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July 9, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 9, 2009, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, indeed, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
As you know, in accordance with the Obama administration's new federal nominal accreditation agency rules on employment appellation harmonization, all third quarter Rush guest hosts have to be called Mark.
So Mark Belling uh was here on Monday, Mark Stein here today, Mark Davis will be in tomorrow.
And uh don't forget Mark Sanford live from his uh Argentinian love nest on Monday, uh including tango lessons in the third hour, so you won't want to miss that.
And uh don't forget, in the um in the fourth quarter, uh I'm not sure we've had the final confirmation uh from Congress yet, uh, but I believe in the fourth quarter, the designated name for all rush guest hosts will be Brenda.
So that's something to look forward to.
Uh actually uh actually I I jest Mark Sanford won't won't be here on uh won't be you you can have radio tango lessons, I'm sure, Mark.
HR is objecting is objecting to the four-bench.
Dun da da da dumba.
Yeah, I I can hear Mark Sanford explaining how you do the uh once across the floor with uh with his uh Argentinian cutie on that.
Uh actually uh I don't want to get you all excited.
Mark Foley was gonna be in on and people people were then calling in and saying, Wow, that's a great idea.
Why didn't you guys do this years ago?
Uh in fact, Mark's before you get all excited again, Mar neither Mark Sanford nor Mark Foley will be here on Monday, but Rush will return and Rush uh will be uh fit and rested after his week off and will be on Krakenform.
So rush back on uh Monday.
Uh yesterday was We go Wednesday.
So please, no calls about Uyghurs today.
Uh if you're in Western China and you've got uh rampaging Uyghurs kicking down your door and you'd like to talk about it, uh if you're in Bermuda and uh the Uyghurs are taking all the best tables in the restaurants tough.
We're not taking any Uyghur calls today.
You'll have to save it uh for Mark Davis tomorrow on Open Uyghur Friday.
Uh but for for today we're we're like the Obama era Gitmo.
We are a Uyghur free zone, so no Uyghur calls at all.
Uh great to be with you.
President Obama is at the G eight summit, and uh we'll talk about some of the things that have been going on at the G eight summit.
Uh not a lot, actually, because uh funnily enough, uh the uh neither the Europeans nor uh some of these other fellows who've been flying in from India and China and elsewhere are uh on board with any of his big picture schemes on the environment or anything else.
Uh so we'll we'll talk about that a bit later.
I was at well uh the last G eight summit I was at was uh 2002 in uh back in Alberta.
And uh that was in the days.
You remember uh a few years ago at the summits, uh they always held them in big cities.
I think they'd held one in Gothenburg in Sweden, and the uh anti-globalization movement always shows up and uh try they get they sh they burned down a Starbucks.
Uh they they had that French farmer who's anti-McDonald's and always flies in to torch the anti Ah what I don't understand about the anti-globalization movement is it's a globalized movement.
It's like you see the same anti-globalization protesters where wherever they hold the sem summit.
They're the same guys in Gothenburg, uh same guys who were in Rome, same guys who were in Seattle.
Uh so they decided for the 2002 G eight summit, they were gonna hold it in the middle of the woods in uh in the wilderness in Alberta in this place called Canonascus, which is like up in the mountains in the Rockies in the wilderness.
And basically there was there was no security uh because they didn't need it.
If you got anywhere near the place, you'd be eaten by a grizzly bear.
So they said You wanna you wanna you want to try and have a go?
You want to have a go at Bush or Shirak, feel free.
You won't you you won't make it to the hunting lodge where they're holed up uh at.
And in fact, um the security for that summit were more concerned uh about uh what was this fellow called?
The long the long-toed salamander, uh, than any of the world leaders.
They were concerned that uh any uh of these anti-globalization uh hikers who got who survived the Grizzlies and got Anywhere near the lodge where the world leaders were were meeting, uh, would disturb the ecosystem of the long-toed salamander.
So the it's it it had the shortest.
Normally when you when you're covering a summit, uh you get a big press pack uh telling you don't do this, don't do that, you've got to wear this badge, you've got to wear that badge.
The only uh uh uh the only instruction I was given during that 2002 G8 summit uh came from the mounties, who told me that uh when I if I got anywhere near the hunting lodge where they were meeting, I wasn't allowed to urinate in the same spot in the woods twice because it would damage the ecosystem of the long-toed salamander.
But I take that as don't urinate in the same place twice.
That is great political advice.
Uh I hope Hallmark put it on a greetings card and issue it for when Congress passes the second stimulus bill.
Uh it's great yeah, it's just it is just a great thing to live by.
If you're if you're like if you've got if you listen to this show while you're at your your your Thursday quilting bee, why not think of so stitching it up into a nice uh little motto and and putting it up on the wall, framed.
It's always it's always good advice.
So we'll talk about the uh G eight summit a uh a little later.
Also, medical breakthrough.
Scientists discover Easter Island fountain of youth drug that can extend life by ten years.
Uh a mi a miraculous elixir of youth, which could extend the human lifespan by more than a decade, is being developed by scientists.
Uh the anti-aging pill was created from a chemical found in the soil of Easter Island, uh, one of the most remote and mysterious places on the planet.
That's that island uh full of uh uh uh giant statues of Lyle Lovett, and no one can figure out how they got there.
It's a very weird place.
But they've done these tests uh and the chemical increases life expectancy uh by a staggering thirty-eight percent.
Uh so uh it would be like a a holy grail.
Uh people would live routinely to ninety and a hundred, uh, and that would mean that under the new socialized healthcare system, instead of waiting a mere three years for your hip replacement, you'll only have to wait two decades for it.
So there's a lot of benefits to this uh this whole uh the the uh the whole new extension of life from the fountain of youth drug.
That's that's great news.
Uh I like this quote, by the way, from a British scientist.
It's time to break out of our denial about aging, said Aubrey de Grey, a British gerontologist.
Aging is unequivocally the major cause of death in the industrialized world.
I'm quote.
So I think this have you seen the figures?
Aging is the principal cause of death uh in the Western world.
And uh I don't know why Congress hasn't taken action on it.
You know, Obama's wasting his time with his little nickel and dime stuff like lowering the rise of the oceans uh when he should be tackling this.
Aging is the principal cause.
Yeah, they have.
They have.
Why haven't we heard about this?
Is this Bush?
Was it was Bush covering this up?
You know, Bush lied, people died of old age.
This is this is this is classic.
We need we need Congress to take urgent action uh on this now.
It's time to break out of our denial about aging, says Aubrey de Grey.
Aging is unequivocally the major cause of death in the industrialized world.
So that's the good news.
That's good news.
We're working on that.
Uh the uh the other good news is we've now had final confirmation.
Men are over.
Uh this is from the Daily Telegraph in London.
Human sperm created from stem cells in world first, claims British University.
Researchers at the pioneering Northeast England stem cell institute say they've made the breakthrough using stem cells from an embryo.
It could even be possible to create sperm from female stem cells, they say, which would ultimately mean that women could have babies without men.
This is the first time human sperm has been created anywhere in the world in a laboratory.
Uh actually I don't know about that.
If you think uh there must have been occasions when the professor got a little frisky with the lab assistant from time to time.
But I think they what they mean is under laboratory conditions, uh rather than where the office party gets out of hand.
Uh you know, uh you know what this means now.
Men are now entirely redundant, entirely redundant.
We're no longer hunter-gatherers, we no longer provide for our dependents because the federal government takes care of all that stuff.
Uh We no longer hold the door for ladies because the feminists hoot and jeer.
We no longer call you ma'am because Senator Barbara Boxer gets mad and bites your head off.
Our last useful function was as a supplier of sperm.
But now they figured out how to manufacture that.
We're done, we're gone, we're out of here.
You'll be able to get it in the freezer section at Price Chopper next to the tubs of uh I can't believe it's not butter.
Who knows?
Maybe that's what they're called.
I can't believe it's not sperm.
In the Independent, John Harris, the professor of bioethics at the University of Manchester and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Ethics writes, quote, the end of men has always been a possibility.
Women have many ways of trying to do without men.
They don't need men.
They just need their sperm.
And sperm is a notoriously renewable resource, and it is plentiful.
Now, if this research is confirmed, all they will need is a very large supply of stem cells.
Might we see the George Clooney stem cell line, assuming he were to consent to it.
And you know, that's an interesting question.
Because when a when right now when a woman goes along to the sperm clinic, they ask her, well, you know, what do what are you like?
We've got uh Ivy League professor in Test Tube A, uh, we've got the cute busboy at Denny's in test tube B, the serial killer wanted in twenty-eight states in test tube C. We've got Rush Limbaugh guest host in test tube D. Whoa, no.
Uh uh uh well, okay, but only if it's Mark Belling.
Uh so now uh so now uh they can manufacture human sperm industrially.
Uh uh i i is it gonna be like the George Clooney uh line?
Is it uh uh like the Paul Newman salad dressing?
Uh you know, every celebrity will have his own sperm line, like the way uh all the female stars have their own perfume line now.
Uh and then it'll be like the Lindsay Lohan tanning formula.
Uh there'll be lawsuits where the where the Tom Cruise sperm formula gets sued by Bud the Trucker, claiming that uh Tom stole it from him.
But uh but at any rate, it's the end of men.
It's the end of men.
The end of men is now official.
We're superfluous to requirements, women no longer need men to reproduce, and a race of giant lesbians will bestride the earth, uh, though they may keep one or two house-trained metrosexuals around the place uh just uh as domestic pets.
Yeah, to cut to cut the lawn, that's right.
So uh that that'll be that'll be uh that'll be good.
They'll they'll keep Howard Dean and Alan Alder around just to just to cut the lawn.
Uh but uh but so that's great news.
You want to keep an eye on the big picture here.
It's easy to get worried about cap and trade and the stimulus, but believe me, this this could have uh far bigger uh implications.
Uh Mark Stein sitting in for rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Uh we've got uh lots more to talk about uh straight ahead, so do call us on 1800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Um you may have seen uh we we talked about this uh yesterday, that uh that Obama's personal ratings are now beginning to reflect the unpopularity of his uh policies.
There's a very uh interesting poll out from uh Rasmussen.
In fact, Scott Rasmussen will be in with Mark Davis tomorrow, on tomorrow's show, to talk about it.
But the poll uh basically says the plurality of voters now strongly disapprove of Obama's policies.
This tracking poll that he's done since uh January the twentieth, uh for the first time ever, it's showing a negative.
That's to say more people strongly disapprove than strongly approve.
Uh 37% of voters expressed strong disapproval of his performance, while 32 percent strongly approve.
Uh these numbers uh uh essentially converged, and now uh the uh strong disapprovers have over uh have overtaken those who appro strongly approve of the policies.
If you then break it down into the uh the so-called battleground states, if you go to Ohio, we had a caller from Ohio yesterday, uh unemployment there is over ten percent.
Uh and in a poll there, uh forty-eight percent uh of respondents disapproved of uh Mr. Obama's handling of the economy, while forty-six percent approved.
That's fallen eleven points in the last couple of months.
Uh what's happened here is uh is uh that his numbers are now down below fifty percent.
The media are still writing about him as this godlike figure uh who has descended from the heavens to save us.
Uh but out there in the real world, uh, where you have these uh uh growing uh numbers of the unemployed, the uh economy isn't uh getting any better, the stimulus is a bust, uh then he looks like a very ordinary politician, and not just an ordinary politician, but one who's actually got uh got severe problems.
Uh one of the interesting aspects of this is that people are beginning to wise up to the fact that Obama was not the guy he presented himself as uh last uh year when he was running.
He uh when he ran he was Mr. Moderate.
Uh when he was reading from the teleprompter, everything he said was moderate and reasonable.
That was the whole shtick.
All the stuff he gave away uh was when uh the teleprompter would freeze and uh he'd uh uh he'd be asked uh a question and he'd talk about confiscating pharmaceutical companies' profits, or he'd talk about redistributing the wealth.
Those were the off-the-cuff remarks.
The planned packaged Obama uh ran as this moderate centrist figure.
And temperamentally he's a moderate guy.
He's got that what's now become a rather irritating tick of of saying that, you know, he's not hung up on ideology, narrow blinked ideology and all the rest of it, uh but he's just looking at this in a kind of moderate, reasonable centrist, technocratic kind of way.
And for a while that worked.
He became president on January the twentieth, uh and he started doing all the stimulus uh and the health care and the cap and trade, and even though opposition to those individual policies was real and was out there, it didn't show up in his personal approval ratings.
Now it is showing up in his personal approval ratings.
And what this means is uh that people are beginning to make the connection between these policies they don't like and Obama the man.
Uh Obama the man.
And he's not going to be able to get away with uh fudging this much longer.
It's a long time now.
Bush is so last year, he's over, he's gone.
You can't keep talking about that stuff.
Uh he's got sixty votes in the Senate.
Uh he's got a majority in the House.
It's his government.
It's Democratic Party government.
It's d all Democrats all the time.
Republicans can't get a look in it.
A lot of the time, uh Republicans in the House and Senate complain they're not even being kept informed of what's uh what's going on.
This is an all Democrat government.
And the polls are starting to show that people are making the connection uh between the unpopular policies and the president.
And when a president is promoting unpopular policies, eventually he becomes unpopular too.
Uh what have they done in Ohio?
Ohio's very unhappy, so they've sent Joe Biden in to calm them down.
They sent uh Vice President Biden in uh to reconcile them uh to the uh uh Obama uh to to the Obama regime, uh to the Obama uh utopia, uh, because it's not playing so well there.
And uh I just hope that uh that Joe Biden is like kind of under control uh he's not like he was saying a couple of days ago, he's not saying, oh well, you know, we didn't realize how bad it was, even though at the time they were going around saying uh this is the worst uh economy uh since the nineteen thirties,
worst economy since the Great Depression, worst economy since the 1929 Wall Street crash, all that's now uh uh uh they've got Joe Biden under control and they're sending him out to Ohio to cheer people up and persuade people in Ohio uh that the Obama administration can still do something for them.
But they're not gonna be able to.
They're not going to be able to.
Because essentially uh Barack Obama is not governing as a centrist.
Uh the one thing we know, uh th you can you can argue about this and that and have differences of opinion and this and that, but the one thing we do now know is that those people who told us uh that Obama was a moderate centrist figure got suckered.
Uh my uh National Review colleague Christopher Buckley got suckered.
Uh he he basically thought that Obama had the right kind of temperament for president and he would govern as a bipartisan centrist reaching across the aisle and all the rest of it.
Uh David Brooks in the New York Times uh was similarly impressed.
Uh Colin Powell uh was similarly impressed.
And uh whatever else you may say, those people got succored.
The ones who voted for this guy, because he thought that because they thought he was going to be a transformative left wing president, at least have the merit of having got it right.
They understood Obama.
They got what he was about.
And now I don't think there's I think if you ask people uh do you support another stimulus?
They're overwhelmingly opposed to it.
Uh do you uh support increased taxes through cap and trade?
Uh do you uh do you support uh the uh uh uh taxing of your medical benefits uh to pay for uh uh solving this uh health care problem that isn't really a problem.
They're opposed to all those policies and they're beginning to stick them to the man himself.
Barack Obama now owns these policies, and that's being reflected in his uh poll numbers.
1 800 282 2882, Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
We're gonna talk about Obama having to own the policies he's putting forward straight ahead.
More to come.
Yes, Mark Stein in for Rush.
Mark Davis here tomorrow and rush back on Monday, and uh Mark Davis among his guests tomorrow will have uh Congressman uh Mike Pence, Republican of Indiana, and as I mentioned earlier, the pollster Scott Rasmussen.
Uh we're talking about uh Obama's falling poll numbers.
Uh the policies have been polling badly.
Now they're beginning to impact his own numbers.
Let's go to Al in Chicago.
Al, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
Hello, Mark.
Hi.
It's uh pleasure to talk to you.
Uh I'm in the uh city of Chicago, and I could tell you that the uh the market that I'm in, which is construction, I've been in remodeling and new construction, both are an absolute disaster.
Uh I'm a member of the association for the builders on the South Side, and I've attended uh recently a golf party uh which had a third the membership that it had three years ago.
And it was more like a funeral than a party.
I talked to a number of builders, they can't sell anything.
They're being undercut by foreclosures, by short sales, they're all desperate.
And I think the statistics are not proving the actuality and the truth of what is wrong in our economy.
And I I uh I'm listening to what you're saying, I agree with everything you say.
Central planning is not the answer.
But you're gonna get more central planning because under this cap and trade thing, uh the Obama administration's genius way to improve the housing market is to institute in effect a a uniform federal building code from uh Maine to Hawaii, from Alaska to Florida, uh mandating California uh compliance standards for the entire nation.
I mean, if they were serious in getting uh construction and the real estate market uh moving again, they wouldn't be pulling this kind of stuff.
Well, I will tell you the banks are not landing.
I'm now in remodeling, doing home improvement work, and you cannot pass paper, I don't care how good they are, it is horrendous.
And I'll tell you something interesting.
I've been in the flooring in the construction business for many, many years.
The American people have to understand that the the technology has been improving.
Our homes are much more energy efficient.
All that they're doing right now with these subsidies are encouraging the sellers to up their prices to stop up the gravy.
Oh, the artificial subsidies for windows and doors as an example are really thwarting the opportunity for the consumer to get a pr better price, because guess who's paying part of it?
Uncle Sugar.
Yeah, but they don't you're absolutely right, Al, but what they don't get uh is that in the end it's uh small businesses, uh it's like uh gen general contractors, uh people who do painting, plastering, uh uh that kind of buyers of all types.
Yeah.
And if you gerrymander the market, as you say, we now have a situation where there's tons of foreclosed properties uh out there, uh, in essence, uh they've they've uh prolonged that feature of the economy because they're trying uh in effect to uh artificially preserve the value of some of these houses and prevent foreclosures.
Uh so they were th they acted to prevent the the natural market correction of this situation.
I agree fully.
The market has to correct, unless it's allowed or correct, they'll delay the recovery.
Yeah.
But they but they don't even think of it in those terms.
They think of it as an opportunity for increased regulation and increased control.
And uh eventually the logic of this thing would be that we might as well all be in government housing, because if the government is gonna mandate every aspect of the home you build, why doesn't the government just build it and rent it to you?
I mean, there's no at a certain point uh people people will make rational calcul entirely rational calculations about the uh the the the core of the American dream owning your own property, uh g finding a nice lot, putting up a home on it that's built the way you like it.
That is central to individual liberty.
Uh and all this government stuff is just getting in the way of that.
Well, Mark, you know, uh don't forget Obama's from Chicago, and I've always talked about the Chicago political system as having a captive constituency.
They need a large enough number of votes to maintain power, and they can do what they want, be as corrupt as they want, they can fail as often as they want.
Obama comes from that school.
Yep.
And you know what, you know what you have in places like Chicago too, Al, and this is a classic feature uh of of how this kind of politics functions.
You have uh uh in effect an alliance between the government class, between the number of people who are uh state uh employees, they're uh employed by the government, they work for the government, and the dependent class, that is the people who depend on government.
Well, you have a an elite proletariat.
Right.
Right.
That's right.
You have an elite government class and and a dependent proletariat.
And in the middle of that, you have a dynamic, productive middle class who are just getting squeezed by both sides.
Uh that's the that's the model uh for statism all over the world, uh and it just uh and it just does what it's doing to you right now.
It just makes everything seize up.
Thanks, thanks a lot for your call, Al, in Chicago, who uh is in construction and sees no signs of any recovery, notwithstanding uh Joe Biden talking up the economy uh in Ohio today.
So expect the Dow to nosedive by four uh four hundred by the end of the day.
Uh Joe Biden's out there out there saving the world.
Let's go to Andrew in Fairfax, Virginia.
Andrew, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, thanks for taking my call.
I am uh liberal and I voted for Obama, and uh I take Bill Maher's stance on the uh on it, which is I don't think he's being liberal enough.
I think he's being uh very moderate, and I I don't really like that.
He's but just just a minute.
When you say he's being very moderate, he's he's he's transforming health care.
He's in he's imposed this cap and trade thing that uh that the Europeans and New Zealand and Australia are all backing away from.
W in what area is he Well, yeah, let me let me just give an example.
Okay, he hasn't repealed uh don't ask, don't tell.
He's continuing the Bush administration policy on the bailouts, like it or not, I mean, that was started under them.
He uh is continu he's a he raised the troop level in Afghanistan, which I don't necessarily think is I mean that I think that that there's some merit to that.
He uh is can he has outlawed torture, but he said he's gonna close down Guantanamo.
I don't see a whole lot of movement on that and he's now announced.
As far as healthcare system goes, he's has uh a uh single payer I haven't heard anything about single payer at it.
No, but let's go through the stuff you don't like, because essentially all that is foreign policy and war on terror stuff.
And the reason that is of no interest to him is because it doesn't op offer the opportunity for uh control, for government control at home.
In the end, he doesn't care whether he backpedals on his policy regarding detainees in Gitmo, uh because that's that's peripheral to to the overall scheme of things.
He doesn't care about troop levels in Afghanistan or Iraq.
That's peripheral to the scheme of things.
He doesn't care about foreign policy much at all.
His whole approach to the rest of the world is he doesn't want it getting in the way while he's busy transforming America.
The last thing you need, if you're like uh if you if you want to transform America into a status socialist basket case, the last thing you want is a bunch of terrorists blowing up Cleveland or whatever in the middle of it.
Before you don't want Cleveland blown up before you've turned it into a socialist basket case.
That's basically the extent of his interest in these things.
And I think that that's one of the biggest ones on the table.
He isn't proposing a single payer tax uh uh a single payer uh program, and that to me that would uh you know that's one of the biggest issues in my life personally that affects me is healthcare.
I mean, I can't get health care because I uh I have pre existing conditions and and uh so I get you know I get shot down every time I try and get a decent health care plan.
Yeah, but you know the way to look at it from your point of view is this.
He can't use the words uh single payer.
Uh what he can do is he can take steps that will uh make the private Sector health care eventually shrivel and wither and leave you with a de facto uh government domination of health care that will lead to the end results.
But single payer is one of those phrases.
No, it's not a popular phrase, uh you can't use it.
So he's not going to use that.
But he'll he'll get you there in two or three steps.
So if you if you really want uh if you really want a European-style uh socialized health care system, uh hang on to your hope, because changes are coming.
It's just going to be two or three steps of change to get you one hundred percent of the hope you were ha you're still hoping for.
Uh so Andrew, don't get disheartened.
You want that government health care system.
Uh he's going to get you there.
He's just he just knows there are certain uh trigger words that he can't use on that.
I wouldn't worry about that, Andrew.
Have hope.
Have hope.
It's hope you can believe in, the change you can believe in.
On that, he'll get you to where you want to go.
Yeah, I think you're better than Rush Limbaugh.
I hope he stays on vacation forever.
That's uh you I know why.
I've just I've just I've just explained the whole.
I've just explained the the whole I've just given a better rationale for where Obama's going than uh some of you lefty guys can't.
Rush isn't gonna stay on vacation forever.
Uh he's gonna he's gonna be uh he's gonna be back on uh he's gonna be back on Monday and uh and uh I'm looking I'm looking forward to that, and I'll bet Andrew will be listening uh too.
Andrew and Fairfax Virginia.
We love you liberal callers.
By the way, uh I'm interested in hearing from liberal callers who are still sticking with Obama.
But I'm also I'd be interested to know uh from any Liberals who voted for him, thinking, well, it'd be just nice to have a cool black guy as president, but it's not really going to change my life much.
It'll make but Bushel go away and we'll get this really cool guy as president.
Uh but uh other than that, I wasn't really planning on having my uh 401k cut in half and my house disappear in value and being put out of work and uh on losing my job and my home halving in value and my pension uh being uh kaput uh isn't that's getting to be a bit of a steep price to pay for having this incredibly cool president.
So if you're a liberal who's uh changed his view on Obama since November, do call and let me know.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein in for rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
1-800-282-2882.
Uh I mentioned at the top of the show this advice I was given at the uh G2 summit uh G8 summit a couple of years ago by uh the Mounties, don't urinate in the same uh place twice, and suggest it might make a nice Hallmark card for the uh second stimulus package.
And Russ in Ohio uh sent me an email saying I may have missed the card.
It's already out there.
You can't, it's like you can never get ahead of these things.
You may have missed the card with trees, birds, underbrush, and a puddle, and inside it says, please be nice, don't pee here twice.
So that is the official it's already out there from Hallmark, the official stimulus to commemoration card.
Uh make sure you uh get it uh get it now.
Um these numbers, these Obama numbers.
Uh what's interesting is there's a point when you get to double-digit unemployment, that is essentially uh the Europeanization of the American employment scene.
Uh where we we talk about uh Obama's plans to Europeanize uh aspects of American life.
One consequence of that is that France and Germany live permanently with unemployment rates that about that are about what they are now here in the bad times.
In other words, this ten percent unemployment rate is a relatively it's not it's not a crisis in France.
That's normal.
Uh it's normal to have double-digit unemployment uh in France.
Uh France and Germany both live with unemployment rates of between about eight and twelve percent.
They have done all through uh the last twenty years, the eighties, nineties booms, they've lived with uh what we would regard as unacceptably high unemployment rates.
And it's not surprising.
Uh one reason they have that is for the s for the same reason we will have permanent unemployment rates that high is that when you over-regulate business, uh you depress the incentives for people to hire uh workers.
Uh if you if you own a business, the more the government regulates your business, the more it imposes costs and paperwork on your business, the less likely you are uh to to hire some uh seventeen-year-old, no matter how hungry they are for work and no matter how eager they are for work.
So you will have uh as you have in France and Germany, those permanent levels uh the the level of unemployment we have now, I don't believe is something that is a temporary feature of life.
The ten percent unemployment rate in Ohio will be a permanent feature of life if Obama's policies uh are made permanent.
If you have cap and trade, uh if you have health care, if you have more of the stimulus money being transferred from the productive sector of the economy to the government uh the the phony government community organiz uh c uh organization workforce then you will have that ten percent unemployment rate in Ohio as a permanent feature of life.
And uh that will be normal.
That's a normal unemployment rate in France.
And what's a bad unemployment rate?
In Spain right now it's 17 percent.
So we would have a uh we would have a situation where ten percent unemployment would be the base and when things got bad then we'd be getting up to what they have in Spain right now, where we'd be talking fourteen, fifteen, seventeen percent uh unemployment.
Uh so if you don't like the ten percent unemployment rate, the way to make it go away is to make the overgovernmentalization of American life go away, uh which means stopping uh Obama and stopping cap and trade uh and stopping socialized uh health care.
Uh let's go to Judy in Bloomfield, Connecticut.
Judy, you're on the Rush Limbo show.
Great to have you with us.
Mark, how are you?
This is such an honor.
First time I ever heard you I I was laughing so hard I stopped at a green light.
You stopped at a green light.
I did it and I'm people are honking at me and I'm just sitting there laughing it was great.
Anyway that's that's good.
It's like uh that that's the New York way.
I mean I'm a I'm a hicks I'm only in New York for a couple of days when I do this show.
But as far as I can tell the idea is to like talk on your cell phone when the light's green and then drive through when it's red.
I I think that's uh this was right after Obama ha was inaugurated and you were doing the headlines from all the different papers and it was it was a wonderful, wonderful monologue.
At any rate, I'm calling on a more serious note today.
Um I I was at one of the tea parties on Saturday and somebody I was talking about how I don't think any of what's going on now is accidental.
I don't think any of it is uh the law of unintended consequences.
I believe all of this is intended to go in exactly the direction it's going.
But even though I've expressed this in the past, I could never figure out quite why that would make any sense.
And somebody at the Tea Party said to me go to a website called WWW Cloud hyphen pivon dot com.
Cloward and Piven were two s two sociologists back in the sixties.
One w uh was at Columbia, he's dead now.
Pivin works for uh City University of New York.
Both were sociologists.
Both came up with a strategy whereby when you overload the systems that the government has in place, um, you can actually bring those systems to a crashing collapse and replace them at that point with socialist systems.
And they did this in New York a gentleman named I'm sorry, go ahead.
No no no no that's that's that's true.
You may the idea, in other words, the idea, which I think is true uh is to is to make people more vulnerable and more dependent on government so they cling to the big government nurse because uh in effect uh it's too dangerous being out there in the world the way they used to be in other words the idea is to increase that.
But it's even more insidious than that and I'm actually looking at the website right now and it said that the clo Cloud Pivin strategy first proposed in 66 hate seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse two cherished goals of hard left strategists.
It uses the whole Sololinsky Rules for radicals uh system of doing this and when it occurred in New York what happened was a guy named George Wiley got the welfare system so overloaded that in nineteen seventy five New York City went bankrupt.
That's right.
That's right.
And Giuliani tried to um publicize this Cloud Pivan strategy.
Um he didn't have a lot of luck but the descendants of the strategy include Acorn.
Right, right.
We got we got a we got a run uh Judy, but you are absolutely right we've we we as w as one of the few non bailed out institutions in America, we are bound to take a profit center break here.
But uh you you are absolutely uh right that this is a part of the Alinsky strategy.
Uh effectively it's the death of citizenship, uh that if you if you uh, as you say, overload the system, uh then all that's left, the sole source of authority in America, is the government.
More straight ahead.
Yes, uh Rahm Emmanuel said, don't let a good crisis go to waste.
And as Judy reminded us, better yet, uh make the crisis worse uh so that the government is the only answer and the only solution left standing.
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