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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 was here on Monday, Mark Stein here today.
Mark Davis will be in tomorrow.
And don't forget Mark Sanford live from his Argentinian Love Nest on Monday, including tango lessons in the third hour.
So you won't want to miss that.
And don't forget, in the fourth quarter, I'm not sure we've had the final confirmation from Congress yet, 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.
Actually, actually, I just, Mark Sanford won't be here on won't be here.
You can have radio tango lessons.
I'm sure, Mark, HR is objecting to the four-man change.
Yeah, I can hear Mark Sanford explaining how you do the once-across-the-floor with his Argentinian cutie on that.
Actually, I don't want to get you all excited.
When I was here a few couple of months ago, I said Mark Foley was going to be in, and people were then calling in and saying, wow, that's a great idea.
Why didn't you guys do this years ago?
In fact, Mark, before you get all excited again, neither Mark Sanford nor Bark Foley will be here on Monday, but Rush will return and Rush will be fit and rested after his week off and will be on Kraken Form.
So Rush back on Monday.
Yesterday was Uyghur Wednesday.
So please, no calls about Uyghurs today.
If you're in Western China and you've got rampaging Uyghurs kicking down your door and you'd like to talk about it, if you're in Bermuda and 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 for Mark Davis tomorrow on Open Uyghur Friday.
But for today, we're like the Obama-era gitmo.
We are a Uyghur-free zone, so no Uyghur calls at all.
Great to be with you.
President Obama is at the G8 summit, and we'll talk about some of the things that have been going on at the G8 summit.
Not a lot, actually, because funnily enough, neither the Europeans nor some of these other fellas who've been flying in from India and China and elsewhere are on board with any of his big picture schemes on the environment or anything else.
So we'll talk about that a bit later.
I was at, well, the last G8 summit I was at was 2002 back in Alberta.
And that was in the days.
Remember a few years ago at the summits, they always held them in big cities.
I think they'd held one in Gothenburg in Sweden.
And the anti-globalization movement always shows up and yeah, they burned down a Starbucks.
They had that French farmer who's anti-McDonald's and always flies in to torch the end.
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 wherever they hold the summit.
The same guys in Gothenburg, same guys who were in Rome, same guys who were in Seattle.
So they decided for the 2002 G8 summit, they were going to hold it in the middle of the woods in the wilderness in Alberta, in this place called Cananascus, which is like up in the mountains in the Rockies, in the wilderness.
And basically there was no security because they didn't need it.
If you got anywhere near the place, you'd be eaten by a grizzly bear.
They said, you want to try and have a go?
You want to have a go at Bush or Chirac?
Feel free.
You won't make it to the hunting lodge where they're holed up at.
And in fact, the security for that summit were more concerned about, what was this fellow called?
The long-toed salamander than any of the world leaders.
They were concerned that any of these anti-globalization hikers who survived the grizzlies and got anywhere near the lodge where the world leaders were meeting would disturb the ecosystem of the long-toed salamander.
So it had the shortest.
Normally when you're covering a summit, you get a big press pack 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 instruction I was given during that 2002 G8 summit came from the Mounties who told me that 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.
I hope Hallmark put it on a greetings card and issue it for when Congress passes the second stimulus bill.
It's great.
Yeah, it's just, it is just a great thing to live by.
If you listen to this show while you're at your Thursday quilting bee, why not think of stitching it up into a nice little motto and putting it up on the wall framed?
It's always good advice.
So we'll talk about the G8 summit a little later.
Also, medical breakthrough.
Scientists discover Easter Island fountain of youth drug that can extend life by 10 years.
A miraculous elixir of youth which could extend the human lifespan by more than a decade is being developed by scientists.
The anti-aging pill was created from a chemical found in the soil of Easter Island, one of the most remote and mysterious places on the planet.
That's that island full of 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 and the chemical increases life expectancy by a staggering 38%.
So it would be like a holy grail.
People would live routinely to 90 and 100.
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 whole new extension of life from the fountain of youth drug.
That's great news.
I like this quote, by the way, from a British scientist.
It's time to break out of our denial about aging, said Aubrey deGray, a British gerontologist.
Aging is unequivocally the major cause of death in the industrialized world.
So I think this, have you seen the figures?
Aging is the principal cause of death in the Western world.
And 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 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 Bush covering this up?
You know, Bush lied, people died of old age.
This is classic.
We need Congress to take urgent action on this now.
It's time to break out of our denial about aging, says Aubrey deGray.
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.
The other good news is we've now had final confirmation.
Men are over.
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.
Actually, I don't know about that.
There must have been occasions when the professor got a little frisky with the lab assistant from time to time.
But I think what they mean is under laboratory conditions rather than when the office party gets out of hand.
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.
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 I Can't Believe It's Not Butter.
Who knows?
Maybe that's what they'll call it.
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: 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 right now, when a woman goes along to the sperm clinic, they ask her, Well, you know, what do you like?
We've got Ivy League Professor in test tube A. We've got the cute bus boy at Denny's in test tube B, the serial killer wanted in 28 states in test tube C. We've got Rush Limbaugh guest host in test tube D. Whoa, no.
Well, okay, but only if it's Mark Belling.
So now they can manufacture human sperm industrially.
Is it going to be like the George Clooney line?
Is it like the Paul Newman salad dressing?
You know, every celebrity will have his own sperm line, like the way all the female stars have their own perfume line now.
And then it'll be like the Lindsay Lohan tanning formula.
There'll be lawsuits where the Tom Cruise sperm formula gets sued by Bud the Trucker, claiming that Tom stole it from him.
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, though they may keep one or two house-trained metrosexuals around the place just as domestic pets.
Yeah, to cut the law.
That's right.
So that'll be good.
They'll keep Howard Dean and Alan Alderd around just to cut the lawn.
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 could have far bigger implications.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
We've got lots more to talk about straight ahead.
So do call us on 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
You may have seen, we talked about this yesterday, that Obama's personal ratings are now beginning to reflect the unpopularity of his policies.
There's a very interesting poll out from Erasmus and in fact, Scott Rasmussen will be in with Mark Davis tomorrow, on tomorrow's show, to talk about it.
But the poll basically says the plurality of voters now strongly disapprove of Obama's policies.
This tracking poll that he's done since January the 20th, for the first time ever, it's showing a negative.
That's to say, more people strongly disapprove than strongly approve.
37% of voters express strong disapproval of his performance, while 32% strongly approve.
These numbers have essentially converged, and now the strong disapprovers have overtaken those who strongly approve of the policies.
If you then break it down into the so-called battleground states, if you go to Ohio, we had a caller from Ohio yesterday.
Unemployment there is over 10%.
And in a poll there, 48% of respondents disapproved of Mr. Obama's handling of the economy, while 46% approved.
That's fallen 11 points in the last couple of months.
What's happened here is that his numbers are now down below 50%.
The media are still writing about him as this godlike figure who has descended from the heavens to save us.
But out there in the real world, where you have these growing numbers of the unemployed, the economy isn't getting any better, the stimulus is a bust, then he looks like a very ordinary politician and not just an ordinary politician, but one who's actually got severe problems.
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 last year when he was running.
When he ran, he was Mr. Modern.
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 was when the teleprompter would freeze and he'd be asked 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 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 saying that, you know, he's not hung up on ideology, narrow, blinkered ideology and all the rest of it, 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 20th and he started doing all the stimulus and the healthcare 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 that people are beginning to make the connection between these policies they don't like and Obama the man.
Obama the man.
And he's not going to be able to get away with 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.
He's got 60 votes in the Senate.
He's got a majority in the House.
It's his government.
It's Democratic Party government.
It's all Democrats all the time.
Republicans can't get a look in it.
A lot of the time, Republicans in the House and Senate complain they're not even being kept informed of what's going on.
This is an all-Democrat government.
And the polls are starting to show that people are making the connection between the unpopular policies and the president.
And when a president is promoting unpopular policies, eventually he becomes unpopular, too.
What have they done in Ohio?
Ohio is very unhappy, so they've sent Joe Biden in to calm them down.
They sent Vice President Biden in to reconcile them to the Obama regime, to the Obama utopia, because it's not playing so well there.
And I just hope that Joe Biden is kind of under control.
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 this is the worst economy since the 1930s, worst economy since the Great Depression, worst economy since the 1929 Wall Street crash.
All that's now, they've got Joe Biden under control and they're sending him out to Ohio to cheer people up and persuade people in Ohio that the Obama administration can still do something for them.
But they're not going to be able to.
They're not going to be able to because essentially Barack Obama is not governing as a centrist.
The one thing we know, 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 that Obama was a moderate centrist figure got suckered.
My National Review colleague, Christopher Buckley, got suckered.
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.
David Brooks in the New York Times was similarly impressed.
Colin Powell was similarly impressed.
And whatever else you may say, those people got suckered.
The ones who voted for this guy, 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, do you support another stimulus?
They're overwhelmingly opposed to it.
Do you support increased taxes through cap and trade?
Do you support the taxing of your medical benefits to pay for solving this 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 poll numbers.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
We're going to 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 Mark Davis, among his guests tomorrow, will have Congressman Mike Pence, Republican of Indiana, and as I mentioned earlier, the pollster Scott Rasmussen.
We're talking about Obama's falling poll numbers.
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 a pleasure to talk to you.
I'm in the city of Chicago, and I could tell you that the market that I'm in, which is construction, I've been in remodeling and new construction, both are an absolute disaster.
I'm a member of the Association for the Builders on the South Side, and I've attended recently a golf audience 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'm listening to what you're saying.
I agree with everything you say.
Central planning is not the answer.
But you're going to get more central planning because under this cap and trade thing, the Obama administration's genius way to improve the housing market is to institute, in effect, a uniform federal building code from Maine to Hawaii, from Alaska to Florida, mandating California compliance standards for the entire nation.
I mean, if they were serious in getting construction and the real estate market 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 and the construction business for many, many years.
The American people have to understand that 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 sop up the gravy.
The artificial subsidies for windows and doors, as an example, are really thwarting the opportunity for the consumer to get a 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 is that in the end, it's small businesses, it's like general contractors, people who do painting, plastering, that kind of.
Yeah.
And if you gerrymander the market, as you say, we now have a situation where there's tons of foreclosed properties out there.
In essence, they've prolonged that feature of the economy because they're trying, in effect, to artificially preserve the value of some of these houses and prevent foreclosures.
So they acted to prevent the natural market correction of this situation.
I agree fully.
They are thwarting the market, and that's not the answer.
The market has to correct.
Unless it's allowed to correct, they'll delay the recovery.
Yeah, 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 eventually, the logic of this thing would be that we might as well all be in government housing because if the government is going to 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, people will make rational, entirely rational calculations about the core of the American dream, owning your own property, finding a nice lot, putting up a home on it that's built the way you like it.
That is central to individual liberty.
And all this government stuff is just getting in the way of that.
Well, Mark, you know, 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 have in places like Chicago, too, Al?
And this is a classic feature of how this kind of politics functions.
You have, in effect, an alliance between the government class, between the number of people who are state employees.
They're employed by the government.
They work for the government.
And the dependent class, that is the people who depend on government.
Well, you have an elite proletariat.
Right.
Right.
That's right.
You have an elite government class 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.
That's the model for statism all over the world.
And it just does what it's doing to you right now.
It just makes everything seize up.
Thanks a lot for your call, Al, in Chicago, who is in construction and sees no signs of any recovery, notwithstanding Joe Biden talking up the economy in Ohio today.
So expect the Dow to nosedive by 400 by the end of the day.
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 liberal and I voted for Obama.
And I take Bill Maher's stance on it, which is I don't think he's being liberal enough.
I think he's being very moderate, and I don't really like that.
But just a minute, when you say he's being very moderate, he's transforming healthcare.
He's imposed this cap and trade thing that the Europeans and New Zealand and Australia are all backing away from.
In what area is he?
Well, yeah, let me just give an example.
Okay, he hasn't repealed 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 raised the troop level in Afghanistan, which I don't necessarily think is.
I mean, I think there's some merit to that.
He has outlawed torture, but he said he's going to close down Guantanamo.
I don't see a whole lot of movement on that.
No, no, he's now and he's now announcing.
As far as the healthcare system goes, he's a 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 offer the opportunity for control, for government control at home.
In the end, he doesn't care whether he backpedals on his policy regarding detainees in Gitmo because that's peripheral 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, if you want to transform America into a statist socialist basket case, the last thing you want is a bunch of terrorists blowing up Cleveland or whatever in the middle of it.
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.
The central issue, though, is healthcare, and I think that that's one of the biggest ones on the table.
He isn't proposing a single payer tax, a single payer program.
And to me, 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 have preexisting conditions, and so 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 single-payer.
What he can do is he can take steps that will make the private sector healthcare eventually shrivel and wither and leave you with a de facto government domination of healthcare that will lead to the end results.
But single-payer is one of those phrases.
No, it's not a popular phrase.
You can't use it.
So he's not going to use that, but he'll get you there in two or three steps.
So if you really want a European-style socialized healthcare system, hang on to your hope because changes are coming.
It's just going to be two or three steps of change to get you 100% of the hope you're still hoping for.
So, Andrew, don't get disheartened.
You want that government healthcare system.
He's going to get you there.
He just knows there are certain 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.
Well, that's you.
I know why.
I've just explained the whole, I've just explained the whole, I've just given a better rationale for where Obama's going than some of you lefty guys can.
Rush isn't going to stay on vacation forever.
He's going to be back on Monday.
And I'm looking forward to that.
And I'll bet Andrew will be listening to.
Andrew in Fairfax, Virginia.
We love you, Liberal callers.
By the way, I'm interested in hearing from liberal callers who are still sticking with Obama.
But I'm also, I'd be interested to know 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 Bush will go away and we'll get this really cool guy as president.
But other than that, I wasn't really planning on having my 401k cut in half and my house disappear in value and being put out of work.
And on losing my job and my home halving in value and my pension being kaput, isn't that 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 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.
I mentioned at the top of the show this advice I was given at the G8 summit a couple of years ago by the Mounties, don't urinate in the same place twice, and suggested might make a nice Hallmark card for the second stimulus package.
And Russ in Ohio sent me an email saying, I may have missed the card.
It's already out there.
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.
Make sure you get it now.
These numbers, these Obama numbers, what's interesting is there's a point when you get to double-digit unemployment, that is essentially the Europeanization of the American employment scene.
We talk about Obama's plans to Europeanize aspects of American life.
One consequence of that is that France and Germany live permanently with unemployment rates that are about what they are now here in the bad times.
In other words, this 10% unemployment rate is a relative, it's not a crisis in France.
That's normal.
It's normal to have double-digit unemployment in France.
France and Germany both live with unemployment rates of between about 8 and 12%.
They have done all through the last 20 years, the 80s, 90s booms, they've lived with what we would regard as unacceptably high unemployment rates.
And it's not surprising.
One reason they have that is for the same reason we will have permanent unemployment rates that high, is that when you over-regulate business, you depress the incentives for people to hire workers.
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 to hire some 17-year-old, no matter how hungry they are for work and no matter how eager they are for work.
So you will have, as you have in France and Germany, those permanent levels.
The level of unemployment we have now, I don't believe, is something that is a temporary feature of life.
The 10% unemployment rate in Ohio will be a permanent feature of life if Obama's policies are made permanent.
If you have cap and trade, if you have health care, if you have more of this stimulus money being transferred from the productive sector of the economy to the government, the phony government community organization workforce, then you will have that 10% unemployment rate in Ohio as a permanent feature of life.
And 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%.
So we would have a situation where 10% 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 14%, 15%, 17% unemployment.
So if you don't like the 10% unemployment rate, the way to make it go away is to make the over-governmentalization of American life go away, which means stopping Obama and stopping cap and trade and stopping socialized health care.
Let's go to Judy in Bloomfield, Connecticut.
Judy, you're on the Rush Limbusha.
Great to have you.
Hi, Mark.
How are you?
This is such an honor.
First time I ever heard you, I was laughing so hard I stopped at a green light.
You stopped at a green light.
I did.
And people are honking at me, and I'm just sitting there laughing.
It was great.
Anyway.
That's good.
It's like that's the New York way.
I mean, I'm a hick, so 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 talk on your cell phone when the light's green and then drive through when it's red.
This was right after Obama was inaugurated, and you were doing the headlines from all the different papers, and it was a wonderful, wonderful monologue.
At any rate, I'm calling on a more serious note today.
I was at one of the tea parties on Saturday, and somebody 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 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.cloward-piven.com.
Cloward and Piven were two sociologists back in the 60s.
One was at Columbia.
He's dead now.
Piven works for 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, 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 true.
The idea, in other words, the idea, which I think is true, is to make people more vulnerable and more dependent on government so they cling to the big government nurse because in effect it's too dangerous being out there in the world the way they used to be.
In other words, the idea.
But it's even more insidious than that.
And I'm actually looking at the website right now, and it said that the Cloud Piven strategy, first proposed in 1966, 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 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 1975 New York City went bankrupt.
That's right.
That's right.
And Giuliani tried to publicize his Cloud Piven strategy.
He didn't have a lot of luck, but the descendants of this strategy include ACORN.
Right, right.
We got to run, Judy, but you are absolutely right.
As one of the few non-bailed out institutions in America, we are bound to take a profit-center break here.
But you are absolutely right that this is a part of the Alinsky strategy.
Effectively, it's the death of citizenship that if you, as you say, overload the system, then all that's left, the sole source of authority in America, is the government.
More straight ahead.
Yes, Rahm Emmanuel said, don't let a good crisis go to waste.
And as Judy reminded us, better yet, make the crisis worse so that the government is the only answer and the only solution left standing.
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