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April 6, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 6, 2009, Monday, Hour #2
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Hey, good to be with you.
Rush will be back tomorrow, but for today, America's anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchorman, flying without any supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Don't forget to rush in, though, to take care of things for the rest of the week.
The president continues his apology tour.
He's been apologizing to groups of nations I wasn't aware were even out there.
He began with a little light apology at the G20 for wrecking the global economy.
Then he moved on to apologize at the European Union summit, essentially to legitimize anti-Americanism in a way that no U.S. president has ever done before.
He apologized for American primacy.
He's now gone on to Turkey, and he's barely been on the ground two minutes.
And he's already apologized to the Muslim world.
You know, Bill Clinton took the full two terms to issue his various apologies to the world.
Barack Obama is just getting them all out the way in the first couple of months.
As he said, quote, I would like to think that with my election, we're starting to see some restoration of America's standing in the world, unquote.
It's always about him.
The interesting thing about this, though, is that for all the apologies, he doesn't actually seem to get anything out of it.
I mean, if you look at all these stories about Europe melts for Michelle, the line of all these various European prime ministers is, yeah, your wife is totally hot, but extra troops for Afghanistan?
Are you out of your mind?
He's not getting anything.
He's not getting anything from the world in return for his obsequiousness before them.
Interestingly, I like the way the foreign newspapers got bored with him so quickly.
It's very different from here, you know.
Here, the mainstream media are invested in him.
The drive-bys, a reader wrote to me on Friday and said that after all these stories about the way the Obamas were being received in London, this reader said Russia ought to stop calling them the drive-by media and should start calling them the drool-by media.
And that's true.
The drool-bys are what they've been doing in London.
But the press aren't falling for it.
The foreign press isn't falling from it.
It's a headline from the Telegraph.
Barack Obama really does go on a bit.
First line of the story.
Isn't it time for him to go home yet?
It's good in theory that the new president of the United States is taking so much time to tour Europe.
But his long stay means that we are hearing rather a lot from him.
Way too much, in fact.
Am I alone in finding him increasingly to be something of a bore?
Well, that's the Telegraph.
They're like a sort of right-of-center paper, so you wouldn't necessarily expect them to be all warmed up for him.
This is the left-of-center, very extreme, you know, really extreme left-wing paper, The Guardian.
Barack Obama, the world's greatest orator, parentheses, registered trademark all-news organizations, close parentheses, didn't exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC's political editor asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis.
Obama ummed-arred and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes.
That's the Guardian, the left-wing paper.
Here's the Daily Mail mocking Gordon Brown, the British prime minister's groveling to Obama.
Quote, Mr. Obama uttered a sentence.
Mr. Brown nodded.
Mr. Obama paused.
Mr. Brown froze, frowning.
Mr. Obama made a very slight joke.
Mr. Brown gassed himself, laughing for a good 30 seconds, eyelids fluttering like the wings of a soft-flapping cabbage-white butterfly.
Quote, yes, we can, and yes, we would.
He's so lithe and handsome and funny and smart, and he bestrides the free world like a colossus and will buy us each a puppy.
The London Times quote, this is how the second coming will be if the Lord chooses to make his appearance in a VH3D helicopter fitted with anti-missile flares, unquote.
You know, the British press here, by the way, there wasn't just one helicopter.
When he landed at Heathrow, he flew downtown in like 30 different helicopters.
They were like, in order to decoy, because apparently, you know, the world loves Obama so much that the streets are full of people who want to shoot down his helicopter.
So they arranged for 30 presidential helicopters to all fly from the airport to Buckingham Palace or whatever.
So if you looked up on whatever it was last Wednesday, the sky was full of Obamas.
It was much better than the second coming.
The second coming isn't going to be like that.
The 12th Imam isn't going to be like that.
There's only, you know, he's the 12th Imam, but there's like 30 Obamas in the sky.
It was like amazing.
But anyway, the British press are already enjoying mocking him.
None of that, of course, in the U.S. media.
Left wing, right-wing, the mainstream newspapers here basically still filing all these droolby stories on how Michelle is just melting hearts all over Europe.
That may not be unconnected, by the way, with this story.
The New York Times Company has threatened to shut down the Boston Globe unless the union agrees to $20 million worth of concessions, according to the Boston Globe.
This reminds me of that scene where the, what's that scene in Blazing Saddles where the sheriff draws the gun on himself, threatens to fire it himself.
This is basically the New York Times thing here.
They're threatening to close down the Boston Globe.
The downside of that would be the American newspapers are out of step here.
The foreign press figured out after three days' exposure to Barack Obama that the guy is boring, his speeches are too long, he's forgotten the first rule of show business.
In fact, he inverts it and he always leaves them wanting less.
And it's interesting to me that while a lot of newspapers around the world have problems, the British and the Continental newspapers have produced far more coverage, readable coverage of this trip than anything in the US papers.
The question to ask yourself here, too, is, what is Obama getting out of these apologies?
He's apologized to everyone.
Apologized for the Bush years, apologized for American arrogance, apologized for American primacy.
What is he getting in return?
He let them set the agendas for the G20 and the NATO summits, and he didn't get anything of what he wanted.
He didn't get anything what America wanted.
The fact is, the world is beginning to figure out pretty easily that this guy is a pushover.
If you let him have his big speech in a public square with the crowds cheering him and Michelle Obama, you can pretty much do what you like.
You don't have to give him the troops.
You don't have to you just have to treat him like a rock star and give him nothing in return.
And that's perfect and that's perfectly fine with him.
I would like to say something else, too, about Obama's visit overseas.
The bow.
The bow to the Saudi king.
It's strange to me.
Americans don't get a lot of practice in bowing, unless you're in show business.
And evidently, in that sense, Barack Obama thinks a little differently from most American politicians.
But unless you're actually playing Broadway and you're taking your curtain calls every night, there are not many occasions in American life when an American has to bow.
So that picture of him with the presidential butt up in the air and he's prostrate before King Abdullah is unusual to me, unusual to me.
And I don't quite know what was going through his mind that would make him want to do that.
It's bizarre.
There's no record in the previous two and a third centuries of this republic of any American head of state doing that to a foreign monarch.
The New York Times, by the way, which has studiously ignored the story of the Saudi bow, 15 years ago, the New York Times got mad with Bill Clinton when he appeared to give a nod of his head to the Japanese emperor.
They made a huge fuss about that, that there's something un-American about an elected American citizen president prostrating himself or even giving the suggestion of a wish to prostrate himself before a foreign monarch.
There's a simple reason for this.
Heads of state don't bow and curtsy to each other anyway.
They don't.
When Queen Elizabeth meets the King of Sweden, they don't bow and curtsy to each other.
They're all part of the big league.
You know, they're in the King and Queen Club and they just greet each other perfectly normally.
They don't.
There is something unusual and weird about an American bowing at the waist to a Saudi king.
I don't pretend to know what's going on in his mind.
I might say, by the way, a couple of years ago, I got invited to a private dinner at Buckingham Palace.
And I was, so I flew over on the plane from New Hampshire.
Now, like, I was born a subject of Her Britannic Majesty.
I got no problem with the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh and all the rest of it.
But I'd been in New Hampshire a few years, so I wasn't quite up to speed on the whole bowing routine.
And I read it on the plane on the way over the protocol, you know, that you say, Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, at first greeting, and then you say, Ma'am and Sir, you call them ma'am and sir after that, and you do a bow.
If you want to bow, you do a bow from the neck.
So on the plane on the way over, I was practicing bowing with my neck, and the, you know, the lady next to me thought I was kind of weird and had some involuntary tick and asked the stewardess if she could be moved.
But I was like practicing because it doesn't come natural.
I mean, even me, I've been in New Hampshire enough that bowing doesn't come naturally to me.
I get to Buckingham Palace.
I'm running a bit late.
I've changed into my tucks.
I'm running a bit late.
Getting to Buckingham Palace.
The footman shows me into the room and the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen's husband, stands up and he goes, oh, Mr. Steid, I'm on the other side of the room, having been practicing my bows and my Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness thing all on the flight on the way over.
And instead, I completely forget myself and I just bowl across the room, stick out my arm and go, Hi!
And His Royal Highness, in fairness to him, took it in his stride and just said, Hi, Mr. Steid.
And the moment passed and it went off smoothly.
So I cannot imagine, I cannot imagine what is going through the mind of an American, never mind an American president, who bows to the waist before a Saudi king.
This is one of the oddest Public displays I've ever seen.
And yet, the New York Times and the Washington Post and all the rest of them have decided, oh, it never happened.
It never happened.
When Bill Clinton inclined his neck slightly towards the Japanese emperor, the New York Times did a big story on it.
But Barack Obama bang at the waist, not a thing about it.
We're talking about the Obama's apology tour as it progresses from London to Prague and now today on to Ankara in Turkey.
And we'll have more and lots more of your calls straight ahead with Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
The Obama's world pilgrimage continues from they started with the G20, then on to NATO, the European Union summit.
I think then it was the, what was it, the Bratislava Association of Community Organizers.
It's been an impressive performance.
He's been apologizing for America every step of the way.
He's apologized for America more in the last week than the previous 43 presidents have done in the previous two and a third century.
So he's made a terrific start on clearing America's slate with the rest of the world.
Very impressive to see.
Let's go to Jim in Wilmington, Delaware.
Jim has been following the NATO and EU and G20 summits.
Jim, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Thank you.
Yeah, I was reading in the paper here in Delaware, of course, the home of Joe Biden, Vice President Joe Biden, that it is time for us to pull out of NATO, that they are now old enough to defend their own borders, and that our role is over.
Well, I think that's a very good point.
I don't quite see what NATO is for.
In fact, the guy who actually asked me that question a few years ago, I found myself sitting at lunch next to a former Secretary General of NATO, and he turned to me at one point over the hors d'oeuvres and he goes, What is NATO for?
And I said, Well, you know, why look at me?
You're the former Secretary General.
You went to the office every morning at 9 in the morning.
If you don't know what it's for, why on earth should I?
The problem, Jim, is that NATO was a Cold War alliance that made sense in the late 1940s.
We're now 60 years on in an entirely different century.
What do you think the answer is with NATO?
Well, I think it is time for Europe to be able to stand up for itself.
It doesn't mean we can't be allies.
Not at all.
But I believe that if people are dissatisfied with us overseas, they might remember World War II.
Or if it wasn't for the United States, I don't know what would have happened.
It certainly might have been a different outcome.
What we did after World War II in 1945, I mean, this is the short version that we took.
I was born in 42, sir.
I'm a little bit short on that, but go ahead.
Yeah, I mean, what we decided to do after the Second World War was basically to ensure that Europe would never be a threat to the world again.
And we accomplished that very Effectively.
I mean, Germany has gone from one of the most militarist cultures on the planet, like Japan, to now an utterly pacifist nation.
I mean, it's not just that they hate American troops, they hate their own troops.
They're completely mired in this sort of decadent poser pacifism and have no wish or urge to defend themselves.
So the thing now is to say to these guys, look, you're going to have to get serious.
And that is a tough message to deliver, but it's not as tough as wasting all this diplomatic effort like Obama is doing, where you go there, you schmooze them, you tell them everything you want to hear, you parade your wife around town in fancy gowns, and at the end of the day, they say, hmm, an extra 500 troops, hmm, an extra dozen helicopters.
No, sorry, we can't help you in Afghanistan.
Well, for me, too, I must admit, I listened to Tarash and Sean, and they talked about the CBO, which I immediately looked up.
And when I saw it, I called them and I said, are you suggesting that the gross national product could go below the fixed cost of United States of America income?
And they said, under some conditions of the Obama projection for his budget, yes.
Right.
I don't have to tell you, I don't have to tell anybody in basic economics what that means.
You can't make enough money to survive if you are below your fixed income.
No, and that's a terrifying thought.
Yep, and incidentally, that's the issue at the G20, too.
These guys cannot spend their way out of the recession.
I mean, I don't believe in spending your way out of a recession anyway.
But even if you believe in that theory, the Europeans cannot do it because they haven't got any kids or grandkids to stick it to.
We can stick it to the kids and grandkids and burden them with crippling debt that will ensure they will live far poorer lives than we do.
But the Europeans haven't even got that option because they've been so pampered and cosseted over recent decades that they've basically stopped breeding.
30% of German women have no children.
So when you talk about a country defending itself, if 30% of German women have no children, where are the young men who are going to make up your armed forces?
It's the same in Russia, although Russia has slightly better reasons for it, in that, you know, under communism, there wasn't much point to bringing children into this world.
But in Russia, the only segment of the population that's breeding are the Muslim parts of Russia, which is why on some projections, the Russian army is going to be majority Muslim in a couple of years.
These guys are basically same with France.
If you look at French cities, the proportion of young men, the proportion of young people in those cities, is already about 45% Muslim.
So essentially, a lot of these countries don't even have any young people around to be their armies.
If you watch the Belgian army on parade, they're like these little stooped, wizened old grandfather figures.
Because the Belgian army, I think, is unionized.
And so it's in their interest to kind of stay serving in the armed forces until they're like 78 or whatever, because they get a much better benefits package or whatever.
It's very difficult to see what we can do to save Europe from itself.
More straight ahead with Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Rush will be back with you tomorrow and take you through the rest of the week.
More straight ahead.
Hey, great to be with you.
Rush will be back tomorrow.
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We've been talking about the Obama pilgrimage to Europe.
It's amazing how tired a lot of his lines get so quickly.
He did that thing today, you know, when he was saying he didn't look like the other presidents on the dollar bills and Mount Rushmore.
That line he used to use when he was campaigning, which I always liked, by the way, because I think it would be great if he was to come out in a powdered wig and wooden teeth or whatever if he wants to do that.
Right now, we could use a little bit of visual variety in some of his speeches.
But anyway, he was doing that today in Europe.
He said, just because he's not George W. Bush and just because he's named, quote, Barack Hussein Obama, unquote.
These are the rules, by the way, in which it's racist to mention the president's middle name, but he's allowed to mention it in speeches more than any other middle name of any American president ever.
I don't even know Chester Arthur's middle name.
Do you know Chester Rutherford?
What does the B in Rutherford B. Hayes stand for?
He mentions his middle name more than any other middle name of any president ever.
But if you mention his middle name, oh, well, that's racist.
Anyway, it's an interesting way he has because he's brought us all together.
I love this, the Pew Research Poll.
You know, this Pew Research guys, they're like Mr. big time moderate non-partisan.
They're always the fellas quoted on PBS and NPR and all the rest of it.
They're going, the partisan gap in Obama job approval is the widest in the modern era.
Barack Obama has the most polarized early job approval ratings of any president in the past four decades, with a 61-point partisan gap in opinions about Obama's job performance.
You know, the point here is that George W. Bush, he took office after the Florida recount.
That's like tough.
Half the country didn't think he should have been president.
You'd expect a guy like that to have high negatives.
And similarly, if Al Gore, the court had rule for Al Gore, you would expect him to have the approval rating, the gap in approval rating to be wide.
But this guy came to office with an enormous amount of goodwill on January the 20th.
You know, on January the 20th, all us right-wing crazy types were just like quiet, and the Hopi Changey crowd had the whole scene to themselves.
And what's happened?
In two months, and really very little to do with us on our side of the fence, in two months, he had all that goodwill to draw on, and he's got the worst, the biggest, most polarized early job approval ratings of any president in the past four decades.
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Let's go to Mike in San Diego.
Mike, great to have you with us.
Hi, Mark.
It's nice to hear you again.
I always find your opinion refreshing.
That's not a polite way of saying I'm talking gibberish, but it's refreshing gibberish, is it?
Certainly some things we don't get exposed to, like the European press, as much.
No.
Well, you should try to go through life without being exposed to Europeans.
That's always good advice.
Mike, you've been following the Obama's relations overseas?
Yes.
Actually, I was kind of fast-forwarding ahead to next week, and I was wondering if you might have an opinion.
40 heads of state are gathering from North and South America, are gathering in Trinidad and Tobago for the Summit of the Americas at the end of next week.
There's a lot of anticipation about whether Obama will be removing U.S. restrictions on Cuba.
And I was wondering if you had any opinion on that as far as what we might get in return for this giveaway.
Well, I would imagine that what we will get if he does go that route.
And it would obviously follow a fulsome apology to the Castro brothers for the terrible things, the terrible things that America has done to Cuba this last half century.
If it hadn't been for America, they would never have been able to develop the world's best healthcare system.
Nope, hang on a minute.
That's not quite right.
Well, they'll work it out when they get to the details of the speech.
But yeah, I would imagine that there will be some rethinking of the Cuban relationship, but that there will not be anything in return for it.
Right now, at the moment, in their twilight, the Castro brothers have a good friend in Hugo Chavez.
Chavez, this Chavismo thing in Latin America, which was a big problem a couple of years ago, I think is kind of tapped out now.
I think everyone knows it isn't the answer to the problems there.
Lula, this crazy guy in Brazil who said that the economic problems of the world had been caused by white Anglo-Saxon people with blue eye with blue eyes.
That includes, that counts me out, by the way.
I've got brown eyes.
It was nothing to do with me.
Lula came to the White House.
What was it, two weeks ago?
They misspelt his name wrong.
Not the Lula bit.
He's got other names.
Lula is his nickname.
Yeah, it's De Silva, De Silvio.
But the Lula bit is the Lula bit is just a nickname.
Like Lulu, who had a big hit with Tousseau with Love in 1968.
He didn't misspell Lula as Lulu and give the guy a DVD of Toussaux with Love or anything.
Don't worry about that.
It wasn't quite that disastrous.
But he did misspell the name of the Brazilian president.
What I find interesting about the whole Organization of the American States thing is that if you go back to the 2001, this was supposed to be the focus of the Bush presidency.
I went to the 2001 summit of the Americas.
It wasn't terribly exciting.
Bush was excited to be there.
He kept talking about my good friend Juan and my good friend Jose, and he had all these Latin American presidents and prime ministers from the Caribbean.
And everywhere you went, the people organizing the summit would be saying, well, do you want an exclusive interview with the deputy trade minister of Costa Rica?
And I'd be kind of trying to back out the door slowly without catching their eye.
The whole point of the summit was that for Bush, this was where the future was.
And what he learned on September the 11th, that it is, unfortunately, unfortunately, for whatever reason, it is, what is it, those economy-wrecking white Anglo-Saxon guys with blue eyes?
It's the economy-wrecking white Anglo-Saxon guys with blue eyes who were there with him after September the 11th.
It was the Australians.
It was John Howard who said this is no time to be an 80% ally.
It was Tony Blows, a big kind of British socialist, but recognized with Bush the challenge after September the 11th.
So he's back with the pasty white Anglo-Saxon blokes with blue eyes that Lula and the rest of the Latinos, the cool Latin American types that Bush had been happy to dance the Lambarda with at the 2001 summit of the Americas, he was back, he was thrown back on the same boring, pasty, white-faced bloke allies.
And Bush learned the hard way that his own personal ties to Latin America were not reciprocated.
That in the end, the Mexicans look at what's happening in Iraq and Afghanistan and saw nothing there for them.
Did most of the rest of South America.
And it was a teaching moment in a way for George W. Bush.
He spent a lot of his time on the Mexican border.
He has close ties with many families and many friends down there.
But in the end, they were not there.
On the morning of September the 12th, 2001, they were not there for him.
And it will be interesting to see what, if anything, comes out of this summit.
By the way, just as a general principle, the Australian Prime Minister has a good view on this.
He wasn't, you remember there was a big photo op before the Iraq war, and he wasn't there.
And he said, I don't want to be in the photos.
I don't want to have to fly off and have a big dinner, you know, have a big black tie dinner.
I know when I need to speak to President Bush, I can get him on the phone anytime I want.
And that's more important than going to these big black tie dinners all the time.
A lot of these summits are a waste of time.
If this is the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, then traipsing around Europe giving apologies and then coming back and giving a whole bunch of apologies to a whole bunch of different countries in Trinidad is a complete waste of time.
We should have fewer summits.
I would like to have a summit of the world's leaders at which they issue a communique pledging to hold fewer summits.
That's what we need right now.
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You know, the economic stimulus is beginning to work.
The J. Crew sweater that Michelle wore in Europe.
Is that right, Catherine?
The J. Crew sweater that.
Yeah, one of the J. Crew.
And now J. Crew's sales have shot through the roof.
Is that it?
That's amazing.
They're the only things going up in America.
J. Crew sales, gun sales, sales of Atlas drugs, unemployment, and AIG bonuses.
But is that what happened?
Did she wear an AIG bonus to the White House Christmas party or something, and suddenly they shot up too?
I don't say that.
Maybe she should.
Maybe they got like some like if they reissue, redesign the Chevy Trailblazer as a sweater, then maybe sales of GM models would go up too.
I mean, this is it's good to know that there's some hope out there.
Hope and change are in the air.
Let's go to Shahab from Saratoga, California.
Shahab, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Thank you.
It's a pleasure to be here.
I just wanted to comment on Prison Obama's trip to Europe and say that as a former campaign volunteer, one of the youngest in California, as well as as an American, I am very proud of President Obama for his extraordinary achievements on this trip.
Now, do you like him going and apologizing to all these Europeans?
No, he's not.
I think we need some apologies for the tremendous mistakes that the Bush administration made.
Well, okay, okay.
What did he get in return for the apologies?
I think that that's a key issue.
And as I make clear to some Republicans, to every Republican, I mean, I'm not an Obama cheerleader.
I do oppose him on certain issues, but in general, I believe this trip and the majority of his policies are for the good of America, even though that may not seem like it right now.
Okay, even though it doesn't seem like it right now, it's for the good of America.
What do you oppose him on, Shahab?
You said you opposed him on a couple of issues.
Well, I pose him on, I pose him on certain economic issues such as the tax issue, the tax system and such.
Yeah, you said you were one of the youngest volunteers.
If it's not indiscreet to me, how old are you?
Just give it record.
13. 13. 13.
Yes.
Here's the problem for you, Shahab, and you should be aware of this.
When you look at the way your parents and your grandparents and just like anyone over 30 lives, the problem is that we're voting ourselves, courtesy of the Obama administration, all these multi-trillion dollar budgets that you and your fellow 13-year-olds are going to be paying for.
Yes, that's what I've been told.
But I'm just, as I said, I agree with the vast majority of his policies, and I think even it's going to be clear in a few years how grateful we should be.
But right now, you know, Obama's not a magician.
He can't just snap his finger and make change.
What?
He's not a magician.
He can't just snap his fingers and make change.
When did that come out?
Thank you.
Thank you for your call, Shahab.
And, you know, I'd like you to call us, you're 13.
This is not the greatest generation.
These are not the boomers.
These are not Gen X or Gen Y.
This is the brokers generation.
The 13-year-old.
We are doing a terrible thing to people of Shahab's age.
We are loading them up with an unsustainable level of debt that Shahab's generation, people who are in the grade schools and high schools of America right now, will be furious with us for in 20 or 30 years' time.
And when I'm, and I won't be able to retire, I won't be able to retire.
So in 50 years' time, when I'm on WZZZAM's top-rated Midnight Matine show between 3 and 4 in the morning in Dead Buzzard Gulch, I want Shahab to call me back and tell me how the whole Hopi Change deal worked out for her.
There is something quite disgraceful, by the way.
This president has increased the national debt, is proposing to increase the national debt within the next five years more than the combined debt run up by the first 43 presidents.
You take every president from George Washington to George W. Bush, you add up all the debt.
He's proposing to double what the first four debt accumulated by the first 43 presidents.
This is a terrible thing to do to Shahab's generation.
And I know, you know, right now, when you're 13, it seems nice to be standing there waving this is the age of the Hopi Change in the crowd scenes.
But at some point, the young, the 13-year-olds of America have to start getting mad.
You know, back in the 60s, back in the 60s, what was it, the hippies used to say, never trust anyone over 30.
If I was Shahab, I would say, never trust anyone over 13, because the rest of us are stealing from you.
Basically, we're engaging in the biggest generational transgenerational theft in the history of mankind.
You look at the way your parents and your grandparents live.
You will be living in a smaller home and driving a smaller car.
You'll be driving in this $2,000 Tata car that the Indians are making.
It's the size of a cup holder in your average American SUV.
Go down to the lot, look at one of these unsold Chevy Tahos.
Look at the cup holder.
That's the size of these Tata cars, the $2,000 Tata cars from India.
You're going to be driving smaller cars, living in smaller homes, unable, the first generation, denied the opportunity to live the American dream because of the debt that the greatest generation, the boomers, the Gen X's, the Gen Yers, and whatever they are next, the Gen Z, are loading up on you.
So I'd like to hear back from Shah Bat in a couple of decades' time and see whether it all worked.
The Hopi Change thing all worked out for her.
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Hey, let's take a quick call on the EIB network from Chris in Kansas City.
Chris, welcome to the EIB Network.
Very quickly, what's your point?
You know, I think it's just absurd that Barack Obama stands in Prague and talks about getting rid of nuclear weapons.
At the same time, the North Koreans are lobbing this missile across Japan.
And the Bush administration spent a lot of time and Poland and the Czech Republic gave up a lot of political capital to get this missile shield in place.
And it's precisely for this reason of North Korea and Iran and these countries that are developing nuclear weapons.
And he just throws it away with no thought.
And it's very upsetting, very, very upsetting.
It's grossly irresponsible.
You know, as I said in the first hour, whatever you feel about the five nuclear, original nuclear powers, America, Britain, France, Russia, China, they were serious, real nations who understood it was a high threshold to enter the nuclear club.
Now any nickel and dime thug, any nickel and dime dictator can enter the club.
And the whole basic theory of mutually assured destruction, of mutual deterrence, has far less appealed to them.
Obama, with his irresponsible remarks, this idea that somehow you can play community organizer-in-chief to the entire planet, has made life a lot more dangerous for a lot of America's allies around the world already.
And they are going to figure that out soon, and they're going to be very annoyed with his irresponsible observations on missile defense.
We'll talk about that a bit more, more straight ahead on the EIB network.
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