |
| You know, in America we have the separation of church and state. | |
| Uh in continental Europe, in most countries, they have uh in effect uh the state as a church. | |
| Uh the uh they have uh the the state as a kind of religion. | |
| And you're right, socialism is a religion, uh uh to that extent. | |
| And that, of course, is the problem uh is that for when you took when you talk to people, you know, it's like when you talk to communists. | |
| Uh communism has never worked anywhere it's been tried, but it remains theoretically perfectable. | |
| No matter how many millions and millions of people get killed in its name, you know, you say, look, Russia, they tried it, and millions and millions of people died. | |
| China they tried it, millions of millions of people died, Cambodia, they tried it, millions and millions of people died. | |
| They say, well, we just haven't quite got it right in practice yet. | |
| You imagine, you you know, you talk to uh guys like Ralph Nader. | |
| If you make a car, if you make a if you make if if General Motors makes a car and one of them veers off the road and crashes, and then another one veers off the road and crashes four months later, that car's got to be withdrawn. | |
| Well, then in that case, why does Ralph Nader never insist that socialism is withdrawn? | |
| Socialism kills people everywhere it's tried in practice. | |
| Uh and uh uh uh but the but the fact is it's an article of mystical faith. | |
| It is a religion, uh, in the sense that we cannot build God's kingdom on earth. | |
| Uh that is something we will only know in heaven. | |
| Uh and it's exactly the same thing with uh socialism. | |
| Uh Mark Stein in Farush, more coming up. | |
| Mark Stein on the Rush Limbaugh Show. | |
| I mentioned uh last hour that uh breaking news that uh Zimbabwe has knocked twelve zeros off uh the value of its currency. | |
| It's got the highest inflation of the world. | |
| I think we should hold out for knocking twelve zeros off the stimulus package. | |
| That is what is gonna take to get it down uh to uh to human form. | |
| Uh this is Mark Stein. | |
| I'll be in with you tomorrow. | |
| Gotta go now, got my afternoon shift as uh Tom Dashell's driver to look forward to. | |
| But I will be back here with another three hours of the most stimulating parrot package in radio. |
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